There should be a word for it: the feeling of disappointment / sadness when you realize interesting people you got to know on the Fediverse have since decamped to Bluesky.
Of course, there must be valid reasons for it. Still, this makes me a little sad.
I have a dormant Bluesky account and from time to time I check in and see them posting so much there.
The only people doing real "responsible AI" work are those doing this.
"On Monday, Microsoft reportedly terminated the roles of two software engineers, Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal, who protested the company’s reported dealings with the Israeli military during Microsoft’s Copilot and 50th anniversary event last week."
Sweden's latest attack on encryption comes simultaneously with the Swedish Armed Forces speaking up in favor of encryption. If this alone is not enough to reject the legislation, read the open letter to the Swedish Riksdag.
sorry, two stupid questions about it: how to follow a person and how to write that short bio you have in your profile? I mean, from accessibility perspective.
@menelion Let me see if I can explain how to follow someone. It is a slightly complicated process. To do your bio though go to the my profile button, now you can scroll down to edit profile. To follow someone: if you have the direct link to their profile all you have to do is open it and find the follow button. If you are on your timeline I guess it's called, you Will: swipe down on the audio you are interested in until you see go to user. Tap that and now you will be in the person's profile. This page does act pretty funky but from what I am understanding they are a new platform so maybe they'll fix it.
This could lead to some failure to update the certificate data with tools that don't handle redirect correctly. These tools will fail to fetch the new certdata.txt now.
I'm putting the finishing touches on a massive release of the Converse #XMPP chat client. 🚀
✨ Here’s what to look forward to:
◾ Groupchat DMs: You can DM other participants without knowing their address ◾ Blocklists for spammers 💩 ◾ Accessibility improvements, like support for RTL languages ◾ Media enhancements ◾Big performance enhancements, particularly for chats with a long history and many participants. ◾Three new themes, Nordic 🗻 , Dracula 🧛♂️ and Cyberpunk 🌆
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the I38 project Totally revamped the alt+f1 menu system. I think this is much better than the old version, and it also fixes a bug where the old menu didn't close when something was selected. It is experimental, and can be removed if people prefer the old menu, just let me know.
From the sattirical UK-based web site NewsThump: Trump funeral remains America’s top sexual fantasy
A survey of Americans’ sexual behaviour has revealed that, for the ninth year running, the number one sexual fantasy of most people is the funeral of Donald Trump. “I only have to think about a funeral parade for the president and I go from six to midnight,” said one respondent...
Welcome to the random shit Z sends me, Kayla, and Gap Tangle, among others, just for a reaction.
A survey of Americans’ sexual behaviour has revealed that, for the ninth year running, the number one sexual fantasy of most people is the funeral of Donald Trump.
@icing the question of "what benefit does it bring" still remains.
We finally started using vararg macros for our Debug() macros in OpenLDAP. We also use snprintf if available. We still don't use C++ style comments. The change in Debug macros really makes it a pain to backport bugfixes from tip to older releases. Annoying...
@icing @hyc MSVC versions... Aren't they fractal? There are at least 3 compiler versions available in VS2022: v141 (2017), v142 (2019) and v143 (2022). And then there are multiple supported versions (at least 10 and 11), and multiple versions of the Windows toolkit. Not to mention x64 vs x86, and debug vs release. And you cannot link libraries if compilers or toolkit mismatch. Are you testing all that?
@huitema @icing @hyc we test some of that at least, I think to a decent degree. We don't get a lot of people reporting such problems. Windows problems are common and a nuisance, but they tend to be more about Windows being unique and special, not about MSVC compiler specific problems.
I am only testing with one version of VS, but I find the test with x86 targets very useful. 32 bit pointers, 32 bit for size_t, nice to test that on x86 before attempting ports to Arduino and similar systems. Testing for x86 caught a bug like that right now.
Today's real 'fake news' incident (which added $2.4 trillion in market value and erased it nearly as quickly) hopefully will be dissected in every journalism class and newsroom. cnn.com/2025/04/07/media/fake-…
"Changes to account verification on X, which were put into place after Musk purchased Twitter, make it even more difficult now for social media users and other information consumers to figure out which accounts and what information we should trust." npr.org/2025/04/07/nx-s1-53550…
Many communication protocols operating over the modern Internet use
hostnames. These often resolve to multiple IP addresses, each of
which may have different performance and connectivity
characteristics.
Angry constituent here: "It’s very hard to get people to believe that anyone is trying to end research into finding cures for diseases that affect everyone. The richest people get #cancer & #Alzheimers & #Parkinson’s. . . . & yet it is happening. Quite simply, until elected officials start hearing from angry constituents in town halls who are pissed that their futures & the futures of their loved ones are being lit on fire for no reason, then nothing matters."
This post isn’t quite a post in the way I normally do them, more jotting down some of my brainstorming over the weekend. Universities are a core pillar of civil…
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke sent a memo to employees saying that before they ask for more headcount or resources, teams must show why they “cannot get what they want done using AI.”
Coming to an airport near you with those "convenient" face recognition tools which scan you so you walk out without doing any paperwork, will be security personnel matching your face to anything you've said or done and deciding whether you get harassed (or worse) or not.
Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke sent a memo to employees saying that before they ask for more headcount or resources, teams must show why they “cannot get what they want done using AI.”
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke sent a memo to employees saying that before they ask for more headcount or resources, teams must show why they “cannot get what they want done using AI.”
It is a somewhat common question to me: how do we write C in curl to make it safe and secure for billions of installations? Some precautions we take and decisions we make. There is no silver bullet, just guidelines.
there are plenty of research on the topic actually, when it comes to readability in general and wide lines, independent of source code, just plain text
Sometimes you run into a main landmark where you don’t expect one. Like Main Street USA in Hong Kong Disney. So you grab a snack in a diner that serves no hot dogs.
Framework has stopped selling versions of its base laptop model in the US because of tariffs. Says that if it kept selling them in the US it would lose money. Framework is the only company that makes reliably upgradeable, repairable laptops
How can a codebase written in C be SO safe? check out this video.https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/07/writing-c-for-curl/https://www.youtube.com/@DanielSte...
It is a somewhat common question to me: how do we write C in curl to make it safe and secure for billions of installations? Some precautions we take and decisions we make. There is no silver bullet, just guidelines.
Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism. “We will call these arrests what they are: abductions by ICE cowards in plainclothes and facemasks.” lithub.com/silence-is-collabor…
We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We wi…
it's funny how GNOME was so focused to fight KDE, that they went in bed with Microsoft while Qt turned truly free. That should be a reminder, fight the right enemy
Discussed in #2128 Originally posted by turjmner8 February 22, 2024 In general, would it be possible to remove the requirement for role 'gridcell' elements to be contained within role 'row' element...
Maybe the critical difference is that guys like Arnie, who were heavily selling a just-so story of American individualism, understood it was a just-so story, and were not actually trying to remake America as a pure free market in the misguided impression that that's how it would really be best
Ah, Shopify! Where would Breitbart be without you?
Now the CEO of Shopify demands that every developer there uses “AI” to enable swastika merchants to make even more moolah.
(Hi to my “friends” who work there!)
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