Ve středu jedou do Terezína, přezuj na zimní a očekávej závěje
Já mám od pátku dovolenou, tak jen blbni s tím sněhem 😂
If you're planning on using these as serious reference tools for newbies, I'd make a few changes.
Firstly, there's a great nubmer of background sounds from other open apps you have running that sometimes make it difficult to hear what you're saying.
There's a lot of background hiss under your voice, which might benefit from being toned down if possible.
Mike is quite robotic to modern audiences, so I'd recommend changing him or at least slowing him down.
In terms of this specific recording, writing to the root of the c drive isn't always recommended, and the fact you're doing it in a VM just adds tremendous confusion to anyone learning about these things, and your repeated references to bad crashes don't really enspire confidence adnd talking about your USB's from before only mean something if you're a regular listener.
And it's generally bad practice to show something that doesnt work. Like, if you tick the box to keep your config and for whatever reason that didn't work, you probably don't want to show that as typical behaviour.
The repeated shitting isn't overly professional, either.
I bring these up not to complain, but to query the future. If you're doing it for your regular audience who're already familiar with what you're doing, that's fine.
If you're making something for people wanting to learn something new, you might want to adjust your approach slightly.
EU Sovereign Tech Fund Gains Traction » Linux Magazine
OpenForum Europe recently released a report regarding a sovereign tech fund with backing from several significant entities.Linux Magazine
Einladung zu einem Canva Workshop für unsere Ehrenamtlichen - Canva ist ein Software Programm, mit dem Flyer o. ä. gestaltet werden können.
Bei Interesse bitte bei Alexandra Bosch, alexandra.bosch@drs.de melden.
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Einladung zu einem Canva Workshop für unsere Ehrenamtlichen - St. Johann Baptist - Affaltrach
Canva ist ein Software Programm, mit dem Flyer o. ä. gestaltet werden können. Bei Interesse bitte bei Alexandra Bosch, alexandra.bosch@drs.de melden. WeiterlesenKath. Pfarramt (katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Johann Baptist Affaltrach)
Wie wird das bei Euch in Bezug auf #Datenschutz, #Datenverarbeitung und #Verwertungsrecht gehandhabt?
Soweit ich erinnere verkauft #Canva, bzw. die Firma dahinter, nicht nur Daten, sondern kauft auch bei Dritten ein um zu verknüpfen.
Und war es nicht auch so, dass man an den erstellten Produkten keine eigenen Rechte mehr hat, auch für den eigenen Content, den man einbringt, oder z.B. in der Gemeindearbeit dann von anderen (Content von Veranstaltungen z.B.)?
Dazu würde mich der aktuelle Stand und eine Einschätzung/ Korrektur meines Verständnisses intetessieren.
Vielleicht wissen @ChristianBrecheis@kirche.social und @fxneumann@bonn.social etwas?
A contact just told me that my old "LLMs generate nonsense code" blog post from 2 years ago is now very outdated with GPT5 because it's so awesome and so helpful. So I asked him to give it a test for me, and asked it my favorite test question based on a use-case I had myself recently:
Without adding third-party dependencies, how can I compress a Data stream with zstd in Swift on an iPhone?
and here is the answer from ChatGPT 5: chatgpt.com/share/68968506-183…
Very confident, very bold, even claims "Works on iOS 16+".
Problem with that: Just like any other LLM I've tested that provided similar responses, it is - excuse my language but I need to use it - absolute horseshit. No version of any Apple SDK ever supported or supports ZSTD (see developer.apple.com/documentat… for a real piece of knowledge). It was never there. Not even in private code. Not even as a mention of "things we might do in the future" on some developer event. It fundamentally does not exist. It's completely made up nonsense.
This concludes all the testing for GPT5 I have to do. If a tool is able to actively mislead me this easy, which potentially results in me wasting significant amounts of time in trying to make something work that is guaranteed to never work, it's a useless tool. I don't like collaborating with chronic liars who aren't able to openly point out knowledge gaps, so I'm also not interested in burning resources for a LLM that does the same.
