Buying a google pixel and installing grapheneOS on it is a much better move for your privacy and mental health than buying any of these crappy e-reader phones or some flip phone that only works over unencrypted communication channels. The rise of 'dumb phones' has lead to an influx of poorly build, insecure phones built by people with no business developing complex tech products. What I find 90% of the time is that people buy these products, realize they actually do rely on features like maps, good cameras, banking apps and all the other smart conveinences of the modern world. Ultimately they end up throwing the device away or in a junk drawer and it just becomes another e-waste waste product. If you want to actually break free from your phone addiction use a product that gices you thr conveinence you want but doesn't try to guide your towards addiction every day. A stock grapheneOS phone is basically a dumb smart phone and thats how it should be.
🤯🤯🤯 Got a hand-made #XMPP developers post card with a personal mention!
🤯🤯 Got a "Thanks Ge0rG, keep up the good work!" while walking the food mile!
🤯 Met an IRC contact from 25 years ago, @olbohlen ("Apparently I'm the only operator of #OpenFire on #Solaris") and connected him to @guusdk who brought stickers and hugs!
🤯 Accidentally met an IRC contact from 20 years ago
and you ran away before I could hand you a bunch of the DI.DAY flyers! 😱 It was a pleasure meeting you and thanks for your talk! We really need to unite our efforts!
Also wanted to ask you what specific messenger "N" stood for in your slides 😉
(P.S.: I've omitted from OP all the people I *intended* to meet, only recounted the unexpected things that happened!)
@bogo yeah, they had a really tough schedule for cleaning up and bringing everything back to the before-FOSDEM state. We had 30mins to pack our stand as well.
I really applaud the volunteers that run the #FOSDEM organization!
This year for #FOSDEM I gave a demonstration of wolfSSL cryptographic benchmarks on the wolfDemo board I designed. Question for next year, should I demo it on an Amiga instead? 🙂
What the headline claimed: "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload".
What the article said: Microsoft might, like, remove a few buttons and possibly rename their Recall spyware but then again they might not and either way AI is here to stay because other operating systems have it.
@jakobrosin I'm not sure market logic even matters that much anymore. Many people don't want it, many more couldn't care less whether it's there or not. I doubt there is a significant market segment who is actively enthused about it, and yet...
@JustinMac84 Where copilot exclusive features actually become useful for a business to show a ROI for example. It shure is nice to chat to, and it can try to work with your documents, but so can a lot of other things and usually better. @jscholes
@jakobrosin Would you count this? I used the copilot website to design internal spaces for a game I play. There is the possibility, within that game to create floors, walls, lighting and ceilings. Not knowing anything about interior design, colour coordination and lighting, I turned to copilot. I found the responses enlightening and they elevated my creation. Not saying this offsets negatives, but I regard it as my biggest AI success. @jscholes
@JustinMac84 Shure. I am not saying that the entirety of Copolot is useless, its just most of its implementation is in areas where ti does not make any sense. @jscholes
Apple will not give me a 11.2.2 version of Logic Pro that I had before. It's obvious that they want to move to subscription model, but I don't want to. So Apple blames the victim, saying "you should have had a backup"? A reputable company would give me the previous version. No warning about this before udate.
This is not cool, Apple. Too busy swanning around the White House, Tim? Let's have some support.
EDIT: it only did that once. @Onj YES! This is why I would not have updated had I known that. In fact, some say v12 is incompatible with my Intel older Mini. 1. The update to an incompatible version should NOT have worked. 2. Or they should have shown a warning. 3. They should give me access to the 11.2.2 version. We know they have old versions. Normally, I would have gotten v11 on this computer, not 12. I know because on my older iMac, it can only get v10.
If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it. 👇🏽 “If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies. #OpenSource #SaveDemocracy Boost if you agree! 👍🏾
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This is my first post using #Fedra. I've got to say, in recent months, #blind #developers have been hitting it out of the park. I think at least some of this is down to use of #AI, which I feel can be extremely empowering if used wisely.
My code in Fedra was probably about 60% Claude. I reviewed every single line of it, but Claude generated a good portion of it from my multi-thousand word prompts. Turns out that a blind nerd withan obsession with native, fast software and Claude go pretty well together.
@TheQuinbox Apparently Claude Code's system prompt is like 16K tokens. That's insane! I also struggle with how much detail to go into. I feel like too much yields odd results, but I don't have much experience with Claude, since I've mostly been using Gemini-CLI, which in one go, managed to convert Echo TTS on Apple Silicon using MPS rather than Cuda.
