Financial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, is likely driving layoffs in the tech sector (Fast Company)
Customizing my terminal makes me feel so productive! Of course, all of the time-saving aliases, hotkeys, and configuration changes I just made I'm going to forget within two days, and they'll never make it into my muscle memory. But hey, if I change several of the habits I've developed over a lifetime of computing, the modifications I just spent an hour making could save me as much as 0.2 seconds per month!
Another thing I enjoy: getting all the pipes and parameters for a command just exactly perfect, and thinking to myself: "I should add an alias for this in my profile!" Then opening my profile, and finding an alias I added to do that exact thing two years ago.
holy crap, thx to @bsdnow I stumbled upon that blogpost from @feld and I now have a working thunderbolt dockingstation on the #FreeBSD Laptop ... welp, that's way more convenience then I expected , thanks a lot sir!
And if this shit goes down, it sounds like we have to do it all again in 3 months plus the vote the dems were promised on health care will never happen. Getting a promise from a republican is like getting one from that bully in 4th grade who promises to never steel your money again.
Software developers [Andy Borka] and [Jason Fayre] have a love for aviation. They are also both totally blind. They’ve developed software called Talking Flight Monitor, and it has made flight…
@NVAccess I use MSFS 2020 with the PMDG 737. There is a tablit that we can access with control+9. There is an item called flightbag, which with sighted help, I can get golden cursor a saved position, and while I can get the mouse to move to the position with GC, NVDA cannot click on the item in the simulator.
So I've got back into playing this mud lately[1] and recently learned, to my surprise, that the source is in a public github repo. A few months ago, I think that I crashed the mud, and the higher-level imms haven't been around lately, so I thought that I'd help them out by debugging my crash. I set up a local instance on my computer, tried to create a character called Sanctity, and struggled to figure out why it wouldn't let me log in. I attached gdb to the process and eventually figured out that it was being flagged as a banned name. There's a file listing names that are not allowed, one of which is "tit", and the code calls strstr against all of the banned names. So there you go: sanctity is not allowed because it contains "tit," which is a banned name. Make of that what you will.
[1] roninmud.org [the web site is kind of outdated, and the game is not nearly as active anymore as it might have been in the past]
New WhatsApp web app, you can kindly go suck my ... Like, wow. I just recorded a voice message but pressing the send button does nothing. Yup, nothing. And generally, this is just garbage. Why? Why why why why. I'm going back to fucking Telegram and Elten Messages with this type of shit. btw the fix to actually trigger the send button is going into focus mode and pressing it. And make sure you don't hit the view once radio button by accidant.
Days since Brodie Robertson has blocked progress on Wayland while blaming others for doing exactly that: 0
He knows the consequences of what he does, he knows his viewers turn the threads toxic, he knows that it destroys any remaining progress, he knows that developers get harassed and receive death threats because of it.
He has been told by the CoCC that this behavior is a problem.
He denies any responsibility.
This has been going on for years at this point.
Brodie often features free software developers in his videos/podcasts, which gives him some relevance and is partially responsible for his following. So this is to my fellow developers: if you collaborate with Brodie, you are contributing to the harassment and I will hold you accountable for it.
The sign of abuse is when someone asks you to stop and then you make a video saying you won't. I'd give him a shovel, but the hole is already pretty deep.
Today I wanted to talk about why I cover the projects that I do, why I talk about so many FOSS repos, why I talk about projects like Wayland as much as I do....
>*points at targeted individual* - "guys, don't harass this person!" >*puts individual in the spotlight* - "guys I repeat, don't harass this person!!" >*repeatedly mentions this individual negatively, makes them the center of attention several times, with full knowledge that their viewers are known to harass this person* - "guys stop harassing this person!!! y'all are not normal!!! It is totally NOT me making them an easy target, obviously!!! oh by the way, feel free to insult them on stage :D" >*surprised pickachu face* - "why does this individual not like me :c"
Seriously. I don’t record enough audio, but I’ve recorded a lot of freight train horns. UP started using some different locomotives around here recently so I get to hear a wider assortment of weird chords now. Here’s one from last night.
@pesh Unrelated, sort of, here's a recording I made of a long freight train shipping furnature in January of 2018. Recorded with a Sennheiser Ambeo Smart Headset and an iPhone 8. Try counting the cars. I got lost somewhere along the way.
Vamos a probar @Jami a ver que tal, suena bastante interesante el concepto, me recuerda a la mensajería noventera "pierdes el acceso pierdes la cuenta, tan tan" y la app se be bonita. Probándola en Windows y Android, luego la trastearé igual en algun Linux. Lo mejor que es open source.
@schnedan assuming the protocol has a URL spec and is upload/download oriented someone brings a proposal and code and there's a discussion. Over time we have raised the bar.
