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Walking back from a gig tonight, I noticed lots of people in Castle Street taking pictures. So I turned around to see what they were photographing.
And this is what I saw.
#Edinburgh #castle #moon #photography #clouds
Some good news for screenreaders on Wayland with the release of Niri 25.08:
#accessibility #a11y #screenreader #wayland
Version 25.08 of the niri scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor has been released. Notable chang [...]LWN.net
Poslušně hlásím: vydělal jsem nula korun!
Byrokratický stát nutí naši zahrádkářskou kolonii utratit 40 tisíc korun ročně za účetní. Kdybychom si za to koupili motyky, můžeme okopat půl republiky. Před deseti lety, když jsem začal dělat předsedu, stačila na účetnictví paní s blokem a tužkou. Dnes? Nestačí ani jedna účetní. Musíme mít dvě: běžnou (20 tisíc ročně) a nově hledáme mzdovou (dalších 20 tisíc). Jen proto, že stát chce notifikace – sociálce, pojišťovnám, cizinecké správě. Abychom ušetřili, zkoušeli jsme účetní software rozchodit sami, ale ani po čtyřech víkendech jsme ty notifikace nedali. Má dáti – nedal.
blisty.cz/art/128474-poslusne-…
Byrokratický stát nutí naši zahrádkářskou kolonii utratit 40 tisíc korun ročně za účetní. Kdybychom si za to koupili motyky, můžeme ok...Britské listy
@stepan ono je to asi všude.. popravdě už mám v plánu s předsednictvím skončit, ať to zase chvíli dělá někdo jiný.. snažíme se držet poplatky při zemi, přesto lidi nadávají, až si člověk říká, že je pitomec, že to vůbec dělá..
ono to asi nemá jiné řešení než "restrukturalizaci" (= teprve když s tím seknou všichni, až se to úplně složí, tak se to bude moct postavit znovu a lépe.. nicméně tou dobou už budeme mít místo demokracie nějakou monarchii, nebo budeme Rusko, nebo další spolkovou republikou 
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Unity is updating its game engine so developers can leverage the built-in screen reading software in desktop operating systems.Ian Carlos Campbell (Engadget)
#dobreranko všem
Vyrazil jsem dolů do města do pekárny pro pečivo dost na lehko (krátké tričko, kraťasy, sandály) a ejhle jen 11°C.
Navíc v pekárně dnes nepekli chleba, tak ještě do #penny kde mne opět naštvali, postupně ruší pečivo od malých lokálních výrobců, i když jsou nejprodávanější.
Prý to tak chceme. No, rozdíl na bochníku chleba je kolem 7-10Kč, chuťově a výdrží 300%.
#penam výrobky jsou odpad, koupil jsem #odkolek podmáslovy chléb (nic moc) a vícezrnný lámankový a ač 2x dražší tak zase nic moc 🤷
Nevím jestli jsem nějak rozmazlený, ale i Babiččin chleba od PéCé je násobně lepší a po 5 dnech pořád skvělý.
Takže ráno budu muset přes 3 pekařství abych nakoupil co nám chutná, prakticky 18km, to je už na kolo 🤦
Tak bacha, víte jak je to s namazaným chlebem ...
☁️ Oscloud – bezpečný komunitní cloud
Chceš mít svá data a komunikaci pod kontrolou? Na Oscloudu najdeš otevřené alternativy k běžným korporátním službám – vše na serverech v EU, bez sledování a bez předávání třetím stranám.
🔑 Úložiště a spolupráce
Nextcloud – sdílení souborů, kalendáře, kontakty, poznámky, týmová spolupráce.
💬 Komunikace
MXChat (Matrix) – moderní chat s šifrováním, skupiny i videohovory.
Kompatibilní s klienty jako Element, SchildiChat nebo Cinny.
web.mxchat.cz/
🐘 Sociální sítě
Mastodon – svobodná alternativa k Twitteru/X, decentralizovaná a bez reklam.
Najdeš nás na mamutovo.cz.
