Would you believe there’s a new installment of the Taming the Terminal podcast out today? 5 years ago, @bart had taught us everything he’d planned, so we set the show aside until he had new material. If you’ve always wanted to know how to use the Terminal but thought it was too intimidating, or if you just want to be better with it, this is the show for you. Head over to the link below or subscribe in your podcatcher of choice!
A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises.
An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”
These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored.
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#News #Education #Trump #Racism #CivilRights #School #Family #BlackMastodon
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.cengiz.yar@propublica.org (ProPublica)
Grocery delivery service Instacart will refund $60 million to settle FTC claims that it misled customers with false advertising and unlawfully enrolled them in paid subscriptions.
It hands them blueprints for exploitation, legitimacy and controlchrisyoong.com
The Thunderbird team is off to rest and recharge, and come back strong on January 5! Until then:
If you need community support: support.mozilla.org
If you need to report a bug: bugzilla.mozilla.org
If you want to suggest a feature: connect.mozilla.org
See you all next year!
Okay, I'm loving this gitlab CLI. I'm so glad that I know about it now. Of course, I need to figure out how to do things with it, but, for instance, I can just go into my at-spi2-core directory from the console and type
glab mr update 220 --draft
Otherwise, I'd need to open gitlab.gnome.org in a browser, click the button to sign in, type in my username and password, get my phone out for the two-factor authentication, then find the control on the web page to do what I want.
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🎉 arcanechat.me server upgraded! 🎉
some of you might have noticed arcanechat.me was down for a few minutes, that was because I was migrating to the new more powerful server as announced some days ago!
besides having a faster more powerful server, now every user have 2GB of temporary storage! useful if you receive a lot of media!
🎁 this is my Christmas gift for the #ArcaneChat users, if you feel like showing back your love, you can support my work here:
arcanechat.me/#contribute
💜
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Quick PSA : yes, #Mozilla has been disappointing, but so far, they’re the only organization preventing Google to have a full control over web standards. Blink/WebKit-based browsers (Chromium, Vivaldi…) do NOT help at all in that regard.
So please use #Firefox or a #Gecko-based alternative (#ZenBrowser, #LibreWolf…). Ride the nightly release train and report bugs if you can. #Servo is getting ready, but for the next ~5 years, Gecko is our only suitable option.
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what GenAI is.GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, because you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, and anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
Not just that but Tolkien also said: "Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.".
Sound familiar ?
Here's to me rebuilding curl in Debian without LDAP support because that uses Elder Ciphers Not Meant For Current OpenSSL Releases and subsequently breaking.... the ruby libvirt bindings.
Libraries and dependencies, man.
Important Acronyms in IT Technology
IPv4: Internet Problem, Version 4
IPv6: same, but 6 times more Problems
DHCP: Desktop Hardware Cleaning Protocol
DNS: Destroying Network Protocol
VPN: Very Problematic Network
EthO: Eternity, low Level
Eth1: same, but stoned
SDA: Software Defined Anger
CPU: Core Problem Unit
RAM: Random Access Mismatch
HD: Historical Device
SDD: Self Destroying Device
TCP: Total Complex Protocol
UDP: Undefined User Paranoia
USB: United Shit Bracket
GW: Genuine Witchcraft
ROM: Rusty Old Malware
GPU: Great Picture Utensil
C#: Chaos
C++: same, but much more
CAT0...n: Number of Cats lying on keyboard, what else?
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I just wrote up some docs on how to hide images in public rooms on Matrix in several clients.
matrix.org/docs/chat_basics/pu…
If anyone was able to add info for more clients that would be awesome. Here's my change for reference: github.com/matrix-org/matrix.o…
As discussed within the Trust and Safety Research and Documentation Working Group. ✔️ Checklist Check for common mistakes: Wrap plain URLs in <> to linkify them (learn more). Use the ri...GitHub
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I blew my stack today. Here's the result:
filiph.net/text/shove-your-ai-…
"But that’s just the Economics 101 reason not to do this. The other one is this: I’m pretty sure people actually hate this? You have the data, you know."
Oh yeah, they do, but their goal isn't making features people don't hate. Their goal is making profitable features which people hate, but not to the extend they would leave the service. And because they have data, they have learned that the threshold is really high for most people.
So we have a market with a handful of dominant services which are hated by their users, but it isn't going to change until people stop complaining about it and actually start leaving them.
I take your point. People apparently don't hate this enough to leave right now. But the thing about losing goodwill is that things happen gradually, and then suddenly. I think that a good business leader should be sensitive to this. The fact that the data doesn't show enough outflow to worry about _today_ doesn't mean you're not going to see something much worse in the future.
We all know the rationale of shoving AI on people. I just thing 2 massive buttons around every email is stupd
Just tried building a rust project using cargo and it started pulling and building 385 dependency packages without any confirmation prompt. This is insane and super not secure. How are rust devs ok with this?
EDIT: to make it clear, my problem is that it didn't stop for confirmation. This is not ok. I thought NPM was bad but this is insane.
