It's true: the more technical background and pre-conceptions you have, the more more likely you run into trouble with #deltachat π Don't think so much! π
@wmd there are many computer people pretty happy with #deltachat ... who value precisely that they can use it with their families and friends easily, though.
With a lot of alternative software, the complaint is that it is only usable by specialists. We are pretty happy that in our case it is more the specialists who need to work harder and read the FAQ to understand that some lines of traditional thinking about eg email and pgp do not apply delta.chat/en/help
What is Delta Chat? Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure instant messaging app, available for mobile and desktop platforms. Instant creation of private chat profiles with secure and i...
I don't understand why combining delta with Thunderbird (a client mostly for cleartext mail), or importing some cryptographic key is required to value delta's architectures. Do you hack a different cryptographic key into your signal database, and otherwise don't feel confident to recommend it?
@hpk I think as mailclients go, thunderbird is one that gets combined most with pgp? Some people value their trust chains and have very well checked keys, or they want to generate their custom key. Because you can, you get "closer to the metal". Signal doesn't offer it, so it might be a loss or just not considered. That deltachat uses pgp invites people to think im their typical pgo ways/workflows. π€·πΌββοΈ
What is Delta Chat? Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure instant messaging app, available for mobile and desktop platforms. Instant creation of private chat profiles with secure and i...
we are aware of the confusion (it was the whole point of the top level post after all) and doing our best to explain things, and the history of decisions. You seemed to suggest we should make sure to accommodate gpg and Thunderbird users because they are key multipliers, but frankly, we don't think the current state of these tools provides good examples or guidance for secure group messaging ala signal.
@hpk 1) I was part explaining as hpk said they didn't understand. 2) I don't think you need to facilitate thunderbird+gpg users, just that as deltachat is advertised a lot as being based on mail+pgp, it's good to be aware there is a key audience that can get confused by it.
If you tell me something is based on ssh, but I can't do the usual ssh features/flow I'll also be confused if not frustrated. π€·πΌββοΈ
@wmd @hpk we are not advertising mail+pgp in the app, and also not in the web site or app stores of today. It's true that until April 2024 we emphasized mail+pgp more towards users and that's probably the background you remember and argue from. Today, we use email and openpgp for interoperability, and to benefit from a massive ecosystem of software and established understandings and code. But the goal is that users can stay pretty unaware about these underpinnings.
@wmd @hpk luckily, the vast majority of today's users don't have the historical baggage, and quite a few read our posts and docs of the last 20 months where we repetitively try to convey and clarify what we are doing and why :) it's still going to haunt us, obviously :)
Important talk by @Mer__edith and Udbhav Tiwari on the immediate and serious threat to privacy and data security posed by "Agentic AI" like MS Copilot and similar.
I'm not sure if I've damaged my laptop's keyboard, but I just noticed that I cannot type e and follow it with t in rapid succession, or only the e will register. But I'll be back home soon and back to primarily using an external keyboard, so it won't matter as much anymore.
So, how was someone able to hack these documents, undoing the redactions that the DOJ of all people had put in place, and reveal the information for all to see? I hope you are sitting down, because itβs going to knock your socks off: βI simply highlighted the text, copied it, and pasted it in a document,β Krassenstein said.
An anonymous reader shares a report: The French government on Dec 30 postponed a ban on plastic throwaway cups by four years to 2030 because of difficulties finding alternatives. The ban was meant to start on Jan 1.
I am blind. Seeing people who think I'm not worth the effort fill my timeline with AltBot generated AI stuff that isn't even accurate in lots of cases.
Human alt text is always better, because it doesnΒ΄t focus on ocular seeing. Seeing people think, and AltBot was designed around that notion, that blind people must compensate for missing "eye-seeing", but that's not the case. I am interested in the meaning of an image to you, its maker or publisher.
Again, human alt text is better, also because it strengthens reciprocity between seeing and blind people. AltBot doesn't but it makes seeing people believe they have done their bit for accessibility. In actuality, the reverse is often true.
