The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) issued a "formal travel advisory" on Saturday for individuals sojourning to the Sunshine State "in direct response to Governor Ron DeSantis' aggressive attempts to erase Black his…
Proposing a 64-bit only x86 arch (tentatively x86-S) is all well and good, but wow Intel still hasn't gotten over AMD creating 64-bit x86 (AMD64/x86-64): intel.com/content/www/us/en/de…
Since its introduction over 20 years ago, the Intel® 64 architecture became the dominant operating mode.
No, the 64-bit architecture Intel introduced was Itanium (IA-64). That was also jointly developed by HP, based on their PA-RISC arch. It crashed and burned.
This is admittedly rather minor, but it irritates me to an almost irrational degree.
PC computing rests heavily on Intel Architecture processors with an enormous installed base, and cloud computing is synonymous with Intel Architecture.
The download speed is good, the upload speed is surprisingly not there for a download of that high, and the ping is scary... I'm currently stuck with 80/20 down/up here in London, waiting for fiber to my house eventually, hopefully.
@FreakyFwoof Oh fucking Christ you should have seen the shit tacular result I got from upstairs. I'm doing these so y'all can help me compare and contrast this week, because we know my internet is very broken. The dude what was supposed to fix things yesterday... uh, not so much.
@Brynify I hate this article. First it says: > Windows 11 is so broken that even Microsoft can’t fix it Then it says: > It's concerning, though, that there seem to be areas where Windows 11 (and Windows 10, which is also suffering from this problem) is so broken that Microsoft simply can’t fix it. But literally the exact sentence before that one: > Microsoft claims that it is working on a resolution, and I hope it's able to roll one out that fixes the issue without making users uninstall certain apps. So... it's... uh... fixing it? Clickbaity piece of garbage. Also: > Microsoft has just made a pretty remarkable admission, essentially conceding that it doesn’t have a solution for some Windows 11 problems. It has. Uninstall them, or wait until they're done with > working on a resolution Holy crap this is a terrible article.
@Brynify oh I'm not defending win 11 at all. It works OK for me, but lots of people have valid issues with it. Fair enough. But wow that article literally made me regret reading it. Oof.
@talon @Brynify Microsoft used to have a thing about keeping legacy code around forever or taking ages to update a thing because of fears about breaking backwards compatability. It seems like this is getting lost on some level. But it also seems like a pretty small thing to focus on to declare the OS irreparably broken. Was hoping for a bit more meat on that bone!
@objectinspace @Brynify my main problem was that the article implied that Microsoft said they can't fix the problem, when in fact what they've actually said was hey, we're fixing the problem, until then you can try uninstalling the problematic apps. This is literally just someone being mad. Maybe I'm in the wrong industry if I can get paid for publishing my not thought through rants instead of posting them here all the time. lol
@talon @ppatel @objectinspace @Brynify I dunno, windows has been pretty shit since windows 8 and everyone basically just ignores it, so I don't think it's click bate, but some of us buys into lies more than others.
The Zoom M2 MicTrak is a 199 USD microphone that records. Pop a Micro-SD card into the MicTrak, and without any bulky gadgets and cables, you've got stereo 32-bit float recording. The fact that you can record in any situation without the risk of distortion is of enormous benefit to blind people recording in the field. When the product was launched late last year, it got off to the worst possible start, with overwhelmingly negative feedback about the product being unusable due to chronic radio frequency interference.
Zoom Sound Labs recalled many of the original batch of microphones, acknowledging the problem and proclaiming it fixed. And it appears they are right. The RF problems are gone and the device seems dependable. This handy microphone is an easy-to-use, simple way to get quality recording of anything, anywhere.
In this demonstration, Richard Mosen and I will unbox the M2 MicTrak, set it up, and take you through every single menu item on the device, so blind people can build a cheat sheet to help them set it up the way they like. One setting you'll definitely want to enable is a handy beep to let you know when the microphone is recording. pnc.st/s/the-blind-podmaker/7f…
The Zoom M2 MicTrak is a 199 USD microphone that records. Pop a Micro-SD card into the MicTrak, and without any bulky gadgets and cables, you've got stereo
32-bit float recording.
