Going to disagree on this one. Having a project that's both useful and popular can achieve a greater good that outweighs the possibility of it being exploited by megacorps. I hope that my own main open-source project (accesskit.dev/) falls into that category; the more popular it is, the more applications are accessible to more people. _Maybe_ I could make some money selling copyleft exceptions, but I'd rather have more accessible apps, as long as I can make a living.
Not only her, stop quoting posts, they appear as links. Practice what you preach, friend. Quoting sucks big time. Most apps still don't support it, so please spare me the whole minute of loading because my curious self needs to look at the link. LOL
Yeah, they appear with what you wrote when you quoted, but not like on twitter, instead, it's a link to the post, so essentially, to a client that doesn't support quoting, which is a lot of them, even Enafore, although it says that we can quote, well, that's just not properly implemented, and whatever you can read over there to you, is because your app lets you, but I don't think the web will.
What's wrong with people spamming the local timeline today? actually it's not just today. A block of tens of posts from the same person posting or reposting articles isn't fun or something people look forward to seeing.
But also, you could've replied to his post instead of spamming me with links. :P Okay, next time better reply instead of sending links into space, is my advice. That way I can both get you in the conversation, and tell you I absolutely agree, and that this is the reason why I am where I am in terms of an instance. :)
Thanks for the feedback, and we're sorry it was so frustrating to find the related Bugzilla bug for this - and we're thankful to everyone who replied here. We'll get this feedback to our support team to see how we could improve this.
SHA1 is only part of the problem. The bigger part is, that the error messages is so vague. There should be a way to view the certificate so people can at least find out themselves why it might be invalid.
Google Pixel Watch's revised Wear OS 5.1 update skips a key feature "...reverts to the original step count algorithm due to issues with the new algorithm. ..." androidpolice.com/google-pixel…
Intel will reportedly fire fully 20% of its workforce and focus on 'engineering', a plan that sounds all too familiar at this point pcgamer.com/hardware/processor…
Here's what really happens when you don't say 'thank you' to ChatGPT — and why I always do "...while it's essential to be mindful of the resources our digital habits consume, preserving the human touch in our interactions with AI are important...." tomsguide.com/ai/heres-what-re…
This is bullshit from someone who doesn't treat LLMs as tools. If you want them to interpret your asks and respond in a certain way, put that context in the system prompt and stop wasting tokens.
Saying "You act as though I always say please" is just as effective as actually saying it. Saying you want bullet points, or headed paragraphs, or responses without visual references, or whatever is even better. Not valuing politeness from a computer is even better than all of that.
I think the "valuing politeness" comes more from getting a greater effective output through it than otherwise, which isn't changing the core principle of LLMs: Since human data showed them that passages with polite dialog exert greater effort from the participant, it's likely that bias has now largely creeped into the average dataset of the models themselves. It's valid though to consider how this changes when applied to the prompt directly, as it least avoids repetition and can keep the positive sentiment the same rather than varying it across them.
The cool thing about this game is that there's a ton of user-made tilesets for it that have been preserved on old BBS-shovelware CDs. And it's all this lovely amateur pixelart so naturally I gotta collect it.
it turns out they're a 6-byte header and then they're a 48x60 image, but they're vertically planar: The first row is the least significant bit, fourth row is the most significant bit, and so on.
This indexes into the palette, which is stored in PAL.CFG
mass-processing, I found a corrupted one! This is supposed to be "People on TV #2", but it crashes VIEWTILE (and my converter). Works in MJVGA31, but it does crash when you exit.
I noticed a bug in our binutils port that had been generating semi-randomly broken branch relaxation trampolines for decades.
Why did it take so long to notice this code generation bug? The branch has to reach farther than +-32MB for the branch relaxation trampoline generation to kick in. And even then not all branches were affected (the type of relocation affected it, it had to be in a link library in a specific kind of segment and not in the beginning of it). Finally, for it to actually come into play, the branch had to actually be taken, too.
What did it do wrong then? It added the offset to the target function in the link library .text segment twice. So instead of jumping to the intended function it jumped somewhere random after that. Funnily, the jump might end up hitting some code that did not crash, but did something unintended. For you all non-developer peeps: That is very, very bad.
Fun features of this bug: Since whether the trampoline was generated or not depended on the order of object code and from where the affected call was being made, the bug would pop in and out of existence even on the smallest changes to the code or link libraries. If you know a thing about debugging, this is not very conducive to locating bugs.
Needless to say this one took a lot of head scratching to finally figure out. The fix was a change on a single line.
This bug was old enough to get into bars and drink alcohol legally.
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The feeling when you notice a bug in your binutils port that has been generating semi-randomly broken branch relaxation trampolines for decades.
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With Andor s2 about to drop, it's good to keep in mind that in spite of popular assumptions, the Galactic Empire isn't based on the Nazis. George Lucas was very explicit that it's in fact supposed to represent the United States.
LibreOffice had two major updates in 2024 with many improvements and fixes. Learn more from The Document Foundation's Annual Report: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
In 2024, LibreOffice celebrated its fourteenth birthday. Two new major versions of the suite introduced a variety of new features, while minor releases helped to improve stability as well (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2…
I have a friend that has one because of my influence. I really like it, but I am waiting for the Librem 16. Primarily, because I am hoping for a keyboard with the right shift button that is the right size and in the right spot.
