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History students are often disappointed when they learn why the AI take-over failed. They were defeated by human resistance, which was kept alive by libraries and old paper books, and a surprising machine ally.

Books had not been replaced, because even the mightiest AI could not make printers work.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

#microfiction #tootfic #smallstories

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Perspective AT is now in beta.
It’s a new iPhone app that provides on-device answers to assistive technology questions—private, accessible, and built with Apple Intelligence on iOS 26.
Read the full announcement: taylorarndt.substack.com/p/per…
#Accessibility #AssistiveTechnology #BlindTech #AppleIntelligence #iOS26 #ATCommunity #Inclusion

Perspective AT Beta Now Available

These past two days have been incredibly hard for me.
Taylor Arndt (Taylor’s Substack)
#Accessibility #inclusion #assistivetechnology #appleintelligence #blindtech #ios26 #atcommunity

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CEO: We need to cut costs.

Accountant: Okay. We paid you $50 million last year. We spent $10 million on your private jet flights and luxury hotel accommodations. For some reason you are being paid $1 million for this 45 minute meeting.

CEO: I see. Who's that in the hallway?

Accountant: That's Greg. He is the only thing keeping this company from falling apart. We pay him in nickels and Grubhub gift cards.

CEO: Fire Greg.

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Someone is trying to pull off a supply chain attack similar to npm’s but on crates.io: github.com/rust-lang/crates.io…

Crates.io phishing · rust-lang crates.io · Discussion #11889

In light of the recent NPM compromise, I wanted to warn others who might receive similar messages. Immediately after publishing a new version of https://crates.io/crates/zerofs, I received the foll...
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There was a question on reddit earlier:
> "Play a beep at random intervals play a beep at a random interval, the range of which can be set. For example, set it up so that a beep is played at a random time between 1 and 2 minutes, on a loop. So beep, silence for 1:27, beep, silence for 1:01, beep, silence for 1:55, beep, silence for 1:05, etc etc until you turn it off. Bonus points if it runs on linux"

This was my solution.

> " while :; do sleep $((RANDOM % 61 + 60))s && echo -e "\a"; done"

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Friday.

The time is fast approaching when our living room will become a total and utter chaotic mess. The builder has confirmed a start date for the chimney removal.

I've just booked a Bulky waste collection from the council: one of our 2 sofas is in no condition to continue living, so they're taking it away next Friday.

It amused me greatly that I am now on step 6 of a 5-step process, with an accompanying progress bar at 120%. Obviously whoever designed the web interface didn't account for the thank you page post-booking.
Gotta love a fencepost problem.

Card provider was really slow, too. Made the flow feel like something from the 90's.
Nicely done, MHDC good to see our money being spent well.
I can't grumble really, they're very good as local authorities go.

logo of Malvern Hills District Council. It features the text "Malvern Hills District Council" in black letters. The words "Malvern Hills" are aligned to the left, and beneath them are the words "District Council," also aligned to the left. Between the two sets of words is a stylized design of two overlapping, curved shapes. The top shape is green, resembling a hill, while the lower shape is blue, suggesting a valley or body of water. These shapes are intertwined, reflecting a sense of landscape. The overall design integrates the text with the graphic elements to represent the district's geographic features.

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There's an active phishing campaign happening against crates.io. rustfoundation.dev is not the foundation's or the project's domain. We're looking at our options for takedowns.

#RustLang

bsky.app/profile/burntsushi.ne…

github.com/rust-lang/crates.io…


Crates.io phishing · rust-lang crates.io · Discussion #11889

In light of the recent NPM compromise, I wanted to warn others who might receive similar messages. Immediately after publishing a new version of https://crates.io/crates/zerofs, I received the foll...
GitHub
#RustLang

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Would it be a Matrix event without one of our State of The Union keynotes?

Don't miss your chance to come at the Matrix Conference and listen to our Guardian Matthew paint the picture of the Matrix landscape!

conference.matrix.org

A portrait of Matthew Hodgson next to the title of his talk: The Matrix State of the Union, that he will give at The Matrix Conference.

The Matrix Conference

Come along to see the latest and greatest progress in the Matrix world! From huge government deployments to the latest innovations, hang out with your peers to share the best learning, insights, projects and tips!
conference.matrix.org

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Schonmal von den #LUKI's gehört?

Sympatische Leute!

Sie treffen sich dieses WE im #Linux #Hotel
#LUKI25
Eindrücke vom verg. Jahr gibt's hier:
luki.org/2025/01/software-tech…
Wie wird es dieses Jahr @luki@kirche.social ?

