Hello again, everything is still scary and hard and the tech job market is wild right now, so here's my semi-regular thread of open jobs I've found where your work could make the world better (or at least, not make it worse)
GenAI, The Snake Eating Its Own Tail: How tools like ChatGPT and Claude are destroying the ecosystems they rely on, and what to do about it ybrikman.com/blog/2026/01/21/gā¦
Great blog post. This one explained how Google, OpenAI and other AI companies killed the open web, which was once made of independent forums, news sites, wikis, blogs, high quality journalism websites, books, and fan fiction or art.
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT and Claude have two superpowers. The first superpower is a boon: they can dramatically increase ...
Adam recently met Ryan Norbauer, a designer and propmaker who is obsessed with mechanical computer keyboards. He has spent the past five years building what ...
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Last year, we learned that the Kodak factory shifted its film distribution from outsourcing to Kodak Alaris to doing it in-house. Today, the company announced two new films that will be sold under a new packaging.
neat piece of invisible infrastructure: the Rust portable-atomic crate
your platform doesnāt support a particular type of atomic natively? not a problem, this crate gives you an implementation anyway
how? well thereās a global lock, you see. or, rather, 67 global locks, and which one gets used depends on the address of the atomic mod 67.
but, thatās kinda inefficient, so you wouldnāt want to use it unless itās your only choice, right?
so they have a bunch of platform specific implementations, such as āletās detect at runtime if cmpxchg16b is supportedā or āthis is a microcontroller so if we read it within one instruction weāre fine, and otherwise just disable the interruptsā
and as a result you can just use it and not really think about it, because in 99% of cases itās gonna do the same thing as what youād end up with if you bothered to optimize it manually
the ratio of elaborate internals to unassuming API surface is so great here you could easily blink and miss the fact that someone is pulling off heroic feats to make this happen
OK good. So now we always consider stress markers in class rules. This will help a lot of people I think with languages to make them sound more connected together. Once I fix words like "later" and "rate" so there's flap and less unnatural glide, I'll give you all the new driver. Not until then.
@clv1 Technically yes. 1. Long: Ė (U+02D0) ā you already support this Example: iĖ, aĖ 2. Half-long: Ė (U+02D1) Example: eĖ 3. Extra-short: Ģ (U+0306, combining breve) Example: aĢ So technically, Ģ is the āshortenā mark. eSpeak does not emit Ģ Most IPA transcriptions omit it entirely. Linguists usually encode āshortnessā as:the absence of Ė, or via phoneme choice (e.g. /ÉŖ/ vs /iĖ/)
greetings folks i discovered an awesome addon that allows wikipedia search using nvda @FreakyFwoof wrote it and his addons can be found at link below :)
Thanks, and I'm really glad you find it useful. You may also find the settings part useful where you can change language, disable sounds or have it auto-open to the article in your browser.
Just to chime in, copy/paste/search is a gamechanging part of this I didn't notice. I just grabbed an article, copied it to notepad, and searched for something. Found it and dealt with it without having to touch my browser. Very nice.
Itās interesting to me that Trump has so quickly backed off on the threat of using force in Greenland. Someone talked him off the ledge. Maybe the massing European troops raised the stakes enough for his advisors to hesitate. Maybe the generals said they would not attack a NATO member nation (a clearly illegal order). Maybe he never had military support at all, and was talking out of his ass all along. Who knows? The point is, they called his bluff, and he folded like wet napkin. I think people need to learn from this. Calling Trumpās bluffs works, especially when you team up with other communities to call his bluff together.
Anyone here have experience with Holy, specifically their icetea? I'm considering it because I'm interested in the concept and the icetea flavours are speaking to me the most.
give me a language where stress must block cluster behavior. is this common in languages? I don't think so. We can make this a rule that is applied across all.
note that this "brokerage fee" is an unsolicited service: you are not the shipping company customer, you didn't agree to this, you were not offered the choice, but they hold your property.
Our consumer protection laws are as good as our privacy laws: the great of you are a corporation.
Lotnisko w Poznaniu z rekordowym wynikiem. Przoduje w Europie w swoim segmencie
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If you run Linux servers without outside network access, how do you keep them up to date? If a software vendor give you access to a repo to install their multi-package software, how do you do it? Or better, what do you expect from the vendor (but may not get)?
Thanks
(Edit: just to clarify. I'm not the sysadmin here. I have no control on any of these system, I'm just trying to figure out a way to make it easier for these customers)
I only ever did that using Gentoo machines which did not have internet connectivity but needed the installation of a few commercial packages (RPM format). We wrote Gentoo ebuilds that would work on a connected machine, run a dry-run of the fetch phase for the packages which would generate a fetch list, run the list on connected machines then copied the downloaded packages to their expected destinations, then did a no-fetch install. Roundabout but it was scriptable.
You have to make a local mirror of course. Rsync down the world and expose it when you're in the DC locally.
github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ can host this kind of cache pretty easily. We do it for installs/provisioning so you don't need to have internet to deploy the world.
Linux is pretty complete. Most significant updates are security patches and new-device stuff. If these boxes are permanently offline, it's not obvious that Linux updates are going to offer any noticeable benefits and, if things are running fine, there's the risk that an update could break something. So, maybe, just ignore the problem.
@timbray the are not offline. They are just on a private network with no outside access. And it's not about the update it's about installing a new piece of software. and how it would get updated (user visible changes / fixes)
Putting my sysad hat on for a second, what I would want from a vendor ideally is either a package repository (ppa, apt repo, yum repo, etc) that I can enable, which integrates well with vendor-provided packages. What I regularly _get_ is a tarball or a loose binary that I have to install by hand, and the dependencies are my problem.
