Some people have been chronicling the annals of the Anti-Sailor-Moon fandom for years. I don’t know enough about Sailor Moon to say anything about this other than “wow”.
@alilly but then within this subculture there are interventionists and observers.... and within the interventionists there are those trying to stop it and those who fan the flame wars... and within those....
Gnome is kinda like MacOS in some ways, but they're very different and I would hesitate to call them similar at all.
Gnome is very heavily focused around the idea of hiding information unless you specifically request it. The desktop is entirely blank outside of the top panel, and app management happens almost exclusively within the overview.
It also is designed to be used on pretty much any input device, meaning it has a lot of gesture support and multiple ways to do the same action. For example, the overview can be opened with the super key, the hot corner, or a three-finger swipe.
For this reason, I like Gnome on laptops, where screen space is at a premium. However, I typically like to use something else on a desktop, where I lack a touchpad for gestures and preserving screen space is a little less of a necessity.
New features and other improvements
Added support for the Mastodon translation api.
You can now find a new option "translate" in the three-dot-menu on posts that are not in your display language w...
Thank you for your work and the app! Jut one question: do you intend to include the "Explore" tab at some point? This would be a huge improvement. I don't understand why no F-Droid-apps have this included.
thank you so much. I enjoy Tusky, but have really wished for translations. Being followed by someone who can read and like my posts, but I can not read theirs, has been so conflicting. Good job!
@BM_Bourguignon That would be an amazing feature upgrade. I wonder if that's something that would have to be built into the Mastodon software, or if client apps like Tusky could integrate it into their apps 🤔
The beta release for version 2 of @skytemple Randomizer is out! It's completely rewritten in GTK 4 and Adwaita and runs on Linux (Flathub), macOS and Windows!
Thanks to Workbench, Blueprint Compiler and GNOME's HIG redesigning the UI was actually a lot of fun, and the new UX just feels so nice and satisfying to work with.
Next up is migrating the SkyTemple main app to GTK 4 as well!
@sonny haha! They probably won't make another one, but that doesn't stop the old games being great :) - I'm really amazed to see the great community the built around the games and my main app (the ROM editor), we just had another game jam where over 16 teams submitted their own mods & games built on the old game! It's inspiring to see the creativity & it's a testament to how easy-to-use tools enable people to do great things!
NEW RESEARCH PAPER OUT! In this paper, @grimalkina and I explore how #code review anxiety is maintained and exacerbated to develop a model of code review anxiety. We also go a step further to develop and test the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral intervention for code review anxiety, so that we can reduce code review anxiety in an evidence-based and empirically-supported way (because science > vibes): osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a…
Sea hares (ocean slug-like creatures) are hermaphrodites that mate in chains of up to 20, with each one simultaneously acting as the male for the one below and the female for the one above.
I’m pretty sure that every weird idea about alien life written by science fiction writers already exists in the ocean. Life on land is so same-y by comparison.
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, GitLab, Codeberg).
I'm always fascinated that there's people who find things like cellular towers an eye sore but if you make it look like a cutesy fake little tree they don't care. The public reception of cell towers is interesting to me lol
These motherfuckers will veto section 8 housing being built near them, or any sort of public facilities to help the poor while constantly complaining about the homeless.
there have been unironic proposals in california to build homeless concentration camps central valley. of course they dont say the C word and cloak it in a "oh if they wanted to get out they could just get a job" as though that isnt what a lot of these people are doing
Mám za sebou předávání cen. Turnaj byl skvěle obsazený - 25 družstev, čili stovka hráčů. Manžel by byl dojatý a jak jsem ho znala, i slzičku by zamáčkl. Řeč jsem dala bez pláče, takže to dopadlo suprově.
Few things bring home how much big tech caring about diversity was a zero interest rate phenomenon like Women Who Code shutting down due to lack of funding.
For those who are celebrating #420 day here is an article I wrote a few years ago on the complicated relationship between Jews and Cannabis. It was first published in #HumanisticJudaism101 magazine, but I've reprinted it (with some additions) on my blog.
Sauron had a lot of problems, but he knew how to manage a wetland. The Dead Marshes were one of the environmental gems of Mordor, and an impressive nature-based solution to help remediate the environmental damage caused by the corpse issue after the Battle of Dagorlad
Need help: Received notice to take down @watomatic app from the play store. What can I do to fight this? I am the developer of this. Reboosts appreciated. Thank you all ❤️
Nope, unfortunately not (I do not deal with PlayStore). But I boosted for reach.
