curl_formget() accepts a user-provided callback function but does not validate it is non-NULL before calling it. If a caller passes NULL, the function will crash with SIGSEGV.
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To be fair, both have their share of influencers claiming they can solve every single problem in the world *right now, though crypto indeed seemed to have far more of those than AI.
Luckily, I’m not in need of any RAM at the moment, that with the prices skyrocketing. Depending on the modules I see price increases of up to factor 5 compared to two months ago.
This article argues that this isn’t “just” AI but OpenAI specifically who bought up a huge chunk of the world-wide supply. What for? Nothing actually, merely messing with the competition. mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-a…
Given how much the AI bubble distorts hardware demand, when that bubble bursts the ripple effects throughout the entire IT landscape will be enormous. And that’s not even considering how much of the financial system is invested in this.
Bon je viens de retester mais on ne peut toujours pas activer l'accessibilité via les lecteurs d'écrans pour les app GTK4 sous Windows (donc Gajim), l'issue est toujours là mais je ne sais pas si quelqu'un arrivera à la corriger dans les mois/années à venir.
Example program: Using gtk 4.18.6, accesskit-c 0.15.1 Downstream report: https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/24812 Clicking on the button crashes. To...
From AI slop to rage bait, to the cryptic ‘6-7,’ this year’s slate captures a growing sense that online life is flooded with fakery, frustration and meaninglessness.
Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.
We're in our way to Japan for a week full of knowledge sharing and discussions on cutting-edge topics at the #OSSummit Japan and the @linuxplumbersconf ✈️ 🗾
A friend is pissy about Calibre adding A.I. into this ebook manager so they are creating a new fork called Clbre, because the A.I. is being stripped out.
Hidden in the federal government’s 634-page omnibus bill C-15, the Budget Implementation Act, is a measure that has so far escaped scrutiny. Under the pretext of regulatory efficiency, Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to grant cabinet ministers the power to exempt any individual or company from any federal law on the books — except for the Criminal Code — for up to six years.
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While the bill lays out a plan for a minister to partially inform the public of such an order, there are no timelines. The minister may also “exclude information that, in the minister’s opinion, would be inappropriate to make publicly accessible for reasons that include safety or security considerations or the protection of confidential or personal information.”
The Treasury Board Secretariat suggests the measures are necessary for regulators to keep pace with technological change and find flexible ways to evaluate whether products or services can be safely introduced in the Canadian marketplace.
“AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more.” - by @pluralistic
Please don't tell me I'm the only one who only figured out after four years of Discord usage that you can mute yourself with control + shift + m without needing to set anything up.
Unsere Lehrkräfte arbeiten seit Jahren unter sehr hoher Belastung. Sie halten den Schulbetrieb trotz Personalmangel und wachsender Anforderungen zuverlässig aufrecht. Dafür verdienen sie Respekt und Rückhalt.
Was almost just run down in a Target parking lot. Please remember, no matter how much of a hurry you are in, running a guy over will not get you to your destination faster. I promise.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’d much rather have an entire Somali immigrant family with two happy trans kids living right next door to me than a white supremacist or a racist MAGA lunatic any day of the week.
Of all the questionable things about AI, I'm starting to think its biggest crime is simply the staggering amount of resources it has pointlessly drawn away from other, more important work and the way it has corrupted even organisations that were previously doing great work in some misguided, race-to-the-bottom belief that this is actually the most important think for humankind.
the amount of damage to basically every major tech company is staggering, from the programs and code which have been wrecked, loss of reputation, good people losing their jobs or being taken off good projects for AI work... And as consumers we can't even complain because you have to deal with the AI chat bot...
@Quentin Worse, it's not just limited to major tech companies. This even applies to some smaller ones, even some not-for-profits, but it extends far beyond tech companies now.
true, we've even had a complaint that the development time spent on ai image description should have been spent on more pressing issues. I did explain that the work was done by an external project and surely having external developers familiar able to work on our code is a good thing, even if you don't use this particular feature. You can't win either way. But at least we were very clear to ensure it is offline & private, and if you don't to use it, don't enable it and you're no worse off than now. Or if you want to use the online models, keep using the add-ons you're using now
I can't imagine it's easy working for one of the organisations that has been so corrupted. I mean I find the amount of time NV Access puts into "AI" upsetting, and we've got nothing on Mozilla in that regard.
