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There was a 'womp' sound from the yard. I looked out the window.
Where the large pile of leaves had been, a dragon sat.
"Oi!" I called.
"The hoard was unguarded," the dragon said. "I claim it."
Every damn year. It'll leave once the leaves lose their golden hue. Meanwhile, I can't order takeaway.
Zero, zero, zero, zero — that is what a display shows in Russia, when a filling station is out of all fuel products.
I am seeing more and more of these photos, shared on social media by angry Russians who can no longer buy petrol for their cars.
If you want to know why this fuel crisis can be lead to the end of Putin, watch my latest video right here:
youtu.be/5S0gDBjJs48?si=29eYhI…
Ukraine DESTROYS Russia
Ukraine has a new strategy that takes the war to Russia. By striking Russian factories with long range weapons, Ukraine is systematically dismantling the Rus...YouTube
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Komunisté ho nechtěli pustit za rodinou. "Almaru na bruslích" šikanovali kvůli jménu
Německý hokejista Erich Kühnhackl vyrůstal na Sokolovsku a z Československa prchnul až v 17 letech.Miroslav Harnoch (Aktuálně.cz)
Just having more code is like making a poem longer. It doesn’t necessarily make it better. It doesn’t gain more emotional impact to take a good poem and add to it.
Does Windows work 30% better or faster? No, of course not. I would be impressed if they used AI to make the system 30% /smaller/ or otherwise more efficient, but these folks don’t understand systems engineering, just grifting consumers with vendor lock-in.
With @icing's latest perf tweaks for HTTP/3 in curl, my theoretical max speed is now 1550 MB/s on my machine (at 100% CPU) with h2 doing 2464MB/s and h1 at 3303 MB/s
When downloading 100MB chunks 50 times in 50 parallel downloads.
(I say theoretical because the servers can't quite keep up with the client on localhost.)
"You need to activate CameraXYZ in the CameraXYZ App before using it for the first time."
WTF?
HMRC to begin taking money from bank accounts in bid to close £47bn tax gap
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hmrc-direct-debt-bank-deductions-tax-recovery-b2847298.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business (UK Edition) @business-uk-edition-FlipboardUK
HMRC to begin taking money from bank accounts in bid to close £47bn tax gap
Tax authorities resume use of power after it was paused during pandemicAlbert Toth (The Independent)
Whoever at MS decided that encrypting drives behind Windows 11 Home users' backs and not disclosing that, and also whoever at MS decided that confusing OneDrive sync with anything approaching a valid backup should lose their data and then step on a well-placed LEGO in the middle of the night
Highly irresponsible and their confusion-enabling has caused permanent data loss for people who didn't know they had a key they needed BEFORE losing access to their MS account
> “We think we’re on the cusp of the next evolution, where AI happens not just in that chatbot and gets naturally integrated into the hundreds of millions of experiences that people use every day,” says Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft, in a briefing with The Verge. “The vision that we have is: let’s rewrite the entire operating system around AI, and build essentially what becomes truly the AI PC.”
So: What would it take to start the Linux accessibility revolution? Or maybe turn it from a consistent chatter among a medium-volume minority into a matter of urgency?
I know, realistically, that stripping all the garbage off our Windows PC will be easier than trying to make Linux work.
> “All the data that we see is when people use voice, they love it,” says Mehdi. Some of that data is the billions of minutes that people spend talking in Microsoft Teams meetings. “They’re talking through their computers today, and I think this change to ‘talk with and talk to’ will come to reality and we’ll see this thing really take off,” says Mehdi.
Oh, yes. Everyone knows that talking to an actual person is exactly the same as talking to a suphisticated nonsense generator that is baked into Windows itself.
I know that, just as ChatGPT can be useful sometimes, a voice-controled computer agent *could* help some people. That is, it could help people if it works. Remember that thing I posted like an hour ago? Imagine what could happen if your voice agent hallucinated your entire OS. At least when I was talking to GPT, I was the one controlling the computer.
Accessibility considerations aside, language like "Rewrite the entire operating system around AI" is pretty fucking unambiguous, and I'd love to hear from even one person who thinks this sounds like a good idea.
I'll wait.
> “We want every person making the move to experience what it means to have a PC that’s not just a tool, but a true partner,” says Mehdi.
Nope, that's it. Stop the world, I'm jumping off.
Source: theverge.com/news/799768/micro…
Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Microsoft is bringing new AI features to all Windows 11 PCs. Copilot Voice and Copilot Vision are now rolling out to turn computers into AI PCs.Tom Warren (The Verge)
And they know it! They know it's bad! They literally spell it out in the article!
For fucks sake.
