Keen on losing money? Go #AI
#Cory #Doctorov @pluralistic says sorry:
"No one has ever lost as much money as the AI companies.
There is no way to operate one of Nvidia's big AI-optimized GPUs without losing money. The owners of these GPUs who have lost the least money are the ones who rushed into buying GPUs without ensuring they'd have electricity to power them, and have been forced to leave their GPUs to age in warehouses. "
Kritik an der Nutzung eines Altbots ist Fundamentalopposition und man rede damit die Mühen der Inklusion schlecht.
Oh man.
Ich würde mich echt freuen, wenn mehr Menschen darüber nachdenken würden, dass technokratische Implementationen im seltensten Fall die Problemstellung lösen.
Die Ausgabe eines Altbots ist für blinde Menschen nicht überprüfbar. KI-generierte Texte sind idR nicht hinreichend. Den Altbot Text kann man dann weder löschen noch korrigieren. Der Text ist im Reply versteckt (manchmal nicht mal im ersten Reply) und in der Timeline nicht sichtbar.
Dazu kommt, dass für Blinde die Navigation mit Screenreader erheblich aufwendiger ist, als für uns Sehende.
Schreibt eine Bildbeschreibung in das Bild. Bitte.
»curl — Projekt beendet Bug-Bounty-Programm:
curl-Maintainer @bagder hat das Ende des Bug-Bounty-Programms angekündigt. Unbrauchbare KI-Meldungen nahmen wohl überhand.«
Ach was, die KI ist künstlich aber nicht intelligent oder was nun?!?? Ich bin sogar der Meinung, dass dies was die KI angeht noch das rel. kleinste "Problem" ist. Schade dass deswegen das curl Bug-Bounty aufgelöst wird.
🧑💻 heise.de/news/curl-Projekt-bee…
#curl #ki #bugbounty #unbrauchbar #ai #uberhang #ausserkontrolle #it #ittools
curl-Maintainer Daniel Stenberg hat das Ende des Bug-Bounty-Programms angekündigt. Unbrauchbare KI-Meldungen nahmen wohl überhand.Dirk Knop (heise online)
what do you wish someone had told you about the Git command line interface when you started using Git for the first time? Especially curious about what you wish you'd known if you ended up choosing to use a IDE/GUI interface to Git.
(mostly interested in replies from people who started using Git in the last 5-10 years)
Contribute to binary-knight/usurper-reloaded development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
"This is a vulnerability"
"No, it isn't"
"Yes, it is"
"Prove it!"
"Ok, it may not be now...
...but it is a trap for future developers!"
Security reporting for the utterly deranged.
#curl
Was having a problem with #openBSD -current where @thunderbird would cause the system to slow down before crashing the UI completely. I would have to SSH in from another box and reboot and this would take a while.
Seems that problem is now fixed. I’ve had Thunderbird running for two days with no issues.
Although - whenever I think I’m out of the woods….
Having said all this I still prefer #foss to being locked in with no privacy and having my data sold and being used to train LLM’s.
How to create a Thunderbird performance profile to find causes of high CPU load or slowness.support.mozilla.org
Happy #WikipediaDay, and congratulations to @wikipedia on their 25th anniversary! What a milestone!
wikimediafoundation.org/wikipe…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi…
Celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday and the hundreds of thousands of people around the world who make the backbone of knowledge on the internet what it is today.Wikimedia Foundation
It's hard to overstate the impact and the importance of a project like Wikipedia. I know not everyone can afford to donate, but I'd like to encourage folks to at least consider contributing their time and become Wikipedia editors.
There are some great initiatives worth looking into, such as wikimediafoundation.org/what-w….
Wikipedia needs more women is our call for people like you to edit women’s stories, histories, and contexts onto Wikipedia.Wikimedia Foundation
"Today is also about helping others make sense of this moment by reminding the world of what we already know: that Wikipedia is the backbone of information online, and that humans are at the center of it."
diff.wikimedia.org/2026/01/15/…
Wikimania is the annual conference celebrating all the free knowledge projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation – Wikimedia Commons, MediaWiki, Meta-Wiki,Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikinews, Wikipedia , […]\nDiff
There is a petition on the UK Parliament website to legally recognise nonbinary as a gender – which would include an X marker on UK passports for nonbinary people.
The deadline to sign is March 2026 and at the time of writing only 213 people have signed.
Let's show them the power of the Fediverse. At 100,000 signatures, the petition will be debated in Parliament.
Sign 👇
petition.parliament.uk/petitio…
#NonBinary #Enby #Trans #Transgender #Queer #LGBTQ #LGBT #UK #UKMastodon #Fediverse
Non-binary isn’t a legally recognised gender in the UK. We urge the Government to legally recognise non-binary as a gender and people who identify as non-binary in the UK. This proposal would include an X marker on UK passports for non-binary people.Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
Zach Bennoui reshared this.
#Forgejo 14.0.0 was just released!
Issues search now has inline filters. Web file editor was replaced with CodeMirror. CSRF protection is now stateless. Forgejo actions gained new features and better trust management. Foreign keys are now supported to ensure database consistency.