@saschacowley The thing is... I'm not even saying we shouldn't put time into AI. I think there are absolutely areas where it can have benefit and be less ethically and environmentally questionable. It's the race to "do AI" at the cost (both financial and otherwise) of everything else that bothers me.
Under capitalism the vast majority of human labour is steered towards a myopic focus: profit for the capitalist class, that means more hours on the job less time spent with people you care about.
" The evil of the present system is therefore not that the “surplus-value” of production goes to the capitalist[...]The evil lies in the possibility of a surplus-value existing " Pëtr Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread libraryqxxiqakubqv3dc2bend2koq…
I don't think it is a coincidence that the demographics most responsible for pushing AI out onto people are also demographics that have learned to become frighteningly good at both personal and cultural levels of deflection.
Historically, certain groups have been really good at deflection and changing subjects and focus away from any topics that could disrupt the status quo around inequities and privileges.
So yeah: agree that AI is and has been a huge cultural level ...distraction
I've been quite happy to quietly switch off Ai whenever it pops up everywhere, but was terrified to see it leak into my companies accounts package where one must formally agree that Ai makes mistakes and then also accept I'm fully responsible for submissions to the Tax authority. Gulp.
Agree, but it's not new tho. The entire techscape has been revolving around google, facebook et all trying hard to acquire the worlds most talented computer people. For what? To optimize shoving ads down people's throats.
The amount of resources it is using, especially when compared to how much the same work would take when done by a human, is... greatly exaggerated, a Chat GPT prompt (with a modern model) uses as much energy as ~10 seconds of Netflix afaik.
You're absolutely right on your second point though. While AI is definitely going to change the world, your site for ordering takeout burgers or whatever does not need three AI assistants.
@miki I'm referring more to the resources that organisations put into trying to be part of this - money, people, time, strategy - rather than the resources used by the actual machines. But that could've been clearer, sorry.
There are a couple of orgs for which being "part of the AI revolution" absolutely makes sense (Google comes to mind), but I 100% agree about the rest.
It's not always obvious which kind you are, though. In hintsight, the crypto revolution was best avoided unless you work with international payments / 3rd-world countries, while anybody who avoided the mobile and internet revolutions is no longer with us, and may they rest in peace.
Maybe this is just inevitable, maybe it's better to potentially waste some resources than to potentially face irrelevance.
There are a couple of orgs for which being "part of the AI revolution" absolutely makes sense (Google comes to mind), but I 100% agree about the rest.
It's not always obvious which kind you are, though. In hintsight, the crypto revolution was best avoided unless you work with international payments / 3rd-world countries, while anybody who avoided the mobile and internet revolutions is no longer with us, and may they rest in peace.
Maybe this is just inevitable, maybe it's better to potentially waste some resources than to potentially face irrelevance.
1000% agree Im furious about AI. It's being sold as this amazing resource that is so good for us all. But it isn't. Apart from the VAST drain on energy (that we none of us can afford financially or resource-wise globally) it's a drain on us individually. We WILL become stupider and less capable in all sorts of ways.
Im sick of it all. And we are never given a choice about it. Sick of business interests telling me i need this or that technology that I really don't need and really don't want. Sure there are exceptions: disabled ppl or elderly need AI and huge cars and Alexa/Siri and driverless vehicles to make their lives way way easier. And that's what it should be there for.
But for the majority of ppl those things are superfluous. We don't need them. We really don't. But we are being MADE to want them bc the market gives lucrative profits for a select few if we ALL have to use them to pay for the research and development. I don't need things delivered to my frigging garden by done, but a small number of ppl do. God forbid someone develops these things out of the goodness of their hearts bc elderly need help. But no, let's squeeze the cash out of everyone on the planet telling them they need some delivery bc it's cool apparently.
So we are made to use internet banking bc then they take cash away. We have streamed entertainment rather than going out and making our own bc all the pubs and cinemas are shutting. We are made to use chat bots on phones bc the take ppl away. It makes me effing furious
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Turned on the new #GitHub "Code Quality" feature that seems to be some extended CodeQL + AI.
It's actually worse than anything #SonarQube gave us. That actually gave really good reports on code smells, regressions and coverage failure. It was reliable.