📺 Video
PeerTube – sdílení a sledování videí bez algoritmů a reklam.
Na Oscloudu běží kanál vhsky.cz pro komunitní návody a videa.
📸 Fotky
Pixelfed – svobodná alternativa k Instagramu.
pixelfed.cz
Proč Oscloud?
✅ servery v EU
✅ open-source software
✅ spravováno komunitou, ne korporací
✅ respekt k soukromí
👉 Více na: oscloud.cz
Vítejte na mastodonní instanci Mamutovo! Instance Mamutovo byla vytvořena pro běžné uživatele, kteří touží po klidném prostředí, ve kterém mohou svobodně sdílet své myšlenky.Mastodon hosted on mamutovo.cz
Montréal firefighters LACK the proper equipment and what is Projet Montréal doing about it?
WTAF Valérie Plante?!?
ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/fi… #polMTL #MTLpoli
The head of the Montreal firefighters’ union says his members weren’t able to immediately respond to a fire Friday morning in Notre-Dame-de-Grace — even though the nearest fire station was three minutes away.Amy Luft (CTVNews)
It took a while but I finally clicked the "publish" button:
Fujifilm X-M5, quick review
🇫🇷 Französisch: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Schwedisch: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Niederländisch: Chatcontrole Inhalt der Seite: Die Abschaffung des Digitalen Briefgeheimnisses Hilf jetzt mit die Chatkontrolle zu stoppen…Patrick Breyer
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence Take action to stop Chat Control now! The Chat Control 2.Patrick Breyer
🇫🇷 La Belgique 🇧🇪, la Finlande 🇫🇮 et la Tchéquie 🇨🇿 diront NON à la surveillance de masse #ChatControl. Mais d'autres gouvernements clés hésitent. Exigez qu'ils protègent notre vie privée et le chiffrement !
Agissez maintenant :
patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/cha…
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence Take action to stop Chat Control now! The Chat Control 2.Patrick Breyer
The LI-900 silica tiles used on the Space Shuttle were such poor heat conductors you could grab them with bare hands seconds after pulling them from a 2200 degree oven.
Source: bit.ly/2I7k683
Recorded this video during my KSC tour 1 day before the launch of the Atlantis Space Shuttle for STS-135, the last Space Shuttle mission.==Updated June 3, 20...YouTube
Thanks to the torch #GNOME extension by @vixalientoots I'm finally able to use the flashlight on my #postmarketOS OnePlus6 phone 🙏
Hopefully upstreamed to gnome-shell soon github.com/vixalien/gnome-mobi…
An extension to show available torches in GNOME Shell Mobile - vixalien/gnome-mobile-torchGitHub
Day 4 of my #retirement #bikepacking tour on #Brompton folding #bike : Milano -> Lodi - 42 km, half of it stop-and-go in the suburbs of #Milano . 3 #ghostbikes within 1 km in the small village of Dresano. I dedicate this stage to all the #cyclers who were killed on the road.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
#bikepacking #BikeTooter #cycling #CycleTravel #cyclotourisme #cyclotouring #fahrrad #vélo #radreise #radfahren #cyclisme #criticalmass #radtour #BikeItalia #Italia #Italy
I spent a bunch of time this evening updating the Wikipedia entry for the #EuropeanAccessibilityAct #EAA which is now in effect.
I wanted to have better representation for country specific data:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European…
Still needs a lot of work, but it is a good start #Accessibility #a11y
old newspapers used to announce important deaths with "Dead!"
also when you relocated to another place they called it "removed to" not "moved to"
End of an era: Kevin Barry, the original developer of Nova Launcher, is no longer working on the project. The plans to open source the project have also been halted.
Nova Launcher was acquired by analytics company Branch back in 2022.
