Für Golem habe ich über "Hype" nachgedacht und wie er uns durch seine "ALLES IST SUPER KRASS" Narration das Denken über Technologien und ihren Einsatz erschwert
(Original title: Das Wesen des (KI-)Hypes: Betäubungsmittel für den Verstand)
"Vibe coding" really is indistinguishable from playing a slot machine.
There's (for some) a degree of fun based on the hope of getting something valuable for a relatively small investment. When it won't work you just keep pulling the lever. At some point you surely will win, right?
Also with slot machines the bank always wins while slowly draining your resources.
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Ah well, the sighted and their emoji obsession. Did you know I don't need a sun in every message to understand you? Or that you can communicate your emotions by text and not by some chringe emoji that won't bring over what you're trying to to my screenreader anyway? We need a real life emoji blocker.
no. It's impossible to communicate without emoji. All communications before their invention was poor. The love poetry never communicated love, the scientific articles never communicated anything, novels were just shadows of their present selves...
At least make this blocker togglable. I don't want it, for example, I'm absolutely fine with emojis and use them myself. Of course, if there is like fifteen in the row, it's too much, but sighted people also complain about such style of communication.
@menelion I use them because I feel like sighted would think I'm emotionless if I don't. Like my message would be dry or something. Anyway I hope you don't use a sun in each of your messages. Or could you explain me why someone would say, tomorrow starts XY (colision emoji?) I think the only 3 emojis that I find useful are 👍, the red heart I don't have available to paste atm, and 💩.
No, I use far more. Like, hearts, thank you emoji, various food emojis, blushing faces, and so on, and so on. It makes the written speech more emotional, closer to oral speech, actually. No, not in every message, of course.
@JustinMac84 Because I don't need inflection. I want the text, that's the point of the message. Not to insert a sun or a colision or whatever you can spam on your frequently used emoji keyboard. Sighted can skip it, or ignore it, or yeah are bored of dry text but that's not my problem. What does a colision or a sun communicate to me? What is coliding? It's winter, no sun...
If I send you a weary face imoji for example, it is a lot more concise and elegant than expressing that feeling in the required number of words. It adds emphasis to text. Sometimes lack of inflection can be problematic and lead to misunderstanding so, with an imoji, things can be clarrified. Given that, if I send multiple consecutive imojis, speech should concatinate them, I'm not seeing that it takes up significantly more time.
@JustinMac84 Lol and here kicks the language barrier, I don't even know from the top of my head what a weary face is. Right so I searched, do you mean this? 😩 I mean why is it better though. In germany we literally have a word for that. Erschöpft, tired, overwealmed, you decide. See I'd rather take your description of the actual feelings rather than a dumb emoji. But well I guess that's where our opinions differ and that's also good, you don't always have to disagree. Just to clarify I'm not trying to go against you in anyway, it's just I really struggle to find a proper need/usecase for me and am annoyed by the constant usage of them by some people.
@JustinMac84 And I know it might be ridiculous to waste my time with complaining about it but otherwise, I think it's a valid discussion and I'm interested in hearing other peoples points.
@JustinMac84 Also, and it'll be difficult to describe this in english, but it's a similar situation to alttext, just a bit less significant. How would I know what a person is trying to say with an emoji that I can't perceive the same way sighted/the sender does? For example, recently in a Teams call we we're supposed to do the impression of a certain emoji someone would send into the chat, in this case, it was "Ermahnendes Gesicht", which, acording to AI, translates to shushing face. So in english I find this description to be more understandable than in german, but still, what is a shushing face? I didn't know, well shit. Turns out a face that has a finger over their lips to, idk, imply silence, make someone shut up? It's just useless. I can't, get them on the same level, same for gifs and stickers and all that crap.
@JustinMac84 I had this several times now, sighted sent me emojis they interpreted completely different than whoever decided what my screenreader should say when it finds this random bunch of unicode clutter. When I read out what the emoji was read out as to me, they were like, what, that is totaly not what this is etc. Well then, I rather just drop them completely.
