I think it's been almost five years since I first pointed out that if GNU wanted to revitalize itself, one way would be an large effort to port old C stuff (like coreutils) to Rust, to improve quality--and attract new energy and people.
It’s absolutely true that AI is reducing jobs, but not like you think. AI is not *doing* those jobs instead of people, AI speculation is redirecting *investment* away from job-creating businesses to capital-intensive businesses.
as best I can tell, both things are happening, and thus the original diagnosis and the corrective each reveal part of the picture. I'm not sure where the collective impulse to treat this as some sort of smackdown between differentiated impacts is coming from
@jnl not sure there is a smackdown of any kind here, but if you have good data people losing jobs because their job because ai is doing that same job instead of them, I'm interested in that too. I have reasons to believe that that is not sustainably happening at scale, but that doesn't mean it's not happening at all.
Zero percent interested in a pissing contest over word salad (e.g., 'ok, but is AI actually *doing* those jobs or does management just hope that they will and are doing preemptory layoffs on faith'- I do think this is exactly what's happening and it remains to be seen if anything we might call AI is up to performing to task, so that can be an argument or not; whatever), but if you're actually assessing, I think the McKinsey RIF is a decent starting place.
@jnl smackdows, pissing contests, word-salad, not sure what you're reading here, but this is a thread about economics. And I don't mean that AI is failing to do those jobs, I mean that AI adopting firms are not reducing their head-count at scale, but that jobs are being lost because they are simply not being created or vanishing as a result of investment shifts.
@jnl in my case, the speculation about AI ("it's going to replace programmers!") caused mass layoffs a few springs ago, and I was part of that. Whether AI is actually accomplishing anything like I used to do is doubtful, more like entire industries and departments were declared nonprofitable and the economy was strip mined to reorient around whatever is currently seeing cash flow, which is an increasingly smaller number of industries, products, and services
@wilbr @jnl that may be happening to some degree, but AI-adopting firms are in general growing, not reducing head count. However, investing redirection towards capital-intensive Ai firms is reducing job-creation and causing layoffs for funding reasons, those jobs are just not being created or vanishing, not being *done by ai*
@jnl we're essentially saying the same thing, I think the other piece is that some people in those less fortunate businesses end up trying to do more with less, i.e. there may be less incentive to hire a junior developer or writer to take care of busywork when AI can supposedly do it for you. So the "taken job" is a little less visible because with all the shakeup it also maybe didn't exist in the first place and a bunch of businesses pivoted hard rather than "use AI to do someone's job"
@jnl for example news outlets are absolutely being caught using AI to write articles, and they've been getting squeezed for decades. So it's mostly a continuing trend of automation pushing down wages and job security
@jnl I'm not sure about more jobs in the end, it would take long term analysis to figure that out. For example surely there aren't more weavers now than before the automated loom, and I doubt there are even more people employed in the weaving industry or the loom design manufacturing maintenance and operation industry now. If there are more people employed today, it may be that they're textile call center workers, pool cleaners, and baristas?
I’m influenced by two factors here: Jevons Paradox and the equalization of the rate of profit. The former suggests that reducing costs increases utilization; the latter suggests that profit rates will eventually direct investment toward value creation, as firms seek to capitalize on effectively lower wages by capturing more labour.
And today, on what random piece of software will I now not be able to use today because of my disability, we have Discord! Embeds, something that worked flawlessly for years and did not need to be touched, now no longer read to my screen reader. A GitHub webhook gets read like this now: GitHub APP , , Yesterday at 20:20 Message". Going into browse mode and reading shows literally nothing, so it's like they're setting aria-hidden on it. I'm going back to bed. I hate technology.
Great, just what we need, more accessibility BS. I also notice that at least on Mac, Discord now has buttons that just say "image" with the label next to it. if you tab through the controls like I sometimes do, you'll miss them.
@jdking92 @ZBennoui TBH, everything sucks. I use both equally right now and every time I go back and forth I hit something that just pisses me off on either platform. Also in your specific case Ableton, and audio things in general are so much better on Mac. Windows screen readers really fall apart in terms of efficiency because of the emphasis on tab-centric navigation. Something I can get to with a simple VO-F to search or VO-I for the item chooser on Mac might take 15 or 20 tabs to find on Windows.
@pitermach @jdking92 Yeah that's what others have told me as well. I also completely agree about the way voiceover handles navigation with grouping, it's always made a lot of sense to me, and it is amazing when navigating audio software in particular. I honestly don't think I could actually switch full-time, I love Mac OS too much and I really don't wanna deal with Microsoft's shit. I just wish VO wasn't a total disaster in some ways, I know Apple is trying to improve it, but progress is slow. I sometimes wish I could at least see enough to use Zoom in addition to VO, I feel like maybe it would be easier in certain cases, but what do I know lol.
A social media user on Monday shared at least part of a “60 Minutes” segment about a prison in El Salvador—where the Trump administration sent hundreds of migrants—after CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss controversially blocked its release.
Smart TVs have become a central part of home entertainment, but accessibility is still often treated as an afterthought. For visually impaired users, choosing
Been listening to these guys for like 10 years at this point, love everything they do. If you can, I would link to the actual episode so their listener stats come through correctly.
