@Tutanota Any idea when you will support IOS 18 dark icon ? because your white app are alien ...
Also when will you change U2F to webauth to support passkey on bitwarden / apple password ?
Increasingly convinced that people shouldn't run a #Mastodon instance for others to rely on unless they:
1. use a specialised, managed hosting service; or
2. legitimately want to learn about the gory details of how federation works, managing and scaling a large Ruby on Rails application, tuning a database server and background task runner, orchestrating careful back-ups, setting up an alert system, and many more things.
Those can be extremely useful things to learn, but it's becoming clear that it isn't as relatively uninvolved as, say, throwing WordPress on a server to run a low-traffic blog. And those are only the technical tasks.
Mastodon is honestly a resource hog, arguably Ruby is really not meant for web apps. Maintenance is one thing, moderation is another. I don't think the average Fediverse user has any idea how much is out there that we have to deal with so we can foster a safer place for everyone. It is a lot of mental strain from the worst of humanity at times. But it is definitely worth it. If anyone hosts a server, a thank you now and then goes a long way, especially if the service is provided for free.
There are also other servers if anyone does not want to deal with Mastodon, I ran #Pleroma and forks for years, which is lightweight and maintaining the software stack is a lot less involved. Then, there's #GoToSocial, which really can't be compared to anything else, except maybe #Snac. They are just brilliant.
Small, focused instances are always better, so is having more accounts, in case one server goes down. Just my opinion.
So I just had my alarm go off but I was already awake for 2 hours. Before the alarm went off I could not fall asleep. After it went off it was so much easier to fall asleep. Why?
I think cuz before my mind was wandering. After the only thing on my mind was "I gotta get up" making it easier to fall asleep
Now I wonder how I can use this to fall asleep faster for real
@bagder
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En EspaΓ±a, hay que pagar para acceder a las normas UNE, referenciadas en mucha legislaciΓ³n. (Recuerdo que mi primera mascarilla casera la hice con la norma Francesa porque la espaΓ±ola no estaba disponible).
Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff@mastodon.social)
Yet another court has recognized a bedrock principle that weβll always defend: no one should own the law. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/courts-agree-no-one-should-have-monopoly-over-law-congress-shouldnt-changeMastodon
Should the CISOs role be split into two functions? - Help Net Security
To better manage growing responsibilities, 84% of CISOs believe the role should be split into technical (CISO) and business-focused roles.Help Net Security
This little mechanical calculator is one of my favorite objects. It came to me with what turned out to be a fouled 10s pin retaining ring; it was a bear to take apart, βmachineβ a new part, and reassemble. But it works! And I love it!
#CURTA #calculators #MechanicalCalculators #ScientificInstruments
WordPressβs emperor, Matt Mullenweg, demands a hefty tribute from WP Engine, and a battle erupts leaving millions of websites hanging in the balance. Meanwhile, the Internet Archive is under siege from hackers.
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For those who canβt wait for Emoji Reactions I made #Conversations_im available for free on Google Play for the next couple of days.
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(Note that the Google Play version has some drawbacks like no address book integration and no public channel discovery. For channel discovery you can use search.jabber.network directly.)
Conversations (Jabber / XMPP) - Apps on Google Play
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Written by an 18 yrs. old:
βI wish I was around when people had blogs or even myspace. This era was deeply personal and creative. Most writing on the internet was individual, not written in search of βSEOβ or profit but driven by the need and want of people to share knowledgeβpure curiosity.β
Great blog post re: #IndieWeb #OldWeb
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I Wish I Didn't Miss the '90s-00s Internet
about me I am 18, born in 2006. This is generally a good thing as I am in the prime of life currently.Hugo Κβ’α΄₯β’Κ Bear
Why is it considered socially and legally unacceptable for me to enter a crowded room armed with an aluminum baseball bat, striking at people randomly - a crippled leg here, a destroyed skull & brain there, a collapsed rib cage and punctured lungs...
Why can I not just injur or kill anyone I want with the bat?
I can do it with #covid.
Welcome to the RB family, Weathernaut π₯³
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Weathernaut lets you check the current conditions, get hourly forecasts for today and tomorrow, or plan your week with a 7-day forecast.
Again, thanks to @bg443 for providing the recipe!
And we just passed the 300th RB app at IzzyOnDroid here: 301 apps / 24.8% are now RB 
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
βWeathernautβ β IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
Weathernaut: Accurate Weather, Music, and More!IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Welcome to the RB family, Jetflix π₯³
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Jetflix is a Movie listing app using the TheMovieDb API which lets you search, filter, select by genre, see cast and crew details, production companies and more.
Thanks to @bg443 for providing the recipe!
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
βJetflixβ β IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
Movie listing app using TheMovieDb APIIzzyOnDroid App Repo
The fact that the latter runs on my phone with decent performance, and the former does not, would suggest that there are differences. Whether or not the latter's initial training exhibits some of the same problems as generative models, I don't know, but it's one of the many reasons that just referencing generative models as "AI" is lazy and harmful.
For instance, I read an article yesterday about a publisher updating their copyright statements to include the text:
"No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems ..."
The lack of nuance immediately made me wonder if I would be violating those conditions if, through my legitimate and unintended actions, any part of the work ever came into contact with any machine learning technologies, e.g. those used for OCR.
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At a protest in SF, blind Uber and Lyft users claim the companies aren't doing enough to prevent drivers from turning away passengers with visual impairments (Wired)
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At a protest in SF, blind Uber and Lyft users claim the companies aren't doing enough to prevent drivers from turning away passengers with visual impairments
From Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
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Drew Breunig (@dbreunig@note.computer)
Simplifying the AI noise by segmenting everything into 3 big use cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs. https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/10/18/the-3-ai-use-cases-gods-interns-and-cogs.htmlnote.computer
You sure you linked to the right song? Have you gone through the kind of existential crisis portrayed in that song? I always saw you as being cautiously optimistic about AI, that it can be a useful tool if used well, but not making us redundant.
@matt @forrestbrazeal I've not felt the anger personally, because I've been releasing open source code for 20+ years so I already default to "I want people to be able to reuse my work as much as possible" - but I absolutely understand the people who ARE angry
If I was an artist and someone trained Stable Diffusion on my work without my permission and then started competing with me for commissions that used my own personal style I think I'd feel very differently about this all
About running models locally, I've experimented with that, but large context windows take up lots of RAM, right? Like, isn't it O(n^2) where n is the number of tokens? Or do you not depend on large context windows?
@glyph Yeah. Today I went down a rabbit hole looking into what it would take to reproducibly, deterministically build some video assets for a little side project I did. It reminded me of how some hard-core free software folks, particularly the GNU Guix developers, have been working on bootstrapping a whole OS with minimal dependence on existing binaries. We're never getting that for these big models.
@matt @glyph the models I can run in my laptop today are leagues ahead of the models I ran on the exact same hardware a year ago - improvements in that space have been significant
This new trick from Microsoft looks like it could be a huge leap forward too - I've not dug into it properly yet though github.com/microsoft/BitNet
GitHub - microsoft/BitNet: Official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs
Official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs. Contribute to microsoft/BitNet development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
A Sonic Journey Through the Universe | Felipe SΓ‘nchez Luna | TED
In an astounding sonic experience, creative director Felipe SΓ‘nchez Luna takes you on a journey through the universe as told in sound. Take a deep breath, li...YouTube
On this day seven years ago I got A FRICKING GOLD MEDAL for my work on #curl. Real. Proper. Gold. From the hands of the Swedish king.
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