So the thing about Claude is that you have to treat it like a very intelligent 6-year-old who knows how to code. Never make it search for stuff, give it exact line numbers even if you can, searching wastes tons of tokens. What really throws Claude off is too many disjointed thoughts in one prompt, like if I drop one sentence about a future feature I want to add in the middle of the prompt, Claude will think that is a very important detail and try to design for that feature, even when it doesn't make any sense. It's also far from perfect, the experience with Claude is I "/superpowers:brainstorm fix #301", and it will either produce something that's incredible and fixes it on the first try, or make me cringe and wish I just did it myself.
There's a new infestation on the block. Automatic meeting summariser AI-s. They join virtual meetings on Zoom or Teams on behalf of people, unannounced. So, as an organiser, you may see something called "Firefly" or "read.ai" join. They proceed to spam the chat with "helpful" snippets of the meeting. Then, they will send everyone, who was invited to the meeting emails with "helpful" summaries, which are hidden behind a link, for you to klick and get sucked into their marketing database. From a recent meeting, I received no less than 5 emails from 5 different services. Personally I just kick them out as an organiser, just as I would do with a physical meeting, when a random bloke nobody knows about would barge in and sit in the corner. If they would harass everyone after the meeting in the parking lot in their cars with "Tell me your credit card number and I tell you 10 super cool things of the last meeting", I would cut their owners out of my comms completely. In fact, I am not really shure why we find it acceptable in virtual spaces right now.
I get their use, and it can be argued that for some people, such methods could be used as an accessibility tool, but Please, do tell people in advance, that you will bring robots along with you to the meeting.
@klittle667 sensible move. The trouble with those is that we don't know where it ends up sharing its recorded data. Copilot, can exist on prem and have at least some credibility to its privacy claims
Absolutely but even then controls have to be right, so it can't just go digging around every document ever in sharepoint. What I had noticed with firefly is, it seemed to have been activated tenant wide by 1 user from an organisation, so now every call somebody from that partner organisation went into, so did firefly, and 99% of them had no idea, until they received summaries of the call afterwards.
@klittle667 yeah. I've also seen people who click on it get subscribed to calendars automatically, where it somehow gains access to their google workspace and then starts inviting itself..
@klittle667 I work for an AI company but they've now seriously restricted what we can do with external tenants in Teams because of this issue. I can't easily chat with external users anymore.
I know someone who had one of those connected and they could not for the life of them figure out how to stop it from happening. Sounds like unsubscribing from amazon prime.
I missed this but Gentoo Linux allows you to bootstrap the rustc compiler using a regular C++ compiler via mrustc. You should be able to build the entire Rust toolchain from source without having to rely on a rustc binary distribution if you wish so.
Wow… Google fined a whopping $68 MILLION DOLLARS for eavesdropping on people’s spoken conversations. That’ll teach them! It’s going to take Google a whole hour and a half to make that money back. I guess they won’t be pulling shit like this anymore after feeling that sort of pain. We really showed ‘em this time, eh?
Correction: it’s not even a fine; it’s a settlement with no admission of wrongdoing. So even worse.
As we guessed, it seems that despite Google saying they were not making recordings of people's voices and mining them for advertisers, they were doing exactly that.
1. You can manage DNS records in cPanel, but the nameservers listed there don't work.
2. You can switch to the default GoDaddy nameservers, but they don't contain the cPanel records.
3. The only 'solutions' are to: a. Copy all the records manually from cPanel to GoDaddy b. Setup your 'own' nameservers, which resolve to the cPanel IP
Active dis-recommend if anyone is looking for hosting (I can't change this one, the client likes them).
It used to be like that even 14 years ago when I left them. If you need a reliable hosting, I can suggest you one even with a referral link )or without=.
"Proto však také pohrdáme těmi, kdo v nezkrotné pýše, ješitné nadřazenosti, sobeckém zájmu či dokonce za mrzký Sorosův peníz se kdekoli na světě - a také u nás se na Staroměstském náměstí našla skupinka takových odpadlíků a zrádců - odtrhnou a izolují od vlastního lidu."
Went to the hospital for some more voice training exercises, and a thought occurred to me.
Is there a place, a business, somewhere on this planet named after dirt, that manufactures uncomfortable chairs for hospital waiting rooms? A business whose owner one day decided, "my passion, my calling, in this life is to make chairs as uncomfortable as I possibly can."
