A good friend of mine needs a lot of help. Facing health challenges as well as eviction, she needs enough covered to keep her, her partner and their cats from becoming homeless. Payment is going to be due by February or they get evicted, and they need as much covered as possible. They've personally helped me out before in my time of need nearly 2 years ago; please help me boost and cover their costs, I'll be forever grateful!
Python in 2026:
- New code doesn't work, misses dependency
- Dependency can't be installed with old PIP
- PIP can't update itself, since it is too old
- Delete PIP, download PIP installer
- PIP installer is too new for old Python
- download old-style new PIP installer
- install new PIP
- install dependency
Now I'm sitting there wondering what the new code was supposed to solve. Forgot why I ever tried to change that thing.
"Wenn man die Lage Polens auf dem Globus anschaut, sind die vom Deutschen Reich gestellten Fragen übrigens nachvollziehbar."
Was für ein wahnsinnig gefährlicher Trottel!
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Just realized: Whenever I read outrageous news about politics, my outrage comes second. First, my brain makes an attempt to find a perspective in which it might make sense to act like these morons do.
That‘s not healthy for my brain. But I‘ve trained myself so well that I can’t seem to unlearn the reflex.
And this is the main reason why I have to avoid news these days. Of course it’s also because of the helplessness and all the bad emotions. But mainly because „understanding“ causes damage to my brain and soul.
Continue, or "try it now" a popup from Gmail now asks, offering to compose your next message with Gemini. I guess the tiny "x" is the "fuck no" button?
Yesterday I switched to Windows Terminal and PowerShell 7 from the old Windows Console Host and batch syntax, and I do somewhat feel like I've been asleep at the wheel for years.
Proper UTF-8 support, aliases, a profile to configure things at shell startup, command output capture, correct parsing of ANSI escape sequences... In short, things people should expect from a real shell.
Hopefully this doesn't prompt NVDA to start shitting the bed at every opportunity as it apparently does for many others.
If you know me, you'll know that I'm not a friend of AI - but like the original Luddites I am not against the technology per se, but the use of it to drive an exploitative societal development.
@pluralistic has put it more eloquently than I ever could. So, read this:
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its rootsCory Doctorow (The Guardian)
Fully blind software developer who loves making their own tools to solve problems. Primarily known for Paperback, an accessible and lightning fast ebook/document reader.GitHub
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> 16,500 protesters killed by Iran
Thats like twelve October 7ths, so we're going to fund the protesters with like 4 trillion dollars in weapons right? Isn't that how this works?
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the whole ai-bro shtick about "ai democritizes art/programming/writing/etc" seemed always so bs to me, but i couldn't put it into words, but i think i now know how.
ai didn't democritize any of these things. People did. The internet did. if all these things weren't democritized and freely available on the internet before, there wouldn't have been any training data available in the first place.
the one single amazing thing that today's day and age brought us is, that you can learn anything at any time for free at your own pace.
like, you can just sit down, and learn sketching, drawing, programming, writing, basics in electronics, pcb design, singing, instruments, whatever your heart desires and apply and practice these skills. fuck, most devs on fedi are self taught.
the most human thing there is is learning and creativity. the least human thing there is is trying to automate that away.
(not to mention said tech failing at it miserably)
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I think we're painfully re-learning the lessons we learned in programming over the last 70 or so years with AI, just like crypto had to painfully re-learn the lessons that trad fi got to learn in the last five hundred years.
Yes, you can 20x your productivity with AI if you stop worrying at all about architecture and coding practices, just like you can 5x your productivity without AI if you do the same thing. Up to a point. Eventually, tech dept will rear its ugly head, and the initial gains in productivity will be lost due to the bad architectural decisions. Sometimes that
Current AI Downsides:
> Stole all creative, intellectual works from everyone ever
> Eats so much power that they need tons of nuclear plants yesterday
> Eats up so much electricity that everybody else is priced out
> Eats up so much GPU & DRAM that everyone else is priced out
> Devours jobs like Ghibli's No-face
> Falsely identifies people as criminals who aren't
> Hallucinates legal briefs in your court case
> Destroys the validity of all video evidence in all courts everywhere
> Facetracks children playing at the park
> Generates infinite piles of dogshit spaghetti code that can't be read or revised
> Can't count to 100, doesn't know how many r's are in Strawberry
> Deep-fakes Martin Luther King Jr. stealing fried chicken, Studio Ghibli child porn
> Produces ugly, smeary, unappealing fake video that nobody likes.