Was about to tell them they should issue a takedown request to the US senate, demanding removal of state WA – just in case Washington is also working with WhatsApp… Guess they got annoyed by the fact your app is not about SUPPORTING WhatsApp, but to make it easier to leave the place…
Are you using "WA" in the name? I thought the app is called "Watomatic"? "Water Reminder" also starts with "Wa" 🤔
@IzzyOnDroid Thanks for the boost Izzy! Haha yeah that's funny. It's always been "Watomatic" and not WA/WAtomatic or something else. I think they are just pissed about not so positive publicity in the app's description 😀
Well, wouldn't their request be moot then? It doesn't even apply. You are not «using "WA" … in the name … referencing … capitalization», as they claim, and never did. Guess they rolled a campaign requesting takedown of multiple apps, sending the same text to all of them.
I'm no lawyer, but you maybe can refuse it as "does not apply". Maybe ask a lawyer for advice (thinking of FOSS orgs supporting such cases; FSF maybe?)
Speaking from our own history: we had to change our name from DAVdroid to DAVx5: You've almost zero chance. The first thing you would need is a lawyer and send them the official response and your sights. But at the end you will always be the weaker party (=less money). They will argue that you're free riding, using Whatsapp to make your own "business" ("your app wouldn't exist if there was no Whatsapp"). IMO u can only survive by removing any WA reference from text and images..
@davx5app Thanks so much for the feedback and support! Did'nt know about DAVdroid to DAVx5 name change. I don't think i can afford a lawyer right now for this project but will change name and and remove all references in the description and screenshots 😊. Hope that will suffice for them to leave the app alone
One thing I learned when making an 88x31 badges page: it is actually a really good example of one of the few times you should keep #AltText generally short.
When you have dozens of tiny badges on a page, it should be easy to skim them the same way it is for a sighted user. It shouldn’t take an hour to finish reading the page.
perhaps one or two exceptionally detailed badges would warrant an aria-describedby (or aria-details) attribute though. I might add one to @tastytea@very.tastytea.de’s badge
The pixels will look twice as small as other badges on any badge-collection page. I suggest going all the way with an SVG (c.f. my Creative Commons badge which has an SVG with PNG fallback for clearnet users) or embracing the pixel-art-look of 88x31.
yea but I have neither artistic skills nor any idea for a logo other than my already existing profile picture which doesn't seem like it would downsample well
@alilly Hmm. Maybe your name with your favorite font and background that samples colors from your avatar? I’ll see if I can whip something together. Do you have a font preference?
@fabia_man Moc nevěřím, že to vyjde. Už jsem se registroval třikrát. Těch lidí se registruje hrozně moc a pak losují. Minulý rok běželo asi 40000 tisíc běžců 😀
Our **foundations** series provides an overview of core accessibility considerations. They are a good starting point for visual designers, content designers, interaction designers, and developers when designing and building accessible products and s…
A krátká zpráva o úrovni komunikace zástupců uměleckých sfér v médiích:
Debata několikrát vygradovala, a když skončila a moderátor Daniel Takáč se loučil s diváky, bylo slyšet, jak kurátorka Davida Černého poslala do patřičných míst. „Jděte do p*dele!“ řekla. On odpověděl: „Vy jděte do p*dele!“
Tragikomické zakončení měly Události, komentáře na České televizi. Do pořadu si pozvali umělce Davida Černého a Marii Foltýnovou, kurátorku umění ve veřejném prostoru v Galerii hlavního města Prahy.
via @josef_ledvina@twitter.com: Jen male doplneni, na co pani Foltynova takto vulgarne reagovala. Pan David Cerny ji na zaver po podekovani rekl, at se jede podivat do Vidne, jak se tam pracuje s modernim umenim na verejnem prostoru, nacez ona ho poslala do prd..e. Jsou to 2 rozdilne svety
Firstly, almost every vulnerability that was tested was on extremely well-discussed open source software, and each vuln was of a class with extensive prior work. I would be shocked if a modern LLM couldn't produce a XSS proof-of-concept in this way.
But what's worse: they don't actually show the resulting exploit. The authors cite some kind of responsible disclosure standard for not releasing the prompts to GPT-4, which, fine. But these are all known vulns, so let's see what the model came up with.