@ZBennoui Oh crap, didn't think of that. Will do,. Yeah, their stuff is great! Did you ever hear the one called, CAn you find my mom? It's sad, but very good.
We’re thrilled to announce that AbilityNet has received a Recognition Award at the 10th anniversary of the Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative (RIDI) Awards.
We were out shopping at Barrington Mall today and I was surprised to see this big sign saying “Shopping is pointless” next to a photo of a happy woman in a field of flowers.
My first thought was that it’s some surprisingly on point anti-commercialism messaging to see in a mall at Christmas time.
Then I realised that a word was being blocked from view. When I made a few steps to the left, the whole sign reads “Shopping elsewhere is pointless.”
In short, François Legault and the Health minister of the day, despite all medical advice to the contrary, are letting a huge swath of the population of Québec go unvaccinated against #COVID19.
Get the cheapest plastic and the strongest adhesive so that whenever you remove the protective layer it instantly shrivels onto itself. “It curls, too.”
I just wrote up a list of the things that I can think of that the Trump regime has done which target disabled people. I might edit this post as time goes on. mikegorse.substack.com/p/trump…
There have been not one, not two, but several actions that the Trump administration has taken that target people with disabilities, so I decided to compile a list.
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
An interesting anecdote from this month's Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve's Steam Deck..
We definitely need more support for the Accessible Canada Act. It is only with political pressure that we are going to see governments actually regulating this. The Act is just the beginning, and is just one tool to make Canada more accessible.
OTTAWA — The federal Office of Public Service Accessibility is in limbo months after it produced a document accusing the government of falling behind on supports for public servants with disabilities.
In this article, you will learn how to use the finger alternative pinky command to list the logged-in users on the target machine and view their information.
Really annoying Orca behavior: you have to navigate by word to find spelling errors. rather than by paragraph or sentence. This is a massive productivity killer. If any #Blind #Linux users know how to change this, please let me know. Otherwise, I'll write to the Orca list and see if this can't be fixed.
Update: have written to the Orca list about this and hoping it's something that I can simply configure.
does it count to maintain curl recent releases on FOSS phone hehe, or trying to make FOSS beneficial tax wise (in DK) as Recognition of voluntary open-source work as a socially beneficial effort with legal and tax benefits, ? I mean , if one can’t see you in person !
for people where uh, going to large events isn't a possibility due to health concerns (im immunocompromised so... oof,), is there a chance of them being sold online later? or perhaps are the designs available for us to download to get them made?
see, this is why I don't use curl, the weird terms and conditions - I have to give stickers to friends AND grandparents. What if I only want to give them to grandparents and NOT friends?
Supposedly 'offensive' lyrics in seasonal classic songs could come under the watch of the Government's new workers' rights legislation, it has been suggested.
Вот какая она, ползучая оккупация. И так во всём. В Германии рождественские ярмарки отменяют, потому что не у всех есть деньги на обеспечение мер безопасности.
@Yinshi Именно. Вся эта исламистская шваль тихоооонечко так захватывает Европу. Благо, голоса уже есть, но они пока считаются фашистами. И кстати, хуже от этого только нормальным мусульманам, которых эта братия дискредитирует.
Ну это обычное дело - несогласен с DEI идеологией например и прочими мерами отрицательного отбора, тоже фашист расист и ещё хрен знает кто. Знаем, проходили.
I went for a walk this morning. A tree branch hit me in the face. It scratched my cheek, missing my right eye by not very much, and yanked my right AirPod out completely. I had to use Find My to recover my AirPod. If you own trees and their branches overhand public sidewalks, please, PLEASE keep them trimmed. Not everyone can see and avoid branches.
Oh, and yes, I've called the office for code enforcement about branches. They never called me back.
When an entire class of technology states on the packaging that it was made in China but intended "for overseas use only," this should really give you pause before plugging it into your network.
You will find this verbiage on a lot of Android TV streaming boxes for sale at the major retailers. There's a very good reason the country that makes this crap doesn't want it on their own networks. My advice: If you have one of these Android streaming boxes on your network or get one as a gift, toss it in the trash. I'll have a lot more about this in the New Year, but these things are responsible for building out a botnet that currently has ~2M devices and is growing rapidly. blog.xlab.qianxin.com/kimwolf-…
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On October 24, 2025, a trusted partner in the security community provided us with a brand-new botnet sample. The most distinctive feature of this sample was its C2 domain, 14emeliaterracewestroxburyma02132[.
How do those devices (along with all the fridges and IOT cameras that make up most botnets) get infected? Aren't most of them behind NAT? I understand "default passwords", but for that to be a problem, there has to be a way for the attacker to connect to a device in the first place, and that is the part I don't get.
@miki nat traversal technique are quite numberous, if they have put one in those that report to a server the nat is useless if no firewall is here to block it
@miki The bot forms the connection to the server. Bing bang boom.
There's also IP6. That may or may not be available for direct addressing.
That's all the issue is. The outside doesn't know how to address something behind a NAT. Once a connection is formed the NAT gateway deals with the translations and communication happens normally for the two sides. The NAT gateway does the work at that point.
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