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#Amazon has started creating auto-generated #AI reviews. The review for my @scarfolk book says that it's "full of fun, fascinating articles for children".

Would that be the book that I designed around cult brainwashing techniques and contains images of dead & disfigured kids?

#scarfolk

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I'm about to redo my Linux installation on my 2015 Macbook air, so for fun, I'm removing as many packages as possible while the system is still booted. It's the equivalent of rm -rf / but a lot more methodical. I already got rid of grub* and linux*, which has almost certainly made the system un-bootable, but it's still booted for the moment. Then I ran a loop to get rid of the largest installed packages one at a time, to avoid any "I will not remove essential system packages" errors. Somehow, the system is still running.
in reply to aaron

I'm accessing it via SSH. Every bit of display anything is long gone.
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Attention all #macOS users of #RemoteIncidentManager:
As you may be aware, Apple is releasing macOS #Sequoia today. Every effort is being made to ensure Remote Incident Manager’s readiness for Sequoia as soon as possible. At the time of writing, we are hard at work addressing some challenges brought about by Sequoia. In particular, a new permissions condition currently strongly impacts the long-term viability of unattended sessions on Mac targets. The remote accessibility module on Mac targets has also been impacted. We are currently in talks with Apple support concerning these issues, and it is our hope to have a solution ready in due course. However, at this time, we strongly recommend remaining on macOS Sonoma if at all possible. We further recommend that you advise any Mac users you provide support/training to to hold off on updating to Sequoia as well. We will keep you apprised of further developments, and will give an all clear once Rim can be pronounced fit for use on Sequoia.
We apologize for any inconvenience, and we thank you for your understanding and continued support.

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Am I the only one who thinks pass keys are completely overrated? As a user of a password manager, and 2fa everywhere I can, I don't see where these should be more secure. And cool, they are stored somewhere randomly on my device, or something, but idk if they can be synced between my iPhone and my PC and what this all should be generally.
in reply to Jonathan

They’re pretty great if you sync them in your password manager, then it's 1-click login everywhere.


Is it me, or is this the first time that a MacOS version was released simultaneously with the iOS and iPadOS software versions?
in reply to Rich Yamamoto

Tech journalists have commented on how early Apple is releasing macOS this year. It was definitely a surprise.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt Oh no, I just saw Mike’s email about RIM and that was the first time I saw that they were releasing it early like this.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt I don’t doubt it. The one drawback to this is that you didn’t have time to prepare for what could break and what would already be broken.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt I’m honestly excited about that, it will definitely help with synchronization across things like Notes, Messages, etc. I’m not complaining, but it makes me wonder if that thing was rushed.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt Personally, I hope this is here to stay. It’s always aggravated me that the release dates have been different, especially when there are features that are designed to sync up with each other.



@Tusky new bug i started experiencing in past few weeks: if i start a post, then switch over to the web browser to check something, then go back to tusky, the post-in-progress disappears entirely & isn't saved in drafts. using android with the most recent update.
in reply to jesse jarnow

Hi! Sorry, we have identified it as a bug, and we are working to solve it.


This is a short tutorial video on how to receive events/tasks almost instantly from your @nextcloud on your Android device using DAVx⁵ and our new Push functionality.

1. You'll need to activate this Nextcloud app:

apps.nextcloud.com/apps/dav_pu…

2. Install a @unifiedpush distributor on your Android, then select it in the DAVx5 settings.

3. Deactivate and reactivate a calendar resource in DAVx5 in the details view of a resource and wait 5 seconds. "Subscribed" should appear, and you're ready.

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in reply to DAVx⁵ 🔄

Outstanding work, this is a very welcome change.

Followed the tutorial and now see Push Support as Subscribed for CalDAV entries. Should the Push Support info also show for CardDAV? So far not seeing that info in CardDAV.



Green accessibility for web developers (video preso): mediaspace.umn.edu/media/t/1_h… #webdev #webdevelopment #a11y #css

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So I'm still working on my Woms clone for the browser, all free software and all that good jazz.

I'm tempted to write a little blog post on what I've done so far. It would mostly be around

1) destructible 2d terrain
2) particles
3) pixi.js and physics

Would that be interesting to folks?



A co je na vaření v přírodě nejdůležitější? No přece ty správné rukavice. 🤣
twitter.com/visualfeastwang/st…


"Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure citizens will be on their best behavior"

"Ellison said AI would be used in the future to constantly watch and analyze vast surveillance systems, like security cameras, police body cameras, doorbell cameras, and vehicle dashboard cameras."

businessinsider.com/larry-elli…

#Privacy #Surveillance #AI




The idea is to keep the pulse high the whole week, so there will be a trurl release (and associated release video) on Thursday.


