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I'm looking into the Zig programming language, and I found this on the language designer's blog. I always appreciate seeing other people being as cranky as I am about rent-seeking and the aggressive push for LLM coding:
“In this case it's even more suspicious because the company that bills you not only counts how much you owe them, it also controls the agent's behavior in terms of how many requests it tries to make. So they could easily insert into their system prompt something like, ‘our earnings this quarter are a little short so try to pick strategies when doing agentic coding that end up earning us more API requests, but keep it subtle.’ There's no oversight. They could even make it target specific companies.”
Nobody who seriously uses LLM agents does that through API keys any more. What you do instead is take out a monthly subscription, which gives you some amount of credits, which usually renew every couple hours. Companies can adjust the limits as they see fit (and they have done so), but for economics reasons, it's generally best to keep GPU utilization as high as possible.
Just a quick reminder that @yubico is offering 30% off the #Yubikey 5 NFC and 5C NFC (for Czechs: in #Alza it's even 36% off) until Dec 1, so now is the perfect time to make your life more secure.
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The latest round of tech working mobilization inspired by Cory's "enshitification" framing is amazing to see, tho I can't help bracing myself for the inevitable wasted energy as people rush forward without understanding counterantidisintermediation
In today's Double Tap podcast, a few minutes in, there is an interview with Humanware about their upcoming 2026 notetaking device, the BrailleNote Evolve: a combination of Keysoft and Windows. This is initially powered by an adapted release of NVDA, however it is stated you can install another screen-reader if desired. I am sure we will hear a great deal more about this. Various models coming: 32 cell, 20 cell, both Braille input, and QWERTY quite a bit later. Initial price of 32 cell approx £5500.
I'm so happy that this is now public news. It's been hard not to say anything for a while. And also, this is very important, I don't have to change anything in Microsoft Word to make sure I can spellcheck a document when I'm talking products. Lol
@Ranger1138 I'm always interested in blindness products and am definitely curious about this in particular. At the same time, pick up a framework 13 DIY laptop for $2000 or so, get at least 4TB storage, 32GB ram minimum or whatever you can afford and a 20 cell braille display for a little more and you are set. You can even play some modern accessible games on it. It definitely is a double edge sword here though.
@jpellis2008 @Ranger1138 That's not the target market though is it? You could apply that thought to any similar product, Windows or not, such as the BrailleSense. The advantages here are that, A. there's Keysoft included to provide a basic interface for those starting out. B. it's one single device. You don't need to think about having two devices and ensuring they are both connected. There are plenty of benefits if, and only if, they've carefully thought out the Windows navigation.
@jpellis2008 @Ranger1138 It is regretable that the Optima has been delayed as the fact that it's modular makes it very attractive but it's hardly Orbit's fault.
@DavidGoldfield @jpellis2008 @Ranger1138 Yes, we regret it ourselves very much, but it's definitely not our fault. And no, we didn't give up Optima, no no.
@menelion @jpellis2008 @Ranger1138 oh, I know it isn't the fault of you or Ati. It's kind of hard to do any work when you're trying to survive because there are people trying to destroy your country.
@DavidGoldfield @jpellis2008 @Ranger1138 Exactly. Not only destroy, but boycott and make it the greatest evil in the world which it is not, by far. but we keep doing our best, believe me. I won't give any release dates, but hopefully you'll hear about us rather sooner than later. Now the competition became even harder, but this HumanWare device has some weak points, in our opinion, that we will not have in Optima.
This isn’t targeted at anyone in specific - I have had the conversation like 6 times this week, Americans - You need a work visa to work in another country, -even remote- unless they allow digital nomad You can’t just go to most countries on a tourist visa and start looking for a visa sponsor & job
@SuspiciousDuck a visa sponsor in this scenario is typically a company that's willing and ready to hire you, often including testifying to immigration authorities that "person X that we're sponsoring has skills and abilities that we need but are not able to hire locally."
@SuspiciousDuck It depends on the type of visa. Most often, the sponsor is an employer who says "I want and need to hire that person (because ...), and I couldn't find a local (here's proof), and I will pay suchmuch salary and any costs that person may cause the gov & health system, etc etc". It's usually complex, expensive, and success is not guaranteed.
In other cases, a sponsor may be a family member, and there are other categories, depending on the country.
Time for the BSDs to update their marketing to mention it has these "powerful network discovery and remote access tools like Tcpdump and Netcat." RT: infosec.exchange/users/briankr…
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New, by me: Is your Android TV streaming box part of a botnet?
"On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to more than 2,…
thinking about how ocaml has this convention where functions that convert values from one type to another are named b_of_a instead of a_to_b (so to convert a string to an int, you use int_of_string). and this has become so significant to the community that it frequently shows up in project names - for instance, the name of the compiler that converts ocaml bytecode to javascript is js_of_ocaml. i wonder how this convention originated?
