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Today, in dystopia. This looks like it's directly lifted from a Cory Doctorow novel.
CBS News: DoorDash and Klarna partner to offer an eat now, pay later plan
"...DoorDash customers will have the option either to pay in full, to pay in four equal installments or to postpone payment to "a more convenient time, such as a date that aligns with their paycheck," DoorDash said Thursday in a news release...."
Coca-Cola is installing what the company claims to be the world’s first hydrogen-powered vending machines at the World Expo 2025, which will open to the public in Osaka, Japan, on April 13th, 2025. Co-developed by Fuji Electric, the machines don’t need access to a power outlet and instead rely on replaceable hydrogen cartridges to fuel a chemical reaction that generates electricity, @theverge reports: theverge.com/news/633779/coca-…
Zoom is about to release the H5studio Recorder. It talks like the essential stuff does, but it has the superior F-series microphone preamps and 192 kHz recording, as well as the H6 Essential's mic capsule system.
This basically looks like a Zoom F3 that talks, plus the replaceable X/Y microphones of the H6 Essential.
Hmm... I might have a hardly used H6 Essential for sale soon.
Wanted to run your own builder for #reproducibleBuilds and were disappointed our RBuilder Setup was only available for Debian-based systems? Then we have good news for you: a few min ago, 2 PRs have been merged. The setup scripts now also support RPM & Arch based systems 🥳
RPM/Arch lack packages for apksigner & dexdiff (which are needed for debugging). We're on it, those will follow hopefully soon™.
Thanks to @Iamlooker and Patrick (from FlorisBoard) for your help!
This package is an incorrectly named because it doesn't build from sources, just repackages upstream built sources—it should be -bin. If I were to put something in official repos it would have to be a source build. Is building these from sources possible?
In the mean time that bin package is built and hosted in my unofficial user repo, but signed with official keys:
@alerque which one is "this"? I'm unsure if it would be a good idea to pull in the entire build tools package just for dexdump and apksigner. But I must admit I didn't check how much overhead that means. So as it's not essential for *running* a builder, it's just mentioned as a manual install option for now. But if the overhead is small enough, or if there were separate package(s) for those two, that could be included in the default install of course. @Iamlooker
android-sdk-build-tools should be android-sdk-build-tools-bin. Except in special cases upstream generated binaries are not eligible for official packaging, we need to be able to build from source. The AUR allows such recipes that fetch and wrap upstream but they should have bin suffixes on the package names.
Are dexdump and apksigner sources available? Do they have some sort of stable versioning scheme that applies to them upstream?
At first blush packaging those each separately as stand alone tools looks doable. Is there a specific series of tags it would be most useful to follow? Remember Arch is rolling release and we can only (easily) have one latest release at a time.
Thanks @alerque! I'm not that familiar with their WebIf, but at least for apksig they show some tags on the left pane; picking the latest android-*-r* one (currently android-15.0.0_r23, visible after following the "More..." link) should be fine. Same tags are on the art repo where dexdump is in. @Iamlooker
If you've set up a builder, we'd love to hear from your experiences – concerning the setup (was it easy enough and straight-forward?) as well as from operation
Нейронные центры, обрабатывающие русский и английский языки, схожим образом реагируют и на клингонский с валирийским – но при этом игнорируют языки программирования.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/my… This is the stuff of a totalitarian nightmare. It's not something you would imagine in a democratic nation. But this is the reality of life in Trump's America.
And this is why I went to Canada's Parliament to issue a travel warning to Canadian citizens: avoid all unnecessary travel to the USA. #cdnpoli
Truly surprising that a *checks notes* proprietary, centralized, VC-funded platform started enshittifying the moment it gained enough market share to make it very difficult for people to flow elsewhere. 🤯
Any people reading this who rely on Discord: this is your nudge to consider moving elsewhere.
Where? I don't know. What I do know is that whatever alternative I suggest, you will find a myriad of reasons why it just "won't cut it."
But I also know that if resources were spent on making the hard-to-enshittify decentralized platforms better, they would get better, while still remaining hard to enshittify.
So, perhaps it's worth it to trade some short-term convenience for long-term resilience. 🤷♀️
i understand the connection to roko's basilisk, and i agree with your assessment there, but what is the connection to effective altruism?
i only just now looked it up on wikipedia; the pitch seems harmless enough, but it seems the people involved in it twisted it into something else. i found this paragraph which is perhaps the connection you allude to?
@lritter Effective Altruism is basically rebranded eugenics when you get down to brass tacks. They use a lot of flowery language about "preventing future suffering", but when you scratch the surface of how they plan to accomplish that it's just an excuse to remove the agency of people who are suffering now so they don't breed more suffering into the world. I'd agree the premise has been twisted, if it didn't come from a source that obviously created it as a cover for their fascist BS
It’s hardly surprising that EA was “polluted” by people from the Human Biodiversity Project. HBD didn’t pollute them as much as correctly identify a suitable nesting ground among like minded people.
