The people who dislike The Algorithm™ are either consumers who basically just want an RSS feed reader (nothing wrong with that) or people who brought audiences over from other platforms.
If you’re trying to create something and find an audience for it on the #Fediverse, you need some sort of recommendation algorithm. Otherwise, you’re just posting into the void.
People who say they dislike "the algorithm" mean they dislike the combination of A) algorithms engineered to optimize for "engagement" (read: addiction), B) societal pressure to belong to these platforms in various forms (e.g. gov announcements only thru said platforms).
Of course *SOME* algorithm is needed, people aren't opposing algorithms as a concept.
Algorithm is an instruction. It can be good, or bad, depending on what it's used for. Even Rubik's cube notation is called algorithm this fever of demonizing everything, confuses and doesn't take us so far
I think people get upset at "bad" algorithms. I remember it wasn't long after Muskrat took over Twitter that my feed basically became a sea of hate-filled rhetoric deriding all the "libtards", fat people, gay people or any other group that the conservatives there deemed "other" enough to be worth hating on. I would have posts "recommended" to me that were nothing but hate and divisiveness. Kinda like how Facebook "recommends" AI slop constantly now over your actual friends' posts.
I pass through the Solstice gate And I am changed. I squeeze and slip Through the narrow place, The thin place, Where all our years are seen, And worlds stack like sheets of glass. I pass through the Solstice gate And I am changed. I leave behind what cannot fit, Shedding self like snakeskin, Discarded as old, ill-fitting clothes. In the no-time, no-place, nothing, I lose myself, to find it all. I pass through the Solstice gate, The threshold, one of three, And I am changed.
What do we blindies use for ripping CDs on windows accessible?? Just foobar or is there something even better? It's mainly CDs with spoken words/audiobooks. #Accessibility #Blind #CD
@André Polykanine @Jonathan I am wondering why you think #EAC is not suitable for audio books? #foobar2000 has secure ripping as well so if you like it it's a good tool. Also cdex has been open-sourced years ago and can still be used. github.com/elha/CDex
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TL:DR Mat is a corporate slave, is really tired, and is getting fucked over
Now I don't need to tell you all capitalism is shit but it's wearing me down right now. A whole year with no more than 6 days in a row off, I'm set for 2 full weeks holiday over Christmas, starting last Friday.
Yeah, so some fucker makes comments in a meeting with the fucking CEO of the company, trying to deflect from a shit job they did, risking tens of millions of dollars, and put it on me and my team because I wasn't there to defend us, despite us being the only group to actually do a good job and not fuck up.
So yeah, worked the first 3 days of my Christmas "holiday", including a conference call in the middle of a family celebration meal. Tomorrow I have to find a quiet place for a call with the CEO and all the global Executive leadership to defend my team, who have done an amazing job cleaning up other people's shit, during a day out with friends visiting an exhibition, having a meal and going to football match.
This was my reward for the year, some carefree time, and it's just been laced with anxiety and, frankly, unpaid labour.
Apologies, I'm ranting.
Please don't reply with "fuck them, don't do it" or, "get a different job man" or whatever. It's really not that simple. I've been in this game 25 years but the timing is particularly bad this time.
Nothing but solidarity from here man. Luckily I don't have to shoulder corporate shite like this, but can relate to expectations of unpaid labour and not enough time away from the parts of what I do that get fucking tiring. Fingers, toes and testicles all crossed here that the long game goes badly for the people that have earned it.
I've mentioned this before but SimpleX is more private secure and anonymous that signal threema and session.
SimpleX is decentralised meaning taking down a single group of servers or org wouldnt destroy the simplex network, people can run completely anonymous simplex servers over tor, this puts simplex ahead of Signal and Threema
SimpleX has quantum resistant encryption which puts it ahead of Threema and Session, the UK military[1] and NATO[2] both consider quantum computers to be a threat now because of store now decrypt later attacks
SimpleX has no user identifiers not even random strings, its essentially like having a "burner phone for every contact". Two or more compromised contacts could corroborate your messages by linking them to your signal username or your session id, but with simplex your contacts can't prove your identity even between eachother. This fact puts SimpleX above Signal Threema and Session
These technical details about the simplex protocol can all be found on the project website including the whitepaper
This is actually a pretty good list of the Google Apps and Android alternatives. Good job Tuta! But you forgot to mention some of Proton's apps, like ProtonMail and Proton Pass and also IronFox (as a more privacy focused Firefox browser for Android, cuz there's no Mullvad B. on Android). Signal is what WhatsApp WAS SUPPOSED to be and Startpage is by far the best Google Search alternative in terms of search results. Just my opinion!
I think if more people found at least equal pride in the code they removed and simplified as the stuff they added (also on management level), a lot of stuff would work a lot better.
In der Vorweihnachtszeit haben sie es besonders eilig: die Paketboten. Sie klingeln, rufen Namen, balancieren Kartons und verschwinden so schnell wieder, wie sie gekommen sind. Vor allem in Stadtteilen wie dem Wedding, wo Häuser selten nur ein Vorderhaus haben, sondern auch Seitenflügel, Quergebäude und Hinterhöfe, ist ihre Arbeit eine kleine logistische Meisterleistung.
