LLMs have the potential to turn content into a diff between what you already know and the current state of the world. The problem with making any kind of content is that no two readers are the same and have the same level of knowledge. This means that you'll always get some people who find parts of your content too hard to understand, not because they're stupid, but because they don't have the necessary prerequisites yet. You will also get some people who find parts of your content unnecessary, as they contain information they already know. Those two groups might overlap!
LLMs fundamentally change this paradigm. Because they're cheap enough to run to produce content aimed at a single reader, they can take into account what the reader already knows, what preliminaries the reader is missing, and what they're trying to get out of that content in the first place.
This requires combining the LLM with some kind of knowledge tracking system, which is hard for the usual privacy / "walled gardens" reasons, but I think we'll eventually get something like that for education at least.
Our Soldering Workshop proposal has been officially accepted for FOSDEM 2026. On 31 January, from 10:00 to 17:00, participants will assemble the RVPC, an open-source hardware and software retro-style RISC-V computer. olimex.wordpress.com/2025/12/1… #fosdem #riscv #oshw #floss
FOSDEM 2026 will take place in Brussels on 31 January and 1 February 2026. It is the largest European event dedicated to Open Source Hardware and Free/Libre Open Source Software, bringing together …
"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.
To make it clear, I don't agree with the under 16 ban of social media because: 1. It won't remove bullying from teens' lives 2. The age verification tech will actually be used to compromise identity and may actually be used *for bullying* 3. Teens will not learn how to engage with social media. 4. Alternatives to using social media are not "riding a bike" or "reading a book", but actually "talking to Chat GPT". Good luck with that.
The new web-based WhatsApp for Windows is uninstalled for now. After the forced switch from the previous app, messages simply stopped syncing on my PC. Nothing I send from Windows goes through, and anything that arrives on my phone never shows up on the desktop. Only Meta could take a perfectly good app and turn it into a trash-tier experience. Honestly, it’s unbelievable how consistently they manage this.
@FreakyFwoof Oh absolutely. At this point a browser tab is probably the most stable WhatsApp client Meta has ever shipped. Which is impressive, considering they didn’t actually “ship” it. 😄
Haha I hear you there. For now I still have the old client but I'm worried that one day I'll wake up and it will be gone forever. That will be a very sad day indeed.
The funny part is… that sad day has already come for me. I woke up this morning, opened the old client, and Meta had just killed it. No warning, no apology, no “we messed up,” nothing. At this point I’m convinced Meta doesn’t sunset apps, they just ambush them in the dark. 😄
@FreakyFwoof Based on my experience that's exactly what will happen unfortunately. It was a very sad day for me as well. Brian Hartgen's scripts make a massive difference, but of course that only helps if you're a JAWS user. I'm not sure how things are with NVDA add-ons at the moment, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't something out there to help make it a bit more usable
Maybe it’s my imagination, but if you’re going to ban somebody permanently, you should probably send them an email about it.Yesterday, my wife, myself, and m...
The Mr Robot TV series features a security expert and hacker lead character, Elliot. Season 4, episode 8 Vasilis Lourdas reported that he did a "curl sighting" in the show and very well I took a closer peek and what do we see some 37 minutes 36 secon…
Did YouTube ask you to verify your age with ID or credit card? You're not alone! YouTube AI is increasingly trying to estimate how old you are based on your habits following the global push for age verification.
So just like #europe with #chatControl is going to be in few months for >17yo...
What is the purpose behind banning minors from general internet? I get that now in 2025 governments are getting obsessed with surveillance, but what does these bans even for?
I actually don't mind this, IF it's done in a non-kyc way, where the only thing the platform knows is whether or not you're above the age threshold. Unfortunately, that "if" is sometimes forgotten by governments...
Bei einer technischen Untersuchung von zehn Passwortmanagern, die wir als BSI zusammen mit dem FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik und der @verbraucherzentrale_nrw durchgeführt haben, kam heraus, dass es durchaus Unterschiede in den getesteten Produkten gibt.
I absolutely hate anticipating a thing, and just simply not being able to function until that thing happens. I currently have three such of those things stacked on top of each other. Needless to say, productivity has been non-existent.
An experiment carried out in Luxembourg this summer shows that, despite ten years of awareness-raising and widely-documented cyber-risks, a significant proportion of the population still pick up and plug into their computers USB keys they come across…
Hallo. Derzeit ist der Import nur für unsere Legend-Nutzer verfügbar, da er noch verbessert wird. Zukünftig wird er für alle kostenpflichtigen Tuta-Tarife verfügbar sein.
Puh, schade. Dann bleibe ich halt bei Proton und muss meine Familie auch dorthin migrieren.
Sorry, ihr macht es einem echt schwer zu euch zu wechseln. Wie soll man das anderen erklären warum sie für grundlegende Dinge den Maximal-Tarif bezahlen müssen den sie eigentlich nicht brauchen.
Hi @NVAccess if possible in a future in prossess blog, could you tell us how to interact with split buttons on windows? For example when a windows update requires restart, the button is a split button. The default action is to restart the machine, but I think there are more options to it and I am not sure how to find them. Somebody told me in the past but I don't remember. I couldn't find anything online. If I type split buttons, I get the buttons for split screen etc.
