Recommending this podcast on how games get Arabic wrong:
aftermath.site/you-are-error-p…
The guest is Rami Ismail (ramiismail.com/), and it's 1 hr 26 mins long.
Expect discussions of everything related, it will have discussions of Palestine, racism, xenophobia, dehumanization of Arabs.
Learning from video games' mistakesaftermath.site
Thousands of protesters flooded the streets surrounding the Georgian Parliament to voice their objection to the ruling party's decision to suspend EU-accession talks.Malek Fouda (Euronews.com)
A fantastic collection of 13 Mac apps at an exclusive price.Space/Time: Black Friday Mac Apps Collection 2024
Just a note to my fellow Canadians, that this is most of the cause of the Canada Post strike that you're all complaining about during Christmas. Harper gutted public funding for Canada Post and told them to run like a business. They are an essential public service, and should not be run for profit!
Ein Datenschatz für KI Innovationen, mit Google, Meta und OpenAI - was kann da bei der Patientenakte schon schiefgehen?
Lauterbach zu Gesundheitsdaten: Google, Meta, und OpenAI melden Interesse an
heise.de/news/Lauterbach-zu-Ge…
Lauterbach sieht in der Patientenakte einen Datenschatz für KI-Innovationen. Tech-Giganten zeigen Interesse, um die Gesundheitsversorgung zu verbessern.Marie-Claire Koch (heise online)
Can any of my friends in #Canada explain how it's legal for there to be private doctor services now? Here's one example:
There are many different doctors listed here: portal3.clicsante.ca/services/…
I guess our healthcare system is getting privatized without us even knowing?
For pricing information, please contact one of our medical secretaries at 514-606-3350. At Clinique Omicron, we value pricing transparency and are committed to providing total clarity to our customers. Contact us to find out how we can help you.Omicron Clinic
Rust 1.83 just got released!
This time, nice const improvements.
Check out the release post: blog.rust-lang.org/2024/11/28/…
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.blog.rust-lang.org
Ah, I see that BlueSky has joined LinkedIn in supplanting Twitter as the primary source of accessibility misinformation.
(I didn’t make this clear, but this post came across my timeline here and on linkedin and it just shows how this kind of stuff spreads on algorithmic timelines and then bleeds over to other social networks. That’s how you poison a well.)
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IMO, HP is one of the most translator-unfriendly books to have ever existed.
There's so much context and so many things that just have to "fit together" that translators almost inevitably have to sacrifice something.
Overnight, Russia carried out a horrific aerial attack against Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities report that Russia launched nearly 200 missiles and dronesThe White House
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#Joplin soll für blinde Menschen besser nutzbar werden.
Wer helfen möchte, hier entlang:
discourse.joplinapp.org/t/call…
@joplinapp@mastodon.social
#a11y #blind #Barrierefrei #Test #Software #OpenSource
Over the past months, we’ve been improving the accessibility of both our desktop and mobile apps, in particular to better support visually impaired users.Joplin Forum
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New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2024): The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two
months:
* Joachim Bauch (fancycode)
* Alexander Kjäll (capitol)
* Jan Mojžíš (janmojzis)
* Xiao Sheng Wen (atzlinux)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two
months:
* Alberto Bertogli
* Alexis Murzeau
* David Heilderberg
* Xiyue Deng
* Kathara Sasikumar
*… bits.debian.org/2024/11/new-de…
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Joachim Bauch (fancycode) Alexander Kjäll (capitol) Jan Mojžíš (janmojzis) Xiao Sheng Wen (atzlinux) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in…Debian Project
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today only brings you 9 updated apps, but I still wanted to toot that because our RB stats made it to above 29%: 356 apps (29.2%) 🥳 Next milestone: 30% comes into reach!
And while I'm here: at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk today 5 modules have received updates (122 modules available altogether).
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#AI spurs revolution for some visually impaired people:
bbc.com/news/articles/cg4lvw6v…
AI services that can describe pictures and scenes are helping the visually impaired.Suzanne Bearne (BBC News)
Přátelé, přinášíme vám jeden z nejsilnějších příběhů, které se nám v Brocastu podařilo zaznamenat... Naše pozvání k rozhovoru přijal cestovatel, dobrodruh a ...YouTube
@archos@arch-linux.cz Doba klasických médií, která se řídila pravidly novinařiny, s internetem a nástupem sociálních médií skončila.
