Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/edu…
The reaction to Charlie Kirk's killing shows us that the real danger if Trump's assassination attempt had been successful wasn't that the right would "make him a martyr." It's that *liberals* would do so. The tragic fact of his violent death would have somehow transmuted him into a better person.
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Samozřejmě vřele doporučuji i další přednášky v tracku CZ.NIC (místnost 111), přednášku "Turris - něco se chystá!" od @michal v místnosti 155 a také tu spoustu ostatních skvělých přednášek, které na konferenci budou.
Possibly unpopular opinion: the reason I never got into mainstream videogames with accessibility features is because it feels like it basically just plays itself for you. The two largest examples of this that come to mind are The Last of Us and Forza. I'm not shitting on people who play and enjoy those games, I'm glad they enjoy them. But for me, having the game effectively cheat/play itself for "accessibility" reasons just takes all the fun out of it for me. I'm not playing, the computer is. I'm not much of a gamer, but think I'll mainly stick to my audiogames.
wait. OK I generally agree with you, except for Forza. That game does not play itself for you if you don't want it to. You can have audible indicators only, without any of the driving assists, which is how a lot of us like to play it, including me.
@talon see, I like when games do that, because I struggle a lot, and if something becomes super hard to play, and I have to keep struggling. I don't feel like I can enjoy the game anymore, I become strest, and then I lose motivation to even play
I don't think this is an unpopular opinion as much as it is an incredibly mislead and, by extension, misleading one. What's your sample size? Have you *actually* played Forza and looked into the settings that can be adjusted and the amount to which they can be adjusted? Are you counting games that have been modded or only ones with built-in accessibility features? Are you counting games that might not read menus but are otherwise completely or even mostly playable? Assuming the most conservative responses to those questions, in what world is the computer playing itself in Mortal Kombat 1, Skullgirls or Forza (yes, Forza, without full driving assist)?
I agree with you 500% on the opinion that games that advertise accessibility features which end up making the game essentially not a game just aren't very fun. I like being challenged by a game, at least a little bit, and I know that isn't the case for everyone so absolutely to each their own. But I can't fathom how you 1) got to the generalization of games with accessibility features mostly playing themselves and 2) used Forza as an example, which literally lets you adjust how much you want the game to play itself to a huge extent without disabling any of the blind-specific cues. I don't think you could have chosen a worse example! :)
@guilevi Lmao seems I didn't know quite what I was doing when I name dropped Forza, that one was drawn from me seeing someone play it on beginner mode for a couple hours, it looking incredibly fucking boring and easy, and as a result me getting a very negative impression of the game and thinking of it in the same light as The Last of Us 1. That was my bad, but it seems you got my original point despite one of my examples majorly missing the mark due to an admitted lack of research on that particular game.
Absolutely, Forza with full driving assist is just a very good background noise generator if you like your background noise to be angry cars, and I also completely agree with your original point insofar as there are games that will do that if the right set of accessibility features are on. But seriously. There are so, so, so many more now than before that are just, not even remotely close to being like that. And it would be very sad indeed if your opinion was based on TLOU (disclaimer: I have not played TLOU and am sort of turned off of trying it precisely because I've heard it's a little bit like what you describe) and Forza on beginner mode. At any point, I will more than happily advise on something with low-effort setup if you let me know what style of game you'd be interested in trying. The set of available titles is not massive, but it is diverse and hella fun.
@guilevi Re TLOU I think the game is still worth playing, you do get a lot of agency in how you wanna approach the combat encounters and what you want to focus on with character upgrades. The story itself is very linear and I agree the nav assist could make exploration for collectables easier, because right now if you want to find them you have to keep scanning for items and can easily miss things. If you want to see how a system like that can be improved, keeping the option to turn you to an objective but also adding a lot of passive radars for items, doors and walls, look at 1428 shadows over silesia. But back to TLOU in the part 2 remake they added the no return mode which is pure combat with added roguelike elements and that's my favorite part of the game. And in that mode you can ironically decide where you want the navigation to take you.
So since we all still have free speech, I want to give true prayers, not hypocritical ones to the families of Mark and his wife Minnesota democratic Rep. Melissa Hortman as well as those of state senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. If anyone can't figure this out, those were assassinations as well.
none of those people are even remotely equipped for this, which makes it easy to not experience any cognitive damage from repeating it—and I say this as one of the least online people currently on social media
The state of #InstantMessaging in 2025: I have one virtual workspace dedicated solely to #IM clients. They occupy 820 MB of memory, which is actually an improvement since the last time I checked.
But I still miss the days when all I needed was #Pidgin.
@usul yeah, a lot of people around me do it this way and it makes sense because you only have one web engine running and it saves memory, but I'm an old school desktop guy and if something has a desktop client I prefer it to web clients.
@theron29 you have to have Signal on your phone as the primary client, but then you can connect 4 additional clients to the account. They work independently, they're not connected through the mobile client, not the scrap you get with WhatsApp.
@theron29 I had been checking this just last week and you can use signal completely without smart phone, you just have to be able to access SMS messages or calls.
