One of several drummers on the station, HKC Radio would like to wish a very Happy Birthday to Sonic Synergy's own Christina Campbell! Sadly, we can't have Warren Haynes jumping out of a cake for you, we do hope that your birthday has all the rhythm you could want and does not contain tumor milk.

Catch her and Kevin Sunday at 6 PM EST!

Hey lovelies 🩷

We think we've possibly got a few followers and mutuals who are blind and use some kinds of iOS mobile devices, right?

Enquiring because of a random encounter with another plural trans+ being on Reddit, who advised that they're legally blind and had not found any suitably accessible way to access the fediverse.

Can anybody advise whether there are any such ways, so we can give them some way or ways to join the friendlier fediverse community?

If not, they're stuck largely with Reddit and Bluesky 😅😔

The topic only came up after we advised that we'd found fedi to be much more plural friendly and accepting that most other such places... especially Reddit.

For clarity, we have zero experience of iOS and are not blind (at least presently at least), so we'd appreciate any firsthand experiences very much 🫶🏻

#AskFedi #iOS #accessibility

RE: mastodon.social/@lobsters/1158…

Thought this was going to tell me to stop using MariaDB and use something else, but it's actually telling you to switch to MariaDB already...

Ui, the #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… … OK, today 10 updated and 1 added apps – where the latter is rather a returning one:

* Amethyst: a Nostr Client for Android 🛡️

(was here until 2023, moved to F-Droid, was archived there, and now is back with us)

RB status: 798 apps (62%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Oh no. Can you please think of the poor corporation and its CEO? The negativity you talk about regarding AI is hurting them badly. Now Jensen Huang is begging you to stop being so negative about AI: "[It's] extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we've done a lot of damage," he said. This is the same thing the Microsoft CEO said a couple of weeks back. It would be a shame if you boosted and spread this negative news. Lmao.

gizmodo.com/jensen-huang-is-be…

Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI

" extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we've done a lot of damage," he said.

^{AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)}

fellas, if your savior:

• can turn water into wine
• can make bread
• is risen

that's not your savior. that's a colony of fermenting microorganisms

My 3yo demanded apples with ketchup this morning. Horrible but, fine, if that’s what you want, you got it. Then he asked if I wanted to taste it. I obviously did not. This mofo turned these tables on my so quick with a “you don’t have to eat the whole thing but at least try it”

Let me tell you. That combo is so much worse than I could have imagined. 🤢🤢🤢

Legault resigns to spend more time privately hounding minorities

thebeaverton.com/2026/01/legau…

Always on point

#qcpoli

Legault resigns to spend more time privately hounding minorities - The Beaverton

QUEBEC CITY - Quebec Premier François Legault announced his resignation today, explaining that he plans to bring his famed enthusiasm for attacking basic human rights to the private sector.

^{John Hansen (The Beaverton)}

Yeah that's fair. I have just read it's a 1.2 trillion -parameter model, that's quite insane. I wonder though if Google will update that as often as their own models, it might be that they still release newer models for themselves but then strategically hold the Apple one back a little bit, on the basis of "letting that model mature first." This will be interesting to see play out for sure.

dragonscave.space/@miki/115895…

miki

2026-01-14 21:29:43

Nah. Giving LLMs their identity is done in post-training, and Google can just remove that data for their posttraining mix for Apple. They're definitely going to have one. Since pretraining = ~60-90% of compute, redoing that part won't be that expensive. There are rumors that Google will only ship the base models anyway, and that all the fine tuning will be done internally by Apple (perhaps on Google infrastructure). Those base models have no idea what they are yet.