Usually either down arrow or alt+down arrow (both work if you press say alt+d to go to desktop then alt+f4 to open the shutdown dialog. alt+down arrow works in the Office ribbon on split buttons. I thought there were some in Windows settings, but I can't find them now (or they've changed them).
Strafverfolgungsbehörden wollen umfassende DNS-Überwachung nutzen. Was Fachgerichte billigten, stoppte nun das BVerfG mit einer einstweiligen Anordnung.
The World #Blind Union General Assembly and World #Blindness Summit in São Paulo, #Brazil in September was an amazing opportunity not only to talk about NVDA, but to give a presentation on the amazing MOVEMENT behind the world's favourite free #screenreader! We have two videos of the presentation and a full transcript for you, complete with an audience-initiated chant of "#NVDA NVDA NVDA!" at the end!
Last week Trump called Walz the 'R slur', and now his base is using it regularly. We must all speak out against this. It's a term that pushes a eugenicist agenda and feeds directly into fascism.
Pani Irena Santor skończyła 91 lat. Ech odchodzi pewna epoka powoli. Stara gwardia. Nowych aktorów czy piosenkarzy to ledwo co znam bo nie mam konta na tiktoku.
Moin Bande 💚 Heute lockt die Lieblingslinie 2 und prompt von ausgerechnet der meldet der Kollege aus der Nachtschicht einen Falschparker und stundenlangen Stillstand. Ich bin gespannt was mich erwartet. (Den Falschparker erwarten in etwa 800 Euro Gebühren)
Every available method of age verification systematically excludes or harms marginalized people. The real question isn’t whether these systems discriminate, but how extensively. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/10-n…
Secretary of State Rubio has concluded Calibri is a DEI font and orders US diplomats to revert to Times New Roman in official communications. devdiscourse.com/article/polit…
In a move reflecting broader debates on diversity the US State Department led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reverted to using the Times New Roman font in official communications dismissing the previous administrations adoption of the more acc…
There are many, many reasons to feel embarrassed by our current president. I just said in a comment on another post that I will probably never forgive #America collectively for deciding to not take the sacred responsibility of voting seriously.
You can now blame Cloudflare for website issues with “The Cloudflare Error Page Generator” (an open-source project ) lets you create custom, static HTML error pages that perfectly mimic Cloudflare's style (like 5xx down errors). Put it on your site to quickly shift blame to Cloudflare when your site fails even when you don’t use Cloudflare 🤣 yes, someone spent time building it instead of fixing the actual website. 😂 github.com/donlon/cloudflare-e…
A revised copy of the reaper navigation scripts I semi-created have been revised by Scott and added to Toni Barth REAPER Things reapack repo, located at https:/github.com/Timtam/reapack/raw/master/index.xml.
@vick21 I agree, just as Delta became part of reaper for effects. That was something that I had made years ago in the form of an effects chain, but Scot brought the idea forward and it is part of reaper today.
Here it is. I went through many many Youtube videos to dig out these. The sounds of: First a Monarch, then a dotPad X, then the Cadence. all 3, side by side. Interesting to me that DotPad's noise is more fragmented, maybe a tad louder than Monarch, almost on-par with Cadence. Cadence may be the loudest, but also fastest-refreshing (which is where they'll always have an advantage, even when you pair 2 or 4 that refresh rate doesn't go up.) Refresh rates between DotPad and Monarch feel comparable to me: Around 1.5 to 2.5 seconds, depending on your text's complexity.
@Bri yeah, granted perhaps if you equalized volumes to the exact same levels on all 3, I still think Cadence comes out as loudest, then DotPad very very close (and also a sharper sound) while Monarch leaves that almost softer noise piezo-electric Braille makes but more in a wave. I find that interesting as you'd think DotPad would refresh a little faster, but it appears to still be about the same, it's only a marginal change despite 25% less pins.
@vick21 I do wonder if DotPad X has the membrane around it, like how Monarch does. If it's not the same kind of feeling that way then we know it also helps to dampen noise to some extent, as it would probably be a super sharp-sounding wave without it perhaps. But who knows. I'm sure there's a reason the DotPad X costs somehow were kept down at 1/3 of Monarch, despite having 1/3 less cells overall.
@vick21 20 cells instead of 40 less lines no internal apps on Dot Pad. That's how. i'm not critical of any of them and think they all have their place but glad to have my Monarch back.
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in reply to J. B. Crawford • • •My take on the the points you make about LLMs:
LLMs have the potential to turn content into a diff between what you already know and the current state of the world. The problem with making any kind of content is that no two readers are the same and have the same level of knowledge. This means that you'll always get some people who find parts of your content too hard to understand, not because they're stupid, but because they don't have the necessary prerequisites yet. You will also get some people who find parts of your content unnecessary, as they contain information they already know. Those two groups might overlap!
LLMs fundamentally change this paradigm. Because they're cheap enough to run to produce content aimed at a single reader, they can take into account what the reader already knows, what preliminaries the reader is missing, and what they're trying to get out of that content in the first place.
This requires combining the LLM with some kind of knowledge tracking system, which is hard for the usual privacy / "walled gardens" reasons, but I think we'll eventually get something like that for education at least.