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Despite generating $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, OpenAI reported a net loss of $13.5 billion. In other words, ignore all sugar coating. They, are losing money heavily techinasia.com/news/openais-re…

They abandoned the goal cancer cure to produce only rewritten text, images, and 10 second meme videos. They're burning capital on millions of GPUs. The classic VC model. Outspend rivals and use others' copyrighted work without solving a single critical problem. No human suffering solved

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"…pokud chcete žít v míru, pokud chcete žít na Západě, pokud chcete žít v otevřené společnosti, pokud chcete žít ve společnosti, kterou neřídí nenávist, zvyšujete své šance volbou Spolu, STAN a Pirátů."

Tak hodně štěstí! #volby #respekt #tabery
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Česko potřebuje slušnou konzervativní silu Spolu, regionální uskupení STAN a liberální hlas Pirátů. Česko má předpoklady aby ustálo i vládu extremistů. Je tu nezávislá policie, justice, média, máme dvoukomorový parlament, demokratického prezidenta a silnou občanskou společnost. Destrukce systému většinou přichází až v druhếm volebním období, ale proč riskovat? Proč ztrácet čas zápasem za demokratické principy země, když před námi leží příležitost vybrat si lehčí cestu prostě jít k volbám? Ještě jednou si to zopakujme, kmoci se mohou dostat strany, které chtějí změnu režimu, vyvázat nás ze spojeneckých svazků a jež kolaborují s naším primárním nepřítelem Ruskem. Proto závěrem s plnou vážností říkáme, pokud chcete žít v míru, pokud chcete žít na Západě, pokud chcete žít v otevřené společnosti, pokud chcete žít ve společnosti, kterou neřídí nenávist, zvyšujete své šance volbou Spolu, STAN a Pirátů. Schválně používáme spojení, že zvyšujete šance. Nikdo nedokáže garantovat, že vnější okolnosti mír a prosperitu umožní. Nebo že demokratické sily šancí na lepší budoucnost nemalá hodnota.

Zvolí si Česko vládu hněvu?

Letošní volby mohou přinést obrat porevolučního směřování
Erik Tabery (Týdeník Respekt)
#respekt #volby #tabery

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On the topic of AI tools finding issues: we always thought they *could* do good. The right tool used by a skilled person is a recipe for awesome outcomes. An AI chat in the hands of someone who doesn't quite know what they ask for nor understand what the output says is not. Not to mention that the LLMs frequently just plainly lie.

A primary problem is the myths sold by "big AI" that make people believe they can do these things by themselves. That leads to slop avalanches.

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四

I think the big issue is that was sold was: You hardly know what a computer is, but if you type “Hack the Gibson” in a prompt you are now a hacker.

Same with images, music, etc.

I don’t think that sci fi dream is realistic, at least not in this current version of things.

But a tool to search through code to find issues, that are better than the previous tools, that presents the issues to a knowledgeable person. That’s realistic and cuts down on reading all that code.

Because we’ve had tools for a very long time, and they could get better.

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Maarten Aertsen

Back when the dialogue about CRA started years ago, I feel a citable reference like this would have been very helpful in the interaction with policy makers. Which is one of my motivations for volunteering my time and help to create one.

Europe is hardly the only place where people conceive software or critical infrastructure regulation. The future will learn if it’ll be of value elsewhere to inform policymakers about the role of FOSS.

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Well, both paths failed me tonight. On Linux, I could not find an accessible replacement for Virtual Audio Cable (as Pipewire should make virtual audio devices dead easy with one, but all the stuff I looked at were command-line based) and I also couldn't find a tool like CoreTemp, that can put all of my CPU Core temperature information into the Mate Panel. I think this second one I will need to tinker around with some more with Mate-sensors and see what I can come up with.
Then, Windows 7 made me sad when I realized that MemReduct cannot clean as aggressively on it, in a way with Windows 10 Microsoft did improve memory management and what cleaners can clean from it. I also then upped the Ram usage of my Windows 7, and of course, once you go above 10 GB Ram, it starts to use a lot more (up to 3 GB at boot as well if you're at 40 GB ram!) This made me mad. I mean, it wasn't Superfetch, but other things caching files at boot, and of course, without a good Mem Reduct, you can't even lower that ram cruft. Yeah yeah tell me all you want that I have a lot of it, but again, keeping resources always at their tightest and not just loosely holding onto RAM is my goal. My SSD can always do more reads, it can't always do more writes, and speed of reloading from it has made ram-caching files a lot less needed.
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Hey guys,
wiki.termux.dev has moved to a new infrastructure and is now taking some measures to block bot traffic. If anyone faces any problems accessing the wiki, please contact us.

We've also blocked some crawlers which weren't behaving like Sogou crawler which was making 2-3 requests/s. All AI crawlers are blocked as they are pretty annoying and don't care about the crawl rate or even back off when presented with a challenge.

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gholk

Hey, my friend's wiki just survived from ai-crawlers, I found a MediaWiki extension `CrawlerProtection` is very helpful. It ban anonymous users from accessing page history and some expensive page.