Honestly this constant back and forth is the only thing I'd think about in this case. I understand if you feel exhausted working on this alone, or if you don't get enough donations or anything. But this tool has helped many, and rather AI description than no description. Some sighted don't bother and that won't change just because, idk, that person thinks they'll feel more guilty when no AI produces the description for them. I'll lose information most of the time. I can still decide whether I want to generate or read the description. But let's say it's just a generic text, or poster, or dashboard, someone just didn't bother describing. Right I could ask them, but would the original poster actually bother adding the alt text afterward? In the least cases. Yeah maybe some nice other sighted person will describe it. But then the difference is not too big anymore, if you get what I mean. Don't let these little comments from all sides get so close to your acting. That's just my take, and I probably don't have a lot room to talk here.
To clarify, I don't completely disagree with the original post's opinion, but that doesn't mean that altbot is useless. And if they don't want to see the descriptions, you know happy block or mute button.
Saw the Fediverse described as where elder millennial, Gen X and boomers go to retire from the internet, and immediately felt the peace that passes all understanding wash over me. None of us have to struggle any longer. We completed our time.
Since the last time I checked, it seems that Keycron has been fully integrated into QMK. They have their own folder and layout files and everything. I want to modify my V1. The problem is that it's been years since I made a new layout in QMK and flashed a keyboard. I don't remember quite how I did it last time, and I've moved to a new laptop since then.
@helenasteinhaus auf dem #39c3 ΓΌber BΓΌrgergeld, Bezahlkarte, lΓΌgende Politiker und ekelhafte Flegel. RetrΓΆΓΆten und Reply: Furchbar gern, eigner Upload irgendwo: never ever! #sketchnotes #graphicrecording
I'm a communist. I respect not everyone on the left is a communist or has to be a communist. There are many people of good will and honesty and so on who are not, and might never become, communists.
But the way some people will disclaim "I'm not a communist" as soon as possible, that does make me nervous. Don't want to be a communist, fine, don't be one; but making it sound like it's a cult or a disease or a crime? That's slightly alarming.
Does anyone have the manual for the old Sable audio RPG maker? Specifically looking for inspiration to make the Godot tilemap editor accessible and reading its manual might help.
Alternately, are there any good and documented accessible tilemap editors whose docs I can look to for inspiration?
Vous avez entendu les AI bros dire qu'il fallait mettre des datacenters dans l'espace ? Bah c'est une immense connerie. "The short version: this is an absolutely terrible idea, and really makes zero sense whatsoever. There are multiple reasons for this, but they all amount to saying that the kind of electronics needed to make a datacenter work, particularly a datacenter deploying AI capacity in the form of GPUs and TPUs, is exactly the opposite of what works in space." taranis.ie/datacenters-in-spacβ¦
I have disabled every fucking piece of AI bullshit I can find from Firefox and DESPITE THAT today I got ambushed by a new ASK AN AI CHATBOT line in a fucking image context menu
Every year around this time, I make my βThis year really could have been an emailβ joke, but this year really couldnβt have been. There was just too much 2025.
A large amount of insulin was found at #39C3. Anyone who can describe how it is packaged and where it was probably lost can pick it up from us at CERT.
Blind math students, how do you organize substitutions? Examples include double u-sub and maybe dimensional analysis. I need help. My brain falls apart after so many lines. Informed comments/advice/suggestions only please
I obviously haven't done this in a few years, but I used to work with a two-editor workflow, where one editor was the entire solution, the other was the most important lines / results that I knew I'd need to recall in the future.
#39c3 .ending .. quite an enjoyable blast, and thanks to all the wonderful people just dropping by to say "thank you, it all works very nice for us"! π₯° Certainly raised team spirits :)
This year around, apart from one #chatmail relay setup workshop we didn't do any registered events at congress. Pushing out releases, Illnesses and engagements in various other organizing prevented more public sessions. Next ones will be around #fosdem2026 where also several of us will be around. Cheers!
Well, I saw on slovak local donating organization some adult NSFW content in the footer of the page. It was not visible, it was just read by screenreaders.
@ondrosik TeamTalk's homepage had one of those as well. Apparently the link itself was tiny such that people couldn't see it, but it was probably used to get more clicks on the site or something. In that case it was a compromised wordpress installation I think. I see the Amazon thing as well.
Many people redact PDF content by covering it up with a black or white rectangle, forgetting that, unlike in purely visual formats, that operation does basically nothing in PDF. The content is still there, the renderer is just instructed to draw a white rectangle which occupies the same position and covers it visually.