Situaci snadného šíření informací i možnosti na tom vydělávat už dávno začala využívat dezinformační média, která přišla s „metodou míchání jablek s hruškama“, kdy se za pomoci rozhovoru se slavným či veřejností uznávaným člověkem snaží konzumenty internetu nalákat k návštěvě jejich odporného média.
Mediálně negramotný konzument, a těch je naprostá většina v populaci, si totiž nezjišťuje to, s kým má tu čest, komu médium patří a k čemu neznámé médium slouží, většinový konzument jde jen za nabídnutým lákavým tématem.
Jsou věci, které je nutné, aby se děcka učila už ve škole, aby se trénovala v kritickém myšlení, aby se naučila odmítat všechny podvodníky internetu, kteří si hrají na novináře, ale ve skutečnosti to jsou prachsprostí nýmandi a podvodníci porušující veškerá pravidla, například platná pro vedení rozhovoru.
Dnešní mladí tvůrci obsahu internetových médií poučení studiem marketingu a možnostmi vydělávat na sledovanosti nezastaví žádná morální záklopka, tyhle už zajímají jen peníze a lajky...
Konec klasické žurnalistiky je začátkem konce demokracie. Proto je nutná regulace takové činnosti:
Nová média jsou také média, a proto pro ně musí platit pravidla stejná jako pro média tištěná a vysílací. Chceš si hrát na žurnalistiku? Pak se musíš řídit pravidly pro žurnalistiku a musíš být za šíření propagandy, manipulací, lží a skryté reklamy a nekalý prodej postižitelný. Nejde o cenzuru, ale o stará dobrá pravidla, jaká platí pro tištěná a vysílací média.
To se ale mladým i starým tvůrcům pochybného mediálního obsahu vydělávajícím na internetu nelíbí a začali křičet, když se RRTV začala o jejich činnost zajímat, neb se ČR již před mnoha lety zavázala dodržovat pravidla Českou republikou odsouhlasená v Parlamentu EU, ČR, která jako vždy od tohoto odsouhlasení pravidel spala jak Šípková Růženka, aby se nyní těsně před uplynutím překlenovací doby probudila a začala zmatkovat.
Úředníci RRTV mají totiž máslo na hlavě, protože nechali v ČR bez jakéhokoli svého zájmu vyrůst generaci namachrovaných egoistických hvězd internetového obsahu s obrovským dosahem, kterým se teď snaží nešťastnou formou sdělit, že se musí ze zákona registrovat a že budou podléhat stejnému dohledu, jaký platí pro šiřitele médií na vyžádání (Media-on-demand).
A tak jsme nyní svědky toho, jak se tito tvůrci internetového audiovizuálního obsahu (často velmi pochybným a s obrovským dosahem a zajímavými finančními příjmy) snaží přesvědčit veřejnost i politiky, že nejsou tvůrci mediálního obsahu... Klasický český kašpárkov plný emocí, polopravd, manipulací a lží.
Šiřitelé dezinformací a konspirací v jednom šiku s tvůrci obsahu pro pražskou kavárnu v boji proti RRTV. Prostě bizár, který vypovídá nejen o mediální gramotnosti zdejší populace, ale též bizár, který ilustruje právní gramotnost tvůrců internetového mediálního obsahu. Emoce místo fakt. A též odpor lidí vydělávajících velké a snadné peníze na internetu platit daň z příjmu.
🚨 Important Update: The GitLab migration is scheduled for December 4th.
The Infrastructure team is aware of the current issues and is actively working to resolve them.
For more details, please check the link below:
discourse.gnome.org/t/schedule…
Hello, On Wednesday 04th of December we’ll be performing GitLab / GitLab pages migration to our new platform, hosted in AWS.GNOME Discourse
There's one bubbly beverage brand that's been around for hundreds of years now, and its history is way more interesting than you might expect.Tiffany Betts (The Daily Meal)
A new version of MapComplete is out. It contains many small UX-improvements and bugfixes, such as:
- When clicking the map, the closest nearby way (<20px away) is selected to easier select (e.g. on the maxspeed theme)
- fixes to panoramax uploads. Some users were having problems during uploads, this should be improved
- Fix to the move-functionalities
And many other small tools.
