I try to be thorough and as generous as I can manage, particularly in my long-form AI-critic writing, but this video articulates something a bit less diplomatic: ultimately using it strikes me as somewhat shameful and embarrassing. But Dr. Collier puts it better than I can.
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04064-7#Link to patreon:https://www.patreon.com/acoll...
Based on my reading of the original Nature blog post, it seems to me that the ChatGPT UI was less than clear about what turning off the data consent flag would do to *existing* data. So I blame OpenAI, not the professor. I think it's misleading to state, as Dr. Collier does here, that he clicked a "delete" button without realizing what it would do, and especially to take that as evidence of brain rot. We need to be careful not to succumb to confirmation bias.
@matt there is some evidence that the professor may be misrepresenting the “data consent” button that was clicked, at the very least. lots of people in the comments saying that it really is a big red “delete” button, others saying it’s different in europe because gdpr, but I don’t think I have seen anyone saying that they see precisely what he claims he saw. otoh maybe openai patched it since the article is bad press, so we can’t check now. the infrastructure of our lives is built on sand
For anyone using Fenrir stable version, version 2026.01.28 has just been released. In this version you will need to recreate your settings file, sorry about that, it was part of a huge refactor/cleanup. On the bright side, settings names are all uniform now without mixed case.
How does the @mixxx open-source community create software that rivals commercial alternatives? Collaboration between users and developers in the community chat on Zulip lays the foundation. New case study: zulip.com/case-studies/mixxx/ #openSource #chat
Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
I'll never not be angry about how labor proved to the world that remote work is basically as good as in person work 6 years ago, and allows the corp to recruit from anywhere, and yet so many places have just said "actually, no, we want everyone back in the office 3-5 days per week because it makes management and extroverts and people who don't have to be the primary caregiver for a dependant sad".
In FastSM, Tweesecake, and other blindness-specific clients, there's an odd problem. If I open a URL, there's a very good chance that NVDA will simply say "unknown". The URL opens, and Firefox gets focus, but I have to alt-tab away and back before NVDA will see that Firefox and my webpage exist. Sometimes, this doesn't happen at all. I don't know if it's the Python library used to open URLs, or something with NVDA, or a problem in Firefox, or a combination, or something else entirely.
Fortinet would like you to know that they've released a patch to fix a problem that let any forticloud account access any other fortinet device that used forticloud for authentication. You may express thanks now.
The bing behaviour described by neocities i.e. exclusion of site + surfacing unofficial / malicious clone sites is the exact same issue we saw a few years back.
We eventually resolved it after signing up to bings' webmaster tools and manually requesting crawls - and I marked it up as a fluke.
Seeing that it wasn't a one off, I have to conclude that Bing is a terrible search engine that will sometimes just censor sites while sending you to possibly-malicious clones.
Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
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Heading home today after an epic week and a half of aerial image capture - lots, and lots, and lots of photos (maybe 80TB delivered this week alone!); managing to access some very hard to reach airspace.
We've run the aircraft down to it's 100 hour service, so I have some time over the next N=? days for projects!
- cartography design - open geospatial coaching / training with a QGIS/Python/bash focus - field research ops planning and support - drone mapping / photography
If you are an organisation looking for a way out of US / other vendor capture dependency for your mapping needs (hi local governments, land managers, indigenous corporations) - and don't have a clear path for how...
Reach out. I'm very very happy to help.
