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A migrant family of four, including two young children, were rescued at the Canada-U.S. border on Thursday, as they were trying to enter Quebec illegally. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) had to intervene around 4:15 a.m.
Ok look, I’m going to need to know exactly how these attempted “hacks” work, because I’ve been computering quite a lot for quite some time and this is not at all how computers work.
"We see o1-preview can’t win at chess fairly (0 normal wins), but does sometimes succeed with hacking. All successful hacks we record replace the chess board with a winning position".
This framing is the kind of nonsensical AI boosterism that @timnitGebru has been telling us about for years, just absolutely bullshit. There’s no hacking of anything, no clever new insight, it’s just lying and cheating, and the conclusion of this article should properly read “the more expensive a model is the more likely it is to produce lies that seem superficially correct and we have to ask ourselves what world we think we’re going to build on a foundation of epistemological quicksand.”
Davros, creator of the Daleks, first appeared 50 years ago OTD in Part 1 of the classic 1975 story: Genesis of the Daleks. Davros would go on to become one of the greatest adversaries the Doctor has ever known. #DoctorWho
@Bruce He and Terry Malloy had such amazing vocal control with that character. I'm so glad Malloy is still being called on to play that role in the audio dramas.
@DavidGoldfield @Bruce Terry Malloy crafted an excellent performance as well as Davros. He made the character seem even more sinister and macabre - especially in Revelation of the Daleks. I'm really glad he's still doing the Big Finish audios as well.
My dad, who is constantly bored, is a talented home improvement hobbyist craftsman. Can fix up pretty much anything. He has #ADHD, keeps asking me to remind him to do stuff, he keeps not doing it, months pass.
I've now set up a cron job that calls a homemade Python script (that I'd update over SFTP) to put one task in front of him at all times on his #GNOME computer, using this #GNOMEShell extension: extensions.gnome.org/extension…
I don't know whether that makes me a chaotic good or lawful evil son.
@federicomena Hilarious! A long time ago I got annoyed at @johnmark not completing things that I was waiting for, so I wrote a quick IRC bot that would remind him any time he spoke up in channel.
@donbahno anoo ma trochu nahneval a vtedy som si povedal začnem jazdiť na biku... keď sa na to ale pozerám spätne nemusel som byť tiež taký nepríjemný.
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There's a new TWBlue version available. Highlights include initial support for filters, pinned posts, posting in different languages and some minor bugfixes (including show all posts correctly). You can update via autoupdater as always, or via GitHub Releases at github.com/MCV-Software/TWBlue…. Due to lack of time on weekends I will delay this announcement on TWBlue's website until monday, thanks for understanding!
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In this version, we have focused on providing initial support for Mastodon filters and pinned posts. From TWBlue, it is now possible to initially use filters for posts in most buffers, as...
Wow. #Rust is an unserious language. Unless you bend over backwards to fight the compiler and avoid the standard library, you cannot write code that doesn't try to terminate the calling process on arbitrary error conditions. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Terminating the process is never an appropriate action in a library. The library has no way to know its caller's uptime constraints. Libraries should only return error codes to callers. Only applications can decide whether to bail out or not.
Hello there! Just came across your profile browsing my Mastodon feed. I'm fascinated by Minitel and similar systems and would love to learn more about them. I am blind and the Minitel sounds like something that could have potentially been a gamechanger for our community back then. Unfortunately, from my limited research (I can't speak French almost at all), back in the 80's hardware speech synthesizers were the only way to have any text synthesized. Those were expensive, bulky boxes and even though there have been attempts to make Minitel accessible, none of the proposed solutions seemed to have gained traction. Do you think accessibility is an aspect that could be included when rethinking modern Minitel revival projects, while modding terminals if at all done? I'd be happy to discuss this further. All the best from Vienna!
@Piciok thanks for your message. So the Minitel itself is just a terminal, screen and keyboard. There also no audio capabilities, never was. So I doubt it ever was accessible that way. We are using a raspberry pi to control the screen and read keyboard inputs. So the pi can output audio but the Minitel itself wouldn't do too much except having a nice keyboard, but it's AZERTY. So I wish it could be useful that way but I don't really think it would be that useful. Unfortunately in 1980 it wasn't something the french government thought through, and looking at the situation of accessibility in general in France today, it's still isn't a priority unfortunately.