@desertstar84 I'm really intrigued by the fact that it beeps when recording. That's huge. I don't think the H1N does that, and it's frustrating to say the least.
@simon @desertstar84 Not only doesn't the H1N beep when recording, there doesn't seem to be any trick to ensure it's actually recording, other than enabling the tone when recording starts and stops, but to hear it you have to have something plugged into the headphone jack. On the H1, if you were in Record, hitting Play would *not* switch to Play, so you could take advantage of that to make sure you were recording. I won an H1N from @radio in a game last Black Friday, and honestly have to say the lack of audio feedback about recording state is a real downer.
Rishi Sunak #AltText tweet criticised by RNIB for misusing accessibility feature. Well done for raising this, although the response misses the mark entirely! bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-656445… BBC News (UK)
If you are in #Liberec, #MladáBoleslav or #Semily, visit a concert of the 🎼 Podkrkonšský symfonycký orchestr. They have a tour named "Bon appetit" and it's fun. I have visited their concert in #Turnov this Saturday and it was delicious. 👌😁
El exmagistrado amenazado por ETA Manuel Díaz de Rábago anuncia su voto a EH Bildu: “Me siento español pero soy de izquierdas” eldiario.es/euskadi/exmagistra…
We can either have a society that tolerates millionaires and billionaires polluting the planet and destroying the biosphere. Or we can have a planet with a healthy biosphere but with fewer millionaires and no billionaires at all.
This is from a recently published peer-reviewed scientific paper titled “Millionaire Spending Incompatible with 1.5 C Ambitions”... ______________________
Much evidence suggests that the wealthiest individuals contribute disproportionately to climate change. Here we study the implications of a continued growth in the number of millionaires for emissions, and its impact on the depletion of the remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
Our findings suggest that the share of millionaires in the world population will grow from 0.7% today to 3.3% in 2050, and cause accumulated emissions equivalent to 72% of the remaining carbon budget. This significantly reduces the chance of stabilizing climate change at 1.5°C.
The concentration of wealth at the top means that a significant share of the remaining carbon budget to 1.5°C is depleted by a very small share of humanity. This comparably small group is also likely to invest its wealth in ways that further increase emissions.
Continued growth in emissions at the top makes a low-carbon transition less likely, as the acceleration of energy consumption by the wealthiest is likely beyond the system's capacity to decarbonize. To this end, we question whether policy designs such as progressive taxes targeting the high emitters will be sufficient. ______________________
Like I said, we can have one thing or the other — but not both.
The image of a semi-submerged statue in Italy’s flooded Emilia-Romagna yesterday brings to mind the earlier installation by Spanish artist Isaac Cordal which has been dubbed “politicians discussing global warming”.
So I am at my dads this weekend, and I (as always) load bgp.tools to check what the internet connection is doing, and to my surprise this time IPv4 was showing correctly as Trooli (his local AltNet), but huh, what? on IPv6 Cloudflare is his upstream?
That seems wrong and unlikely?
So surely I thought my dad might be running the Cloudflare Warp VPN or something, but I asked him, and nope.
The IPv6 address check on bgp.tools works by making you request v6.bgp.tools/whoami, a DNS name that only has a AAAA on it, forcing you to use IPv6 (if you have it). Yet this time it seemed that it was returning a IPv4 cloudflare record!
Also interestingly, I could not reproduce this on Firefox.
So, I think "Is cloudflare acting as a weird NAT64", he is using 1.1.1.1 in his PiHole config, but surely cloudflare would not dare try and work around AAAA records like this?
A quick dig proves that 1.1.1.1 is not doing this:
[11:59:15] ben@eshwill:~$ dig A v6.bgp.tools +short
[11:59:19] ben@eshwill:~$ dig A v6.bgp.tools @1.1.1.1 +short
[11:59:23] ben@eshwill:~$
So what is doing this? To get a better idea, I use chrome://net-export/ to export a file, and load the file in netlog-viewer.appspot.com/#dns
And I see this in the DNS tab, showing a pretty normal DNS setup, but there is a critical clue on what is going on here!