Sometimes, you can also find sloppy employees leaving notes to other people working on the PDF, especially if the documents are only intended for print, and the electronic version is only given out in special circumstances.
@miki Thanks, you reminded me to post about the Epstine files which can be "hacked" via this "method" (the hacking method being you read them normally in your browser)
@miki @pitermach @ondrosik If you are playing Codenames in a browser, you can cheat by hitting insert+f on the hidden card. Nine times out of ten it will tell you the color.
Add support for UTF-8 barcodes
Add duplicate option to main screen and reorder options slightly
Fix column count setting not being applied to group card list
Remove theme colour support
Reduce max ...
This is also the first release using Jetpack Compose, Google's "new" UI toolkit. It is only used in the About activity for now but the plan is to eventually use this in all activities instead of the old Android XML layout engine, which Google is definitely giving less priority for bugfixes and features.
I would like to specifically thank @theimpulson and @Iamlooker for helping me out so much while I was trying to wrap my head around it, your help has been amazing.
Every day I scroll through my feed and I see proud announcements like:
βFirst Alpha Relase of HyperTurboWidget available"
or
βVersion 2.7.1 now with improved glorb handlers!β
or
βFlux Capacitor version 4.5 is outβ
β¦ and I sit there wondering if I should be excited, terrified, or calling a licensed electrician.
Donβt get me wrong, I love open source. I just have no idea what three quarters of these projects actually do. Are we talking about a web server? A file system? A middleware thingy that keeps the flux from overflowing into the spaceβtime continuum?
So, dear OSS developers of the world: When you announce a new release, please give us (your adoring but slightly confused audience) just a tiny bit of context.
Tell us what your software does.
Tell us why this release is cool.
Tell us what it requires to work.
Example:
We are proud to announce Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is now avalaible. While it creates a nice wormhole to 1955, it requires an underlying gigawatt stack 1.21 to work reliably.
Because nobody wants to cheer enthusiastically for βv2.7.1β while secretly Googling βwhat is a glorb and why does it need handlingβ.
Fair reminder to remind me to remind people what Catima is in the release announcements.
Catima stands for **Ca**rd and **ti**cket **ma**nager, it's a little app to store store discount cards, event tickets, plane tickets, etc in. Basically anything with a barcode :)
the #communist meetup at #39c3 was incredible. Great moment whan we switched rooms with the #FLINTA cruising group to give them more space, and got a round of applause. Very sweet.
A je to venku. Kazdy mame svou trinactou komnatu, veci co nikde nechceme ukazovat. Ale nez se to k vam dostane z uniku v Epstein files priznam se radsi sam. Jednou jsem jel na kole!
My personal stance on AI over the past 6 months has slowly shifted from being very strongly opposed to much more of an optimist. I still think that so much of the hype around it is overblown, it's being shoved in all sorts of places it doesn't need to be, etc., but since I started using AI coding agents, my productivity has gone through the roof. Notice too that I didn't say speed, because honestly I think I take longer to ship code now, but productivity. I actually get more done. I spend a while writing out a good prompt, let Claude run for 20-30 minutes while I go get some food and stimulants, then spend a couple/few hours at least tweaking the code, reviewing it, testing it, etc. But I can now just throw out ideas! If I want to quickly try adding oCR to Paperback, I can tell Claude to try it, go eat, then come back, read the code, learn not what to do when I try this later, and git reset. I forgot where I heard this, and I'm paraphrasing, but the quote goes something like: "AI does not create fast experts; it makes experts faster". Can definitely say that's been my experience. A lot of these dumb tiny AI startups will probably die, I hope AI browsers go to the software graveyard, etc., but LLMs are here to stay and honestly I've come around to it. I still get queezy when thinking about what it's doing to the environment, but also, humans are doing plenty of horrible things to the earth right now that I'm not even aware of that are taking out endangered species and eliminating lifeforms that make the chemical we need to survive, so with or without LLMs we're fucked and headed for global warming. That doesn't mean I don't think we should solve the problem, but it's not the only problem either.
Re last: I absolutely love doing accessibility work with Jujutsu. Often I start with an inaccessible base and iterate my way out of the fog--fixing one accessibility issue only reveals another, and another. Git's model makes that tricky--make commits, then individually peel them off onto separate branches when it's time to merge.