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@Bri Those already do exist (in PHP, also Perl I think), and the... peak moment of shitstorms over names seems to be behind us now (and good riddance).
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@matt this video on "Vehicular Cycling" (a.k.a. "I'm an avid cyclist (namely, I'm a racer) and I'm here to tell you that any cycling infrastructure is bad and expensive", which was spearheaded by John Forester and had huge impact on why American infrastructure is so behind Europe. There's a kind of person that is youngish and fit and takes cycling as a personality trait and thinks that because they are comfortable riding fast and in traffic, every other cyclist should too and if they don't they "are not a cyclist so they should drive". These people hate the idea of bikes as a transportation method instead of a sport.
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So in other words, the assumption is that the cyclist should be responsible for adapting to a transportation environment that's designed for cars. I see that as being kind of like saying that each individual blind (or otherwise disabled) user should be individually responsible for adapting to a computing environment that's designed for the typical set of abilities, by learning to master whatever assistive technologies can be awkwardly retrofitted onto a (usually proprietary) GUI.
@matt exactly, but even more insidious detail: it's like a blind person making that argument because they have already adapted to the far from perfect status quo. And pointing at people who haven't and blaming them saying that if they don't put the effort to figure it out then they shouldn't be using computers. Now that I write that out, I have encountered people like that.
There are in fact blind people who look down on the use of certain devices that are designed specifically for blind people, as opposed to the mainstream option that, yes, is accessible once you learn how to use a screen reader, but isn't necessarily the easiest to use.
It's fair to say that the tech industry at the moment is not in a good place. Software engineers tend to be detached, demotivated and unwilling to care much about the work they're doing beyond their paycheck.
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Linux desktop share reached to 6.2% as per Cloudflare tracking network as of first week of Nov/2025..
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I have just found a nice document scanning app for android that can do automatic edge detection, cropping, multipage scanning, OCR, PDF export and more. It's called #makeacopy and it's using #tesseract engine to perform the OCR directly on the device with no internet connectivity requirement at all. The app has almost full #a11y support for screen reader users in the sense that all the controls are clearly labelled and it's easy to navigate. I can't resist and I have asked the developer if it would be doable to add a screen reader compatible notifications making the automatic edge detection somehow accessible as well. Now I'd appreciate comments from low vision screen reader users, mobility trainers, people assisting other blind people or others who might be able to tell if my idea is viable and how much you like it? Here is link to the github issue I have started: github.com/egdels/makeacopy/is…
@ondrosik I think iPhone has got something like that built-in already as I've tried several mainstream apps and they all seem to be providing guidance, including the Whatsapp's feature of sending photos of documents.
@Paweł Masarczyk Yes, the developer has not dismissed the idea and he is considering implementing it eventually. We have discussed it with additional comments in that github issue. CC @ondrosik
Da mich diese Frage umtrieb: Sollen wir auf Plattformen wie NIUS interagieren?
Mein Fazit nach zwei Angriffen in drei Tagen.
Ich habe mein Schutzteam gefragt, ob es klug war, dass meine Community unter dem NIUS-Artikel kommentiert hat. Danke an alle, die durch ein Newsletter-Abonnement dieses finanzieren!!
Die Antwort war eindeutig: Ja. Warum?
Ressourcenbindung: Jeder NIUS-Follower, der dort in den Kommentaren gebunden ist, hängt nicht bei mir ab und attackiert mich nicht direkt.
Autoritäre Kräfte setzen darauf, dass wir verstummen. Dass wir uns zurückziehen. Dass wir aufgeben.
Danke an alle, die sich einmischen. Die kommentieren. Die widersprechen. Die da sind. Ihr seid nicht nur Schutz für mich – ihr seid Schutz für unsere Demokratie.
Pusht das hier to the limit! Danke an alle, die verstehen, was wirklich zählt ❤
Hello friends, I have good news. Thanks to you, I was able to collect 500 euros for the apartment rent. But I still need 100 euros. Is there anyone who can donate, even a small part? I am sure you can help. I love you all. @fabio @aral @joynewacc chuffed.org/project/147168-sav…
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I am on an academic committee that for some reason tomorrow is discussing the ChatGPT Atlas Browser: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT_…
Several objections will be raised!
Some of my concerns are to do with critical reasoning, natural resources, user lock-in, the extraction of training data.... but I would appreciate hearing your thoughts about other themes I might bring up. Thanks in advance.
I'm also concerned about those things, but more than that why do people want this? Does anyone want this? I don't really care. Honestly, I would never use it. I'm not anti AI, I think it actually is really cool and can have good utility if used in the right way, but if it's not able to help you complete tasks more quickly and just summarizes pages or whatever why is it necessary? Doesn't really make sense to me. Also the models should be local, not hosted on a cloud somewhere.
... welp, that's way more convenience then I expected , thanks a lot sir! 
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