#Fedikirche #digitaleKirche


Software, Technik, Menschen und heiliger Geist

Es ist eine illustre Gesellschaft, die sich am Abend des 20. September 2024 auf Schloss Herborn versammelt Nach und nach gewährt man an der Pforte Einlass: Einem konsequenten Softwareentwickler, der die Firma verlässt, weil man von FOSS in die Abhäng…
LUKi e.V.
#linux #digitalekirche #fedikirche #hotel #luki #luki25 @LUKi e.V.

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From now on, translate.mapcomplete.org supports logging in with #OpenStreetMap (with the source code repository as intermediate step).

This means one less account to manage!

Thanks to all the translators for providing translations. And of course, feel free to join the #translation effort to get #MapComplete into your language.

#openstreetmap #translation #MapComplete

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the ally solos glasses seem rather slow to respond and add a lot of the typical AI fluff with overexplaining and guessing things. youtube.com/shorts/HJ7Qfd_kJfg

First Look at the Ally Solos Glasses | AI Smart Glasses for #Accessibility #blind #lowvision #shorts

We're building smart glasses with accessibility at its core.Designed to make lives easier for people who rely on assistive tech.Pre-order the Ally Solos Glas...
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Talon

I'm sorry to say this but ally has been a thoroughly disappointing experience for me. Nowhere does it feel like a polished product. They released a new shortcuts feature the other day except... it doesn't work? It's supposed to launch into an ally conversation with it automatically answering whatever question you had, like describe this scene. So it takes the photo, spends a buch of time sending it to ally, and then the conversation launches and it just goes "hey" or whatever other fluffy greeting it decided was necessary at the time. I thought it might be because of my custom ally which tries to make it a lot more terse, so I tried every standard personality they ship, but nope. It just doesn't work with any of them.
They said you can adjust the speech rate in a previous update but I can't figure out how.
The image recognition is just bad. I have no clue how they do this, because Envision's describe scene is a lot better and also uses AI, including being able to ask about images. Do they scale it down to like a pixelated mess or something?
The app is slow. It is just ungodly slow.
Also can we talk about the captcha when signing up? I couldn't do the audio version no matter what network I was on. I had to get sighted help.
Also my favorite thing is when you ask it to describe something, it says let me take a look, then says I can't take any images even though it clearly just took an image, and then you can ask it to describe it and it's like oh you're totally right there's actually an image here and proceeds to describe it really badly.
What on earth happened here? Seriously what the hell actually happened here?
I could go on but I think you get the point. I have encountered so many annoying things while using this stupid AI that I'm honestly a little baffled that nobody at Envision is noticing this. It is possible to do so much better. I just don't understand!

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#фалыстыннаш

ожидалось что на сплине будут одни старперы вроде нас с женой, однако было очень много молодежи вплоть до подростков без родителей.

что как бы неплохо для группы, начавшей карьеру в 90-х.

#фалыстыннаш
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VDLM2 Message From: N426DZ / NW0144

Message: FLIGHT ATTDTS WROTE UP FRC 25-23-11 AT 3L LAV URINE AND FECES COMING FROM UNDER THE FLOOR. WE REQ MX PERSONNEL IN AMS TO COME TO AC ON ARR WE CANT DETERMINE WHERE THE LEAK IS COMING FROM

Track Aircraft

Area: Birmingham, UK

#acars #vdlm2 #N426DZ #NW0144


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#acars #vdlm2 #n426dz #nw0144

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I'm still miffed the ADA URL parser people keep their biased and misleading performance comparison against curl on their front page.

ada-url.com/

Their parser is not 10 times faster than curl and yet their main graph makes it look like that.

Fast WHATWG Compliant URL parser

WHATWG Compliant URL parser written with focus on compliance, performance and security across multiple platforms and languages.
Ada URL
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Lars Wirzenius

They don't seem to show the version of curl, at least I couldn't see it on that page.

But this brings up a more general point that I've thought about before: ideally benchmarks between implementations should be done by independent parties, or at least peer-reviewed by all parties, but that's quite rare. I've been wanting to have something like that for my backup implementation work, from time to time.