With JJ on the other hand, I can stack changes one on top of the other without even thinking about it. Fix accessibility issue, jj new, fix another, jj new. It's usually obvious from jj diff what I fixed, so I can jj edit and jj describe the changes later if I'm just in the zone and don't want to workshop a commit description right now. When it's time to pick apart PRs, jj rebase -s q -s r -s s -s t -d p rebases everything on the most recent upstream change at once, then I just jj edit q and jj bookmark set <branch-name> for each change. A jj git push --allow-new pushes everything at once. When the inevitable PR feedback arrives I just jj edit <bookmark name>, make the changes, and jj git push again. No need to explicitly re-commit since that happens automatically. Then when I want my own private build with all the new a11y goodness, jj new q r s t puts me in a brand new commit with everything merged. Find a new accessibility issue with code I've edited? No problem--just edit the code live on my change, jj absorb, and it merges that code into whichever revision in my history last touched it. If it's at all ambiguous, jj squash merges the changes into an explicit target, and a jj git push updates all the affected PRs without me having to think about it.
I speak up for migrants a lot. You know, because I am one. And because itβs the right thing to do. Every now and then, I get a Faragite telling me if I love migrants so much, I should house a refugee.
Passphrases vs. Passwords "Through 20 years of effort, we've successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess."
I worry non-technical people with too much power are going to read this and be emboldened continue the age-old tradition of using a password system where it discards the characters after their maximum (which suspiciously seems to always be 15 or 16 characters) but considers the truncated values to be different from the exact same 15 or 16 characters when you realise the password field to log in stops processing input at 15 or 16 characters.
In case one of those people reads this, 34,000 years sounds like a lot, but this is what computers can do right now. Five years ago, that same brute force would likely have taken orders of magnitude longer. Ideally, you want "Sol will go supernova before they brute force this password using the hardware available in [current date]"
Passphrases help keep the complexity more manageable, but someone already posted the XKCD. Just please, for fuck sake, don't be hostile to password manager users. A copy/paste is arguably more secure than just manually typing it in before we even consider how the password manager encrypts it.
here is one thing I think but for some reason the security industry seems to disagree with me. So let's say you have a password and it's 12 characters long. If you say in the requirements it must have 1 uppercase, 1 lowercase, 1 number, and 1 special character doesn't that actually simplify cracking as the hacker knows the requirements? Like assuming all those characters are allowed but not required isn't the possible number of passwords greater?
Really. Which computer? My laptop? An AI rig? What is the application of the password? How is it stored? How is it hashed? How is it applied? This table can't be taken literally.
UNIQUE passwords matter 1000x more than STRONG passwords. With very very few exceptions, password cracking shouldn't even be in a normal person's threat model. If somebody is cracking your password they already have your data from that platform. The only thing password cracking does is let them use your password to authenticate to other platforms, but that doesn't work if it's a unique password
We need to stop people to use long to complex passwords. That's not a useful thing to teach people. Instead, teach them to use a password manager and a unique password for every site!
When people say: "billionaires shouldn't exist" that isn't a call to violence. "Being a billionaire" isn't some inherent property in the way that say, skin color is.
Wealth taxation is a perfectly acceptable way of eliminating all billionaires. That doesn't mean billionaires stop being people, they just stop being billionaires.
Mastodon* is in desperate need of a rebrand and a repositioning in the minds of the general public (imo).
There's no reason why a Mastodon address couldn't come with all the cachet of a public library card, or a PBS tote bagβthat is to say something that signals βI am more than just a content creation machine for a corporation.β
It could be a status symbol for all the right reasons.
*The collective brand, so much as the general public sees Mastodon as such.
1) Las grandes empresas no tienen permiso para ser asociadas o cooperativistas. SΓ pueden ser proveedores de servicios o productos, pero mi consejo es que las grandes empresas queden absolutamente fuera de estos sistemas hechos por y para la gente. Si me preguntas a mΓ, las CE son uno de los mecanismos que existen para debilitar a las grandes empresas.
2) Las personas socias tienen una participaciΓ³n abierta, voluntaria y autΓ³noma. Pueden entrar o salir a voluntad, y tienen voz y voto.