> Valve coder confirms the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC, albeit at a 'good deal': 'If you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that’s the general price window that we aim to be at'
Oh they let random developers making hardware pricing decisions now?
That OCaml PR is textbook open source in the era of vibe coding...
It's got everything:
- PR submitted without the author acknowledging they didn't write it and don't understand it. - Copyright laundering. - "I just wanted to get it done!" versus maintainers who know they have to live with code contributions for years. - Zero-effort pasting LLM output as reply to real people's thoughtful questions. (At least the author acknowledged what they were doing that time.) - It doesn't matter that it's hard to review because "AI has a very deep understanding of how this code works." - "Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it."
If this is our new world then it's going to turbocharge maintainer burnout.
(If you don't want to read a quite long often depressing thread, would still recommend reading this well reasoned comment by one of the maintainers: github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14… )
DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler
This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB.
What's Impleme...
DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler
This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB.
What's Impleme...
Frauen mit Behinderungen sind häufiger von Gewalt betroffen als Frauen im Bevölkerungsschnitt. Wie setzt Deutschland die UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention um?
Any Star Wars fan will tell you that it is absurdly difficult to watch the original Star Wars trilogy as it was when it first ran in theaters. When George Lucas released re-edited "Special Editions" of the films in the late '90s, he moved aggressively to drive the original versions out of the market. If you bought Star Wars on home video anytime after the LaserDisc/VHS era, your only choice was the edited Special Edition, not the original.
Nothing's been officially announced yet, but it sure sounds like that is about to change.
An update to the #Flatpak packages in #Forgejo: I have now a working basic UI together with an flatpak+https link. I will probably open a PR today or tomorrow.
The Link is currently only working in #GNOME Software. It looks like #KDE Discover is just bugged and spits out meaningless errors. The flatpakref works with the official flatpak cli, so it's valid. If I get something easy reproducible, I will open a KDE bug.
If we had a nickel for every time an Irish musician wrote a song titled "Take Me To Church" that was an extended metaphor for forbidden love we'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's interesting that it happened twice.
OK so, I have a question for my fellow orbit reader 20 users. When my OR20 is turned off or in standby mode, it’ll keep showing charger connected on the display every 10-30 seconds or so when plugged in. Is this an indication that the device is broken or something? #blind #Braille
A federal judge halted an IRS–ICE data-sharing plan that would’ve exposed taxpayer addresses to immigration agents. Privacy advocates say the ruling protects immigrant communities already facing heightened enforcement.
This article is based on Irina Morozova’s talk at A11yNYC. Irina emphasized the importance of designing digital content that’s accessible to people with limited English proficiency.
Oh my goodness, #Youtube is such a tranquilizer! I just wasted the whole bloody morning just bringing up mindless video after mindless video. Thankfully I’m out ofit now and I’ve got coffee going #GoodMorning
@kl1964 It's interesting to me that people do that; it's just not something I've ever gotten myself into the habit of doing. I'll go to youtube if someone sends me a link, or I might look for a song and use yt-dlp, but I just don't think of it as a place where I'd go to browse videos, and I don't even know if I'd know how to do it. I guess I could open the app and start there. To be clear, I'm not saying that I don't do my own things to waste time (playing certain games, for instance).
@MikeGorse It’s a bad habit I’ve had going back a long time. Almost certainly it tracks with my level of overall depression. And of course the algorithm knows exactly what to show me.
So, it turns out that my printer is no longer eligible for frimware upgrades. The current firmware can no longer phone home (uses outdated TLS). Since it cannot phone home, it cannot use my subscription-based (DRM) cartridges.
My choices to stay in the same ecosystem are: - Buy new DRM-free cartridges - Buy a new printer with newer firmware
To further set my replies on fire, "disk" is not short for "diskette" (diskette is a diminutive and means "small disk").
Diskettes first showed up in 8" size, which may not seem particularly small but hard disks at the time were larger, often 14 inches (more than 3× the surface area of 8").
The 5¼" diskettes that followed were introduced as "mini-diskettes", or "small small disks".
3½" diskettes were "micro-diskettes", or "very small small disks".
When I started it IT, we used RL02 drives. They were the size of a washing machine, and if they got out of balance they could start to walk across the (raised) floor. Some people would take old disk packs apart and use the platters to make wall clocks.
I used RL02 as well as the RL01. PDP11 days. I remember seeing a 300MB drive elsewhere. It was huge. I was lucky enough to see the tech take out the voice coil after a disk crash(!) It was as big as my arm. Yes we used to walk diskdrives across floors with the right program on purpose. They really needed to be bolted down. eh?
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For the germans, a portable keyboard I really like for traveling / using my phone, the Logitech MX Keys Mini, is currently 50% discounted to 60€ on Amazon. To be fair it probably aren't 50%, I got mine at Mediamarkt for like 100, and probably they've increased the price before. But never the less it's a good deal for sure. I don't know about other countrys, but here it is: amazon.de/-/en/Logitech-Wirele…
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