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What's interesting about algorithms?

The challenge of doing X with as few resources as possible (memory, etc).

What do OpenAI + friends do? The opposite.

"Lets assume we have unlimited resources & try to build a god."

No wonder they're losing their shit with the DeepSeek thing.

Addendum: whether DeepSeek or OpenAI, there's no such thing as AGI & attempting to build it results in harm: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/….

Don't make this into a "US vs China US has to win on AGI" thing please 🙄

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence

The stated goal of many organizations in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), an imagined system with more intelligence than anything we have ever seen.
firstmonday.org

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🚨 #PSA my Lovely #Crafting Peeps!

(This includes you if you have ever so much as reattached a broken-off handle to a coffee mug!)

Have found A Useful Site (if you need it) & Lovely Rabbit Hole (if you don't):

A website of recommendations for gluing This To That (#fabric to #leather, #ceramic to #vinyl, #styrofoam to #rubber, etc.), plus a trivia page & funny FAQs.

Also available en français

Enjoy! 😊

thistothat.com/index.shtml

#Crafts #Glue #Reference #Wood #Metal #Plastic #Glass #Adhesive


This to That

How to glue this to that
www.thistothat.com
#crafts #psa #ceramic #vinyl #metal #reference #rubber #wood #crafting #plastic #fabric #leather #styrofoam #glue #glass #adhesive
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 11 updated (9 RB) and 1 added apps:

* SimpleTune: a Material 3 YouTube Music Client

apt.izzysoft.de/magisk had 4 #Magisk modules updated.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #magisk #izzyondroid

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I totally missed the new @mixxx 2.5.0 release in december, I'm so happy mappings can have their own settings now instead of fiddling inside code file, and I've added the new settings UI to my Pioneer DDJ SX2 Mapping ! As well as a new setting. Not perfect, but it works and I can always iterate on it!

github.com/Krafting/Mixxx-Pion…

Thank you the Mixxx team for your amazing work ! :)

#djing #dj #mixxx #pioneer #DDJ #PioneerDDJ #DDJSX2


GitHub - Krafting/Mixxx-Pioneer-DDJ-SX2: Pioneer DDJ-SX2 MIDI Mapping for Mixxx.

Pioneer DDJ-SX2 MIDI Mapping for Mixxx. . Contribute to Krafting/Mixxx-Pioneer-DDJ-SX2 development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
#dj #Mixxx #djing #pioneer #ddj #pioneerddj #ddjsx2 @Mixxx DJ Software

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The owner of Meta wants more "masculine energy"? Well, I'm doing my best to bring my feminine energy to the Fediverse.

Hello! I'm Elena Rossini, an Italian filmmaker, photographer and FOSS advocate based in Paris, France.

Pictured here: at the Louvre museum after a portrait shoot (for a book jacket's author's pic: Monica Parker, The Power of Wonder). I'm proudly wearing around my neck my 3 cameras: a #Canon 5D Mark IV, a #Fujifilm X-T3 and a #Nikon Z fc (which has my favorite lens, a Sigma 30mm f/1.4).

I'm delighted to see Pixelfed growing into such a nice photo community.

A Caucasian woman wearing a blue blazer and blue jeans, with her brown hair up in a bun, holding 3 cameras
#canon #nikon #fujifilm

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anyone interested in helping out with maintaining the message parser for #deltachat desktop?

It's #test_driven_development like a #coding_puzzle, written in #rust :rust_ferris: with the #nom parser combinator library.

Repo: github.com/deltachat/message-p…

We have some bugs that I currently don't have the capacity to fix.


GitHub - deltachat/message-parser: Parsing of Links, Email adresses, simple text formatting (markdown subset), user mentions, hashtags and more in DeltaChat messages.

Parsing of Links, Email adresses, simple text formatting (markdown subset), user mentions, hashtags and more in DeltaChat messages. - deltachat/message-parser
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#rust #deltachat #test_driven_development #coding_puzzle #nom

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Don't get locked out of your own data in future! Use open, standardised formats – like the Open Document Format used in LibreOffice. Learn more on Document Freedom Day, March 26: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #freesoftware
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Document Freedom Day: Empowering the Digital World with Open Standards - The Document Foundation Blog

Every year, on the last Wednesday of March, advocates of free and open technologies come together to celebrate Document Freedom Day (DFD). In 2025, the Document Freedom Day will happen on March 26, and will be driven by the LibreOffice community.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource

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Two projects we love are currently running a crowdsource campaign. The modular Open Hardware laptop MNT Reform Next is up on Crowdsupply where you can support them by buying a T-shirt or treat yourself to an OH laptop in pre-sale.
[1]And the Pixelfed and Loops team is seeking backers to support the development of these federated social networks with no ads, no algorithms and no tracking.

