Indonesia and Malaysia at the forefront of blocking Grok. I don't always agree with their policies on these things, but this one's worthy of respect. #TootSEA
"…muss ich bekennen, dass wir alle […] nicht ein Hundertstel, nicht ein Tausendstel dessen für möglich gehalten haben, was dann immer wenige Wochen später hereinbrechen sollte."
- Stefan Zweig, Die Welt von Gestern
Ein autobiografisches Werk Stefan Zweigs.
Das Buch entstand kurz vor Zweigs Tod in den letzten Jahren (von 1939 bis 1941) seines Exils und erschien postum 1942 in Stockholm.
German language. Stefan Zweig. DIE WELT VON GESTERN. THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is the autobiography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. The most famous book on the...
hi i make goofy ahh tts vids for literally no reason lmfaoxd
Soar with your visions!! (EST. 2013, Early 2022)
Elecarlton is the home of unhinged, action-packed text-to-speech chaos and out-of-context madness, all starring the Epic Goddamn Microsoft …
@FreakyFwoof Nice. If I suddenly end up replying to this thread from my V Continuum account that means TC Social has an outage, only saying this because I'm noticing a few seconds lag when favoriting or replying to a post.
@FreakyFwoof In my MacOS days, I had your short number 91 as my startup sound. MacOS doesn't officially let you have a startup sound for the OS, so I pseudo hacked around it using only 3 lines of Python.
I'm not exactly sure why I'm doing this on a Sunday, and the hard work was done by others, but there you go; proposed fix for CVE-2026-0716. gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup…
If the maximum incoming payload size is unset, then a malicious frame could cause an overflow when calculating the needed amount of data, leading to an out-of-bounds read...
Mal by som otázku/prosbu na mieste osadenstvo. Vždy som chcel vedieť programovať, ale nikdy mi to veľmi nešlo. Naposledy som to skúšal pred 13 rokmi, kedy som sa skúšal naučiť PHP (konkrétne Laravel).
Chcel by som to znova vyskúšať, a tak otázka znie, či by mi niekto vedel poradiť, ako na to, resp. nejaké tipy na návody a pod. Potreboval by som to vysvetľovať asi čo najprimitívnejšie ako to len pôjde, a ideálne aby to bolo v slovenčine/češtine. Taktiež aby to bolo zadarmo, keďže nemám peniaze na nejaké platené kurzy. Mohla by mi v učení pomôcť aj AI? Aj keď viem, že tu nie sú jej priaznivci, no ja osobne nie som jej zarytý kritik.
A aby som nezabudol, prioritne by som sa chcel asi naučiť to PHP (aby som vedel naprogramovať webstránky, nejaké redakčné systémy a pod.), prípadne ešte C++ (keďže by som chcel vedieť programovať Arduino).
Python je dobrá voľba z viacerých (netechnických) ohľadov, najmä dostupnosť učebného materiálu (dokumentácia, knihy, tutoriály, blogy) a veľkosť komunity (množstvo ľudí, ktorí vedia pomôcť).
Ako už bolo písané, je dobré mať nejaký cieľ (projekt), ktorý bude motiváciou učiť sa (áno, sú aj ľudia, ktorí sa učia teoretickú fyziku "len tak"...). Netreba sa báť skúšať, zlyhávať, pýtať sa a opravovať, dokým to nepôjde.
Ja "programujem" 2/3 svojho života a stále sa učím :)
Das letzte mal als ich versucht habe #NINA auf #GrapheneOS ohne Google Play Services zum Laufen zu bringen, habe ich es leider nicht hinbekommen (ist aber schon ein paar Jahre her). Wenn jemand passend zum #did #dut nach Alternativen sucht: #fosswarn
Mit FOSSwarn bekommt ihr offizielle Warnmeldungen für eure Orte direkt aufs Handy. Push-Benachrichtigungen funktionieren ebenfalls zuverlässig über UnifiedPush, ich nutze dazu die App #Sunup
(if you don't see it: there's a tiiiiiiiiny difference… 60nm tiny to be exact… and these 2 interfaces are in a LAG and actually work, the other side is even more insidious since it just says 1310nm but the SFPs *are* different)
Dutch AON FttH specs are saying just TX 1310nm, RX 1490/1550 nm. I bought a 1550nm one as they are much more common and got no link. So I bought a 1490nm one and the link came up immediately.
Then I bought fibre cleaning pens, got extra 10 dB by cleaning the connectors and now even the 1550nm one gets the link. So probably if you have enough optical power, all SFPs are wideband 😁
dělal na tom před pár lety kolega. Ve skutečnosti první najede obrazovka UEFI a pak se zobrazí bootovací obrazovka systému, díky kolegovi si to dokáže vzít to logo z UEFI a zdánlivě to vypadá, že to je ta samá obrazovka, jen tam přibude logo systému.
