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Just had a platform survey me about the #AI features I'd like to see them add. My response was loud and clear:

I need to be able to disable AI features completely. My MSAs have rules governing the use of AI. If your platform can't disable it, many companies are not going to be able to use your software and stay legally compliant.

Feature #1 should be the off switch.

Please share this loudly everywhere.

#AI
in reply to tomasino

How do those rules define "AI features"? Does autocomplete fall under that definition? Fuzzy search? Voice recognition? Anything that involves a matrix multiplication somewhere?
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki
The three questions I will have are:

1. Does the company indemnify against claims that copyrighted material was misused to train the model?
2. Does the product use the data I put in to improve the model? This can run into issues with HIPAA and other regulation.
3. Does the data I enter leave my machine (or in the case of a network service, my network)?

in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki it depends on how you implement those things - some people want your fuzzy search to be your data to be entirely trained on by an LLM and just ask it, some people want fuzzy search to be an index in a lucene instance, the general way its effected wont matter as much as the data use throughout the system


In exactly one week, September 5, I will do a live-streamed #curl webinar titled "Mastering the curl command Line". Starting at 17:00 UTC. Stay tuned for detailed agenda.
#curl
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Abstract:

Everyone uses curl, the Swiss army knife of Internet transfers. While this tool has performed transfers and a solid set of command line options for decades, new ones are added over time.

This talk goes through and focuses on some of the most powerful and interesting additions to curl done in recent years. The perhaps lesser known curl tricks that might enrich your command lines, extend your "tool belt" and make you more productive.

This presentation might just help you curl better.




Oh god I love #curl (especially libcurl)

Working on adding ICE cast metadata handling to #Wozamp, image handling took ~30 lines of code.





Google killed Fitbit smartwatches on purpose, and for good reason androidauthority.com/fitbit-sm…


Samsung představuje průlom v technologii displejů, telefony by už nemuselo být nutné tak často nabíjet

dotekomanie.cz/2024/08/samsung…




Please boost. This isn’t guessing or smearing. This is an admission in a court of law.

newsweek.com/kroger-executive-…



This kind of treatment is exactly why I started @redox from scratch and written primarily in Rust. There is a lot of resistance to even minor beneficial change in Linux and related projects. I don't even try to contribute to the Linux kernel anymore.

phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-M…

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in reply to Jeremy Soller 🦀

Forgive the tangent, but now I'm curious, what's the state of GUIs on Redox? Might it be worthwhile for me to start looking at bringing up accessibility infrastructure and a simple screen reader on Redox, presumably based on AccessKit? It'd probably just be a spare-time project.
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Matt Campbell
Does that mean that Redox has adopted or will adopt Wayland? Or will Orbital still be the windowing system?


"After you type in the recovery key and the laptop boots up be sure to pause then resume bitlocker. This should reestablish the trust and stop the prompt. " - this should be something Windows sends you a notification about after it had requested the key, because for me, each subsequent boot asked for it again, and it wasn't until using these instructions from a random forum that I could fix it. (so thanks "Jago Wu" on Spiceworks community forum)

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in reply to Tamas G

I never ran into that. Instead, I was prompted for a recovery key seemingly at random. I never found out why. I finally got tired of not having a laptop without signing into a site on my phone and carefully using the f keys to type a bunch of numbers. Bitlocker is no longer enabled on this laptop. I wish I could turn it on, but I don't trust it to not randomly lock me out.


linux-game-manager
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the linux-game-manager project Updates to custom launchers.


Vie niekto prečo idú v ssmere nonstop v štýle predvolebnej kampane? Snáď si nevšimli, že už sú vo vláde a nemusia mať veľkolepé vyhlásenia o tom čo všetko (ne)urobia, pokiaľ budú mať príležitosť?