I'm focused on Australia/ Oceania, I can point you to others if you're in Europe / Scandinavia / east Asia / Americas
...although dang I'd love an excuse to come visit and go skiing :D
Bison return to Illinois prairies after nearly 200 years
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/bison-return-to-illinois-prairies-after-nearly-200-years/
Langer Post, #Sharkey -Erfahrungen eines Mastodonten
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Das hier ist Teil 2 meiner Erfahrungssammlung mit Sharkey. - Man kann Leute zu Listen hinzufügen, ohne ihnen zu folgen. - Statt nur schnöder Bookmarks gibt es hier: Favoriten und Clips. Clips sind sowas wie Lesezeichen-Sammlungen, man kann also seine Lesezeichen thematisch sortieren. Und falls gewünscht, diese auch öffentlich teilen. - Ich kann hier definieren, wie mein "Standard-Emoji" aussieht, mit dem ich auf eure Posts reagiere. Also statt des Sterns reagiere ich so: , ausser, ich will spezifisch anders reagieren. Dann kann ich mit jedem Emoji, dass mir hier so zur Vergügung steht, reagieren. Aber das hab ich ja schon im Teil 1 erwähnt. Ist halt einfach zu schade, dass ihr das nicht seht. Stellt euch das bitte künftig einfach irgendwas mit Kühen vor, wenn ich was von euch Fave (Weil ja, @monkee hat extra Kühe für mich hinzugefügt ) - Antennen: Das ist sowas ähnliches wie Hashtags folgen, bloss ausgeklügelter. Ich kann eine Liste von Stichworten und/oder Hashtags erstellen, und in eine Antenne packen. Also z.B. alles, was mir so an Kuh-Stichworten einfällt in eine Kuh-Antenne. Entsprechend hab ich in meinem Deck jetzt ne Spalte mit Kuh-Content. - App fürs Smartphone: Nutze ich derzeit nicht, Browser (resp. diesen auf den Startbildschirm "installieren") funktioniert für mich ganz gut, und bietet naturgemäss alle Funktionen, die Sharkey so bietet. Was bei mir nicht funktioniert, theoretisch aber wohl funktionieren könnte, sind Benachrichtgungen (Pushs). Kann an Vanadium liegen (nutze GrapheneOS). Oder an meiner Unfähigkeit. Ob es Apps gäbe? Nun, gefunden habe ich keine, die Dokumentation gab mir darauf auch keine Hinweise, oder ich hab die Hinweise überlesen. Ich könnte mir vorstellen, dass jene Apps, die mit Misskey funktionieren, auch für Sharkey funktionieren. Wenn man sich die aber anschauen will, stösst man vor allem mal auf viele japanische Zeichen. Also hab ich aufgegeben, und bin mit der Variante über den Browser happy genug. Die alten Haie und Haiinnen dürfen gerne korrigieren und/oder ergänzen. Ich erhebe keinerlei Anspruch auf Allwissen und Vollständigkeit. Für alle, die Teil 1 verpasst haben, hier nochmals zum Nachlesen: other.li/notes/ahssjgz8xe
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Mir gefällt an Sharkey besonders gut, dass Antworten auf Posts oder fortgeführte Threads nicht so zusammenhanglos in die Timeline geworfen werden, sondern immer der vorige Post gleich mit angezeigt wird. So erschließt sich der Zusammenhang besser und man hat weniger Klickerei oder Sucherei.
Apropos Suche, die ist nicht so doll. Da muss ich oft auf meinen Mastodon-Account ausweichen.
* GeoGas: monitor price data from Spanish gas stations 🛡️
Google Status: unchanged. We're still being blamed for an allegedly malicious file that doesn't even exist on the server. Reevaluation requests still failing (taking more than 24h each).
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository and turn off that allegedly Safe Browsing in your browsers, if you can. Seems to be fake.
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
So yeah, USB ports in Windows have a memory of what you jammed in them and the list can become extensive. I just ran this nifty little utility called Device Cleaner and it found 166 non-present USB devices. I deleted them all with this utility and now my computer seems happier. It's sort of like cutting your hair I guess. You can download this from Major Geeks right here: majorgeeks.com/files/details/d…
Almost every single programming project I touch, for work or otherwise, eventually either turns into an adventure in web scraping or an adventure in dealing with arbitrary and user-defined data schemas.
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …
"Men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially roadworks – stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unrequested advice to the workers."
Elektroautos gelten als sauberste Alternative zum Verbrenner. Dabei wird ein noch klimafreundlicheres Fahrzeug oft vergessen: das E-Bike. Studien zeigen: E-Bikes sparen mehr Ressourcen, verursachen deutlich geringere CO2-Emissionen und beschleunigen die Verkehrswende stärker als die Elektrifizierung des Autoverkehrs.
Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
#MilionChvilek svolává demošku. Kdybyste se náhodou v neděli v 15:00 nudili... pro mimopražský je to asi na prd a narychlo, ale třeba by někdo výletil...
Ok, cat owner having a breakdown has their key in transit to them by post. They could have had it today at their leisure but they "don't want me near them", which is great because I am not up to driving anyway.
Phew! May this live rent-free in their head for a few months and only ever again in therapy sessions.
Moral of the story: Make the best choice you can in a given situation, plan to be able to make better choices in future, and do not take responsibility for other people's interpretation of your choices.
I'm grateful for this experience showing me I trust my actions, and I behave with integrity however I can. I'm grateful for this experience giving me insight into how I can affect others and how I did affect other people when I acted like that. I'm grateful I can avoid acting like that now. I'm grateful I wrote down exactly what happened as it happened in the Cat in a Flat booking chat. I'm grateful I didn't compromise my needs more than I felt was fair.
When someone treats you badly and refuses to change their behaviour, it is not 'bad' or 'failure' to block them. If you feel reasonably sure they may continue to act carelessly toward other people, it is not 'bad' or 'failure' to report their messages. You exist too. You're allowed to curate your environment to be more tolerable to you.