Given that sighted people are going to continue to use them no matter what, might you not consider it a bit of linguistic expansion to learn how and why people use them? I struggled with the face with tears of joy imoji for a long while, but you can infer its meaning given enough context.
Oh look: #discord outsourced their age verification to some vendor. You know, the #ageverification that countries like the UK want to make mandatory for basically every online service. And the vendor had a data breach exposing photos of government IDs for 70,000 people.
Do you feel safer? How many children did we protect by exposing the IDs of these 70,000 (presumably) adults? Thanks for taking one for the team, you 70,000 canaries in the #privacy coal mine.
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On one hand, I absolutely love and adore pull requests. On the other hand, they make me realize just how bad I am at pretending to be a developer. Anyway, if you use #NVDA 2026, here's another release of unspoken-ng that fixes Firefox errors while also making everything better because I am apparently incapable of correctly thinking through the effect of threads. You should upgrade ASAP if you use this addon: github.com/fastfinge/unspoken-ng/releases/tag/v1.0.4
Everything in this one is thanks to akj. If you use Firefox, you should upgrade right away to prevent errors.
Full changes:
Fix COM threading violations when navigating Firefox content by extracti...
La ley de montes define 'monte' como “todo terreno en el cual vegetan especies forestales, arbóreas, arbustivas, de matorral o herbáceas, sea espontáneamente o procedan de siembra o plantación, que cumplan o puedan cumplir funciones ambientales, protectoras, productoras, culturales paisajísticas o recreativas.”
Aplicando la regla de que Si A, entonces (A o B): (A ⇒ A ∨ B)
“todo terreno en el cual vegetan especies herbáceas, que procedan de siembra, que puedan cumplir funciones recreativas.” es un "monte"
Entonces: - un parque es un monte. - una plantación de marihuana es un monte. - mi maceta es un monte.
Observación interesante, aunque también hay que leer el 5.2--3:
2. Sin perjuicio de lo dispuesto en los demás apartados de este artículo, no tienen la consideración de monte: a) Los terrenos dedicados al cultivo agrícola. b) Los terrenos urbanos. c) Los terrenos que excluya la comunidad autónoma en su normativa forestal y urbanística. 3. Las comunidades autónomas, de acuerdo con las características de su territorio, podrán determinar la dimensión de la unidad administrativa mínima que será considerada monte a los efectos de la aplicación de esta ley.
Dicho esto me pregunto si el adjetivo forestal está modificando a todas esas frases (arbóreas, arbustivas, de matorral o herbáceas). Hay especies herbáceas forestales? Ni idea.
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Oh my, that clown service again. In the console, they report "harmful content" they write they detected – but at the same time, their engine confirms the file being fine at VirusTotal 🤦♂️
Most of the time I get the idea, they just want to keep us busy with nonsense, so we cannot do the work we are here for…
Requested a review, giving them their own results to check. Yuck.
PS: Snippet updated, find it at gitlab.com/-/snippets/4909577 for reference. So far, all we receive from either of those services, are false positives – needlessly wasting our time.
Edit: No, we did not sign up willingly for either of those. Both are forcing us into (useless) action.
They broke #WhatsApp for #Windows completely. At least with JAWS, I hear "Press right and left arrows" instead of each and every message with virtual cursor turned off. Also, it randomly starts calls on arrow keys sometimes. Absolutely unacceptable behavior. UPDATE. Tested without Doug's scripts and with #NVDA, same results. Random messages, especially missed calls, are read as "Press left and right arrows...". #Accessibility #Blind
Today in 1961, 65 years ago: in the United States, John F. Kennedy takes office as president. What I heard:
Today in 1965, 61 years ago: in the United States, John F. Kennedy takes office as president. So, uh... yeah... About that... He died in 1963. Anyway, it's bedtime.
we continue our cold cold. we get a very little break tomorrow, and then the weekend is even colder than it has been. for those of you that live in the area here is todays channel 10 weather
@BorrisInABox they are saying our high on Friday of this week is only going to be 6, and for saturday a high of 8. then sunday threw tuesday upper teens it looks like.
@BorrisInABox I still rememember when I lived in greenville. a half inch of snow practically shut the whole city down. I don't remember what the temp was, but it didn't last long.