Added: Consumes water at a rate that will desertify our entire planet.
Added: Completely destroys college education, both in terms of cheating and inability to read/write
Added: Makes all art suspected as fake, all art stealable and reguritated.
Added: Allows world leaders to fake their health, presence, & speaking capacity.
Added: Not even a Language Model.
Added: Fake/bullshit content and rampant chatbotting means the Internet is now mostly dead.
Added: AI warfare is inept and kills innocent/misidentified people. AI security bots are in the works for your home town.
Added: Allows for extortion, sextortion, scamming at a level never seen before.
Current AI upsides:
> Sam Altman is rich, I guess, idk.
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An important PSA for people who are active on #Bluesky and who, upon hearing that the ICE account was officially verified, are saying: "I will just block it."
Blocking on Bluesky is NOT PRIVATE: it's very easy to see who is blocking any account by visiting sites that list that information.
I took a screenshot from clearsky.app, listing all the accounts that are blocking ICE (I pixelated avatars and usernames for privacy purposes).
The safest bet is to mute (that info is private) 😫
This is also true about Mastodon*, but Mastodon actively tries to hide that fact from users and muddy the waters.
* It's technically hidden to users but not the admins of the instances involved, but if you're a gov agency, you're presumably on your own instance, as seems to be the custom here for the "big players."
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In a way, #Putin even got more then he ever could wish for
All for free by #Trump
Alliances shattered, internal threats, everyone really disliking the US, speaking about war within #NATO even
It's unbelievable how much damage that senile dic(tator) has done within a year
I really hope we learn from this.. But history shown otherwise I guess
This post by Bruce Schneier contains so many thoughtful soundbites:
> The question is not simply whether copyright law applies to AI. It is why the law appears to operate so differently depending on who is doing the extracting and for what purpose.
> Like the early internet, AI is often described as a democratizing force. But also like the internet, AI’s current trajectory suggests something closer to consolidation.
schneier.com/blog/archives/202…
More than a decade after Aaron Swartz’s death, the United States is still living inside the contradiction that destroyed him. Swartz believed that knowledge, especially publicly funded knowledge, should be freely accessible.Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security)
I like looking at this through the concept of "enjoyment", which was originally developed in Japan I believe.
From that point of view, copyright only applies to a work when it is used for "enjoyment", for its intended purpose. If the work is primarily entertainment, it applies when the consumer is using it to entertain themselves. If the work is educative, it applies when the consumer is using it to learn something. It does not apply when the work is used for a purpose completely unrelated to its creation, such as testing a CD player on an unusual CD, demonstrating the performance of a speaker system, training a language model to classify customer complaints etc.
(This isn't a legal perspective, not even quite in Japan I believe, but it's useful lens through which we can look at the world and which people can use to decide on policy).
As curl now supports TLS (mqtts), it is no longer necessary to list it as a limitation in the docs.GitHub
TL;DR Most EV batteries will last longer than the cars they’re in. Battery degradation is at better (meaning: lower) rates than expected. Slow charging is better. Drive EV and don’t worry about your battery.
„Our 2025 analysis of over 22,700 electric vehicles, covering 21 different vehicle models, confirms that overall, modern EV batteries are robust and built to last beyond a typical vehicle’s service life.“
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PQ leader says Legault's resignation further evidence of need for independent Quebec
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/qu…
tl;dr: the leader of the PQ is full MAGA. He believe in Santa Claus. He believe that in the US dictatorship Quebec and it's francofascism would be safe. Remember MAGA implies hating anyone speaking something other than English.
Jan Böhmermann 🤨
in reply to Jan Böhmermann 🤨 • • •Katja Diehl
in reply to Jan Böhmermann 🤨 • • •Behindertenfeindliche Wörter sind Nazisprech ❤
Und leider auch verharmlosend, denn, wie du selbst schreibst, machen Menners wie Spahn das nicht aus "geringer Intelligenz", sondern aus Berechnung und einer faschistoiden Schläue heraus.
brrr.