sorry internet, i forgot to give you something to go into monday with yesterday.
and as a result, us-east-1 had dns issues and of course, everything went down. because the promise of cloud was multiple zones that create redundancy and prevent exactly this sort of thing from happening right?
its like gloating about having a car with multiple side airbags, but then pulling the fuse out of them so they never work
Interesting article about how LLMs actually work: harysdalvi.com/blog/llms-dont-…
One thing I take away from this is that while "grand theft autocomplete" is a very catchy meme, the last word oversimplifies what the LLM is actually doing.
RLHF forces us to view LLMs as agents in an environment, not just statistical models.www.harysdalvi.com
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Just watched this great presentation from @AdrianVovk at the @allsystemsgo conference:
youtube.com/watch?v=uCAlzx_x6r…
It covers the migration to Wayland-only, and of the @gnome session to systemd, eliminating tens of thousands of lines of ancient C code (often a quarter to a half of the codebase depending on the module) and providing more featureful session handling, including session saving and processes suspension. The remote desktop implications are interesting too.
https://media.ccc.de/v/all-systems-go-2025-364-modernizing-gnomeGNOME has collected some very old code over the years. During the recent GNOME 49 release, we...YouTube
From a different party:
> The party would prioritize the extension of the Metro's Orange line to the Bois-Franc REM station
I hate to brake it to you buddy, but it's when you were in charge of the STM that you should have gone to bat for this. The TBM has been gone for a while. And you know what cost for that kind of project? The TBM.
(context: they built the underground garage for trains past Cote Vertu, going basically half way the distance to connect to Bois-Franc, with a TBM)
President Donald Trump's White House is already the second most-blocked account on Bluesky, just days after joining the platform — and it only trails JD VanceSean James (Mediaite)
Wow. The party founded by the person who won a discrimination lawsuit against SPVM (Montreal po-po) has a policing platform that is in total opposition of that. They want police gangs, video surveillance and all that shit that makes police even more racist.
I can't even wrap my head around.
> It would work with Montreal police to train Metro security officers in "frontline intervention tactics."
> The party would create a police squad targeting violence and drug trafficking downtown. It would invest in video surveillance, [...]
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Read our summaries of mayoral candidates' policies and promises for key issues. They will be updated as the parties add to their platforms ahead of the Nov. 2 vote. You can learn more about what's at stake by following the links below the summaries.CBC News
Also
> The party would replace single turnstile entrances with full-height turnstiles.
They must never have tried these. 1. they are inconvenient 2. cost money that could be used to other things 3. make it even worse when fare evasion happens. Instead of some jumping, they assault by sliding being someone with a fare....
Good morning fediverse! Been a wile--rough past few months including 2 deaths in the family, a cross-country move and house consolidation with my partner and our cat, etc. but I'm still here. Trying to pop my head back up, catch up on a bunch of replies I owe folks, start socializing online again, and more.
I live in Michigan now. We have autumn for the first time in my life! (Or at least, for the first time in my adult life.) I'm unusually excited about that. And geese are apparently evil incarnate which surprised me--I still kinda like them. Living up north is weird in a lot of ways.
Tomorrow I take an intro to leatherworking class. That and finally relearning how to play my keyboard competently are my 2 dark-winter projects.
"Your data is hosted in Europe"
US-EAST-1 goes down.
"Sorry the service is down".
Yup. Lies.
Non-withstanding it wouldn't be safe in EU either when hosted by an American company.
Progress adding read-only @mangroveReviews to #OsmAnd. I hope to have PRs ready next month.
👁️ Know your Standards
Updated 20/10/2025
"Regularly people link to or quote from some outdated version of a specification. This can be confusing and detrimental to understanding, if the information is no longer correct or relevant."
#a11y #HTML #ARIA #webStandards
Schön, dass @Anjapf@kirche.social hier gelandet ist. Herzlich willkommen!
Gern erinnere ich mich an dieses Interview mit ihr zur #UN #Behindertenrechtskonvention:
kom-in.de/189/welche-barrieren
#Inklusion #blind
Das Perspektivforum Behinderung der Evang. Allianz thematisiert die UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention - Ein Gespräch mit Anja Pfaffenzellerwww.kom-in.de
The Matrix Conference 2025 was a huge success! 🎉
We were delighted to be the anchor sponsor! 🙌
With so many governments presenting on their Matrix-based initiatives. There was a genuine realisation that @matrix is the future of government, and inter-governmental, communications.
See our round-up of the conference, which includes the links to all of the presentations: element.io/blog/the-matrix-con…
The Matrix Conference 2025 was a huge success, and the energy and enthusiasm was just incredible!Steve Loynes (Element Blog)
If you're wondering what AWS is, it's kinda like the operating system of the corporate Internet.
I call it bezOS.
I was just listening to the open microphones in my parents' back yard. Heard something that sounded like a rooster. Mom says it's actually a large bird in a cage making roosterish noises.
Anyway, should you care about such things, the stream lives here:
I'm using a pair of very cheap dynamic microphones connected to a Behringer UMC-202 audio interface and a Raspberry Pi running Liquidsoap to stream and archive audio. I would like to one day find a way to upgrade to electret condenser microphones without completely exposing them to the elements, and run the whole thing on solar power.
I wanted a completely headless, very small setup, mostly because I don't live there and can't easily fix things if they break. It stays up all the time, unless it's broken.
If I were to use small condensers, I'm not sure which they would be. I'd love to stick a dummy binaural head out there with a pair of nice, quiet condensers on it, but also shield from wind and rain without affecting the sound. I'm not as worried about that with these cheap dynamic microphones. They get drowned all the time and don't really care.
