#Toronto @ChristineMalec is hosting The Description-Rich Story Hour on Saturday, September 27, 2-3:30pm on the land currently occupied by Lee Lifeson Art Park in North York. This is attached to her podcast "Described Toronto".
Let's go check it out!
torontoartsfoundation.org/even…
I've been informed that the Nordic Software Security Summit (nsss.se) is postponed due to health reasons and *will not* take place in early October as previously scheduled.
No new date has been set yet.
Big News! The completely #opensource #LLM #Apertus 🇨🇭 has been released today:
📰 swisscom.ch/en/about/news/2025…
🤝 The model supports over 1000 languages [EDIT: an earlier version claimed over 1800] and respects opt-out consent of data owners.
▶ This is great for #publicAI and #transparentAI. If you want to test it for yourself, head over to: publicai.co/
🤗 And if you want to download weights, datasets & FULL TRAINING DETAILS, you can find them here:
huggingface.co/collections/swi…
🔧 Tech report: huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertu…
After #Teuken7b and #Olmo2, Apertus is the next big jump in capabilities and performance of #FOSS #LLMs, while also improving #epistemicresilience and #epistemicautonomy with its multilingual approach.
I believe that especially for sensitive areas like #education, #healthcare, or #academia, there is no alternative to fully open #AI models. Everybody should start building upon them and improving them.
#KIMündigkeit #SovereignAI #FOSS #ethicalAI #swissai #LernenmitKI
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
🚨 Google is killing Android freedom.
Starting 2027, unverified apps can’t be side-loaded.
➡️ F-Droid harder to install
➡️ Custom APKs blocked
➡️ Google decides what runs on YOUR phone
Google’s Android is becoming Apple: Your device, their rules.
It’s time to switch to open alternatives: Graphene, Calyx, Lineage. ✊
tuta.com/blog/android-side-loa…
Sign the petition to stop Google from limiting APK file usage: change.org/p/stop-google-from-…
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Still, y'know, best of all worlds:
Google provides the justification for many leading manufacturers to produce a variety of devices.
Then the best of those devices get support from third party OS's.
I mean yes, of course Google sucks the big sausage. But Asus and Lenovo and Samsung etc. wouldn't be making all this great hardware for reasonable prices if Google weren't out there pushing Android. And we all benefit when we install LineageOS and similar on those devices.
Why the hell does Google now want to monopolize the app store too? I currently have F-Droid on my phone, and the 7-8 apps i absolutely cannot live without all come from F-Droid !
From e-mail to making a shopping list/notes comes from F-Droid.
I noticed the typo in the --retry-max-time docs and decide to do a quick search for staring which lead to three more places where this typo made its way into the docs.GitHub
Screenshot from a recent pull request merged in the curl project on GitHub Contributors to the curl project on GitHub tend to notice the above sequence quite quickly: pull requests submitted do not generally appear as "merged" with its accompanying p…daniel.haxx.se
The Serial Port made this lovely IRC documentary
(and yes, I got a "thanks" in the ending credits as I contributed with facts)
youtu.be/6UbKenFipjo?si=IPDJKf…
Our love letter to Internet Relay Chat.Want more content like this? Support our mission! Send us a Super Thanks and check out our Patreon + Discord community...YouTube
I was on IRC about 25 years, ~1995-2020. Lot of good memories. Now it's replaced by Matrix which is the modern successor for it, but I'm still on many originally IRC channels that have been bridged.
I've written some clients and bots, but the protocol itself isn't something I miss.. It's a product of late 80's.
včera zákazník z Kolumbie zabudol na stole vzorku pánskej voňavky a neuveríte nedávny čas premýšľam nad kúpou parfému... vonia fajn asi do nej pôjdem
edit: tie čo mi kupovala ex sú síce fajn ale ehhh nie radšej
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
La cosa va bien, y relativamente tranquila tras las vacaciones. A ver lo que dura.
I have fiber at home. Gigabit to the major speed test sites, nearly as much to OVH VPS. Much slower to my servers on other networks.