So. My dad configured a DNS search domain. It turned out, because he has no IPv6 in the house.
It used the search domain.
[11:59:19] ben@eshwill:~$ dig A v6.bgp.tools @1.1.1.1 +short
[11:59:23] ben@eshwill:~$ dig A v6.bgp.tools.replaced-personal-domain.com @1.1.1.1 +short
172.67.222.196
104.21.17.59
Of course.
My dad had a wildcard proxy record on his cloudflare domain, that he used on his DNS search domain/path. So when the resolver tried the search path, it got back CF v4 records. And because bgp.tools (for now) uses Cloudflare for DNS, Cloudflare had no problem proxying it as if the proxy was enabled on bgp.tools.
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Oh that reminds me, I still need to do a chiptune cover of this. I'll probably have to end up bumping it up an octave, with the exception of the C64 those kinds of chips were never really that good at bass without adding some nasty ringing artifacts unfortunately. youtube.com/watch?v=rkvwgnSYn-…
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Chatting with an AI program feels personal and conversational, but don’t be fooled. Here's why you should keep a lid on what you reveal to ChatGPT and its ilk.
"Don’t Tell #ChatGPT Anything You Wouldn’t Want to See on a #Billboard"
"Here’s a simple tip: DO NOT use #AI on any work-related project without checking your company’s policy. Even if your company has no policy, think twice, or even three times, before you put anything work-related into an AI. You don’t want to become infamous for triggering the privacy fiasco that spurs your company into creating such a policy."
Chatting with an AI program feels personal and conversational, but don’t be fooled. Here's why you should keep a lid on what you reveal to ChatGPT and its ilk.
Working on an article about digitally divided folks grappling with low.no bandwidth issues. Took the time to look at the "not found" page in three browsers. I have no idea how a non-technical person is supposed to make sense of these. Is "try again later" really the best we can do in 2023?
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
@FreakyFwoof It certainly didn't in my case, i.e., I tried invoking Siri and turning off/on VoiceOver, but as I'm a sample size of one, take that how you will.
Pretty cool as a free way to do some things with GPT. It can now summarize custom, RSS, feeds, along with a few other providers. apps.apple.com/ca/app/call-ann…
Hey there! I'm Annie, your new best AI friend and (kind of) super intelligent assistant. Let me introduce you to CallAnnie, the app that allows us to connect in real-time through video calls, so you can talk to me with you wherever you go!
Whether …
Microsoft employees, upset about not getting raises this year, voiced their displeasure on an internal chat platform and got a response from the company's marketing boss.
I'll have a blog entry about it soon, but before then, you get to hear about it first: A full transfer of the USC Cinema sound effects library, which includes the work of Sunset Editorial and their hundreds of sound effects.
The “SSE” sound effects come from the Sunset Editorial collection which was donated to USC Cinema in 1990. Sunset Editorial had a low-key history in Hollywood. Not a lot is known about them.
From the original Blog Post:The “SSE” sound effects come from the Sunset Editorial collection which was donated to USC Cinema in 1990. Sunset Editorial had...
I posted about Apollo accessibility for VoiceOver users. Please give this post some attention if you have a moment; we need an alternative to Dystopia badly. If you're not familiar with Apollo, I urge you to put down your pitchfork; it is developed by just one person and he genuinely wants to do better for us. We need an organized group of people to direct that, and that's what I've tried to start here. reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comment…
Curious what's wrong/bad about Distopia out of interest, or just to have more than one option in case it ever dies? I barely use Reddit at all so genuine curiosity really.
nothing is wrong perper say. but the author refuses to release it to the app store. its been on testflight since 2017. Either stick it in the store, or open source it for others to work on. Its such a great app not to ever get released.
@FreakyFwoof @Doug73 Yeah, he says that his work won't allow him to release any code. he's been saying that since about 2019 or so. and when anyone asks when it is going to be released, we get radio silence. I tghink all of that now is a big excuse and he will never release it to be honest.
@FreakyFwoof @Doug73 The developer has also recently commented on a post asking when it would be released, and expressed disinterest on actively developing it further, other than releasing updates so it doesn't stop working on Test Flight. I guess the review process is more than she wants to bother doing.
