WTF is wrong with people worldwide?!
“#Austria's far-right Freedom Party is heading for unprecedented general election victory under leader Herbert Kickl: projections..based on initial results, give Kickl's party 29.1% - almost three points ahead of the conservative People's Party on 26.2%, but far short of a majority.
Freedom Party has been in coalition before, but the second-placed conservative People's Party has refused to take part in a government led by him”
This is an AMAZING deep dive into Chinese crypto and app based money laundering. Incredible really. The mechanics of it and the social aspects of how it all works. An ethnographic masterpiece
Oh man! I was cringing for the poor guy just listening to this. What a pro.
In the 11 o'clock hour on Friday morning, an outage in the newsroom led to WBBM's signal coming off the air and news gathering systems going down. WBBM NEWSRADIO
Anchor Rob Hart was in the studio and brought people up to speed while things got running again. WBBM NEWSRADIO 780AM & 105.9FM is in Chicago, Illinois.
Owned by Audacy, Inc.
And while this was resolved quickly enough, it does raise some serius issues about how the public would be kept informed if some sort of sustained cyber attack was launched that took out newsrooms like this.
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evangelische-aspekte.de/wach-b… #digitalekirche #kolumne #meinung
Ui, vielleicht hier gar nicht so einfach unmissverständlich und in aller Kürze umfänglich genug darzustellen...
Bei Kirchens sehe ich eine weite Spanne: Von der digitalen Totalverweigerung bis zu den Superhipstern.
Kleinere Gemeinden im ländlichen Raum sind mir vielleicht am nächsten. Da gibt es manche, die steht vor dem personellen Kollaps...
Praktische Unterstützung im digitalen Bereich vor Ort könnte ein Aufgabengebiet sein. Grundlegende Medien- und Digitalkompetenzvermittelung an konkreten Aufgaben, z.B. wie organisiert man eine Vorbereitungsgruppe für den Weihnachtsgottesdienst digital:
* Einsatz eines fairen Chatsystems für die Arbeitsgruppe
* Bearbeitung gemeinsamer Dokumente in einer selbstgehosteten Cloud des Kirchenkreises
* Nutzung von Trackingfreiem SocialMedia, nicht um 1000de Follower zu bekommen, sondern lokal ansprechend wahrgenommen zu werden
usw. usw.
Das alles auf eine Art und Weise und mit Tools, die beispielgebend sind für eine #selbstbestimmtDigital e Arbeit, in der wir unsere besonderen Skills auspielen, siehe z.B. hier:
Ein anderer Aspekt könnte praktische Unterstützung für Vernetzung sein:
Es gibt in D eine breitgefächerte, professionelle und trotzdem an der Basis gebliebene Szene, die sich für eine freiheitlich-demokratische #Digitalgesellschaft einsetzt.
Ich sehe #digitaleKirche nur in wenigen Ausnahmen in dieser Richtung konsequent unterwegs. @librechurch@kirche.social wäre eine solche Ausnahme.
Hin und wieder wird aus der Szene mal ein Speaker für eine Keynote zu digitaler Kirche eingeladen, aber die praktische Arbeit in den Gemeinden vor Ort (und auf höherer kirchlicher Ebene?) scheint mir sehr weit weg davon.
I had a friend in highschool who needed support and a place to live if he was to complete highschool. I asked my parents if we might be able to offer that support and it happened without hesitation.
We were definitely not wealthy.
Looking back on this years later, I realized how much that cost, but more importantly how much it taught both my friend and I about looking out for others and being kind.
It has shaped and guided much of my life.
Talk about a grotesque invasion of privacy:
"Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a connected laptop or video game console"
newscientist.com/article/24491…
How can this possibly be legal?
Here's why: Congress isn't just indifferent to your privacy. It is actively complicit with big corporations -- and law enforcement -- in embedding surveillance into everything we do.
RE: pleroma.envs.net/objects/5c9fe…
i mean, think about it. the defining difference between UI design pre- and post-Metro/Material/iOS 7 is how easy it is to use office suite shape tools to prototype a UI.
i don’t think this theory is true but i want it to be since it explains everything.
notable exception: modern Google app icons are impossible for stereotypical PMs or good designers to dream up. a special third type of fucked-up creature was brought in.
someone at Google let the authors of their technical writing style guides write the icon design guidelines.
ok I think I made a joke that was just for me.
