@hartgenconsult I am super excited about the upcoming ChatGPT integration in Leasey 10. If that was the only thing you add this year, it's worth upgrading.
Sorry for being less active lately; I should have used the override process earlier. It is at consensus. By the time I added it, the domain stopped resolving. It replaced the old domain on FediNuke. If it stays down, I will eventually remove it altogether.
Update: parcero.casa is back under the “ak” subdomain.
This is why I don’t usually remove dead instances until they have been dead long enough to decompose or until I have proof of the death being permanent.
Ahead of the Trump-Modi news conference we're getting word AP has been prevented from attending the event open to all White House press. It's the third consecutive day the Trump administration has punished the global wire service for not replacing 'Gulf of Mexico' with 'Gulf of America' in its dispatches.
"...a "a deeply troubling escalation of the administration’s continued efforts to punish The Associated Press for its editorial decisions." - AP Executive Editor Julie Pace
Barring AP reporters from today’s Trump-Modi news "is outrageous and a deeply disappointing escalation of an already unacceptable situation" with the White House seeking to curtail the press freedoms and punish a news outlet for not advancing the government’s preferred language. - WHCA President Eugene Daniels
If you're looking for a small LLM for machines with limited compute power, definitely try SmolLM2 by Huggingface! It's a 1.7B model trained on carefully curated datasets with 11T tokens. I'm pretty impressed with its responses given its size! ollama run smollm2 #LLM #AI #MLhuggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/S…
Apple is trying so hard to collect more and more health data through its personal devices, and you only know about the stuff it tells you it's collected. I wonder if Apple is secretly collecting any other data under the radar, and people are so enamored with Apple that they just accept it all without question?
Yes, they do, but there will always be people with a watchdog mentality who aren't loyal to a particular brand. And whistleblowers would eventually make noise about such things.
Rose-Tu’s baby has a name! The young Asian elephant calf, born at the Oregon Zoo Feb. 1, will henceforth be known as Tula-Tu, a name chosen by care staff to ...
Once upon a time, I worked on the #accessibility of a product that's recently been acquired by Atlassian. While I'll never claim the work was a waste of time for the people who got to benefit from it, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a mess within the year.
Welcome to the Age of the Coward—where billion-dollar corporations crumble faster than a wet paper bag, and craven CEOs like Bob Iger and Tim Cook prove their “values” were just expensive PR stunts with an expiration date. theindex.media/this-is-the-age…
The Age of the Coward is here, where America’s most powerful corporations, once eager to preach their values, now fold like cheap umbrellas at the first gust of political wind.
I don't think the video is up yet, but I believe in this FOSDEM talk it was mentioned that the model was still something like 200MB, so that might be optimistic: fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…
The #Rust for #Linux debacle should be a wake-up call for accelerating safe OS innovation.
#FreeBSD proves you can reuse huge pieces of Linux, with GPU and WiFi drivers ported in kernel space (LinuxKPI) and USB (input, video capture, etc.) drivers running in userspace (webcamd – RIP Hans 😔). This all in a relatively sustainable way with a very small group of developers.
What we need to be building is kind of an inverse of R4L, a "Linux for Rust", a common Driver Depenguinator, a successor to webcamd that would port Linux drivers to a common abstraction layer (like embedded-hal but not so embedded) that would be implemented for both Linux/BSD userspace (w/ CUSE, uinput, UIO, udmabuf, /dev/mem, etc.) and various microkernels like #Redox.
That would be an LSP-style "NxM to N+M" moment for OSdev, instantly making microkernel projects a lot more viable in practice.
@mjg59 I was. The problem was that stickermule turned out to be a rabid trumper so if anyone has suggestions for reasonably priced UK sticker printers...
Ich habe gnome3 von der ersten version an geliebt und es ist noch viel besser geworden. Immer wieder versuche ich andere Desktop aber kehre immer wieder zu gnome zurück.
I am the author of more than 85 books and I swear I will never buy another DRM-protected ebook again. If I can't OWN what I buy, I don't want to buy it.
