I’m not taking the side of violence because I can’t be violent. I’d get squashed by nearly anyone. But has any important social movement forward ever succeeded without violence? We have never achieved anything like suffrage, gay/lesbian rights, accessibility rights, racial rights, etc without violence. It is only when they have physically overthrown oppressors that progressives have succeeded. I don’t think that everyone who chooses violence in the name of a progressive cause is “mentally ill.”
Europeans are right to worry about the $250 billion stablecoin market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/18/world/digital-dollar-trade-war-weapon/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #stablecoin #europe #cryptoc…
@CapitalB not really, IMO the existence of the Eurodollar gives EU banks practically free reign to create dollars that have almost no oversight and they could use those dollars to back a stablecoin they control
Koukám že Piráty už to v politice nebaví a rozhodli se sami sebe vymazat z politické mapy. Good luck, Myslím že tohle je za dlouhou dobu jediná akce, která bude mít, díky bohu, úspěch
Prázdnotou zely poslanecké i vládní lavice po část dlouhého jednání Sněmovny, při němž se chce opozice pokusit o vyjádření nedůvěry vládě Petra Fialy (ODS) v souvislosti s bitcoinovou kauzou.
@aikencz @chick_enheart @archos Nějak se mi z té politiky vytrácí schopnost politika být sám sebou. Ať si klidně hraje divadlo, je-li dobrý charismatický herec (záměrně neříkám charakterní). Ať je uvěřitelný. Ale když to neumí, ať to nedělá. Vypadá to směšně.
@aikencz @chick_enheart @archos Mě se to líbí, jak jinak slušně oslovit mladou generaci? Politika je marketing, jako vše ostatní se mu podřizuje, protože většina řeší "koho volit" na poslední chvíli bez znalosti minulých dějů v politice. Alena to dělá jako 🍟, Turek se starými 🚘, tohle mi přijde velmi dobré. Schopnost politika být sám sebou je k ničemu, když ho nezvolí a zůstane mimo možnost ovlivňovat současnost 🤔. Nejsme většina, podléhající marketingu, ale ten se nedělá pro/na nás. Piráti nemají voličské jádro jako ANO nebo ODS, kterému nevadí jakýkoli jejich (i velký) přešlap. Asi už chceme dožít po staru, bez přizpůsobení 🤷🏻♂️. Pro mne jsou Piráti stále nejlepší, možnost 💚.
@Petr90@mastodonczech.cz No, já jsem ve svém "mládí" tak trochu svrhával starý režim (včetně řešení bydlení, zakládání rodiny, práce a dopravy). Nemyslím si, že dnešní generace to má těžší než jakékoli minulé a budoucí 🤔.
@ferda Jo, rozumím. Od té doby, co odešli z vlády, to fakt působí, jako by už jen poskakovali v oblecích a kopali do všech okolo. Místo konstruktivní opozice vidím spíš zahořklý marketing.
A i ta jejich „vlajková loď“ digitalizace na MMR? Podle auditu manažerské selhání.
Tobě se ten styl kampaně, co je na obrázku, vážně líbí? Mně to teda moc nepřijde jako něco, co by oslovilo nové voliče. @aikencz @chick_enheart @cynik_obecny @Petr90
@archos @ferda @aikencz @chick_enheart @Petr90 tohle není kampaň. To je jenom okopávání kotníků, navíc od někoho, kdo má dostatek másla na hlavě, aby po něm mohl odklouzat do politické zadele. Viz třeba ta slavná digitalizace, Hřiboviny a podobně. Nepřál jsem jim to a byť nejsem zrovna cílovka, volil jsem je a několikrát to fakt zvažoval. Pokud se hodlají chovat jak děti ve školce, jedině co dokážou je po babišovsku fňukat co by mohli (jako by 3 roky nemohli), tak ať skončí v propadlišti dejin
"Before there was “keyboarding,” there was typing. Before there was the electronic notetaker, there were the slate and stylus and the Braillewriter. Before there was GPS, there were blind people getting around independently by using the GPS between their ears. And that is my point: no matter how advanced technology becomes, we still have to be skilled problem-solvers who are fully engaged with our environment and prepared to adapt." - Jeff Altman
I don't want anything exclusively bing/google powered so mullvad/ddg/the usual suspects aren't an option
don't really want something ad funded either (so no mojeek)
looking at kagi but while I have significantly better results with it, especially in badly formulated/opaque queries (and it allows quite a few poweruser features), @Seirdy points out in their search engine blog post, they might have some problematic biases.
