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Whoops, I gave the FreedomScientific AI Companion my Mist World Gem Simulator JS file, and now it's helping me code it to be better, the idea of talking about JAWS has just, flown out the Window, I guess.
I did this to test whether the field has a text length limit. It was shocking to me that those smart developers at FS did not code in a maxlength to the input, it's like, the least you could do to prevent large use of the API.
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in reply to Tamas G

Apparently if you ask it about a screen reader other than JAWS it'll refuse to help you. I say suck that API dry. They've sucked us dry enough over the years; they can eat the costs.


Challenge: How many questions will it take the new Freedom Scientific AI chat bot to give me something totally ridiculous? fscompanion.freedomscientific.…
Answer, only one. It just told me that R and Shift+R can be used to navigate to the next/previous slider on the Web.
On the more amusing side, it was also perfectly happy to tell me that NVDA+N can be used to access the NVDA menu, and that I should quit JAWS and switch to NVDA first. A real shame we can't share the conversation...
in reply to Nikola Jović

what's interesting is that I can get it to admit being powered by Open AI and GPT-4, but it will refuse to say it's ever Claude-powered, which tells me they are probably using 4O mini for this with custom embeddings of the training / JAWS documentation.
in reply to Nikola Jović

@Tamasg A good fine-tuning would go a long way here. I am surprised this was not done by FS devs.


The #Linux 6.12 pull request for #PREEMPT_RT is handed to Linus. Likely the first PR ever submitted in printed form. #kernel #LinuxKernel #Realtime
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in reply to Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)

at cccamp last year some kernel devs did merge request review on printed out lkml emails (which came from an endless paper printer). πŸ™‚


I set up this server for myself and my friends, but i swear to god i'm literally the only one who posts here.

One person occasionally boosts. Another raaaarely replies, but I feel kinda like a spammer every time i look at the "Local" feed and it's just "me me me". :/

in reply to masukomi

That just means the local feed isn't a good UI for such a small server.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt meh. I don't think there's much of anything else for it to ever show really. They BARELY use it it.



How do you make holy water? You boil the hell out of it.


β€œIt was May 8th 2020 for the third time, and Ryan had already caused two traffic accidents.”

Ryan "Quicksave" Romano is an eccentric adventurer with a strange power: he can create a save-point in time and redo his life whenever he dies. Arriving in New Rome, the glitzy capital of sin of a rebuilding Europe, he finds the city torn between mega-corporations, sponsored heroes, superpowered criminals, and true monsters. It's a time of chaos, where potions can grant the power to rule the world and dangers lurk everywhere.
Ryan only sees different routes; and from Hero to Villain, he has to try them all. Only then will he achieve his perfect ending... no matter how many loops it takes.

royalroad.com/fiction/36735/th…



When Google Drive gets ARM support on Windows and I can finally mount my Drive FS in Windows Explorer again, I will be one happy person. A bit sad that it's only until now that Google decided to pick up that project again, most likely with cloud customers driving that decision.


Couldn't make it to the #matrixConf but you don't want to miss out on the talks? We've got your back!

Head to 2024.matrix.org/watch and watch the talks in real time, starting at 10:00 CEST tomorrow

in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation

is there a good guide for setting up the microservices needed to use the "rooms" on the wider network? synapse single threaded i can't join most of the channels on, say, matrix.org; it's just too slow.

The guides made my eyes glaze over, and i'm a systems architecture person. send help :-)





After a full day of sharing ideas, talking and socialising at #matrixConf, it’s time for drinks (and food!)


fun fact: if a piece of software helps you out, it only takes 3 minutes to write a quick e-mail to its author/maintainer and thank them.


All the books I've read about business management, professional development, and so on, could be summarized in 10 pages or so.
There are some great books out there with incredibly insightful and useful concepts, but holy shit if they like to bubble up those concepts into never ending meandering and useless anecdotes.

"You could improve your workflow with these 4 concepts, but first, let me tell you about the time a seagull pooped on my ice cream and the lesson I learned from eating shit"



Man, if Mozilla had spent any real time in the last decade making embedding/using Gecko feasible for anything except Firefox, there'd be so many Gecko-based browsers right now.

My entire journey with developing Gecko stuff and working for Mozilla started because embedding was possible (though difficult).

