Basic Galactic Astrogation, or: How To Talk About Directions In Space
* north (up, towards the zenith, north generally the direction of the earth's north pole, but adjusted to be perpendicular with the galactic plane) * south (down, towards the nadir, opposite of north)
* coreward (pointing from Sol towards Sag A) * rimward (opposite of coreward)
* leading (left if viewed from clockwise spin which is convention for some reason, south facing north, bottom up; right if viewed with counterclockwise spin, top down. also sometimes called spinward) * trailing (right if viewed from clockwise spin, left if viewed from counterclockwise spin. opposite of leading)
FBI releases PSA warning about all the ways that cybercriminals are using AI to commit fraud on a larger scale and to increase the success of their scams. The advisory warns about deepfaked videos and voice calls, as well as AI generated profile images to impersonate people.
Among their recommendations:
-Create a secret word or phrase with your family to verify their identity.
-Look for subtle imperfections in images and videos, such as distorted hands or feet, unrealistic teeth or eyes, indistinct or irregular faces, unrealistic accessories such as glasses or jewelry, inaccurate shadows, watermarks, lag time, voice matching, and unrealistic movements.
-Listen closely to the tone and word choice to distinguish between a legitimate phone call from a loved one and an AI-generated vocal cloning.
-If possible, limit online content of your image or voice, make social media accounts private, and limit followers to people you know to minimize fraudsters' capabilities to use generative AI software to create fraudulent identities for social engineering.
-Verify the identity of the person calling you by hanging up the phone, researching the contact of the bank or organization purporting to call you, and call the phone number directly.
-Never share sensitive information with people you have met only online or over the phone.
-Do not send money, gift cards, cryptocurrency, or other assets to people you do not know or have met only online or over the phone.
I would add to this list is something I have tried to do with those in my immediate orbit who need a little more help against scams and spams: Set their phone so that incoming calls are limited to people on their contacts list; all the rest go to voicemail. At this point, we are way beyond expecting everyone to be experts at spotting fake this or that.
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Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. insists it’s a good sign U.S. president-elect Donald Trump feels 'comfortable' joking with Canadian officials, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Today I got the chance to ask our computer graphics professor a question that I asked myself quite some time ago: what the fuck is the color pink?
Like, the color right before infrared is red, the color right before ultraviolet is violet. And every other color is some wavelength between those two colors. EXCEPT FOR PINK!?
On a hue color wheel pink is between red and violet, so it's wavelength has to be somewhere around there, right??
Well, turns out pink is the color humans perceive when red and violet are mixed (duh), meaning the red and blue cones are stimulated. Since both cones respond to wavelengths on the opposite ends of the visible spectrum, there is no monochromatic wavelength that would trigger both, hence there is no wavelength that looks pink.
That's also the reason pink does not appear in a rainbow, because there white sunlight light, a mixture of (almost, hi Astro-fedi) all monochromatic wavelengths, is refracted based on wavelength, so no mixed colors occur in it.
I love that Walmart is a free AIRA access point. That should have happened a long time ago. However, it bothers me that they are talking about how they are committed to accessibility for the blind and visually impaired, when there iPhone app has been broken for quite some time now, among other accessibility issues throughout the shopping experience for us there. I am positive they know the search in the app is broken. Free AIRA is a tool, not a crutch. Not everyone wants a third-party in the middle of their shopping experience. chainstoreage.com/walmart-prov…
President Joe Biden’s Department of Labor is proposing to abolish below-minimum-wage pay for people with disabilities, targeting a long-controversial program whose fate will now rest with the incoming Trump administration.
I've noticed a concerning trend of "slop security reports" being sent to open source projects. Here are thoughts about what platforms, reporters, and maintainers can do to push back:
I'm on the security report triage team for CPython, pip, urllib3, Requests, and a handful of other open source projects.
I'm also in a trusted position such that I get "tagged in" to other open sou...
On Monday, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger abruptly decided to retire after less than four years on the job. That was the official story, anyhow. The truth is more complicated.
Thanks so much for the birthday wishes! (We don't know how to feel about the reminder that the tech this typist used in high school and college just turned 30, besides old! 👵 )
Sorry for the late reply - have you still noticed this happening? If you still notice it, we'd be really grateful if you reported a bug at Bugzilla! bugzilla.mozilla.org/home
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Synapse 1.120.2 was just released with several security fixes: github.com/element-hq/synapse/… You should really update now and while the last 2 CVEs say, they were fixed on 1.106, to my knowledge that is only true if you enabled authenticated media, which only became the default in 1.120, so you really want to update even for those or at least update your config.
