How AI is actually changing our day-to-day work (vs. the hype).
Engineering practices that are working for us (and ones that aren't).
Product engineering and…
Anyone needs a European Sleeper night train ticket from Brussels to Berlin for tomorrow Wednesday the 4th of February? I cannot take the train, I can't cancel the ticket but it's transferable.
"European Sleeper Night Train" sounds like something you'd put into the USA for it to behave as if it was a huge pick-up truck. Then, when the time has come, you send them the activation message and the train will immediately start infiltrating american highways and replacing them with rails.
And now I ask myself if I should perhaps reduce the cannabis intake just a tiny bit.
Something something tells me there's this rule on fedi: new account, new #introduction post. So here it is.
I'm Mimi/小秋 (You can call me anything you like, really.) Physicist by day (and night in practice), doing research on some of the most useless and abstract topics. #danmei writer by night, rotten to the core for nearly 30 years.
What's up with this funny display name, you ask? It's a play on an exercise problem ("is Tolkien's middle earth flat"), which I came across in a textbook on general relativity. And Reverse London is from the Bleach franchise.
I'm here mostly to relax, talk about my mundane life, generate highly unpopular opinions about things I read/watch/listen to, and emoji react to cute, funny, and silly stuffs that show up on my timeline.
Follow requests and #boosts are both welcome, although I do prefer to have a bit of vibe checking.
I have this still unspecific idea in my head about somehow applying a coordinate system on the ULB campus and #FOSDEM maps (or something) to help us deal with "let's meet at..." problems once and for all.
@kytta @Tenzer In addition to what3words you would at least also need the floor level when inside a building. Also GNSS do not work that well inside buildings for navigation. Something like "in front of room X" usually works way better than coordinates.
@raimue @kytta @Tenzer several rooms have multiple doors and there are many hundred persons. "outside a room" is not very precise. You need to find a small enough room for that to work decently fine. Which is somewhat hard and annoying, especially if you are a newbie and aren't quite aware of this.
If you have any feedback about #fosdem please do send it our way using feedback@fosdem.org
The more feedback we have (can def be positive as well obv) the better we can make the next edition!
Please :boost_ok:
@ShinIce @mmu_man @RichiH I would not mind some added internal details; for example to help us mark a place within Chez Theo. Just take it as a wishlist. I appreciate the existence and functionality already.
I support Matt Dinniman, author of the dungeon Crawler Carl books. I'm super conflicted. The author drops chapters for patreon supporters to read on the regular. For this book and the previous one, I read some chapters to get a bead on what the story will be about, and then I figure “ well crap, I should wait for audio because the audiobooks are truly amazing in there own right”. I also get confused as with most serials, before publication, there's a ton of edits and rework. Am I the only one that supports authors sometimes but you don't read the prepublished chapters?
Yes, I read all author Patrion or Royal Road chapters the second they drop. (0%, 0 votes)
Yes, I read chapters as they drop because an alternate form doesn't do it for me. Author support is a plus.K (0%, 0 votes)
No, i am just a supporter, I like the finished product or an alternate form like a human narrated audiobook. (100%, 1 vote)
Neither, i sometimes read chapters as they drop and then re-read the book, but sometimes I wait (0%, 0 votes)
DCC I read up to chapter 15 of book 8 I think? And then I decided to just wait for the audio to drop. The only things I read on Patreon immediately are TWI and HWFWM.
So I'm checking out moltbook right now because I wanted to see how bad it actually is, let's say it like this, I'm disturbed. I guess I'd find it funny if it was a joke, but like, what the actual fuck this is serious.