It's sad to see Mozilla management continue to just not learn anything at all. Misfire after misfire. But they're more important now than ever :(

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in reply to Cwiiis

oh look here's us having this same discussion a decade ago and not being heard then either, sigh kryogenix.org/twitter/55152926…
in reply to Stuart Langridge

@sil I think this has been pretty much a constant source of dismay among people that worked on Gecko



I can't stop thinking back to that Best Buy experience yesterday, buying the laptop - the sales associate tried to really upsell me on Windows AI laptops, and how these NPUs will help me code offline with AI assistance, something I can't do on Intel chips, but could do with the Qualcomm AI-powered gismos. I flat-out told him that I need the compatibility for VMWare and drivers, and would not go with ARM, but he really tried to push it, claiming VS code supports offline AI coding only on Qualcomm
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in reply to Tamas G

it was down to the HP and an IdeaPad 32-GB ram config model they had in-store, and I got a chance to look at the XPS13 with the touch-bar and squished-together keys (something that was out for me from the get-go.) About the only agreement we found was in the sentiment that the mid-range of computing is eroding - you either get something heavy meant for gaming with dedicated GPU and weaker battery, or something light and thin that sacrifices a bit of the oomf and AI power to give that to you.
in reply to Tamas G

Windows hardware is truly a nightmare these days, especially for notebooks. Between AI and Copilot, shitty Intel CPUs with continuingly awful thermals, ARM PCs being woefully underwhelming... maybe the only good thing is AMD, and even then problems still exist. I had a lot of excitement for ARM; all of that is gone now that Snapdragon blew it. I have a Windows desktop and linux mini PC server that meet most of my needs, so I've concluded that I'm probably going to get a MacBook. Sigh
in reply to Tristan

@tristan yeah, AMD was in the cards for sure, but sadly if I still want to enjoy Mac OS under VM, probably for the last time if Intel is dropped next year or after, I had to go with them still. What blows my mind is the thermal envelope of this chip, going from 28W all the way to 115W. That's huge, which means my battery could be 10+ hours with light browsing but turn into 3 hours with running a local LLM and ramping up the power. ARM needs time to mature in ecosystem sadly.
in reply to Tamas G

Unfortunately they rely on pushing users who might not know how AI or PC's work. This is why I mostly go in just to see the laptop, then buy it online. No one is going to talk me into a computer I don't want online :).


Rant: I think a new interview question is in order for us.

"We have a programatically enforced code formatting standard we've been consistently using for years. Without seeing the output, will you want us to revisit it?"

If they answer anything other than "no," they fail.

I am SICK AND F'ING TIRED of developers fighting over code formatting. No one agrees on one single way.

Our way is both conventional and consistent. Deal with it.

#software #Developer #SoftwareDevelopment



I'm noticing that LLMs are horrible when you start asking them to name the title of the next book in a series. We're talking about major just making things up ...


Adwaita is really pretty freaking great. It makes designing responsive apps just… easy?? Here’s an update to Butler, my Home Assistant app, for GNOME 47 and Adwaita 1.6.

Update coming soon to Flathub!

#GNOME #Adwaita #Flatpak #Flathub #HomeAssistant #Linux #OpenSource

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in reply to Cassidy James Blaede

Drag-and-drop can be pretty sweet on GNOME, too. Did you know you can drag-and-drop credentials from your password manager, and drag colors between color pickers? Check it out!

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Oh, my. It would seem that while the FSCompanion.ai is meant to answer questions about JAWS, Windows and other applications it ... um ... will be happy to chat about other things, as well.
in reply to Leo

@Lprazdnik See the main Freedomscientific.com landing page for info on the JAWS 2025 beta.
@Leo


Mit dem #KΓΆln|er #Fahrradkalender @koeln gibt es die MΓΆglichkeit, diverse Termine mit Fahrradbezug zentral zu sammeln bzw. einzusehen. Seit heute unterstΓΌtze ich das Team. πŸ—“οΈ
@fahrradkoeln
events.fedibikes.social/@koeln


Frage ans Publikum:
Ist DAS 2024 noch zeitgemÀß?

"#SheTransformsIT – gemeinsam fΓΌr ein innovatives, souverΓ€nes
Digitaldeutschland
Frauen fΓΌr Digitalisierung zu gewinnen, ist eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Aufgabe. Die Veranstaltung der Initiative #SheTransformsIT ...
Denn nur durch verstΓ€rkte InterdisziplinaritΓ€t und die Zusammenarbeit aller kΓΆnnen wir das bis lang ungenutzte weibliche Potenzial fΓΌr Digitalisierung heben."