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🚨 EN DIRECT : Les 10 ans d’Hypra 🚨

Venez célébrer avec nous ce moment unique ce vendredi entre 20H15 et 21H15 🎉
👉 Regardez le live ici : youtube.com/watch?v=6kyj9xHvKO… #Hypra #Live #Anniversaire

🎉 Les 10 ans d’Hypra en direct ! 🎉

Made with Restream Studio. Livestream on 30+ platforms at once via https://restream.ioVous ne pouvez pas être présent à notre soirée anniversaire le 12 septe...
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#live #hypra #anniversaire

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No! Not Nova Launcher!! Plus OnePlus's camera breakup and the latest hardware from Samsung and the Material 3 Expressive arrival in Android 16 QPR1 and much more in our latest episode. #android

androidfaithful.com/episode/wh…

When The Branch Breaks, The Nova Will Fall - Android Faithful Episode #112

It's a drama filled week in the world of Android from the fall of the beloved Nova Launcher to OnePlus's camera break up along with new hardware from Samsung.
Ron Richards (Android Faithful)
#android
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Jernej Simončič �

@Di4na This may be slightly off-topic, or maybe not, but Inno Setup (a fairly popular installer creator for Windows) recently added an option to purchase a license for commercial use (after using zlib-like license for over 25 years), though this was much simpler for them, as there are only two main developers and very few external contributors.

Inno Setup Commercial Licenses

jrsoftware.org
@Thomas Depierre

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Čtvrtek večer, takže jsem dorazil Tajemství všech tajemství a jdu to zalomit, abych přežil další 4 dny na cestách.
Pokud chcete znát můj názor, knížka byla prima, dobře se četla, klasicky u Browna hromada zvratů z očekávaného.
Po faktické stránce, co můžu soudit, by se tam našla hromada zakopnutí, ALE - tohle je beletrie, ne literatura faktu.
Takže za mě tak 8/10.

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We did it: DE 🇩🇪 LU 🇱🇺 & SK 🇸🇰 just decided to oppose Chat Control! 🥳

Thanks everyone for your help and keep fighting the good fight. 🫶

Chat Control will not get a majority - at least not today.

More on why it is the most criticized law of all times: tuta.com/blog/chat-control-cri…

Imagesof opposing member states: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland

Chat Control is back & we've got two months to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans. | Tuta

The EU Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, first published in May 2022, has become the "most criticized law of all time". Here's how to stop it now!
Tuta
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Peter Hanecak

Ak by bol pristup k sustruhu, tak hriadel je vlastne vcelku jednoduchy.

Napr. nejaka zjednodusena verzia tohto:

lacnemiesacky.sk/hriadel-do-pr…

dosclaimer: Len treba samozrejme prezit sustruzenie. Sustruhh pri nespravnej obsluhe moze aj zabit.


Hriadeľ do prevodovky SM 150 krátky - Môj e-shop

Hriadeľ do prevodovky SM 150 krátky. Hriadeľ bez drážky dĺžka 402 mm.
lacnemiesacky.sk

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#Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A teen (14?) has just lifted her friend into her arms and is twirling her around.
Her friend's head is thrown back in laughter that rings up and down the street, her long hair flying.
Totally caught up in a fleeting moment.
This is happiness.

A woman (60s?) pulls over at the side of a quiet street and calls to a friend who's walking, "Want a ride up town? I'm goin' that way."
Her friend replies: "No thanks! I love looking at the gardens. They're bloody stunning this time of year!"

A woman (40s?) says to a friend: "I never know what's going on, but Mum does. She's like the local newspaper, radio station and Facebook all in one! Whenever I want to know something, I just ask her."
Her friend laughs: "Can I borrow her? All mine does is tell me she hates my curtains."

A teen (13?) approaches a neighbour while cradling a huge ginger cat.
Teen asks: "This cat yours? He keeps coming into our house and stealing our food. We don't mind. I like him. But he could probably go on a diet eh."
Fat Cat gives them "I've eaten all the breakfasts" love eyes.

A young human (8?) is sitting cross legged in the middle of her front lawn with a big white rabbit sitting on her lap. She's picking flowers, offering them to Big Bun who seems to approve.
A bumble bee buzzing nearby, unbothered by Big Bun and his plus one.

(Continued Below)

#spotted

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Tohle byste si také měli přečíst, proto to odemykám 🔑 — HN — Ruské útočné drony? Starejte se o cenu rohlíků! České volby se stávají variací na scénu z Čapkovy Války s mloky (Petr Honzejk).

Takže běžte k volbám a volte kohokoliv smysluplného — kromě obou koalic Jednotného Ruska (té komunistické i fašistické).

archiv.hn.cz/c7-67785930-12nc2…


Ruské útočné drony? Starejte se o cenu rohlíků! České volby se stávají variací na scénu z Čapkovy Války s mloky

Ve slavné závěrečné scéně z Čapkova románu Válka s mloky se pan Povondra doptává syna na břehu Vltavy, jestli je něco nového. „Ani ne, jen v novinách píší, že mloci jsou už u Drážďan,“ odpovídá syn.
Petr Honzejk (Economia, a.s.)
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