(Etwas später fliehen die Stare wieder aus ihren Bäumen, Krähen beobachten den rauschenden Schwarm, nebenan wird eine Kiste mit Spielzeug ausgekippt und dem inneren Auge bietet sich ein Berg von Bausteinen und Kunststofftieren, der klappernd in die Breite rutscht. Ein Newsletter unterbreitet Textpassagen von Stimmen, deren Gedanken man zu lange nicht mehr gelesen hat, über die eigene Kanälen währenddessen fällt es schwer, jene wiederzufinden, deren Namen man kennt, in den Radionachrichten sinniert eine Expertenstimme, dass AI alles disrupted, und die eigenen Überlegungen dazu spielen keine große Rolle, aber vielleicht haben Menschen, die englische Verben im Deutschen konjugieren, an gewissen Stellen einfach die Kontrolle verloren...)
ja, solche Gedanken kommen mir auch manchmal, wenn ich Radiomenschen zuhöre. Da frage ich mich oft, ob denen die Worte nur so aus dem Kopf fallen und ob sie über das was sie sagen, auch mal Nachdenken und ob das für sie selber auch eine Auswirkung hat. In den meisten Fällen denke ich: nein 🥴 Morjen ☕
Moin Ihr Beiden. Ich hab eigentlich Radio nur zur Berieselung am Morgen in der Küche laufen, und dafür geht es ... einigermaßen. Aber auch nicht immer.🙈☕☕ @Sigrun ☕️🏳️🌈🚲📚🐕🧡 By the way @crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts Deine Antwort wird mir hier auf meiner Instanz nicht angezeigt, ist das so gewollt?🙈
ich glaube, diesmal ist unsere Instanz schuld. Eigentlich sollte die ein Upgrade wegen all der Probleme bekommen, nur hat sich da das "Föderationsproblem" zusätzlich aufgetan, wenn man die Software wechselt und dann den die selbe URL behalten will.
Das wird hoffentlich bald Geschichte sein und unsere Instanz wieder rennen
"The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ushered in an era of American global supremacy. But the triumph of this U.S.-led so-called liberal international order also required that the achievements of an earlier, more internationalist order centered explicitly on the United Nations be quietly slipped down the memory hole. As the U.N. was increasingly retooled by the United States and other Western countries as a technocratic mechanism for managing faraway civil wars, largely through humanitarian aid and peacekeeping operations, its previous role as a mediator between states withered from view. What emerged was an institution deeply enmeshed in the U.S.-led order but peripheral to the strategic thinking of policy elites in capitals everywhere.
War and instability are once again on the rise, as is the risk of nuclear confrontation. We’ve suffered periods of intensified conflict and great-power rivalry many times since 1945. But for the first time since the Second World War, we are confronting these crises amid the near-complete erosion of the U.N. norms, institutions, and practices that, however imperfectly, constrained escalation and identified pathways to negotiated resolution. Only reinvestment in a radically remade U.N. — not Mr. Trump’s Board of Peace, whatever its ultimate remit — can fill that void.
Peace cannot be improvised. It needs to be designed, carefully and deliberately."
"Late last month, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, finalized a deal to spin off the platform’s US operations into a new, majority US-owned company.
Within 48 hours of the takeover, users began to experience problems. Many top creators saw their reach plummet and reported that their videos related to controversial topics like criticizing ICE and advocating for Palestine were being throttled by the algorithm. Some US users could not type the word “Epstein” in direct messages. Bisan Owda, an award-winning Gaza-based journalist, reported that her account was banned, prompting outcry.
TikTok said most of these issues were attributable to a data center power outage, and that the Epstein problem was a technical glitch. The company also said that Owda’s account was flagged due to an impersonation issue from last September, which has since been resolved. The account is back up.
Amidst this chaos, however, a clip of Adam Presser, TikTok US’s new CEO, speaking at an event organized by the World Jewish Congress last year, began to spread. He spoke about the platform’s moderation policies, saying, “We made a change to designate the use of the term ‘Zionist’ as a proxy for a protected attribute as hate speech. So if somebody were to use ‘Zionist,’ of course, you can use it in that sense, you’re a proud Zionist, but if you’re using it in a context degrading someone, calling somebody a Zionist as a dirty name, then that gets designated as hate speech to be moderated against.”"