I do think it's reasonable for vendors to abdicate on the issue of limited/no network access. There are many, many ways to do that.
The usual advice for site admins who are managing devices with limited network access is usually to either set up a package repository that the devices _can_ access, or to set up an installation image that contains all the packages the devices need and to reimage them as needed. Either approach has some pretty significant operational tradeoffs. If devices can be allowed internet access intermittently, things get easier: use vendor repos during those windows.
It looks like the output for "cijena" is 'ts' rather than 'tĶ”s', which means I might need to account for the 'ts' phoneme. Thank you Croatian, you're a great language. :D
Hi, I am a member that's not the host, so hi. F Yep, signing is first or second only, like initials. I should probably surround those in some kind of signs, maybe. I don't know. I am not technical, hi another member who is not the previous one. It is nice to meet you.
good morning mastodon. i hate my health crap some days. yesterday and today i wonder, what was i created for? cause if it not one thing it is another. it. is so annoying. anyhow, enough of me ranting. i hope every one is having a great day. :)
Sometimes, we all wonder. Life doesn't let us wonder for long, though. We gotta grab it by the horns before it grabs us and smashes us with the mighty banhammer. You have a purpose, the purpose is there somewhere, in you. Health issues are annoying, and I totally get it. But you're strong. Maybe your purpose in life is to show it how strong you are, despite all the pains, aches, and other stuffs you bare every day. I offer you virtual hugs. And I am here and around if you need someone to listen to you or you need to rant it out.
@tardis thank you. i do appreciate it. i dont usuallly get this level of sad and tired but today i just woke up and was like oh this shit again. sigh. :)
Every time I install a new piece of infrastructure for my homelab as part of becoming more independent from Big Tech, I see a hint on the homepage of that new piece of infrastructure that mentions they received sponsorship from @nlnet almost as if NLNet has been silently preparing Europe for #DigitalSovereignty with Open Source projects ;) I like!
Pretty big. Their app is a PITA too--had to hand my phone to my partner mid-listen because my phone's cast connection dropped and I couldn't find the play button. They asked for a bunch of feedback on their app a while back, and I kinda hoped they'd fix the accessibility issues, but I didn't chime in because fixing issues of this scale isn't on your users IMO and I didn't want to do more unpaid consulting. Guess it's in prod now and we're stuck with it though, yay us.
What do AI and agentic commerce mean for free software? Merchants canāt just choose to be invisible in search, and they canāt just choose to be non-interoperable with LLMs.
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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).
that's not the "new landing page" ā that's "my" old Android website. The new landing page is at izzyondroid.org/ š
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).
yup my bad on the landing word. But then I got busy chatting, that it slipped my mind. 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.
Had that (CSR) one time, too ā but quite a while ago, don't even remember exactly anymore.
Yeah, thanks for the other hints ā but I'm afraid my time won't permit me working on those cosmetics. My work on IzzyOnDroid keeps me busy enough ā 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 ā long way until IzzyOnDroid is self-sustainingā¦)
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.
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 datacenter
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!
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 ...
If a phone could run a real operating system and not be hamstrung, then yeah. Until that just works, though, nope. Responding to the post, not the video, sorry.
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.
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 dayā¦ youāre not in love. Youāre running surveillance.
Some of yāall donāt want a partner. You want a security blanket with a phone.
A healthy relationship doesnāt require good morning paragraphs, hourly check-ins, and āprove you love meā speeches. It requires trust, independence, and a life outside of your partner.
If your mood is ruined because your partner didnāt text back fast enough, thatās not passion. Thatās insecurity.
If you need access to their phone to feel safe, thatās not loyalty. Thatās control.
If you think jealousy is cute, thatās not love. Thatās immaturity.
Some of you are addicted to attention and call it affection.
And before you say āmy partner likes it,ā just know: people accept a lot when theyāre afraid of being alone.
Love isnāt about possession. Itās about partnership.
Itās 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.
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.
Me voy a ir al infierno por esto pero... el logo que el gobierno eligiĆ³ para conmemorar el aƱo de Margarita Maza me recuerda a Bug-Eyed Earl de la tira cĆ³mica Red Meat, y ahora lo veo en mi firma del correo electrĆ³nico institucional cada vez que envĆo un mensaje a alguien
I also got zero feedback on the new settings panel and changing language settings inside the voice settings dialog. Is it bad? Is it working? not? Not sure how people even feel, all of this uncertainty makes me nervous.
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.
I encountered a weird setup that a lot of Komplete Kontrol libraries don't play the preview when browsing presets. The presets load fine, but they just don't play the previews. The preview feature is on, and some libraries do play the preview. Is there a fix without redownloading all the libraries with the problems? @FreakyFwoof
Nothing to do with the libraries themselves. That's probably the stupid out-dated NBPL library getting out of sync. Mine also does that, even though it's installed and in the correct place. I haven't been bothered to delete and redownload it. It's the Native Preview library in Native Access. I bet the libraries that don't play are all the old NI libraries. Abbey Road drums, Scarbee libraries etc, etc. Anything pre-2018.
I would, I just don't care enough. It's only a few libraries and I don't use them much anyway, and it will probably break again at some other point anyway.
If you show hidden files and find that the particular library has a .previews folder in the instruments or snapshots folders and doesn't play, that's more of a problem.
It breaks for a lot of people which is why I just gave up trying to keep it fixed. It's 7 gig and I have a slow connection and it's one of those which I just bet will fail installing on Mac because it's an ISO file not DMG. ISO and Mac currently don't go together so don't expect it to work.
Loads of the older libraries are .ISO so if you have to ever reinstall them, it's a bit of a nightmare to do so. I did make a demo explaining how, but it's not for the faint hearted.
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