#Burgundy š«š· in May 2002: in a very āend of the lineā setting, we see this former #SNCF #CC65006 awaiting its fate. Picture taken at #Clamecy, if I remember well. The Class #CC65000 diesels were built in the late 1950s. They were mainly deployed in western France, around #Nantes.
If it is still around, here is a map of old railway gear. Onoy requirement to be added is to be permanently in the same place: mapcomplete.org/historic_rolliā¦
Car culture at its absolute worst meets an unjust legal system. Parents lose a son and are then convicted of a felony because they let him walk across the street. Gift link nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinionā¦
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purchasing power of the single currency.
I'm a designer living in the EU, originally from the US.
I love many things that the EU does (thanks!!! š). However, having a "design contest" is not a good idea for many reasons.
I know you're likely well-meaning, but here's the No!Spec site for info: nospec.com/
(You wouldn't have a "diagnose contest" with a bunch of doctors working without pay. You wouldn't have a "dining contest" where people cook food for free for the chance to be a favorite restaurant. Etc.)
@hub The vast majority of people participating will be doing actual work for free. And results are usually chosen in a popularity contest; the best usually doesn't win.
And design is about thinking, intent, and solving a problem; it isn't just about making a pretty or popular picture.
And designers also usually work with the client, iterating to make something meet their needs.
Having a "contest" undermines all of this, is bad for designers, and publicly cheapens design as a whole.
Grr! For some reason Windows decided to turn on defragmentation for an SSD. Who does that? I turned that shit off! In other news, want to know stuff about your SSD like temperature, how many gigs it's transfared over the years, how many hours it's been powered on? Check out the free utility Crystal Disk info: crystalmark.info/en/software/cā¦
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ZajĆmĆ” vĆ”s #politika, ale ne zase tak moc, abyste dennÄ sledovali vĆ½voj?
#Volby jsou za rohem a tak by se vĆ”m mohlo lĆbit mÄsĆÄnĆ shrnutĆ dÄnĆ od @Programy do voleb - nynĆ i na #VHSky - hezky pÄknÄ jak to mĆ”me rĆ”di bez trackerÅÆ, reklam a svobodnÄ :)
A když si vzpomenete, nezapomeÅte, že je tam tlaÄĆtko "podpoÅit"
Update: This piece is getting some interesting pushback from parents who think I'm being alarmist about AI toys over on my other social platforms.
On the other side of that, I'm hearing so many people taking the usual "AI BAAAAD" stance, some of those people thinking I agree with them simply because I took a hardliner stance in this post.
For clarification: I'm not anti-AI. I use these tools daily for my research and writing as well as accessibility aids to offset some of the disadvantages I face due to my blindness. I study AI from the computer scientist perspective and am studying to be an elementary teacher precisely because I see AI's educational potential. I'm not even entirely against the idea of AI companionship, if it's framed right.
What actually bothers me is the business model. When Moxie robots suddenly "died" last year because the company went under, kids had to grieve their artificial friend. Parents got a scripted letter to explain why their $799 companion stopped talking which provided little comfort to kids who experienced digital abandonment. Trust me, the videos I've seen of kids crying because their beloved friend unexpectedly died over night is truly heartbreaking.
That's no glitch, that's what happens when you outsource childhood relationships to venture capital that only cares about investment returns.
The real question isn't whether AI toys are inherently bad. It's whether we're okay with corporations experimenting on our kids' emotional development while claiming it's "age-appropriate play."
What are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments.
* Compete: a place where people can improve themselves in a positive way while having a lot of fun š”ļø * Stario: a minimalist, decluttered launcher š”ļø
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
The Visual Studio Code Extension entitled "Accessibility Alert Toggle" has been released. It allows you to turn on and off Accessibility Signals in the editor in cases where you need quiet time while coding or editting. Learn more here: marketplace.visualstudio.com/iā¦
"This is how Israel killed this hungry child. He walked through bombs and hunger to reach Zikim, hoping to bring flour back to his family... But an Israeli bullet got there first. He returned carried on wood, wrapped in the same flour bags he went to get. Israel kills the starving every day ā and the world stays silent. Save us."
Let's dive into the Wednesday teaser edition of Other People's Music! This thread offers the first line of each of the week's reviews, plus links to the music, socials and full review. If you prefer to dive into the full version, you can find it here:
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Article 1, Section 9 and 10 have been removed from the official government website on the US Constitution. This better be some kind of joke.