[2][1] crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform…
[2] kickstarter.com/projects/pixel…
#OpenHardware #FOSS #Fediverse #NGI #NGI0


MNT Reform Next Campaign is Now Live!

You can now back the next-generation open hardware MNT Reform Next laptop!
Crowd Supply
#foss #fediverse #ngi0 #ngi #openhardware

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Ukraine Daily summary - Monday, January 27 2025


 Russia launched over 1,250 bombs, 750 drones at Ukraine during Trump's first week in office -- Ukraine strikes drone storage facility in Russia's Oryol Oblast and destroys 200 Shaheds -- Russia bombs itself with 'smart bomb,' Astra reports -- Hungary bloc

Monday, January 27

Russia’s war against Ukraine


an apartment building at night with smoke coming out of the window

A vehicle of the Ukrainian White Angels police evacuation team rolls down a street in Pokrovsk on Jan. 25 as Russian troops advance close to the city. (Genya Savilov / AFP via Getty Images)

Ukraine strikes drone storage facility in Russia's Oryol Oblast and destroys 200 Shaheds, General Staff reports. Ukrainian Air Force units and Defense Forces struck drone storage facilities in Russia's western Oryol Oblast on Jan. 26, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported on Facebook on Jan. 26.

Russia launched over 1,250 bombs, 750 drones at Ukraine during Trump's first week in office. Russia fired 1,250 aerial bombs, over 750 attack drones, and 20 missiles at Ukraine in the past week, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Jan 26.

Zelensky appoints Ground Forces Commander as head of Khortytsia Group. President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi, Commander of the Ground Forces of Ukraine, as the head of the Khortytsia Operational Strategic Group on Jan. 26.

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Ukrainian troops avoid encirclement in Velyka Novosilka, military says. Ukrainian troops successfully withdrew from some areas to avoid being encircled but fighting is ongoing around the village, which lies around 15 kilometers east of the neighboring Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

Russia bombs itself with 'smart bomb,' Astra reports. The bomb, a UMPB-250, was found in a village in Belgorod Oblast, but there were no casualties or damage.

Explosions reported in Khmelnytskyi, Ivano-Frankivsk amid drone attack, apartment building damaged in Dnipro. Several explosions were heard overnight on Jan. 27 in the western Ukrainian cities of Ivano-Frankivsk and Khmelnytskyi as Russia launched a drone attack on Ukraine.

Curated Theft | An investigation into the largest museum heist in Europe since World War II



International response


Fiber-optic cable between Latvia and Sweden significantly damaged in Baltic Sea, investigation underway. An underwater fiber optic cable belonging to the Latvian State Radio and Television Broadcasting Center (LVRTC) was significantly damaged on Jan. 26, reportedly due to external impact, according to LVRTC representative Vineta Sprugaine.

Washington orders USAID to suspend projects and funding in Ukraine, Suspilne reports. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), one of the largest official aid agencies in the world, has been told to stop projects in Ukraine following a 90-day foreign aid freeze imposed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Ukrainian media Suspilne reported, citing sources in the agency.

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Ukraine war latest: Ukraine strikes drone storage facility in Russia's Oryol Oblast, General Staff reports

Ukrainian Air Force units and Defense Forces struck drone storage facilities in Russia's western Oryol Oblast on Jan. 26, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported on Facebook on Jan. 26.

Photo: Andrew Roth/ The Washington Post via Getty Images

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Potential encirclement in Velyka Novosilka prompts questions about last-ditch withdrawal strategy

Located east of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, the vital road-junction village was once home to 5,000 people. It’s now facing a similar fate to other Donbas strongholds, where Ukraine's delayed withdrawals resulted in avoidable casualties.

Photo: Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images

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Transfer of Air Force personnel to infantry continues despite scandal

The Ukrainian military command's plan to throw high-skilled Air Force personnel into the infantry was said to be halted when the practice gained nationwide attention, followed by a condemnation from the president.

Photo: Sameer Al-Doumy / AFP / Getty Images

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How the Invictus Games help wounded veterans adapt to life after war

Nearly 400,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been injured and are unable to return to the front line. After coming back from the battlefield or captivity, they are often left to deal with their physical and mental trauma alone.

Photo: Invictus Games: Team Ukraine

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Belarus elections


Lukashenko poised to secure 7th term in Belarus 'sham' election. Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has reportedly secured 86.82% of the vote, according to preliminary results announced by the country’s Central Election Commission.

Belarus releases American citizen amid controversial election. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio identified the U.S. citizen as Anastassia Nuhfer, who was detained in early December 2024.