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Systemd's networkd added a terrible feature to DHCP at some point: It sends a RELEASE packet on shutdown...blog.feld.me
My week: lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel…
rc3, DANE, h3 proxy, man page graphs, IRC, Dancer, photos, HackerOne, Location:, license violation, EuroBSDCon, incident handling
new #chiptune for #BandcampFriday #FairTradeMusicFriday
i tried to make dub techno on the #GameBoy and it got out of hand as usual
pulu.bandcamp.com/track/precip…
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Wednesday’s discovery of three mis-issued TLS certificates for Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 encrypted DNS lookup service generated intense interest and concern among Internet security practitioners. Since then, new information and analysis have become available, including the issuance of nine additional certificates since February 2024. This FAQ list is designed to answer questions raised in comments to the story and to provide the latest on what’s known about the incident,
arstechnica.com/information-te…
Everything to know about the mishap that threatened to expose millions of users’ queries.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#215 Turn On
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…
Carney knows this. So why does he want more wealth inequality?
Austerity has *never* worked.
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As the past four years and countless historical examples from the last 100 years show, while it makes sense for any one state to try and cut its way to growth, it simply cannot work when all states try it simultaneously: all we do is shrink the economy.
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As Blyth amply demonstrates, the arguments for austerity are tenuous and the evidence thin. Rather than expanding growth and opportunity, the repeated revival of this dead economic idea has almost always led to low growth along with increases in wealth and income inequality.
polisci.brown.edu/publication/…
Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013Political Science | Brown University
How does walking back the mandate spur more demand, exactly?
"The mandate requires the number of new ZEVs (zero-emission vehicles) sold in Canada to hit 20% by next year, 60% by 2030 and 100% by 2035 in order to help the country hit its emission-reduction targets.
A government release explains that the EV pause and other measures in the strategy will... spur more domestic demand."
Montreal transit constables should be better armed, says workplace safety board
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/st…
Fuck no. How about FREE transit. Then you can reduce drastically that budget.
Transit constable are here to check fares. No fares, no need for them.
No need for fare gates update (again). No need for spyware (mobile app).
Then maybe we can improve transit and focus on moving people without a car.
when there is a pepper spray incident shutting down the metro, it's because of these bozos. But tell me how this helps transporting people if they are a major cause of disruption.
NDG senior accuses bus driver of hit-and-run
thesuburban.com/news/city_news…
Car culture.
And fuck the STM driver. And fuck the STM for covering this up.
This city hate pedestrians. Also hate cyclists (until it is time to buy the votes by painting infrastructure).
The great achievement of Valérie Plante is to convince you she loved cyclists. So that they would all vote her in.
There is #noplanetb. 20% was already such a small number...
PM Carney to delay EV mandate, blaming Trump's tariffs.
PS There are OTHER countries that make EVs, eh. WHY AREN'T WE NEGOTIATING W/ THEM, or letting them expand into Canada?
independent.co.uk/news/donald-… #cdnpoli #polcan
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is delaying a requirement for automakers that sell in Canada to begin hitting minimum sales levels for electric vehicles next yearRob Gillies (The Independent)
This probably wasn't the day I wanted to read about Carney's efforts to protect the auto sector from EV rules : firesmoke.ca/
Bloomberg: Canada to Stall Electric Vehicle Rules as Carney Seeks to Boost Auto Sector
(and as Trump exhorts countries to dump any non-fossil fuel plans) #cdnpoli
About that enhanced WebSocket support in the next curl release, e.g. next Wednesday:
#curl #websocket
eissing.org/icing/posts/curl-w…
WebSocket has been supported by curl as a non-experimental feature since version 8.11.0 (November 6 2024). With the upcoming release of version 8.16.0, we are taking it a step further.icing's blog
Back-to-school seasoning may be winding down, but Thunderbird is seeing where we make the grade (and don’t) with accessibility. Learn about our recent a11y study and find how to help us make Thunderbird accessible to everyone!
#Thunderbird #Accessibility #OpenSource
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/09/v…
In our latest Office Hours, we're covering what's in (and out) of our latest Extended Support Release, Thunderbird 140.0 ESR "Eclipse"!Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
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Have you ever thought about the phrase "earn a living"? About how messed up it is? The idea you need to "earn" your life and place in the world?
