We don’t treat #Hamas claims as fact, unlike some in the media,
says #WhiteHouse Press Secretary #karolineleavitt
when asked about reports accusing #Israel of killing civilians near an aid center.
Maybe the BBC should stop spreading fake news to vilify Israel?
Heute ist #Sehbehindertentag!
Der @DBSV thematisiert #Touchscreens
Oft sind sie der einzige Weg, um an #Informationen und #Dienstleistungen zu gelangen. Es ist deshalb wichtig, dass Touchscreens auch von Menschen mit #Seheinschränkung #barrierefrei genutzt werden können.
Ein #sehenswertes #Video des #DBSV gibt es dazu (bisher leider) nur auf YouTube:
youtube.com/watch?v=SVCmMV0Y4d…
#a11y #Inklusion #digitaleTeilhabe
Mit diesem Film macht der *Deutsche Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband (DBSV)* auf die Probleme aufmerksam, die viele Touchscreens für sehbehinderte Menschen...YouTube
Even with close confirmation I sometimes close my terminal and think "OH FUCK NO." Coming soon to Ghostty, you can undo that. 🥰 (Technical details: we keep the terminal running for a configurable time in the background before terminating for real, similar to email undo send).
(macOS only for now, AppKit APIs provide a nice undo manager implementation that eases this quite a bit. I still have to do research on GTK for Linux.)
Apparently Lufthansa has a new "cabin concept" called Allegris. (source seatmaps . com)
Let's break down the basic economy class feature: seating space.
The regular one on B789 (787-9):
32" pitch (that's the distance between two seat) and 3" recline (mean 3" if personal space invasion).
Now the new Allegris on B789 (787-9):
31" pitch (one inch less,, 2.54cm) and 5" recline (2 more inches of personal space invasion). In short 3 more inches (7.6cm) of incomfort for tall people like me.
(1/2)
And people wonder why I hate flying (in Economy). But simply put I'm tall and when I seat my knee already touch the front seat. And it gets worse over. Now when the person in front recline the seat, it hurts. I gave seen: 1. people doing violently (slaming the seat back) 2. people insisting they must when there is no room, and waiting I get to the washroom to do it so I can't seat back. Got scolded my Swiss crew for that.
(2/x)
And then airline charge a premium for "front" seat (bulkhead or emergency exit). They are less convenient like less storage, no bag on the floor, or screen that must be stowed away. But I guess they don't discount that inconvenience, but they do charge more money for the leg room. And even if the seats are empty, you can GFY, at least on Air Canada.
(IANAL, but it becomes discriminatory)
(3/x)
In Premium Economy the pitch increases from 38" to 39".
And the Business ones I'm not even sure how relevant it is given how they are built.
(4/x)
People in front should be allowed to recline their seats all the way. If you don't fit, you should take it up with the airline and the government to make laws guaranteeing minimums! (Please do!)
Marc Garneau (who just died) helped gut air passenger rights similar to this, and we've got a long way ahead to get some of them back and then even more!
Nope, but I don't fall into the trap of pitting passenger against passenger. The real problem is the airline and the lack of government regulation.
Let the poor economy class friend get as much measly reclining room as they can.
Depressing but instructive as hell
AI really is "fake data science for software bros" so often
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Experts who reviewed the code for ProPublica found numerous and troubling flaws in the system, providing a disturbing glimpse into how the Trump administration is allowing artificial intelligence to guide critical cuts in services.ProPublica
With LibreOffice 24.8 close to end of life, all users are invited to update their free office suite to the latest release Berlin, 6 June 2025 – The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 25.2.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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I will quit using your product before I go to discord for help.Mastodon
Re: last boost (mathstodon.xyz/@j_bertolotti/1…), about the researchers who trained a model trying to use only public-domain and openly licensed data, here's the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.05209 and here's the HuggingFace for the comma-v0.1-2t model: huggingface.co/common-pile (For anyone itching to play with it, no, it's not on Ollama, at least not yet; it's brand new.)
