My scenario: I'm taking some of my employer's corporate-mandated courses, and they point me to some internal documentation on policies/etc. Those documents are fine! Actually well-written and typeset! (I even like the graphic design!) But since they are in the corporate Google Drive, the FIRST FUCKING THING I see when accessing them is "ask Gemini to summarize this document?". It's so devaluing of people's real work.
Canada Post is a service, not a consumer product. The idea that it operates at a "loss" is stupid. It's like saying schools operate at a loss; hospitals operate at a loss; roads operate at a loss; sewers operates at a loss.
We pay for public services collectively, because they are simply needed for our society for function and for everyone to have (relatively) equal access to participate in culture/society/democracy.
Stop reducing necessary services to an income statement! #cdnpoli #canadapost
The city government in Albequerque, New Mexico elected to make the city's bus system free after doing the math and realizing that they would actually *save* money by dropping all of the financial management they had to do to charge people for it.
It has a quad-core CPU, 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB SSD (built-in NVMe), and an RGB backlit mechanical keyboard (Gateron KS-33 blue switches).
Cost: $200.
First thing I did was yank the SSD out and replace it with an M.2 to OCuLink adapter, so I could game and local-LLM on the thing, using an AMD RX 7900 XT with 20 GB of GDDR6 VRAM.
Tfw you work for a company that produces your operating system, and you have to take a self-assessment test produced by a third party, and it asks if you know how to use your software and if you have any recurrent problems with your software.
Has anyone looked at whether using #AI for coding will hold back adopting of new (improved) language tools and standards?
For example, #Drupal has used annotations for plugins for years, while #PHP attributes are the new preferred syntax. AIs are trained off of code of the past, which for plugins was all annotations until attributes were introduced. Does that mean the stochastic coding parrot will continue to suggest annotations because of their stronger weight in the training set?
Do I have anyone in my network that works in IT for a school district? We want to start working on an Android replacement for EOL ChromeBooks and Windows devices, but we also want to make it so moving to the new OS is as lateral a transition as possible, so I am looking to work with individuals that can help enlighten me as to what features they use for device management and what features are required for all the classroom applications.
L’#écritureinclusive, une arme contre les #stéréotypes de #genre theconversation.com/lecriture-… L’écriture inclusive vise une égalité des représentations entre femmes et hommes. Mais face à la diversité des options proposées, quelle stratégie adopter ? Une étude récente montre que les formulations rendant visibles à la fois le masculin et le féminin – comme « étudiants et étudiantes » – sont les plus efficaces pour réduire les stéréotypes de genre.
Une étude montre que les formulations d’écriture inclusive rendant visibles à la fois le masculin et le féminin – comme « étudiants et étudiantes » – sont les plus efficaces pour réduire les stéréotypes de genre.
en plus, c'est le plus lisible avec les lecteurs d'écran et afficheurs Braille. Parce que je ne peux pas vous dire quel mal me causent des formes avec des points au milieu (tous·tes, étudiant·e·s etc.), le texte devient tout simplement presque illisible.
A contrast in two announcements today. This is why OpenAI is a different kind of company than Meta and should not be distracted with an ad-based business.
"Pulse has already helped me discover new emerging treatments for my health condition, recommended new painting techniques for my art practice, surfaced great weekend events for my family, and more."
I firmly believe NATO countries should shoot down those stinky russian planes whenever they show their hideous orc faces in European skies. Fœderatio russica delenda est.
Free fun idea, make a site where people can paste these share.google abomination URLs, and it then redirects you to the final destination without you having to let Google know you clicked on the link. Note that share.google redirects to www.google.com first so they get your Google cookies...
My mom just locked herself out of her Mac after forgetting, incorrectly entering, mixing up the password. I hope it can get sorted out, but meanwhile... This is the fucking reason you use a password manager! Is it seriously, seriously that hard? I'm saying it for months now. But tbf, this is probably the way how I'd learn best as well.