I installed it and enable the html file cache (Manual:File cache), and the server work fine now without anubis.

You can check some workaround in media wiki's manual:

mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hand…

Manual:Handling web crawlers - MediaWiki

MediaWiki
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Taggart

Could the internet exist without Cloudflare? Most assuredly, but the inverse is not so. However, Cloudflare has infiltrated so much of the critical infrastructure of the web, that the web's very lifeblood flows through it, making it seem essential. On the contrary, what we have is a single failure point and a private entity whose technical decisions have far, far too great an impact on the direction of the web.

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C++ Weekly With Jason Turner posted about how to use GCC's `-fstack-usage` feature with @compiler_explorer :

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C++ Weekly - Ep 499 - GCC's Stack Usage Analysis (and Warnings!)

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@Compiler Explorer
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I use mattermost as a free, open source Slack replacement. I like it a lot. I also use authentik as my SSO provider for my #homelab / #selfhosted stuff.

If you don't pay for the enterprise version of Mattermost, you don't get the SSO features. You can fake that by using their free GitLab integration. But you also don't get the capability to switch users from one form of authentication (email/password) to SSO after you set it up.

This is pretty obscure, and it involves a bunch of raw Postgres queries. But I figured it out and wrote a blog on converting Mattermost users from email/password to SSO


Mattermost Converting Users from Email to Gitlab authentication | Paco Hope

If you start your Mattermost Team Edition using email and password for users, but then you change your mind and switch to GitLab authentication, it’s not at all obvious or easy how to convert the existing users.
blog.paco.to
#homelab #selfhosted
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I'm surprised it took this long, tbh.
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Dare Obasanjo

2025-10-03 01:46:40

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Apple has removed ICE tracking apps from the App Store.

This includes ICEBlock which alerts people of sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in their area after complaints from Attorney General Pam Bondi.

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Following DOJ pressure, Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store - 9to5Mac

ICEBLOCK has been removed from the App Store at the request of the US Attorney General Pam Bondi. Here are the details.
Marcus Mendes (9to5Mac)

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Apple has removed ICE tracking apps from the App Store.

This includes ICEBlock which alerts people of sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in their area after complaints from Attorney General Pam Bondi.

9to5mac.com/2025/10/02/followi…


Following DOJ pressure, Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store - 9to5Mac

ICEBLOCK has been removed from the App Store at the request of the US Attorney General Pam Bondi. Here are the details.
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Today in Vancouver real estate adventures: last week I was complaining that nobody likes our dorky little poor people offers. My new complaint is we found a place we like and the sellers are super chill and I think they're going to accept our offer, but *why are we the only ones making an offer? What is wrong with it?!*

I can't believe anyone actually wants to buy a home more than once ever.

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My 9 year old son has just vibe coded his first app. The free version of hangman he had showed too many ads, and had some stupid “lives” system that meant you couldn’t play again too quickly.

We sat down and spoke about what he wanted. He’s very particular in how he speaks so I didn’t need to reword it to be precise or less ambiguous.

We pasted that in to Claude Code and iterated a few times, within 15 minutes he had his game that he wants ready to go and installed on his iPhone and iPad.

It’s a crazy time to be coding.

#Claude
#VibeCoding

#Claude #vibecoding
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The Democracy Paradox podcast has restarted, featuring a series of three interviews (two already posted) with political scientists writing on democratic backsliding. democracyparadox.com #PoliticalScience

Democracy Paradox - Because Democracy is More than Elections

Because Democracy is More than Elections
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ahaaha. github.com/nalexandru/api-ms-w… -: GitHub - Implementation of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll for Windows 7 based on Wine code. Good job, person who just helped me get Tweesecake running on Windows 7. So far, it's been fairly painless to get modern things going on it.

GitHub - nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK: Implementation of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll for Windows 7 based on Wine code

Implementation of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll for Windows 7 based on Wine code - nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK
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Tamas G

ooh nice, for chromium? I couldn't find a good firefox one, r3dfox is definitely not accessible, Firefox 115 ESR is not the worst since it's 2023 but gosh darn it all the opensource instructions require you rebuild the Firefox source with Rust toolchains! Insanity. This kind of stuff made me a bit sad, just how quickly Windows 7 lost support once the ESU was gone, devs dropped it, and while some modern DLLs can be layered back in, my guess is once the app starts to drop support if they tie into system-level APIs and use newer ones, Windows 7 has very little fighting chance, sigh.
I wonder how long it'll take for Windows 10 to get there. I mean, not forever. Right now it shares enough in similar to Win11 that this matters very little, but in 5 years the code paths will diverge enough that it'll really be hitting end of life too.
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Simon Jaeger

@cubic @serrebi I hear a lot more people talking about running enterprise versions of Windows 10 when compared to any previous Windows version, and I don't know the history of enterprise releases and their end-of-life dates, but I wonder if Windows 10 LTSC will make a difference to software support at all. So far I don't think I've seen any apps that specifically require Windows 11, but I know they're coming eventually.
@Brandon @DJ Seedy!
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Tamas G

