Archive of Our Own will go down today, but don't freak out
https://mashable.com/article/archive-of-our-own-ao3-down-outage?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Here's when the popular fan fiction website will return.Amanda Yeo (Mashable)
I recall you mentioning about your new landing page. Just remembered, I wanted to highlight a probable css and height issue. Few app texts are getting out of their boxes (if I am seeing correctly).
Specifically on the articles page: android.izzysoft.de/articles.p…
Užívejte si videa a hudbu, kterou máte rádi, nahrávejte originální obsah a sdílejte vše s přáteli, rodinou i celým světem na YouTube.YouTube
názov prvej pesničky prosím viete mi povedať? shazam aj bixby sú mimo
edit: ah tuesdays gone
So it turns out that the largest AI datacenter in the world consumes about as much water per year as ~2.5 burger joins (including water consumed in chip production). I heavily overestimated datacenter water consumption (even though I knew most people still heavily overestimated datacenter water consumption, and I underestimated it relative to most people. I also heavily underestimated how much water goes into a single burger.
newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/…
A different perspective on the datacenter water debate, forget tokens/watt or tokens/dollar, it's about tokens/burger, how many In-N-Outs is equivalent to the world's largest datacenterNicolas Bontigui (SemiAnalysis)
There's really NO reason why a decent mid-range phone couldn't be someone's main desktop or laptop. The NexPhone is a mid-range rugged phone which connects to a monitor to be a Debian or Windows 11 PC! youtu.be/qfY5t6N8YxM
Phones are computers. I ramble on about this a lot in my videos. This phone is LITERALLY that!
#tech #technology #technews #android #linux #debian #windows #youtube #geek #gadgets #video
TEAM SGG PATREON https://www.patreon.com/SomeGadgetGuy NexPhone first look! This was the nerdiest gadget I found at CES 2026! I keep saying "your phone is a ...YouTube
Starting in January 2026, at the beginning of each quarter, i.e. in January, April, July and October, I will publish a slide deck with updated statistics on the LibreOffice project.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
I wonder why the least wealthy countries aren't downloading LibreOffice?
Is it because the technology to run LO isn't suitable? (I know mobiles are common, but computers not so much).
Is it because "free" tools like Google Docs is preferred, because there is nothing to install and it works wherever a browser works?
Is it because for most people, life just doesn't include using a computer based office productivity suite?
Something else?
Apologies for my ignorance on this matter.
Do you have a map with downloads per capita?
China having a huuuge population, comparing it with Germany or France isn't really relevant of the roots of LibrrOffice in each country.
Thanks!
SO I saw a facebook notification, and decided let's read it, I don't really go on facebook that often, but it was @countrymetalhead commenting on a post he shared, and welp just because I want to see if the reaction here on masto's different, here's the original post, now, be aware, I'm not the original author, so keep that in mind. I'm just posting it to see what others think, and what reactions I get. Now, if your still reading, your content preramble is over. here we go. hot take starts.... welp, now. Hot take:
If you think a relationship means constant texting, daily reassurance, sharing locations, checking followers, and knowing where your partner is every second of the day… you’re not in love. You’re running surveillance.
Some of y’all don’t want a partner.
You want a security blanket with a phone.
A healthy relationship doesn’t require good morning paragraphs, hourly check-ins, and “prove you love me” speeches. It requires trust, independence, and a life outside of your partner.
If your mood is ruined because your partner didn’t text back fast enough, that’s not passion. That’s insecurity.
If you need access to their phone to feel safe, that’s not loyalty. That’s control.
If you think jealousy is cute, that’s not love. That’s immaturity.
Some of you are addicted to attention and call it affection.
And before you say “my partner likes it,” just know: people accept a lot when they’re afraid of being alone.
Love isn’t about possession.
It’s about partnership.
Now let’s see who feels personally attacked.
Remember, using a native HTML `<fieldset>` / `<legend>` gets you better results in SRs than its ARIA equivalent:
adrianroselli.com/2022/07/use-…
My post deals with the inverse of the others I shared — unstyling the native HTML so you don’t need the ARIA construct.
It’s 2022 and people are still afraid to use and . I understand the layout challenges can be frustrating, but swapping to an ARIA group role will result in a more inaccessible experience.Adrian Roselli
RE: mindly.social/@Tamasg/11593385…
Totally agree.