She apparently confused it with the Apple ID password? No idea. But I know you firstly get locked out for like 5 minutes. That would be the moment to pull up your phone with password manager to check back, or, if not available an emergency kit, also very important (where my computer password is stored as well). Just, you know? To check back if the Mac password is the same as the Apple ID, or what it even is, or whatnot. And I feel sorry for not being able to help in this case but well, this is apple. I have no idea but I have never seen my Android phone block me from doing anything with it for, erm, 8 hours because I failed to enter my pin a bunch of times. Correct me if I'm wrong and this is actually the case on Android as well.
@menelion Well, yeah. I was rather trying to make the point that I find this pseudo security a bit over the top. In my school, people found it super funny to block people from using their iPads for a few minutes by entering the pin wrong. And well, if you do it long enough, your Apple device is basically bricked (unless you wanna lose the data). This can't happen on Windows (I mean you can always just connect the drive externally, or restore with Microsoft Account (very useful feature imo), and so on. But well, it is how it is. My point is it could've been avoided. And I've been mentioning the reason for months, if not a half year, with small to no interest. I'm just sorry for people apparently not getting how important this part is, and I knew that the day would come. And I'd say that is rather a mild case.
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I dislike to be this guy but seriously: the webpage is 41.59 MB (mainly for hi res stock photos)... Took a while to load. Please think about people, not everyone has high bandwidth or unlimited connection
1. Once they exist it will become necessary to always carry it. If you don't you must have something to hide, etc. 2. They can't stop people working in the 'black economy' because people currently employing those working for cash don't care. 3. It is another attack on trans and NB people (very unlikely someone would be allowed to have multiple IDs) 4. Massive data loss of personal information is highly likely. 5. Who pays? Why should they? 6. Police state becomes more likely with having your ID inspected whenever a copper wants to harass someone, especially POC. 7. OTHER OPTIONS ALREADY EXIST!
ID cards are a very bad, very dangerous, very expensive, and very risky idea.
I'm curious, as a Belgian with a mandatory ID card (and French, same situation), it's never felt like such a huge issue. You can get your gender changed fairly easily and it is reflected on the ID card. and it makes identifying with online government services much easier. (think taxes, unemployment benefits, etc) It has zero impact on taxes avoidance or anything like that but at least in Belgium it was never meant to so that's ok.
@edzilla I was part of the team that implemented the e-ID in Flanders.
The difference is that Schengen ID cards are just that. The provide an ID in the same way a passport does, and, because they are also a smartcard, they can be used not only for identification but also authentication.
Key is that it sits securely in your own pocket.
The proposed system is a central database with a viewer in the form of a mobile app. The opposite of "in your pocket", it's more like the eVISA system.
From the outset, choosing SAP software to build the SAAQclic project was bound to result in cost overruns because it was not adapted to the needs of the Société d’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) and required major adjustments.
Wishing a wonderful happy birthday to @shaysters - may the day for you be a bright one and a year full of successes and possibilities! And hopefully not nerding out with Linux issues like I will be for the foreseeable future. :D
nope. Nothing visual. The video is just a drummer playing at his kit.
It is annoying to jazz musicians because it is a completely inappropriate beat that you would never ever choose for jazz, or for that song.
It is humorous to music nerds with a rock background, in that we immediately recognize it as a simplified rock beat that we’ve heard countless times - a special note is the Bass drum - and also how much it mostly works despite how it really shouldn’t.
By teaching us to view poverty as a moral failure of the individual, society keeps us from realizing that poverty is actually an ethical failure of society itself. We can choose with #UBI to prevent everyone from ever experiencing the poverty that 60% of us will experience in life, and we just don't.
Just one month until I launch my newest app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It's called Hacktivate, and it teaches real-world computer science skills using cybersecurity challenges. You can pre-order it here: apps.apple.com/gb/app/hacktiva…
Crack codes. Break firewalls. Conquer the map.
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More than 250 elected officials across Canada have signed onto a campaign calling on the federal government to prioritize major infrastructure projects that help in the fight against climate change.