Among numerous points: ā¢Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus ā¢Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws
Removing these two would absolutely mean full blown dictatorship. Genuinely hoping this is some sort of prank or joke, but you never know with this fascist regime.
Okay I think itās about time I actually cracked on and did some work. With that in mind Iāve gone for some instrumental electronic courtesy of @etherdiver #NowPlaying
You may have noticed billboards for something called "PDX Crusade" popping up in recent weeks. This event is being sponsored by Athey Creek aka Proud Boy Church, since a number of Oregon Proud Boys and their associates attend services there.
Portlanders should be aware that a number of out-of-town far-right chuds may be roving around before & after the event happening this Sat & Sun - August 2 & 3 - at the Moda Center. Please take appropriate precautions.
The Christian concept of "crusading" has a long and bloody history of hate, and the refrain from the far-right claiming they need to "save" or "cleanse" a city that isn't theirs is one we've heard in Portland many times in recent years.
We see this christofascism writ large in the actions of the current administration but it's especially visible in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth who has tattoos of a crusader cross, and the words "deus vult" ("god wills it") and "infidel".
The Christian right has become an increasingly powerful force in American politics at every level, from school boards to the presidency. Its roots trace back decades.
ow ow ow ow ow! holy hell! judge joe brown wasn't playing at all in this one! plaintif was only sueing for 1200 dollars, but the ammount the judge gave her was a whole lot higher than that!
Judge Joe Brown plaintiff sues freeloader brother for charges from chatline
The Trump administration is warning states that they risk losing access to broadband funds if they set price caps on low-cost ISP plans (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
#Starlink is deliberately de-orbiting older satellites to āburn upā in the pristine upper atmosphere.
āBurn upā actually means āleave a bunch of metal vapour in the upper atmosphereā.
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Before the first Starlink launches began in 2019, only about 40 to 50 satellites re-entered per year. SpaceX just brought down ten years' worth in only six months, adding an estimated 15,000 kilograms of aluminum oxide to the upper atmosphere. āāāāā
Scientists are only just studying what this may do to the atmosphere (and life on earth). Early indications are not good.
People should be *really* worried about this and keep an eye out for future updates. Especially given the #USA seems to be turning into a lawless joke.
> SpaceX just brought down ten years' worth in only six months, adding an estimated 15,000 kilograms of aluminum oxide to the upper atmosphere.
20 seconds of research on this:
>> meteors from space deposit 100 to 200 tons of metallic material every day across the globe >> The meteors contain Tri-methyl aluminum, Lithium, Barium
why is 15,000kg of satellites a bigger concern than 100-200 tons of meteors (PER DAY!!)?
@feld Because of the composition. Meteoroids drop 0.3 tons per day of aluminum. Starlink just dropped at least 0.6 tons per day of aluminum in addition to that, plus a bunch of other metals like lithium that are almost non existent in meteoroids.
@feld They just dumped 500 satellites in 6 months, each one is (conservatively) 500kg, and (conservatively) half aluminum. That's 125 tons of aluminum in 6 months.
With 30,000 satellites that are 1000kg each (because they keep making them bigger) with 5 year lifetimes, they'll dump almost 6,000 tons of aluminum per year.
also, what exactly was our plan if we just started getting bombarded with a lot more meteoroids?
We're just going to have to get used to the idea that we need to start modifying the upper atmosphere.
We're already screwed because we have a significant lack of cloud coverage due to the existing warming and it's getting worse. So we're going to need to intervene anyway. We are going to have to increase the albedo ourselves and start doing things like stratospheric aerosol injection
an assertion was made. A curious mind would say "well how much is that in relation to everything else naturally entering the atmosphere?". So I found that answer, I posed a question, and I received a useful answer.
If you're trying to make some cutesy "stop being a smartass, just trust the scientists" point you can eat a bag of dicks. The scientists are wrong a *lot*.
Example: the climate models are all wrong. And not in a good way. Why? Compounding floating point errors. It's far worse than they're projecting.
Another reason: the calculations have not taken into consideration the lack of cloud coverage caused by the current amount of warming. How did they miss this? @SlicerDicer introduced this problem to me probably ... 8 years ago now? Maybe longer? Aren't the scientists supposed to be good at science? Oh wait, the lack of interdisciplinary expertise caused them to completely ignore the gas physics that rebreather diving experts know. Turns out that the warmer atmosphere affects the ability for clouds to condense. But nobody baked it into any climate models.