It really does appear tech companies are replacing everything with expensive, resource intensive systems that give worse results and expect us to pay more @pluralistic #enshitificaton
@mireeek to je zajímavý, mě teda na komplu vždy žere nejvíc prohlížeč.
A kdyby vás to zajímalo, tak já mám 64GB, žádnej swap a ne zas tak zřídka vytuhnu na nedostatek paměti :) Ale jako je to vývojová mašina a běží mi toho tu občas hodně.
Les écrivains qui écrivent des personnages féminins :
“Cassandra se réveilla avec les rayons du soleil passant à travers les lames de ses volets, cascadant sur sa poitrine nue. Elle s’étira, ses seins se soulevant en même temps que ses bras tandis qu’elle saluait le soleil. Elle quitta son lit et enfila une chemise, ses tétons pointant visiblement à travers le fin tissu. Elle seina nichonement vers les escaliers, et lolota jusqu’en bas.”
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“There’s often a sense that women in the tech world make a big deal out of small events. But the myriad ways in which they are told their presence is illegitimate, that tells them that they don’t belong, is a constant pressure pushing them towards leaving technology (and game journalism, and the public sphere). In particular, when women in technology also have public voices, as with Anita Sarkeesian or Brianna Wu or Kathy Sierra, the pressure can be — is often intended to be — crushing.” - I guess 2025 is the year that I found my voice. saturation.social/@debcha/1156…
Tomorrow is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. I wrote about the precipitating event, and its role in my own life, on its 25th anniversary and republished it today: https://buttondown.
they don't belong? They need to leave?!! As a man, I'm deeply disgusted and appalled by such claims. Are women not people? what a hideous, awful, absolutely impossible… I lack for words, except for curses. Many and many inventions in technology are made by women. To quote only one example, closest to me: I'm a blind developer, and I use text-to-speech every day. Before 1998 (or so, I might be off by one or two years, it might have been 1996 or 1997) every single blind person who needed a Windows screen reader and wanted to use JAWS had to buy a super expensive hardware speech synthesizer, prices ranked from $1000 and up. In 1998 (or nearly, as I said), JAWS 3.2 appeared, containing Eloquence, a high quality, super fast software synthesizer used by many still today and even on various platforms nowadays, including iOS and Android. You guessed it already, who is the inventor and developer of Eloquence. Dr. Susan Hertz. and it's only one absolutely revolutionary thing that made PCs available for lots and lots of blind people.
One of my favourite Mastodon things is you have people with account names like CapitalismMustFall@SmashThe.System posting about gardening and baking biscuits and people with names like ANiceCupOfTea@Friendly.Cafe cutting the power lines to arms factories
Erich Schmid, ein ganz Großer der Brailleschrift-Normierung und -Vermittlung, ist vorgestern verstorben: Lehrer am BBI Wien, Musiker, Schachspieler, Mitglied vieler Normungsgremien, so auch das www.bskdl.org (das seine gestrige Online-Sitzung in eine kurze Gedenkveranstaltung umwandelte und sich ansonsten in stiller Trauer erst mal vertagte). Erich, danke für alles! #rip
Das tut mir sehr leid! Ich hatte das Vergnügen, ihn 2003 mal in Wien kennenzulernen, auf einer Veranstaltung zu Braille, Mathematiksoftware und anderen dazu in Bezug stehenden Themen. Er hat mich mit seinem Wissen und seinem Humor beim Vermitteln von Inhalten beeindruckt.
@marcozehe Ja, das kann ich mir gut vorstellen (ein großer Pädagoge). Wir hatten seit acht Jahren sehr viel Kontakt, kennengelernt habe ich ihn 2005 beim gemeinsamen Singen (Projektchor von www.blindenwerk.de).
Das tut mir leid. Ich hab ihn nur einmal getroffen auf einem Treffen der ISCB und fand ihn beeindruckend. Er hatte damals ein Fairphone, das war 2016, als Android mit Screenreader noch anstrengend war. Glaube auch, das konnte nur Android 4, das damals schon nicht mehr aktuell war. Er hatte das aus Überzeugung, das fand ich großartig. Über Schach haben wir auch geredet.