Napríklad citát z článku: "Tak sa dopracovali k záveru, že ak by sa na Slovensku dostalo k moci Progresívne Slovensko, podobné „zvrátenosti“ by sa diali aj u nás. „Za nás v Smere môžeme garantovať, že v témach ako migrácia, progresívna ideológia či sloboda slova neuhneme ani o milimeter,“ vyhlásil Glück."

dennikn.sk/4160514/znie-to-ako…

in reply to Daniel Tóth

Prepáč, nerozumiem ti. Síce chápem tvoju frustráciu, v tom sme spolu, ale ak v jednom príspevku nazveš cez 1,3 milióna voličov koalície nie ľuďmi, ale iba hlupákmi a potom to ešte skúšaš obhájiť takýmto prirovnaním k Hitlerovi... toto sa obávam, že nepomáha. Vážne nie.
Ja viem, že najlepším argumentom proti demokracii je 5 minútový rozhovor s priemerným voličom, ale takto to je všade. Ak týchto ľudí budeš vnímať a nazývať hlupákmi, to im oči neotvorí - iba ich utvrdíš v tom, čo im ich vyvolený hovorí - že ich bakaní liberáli chcú zožrať.
in reply to Ľuboš Moščovič

@herrman_sk Ja sa žiadnym Hitlerom neobhajujem, bol to len príklad k tomu, že ak niekto vedome ubližuje druhým ľuďom pre potešenie alebo svoj prospech, tak to pre mňa nie je proste človek. Človek je že vraj najinteligentnejší tvor na našej planéte, tak nech sa tak aj správa. Ak ubližuje druhým napr. kvôli pomste ako to robia voliči vládnej koalície, tak žiaľ, tiež to pre mňa nie sú ľudia. Ja naozaj nemám potrebu tu robiť zo seba lepšieho človeka a tváriť sa, že nie som ako tí druhí, lebo toto nás presne dostalo do aktuálnej situácie. Veci treba pomenovať pravým menom a netreba zo seba robiť chrumkavých a hrať sa na moralistov.

Taktiež nemám za potrebu voličov vládnej koalície o niečom presviedčať, lebo opäť použijem argument s človekom ako najinteligentnejším tvorom na planéte - oni majú mozgy (aj keď často to tak nevyzerá) a taktiež majú možnosť rozmýšľať, takže ak im príde správne voliť fica, nikto im ich názor nezmení. Mňa tiež nemusel nikto presviedčať o tom, že fico je zlý a nemám ho voliť, prišiel som na to vlastným rozumom a úsudkom. Takže ak naozaj nie sú dotyční hlupáci, načo im je dobré otvárať oči? Ak by hlupáci neboli, tak otvorené oči majú dávno a nevolia fica.



Well, that's a first. Today I was part of a mass layoff at fly.io.

I guess the only consolation, if you can in fact call it that, is that most of my team seems to have gotten laid off too, including my manager. So it didn't have anything to do with me.

Still processing everything, but I was planning on leaving Texas next year and this definitely messes with those plans.

I'm not anywhere near dire financial straights, so there's that, but as someone with a severe disability I'm used to exploitative employment situations, and Fly wasn't that, so I don't know where I'll look next if I want to avoid the "hire disabled folks because they're desperate" trap.

Gonna keep breathing, taking it one day at a time. That's all I can do right now.

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in reply to Nolan Darilek

Fuck, I'm sorry to hear it. If you're able to say, what sort of responsibilities did your team handle?
in reply to James Scholes

Managed Postgres. Unannounced but alluded to publicly enough that I can at least say that much. A bunch of teams were affected though so things are going to get interesting there in the coming months.


Conversation I had recently:

him: my train was delayed for 15 minutes by a hobo.
me: how so?
him: the police had to come to get him off the train.
me: whoa, what did he do?
him: he was sleeping on the train.
me: and not bothering anyone?
him: no
me: so the police came to drag a sleeping man off the train, even though he wasn't bothering anyone, just sleeping?
him: yes
me: why?
him: we thought that he might not have a ticket.
me: So a man, who you thought may be experiencing homelessness, was sleeping on the train, other passengers thought that he might not have a ticket, and called the police, who dragged him off the train? And that caused a 15-minute delay? Seems to me like it wasn't the sleeping man who caused the 15-minute delay?
him: ???

Just now, the gates were broken, so I couldn't scan my public transport card. Went out of my way to scan it at a different station, almost missing my connection.

Train conductor just checked our tickets. Young white dude next to me hadn't scanned his card. Conductor tells him to "remember" next time, even though you have to practically break through the gate to get into the station without scanning your card.

Guess we have different rules for different people here. Also I'm low-key annoyed with my own honesty and integrity. Could've saved myself 8 euros and a sprint for the train today.