It's also funny that GPT uses terms like "Keep my fingers crossed" in its thinking. Do you really have fingers as an AI and why would you think that? One time it actually was thinking, "circumventing search restrictions." And the amount of times it says, "let's get this done right once and for all!" is really great, as though it were trying to be a frustrated person. All of these things give it fake realism, but we must not associate an AI thinking this way to it "being a human" - it only does so because we ourselves use these processes when thinking and it's just replicating what it knows.
Belarusian government persecutes radio amateurs and sentences operators (life sentence or death penalty is at stake). Andrey Repetiy (EW1ABT) and Nikita Krasko (EW1AEH) were forced to publicly repent for the "crime" of technical curiosity and international communication. They were coerced on TV to renounce their own technical expertise as something harmful. Vyacheslav Benko (EW1ACE) remains behind bars alongside them.
Lukashenko's propagandists presented the Belarusian Federation of Radioamateurs and Radiosportsmen (BFRR) as nothing more than a front for a "massive spy network" designed to "pump state secrets from the air." Propagandists claim that over fifty people have already been detained and more than five hundred units of radio equipment have been seized. These men have been indicted for High Treason and Espionage. Under the Belarusian Criminal Code, these charges carry sentences of life imprisonment or even the death penalty.
Please read and share:
freedium-mirror.cfd/steanlab.m…
Behind the absurdity of charging Baofeng users with 'High Treason' lies a terrifying...freedium-mirror.cfd
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I know about the collapse of traffic to sites like Stack Overflow, but is that also being seen on sites like ReadTheDocs?
This question partly motivated by a discussion I was having with someone about "where would one actually advertise?" in relation to the drop in my own business.
Yeah, for better and for worse, they give the user exactly what they want, no more and no less. Some consider this as a walled garden, others as a natural extension of fast forward, ad blocking and reader mode. I guess it depends on where you fall on the scale of author's rights versus reader's rights.
Though to be fair, I suspect that many authors will leverage this and find a way to speak to LLMs directly. With enough prompt engineering, you could probably convince an LLM reading your website to tell the user about something you care about. The line between jailbreaking and telling the user something they want to hear is blurry, just like the line between delivering genuinely useful commercial information and manipulation is blurry in advertising. It's a strange world we live in.
@miki Well, I don't really want to be spending all my time figuring out how to tweak some algorithm to somehow surface my stuff.
I'm just trying to be an authentic person running an honest business. Something that seems to becoming increasingly impossible.
A consensus like this is rarely seen in an online poll.
"Is Donald Trump completely sane from a psychological point of view?"
taken from a popular Czech news site.
What is the anti-AI endgame at this point? It feels like everyone who's anti-AI is just praying for the bubble to burst. Like do you think when it happens that OpenAI is just going to close their doors and say "well we had a good run but lets close it down?" No! What's going to happen is what happens every time a bubble bursts and any smaller AI companies will go under or be absorbed by the few remaining ones and we'll just be left with 2 or 3 companies that control everything, and instead of fostering alternatives and trying to keep up with and help contribute to open stacks that can't be locked behind paywalls, the vast majority of the open-source community has just decided to complain about things changing and hope it doesn't.
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RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1159…
This is my shocked face...
And, if we don't get Trump and the GOP out of power, when things do crash here's what'll happen -- the big tech companies will get bailed out on our dollars and we'll be stuck with the bill. While there are rampant layoffs to boot, and our 401Ks crater.
PwC survey finds more than half of 4,500+ biz leaders see no revenue growth nor cost savings. Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge https://www.theregister.nixCraft 🐧 (Mastodon)
Jacques-Cartier Bridge in Montréal completely closed because of an adjacent fire.
No reports of injuries.
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mo…
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Le pont Jacques-Cartier à Montréal est complètement fermé, à cause qui lui est adjacent.
Aucun signalement de blessés.
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2…
Un incendie qui a pris naissance mardi soir dans un immeuble de la rue De Lorimier, tout juste à la sortie du pont Jacques-Cartier, force la fermeture du pont par mesure de précaution.Nicolas Bourcier (Radio-Canada Info)
libcurl memory use some years later
A look into memory consumption in #curl over time
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/21…
One of the trickier things in software is gradual degradation. Development that happens in the wrong direction slowly over time which never triggers any alarms or upset users.daniel.haxx.se
reading the struct size table and the sentence that follows confused me until i noticed
> 7.19.0-DEV
shouldn't it be 8.19.0-dev?
I use #curl _a lot_ when probing exploitable stuff.
I should donate to curl.
*30 seconds later*
I have now donated to curl.
Here are the custom companions some users like to have along for their search! Katto is comfortably in the lead. (These are anonymously compiled.)