@SunDial79 Ja, er war bis zuletzt bekennender Android-Nutzer (ich überlege übrigens derzeit, ob ich's auch werde). Vor ein paar Wochen sprachen wir über aktuelle Braille-Notetaker-Entwicklungen (BT Speak, b.note). Letztes Jahr in Frankfurt, spät abends nach einer BSKDL-Tagungseinheit, haben wir Blitzschach gespielt; ich war kein allzu schwerer Gegner für ihn, aber viel Spaß hatten wir beide.
If I can animated another couple little things, and not burn out, then I could edit them together to make a little anime-opening style video for Digger Engine.
Ok this is kinda random and weird but do any of my blind friends on here have any experience using Tracker software? That is, the old music apps people used to use back in the 90s to program music with samples. I know there's modern equivalents, but not sure if any of them are accessible.
@pitermach I got pretty good with ModEdit for DOS back in the 90's and early 2000's yeah. Still have all the old mod files I wrote back then. Haven't messed with OpenMPT properly.
@FreakyFwoof @pitermach It's clunky beyond belief but I think tracking as a blind person is just always like that? It's like a blown up QWS event list. Sample editor dialog is still inaccessible though.
did you know that you can make some interesting phasing rhythms with Ableton Note while you wait for your coffee machine to descale? Unfortunately you might need to use up a whole channel for each pattern, but still
Make one channel's pattern 7 1/8's long and fill it with some random velocity percussion, and another one maybe 12 steps long with 2 hits, and just let them play off each other until the water overflows and your socks are wet with gross cleaning products and coffee'd water
And here are my acquisitions for #BandcampFriday ! - Paul Griffin's "Facets", I discovered in one of @etherdiver's OPM blog posts. Listened to it, loved it, bought it. - I was ogling Messa's "The Spin" for quite some time now, this was the occasion. - MIRAR's "Ascension" is a crazy blend of electronica, metal & classical music, I just had to have it! - Cryoxyd's "This World We Live In" is old-school death-metal, and I happen to know the guitarist / singer, so help them! - Monochromatic Black's "Vehemence" is just brootal, as everything they do. - TesseracT's "Radar OST" because I saw them live this summer and it was just awesome!
And not appearing in the Bandcamp app because it is free - always wondered why they're doing that -, here is another album discovered in one of @etherdiver's OPM blog posts: "cyborg", by Junking, a weird and beautiful mix of acoustic guitar, voice, ambient synths and samples.
Bonjour tout le monde ! Heureux de vous rejoindre dans le fédivers.
Je suis Jules Teneul, graphiste indépendant et étudiant en informatique. J'aimerais devenir développeur. Je ne sais pas encore trop ce que je ferai de ce bagage dans le monde pro. Car en général, moins un travail est bénéfique ou utile pour la société, mieux il est payé. M'enfin.
Les questions d'accessibilité, d'inclusivité du numérique et son influence sur la santé des démocraties m'intéressent particulièrement. À part mon enthousiasme pour le libre pas facho, je fais de la musique, parfois du vélo et je m'investis en asso quand j'en ai l'énergie.
Bonjour Jules ! bienvenue à Mastodon. Si vous vous intéressez aux logiciels libres et à l'accessibilité numérique en même temps, désolé de vous decevoir, mais la vie ne sera pas vraiment rose car pour la plupart c'est oxymore, la grande quantité des logiciels dites libres n'est pas accessible. Par contre, si vous avez besoin d'aide en accessibilité ou tout simplement d'un développeur aveugle spécialiste en accessibilité, n'hésitez pas à me contacter, je vais expliquer ou aider volontiers. Merci.
Quick PSA, Kontakt8.8 has just been released, with accessibility improvements. I haven't tested yet, and it looks like NI is mainly using macOS for development, so not sure how it will behave on Windows, but here's a link to the release notes: community.native-instruments.c…
This thread provides information about upcoming patches for Kontakt. It will be updated whenever new information becomes available. The currently available software version is 8.8.0. Please make sure that your installation is up to date.
Yo, thanks for the info. I've been testing this just now for a bit with a free piano that I installed some months ago ish, which I couldn't access even with a lot of messing around with helping tools, now I can. There are some unlabeled buttons here and there but at least the most important is there, which is great. In ableton I have to use the nvda cursor though, since the arrow keys don't do much and tabbing, well, you might know. Gets you right out of the plugin window again.