Fehlt es uns wirklich "nur" an Frauen - oder an echtem Mut zu DiversitΓ€t?

in reply to Katja Diehl

Es fehlt nicht an Mut zur DiversitΓ€t! Es fehlt an Mut ohne "Mauern" im Kopf zu denken.

Gelder fΓΌr Initiativen werden von Leuten vergeben die nicht nur "Mauern" he, she, it im Kopf haben.

In der IT geht es um Expertise. Solange Menschen mit IT-Expert verniedlichend als Nerds bezeichnet werden Àndert sich nichts. Hier sind viele Mauern einzureißen.

U.a.

@bkastl und @Lilith zeigen, daß Frauen eine gute Expertise haben.

Viele Nerds (he, she, it) werden nicht ernst genommen!



I changed my company postal address on my VPS provider’s website. This sent a confirmation email to me. Which sent my auto-reply about being on sick leave back to them. Which created a support ticket. Which created confusion in their system about why I created a support ticket.I got a reply to that ticket that would appear to be AI-generated. The automated reply-tool couldn’t figure out what my question was. πŸ˜…

So many bots are going to be just arguing with each other in perpetuity.



Acabo de terminar El Resplandor, y estoy sin sueΓ±o. Β‘Espero que no empiecen a oΓ­rse ruiditos extraΓ±os! QuΓ© bien escribe el maldito, y que mal cuerpo leer este libro... Ahora necesito algo cozy y cuqui para desintoxicarme.
#Redrum #TheShining #esplendor #StephenKing #Bookworm #Bookstodon
in reply to JosΓ© Manuel Delicado

SΓ­, hace mucho. Ahora estoy con las cosas que flotan, despuΓ©s de pasar por un perro muy cariΓ±oso.


A project analyzing human language usage by scraping the web is shutting down because "generative AI has polluted the data." It's going to become much harder to analyze human use of language with the rise of AI-generated stuff being everywhere.

404media.co/project-analyzing-…

#Tech #AI

#AI #tech


Fellow white Pagans,
β€˜Cultural appropriation’ is not a bad word. It’s not an insult. As a white-guy Wiccan in the early aughts, I have been accused of it myself, so I know how it feels. It feels like an attack, and the immediate human response is usually, β€œDon't tell me what to do!”

But a huge part of spirituality is growing as a person, and religious practice changes as we change and grow. We leave behind things that don't work and tweak the new to fit us. If your practice hasn't changed one bit in 20 years, you're doing it wrong.

Neopaganism is still brand new, and there will be growing pains. We are still creating it as we speak. So it is vital that we listen. Listen to marginalized groups, listen to other living traditions, listen to the people whose cultures are being twisted.

We can be better than the old white men of history, we can be better than colonizers, we don't need to copy what other traditions are doing, we’re making our own.

#Pagan



Is there anything more awkward than German and Americans emailing each other?:

Subject: 19 Sep 24 Round Table

Dear Robert (if I may),
graciously would you allow me to attend your meeting?
Yours in most sincerity,
Dr. Prof. Hans-Joseph Fritzberger

Re: Meeting

Hey Hans!
Great!
- Bob

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Spectre 360? Not a bad device overall so far, now that I've rid myself of all the HP bloat and crap. The only utility I will probably keep is "My HP" if only because of the audio and system fan customizations it provides, I don't see a way to change the EQ settings outside of this app which is a bit annoying (Despite the new Spectre 360 switching to a new audio system and listing Realtek.) Do I regret not waiting for the new Arrow Lake chips? Yes and no. For some local AI what I have will work.


I found out about an iOS app called Categories. It basically lets you count things, then review how often those things happened and find trends. Count anything: had a bad day, slept well, drank water, practiced your instrument, and more. Anything you want to track the frequency of over time. The app was updated with iOS 18 support, so you can log a new count from the lock screen or notification center. I have no idea when I'd use this, but the idea is oddly appealing. The app is accessible.
in reply to Alex Hall

sounds like the sort of thing you'd want to log with a smart speaker.

in reply to Neil Brown

an employee that was let go from various phone manufacturers.... ;-)
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in reply to StΓ©phanie Pageau

de l'Γ©pais qui se plaint que le fΓ©dΓ©ral se mΓͺle des affaires de QuΓ©bec...