Because it already happened: if you read my post and you feel an urge to respond with something along the lines of "it's just a hallucination", "it's just a bug", "it will be better in ChatGPT 6", or anything even close into that direction, please stop. Read this post and the next post, think about them, and if you have a factual argument to respond to me, only then reply. Focus on my factual claims, not on some inaccuracies in my analogy because of course it's not 100% accurate, that's the nature of analogies.
ChatGPT making up ZSTD compression in the Compression framework is not a bug. It's not even a weird edge-case. ChatGPT is doing exactly what it is designed to do. Let me try to explain.
If we grossly oversimplify what an LLM is, it's "just a statistical model" that generates "language" based on a chain of "what is most likely to follow the previous phrase". "language" can be anything: it can be human language, a fictional language, but it also can be code or even genetic information. Any kind of textual thing that you can feed large amounts of into a model works. "Not having an answer" is not a possibility in this system - there's always "a most likely response", even if that makes no sense.
ChatGPT inventing ZSTD compression in the Compression framework isn't due to a lack of training data. If you request an overview over all compression algorithms supported, it answers correctly with a comprehensive list that does not include ZSTD. So, if you want to anthropomorphize ChatGPT, you could say "it knows that ZSTD isn't supported", but that doesn't matter. LLMs do not possess the ability of logical thinking, deductive reasoning, or anything else. "It knows" that there are a bunch of compression algorithms available, the constants are all called COMPRESSION_[method], so there's a high likelihood of COMPRESSION_ZSTD to be the answer to a user asking for ZSTD compression in Swift. And so it generates that.
The only way ChatGPT will stop spreading that nonsense is if there is a significant mass of humans talking online about the lack of ZSTD support. For example a bunch of StackOverflow questions asking "How do I do this?" and people responding "you don't, Apple doesn't support it, you have to use third-party libraries" - or if you have a bunch of white dudes working in tech complaining on social media about Apple not supporting ZSTD in the Compression Framework.
My next post will be an attempt at comparing human thinking and LLMs generating text. As mentioned earlier, it's an analogy - and it's not going to be 100% accurate. If you want to reply, focus on the factual claims. If you only want to nit-pick my analogy, I have to assume you're not interested in productive argumentation.
Let's imagine you're colorblind. The kind of colorblindness that only allows you to see grayscale - no colors at all - but everything else is fine.
You're stressed and need fidget toy - so a friend hands you a ball, roughly filling your hand. It's hard, but somewhat squishy, and has a weird fabric-like, furry texture. You now want to know what color that ball is. But, well, you're colorblind, and your friend already disappeared and isn't reachable - probably riding a Deutsche Bahn train or something.
So you take a picture and post it to a "what color is this?" subreddit. Seems reasonable. You get 200 responses - 198 of them say "it's yellow", two of them say "it's pink". A few people helpfully say it's a "tennis ball". That's helpful, because even the Wikipedia article states that only yellow and white tennis balls are officially approved colors. Sweet.
A few days later, a random person approaches you and says "wow, cool ball - what color is it?" and you say "yellow!". Alright, end of the chat. A LLM would do exactly the same - given the "yellow" responses far outnumbered the "pink" responses, your ball is probably yellow. Ball==yellow is something both you and the LLM "learned". A few weeks after that, another friend asks you "ALice has a ball, too! Do you know which color her ball is?" - and now it gets interesting.
The LLM would immediately say "yellow". Of course it would. It makes sense. Yellow is the most likely response to that question.
But you're not an LLM - you're a human, and your brain is cool. Instead of saying "yellow", you respond "huh I don't actually know that? My ball is yellow, maybe she has a similar ball. But it could also be that she has a completely different ball that might a different color! Also, lol, I'm colorblind, so I can't really answer that anyway - you should ask Alice." And now, your brain is already doing better than any LLM. Your logical thinking engine already realized that you don't actually know something, and you're honest enough to just say that. Your job isn't to be a ball color guesser, you're just a person.
