Our five-year-old wanted an electric kids' car. After two weeks, she realized that she wouldn't be able to save €300 in the near future, so she decided to build her own.
I just archived various programs and documents that were hosted on blind-geek-zone.net. An archive of all the files that were scraped from the Wayback Machine can be found at datajake.braillescreen.net/bgz…
Synapptic is an all-in-one software suite designed for people who are blind or partially sighted. It provides a simple and consistent user interface that
Je ne vois pas où Madame Borne a tort. Le courant, mal défini ou pas, existe. Je ne sais pas pour les universités, mais dans la société — absolument. leparisien.fr/societe/islamo-g…
Philippe Baptiste estime que « l’islamo-gauchisme », un « terme pas bien défini », est un courant qui « n’existe pas ». Interrogée ce dimanche, la ministre de l’Éducation nationale l’a contredit.
« Ce courant existe dans la société, donc nécessairement à l’université », a affirmé Élisabeth Borne sur radio J.
« Dire que l’islamo-gauchisme n’existe pas, c’est un peu comme dire que la Terre n’est pas ronde », avait estimé l’ancien ministre de l’Éducation Jean-Michel Blanquer.
Philippe Baptiste estime que « l’islamo-gauchisme », un « terme pas bien défini », est un courant qui « n’existe pas ». Interrogée ce dimanche, la ministre de l’Éducation nationale l’a contredit.
Je vois pas où est le trumpisme ici. La ministre n'a mentionné ni trump ni ses narratifs, elle a affirmé que l'islamo-gauchisme existe, ce qui n'est pas faux (au moins si on lit des posts dans les réseaux sociaux).
We want to collect fun, exciting, or interesting stories that involve curl and people using curl. From everyone and anyone. For curl's **10,000 days** celebration that is coming up.
On August 5 2025, it is exactly 10,000 days since March 20 1998 when the first curl release was done. For this occasion we want to collect fun, exciting, or interesting stories that involve curl an...
not a real story, but I came across curl back then in PHP. I needed a reliable and feature-rich HTTPS client to consume some payment APIs. Thanks for making curl, really appreciate it
curl works so well most stories are like: I needed to access stuff, used curl, was happy with the result. Usually when things don't work it's not about curl but the oh so subtle differences between different shells 🙄
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WeTransfer just changed their ToS to allow them to train AI on any files you transfer through them.
Don't use there service, especially for work that you don't have the right to relicense to them (e.g., commercial work that's exactly the most likely to create the huge files WeTransfer specializes in).
(ETA: this is already going boom so I'm muting it.)
Even as #curl is soon 10000 days, here's a list of changes and features that we have queued up for the coming next release. And these are just things we think have a chance of getting merged. (But not all of them will manage, most likely.)
Add a new commandline option --out-null that discards all response bytes into the void. Replaces non-portable use of '-o /dev/null' with more efficiency.
Feature earliest for 8.16.0
Okay, so, apparently from what I have been told so far, they are looking at this issue on github. It's been in the works for a little while it seems to me. My source? Here it is. github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
Pitch bec6a1c has introduced hCaptcha support. This means that Mastodon transfers personal data to the USA (the user is forced to send a request and therefore their IP address to a USA-controlled d...
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Raccoon for Friendica sarebbe un'ottima app per poter accedere a tante delle numerose funzionalità di Friendica dallo smartphone. Peccato che più lo uso e più saltano fuori problemi... Già in un post precedente ho segnalato come ogni tanto il testo di alcuni post sparisca, o venga troncato dopo poche righe. Inoltre, anche la timeline ogni tanto (ma anche dopo meno di un giorno dal login) sparisce completamente, mentre le altre schede continuano a mostrare contenuto. Il workaround è fare logout e login andando sulla scheda profilo, ci vuole un attimo con le credenziali memorizzate nel browser ma senza dubbio è una bella rottura di scatole. Ora, stamattina ho aperto la schermata dei tracker rilevati da uno dei miei dispositivi /e/OS (un Teracube 2e che tengo senza SIM) e, con mia grande sorpresa, Raccoon era in cima alla lista con ben 4 tracker! Ho aperto la relativa schermata e vi rimando all'immagine per i dettagli. Vedo inoltre che anche l'App Lounge di sistema mostra 2 tracker, mentre per Fedilab non ne viene rilevato nessuno. La cosa strana è che questo lo vedo solo su questo dispositivo. Sul mio telefono principale (un Murena One su cui gira esattamente la stessa versione di /e/, la 3.0.1), né Raccoon né l'App Lounge mostrano tracker. Per completezza, l'analisi Exodus dei certificati di firma dei tracker ne rileva in Raccoon solo uno, Sentry, che non è nessuno dei 4 mostrati da /e/... Qual è la verità?