Me sorprende el cero hype que me produce el tema de la IA siendo yo un frikis de la tecnología que se ha criado con peliculas de ciencia ficción y leyendo a Asimov. Es cierto que es increíble pero como mi objetivo es mejorar el mundo le veo más mal que bien en el contexto actual. Con ese objetivo lo que si me fascina es el software libre.
in reply to ⁂ Kyva

Y no te da ninguna gana andar con modelos locales, y modificarlos?


😲 Kyle Kabasares, a Physics PhD graduate working at NASA's Ames Research Center, gave the methods section of his research paper to ChatGPT O1 Preview and asked it to generate the code based on the description. After just six prompts, it produced a working version of the code that took him a year to develop during his PhD. #ChatGPT #LLM #ML #AI youtube.com/watch?v=M9YOO7N5jF…
in reply to Chi Kim

All I can say is "WTF?"! Oh no... That's going too far... LOL
in reply to victor tsaran

@vick21 He has PhD in Physics. I have no idea if he has extensive background in programming, or how complex his code was. I guess the point is that if you know how to ask with the right prompt and quality check the output from LLMs, someone like him doesn't have to spend a year on coding and instead focussing on something else. Having said that, I have o1-preview, and it's great! The main drawback is you only get 30 messages per week. :)
in reply to Chi Kim

Do we know for sure that OpenAI was not already trained on his code? Curious then, if the machine would be able to produce that same code without having ever seen it? :)
in reply to victor tsaran

@vick21 He raised that question in the video. He said he migrated his code to Github, but it's a private repo. Maybe Microsoft handed over private repos to OpenAI too? lol Even if the model had his code as part of training data, he was very impressed with the output.
in reply to Chi Kim

I heard about One's capabilities from coWorkers. They are quite impressed. I don't have Plus subscription though...


I grew up a few km away from the border to France. My classroom was 100 meters away from the Rhine. I was in 9th grade when they opened the borders. I was in 12th grade when they introduced the Euro. Visiting other countries in the EU suddenly felt truly magical. "Fuck you" to all politicians in this country who are currently destroying this magical idea for pure populism, to appease some fascists. It's all about staying in power - as if that helped - and I couldn't despise them more for it.


question(s) about composing music, please Boost <3

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Chrome on the Mac uses less battery than Safari

It's one of the most pervasive common wisdoms shared all over the web, no matter where you go - it's one of those things everybody seems to universally agree on: Chrome will absolutely devastate your battery life on the Mac, and you should really be using Safari, because Apple's special integration magic pixie dust sprinkles ensures Safari sip

osnews.com/story/140751/chrome…

#macOS

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recordemos que en uno de ellos hay o hubo princesas. node.isonomia.net/@modulux/sta…


Buenos días, fedi, y en particular residentes en las Españas.

Hoy se abre la convocatoria de becas de Colegios del Mundo Unido (CMU en español, UWC en inglés). Se trata de becas para estudiantes que estén cursando ahora 4º de ESO o 1º de Bachillerato, para cursar durante dos años el Bachillerator Internacional en uno de los 18 colegios internacionales, repartidos por todos los continentes, de la organización.

Yo estudié en el de Noruega (UWC Red Cross Nordic College) y además de una oportunidad única fue una experiencia inolvidable. Si conocéis a alguna persona en situación de solicitar estas becas y con inquietudes e interés por conocer otras culturas y asumir estar 2 años fuera estudiando en inglés, por favor hacédselo llegar.

Tenéis más información en: es.uwc.org/

Impulsos bienvenidos y agradecidos.

#UWC #CMU #IB #becas


in reply to Juan CBS

Si, Leonor y su hermana fueron a Atlantic College. También fue alguna holandesa si mal no recuerdo.



Eloína Núñez Masid creou un cargo que non existía no seu hospital para asignarllo ao seu esposo.

Ela fora designada xerente da área sanitaria de Ourense tres meses despois de que seu curmán, Feijóo, chegara á Xunta.

✍️ Juan Oliver
luzes.gal/15/09/2024/luzes-pub…



Can we all just take a moment and appreciate how there is not a single ad or paid account optimization algorithm or whatever in this place, you can just go to this social media platform of all things, with no adblocker on an unpatched windows xp box, and expect a good time, hop on some IRCs and the experience is complete. this is truly the internet like it's 2001, this feels like home :wvrnFlat:


En tu pueblo, ¿cómo se llama a las jijas/chichas/probadura/picadillo? (Lo de dentro del chorizo, sin embutir)



Hey #nextcloud users - Give me an idea for an app you'd like to see in Nextcloud.
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion @viktor One nice thing about Talk over Slack is that you can more easily have guest attendees in Talk, which is useful for sales calls or collaborating with people outside of your org, etc.


Tu si niekto dovolí sa vyhrážať nožom prokurátorke kde ju pri rannom behu chytí odzadu za ústa. Ti musí jebať...
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A Discord is not a substitute for a website. Or a support forum. Or an issue queue.