Here is the price evolution of the Kingston FURY 64GB KIT DDR5 6000MHz CL36 Beast EXPO that I have in my new PC:
September - 5400 CZK (€221)
Mid November (what I paid) - 7000 CZK (€287)
End of November - 12890 CZK (€528)
Now - 16390 CZK (€672)
What to say... #AI is changing the world, but not in the way that people had envisaged.
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GotaTun is a WireGuard® implementation written in Rust aimed at being fast, efficient and reliable. Now available to all Android users, we aim to ship it to the remaining platforms next year.
Read more here: mullvad.net/blog/announcing-go…
GotaTun is a WireGuard® implementation written in Rust aimed at being fast, efficient and reliable. Now available to all Android users.Mullvad VPN
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🎄🎁 Christmas Giveaway: Tuta is giving away a 🇩🇪 German-made Volla Phone by @volla
The Quintus, worth €719, is a Google-free smartphone built for freedom, simplicity & security. 🔒
✨ VollaOS (with multi-boot option) or Ubuntu Touch
📱 6.7” AMOLED display
📸 50 MP triple camera
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⚡ For a chance to win, just comment what is most important for you on a #deGoogle phone? ⚡
#Privacy #DigitalFreedom #Giveaway #VollaPhone
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Easy & visual compression of SVG images.jakearchibald.github.io
make a photo realistic embroidered wall piece with the words "never expect two independent URL parsers to treat every URL identically"
okay, that failed
"again without repeating any words"
*ripping my eyes out*
somewhat nerdsniped into just coding something that generates cross-stitch.
gist.github.com/bazzargh/be402…
from there it'd not be difficult to drop it in three.js and get a 3d version, in a wood-textured frame, but I've wasted enough time on this!
cross-stitch generator. paste into p5js.org to see it. fakes "3d" just by drawing threads 3 times in different shades. - crossstitch.jsGist
altbot v2.4 is here!!
just pushed a pretty significant update, swapped out the old gemma3 27b model for qwen3-vl:30b-a3b-thinking and holy shit the difference is noticeable
the cool thing about this model is it's very dynamic, simple images get quick, concise descriptions without overexplaining everything. and with complex images, it takes its time and actually thinks through what it's looking at. you get better alt-text without wasting compute on stuff that doesn't need it.
basically: smarter where it counts, efficient where it doesn't.
oh and here's the part that made me double-check my math: electricity usage dropped by MORE THAN 10x. complex images that used to cost ~0.950 Wh now only use ~0.092 Wh. this is thanks to MoE (mixture of experts) architecture, despite being a 30b parameter model, it only activates 3b worth of parameters at a time. so you get way better results while using a fraction of the power.
been testing this for a bit now and honestly really happy with the results. descriptions are more accurate, less hallucination-y, and the model describes way better than before.
as always, altbot is fully open source and processes everything locally, no data gets sent to third parties. your images stay private.
if you wanna support continued development:
☕ ko-fi.com/micr0byte
💜 github.com/sponsors/micr0-dev
source code: github.com/micr0-dev/Altbot
thanks for helping make the fediverse more accessible :3
Accessibility bot designed to enhance the Fediverse by generating alt-text descriptions for images, video, and audio. - micr0-dev/AltbotGitHub
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Well, friends... today is my birthday!
Double espresso, tiramisu, and pizza for everyone!
🎉☕🍰🍕
Very much looking forward to that! It's going to be great to catch up.
Funny enough, I think there will be several connecting points between our sessions... 
Za půjčku se tak zaručí jen zbývajících 24 unijních států. Půjčka z finančních trhů má ale být pouze dočasným řešením. Budou pokračovat jednání o reparační půjčce garantované zmrazenými aktivy Ruska.Daniel Noska (iROZHLAS.cz)
Holysz's first law.
If you get yelled at for calling the wrong number, you've just struck gold, because if they're allowed to yell at you, they have access to the internal corporate phone directory and can get you the person you actually want.
People underestimate the power of calling random numbers unrelated to their case (investor relations, press inquiries, legal and so on), and saying "sorry, Chat GPT told me to call this number when the main customer support hotline couldn't help me, can you give me the number for office x instead?"
Those people are usually a lot more empowered to actually help you than some outsourced third-world-country customer support contractor with no access to internal company systems beyond what's required to complete 90% of the most common inquiries.
I've moved pretty much all my daily driver stuff (except web browsing) from Windows to Mac, in preparation for my up-coming trip. I don't want to drag two laptops with me, so I'm using as much as I can on Mac OS, and have a Windows 11 virtual machine for the rest of it.
I stepped away from using Mac OS for a few years, and am now once again at the point where using it doesn't feel completely odd. So, that's exciting, I suppose.
CelloMom On Cars
in reply to D • • •Five different delivery trucks ply my street on a daily basis, each delivering one or two packages, and I thinking the town could mandate that they all stick all those packages in one truck only. The post office truck is a good one to carry it all. But Oh. My. God. the shock if you propose such a thing.
Hubert Figuière
in reply to CelloMom On Cars • • •"why do you hate capitalism?"
"you are just a communist!"
"Canada post suck"
These are the few answers.