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in reply to Sean Randall

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so with my new media player iOS app, you can now use the add content menu to add internet streams and it will play the live stream, disabling effects and speed and other such stuff. You also get volume control so you can listen to a song quietly while talking on whatsApp. I also added mp3/m4b/whatever chapter support and a bunch of other stuff.

ИИ — просто мешок слов. Как перестать видеть интеллект там, где его нет

#ai #LLM

Наука — это «задача сильного звена»: даже если мы произведём в миллион раз больше посредственных исследований, окажемся там же, где и сейчас.
Если нам нужно больше действительно сильных работ, чем же наполнять "мешок" LLM? Можно забивать его статьями, но часть из них — сфабрикованы, часть — просто ошибочны, и все они содержат неявные допущения, которые могут оказаться ложными.
К тому же часто не хватает ключевой информации — нет данных, недостаточно подробно описаны методы.

Предприниматель Маркус Страссер, пытавшийся сделать компанию из серии «положим все статьи в "мешок" → ??? → профит», в итоге отказался от затеи, заявив, что «почти ничего из того, что действительно делает науку наукой, не опубликовано в виде текста в интернете».

Даже лучший "мешок" в мире бесполезен, если в него не положить правильные вещи.

habr.com/ru/companies/otus/art…

#AI #llm
in reply to Who Let The Dogs Out 🐾

#ai #LLM

«Мешок слов» — не супруг, не наставник, не босс и не раб. Это инструмент. Его предназначение — снимать с нас рутину и усиливать наши способности. Его социальный статус — отсутствует; бессмысленно спрашивать, «лучше» ли он нас. Настоящий вопрос такой: становимся ли мы лучше, когда им пользуемся?

#AI #llm

🎥 New Video Online – Rust in Paris 2025 🦀

At the latest edition of Rust in Paris, Benjamin Bouvier @bnjbvr explained why Rust compile times can be slow — and how to speed them up without sacrificing quality.

👉 Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/EHu15-E89YY

Huge thanks to Benjamin for breaking down the compiler process and sharing practical tools to help Rust developers build faster 🙌

#RustLang #RustInParis #RustProgramming #OpenSource #RustCommunity #Compiler #Performance

We have some new LibreOffice Expert magazines from @linuxmagazine to give away! We want to get them to schools, libraries and local communities, especially in remote places where internet access isn't easily available: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource

🚨Our governments are about to decide whether 450M Europeans deserve privacy - or not.

Help ensure your country says NO to Chat Control: Call you local representatives!

Privacy is not negotiable. Speak up now. ✊ #privacy

👉 More on how to stop Chat Control: tuta.com/blog/chat-control-cri…

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Friday's episode of the podcast I do with my wife was a really fun one. Bit of a nostalgia trip, talking about things we collected as kids like Tamagotchis, Furbies and so on. If you haven't checked us out yet, please do. Might be something you enjoy. 51 episodes in and my wife and I talk about all sorts, never political, no sponsors, no ads, hopefully very little wasted time. If you've a mind, please pass it along as well, never know who's out there, who might be looking for something brand new to listen to.
onj.me/stroongecast #StroongeCast

Tuesday.

For the third time in as many months, some agency is offering me a .com version of the domain I use for personal email because it might "be relevant for my personal or business use". If I'd wanted the .com, I'd have bought it when I got the .me nearly 12 years ago.
Domain tarting shouldn't be a thing.

Daughter's gone off to school most cheerful and isn't back until tomorrow for it is sleeping over at a friend's home. I suspect my evening will end yet again with massaging some sort of cream or oil into some part of the wife's body, as she's really feeling the aches and pains at this stage in the pregnancy. Not exactly fun or unusual, but we're plodding on.

Busy day at work and a bit extra afterward, but I should be done by 6 or 6:30 tonight.

Is anyone else noticing the AI music popping up on Spotify and other streaming platforms? I’ll be fucking pissed if my very personal lyrics are stolen from Suno and uploaded without my permission. I’d put them up under my own name, but I have my own album on Spotify, so I can’t do that. And, technically, only the lyrics are mine. The instrumentation and melodies are not always mine. Some of them are, some of them aren’t.

This day in history...I mean present: first ever end-to-end encrypted message to be sent from a #dumbphone?

git.disroot.org/badrihippo/con…

Using #Convo on #KaiOS, powered by #ConverseJS, #XMPP, #OMEMO, and #libsignal :xmpp:

Libervia CLI tip 6:

Most commands have an `-O, --output` option to format the output. By default, the output is pretty formatted for humans, but you can output in JSON, XML, or other formats.