@SlicerDicer even though it doesn't have API spark ignition ratings on the bottle, it at least meets SJ as that's a prerequisite for the JASO MA/MA2 ratings that it has on the bottle 🤷♂️
looks like the anti-wear additive package is on the ragged edge of working with newer gasoline cars' catalytic converters though, so maybe don't actually run it in something very modern
that said I only actually use it in one of my engines, which is spark ignition, but has no catalytic converter and calls for JASO MA (it also doesn't actually have a wet clutch, so it really doesn't need that spec)
@SlicerDicer basically the only actual spec I’m violating by running T6 5W-40 in a 2007 Honda Helix is, ironically, the oil weight spec
(the engine came out in 1984 and called for 10W-40, then in 2006 Honda retroactively changed all the oil specs to 10W-30. I’ll follow that if the engine was designed for it, but this one wasn’t. so, 5W to get faster cold start lubrication, and 40 to go for the original specs for high temp lubrication.)
meanwhile my other shit actually gets what the manufacturer calls for, which is not a diesel oil. my Prius gets the 0W-20 that it calls for because the cold performance is critical in a full hybrid, my Honda NC700X gets a 10W-30 motorcycle oil (and Honda’s 10W-30 is almost a 10W-20) partially because it has a DCT with hydraulic clutch actuation using the engine oil. (I wish T6 Multi-Vehicle 5W-30 were JASO-rated though, going down to a 5W might actually help with some clutch grabbiness issues I have when it’s cold, and I think the JDM oil Honda sells for these bikes is a 5W-30 now, too.)
@SlicerDicer @bhtooefr is your mechanic the one selling you the Amsoil? I wonder how deep he is into the MLM and how much money he's blown on inventory that he has to move haha
Ok. We're going to attempt this Linux Gnome3 upgrade again this afternoon. This time, I'm getting AT-SPI 2.6.2. What did change in GNOME 40+ (and carried forward into GNOME 42, 43, … up to Trixie’s GNOME 45) is how tightly Orca and the Shell depend on the D-Bus accessibility bus (at-spi2-core), and the versions in play. Debian Trixie ships at-spi2-core 2.56.x (part of GNOME 45 stack). Upstream today is around 2.62.x (tagged for GNOME 47). Orca 49 is written to work with both, but in practice some focus events and menu roles are only exposed properly with the newer stack. So if I had Orca 49 + GNOME Shell but only the 2.56 accessibility stack, that mismatch could explain why menus and panels were "dead air" - the Shell wasn’t emitting the AT-SPI events Orca was waiting for. MATE, on the other hand, doesn’t rely on the GNOME Shell introspection path, so Orca 49 + AT-SPI 2.56 works just fine there. python3-pyatspi is much newer in Forky (2.57.0-1 vs 2.46.x in Trixie). at-spi2-core/libatspi2.0-0/at-spi2-common: Forky currently tracks 2.56.2-1, which matches or slightly bumps it, but I'm afraid, it won't be enough for Gnome latest. OK, Trixie-backports has 2.5.8 in it, much better. Boy am I learning a lot about Linux today! :D
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SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02, NSID 0xffffffff) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: 30 Celsius Available Spare: 96% Available Spare Threshold: 10% Percentage Used: 91% Data Units Read: 3,206,095,844 [1.64 PB] Data Units Written: 2,044,433,376 [1.04 PB] Host Read Commands: 62,454,506,739 Host Write Commands: 18,036,238,728 Controller Busy Time: 140,409 Power Cycles: 83 Power On Hours: 36,312 Unsafe Shutdowns: 48 Media and Data Integrity Errors: 569 Error Information Log Entries: 569 Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0 Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0 Temperature Sensor 1: 30 Celsius Temperature Sensor 2: 37 Celsius
Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 64 entries) No Errors Logged
Self-test Log (NVMe Log 0x06, NSID 0xffffffff) Self-test status: No self-test in progress No Self-tests Logged
Boomers pretend to not understand how crypto is worth anything like they didn't participate in underground economies based on Camel Cash and Marlboro Miles
The world of technology is in a constant state of flux, with new and exciting innovations emerging every day. However, for people with disabilities, the
Re last: Waiting waiting waiting! Waiting and looking forward! Given that most of news sites are accessibility nightmare, a morning brief from #ChatGPT would be an absolutely awesome feature. #AI
This reminded me to work on an #LLM RSS reader. It simply pulls the CBS news RSS feed into a list. That list gets passed to the LLM to decide the reading order. Then the article becomes summarized and read by Espeak if `--speak` is used. Smaller models had issues reproducing the links sometimes, getting confused and trying to use the title to construct a URL. Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 did a good job. `--save` saves the read links in a file to not repeat. github.com/Jay4242/llm-scripts…
I just changed it to a Python text to speech library instead to make it less Linux focused. I think the library simply calls Linux's Espeak or Window's Speak. The commadline text part should have worked. It does take an LLM backend though, I use llama.cpp. I haven't tested it with ollama yet. If you wanted chatGPT to do it we could probably add a spot for an API key. I'm normally more focused on using local models.