Then, for some reason man was not meant to know, many hospitals saw this place, and said, "yes, we want to torture our patients. We want to make their wait as terrible as we can."
Hey @TheQuinbox, I was wondering if it would be possible to introduce something like a darkmode/dark background for paperback? I have to keep my display on for school and it would be great to not have the white shine right into my face all the time.
I have no idea if it works because I have no usable vision, but I just pushed a commit that should do this. Once the CI finishes or you build it yourself, would you mind testing? It's supposed to just respect your system dark mode setting.
It's done. Go to paperback.dev/downloads, and grab the latest development build. Didn't know if you wanted a zip or an installer, ehnce why I didn't send it here.
Lol very interesting. For the good news, yes the background is dark now, great. But for the bad, the PDF I just read for my lesson is no longer showing any content. The content is still existing though so really no idea what made that happen. Can send you the PDF if you want.
no, the text field is just blank, but when I open the PDF in another application such as Adobe Craprobat, I can still read it. I can also read other PDFs in dark mode just fine, just this one suddanly won't work.
Thanks, I wish I didn't even have to deal with PDFs at this point but well, teachers are stupid, nothing more needs to be said. Really appreciate the effort and looking forward to what you find.
Je viens de réécouter du Within Temptation, et définitivement j'aime pas, le chant est toujours pareil, ça varie pas, pareil pour la musique Définitivement, le seul groupe de sympho qui me fait vibrer c'est Epica, à l'ancienne, sur les trois premiers albums, avec tellement de changements de rythmes, c'est un pur plaisir
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@menelion Ravie de te faire découvrir ! Les trois premiers albums (The phantom agony, Consign to oblivion et The divine conspiracy) tu peux vraiment y aller les yeux fermés, tout est dans ce style J'aime moins la suite, je trouve que ça perd un peu en variations, mais à toi de voir ^^
camelCase, s'il vous plaît. Y a des gens qui mettent leur ponctuation à « tout » comme moi (je suis développeur et je m'y suis habitué), donc un trait d'en-bas est un peut trop. En plus, camelCase est compris par tous les lecteurs d'écran que je connais. Merci pour votre question, il vaut toujours mieux demander.
[Repost] Clean YouTube links. When you get a link from YT, it includes an ID tracking back to YOU. It's a "query string" on the end of the URL like this: ...?si=
[tracker_ID_here]This ID allows YouTube (and their owner, Google, and *their* owner, Alphabet, and ALL of their associates) to track the people who click on the link, and the apps they used, back to you, building a network of none-of-their-business.
Good news: DELETE the "?si=..." part & the link works just fine without the tracking.
It's groundhog day, in which, for some reason, a groundhog is taken out of it's comfortable burrow and forced to look for it's own shadow, such that the continuation of winter can be predicted.
The answer is yes. Always yes.
It's the second most pointless day of the year, on the second day of the second month. How cute.
It has been said that , Groundhog Day was started back when surviving the winter was not guaranteed. People would celebrate that they had survived so far, and had enough food for the rest of it.
Hi all. So, just about ready to go to the hospital. Feeling nervous, this is going to take about all I've got energy wise, but I need to get it done. I'll give you news later if there is any.
Here is yet another #NVDAComposer thing I have made. As with the last two things I've posted, this is an excerpt from one of Mozart's works. Due to post length limitations, I will not be able to provide you with the transcription data from the addon. However, I have included an audio sample. Enjoy!
@FreakyFwoof Thanks, I'm having a lot of fun! My musical knowledge is quite basic but I used to create tones when I was a child, so everything in the composer clicked really fast.
A password manager is an easy tool to increase the security of your digital identity. In this guide, we take a look at the best three password managers and why you should start using one.
I used KeePassXC before, with a side of 1Password for easier sharing with the family. Moved all of us to Proton, even the kid has his own vault now and everyone is happy.
I'm missing Proton Pass on your list. They have a free tier, and the client apps are open source. I love the broad application and OS support, seamless sync between devices and the ability to share entries with other family members. It can also manage passkeys and TOTPs.
Using #enpass !! Managed to get a premium lifetime license a few years ago with a one off payment. Love it !! Store everything in it, even contact list !! Its just a big database where I am in control of all fields for each entry And most importantly, store the DB where I want !!! I sync it to Nextcloud, other options available as well.....
Email from Royal Mail: "We delivered your parcel! How did we do?"
