From the Internet (not my words):
“The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that will be produced was promised to be paid with yet to exist money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been made, to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy AI demand that does not actually exist to obtain mathematically impossible profit.”
I would like the @fosdem community to embrace #accessibility
In effort of that goal I've started by recording some problems and possible solutions for the website:
github.com/FOSDEM/website/issu…
This is a lot of work that together, as a community, we need to address. #FOSDEM needs to be more inclusive for people with disabilities.
25% of the population has disabilities & the are part of our community.
25% of the population has a disability. 100% of the population has temporary or situational barriers which needlessly stop them from accessing information on the web. The FOSDEM community isn't doi...mgifford (GitHub)
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Here's everything coming to Perspective Intelligence in version 1.4
- Standard On-device AI - IOS Now, everyone can experience Perspective Intelligence even if you do not have an Apple Intelligence capable device.
- Web search for All Access subscribers - Perspective Intelligence can now search the web to get more up-to-date information
- RSS Feeds - You can now add RSS feeds to Perspective Intelligence to get the latest news. (1/2)
Looking for a record of #accessibility issues left on @fosdem website issue queue I wasn't too surprised to see @Edent had beat me to it github.com/FOSDEM/website/issu…
We can do better.
I've notice that the HTML & CSS for https://fosdem.org/2025/ is a little out of date. Wrong doctype Use of obsolete elements like Metadata not compliant with modern standards Repeated use ...edent (GitHub)
An open-source, accessible, blazing fast Mastodon client - trypsynth/fedraGitHub
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With ballots tallied from all but a handful of voting centers, Rehmet had 57% of the vote, besting the 43% for his GOP opponent, Leigh Wambsganss, who had a massive spending advantage.Alejandro Serrano (The Texas Tribune)
On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft witnessed the most intense eruption ever recorded on Io, Jupiter’s most volcanically active moon. The eruption spanned 65,000 sq km (larger than Earth’s Lake Superior) near the south pole and released 140-260 TW of energy, > 6x the total energy of all power plants on Earth.
3 other hotspots also lit up. Scientists interpret this as a single event affecting an underground network of massive, interconnected magma chambers.
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Even by the standards of Io, the most volcanic celestial body in the solar system, recent events observed on the Jovian moon are extreme.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
My wife and I are looking to add some exercise equipment at home and want to make sure what we get is actually accessible and easy to use.
We’re especially interested in things like a stationary bike, treadmill, or elliptical, but we’re open to other ideas too. If you have personal experience with equipment that works well for blind or sight-impaired users, or that has simple controls, good audio feedback, or an easy layout, we would really appreciate your recommendations.
Specific models are super helpful. Thanks in advance for sharing what’s worked for you!
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People keep citing water/energy use to me and I remain unconvinced. The single best thing you can do for the planet is to have one less kid. A distant #2 and #3 are avoiding cars and flights: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.…
A recent estimate says using Claude Code is similar to running a dishwasher: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/20/…
If you are a vegan monk who never drives and also hates LLMs, good for you: you have my respect and admiration. But I don't think this is what's motivating most people's arguments.
Previous work estimating the energy and water cost of LLMs has generally focused on the cost per prompt using a consumer-level system such as ChatGPT. Simon P. Couch notes that …Simon Willison’s Weblog
BTW I am a childless vegetarian who drives a hybrid but mostly bikes and buses (ask my coworkers – they think I'm very eccentric), but that doesn't matter because that's not what this is about. People just want a rhetorical slam-dunk and they think they've found it.
@simon had a great comment on Lobsters where he pointed out that nobody seemed to care much about these things until LLMs came along, and they still only seem interested insofar as it applies to LLMs: lobste.rs/s/cw6f2s/ai_tribalis…
There was actually a really interesting TPAC session a few years ago that explored how the W3C could help sustainability efforts. There's a lot to consider here: hardware production (e.g. e-waste), server vs client energy usage, network costs, etc. youtube.com/watch?v=o8avSFOuT8…
There's now also a Sustainable Web Design Community Group that's put out a set of guidelines, which mostly read to me as sensible best practices around UX design, performance, and accessibility: w3.org/TR/web-sustainability-g…
Užívejte si videa a hudbu, kterou máte rádi, nahrávejte originální obsah a sdílejte vše s přáteli, rodinou i celým světem na YouTube.YouTube
At heart I'm basically a degrowther who thinks the only reasonable solution to the climate crisis, species collapse, pollution, and all the rest is to dramatically reduce our consumption of the Earth's resources. But I'm also enough of a realist that I don't think we'll go there willingly – I think degrowth will be forced on us.