@Tiziano il fatto che vengano rilevati dei tracker, tre dei quali di Google e (Adometry che è una controllata di Google), non mi tranquillizza. Io non ho mai incluso nulla, tantomeno di Cloudfare, quindi ci sono tre possibili alternative: 1. se si apre un link da Raccoon e la pagina web aperta ha dei tracker, viene attribuito il tracker a Raccoon (apri i link nei custom tabs, nel browser esterno o in app?) 2. falsi positivi nella rilevazione 3. qualche libreria che ho usato fa cose che non dovrebbe senza dichiararlo, es. quelle di Google/AndroidX, che ho usato col contagocce essendo un progetto multiplatform ma non si sa mai.
Per i post troncati, sospetto le immagini embedded abbiano qualche problema, quando ho tempo ci do un'occhiata.
@Tiziano ovviamente l'opzione 3 è quella che mi interessa di più perché si può tirare su un polverone! Sarebbe da capire con un proxy quali chiamate partono e quando, anche questa è una cosa che richiede un po' di tempo per provare...
Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump Administration for Freezing Billions in Education Grants Just Weeks Before School Year Start oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases…
In California, over $900 million in federal education funding is frozen, jeopardizing key programs for after school and summer learning, teacher preparation, and to support students learning English OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta tod…
Me and @alexchapman have just been screwing around with this thing called Omni Describer, a Windows program that uses AI to make audio descriptions out of videos. It uses Google Gemini for the actual describing part, and it can either use OpenAI or SAPI 5 for TTS. It has some issues, like the TTS interrupting itself during descriptions, but other than that, it's pretty cool. forum.audiogames.net/topic/568…
This headline is ridiculous. The US is currently cracking down on the people who harvest US tomatoes and sending them to a swamp concentration camp with no representation and due process, and publicly hoping people get eaten by alligators.
there is no way to undo this damage. Not this year, probably not next. People are just going to have to experience life without and hopefully it will impress upon them how things got this bad
1942-1947 Emergency Farm Labor Supply Program started it, and we realized people like food and never stopped having migrant labor to keep the food from rotting in the fields. And even that program had aspects modeled after the New Deal's Farm Security Program in 1937. That program went even further to save our farms by funding the development of entire communities for the migrants:
> The Farm Security Administration, in particular, resettled poor migrants on productive land, building entire communities, cooperatives, schools, and residential camps with running water and sanitary conditions. Agricultural workers were helped to buy equipment, sell crops, manage debt, and purchase farms. It also provided safe spaces away from discrimination where migrants could engage in cultural and recreational activities and rekindle a sense of stability.
The evidence seems pretty clear we need these people
KeePassDX is a password safe and manager allows editing encrypted data in a single file in the open KeePass format and fill in the forms in a secure way, requires no Internet connection and integrates Android design standards.
Lightweight vault and password manager for Android, KeePassDX allows editing encrypted data in a single file in KeePass format and fill in the forms in a secure way. - Kunzisoft/KeePassDX
Ever since I switched to #GNU #Linux in my private life, using #Windows at work gives me near-daily headaches. I have full admin rights, yet I constantly fight the system: forced updates, inconsistent behavior, sluggish UI, weird errors buried in the registry.
I used to think this was just how #computers worked. But after experiencing the #freedom and clarity of #FOSS, Windows feels more like an obstacle than a tool.