Synapse 1.120.2 (2024-12-03)
This version has building of wheels for macOS disabled.
It is functionally identical to 1.120.1, which contains multiple security fixes.
If you are already using 1.120....
Thinking about it, their conclusion that “the app-ification of everything can lead to some pretty absurd scenarios” isn’t necessarily correct. It isn’t the app-ification – it’s delegating control to some server on the internet which is expected to have 100% availability. It’s the same issue with you losing access to your local e-books or games because a vendor went out of business. Same thing is increasingly happening to hardware which seemingly has little reason to rely on internet services.
I can think of several possible solutions which don’t rely on internet connectivity at all or only require a connection at the time of the reservation (unproblematic: without connectivity no reservation confirmation). These would deposit a token on user’s device which can be verified locally, without relying on the vendor’s server.
While this wouldn’t be hard to implement, it would require the vendor to consider their centralization a potential weakness. This isn’t aligned with their incentives however, as centralizing the system makes it easier to control everything and collect every last piece of data.
So just to make people here aware, we are also on BlueSky now (bsky.app/profile/pipewire.org). Our goal is to keep doing things like release announcements primarily on Mastodon and BlueSky going forward. We might stop updating our X account at some point, but we will make a sticky note announcing that once we get to that point.
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@archos Začínal jsem klasickým českým Lodosem. Sloužil dobře, ale nastavuje se šroubkem bez jakýchkoli kroků, takže vlastně jen „na pocit“ a já dělám kafe pokaždé jinak, takže ho potřebuju přenastavovat často a potřebuju vědět, jak ho mám nastavený. Ale zase stál pár stovek :)
Po něm jsem měl nějakou čínu, ta vůbec nestojí za řeč.
@archos Když jsem mlýnek vybíral, uvažoval jsem i o nějakém Timemore, ale už si nepamatuju, co přesně to bylo za model. Stál o hodně méně než Comandante, ale pořád to byly tisíce.
Dřív jsem měl Hario nějak lehce přes tisícovku. Za ty peníze fajn mlýnek, ale oproti Comandante obrovský rozdíl. Hlavně když chce člověk mlít trošku nahrubo, nezvládal to konzistentně - část jsou velké „kameny“, část skoro prach. Na espresso už vůbec.
@Milu To kupovali naši ještě za komoušů. Měli ho na chatě, ale bez využití. Tak jsem ho zabavil 😀 Mele úplně v pohode i po těch letech. @OttovonWenkoff
Já jsem si chtěl koupit elektrický, koupil nějaký klump, který jsem po prvním mletí vrátil do prodejny a zase melu ručně. 😀 No nebylo lepší mletí v obchodě 😀😀😀
@archos jeee, zrovna jsem si ondynoid před pár dny posteskl, že se tyhle mlejny už v obchodech nevidí (aspoň v těch, kam chodím). Velký profi stroje mají ve speciálkách, kde ti namelou podle přání, co tam zakoupíš, ale zarumplovat si sám za kasama mělo neopakovatelný kouzlo. 🤩
@archos Minimálně v té, ve které sedí moje maminka na kase jo, ale říkala, že je postupně ruší. I u nich se o tom uvažovalo, nakonec přežil. Ale ne ten bílý moderní, ale takový červený v kulatém vzhledu, litinový. Je na něm vyražený rok 1973, předpokládám, že je to rok výroby.
@archos Mezi námi, ona je Jednota drahá jak blázen, ale uzeniny a pečivo si vždycky přivezeme, mají fakt výborné. Písecké uzeniny jsou TOP. Jejich trvanlivý Turistický salám mi chutná víc než Uherák od jednoho pána z Průhonic 😀 A taky mají takovou tu echt sekanou, ne jako ta pečená paštika z Glóbusu. Ale pozor mluvím o Jednotě České Budějovice, ono je jich po republice víc firem, které sice nějak spolupracují, ale jedna firma to není.
@archos Je to pokrokový pán, myslí na vegetariány.
No, ať jsme fér, mají i s masem, třeba 85%, ale z koření to vidělo jen sůl, udilo se to 5 minut a za maso se považují dle legislativy i psí boudy... Ok, už držím ústa 😀
Zacni tim, ze si reknes, k cemu. Filtry, espresso? Jak casto? Rano a v poledne, nebo nekolikrat denne? Chces posilovat, nebo potrebujes po ranu kafe na probuzeni, takze elektriku? A samozrejme kolik tak chces/muzes za to dat zlataku?
