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I was having a nice day until I saw this and have made the executive decision to make it all y'all's problem as well
pavement and roadwork with some misplaced paneling covering underlying infrastructure

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Are there any A.I. detector Firefox plugins that tell you the probability the page you're reading was written by gen AI at a glance?

Playing around with the new iOS 18 features and I thought the new command mode of Braille Screen Input will make me the ultimate forms wizard, just opening the BSI, filling one field in, switching to commands and over to the next field. It sort of works with the dots 1 and 4 navigating to the previous and next item but it also goes over every single label, anything that is not a form field etc. Tried the same by setting the rotor to form controls but as soon as an edit field is found the editing commands jump in and I can only navigate by characters, words and lines. What would actually help is a gesture simulating the pressing of tab to jump to the next interactive element. Rant, and voice, over. #Accessibility #Blind #Apple #iOS
#Accessibility #apple #blind #ios
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Cary ✨
Cary ✨
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yeah that's weird, I don't know why it only allows you to switch the rotor between characters, words, and lines in BSI. Switching the rotor to form controls would be nice, especially on a website or app with form fields. Maybe you should submit feedback to apple regarding this thing.

Tor insists its #network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin

Kind of boils down to opsec fail here. Using outdated software, which in this case didn’t properly secure Tor connections.

Timing attacks are still viable (especially with hostile nodes), but this reads as an #opsec fail to me.

Remember: a major part of anonymity is maintaining great opsec.

Obligatory: Tor is not “just for criminals,” despite one getting caught in this case (glad he did tbh). Regular people use Tor everyday.

#cybersecurity #security #privacy

theregister.com/2024/09/19/tor…


Tor insists its network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin

Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armor
Iain Thomson (The Register)
#privacy #security #network #cybersecurity #opsec

Gonna just react to everything from now on with this Venn Diagram
Venn diagram of the words WHAT, THE, and FUCK. Overlapping parts read, WHAT THE, WHAT FUCK, THE FUCK, and in the middle, WHAT THE FUCK.

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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Seedy of Chucky
Seedy of Chucky
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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

Tamas G
Tamas G
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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

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

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
#linux #realtime #kernel #linuxkernel #PREEMPT_RT
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Bubu
Bubu
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at cccamp last year some kernel devs did merge request review on printed out lkml emails (which came from an endless paper printer). 🙂

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". :/

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Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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That just means the local feed isn't a good UI for such a small server.
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masukomi
masukomi
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@matt meh. I don't think there's much of anything else for it to ever show really. They BARELY use it it.
@Matt Campbell

Captain Picard looks sternly at the main viewer. “OPEN A CHANNEL TO THE FERENGI VESSEL!” White text on a red background appears on the view screen that reads “OH, YOU'RE USING AD BLOCK? WE SUPPORT OUR OPERATIONS WITH ADVERTISING REVENUE DISABLE YOUR AD BLOCKING PROTOCOLS IN ORDER TO COMMUNICATE WITH THIS VESSEL. -THE GRAND NAGUS” Picard mutters “OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE”

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

“It 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

#matrixconf
in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation

picofarad
picofarad
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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 :-)

User preferences are increasing importance for user experience ericwbailey.website/published/…

Si escriben en #español y viven en #EstadosUnidos o #Canadá, esta convocatoria les puede interesar.
¡Anímense!
Primer #PremioInternacional de #LiteraturaEnEspañol en Estados Unidos y Canadá, de #LiteralMagazine: literalmagazine.com/primer-pre…

#literatura #escritoras #escritores #libros #cuento #novela #poesía #concursos #ConcursosLiterarios #PremiosLiterarios #castellano #literaverso #USA #writers #LiteraryAwards #LiteraryContests #WritingContests #WritersOfMastodon

#USA #canada #writers #libros #espanol #literatura #poesia #escritoras #literaverso #estadosunidos #Premiointernacional #literaturaenespanol #literalmagazine #escritores #cuento #novela #concursos #concursosliterarios #premiosliterarios #castellano #literaryawards #literarycontests #writingContests #writersofmastodon

After a full day of sharing ideas, talking and socialising at #matrixConf, it’s time for drinks (and food!)
A picture of a crowd in a garden, socialising, drinking and eating
#matrixconf

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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Stuart Langridge
Stuart Langridge
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oh look here's us having this same discussion a decade ago and not being heard then either, sigh kryogenix.org/twitter/55152926…
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Emmanuele Bassi
Emmanuele Bassi
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@sil I think this has been pretty much a constant source of dismay among people that worked on Gecko
@Stuart Langridge