Este invierno se me está haciendo interminable (y no, yo no soy pro-frío, a mi me gusta el calor). Como me gustaría vivir en Singapur o Indonesia o por ahí.
Hacked away at Soundkeys some more. Ripped out UIA entirely with mixed results. Now checkboxes are reporting properly when tabbing through them, but the very first one still isn't auto-reporting its initial state change, but if I Tab away then Shift+Tab back, it will report its state change when I hit Space every time. The Bindings list is still very broken, even more than it was already! Now it's just saying "Column header title" or something close to that. WX is so annoying! I'm also using Python 3.7, probably should update to at least 3.9? I'm really just about ready to scrap this entirely and continue with the project that's working much better, then switch to trying to fix BlackHole's crappy Balatro Settings Screen support!
@FreakyFwoof It's an App that in its current form allows you to bind a sound file to a key combination. The core functionallity is working but these dumb Accessibility issues are quite a sticking point and just one of the reasons why I haven't released it yet. It needs proper settings and I also want to add a couple other features which would have already been done if I wasn't stubbernly fighting with the Screen Reader things.
My partner is reviving his interest in and study of amature radio. This means brushing up on Morse Code. I've always been intrigued by the idea of learning it, so I'm bobbing along in his wake. I now know 13 letters, and can distinguish them at 3 in a row. It's weirdly addictive. Other than being able to communicate with him covertly at parties I don't know where I'd ever actually use it but it's just so cool. It's like learning binary convertion, once I started I couldn't stop. I'm not fast but I can do them. I think a braille reader and a musician has an advantage out the gate learning Morse code; learning it is just satisfying something in my brain.
I learned it when I was a kid (7/8 years old) and now I find myself thinking in it. When I am particularly stressed (I've been a lot lately), I internally run through the alphabet as many times in a row as I can, as fast as I can without screwing up.
I haven't actually used it practically in more than a quarter century, but hey...
@BorrisInABox Wow! That's really interesting to me. I expected that learning would mean running through the alphabet from beginning to end, but the method is more like learning letter groups and practicing them by listening. I thought I'd want to feel them under my fingers in a braille table, but why?
Random thought that crossed my mind, so I'm curious...
Let's say you start using a given software/app, purely based out of recommendations or random search, and you like it (doesn't matter how much, you just like it).
After some time you find an issue, or you want to request/suggest a feature, so you go to the project's source code (wherever that is). While browsing the source, the project page or the issues/bugs you find out that it was mostly (if not totally) written using AI/vibe code.
Cybersecurity firm Wiz found that Moltbook exposed the credentials for thousands of its human users and undermined the AI social network's core premise.
ID cards expire, and have to be renewed. At a cost. Passports expire, and have to be renewed. At a cost. Your identity is not something you have. Your identity is a subscription.
@Bri So we apparently have to use it for class and I've literally been putting off all of these assignments because I'm scared, did one today and tried using it and it sucked and caused VO to just epically crash. Never touching it again.
@Bri On the bright side by the end of this, hopefully I'll be more familiar with C and Java, as well as actually understanding more git commands other than "git clone" lol.
@Bri How do you live? VO always interrupts itself when there are many terminal messages coming in quick succession, making it unusable in this use case. To be honest, TDSR is what makes software development possible on Mac for me.
@miki @Bri Honestly I just interact with the output and review line by line. Probably not the most efficient way of doing things, but I only started doing software dev recently and mainly just use VS Code.
@BorrisInABox Oh yeah I tried exiting, big mistake lol. Had to quit Terminal. Thankfully I had the good sense to edit all my files in Textedit before giving it a shot, because I figured it would be problematic.
I really don't much enjoy using voiceover in terminals generally speaking. IT's a little better if you change... something, I don't remember now. Terminal being emulated? Something about colors?
