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After a full day of sharing ideas, talking and socialising at #matrixConf, it’s time for drinks (and food!)


fun fact: if a piece of software helps you out, it only takes 3 minutes to write a quick e-mail to its author/maintainer and thank them.


All the books I've read about business management, professional development, and so on, could be summarized in 10 pages or so.
There are some great books out there with incredibly insightful and useful concepts, but holy shit if they like to bubble up those concepts into never ending meandering and useless anecdotes.

"You could improve your workflow with these 4 concepts, but first, let me tell you about the time a seagull pooped on my ice cream and the lesson I learned from eating shit"



Man, if Mozilla had spent any real time in the last decade making embedding/using Gecko feasible for anything except Firefox, there'd be so many Gecko-based browsers right now.

My entire journey with developing Gecko stuff and working for Mozilla started because embedding was possible (though difficult).

It's sad to see Mozilla management continue to just not learn anything at all. Misfire after misfire. But they're more important now than ever :(

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in reply to Cwiiis

oh look here's us having this same discussion a decade ago and not being heard then either, sigh kryogenix.org/twitter/55152926…
in reply to Stuart Langridge

@sil I think this has been pretty much a constant source of dismay among people that worked on Gecko



I can't stop thinking back to that Best Buy experience yesterday, buying the laptop - the sales associate tried to really upsell me on Windows AI laptops, and how these NPUs will help me code offline with AI assistance, something I can't do on Intel chips, but could do with the Qualcomm AI-powered gismos. I flat-out told him that I need the compatibility for VMWare and drivers, and would not go with ARM, but he really tried to push it, claiming VS code supports offline AI coding only on Qualcomm
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in reply to Tamas G

it was down to the HP and an IdeaPad 32-GB ram config model they had in-store, and I got a chance to look at the XPS13 with the touch-bar and squished-together keys (something that was out for me from the get-go.) About the only agreement we found was in the sentiment that the mid-range of computing is eroding - you either get something heavy meant for gaming with dedicated GPU and weaker battery, or something light and thin that sacrifices a bit of the oomf and AI power to give that to you.
in reply to Tamas G

Windows hardware is truly a nightmare these days, especially for notebooks. Between AI and Copilot, shitty Intel CPUs with continuingly awful thermals, ARM PCs being woefully underwhelming... maybe the only good thing is AMD, and even then problems still exist. I had a lot of excitement for ARM; all of that is gone now that Snapdragon blew it. I have a Windows desktop and linux mini PC server that meet most of my needs, so I've concluded that I'm probably going to get a MacBook. Sigh
in reply to Tristan

@tristan yeah, AMD was in the cards for sure, but sadly if I still want to enjoy Mac OS under VM, probably for the last time if Intel is dropped next year or after, I had to go with them still. What blows my mind is the thermal envelope of this chip, going from 28W all the way to 115W. That's huge, which means my battery could be 10+ hours with light browsing but turn into 3 hours with running a local LLM and ramping up the power. ARM needs time to mature in ecosystem sadly.
in reply to Tamas G

Unfortunately they rely on pushing users who might not know how AI or PC's work. This is why I mostly go in just to see the laptop, then buy it online. No one is going to talk me into a computer I don't want online :).


Rant: I think a new interview question is in order for us.

"We have a programatically enforced code formatting standard we've been consistently using for years. Without seeing the output, will you want us to revisit it?"

If they answer anything other than "no," they fail.

I am SICK AND F'ING TIRED of developers fighting over code formatting. No one agrees on one single way.

Our way is both conventional and consistent. Deal with it.

#software #Developer #SoftwareDevelopment



I'm noticing that LLMs are horrible when you start asking them to name the title of the next book in a series. We're talking about major just making things up ...


Adwaita is really pretty freaking great. It makes designing responsive apps just… easy?? Here’s an update to Butler, my Home Assistant app, for GNOME 47 and Adwaita 1.6.

Update coming soon to Flathub!