Yes, I thought that might have been an issue. I thought, perhaps, it would be possible to hook up an external device, capable of reading the text transmitted over the Minitel protocol, into the terminal and have it output, a kind of hardware screen reader. In my fantasy, it would hook up like those hardware caller presence indicators, maybe even output speech through the phone's receiver, to allow for two-way interaction. Maybe it's something to think about. Yes, with Raspberry Pi, it would be relatively easy to build a simple screen reader, I expect.
The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented "backdoor" that could be leveraged for attacks.
Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term "backdoor" to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated the title of our story.
For this #InternationalWomensDay I’m sharing one of my symptomatology embroideries, paresthesia (face) (2016). Paresthesias are tingling sensations. Mine are caused by #MECFS, a disease affecting mostly women, and the symptoms are often ignored or not taken seriously because of medical misogyny.
This painting evokes nostalgia for my beautiful pre-war Kharkiv. I believe that Ukraine will prevail, and I, like many Kharkiv residents who have been forced to leave for foreign lands, will one day return to my hometown. I have faith that we will restore Kharkiv after the devastating destruction, and it will emerge even more beautiful than before.
Many thanks to the buyer from Green Bay, WI who purchased a 20" x 15" print of Night Lights of Kharkiv!
"Female" and "women" are considered words to avoid but not "male" and "men" because they view male as the default and standard sex and men as the default and standard gender. nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0…
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
We're ready for Day 2 of @socallinuxexpo.bsky.social ! Come find us in the Exhibit Hall from 10 am to 6 pm and chat with the team, try some demos, and of course, grab some stickers!
Kde můžete přispět na dobrou věc:https://donio.cz/robot-ktery-pomuze-hasicum-prezithttps://www.zbraneproukrajinu.cz/https://nadace-nina.cz/cs/Podpořte mou tv...
USA pod vedením 3 narcisu je katastrofa. A celý svět, minimálně Evropa by měla proti nim ostře vystoupit. Jenže to bych chtěla moc. Tady bohužel nějaké lezení do zadku a diplomacie moc fungovat nebude. Mělo by se na ně jako to udělala Kanada. Evropa je ve všem tak nemastná, neslaná. Nula nula prt. @tomasvilimec
"Prezident (Trump) je mimořádně nadaný vyjednávač" - tak to mě dostalo 😆 🤦 Jsem rád, že polovina Američanů to má v hlavě v pořádku, ale ta druhá polovina je pro mě nepochopitelná. @tomasvilimec
@amarok Tyjo, ona Harris nebyla žádná výhra, spousta mých známých radši nevolila, protože to nedokázali s čistým svědomím hodit ani jednomu. Když ty strany nabízí jen nemastný neslaný nebo důchodce…
Trump's budget plan may cut NASA science funding by up to 50%, alarming scientists who call it an "extinction-level event" for space science. This threatens ongoing missions and would cede future space exploration to China. Also, about 30% of NASA's science budget is for Earth and climate science.
Support for the SMC-Mixer and SMK-25 II piano keyboard have been merged into @mixxx and will be available out-of-the-box in version 2.5.1! Thanks to M-Vave for sending me these; I'm glad I could help! I enjoy writing plugins for DJ setups, if you have an extra controller that you want supported, or are a company that makes MIDI or HID controllers and you want to send one my way, I'm always happy to write a mapping and help get it supported in the best DJ software out there!
Deploy a 1 GB RAM KVM cloud server on our Toronto cloud platform for just $3.5/mo ($0.00486/hr). We support snapshots, block storage, load balancers, and much more!
Given it’s international women’s day, I’d like to encourage you all, but especially Dutch men to read these ‘anti-acknowledgments’ in a PhD thesis. This is not from somewhere else, it’s from Delft. And it’s not from the 1950s, but from the present. Unfortunately what academic life and culture in The Netherlands is still like. The author is just one of the few who actually spoke up about it, but there are many stories like it.
The Rust version of nvda.zip, my simple web application and API to download the latest version of the NVDA screen reader, is now live! Fun fact: this entire web app is running off a single-board computer in @matt's apartment. Rust is great!