Yep, the gas physics are clear. It was about 10 years ago.
Why would they bake it into the climate models the entire thing was that more heat = more vapor. Superficial understanding says more clouds. Till you run the math of whatās actually happening to layers of the atmosphere. Then itās very clear.
Dunno, itās like maybe if their life depended upon the math being right and correct theyād take it serious?
Canāt say itās incorrect when my life depended on it being 100% correct. 7 mins to dead if you are wrong.
Seven. Minutes. To. Dead.
Thatās assuming everything is perfect when things go wrong and you notice it.
> Dunno, itās like maybe if their life depended upon the math being right and correct theyād take it serious?
And once they realize their mistakes their research funding is probably gonna dry up if everything they've published gets retracted. It's a horrible situation.
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I needed to setup a rather annoying test case for Pleroma. It would have taken me 20-30 mins to get it all sorted. This "AI" garbage did it for me in 2 minutes. I provided it two prompts:
First prompt:
--- Please analyze and document for me in this chat the behavior of Pleroma.User.Search.search/2 and how it handles searching for user accounts, the way the Postgres ranking works, etc ---
(it produced a bunch of documentation and code citations that matched reality)
Second prompt:
--- ok, this basically matches what I'm seeing as well. However, there appears to be a bug somewhere. Let's begin by creating a test directly for Pleroma.User.Search.search/2 that demonstrates what I am seeing.
First, let's create these users:
- one user for ourself - lain@cyber.ms - Laine@pialle.fr - lain@lain.com - lain@pleroma.soykaf.com - lain@fediffusion.art
Second, let's establish relationships
- we have no relationship with lain@cyber.ms - we have no relationship with Laine@pialle.fr - there is mutual following relationship for lain@lain.com - there is mutual following relationship for lain@pleroma.soykaf.com - we are following lain@fediffusion.art
Now, when searching for "@lain" I expect the results to be in this order:
and then it thought that I wanted the actual broken behavior, haha, because I expected the test to pass and match the broken behavior I described:
--- The test is now working and clearly shows the current behavior vs. the expected behavior. Let me analyze the results:
Current Actual Order: lain@lain.com (rank: 2.33, mutual following) lain@pleroma.soykaf.com (rank: 1.81, mutual following) lain@fediffusion.art (rank: 1.61, following) lain@cyber.ms (rank: 1.36, no relationship) Laine@pialle.fr (rank: 0.81, no relationship)
Expected Order: lain@cyber.ms (no relationship, exact match) Laine@pialle.fr (no relationship, similar match) lain@lain.com (mutual following) lain@pleroma.soykaf.com (mutual following) lain@fediffusion.art (following)
The issue is clear: the social relationship boosting is overpowering the base trigram similarity scores, causing users with relationships to always rank higher than users without relationships, regardless of how good the text match is.
Looking at the ranking scores: Users with mutual following get a 1.5x boost Users with one-way following get a 1.3x or 1.1x boost Users without relationships get no boost
This means even a poor text match with a relationship will rank higher than a perfect text match without a relationship.
The test successfully demonstrates the bug you mentioned! The current implementation prioritizes social relationships over text match quality, but your expected behavior prioritizes text match quality over social relationships.
Would you like me to proceed with modifying the search algorithm to match your expected behavior, or would you like to discuss the approach first? ---
Please tell me again how this technology is terrible and nobody should use it? It just saved me an hour RT: friedcheese.us/objects/0105bfcā¦
Whether it's for offline listening, privacy or something else: we're always happy when someone is so enthusiastic about AntennaPod (even if the love is declared in a media article with a clickbaity title š). And it's cool to see it run on a phone with an eInk display! howtogeek.com/this-is-the-onlyā¦
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when I go through my mails I usually have 3 buttons: "A" "Del" "Down Arrow"
Things that are done, but are important "A" for Archive. Things that I don't need to anymore "Del" Things I have to act on "Down Arrow" aka I check on them once I'm done.
when I reach the bottom I answer any E-Mail that needs answering and press "A" to archive it as well. I continue this until my Inbox is empty and I'm done for that session.