#treinleven #PublicTransportation




Guessing we have about 36m pulls a week for curl container (across quay and docker hub) ... surprising low amount of churn/issues for so much usage #curl
#curl




this is useful if you need cheap machines for home projects lowcostminipcs.com/

I use a #RaspberryPi & find the energy consumption to be the advantage. Looking at prices, an #RPi is now more expensive than many of these

Considering one for #kalilinux & #pentesting




The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chip is a game changer for Windows PCs

The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chip for Windows PCs is a game changer for Windows laptops and might be a leader in a revolution.

#SnapdragonXElite #Qualcomm #reviews #technews #XElite

techaeris.com/2024/08/29/qualc…



Pršalo. Tak sa mi dnes darilo a dážď to musel prerušiť.



Librem 5: The smartphone that truly respects your freedom. Built for privacy, security, and control. #Purism #Librem5
puri.sm/products/librem-5/


Also, I had to have a refresher on this, so I thought I'd post for anybody else who might be interested: olympics.com/en/paris-2024/par…



If you ever feel like you've fucked up your UX beyond all usefulness, consider that this is a real headline on the Apple knowledge base.
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Wow, English-only people (or Western languages, for that matter) are so naïve. In case you didn't know, the lang attribute is very important in East Asian languages.

lobste.rs/s/9ck6y9/what_progra…

jsfiddle.net/8sa8ndLj/2/

#CJK #language #EastAsian

in reply to 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

Serious question. How do platforms that accept user-generated content handle this?

Take Mastodon for example, if three users send a post, one in Chinese, one in Korean, one in Japanese, and the app is international, how would this be handled? How should this be handled?

Are apps targeting the Asian market rewquiring the user to correctly fill in the "language" field each time? Are you effectively required to include AI-based language detection in each product? Are browsers truly unable to figure this out on their own when there's no lang attribute present?

in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki On the web, it's common to specify the lang attribute in the top-level <html> tag. Internationalized apps will prefer the user's locale setting.
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki maston lets users specify a default language & change the language on a per-post basis when they are composing posts.


Sight impaired sweet followers and people, I am wondering what you all use for a watch / tell you the time / ECT ? ... I have a small collection of braille watches and talking watch's ... And somewhere hidden I have a 1860 braille pocket watch ... Thank you

You all inspire me to be better ... Hugz

Hugz & xXx

in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo

Nice looking watch, I have fixed a couple of those ... Hugz

They are also nice just to play with ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx



Doing a "Veronica Mars" rewatch, and it's absolutely hilarious to see the guest stars in the first season of what was a small UPN show in 2004. You have:

- future Academy Award winner Melissa Leo
- future Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain
- future Primetime Emmy Award winner Aaron Paul




Tired of playing email tag to figure out a meeting time? We are too. Our newest project, Appointment, is coming to the rescue - and a closed beta! Find out more and get links to the waiting list and our GitHub repo in our announcement blog.

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Scheduling

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/08/p…

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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
@greytheearthling Framadate has some features we don't, like general polling. Appointment has the ability to connect video conferencing (right now, Google Meet and Zoom). We hope you sign up for the beta so you can compare directly!



From Peter Greco, Host of Focal Point From Vision Australia: interview with Bryan Blazie and David Goldfield, BTSpeak from Blazie Technologies groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/76…


Podcast: Talking Technology with V I Labs: Talking Technology extra: Be My Eyes acquires AppleVis groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/76…


Dropbox Link to Obtain a Recording of the Braille 'n Speak User's Manual, Written and Recorded by Olga Espinola, December 1992 groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/76…
in reply to David Goldfield

This is nothing lessthan eppic!!! I love this trip back in time. I remember power-reading this manual as I was learning my new braille lite. Wow!!!


I was asked to promote @FediverseSymbol in my work. So I had a naked friend do a short tutorial on how to paint the symbol itself. I hope it doesn't get lost in the federated timeline.

symbol.fediverse.info/

They didn't pay me, but their manifesto website works in links2, so I figured I'll do it.

#art #mastoart #fediart #comic #artist #tutorial #links2gang



the club isn't the best place to find love so the ____ is where I go

  • bar (4%, 1 vote)
  • social security administration (0%, 0 votes)
  • 7-Eleven (4%, 1 vote)
  • other club (9%, 2 votes)
  • bedsheets that smell like you (19%, 4 votes)
  • european organization for nuclear research (61%, 13 votes)
21 voters. Poll end: 2 months ago