This Linux "what session owns what process" crap is, I swear, its biggest downfall. Oh, lightDM now owns your pipewire server socket because it started it first? Oh! No Orca for you then, sorry, it can't be started on a Bluetooth device, because then that Pipewire session grabbed the BlueZ service and poof it's now the one connecting to your headphones and its audio socket. Fuck Linux. Fuck it with a big, giant, wide, sharp cactus today.
Volvo (and Polestar) are in crisis mode as their flagship cars are plagued by software problems.
It’s said that car companies don’t “understand” software, but the larger issue is that they don’t *appreciate* software.
I mean, they don’t understand leather tanning or high-end speaker design either, but that doesn’t stop them from sourcing premium materials and great sound systems. But software is always bought from the lowest bidder (Infosys in the Volvo/Polestar case)
Volvo's EVs, including its flagship EX90, are riddled with software bugs. Its CEO says the automakers is focusing on fixing these as quickly as possible.
This is in no way limited to the automotive industry, of course. Hardly anyone appreciates software. Software companies usually don’t either! That’s why we have shit like the Coinbase CEO mandating that by October 50% of their software must be written by AI.
Haha, I remember reading an interview with somebody from the software side in Nokia, Symbian 40 days. They said that the company venerated their hardware designers but didn’t care at all about their software. The example they gave was that they were informed 1 week before new models’ launch that the RAM had been halved :D
I reckon it'll be around 2040 at the earliest until the USA is safe for tourists to visit again. There's probably another 8-10 years of them going down the right-wing fascist route, followed by several years of reflection and recompense.
Mozilla adds CoPilot chatbot to Firefox in the latest nightly builds, plus previews new Task and Timer widgets for the New Tab page.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/firefox-adding-copilot-chatbot-features?v2
#CoPilot #firefox #opensource
Well, that was a "productive" Saturday evening! I needed to combine some smart home data and made a mistake by asking the #AI to suggest some approaches. After two hours of going down blind alleys and being misled by the AI with things like old or completely made-up API endpoints, I finally studied the documentation and realised it was not the right path. I then did some old-school thinking and searching, found an open-source library on GitHub that did exactly what I needed, and solved the problem in 20 minutes.
It's funny how #AI becomes completely clueless when it runs out of the 5 most discussed problems on forums associated with the used software. Then it just starts running round in circles and suggesting the same things over and over again. You're very quickly on your own.
Biscuit – Eclipse Biscuit is an authorization token with decentralized verification, offline attenuation and strong security policy enforcement based on a logic language
Has anyone of you ever used @biscuitauth and implemented it in a web project? Can you omit this or should I stick to standards or use other alternatives?
Anthropic has settled its lawsuit with authors for 1.5B$. Which is 50% of their actual annual revenues (although the amount still have to be validated by a juge, and might be higher).
It’s 3000$ per book they stole, and represent only a fraction of of the number of books they stole.
That they are ready to pay this amount of money tells a lot.
Imagine if before every journey you had to give 48 hours notice to do it. That's the reality for disabled people across many countries. Wanna take a train? Gotta book the assistance 24-48 hours in advance. Relative gone into hospital and you need to go see them? Tough, should have planned in advance.
This is why I am so vocal about level access trains and working lifts. If we design accessibility into our infrastructure, it becomes more useful to more people.
TIL that the assistance service at Barcelona-Sants station is only available if prebooked 48h in advance, because they allocate staff each day based on the requested demand.
* WiFi Audio Streaming: stream audio over your local network, Android 2 Android and even desktop 🛡️ * Open Notes: a simple and intuitive note-taking app 🛡️ * BikeBridge: a companion for your e-bike and components 🛡️
And of course Neo Store now with integrated download stats 😃
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).
Europe reveals that waste disposal companies from Germany, Austria and Italy continue to export old tyres and other waste – in some cases toxic – to the Czech Republic.
Over the past two decades, millions of tonnes of waste have been dumped in Mydlovary – including significant volumes from neighbouring Germany, a country championed for its waste separation and recycling systems. According to the managing director of one German waste disposal company, Mydlovary is ‘the biggest hole in Europe’ for rubbish dumping.
Excited to announce #Catima is in the top 5% of most popular apps on #IzzyOnDroid, ranking place 62 of 1307.
Even more excited to see our new IzzyOnDroid download statistics, supported by #NLNet, land in #NeoStore!
Curious as to how it works? It's actually pretty simple! Server logs are fed, per server, into codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/iod-s… and the results are summarized using codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/iod-s…, creating easy to consume JSON files. Then, Neo Store consumes them :)
This repository contains scripts to turn your server logs into the "IzzyOnDroid download stats" format, which can then be collected by https://codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/iod-stats-collector.
We have a list of user agents of known clients on codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/iod-s…, so it's anything not matching those. Mostly web browsers, but may also include some crawlers or bots.
iod-stats-builder - This repository contains scripts to turn your server logs into the "IzzyOnDroid download stats" format, which can then be collected by https://codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/iod-stats-collector.