@tagomago Thanks so much for the feedback, and seriously, we're so thankful for Hank's article! And the ability to reorder tags...that could be a great suggestion for Mozilla Connect! connect.mozilla.org
curl_easy_reset() did not reset the rewind_read flag. This caused any
handles that previously had a CURLE_SEND_FAIL_REWIND error to get stuck
with that error, failing any subsequent requests, even ...
## Summary:
- Use-After-Free vulnerability that leads to arbitrary write/READ
YES, I used IA along with mermaind editor (online one) to generate this graph that show these paths for...
We are thrilled to announce an exciting new chapter in the evolution of Mixxx, redesigning the Mixxx user interface in #QML. This significant update aims to enhance customization, improve performance, and ensure better accessibility for a variety of hardware, including tablets and touchscreen laptops, but also to users with vision deficiency.
We're looking for developers, designers, and testers to help us on this journey!
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This proposed UI change feels very Rekordbox-y, and that's a compliment. I love that Mixxx will soon have a 3-band waveform that actually works and waveforms in the library pane with one-click preview... I have really disliked the way tracks have to be loaded into the preview player to preview them up to this point. The controller mapping interface looks freakin' slick too!
Last week I was talking with my cousin (who is not an engineer) about how "artificial intelligence" has never really meant anything, and has been typified by "moving goalposts" as a result.
Not six hours later, I was debugging her mom's 1991-vintage pinball machine, and found this sentence in its instruction manual. These "advanced artificial intelligence systems" used a 2 MHz 6809 processor.
@cachondo To clarify, the use of the term "artificial intelligence" isn't related to the old speech synthesizer specifically, but the MS-DOS screen reader ASAP (Automatic Screen Access Program). Here's that passage:
ASAP uses a new technique that employs artificial intelligence to decide what part of the screen catches a sighted user's eye and announces that material automatically.
We're talking about a program that was 55 KB of machine code.
@cachondo I think the actual technique was something like looking at the foreground and background colors of text on the screen (reading from PC text-mode screen memory) and using heuristics to determine what text was highlighted or otherwise noteworthy enough to be read automatically when it changed.
@cachondo Later GUI screen readers, at least on Windows, did similar things, but they first had to intercept OS graphics API calls to build an off-screen model. I wrote one of those myself. And at the time (2005, when I was about 25) I thought my off-screen model was pretty clever. Never thought to call it artificial intelligence though.
Google confirmed that one of its cloud-stored Salesforce databases was breached, exposing its customer data. Google attributed the breach to a hacking group, ShinyHunters, known for breaking into Salesforce databases.
Fortunately, the August Atomic peace blocked the Japanese plan å¤ę”ä½ę¦ (Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night) to bomb California in next month w/ bubonic plague, developed & tested @ Unit 731, using I-400 subs & float planes they carried. That saved not only the lives of civilians in California who otherwise would have died horribly from a disease we had no cure for, but the millions of Allied & Japanese troops, + millions of civilians.
In which I distill a lot of casual pub chats I've had with friends into a layperson's guide to the #OnlineSafetyAct. What it is, the problems it causes, and why you should definitely care.
Age verification has hit the UK, people need to upload ID to see 'adult' content. What's the harm in laws like this, if they protect children? Let's see.
Tl;dr: "This law breaks the internet, destroys online privacy, kills independent websites, wrecks accessibility, trains users to routinely bypass government blocks of genuinely illegal content, and offers less protection to kids than the tools that are already freely available from every major ISP."
Today is the anniversary of the release of the web to the world, in 1991, by @timbl when he said "Try it"
Billions have taken up his call to use the web. W3C, as a steward of this initial gift since 1994, is realizing our vision of making the web work, for everyone ā a web designed for the good of its users, that is safe and secure.
In this blog post about the newly published W3C Statement āVision for W3Cā, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs emphasizes the importance of principle-driven leadership and how vision gives clarity to move towards meaningful goals.
Mr. Berners-Lee did something awesome but the current state of the web is awful and you know it. "A web designed for the good of its users that is safe and secure." Do you really believe it?
The state of the web being awful is not due to its open standards but due to the perversions built on top of it by capitalism, which entirely thwart the open principles it was built for.
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in reply to Andreas Wiedenhoff • • •If it is still around, here is a map of old railway gear. Onoy requirement to be added is to be permanently in the same place: mapcomplete.org/historic_rolliā¦
#OpenStreetMap #MapComplete
Historic rolling stock
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