I wrote a CLI tool wrapping the NVDA.zip API, so you can just run nvdl to download the latest NVDA version, nvdl alpha to download the latest alpha, etc. It works on all platforms, and on Windows you will be asked if you want to run the installer after downloading. You can also use -u or --url to get the download URL only, not actually download the installer. github.com/trypsynth/nvdl
The language you use in job postings has some influence on whether you attract narcissists. A recently reported study adds some quantitative weight to this: arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
I've found this transparently self-evident since I worked at (Google)X, which had a curious knack for attracting manipulative and problematic people into positions of authority. (Not all of them! But enough.) My "how to write job descriptions to get the people you want to work with" manual has helped discourage this at Oxide, though time will tell how well it sticks.
The zoom H5 studio recorder is releasing soon and is fully accessible just like the essential line! The only differences between it and the H4 essential appear to be up to 192KHZ recording and the mics can be swapped with the H6 Essential capsules such as the shotgun Mic etc. Anyone notice any other differences? I don't think I'm really missing much keeping my H4. sweetwater.com/store/detail/H5…
Every time I read about or use ISO8601, I get sad that it's not the standard for everyone everywhere. Dates are unambiguous. Dates sort from oldest to newest automatically, even if they're strings, like in file names. Times use 24-hour format, which is obviously superior to the 12-hour format my country clings to. Decades and centuries can be represented easily. The week stuff is confusing, but everything else just makes sense.
As for it not being standard for everyone, one factor of resistance has to do with the grammar of some natural languages. In English, adjectives always come before the noun, but in languages like French and Spanish, nouns usually come first. In English, a date sounds better as 2025-03-21, but in other languages, it sounds more coherent as 21-03-25, which a person would pronounce something like 21 of 03 of the 2025.
@clv0 I'd argue that the way it is spoken doesn't matter. I'd never say aloud "two thousand twenty five march five". In spoken language, I'd say dates how I always have. Besides, English doesn't put the year first no matter the format, not when speaking anyway, so this format is just as new to English as it is to French or Spanish.
I cannot stress enough: starting my day twice a week with fixthenews.com/ is great for me. I strongly recommend it for you.
We can’t hide from the challenges of the world, but it’s also deeply unhealthy to only consume bad news. Read FTN to be reminded good things can and do happen.
Hey, if you, like me, are a US citizen who's had your books/stories/articles stolen by Meta to train AI, you can submit your name to the class action suit using this easy contact form for one of the law firms involved:
Updated 1st Feb 2016. When you test your website with a screen reader there are a few basic commands you should know. Just remember not to make design decisions based...
Closing in on the first big milestone of Exchange support in @thunderbird! One of the last major items on our list before the next big step is the ability to copy folders - including from outside an Exchange account into one - and I've just managed to get it to work locally. It's not fully done yet, and there's still more work needed elsewhere before everything is ready to test, but it's good progress regardless 😁
The colours in the video are a bit naff, I blame the screen recording tool.
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![Timnit Gebru claimed that effective altruism has acted to overrule any other concerns regarding AI ethics (e.g. deepfake porn, algorithmic bias), in the name of either preventing or controlling artificial general intelligence.[127] She and Émile P. Torres further assert that the movement belongs to a network of interconnected movements they've termed TESCREAL, which they contend serves as intellectual justification for wealthy donors to shape humanity's future.[128]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/651912 "Timnit Gebru claimed that effective altruism has acted to overrule any other concerns regarding AI ethics (e.g. deepfake porn, algorithmic bias), in the name of either preventing or controlling artificial general intelligence.[127] She and Émile P. Torres further assert that the movement belongs to a network of interconnected movements they've termed TESCREAL, which they contend serves as intellectual justification for wealthy donors to shape humanity's future.[128]")
Caleb Maclennan
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •LooKeR
in reply to Caleb Maclennan • • •Caleb Maclennan
in reply to LooKeR • • •This package is an incorrectly named because it doesn't build from sources, just repackages upstream built sources—it should be -bin. If I were to put something in official repos it would have to be a source build. Is building these from sources possible?
In the mean time that bin package is built and hosted in my unofficial user repo, but signed with official keys:
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unoff…
So adding that to a repo collection would be a low friction way to get setup.
Unofficial user repositories - ArchWiki
wiki.archlinux.orgIzzyOnDroid ✅
in reply to Caleb Maclennan • • •Caleb Maclennan
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •android-sdk-build-tools should be android-sdk-build-tools-bin. Except in special cases upstream generated binaries are not eligible for official packaging, we need to be able to build from source. The AUR allows such recipes that fetch and wrap upstream but they should have bin suffixes on the package names.
Are dexdump and apksigner sources available? Do they have some sort of stable versioning scheme that applies to them upstream?
IzzyOnDroid ✅
in reply to Caleb Maclennan • • •dexdump - platform/art - Git at Google
android.googlesource.comCaleb Maclennan
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •IzzyOnDroid ✅
in reply to Caleb Maclennan • • •IzzyOnDroid ✅
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •With our rbuilder_setup scripts now ready, the wiki page on Verification Builders has been updated, too:
gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/…
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
Verification Builder · Wiki · IzzyOnDroid / repo · GitLab
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in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •Oh, and the Readme of the rbuilder_setup repo needed a few updates as well 🙈 Done now: codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/rbuil…
If you've set up a builder, we'd love to hear from your experiences – concerning the setup (was it easy enough and straight-forward?) as well as from operation
#reproducibleBuilds #Android
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