The full changelog can be found here: github.com/pietervdvn/MapCompl…
Or test it live at mapcomplete.org
An easy-to-use webapp to edit OpenStreetMap. Contribute to pietervdvn/MapComplete development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
So.. @juliette is going through some of her grandmothers old (1980s / 1990s) xmas themed sewing & embroidery magazines and, frankly, what the fuck:
Here's a start. Some patterns that are surely candles.. right? Unrelated: a magazine named "Christmas Quickies"
#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.
Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
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The CfP for the FOSDEM Devroom of the Matrix Foundation & Community is open until Sunday.
Don't miss your chance to share your project, prototype, idea, or even deployment story with the broader open source community!
matrix.org/blog/2024/11/fosdem…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
Objevil se poskytovatel DeutschlandTicket, který dovoluje zahájit předplatné kterýkoli den v měsíci a za první měsíc účtuje pouze poměrnou část.
Na krátké výlety po Německu ideální!
xn--ondej-kcb.v.nizozemsku.nl/…
Když jsem bydlel v Česku, čas od času jsem vyrazil prozkoumat německé pohraničí s jednodenní síťovou jízdenkou. Teď dělám občas totéž, jen objevuji Německo z druhé strany.Ondřej Caletka (Ondřej v Nizozemsku)
А это мне почему-то напомнило рассказ из цикла про Хогбенов, "Прохвессор накрылся" :-)Pixelfed
ESET's discovery of the first UEFI bootkit designed for Linux sendss an important message: UEFI bootkits are no longer confined to Windows systems alone.www.welivesecurity.com
What a wild viewpoint, undocumented immigrants explaining why they are happy Trump won expressing jealousy of the support asylum seeking immigrants are getting. They encouraged their kids to support Trump and even fly MAGA flags and bumper stickers 🫠
But don't they understand undocumented means they are the illegals meanwhile asylum seekers get support because they are using a LEGAL path to immigration? Trump wants both types gone.
propublica.org/article/immigra…
Across the U.S., Latino immigrants who’ve been in the country a long time felt that asylum-seekers got preferential treatment. “Those of us who have been here for years get nothing,” said one woman from Mexico who has lived in Wisconsin for decades.ProPublica
There can be few among those of us who produce printed circuit boards, who have not at some point placed a component the wrong way round, or with the wrong footprint. Usually this can be rectified …Hackaday
Ernest Hemingway once said: In our darkest moments, we don’t need solutions or advice. What we yearn for is simply human connection—a quiet presence, a gentle touch. These small gestures are the anchors that hold us steady when life feels like too much.
Please don’t try to fix me. Don’t take on my pain or push away my shadows. Just sit beside me as I work through my own inner storms. Be the steady hand I can reach for as I find my way.
My pain is mine to carry, my battles mine to face. But your presence reminds me I’m not alone in this vast, sometimes frightening world. It’s a quiet reminder that I am worthy of love, even when I feel broken.
So, in those dark hours when I lose my way, will you just be here? Not as a rescuer, but as a companion. Hold my hand until the dawn arrives, helping me remember my strength.
Your silent support is the most precious gift you can give. It’s a love that helps me remember who I am, even when I forget.
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🙏 Thank you, Tuta community! Your feedback has been incredible. Thanks for helping us build stronger, more secure Tuta products. 💌
📊 Check out the highlights of our User Survey 2024:
👉 tuta.com/blog/tuta-survey-2024
#Grateful #PrivacyFirst #UserFeedback
We asked the Tuta community for their insights so we can better plan the 2025 roadmap. Check out the results!Tuta
I see Rust 1.83 was released today. [1] The major focus seems to be on enabling more things in const context. It'll be interesting to see how this might allow more logic [2] to be shifted from program startup time to compile time.
[1]: blog.rust-lang.org/2024/11/28/…
[2]: This post by @chadaustin has influenced my thinking on performance, and especially program startup time, for years: chadaustin.me/2009/02/logic-vs…
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.blog.rust-lang.org
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BTW, that post by @chadaustin ends:
> And I'm pretty sure I just recommended writing your entire application in C++, which sounds insane, even to me.
I agree about C++. But writing a whole desktop application in Rust is looking more and more tractable. Maybe someday I'll actually ship a non-trivial application that's a stand-alone executable and starts instantly, like I've always dreamed of doing.
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As people may have noticed, we've had some issues with GitLab (repository, issues, merge requests, and documentation are all affected), and the admins have decided to move up the migration day to December 4, 2024:
discourse.gnome.org/t/schedule…
Ideally, this should bring us back to a stable environment. Stay tuned for more information next week.