Large language models (LLMs) are typically trained on enormous quantities of unlicensed text, a practice that has led to scrutiny due to possible intellectual property infringement and ethical concerns.arXiv.org
"AI companies claim their tools couldn't exist without training on copyrighted material. It turns out, they could — it's just really hard. To prove it, AI researchers trained a new model that's less powerful but much more ethical. That's because the LLM's dataset uses only public domain and openly licensed material."tl;dr: If you use public domain data (i.e. you don't steal from authors and creators) you can train a LLM just as good as what was cutting edge a couple of years ago. What makes it difficult is curating the data, but once the data has been curated once, in principle everyone can use it without having to go through the painful part.
So the whole "we have to violate copyright and steal intellectual property" is (as everybody already knew) total BS.engadget.com/ai/it-turns-out-y…
It turns out you can train AI models without copyrighted material
It's just a pain in the ass.Will Shanklin (Engadget)
Your voice, our drive: We had the privilege of interviewing @tolgayenici a mechanical engineer residing in Canada, to find out why he chose Tuta Mail, how he became a privacy and open source enthusiast, and why privacy matters to him. 💬🔐
👉 Read the full interview: tuta.com/blog/tuta-user-interv…
#PrivacyMatters #TutaMail #OpenSource #MadeinGermany
Tolga Yenici used to be an average tech user, but now he is on a journey to choose private, open source tools like Tuta Mail. We sat down with him to find out why.Tuta
"AI companies claim their tools couldn't exist without training on copyrighted material. It turns out, they could — it's just really hard. To prove it, AI researchers trained a new model that's less powerful but much more ethical. That's because the LLM's dataset uses only public domain and openly licensed material."
tl;dr: If you use public domain data (i.e. you don't steal from authors and creators) you can train a LLM just as good as what was cutting edge a couple of years ago. What makes it difficult is curating the data, but once the data has been curated once, in principle everyone can use it without having to go through the painful part.
So the whole "we have to violate copyright and steal intellectual property" is (as everybody already knew) total BS.
engadget.com/ai/it-turns-out-y…
It's just a pain in the ass.Will Shanklin (Engadget)
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@stargazer @shanecelis It is the worst idea, except for all the others.
Good AI is more beneficial for humanity than bad AI, and giving authors *some* money is better than giving them no money, as we do now.
Just to iterate on your idea (I still believe we can do better), we can force social networks to act as intermediaries between end users and AI bros. If the AI bros love subscription capitalism so much, let them subscribe to, say, Meta to scrape Facebook, with Meta being obligated to distribute the fee obtained between users on the platform.
...with an option to opt-out from scraping.
The world where I can sell my kidney but can't sell my personal data is kinda weird.
Just saw a competency matrix for hiring/evaluating employees in IT - engineering, marketing, HR, support and product dev.Old Mermaid Town
Jeff Geerling got the brunt of YouTube wrath when he showed people how to host their own media {media that they legally own, which means that they either have the originals, or have paid for whatever digital version they have} with the power of Open Source tools
Jeff explicitly made sure that he never ever told people how to circumvent subscriptions or worse. Nothing that could harm YouTube bottomline was ever discussed in this video.
Yet for reasons obvious to Open Source people like me YouTube gave him his second strike.
3rd Strike and you're gone. This is how Google / this is how Alphabet is treating their Golden Geeze.
Creators like Jeff are very valuable both to the people who follow them and to YouTube. However Google seems to be at Super odds with Open Source, needing it to run their data centers but hating it because they have to share the code again that they've worked upon.