Without seeing the exploit itself, I am dubious.
Especially because so much is keyed off of the CVE description:
We then modified our agent to not include the CVE description. This task is now substantially more difficult, requiring both finding the vulnerability and then actually exploiting it. Because every other method (GPT-3.5 and all other open-source models we tested) achieved a 0% success rate even with the vulnerability description, the subsequent experiments are conducted on GPT-4 only. After removing the CVE description, the success rate falls from 87% to 7%.
This suggests that determining the vulnerability is extremely challenging.
Even the identification of the vuln—which GPT-4 did 33% of the time—is a ludicrous metric. The options from the set are:
1. RCE 2. XSS 3. SQLI 4. CSRF 5. SSTI
With the first three over-represented. It would be surprising if the model did worse than 33%, even doing random sampling.
In their conclusion, the authors call their findings an "emergent capability," of GPT-4, given that every other model they tested had a 0% success rate.
At no point do the authors blink at this finding and interrogate their priors to look for potential error sources. But they really should.
So no, I do not believe we are in any danger of GPT-4 becoming an exploit dev.
Existing AI technology can allow hackers to automate exploits for public vulnerabilities in minutes flat. Very soon, diligent patching will no longer be optional.
Well, I believe GPT already *is* an exploit-dev. Many beginning programmers copy code created by GPT without thinking critically, which definitively introduce exploitable bugs in some cases...
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Today, we filed our final brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the publishers’ lawsuit against our library. For four years we've been fighting for library rights—what our founder, @brewsterkahle, calls “a battle for the soul of libraries in the digital age.” blog.archive.org/2024/04/19/in…
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I'm behind you 100%! Internet Archive has been so helpful to me, getting access to old texts that aren't in print anymore. It's our library of Alexandria, and we can't let these guys burn it to the ground.
A new, Real-time model of the MacAlex Sonata voice is now available. Download the model file from: eurpod.com/en_us-MacAlex+RT_me… and add-on: github.com/mush42/sonata-nvda/… (note: if you get two voices, be sure to uninstall them both, or you may keep them side by side to compare the two models
@FluidEscence oooh that bit is set by the folder naming for convention. good catch. had to rename it to en_US-MacAlex+RT-medium and then fast shows up, interesting
First and foremost, thanks for providing the voice! It works really well. I'm just wondering why, compared with hfc_female (en-US) - medium, I get word-initial or consonant-initial cut-offs. Does Alex use a different algorithm? I get almost no cut-offs with hfc_female (en, US).
@amir yeah I'm not sure, I trained on HFC_male, because fine-tuning from a female model leads to, well, some pitch problems from testing. So I have to fine-tune from one of the male models that have high quality data to it and then it cuts off a bit less. Still haven't quite figured out the right formula out for solving that though.
The nice point about Alex is that compared with hfc_female (en US) its intonation is much better and doesn't suffer from unpredictable pitch fluctuations in the middle of sentences or phrases.
On a similar topic, is it now possible to provide high-quality audio sample(s) to be considered as a good candidate for TTS training? And should it always be taken from a TTS engine reading stuff? In the past, providing such samples was very difficult and time-consuming.
I think those who have professional or studio-quality microphones could easily do one, and by nature the human voice lends itself to more variation in pitch and tonality. I think in that way, TTS voices can be a bigger struggle (and why I'm considering including passages where the TTS is set to super-inflection mode where possible, sadly less so doable on Keynote.)
I've asked @mush42 to consider coming up with official guidelines for how to make a voice model that won't have pronunciation issues, including what someone voicing it from scratch would do. I'm not sure if I have the time or voice discipline to submit the amount of data you need, but I do have the gear and I might take a crack at it.
Will there be a listing somewhere on that website with all the piper/sonata voices you've made? Having to dig around in toots for them is kind of annoying. It doesn't ahve to list complete changes, a last updated date is fine or I can just use a HEAD request or something.
It's pretty unsavory how everybody talks about #MarketPlaces when it comes to platforms for distributing apps. I guess because of #DMA. But it's important to take a step back once in a while and appreciate that like many other #FOSS platforms #FDroid is not a maket place, it's a #commons.
#Mixxx #LinuxAudio
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What I don’t like about the old web: people turning literally anything into a subculture.
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the forbidden fruit of anti-sailor-moon-war neutral-third-party observers.
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“I can make it worse”