I made some final tweaks to the #Tactile #SVG Bingo card output for both portrait and landscape modes, made the site responsive, pretty, and functional in light and dark modes with CSS, and am happy to release this further out into the world! Thanks to @ChanceyFleet for bringing this little project to me! Now anyone can make tactile and embossable Bingo Cards whenever they want! We can do so much nonvisually with just a little code and a means of tactile output! blindsvg.com/pages/projects/bi…
YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without telling users or asking permission. As AI quietly mediates our world, what happens to our shared connections with real life?
> "We're running an experiment on select YouTube Shorts that uses traditional machine learning technology to unblur, denoise and improve clarity in videos during processing (similar to what a modern smartphone does when you record a video)," said Rene Ritchie, YouTube's head of editorial and creator liaison, in a post on X.
> "YouTube is always working on ways to provide the best video quality and experience possible, and will continue to take creator and viewer feedback into consideration as we iterate and improve on these features."
Things people didn't ask. They are "creators" as you call them. If they didn't ask for this you have no right to do it.
We see still a lot of downloads for Blade (apt.izzysoft.de/packages/v.bla…) – despite the app being seemingly abandoned, and issue tracker plus other reports say "Spotify broken", "Deezer broken", "App crashes"…
Anyone here using the app without issues? As it seems to be in higher demand, we hesitate removing it. Though the downloads could just be single-try, fails, delete…
@althavin That's why we don't use download count as sole criterium. It's just one of the numbers going into it. No fixed algorithm either, it has the human part in it, too 😉
Well, y'all know the NoSourceSince, when an app's repo has disappeared entirely and you no longer can expect any updates. There's a precursor to that: when an app's repo gets archived, there won't be any updates either – but chances are it gets unarchived again.
So we introduced SourceArchived, to let you easily filter them out.
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).
Pedestrians, cyclists and drivers are at increased risk as the rapid rise in monster US pick-up trucks on Europe’s roads is set to accelerate after the…
There's a really disturbing #Paypal #phishing scam happening right now. Obviously this reads like a typical phishing attempt (bad grammar, a malformed phone number to call, etc), but the official Paypal email wasn't spoofed. It came from PayPal's email infrastructure.
Examining the headers shows that SPF, DKIM, and DMARC all pass. If you have a Paypal account, please exercise caution. Don't click links in these emails. Forward them to phishing@paypal.com.
Cool cool, Sam Altman met a UK government minister and tried to get the UK gov to buy every citizen a ChatGPT license, at a cost to taxpayers of £2bn a year.
Have you ever run a sanity check on server? Perhaps had a service that’s hung?
Maybe you’ve had a housekeeping script, or wondered if a particular platform supports something natively?
Well, next time you look in the mirror, you’ve got a low-down, dirty bigot looking back at you and you should be ashamed at the incredibly insensitive language you’re using.
According to the new Inclusive Language Guide they’ve endorsed, most of the language that IT people use to discuss services, software, and projects is downright disgusting.
Check out some of the condemnations:
Instead of “black hat” and “white hat”, you must say “malicious hacker” and “approved hacker”. Ironically hacker itself is a co-opted word whose originally meaning has been subverted. You can’t say “housekeeping” because…people shouldn’t keep house? Strange, because “housekeeper” is hardly a gendered term. Instead you must say “cleanup” or “maintenance” or “logistics”. “Sanity Check”? How dare you, you ableist. You can’t say “normal” or “abnormal” because…reasons? Instead you say “typical” or “atypical”. “Dummy”? You might as well be spitting on people in wheelchairs. “Hung” is labeled “violent Language that practices a degree of aggression”.
You’d be forgiven for thinking this was an Onion article, but it’s something the Linux Foundation actually believes in.
If everyone took these suggestions seriously, they would quickly turn into euphemism treadmills. Today we can’t say “normal” – tomorrow they’d be horrified someone says “typical” and would be suggesting a new term.
But really, who would take these ideas seriously?
“Avoid using idioms and jargons,” is another key recommendation. I’m not sure how someone has a conversation about information technology without using information technology jargon. Can we no longer use terms like “CPU”, “network”, and “compiler”? Suggestions
The list seems to have a lot of room for improvement, in my opinion. Here are some terms they missed:
Horsepower: deeply inconsiderate to horses (and those who identify as equines), since they did not consent to their strength being commodified for mechanical comparisons. Primary/Secondary: these terms practically scream hierarchy, if not patriarchy.
Firewall: may be alarming to those with a history of house fires or fear of walls. I suggest using “Boundary of Warmth.”
Bug: derogatory toward insects, portraying them as inherently problematic when they’re just trying to live their best lives.
Thread: offensive to knitters, as it trivializes the noble art of textile creation for mere CPU scheduling.
Deadlock: insensitive to those dealing with jammed doors or locksmith trauma. And the violence! Fork: can cause distress to spoons and knives by implying cutlery hierarchy.
Cloud: could upset people who live in perpetually sunny climates and feel cloud-excluded.
Ping: might offend submariners who still have flashbacks from Cold War sonar drills.
Mouse: unfairly stigmatizes rodents, who do not deserve to be synonymous with point-and-click servitude.
