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Backwards compatibility is alway tricky. The API methods are one thing, but behaviour is another. Just because an older curl never did a thing does not mean it will never start to.

In this case, the graceful connection shutdown involves operations outside of any application transfers. And some event-based applications are, understandably, surprised by that.

github.com/curl/curl/issues/14…

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New fiction from me: What happened when we abolished borders.

"In the twilight of the 21st century, humanity was staring into the abyss of declining birthrates.

For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, our numbers as a species were declining every year. Capitalist economies premised on the assumption of infinite growth couldn't cope. Stock markets stagnated, inflation surged out of control. Governments had belatedly tried to address the problem, but every means of encouraging people to have kids—longer parental leave, tax breaks, cash payments, religious scolding—had failed.

Rural villages were emptying out, becoming ghost towns. Grass and weeds pushed up through cracked pavement in silent streets. Abandoned cars decayed on the roadside. Vacant houses were overgrown with vines, dry leaves and birds' nests. Trees sprouted like the vanguard of an invading army as forests spread and reclaimed the urban areas humanity had ceded."

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I just registered for a hotel with this pop-up for the title of the person / people staying. It's nice that they tried. They have some combinations, like Dr and Mr, which are often omitted, but they have some weird omissions. Lesbian couples are welcome as long as exactly one has a PhD, but they can't express the option where either both or neither has one. Maybe they know something about correlations between educational levels and sexuality that I don't?

More seriously, there is absolutely nothing in the provision of accommodation that requires you to know the gender of people staying (or whether they have any kind of doctorate), so the easiest way of getting this right is not to ask.

It still mildly annoys me that every hotel I've stayed at for ages has required me to select a title, I've entered Dr, and they then address me as Mr when I check in: why bother collecting data if you're not going to use it?

Pop-up options for titles, contains Miss, Mr, Mrs, Ms, Sir, Dr, Dr and Mr, Dr and Mrs, Mr and Mr, Mr and Mrs, Sir and Lady.

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It astonishes me that people expected LLMs to be good at creating summaries. LLMs are good at transforms that have the same shape as ones that appear in their training data. They're fairly good, for example, at generating comments from code because code follows common structures and naming conventions that are mirrored in the comments (with totally different shapes of text).

In contrast, summarisation is tightly coupled to meaning. Summarisation is not just about making text shorter, it's about discarding things that don't contribute to the overall point and combining related things. This is a problem that requires understanding the material, because it's all about making value judgements.

So, it's totally unsurprising that the Australian study showed that it's useless. It's no surprise that both Microsoft and Apple's email summarisation tools discard the obvious phishing markers and summarise phishing scams as '{important thing happened}, click on this link' because they don't actually understand anything in the text that they're discarding, they just mark it as low entropy and discard it.

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En la#Audiofoto de hoy nos vamos de viaje a Milán. Suenan las campanas, muy probablemente de su catedral. ¿A qué os recuerda la melodía? Y no se vale mirar en la descripción, o al menos antes de escuchar, que ahí yo pongo a lo que a mí me recuerda.😉
#Milan, #Soundscape, #Bells, #Campanas

#milan #soundscape #bells #campanas

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The latest @vkc video is about the lost art of computer manuals:

tinkerbetter.tube/w/f7NFFTdHMU…
youtu.be/4lUiUQOvRHQ
(22 min)

And I thought "wait, didn't @mntmn's MNT Reform have a great Operator Handbook"? So I went and looked it up, and damn! It's even better than I thought.

Not only does it explain how to charge the laptop and turn it on. It introduces you to Linux, has exploded-view drawings of components, includes schematics and even a bill of materials! Magnificent.

mntre.com/docs-reform.html

Part of the Linux introduction, explaining permissions, pipes, and links.
Exploded-view drawing of the trackball, followed by an explanation of the microcontroller and switches used and how everything plays together.
Schematics for a part of the motherboard.
Excerpt of the bill of materials for the motherboard, listing every single resistor and connector, including manufacturers and part numbers.
@lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @Veronica Explains

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Innosearch Launches Accessible E-Commerce Platform for Blind and Low-Vision Users | AT-Newswire.com
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Discover Innosearch AI's new e-commerce platform designed for blind and low-vision users. Enjoy a fully accessible interface, AI shopping assistant, secure transactions, and a vast selection of competitively priced products. Use code "OFF5" for $5 off your first purchase of $20 or more!

The image shows a promotional graphic for Innosearch.ai, an all-in-one shopping platform. On the left side, there is a large smartphone screen displaying a red 'Buy' button. On top of the smartphone, a red shopping basket is filled with cardboard boxes, representing online shopping. More boxes are shown floating around the phone, enhancing the dynamic effect. In the top right corner, the text reads 'Innosearch AI' followed by 'All-In-One Shopping Platform.' The bottom right corner features the Innosearch.ai logo, a stylized red and black design resembling a folded ribbon or abstract 'S' shape.

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