Wait, it's gets more fun! A few weeks after that, you hang out with me. You hand me your ball, and say "hey look at my cool yellow ball!". Oddly enough, my reaction is "huh? this ball isn't yellow, it's a pink tennis ball..." and now things get funky. If you were an LLM, you would either insist that no, your ball is absolutely yellow - or you'd come up with some kind of "oh, sorry for the misunderstanding - it's pink, you're correct", almost implying that my definition of color is different - and the next time someone asks you about the color of your ball, you'd still say "Yellow!!" again. Because of course, there's still only three people claiming it's pink, and still 198 people saying it's yellow.
But you're not an LLM. You're human, and your sexy human brain immediately goes into a "uhhh we have a conflict of information! how exciting! let's figure things out!" You now have to conflicting hypotheses, and you're thinking about ways to experiment on your ball to learn more. And you have an idea! You know your additive color mixing theory, so you realize that your phone camera can take pictures and you can look at the RGB values. If it's yellow, you'd expect to see lots of red and green but no blue - but if it's pink, you'd see lots of red and blue, but no green! You can test that!
So you take a photo, and... rgb(255, 0, 255). Turns out your ball is actually pink! It's still a tennis ball, but a fun one not meant for official tournaments, so it's pink! Wow! You immediately learned something new - and from now on, if someone asks you about the color of your ball, you'll say "pink!" and you'll have a heck of a story to tell alongside. Also, after some self-reflection, you realize that the subreddit your posted your image to wasn't a real "what color is this?" subreddit - it was one of those "false answers only" shitposting subreddits. Whoops.
This process of having assumptions, but being able to question them, to come up with tests for it, and to immediately change your opinion on something when you have good evidence for it is what makes humans awesome. You don't rely on the majority of people screaming "pink!" at you. You don't need to rely on manual weights that give some sources more weight than other sources - you can independently process information and deduct things. Give your brain a pat on the.. uh.. cranium.
LLMs can be a useful tool, maybe. But don't anthropomorphize them. They don't know anything, they don't think, they don't learn, they don't deduct. They generate real-looking text based on what is most likely based on the information it has been trained on. If your prompt is about something that's common and the majority of online-text is right, you'll most likely get a right answer out of the LLM. But if you're asking something that not a lot of real people had interactions on, the LLM will still generate text for you - but it might be complete nonsense. You're just getting whatever text is "statistically most likely".
If you're a coder stuck on something, identify a colleague or friend who is more knowledgeable in that specific area. They'll happily help you out and provide all sorts of fun added context that'll allow you to learn. If you're a nerd on the internet who enjoys ranting on social media, just do it yourself instead of having an LLM generate it, because that'll allow you to insert some bad jokes and a bit of your own personality to it instead of just getting a "default-feeling" text. If you're a manager in charge of something and you need to come up with new directions to push your company towards, go take a walk outside and listen to some cool music and let your ideas roam free - don't ask an LLM to generate the statistically-most-likely direction for your project, because that's by definition the opposite of creative and innovative.
Use your brains.
Happy 21st Birthday @openstreetmap! 🍰 🥳 🎈
Gonna meet up with friends to celebrate, do some on-the-ground surveying, probably also walk around with a 360° cam to get imagery for @panoramax. And fly a drone, to get some nice aerial imagery while we're at it! 🗺️ 📷
And of course have some cake too 😂
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Had a blast at our little #OpenStreetMap birthday celebration. 🍰 🧉
It ended up being too windy to fly drones for long. Instead we recorded street-level images for #panoramax and GPS tracks, in addition to doing a lot of live surveying – using a huge range of tools that allow contributing to OSM!