You are not their parent (probably) nor carer (probably), and NO ONE is getting paid enough to be mistreated.
today i'm back to reading this paper by @grimalkina about contest cultures and brilliance traps in software and I'm going to try to live tweet some notes because reading papers is hard
With voice profiles you can change the character of the voice in two strong ways: 1. Global / class-based shaping • Push vowel formants up/down in a non-uniform way (biggest "gender/age" cue after pitch) • Adjust bandwidths to go from "clean/bright" to "thicker/more muffled" • Tame harshness in fricatives by slightly scaling aspiration/frication amplitudes • Adjust defaults like glottalOpenQuotient, outputGain, etc. (since the hook now runs after defaults) 2. Small targeted overrides When one vowel (usually /i/, /u/, schwa-ish things) sticks out, you can override just that phoneme without forking the whole pack. That combination is exactly how you get: • female: higher pitch + raised vowel space (CF1–CF3 more than CF4–CF6), maybe a touch more “open quotient” / breathiness, careful with fricatives • child: even higher pitch + even more raised formants, but usually less “heavy” low-frequency energy • deep male: lower pitch + slightly lower vowel space, maybe tighter bandwidths, more “chest” feel (within what your params can simulate) And now, lunch time over. changes in repo.
Re last boost: This is really sad. The one maintainer of the Slint accessible distribution of Linux, is dead. This is a hard loss. May more popular distributions work even half as hard as him in listening to blind people and making their Linux distro accessible. Join the Orca mailing list. Contribute to the Orca screen reader. Now, more than ever, as more and more "tech" people move to Linux, we need to be accounted for. Also BRLTTY really needs Grade 2 Braille input support.
I mean, look at it this way. If sighted developers don't make their stuff accessible, we blind people will use AI to beat it into submission, send a PR, and you'll have *even more* AI stuff to deal with. And y'all don't want that, do you? :P So just avoid that by making it accessible. And no please we don't need another standard. Please. I beg of you.
Hi, thank you for your feedback on accessibility and open source technologies. I always read your posts with great interest in order to improve the accessibility of FreeBSD, a UNIX and open source operating system.
At the FreeBSD Developer Summit in Dublin 2024, I showed other developers (using simulators) the challenges faced by color-blind, low-vision, and blind users. The @FreeBSDFoundation is currently sponsoring the "Vision Accessibility" project to improve accessibility for users with visual impairments.
At the Developer Summit in Zagreb 2025, I presented the new accessibility handbook docs.freebsd.org/en/books/acce… focused on the assistive technologies currently available in the system, including practical examples to help developers better understand these challenges.
I am in contact with organizations supporting people with low vision, blindness, and deafblindness to implement Braille display subsystem for FreeBSD and to develop interfaces specifically designed to be used with screen readers.
I don't know who needs to hear this but open source maintainers leaving X11 behind and focusing solely on Wayland isn't some conspiracy. It's a case of focusing limited resources on what makes sense to them. Supporting old code and maintaining backwards compatibility can be great, but often hard choices have to be made when it comes to what individuals and companies have the time and energy to work on.
It sucks if you get left behind but open source owes you nothing unless you're paying for it
frontend.setVoiceProfile("") will be a new exposed function in the frontend. Wow, we're getting somewhere. I think this way can work without breaking old drivers or existing ways of working.
It's truly the most mindless thing and symptomatic for the "AI" bullshitters: OSM allows you to just download all the data in nice and simple snapshots. Instead, scrapers use thousands of residential IP addresses to query the service at zero benefit over the data dumps.
The people creating these systems understand as little as the "AI" they create.
OpenStreetMap is concerned: thousands of AI bots are collecting data
Bots are said to be harvesting OpenStreetMap data on a large scale. This costs money and endangers the project.
https://www.heise.
HEADLINE: "Tim Cook Says He Is ‘Heartbroken by the Events in Minnesota,’ Calls for De-Escalation"
ALT HEADLINE: "Tim Cook, who donated $1 million to Trump, claims to be "heartbroken" by what was obviously going to happen if people like him didn't oppose Trump"
Bruce Springsteen hat einen Protest- und Support-Song für die Menschen in Minneapolis veröffentlicht. Darin findet er ziemlich deutliche Worte.
Bislang war von prominenten US-Musikern eher weniger Politisches zu hören zur aktuellen Situation. Deshalb ist diese Veröffentlichung durchaus bemerkenswert.
Lyrics:Through the winter’s ice and coldDown Nicollet AvenueA city aflame fought fire and ice‘Neath an occupier’s bootsKing Trump’s private army from the DHS...
"come to our centralized platform, we are good guys and we will stay good forever, we absolutely will not prioritize monetization over your privacy at any point in the future even after several changes of ownership"
and turn off that allegedly Safe Browsing in your browsers, if you can. Seems to be fake.
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