#GNOME #Adwaita #Flatpak #Flathub #HomeAssistant #Linux #OpenSource

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in reply to Cassidy James Blaede

Drag-and-drop can be pretty sweet on GNOME, too. Did you know you can drag-and-drop credentials from your password manager, and drag colors between color pickers? Check it out!

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Oh, my. It would seem that while the FSCompanion.ai is meant to answer questions about JAWS, Windows and other applications it ... um ... will be happy to chat about other things, as well.
in reply to Leo

@Lprazdnik See the main Freedomscientific.com landing page for info on the JAWS 2025 beta.
@Leo


Mit dem #Köln|er #Fahrradkalender @koeln gibt es die Möglichkeit, diverse Termine mit Fahrradbezug zentral zu sammeln bzw. einzusehen. Seit heute unterstütze ich das Team. 🗓️
@fahrradkoeln
events.fedibikes.social/@koeln


Frage ans Publikum:
Ist DAS 2024 noch zeitgemäß?

"#SheTransformsIT – gemeinsam für ein innovatives, souveränes
Digitaldeutschland
Frauen für Digitalisierung zu gewinnen, ist eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Aufgabe. Die Veranstaltung der Initiative #SheTransformsIT ...
Denn nur durch verstärkte Interdisziplinarität und die Zusammenarbeit aller können wir das bis lang ungenutzte weibliche Potenzial für Digitalisierung heben."

Fehlt es uns wirklich "nur" an Frauen - oder an echtem Mut zu Diversität?

in reply to Katja Diehl

Es fehlt nicht an Mut zur Diversität! Es fehlt an Mut ohne "Mauern" im Kopf zu denken.

Gelder für Initiativen werden von Leuten vergeben die nicht nur "Mauern" he, she, it im Kopf haben.

In der IT geht es um Expertise. Solange Menschen mit IT-Expert verniedlichend als Nerds bezeichnet werden ändert sich nichts. Hier sind viele Mauern einzureißen.

U.a.

@bkastl und @Lilith zeigen, daß Frauen eine gute Expertise haben.

Viele Nerds (he, she, it) werden nicht ernst genommen!



I changed my company postal address on my VPS provider’s website. This sent a confirmation email to me. Which sent my auto-reply about being on sick leave back to them. Which created a support ticket. Which created confusion in their system about why I created a support ticket.I got a reply to that ticket that would appear to be AI-generated. The automated reply-tool couldn’t figure out what my question was. 😅

So many bots are going to be just arguing with each other in perpetuity.



Acabo de terminar El Resplandor, y estoy sin sueño. ¡Espero que no empiecen a oírse ruiditos extraños! Qué bien escribe el maldito, y que mal cuerpo leer este libro... Ahora necesito algo cozy y cuqui para desintoxicarme.
#Redrum #TheShining #esplendor #StephenKing #Bookworm #Bookstodon
in reply to José Manuel Delicado

Sí, hace mucho. Ahora estoy con las cosas que flotan, después de pasar por un perro muy cariñoso.


A project analyzing human language usage by scraping the web is shutting down because "generative AI has polluted the data." It's going to become much harder to analyze human use of language with the rise of AI-generated stuff being everywhere.

404media.co/project-analyzing-…

#Tech #AI

#AI #tech


Fellow white Pagans,
‘Cultural appropriation’ is not a bad word. It’s not an insult. As a white-guy Wiccan in the early aughts, I have been accused of it myself, so I know how it feels. It feels like an attack, and the immediate human response is usually, “Don't tell me what to do!”

But a huge part of spirituality is growing as a person, and religious practice changes as we change and grow. We leave behind things that don't work and tweak the new to fit us. If your practice hasn't changed one bit in 20 years, you're doing it wrong.

Neopaganism is still brand new, and there will be growing pains. We are still creating it as we speak. So it is vital that we listen. Listen to marginalized groups, listen to other living traditions, listen to the people whose cultures are being twisted.