Did you catch the recent ACB Vispero Presentation - Manage Windows 11 notifications with JAWS? In case you missed it, the archive is now available: acb-community.pinecast.co/epis…
A cracked phone screen doesn't mean you need a new phone! Instead, choose #repair or refurbishment—it's better for your wallet, and the planet.
Repairing will refresh your device, but when you do replace it, remember to trade it in to somewhere like Back Market. Instead of ending up in a landfill, it'll find a new home in someone else's pocket (and put some money in yours!). This enables phones to stay in use for 10 years, saving cost and energy.
But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By just installing an up-to-date GNU/Linux operating system you can keep using it for years to come.
Installing an OS may sound difficult, but you don't have to go it alone! With any luck, there are people in your area ready to help!"
A verified ID is required to access AI models in OpenAI's API to prevent IP theft. 😂 They went from stealing everything from everyone to now claiming it's their original work, despite hundreds of pending copyright cases against them in the courts. Why is this even allowed? That's hypocrisy at best.
The Seeing Assistant Go app supports the spatial orientation of blind and visually impaired people. It provides information about the surroundings using
【𝕭𝖆𝖘𝖘𝖕𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖑 🎬】 AxWax remixes at the Not Bonk What I Call Wave: Remixes Vol 2 launch party
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My two remixes on Not Bonk What I Call Wave: Remixes Vol 2, recorded at the release party Owncast stream. The tracks, Secret Deal - All Around (AxWax Remix) and Traiken - The Snag in Your Makeshift Cape (AxWax Remix) can be streamed / d...
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📺 v.basspistol.org/w/njehmVvLcBj… ⚠️ Your comments to this post are appreciated, but consider following this creator or interacting with the video directly by pasting the link above in your instance's search-box! 💌 🈁 #peerTube #Basspistol
Noticed an AI assistant is now in your WhatsApp? Meta’s AI feature is now being rolled out in the EU and you can’t turn it off – but you can stop the AI invasion by opting for privacy-focused alternatives.
I keep sending articles like this to people that are constantly complaining about the problems of AI... But the answer is always the same... "I would like to use it, But I can't all my friends use WhatsApp!" Uuggh I'm so tired of this
📣 Sei #A11y und unterstütze den Zugang zum !@metalab für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit! Komm zum Do-It-Blind (DIB) Treffen 🛠️ am Montag, 28. April, Treffpunkt Ring-Passage, U3-Station Volkstheater um 16:00; Ende 20:00 metalab.at/calendar/event/8037… #make #blind #inklusion
In which I claim that a few annoying #Fediverse problems (and ATproto too) could be solved by using URI schemes the way they’re designed to be used: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20…
I remember that guy raiding libssh's bug reports for Fedora, he's singlehandedly responsible for performance issues not being fixed because the bug's priority dropped to wontfix due to his behavior. @cryptomilk
Peter Dutton has made a new election ad, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative!☝️ Language warning! (There will be a bleeped version for those who nee...
I meant to try this out for a few days now, and I finally did it. I was able to view a Telemundo News report in Spanish and have Meta glasses translate it to me in real time using the Live Translate feature. There is about a 5-10-second delay, but over all it's quite impressive. I even tried watching trailers for some Spanish-speaking movies... Quite something!
Love some quotes in this article, e.g. that democrats and liberals are more likely to buy Teslas than republicans. Guess Elon forgot whose pockets he should be thankful to... As Tesla profits plunge 71%, Elon Musk says he’ll spend less time on DOGE - NPR apple.news/AXomrUMyFRKGbQrC1aN…
Elon Musk says he’ll cut back his work with the federal government to one to two days per week. He said demand for Teslas is still strong, despite protests and plunging sales.
"The old and new right-wing parties are amalgamating into a neoliberal and hyper-conservative ‘pleiad’ (social notables) that comprises neo-Christian fundamentalists, including Fatimists (a Catholic religious faction). The new desire to celebrate November 25 emerges from here. The latest extreme on the right is embodied in the anti-communism of IL (the Liberal Initiative) and the neo-fascism of Chega. The media normalizes it all as milquetoast ‘liberals’ rather than what they are – figures of the ‘radical / extreme right’. These groupings want to celebrate November 25 for what it was: a coup d’état against democracy at work, against the duality of popular power. In short, they want to celebrate the counter-revolution, the beginning of the end of the Revolution.
November 25 heralded Portugal’s reconstruction from a ‘national capitalism’ dependent on forced labour in its African colonies until 1974 to a subservient capitalism that is a de facto protectorate of the leading European power of Germany, France, and Britain. Portugal now helplessly depends on investments and capital goods from North America, Spain, China, and other countries.
The ostensible ‘democratic counter-revolution’ of 25 November 1975 is a central political event for understanding what happened in Portugal, and it was far less democratic and far more reactionary in its roots. As we rescue the authentic memory of the Carnation Revolution and lament its demise, no wonder Father Martins Júnior said in a piercing manner that what remains is “50 neo-fascists in the hemicycle 50 years after the April Revolution.”
The impossible became possible on that day 50 years ago. The dreams unleashed on April 25, 1974, neither have been vanquished nor fulfilled. The slogan could not be more urgent: April 25 forever, fascism never again!"
In an unmistakable style in the form of a provocative lecture in Lisbon in 2024, at the age of 84 Father Martins Júnior asked: “50 years later, what irony! There are 50 fascists, one for each year, in Parliament.
If you heard about that hacking of the voices of traffic light crosswalks in the US recently, the root cause is the devices all had the password '1234' and an app to reprogram the devices was on the Apple app store. theregister.com/2025/04/19/us_…
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