Today I set up a laptop with #Windows 11 for my sister-in-law. The Windows UI is definitely more polished in 11 than it was in 10, but boy, it is cluttered and distracting: "Here is the weather forecast and how about stock prices? News? You surely want to read the news! And BTW here is this cool app from our store." 🤯
@mks_h the laptop came with pre-installed Windows. I just helped her install some apps (mostly open source), set them up and migrate data. The last thing I want to get into is maintaining Windows. 🙂
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ChatGPT leaked private Gmail data to attackers by Friday. 🤦♂️
Because #promptinjection is not a problem these "PhD level" AI assistants have solved.
Look at that calendar invite. That text is all it took for taking over someone's #ChatGPT connected data. Allowing the attacker to use the same #MCP enabled tools that are supposed to make AI useful at work.
It really is as stupid as @davidgerard keeps telling in Pivot to AI.
@patrick_h_lauke I think Elon musk gets on drugs and spews all this nonsense because he can. If he doesn't even know how many years it is to the next election, that tells you something about how much he really cares about he says. Gosh, why doesn't he just shut up and take care of his failing businesses? :)
It's the first time in my life that I became a lucky winner of Elon Musk's whatever some sort of money. The problem is that I need to send my winning number to some email address and then the money would be sent to me via a cashier’s check or an ATM card. Ah, last but not least, the congratulatory email ended with words “God bless you!” That really gave it away! LOL
@Lprazdnik I was wondering about the same. I guess they would like to establish an email conversation first! It's a good practice to do so if you are serious about a business transaction! :)
Re: last boost (cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog…), I wonder if Windows is also becoming less popular with blind kids. My immediate reaction was that they're an exception, because Windows still has the best screen readers. But my sample size of younger generations of blind people is too small for me to be sure.
And, that post really makes me feel like an old guy set in my ways, because I've settled into being pretty comfortable with Windows; I've gotten used to just ignoring the shit that Microsoft keeps piling on.
i know in canada it's a lot more mobile phones but with PCs still dominating schools and it's what work is being done on often. e.g. my daughter just started in university and that's what she is using... and the university has a M365 subscription and is heavily Microsoft oriented
I finally have a #pixel10pro. Now it's going in the drawer, and I'll be rooting for the #GrapheneOS developers to finish support for it as soon as possible.
@decathorpe finally because I couldn't wait to check out the hardware, but I never planned to use it before I can get GrapheneOS on it. The main reason why I got it now is that there $250 cashback only until the end of the month. Waiting for GOS would only make the phone more expensive.
@andrew773 yes, I already have a Pixel 6a with it. It's a good entry phone for GrapheneOS because you can get it for ~€120 and it still has 2 years of support. A good way to try GOS out without spending a lot of money.
Nice one! Will probably buy one too when Pixel 11 will come out (I'm buying older Pixels when the new ones come out as there are usually good deals on them). Tbh, I'm interested in the desktop mode a lot - it seems it's really close to the official release now - and Pixel 10 may be a good device to run a Linux VM smoothly enough to be useful in the desktop mode.
@kayla I was thinking about getting Pixel 9 because 10 isn't a major upgrade and I wouldn't have to wait for GOS, but at the moment with the cashback 10 is for the price of 9.
A historic perspective: Fascists killing other fascists over their fascism not being fascist enough is not an uncommon thing in fascist history. And then blaming "the left", "communists" or a "secret cabal" for everything also isn't. It's an old pattern used time after time. #JustSayin (This is my personal opinion)
Ano, problémový toot jsem už ráno smazal a uživatele kontaktoval. Snažíme se věci řešit co nejrychleji, ale ne každý sedí u počítače nonstop. Jen upozorňuju na tohle chování – místo aby proběhla komunikace, hned se sahá po #fediblock celé instance.
@schmaker Ano, někteří to tak prezentují. Můj postup je: první přestupek = varování a smazání příspěvku. Mazat účet hned po prvním průšvihu nechci – pokud by se problém opakoval, pak už ano.
@schmaker Vážně řešíte někoho, kdo provozuje cosi s názvem “pizza.enby.city”? Kolik to má lidí? Tři? A tbh přijde mi ten toot na hraně, ale asi ne přes čáru.
@Unreed Ten maník z pizza.enby.city mi je úplně u zadele. Jde o to, že podobně „chytrého“ může napadnout udělat seznam blokovaných instancí, vytáhne je z hashtagu #fediblock a pak se to tu začne šířit.