Google’s technical writing in practice isn’t actually that bad. the things the style guide chooses to be opinionated and lax on are just a bit odd. very lax on ambiguous terminology but opinionated about using contractions.
the joke I was going for was that the official app icons give me that exact vibe. very ambiguous, very different styles, yet somehow too coherent. it’s actually a bit unsettling.
Meet, Chat, TV, even Calendar: all empty rainbow squares that look the same. Prioritizing similar aesthetics over uniqueness.
Yet most older apps with an existing brand not tied to their empty-rainbow-outline icon guidelines seem recognizable: Classroom, Earth, Voice, YouTube (different palettes, not empty shapes). But some of these will likely join the graveyard of abandoned Google products.
New silly conspiracy theory: Google sunsets old products so they can be replaced by products with icons conforming to its newest icon guidelines.
I mean yeah, some icons are just bad
but e.g. from GNOME perspective that was absolutely the right move. At one point we had icons like this: 3.bp.blogspot.com/-UBhifwD1gzU…
Well, that's an idealistic lie. In reality, they were like this: news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/…
See, only about 3 people in the entire world knew how to draw icons in that specific style and it tooks weeks to make a single icon. Yeah, there were guidelines, but it's way too elaborate for anyone to bother, and so no one did. Every single third party app (except those jimmac/etc made an icon for personally) had crappy icons. I mean corebird on the second screenshot is actually a GNOME app.
So, we drastically simplified icons and made them very geometric, as well as got rid of all the 5 or 6 different sizes and just have a single svg per app. Result? Even the less polished apps have reasonable looking icons. I mean look at this: apps.gnome.org/ - there isn't a single app with a crappy icon there. (ok ok, being in circle already implies a baseline level of quality, but take a look at apps designed for gnome on flathub and it's same story there)
Same story for symbolics - some people were pissed that GNOME uses symbolic icons for apps instead of tango style, but like? I'm not an artist at all, and yet I managed to draw a bunch of these icons for highscore just fine. Previously I'd have to ask a designer.
And well - same for UI styles. Yeah, iOS 6 apps looked very very elaborate, but good luck doing that without an artist. The barrier of entry is so so much lower without an expectation that your app will use wood/leather textures (which were not a part of the platform btw! it was a custom thing in each app, unlike Mac OS X brushed metal)
@alice yeah i was thinking about like. official apps and components that progressively simplify the design at the expense of usability.
Apple honestly didn’t do nearly as badly here as MS did, but at least MS supports WHCM to put bring borders back so I can identify boundaries between components.
I’m biased. I really struggle with identifying boundaries without prominent borders or gradients, remembering icon purposes, etc. so I’ve mostly been noticing years of regressions that I’ve had to theme away.
@MapComplete Could cafés be included in the restaurant category as well?
I'm often just looking for places to eat and don't care whether a place is officially labeled "café" or "restaurant".
I'd also really like to answer some questions about cafés which are currently restaurant exclusive like whether a place offers vegan food.
On the other hand, I've never looked for either a café or a bar at the same time
Ich finde diese Initiative einfach großartig! 🤩 Metalab für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit zugänglich zu machen, ist ein so großer Schritt in Richtung Inklusion. 🌈 Ich wünschte, ich könnte teilnehmen.
PS
Hast du die Braille-Tastatur selbst 3D-gedruckt?
If it’s actually true that WordPress only makes $23K a year from donations that really puts the idea that donations are a sustainable open source business model to bed. It powers 40% of the web and only receives a fraction of one person’s salary in return. Ouch. werd.social/@ben/1132170023499…
Russian law could ban the child-free lifestyle.
Russians who promote 'child-free movement' could soon face hefty fine, Putin says woman's purpose is to birth children and basically, being childless is a threat to national security and state longevity
They are trying to consolidate that the woman’s role boils down to exclusively bearing children
Now we know where JD Vance got his anti cat woman, pro birth woman talking points #USPol
nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-…
***** Where AI excels *****
Obviously, to anyone familiar with my missives on these topics, I am extraordinarily critical of generative AI systems. I won't bend your ear (or eyes) with the details in this message. My stance on this is clear enough.