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My banking app just sent me a popup review prompt asking if I was enjoying using it, and someone needs to sit down with the person who wrote that text on this their first day on planet Earth and explain that enjoyment is not why humans use these things
Need help asap. So my NVDA doesn't wanna speak other than in login or user control dialogs. Reinstalls didn't help, and of course restarts arn't the magical quick fix. :p. At the same time, wifi doesn't appear to work. Sometimes it barely works, and I thought it was a tailscale issue, but that doesn't seem to be the case now. It only worked the first time when quitting processes. I should point out that it's a pc issue, not an internet itself issue as it works just as it should anywhere else, for example, this work laptop I'm posting on now. What kinda messed up conbination is this? The wifi thing started yesterday in the morning, by the way. Only today nvda thought it wanted to just quit working.
Oh, oops! Did you install all Windows updates? Did you try a hard reset, which is basically hold the power button until the laptop turns off? Also, apparently microsoft's vibe coding, broke the login screen, and not sure if they fixed that. Other than that, I am considering saying goodbye to Windows. And if you can't solve that, maybe it's time for new windows re-install, or something with the WI-FI card is wrong, but if not that, check for driver updates. What brand are you using?
using ctrl+windows+enter to enable narrator for performing this.
Once narrator is working press windows+r to bring up a run dialog.
Into that run dialog type in "%appdata%\nvda" without the quotes and press the enter key to activate.
NVDA folder should be opened in the windows explorer. Use arrow keys to navigate and find nvda.ini configuration file.
If you really wish to proceed hit F2 and rename this file for example to nvda-backup.ini and confirm the rename operation by pressing the enter key.
Finally restart NVDA either by pressing ctrl+alt+n on the keyboard or navigate to the desktop, find the NVDA icon and activate it with the enter key.
NVDA should start with default settings. if it's working it's likelly there are some conflicting settings or addons in your config. If it's not you can revert this process and try something else.
Tras el evidente vapuleo a PSOE y Unidos por Extremadura, solo pienso lo siguiente. Tengo un recuerdo muy vívido de cómo hablaba Pablo Iglesia en el primer auge de Podemos. La casta, los de arriba, los trabajadores, nosotros. Le dieron hueco en los medios de comunicación porque era la moda, sí, pero digo yo que esa moda debió nacer de algún sitio. La izquierda necesita recuperar un discurso de clase, apuntar hacia arriba y hablar de problemas reales y concretos. Y así, quizá, le den un huequito en algunos medios de comunicación. Con la estrategia discursiva de ahora mismo está claro que esto no ocurre. Aunque no sea el estilo típico. A Ayuso la sacan continuamente cuando dice alguna burrada. A lo mejor hay que decir burradas con un poquito más de sentido. Quedan menos de dos años para las generales y está claro que con lo que se hace ahora mismo ("hemos hecho nada y no sabemos qué más podemos hacer") no sirve. Ni se va a articular una izquierda fuerte ni hay una estrategia discursiva que llame la atención. Pues nada. Cuatro añitos de Feijóo y Abascal, manifestaciones en las calles porque nunca hemos visto un PP tan abiertamente fascista y en cuatro u ocho años preguntarán "qué ha pasao". Porque el PP SIGUE metido en corrupción hasta las cejas y Vox también sin siquiera haber tocado poder (EDITO: a nivel nacional). Divertidísimo va a ser. Tan divertida como la gestión de Andalucía o Valencia. Qué impotencia, de verdad. Porque yo tengo la vida resuelta pero uno tiene la cosa de preocuparse por sus vecinos.
Creo que lo que dices es preocupante, desde luego. Pero tampoco tengo muy claro que haya ninguna receta para revertir el tema. Los medios son agentes que siguen sus propios intereses; no creo que con un giro de discurso se corrija el problema.
Tampoco tengo muy claro lo de la falta del discurso de clase. Yolanda Díaz/sumar llevan un montón de tiempo insistiendo en eso: cuestiones de clase, problemas reales y concretos. SMI, registro horario, jornada laboral, permisos, falsos autónomos, mejora del sistema de inspección. Y creo que no tiene muchos efectos.
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Every time, without exception, that we’re at Joy’s sister’s house I get the absolute worst sinus headaches. I’ve never known why and it isn’t a problem I have elsewhere but… damn this hurts.
So sorry to hear that! Are there any known allergies? Does Joyce's sister maybe have plants in the house that trigger these? Or furniture or appliances that have certain chemicals in them that your body reacts to? My mom once bought a ceiling lamp which had a substance in its casing that gassed out when warm, and I got the worst headaches from that.
Restarting something that shouldn't have been paused, and even if it seems feeble, redundant, or far behind everything else, I think it's still needed and even more so these days github.com/akiraux/Akira/proje…
"Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung has signed Decision No. 2736/QD-TTg, approving the plan to implement the master plan for the development and application of nuclear energy through 2030, with a vision to 2050."