I've only had to replace them once in 15 years.
Not sure how I would best do that in the existing environment.
I like this post I just came across, "Software can be finished": rosswintle.uk/2025/10/software…
I think the author is too quick to weaken the point at the beginning, and again at the end, so I'll state it more emphatically: more software *should* be finished.
You probably don't want to build "finished software". But what can we learn by thinking about it as a concept?Ross Wintle
Struggling with vibe coding? You just need to get better at prompting. Here is a six video series "course" to teach you how to write the most effective AI prompts and get the most out of vibe coding!
(Do you ever wonder what it would be like if there were some special language for giving commands to computers... a kind of prompting language so they would do *exactly* what you wanted? Maybe someone should invent that.)
After reading this post, I've decided to flesh out the ideas a little. And I think I may have conceptualised the future of vibe coding!
First, the problem of inconsistencies about how AIs respond to prompts.
We need better predictability!
So let's create a standard syntax for prompts, so when you enter a given prompt in a particular way, the machine will always respond in a standard way.
We'll call these next-gen prompts "commands".
As long as you know this simple "language" of commands, the machine will always do what you want!
Now, on to the problem of complex prompts.
Let's take away the guesswork.
Instead of trying to precisely enter one complicated long prompt, let's instead have a series of simpler commands that get executed one after the other.
A "program" if you will.
So you don't have to re-enter your program on prompts, let's invent a physical media for storing and loading these programs.
Now, the next big elephant in the AI room is resource use.
Let's solve this issue so that the command interpreter "AI" software runs with very few resources. I know this is a stretch goal, but perhaps even an 8-bit microcomputer with just 64K of RAM?
And to really make this catch on, let's make this AI vibe command programming language so simple, even an 8-year-old can understand it.
A "basic" programming language, if you will.
Now I know this "Basic" programming language AI vibe coding system sounds extraordinary.
But I promise you that for just $10 billion in VC funding and total indemnity against copyright infringement, I will happily deliver a 64K 8-bit microcomputer with the BASIC programming language preinstalled!
This is the future of AI folks! Feel the singularity approaching!
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Y'know, I think people like the Jimmy Truths dude serve as an example of the shortcomings of #Fediverse moderation. This dude has likely made like, hundreds of accounts on dozens of instances, but all the instance owners can do is suspend his account. It's gotten to the point where the dude now keeps coming back with usernames and posts mocking the admins for being unable to permanently remove him, often on the same instance repeatedly.
Larger companies can do things like send cease and desist letters, contact his ISP, hardware ban him, etc a lot easier. They simply have more resources to deal with really tenacious harassers than the average instance admin does. I'm not a networking expert, but I wish there was a way to actually deal with guys like this because as the Fediverse grows in popularity, it's likely more users like this guy will crop up.
I can imagine it being pretty easy for bad actors to focus their attention on a single instance and overwhelm it if there's enough of them. Or people like this dude so persistent and obnoxious that it wears the often volunteer staff down over a long stretch of time.
There seriously needs to be focus put on improving moderation tools for Mastodon before we get to that point.
@talon Yeah, I've seen some posts complaining about the sheer lack of moderation tools, and I agree that it's a serious issue.
Like, small instances with very few staff members need to have the tools to deal with targeted raids, ban-evasion, illegal content, etc.
It's always DNS. Except when it's AWS. (In this case, it was both.)
techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/amaz…
The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom and Amazon's own products, including Ring.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
No-frills, easy to use, Email client using the JSON Meta Application Protocolplay.google.com
"Hey what is this thing, man?"
𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙖 🥼🧫 likes this.
In Britain, non-Welsh speakers like to joke that Welsh has way too few vowels and too many accents to make sense.
I am currently in Brno Hlavní nádraží waiting for a tram to get me to Zelný trh.
Your move, Cymru
I have released yesterday version 1.12.0 of the slixmpp python XMPP library. Mostly for python 3.14 compatibility, but there are a few other things as well! More info at blog.mathieui.net/slixmpp-1.12…
There is no single central #Signal server. Signal uses #AWS cloud, plus Google Cloud, Microsoft Cloud and Cloudflare, all under US legislation. If any of these clouds goes down or becomes otherwise problematic, chatting degrades or fails.
With #deltachat you can choose #chatmail relays ( chatmail.at/relays ) which distributes the risk across a wider network. We are currently working on the multi-transport feature to finally remove any central point of chat failure chaos.social/@delta/1153621448…
Chatmail provides FOSS infrastructure for interoperable, secure, speedy and reliable end-to-end encrypted messaging. Check out clients as Arcane Chat, Bots or Delta Chat today!chatmail.at
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it is now officially in the ports tree
however, I'm unsure when packages will be widely available as they're fighting over the current situation with electron because the builds are being very problematic and disrupting the build cluster's stability
freshports.org/net-im/deltacha…
Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure messaging app, available for mobile and desktop platforms. Delta Chat feels like Whatsapp or Telegram but you can also use and regard it as an e-mail app.www.freshports.org
🚨 Another massive AWS outage just took down Roblox, Fortnite, Coinbase, Snapchat, and all Supercell games.
Half the internet has gone dark because of one Big Tech company. This is not innovation, it is monopoly risk.
💡It’s time to choose alternatives.
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> the creation of the Pink line,
That's a direct line of the 2017 platform (2 elections ago). And what has happened?
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice....
#polMTL