We can be better than the old white men of history, we can be better than colonizers, we don't need to copy what other traditions are doing, we’re making our own.

#Pagan



Is there anything more awkward than German and Americans emailing each other?:

Subject: 19 Sep 24 Round Table

Dear Robert (if I may),
graciously would you allow me to attend your meeting?
Yours in most sincerity,
Dr. Prof. Hans-Joseph Fritzberger

Re: Meeting

Hey Hans!
Great!
- Bob

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Spectre 360? Not a bad device overall so far, now that I've rid myself of all the HP bloat and crap. The only utility I will probably keep is "My HP" if only because of the audio and system fan customizations it provides, I don't see a way to change the EQ settings outside of this app which is a bit annoying (Despite the new Spectre 360 switching to a new audio system and listing Realtek.) Do I regret not waiting for the new Arrow Lake chips? Yes and no. For some local AI what I have will work.


I found out about an iOS app called Categories. It basically lets you count things, then review how often those things happened and find trends. Count anything: had a bad day, slept well, drank water, practiced your instrument, and more. Anything you want to track the frequency of over time. The app was updated with iOS 18 support, so you can log a new count from the lock screen or notification center. I have no idea when I'd use this, but the idea is oddly appealing. The app is accessible.
in reply to Alex Hall

sounds like the sort of thing you'd want to log with a smart speaker.

in reply to Neil Brown

an employee that was let go from various phone manufacturers.... ;-)
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in reply to Stéphanie Pageau

de l'épais qui se plaint que le fédéral se mêle des affaires de Québec...

(rage)

#polqc



Bylo 16 hodin. Byl vyhlášen víkend pro @archos a další mamuty s prodlouženým víkendem!
in reply to Archos

užívej! My pracující v pátku budeme tiše sedět u kompu zítra ráno, abychom Tě nevzbudili 😄


Убрать теорию Дарвина из школьных учебников предложил помощник председателя правительства РФ Муслим Хучиев. Он утверждает, что она противоречит религиозному воспитанию и способствует духовному разложению детей. Хучиев адресовал это предложение министру просвещения, заявив, что все религии отвергли теорию эволюции и что её не следует преподавать детям.

Скажите как? Как эти идиоты попадают во власть? Почему не видно высказываний ни одного умного человека из думы?

in reply to dimkainc

А они там есть, умные-то? или не осталось уже?..
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion Ну в стране умные люди есть. Достаточно много, значительно больше, чем всех депутатов вместе взятых.
Мне только непонятно, по какому критерию выбирают в депутаты? Неужели по критерию - "чем тупее будет моя предвыборная кампания, тем гарантированнее я попаду в правительство"?
И кто же их выбирает? Я точно за них не голосовал.


Today, our job is simple - to inspire to to try a Thunderbird Add-on to boost your productivity! If you don't know where to get started, our community (including here on Mastodon!) gave us some great ideas. 💡

#Thunderbird #Community #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/m…

in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Alright, here's an idea: push gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland… forward, and integrate github.com/Ximi1970/systray-x into your codebase so that wae can have a proper TB tray implementation on Linux for both Wayland and X11.

That'd be a nice productivity win for me!

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Does the young, cheerful health care worker's pleasant nature make up for the fact that he had to try in both arms to get blood out of me?
I'm plastered now, and not in the way i want to be.
in reply to Sean Randall

A regular occurrence for me. Only one of my arms "works" for blood samples, and I can never remember which it is.
in reply to Andy Hort

@Devonkiwi I don't think I've had blood taken since before my daughter was born. She's 13


Is your company using a quantum-safe email provider in 2024?

