@madduci I really don't have any way to do such an evaluation without spending a lot of time. Which seems a rather pointless exercise to spend a lot of energy on.
several things that are deprecated and thus have code we *could* shave off if we would bump the SONAME still share code with the new implementation as well
Da verhindert das Einwilligungsbanner das holen weiterer Daten. Habe die #ard angeschrieben und auf die Herausforderung hingewiesen. Viel Hoffnung habe ich nicht ;)
Why they’re a dying company: More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI / AI is hugely important to Google’s products, & it sounds like the company relies on it internally, too.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says that more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI. He made the announcement on company’s third quarter 2024 earnings call.
What is "Amoc" and why is it so important? _________________________________________
The dangers of a collapse of the main Atlantic Ocean circulation, known as Amoc, have been “greatly underestimated” and would have devastating and irreversible impacts, according to an open letter released by 44 experts from 15 countries.
There are indications that Amoc has been slowing down for the last 60 or 70 years due to global heating. The most ominous sign is the cold blob over the northern Atlantic. The region is the only place in the world that has cooled in the past 20 years or so, while everywhere else on the planet has warmed – a sign of reduced heat transport into that region, exactly what climate computer models have predicted in response to Amoc slowing as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
Another indicator is a reduction in the salt content of seawater. In the cold blob region, salinity is at its lowest level since measurements began 120 years ago. This is probably linked to Amoc slowing down and bringing less salty water and heat from the subtropics.
It is an amplifying feedback: as Amoc gets weaker, the oceans gets less salty, and as the oceans gets less salty, then Amoc gets weaker. At a certain point this becomes a vicious cycle which continues by itself until Amoc has died, even if we stop pushing the system with further emissions.
The big unknown here – the billion-dollar question – is how far away this tipping point is. It is very difficult to answer because the process is non-linear and would be triggered by subtle differences in salinity, which in turn depend on amounts of rainfall and cloud cover over the ocean as well as Greenland melting rates. These are hard to model accurately in computers so there is a big uncertainty relating to when the tipping point will be reached. _________________________________________
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Sources: Chinese hackers targeted phones used by Trump family members and Biden admin and State Dept. officials; audio communications may have been captured (New York Times)
Limits for unbounded stack consumption, fix a regression when drawing very flat arcs, fix text-anchor for scaled text, and cancellation now works for resource loading thanks to my Outreachy intern.
On this day, six years ago, David John Duncan, well-known to some, unknown to most, but wonderful author of science fiction and fantasy novels, passed away. I have read as much of Dave's stuff as I can get my hands on. He is an author that I'm very fond of. I enjoy his books and the stories he tells.
My introduction to Dave was the first book in his Seventh Sword series, which is called The Reluctant Swordsman. It's a portal fantasy novel. It was published in 1988, and it follows the mind of a gentleman called Wally Smith, who ends up in the body of a swordsman of the seventh rank, the mighty Shonsu, who was killed in his fantasy world, and Wally's mind brought across to re-inhabit the body by the world's goddess in an attempt to complete a mission for her. The subsequent two books in the series complete that arc, and it's a very satisfying trilogy of books. 24 years later, Dave published a fourth book in the series, showing the evolution of the characters after the main quest had completed, and it was a very satisfying way to meet Dave as an author.
Oh good on you. While I'm not self-conscious when actually talking to humans, I don't think I'd ever ad-lib something for the purpose of an audio recording. I should practice that more so that I would sound more polished when speaking off-the-cuff, especially minimizing the filler utterances.
When I tell people I've read over 18,000 pages of Dave Duncan's writing, they say to me, where do I start? Where do I begin? How do I get into this author? You know, what's a good opening? And that's so hard to answer, because although Dave's got a lot of tropes that he sticks to, and he's got a very distinctive style, he doesn't do the same thing twice, as counter to what I've just said, as that may sound. He makes a new world, a unique world, and then plays by its rules. And that's something that not a lot of authors can say. I think it's even rarer to be able to identify a piece of work as an author's, yet not know where it's going to end up. You know, that's pretty clever. So I would say that you should probably start with the opening to one of the series, because that way, if you don't like it, you don't have to read more. But if you do like it, you know there is more, and that's really cool. So we've got The Reluctant Swordsman, of course, is the start of the fantasy, portal fantasy, The Seventh Sword. The King's Blades books are also based on swordsmanship, although not portal books. And they're really clever, because the stories stand more alone there, and they sort of intertwine, but in a more subtle, non-serial way. The Great Game is a trilogy of books set both during the First World War, and in an alternate world called Nextdoor, one of my particular favourite series. Nostradamus is a series set in Venice, Italy. Those are just a few of the series that you can start off with. And if you like them, and you know you like Dave's Stile, then you can pick a standalone book and think, oh, you know, I'm in the mood for something this long, and give that a try. Lots of options.
spent some time today working on this diagram of how the ASCII control characters work in unix
there are a lot of mistakes/missing nuance but I think it's really interesting how little structure there is. Special codes (like `3` for SIGINT) that are handled by the OS are mixed with just regular keypresses (like `13` for "enter”) which are mixed with codes that are handled by the application (like `1` for Ctrl-A in readline)
(not looking for an ASCII history lesson right now)
This fixes a regression in 2.32.0 which could break text display in the add dialog in non-English languages which I sadly missed in review: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…
It also contains some translation updates that were submitted between the last release and just now.