(I hadn't considered the dizzying toxicity of this phrase until it came up on We Can Do Hard Things - Abby Wambach's podcast that has absolutely nothing to do with soccer.)
The feeling behind the phrase "earn a living" - the idea that you have to do in order to be - is everywhere in our society. Including in open source.
relational-tech.com/blog/being…
For over a decade, I've been working to help open source newcomers make their first contribution. But what if just being there was contribution enough? And what if the pressure to contribute isn't just a barrier to newcomers, but to maintainers who a…Relational Tech
Open source contributors are not the only one who struggle under this pressure: open source maintainers have it even worse.
Unlike new contributors, who struggle to find things they can do, maintainers are often overwhelmed by things to do. But, though the reason they cannot do the tasks is different, it's the same fundamental problem.
Both the contributor and maintainer feel the pressure to do what they cannot do, rather than getting to simply be.
The new contributor feels like a failure and leaves the project. The maintainer feels like a failure, and burns out.
Even worse, this can become a self-reinforcing cycle. The maintainer blames themselves for not finding ways to help newcomers contribute. They didn't do enough to help the newcomer do things. The newcomer feels like even more of a burden to the maintainer. See how overwhelmed the maintainer seems? Maybe they'd be better off leaving.
But it doesn't have to be like this.
Paco Ho Ho Hope 🎄
in reply to Paco Ho Ho Hope 🎄 • • •Here is a way that I think #LLMs and #GenAI are generally a force against innovation, especially as they get used more and more.
TL;DR: 3 years ago is a long time, and techniques that old are the most popular in the training data. If a company like Google, AWS, or Azure replaces an established API or a runtime with a new API or runtime, a bunch of LLM-generated code will break. The people vibe code won't be able to fix the problem because nearly zero data exists in the training data set that references the new API/runtime. The LLMs will not generate correct code easily, and they will constantly be trying to edit code back to how it was done before.
This will create pressure on tech companies to keep old APIs and things running, because of the huge impact it will have to do something new (that LLMs don't have in their training data). See below for an even more subtle way this will manifest.
I am showcasing (only the most egregious) bullshit that the junior developer accepted from the #LLM, The LLM used out-of-date techniques all over the place. It was using:
So I'm working on this dogforsaken codebase and I converted it to the new OAC mechanism from the out of date OAI. What does my (imposed by the company) AI-powered security guidance tell me? "This is a high priority finding. You should use OAI."
So it is encouraging me to do the wrong thing and saying it's high priority.
It's worth noting that when I got the code base and it had OAI active, Python 3.9, and NodeJS 18, I got no warnings about these things. Three years ago that was state of the art.
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in reply to Paco Ho Ho Hope 🎄 • • •But we are not done.
Teach your developers ignore #AI generated warnings with this one weird trick!
If you look sy my previous post, under the erroneous "You should use OAI" message, there's a little icon and the word "Explain." You can ask the #LLM to explain the warning. Here's the explanation that Claude Sonnet 4.0 has for that warning. For those of you who don't want to read a screenshot, the LLM has prompted itself with:
And the LLM's response to its own prompt is:
Thanks for wasting my time AND egregious amounts of electricity generating a pointless "high priority" security warning.
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in reply to Paco Ho Ho Hope 🎄 • • •Paco Ho Ho Hope 🎄
in reply to feld • • •@feld You can't do that unless you know that you should. And, as I pointed out, when the code was full of outdated techniques, I wasn't getting any warnings. I know what's out of date and what isn't. That's how I got into this situation. But a junior developer who doesn't know these things, and leans more on the LLM, will not know when the LLM-supplied code is wrong. They won't know they need to prompt the LLM to do something more modern.
I'm not much focused on myself, because I have what it takes to avoid steering myself into a ditch. But I'm thinking about what happens to someone less experienced who thinks they can use LLMs to do something that they couldn't otherwise do.
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