Away from home: on a hotspot or WiFi getting hundreds of megabits per second in tests AND to my home ISPs own Speedtest, I still struggle to get 10mbit to home -- direct or tunneled through the VPS.
It's crazy, they really limit your bandwidth through terrible peering to anyone they deem unimportant
Someone needs to Luigi an ISP CEO
AI is a weapon wielded by the wealthiest to control the masses. It is their coup de grâce to gain absolute control of The Internet, something that was intended to be of the people, by the people, and for the people.
This is why they dump billions of dollars into AI and do not care how inaccurate or dangerous to mental health it has turned out to be for the billions of users.
Whichever AI captures the most users in its trawl nets wins. Musk exploited this when he purchased Twitter AS A WEAPON. Until that time it was Zuckerberg unchallenged as the obvious "favorite". Now Thiel has the full backing of the most powerful and corrupted government in the world. He will win unless something unfortunate befalls him.
What part are you playing in this hostile takeover of humanity?
Mary Trump has an urgent warning for the country. Donald is pushing us toward yet another Constitutional Crisis. How many can we take? BREAKING #NEWS: Subscr...YouTube
I completely underestimated how widespread the issue of servers not supporting TLS 1.3 is. Tests in the beta channel gave no indication.
I regret not working harder to at least make the error message better.
The error message in master has been improved, but I can't push that fix as long as I have ongoing disputes with Google (putting it out by temporarily admitting to collecting email addresses resets my spot in the queue to maybe talk to an actual person).
Thank you for writing and releasing Conversations as Free Software.
Google's behavior is not your fault and you should not feel responsible. F-droid users may get the msg improvement first.
My take was that servers not supporting TLS 1.3 really need updating, and exposing that is progress.
ouch.
Yes, I know that I need to update my ejabberd. ...
Maybe - next time - it would have been a good idea to include a test in compliance.conversations.im
So I felt lucky with my 95% of compliance and wondered why my users aren't able to connect any longer. ...
Now I know, and beside of the exact timing it definetively is a good idea to upgrade my server.
Pick and choose your Jabber server from a list of compatible servers or check if your current server supports all required features.compliance.conversations.im
#Songs that you would recommend for the big global party - when Trump or Netanyahu or Putin or Xi or Modi - drops dead.
Drop the track name or video or song link, here.
Thanks for helping to create the hooray, the #dictators are dead!, party #music #playlist.
All music genres, welcomed.
*This thread will stay alive until one or more of the above listed dictators, drops dead. I added Modi too.*
#Antifa #FreedomForThePeoples
Requested by me, Que "Puncher of a Cop" Banh.
Question for people using #screenreaders: Do I need to retype the text of a page into the accessibility box for a pdf? I am assuming yes since it sees the page as an image, correct?
#LowVision #accessibility #BlindFedi
For some reason I thought pdfs were automatically better for accessibility, but now I wonder if that was false information.
Word spread through social media that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had reportedly checked into two Long Beach hotels.
Within the hour, a small contingent of local residents had arrived at both establishments.
They were there to make sure ICE agents didn’t sleep.
This was one of several
“No Sleep for ICE” events
that popped up during the month of June.
In a time when large-scale protests often dominate headlines,
a different kind of resistance is taking root across Southern California.
Small, decentralized networks of community members are using stealthy tactics and real-time coordination
to monitor, disrupt, and expose the movements of federal immigration officers.
truthout.org/articles/in-south…
Organizers confront ICE wherever they can be found, from the hotels where agents sleep to the streets they patrol.Michelle Zacarias (Truthout)
Happy Labor Day. Although many of the blind workers in workshops for the blind were not officially organized in the late 1880x-1960s, that did not stop them from organizing strikes, work-stoppage protests, or picketing. Because they were not organized, the leaders lost their jobs and were blocked from other blindness shops, agencies, and services. We have come a long way, but our rights are not assured.
Today, I remember and honor the early blind men and women who fought for a fair wage.
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I would love to see more theological formation have this as part of its goal!