1. Incentivar y promocionar la participaciΓ³n y cohesiΓ³n ciudadana de manera inclusiva con las pymes, instituciones y la sociedad en general de nuestra ciudad en lo relacionado con la generaciΓ³n, transporte o consumo de energΓa.
1. Ejecutar las actividades necesarias con el fin de alcanzar el objetivo de que el consumo de electricidad de las personas socias sea 100% de origen renovable.
2. Reducir el impacto ambiental de las personas socias y la sociedad en general, incluidas las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero, emisiones perjudiciales para la salud, y el mal uso del agua o los residuos generados.
4. Contribuir a las estrategias de mitigaciΓ³n de la crisis climΓ‘tica, asΓ como a las estrategias de adaptaciΓ³n ante sus efectos, desde la perspectiva de la energΓa.
2. ProducciΓ³n de energΓa local y despliegue de sistemas de almacenamiento de energΓa de bajo impacto. Consumo y autoconsumo de energΓa local y de origen renovable.
3. Quedan explΓcitamente excluidas las actividades que hagan uso de formas de energΓa basadas en los combustibles fΓ³siles, salvo que mediante su uso se reduzca el impacto local y global de los mismos, como pudiera ser sistemas de calefacciΓ³n de distrito mediante gas natural o vehΓculos a motor de combustiΓ³n compartidos.
6. DinamizaciΓ³n y promociΓ³n de la movilidad sostenible, en este orden: caminar, ir en bicicleta, usar transporte pΓΊblico, compartir vehΓculos privados, electrificar vehΓculos privados.
9. PromociΓ³n y organizaciΓ³n de actividades para fomentar la reutilizaciΓ³n, reparaciΓ³n, el intercambio y el reciclaje de ropa y textiles, desincentivando el consumo de moda rΓ‘pida, como mercadillos, ferias, roperos sociales, etc.
Salvo que los estatutos digan algo distinto: cualquier persona, asociaciΓ³n, pyme o instituciΓ³n. Por ejemplo, se puede poner una norma de que la persona fΓsica o jurΓdica ha de ser de la localidad.
2. Colectivo. Lo mismo pero acompaΓ±ado. Por ejemplo, en una fila de chalets adosados se hace una instalaciΓ³n corrida. Se comparten gastos, se comparten tareas, se comparten recursos. Y cada cierto tiempo se toman decisiones entre todos. Organizar esto es mΓ‘s complejo, pero acaba siendo la opciΓ³n que mΓ‘s alivio mental genera. Dejas de estar solo o sola ante el mundo y siempre hay un par de personas cerca que se presentan como voluntarios para hacer tal o cual gestiΓ³n.
Este modelo puede ser de mil maneras distintas, pero es frecuente que se junten varias familias y comercios, busquen uno o varios tejados comunes, reΓΊnan dinero para hacer una o varias instalaciones fotovoltaicas, y se repartan los βcoeficientes de consumoβ, es decir, la capacidad de las instalaciones. Vamos a ver un ejemplo basado en un caso real.
Un dΓa varias familias de un barrio se juntan y surge el tema comΓΊn de βla luz estΓ‘ muy caraβ. Uno de ellos tiene placas fotovoltaicas en su casa y deciden montar una asociaciΓ³n para compartir luz. Hacen varias sesiones informativas y 15 familias firman los estatutos. A lo largo de los meses, a medida que surgen conversaciones, mΓ‘s y mΓ‘s hogares se van sumando hasta reunir casi 50. ΒΏEl problema? Aunque algunos de sus hogares tienen espacio para instalar fotovoltaica, lo ideal es una cubierta grande para que todo salga mΓ‘s barato.
No pienses en esto como una comunidad de vecinas. En esas, los vecinos estΓ‘n adjudicados y te asignan siempre a un par de cuΓ±ados quejicas. Esto es otra cosa, es un grupo de gente con intereses comunes, dispuestas a trabajar juntas. Y si no te interesa, recuerda que la salida de la CE es una posibilidad.
El caso es que compran las placas y queda tal que asΓ:
- Una instalaciΓ³n muy grande de 45 kWp en el tejado de la asociaciΓ³n. De este beben 25 familias.
- Ocho instalaciones pequeΓ±as de las que beben unas 2-3 familias por instalaciΓ³n.
