mastodon - Link to source
Me to Alexa: "What's the score in the Kentucky mens' college basketball game?"
Alexa's response: "Kentucky is leading Arkansas 85 to 77 with zero milliseconds remaining in the second half at the end of the second half."
Uh, somehow I seriously doubt anyone's gonna get anything done with what, by her definition, must be at most 0.00099999999999999999999999999999… seconds left on the clock.

mastodon - Link to source
Not only does the public not support ICE’s current brutal tactics, there is no public support for mass deportation beyond criminal migrants. In this poll, and it is consistent with public opinion going back 20 years, Americans oppose deporting long settled undocumented immigrants by 65%-22%
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu…

It is time for the mainstream media to join the resistance. Better late than never.

January 31, 2026
Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)

mastodon - Link to source

RE: mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1110…

now that we know #JeffreyEpstein was paying m00t to keep #4Chan open and available for pedos like him and that he specifically requested to keep /pol/ going no matter what, let me bring this oldie but goodie:

❝ QAnon was created by Trump’s fascists to take attention away from the Anons working on Opeation Death Eaters and the Jeffrey Epstetn case.

QAnon is a new form of COINTELPRO" ❞

#fascism #pedophilia #QAnon


your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (@blogdiva@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image QAnon #Xitterdiving
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (Mastodon)
#fascism #4chan #jeffreyepstein #pedophilia #qanon
This entry was edited (1 day ago)

mastodon - Link to source
Send a message right now to the Department of Homeland Security’s #Tribal Affairs Director demanding that Tribal citizens #stop being terrorized by #ICE’s #racial profiling and that ICE release any Tribal citizens in ICE detention now. click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u…

A Message to DHS Tribal Affairs Director

Minnesota has 11 federally recognized Tribes and due to ICE and CPB’s racial profiling, Tribal citizens are increasingly reporting being stopped, questioned, assaulted, and detained by federal agents.
click.actionnetwork.org
#ice #stop #racial #tribal

mastodon - Link to source
I did something goofy at work today: we found a tactile drawing set, which includes a tactile protractor with a movable pointer in the middle of it. I was talking and moving the pointer in the middle of the protractor, according to the loudness of my voice, as though it were a VU meter!! People around me must’ve thought I was nuts ha ha ha. #proAudio #homerecording #WomenInSound
#HomeRecording #proaudio #womeninsound
in reply to Jessica the VI Artist🎚️🎹🌈

mastodon - Link to source

Zach Bennoui

Lol this is how you know you're a true audio nerd. I don't think I'd ever come up with an idea like that on my own, but I've done stuff like pretend whatever surface was in front of me is a piano and try playing it. Not entirely sure what the point of doing this was, there was no sound obviously, but I could just hear it in my head so that part didn't bother me. No idea if anyone could see me, but if they could I'm sure they thought I was a little weird

mastodon - Link to source
I decided that I was going to take a look at how much I'm spending and where.
UFCU (my bank) automatically places my withdrawals into categories that it displays when I look at my recent transactions, but it sometimes gets things wrong (it thinks that Austin Current is travel, for instance, rather than a local news publication.) Regardless, I want my own categories, and I also need to look at Paypal and FNBO (for my credit card), neither of which define the same categories as UFCU, so UFCU's categories are useless to me.
So now I have a tab-delimited file listing my expenses for the month, along with their dates and amounts, and I have a script that puts them into the categories that I want and tallies them, optionally for a specific date range, or, optionally, it can tally what I've spent at a specific place, rather than the category that I've placed it into.
Most of my transactions are through FNBO, and I can download them to a .csv, and I also have a function that takes the csv and converts it to the format that I want, so now I have a semi-automated process for keeping the file up to date in the future.
Anyway, I know that ynab exists for instance, and I have no idea how it compares to what I have, but I like my script.

mastodon - Link to source
For users of my Super Mario Maker 2 soundpack for #FastSM, another update has been posted, at the same link as always. This time, I've added the mention earcon, the same used in Tweese Cake, when you scroll over a post that mentions you, as present in the very latest FastSM commits. The pinned post sound has been changed as a result, now using the small, echoing ding that has previously been used as the geo tweet sound. x0box.xyz/uploads/soundpacks/S… @soundpackcentral
#fastsm @Soundpack Central
This entry was edited (1 day ago)

mastodon - Link to source
trans related anger

Sensitive content

mastodon - Link to source

I so badly want to see this site to take off.