SwiftNotes had to be removed again due to license/copyright reasons (a fork without giving credits), it's repo is meanwhile unavailable too.
Updated apps include Catima, fixing a regression introduced with yesterday's update (yupp, @SylvieLorxu is fast with fixing and really taking care! 😍).
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
#portfolio old illustrations for Mexican characters, included a "tamales calientitos" vendor (many of them use tricycles, which are both their point of sale and their means of transportation).
Apple this week updated several of its Mac product lines, as well as the Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad accessories. These Macs have been updated with variants of the M4 chip, the same chip that was introduced with the 2024 iPad Pro.
The M4 Mac mini has an overhauled design that adds more ports in a slimmed down package, and to make everything fit, Apple needed a new place for the...
I just released a Windows MIDI driver version of Timidity. datajake.braillescreen.net/uti… As with the VSTi, it requires a set of Gravis Ultrasound patches in order to work. Once installed, a Timidity Configuration option will be in the Control Panel, and from there you can point the driver at the appropriate Timidity configuration file.
It's official - Matrix 2.0 implementations are here and ready for mainstream use! 🎉🥳🎊 Come watch the keynote from The Matrix Conference and learn about the joy of instant sync ⚡️, next-gen auth 🔐, native VoIP 🎦 and Invisible Crypto 👻: matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/mat…
Mentioning Bluesky here as an example of a federated network, when it currently does not federate at all (why forgo the mention of the ActivityPub Fediverse?), and calling a bunch of uncompleted MSCs "Matrix 2.0" really does disillusion me about the Matrix group of protocols. What the fresh hell is this?
@kescher Thanks for sharing your concerns. Our spec process requires proof and implementation before things get merged in, and we're not going to be shy about celebrating when a meaningfully improved UX, based on spec proposals that have stabilized and are on track for merging, is becoming available.
And we're ActivityPub-first in our approach to social in line with our values, but AP hasn't made the news recently in the same way – thus the editorial choice.
Look, I am not discounting the improvements here at all. Especially Sliding Sync! A great thing to have.
But until it is part of the protocol, officially, it isn't.
And that editorial choice makes no sense, again, considering that Bluesky is not federated or decentralized at all currently, only could be made to be so in theory!
@kescher Genuinely, thanks for sharing your thinking here. We've definitely heard from folks who pay close attention to the spec that the 2.0 comms centered on implementations land wrong for them.
No doubt we need to calibrate how we communicate about these things... Relatedly, we've been very glad to hear that our Governing Board is interested in helping us think about our outbound communications strategy!
For me, the biggest problem with Matrix ecosystem right now are servers not cleaning after themselfs.
I can wait for some features, but in the meantime servers I have struggle to survive because of Synapse's state_groups_state infinite grow while Condu(wu)it/Dendrite seems to be too risky bet because of unsure development speed.
@didek Yeah, that's a good point about resource use. The server side of the ecosystem is promising but we'd like to see more of those server implementations hit maturity.
@183231bcb Glad to hear you're having a good experience there! And thanks for raising that – aside from availability in that mobile client, the improved UX is available in the develop/nightly builds of one web/desktop client.
That said, it's fair to say that's many people aren't going to use those at this time.
Given the length of the road we're traveling here, we're eager to celebrate incremental progress where we can 😅
@Laelia captioned images are coming very soon: github.com/matrix-org/matrix-s…. custom emoji is a rats nest but we are doing our best to prioritise it (although foundations comes first)
If a friend loses her device again without having recovery, she has to abandon her account. Better to be upfront about this than to leave her in confusion as to why she's "banned", so a client should say:
> You've successfully signed in. Before you can send and receive messages with this device, you need to validate it using another device or a recovery passphrase. > If you lost all devices where you were signed in and do not have a recovery passphrase, you should create a new account.
Apple unveils a Mac mini with a much smaller design, M4 and M4 Pro options, two front-facing USB-C ports, up to 64GB of RAM, and more, shipping Nov. 8 for $599+ (Chris Welch/The Verge)
This weekend a story from ABC News on issues with audio transcription machine learning models did the rounds.
“Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said”
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