I wasn't aware of @Tutanota 's contact synch fonctionnality on Android. Since i had #tutanotamail on my old phone that I have lost, today I installed #tutamail on my current phone to find out that I had unexpectedly recovered all my old contacts that I thought was lost forever. I'm happy about it. That unknown feature gave me a new life today. I want you to know that. Thank you for the job!
Ich hatte gerade beim Lesen dieser Antwort spontan „You can leave your hat on“ von Joe Cocker im Kopf, aber das wäre unter der Dusche irgendwie nicht zielführend.
Question for the Mastodon hive mind: Primer: I have a need to convert, resize, reorient, and transcode video for various stages of our video edit and distribution pipeline. I've been doing all of this in ffMpeg, via command line arguments and custom-coded scripts. However, the needs of this thing just simply don't scale that way. And no one but me gets access to the CLI on these systems. So that's just not feseable. Now finally, to the question. I am looking for an open-source web frontend to ffMpeg that is, if not fully accessible, as that is a very tall order, but at least usable by an experienced screen reader user with the typical tools and hacks learned over twenty years of experience. Just something that doesn't make accessibility a barrier and most importantly, a time waster. Please boost far and wide for reach, with thanks.
My apologies folks, there will be no archive on YouTube for this stream, as it was full of gremlins, and not the fun kinds. I didn't even know until I checked the video archive. Unfortunately there will be one in game day off screen, and I'm going to have to do some tinkering with OBS to figure out what it's major malfunction is this time. Thanks for your patience everyone, and I hope so much to be up and running again soon.
Having received some of this spam it is interesting to see the type of language used:
"what's the point of using [...] if it can't be trusted" "I expected better" "This is very frustrating!" "it's entirely unacceptable" "Not addressing this is just pointless and leads to wasted time for users like me."
Makes you wonder: is abusive behaviour in project issues so common in LLM training data or did they explicitly ask to be so mean?
Food for thought, but no matter what this is quite sad stuff...
We investigated performance issues on our systems. The cause was identified to be huge inrush in AI-generated nonsense spam creation that slows the notification system.
@odd I honestly don't know what the goal is. My personal guess would be to create wrong but plausible issues to make the account seem more "real" so that during a later spam wave it is less likely to be instantly banned as there is "user activity" associated with it. But that is just a guess, nothing more.
"user activity"? The ones I've checked (I've reported a few of them) had their activity tab explicitly disabled (I guess to rob you of the possibility to check their other issues, and see they all follow the same 3-paragraph-pattern: wrong assumption by the repo name, constructed problem with some terms gathered from the content, blaming the dev to be totally incompetent). User created maybe 2 weeks ago. @odd
@OttovonWenkoff Díky 😊 Kroky jsou skoro jen z práce, ono se to nezdá, kolik tam nachodím. Na zahradě toho zase moc nedělám — ona je to taky dřina, takže jsi aktivní jinak 👍🏻. 3 500 km na kole není zase tak moc, pořádní borci dávají přes 10 000 kilometrů. Je co zlepšovat.
To vypadá dost dobře. Já měl loni najeto taky docela dost (letos to měřím úplně jinak). Ale zas na druhou stranu já se s tím zaznamenáváním zas tak moc neobtěžuju tak to spíš odhaduju
Průměrně jsem měsíčně najel cca 1500 a jezdil jsem 7-8 měsíců tak to tak nějak vychází. Ale zas na druhou stranu to moc poctivě neměřím takže přesné číslo nevím
im getting really sick of the primary voices i hear about "ai" being a problem coming from people who think learning enough about how it works to identify its use is some kind of sin and whose justifications for hating it range from vibes-based to mystical
So RedditForBlind seems to have a broken API key, and with that one of the easiest ways to browse Windows has been taken down until the dev who has largely abandoned the project does something. Gotta love losing nicely packed and accessible ways of doing something that just vanish. But on the positive, I have more free time now.
Looked into if Firefox had support for GNU/Hurd. Someone submitted a patch and spent 10 years rebasing it and being ignored and then told to rebase it again because it was outdated, before it was closed as wontfix since there's no rust compiler.
Which of the following statements induce the most nerd rage for you?
#poll
[ ] Avatar the last Airbender? That was a great movie!
[ ] Megablocks are the same thing as Lego anyway.
[ ] I love Star Trek! Dark Vader's so scary.
@hub you can call it Unix SystemD for all I care. I've learned to conserve my fucks for the arguments that really matter. in other words, you're not going to get a GNUclear reaction out of me. 😅
@McOi No. Not unless I get someone trustworthy to compile for macOS. Python does not support native cross platform compilation. And if there's a way to do it, there's likely loopholes.
I don't know what you mean by loopholes, but, I am thinking on it now. I already downloaded it, before I realised it's for windows. LOL. There would need to be additional things added to it, like apple's broken speech API, unless accessible output solves that, but I don't think so, or maybe it does, but it'd be fun on mac. Not sure how to compile it, but if you want, we can try. I am not a bad tardis, I follow instructions. Grins. Haha.
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