Historie se opakuje. Po sesti zkrachovalych hladovych oknech se objevuje na stejnem miste v poradi sedme.
Uplne vidim realitaka, jak budoucimu panu majiteli ukazuje davy lidi pred jeho budoucim okenkem. Pan budouci majitel s hlavou v oblacich pocita trzbu az kazdemu z nich narve do ruky parek v rohliku za hromadku minci. Karty neberou.
Do toho zelena!
No nic. Pan soucasny majitel bude mit k veceri ohrate parky a testo na palacinky snad nejakou dobu vydrzi.
Sooft ich mich dort in den letzten Jahren für einen Verein informiert hatte, begegneten mir hauptsächlich Angebote für #Microsoft-Produkte.
Nun war ich auch mal beruflich in einem gemeinnützigen Unternehmen beschäftigt, welches solche Sonderlizenzen direkt von Microsoft in Anspruch nahm. Das ging ne Weile gut, bis Microsoft die Regeln änderte...
Das ist ein Grund, weshalb ich es als Vereinsvorstand ablehne, auf solche Sonderangebote einzugehen.
Nun hat stifter-helfen grad nachgefragt, warum unser Verein denn die Dienste nicht nutzen würde. Auf der Webseite heißt es, es wären über 90.000 Organisationen in ihren Datenbanken....
Eine Frage im Antwortformular lautet:
Was müsste sich ändern, damit Stifter-helfen wieder interessant für Ihre Organisation wird?
Da habe ich folgendes eingetragen:
Gemeinwohlorientierte, datenschutzmäßig unumstrittene OpenSource Software offerieren, die der Richtlinie Public Money - Public Code entspricht.
“In the coverage of the conflict between Israel and Iran, we need to really emphasize the asymmetry between the interests of the two states: Iran would like to destroy Israel and Israel… would like not to be destroyed by Iran. This is not a situation where evenhandedness is appropriate.”
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How close was #Iran to the bomb, and how far has #Israel pushed it back?
The more we learn, the clearer it becomes that Israel struck in the nick of time: Iran was very close to the bomb. Its ballistic missiles were becoming a dire threat. And then there's that derided 'Destruction of Israel Plan'
1984: West German intelligence sources claim that Iran’s production of a bomb “is entering its final stages.” US Senator Alan Cranston claims Iran is seven years away from making a weapon.
1992: Israeli parliamentarian Benjamin Netanyahu tells the Knesset that Iran is 3 to 5 years from being able to produce a nuclear weapon.
1995: The New York Times reports that US and Israeli officials fear “Iran is much closer to producing nuclear weapons than previously thought” – less than five years away. Netanyahu claims the time frame is three to five years.
1996: Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres claims Iran will have nuclear weapons in four years.
1998: Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld claims Iran could build an ICBM capable of reaching the US within five years.
1999: An Israeli military official claims that Iran will have a nuclear weapon within five years.
2001: The Israeli Minister of Defence claims that Iran will be ready to launch a nuclear weapon in less than four years.
2002: The CIA warns that the danger of nuclear weapons from Iran is higher than during the Cold War, because its missile capability has grown more quickly than expected since 2000 – putting it on par with North Korea.
2003: A high-ranking Israeli military officer tells the Knesset that Iran will have the bomb by 2005 — 17 months away.
2006: A State Department official claims that Iran may be capable of building a nuclear weapon in 16 days.
2008: An Israeli general tells the Cabinet that Iran is “half-way” to enriching enough uranium to build a nuclear weapon and will have a working weapon no later than the end of 2010.
2009: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak estimates that Iran is 6-18 months away from building an operative nuclear weapon.
2010: Israeli decision-makers believe that Iran is at most 1-3 years away from being able to assemble a nuclear weapon.
2011: An IAEA report indicates that Iran could build a nuclear weapon within months.
2013: Israeli intelligence officials claim that Iran could have the bomb by 2015 or 2016.
@feld imagine being a humble white, anglo saxon / german heritage sugar water salesman. out of pride for your heritage and culture you never sell it for more than 99 cent. then one day you get The Call. "hello, mr iced tea? it's the jews. raise your price... or else..."