@simon @cubic @serrebi Oh yeah, the 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC (long-term servicing channel) is what I'm running now. There's a way to get the build to 19045 (from 19044, so to the 22H2 update) by extracting the .cab from the .msu package and installing it with dism, as it's just an enablement package, meaning the features are in the build just not running. So then, supposedly (although it's not confirmed, at least the package is easy enough to remove,) you get to keep Windows 10 LTSC support date (2031) with the slight improvements of the update, like performance tweaks and advanced threat protection enabled. I can say from my Winver dialog that it's a weird frankenstein of things: "Version 21H2 (OS Build 19045.6396)" - huh? But true. It didn't up it to "22H2", and the only way you would even know it's not treu 21H2 is by looking at the build number. Officially, my SKU still reports as the 21H2 LTSC branch, too. Huh huh. We'll see what happens in a month with this, I also have a back-up of that drive from before applying the update.
@Brandon @Simon Jaeger @DJ Seedy!
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Tamas G

yeah, their site is about the only place I've known you can get LTSC without it being the evaluation copy Microsoft gives for enterprise builds. LTSC is as clean as you'll get to Windows 7 but with Windows 10's Metro UWP bits still there. Removing those is difficult in any way because of just how much the shell and other settings bits rely on it now. I tried Explorer7, which lets you get Windows 7's Explorer on Win10, it's nice but then I'm reminded that control+windows +enter to run something as an admin wasn't added in Windows 7's explorer, joke's on me. xD
Oh yeah, and today marks 11 days until Win10 is out of mainstream support, ironic that it's 11 days to the end of 10.
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Simon Jaeger

@cubic @serrebi Really liking all of the tinkering energy here. I have gotten win11 to cooperate but it seems like slimming down Windows 10 is easier, and there are hardware requirements even for the LTSC channel. I'm kinda wondering if I could get Windows 7 to run on my Compute Stick. It's the perfect shitty hardware to test out a much older, faster windows release. Wonder if I still have an old copy of Windows Loader. Eventually it turned into serious malware.
@Brandon @DJ Seedy!
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Tamas G

OMG so you're telling me that's how I got ransomware in Windows 7 that one time? xD (this was back in 2020) Yeah, a lot of those keygens can really be crap. Not worth it when powershell scripts and things do exist which are a lot more safe and you can review the input so you know what it's doing exactly. Not that I advocate for these things, but LTSC I think also can only activate via volume licensing channels.
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Simon Jaeger

@serrebi @cubic For general use I think you will be far happier with Windows 10 IOT LTSC. I only wanted to try Windows 7 on this particular compute stick because it has an ancient and terrible Intel Atom chip. It looks like there aren't wi-fi and Bluetooth drivers readily available though, so that's probably a no from me.
After running Win11Debloat, changing some stuff in ExplorerPatcher, installing Classic Shell, and Winaero Tweaking a few things, I'm reasonably happy with how Windows 11 runs on even the slowest mini PCs available now. It positively flies on my Beelink SER8. I think we've figured out ways to mitigate the major irritations in Windows 11 by this point. It's even possible to put the system tray back to the way it was in win10 via ExplorerPatcher.
@Brandon @DJ Seedy!
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Tamas G

@simon @serrebi @cubic aha yeah. I just tried the big red "install now" button just because, why not. guess what, no boot. Ahahahaa. I wasn't expecting any different. Problem is that GPT partitions were so new in 2009 and foreign, Windows just added support and to UEFI in general, so even if your partitions aren't right, Windows just will tank back then. No Recovery environment either to speak of for them.
@Brandon @Simon Jaeger @DJ Seedy!

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MSNBC guest Ian Bremmer on Katy Tur suggests that European countries should ban #Israel from Eurovision, make it difficult for Israelis to travel to Europe, and engage in similar practices to isolate the #Jewish state. His idea is that doing so will turn voters against Netanyahu, thereby at last breaking the far-right stranglehold on government power.

I humbly suggest that Mr. Bremmer doesn't know shit about Israel or Israelis. If you want to push voters straight into the arms of the right wing, make them feel like the world is against them.

If you want those voters to abandon the Bibi and his ilk, stop rewarding Hamas for terrorism. Make it clear that Europe stands behind a two-state solution but only after Hamas capitulates and the #hostages have been freed, and only after Israel's government puts meaningful effort into building a foundation upon which a two-state solution could be implemented. Offer Pal recognition as an ex post reward for peace, not an ex ante capitulation to terror.

#jewish #israel #hostages

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Never change, Europe. Never change. 😘🤌

"Around 15% of #Italians consider physical attacks on #Jewish people "entirely or fairly justifiable", according to a #survey published on Tuesday, as protests against #Israel's offensive in #Gaza continue across the country.

Some 18% of those interviewed also believe #antisemitic graffiti on walls and other public spaces is legitimate, according to the survey, conducted on September 24-26 by the pollster SWG among a national sample of 800 adults."

reuters.com/world/italy-poll-f…

#jewish #israel #survey #Gaza #antisemitic #italians
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