Todos pagan lo mismo, todos reciben los mismos kWp por euro invertido. Todos pagan la misma cuota de mantenimiento, por kWp. Es decir, si tΓΊ tienes 2 kWp y yo tengo 1 kWp, tΓΊ pagarΓ‘s el doble que yo. Es justo.
2. La cesiΓ³n de cubierta se realiza bajo la condiciΓ³n de que la asociaciΓ³n se encargarΓ‘ de instalar la fotovoltaica (aunque contarΓ‘ con ayuda del ayuntamiento) y mantenerla. La cubierta es del ayuntamiento, pero la instalaciΓ³n no.
3. El ayuntamiento tendrΓ‘ un voto sobre el total de votos, y en caso de cumplirse determinadas condiciones de masa crΓtica, contarΓ‘ con una vocalΓa en el concejo rector, junto con otra para los hogares, otra para las asociaciones y otra para los comercios. Esto en previsiΓ³n de crecimiento.
4. Como la cubierta es un bien pΓΊblico, la cesiΓ³n se cobra en luz entregada por la asociaciΓ³n a hogares vulnerables. Yo te cedo la cubierta, pero a cambio te pido que ilumines casas de personas que tienen menos recursos que tΓΊ. El coeficiente estΓ‘ por definir. De esta forma el ayuntamiento usa un bien que estΓ‘ abandonado y lo convierte en un activo dedicado al trabajo social.
Ahora bien, dado que las cubiertas municipales son escasas y se espera alta demanda, es probable que se pongan cuotas en tramos de 0,5 kWp. Es decir, si hay una cubierta en la que caben 300 kWp, se pueden atender a las primeras 600 familias que llegan, aunque si solo lo hacen 550, 50 hogares podrΓ‘n disfrutar de 1 kWp. Todo ordenadito por orden de llegada, dimensiones de la cubierta e igualdad.
βοΈ Ejemplo 3. Proyecto de compras colectivas de vehΓculos con cesiΓ³n de espacio municipalβοΈ
Uno de los mayores problemas urbanos es el espacio depredado por los coches, que son particularmente ineficientes en su uso: estΓ‘n parados entre el 95% y el 97% del tiempo. Muchas familias tienen un coche principal y uno secundario que prΓ‘cticamente no se mueve nunca, salvo ocasiones puntuales.
ΒΏCΓ³mo serΓa un modelo asΓ? La asociaciΓ³n, formada por hogares compra cierto nΓΊmero de vehΓculos y les instala una cerradura electrΓ³nica con doble factor de autenticaciΓ³n: solo si se tiene la tarjeta y una clave personal se puede acceder al vehΓculo. AsΓ es como funcionan las flotas de renting por minutos, estΓ‘ todo inventado.
Al tiempo, el ayuntamiento cede un espacio pΓΊblico de estacionamiento a cada matrΓcula de vehΓculo compartido, pero no de cualquier manera porque se convertirΓa en un colador de caraduras. Se ponen una serie de condiciones como que:
2. La asociaciΓ³n ha de demostrar que cada vehΓculo adquirido tiene, como poco, a cinco o siete personas con carnet que pueden usarlo, mediante contratos vinculantes entre socios. Si alguien con mucha caradura quiere usar este sistema para quedarse con una plaza en la calle, tendrΓ‘ que buscar a media docena de personas que no solo tendrΓ‘n que poner dinero, sino que tendrΓ‘n legΓtimo uso sobre el bien adquirido. Mucha suerte a quien intente engaΓ±ar al sistema.
De esta forma se desincentiva el uso del segundo vehΓculo familiar, liberΓ‘ndose espacio en la calle (eso es lo que gana el ayuntamiento) y los hogares pueden acceder a una movilidad en coche mΓ‘s asequible al tiempo que evitan dar vueltas hasta localizar un espacio para aparcar (ahorrΓ‘ndose mucho combustible y energΓa en el proceso).
La CE puede ser de tu edificio, o de todo un municipio. O de toda la regiΓ³n.
Diferente es el rango del proyecto de autoconsumo colectivo DENTRO de esa asociaciΓ³n o cooperativa. Los proyectos de autoconsumo colectivo tienen un rango de un par de kilΓ³metros entre el punto de vertido a red (el contador de la planta fotovoltaica) hasta tu contador.