It isn't nice and not exactly easy but also not really hard. Just use signal-cli and register an account:
@trilobyte I put all but official work slack channels (nda stuff) into matrix via bridges. This way I got all different chat apps down to two. WA, Signal, Slack, IRC, TG are always now available on all my devices via matrix client. Like pidgin++ 😁
@usul yeah, a lot of people around me do it this way and it makes sense because you only have one web engine running and it saves memory, but I'm an old school desktop guy and if something has a desktop client I prefer it to web clients.
To the person who just walked past my house twice: you know headphones exist, right? You can get a nice set of over-ear cans, or cheap ones. There are noise-cancelling earbuds, passive sound blocking earbuds, and earbuds that are open to let you hear. There are even bone conduction or off-ear speaker options. What you should NOT be doing is walking along, blasting your audio book through your phone's speaker so loud that I can hear the words through my second-floor window.
@cachondo I only caught a sentence or two. I'm not sure what it was about, sadly. Whenever I hear someone's book or podcast, I always pay attention, hoping it'll be one I know. Maybe we share a niche interest, or are at least fans of the same popular series.
It's the first time when my posts were deleted by the moderators. One of them is dealing with Israel-hamas war and I don't see anything bad or offending in it, it's either truth or my opinion. It seems, it's time to spin up a Mastodon instance somewhere.
Цензура она везде нагонит, да. Если бы мне было интересно, давно бы заморочился с поднятием собственного инстанса, но зачем. Лет 10 назад имело смысл, а теперь, когда в соцсетях стало слишком много публики, для которой любое мнение кроме их собственного это агрессия, ненависть и ещё хрен знает что, нафиг оно всё нужно.
@cachondo Yes, the Books.app that comes with macOS supports EPUB (plus PDFs and Audiobooks). It has a built-in store but you can add your own files to the app's library; it's somewhat like the Music.app in that respect. @fubsepude
The results of a 2 day hackathon (1 hour of demos!), an official Matrix server for the European Commission, and the Trust & Safety Working Group in Motion.
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We have made Microsoft’s commitments on Teams legally binding under EU antitrust rules.
Microsoft will unbundle Teams at lower prices, boost interoperability and data portability.
While we're talking about Albert Einstein and how people have tried to erase his 20+ year civil rights protest work from history:
The FBI didn't like MLK jr. They called him "the most dangerous negro." Because he was influential, brought people together, and was vocally against anti-Black racism.
The FBI file on MLK Jr was 240,000 pages long. They accused him of being a communist spy, because he said things like, "racism is bad," and "too much wealth inequality is bad for society."
The FBI had a file on Malcolm X too. 9,000 pages long. Same reason.
The FBI had a surveillance file on Albert Einstein too. 1,400 pages.🤷🏿♂️
When Einstein was in NJ teaching at Princeton, a racist person wouldn't let Black Opera Singer Marian Anderson stay in their hotel. So Einstein said, "Stay with me."
Paul Robeson and other Black civil rights leaders wrote a letter condemning lynching. Einstein hand delivered it to President Truman.
Just going to come out and say it, thinking of deleting our account. To many memories, consisting of chapters that we need to close our book on. We'd like to make a fresh start. But shit, sstarting over, losing you all, it'll hurt like hell. Just, want something new to work from. And we don't know how... Nor would we know what instance to be part of, being plural friendly, otherkin friendly, pagan friendly, and LGBTQ friendly. -- Altheda/Lillianna
Yeah, sadly, no import of posts, but you can even edit CSV follower/following lists, if you want to, so you skip on who you want and not want to follow, considering you want to export followers, and not automatically migrate them all. That's what I usually do, mostly, when I switched to Go To Social, there was no way of migrating, had to import everything, import didn't work, so imagine the search I had to do. LOL. There are good instances, I am sure, just see how you feel about them, look at their sites and so on.
Hace unos días me pasaron un tip de salud mental para esos pensamientos intrusivos que disparan mi ansiedad y se quedan como rumio en mi mente. Ponerle un nombre ridículo a esa parte de la personalidad y mandarle callar.
-"El mundo laboral es una 💩 y nos vamos a morir de hambre". -"Mira, Petronila, cierra el pico y sigue rezando y viendo tu telenovela".
Porque esa Petronila disfruta del flagelamiento eterno sin solución alguna. Y, mira, ha empezado a funcionar.
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.
The audacity of a company with a nine-figure valuation to reach out about a speaking gig and ask me what my "discounted rate" is. My website says "Attempts to haggle will incur additional fees" so I'm charging extra for that.
@hub I've found whenever I have ever accepted "payment in exposure," that exposure only seems to get me more offers for payment in exposure. Strange isn't it?
Hey Taylor, just read the blog post and really sorry for your loss. This is definitely a really cool app idea, did you fine-tune the models on these instructions or are you just feeding it as context? Also, just a quick note, none of the links in your post show up as clickable, you might wanna take a look at that.
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.
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...
Interestingly in conversation with my rheumatologist I’ve learned that remote work has empowered a lot of people like me with autoimmune diseases to continue working while pursuing treatment. I can’t RTO, I have no immune system to RTO with. Recent push for offices from local companies around me is not just bad company policy, it’s ableist too.
This year we learned that billionaires and universities are actually spineless blowhards, whose commitment to their own vision statements and policies is zero
We received reports of a phishing campaign targeting crates.io users. Do not click on links asking to authenticate to protect your account. More information: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/12/…
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"
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.
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.
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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