(rage)

#polqc



Bylo 16 hodin. Byl vyhlΓ‘Ε‘en vΓ­kend pro @archos a dalΕ‘Γ­ mamuty s prodlouΕΎenΓ½m vΓ­kendem!
in reply to Archos

uΕΎΓ­vej! My pracujΓ­cΓ­ v pΓ‘tku budeme tiΕ‘e sedΔ›t u kompu zΓ­tra rΓ‘no, abychom TΔ› nevzbudili πŸ˜„
in reply to Archos

jΓ‘ to zabalΓ­m okolo čtvrtΓ©...okolo čti budu rΓ‘d, kdyΕΎ neskončím v pΔ›t πŸ˜ƒ
in reply to Robin Bedrunka 🐞

Jo, hoΕ‘i β€” po tΕ™ech odpolednΓ­ch a dneΕ‘nΓ­m volnu mne čekajΓ­ čtyΕ™i rannΓ­ (z toho tΕ™i dvanΓ‘ctky). Abyste mΔ›li pΕ™es vΓ­kend čím svΓ­tit, tak se obΔ›tuji. 🀑
in reply to Pavel Kout

@pavelkout
No pΔ›knΔ› tam pΕ™iloΕΎ ty atomy, aΕ₯ nemusΓ­me Ε‘etΕ™it πŸ‘
@fabia_man


Π£Π±Ρ€Π°Ρ‚ΡŒ Ρ‚Π΅ΠΎΡ€ΠΈΡŽ Π”Π°Ρ€Π²ΠΈΠ½Π° ΠΈΠ· ΡˆΠΊΠΎΠ»ΡŒΠ½Ρ‹Ρ… ΡƒΡ‡Π΅Π±Π½ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ² ΠΏΡ€Π΅Π΄Π»ΠΎΠΆΠΈΠ» ΠΏΠΎΠΌΠΎΡ‰Π½ΠΈΠΊ прСдсСдатСля ΠΏΡ€Π°Π²ΠΈΡ‚Π΅Π»ΡŒΡΡ‚Π²Π° Π Π€ ΠœΡƒΡΠ»ΠΈΠΌ Π₯ΡƒΡ‡ΠΈΠ΅Π². Он ΡƒΡ‚Π²Π΅Ρ€ΠΆΠ΄Π°Π΅Ρ‚, Ρ‡Ρ‚ΠΎ ΠΎΠ½Π° ΠΏΡ€ΠΎΡ‚ΠΈΠ²ΠΎΡ€Π΅Ρ‡ΠΈΡ‚ Ρ€Π΅Π»ΠΈΠ³ΠΈΠΎΠ·Π½ΠΎΠΌΡƒ Π²ΠΎΡΠΏΠΈΡ‚Π°Π½ΠΈΡŽ ΠΈ способствуСт Π΄ΡƒΡ…ΠΎΠ²Π½ΠΎΠΌΡƒ Ρ€Π°Π·Π»ΠΎΠΆΠ΅Π½ΠΈΡŽ Π΄Π΅Ρ‚Π΅ΠΉ. Π₯ΡƒΡ‡ΠΈΠ΅Π² адрСсовал это ΠΏΡ€Π΅Π΄Π»ΠΎΠΆΠ΅Π½ΠΈΠ΅ министру просвСщСния, заявив, Ρ‡Ρ‚ΠΎ всС Ρ€Π΅Π»ΠΈΠ³ΠΈΠΈ ΠΎΡ‚Π²Π΅Ρ€Π³Π»ΠΈ Ρ‚Π΅ΠΎΡ€ΠΈΡŽ ΡΠ²ΠΎΠ»ΡŽΡ†ΠΈΠΈ ΠΈ Ρ‡Ρ‚ΠΎ Π΅Ρ‘ Π½Π΅ слСдуСт ΠΏΡ€Π΅ΠΏΠΎΠ΄Π°Π²Π°Ρ‚ΡŒ дСтям.

Π‘ΠΊΠ°ΠΆΠΈΡ‚Π΅ ΠΊΠ°ΠΊ? Как эти ΠΈΠ΄ΠΈΠΎΡ‚Ρ‹ ΠΏΠΎΠΏΠ°Π΄Π°ΡŽΡ‚ Π²ΠΎ Π²Π»Π°ΡΡ‚ΡŒ? ΠŸΠΎΡ‡Π΅ΠΌΡƒ Π½Π΅ Π²ΠΈΠ΄Π½ΠΎ высказываний Π½ΠΈ ΠΎΠ΄Π½ΠΎΠ³ΠΎ ΡƒΠΌΠ½ΠΎΠ³ΠΎ Ρ‡Π΅Π»ΠΎΠ²Π΅ΠΊΠ° ΠΈΠ· Π΄ΡƒΠΌΡ‹?