If you're a Kagi member, you can select your companion here: kagi.com/settings/companions
I have a challenge for @Tamasg. I would like to see if he can attempt to make an NVDA addon for the Panasonic CyberTalk synthesizer. Here is a link to the files needed:
dectalk.nu/Software%20and%20Ma…
According to when I did exporting of the DLL functions of ttsapi.dll), it sounds promising, though I'm not a developer by any means, and I know that he is working extensively on the NV Speech Player addon.
AI at its best: the review we requested from Google's "security" console (quotes intended as questioning the term) "failed". I'm pretty sure, with not a single human involved.
Works. </s>
So whenever Google's "safe" browsing warns you about something, make sure to check for yourself (if you can) – do not blindly trust them. Being Big does not imply being competent. Obviously.
But sure, put them into control of everything, what could go wrong…
The reason seems quite obvious here: the app in question is an APK Updater. Oh, does that match the current/upcoming changes in Goog's policy? I'm very surprised (not), this certainly is pure coincidence (not).
And no, we won't remove the app from our repo just because of Goog shenanigans and their "alternative realities". Count the number of malware found at F-Droid+IzzyOnDroid (0), compare that to findings at Play (∞), get to your conclusion (🖕).
(sorry, am fed up with this BS)
@fbinin What is most frustrating there is how that wastes our time. I don't have to give you the term "underhanded" here, your team shares that pain…
Updated my snippet again (gitlab.com/-/snippets/4909577). Recording those events for reference sounds like something more than due (hoping for "backfire" re:trust their "safe browsing"). Hopefully, someone collects such evidence (I know someone who is, he knows about my snippet) and brings it to the right places, in a big box…
@fbinin Hahaha… yes, I tried that back at DroidCon in 2024. Guess they'll only send the PR team, again…
Nevertheless: the two of us can have a coffee together of course! Our stands are even next to each other, so it can be a can of coffee instead of just a cup 😉
Of course and I am very much looking forward to meeting you and others. I am wishing to even meet and make friends, rather than just acquaintance with at least a few there.
Only trouble for others would probably be like: I do not drink, nor smoke, and am pure vegetarian.
That may kill the mood for many. 🙃
@Life_is I cannot speak for F-Droid here. But I can forward that question to our client teams (Droid-ify & Neo Store).
Though in this context, it might be much more subtle: why rejecting their inclusion at Play, when you already can shovel dirt on them before they even apply (by maliciously marking them malicious)? And it pretty much looks like the latter here: of course would they not accept any apps known for being malicious, right? So create the facts you need?
I re-implemented the rate limiting in #curl, coming in the next release. A description.
eissing.org/icing/posts/curl-r…
The curl project merged #19384, #20033 and #20228 which re-implements rate limiting of transfers in libcurl. This will be part of the upcoming 8.19.0 release at the beginning of March 2026.icing's blog
This is a massive MR that aims to merge the entire 2.0 development effort into the official repo. All new code was...GitLab
Apple Fitness+ is now available in Japan, but instead of using local trainers, and despite being one of the most wealthy companies in the world, Apple has dubbed existing workouts with AI-generated versions of the trainers' voices.William Gallagher (AppleInsider)
IzzyOnDroid ✅
in reply to FLOSSbOxIN • • •that's not the "new landing page" – that's "my" old Android website. The new landing page is at izzyondroid.org/ 😉
It's not the official repo browser either (which is one thing that should get an overhaul next, hopefully this year, but no promises before we're 100% sure we can keep them).
IzzyOnDroid
izzyondroid.orgFLOSSbOxIN
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •BTW, on the main page as well, at times the CSS was not loading properly. Had to do a refresh (C+S+R) 2 or 3 times today. Maybe temporary or a network glitch. It did load later on very nicely.
IzzyOnDroid ✅
in reply to FLOSSbOxIN • • •Had that (CSR) one time, too – but quite a while ago, don't even remember exactly anymore.
Yeah, thanks for the other hints – but I'm afraid my time won't permit me working on those cosmetics. My work on IzzyOnDroid keeps me busy enough – no idea how that will fit should I get a paid $dayjob again (unfortunately I need some money for living, and all the maintenance work is still unpaid – long way until IzzyOnDroid is self-sustaining…)
FLOSSbOxIN
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •Bring your resume when coming over please. Will see if my current company where I work has any eligible positions you can apply for.
For that sake, feel free to ask others as well who maybe looking out for jobs. I maybe able to suggest few places. The least I can do.