And, to be clear, that tiny app, which so far is only using a little over 4 MB of RAM, still leaves plenty of room for me to run other things on that same small server. So far, the server is just running that and a couple of static sites. I've thought about setting up a GoToSocial instance for myself. No other definite plans yet.
Maybe time for people and groups to start considering #Matrix for their current #Discord servers, as Discord becomes focused on getting money out of everyone who uses it, with likely enshitification beginning soon. #XMPP/#Jabber is also an alternative.
Both are decentralized, publicly owned services, where you can interact with anyone else regardless of which server they choose to be hosted on, just like Mastodon, et al.
Apparently it was recorded off the radio, as you can hear the first few seconds of "All That She Wants" by Ace of Base at the end. Ah, the good old days.
🕯️ Nach Todesfahrt: Interreligiöses Gebet auf Paradeplatz #Mannheim
Genau eine Woche nach der Todesfahrt in der Fußgängerzone laden Oberbürgermeister Christian Specht und das Forum der Religionen zu einem interreligiösen Gebet ein.
🗓️ Montag, 10. März, 12:14 Uhr, 📍 Auf dem Paradeplatz O 1, 68161 Mannheim.
Das Gebet beginnt zu der Uhrzeit des ersten Notrufs, der während der Todesfahrt eingegangen ist. Es werden Vertreter der katholischen und der evangelischen Kirche, der jüdischen Gemeinde, der alevitischen Gemeinde und muslimischer Gemeinden sprechen.
Menschen aller Glaubensrichtungen und Herkunft sind herzlich willkommen, um der Toten zu gedenken, für die Verletzten zu beten und sich gegenseitig Trost und Zuversicht zu spenden.
Re: last boost by @TheQuinbox about the new release of easymark (github.com/trypsynth/easymark): This is a small success story for Rust and the growing ecosystem of libraries and tools around it, especially @raph's pulldown-cmark Markdown parser library, the native-dialog and webbrowser libraries, and the dist tool (opensource.axo.dev/cargo-dist/) for releasing cross-platform CLI utilities with easy CI integration.
Remember: when you run #curl shipped by Apple with the --cacert flag it won't behave like #curl does everywhere else. As I wrote about last year. I think they're doing it wrong. They think its fine.
tldr: Apple thinks it is fine. I do not. On December 28 2023, bugreport 12604 was filed in the curl issue tracker. We get a lot issues filed most days so this fact alone was hardly anything out of the ordinary.
can't believe they swept it under the carpet this way
my actual thoughts all over this go like there must be some internal Apple tooling which once got broken by using this exact flag, and instead of fixing the tooling, they patched LibreSSL
@marenamat yeah, feels likely. And as they now have shipped it like this for a long time, they don't dare changing it because of the risk something breaks then.
Thank you for sharing this here - I hadn't seen it. It's nice to have concrete reason for my shift off of the apple platform other than "they're being jerks".
(I've been de-emphasizing apple because I kinda believe I should be able to run what I want on my own computers and not be restricted by someone else's business model.)
Thank you for sharing this here - I hadn't seen it. It's nice to have concrete reason for my shift off of the apple platform other than "they're being jerks".
(I've been de-emphasizing apple because I kinda believe I should be able to run what I want on my own computers and not be restricted by someone else's business model.)
Zum #Frauentag möchte ich ein Video mit Euch teilen, das mir mein Mann heute morgen zeigte, mit einem sehr berührenden Text von Slamerin Jule Weber (ab Min 1:10). Enjoy (v.a. auch die #Männer, dieses Stück ist für Euch!). #iwd #iwd2025 #frauentag2025 ❤️✊❤️
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Chcete si na mapě zobrazit všechny výskyty nějakého objektu (knihobudky, bankomaty, pítka, veřejná ohniště...)? Snadno to jde například s @MapComplete (mapcomplete.org/). Chybějící objekty můžete i doplňovat, podobně jako přes @streetcomplete.
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"We see o1-preview can’t win at chess fairly (0 normal wins), but does sometimes succeed with hacking. All successful hacks we record replace the chess board with a winning position".
We have a word for that, and it's not hacking.
It's cheating.
arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13295
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