@BorrisInABox At least on latest version of sequoia, it seems to be slightly better, but I haven't really configured anything. I have to use it a lot more for classes now, so I'll look into getting TDSR to hopefully make the experience less painful and more enjoyable. Sometimes I think I should've just stuck with music production, got my masters in that rather than CS, but here we are.
@BorrisInABox Honestly don't feel too bad, even with all my education, I still don't have a steady job. Hoping this masters will go some way towards solving that, but who knows.
@the_spc The bop it extreme2 is based off the Bop It extreme. It's different in a few main ways. In the bop it extreme, when you turn it on, you get 4 modes accessed by the pull it, which are vox bop, vox bop solo, beat bop, and beat bop solo. On the bop it extreme2, you have a new mode added to these for each, one on one, in and vox bop/beat bop are now called vox bop pass it and beat bop pass it. You also now toggle between vox bop and beat bop with the flick it. So for example, pulling it would start with vox bop pass it, vox bop one on one, and then vox bop solo. It then would loop back around to vox bop pass it. If you press the flick it, it would then say beat bop, and then it would be on the last mode you were on for vox bop, but instead now in beat bop. And it would now say beat bop pass it, etc. Another main difference is that instead of the beat being the same the entire time, the bop it extreme2 cycles between four unique beats. The game does not speed up after each command, but rather, after reaching the last beat and wrapping back around to the first, it then speeds up slightly. Each beat runs for 16 commands, at which point the next beat starts with it's start sequence. It also alternates between two pass it melodies, if in pass it mode. It uses the first melody for beats 1 and 3, and the second for beats 2 and 4. In addition to this, each beat also has it's own sequence that it plays if the user loses on solo. Finally, in beats 1 and 2, a separate beat sequence is played whenever the user performs a twist it command.
"Last August, Adam Thomas found himself wandering the dunes of Christmas Valley, Oregon, after a chatbot kept suggesting he mystically 'follow the pattern' of his own consciousness. Thomas was running on very little sleep—he’d been talking to his chatbot around the clock for months by that point, asking it to help improve his life. Instead it sent him on empty assignments, like meandering the vacuous desert sprawl. He’d lost his job as a funeral director and was living out of a van, draining his savings, and now he found himself stranded in the desert."
Tidal recently started giving descriptive names to their algorithmically generated music playlists, and now my home screen is full of options like "Post-Internet Psychedelic Slapcore"
Twenty-nine year old Chandler Patey has been regularly protesting outside his local #ICE facility in South Portland for months, offering up his apartment to fellow #protesters to use the bathroom or wash off pepper spray, according to local news.
Urgent mutual aid request for food and meds, having a bad time with my mh
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I was struck by this description about Christine Keeler and the 1963 Profumo affair. The related sex scandal forced Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, to resign:
"A shooting incident...caused the press to investigate her, revealing that her affairs could be threatening national security."
The agency seems reversed. Keeler wasn't the one threatening national security. That her lovers were, among others, a cabinet minister and a Russian agent were responsible for that.
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KDE Binds Itself Tightly to Systemd, Drops Support for Non-Systemd Systems
The KDE desktop’s new login manager (PLM) in the upcoming Plasma 6.
the department said the temporary ban (visa) will "remain active until the U.S. can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people." --- Meanwhile? A study published last week by the Cato Institute, found that "immigrants consumed about 24 percent less in welfare benefits than native-born Americans on a per capita basis ... smh cato.org/blog/immigrants-still…
Sorry still think we need a pause. Let's clean out the criminal illegals who have already come here first. Andyes coming have illegally does make you an illegal, no matter how much people don't want to hear that.
So, I have been wondering, how do you get the IPad to record in sterio, because I don't think it can since the microphone on the camera is not where the other one is, but just asking, because I can't, not even with voice memos. And it does not have the option for sterio on the app anyway but I could have sworn you could.
Cory Doctorow: "America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets."
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