Pero una misma CE puede tener mΓΊltiples proyectos de autoconsumo colectivo sembrados por el territorio.
βοΈ P. Para personas en situaciΓ³n de alquiler, ΒΏcΓ³mo pueden actuar?βοΈ @grodira
Una persona inquilina puede formar parte de una asociaciΓ³n o cooperativa sin problema. Y aquΓ las CEs no son distintas.
El reto viene de un desembolso econΓ³mico que queda inmovilizado en infraestructura fotovoltaica.
TΓΊ, FermΓn, no posees la vivienda, y dudas de su meter 2000-3000 euros para una instalaciΓ³n fotovoltaica que no te podrΓ‘s llevar. Es lΓ³gico.
AquΓ, las CEs tienen que hacer un esfuerzo por ser las propietarias de la instalaciΓ³n, de forma que cuando te mudas dentro del rango del punto de autoconsumo colectivo te puedas 'llevar virtualmente' tu descuento de un CUPS a otro CUPS.
"The mistake that every investor, commentator, analyst and member of the media makes about NVIDIA is believing that its sales are an expression of demand for AI compute, when itβs really more of a statement about the availability of debt from banks and private credit."
Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd β Free Bird
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In programming, we have a nice pair of opposed acronyms:
β’ DRY for "Don't Repeat Yourself" β’ WET for its opposite, "Write Everything Twice" (or "We Enjoy Typing")
But there's an intermediate position. The benefit of DRY, other than brevity, is that if a thing is specified just once, the specifications can't get out of sync with each other. If you can't manage that, the next best thing is to make sure the compiler or test suite _checks_ that they're in sync. You have to do more typing than you'd like, but at least you've removed the risk of an accident, which is the _most_ important thing.
(For example, in Rust, if you add a new branch to an enum and forget to update one of its match statements, the compiler complains about the one you missed.)
I feel as if there ought to be a nice intermediate acronym for that state of affairs, so you can say "Weeell, it's not as DRY as I'd like, but at least it's only MOIST." Or DAMP, or HUMID or something.
"Match Or Interpreter Spots Trouble"? "Disallow Almost-Matching Programs"? "Holler Unless Many Instances Dovetail"?
Not sure about any of those. The last one in particular seems especially "you resorted to a thesaurus, didn't you?".
I've got enough pending accessibility-related PRs on my Godot fork such that the editor is almost pleasant to use. Made the scene tree labeled and usable, fixed tab bar navigation so it wraps and doesn't just dump focus wherever if you mistakenly arrow past a tab border, added regions/landmarks to major editor areas so you know where you are, labeled more unlabeled weirdness.
Going to spend the next week mostly hacking on this before switching back to more "productive" work. It might be about time to start working on making the tilemap and audio editors accessible.
I have this crazy idea that it might actually be easier to rewrite and finish System Fault in Godot than to keep up with the perpetual Bevy churn, along with trying to create pathfinding and other systems entirely from scratch and without seeing the results. Even if I rewrote by hand rather than leaning on gen AI, I can drop bunches of buggy pathfinding/visibility code and just focus on the gameplay itself. I'd often said that System Fault could be done already if I could have used an actual, production-ready game engine to build it. I guess soon we'll see.
And to be clear, none of this is a slam on Bevy which has been great. It's just been a huge lift maintaining bunches of code that does what other engines do out of the box, plus keeping up with the inevitable changes caused by building on third-party libraries to make my life easier, then rebuilding when those libraries go away. Bevy will get there eventually, but not on a timeline that has me finishing this thing anytime soon.
I'm done trying to take the hard-line anti-genAI stance that I see so much both here on the fediverse and in the broader discourse among programmers. When I'm truly honest, I have to admit that I find the technology too fascinating, entertaining, and yes, sometimes useful to outright avoid it on ethical grounds. I'm through being a hypocrite. As with my rejection of religion some 14 years ago, it's better to admit I don't really believe, in this case in the arguments against using genAI.
What does this mean specifically? For starters, I won't keep repeating and amplifying the arguments that I've now rejected. I'll use genAI models as I wish, for both business and pleasure. I may post publicly about particularly useful or entertaining things that come out of those sessions, behind this content warning. And I'll start playing around with Claude Code or other similar agents.