BUT, I do want to emphasize that my concerns are almost entirely with generative AI, not with AI in general.
First: I don't worry about "evil AI systems" taking over the world or exterminating humanity. Great sci-fi plots though. The most evil AI in film I know of is the computer from "The Invisible Boy" (1957). I mean, that is one really, really nasty AI, who turns Robby the Robot into his slave. Jeez. But these are fantasies.
One sector where AI really excels is in analysis of patterns. Medical diagnostics. Speech recognition. A long list where these machine learning systems are just vastly better than humans at dealing with masses of data and extracting key insights from them. Sidenote: I really enjoy watching the #Google speech recognition system at work, as it quickly corrects, capitalizes, and in other ways "homes in" on utterances as your continuing speech provides more context. I'm pretty constantly amazed at how it picks up on what I would consider to be subtle cues.
In any case, the distinction between this kind of AI and generative AI is not made frequently enough or clearly enough by the mass media at least, with so much attention on generative AI these days.
And it's a very important distinction to keep in mind.
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Yeah, it's those #JustStopOil protesters trying to get your attention to the planetary catastrophe by throwing soup over the protective cases of paintings, who are the real problem, right? RIGHT?
#vangogh #fossilfuel #FossilFuelCriminals #FossilFuelMafia #BigOil #ClimateAction #stonehenge
I talk about cops online, and I have cops hate-following me through their puppet accounts. Sometimes, they reply or DM me.🤷🏿♂️
I talk about GOP politicians, and I have them too. Hi!
I talk about VC bros. So many fleece vests!
For the most part, people are surprisingly reasonable. I'll rant about 10 things, and they'll reply "Mostly fair. But 9 is wrong."
But the 2 things get me the most push back:
* Holding white women accountable for their own actions.
* Advocating for Black women at all.
1/N
Then I remembered, that "evidence does not persuade." So there is no evidence that I could possibly show to convince the 50% of white folk that are super open-minded, that close to half of the other 50% of white folk that are less open-minded, are women. 🤷🏿♂️
7/7
Americans really need to unhitch this conceit stereotype that racists are froth-mouthed, southern, conservative, and not in their own house. Most of my racist experiences come from mid-Atlantic liberals oblivious to their harm.
Just like we all have to kill the cop in our heads, white people have to kill the racist in theirs.
My one big piece of advice to anyone entering tech:
Don't get used to tech company salaries.
Don't get mortgages and car payments that you can only afford with tech company salaries.
Build as much emergency funds as you possibly can with tech company salaries.
Fully expect that you'll get laid off the exact same time the entire rest of the industry stops hiring people, and it may be a couple years before hiring starts back up again.
Sure, you may think those 6 figure salaries means you're living on easy street, but when it comes with only working 8 out of every 10 years, those numbers aren't near as good.
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I wish vector search as a thing would die, or return to the back seat and let traditional indexing things have the first shot.
"oh but vector search is great because it clusters similar concepts!"
Yeah you know what concepts are similar? Different names, different model numbers for things, things that are related to _but different from_ what I searched for.
If I search for "morgan", a result for "morton" is a bad result. If I search for "atari ste", a result for the atari falcon is bad.
I swear half the degradation in websearch these last few years isn't due to content farming and SEO spam, it's purely that search engines collectively decided that people were searching with the wrong words, and that giving them results that are loosely about the broad chunk of concept space near the thing they asked about is better than giving them what they fucking asked for.
Sure, tell me about related concepts. Separately from the results for the sodding word I searched for.
If you run any service, you should try to use it without #google from time to time.
Just log out from Google for a week and observe how your service works. Maybe you realize, that you prepared a nightmare service for ungoogled customers.
For example this youtuber invested into his own video service to be less dependent on youtube. But if you try to log into your existing account without google, you have to pass the #reCaptcha purgatory.
What an irony...
And for some reason they log you out after several days, so nextime you want watch other released episode you have to pass reCaptcha again...
I am sooo annoyed by this...