In late January of 2000, Greensboro got 17 inches of snow. Talk about completely shutting the place down. I think we were out of school for like a week and a half.
At the moment, the only stable, fast, and high-quality internet connection from Iran is either through Starlink, which is illegal here and extremely expensive and smuggled, or through stealth VPN services that operate using Starlink, which are also very expensive. I’m currently using one of those services. Each gigabyte costs around 5 to 6 dollars. Damn these murderous dictators!
Second, with all that going on, I am intrigued as to how anyone is providing any kind of VPN over there given the state of things. Are you technically on some kind of intranet that still operates when the country is off the global internet, or... how does that work?
@BorrisInABox Thank you. I’m OK physically, though mentally and emotionally not so much. Regarding the internet situation, the country has effectively been turned into a large intranet. Governmental and domestic services are still accessible, but access to international websites and services is blocked. I managed to find this VPN only after days of trying to connect, through a Telegram channel. In addition to this VPN, which is Starlink-based, there are also a very limited number of VPNs that connect to the global internet using L2TP, but they are extremely slow and barely usable.
How do those VPN services operate? How do you initially connect to them? Are they just servers on some kind of national intranet which still works? How is payment handled? crypto? in-person?
Any blind followers on here using Meshtastic? I'm interested in finding out more but not sure how usable it is for us if it relies on low powered devices to operate.
I am not yet, but I am interested in such things as well. Apparently, the web/app interfaces are accessible, at least for Meshtastic. There is also MeshCore, which runs on the same hardware, but I don't know much about that. Apparently fixes a lot of issues with Meshtastic, especially in densely populated areas with lots of nodes.
At some point, I want to run a solar powered Meshtastic (or MeshCore) node near the top of my roughly 10 meter long antenna mast, and another node inside the house to relay it. There is apparently quite a substantial network in NYC. Might be fun to play with.
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my workplace bought a new firewall. the manufacturer included a cable for the iec c15 plug (Warmgerätestecker). its a US plug on the other side. turns out my company does not own a single c15 plug cable, only boatloads of c13. (Kaltgerätestecker)
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Let's go to the webpage of an ISP to see what their current plans are. They only list download speeds, and tell me to click a link for full network disclosure.
OK, let's click that.
Up pops a Microsoft word document from early 2012.
Yeah, don't think that's going to provide the information I'm looking for.
I set up my new phone from scratch so I could do some spring cleaning. It is incredible the perfusion of digital connections everyone has nowadays just to live normally. Email, Amazon, ring, Hive, Spotify, Ero, WhatsApp, Mastodon, Singal, Zoom, Teams...just wow.
Everyone that manages security reports for Open Source projects have been getting a higher workload because of AI. Both real reports and just slop - reports including vulnerabilities in code that doesn't exist. For some, this is becoming a denial of service attack, with developers having to spend valuable, and in some cases unpaid, time to sort out what's real and may be a vulnerability.
Jarek Potiuk, member of The Apache Software Foundation will talk about this on the GVIP Summit Wednesday Jan 28th in Brussels. We still have a few seats available - but hurry up to register!
@FreakyFwoof Good morning Andre. I'm reaching out in a professional capacity. I have a student in my assistive technology class that plans to go into the music production business. I sadly know very little about music and how to work with it as a blind person. Would it be ok if I connect you two?
Thank you. Like I said, I can teach him how to use VoiceOver and NVDA, but I have the foggiest on audio and music production. Will pass along your link and see what happens. Thank you again.
The SSL options CURLOPT_ISSUERCERT, CURLOPT_SSL_EC_CURVES, and CURLOPT_CRLFILE were silently accepted by curl_easy_setopt() even when the SSL backend doesn't support them. This could mislead ap...