Oops, I accepted to be in the CRA panel at NSSS on Monday nsss.se/y2024/agenda/monday/

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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Tamas G
Tamas G
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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.
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Tristan
Tristan
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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
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Tamas G
Tamas G
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@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.
@Tristan
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Leo
Leo
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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

#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

Screenshot of two windows side-by-side. On the left: a larger "desktop" size window with the settings in a dialog window, centered and floating over the parent window. On the right: a smaller, skinnier "mobile" size window with the same settings shown as a bottom sheet that slid up from the bottom.
#linux #opensource #homeassistant #gnome #Flatpak #flathub #adwaita

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Cassidy James Blaede
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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.
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David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@Lprazdnik See the main Freedomscientific.com landing page for info on the JAWS 2025 beta.
@Leo

Mit dem #Köln|er #Fahrradkalender @koeln gibt es die Möglichkeit, diverse Termine mit Fahrradbezug zentral zu sammeln bzw. einzusehen. Seit heute unterstütze ich das Team. 🗓️
@fahrradkoeln
events.fedibikes.social/@koeln
#köln #fahrradkalender @Kölner Fahrradkalender @FahrradKoeln group

Frage ans Publikum:
Ist DAS 2024 noch zeitgemäß?

"#SheTransformsIT – gemeinsam für ein innovatives, souveränes
Digitaldeutschland
Frauen für Digitalisierung zu gewinnen, ist eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Aufgabe. Die Veranstaltung der Initiative #SheTransformsIT ...
Denn nur durch verstärkte Interdisziplinarität und die Zusammenarbeit aller können wir das bis lang ungenutzte weibliche Potenzial für Digitalisierung heben."

Fehlt es uns wirklich "nur" an Frauen - oder an echtem Mut zu Diversität?

#shetransformsIT
in reply to Katja Diehl

Dirk Blank 🇩🇪
Dirk Blank 🇩🇪
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Es fehlt nicht an Mut zur Diversität! Es fehlt an Mut ohne "Mauern" im Kopf zu denken.

Gelder für 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 ändert 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!

@Bianca Kastl @Lilith Wittmann

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. 😅

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

Acabo de terminar El Resplandor, y estoy sin sueño. ¡Espero que no empiecen a oírse ruiditos extraños! Qué 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
#bookstodon #bookworm #stephenking #redrum #theshining #esplendor
in reply to José Manuel Delicado

Sukil Etxenike
Sukil Etxenike
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Sí, hace mucho. Ahora estoy con las cosas que flotan, después de pasar por un perro muy cariñoso.

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,
‘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, “Don'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

#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

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

Who was Headphone Jack?
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Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
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an employee that was let go from various phone manufacturers.... ;-)
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Mêle toi donc de tes affaires

#Québec #CAQ

lapresse.ca/actualites/politiq…

#quebec #caq
in reply to Stéphanie Pageau

Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
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de l'épais qui se plaint que le fédéral se mêle des affaires de Québec...

(rage)

#polqc

#polqc

Bylo 16 hodin. Byl vyhlášen víkend pro @archos a další mamuty s prodlouženým víkendem!
@Archos
in reply to Robin Bedrunka 🐞

Archos
Archos
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Jupííí, děkuji 🤗
in reply to Archos

Jan Dytrych🇨🇿🇺🇦
Jan Dytrych🇨🇿🇺🇦
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užívej! My pracující v pátku budeme tiše sedět u kompu zítra ráno, abychom Tě nevzbudili 😄

Убрать теорию Дарвина из школьных учебников предложил помощник председателя правительства РФ Муслим Хучиев. Он утверждает, что она противоречит религиозному воспитанию и способствует духовному разложению детей. Хучиев адресовал это предложение министру просвещения, заявив, что все религии отвергли теорию эволюции и что её не следует преподавать детям.

Скажите как? Как эти идиоты попадают во власть? Почему не видно высказываний ни одного умного человека из думы?

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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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А они там есть, умные-то? или не осталось уже?..
in reply to André Polykanine

dimkainc
dimkainc
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@menelion Ну в стране умные люди есть. Достаточно много, значительно больше, чем всех депутатов вместе взятых.
Мне только непонятно, по какому критерию выбирают в депутаты? Неужели по критерию - "чем тупее будет моя предвыборная кампания, тем гарантированнее я попаду в правительство"?
И кто же их выбирает? Я точно за них не голосовал.
@André Polykanine

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. 💡

#Thunderbird #Community #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/m…

#opensource #thunderbird #community
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Augier (fr & en) 🏴☭
Augier (fr & en) 🏴☭
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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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