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Tim Walz changed the 2024 election with a single viral diss—and earned a VP nod because of it - Fast Company apple.news/ADMxaRwfkQzy44iVomK… #weird



Here I argue that breaking HTTP cookie parsers that have worked for 25 years is a bad idea: github.com/httpwg/http-extensi…
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@ironiridis I don't understand what drove them to change this. Obviously I think it's wrong...



"Bamboo HR’s findings show that about one-quarter of vice presidents and C-suite executives implemented return-to-office policies in hopes of prompting voluntary resignations. Similarly, around 20 percent of HR professionals indicated that their in-office policies were designed to make workers quit."

thehill.com/opinion/technology…




Are you a #Finance person with #OpenSource experience?

We (OpenUK.uk/) want to hire someone with experience in grant applications & administration and managing invoicing / reconciliation via Xero

You *must* have worked in open source.

If that's you, and you would like to discuss the role please drop me a DM here or on LinkedIn.

#GetFediHired

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TFW you sound really radical but you’re just an ordinary moderately well-read person with a decent education and common sense watching late-stage capitalism and geopolitics hurtle 99% of humanity towards destruction.
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in reply to ΔV shill sam

Nintendo cracked down on emulators. for this sin, Mario was punished for eternity.


A reminder that assistive technology (AT) covers more than screen readers. Using “AT” to mean solely SRs is a regular source of confusion between and among clients, vendors, and practitioners, so yeah I have things to say about it:
adrianroselli.com/2024/08/at-i…

#a11y #accessibility

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Come and give a talk at the upcoming #LibreOffice Conference 2024 in Luxembourg! We've extended our Call for Papers deadline – but be quick if you want a hotel room: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource


Breaking disaster this morning — the annual glacier floods are hitting Juneau, Alaska harder than ever, with a whole neighborhood flooded. Climate change is really hitting home this morning. ktoo.org/2024/08/05/live-updat… #akleg #alaska


Join Julie Ripa at The Matrix Conference to learn how @dinum is using Matrix as the foundation for the French federated, sovereign messenger, Tchap!

🎟️ Grab your tickets at 2024.matrix.org
🏆️ Secure a sponsorship package at 2024.matrix.org/sponsor



Liberty Phone: True freedom in your pocket. No tracking, Open-source, secure, and respectful of your privacy.
puri.sm/products/liberty-phone…
#Purism #PureOS
in reply to Purism

Hi. Is the #Librem5 upgradable to Liberty Phone specs? It's the same thing with less memory and storage, right?


These folks are still looking for participants for this research study around the accessibility of job searching. Feel free to boost for reach. Accessibility of Job Search: Screener Survey for Remote Interviews docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

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And I ran into this beautiful girl on the way up the mountain 🏔️ ❤️


Storm Cloud Over Texas

Image Credit & Copyright: Laura Rowe (Used with permission)

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240806.ht… #APOD

#apod


TIL that in the UK some low voltage electrical cables feature "an uninsulated plain copper earth continuity conductor". It is then sleeved by Green/Yellow only during installation for identification purposes.

pewelectrical.com/cable-and-ac…



Would you like to receive funding to attend #RIPE89 in Prague? If you plan to apply for a #RIPE Fellowship or via the RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (#RACI) the deadline is 16 August.

🤝 Fellowship
ripe.net/community/community-i…

🎓 RACI
ripe.net/community/community-i…



aspoň že Ultra ide ako hodinky, s tou trieskam hádžem umývam jarovou vodou a drží


Of course, priority from the right doesn't count for #cyclists.😠

I see car on the left, seems slowing down.
I take care of my right to give priority if something is coming from there.
There is a bad view to the right because of a parking van so it takes me more time to see if I can continue freely.
When I look back I suddenly see a car just in front of me.
Braking intensively...😱


in reply to Archos

Já fakt nechápu proč jsou na pana Babiše fšichni tak zlý ?!?

Dyk nikomu nic neudělal!!!

Pražákům neudělal Applestore,
Sáblíkové neudělal stadion,
Kosteleckým uzeninám neudělal dobrou pověst ...
atd ...



