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An AI-powered copyright tool is taking down AI-generated Mario pictures
sh.itjust.works/post/25679707

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in reply to vascorsd

if this AI is the one that kills us we really deserve it.
in reply to Rui Batista

@ragb the AI wars are coming and I'm here making some popcorn.

Hope we all go down with it sooner than later.



Just so this doesn't get lost in the shuffle: Bullfinch Group poll shows Trump 48-Harris 47...

IN FLORIDA 🤯

GOTV is going to be absolutely crucial. Like, the difference between a nailbiter and being called before 11pm Eastern.

independentcenter.org/poll-top…
#USPol

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in reply to victor tsaran

@vick21 This one is definitely an outlier, and Florida hasn't been polled regularly because it was assumed a safe red state. However, and this is a HUGE X factor, the Dems have a large ground operation and the GOP is _just starting_ its own. If the Dems think they can push turnout there, and does candidate rallies, that could really catch the GOP off-guard.


I certainly hope that the same said company will finally figures out how to flip images for better OCR rather than expecting a blind user to do it for them. How much of an AI does this need? LOL finance.yahoo.com/news/metas-r…
in reply to Drew Mochak

@drew O yes, I know there are work-arounds and other prompts. But my goal is efficiency! :)


Be My Eyes and Meta Announce Accessibility Partnership: Be My Eyes to provide “Call a Volunteer” on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, unlocking hands-free accessibility for blind and low vision people for the first time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/78…
in reply to David Goldfield

I wonder if this means that we will be able to have Be My AI describe photos from FB directly. That way I don't have to download each picture I want to "see?"


Big news! We’re partnering with Meta to bring hands-free accessibility to the blind & low-vision community through our Call a Volunteer feature on Ray Ban Meta smart glasses! Coming soon in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland & Australia!

bemyeyes.com/blog/be-my-eyes-m…



With all that’s mentioned in the article, plus Be My Eyes integrated directly, I think any blind person who may have been on the fence re these glasses may need to climb off it. Meta updates Ray-Ban smart glasses with real-time AI video, reminders, and QR code scanning

techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/meta…

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How to download the ‘old’ Outlook app if you hate the new one pcworld.com/article/2469158/ho…

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


Long overdue, but Meta is releasing a camera passthrough API for Quest developers early next year theverge.com/2024/9/25/2425023… Still anticipating numerous hoops and restrictions though... #AR/#VR
#ar


Hi all! Our image host (IMGUR) blocked uploading of images. Uploading new images will not be possible for now.

Previously uploaded images are still safely backed up!



Breaking: Be My Eyes is coming to Meta Ray-Ban glasses. You can initiate a volunteer call through the glasses and they are able to see via your glasses cameras.


I’m super excited about this blogpost. The approach is so counterintuitive, and yet the results are so much better than anything else that we’ve tried for memory safety. We finally understand why.

security.googleblog.com/2024/0…



A man walked in to a bar with some asphalt on his arm. He said “Two beers please, one for me and one for the road.”


maybe use a different fuckin’ word then

edit: i do not need this explained to me.

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After reading that article though, I still don't regret going with an HP that has Meteor Lake and not Lunar Lake as its chip. I get all-day battery (easily 12-13 hours with my screen brightness down at 0 and NVDA screen curtain on when not OCR-ing,) and performance of an I9-288V as compared to my I7-155H is actually less, although one may argue that in the AI department the new chips give a needed boost. A bit unfortunate that Arrow-lake laptops won't hit market until next year or late this one.


Testing Intel’s next-gen Core Ultra 200V CPUs: OK performance, great battery life

But it's too bad that Intel had to turn to TSMC to make its chips competitive.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…



Is there some #freesoftware https proxy that can save replies to requests and replay them when offline afterwards?

I am trying to make "pnpm install" work offline without network connection (I need that for a flatpak build)

#nodejs #proxy #https #pnpm

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Rusty V8 is now stable!

With zero-overhead bindings to V8 APIs, memory safety through Rust’s ownership model, and great docs, it’s battle-hardened and production-ready. From here on, Rusty V8 will follow Chrome versions for predictable upgrades.

deno.com/blog/rusty-v8-stabili…

#rust #deno #javascript #typescript #v8



How To Efficiently Search Linux Manual Pages with the man -k Command linuxtoday.com/developer/how-t…



One day at school, the teacher asked the children what their parents thought was beautiful.

She asked Sally, and Sally replied, "My Mom thinks that flowers are beautiful."

"Why is that," she asked?

"Because she says they smell really nice."

The teacher then called on Tommy, and Tommy replied, "My Dad thinks antique cars are beautiful."

"Why is that," she asked?

"Because, he says they are so old and still preserved in their original form."