“Code is not an infinitely reproducible machine that requires no labor inputs to operate. Rather, it is a brittle machine that requires increasingly heroic measures to keep it in good working order, and which eventually does "wear out" (in the sense of needing a top-to-bottom refactoring).”
The myth that "old code doesn't rust" persists because it justifies moving fast, breaking things, and leaving it for someone else to clean up the mess.
Speaking of the fragility of enterprise software… Here's the robust architecture of an online banking system I used to lead. 3.5 million people trusted this with their life savings.*
That TUI app written in MUMPS(!) once powered the terminal a bank teller would use to process an in-person transaction. It embodies and unambiguously encodes every business rule for transactions that have been developed over decades.
@katzenmann@c3d2.social That's exactly my point - the "whole Linux community doing Wayland" was never true to begin with. It was Red Hat pushing it like crazy and KDE unfortunately following suit.
small reminder that this user is the one who wrote "Wayland breaks everything" and never seriously updated it to deceive people into thinking Wayland is broken etc.
This repository contains resources concerning unofficial Linux distribution aimed at visually impaired users. This distribution is called Vojtux. The name is based on first name of the main contributor; Vojtech. github.com/vojtapolasek/vojtux
"Desde los años 90, existen tecnologías que permiten que una persona con discapacidad visual pueda acceder a un ordenador y usarlo con total normalidad.
I mean—I mean—I MEAN—that just— I'm sittin' here on GitHub—I mean I'm sittin' here, looking at the CLAUDE.md in your GitHub repo, because you'll write decent docs for the computer to read that I couldn't get you to write for me or junior devs for the last quarter century
Apparently, the first step is signing up for the premium plans from OpenAI, Anthropic AND Google. So that's £50 to £500 a month. Then installing a massive pile of NodeJS to coordinate it all.
A few years ago, we were all celebrating how computing had gotten cheap: RasPi Zeros for a tenner, old HP workstations or ThinkPads on eBay for £100.
Having to pay three different landlords to build software seems like an incredibly shit vision of the future.
TIL: The browser-based Mastodon client I've been using for a while, Semaphore (semaphore.social/), seems to be gone. It seems I've been using a locally cached version.
It says it'll remain available as semaphore-social.vercel.app/ for as long as that doesn't cost money, but it sounds like it won't get any new features.
I suppose that leaves us with the terribly named Enafore, which sounds like it should be the original Pinafore name with the P removed but starts with an E so I forget how to spell it every single time.
Después de volver del último concierto no volví a sacar el saxofón del estuche, hasta hoy. A veces es necesario desconectarse hasta de la música por un tiempito. Mientras jugaba un rato con algunos pasajes para reencontrarme, salió la caricia de esta hermosa melodía del gran cuchi y su zamba me voy quedando. No sé ni donde puse el micrófono, pero no importa. Era solo para ir quitando telarañas de los dedos mientras jugamos a hacer música.
Ah nice. Was just searching for reasons to get rid of this old Echo Dot 4 which sadly has such a good sound but is otherwise useless and kinda spyware to me, as I just got an E-Mail saying that there were smart home devices on my network which are Alexa compatible... Did I ever ask you to scan my network like that? Yeah na good bye bro.
SSD thumb drives could be better than cheap USB flash drives
“Instead of getting a cheap but very sluggish flash drive, consider buying a USB SSD that looks like a regular thumb drive but is way faster and only slightly more expensive.”
I haven’t bought a cheap flash drive for quite a while, so did not rea ...continues
Because I'm curious, have a random poll. If someone posts or sends you a link to a video or song, do you click it/look at it? Feel free to boost this if you feel like it. Apologies for the limited choices, my clients won't let me go above 5. Last edit I promise, the duration was messed up. Sorry for anyone who previously voted
I regularly click video or song links (9%, 8 votes)
Only if the person indicated what the link was (40%, 33 votes)
Only if it's from specific people (23%, 19 votes)
I rarely or never click video or song links (21%, 17 votes)
Watching someone explain to a FOSS developer that they've never donated to their project "because it's FOSS" and that, unless the developer implements features X, Y, and Z *immediately*, they will continue not to donate in the future.
Yeah, really convincing.
And this is part of why we can't always have nice things.
Some developers do not want (or want, but cannot receive) donations.
Donations (as opposed to support contracts, or specific agreements) are not conditional; a donation does not guarantee a feature implementation unless specifically agreed.
* Noise cancellation headphones * Public transport app * Add the hotel and the campus to favorites * FOSDEM schedule app * Bookmark the sessions of interest
Still open: what to take for a snack, to avoid the crowd at the food court.
Also, do I need EUR cash for the merchandise? Or everyone's accepting cards and Paypal?