Hacker gets annoyed at Amazon’s Kindle apps, reverse-engineers the Kindle web reader’s protocol (which basically sends each page as a set of glyphs in a deliberately broken variant of SVG). Such obscurity, much security.
blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-…
How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked
As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)Pixelmelt (Cats with power tools)
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When not using Google Play services (e.g. #GrapheneOS, #LineageOS users), #Signal can be a real battery drain. @mollyim with @unifiedpush on the other hand is extremely battery efficient.
Here's how to set this up, using #Nextcloud as the UnifiedPush provider: kroon.email/site/en/posts/moll…
Using Molly (Signal) with UnifiedPush
I finally started using Molly to send and receive messages via Signal. Molly is a hardened fork of Signal for Android, offering features such as an encrypted message database, automatic locking, shredding no longer needed secrets from RAM, notificati…Guido Kroon
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Traditionally, there was the assumption in #Christianity that people who did not get baptized would not go into heaven.
And based on my readings of Austrian #folklore , the notion that newborn children might die without even receiving an "emergency baptism" by a midwife was a major source of trauma to parents, since even those innocent souls would technically not be able to get into Heaven. And folklore would fill in the gaps left by Christian theology.
For instance, some tales claimed that the souls of such children would be led into a beautiful garden by Perchta (one of the incarnations of the female spirit/goddess Hulda/Holda/Holle). There, they would play for all eternity, and even after Earth was destroyed on Judgment Day, this garden would remain.
There is even one tale where a "miracle doctor" promised to use his quackery to reanimate the dead infant for just long enough that it gets baptized - but instead, Perchta shows up and made clear that she has already claimed the child's soul.
In other, darker tales, these souls would transform into black night birds and accompany the Wild Hunt on their travels.
It's a fascinating subject, and shows how folklore spins its own narratives that go beyond official doctrines.
Detective Petrov's eyes swept the cluttered room. "So," he said, "Leonid Chekhov, age 56, an automobile mechanic - found strangled in his study. The question is, who would want him dead?"
"Sir," said officer Gurin, "look - there's a pistol on the desk."
Detective Petrov stared at the weapon, frowning. "Do you realize what this means?" he asked. "Before we're don here, I have to fire this gun...."
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#AltText
#Alt4You
#TextReader .
If I don't know what it's about, why am I going there in the first place?
Máte doma v šuplíku telefon, který už nepotřebujete? Doneste ho na #OpenAlt stánek mobilního linuxu a pomůžete jeho vývoji!
Pomůžou nám následující, třeba i poškozené (kromě zákl. desky), modely:
Pixel 3 (i XL), Pixel 3a (i XL), Pixel 4a, Pixel 6,
OnePlus 6, 6T,
Sony Xperia XZ2, XZ3,
Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S, 3, Pocophone F1, Mi 8 (i Pro, Explorer),
LG G7 ThinQ, V35 ThinQ,
Fairphone (jakýkoliv),
SHIFT (jakýkoliv),
Chromebooky (různé)
Motorola Moto (různé)
Samsung Galaxy (různé)
Xiaomi (různé)
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As we at Cloudron rely on both @kde and @gnome everyday, we took the opportunity now with KDE's 29th anniversary fundraiser to start donating there also. For gnome we already did.
Such fantastic projects, hard to imagine a life on Linux without them. Even harder to decide which one to use 😃
kde.org/fundraisers/yearend202…
Happy Birthday to KDE
This week is KDE’s 29th anniversary. It may not be a nice round number like 25 or 30, but whenever another birthday rolls around for an independent project the size and scope of KDE — powered by the goodwill of its contributors and users — that’s rea…Happy Birthday to KDE
A zrovna dnes mě skolil nějaký moribundus, tak se láduju vitamíny, prolívám čajem a doufám, že to ze sebe vypláchnu, než ve 3 budu muset do práce 😪
I can't imagine why one would try to access localhost via a proxy, but I bet you've seen more obscure usecases ;)
We deploy a system wide `HTTPS_PROXY` var, and in most cases that's exactly what we want -- all comms should go via that proxy. Just localhost was unexpected.
Setting NO_PROXY is trivial of course.
I was delighted when the assistant actually knew how to get into the boot menu. It told me I could navigate the menu with my volume keys and select an option with the power key, much like navigating an Android phone’s recovery menu. I had to remind it I was totally blind a couple of times, but eventually, it helped me select USB as the first boot device and choose the “Exit and Restart” option. This was quite a few steps, and I was genuinely impressed at how easily I was able to fix this problem without interacting with a real person.
I eagerly waited for the Windows installer to come up. It never did.
So I used OCR on the screen, and discovered that not a single thing chat GPT claimed had happened … had actually happened.