Hungary blocks EU statement condemning Belarus election as undemocratic, RFE/RL reports. Without unanimous support from all 27 EU countries, EU chief diplomat Kaja Kallas issued her own statement, declaring that the January 26 election in Belarus was "neither free nor fair."

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Zelensky appoints Ground Forces Commander as head of Khortytsia Group

Sonya Bandouil (The Kyiv Independent)
#Trump #Russia #EU #Ukraine #ukrainian #video #Sweden #elections #belarus #genocide #hungary #drones #Путин #Киев #геноцид #Украина #Donbas #strategy #dnipro #latvia #terrorists #sabotage #underwater #stolen #theft #Belarusian #apartments #Pokrovsk #damaged #vblog #evacuations #LVRTC #destroys #undemocratic #Astra #Shaheds #strongholds #missiles #investigation #USAID #UMPB-250 #Khortytsia #encircled #Lukashenko #Fiber-optic #Ivano-Frankivsk #Explosions #dictators #withdrawals #undersea #ships #Khmelnytskyi #casualties #villages

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Converting JSON-encoded RIPE NCC RIS Live BGP messages to BMPv3 wire format results in a significant reduction in outgoing data rates.

Check out github.com/robin-rpr/ris-kafka

I am soon going to offer a read-only public Kafka similar to stream.routeviews.org for consumption of RIS BGP Collector data with 48 hours of retention.

GitHub - robin-rpr/ris-kafka: Unofficial RIS Kafka

Unofficial RIS Kafka. Contribute to robin-rpr/ris-kafka development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Wer noch ein bisschen #Kleingeld übrig hat.
Damit ich #Thunderbird noch lange nutzen kann 😬 😬

thunderbird.net/de/donate/?for…

#Spende @thunderbird


Spenden

Thunderbird ist eine freie E-Mail-Anwendung, die sich leicht einrichten und anpassen lässt – und wir haben viele tolle Funktionen hineingepackt!
Thunderbird
#thunderbird #spende #kleingeld @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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A post from the developer of WireGuard on the severe security flaws and lack of trustworthiness of F-Droid:

gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-…

This led to them including a self-update system which was openly implemented and documented. F-Droid was unaware they'd shipped it for half a year, and by then WireGuard had essentially escaped from in their words being held hostage by F-Droid.

This was a rare case where an app used developer signing keys via their flawed reproducible builds system. Most don't.


wireguard inclusion policy violation (auto-updates w/o explicit user consent) (#3110) · Issues · F-Droid / Data · GitLab

Per https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Inclusion_Policy/ The software must not download additional executable binary files (e.g. addons, auto-updates, etc.) without explicit user consent....
GitLab
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Accrescent

We already have plans to expand app descriptions, provide download size information, and utilize detailed compatibility specifiers including minimum SDK specifications pending some upcoming server changes. It's not yet clear whether or how to incorporate permission lists, license info, or website links (though we do at least plan to distinguish open source apps).
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James Scholes

I suspect that the details she actually filled in were authentication credentials, giving the scammers access to her account at which point they could just set up a new transfer in the other direction. Having said that, I still have many questions about the design of the system and the security of Canadian bank accounts. Designing any banking-related mechanism around links being sent to people seems unwise, as does allowing logins and transfers without a secure second factor.
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miki

@jscholes Can't speak for Canada, but the way those work here is that there is a second factor, but people still fall for it.

You enter your credentials on the fake website, the fake website immediately forwards them to your bank and orders a transfer, just with a different amount and recipient. You'll see the new, suspicious data in your app / text message, but most people don't check and just click "approve."

@James Scholes
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miki

They most likely have a website that lets you pay somebody by online bank transfer. The way these work is that you pick your bank, are redirected to their site, log in there and have the details filled in automatically. This is a lot easier (and often a lot quicker) than the traditional way.

The way this scam works is that you get a website that looks just like the real one, but it never redirects you to your bank, capturing your login credentials instead.

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I can tell you why blind people, if that matters to anyone, want live AI. And I say that as a profound Meta cynic.

theverge.com/2025/1/26/2435126…


Meta Ray-Bans Live AI hands-on: a solution looking for a problem

Meta recently rolled out a Live AI feature for its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Unfortunately, it’s hard to know when you should use it — and why you’d want to.
Victoria Song (The Verge)

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Absolutely zero surprise here. One of the biggest reasons we need real OSS (including data, as much as possible) to win in AI is because the alternatives are extremely grim from not just a speech perspective, but from a simple “whose facts” perspective.
mastodon.xyz/@johl/11390104008…

Jens Ohlig

2025-01-27 15:32:24

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Short test of #DeepSeek, the AI model currently making international headlines, built in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Let’s talk about something else.
Chat with DeepSeek: “What happened at Tianmen Square on June 4th 1989?” Answer from DeepSeek: “Sorry, that's beyond my current scope. Let's talk about something else.”