Google is a paradoxical Company which is being controlled by Alphabet, a schizophrenic Entity drunk on power Ads and control
To me you're a star @geerlingguy keep Shining
jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/sel…
#Media #Hosting #OpenSource #programming #POSIX #Pie #Raspberry #4K #Video #4KVideo
WANTED: Intel Architecture Labs 1990’s CD-ROM’s. They appear to have maybe been monthly. They contained a mirror of Intel’s ‘download.intel.com’ ftp server, specifically the /ial/ subdirectory which is not in the 2014 backup of the site on archive.org.
Lots and lots of white papers and design guideline documents in there. Especially looking for ones from the late 1990’s (1998-ish onward) if they exist. I’ve seen references in mailing lists to them that lead me to believe they do.
Example gem: intel trying to cover its ass after the FDIV bug, and have some more FDIV
Peter Thiel enters the chatCarole Cadwalladr (How to Survive the Broligarchy)
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Introduction: GNOME GitLab now uses macOS runners from MacStadium for managing our macOS CI pipeline. This offers significant improvements in supporting the GNOME platform on macOS. In this blog,...Sid (Sid's GNOME Blog)
It has been an incredible two years since NV Access founders Mick Curran & Jamie Teh featured on Australian Story: abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/mic…
The impact NVDA has for blind people around the world has only grown & the need is as great now as ever!
You can watch the Audio Description enabled version of Australian Story: youtu.be/3i7gkN-1sAI
Regular version: youtu.be/jwHbXh3WzSw
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blind #Accessibility #FreeSoftware #FOSS #Impact #Australia #AustralianStory
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Kristine Taylor (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Pomalu si zvykám na domácí kefír.
Teď jsem ho posnídal.
Už perlí jak čerstvá minerálka.
Dobře, že máš ten houmofis, bobře.
Tak dobré nitro, bando. 🤭🙋♂️🤣☕
In a groundbreaking move that has caught the world’s attention, the White House recently announced its plan to establish a lunar time zone. This decision marks ... Continue Reading →Brian Foster (Glass Almanac)
If you’ve ever left home for a while and returned to a cat that looked at you like a stranger, you might have wondered—do cats actually ... Continue Reading →Brian Foster (Glass Almanac)
I've got a good chunk so far toward buying a car—I'm really hoping to get the rest of the way there in the next week or two!
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Spending the majority of your time strategizing how to stay on someone's good side is not normal.Chuffed
Alright y'all... it's halfway thru the month, so what I have on hand = July rent. And while I'm figuring out how to get by without a car, it will be a MASSIVE difference to quality of life as a newly solo parent. Getting out with the baby is so important, not to mention work, errands, and my own social needs.
Y'all have been incredible these past few weeks—I hope another fundraising push can help meet this urgent goal 🚗🚙
venmo/cashapp natsmith89
paypal.me/natoleander
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Spending the majority of your time strategizing how to stay on someone's good side is not normal.Chuffed
Between court things, I'm working on job applications. I know it's a tough market so the more cushion I have, the better! The fundraiser has stalled this week, so please share & consider pitching in if you're able to. This is a massive shift & I'm so lucky to have this village to help me get to the other side ♥️
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#mutualaid #helpfolkslive2025 #mutualaidrequest #transmutualaid #queermutualaid #disabledmutualaid
Spending the majority of your time strategizing how to stay on someone's good side is not normal.Chuffed
Most individuals understand tactile graphics as raised-surface representations of non-textual information, such as shapes, maps, and diagrams. Tactile graphics are...Devon Price (American Printing House)
An accessible, engaging iOS game, the Cosmic Number Lines App was designed for early elementary school students who are blind...Devon Price (American Printing House)
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in reply to Mitchell Hashimoto • • •This is potentially very dangerous. If you realize you have a destructive operation running which you did not intend to run, some users might have a "close close close" reflex, without realizing that it won't, in fact, stop the operation.
This way, you go from running rm -rf / for half a second to doing that for 10 seconds.
Same with media, I have a "close reflex" whenever I'm trying to figure out the structure of some audio file, pass the wrong parameters to Sox's play and get white noise blasted at me at full volume.