Also known as Brandolini’s Law, this is the simple observation that it’s far easier to produce and spread BS, misinformation and nonsense than it is to refute it.
Don't you prefer the @EUCommission to fund a thousand of such wonderful infrastructural and diverse FOSS projects instead of throwing more money after AI things, only amounting to a drop in the giant AI money ocean, anyway?
Four projects will receive grants to contribute to the NGI @mobifree pilot. Many thanks to all four teams for contributing to a fair, open and privacy-friendly mobile software ecosystem. @termux Android terminal app and software distro/run-time OpenAGPS: Privacy-friendly, self-hostable location service Android Translation Layer: Run Android apps on Linux LambdaNative F-Droid integration: Portable, Productive and Performant App Development with Scheme nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241111-NG… #NGI #mobile
In this tutorial, youll learn how to backup and restore using Rsnapshot on a Linux server. Youll be setting up rsnapshot for local backup and remote...
Pathways to Disability empowerment: Networking- Unlocking Opportunities in Your Job Search: Tuesday November 12, 7:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/81…
When I was there (mid 2017 to late 2020), "growth mindset" was a thing we heard about sometimes, like at new employee orientation and from the executives, but at least on my team (Windows accessibility), I didn't see it being used against employees. Perhaps the Windows org didn't see the worst of it. But now they're encouraging employees to use Copilot to fill out their Connects (reviews), and managers are using it to summarize them.
Soundtrack: EL-P - Flyentology
At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of social poison — an ill-defined, cult-like pseudo-scientific concept called 'The Growth Mindset" that drives company d…
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This week, Jonathan Bennett and Randal Schwartz chat with Daniel Stenberg about curl! How many curl installs are there?! What’s the deal with CVEs? How has curl managed to not break its ABI f…
An anecdote that I shared about rolling around on the floor back in 2000 to solve a math problem, both in my #Masterclass at masterclass.com/classes/terenc… , and on #MathOverflow at mathoverflow.net/a/38882/766 , as well as the #NewYorkTimesnytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazin… , has for some reason recently gone viral on various social media. Just for the record, I wanted to add some mathematical background behind the story, which eventually led to my paper arxiv.org/abs/math/0010068 . At the time, I was trying to construct solutions to an equation known as the wave maps equation on the sphere: the solution was like a solution to the wave equation, except being forced to take values in a sphere rather than in a vector space.
I was trying to solve the equation iteratively, breaking up the solution to a low frequency base solution and a high frequency correction. As a first approximation, the low frequency base could also be assumed to stay on the sphere and solve the wave maps equation, so the main problem was to work out what the high frequency correction was doing.
Because the high frequency correction also had to keep the solution on the sphere, one could assume as a first approximation that the high frequency correction was tangent to the low frequency base. So, at any given point in space and time, the low frequency base solution was located on some point on the sphere, and the high frequency correction basically lived on the tangent plane to the sphere at that point. But because the base solution evolved (slowly) in space and time, this tangent space kept rotating around the sphere.
Remember the Polish train hackers? The guys who identified why trains being serviced by an independent, licensed train servicing center, "randomly" started failing? And identified the root cause, namely geofencing and/or time-related triggers?
Wednesday, August 28th, marked the beginning of the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the Polish train manufacturer Newag against train maintenance yard Serwis Pojazdow Szynowych and experts fro
Dear authors, and if Netflix or whoever is listening, you too:
If you're out of fun ideas for historical drama, alternate history or the like, how about this: an all-female gang in a European capital, renowned for coming up on top against male gangs and taking good care of their members, and one which may have endured for generations. You don't even need to invent most of it if you don't want to. This gang really existed and they were known as the 40 thieves or the 40 elephants: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_El…
I've seen a number of toots today advising people against scanning random #QRCodes because they can be used in a number of malicious ways.
There are a number of legitimate ways people can use such codes to trick others, and it can require some deeper understanding of how systems work to avoid them. For that reason, I'm not going to contradict that recommendation, but I will add to it.
QR codes are usually just URLs encoded in a visual, machine-readable form, so they aren't necessarily more dangerous than a link. The danger comes from the fact that most scanner apps will directly open whatever URL you scan without giving you the opportunity to consider whether that's a good idea.