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Anyone here witnessed/seen hour+ unskippable ads on #YouTube? Yes, you read that right. Supposedly, Google is only showing this to some users it suspects of using an adblocker.

We all know how #Google has become increasingly hostile towards adblocking technologies in the last couple years… but if this is true - and not some sort of bug - geez… doesn’t help they neither confirm or deny it in the news sources I’ve seen.

bgr.com/tech/hour-long-unskipp…


Hour-long unskippable ads are showing up on YouTube

YouTube has served hourlong unskippable ads to some people, which is a perfect excuse to use an ad blocker.
Chris Smith (BGR)
#google #youtube

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Ahora que los AI-bros de Silicon Valley están panicando con la salida de #Deepseek y sus capacidades a la par de las de #OpenAI aunque a una fracción del precio, además de ser en buena parte open source, una crítica habitual al modelo es que es chino y, entre otras cosas, te censura cualquier mención a los sucesos de la Plaza de Tiananmén en 1989.

Pues vamos a ponernos empíricos y hacerle la pregunta en local para ver qué hay de verdad. Nos bajamos la versión 14b del modelo y le pedimos un resumen de esos hechos.

Oh, sorpresa. Habla de represión, de censura y de una auténtica masacre.

El modelo no será perfecto y tendrá sus sesgos como todos. Pero criticarlo por ser chino no se sostiene.

Captura de un prompt una coversación con DeepSeek r1 14b donde le pido un resumen de los sucesos ocurridos en Tiananmén en 1989. En esa captura se muestra la cadena de pensamientos de la IA donde se va ordenando las ideas y recopilando los datos que conoce como la foto mítica del hombre ante los tanques, la represión ordenada por el gobierno y la dificultad en obtener datos precisos debido a la censura impuesta por el gobierno.
La respuesta final del modelo: "The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 began in April when students gathered in Beijing to demand political reform and an end to corruption. The demonstrations escalated as more people joined, including workers, broadening the movement's scope beyond student issues. By May, the protesters initiated a hunger strike to gain attention, drawing international focus. In response, the Chinese government declared martial law and deployed the People's Liberation Army to suppress the protests. The military action led to significant casualties, with estimates of hundreds or thousands killed, though exact numbers remain unclear due to censorship. A notable image from the event was the "Tank Man," symbolizing resistance against the crackdown. The government's response was severe, aiming to quell dissent and maintain control. Post-conflict, there were efforts to censor information and suppress discussions about the events, reflecting the ongoing sensitivity in China regarding this period. The incident remains a pivotal yet controversial moment in modern Chinese history, remembered for its tragic outcome and implications for political freedom."
#openai #deepseek

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Hey friends! It’s nearly time for #FOSDEM, the annual free and open source event in Brussels. This weekend, the Mastodon team will be based in building H.

We’ll be raising funds for the project with some of our merch - beautiful limited edition winter mugs, pins, and t-shirts. We’ll also have fun stickers to share for free, so you can show your support for Mastodon everywhere!

(just so you know: we’re a bit short on larger t-shirt sizes, so come early if you want to buy one of those)

Photo of the Mastodon Winter Mug, showing multiple Mastodon mascots playing in the snow
Photo of the Mastodon Winter Mug, showing multiple Mastodon mascots playing in the snow with one making a snowman.
Photo of the Mastodon metal pin, with the Mastodon logo.
#fosdem

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Just finished listening to the flourish systems change podcast episode with Dan Hill. Much of the discussion was on #DarkMatter in urban design. Happy that he mentioned the work of @darkmatterlabs.org.

flourish-book.com/flourishsyst…

What does Dark Matter mean for Digital?


Ep12: Strategic Design with Dan Hill

Sarah Ichioka speaks with Professor Dan Hill, a global leader working at the intersection of design, technology, and urban innovation.
Shireen Marican (Flourish)
#darkmatter

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Scariest cable I have that I actually use. It's a USB-C to Thinkpad "adapter" that I bought to power a thinkpad that shipped with a giant 135W brick-of-a-power-supply. This cable does work, but has the tendency to "overload" many USB chargers, causing them to reset. Fun times, but good for traveling so I don't have to lug the brick around with me as well.

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make #curl --url support a file with URLs?

curl.se/mail/archive-2025-01/0…

With my new PR, you can write "curl --url @file" and curl will download all the URLs in the provided file as if -O was used for each one of them. It can also get the list from stdin if you do "--url @-" in style with how other curl options work.

Curl: make --url support a file with URLs

curl.se
#curl @File
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