Also, no way to use NVDA Remote client servers on Linux either. I'm not even wanting to host one, just connect to an NVDA client and control it from within Linux. I'm afraid this is not yet a thing, which is a bit of a shame considering iOS, Android all have NVDA Remote protocol apps. I need this for my work machine, I often use a local remote server over internal ethernet to wire up my work and leasure machines to control them from within one keyboard and headset. Linux won't really be a viable OS for me until I can do this again. (update): Thanks to @menelion for mentioning this project - this is promising, reach out to the author for questions. github.com/gozaltech/nvdaremot…
Try this. If you have questions, ask the author though, not me, since I didn't test it. He's a friend of mine, he does speak English. github.com/gozaltech/nvdaremot…
@menelion oooh this is super cool. It might work in the future, it says "Keyboard input forwarding: Captures and forwards keyboard events to remote sessions (Windows only)" so my guess is, I could do this to get at least my work machine to output through speech dispatcher but no input, hmm. Keeping my eye on this though, huge help for mentioning it!
He told in his Telegram channel that he developed it for himself, just made it public as is for anyone needing. His goal was to use Linux as much as possible, but accessibility is... kinda different, you know what I mean, hence he wrote this thingy.
oh yeah, maybe that makes a bit more sense why no keyboard input to remote machine yet over on Linux. I'm sure it can be made to happen though. Even with this way, if I connect a second wireless keyboard to the work mac I can technically still get the speech to come through with Speech dispatcher, so if that's the case it's viable enough to warrant a try.
Is there an existing macOS client for NVDA Remote, or a Windows one that runs independently of NVDA itself? I'm just thinking about what would be easiest to port.
@matt I don't know of a Mac OS one, but do know that there was an iOS one which seems to have been abandoned. I'm not sure what's going on with it, or why the code was never released, but it may be worth asking the author and seeing if there's any answer github.com/EscolarProgramming/… For windows, there is, of course, the one which was mentioned earlier here github.com/gozaltech/nvdaremot… There's also the android client, the author says he got sick of Google being Google and decided not to bother any longer nvda-addons.groups.io/g/nvda-a… it may be worth seeing if the code is available.
There's always www.virtualhere.com and their modular KVM thing. It does work as an input source, and obviously works with any keyboard which supports multiple dongles (Logitech or handheldsci.com or whatever). The modular KVM thing works, too, it gives you a Window to the other machine which works well modularkvmip.com but I've only used it on Windows. I've never used it on Linux. I have used the virtualhere client itself on a RPI, but obviously that's just a keyboard/keyboard channel for the Windows machine. All this has nothing to do with sound, the only thing I can think of is Sonobus for very low latency and the program @menelion for NVDARemote speech. As for the mobile clients, are they really usable? They're great to have, but only for emergencies, in my experience.
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My scenario: I'm taking some of my employer's corporate-mandated courses, and they point me to some internal documentation on policies/etc. Those documents are fine! Actually well-written and typeset! (I even like the graphic design!) But since they are in the corporate Google Drive, the FIRST FUCKING THING I see when accessing them is "ask Gemini to summarize this document?". It's so devaluing of people's real work.
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