@satai Pravdu máš, to jsem měl (pako) připsat jako zadání. Možná. Vaříme většinou french press nebo turka, občas filtr. Espresso nemáme. Použití denní, tak 2x 3x. A ručně bych se tomu vlastně taky nebránil. Díky! 👍
@satai já obevil nedávno Kaffia Barista (X) a nedám na něj dopustit. Ruční mlýnek, pomleto rychle a snadno, stojí pár korun a zvládá jak super jemné tak hrubé mletí. Podle mě přesně to co chceš. A teď jak jsem hledal obrázek jsem narazil na to, že přechozí verze, kterou jsem chtěl a nebyla tenkrát :D, je teď za 299 Kč. Jako podle mě je to mlýnek s hodnotou tisíc korun, neváhej a ber, i kdyby jen do rezervy :) A ta starší verze navíc neklouže jak to Xko. A přikup aeropress :)
Mně ten ruční taky stačí. Piju jen moka kávu, vždy námelu na dva tři dny a pohoda. Možná to je pro někoho problém, že třetí den není úplně čerstvá, ale ta plechová huba co mám, odchovaná českým turkem, to stejně nepozná 😀
@archos Jak ti rozumím, s hubou jsem na tom tak ňák stejně. 😂 O nás už arci tak nejde, ale z mláděte už je taky pička kávy... Prostě už taky pije kafe, dyk je to kurña dobře napsaný! 🤣 Možná skončím, resp. začnu u klikotoče, tipů se tu sešlo dost. @kepi @satai
To je přesně ono! Ruční mlýnek na kávu Lodos Temp nám tu jen tak leží za jedinečnou cenu 299 Kč. Čím dřív to hodíte do košíku, tím dřív bude u vás. Odesíláme každý den, ať nemusíte dlouho vyhlížet!
You can now send multiple files at once. The login page got a redesign with SSO as the new default action (legacy password login still available in the context menu at the top right corner).
MAS account settings now available in the profile, making FluffyChat ready for the Matrix OIDC change! 💪
Lot's of new colors and style settings with much better chat wallpapers also landed in this release. 🐾
Synapse security release day! We fixed multiple security vulnerabilities, some affecting all prior versions of Synapse. We are not aware of these vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild, but please upgrade!
Synapse 1.120.2 (2024-12-03)
This version has building of wheels for macOS disabled.
It is functionally identical to 1.120.1, which contains multiple security fixes.
If you are already using 1.120....
Dutch police explicitly states in their press release that the criminal network has 'nothing to do' with the business and communication protocol of the same name. politie.nl/nieuws/2024/decembe…
Opnieuw is het opsporingsdiensten gelukt om een internationale cryptocommunicatiedienst te ontmantelen. Deze dienst, Matrix, wordt gezien als de opvolger van voorgangers als ANOM, Sky ECC en EncroChat.
@thunderbird Is there some way to enable images in feeds? For example, what appears in the viewer as <blogger.googleusercontent.com/… AVvXsEgLHWpExAPWLVONv6iarWipMlWIqrqAze0eRCccaKEEeye- maI7t22D1OsNKbycR7CixZ18goeuQQVzTWcxswFUnH1SRmw3y_62CYJ4Zh0Bf- CICYsOfe4BYGu997ZIuNOtTnxj11aLHDeO7Pn5ZWE8WLjhNUGsRr- RHFpJ68SCFP7qaHTb7OaWwoopfdI/s720/mapa.camino.png>
And in emails? I have a lot of emails that displayed in Office 365 show embedded images, however, they are included as attached files in the downloaded email, and I do not get any message as the text (from kb.mozillazine.org/Privacy_bas…):
Here is how to enable remote content in emails. We have asked one of our support team about RSS feeds and will let you know on that once we have an answer: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/r…
Thanks! Actually, looking for the notification bar, I found that my issue (both for emails and feeds) was that I had configured View (Alt-V) - Message Body as - Plain Text instead of View (Alt-V) - Message Body as - Original HTML support.mozilla.org/es/questio…
Hi, why is there no confirmation dialog box when accidentally deleting an email? Because I accidentally deleted an email, which moved it to the "Trash" folder. Though now I can't move it back to th...
How does a *winter only* ban on e-bikes in the subway make sense? Surely, batteries can burst into flame in any season? And surely every train carries hundreds of laptop lithium batteries, that don't burst into flame?
Sounds like an e-bike battery-manufacturing regulation issue being resolved at the user level, where it (as usual) harms the neediest the most 😥
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