Ostatně podobné seznamy už kolovaly při migraci z Twitteru a některé CZ instance je tehdy také importovaly. @schmaker
@schmaker Takže na vycukání adminů stačí chodit a hulákat jeden hashtag? Ten seznam bude úplná blbost. Co když začnu používat fediblock na svoje skříplý pravý rameno?
myslim to roztleskávání fediblocku. u autora příspěvku se pořád nemůžu rozhodnout, jestli bydlí někde Neštěmkách u Mojžíře, nebo jestli to odkoukal u alt-right kolegů z Xka
jo me kdysi přišlo hlášení ze “overtly racist”. Přišlo na me. Za příspěvek kdy jsem řekl ze za mlada jsem mel za sousedy cigany a půlka z nich byli nepřizpůsobivý průseráři a druhá půlka naprosto v poho 🤷♂️ tak snad zas něco nepřijde když to tu opakuju
jo, tohle přehnaný blokování je zvláštní. Na takové instanci bych nechtěl být. Takhle mě dlouho blokoval mastodon.art za to, že provozuju fedisearch. Vůbec nebyla možnost se bránit, prostě ke mě doputoval příspěvek typu "tenhle týpek indexuje posty na fedi a není jak se opt-outnout, zablokovat" a bylo hotovo. Nikomu nevadilo že to není pravda. Neindexují se posty, ale accounty. A opt out způsoby mám asi 3. 🤷
I posted about adding pthread_cancel use in curl about three weeks ago, we released this in curl 8.16.0 and it blew up right in our faces. Now, with #18540 we are ripping it out again.
I think it's reasonable to declare that pthread_cancel() is effectively broken for any nontrivial use on contemporary OSes and it is unlikely to be fixed any time soon.
(I suspect it would actually be easier to cajole libc maintainers into adding an async friendly version of GAI() than to make GAI() cancellation safe.)
If you want a cancellable thing from which you can make blocking calls, the only near-universal option is subprocesses. Unfortunately there are reasons why in some ecosystems it is impolite for a library to start a subprocess.
📣 Sei #A11y und unterstütze den Zugang zum !@metalab für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit! Komm zum Do-It-Blind (DIB) Treffen 🛠️ am Montag, 15. September, Treffpunkt Ring-Passage, U3-Station Volkstheater um 16:00; Ende 20:00 metalab.at/calendar/event/8152… #make #blind #inklusion
I did not know or follow Charlie Kirk until I heard of his death recently, but man. All these people claiming the world would be a better place without him/such persons are not a single bit better than what they claim him to be. Crying around about how he hated people, or encouraged to it? WTF? Do you realise you're supporting that this guy got shot, murdered in front of his family? The world is broken. RIP and god bless.
Oh and before anyone thinks this is any sort of political statement, since he was also connected to Trump. I really don't like everything Trump does, firing disabled people from federal jobs, for example. But honestly, hearing close family members say how it might've been better if the shot back then had hit him too, and even laughing at it... I seriously have to wonder what's going on these days.
It’s hard to communicate sometimes just how legacy and niche the concept of a desktop workstation has become. The idea of sitting down at a dedicated space to do computer things is outdated. If we—desktop Linux I mean—are building solely for that experience we’ll die out. If you’re not building towards notebook, tablet, and mobile workflows you’re building for the past cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog…
Kids nowadays get Chromebooks at college, MacBooks for uni, use Android or iOS on their phones and game on PlayStation 5 and Switch.
Windows is this legacy thing forced on them by old people in business.
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fediblock of mastodon.arch-linux.cz. Providing a screenshot so you don't have to visit the instance, and even if it's deleted later, we retain evidence. The issue was this sort of thing has been reported up to the instance admin and they have not done their proper job moderating.
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Yes, I am aware of the report and the user has already been contacted. It’s not always possible to respond immediately – not everyone can just sit down at the computer right away. Some of the reports were handled in the morning, and I will finish the rest after returning home.
I take moderation seriously, but running the instance is a volunteer activity that I do in my free time. If any further issues come up, please feel free to reach out – I always review reports as soon as I can.
I don’t understand why you immediately issue a fediblock. Is it really the case that if something isn’t resolved within five minutes, the whole instance gets blocked? I honestly don’t get it.
There's a famous computer joke that goes along the lines of "we needed 4K of RAM to send people to the Moon, and now we need <e.g. 4GB to keep a grocery shopping list>".