This was the worst Bulgarian president since 1989. He actively tried to divide the people by talking utter bullsh!t and implying we would be better off with Mother Russia. And now, he's seeking real power by getting ready to participate as a leader of his "new political party" in the upcoming Parliament elections. None of our other presidents has been so blatantly basic in their undermining words.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev to Submit His Resignation on January 20
Oh yeah, my mom mentioned we don't have a president. Since I came back from the states in 2017, we either don't have a government, or that kinda nonsensical crap happens. Also, Radev is annoying AF, he just, gave me those weird vibes. We need to vote better tbf. But the issue is, I refuse to. Give me accessible voting, so I can do it and not whoever's with me. How do I know what they wrote? I gotta do it to believe it and be sure. So, I am not voting, again.
Yeah, because now, as far as I know, the option to vote is to be with someone, to submit documents you want to vote with someone as your assistant, etc. Machine or paper it don't matter. Now, if I could submit all that digitally, I won't mind. I have an esignature anyway. But, nooo. Let's spend millions on machines and destroying trees, and bleh.
@bloodymirova I'm more or less expecting his party to cannibalize the pro-Russia vote and not gain much more on top of it. But every vote will be important if we want to avoid sock+pumpkin+pig leading the country.
Well, yeah, what party is that annoying dude trying to get into? I haven't watched the news, ,because let's infodump sadness on people with all that bs. But yeah. That's probs the only president I have disliked in my 25 years of insignificant lifetime...
@tardis @bloodymirova According to rumors, he will use the party of the pro-russian Kuzman Iliev. I think it was called "Bulgaria can". I guess we will know more later today.
Wow, I haven't heard of those guys, but Pro Russian says a lot. Yeah, how about, no. Never liked this guy, gives bad vibes. Through the TV, mind you, and I've only listened to him talk on new year's. Gives me the, "I just want you to shut up, because you're causing my blind insignificant self soul and physical pain." But the TV can't give my thoughts back, how truly sad. Also, no to that party nonsense... That's hypocritical tbf. Get in a party that supports your country not one where the support is to return the "great" empire of these strangers from across the sea, or some there distance relevant to it. My visual geographical map is 0 existent.
@tardis @bloodymirova Another thing we should want to avoid is the 20 sections per foreign countries limit (excluding embassies), that the current majority is trying to impose. This will severely affect UK and US (in addition to Turkey).
tbh I agree with the limits in a way. People who do live abroad haven't lived in here for ages probs, at least a percentage of them, so there's the thought of they don't really know the experience of how it is to be here, and you got to live somewhere to know how to give your vote in my opinion. It's like me living here, but voting for a government in the US or something like that. Dumb example, but an example nonetheless. I wouldn't vote, because I haven't been there, I moved out, I live here now, for example, but the other way would apply too. You got to read/watch news 24/7 and you'd still not have the experience in my opinion.,
@tardis @bloodymirova But this is still discrimination. 🤷 Everyone should be able to vote or the next thing will be someone demanding that we should deny the right to vote to people without the first 8 grades of education.
Yeah, if we look at it that way, it is, hence my whole point on it is agree to disagree, but then what's right of voting in this country? I haven't voted either, ever since 2018, when I could. I want to do it myself, I don't want assistance, but no, these are unchanged, blah blah. So politicians and the meaning of discrimination, they need to look it up in the dictionary, me thinks... So, yeah, if we look at the point of view on it as discrimination, I agree with you. Otherwise, my previous answer still stands. Life is complicated, and who says I can't have two points on it...
Entiendo que cualquiera puede construir una web que use el DNI electrónico para identificar a sus usuarios. Pero sospecho que no se puede hacer lo mismo con otros mecanismos de identificación oficiales (que son más convenientes).
Obviamente, da mal rollo, pero creo que es una idea a explorar.
Friendly reminder that putting links in alt text tells me nothing about what is in the photo and they aren't clickable so my screen reader is just reading out that nonsense.
Mozilla fragt: »What do you want to see from Mozilla in the future?«
Ganz einfach: einen Browser mit maximalen Sicherheits- und Datenschutzstandards. Ohne Tracking, ohne Datensammelei, ohne »wir machen das für die Finanzierung«-Ausreden. Ein Browser, der Nutzer konsequent schützt, transparent erklärt, was passiert, und sich wieder klar auf die ursprüngliche Mission besinnt: ein offenes Web, in dem der Mensch im Mittelpunkt steht – nicht Werbenetzwerke, Datenbroker und Profiling.