Hello Stroongers!
Here's part two of #StroongeCast where we answer some user comments about us as a couple, expound more upon the peeling of the orange, discuss our respective mother-in-laws, talk about whether hugging is more of a cultural thing perhaps, and get interrupted twice.
PS. Stick around until *after* the closing music for a little outtake...
For those who want to listen elsewhere, we're pleased to announce that we have an RSS feed so you can paste this into your podcatcher of choice, be that Apple Podcasts, downcast, Overcast etc.
Orange Responses (and then some) youtu.be/vfoXyuk-qmg
Download here: onj.me/media/stroongecast/02_-…
RSS feed: onj.me/media/stroongecast/inde…
Long read but the TL;DR is basically that SaaS is the canary in the coalmine for the #growth fallacy. The arithmetic is so simple it boggles the mind how this mindset came to dominate in the first place: Growth stagnates for these megacorps because there's no more customers. Once you're on 95% of all PCs there's simply no remotely reasonable way to keep growing, let alone grow faster, yet that's what these supposed "business geniuses" expect.
I'm so tired of reading takes on moderation that begin and end with "decide what content I see". That's not even half the question.
It's not about what I see. It's about who can see me. I want to be in control of who has access to me.
For all of it's myriad flaws, activitypub does actually do that, somewhat. And other protocols just don't. Either they're 1:n, 1:all, or all:all. It's so baffling to me that this is the only option that even attempts to do 1:some.
And it's even more baffling that no major implementation has actually taken advantage of that. Followers only should be just the beginning of how you control who're speaking to, not the end.
Every time someone creates an alt on this network as a way to partition their posts to specific audiences should be understood as a failure to live up to the best promise of activitypub.
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Okay y'all, I need to understand this. So someone said that a Pixel 8 is faster than an iPhone 15. Can someone help me understand why someone would say such a thing? The iPhone 15 has a much better SOC than even the Pixel 9, and Google has said that they aren't pushing for benchmarks. This person is using a screen reader, TalkBack and VoiceOver. Meanwhile, to me, the Pixel 8 feels even slower than my iPhone SE 2020, and the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE. Like I guess it could be their way of coping with Android, but I mean there are people who genuinely like it. And yes, it has LLM image descriptions now, so I mean there are people that will put up with it just for that feature. But, meh, sometimes people are unknowable.
#Android #iOS #accessibility #blind
Veo cantidad de gente hablando del "consumo desmesurado" de energía de la IA –aunque en realidad se refieren a la IA generativa, por cierto– cuando ésta representa un porcentaje relativamente bajo –sobre el 10% la última vez que lo vi– del consumo energético de los centros de datos, que a su vez representa entre el 2% y el 3% del consumo energético global. Es decir, que estaría entre el 0,2% y el 0,3% del consumo energético mundial.
Por comparar, el transporte marítimo de mercancías representa casi el 9% del consumo energético mundial, y la práctica mayoría se obtiene a partir de combustibles fósiles. Y a menudo transportan productos del otro lado del planeta solo para ganar un céntimo más por unidad.
No sé, por poner las cosas en perspectiva...
Mir fiel gerade auf, diese Geschichte funktioniert heute wahrscheinlich nur noch schwer, weil ich mich im Gespräch mit einer anderen Person evtl erst über die Definition von „ehebruch“ einigen müsste. Und wahrscheinlich ist das heute auch fließend. Und ich glaube, ich habe zum ersten Mal ne Ahnung was Konservativen da Angst macht 1/2.
#Bibel #Evangelium #FediKirche
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@ondrej ano, to samozřejmě vím, stejně jako Island a Lichtenštejnsko. Ale není to EU. Stejně tak není v EU Velká Británie, přesto ta zpráva (a naštěstí i ceny služeb) vypadají stejně.
Přitom by stačilo to zprávu formulovat třeba takto: "Užívej si v {země}. I tady, stejně jako v celé EU máš ceny jako doma…"
Vidíš, a to já už si ani nepamatuju, jak vypadá volání v UK.
Máš pravdu, ale asi je pro operátora jednodušší napsat EU než zmateným lidem vysvětlovat co to znamená EHP nebo ESVO ;).
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