Next she called on Little Johnny, and Johnny replied, "My Dad thinks pregnant women are."

"Why is that," she asked?

"Because, when my sister got pregnant, my Dad said 'beautiful just fucking beautiful!'"



The third-grade teacher was teaching English and repeated for her class:

"Mary had a little lamb,
whose fleece was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went,
the lamb was sure to go."

She explained this was an example of poetry, but could be changed to prose by changing the last line from "the lamb was sure to go" to "the lamb went with
her."

A few days later, she asked for an example of poetry or prose. Johnny raised his hand and said,

"Mary had a little pig --
An scrawny little runt.
He stuck his nose in Mary's Clothes
And smelled her little . . ."

He stopped, turned to the teacher, and asked, "Do you want poetry or prose?"

"Prose!" the teacher said weakly.

So Johnny said, " . . . Asshole."



Our end-to-end encryption engine rPGP just got a big update, fully supporting OpenPGP "cryptorefresh" RFC9850 ... Many thanks to @hko and dignifiedquire for fearlessly pushing ahead in the security machine room ... Please give them a 💜 and also @NGIZero who funded it !
fosstodon.org/@hko/11319894759…


Track recording preview on Android. Missing features are coming soon, stay tuned: youtube.com/watch?v=O7vgffhLHw…

Thanks to everyone who supports and donates to keep the project alive!
Donate: organicmaps.app/donate/
Support us in other ways: organicmaps.app/support-us/



This was posted on a Google Pixel 3A (sargo) running postmarketOS with Phosh.

If I didn't choose to keep this device alive and useful with postmarketOS, it would have most likely ended up in a drawer somewhere, and then eventually a landfill somewhere.

As postmarketos.org states: "Let's keep our devices useful and safe untill they physically break!"

#PostMarketOS #MobileLinux #Linux



New release today: #rPGP version 0.14.0 ✨

(#OpenPGP implemented in pure #Rust, permissively licensed)

github.com/rpgp/rpgp/releases/…

This release brings rather complete support for the excellent new OpenPGP RFC 9580 (also known as "crypto refresh", or "v6")

RFC 9580 standardizes modern cryptographic mechanisms for OpenPGP: AEAD-based encryption, Argon2, and SHA2 fingerprints for the new OpenPGP v6 key format (v4 keys use SHA1).

Thanks @NGIZero for supporting this work!

#RustLang #PGP #GnuPG



Ok, so we have a budget for the #GNOME Foundation! It'll probably take a while (at least a month...) for us to be able to report on it. But at least the first part of the job (agreeing on what money to plan for, and how to spend it) is done, which is a partial success :)


Alright, I'm bored. Brainstorm.

It's 2045. We just retired in Canada. We have good assets.

Where do we retire to escape the heat? While still being close to a good airport?

We just decided against Montréal because gosh, it was hot at 21 C. Ireland and France seem to have easy enough visas. Did someone research this better than us?

in reply to Stéphanie Pageau

Montreal summers are as bad as Ottawa.... FYI.

EU visa aren't as easy as you think.




All I'm gonna say is, very cryptically I guess, your accessibility feedback matters. Sometimes it can really feel like it does not at a company, and that might be because they're working on a million other things, have a super small team, cannot slot it into the priority of their board and it gets lost in backlog, so much can happen after you send it in. If the company has set up a specific accessibility address for feedback though, there's more chance it won't get lost and be actioned on.


Oh no, we met a train. We have to wait until it passes us. Our train system is so garbage lol
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Dave Mac Farlane
Should have left by bicycle.


Ve 20:10 budou mít na CNN Prima News rozhovor s Milošem Zemanem

Beru to jako poplatek za spinkání u babičky
(Heč?)



Kdybych náhodou nedorazil na sraz, jel jsem vyřizovat dědictví. Tak mě omluvte prosím :-)



housing request, evenings of October 3rd and October 5th, Berlin, please reboost

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If I were a teacher, I'd allow music during tests because I understand that for many, its a coping mechanism, and focussing for me is like trying to retain info through a leaking bucket.
in reply to Nick's world

I would have, if it weren't disallowed during nationals.
Providing my students their best environment for my own stuff is one thing, but they also need to learn to work in whatever environment they'll be tested in, even when it's not what they'd want.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo agreed, even though I'm not a teacher. I also agree to using a locked exam account without spell check as well.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo Fair enough. It's how I was tested, no music, no nothing, except extra time and a separate room.


I typed "worpdress" and I find that quite entertaining.
in reply to Hubert Figuière

Wouldn't that only be a problem if you didn't redirect to the actual site? Given that typo-squatters do that all the time, you'd displace one.


Byla jsem po týdnu za taťkem v hospici. Protože jsem pořád byla nachlazená.
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