I am sick and tired of books I buy being tied up in an app that requires me to run the gauntlet of ads for other books before I am able to open the book I paid for and want to read. And worries about books being deleted or updated or otherwise altered AFTER I HAVE PAID FOR THEM. They are MINE. I should be able to open them wherever I want to.
For that, I've made my books available under Creative Commons. Was lucky to get through with that with my publishers so far. Their print is one thing – but my eBooks are CC, and DRM free. I even insisted on that for those I uploaded to the Kindle store.
Redoing tile grout and silicone sealant around the house while also trying to solve computer problems has let me to the conclusion that sand belongs only on beaches. That is its home. Putting it anywhere else - floors, bathtubs, calculation machines, underpants, anywhere - was all a mistake. The sand should be free and uncontained. Sandboxes are a sin in any context.
@federicomena Oooh, yeah, that's tough. I feel like the community standards and norms side of things is less frequently addressed. Some communities treat that non-collaborative behavior just as seriously as reports of discrimination and bias. I wish more would.
do you have any updated, uh, boilerplate to copy into CoCs for this kind of stuff? We can of course draft one, but if you already do... the thoughtfulness in your CoC templates is incredible.
1. do not call it #deconstruction of the federal government. deconstruction is inherently antifascist, as it intends to break apart THRU EPISTEMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS, the lies that sustain hegemonic ―and by default― authoritarian power.
2. what we are seeing is a build up of a fascist apparatus that the oligarchs can control directly. in other words, they’re cocooning the federal government with technologies for their technocratic dictatorship…
🇺🇳 Some folks have asked how our efforts are going helping governments be good open source citizens as they leverage free software to provide public services.
🎉 The answer is: Things are going very well, and they're getting better every week.
📋 With 4 months until UN Open Source week, here's a current update from our UNDP team:
🇺🇳 Our UNDP digital team is taking on really meaningful and interesting work in helping countries use technology in ethical, responsible ways. And filling a bunch of #internships. Fully #remote, around the world, and flexible around individuals' schedules.
🏦 While there's a stipend, it's low. Our leadership is working hard to break a long history of unpaid internships in the #UN, but there is still a distance to go for fair pay.
The Linux App Summit (LAS) is designed to accelerate the growth of the Linux application ecosystem by bringing together everyone involved in creating a great Linux application user experience.
i'm going to be real with you have respect for hobbyist developers. I don't care about what people's takes on sustainability is here, that's not relevant to whether you should be taking a hobbyist developer seriously. the entire kernel is literally just a hobbyist project that got big. dozens of graphics drivers that are fully khronos compliant (NOT just asahi!!!) started as hobbies. Panfrost was a hobby project until it wasn't, freedreno was a hobby project until it wasn't, nouveau was a hobby project until it wasn't, radeon.ko was a hobby project until it wasn't, and some of those hobby projects getting the blessing of companies doesn't change that. open source literally thrives on non-profitable ideas
if your idea of open source is a bunch of companies shaking hands and playing nice with eachother i regret to inform you that the greatest fear of pretty much anyone in charge of an open source foundation or project with corporate involvement is quite literally that the corporation leaves. because at the end of the day corporations only start working on these things once it's been proven to them that it's profitable. and time and time again, new projects and ideas have to come from hobbyists for the simple fact that they don't have to justify a cost benefit ratio and can just sit down and do the thing. you think then that corporate entities are the ones driving any of this? they pay people's bills. they don't create projects.
I remember how I like to do dot .patterns on my Perkins Brailler, just spent the last 45 minutes doing the same on the .Monarch. Of course, now I have a fantastic demo file to share with other monarch users. Did I say a lot better than what I could do on the Perkins back in the day.
For anyone interested, I recently uploaded a folder of NOAA Weather Radio audio examples that I scraped from the Wayback Machine. datajake.braillescreen.net/tts…
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Please boost for research reach!
Some folks have asked how our efforts are going helping governments be good open source citizens as they leverage free software to provide public services.
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