@McOi Oh that's really great to here. Just out of interest, which piano was it? I'll probably be busy for the next few days so I won't be able to test it right now, but really excited to have something to look forward to.
It was this one called hammersmith free. Now I should be off to looking for more pianos and things like that. I'm kinda excited about this now hahaha. Any recommendations?
@McOi Ah I've heard of that one before, really nice. So I'm not too sure about other free pianos, although I'm sure there's more out there, but NI themselves have quite the piano collection. They're all on a 50% discount right now, so I'd pick up the Definitive Piano Collection if I were you. It's got three pianos, two grands and an upright. All of them sound pretty nice. They're slightly older libraries, but I think they still hold up and actually have more detail than some other stuff out there.
Such as my sunday keys one for instance haha, probably at least. Hm, do they have a special site where they have a download library thing or something of sorts?
@McOi Well since you're using the Kontakt Player, you're a little Limited in the libraries you can get as they have to be specially created for that version. There are a lot more free options if you have the full version of Kontakt, however if you try and use a library that's not licensed for Player, it will run for 15 minutes at a time, after which you just have to reload the plug-in. Here are links to the Pianos I talked about above, along with Noire, another much newer library. Noire is a little cheaper at the moment, only $74 US right now.
I mean, isn't contact player the thing that is used? Or is there another contact8 just without the player that's accessible as well but not free? Asking some stupid questions here but yeh.
@McOi No it's totally ok I know it can be confusing. You're exactly right, there are two versions. There's the Player, which is free, then there's a full version, which is paid.
Is that on a discount too right now, /why should I buy it in that case? Is that gonna open up a whole new lib with more free stuff? I mean considering that most pianos are paid, paying for contact then too will make my bank account cry after a while if you know what I mean. Probably have to do this over time and carefully choose what I actually want to buy/have.
@McOi Yeah that's a good way of going about it. I don't think you should worry about getting the paid version of Kontakt now, all NI products will work just fine with Player, and there are many third-party libraries that also work with it. I'd say focus on just getting the sounds you need, don't do what I did and buy their huge Komplete bundle until you have a good idea of what kinds of music you're going to make or start doing this fulltime. Go ahead and also grab Komplete start if you haven't already, comes with tons of sounds and effect plug-ins for free.
Will do. Well right now I'm listening to some demo tracks right now on the first pianos you sent me. There are 3 pianos but some variations, so I'd assume they have presets on the sounds? Or how would you go about adjusting more parameters? Btw, very offtopic, would you mind rechecking toh once more, that is, opening the file you've sent me to see if you have those new samples in there from the toms and your changes? Cuz I still had no success with them being changed lol.
@McOi Oh yeah from what I remember we didn't end up changing the toms, though I could be wrong. I'll have another look. Also yeah all of these libraries come with presets, though of course you can adjust many parameters although I'm not sure if that's exposed in the UI yet. If not yet, I imagine it will be soon.
We actually did lol, on our last meeting. These wern't 100% perfect but that was when you told me we shouldn't stress that much about it honestly and just get it out. You can also see it on the hits still being a bit weird in the bridge, you fixed those up. Even though I need to still change some vilocity myself.
Lol, seems I was late. I invested in another piano some days ago that I still need some help setting up, though I'll probably get that soon. Anyways, there's no discount anymore, or it's only 19 euros off apparently because there's that on some discount so I guess that's that lol. Are they gonna redo this at christmas? I'd asume this was some late black friday stuff then.
@McOi Here's a really good free one as well. I've gotta download this one and try it out, but really detailed and sounds great from the demos I've heard. soniccouture.com/en/products/p…
So I wonder if the 3 pianos pack you sent me once will go back down at christmas? I really liked them but then went for another one that night, which maybe was silly as I have trubble installing it fully. But yeah, a good 200 bucks is a bit expensive for not knowing how smoothly it'll work out at the end.
@LeonianUniverse Yeah I'm curious to see what they've done, unfortunately my old NI Komplete Kontrol is no longer supported, but I have a ton of libraries that I'd love to be able to use again. Hope this is the start of good things to come here, it's long overdue, but I'm happy they're finally working on it.
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in reply to David Gerard • • •The difference between crypto and AI is that crypto is mostly useful in 3rd-world countries, while AI is useful everywhere.
If you're an American / European, crypto is far easier to dismiss.
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