If you're #ActuallyAutistic, you know just how much of a problem these things can be. For me personally, having the information about lighting and how to get service in advance would be a huge help.

prepped.to/

Infographic titled “prepped.to How it came to be” with the prepped.to logo at the top. Six illustrated panels on a light purple background explain the project’s origin. Rey needed preparation before new places to avoid overwhelm, so Rey’s mother made small booklets explaining what would happen. They reviewed sensory details together before outings. Rey is now an autistic adult who still benefits from preparation. prepped.to lets autistic people share sensory info, images, videos, sounds, and instructions so others can prepare before going to new places.

prepped.to | Sensory information and service instructions for better planning

Plan your visit at businesses and locations with sensory information and instructions, for and from the autistic community. Noise, lighting, smells, human load, payment methods, toilets and how to get service.
prepped.to
#actuallyautistic

mastodon - Link to source

If you see an invitation to participate in a trans or genderqueer study sponsored by Northwestern University, steer clear. It's a rigged, unethical scheme to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #trans #transgender #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Screenshot of social media post that contains a screenshot of a promoted social media post that contains an image. Alejandra Caraballo @ESQueer.net If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word. u/AYAGDOS Promoted Navigating gender dysphoria? Join our confidential, cross-country study of 18-25 year olds to tell your story, challenge preconceptions, and have your experience reflected in the science. A hand raised in the air, fingers spread. The nails are painted pink and there's a blue lightning bolt drawn from the tip of the middle finger to the wrist. Northwestern University. Trans or genderqueer? Share your story.
#lgbt #transgender #trans #lgbtqia #LGBTQ #transrightsarehumanrights
This entry was edited (2 days ago)

mastodon - Link to source

RE: tomkahe.com/@tom/1159910433638…

We should really get @matrix, @delta @swf @Bonfire and @xmpp people in a room to discuss how to move e2ee overlap work forward this year. It's time...


Tom Casavant (@tom@tomkahe.com)

Attached: 1 image @reiver@mastodon.social @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe @swf@socialwebfoundation.org @liaizon@wake.st @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org, who are still in the process of implementing MLS I think (https://arewemlsyet.
Tom Casavant (Tomkahe)
@The Matrix.org Foundation @Delta Chat @XSF: XMPP Standards Foundation @Social Web Foundation @Bonfire
in reply to wakest ⁂ FOSDEM

mastodon - Link to source

Delta Chat

fwiw some of us just launched autocrypt2 today, a new transport-independent e2e scheme to do PQC and reliable deletion (forward secrecy), using clock based instead of message based key ratcheting. ietf.org/archive/id/draft-auto…

Autocrypt v2 OpenPGP Certificates and Transferable Secret Keys

This document describes the "Autocrypt v2 Certificate", a standard structure for an OpenPGP certificate for Internet messaging. It offers defense against store-now-decrypt-later attacks from quantum computers through post-quantum hybrid cryptography.
www.ietf.org
This entry was edited (1 day ago)

mastodon - Link to source
also, as much as my soul hurts a bit for all the AI spending this month, this is the exact insight I needed for my main job around AI. Now I know which one to turn to, as on the enterprise-level I've always had access to these models, and know which to use for the right kind of problem solving at work. To me that's huge, even if I'm out a lot more money this month. I don't think a good engineer is quite beholdened to a single AI tool, even if you use one of them at the power (max) level and the other at a much lower "per-usage" way when you need insight one LLM just might lack. But again, the fact that Open-Claude got like 800000 stars in a week is nuts and really shows I'm not the only person thinking this way either.

mastodon - Link to source

:blobcatbusiness: What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?

Not the installation process.
Not finding a distro.
Not getting programs to work.
Not troubleshooting.
Not hardware compatibility.

The most common complaint about Linux I've seen is this:
For a normal computer user, asking for help is just about impossible.

They ask a simple question and:
People respond "Did you Google it?"
People complain that the question wasn't asked "correctly".
People respond "RTFM"
People get mad??? at them for making an easy mistake.

We can't expect normal people to know to, or even know how to deal with any of that stuff.

Search engines these days are awful, manuals are hard to read for most people (especially stuff like ArchWiki), and normal people make mistakes we think are easily avoidable.

The solution to making Linux more popular is not ruthless promotion. The solution is to actually help the people who are trying to use it. :ablobcatattention:

#Linux

#linux
This entry was edited (1 day ago)

sharkey - Link to source
#Clankers

Sensitive content

#clankers
in reply to Ethin Probst

mastodon - Link to source

Ethin Probst

@matt @Bri The only official clients are the NVDA controller client IDL/ACF files. Stuff for JAWS (FSAPI)/ZT and stuff are either generated by decompiling the TLBS or (in ZT's case) I used the microsoft-specific #import directive to have cl.exe generate the C++ code because midl refused to compile the OLEView-generated IDL (because, apparently, OLEView is a dumb decompiler)
#Import @Matt Campbell @Bri🥰
in reply to Bri🥰

mastodon - Link to source

Matt Campbell

@Bri Rust compiles to native code like C++, using LLVM with all the optimizations. And Rust is designed to take advantage of all those optimizations. Sometimes the constraints of the Rust ownership and borrowing model mean that safe Rust can't be *quite* as fast as C++. Likewise for bounds checks, which are sometimes necessary in safe code. But those minor speed limitations are IMO totally worth it for safety, and Rust is basically in the same league as C++ in terms of efficiency.
@Bri🥰
in reply to Matt Campbell

mastodon - Link to source

miki

@matt @Bri And other times, the fact that Rust is so safe makes programmers more confident to introduce concurrency and refactor more, making the program much faster. Not to mention all the optimizations the compiler can do because it doesn't have to worry about aliasing and stuff.