Und bitte: kein KI-Kram im Browser. Keine Zwangs-Features, keine Assistenten, die Daten abgreifen, keine »smarten« Experimente.
I can't help but notice they did a staged rollout (great!) for a DNS related change that went up to 100% in less than 24 hours (???). Seems a bit optimistic to me given how high TTLs can be?
Reading their explanation I can't help but feel that maybe the behaviour the Cisco switches rely on should have been standardized, so it puts the extra work on the server once instead of complicate every client.
Of course, the Cisco switches *crashing* instead of failing resolving is absurd.
Public channels on #Meshcore have the vibe of internet chats from the late 90s. You're there with complete strangers and you're happy just to be able to chat with someone.
Consejo cafetero: me regalaron una cafetera express (DeLonghi Dedica Style). Quiero comprar un molinillo de café, pero al quien me hizo el regalo le dijeron que el molinillo tenía que ser de la misma marca. No me tenía sentido y buscando un poco de información veo que hay molinillos de cuchillas de acero inoxidable y de muelas (de acero o de cerámica), y que las que aseguran una buena molienda y evita atascos en el de muelas. ¿Es así, hay tanta diferencia? #cafe
Ooo! Dave's Garage Youtube channel did avideo on setting up OPNSense as a transparent filter bridge! So, that means enterprise-grade IDS and IPS, but with none of the potential network renumbering, port forwarding remapping. Basically entirely rebuilding your network from a logical perspective is no longer necessary. Simply obtain hardware with two NICs, plug one end into ISP modem, other end into WAN port on your existing router, configure as specified, and you have transparent filtering, intrusion detection, and protection, and whatever your router was doing prior to the introduction of OPNSense still happens, and no one and nothing knows about OPNSense, accept of course, until and when something looks like it should be working, but in actual fact doesn't. Of course, you'll have to reprogram your mind to always check the IDS/IPS log to see what it has done to the traffic. But if you've got rules in place to deny said traffic for whatever reason, it most certainly will be done, directly out of the modem WAN port. It won't make it to your router's WAN port, and it most certainly won't make it close to anywhere that can be fooled by spoofing and other such techniques to create an "I'm your friend" IP address and thus be allowed into everything.
I just realized, almost two years later, that I forgot to put heatsinks on the Raspberry Pi 4 I sent to a data center for co-location. Oops... It's running OK at 57 degrees C, but it could be cooler.
@HopelessDemigod Yep. At the time, I wanted to host something that was only available on 32-bit armhf and couldn't be compiled for other stuff, and that was the best way to do it. Not essential these days, but it's still doing it's one job, so no immediate need to change it, until there is.
I think my opinion on vibe coding shifts again: I dislike people who just throw promts at the AI without any significant knowledge about what they're doing/the codebase they're producing, and just let the AI do everything waiting what it might come up with. But with so many things, if it's in the right hands it can actually be a quite good thing, in this case a productivity booster. Of course I can't comment on the code quallity itself at the moment. But I guess as long as you can fix up and understand stuff with out the AI in between you and the code, heck that's just what coding is going to be in the future I guess. Gotta get used to it.
@JustinMac84 Well they still have to be either a very good promter, but over all understand the code the AI is producing. Where's the point otherwise. Unless you're only doing it for yourself though but I'm mainly talking about software others provide. I mean tbh, what would they have done without AI? Either find the money, or learn coding, or, keep it an idea. I think AI can be good in producing something like a draft, and it'll surely improve in the future, but for now, idk really.
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in reply to Justin Macleod • • •I mean why is it better though. In germany we literally have a word for that. Erschöpft, tired, overwealmed, you decide. See I'd rather take your description of the actual feelings rather than a dumb emoji. But well I guess that's where our opinions differ and that's also good, you don't always have to disagree. Just to clarify I'm not trying to go against you in anyway, it's just I really struggle to find a proper need/usecase for me and am annoyed by the constant usage of them by some people.
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in reply to Jonathan • • •When I read out what the emoji was read out as to me, they were like, what, that is totaly not what this is etc. Well then, I rather just drop them completely.
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