It didn’t hallucinate just one thing. It hallucinated an entire multi-step interaction with the firmware of my tablet. It basically experienced a break from reality for about two minutes and started describing what it thought should happen, with no regard for what was actually happening.
Last week, the same app helped me learn the control panel of my heated mattress pad. It does work sometimes. But today, it led me on the wildest goose chase I’ve ever been on. I was actually trying to boot from the SD card, and as it turns out, that’s not even an option in the boot menu. But I made the mistake of teling Chat GPT exactly what I was trying to do, so it had all the material it needed to hallucinate a complex interaction convincingly.
Never let yourself forget the all important “A” in “AI”. That intelligence is not artificial as in “synthetic”, it’s artificial as in “pretend”. No LLM has the slightest idea of what it’s doing or saying. The companies that create these models have the all-important task of trying to make their intelligence more convincing than every other company.
That means they work most of the time, but the rest of the time, they will confidently lie. And that lie might be a missing digit, or it might be a whole entire interaction with a device.
I called Aira and got it sorted. I actually had to touch the arrows on the touchscreen to rearrange the boot order. Yes, I had a keyboard connected. No, there is no documented way to rearrange boot devices on a surface using the keyboard. Yes, everythyng about this is moronic. But, it’s done, and once I get Windows on my USB device, I’m pretty sure it will boot because an actual human told me so.
I can’t even begin to enumerate the possible clusterfucks that could arise from AI weaving such complex webs of lies. Do not use this shit for anything mission-critical. Ever. Even if it told the truth the last 99 times. Eventually, it will lie. When it does, you’ll have no idea.
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Important add-ons which function flawlessly as of this writing:
Eloquence, Enhanced Find Dialog Modification, ObjPad, Say control type before label, Say product name & version, SentenceNav, Speech history review and copying, SysTrayList, TextNav, Thunderbird+G5, UnigramPlus, Virtual Review, WhatsAppPlus.
Important add-ons which don't work or malfunction as of this writing:
1. ColumnsReview: can be loaded with the Compatibility flag, but doesn't function at all.
2. MSWord Accessibility Script: can be loaded, but doesn't work. In fact, if it's active, MS Word cannot be used with NVDA.
3. BrowserNav: can be loaded, but most features either don't work or malfunction. For instance, it can't find its bookmarks set on various websites.
4. Tony's Enhancements: issues an error message and cannot be used.
@NVAccess
#Firefox 144 is out. New things, new shits.
Remove Google Lens :
browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate > False
Remove Perplexity AI :
browser.urlbar.perplexity.hasBeeninSearchMode > False
Each update became a pain.
Took my phone off of a charger at 4 this morning. A.few minutes of social media, 2 boarding pass scans on full brightness, a podcast download over wifi and 2 hours of podcast playback with about 20 minutes of taxy ride took it down to 40 percent by 10 in the morning. And its a pro max, not an air.
I guess starting my setup from scratch is in my near future.
Occasionally, a later LCU doesn’t have the full set of MUI payloads and expects them to already exist. If they don’t, it throws 0x800f0823 or a similar “pending component” error. On a single-language image, this never happens because there’s nothing to mismatch.
For language packs, downloading them as offline installers is limited: Windows Update Catalog rarely has full LP CABs; it’s mostly LCUs/SSUs. Visual Studio Subscriptions or the volume licensing center have them. So no, I cannot grab the latest language pack files easily.
🚨⏳ Act now! You have until November 3rd, 2025 to prevent Microsoft from using your LinkedIn data to train AI.
You're opted in automatically, unless you take action and turn it off.
Here's how:
Go to your account → Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement & toggle the switch off to opt out.
Find out more: tuta.com/blog/linkedin-ai-user…
#LinkedInAI #MicrosoftAI #BigTech
Act until Nov 3rd to stop LinkedIn from abusing your data to train AI! | Tuta
Soon your data like your resumes and profile information will be used to train LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Co.'s artificial intelligence. And no, you didn’t opt-in. Take action and stop this now.Tuta
I finally did it. I've practically maxxed out my computer over the years. I can't add anything there, all slots are taken, all drive positions are filled, I can't put a better CPU there, the only viable upgrade now is to go from 64 GB to 128 GB RAM and I don't need that.
I guess my next motherboard one day will have to be an E-ATX form factor to have more options and an over the top chipset to handle it all.
Problém je jak mizí úspěšné modely a nové stojí za prd.
Co se týče nízkých odlehčených trekovek GTX (na cestu do práce), od Adidas přes Solomon, Merrell jsem musel letos jít do Saleva z Německa.
Prostě odlehčené modely s širší botou + GTX - vždy první vyprodané - po pár sezonách přestanou vyrábět 🤷♂️

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