For goodness sake! Just went to the local hotel for supper. The place was full of a chess convention with chess players everywhere in Reception telling us all how great they are at chess. Honestly, there's nothing worse than chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.
Salut Masto #Strasbourg. Une amie de Lyon est venue nous voir et on lui a demandé d'acheter des saucisses de Strasbourg en guise de souvenir. Mais ! On n'a pas pu en trouver dans des grandes surfaces (ce qui me fait honte). si quelqu'un sait où s'en procurer, merci de me dire.
Important: admins of Conduit-derived homeservers (Conduit, Continuwuity, Grapevine and Tuwunel) should update immediately to address a critical bug in the federation implementation that is being actively exploited: github.com/continuwuity/contin…
### Impact
This vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to force the target server to cryptographically sign arbitrary membership events. The flaw exists because the server fails...
"At the heart of Matrix protocol, you have a kind of merging algorithm that reminds a bit of Google Wave. It means that a conversation is conceptually represented as a sort document you constantly merge on the server. This is a consuming process that is happening on the server for each message received in all conversations. That’s why Matrix has the reputation to be so difficult to scale."
I have a question. So on Windows 11, specifically this desktop, executables are taking a few seconds to launch and UI's are particularly laggy. Instance, I have an app that draws many items to a list. On my windows 10 laptop with exactly half the specs, this UI responds twice as fast as on this desktop with double the CPU power and ram. Why the hell and can I do anything about it, short of downgrading back to 10?
Also in this app, I use ffmpeg for a thing, but it takes about 5 seconds for the executable to even launch. Not so much on the laptop, it happens instantly.
No idea, but I had something very similar on a Windows 10 install a few years ago, and I never did figure it out. For some context, I wanted Windows Defender completely out of the way, so I basically turned it off by having a shit ton of exclusions set up. It was technically still running since I didn't know how to make it not, but I was basically letting everything through. I doubt that had anything to do with it, but it's the only thing I can think of.
For what it's worth, I'm currently on win11. Defender is always on. I only have minimal exclusions. And I don't really have lag issues on a day to day basis. So yeah I can't' really justify why turning it off or whatever would actually add lag. But what do I know? Windows in general can be really dumb sometimes.
This is precisely why I haven't upgraded to 11 (or rather upgraded and rolled back on two separate occasions). It slows down significantly, noticeably, and annoyingly.
It does. IT would be a significant pain in the ass to downgrade this time though, so I'm trying, to avoid doing that, but I may not have a choice if this continues.
@Jonathan I know that Smart Screen and Microsoft Defender do things in the background for file testing. You might want to trun off smart screen and file checking in Microsoft Defender to see if that makes a difference. i've been meanint to try that actually, because I've been having the same issue.
11 doesn't like being screenless more than 10. HDMI headless dongle counts as ascreen in this case, but I've heard tell of that virtual display driver thing not working as well
Der Gemeinderat der Stadt #Freiburg hat einen Antrag beim Land #BadenWurttemberg gestellt, die Einführung der #Bezahlkarte auszusetzen! Hintergrund: in BaWü gab es eine Anweisung des Landes, dass die Stadt die Bezahlkarte für Asylbewerber*innen einführen muss. Danke @freiburg, dass ihr euch weiter gegen die diskriminierende und rassistische #Schikanekarte wehrt! freiburg.de/pb/2534584.html
I think it's been almost five years since I first pointed out that if GNU wanted to revitalize itself, one way would be an large effort to port old C stuff (like coreutils) to Rust, to improve quality--and attract new energy and people.
It’s absolutely true that AI is reducing jobs, but not like you think. AI is not *doing* those jobs instead of people, AI speculation is redirecting *investment* away from job-creating businesses to capital-intensive businesses.
as best I can tell, both things are happening, and thus the original diagnosis and the corrective each reveal part of the picture. I'm not sure where the collective impulse to treat this as some sort of smackdown between differentiated impacts is coming from
not sure there is a smackdown of any kind here, but if you have good data on people losing their job because ai is doing that same job instead of them, I'm interested in that too. I have reasons to believe that that is not sustainably happening at scale, but that doesn't mean it's not happening at all.