@esoteric_programmer Having come from a Linux background, I was rather surprised to discover upon using a Windows machine seriously for the first time that some of the error messages were displayed as 32-bit hex error codes. Searching the Web for help often leads to interminable forum threads in which people who don’t know what’s causing the error try to help others who don’t know either. Diagnosing such errors would be a good task for a specialized LLM.
OpenSource OpenAI model similar to O3-Mini might get dropped next week. A rumor said possibly next Thursday. #LLM #AI #MLtheverge.com/notepad-microsoft…
Now their saying it will be delayed for "safety testing" or something. Pretty sure it's because this new Kimi model got released and they're freaking out lol.
Google Tightens Android Sideloading—At What Cost to Digital Freedom?
Google has begun blocking sideloaded Android apps in Singapore, citing security concerns over apps requesting sensitive permissions like SMS and accessibility services.
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We don't all sound like Crocodile Dundee.Watch more from the Did You Know? series ►► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn2RjxYNpcawct77myxG-2JGptju1-Hx0...
Excellent YouTube video from Humanware braille product manager in relation to how easy it is now to tell the difference between unread and red messages in email on the monarch with version 1.3, youtu.be/KKatNwY14iU?feature=s…
A snapshot video tutorial highlighting the new enhancements introduced in KeyMail. It demonstrates how unread email are now marked when in your inbox of KeyM...
@lerven Agree, it's fantastic that we have someone of Andrew's calibre putting all his knowledge and experience into our Braille products. Don't tell him I said that, I don't want to be accused of being nice smile.
The Hurdy-Gurdy continues to worm its way into pole position as the hacker’s instrument. How else could you explain a medieval wheel fiddle being turned into a synthesizer? Move over, keytar …
The Linux community seems like it's filled with so much drama! How do we make sense of it all? Is Fedora going to kill my games? Did you hear the latest thin...
I regularly use the job title “Computer Janitor” (instead of information security) when a textbox demands it. So far, it’s been mostly knowing chuckles and nods.
The only downside is I think it may have landed me on an office supply company’s mailing list. They keep wanting to know if I want to change paper suppliers.
Twenty years ago today we released the little web framework we’d developed at the Lawrence Journal-World to help us build news sites and apps. We hoped maybe a couple of other media outlets, and maybe a few in the Python community, might find it useful. Never in a million years could I have predicted what happened next… djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/…
“For most people, using an LLM isn’t an abdication of thought—it’s often the only way to carve out enough time and focus to do any real thinking at all.
The real threat to creativity isn’t a language model. It’s a workplace that rewards speed over depth, scale over care, automation over meaning."
Lets start this post with two statements 2,400 years apart.
“This invention [writing] will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory.
> We should be asking hard questions about how these systems are built, who they exploit, and who they ultimately serve.
What is the point of asking those questions if not to do something concrete by saying no?
I feel bad for people who are in a difficult situation because their employers are mandating use of generative models. I'm fortunate not to be in that position myself, at least not yet. But for me, saying no doesn't feel like a luxury; it feels like foregoing a luxury.
I bought your book. Using LLMs in the way you describe sounds appealing. But to me, using these products despite the well-known ethical issues feels detached (to borrow a word you used in your post) in its own way. So I'm on the fence.
Eigentlich ja ein Themengebiet, dass man eher meiden möchte.
Aber Deine Aufmachung und Dein Engagement verlockt mich doch immer wieder, da rein zu schauen.
Dazu die Zugänglichkeit via FediVerse und Deine ansprechbare Haltung hier im FediVerse zeigt, wie man hier erfolgreich sein kann und obendrein die digitale Privatsphäre der Interessenten respektiert 😎 @news_katholisch@libori.social
Toluwaleke Ogundipe, my intern for gnome-crosswords, has published a fantastic post on profiling the Crosswords renderer and making it around 10x faster - blogs.gnome.org/anonymoux47/20…
For the sake of formality, if you're yet to read the [brief] introduction of my GSoC project, here you go. Rendering Puzzles in GNOME Crosswords GNOME Crosswords currently renders puzzles in two...
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in reply to Jake Gross • • •I was still getting support requests for the bugger until 2019.