With `template` output you can use Jinja templates, either built-in ones (the ones used in the web frontend), or your own; useful to build static HTML pages/sites, or reformat the data the way you want.

Use `--help` to see available outputs

libervia.org/__b/doc/backend/l…

#Libervia #CLI #li #tips #XMPP #FOSS

in reply to feld

the Hunt brothers tried to corner the silver market and managed to acquire a third of it but when they couldn't get loans anymore and the exchange halted silver futures contracts it's not like they could just sit on their silver and only sell what they needed to cover their loan repayments. They couldn't sell it fast enough obviously and they weren't going to stop mining it. So it all spiraled and crashed.

TLDR They'll mine silver faster than you can buy it, it's not that scarce

Ville de Montréal has given its employees a rulebook for dealing with English-speaking citizens...

Where is the gear and equipment Montréal firefighters desperately need?!?

STOP WASTING MONEY ON THIS F*CKING BS. I am so sick of this garbage.

montreal.citynews.ca/2025/09/0… #polMTL #MTLpoli

Montreal issues new guide to city workers on how to handle English speakers

montreal.citynews.ca/2025/09/0…

They have money for Franco-fascism but not firefughters. #polMtl

in reply to Matt Campbell

But I still like Rust and don't want to give it up; C and the other C alternatives don't have nearly as good a story when it comes to memory safety. So that leaves me with no good answer to the kind of problem that has been brought to light (again) by today's attack, except, I guess, to just be more selective about what dependencies we add, and be a little more willing to write straightforward though possibly tedious code ourselves rather than adding a dependency that could become a liability.
in reply to Matt Campbell

My current thought is that while the cargo package manager per se wasn't a mistake, the central crates.io registry might have been. Maybe we should normalize pulling packages directly from git, and especially from the package owner's own domain rather than a centralized host like GitHub. So packages owned by the Rust project (e.g. hashbrown and libc) would come from git.rust-lang.org, tokio packages from git.tokio.rs, Windows API bindings from git.microsoft.com, etc.
in reply to Matt Campbell

I don't think that particularly changes the outcomes, at least as soon as you have signed package infrastructure. github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull… and it instead just makes any signing efforts harder to deploy.
in reply to Matt Campbell

That's essentially how Go's package management started. Module names are essentially URLs of a git repo, or of a website that has some special metadata pointing at the repo.

It had a few problems:

1. If a popular project with frequent CI builds used you as a dependency, your code host will get hammered.
2. You might not be able to rebuild your project if the hosting for a dependency is offline.
3. You might not be able to transfer ownership of a module without also changing its name (e.g. if it was published in the Github personal namespace of the original author).

The first two problems were solved by introducing a module proxy run by Google. Instead of hitting the upstream directly, you download a zip file of the module source from the proxy. That version is only retrieved from upstream once, and can persist even if the code host goes away.

in reply to James Henstridge

@jamesh I don't like the Google proxy solution because it depends on big tech's largess, as does crates.io. I think the Zig Software Foundation has the right idea here, limiting their hosting responsibility to their own releases and delegating even that to mirrors as much as possible. ziglang.org/news/migrate-to-se… I just wish I liked Zig's approach to memory safety more, but Rust has spoiled me there.
in reply to Matt Campbell

You can set an environment variable to have the toolchain bypass the module proxy and clone things from git directly. You then run into the reliability problems in CI, where each job usually starts with none of the dependencies available.

You can also also point the toolchain at a different module proxy, and there are a few open source implementations (e.g. Athens). Frustratingly you can't run the same proxy as Google, since they built it on top of internal infrastructure and haven't released the source.

in reply to Matt Campbell

this would make everything worse. Without a central authority to filter malware, users would search the open web for random packages with zero possibility for community-wide mitigation. Every lapsed developer vanity domain, every failed startup, would immediately result in mass compromise.

If there is a problem with crates/npm/pypi, it’s that the abstraction of a “package” obscures the trust relationship with the org that produced it. It’s too hard to audit those relationships.

in reply to Matt Campbell

the big problem with a system like this is, for lack of a better term, the password reset problem. People, even people in big serious corporate environments, lose their credential material all the time. They have to be able to recover somehow. The MONK bit might provide some way to do this with social proof, but my back-of-the-napkin sketch level of design can’t realistically cope with that constraint.

> MEGATHREAD: All of Young Thug's leaked calls and beef in order

> Young Thug, Drake, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, 21 Savage, Future, Metro Boomin, Gunna, Yak Gotti, YSL Slug, YSL Woody, YSL Obama, YSL DK, SlimeLife Shawty

These are all nobodies except Drake but he sucks for other reasons, so why does anyone who likes rap care about any of this?