“Theology is conceived as an art directed toward the cultivation of an ideal disposition of the soul, a disposition that may be called virtue, wisdom, or holiness.”
- Rev. Dr. Greg Peters
So much Christian theological training is far too cerebral, and needs to rediscover the traditional doxological and ascetic principles that have gotten lost in modern Christianity.
#PacificPower's grid is broken in NE PDX, something in a substation broke. It was something big, since 15,000 people don't have service, probably one of those bus-sized transformers.
Incidentally, most of the substations on the west coast are really old, like 50 years or more. They last a long time, but they don't get replaced if they aren't broken.
Unfortunately all of the electricity price increases lately have gone into wildfire insurance, not grid maintenance, so expect more outages.
> They last a long time, but they don't get replaced if they aren't broken.
DoE has reports about our aging transformers. They're supposed to be getting replaced like *NOW* but they're not. They can cause a regional outage from 6 months to 5 years if we can't reconfigure the grid in that area.
>> It is estimated that over 90 percent of the nation’s consumed power passes through an LPT (Office of Electricity, 2021). The average age of installed LPTs in the Unites States is ~40 years (U.S. Department of Energy, 2014), which is the end of their expected life time. Aging LPTs cause higher failure risk. This fact combined with challenges in the LPT supply chain and potential bottlenecks to rapid grid expansion raised concern about the vulnerability of the domestic electric grid.
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. For the state to recognise this I had to submit to standards of "care" which were humiliating, degrading and which placed me at risk of violence.
But I did it "by the book"
As I did it "by the book", the NHS agreed to reregister me as female, which makes sense because my anatomy now is.
In 2007 I had sex reassignment surgery. This had to be signed off by two mental health professionals, "by the book", and it was.
In 2008 I applied for gender recognition. This involved signing a statutory obligation, stating that I promised, BY LAW, to live fully as female for the rest of my life. As this was done, "by the book", the government promised that it would treat me as such.
Its first act as treating me as female was to annul our marriage because it was a same sex marriage and those were not allowed.
The state then reissued my birth certificate, correcting the "mistake" it had originally made when it recorded me as male, "by the book".
In 2009 Sylvia and I married for the second time, in a same sex civil partnership, which was done "by the book", because the state regarded me as female and I was bound by law to be female.
In 2013 we married again, because the state decided that same sex marriage was in fact allowed after all. This was done, "by the book". Despite having been married for 12 years, we had to submit ourselves to individual questioning to prove our relationship was genuine, "by the book".
In April of 2025 the state turned round and told me that I had been mistaken. That it never regarded me as female. That I was male the whole time. That the marriage it annulled because it was a same sex marriage was never a same sex marriage (but it stays annulled). That the civil partnership in 2009 never really happened because "opposite sex" civil partnerships were not allowed in 2009.
And that the legal obligation I have to live as female for the rest of my life, which I signed and gave up my marriage for, is still in effect but also if I keep following it, I am breaking the law and subject to arrest. As it's still valid, presumably if I don't keep following it, I am also breaking the law and subject to arrest.
The law of the land simultaneously requires me to be both a man and a woman and if I do either then I am breaking the law and subject to arrest.
At every stage I did what the state asked me to, even though it was humiliating, degrading and cruel.
And it kept moving the goalposts, and reneging on the agreements it made, whilst continuing to hold me to them even when they are now mutually contradictory.
Apparently this is "all my fault" and I should have known that this would be the consequences of my actions when I started medical transition 2 decades ago.
Perhaps you can now appreciate why we are upset?
everything in FreeBSD runs in a jail. By default it's JID=0
So I don't see why it's not possible as long as you provide all the allow.* things it needs
my wife said Gen Alpha is obsessed with the word "nonchalant"
I don't have any inside information about this. Where'd they learn it? What did they consume where this word was used frequently enough that it has become a part of their standard vocabulary?
There is no official Wireguard or OpenVPN client for AppleTV and this is just absolutely batshit bonkers
I was going to use one app last night but they hid an an-app payment. When you try to enable the VPN they want an $85 license fee haha
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