That time “AI” translation almost caused a fight between a doctor and my parents
What if you want to find out more about the PS/2 Model 280? You head out to Google, type it in as a query, and realise the little "AI" summary that's above the fold is clearly wrong. Then you run the same query again, multiple times, and notice that each time, the "AI" overvi
Facebook and YouTube have terms saying you can intentionally remove your IP grant by deleting the content. Twitter lets you remove your IP grant by deleting your *accounts*, which is punitive, but possible to exercise (I did). It's very good Mastodon's grant is limited-use—but so was Tumblr, and it eventually abused its. I want Mastodon to be as pro-user as *Facebook and Google*.
I think IP termination clauses are really important! I spent two full years throwing a fit about this on Cohost and I still refuse to use TikTok because of *this single issue*. Trying to figure out what to do about Mastodon suddenly joining the irrevocable license club (a club that currently includes: TikTok and not much else).
I have been using this site since 2016 and I'd rather not move (never mind Mastodon doesn't *actually* have an account migration feature).
Meaning all new Ruby Mastodon instances created after this date who use the stock legal text will *also* adopt an irrevocable IP grant license (no way to terminate the license if you decide your instance is abusing it) for post content (and also potentially some existing instances, if they regenerate their TOS from templates)
@mcc@mastodon.social @dvandal@infosec.exchange it would be up to the admin to regenerate their terms of service — the template is just used to populate a textarea which is stored in the database.
It's sort of long (sorry), but several people seemed confused what my problem was earlier, so maybe extra detail will help. I include an outline of my "nightmare scenario", and contrast other site TOSes.
I *will* delete my account over this, and I am not joking.
Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...
Again, if open source projects are emulating predatory policy of centralized platforms, what’s the point of using open source? mastodon.social/@mcc/114701121…
I've posted a Github issue outlining why I'm freaked out at the word "irrevokable" in Mastodon's new TOS IP clause:
New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content
https://github.
Exciting day for the #Fediverse! This morning at #UN #OpenSource Week, @haubles announced that @Mastodon has been named as a Digital Public Good for its work to empower communities, protect privacy, and foster authentic connections.
🌍📄 Docs, l’éditeur de texte libre et collaboratif de La Suite numérique, a été reconnu "bien public numérique" (Digital Public Good) par la Digital Public Goods Alliance ce matin à l’ONU lors de la semaine Open Source des Nations Unies.
I can't believe that the UK would even contemplate deporting an 8 year old and an 12 year old to Brazil alone. This is the letter the home office sent the 11 year old:
“I am satisfied that there are no serious or compelling reasons to grant you settlement. I am satisfied that you could return to Brazil and continue your education in Brazil where you would have the option to attend an English-speaking school.
Whilst this may involve a degree of disruption in family life this is considered to be proportionate to the legitimate aim of maintaining effective immigration control.”
We're trying MeshCentral out at work, and as one of the blind staff members who have access, I'd like to ask for some fixes to accessibility issues: When accessing a PC through the Terminal, I cann...
@fireborn It doesn't look like there's a way for me to reopen it besides commenting on it. Then again I don't live in Github so I might be missing something.
That's why I'm so angry with leftist woke people and their "degoogle, stop using this, stop using that, blah blah blah!". If it's not accessible, I don't give a flying F about your values and sweet words. And no, I cannot fix every accessibility bug in every project, it's simply impossible. My compassion to you, Devin.
All web developers know, at some level, that accessibility is important. But when push comes to shove, it can be hard to prioritize it above a bazillion other concerns when you’re trying to c…
🔐 "Fixing Desktop Keyrings" with Dhanuka Warusadura at #GUADEC2025 📅 24 July 🕒 12:30 CEST 📍 Brescia 🧩 GNOME 49 plans to replace gnome-keyring with a new D-Bus Secret Service. Here’s what’s changing.
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.
🍜 "State of libsoup" with Patrick Griffis at #GUADEC2025 📅 24 July 🕒 12:30 CEST 📍 Brescia 🔧 From 3.0 to what’s next—Patrick gives an update on GNOME’s HTTP library libsoup.
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.
“Big Brother Tactics”: Why Bill C-2’s New Warrantless Disclosure Demand Powers Extend Far Beyond Internet and Telecom Providers michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/big-br…
The government’s inclusion of warrantless information demand powers in Bill C-2 may make this the most dangerous lawful access proposal yet, exceeding even the 2010 bill led by Conservative Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.
We could just ... not give police tear gas. That is a decision we could make. A state or city could make that decision, and remove it from inventory.
Maybe police do not actually need area-denial weaponry present at every public gathering. Maybe "people are throwing bottles at us, therefore tear gas" need not be the standard playbook.