My to dlouho zvažovali a nakonec jsme do novýho fára dali jen oddělovací mříž a podložku. Což se nakonec osvědčilo se když jsem musel jet vyzvednout prchlou ovci 😂
@kepi Na Wicka je ta klec akorát a větší se už do Octavie nevejde. Stálá necelých 5000 tak snad vydrží. Asi úplně top kvalita to nebude, ale uvidíme. @dFraZi
Ukraine’s first EU-gauge railway between Uzhhorod and Chop is now open, backed by €28.6 million from the EU’s Connecting Europe and Ukraine Facilities.
This means:
✅ Faster border crossing ✅ More trade ✅ Better links to 🇸🇰🇭🇺🇦🇹 – and beyond
Part of the EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes, this project will help bring Ukraine closer to the EU.
Ukraine opened its first railway line based on the European Union standard for track width, marking a significant step in deepening the country’s transport integration with the EU.
@Tutanota Hi Tuta team! I don't think I'm the first person suggesting this, but it would be great if your apps were available on the Accrescent Store (@accrescent) someday 🤩
I’m going to leave GitHub (I’ve been a user since the beta days) and will incessantly ask everyone I know to leave it as well if you don’t roll back the “can’t opt out” force-feeding of “AI” nonsense.
You should also have no integration or collaboration with Xai at all, ever.
Make your management have some sense, this is hostile and disgusting and wrong.
Jedu do práce na kole. Jsem asi první řidič autobusu, který potupně zvolil tenhle způsob dopravy do zaměstnání a asi i poslední, ale co nadělám, manželka odfrčela autem do České školy v Bristolu. Snad to přežiju. A hlavně snad přežiju cestu domů ve 2 ráno 😂
@archos I ó to jsem včera přemýšlel, když jsem jel ve 2 domů 😇 Ale kolega ho potřeboval na další trip do Londýna. Jednou už jsem ho tady před domem parkoval přes noc 😇
For the first time since September of 2019, FX Radio lives again!
What is FX Radio?
Basically, it's a stream with a stack of three media players shuffling through a huge collection of royalty free sound effects, music, and sometimes other odd things.
Essentially, it's audible streaming chaos, and a possible drug substitution if you are so inclined.
There are still some things to be tweaked, so it may randomly disappear from time to time, but we here at NoiseBox HQ are mostly happy with how it's working so far, streaming live from a computer under @BorrisInABox's mom's desk, and she has no idea it's there.
More features will be added in the coming days, hopefully.
There is no website or anything fun like that, just a stream URL.
[Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)](https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/) is an inevitability when working on web accessibility. That said, it’s everyone’s first time learning about ARIA at some point.
Today's #AndroidAppRain at the #IzzyOnDroid repo will come with a special: Neo Store updated to v1.1.2, and now does provide our download statistics inline (see attached images) 🥳
You cannot only see how well your favorite apps perform, but also sort your listings by "popularity" (actually, download counts). And also which F-Droid client is favored by those using a given app.
Currently only available for apps provided via the IzzyOnDroid repo – until other repos pick up the stats generator.
Can flexibly be adjusted to different server log formats.
Thanks to @nlnet for funding this work! 🤗 (and to all of you supporting us via opencollective.com/izzyondroid and other means, even just motivating us with your nice feedback 🤗)
This repository contains scripts to turn your server logs into the "IzzyOnDroid download stats" format, which can then be collected by https://codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/iod-stats-collector.
good incentive to try out neostore. If you are about stats, it would be interesting to have a place where you could display the apps origins, like a pie chart that tells us how many percent of apps are developed on github, codeberg, gitlab and so on.
@kuroneko I guess the best place for that would be codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/iod-s… – it's definitely doable. Maybe you open an issue there to ask for it, so your question does not get lost? We'd then see what can be done.
Thanks, also for the suggestion – it's a good idea!
An article I read years ago about the "gig economy" lives rent free in my head. Its core thesis amounted to - in many companies particularly through the 20th century, it was at least possible for someone to come in at even a low entry level job and through hard work and effort and excellence, get promotion after promotion and make their way to senior management. You could get from factory worker to become foreman to become manager to become senior manager etc.
When you're an "independent contractor" with a megacorp as a monopsony over you, and your boss is an app, there's literally zero path from labor to management no matter how good you are.
And now with AI, that trend has entered a new stage. There's going to be that much fewer pathways from entry level AI wrangler to supervisor.
🚴♂️ Člověk vyrazí na kolo, vrátí se domů… a na stole už čeká bramborový salát s řízkem. No není na světě krásně? A přitom si pořád někdo jen stěžuje… Stačí se umět radovat z maličkostí 😄
IKEA order arrived with a damaged box. The return AI booked a replacement drop off and pickup scheduled for Friday. All good zero touch customer rep experience. Status updates telling us it’s on the way etc.
Except it never arrived.
Called IKEA this morning took 45m of waiting and dealing with humans to discover. The AI had hallucinated the whole thing. The schedule was too tight For the warehouse to load the goods. So the AI just faked the rest of the delivery updates.
Cust rep couldn’t fix it so just created two new deliveries, one for the replacement and one for the damaged part pickup. So much time wasted and inconvenience to our family.
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.” Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests?
House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/701457 "One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.” Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests?
House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”")
Federico Mena Quintero
in reply to mhoye • • •Algorithmic chicanery
Accidental chicanery
Irreducible chicanery
Kolmogorov chicanery
Yeah, it checks out.
mhoye
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