Hello, On Wednesday 04th of December we’ll be performing GitLab / GitLab pages migration to our new platform, hosted in AWS.GNOME Discourse
bruzz.be/actua/milieu/omstrede…
De Donderderberg - een klein stukje #natuur in #Brussel wordt ook erkend als natuur en park! De plannen om er een school te bouwen zijn geschrapt, ook met dank aan de bezetters!
Het project voor een school en woningen op de Donderbergsite sneuvelt. De nieuwe meerderheid in de Stad beslist om er een park van te maken.www.bruzz.be
I'm hitting many bugs in @Tutanota these days. Typically, just this morning when I opened the Mail Android app, I got "Error message: You forgot to migrate your databases! sys.version should be >= 114 but in db it is 112", and a "404 Not Found" on a calendar event. For this last one, it's probably because I deleted the event from the Tuta Calendar app, but it didn't stop it from displaying a reminder for the deleted event... And the unread email counter is constantly wrong 😫
Happy Christmas!
Just to let you know that I got 2 reminders this morning for the deleted event I've already mentioned. Deleting the Calendar app's data and logging back in didn't fix the issue.
I sometimes get a 404 error for a calendar-related URL. A PUT request if I remember well. It's maybe linked to the same issue. I'll try to pay attention to the event ID in the URL, to see if it's always about the same event, and let you know.
And again today:
"Feedback v266.250131.0 - ProgrammingError - UNKNOWN - android
Client: android
Type: UNKNOWN
Tutanota version: 266.250131.0
Timestamp (UTC): Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:17:46 GMT
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/133.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36
ProgrammingError
Error message: You forgot to migrate your databases! sys.version should be >= 119 but in db it is 118"
Ještěže je to tak drahé, jinak bych to asi potřeboval 😍 #lego
@stepan
lego.com/cs-cz/product/venator…
Já jsem tak rád, že mám malý byt, kam by se to nevešlo.
Oslavte 20. výročí dobrodružství Klonových válek s Útočným křižníkem Republiky třídy Venator z řady Ultimate Collector SeriesThe LEGO® Group
![eravioli wrote on Oct 17
I just started grad school this fall after a few years away from school and man | did not realize how dire the A/LLM situation is in universities now. In the past few weeks:
* I chatted with a classmate about how it was going to be a tight timeline on a project for a programming class. He responded "Yeah, at least if we run short on time, we can just ask chatGPT to finish it for us”
* One of my professors pulled up chatGPT on the screen to show us how it can sometimes do our homework problems for us and showed how she thanks it after asking it questions "in case it takes over some day."
* l asked one of my TAs in @ math class to explain how a piece of code he had written worked in an assignment. He looked at it for about 15 seconds then went "I don't know, ask chatGPT"
* A student in my math group insisted he was right on an answer to a problem. When | asked where he got that info, he sent me a screenshot of Google gemini giving just blatantly wrong info. He stillinsisted he was right when | pointed this out and refused to click into any of the actual web pages.
* A different student in my math class told me he pays $20 per month for the “computational” version of chatGPT, which he uses for all of his classes and PhD research. The computational version is worth it, he says, because it is wrong "less often’. He uses chatGPT for all his homework and can't figure out why he's struggling on exams.
[...]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/613057 "eravioli wrote on Oct 17
I just started grad school this fall after a few years away from school and man | did not realize how dire the A/LLM situation is in universities now. In the past few weeks:
* I chatted with a classmate about how it was going to be a tight timeline on a project for a programming class. He responded \"Yeah, at least if we run short on time, we can just ask chatGPT to finish it for us”
* One of my professors pulled up chatGPT on the screen to show us how it can sometimes do our homework problems for us and showed how she thanks it after asking it questions \"in case it takes over some day.\"
* l asked one of my TAs in @ math class to explain how a piece of code he had written worked in an assignment. He looked at it for about 15 seconds then went \"I don't know, ask chatGPT\"
* A student in my math group insisted he was right on an answer to a problem. When | asked where he got that info, he sent me a screenshot of Google gemini giving just blatantly wrong info. He stillinsisted he was right when | pointed this out and refused to click into any of the actual web pages.
* A different student in my math class told me he pays $20 per month for the “computational” version of chatGPT, which he uses for all of his classes and PhD research. The computational version is worth it, he says, because it is wrong \"less often’. He uses chatGPT for all his homework and can't figure out why he's struggling on exams.
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