You can reduce the risk of scanning such codes by installing a better app which requires manual interaction to open URLs after decoding them.
For android users I recommend "BinaryEye", since it's open-source, ad-free, and has a bunch of other useful features.
Its github page links to both F-Droid and the play store:
This document defines a generic stateless command-line interface for dealing with OpenPGP messages, known as sop. It aims for a minimal, well-structured API covering OpenPGP object security.
Apple's 2024 Mac mini stashes the power button underneath, a bold move that executives say aligns with user habits, even if it's left some fans scratching their heads.
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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).
Italian government has published the APK of an app for managing public services, but unfortunately it is far too big for your repository (172 MB!! While iOS version is only 32 MB) 🙄
@edosecco Before you ask: no, we cannot take in the IPA 🙈 And yeah, 172 MB is almost factor 6. WTF did they out in there? Hi-Res PDFs of the government program? Or is it the disclai… 🙊 💨
@edosecco ah – yes, Apple devices do not have multiple architectures (just Apple Arch), right. Well, but 57 MB per ABI unfortunately is still 2 times the size limit here…
There are many “what should we do next” thinkpieces, but this one is mine.
If you want an abstract summary, the idea is “we need to run a year-round parallel campaign apparatus that just introduces people to progressive ideas by making their lives better in whatever ways we can”.
That is a staggeringly huge project and if it does even happen, I can only be a tiny part of it, so I will need your help. Contact info is at the end of the blog post.
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After a recent collaboration between the Jieshuo screen reader developer and VIVO to integrate the Blue Heart AI LLM into Jieshuo, driving the AI image
@GenTollis I started with adding the neighbourhoods into OSM with JOSM and iD (and lots of research).
Then, I created a custom @MapComplete theme showing those neighborhoods. I used the 'export as png'-function, put some extra text on it (top left) and sent it towards Kruidvat - a grocery chain which does print picture puzzles.
I don't have any Kruidvat's near me, but I can probably find some other source for printing. There are a few areas on #OSM I've contributed to significantly, so I will definitely be looking into making one or two of these (and sending you tax 😋).
Four projects will receive grants to contribute to the NGI @mobifree pilot. Many thanks to all four teams for contributing to a fair, open and privacy-friendly mobile software ecosystem. @termux Android terminal app and software distro/run-time OpenAGPS: Privacy-friendly, self-hostable location service Android Translation Layer: Run Android apps on Linux LambdaNative F-Droid integration: Portable, Productive and Performant App Development with Scheme nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241111-NG… #NGI #mobile
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I wrote about the need to review your icons when localizing, in order to make sure you're actually communicating what you intend to. ericwbailey.website/published/…
One of my favorite Singapore food writers / recipe developers lives in the Netherlands now.
“Having grown up in perpetual summer, living in the Netherlands with the cold as a constant companion often makes me hanker for foods that I’d never craved for in Singapore.”
That’s what I feel too: the perpetual summer.
The newsletter name is a joke because there are no Singapore noodles in Singapore:
You've directed this to U"S. subscribers, so perhaps you might know if there actually is a U.S. site for the Blindshell anymore? I know the primary company is in the Czech Republic, and the previous U.S. distributor is no longer in partnership.
Ah, thank you. I suspect they'll redesign that page to make the list of distributors more prominent. I just gave it a cursory glance after having seen the main site this morning, and they looked the same" In any case, thanks for posting.
@ricky_enger Today's @doubletap podcast has an interview with BlindShell and U.S. distribution is addressed. Whether BlindShell addressed it adequately is another story.
@Jage This is great to know. Is AT Guys still distributing? And what about support? This is my main concern, as I would love to keep recommending this phone for the population I work with, but there definitely needs to be a solid support system after purchase"
@ricky_enger Yes we are still selling the 2 at the moment. We are weighing interest in the 3 and also considering the amount of support it takes. We will always support our current customers.
@Jage Speaking of distribution, while other features such as AI Assistant doesn't seem transferable, the ability to copy/paste and make conference calls do seem to be back-portable to its second gen variant. Do you know if that is going to be the case? I don't have nor want one, but I am asking to see if this is artificial feature-limiting or if they will continue to support their previous devices for as long as feasible for the sake of their customers. @ricky_enger @DavidGoldfield
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