In order to collect some feedback: Any recommendations for a privacy friendly software for a poll that's self-hostable, simple enough to set up and uses only at most a few 100MB of RAM?
Des formulaires éthiques avec LiberaForms LiberaForms est un outil logiciel libre développé comme une infrastructure communautaire, libre et éthique qui...
I managed to convince almost all of friends and family to use Signal by not being easily available on the more corporate channels. It helps that it's reliable and easy of course.
Not too difficult, it helps to explain that it works well and people *do* care about the encryption and feel uncomfortable with, say, Facebook these days. The enshittification has done a lot of the legwork here. Also if you actually start and organise group chats they get into it fast, because there's a lot going on in a group chat.
Let society devolve in a fascist dictatorship where people randomly disappear. That will make people care for a generation or two.
Short of that, I think a lot of people don't care about privacy.
My sister switched away from Telegram to Signal, because she was getting a lot of spam. And blocking randoms from contacting you is now a 'Telegram Premium' feature.
So I guess... Enshittification helps? But it was not really a privacy centered consideration.
@bart In recent years, I have helped many people switch to Signal. At that time, few had heard of Signal.
Then I did the same with TeleGuard and Briar. I have always given examples of the advantages of the platform. End-to-end encryption, and consequently, you don't have to connect your phone to a paid Alma for communication.
Session is great, but one reason is that the device you use powers your network with tokens. That's why it drains the battery.
@bart Previously, it was extremely difficult to get contacts to switch to Signal, but now it is much easier because people have encountered it online and in the media. I am currently experiencing the same issue with Briar, but the good news is that people are installing it to test it out.
@NebulaTide@bsd.cafe @jkn@mastodon.online Unfortunately, switching to alternatives is simply not enough; we also need to be unavailable on SMS, Whatsapp and other proprietary platforms.
@avoca@gladtech.social @Ketakater I also got all of my family and a lot of my wider circle on it using these two strategies:
1. Getting a device that simply does not have #Whatsapp / proprietary messaging apps, i.e.
@opensourceopenmind similarly, I got my family and friends to talk to me via #DeltaChat because I simply don't have #WhatsApp, #Telegram etc. in my phone, I never try to convince them talking about encryption or open source, I simply say "I don't use that apps, you can reach me in this one" and then it is about a practical problem and not ideological one, I don't go saying "you should uninstall whatsapp now" but they are more willing to respect/understand your own ideological decisions
#ArcaneChat is just a #DeltaChat client, my main user is... wait for it... ME! so it is basically Delta Chat with some tweaks to my taste, I shared it and it turns out some other people seem to like it, according to the #GooglePlay downloads it is mainly used in #Russia, #Cuba, #USA, #Iran, #Germany and #India
I don't actively try to convince people to use it, and in general it is better to push for DC that is multi-platform, then in #android some might prefer AC as their DC client
I installed WhatsApp for business and set up an auto reply saying that I'd moved to Signal for ethical reasons and providing an install link. Moved the app icon out of sight and let that run on my phone for a couple of months before finally deleting my account. Most of my contacts installed Signal as a result 🌈
the children/teenagers in my family all use signal: it was easy to convince the parents: private, secure, hideable phone number (and avoid unwarranted contacts) and usable without Google/PlayStore.
The latter point being important, as many parents don't want their 11 year old kid to have a full blown phone.
I was surprised to find out, how well that worked: the children have a lot of their friends&contacts on Signal.
Sadly, as they grow older, the adults' Whatsapp network kicks in.
I'm running a public XMPP server, fighting the (unfortunately prevalent) automated spam, and try to make the onboarding experience for beginners as smooth as possible on a federated system.
There's a 3rd strategy which is actually the main reason our family groups switched. Our main chat app was one originally created in a country whose government is accused of #apartheid and #genocide. Whenever that came up in the news, I'd drop a subtle non-pushy comment here and there mentioning that fact, and also that its present executives are located there and support their army's actions.
After one of these major events, to my surprise, someone else, the admin of our family group (non-techy, not #Linux user at that time), arbitrarily decided to delete the family group from the proprietary messenger and told everyone to join the family group on #SignalApp!
@prunelier@mastodon.social @ploum@mamot.fr
Moi, ce qu'on m'a souvent dit, c'est qu'il n'y a personne sur Signal.
Et ce sont des personnes qui avait plusieurs dizaines de personnes sur Signal qui disaient ça.
firstly I was not on other services, so my family downloaded Signal to have any messaging channel. But they used it only to text/call me and returning to Messenger for chatting with each other. Later I show my mother and aunt groups in Signal and after creating few group chats this somehow pulled my close family members here. If many conversations are here, the rest would follow.
In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
(Alternatively, I think I will just use beta.framaforms.org/)
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