Check out the blog post at forgejo.org/2026-01-release-v1…
@Gusted yepp, that's what I meant: much more intuitive now. That's what makes it so easy to find one's own issues at Github (which for someone like me, is crucial, as one cannot have thousands of apps' issues in a tiny brain like mine).
It's wonderful, and will help (not only) us a lot! 🤗
reshared this
This is a fascinating game about a person becoming newly blind. It uses both visuals and audio to represent blindness, and has some very unique aspects to t...YouTube
This iconic photograph captures the massive ash cloud from the catastrophic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.....
The photo was taken on May 18, 1980, by Richard Lasher, a Boeing employee who was on his way to ride his dirt bike near Spirit Lake. As the ash cloud rapidly approached, Lasher was forced to abandon his red Ford Pinto and escape on his motorcycle.
The eruption was a lateral blast, considered the most disastrous volcanic eruption in U.S. history.
This is important to me. The Freedom Pass should be available to pensioners on all modes of transport in the UK.
I signed the petition:
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?Philip Clayton (Change.org)
Lamo. This shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible.
Normal links are too trustworthy. Make them creepy.
RE: mastodon.social/@bagder/115893…
This is should be a wider discussion in the security industry. Sustainability!
It’s important to realize that for (small) open source projects, even reports of real security issues with real impact are significant workloads.
They need to be reviewed, understood, fixes designed.
And those fixes may have further effects like compatibility breakage or redesigns.
If done correctly this is a lot of work, work that those developers usually do unpaid. If they have the time.
Bug bounties may increase the amount of code review and hopefully increase the security of a project due to the amount of eyes on it, but they need to be in sync with the needed resources for the project to review and act on those reports.
What if a bug bounty program paid both the finder and the open source project for fixing an issue?
It's about sustainability too. #curl is a small project. We cannot spend multiple hours every day arguing with people who want money for having found what is perhaps a bug - but often is not even that.It drains us. It drowns us.
Onward and upward!
Text to Speech engine for English and many other languages. Compact size with clear but artificial pronunciation. Available as a command-line…SourceForge
99% of smart home crap just feels like
why is it connected to the internet? so it can get updates
why does it need updates? because it's connected to the internet
reshared this
A nice long list of the "trusted" partners #Dropbox shares your personal data with. 🤨
❌ Amazon
❌ OpenAI
.... & many more.
In today's guide we take a look at how secure and private the cloud storage platform actually is: tuta.com/blog/is-dropbox-secur…
Dropbox is a popular cloud storage provider used by millions, but this doesn’t mean it’s the safest or best cloud storage for privacy.Tuta
Archos reshared this.
Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.
You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.
Reject this future. 
Keep your hardware local.
Run #Linux. 
Own your data.
The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.
#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich
reshared this
Hey #GitLab – it's sad you stopped sending me notification mails 2 weeks ago (but understandable, as our mail server had a hickup then).
It's sadder you didn't pick up even 2 weeks after the issue was solved, and not even when I changed my email address in your setup.
But it's plainly incomprehensible that, not having a paid subscription, I can't even find a way to reach out to you and inform you or ask your help with this.
Can you please fix that?
@linarphy Thanks! Your wish was granted! 🥳
For those falling into the same trap: it's not enough to change your email in the "profile" section of settings. You also need to do that under "Notifications", in the "Global notification email" drop-down.
Not that intuitive I'd say: if (in profile) you replaced exactly that address, you probably want the new one being used INSTEAD – and not just have it "verified"…
First notification email just arrived 🙌 Still: support? 🤔
I will ask here because I feel like there might be enough literary nerds around. I need to read a good amount for an exam I need to do to get into university for the English subject.
I am looking for 1 book from before 1900 and one after (fiction, non fantasy) that will pass their "literary enough" sniff test, that preferably isn't written by a cishet white man. I was thinking Frankenstein at first—but I am guessing they categorize it as "fantasy" or a book with a movie—since she isn't on the definitely pre-approved list and I can't imagine missing her (which is strange because Douglas Adams, George Orwell, J.R.R Tolkien are, but I digress).
Virginia Woolf is so I think I'll read one of her books for post 1900, give me a suggestion for one to read (haven't read her at all).
But that leaves one pre-1900 novel, so feel free to suggest one for either.
Hear me out. Cat Café x Coworking. Like a classic coworking space but with cats laying around.
I have my own homegrown cat for day use, but I would be willing to go to your in prem meeting if I could at least pet some support cats during your whatever slides.
Give me the money, YC here I come.
Interview: "Datenschutz schützt die Schwächeren gegenüber mächtigen Akteuren"
Datenschutz steht politisch unter Druck. Warum er für Freiheit, Demokratie und nachhaltige Innovation notwendig ist, erklärt Prof. Tobias Keber im Gespräch.
heise.de/hintergrund/Interview…
#Datenschutz #DSGVO #EU #Grundrechte #Journal #Netzpolitik #Wirtschaft #news
reshared this
miki
in reply to Julia Evans • • •You won't have to use it in a few years, because Jujutsu is git compatible and far more intuitive.
I was never terribly good at git, I'd say top 20th percentile of software devs but no higher, but ehh Jujutsu just makes it so much simpler.