Not yet? Upgrade now! 🔐

Here’s how Tuta Mail can help your business 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-companies-be…

#encryption #privacy #gdpr

in reply to Tuta

As a reminder, a malicious Tuta server can read the end-to-end encrypted e-mails and shared calendars exchanged on the platform as there is no way to verify the recipient's public key. This issue has been brought up to the Tuta team 6 years ago...

github.com/tutao/tutanota/issu…

So, maybe less "we're the most secure e-mail provider in the world" and more concrete security 🙃

in reply to Tuta

Is the storage space indicated in the subscription plan only for email or also for general storage (cloud)?


It's talk like a pirate day! Here I go:

"I just want to access the media I already own in a portable format that I can watch or listen to in high quality on all my devices without DRM or adverts."

Did I do it right?

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in reply to Patrick Perdue

@BorrisInABox I had no idea that had been commercialised to that extent.
Not that your average Joe has 200k floating about, but still.


Pitter patter, let’s get at ‘er.

#matrix #matrixconf

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Ich hab da mal ne Frage, z.B. an #Dresden #Follower oder solche an Flüssen wie #Elbe, #Rhein oder #Donau.

Wie werden Schiffe, wie z.B. die #Elbdampfer bei #Hochwasser gesichert?

Ist das nicht ne große Kraft, die auf die Landungsbrücken wirkt? Oder sind die so gebaut, dass sich Hochwasser nicht wesentlich auswirkt?

Ist in der Zeit eine Mannschaft an Bord um die Situation zu beobachten und notfalls ablegen zu können?



Boost your coding skills! Join the Development Workshop at the upcoming LibreOffice Conference 2024: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

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"We require that you credit claudeai.wiki for this image. Please add a direct and clickable hyperlink to claudeai.wiki/ either beneath the image or in the footer of the page. This must be completed within the next five business days."

Getting chased by a stupid AI company for a (claimed) royalty free image on my blog that I obtained from pixabay.

I replaced it immediately. It was not important, Now using another royalty free image...

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

So yeah, just an attempt to scare people like me into putting up links to those villains. I won't do it.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I'm thinking the real Claude AI (Anthropic) might be interested in knowing about that .wiki page so that they can take it down.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I get crap like this all the time because of all the images on the #osspodcast site

I know a lot about copyright (or at least I think I do), so it was easy to just ignore the mails

I imagine a lot of normal people freak out and comply

Sadly there's no realistic recourse here. Even if they domain gets shut down, they'll just start again with a new one



Puvodni nekolikadenni zastavka se smrskla na dve hodiny na protazeni, ale i to nam stacilo na objev Polskeho Hubacka. Nase srdicko zaplesalo a jestli to ma i terasu na strese, tak je to uplna pecka.

A pytle s piskem nebyly potreba!

Povodnova turistika zdarne ukoncena, hipsterske bistro navstiveno a pokracujeme smer Lodz.

#polsko #architektura



If tech companies enable some feature, _except_ in the EU, then that's an excellent indication that the feature is bad and should not have been built.
in reply to Hein 🍋 Ragas

Like the ability to see your iPhone notifications on your mac or control your phone from your computer? Makes no sense.
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki For that, they should have made the mechanism open a long time ago. If they had done that for all the relatively easy things, they may have gotten away with some things that are harder to separate from their hard integration.

Now they seem like they are monopoly seekers in all respects, instead of the truth, which is that the reasons are all of:
1. Laziness
2. Actual hard problems
3. Greed



“The Vance campaign provided the Wall Street Journal with a police report to prove their claims about cat-eating Haitians in Springfield. The WSJ spoke to the woman who filed it, who said she later found her cat alive and well in her basement. She also apologized to her Haitian neighbors.”

Truly incredible.

nj.com/politics/2024/09/jd-van…



@brian_hartgen I wanted to wish you a very happy birthday. Thank you for your years of service to the community.


"Кобыла и Трупоглазые Жабы Искали Цезию, Нашли Поздно Утром Свистящего Хна"

Вот такой музыкальный коллектив я внезапно обнаружил...

in reply to Pasha Gusev

@gusev Начните с песни под названием «Шередарь», например. Поймёте всю… концептуальность их творчества :))