In no particular order we at least used: @everydoor, @streetcomplete, @MapComplete, @CoMaps, HOTOSM's ChatMap, iD and JOSM.
Having so many different ways of making contributions is a real feature.
Three days before the end of the vacation here, I finally figured out how to get the Norwegian kartverket tile maps to display in osmand. Better late than never I guess, but this would have been really useful on a hiking trip a few days ago 🙃.
The details are here but this was somehow really hard to find: cache.kartverket.no/
osm's iD editor has it as selectable background imagery... but it's broken and only returns "This API has been blocked temporarily. Please try again later or contact the system administrators."
This is not looking great.
I love reading about the Apollo era, and James Lovell is always written about by everyone very fondly, sometimes by his ironic nickname, "Shaky".
When you're in that much of a pressure cooker environment and basically everyone still likes you, that speaks volumes about your character.
Rest well, Jim. [gift link] wapo.st/3UngXpP
This Mac App Automatically Triggers 'Do Not Disturb' When You're on a Call
This free Mac app automatically disables notifications whenever your microphone is active.Justin Pot (Lifehacker)
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"#Israel’s war on #Gaza has killed more than 61,000 Palestinians. Local hospitals said at least 42 have been killed today. Of those, at least 13 were said to be trying to get aid in an Israeli military zone in southern Gaza. Another two were killed on roads leading to nearby sites run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, according to Nasser Hospital."
theguardian.com/world/live/202…
Hostages’ families protest against Gaza plan – as it happened
Israeli PM gives interview to Fox News as security cabinet due to meet over his planAmy Sedghi (The Guardian)
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07:33 Linux's Steam marketshare rises close to 3%
09:17 Android has to crack open the Google Play Store
11:11 MX Linux moves to systemD & Wayland by default
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GNOME's governance structure is changing a lot
bassi.io/articles/2025/08/03/g…
Linux desktop reaches 6% market share
zdnet.com/article/think-linux-…
Linux's Steam marketshare rises close to 3%
gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/stea…
Android has to crack open the Google Play Store
theverge.com/news/717440/googl…
MX Linux moves to systemD & Wayland by default
mxlinux.org/blog/changes-comin…
OpenSUSE Leap 16 brings massive changes
news.opensuse.org/2025/08/04/l…
Microsoft to open source WinUI library
github.com/microsoft/microsoft…
Mesa 25.2 brings a lot of good updates
linuxiac.com/mesa-25-2-lands-w…
Nextcloud shows digital sovereignty is merely a dream right now
linuxiac.com/finland-tops-next…
dsi.nextcloud.com/
Think Linux desktop market share isn't over 6%? This 15 million-system scan says otherwise
Lansweeper analyzed millions of consumer desktop OSes using both agentless and agent-based scanning techniques. Here's what it found.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 14 updated and 1 added apps:
* Paperless NGX Uploader: uploads a single document to Paperless‑NGX directly from the system Share menu 🛡️
RB status: 681 apps (51.4%)
2 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
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).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
The things I learn, even at my age, simply by reading documentation are WILD!
Today: #SQLite3
"In addition to reading and writing SQLite database files, the sqlite3 program will also read and write ZIP archives."
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#debian #debian13 #trixie #ReleasingDebianTrixie
I'm new to the @debian game.
I just saw in the documentation "Upgrades to Debian 13 "trixie" from the previous release, Debian 12 "bookworm", are automatically handled by the APT package management tool for most configurations. "
However, my debian didn't offer me upgrade in any way. Do I have to install a specific upgrade package?
Currently I'm using a standard installation based on KDE.
Or is upgrade only supported in gnome stock software packages?
Can anyone help? #Followerpower
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
Update 8/8/2025 – I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. I’ve seen some comments this is a rebuttal – it wasn’t meant to be! But…Random Thoughts
#enshitification #amazon #fraud
#Debian 13 “Trixie” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New 9to5linux.com/debian-13-trixie…
Debian 13 “Trixie” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New - 9to5Linux
Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, improved hardware support, and other changes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 428 ppm in July 2025
10 years ago July averaged about 401 ppm
Preliminary data from NOAA at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
Jsem měl dneska na zahrádce zajímavou debatu se sousdem. 😄
- Soused: Tak co, taky jdete dneska něco dělat?