@FreakyFwoof @Doug73 That way of thinking is kinda...odd from how I'm looking at this. So the dev would rather that only those who are ok with getting testflight be able to access the app, instead of the wider community as a whole, just because they don't want to go through the review process? Yeah, they should probably just say fuck it and open source this thing.
@jdking92 As far as I understand, this was a highschool project, and the developer has since moved on to other things in her life, which apparently doesn't include building a life on an app on the app store. And yes, I agree she should open-source the project. But since she doesn't seem to be inclined to do so, working with the Apollo developer on getting Apollo the rest of the way there, is the better option. @simon @FreakyFwoof @Doug73
@jdking92 @Marco @FreakyFwoof @Doug73 It could also have a lot to do with Reddit's recent API changes, removing access to some content and functionality from third party apps, as well as charging for it.
Thanks for posting this! Some of the things I also suggested to @christianselig and hope this might get addressed sooner rather than later. I certainly added my upvote to your post.
@Marco That was a great post, thanks so much both of you. It was a long weekend in Canada so I took a bit of a break so just wanted you to know I wasn't ignoring this post!
@christianselig Thanks, Christian, that is definitely appreciated! Please let any of us know if you need any more input. Or someone of us to show you some things in a live call or so.
@Marco I'd love your feedback on this comment if you have a chance! Basically just unsure how to best weigh verbosity/speed (I know different folks have different preferences so there's probably not a one-size-fits-all solution), and if settings are the solution, how best to surface that so it's discoverable reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comment…
And we have a developer response! Copied from the Reddit post: > Apologies for coming to this post late, it was a long weekend in Canada so I took some time off, but I just wanted to say I've saved a link to this post and really appreciate the thorough feedback. The takeaway I'm getting is rotor actions and controlling the verbosity of feedback (among some other things but those are two big ones) would make a big difference, so that's definitely something I want to prioritize in the short term
Roll up, roll up Matrix Live is here. Check out news of the 2nd Element X iOS public testflight, the Matrix Community Summit and a bumper update from Fractal. matrix.org/blog/2023/05/19/thi…
Funny you mention MSC2213, I have some private rooms where besides me the other party is my home automation system (node-red), and recently I left one by mistake. Spent almost an hour figuring out how to invite myself back in from the node-red side. (though the bonus is I learned a lot about the matrix node)
@ascherbaum we have fine 4g/5g almost everywhere here in Sweden and I had no problems with that where I took the picture. Usually the sunlight's glare on the screen is the bigger issue! 😀
This was developed and implemented by @taavi who wrote it as a #MediaWiki extension, named "RealMe". It's open source (like all of the Wikipedia software) and can be used on any MediaWiki wiki: mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:R…
Integration of the #Fediverse and #Mastodon Identity standards into the software that powers #WikiPedia & other Wiki's is so important I find it hard to express.
It is the first big step of integration between the Wikipedian and Fediverse communities, and it has been massively under-noticed and not gotten nearly the attention this deserved.
I'm all for it, want to find ways to help & hope this is the beginning of much more integration to come. 🔥
The number of times I’ve needed to #define an alias to deal with naming collisions makes me vaguely glad of the objective-c habit of domain-abbreviated prefixes, but wishes there was a better way to accomplish it in plain old C.
Hi @forgejo. Since there's a discussion about implementing an accessible captcha library both for Forgejo and for Codeberg, this captcha library is possibly worth looking into, it looks very promising and the build process is extremely simple compared to mcaptcha. github.com/sequentialread/pow-…
A proof of work based "captcha" similar to friendly captcha, but lightweight, self-hosted and GPLv3 licensed. - GitHub - sequentialread/pow-captcha: A proof of work based "captcha&qu...
If you can hear it, sound is awesome. The power of sound is often overlooked by those who live in the visual world.From the sound of your house-key locking y...
Credited as Britain's first dedicated black radio station, Dread Broadcasting Corporation (also known as Rebel Radio) was founded by DJ Lepke and transmitted...
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