I had less luck finding studies about its _effectiveness_ of CS gas for the presumed goals of police forces: officer safety and encouraging compliance with dispersal order. I found a lot of quotes from police along the lines of "well, the only alternative is bashing people with batons" One study of the introduction of CS spray in UK police forces (for personal protection, not crowd control) did not find a clear win: doi.org/10.1108/13639510010343…
Anecdotally, we might look at the current situation at LA, or that a few years ago in Minneapolis, and note that CS gas was not effective in reducing crowd antagonism, even if it does move people from one place to another.
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surfaces, and can cause long-term lung damage.
We did it! Thanks to your support, we achieved all three of our fundraising goals for developing features in the PeerTube application! We now have the...
In Gulliver's Travels, the Laputans had a machine called The Engine that put words together randomly, with scribes writing down any meaningful phrases that happened to be formed.
"Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.”
The Wikipedia page for The Engine currently says "See also Large Language Model".
The panel was moderated by @nicholas gates ( @OpenForumEurope ) with excellent insights from : David Cuartielles ( Malmo University), @Amandine ( @matrix ), Sachiko Muto (RISE, OpenForum Europe), Walid Mathlouthi ( International Telecommunication Union), Joshua Tan (Metagov).
The article doesn't mention XWayland at all, but KiCad works perfectly under XWayland as far as I can tell, and that is the default on at least Fedora! wxwidgets (the toolkit KiCad uses) is still flaky under native Wayland apparently, but it is perfectly okay to keep using XWayland for now, and you should! Apps and toolkits should not switch the default backend to Wayland until all major regressions are fixed, that's kind the whole reason why XWayland exists!
If you are on a distro that enables KiCad Wayland support by default and you experience the issues in that blog post, you don't need to (and probably should not) switch to an X11 session. Just launch KiCad as GDK_BACKEND=x11 kicad and it should run under XWayland just as well as it does under X11 sessions.
Some distros are dropping support for the legacy Xorg server and X11-native sessions, but nobody is dropping support for X11 apps and XWayland, and nobody should be concerned about running apps in X11 mode for as long as it's needed!
Edit: If you're on GNOME with fractional scaling and XWayland apps are blurry, apparently there's a secret toggle to fix that these days.
The KiCad development team frequently receives questions about our support for Wayland. Given that Fedora and Ubuntu are both planning to drop X11 support from their main desktop environments in the near future, we want to provide clear, transparent …
I'm excited to announce the launch of Imago Dei Disability Fellowship, a GroupMe community for Christians with all kinds of disabilities to connect, support one another, and advocate for accessibility and justice, all grounded in biblical truth.
This group is rooted in a conservative Christian worldview, including traditional beliefs about Scripture, gender, and identity. If you're looking for a space to talk about faith, disability, and advocacy without woke ideology—this is for you.
Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.
— Romans 12:4-5 (NLT)
All are welcome who seek to follow Christ and live out the truth that we are made in the image of God. 💜
A Christ-centered space for disabled believers to connect, support one another, and advocate for accessibility and justice, grounded in Scripture and the truth that we are all made in the image of God.
U juniora i Codexu mam za sebou dost ukolu na normalizaci. 1 normo-ukol je priblizne 4h casu => 1068 Kc.
Codex me stoji ve VC cenach 5219 Kc mesicne.
S Codexem jsem odbavil 175 produkcnich normo-ukolu => 1 ukol ~ 30 Kc.
Kdybych mel stejnou mesicni davku odbavit juniory stali by me 186900 Kc.
Jedina vyhoda juniornich vyvojaru je preciznost. Vsechno ostatni bere Codex. Coz je dost smutne a jestli AI vyrazne nezdrazi, tak to bude budouci trh dost bolet.
Neni. Je to presne naopak, Codex je v tomhle smyslu "investice".
Ja platim fixne aktualni MDM (striktne). Pokud bych mel juniora brat jako investici, tak by se za fixni plat musel v case zlepsovat a zaroven byt s tou MDM dlouhodobe spokojeny. A dlouhodobe je v horizontu let => musel byt pro me pracovat 2-3 roky vyrazne pod trzni cenou. To se nestane.
Naopak cenova valka AI a jeho postupne zlepsovani de opacnym smerem (AI mi zustane a bude lepsi).