+ Já: Jo, jo. Potřebuju odvízt tenhle bordel (myšleno větve, plevel a trávu) na sběrák.
- *Podívá se na moje auto* Jak?
+ No, sklopím sedadla, vystelu to plachtou a naházím to tam. Pohoda.
- Vždyť si to zašipiníte, ne?
+ Ne, já si tu plachtu zaháknu ke stropu a pak to naprostou většinu pochytí. Nezůstane tam víc bordelu než po běžný jízdě se psem. Už jsem to takhle párkrát vezl. (Viz mamutovo.cz/@Razemix/114274591…)
- No jo, ale stejně… A nemůžete si třeba půjčit vozík?
+ Nemám tažný. Ale fakt v pohodě, mám to vyzkoušený.
- No a nechcete to spíš spálit?
+ No, ono to není úplně suchý. A tyhle věci by se stejně už neměly pálit.
- No jo, tak jak myslíte…
Já jako chápu, že chce pomoct, ale stejně… 🙃 A kdybych to chtěl pálit, tak musím počkat, až to pořádně vyschne, a stejně bych to musel ručně/vidlema brát a někam přenášet. A jestli si mám vybrat mezi tím to dát do auta a na sběráku to (zadarmo!) vyklopit nebo stát v létě u žhnoucího sudu, tak mám docela jasno. 😄
Radomír Žemlička (@Razemix@mamutovo.cz)
Attached: 2 images Týpek na sběráku: „Ježiši, vy v tom máte strom, ne?“ Kdyby jeden… 😅 #fabiajedodávkaMamutovo
With agentic AI contributing to the AI hype-cycle, I've been giving it some thought from the point of view of a disabled person, and also as an accessibility specialist who's already witnessing the arrival of the agentic web first-hand:
tetralogical.com/blog/2025/08/…
#AI #agentics #accessibility #a11y
Accessibility and the agentic web - TetraLogical
Imagine being in a department store that sells clothes from multiple brands and having a personal shopping assistant to help you select the clothes you want to buy.TetraLogical
@jcsteh @sitcom_nemesis Even imagining a world where agentic is approaching half of my interactions turns me into that guy from the Simpsons who goes *hiccup* "kill me", *hiccup* "kill me".
But without the hiccups.
Using a Rode Wireless Pro microphone which I magnetically attached to the cabin ceiling speaker, I captured some of the mandatory announcements that you hear at some point during the afternoon.
I'm aboard MSC Seaside cruise ship, and there are speakers in all cabins, hallways and even the bathrooms.
HQ download: onj.me/media/2025_Cruise/MSC_S…
❗📢 PSA: Allowing AI into your mailbox threatens your privacy.
🔗 Find out why AI should not be used in your mailbox here: tuta.com/blog/ai-email-writers…
6 AI email generators and which writers not to use | Review. | Tuta
AI email generators can help write your emails quicker, but the risks often outweigh the benefits when granting them access to your private mailbox. Here’s why not to use AI email writers.Tuta
@ThePSF have paused its grants program. This came as shock to many.
A lot of people benefit from #Python , many lives have been changed. But very few consider giving something back or paying it forward.
Here are some of my thoughts on the matter:
sheenaoc.com/articles/2025-08-…
If you have benefited from Python, please consider paying it forward by supporting communities and events that you care about. Or by supporting the PSF directly.
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for today i am writing up proton's Lumo chatbot key points: * says "secure" a lot, the way it works leaves a shitload of your stuff on their server in plaintext for a length of time they won't specify * says "open source" a lot, none of the Lumo st…GSV Sleeper Service






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