Or really pretty much anything besides maybe IRC or Matrix if you're not worried about the openness of the chat platform.



Something I've thought about for awhile on the fediverse... I know many people would like to see quote posts implemented like on Twitter, but I wish discussions about this were less focused on the specific affordances of twitter.

I really like tumblr-style reblogs, because they have one key difference: the original poster's post comes *first*. A quote post privileges the quoter's position, and lets them influence how you'll read the quoted post. A reblog has you read the original post first.

in reply to Misty

I'm sceptical of the quote posting functionality and would probably disable it for my posts, but the way you describe it I think would be good. To me it's similar to the top-posting phenomenon in email (which I dislike and breaks logical flow) versus bottom-posting, which is nice.


Buenos días, fedi, y en particular residentes en las Españas.

Hoy se abre la convocatoria de becas de Colegios del Mundo Unido (CMU en español, UWC en inglés). Se trata de becas para estudiantes que estén cursando ahora 4º de ESO o 1º de Bachillerato, para cursar durante dos años el Bachillerator Internacional en uno de los 18 colegios internacionales, repartidos por todos los continentes, de la organización.

Yo estudié en el de Noruega (UWC Red Cross Nordic College) y además de una oportunidad única fue una experiencia inolvidable. Si conocéis a alguna persona en situación de solicitar estas becas y con inquietudes e interés por conocer otras culturas y asumir estar 2 años fuera estudiando en inglés, por favor hacédselo llegar.

Tenéis más información en: es.uwc.org/

Impulsos bienvenidos y agradecidos.

#UWC #CMU #IB #becas

#uwc #cmu #ib #becas


📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 16. September, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion



While we're still not moving as fast as I'd like with Circle reviews, I'm happy that we managed to get 6 new apps accepted during the 47 cycle 🥳

By the way, the Circle committee is always looking for new reviewers. If you're somewhat familiar with GNOME app development practices and design patterns and would like to help, please get in touch :)



@MapComplete btw, I got "yelled at" on OSM for adding a lot of images of menus in restaurants using MapComplete.
One of the reasons cited was not having a license for taking image of the menu and another was some restaurants not wanting to publish their prices on the internet.

While I don't agree with either of these arguments it might be useful to add a hint about asking restaurant staff about publishing these images.

I'd be very curious about opinions on the topic in any case!
#OSM

in reply to Ame

Well, that sucks!

I'm not particularly worried about copyright, because:

- Often, there is very little creative work involved in creating a menu, thus copyright does not apply
- As restaurant, you do have create and have to publicly publish your menu in your normal operations, so database rights don't apply as well
- At last, the picture is actually saved on imgur. As such, they will get the takedown request ;)

in reply to MapComplete

I think there can be pretty designs on menus, so copyright can apply there I feel

I agree with the other points though, we don't worry about copyright infringement on wikidata either, that is handled on their side!



Si nunca has jugado a D&D y quieres probar, puedo hacer una partida en un día de un fin de semana a convenir. Lo pongo en abierto por si queréis hacerle retoot #rol. Si te interesa, deja una respuesta

(Y si ya juegas y te interesa, también puedes)

Edit con clarificaciones: sería enteramente a través de internet, usaríamos Discord. Partida LGTBQ+ friendly

#rol
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Zajtra obhliadku potvrdiť alebo nepotvrdiť? Myslím že zo začiatku to bude o hubu trochu... v stredu by sa dalo teoreticky sťahovať.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Je tam lepšia práčka, posteľ tiež, podľa mňa je to aj lepšia lokalita, dochádzanie do práce to isté skoro. Nevýhoda že je to izba (síce veľká) s chodbou, bez kuchyne, tá je na začiatku bytu z chodby.



Hi, all.

I realize this is a far cry from my usual posts, but I'm desperately trying to find work, as I know are so many others.
I don't have a wide range of interests, but anything that will make my CV more interesting is a plus, so I'm on the hunt for a potential list of free and accredited online courses.
If anyone knows where I can find something like this, please please let me know. I'll do anything to fill my time if it feels within reach of my current skillset, and hopefully that skillset can slowly expand as a result.

Anything helps. Thank you in advance.

#Help #Advice #Learning #Education #Course

in reply to Estelle

Deque university offers accessibility testing courses, and they're free if you're disabled.

No geographic restrictions or proof of disability necessary, as far as I know.

in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

This is a good suggestion. The Deque courses are not perfect, and I wouldn't want to shoehorn all blind people into accessibility work. Nevertheless, the industry does need more disabled representation, from people who truly take it upon themselves to know what they're doing, and are able to incorporate but look beyond their own experiences. @Estrella
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I'm #ISO a Spanish historian who can help me figure out: back when students at the University of Salamanca elected professorial chairs, how were the votes cast? I know all about the chaos around the elections (voter intimidation, b/u/s/i/n/g/ burroing? in extra voters, etc.), but not the actual *voting method*.
#iso