I think it is a fine illustration of the Jevons paradox in computing, and one of the "computing Murphy laws", known as the Parkinson's Law of Data - "Data expands to fill the space available for storage". I also think it's quite intriguing to highlight observations of a similar phenomenon related to compilers, especially in the context of #permacomputing
Yesterday I read a book on a minimalist compiler written in the 00's, having a remarkable footprint of merely 424 KB of RAM.
And then I thought about Turbo Pascal for CP/M that ran with 64KB of RAM. And then various compilers that worked on micros with 16KB or less.
And then I read about things like the ALGO compiler, an ALGOL clone, for a first generation/vacuum tube computer Bendix G-15 (yes, the one Usagi Electric has): 2160 words of 29 bit RAM, no more than 370 op/s.
In world political news that went under the radar over the past few days: the government of #Nepal has been overthrown by youths following a governmental move to block social media, and accusations of corruption.
A new PM was elected over #Discord, and has been accepted by the military. They aim to hold elections within 6 months.
I repeat:
THEY ELECTED A NEW GOVERNMENT
OVER
DISCORD.
And no second ammendment was needed to rise up against against tyranny.
> Police investigators in Russia’s Kaliningrad region on Monday discovered the decapitated body of the CEO of a local fertilizer company.
> The chief executive, Alexei Sinitsyn, is believed to have died by suicide, according to a law enforcement source cited by the Vedomosti business newspaper.
@adam You might be interested to know that I completely replaced the Bell Gigahub modem without any issues this morning. The process is perfectly accessible, other than needing someone to read the ONT ID off the back of your bell modem. You need a router or switch with an SFP+ port. You also need a fan or other active cooling for the fiber module; they run at about 90 degrees. Then I purchased my x-onu-sfpp from fibermall. Once you have these things, you can use these instructions: pon.wiki/guides/masquerade-as-the-bce-inc-giga-hub-with-the-was-110/#purchase-a-was-110-or-x-onu-sfpp
Cool stuff. Glad you're off that garbage modem. You should notice a huge increase in connection stability. I have two WAS-110 SFP+ modules, so when i upgrade the 8311 firmware, I just pull the fiber, plug it into the second one, connection comes right back up, then I do the firmware upgrade, and then swap the fiber back when its done.
Seems to have slowed down, star its GitHub repo for updates. github.com/djGrrr/8311-was-110… Although I'm not sure if that is what's running on your device. But its the custom firmware I'm running.
I’m running whatever FIBERMALL put on it. It claims to be 8311 community firmware. And its web updater says it’s up to date with the latest release from 2024.
Oh yeah, they really do get warm. The chassis is the heatsink, essentially. Some have come up with air cooling solutions, but mine have run without fail for years without active cooling. As for benefits over PPPoE passthrough, you'll probably notice a bit of a reduction in latency, perhaps 1 MS better. Minor, but a perk. Certainly the fact that you're in control of everything up to the fiber connector, you can choose when firmware updaes happen, and not Bell. No more modem reboots over night, and even randomly during the day. Oh yeah, and no more incidents of pushing bad configs to a million modems causing them to be down for 8 plus hours, LOL. I was enjoying the net all through that incident. Also, may be a good reason to revisit some VLAN snooping to see if IPv6 can be found anywhere.
I got myself a heatsync I'm gonna stick on there with a thermal pad, and a little five volt fan, as I happened to have a USB plug nearbye to run it. I'm kinda worried about the heat from the PFS port causing the switch to throddle itself.
Sorry to barge in like this, but I've been considering bypassing my AT&T gateway for a while. It would require a different module than the WAS110 since I'm only on gpon, but I'm a little scared to unplug the fiber cable. How do you do it properly? It feels extremely fragile.
No worries. Glad to do my best attempt at describing the process. To be specific, I am describing attaching and detaching an SC-APC connector on the end of an ISP-provided singlemode 125NM fiber line. So you will note that the connector is square, and if you feel along the sides of the square that naturally face your fingers as you grip the connector, you will feel narrow slits, that should feel like they're for finger usage to loosen or unlock the connector. And this is what happens. You squeeze these tabs inward, and the lock is released. You then pull very gently, very slowly, and very straight with your entire hand, and the connector should slide off the SFP+ module, or out of the modem. The modem will likely be a bit trickier in handling, and may require some effort to unplug the connector. Do your best in gaging if you think you're overdoing something, but at the same time, the modem connector may be stubborn. Most of all, always pull or push connectors straight. Also, never, under any circumstances that you can control, touch or point the end of the fiber connector at your face or any one elses. Touch should be absolutely limited to necessities, or purposefully destroying a connector. To plug the connector back in, ensure it is aligned with the square receptical, and push gently. If aligned, it will slide a short distance, then lock into place with a bump and a slight click. Hope this helps some.