@zoul Já se v těch nástrojích moc nevyznám, ale je už nějaký, který by svým vlastníkům generoval zisk nebo se tomu alespoň nevzdaloval? Zatím mám pocit, že do AI jen bohatí lijou peníze a doufají / věří, že se jim to jednou vrátí. Ale pokud ztráta časem exponenciálně roste (jak jsem někde četl ohledně Open AI) a prodává se za dumpingové ceny, tak bych asi úplně cenovou válku neočekával, spíš “konsolidaci” a výhledově zdražení.
@marekzprahy @zoul Na urovni organizace ne, ale na urovni produktu uz to tak byt muze.
OpenAI ma pro nejnovejsi modely drahe API, ale zaroven je prodava vyrazne pod cenou v ChatGPT produktu.
Claude Code je asi prvni, kde verim, ze ops celeho toho ekosystemu je v plusu.
AI Studio od Googlu, jeho casti, kde se plati per-1m tokenu taky.
Pro ne je to spis testovani, jak vysoko s cenou muzou jit a taky tim davaji "prilezitost" jinym startupum (a jejich VCs) ziskat uzivatele dumpnutim ceny API.
@zoul Presne tak. Co vacsina ludi ignoruje ze ak toto zacnu robit vsetci, o par rokov nebudu ziadni seniori, a tie tvoje TODO commenty tam nebude mat kto davat.
A co sa tyka ceny, tie LLM tooly pojdu nevyhnutne cenovo hore. Momentalne je v USA obrovska "AI" bublina ktora zerie miliony dolarov denne od investorov, a "AI" firmy sa zufalo snazia najst nejaky udrzatelny revenue stream predtym nez investori stratia trpezlivost. Zatial bezvysledne.
@ticho @zoul Ano, tohle je obrovske riziko a duvod, proc jsem psal, ze to bude pro budouci trh tragedie.
Ale je strasne odvazne predikovat, ze ta bublina praskne. Signaly jsou na obe strany:
Pro prasknuti: - Realna cena Claude Code (za podobnou praci ~$2k) => jenom 4x levnejsi.
Proti prasknuti: - Demokratizace LLM za nulovou marzi => provider bude vlastnit elektrarnu a prodavat elektrinu v podobe AI. - Zlepseni efektivity (viz treba Bottlecap AI).
![Let the Sperm of a man by itself be putrified in a gourd glasse, sealed up, with the highest degree of putrefaction in Horse dung, for the space of forty days, or so long untill it begin to bee alive, move, and stir, which may easily be seen. After this time it will be something like a Man, yet transparent, and without a body. Now after this, if it bee every day warily, and prudently nourished and fed with the Arcanum of Mans blood, and bee for the space of forty weeks kept in a constant, equall heat of Horsedung, it will become a true, and living infant, having all the members of an infant, which is born of a woman, but it will be far lesse. This wee call Homunculus, or Artificiall [Man?]. And this is afterwards to be brought up with as great care, and diligence as any other infant, until it come to riper years of understanding. Now this is one of the greatest secrets that God ever made known to mortall, sinfull man. For this is a miracle, and one of the great wonders of God, and secret above all secrets, and deservedly it ought to be kept amongst the secrets until the last times, when nothing shall be hid [the apocalypse], but all things made manifest.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/678512 "Let the Sperm of a man by itself be putrified in a gourd glasse, sealed up, with the highest degree of putrefaction in Horse dung, for the space of forty days, or so long untill it begin to bee alive, move, and stir, which may easily be seen. After this time it will be something like a Man, yet transparent, and without a body. Now after this, if it bee every day warily, and prudently nourished and fed with the Arcanum of Mans blood, and bee for the space of forty weeks kept in a constant, equall heat of Horsedung, it will become a true, and living infant, having all the members of an infant, which is born of a woman, but it will be far lesse. This wee call Homunculus, or Artificiall [Man?]. And this is afterwards to be brought up with as great care, and diligence as any other infant, until it come to riper years of understanding. Now this is one of the greatest secrets that God ever made known to mortall, sinfull man. For this is a miracle, and one of the great wonders of God, and secret above all secrets, and deservedly it ought to be kept amongst the secrets until the last times, when nothing shall be hid [the apocalypse], but all things made manifest.")
Paco Ho Ho Hope 🎄
in reply to feld • • •feld
in reply to Paco Ho Ho Hope 🎄 • • •@paco did we need violence achieve a win in Obergefell v. Hodges? I missed that memo.
And violence for accessibility rights? Do you actually have an example of that? Never heard such a thing before.