One of my boredom-driven projects this weekend was to rewrite Uphide, my little Windows Update hiding utility, in C++ from BCX BASIC, and it was successful! Now, at least rather than being written in a BASIC dialect no one but me knows, I'm using a language that many people know and choose to steer clear of :D. The link on my site has been updated, as well as the GitHub code. Functionally, you should notice pretty much no difference, other than it no longer crashing on certain computers when exiting. Source code: github.com/trypsynth/uphide Binary: quinbox.xyz/files/uphide.exe
@clv0 Probably because I'm using C++ as opposed to having BCX compile to straight C. The C++ runtime adds a bit of overhead. But I really didn't feel like writing COM code in C.
The official music video for "Hangman" by Taylor Acorn from her upcoming album 'Poster Child' out October 24 - Pre-order now at https://ffm.to/ta_posterchild...
Core postmarketOS contributor Clayton is crowdfunding a new laptop for @postmarketOS development. He's raised over 50%, let's get it all the way! This is an excellent way to support the advancement of Mobile Linux. @craftyguy @linmob #linux #mobilelinux #postmarketos
Lets try that again; our website was too secure! We have a basic website up and running, displaying the most recent Rambles (read-only for now). Come take a listen! ramblio.com/
Hello there! Thanks for putting this together. Have been playing since this morning. Any chance of this becoming multilingual in some distant future or is there any official policy on rambles in other languages than English?
Musk punta al Vibe Coding con Macrohard. Agenti AI per scrivere codice e competere con Microsoft
Elon Musk ha annunciato la creazione di una nuova azienda dal nome provocatorio Macrohard, destinata a diventare una concorrente diretta di Microsoft. Secondo Musk, il nome è ironico, ma il progetto in sé è piuttosto serio.
L’obiettivo principale di Macrohard è sviluppare software basato sull’intelligenza artificiale. L’azienda sarà collegata a un altro dei suoi progetti, xAI , per il quale è già stato creato il chatbot Grok. Musk ha spiegato che, poiché Microsoft e aziende simili non producono hardware fisico, le loro attività possono, in linea di principio, essere modellate dall’intelligenza artificiale. xAI ha recentemente depositato una domanda di registrazione del marchio Macrohard presso l’Ufficio Brevetti e Marchi degli Stati Uniti.
Il mese scorso, Musk ha parlato di piani per creare una “società di intelligenza artificiale multi-agent” in cui centinaia di agenti intelligenti specializzati programmerebbero, genererebbero e analizzerebbero immagini e video. Questi stessi agenti fungerebbero anche da utenti virtuali, testando i prodotti fino al raggiungimento di risultati ottimali.
Nel suo stile abituale, Musk ha definito il progetto una “macro sfida e un compito arduo con una forte concorrenza” e ha invitato gli abbonati a indovinarne il nome.
A quanto pare, si aspetta che Macrohard sia in grado di creare soluzioni software di alta qualità, paragonabili ai prodotti per ufficio di Microsoft, che a sua volta sta investendo attivamente nell’intelligenza artificiale generativa . Inoltre, Musk ha precedentemente menzionato la sua intenzione di utilizzare l’intelligenza artificiale per sviluppare videogiochi.
Per sviluppare il nuovo progetto, xAI utilizzerà il supercomputer Colossus di Memphis, la cui capacità sta gradualmente aumentando. Musk ha sottolineato che l’azienda prevede di acquistare milioni di processori grafici Nvidia di livello enterprise, mentre OpenAI, Meta e altri attori si contendono la leadership nell’intelligenza artificiale.
LibreTorrent from @fdroidorg is looking very nice now with its new Material Theme. Goes hand in hand with the new magnet URI support in #Conversations_im
The last time I logged into the Bad Place before I deleted my account, there were a ton of people quote posting something I had said about giving food to homeless people.
That's some next level nonsense. It's hard to understand how they can work within a text and a tradition that are supposed to be all about the opposite. But I guess it's good to remind oneself that religion isn't just what a text say but how people behave, sometimes for good, sometimes for bad. This time clearly for pretty bad.
Hoy buscando por casualidad conseguí reencontrar una de esas viejas canciones de adolescencia de la que no tenía copia, y que había estado buscando años. Es de la época de roldanes, condes, y demás fauna ibérica, pero podría perfectamente haberse escrito ayer sobre algún borbón. El maletín del financiero, de Paco Bello: youtube.com/watch?v=_3hLnTVCEs…
@mWare working pretty reliably now. Know exactly what I need to do for permissions and changes to the default config. And it will be using the system mongod instead of trying to launch its own. I should be able to port this with some confidence but it does need some wider testing of its functionality. Interested in being a guinea pig ?
Blahaj has an unforeseeable snack emergency in the middle of the night but the only thing open is Våffelhus. And we all know what happens at Våffelhus at 3 a...
A look at the collapse of narrative podcasts, facing high production costs and limited ad revenue, despite overall podcast listenership reaching all-time highs (Eric Benson/Rolling Stone)
This is the best kind of hacker conference talk: little-known subject or project, opening new dimensions of possibilities for curious people not afraid to experiment and put in effort and who self-select to take interest or not. Not yet another rehashing of basics of commonplace matters (be it tech or social), not yet another retro-tech deep dive. The speaker is not holding club mate bottle on stage to make people notice their street cred.
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