This is a very emotional topic for a lot of people, so I don't really want to get into it. And I'm hardly an expert; these are just my opinions based on what I've read.
The only reasonable solution is to do whatever we can to invent better tech to solve these problems. Society will not accept degrowth (not until it's far, far too late), and a solution a society won't accept may as well be worthless from a Realpolitik perspective, even if it would solve the problem in theory.
I think we're doing extremely good work on that front. Solar is on an exponential growth curve right now (and we need more people talking about it), so are batteries, and batteries+solar will, sans environmental regulation, solve the energy problem in most places. In places where there's lots of sunlight and no demand for it, think deserts, solar can be used to capture carbon dioxide. That's extremely inefficient energy-wise, but it's not like people will use that sunlight for anything else, so it doesn't even matter. You can even capture it into biofuels afaik, which is another way to produce free energy that can easily be transported to places where solar won't work. There's also some very interesting work being done in making geothermal more economical and available in many, many more places, and that's basically infinite free energy again. Worst case scenario, we'll just let the Chinese build us nuclear reactors, they're doing a lot of that and know how to do it safely, quickly and cheaply, which the western world definitely does not.
The real problems we need to solve are a lot more prosaic. Making sure misguided environmental regulation doesn't slow down the switch from coal to solar (and accelerate the collapse of human civilization) just to save a rare species of frogs is one of them. Incidentally, this is the reason why Texas is building out far more solar than California for example, but this is far from just a US problem. We need to make sure there are no tariffs on Chinese solar, Chinese rare metals, Chinese batteries and Chinese EVs. In parallel, we need to make sure we're building all of those ourselves in the western world, and that there are no misguided regulations solving a small problem but causing a bigger one that prohibit us from doing this. We need to start building out nuclear now, because nuclear takes a long time to build. We might regret this in the future, but better to waste money building something we don't need than to not build it and have to use non-renewables. We have to figure out what to do with existing coal mines (in places where they still exist) and how to close them down as quickly as we can, despite the miners and their labor unions. We need to make sure that the government-associated, monopolist power companies aren't doing anything stupid to slow down the deployment of consumer solar. And when we've done all of that, we should do a carbon tax, to make it more economical for companies to invest in renewables than to stay where they are.
At the same time, I worry that code that I write with the help of LLMs may be tainted because of the uncertain legal status of the training data. I especially don't want AccessKit's adoption, and hence its effectiveness in making more user interfaces accessible, to be hampered in any way by such concerns. So I may just not use LLMs at all when working on AccessKit.
So I guess my copyright concern ends up being more practical than ethical.
A very nice first day at FOSDEM. I spent time at the @matrix booth and met overwhelmingly enthusiastic people, then left it to our fabulous team of volunteers.
I’ve met Allan and @jsparber at the @gnome booth, got one of those fabulous systemd T-shirts, said hi to the @postmarketOS gang, got a T-shirt and brainstormed with @pabloyoyoista, got to thank Proxmox and OpenTofu for the great tools they provide.
#FOSDEM is where internet friends materialize.
Was listening to Apple Music yesterday and this song came on, incredible stuff. youtu.be/XrdHjd9QhYc
i'm looking for good *modern* anti-authoritarian, pro labor music.
(in other words, while the Wobblies are commendable, their hymns are not what I'm seeking right now.)
any recs?
(looking at you, the part of the fediverse with vinyl collections you haven't talked about in a while. now is your time to shine.)
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On my way to Brussels!
We also left some stickers with our friends at the @matrix stand! You might find me hanging around there as well.
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" ❞
Attached: 1 image QAnon #Xitterdivingyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (Mastodon)
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
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