in reply to dimkainc

А ΠΎΠ½ΠΈ Ρ‚Π°ΠΌ Π΅ΡΡ‚ΡŒ, ΡƒΠΌΠ½Ρ‹Π΅-Ρ‚ΠΎ? ΠΈΠ»ΠΈ Π½Π΅ ΠΎΡΡ‚Π°Π»ΠΎΡΡŒ ΡƒΠΆΠ΅?..
in reply to AndrΓ© Polykanine

@menelion Ну Π² странС ΡƒΠΌΠ½Ρ‹Π΅ люди Π΅ΡΡ‚ΡŒ. Достаточно ΠΌΠ½ΠΎΠ³ΠΎ, Π·Π½Π°Ρ‡ΠΈΡ‚Π΅Π»ΡŒΠ½ΠΎ большС, Ρ‡Π΅ΠΌ всСх Π΄Π΅ΠΏΡƒΡ‚Π°Ρ‚ΠΎΠ² вмСстС взятых.
МнС Ρ‚ΠΎΠ»ΡŒΠΊΠΎ нСпонятно, ΠΏΠΎ ΠΊΠ°ΠΊΠΎΠΌΡƒ ΠΊΡ€ΠΈΡ‚Π΅Ρ€ΠΈΡŽ Π²Ρ‹Π±ΠΈΡ€Π°ΡŽΡ‚ Π² Π΄Π΅ΠΏΡƒΡ‚Π°Ρ‚Ρ‹? НСуТСли ΠΏΠΎ ΠΊΡ€ΠΈΡ‚Π΅Ρ€ΠΈΡŽ - "Ρ‡Π΅ΠΌ Ρ‚ΡƒΠΏΠ΅Π΅ Π±ΡƒΠ΄Π΅Ρ‚ моя прСдвыборная кампания, Ρ‚Π΅ΠΌ Π³Π°Ρ€Π°Π½Ρ‚ΠΈΡ€ΠΎΠ²Π°Π½Π½Π΅Π΅ я ΠΏΠΎΠΏΠ°Π΄Ρƒ Π² ΠΏΡ€Π°Π²ΠΈΡ‚Π΅Π»ΡŒΡΡ‚Π²ΠΎ"?
И ΠΊΡ‚ΠΎ ΠΆΠ΅ ΠΈΡ… Π²Ρ‹Π±ΠΈΡ€Π°Π΅Ρ‚? Π― Ρ‚ΠΎΡ‡Π½ΠΎ Π·Π° Π½ΠΈΡ… Π½Π΅ голосовал.


Today, our job is simple - to inspire to to try a Thunderbird Add-on to boost your productivity! If you don't know where to get started, our community (including here on Mastodon!) gave us some great ideas. πŸ’‘

#Thunderbird #Community #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/m…

in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Alright, here's an idea: push gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland… forward, and integrate github.com/Ximi1970/systray-x into your codebase so that wae can have a proper TB tray implementation on Linux for both Wayland and X11.

That'd be a nice productivity win for me!

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Does the young, cheerful health care worker's pleasant nature make up for the fact that he had to try in both arms to get blood out of me?
I'm plastered now, and not in the way i want to be.
in reply to Sean Randall

A regular occurrence for me. Only one of my arms "works" for blood samples, and I can never remember which it is.
in reply to Andy Hort

@Devonkiwi I don't think I've had blood taken since before my daughter was born. She's 13


Is your company using a quantum-safe email provider in 2024?

Not yet? Upgrade now! πŸ”

Here’s how Tuta Mail can help your business πŸ‘‰ tuta.com/blog/how-companies-be…

#encryption #privacy #gdpr

in reply to Tuta

As a reminder, a malicious Tuta server can read the end-to-end encrypted e-mails and shared calendars exchanged on the platform as there is no way to verify the recipient's public key. This issue has been brought up to the Tuta team 6 years ago...

github.com/tutao/tutanota/issu…

So, maybe less "we're the most secure e-mail provider in the world" and more concrete security πŸ™ƒ

in reply to Tuta

Is the storage space indicated in the subscription plan only for email or also for general storage (cloud)?


It's talk like a pirate day! Here I go:

"I just want to access the media I already own in a portable format that I can watch or listen to in high quality on all my devices without DRM or adverts."

Did I do it right?

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