I watched a talk once where somebody rewrote rsync (that was GO and not RUst I believe, but a similar principle still holds), and their version was far faster than the one in C, despite using an older and slower version of the protocol. Not bcause the language itself was faster, but because it encouraged writing better, faster code, given finite programmer time.

@Matt Campbell @Bri🥰

mastodon - Link to source
I can really see why developers like Claude and that Open-Claude thing has taken off honestly. Compared to GPT's container, Claude can pull down packages, so for phoneme tuning, I can actually get Ukrainian IPA from Espeak inside it and give it guidance on what and how to tune where. Honestly, Claude's Max plan is more of a value worth than GPT's Pro plan is, and it is half the cost, so starting next month I'll save a lot by not paying for that anymore. It was just ouch for a month where I had to try the high-teared plans on each. Gemini still sucks for not letting you download patched files in browser. I don't know why Google's lagging behind on this one, yes, it can modify your code through Gemini CLI but if you drop it a file in-browser it has to rewrite the entire thing from scratch if you ask to insert a function or whatever. Nope. Also with Claude / GPT you can paste in the block you made in your IDE and say, "here's the diff, the new file, this is what we're working on."
Open AI, if you re-upload the file with the same filename, it does not override to the newest version, so you end up with something-revised-23.cpp because you have to keep incrementing the version count for each new revision you or it made. Claude can grab the latest copy from /uploads in its container and you then can stay with a clean file, but then might lose revisions that worked earlier, so I guess both can work, but the more and more I use them side by side, Claude does win.

reshared this

in reply to André Polykanine

mastodon - Link to source

Tamas G

it is. I was trying the API and I blew through $120 in a matter of about 3 days. Youch. That's wen I really considered the Max plan because I realized that the usage cap raises they give you on it meant I wasn't paying per request's tokens but per actual time usage per day/week, looks like how they calculate. So now I haven't hit it once, whether through the $100 plan (web) or through Max web or API. I'm a lot happier with it even at that "5X more usage" one. Haven't thought of "20X" more usage even which is nuts to me.
This entry was edited (1 day ago)
in reply to Tamas G

mastodon - Link to source

Tamas G

also, I have never, ever seen Claude think for 58 to 80 minutes. That is just nuts. I do like that GPT thinks through more carefully and methodically (chunk by chunk) on a problem, Claude is a bit like the impulsive kid who can spit out a bunch of code at once, never even check its code thoroughly (sure, it'll check, "Will it compile?" but we engineers know there's more to code than that), and it can easily blow up your file. OpenAI doesn't. So I'm not saying Claude is all shining stars and shimmering butterflies. But here's how I see it.
If you're new to coding, don't know a lot of programming fundementals, the more expensive Open AI pro plan pays off. You spend less time debugging because GPT took 65 minutes to think through and carefully reflect on its work, almost like, in deep meditation.
But if you're a seasoned programmer who's familiar with concepts, logic, how to write debuggable code that's modular and you know the languages its coding, Claude will absolutely not set you back for costing half the price and being "too nimble." If you know how and what to do, it might actually make you more productive.
in reply to victor tsaran

mastodon - Link to source

Tamas G

@vick21 the web claude can compile too / build! I was surprised when it actually took my repo and ran the full build stage in its container, and spit out for me the build artifacts. Made it easier than spinning up my VM manually to build or a second machine with Linux for that, I was a bit surprised. But yeah, will have to see and test how Claude CLI is, haven't messed with it on the API level beyond some Python / Wrapper CLI tools that let you talk to Claude, but I do wonder if theirs also uses the horrible "nodeJS-packed" rewrites-terminal-every-time method as Open AI does. Hopefully it's more accessible, Gemini CLI still intimidates a me a bit too for the menu driven nature and wrapping, which is why I've stuck a lot to the web side beyond Codex on OpenAI, but then I'm restarting the session every 3-4 messages because too much gets re-written to it. Haha. I do like the idea of the AI using your installed tools since then you're working out of the same workspace, less context switching, so it's for sure the better workflow.
@victor tsaran
in reply to Tamas G

mastodon - Link to source

victor tsaran

Claude CLI is just as much of a mess as all of these CLIs go. Gemini-cli has a screen reader mode which makes things tiny bit easier. It's the rendering engines that are usually at fault, like Ink, and such. I am using both Claude and gemini-cli via the ACP protocol which spits out pure JSON containing responses. The downside is that you do not get some of the cool things that come with the CLI.

mastodon - Link to source
A random thing I discovered yesterday on my iPhone running iOS 26: when filtering through apps in the Braille Screen Input mode on the home screen, your input is translated into Braille and retranslated into all available languages. As a result, when using the Braille table of one language e.g. Polish, you can use the dot combinations for characters of other languages and matching apps will be found. No more switching to German or Czech just to find an app with some diacritics. #Blind #Accessibility #iOS
#Accessibility #blind #ios

reshared this

⇧