Zero percent interested in a pissing contest over word salad (e.g., 'ok, but is AI actually *doing* those jobs or does management just hope that they will and are doing preemptory layoffs on faith'- I do think this is exactly what's happening and it remains to be seen if anything we might call AI is up to performing to task, so that can be an argument or not; whatever), but if you're actually assessing, I think the McKinsey RIF is a decent starting place.
@jnl smackdows, pissing contests, word-salad, not sure what you're reading here, but this is a thread about economics. And I don't mean that AI is failing to do those jobs, I mean that AI adopting firms are not reducing their head-count at scale, but that jobs are being lost because they are simply not being created or vanishing as a result of investment shifts.
@jnl in my case, the speculation about AI ("it's going to replace programmers!") caused mass layoffs a few springs ago, and I was part of that. Whether AI is actually accomplishing anything like I used to do is doubtful, more like entire industries and departments were declared nonprofitable and the economy was strip mined to reorient around whatever is currently seeing cash flow, which is an increasingly smaller number of industries, products, and services
that may be happening to some degree, but AI-adopting firms are in general growing, not reducing head count. However, investment redirection towards capital-intensive AI firms is reducing job-creation and causing layoffs for funding reasons, those jobs are just not being created or vanishing, not being *done by ai*
@jnl we're essentially saying the same thing, I think the other piece is that some people in those less fortunate businesses end up trying to do more with less, i.e. there may be less incentive to hire a junior developer or writer to take care of busywork when AI can supposedly do it for you. So the "taken job" is a little less visible because with all the shakeup it also maybe didn't exist in the first place and a bunch of businesses pivoted hard rather than "use AI to do someone's job"
@jnl for example news outlets are absolutely being caught using AI to write articles, and they've been getting squeezed for decades. So it's mostly a continuing trend of automation pushing down wages and job security
@jnl I'm not sure about more jobs in the end, it would take long term analysis to figure that out. For example surely there aren't more weavers now than before the automated loom, and I doubt there are even more people employed in the weaving industry or the loom design manufacturing maintenance and operation industry now. If there are more people employed today, it may be that they're textile call center workers, pool cleaners, and baristas?
I’m influenced by two factors here: Jevons Paradox and the equalization of the rate of profit. The former suggests that reducing costs increases utilization; the latter suggests that profit rates will eventually direct investment toward value creation, as firms seek to capitalize on effectively lower wages by capturing more labour.
@jnl those are theories, are they backed up by employment data?
One fear is that entire chunks of the populace are deemed unproductive and that's when you get ward, genocides, the creation of ghettos, the perpetual poverty of Appalachia and the global South, etc.
Consider the individual specific worker, not just The Economy
Yes, capitalism advances the forces of production, but also leads to immiseration, crisis, war, etc, not AI as such. What capitalism will not do is eliminate labour, which is it;s source of profit.
Exactly. The magnitude of labour is always increasing, because that’s required for profit to grow. But advances in the forces of production deskill work and drive wages down. In the weaving example, there may be fewer skilled weavers, but the overall workforce involved in textile production is far larger.
it’s not even AI that’s killing the jobs, it’s their bosses who are always looking for ways to increase profits while paying people less. Blaming AI just provides the billionaires with a handy scapegoat.
You can call abuse of power by the wealthiest whatever you want, just get out of the way of those that want to make more of a difference for future generations.
I think it gives executives cover to fire people with impunity. They can pretend the AI makes it OK, but it doesn’t have to. They don’t need to justify it. They don’t even need to do the math.
@anne_twain they can be, but one of them isn't. The job losses to automation narrative has never really panned out, and likely wont this time either. Too much money to be made exploiting people, so investors will focus on things that deskill and lower wages, while the labour force only ever grows.
And the "capital" they're "investing" in does not last long before failing and/or made obsolete, and is worthless for anything other than largely worthless AI and crypto currency. If and when the bubble bursts, it's not capital investment, it's just a huge loss.
@JeffGrigg yeah, for sure, that's why it kinda feels like defensive hording. Preventing more competition from entering and driving prices even further down by hording inference hardware.
We actually already have the solution to the problem.
What we need is currency, to get the good and services we need and want, right?
Except they're too busy concentrating that currency by using exploitation and finance capitalism. And we can't fight it because our governments are complicit.
This, I believe, is the actual (and intended) proper use for cryptocurency.
We need to issue locally valid, locally owned cryptocurrencies, to allow local commerce outside of the reach of parasites.