No worries! If I wanted it to be private, I’d have sent a dm. What Adam says aligns with my experience. The plug on the modem was extremely stubborn; I had to tug on it harder than I like pulling on any connector, and I had nearly resigned myself to giving up before it finally came out. Even then I was scared I had broken it. As for touching the connector, I was cowardly and had the rubber cover in my hand and ready to go. I put the cover on until I was ready to plug it into the new module.
I thought I was going to just get up and make a bunch of new AT-SPI releases, but no such luck. I check my email and find that someone tested my latest fix and found that, for Bengali, Orca isn't reading all characters as they are typed. It isn't clear to me if this is a regression or just a bug that has been there all along and that I didn't fix, and I was going to backport my fix to the old stable branches, so now I have to figure out the answer to that before I can proceed.
If you read their Terms of Service, at first glance, they reference the laws of Switzerland. However, because they now have offices in the United States — along with registrations, trademarks, copyrights, and patents in the U.S. — they also cite U.S. laws. The only two countries you'll see mentioned are Switzerland and the United States — nothing else.
Their CEO has, on several occasions, also praised Donald Trump. Additionally, Proton left the Fediverse because they couldn’t silence users there as they have on platforms like Facebook or Reddit. The fact that they’re now trying to silence journalists doesn’t surprise me.
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Politics have no place in Football so it was unacceptable for Colin Kaepernick to peacefully take a knee to protest systemic racism, but the NFL proudly held a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk because we must honor a man who denied systemic racism even exists.
Wondering what's up with Gmail and Imap? Since yesterday, for me at any rate, it's been acting rather sluggish when accessing with Outlook Classic, Thunderbird, Mail for iOS, etc.
In einem Deiner Error-Logs sollte was zu finden sein. Schaue mal in das Error-Log des PHP-Prozesses oder des Webservers. Alternativ kannst Du schauen, ob Du Einträge mit "ERROR" im Friendica-Log findest.
Abhängig von Deiner Installation wirst Du an einer dieser Stellen fündig werden.
Das kommt bei mir auch ab und zu vor, vor allem wenn ich lange nicht online war. Beim zweiten oder dritten Aufruf des Profils funktioniert es dann wieder, daher vermute ich etwas mit Timeout und stückweise nachgeladene Beiträge nach langer Abwesenheit.
#serviceToot one of the mirrors at #IzzyOnDroid had a power outage, and is currently in recovery (file system repair) – the USV didn't like to be triggered 3 times in a row 🙈). Good thing there are multiple mirrors, so you shouldn't even notice it – unless you pinned your client to our US mirror…
You can watch the state at our monitor, and thus see when the mirror recovered:
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@Bodo Danke Bodo! Den meisten Stress damit hatte Andrew, der die Server in den US betreut. Und ja, Murphy hat natürlich zur passenden Unzeit (Dinnertime) zugeschlagen. Wir hoffen jetzt, die letzten Rätsel bzgl. unseres Buildservers noch zu lösen – und auch das bleibt leider wieder größtenteils an Andrew hängen, wir können von hier aus nur mit "SchauMalObsJetztGeht" helfen, da wir den Server derzeit nicht erreichen können, obwohl er fein läuft… Verrücktes IT Zeugs das…
Danke dir für den kurzen Einblick! Dann erweitere ich meine Wünsche für einen entspannten und erholsamen, sonnigen Sonntag für Andrew gleich mit. 😉
Wie so vieles im Leben, weiß man gewisse Dinge erst zu schätzen, wenn sie nicht mehr rund laufen. Toi, toi, toi, dass quasi "im Schlaf" des Rätsels Lösung dich/euch finden wird! ✨
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in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •should've installed the LTSC version, it comes with none of the bloatware.
I can share a link to a certain legit website with a good guide (used it personally).
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in reply to Maksym Hazevych • • •Adam Williamson
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •Dozens of things you can do to clean up a fresh install of Windows 11 24H2 and Edge
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in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •GitHub - Raphire/Win11Debloat: A simple, easy to use PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customize, declutter and improve your Windows experience. Win11Debloat works for both Windo
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