Mate, you did the bare fucking minimum expected of you. Your entire job is to accept the parcel that someone wants to send me, transport that parcel to my house, then ensure that the parcel enters my house. That is literally your job.
Reviews are for things that cost people money to experience. I will review a meal. I will review a new record, or a new movie.
I will not review a fucking parcel delivery. Particularly not the default parcel delivery service in the UK.
But they'll only get a raise if you give them a 10 NPS. So they'll soon start attaching professionally-printed leaflets saying "customers are reminded that it's polite to give a score of 10 to every courier that delivers them a package, otherwise they're at risk of losing their job."
This is actually something that does happen in certain industries right now btw.
@miki i've seen the begging 10 pts email, or you're forced to by the form, anything less than ten pts and "this is an invalid entry." when they ask you about the quality of overall service." what the hell?
@bigpawedbear Oh that's a new one. People in cahoots with the web survey designers, making sure that customers either submit a 10 or submit a 0, just so that they can tell upper management how satisfied the customers are. Comrade Stalin would truly be proud.
Yes, but now it's been sold off it's in a "race to the bottom" and trying to compete with Spamazon, Herpes, DreadfulParcelDelivery, and the like. (Cut the staff, reduce the service, everything at the cheapest possible price, et bloody cetera.) At least they don't just hurl your package at the doorstep and run away. Yet. (My postie (who was absolutely wonderful) has apparently retired or been "Let go". The service has sucked badly ever since then.)
@miki @Cadbury_Moose grr, I'm so tired of the notion that basic infrastructure services will be improved through competition. I know they were inefficient when Keith Joseph first got the keys to the Conservative manifesto, and I'm sure if you take away the competition they will become less efficient, but enough is enough.
@FourT4 @Cadbury_Moose They have over here. Our national postal service used to have a monopoly on letters, and they got so bad that it was literally cheaper to put a heavy piece of metal in your envelope (which made it a parcel) and send it via a private company.
I hadn’t put the full details in the blog at the time, but the Notepad++ updater didn’t check if the update package was valid in any way - it just executed it. Also the update process used TLS.. but didn’t validate the session, so it could be hijacked to change the download.
I did have a thread on this at the time but I think it auto deleted, whoops. It was being used for entry into telcos and financial services in East Asia anyhoo.
Also, long time followers may remember this one playing out in real time over the last few weeks - I just tooted about it in Follower mode to stop threat intel companies scraping the toots 🤣
Since making this thread yesterday the infrastructure appears to have gone AWOL and they've nuked the DNS entries on the C2s etc etc. They had access to a bunch of orgs for 5 months, if anybody interested.
Notepad++ have today confirmed their auto process was compromised by Chinese nation state threat actors, in a supply chain hack: notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hij…
This backs up my blog from late last year, with #GAYINT threat actor mapping to Funky Stamen.
The infrastructure and update mechanisms have since been tightened. For what it’s worth - entry was to telcos and financial services with interests aligned to China. Notepad++ dev did a great job treating issue seriously.
XMPP in general and #Conversations_im in particular are used a lot by organizations and individuals that have something to hide. They have absolutely zero interest in appearing on marketing slides or blog posts. But buy #XMPP developers enough Belgian beer at FOSDEM and you'll hear the stories.
@clv1 I've only so far used Fedra very briefly and so it's too soon for me to evaluate it with any degree of fairness. However, as it's made by the same developer who developed Paperback, I have high hopes that it will be a great client.
Bogomil Shopov - Бого #FOSDEM
in reply to Ge0rG @ FOSDEM • • •Ge0rG @ FOSDEM
in reply to Bogomil Shopov - Бого #FOSDEM • • •and you ran away before I could hand you a bunch of the DI.DAY flyers! 😱 It was a pleasure meeting you and thanks for your talk! We really need to unite our efforts!
Also wanted to ask you what specific messenger "N" stood for in your slides 😉
(P.S.: I've omitted from OP all the people I *intended* to meet, only recounted the unexpected things that happened!)
Bogomil Shopov - Бого #FOSDEM
in reply to Ge0rG @ FOSDEM • • •Ge0rG @ FOSDEM
in reply to Bogomil Shopov - Бого #FOSDEM • • •@bogo yeah, they had a really tough schedule for cleaning up and bringing everything back to the before-FOSDEM state. We had 30mins to pack our stand as well.
I really applaud the volunteers that run the #FOSDEM organization!
Bogomil Shopov - Бого #FOSDEM
in reply to Ge0rG @ FOSDEM • • •