@7heo so you don't think I should go ahead with my plan for an ai powered web3 stable-coin futures market smart contract DAO? Was about to start raising funds. xD
The issue with cryptocurrencies is that bitcoin was never meant to be used as is, it was a PoC, and not ready for production. People have not thought it out, and used it immediately, first for fun, and then as a finance vehicle.
Now, we have an entire "industry" betting on cryptocurrencies as if it was wall street on crack and meth, and it is literally burning our planet for internet points... 😭
And today, on what random piece of software will I now not be able to use today because of my disability, we have Discord! Embeds, something that worked flawlessly for years and did not need to be touched, now no longer read to my screen reader. A GitHub webhook gets read like this now: GitHub APP , , Yesterday at 20:20 Message". Going into browse mode and reading shows literally nothing, so it's like they're setting aria-hidden on it. I'm going back to bed. I hate technology.
Great, just what we need, more accessibility BS. I also notice that at least on Mac, Discord now has buttons that just say "image" with the label next to it. if you tab through the controls like I sometimes do, you'll miss them.
@jdking92 @ZBennoui TBH, everything sucks. I use both equally right now and every time I go back and forth I hit something that just pisses me off on either platform. Also in your specific case Ableton, and audio things in general are so much better on Mac. Windows screen readers really fall apart in terms of efficiency because of the emphasis on tab-centric navigation. Something I can get to with a simple VO-F to search or VO-I for the item chooser on Mac might take 15 or 20 tabs to find on Windows.
@pitermach @jdking92 Yeah that's what others have told me as well. I also completely agree about the way voiceover handles navigation with grouping, it's always made a lot of sense to me, and it is amazing when navigating audio software in particular. I honestly don't think I could actually switch full-time, I love Mac OS too much and I really don't wanna deal with Microsoft's shit. I just wish VO wasn't a total disaster in some ways, I know Apple is trying to improve it, but progress is slow. I sometimes wish I could at least see enough to use Zoom in addition to VO, I feel like maybe it would be easier in certain cases, but what do I know lol.
A social media user on Monday shared at least part of a “60 Minutes” segment about a prison in El Salvador—where the Trump administration sent hundreds of migrants—after CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss controversially blocked its release.
Smart TVs have become a central part of home entertainment, but accessibility is still often treated as an afterthought. For visually impaired users, choosing
Been listening to these guys for like 10 years at this point, love everything they do. If you can, I would link to the actual episode so their listener stats come through correctly.
@ZBennoui Oh crap, didn't think of that. Will do,. Yeah, their stuff is great! Did you ever hear the one called, CAn you find my mom? It's sad, but very good.
We’re thrilled to announce that AbilityNet has received a Recognition Award at the 10th anniversary of the Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative (RIDI) Awards.
We were out shopping at Barrington Mall today and I was surprised to see this big sign saying “Shopping is pointless” next to a photo of a happy woman in a field of flowers.
My first thought was that it’s some surprisingly on point anti-commercialism messaging to see in a mall at Christmas time.
Then I realised that a word was being blocked from view. When I made a few steps to the left, the whole sign reads “Shopping elsewhere is pointless.”
In short, François Legault and the Health minister of the day, despite all medical advice to the contrary, are letting a huge swath of the population of Québec go unvaccinated against #COVID19.
Get the cheapest plastic and the strongest adhesive so that whenever you remove the protective layer it instantly shrivels onto itself. “It curls, too.”
I just wrote up a list of the things that I can think of that the Trump regime has done which target disabled people. I might edit this post as time goes on. mikegorse.substack.com/p/trump…
There have been not one, not two, but several actions that the Trump administration has taken that target people with disabilities, so I decided to compile a list.
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
We definitely need more support for the Accessible Canada Act. It is only with political pressure that we are going to see governments actually regulating this. The Act is just the beginning, and is just one tool to make Canada more accessible.
OTTAWA — The federal Office of Public Service Accessibility is in limbo months after it produced a document accusing the government of falling behind on supports for public servants with disabilities.
Really annoying Orca behavior: you have to navigate by word to find spelling errors. rather than by paragraph or sentence. This is a massive productivity killer. If any #Blind #Linux users know how to change this, please let me know. Otherwise, I'll write to the Orca list and see if this can't be fixed.
Update: have written to the Orca list about this and hoping it's something that I can simply configure.
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Thanks Andre! 😊