But, I'll respect the wishes of any project or future employer that does not want LLM-generated code. I'll review all LLM-generated code that I contribute to any project, and be forthright about the use of genAI in writing that code. And I'll try to be careful about not using an LLM to closely imitate code from known copyleft-licensed projects in whatever domain I'm working in.
Now then, I wonder about the easiest way to run an agent like Claude Code in an isolated, sandboxed *Windows* development environment, as opposed to giving it access to my main box. Just because I'm giving up on strict abstinence, doesn't mean I'm going to be reckless.
I guess I should spin up a new Windows VM in VMware Workstation and install Visual Studio and Claude Code there.
What I have yet to find out is whether I'll *like* relying heavily on an LLM for coding, agentic or otherwise. But I've decided to give it a serious try.
Just as an anecdote on what a top-tier coding agent (Claude Code) is currently capable of, I offer this experiment, where I had Claude Code write a simple custom GUI with accessibility: github.com/mwcampbell/claude-aβ¦
I am, of course, flattered that with no explicit prompting on my part, it decided to use AccessKit. Of course, that's the obvious choice for a GUI implemented in Rust.
The spec for the program is also admittedly very much like the AccessKit winit example, with the notable exception that this program also draws a visual UI.
Considering that, it's a bit surprising that it didn't copy the winit example *more* closely. And as a result, there's at least one bug.
What's most striking as I look through this code is that while Claude decided to use AccessKit for the accessibility part, it implemented simple rectangle drawing/filling and text drawing (with a simple bitmap font) from scratch on top of softbuffer. I told it not to use a full-blown GUI toolkit, but it still could have used vello or tiny_skia or femtovg to handle the graphics, as it used AccessKit for accessibility.
Maybe implementing AT-SPI from scratch is just so obviously complicated that it decided to use AccessKit for that, while it figured doing the graphics from scratch wouldn't be too hard. Or, maybe it pattern-matched my spec against the AccessKit winit example, which has no visual UI, so it improvised on that part. I'll have to look back at the "thinking" traces and see if those give any clues.
From what I hear, if you will be accelerating your AI workloads with an NVIDIA GPU, the Linux drivers perform around 10% faster than their Windows counterparts. Minor, but its still 10%.
OpenAI Codex is much better at Sandboxing than Claude. Not sure how stable its native WIndows sandboxing support is though, and whether you're fine with WSL or whether you need native Windows.
Asking for help! My wife is currently locked out of most digital services due to her phone being broken, and all passwords being in #bitwarden . The bitwarden webapp doesn't help because it asks a verification code, sent on an email which password is.. in bitwarden. What can we do?
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in reply to πβπ¦οΈππ±π • • •@wmd there are many computer people pretty happy with #deltachat ... who value precisely that they can use it with their families and friends easily, though.
With a lot of alternative software, the complaint is that it is only usable by specialists. We are pretty happy that in our case it is more the specialists who need to work harder and read the FAQ to understand that some lines of traditional thinking about eg email and pgp do not apply delta.chat/en/help
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in reply to holga • • •Some people value their trust chains and have very well checked keys, or they want to generate their custom key. Because you can, you get "closer to the metal". Signal doesn't offer it, so it might be a loss or just not considered. That deltachat uses pgp invites people to think im their typical pgo ways/workflows. π€·πΌββοΈ
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in reply to πβπ¦οΈππ±π • • •@wmd @hpk one of the biggest problems with pgp has traditionally been the high flexibility in hash algorithms, key types, key structures etc.
modern cryptographic systems like signal don't allow such flexibility, and delta also doesn't delta.chat/en/help#importkey
It's part of the reason why delta pretty persistently is not vulnerable against the many successful attacks against pgp implementations like gpg.
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in reply to Delta Chat (39c3) • • •@hpk 1) I was part explaining as hpk said they didn't understand. 2) I don't think you need to facilitate thunderbird+gpg users, just that as deltachat is advertised a lot as being based on mail+pgp, it's good to be aware there is a key audience that can get confused by it.
If you tell me something is based on ssh, but I can't do the usual ssh features/flow I'll also be confused if not frustrated. π€·πΌββοΈ
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