Looks like Apple are using standard prompt engineering for a bunch of their Apple Intelligence features, and someone on Reddit found the prompts. Some notes here: simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/6/a…
in reply to Simon Willison

What I find interesting is how gramatically incorrect the prompts are.

See e.g. "a set of question and its answer are provided" instead of "a set of questions and its answers are provided", or "by modify the draft response" instead of "by modifying the draft response".

I guess this is done to reduce token count.

I also find it interesting that they're using the term CSEAI as one of the possible categories. This heavily suggests fine-tuning (or just LoRa) to me, as the term isn't very popular, and even mainstream, large AI models struggle with defining what it means (likely "child sexual abuse and exploitation").

in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

There's also an interesting "AI safety" configuration, albeit for a far, far older model, at /System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_ImageCaptionModel/53d7bfd1009473aea8a86155f67a2c70905e9dae.asset/AssetData/ImageCaptionModel/runtime_parameters.json

This is not specific to the newest beta.




in reply to Seedy of Chucky

wow. I've not heard bowling like that with eloquence since I had a windows 95 machine.



"Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules"

apnews.com/article/google-anti…


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@3AM also waiting for cowasher and codisher in the footsteps of copilot
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

😂

I migrated to GitLab recently. They might be a bunch of [insert expletive here] as well. But I have HAD IT with Microsoft!


in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I bet you did not expect to be still working on that little project 24 years later :-)

Congratulations!



1 #million views! Today is a momentous day for the #WHY2025 #MCH2022 #SHA2017 Youtube account.

The video of a talk called "Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159…" reached 1 million views on Youtube a few minutes ago.

The video is of course also on media.ccc.de and has reached almost a hundred thousand views there.

The recommended way to watch the video is media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-236-non…, but if you want proof of the milestone, check out youtu.be/_ZSFRWJCUY4

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in reply to WHY2025 Productiehuis

The reason for this massive success is probably a post on news-ycombinator-com in May of 2024 and after the initial rise of viewers the algorithm took over and it became a self perpetuating thing. When there's enough interest, we might dig in the statistics to see if our theory is correct.
in reply to WHY2025 Productiehuis

If you're thinking of going to why2025.org, the recurring Dutch hacker camp (@why2025camp), please sign up for one (or more!) volunteering shifts.

We would really appreciate it if you signed up for one of our AV shifts. Producing these videos takes a lot of effort from our volunteers and we can never have too many shifts assigned to a volunteer ahead of time.








SDR: The Next Level of Shortwave Radio Listening radioworld.com/global/sdr-the-…

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in reply to David Goldfield

I'd love to get into SDRs, but the windows software that controls the devices is rather inaccessible, at least from what I've tried. And the one piece of software that's relatively good, HDSDR hasn't had updates in some time.


Google si nezákonně udržuje monopol na poli vyhledávání, uvedl americký soud
ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/2552253
#zpravy #rss
in reply to Lucinek

@Lucinek
Můžete zkusit i searxng.cz
Searxng.cz je open-source metavyhledávač, který respektuje vaše soukromí a poskytuje výsledky z různých zdrojů, aniž by sledoval vaši aktivitu.
🛡️💻Žádné sledování uživatelů
Výsledky z více než 70 různých vyhledávačů
Je bez reklam
in reply to Archos

@Lucinek já můžu doporučit Kagi. Jediná alternativa Google, u které nemám pocit, že dostávám horší službu. Používám to čtvrt roku a vůbec nemám potřebu občas přepnout do Google.

Je placený, což je za mě lepší cesta než reklamy.



Silicon Valley Parents Are Sending Kindergarten Kids To AI-Focused Summer Camps news.slashdot.org/story/24/08/…


#NVidia #NVDA apparently going to delay it's next-gen #Blackwell B200 GPUs for the #AI sector ... Share price drops in pre-market trading from 107.27 at close on Friday to 93.85 at the time of writing (Down 12.5%)
tomshardware.com/pc-components…
in reply to Stewart X Addison

Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!