What is it about the last sliver of a bar of soap that makes it so... unlike soap? It's like the wost part of soap, you'll never get it to lather properly. Complete garbage
They say a picture is worth 1000 words. I don't know that any picture can be well-described with only a few. Thank you for using alt text. Now please make sure your alt text is actually descriptive. Thanks. #AltText
@mischievoustomato yeah I'll make a blog post about it. It won't be fair because some apps that I want that don't exist are things that I have the skills to make work whereas other people would just give up, but that's life I guess
Here’s an interesting tech tip, that literally just came to me this morning as I was playing with Gemini. how to add the current date to your chat, to help keep things organized. Prompt the model to automatically add the current date to the top of every new chat session. This small tweak makes referencing past discussions much more efficient. No complex settings are needed, just a straightforward instruction. As an example, I told Gemini to remember to put the date as the first line in every chat. Now, when I prompt it for something, it will automatically place today’s date in the very first line, allowing me to truly keep track of when I last updated a chat. Any subsequent prompts in the conversation, are not prefix with today’s date. Only the very first line. even better, you only have to tell it to remember one time. I’m sure you could do this with ChatGPT as well. #AI, #Gemini
Le suspense a pris fin à Matignon. Après cinq jours d'imbroglio à la suite de la démission de Sébastien Lecornu, le président Emmanuel Macron l'a finalement reconduit vendredi à la tête du gouvernement.
The head of "special project" office of the federal Government is an oil executive. No wonder why high-speed rail isn't on the list, but a fucking pipeline that no one wants is.
Dawn Farrell, the head of the federal government’s Major Projects Office, believes the Trans Mountain oil pipeline helps fight climate change.
Speaking Thursday at the House of Commons environment committee, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who was tapped by Prime Minister Mark Carney to shepherd his major projects agenda, was asked by Bloc Québécois environment critic Patrick Bonin if she believed the pipeline contributes to the fight against climate change.
“The answer is yes,” Farrell said. “Most of the oil is cracked to make naphtha which goes into petrochemicals, which goes into making electric cars, to electrify the grid in Asia.”
Farrell, who told the committee she earns about $700,000 per year in her role at the Major Projects Office, did not offer any estimate for how many emissions she believes are avoided by using oil to help produce electric vehicles.
According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, by facilitating more oil exports, the Trans Mountain expansion project is expected to add 84 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions every year when taking into account both the emissions from producing and consuming the oil.
“Trans Mountain is a financial drain and an environmental disaster, and it's not reassuring to know that the CEO who finalized the project now heads the Major Projects Office,” Bonin said in a statement.
Software complexity is so out of control. Mobile devices are running type 1 hypervisors now. github.com/quic/gunyah-hypervi… (Learned about this via social.treehouse.systems/@cas/… - about the boot chain for a new MNT Reform processor module based on a Qualcomm SoC; to be clear, MNT is doing good work.) In other words, our most popular and mature operating systems are so big and so insecure that we have to run them on top of another OS. Just now I wish Tanenbaum had won rather than Torvalds.
@matt we are booting with U-Boot. It's (roughly) ROM -> xbl_sec (el3) -> sbl1 (uart & hw init) -> tz -> hypervisor (gunyah) -> u-boot
everything before u-boot is proprietary, we are hoping to be able to optionally disable hyp and get EL2 for KVM but work will be needed (probably from the community) to get the DSPs to work in that case so we have audio
I hadn't heard about the MNT Reform laptops before reading this but after looking into them they are extremely interesting. One of the most interesting things about them is that all three laptops they sell allow you to swap out the processor and use the same module, and they've made modules with ARM64 processors from different manufacturers and a Risc-V one as well. It would be really cool if someone made a device with no screen and a Braille keyboard (and possibly a display), built around either these modules or the Reform Pocket motherboard, since that way you could upgrade the CPU and RAM without having to design a new device. If you get around to designing your BT Speak competitor around the RK3588 maybe you should do something like this. I wonder how long it will take before the MNT Reform modules become competitive with high-end Intel/AMD processors in performance, or with Apple Silicon, since ARM processors have been becoming more powerful including those available to build custom boards around.
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Heute beschließen die Abgeordneten des EU-Parlaments neue Regeln zu Transparenz und Targeting politischer Werbung, die im Wesentlichen ab 2025 gelten sollen.
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Today, Members of the European Parliament adopted new rules on transparency and targeting of political advertising, which will essentially apply from 2025.
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Die Verordnung ((EU) 2024/900) nennt DNT oder GPC nicht explizit.
Art. 18 Abs. 4 lit. a der Verordnung verpflichtet die Verantwortlichen sicherzustellen, dass nicht erneut um Einwilligung gebeten wird, wenn die betroffene Person „[...] bereits mit Hilfe automatisierter Verfahren zu erkennen gegeben hat, dass sie mit der Datenverarbeitung zu Zwecken der politischen Werbung nicht einverstanden ist, [...]“.
Ich würde daher GPC ebenso wie DNT unter den Begriff des ‚automatisierten Verfahrens‘ subsumieren.
Bei mir in LibreWolf etwa ist GPC weiterhin implementiert.
@citizenserious @xtaran > die betroffene Person „[...] bereits mit Hilfe automatisierter Verfahren zu erkennen gegeben hat
🤔 Wenn ich einen AdBlocker benutze, habe ich das IMHO recht deutlich mittels "automatisiertem Verfahren" zu erkennen gegeben – selbst wenn die eine oder andere Werbung "durchgekommen" sein sollte, oder?
@matt we are booting with U-Boot. It's (roughly) ROM -> xbl_sec (el3) -> sbl1 (uart & hw init) -> tz -> hypervisor (gunyah) -> u-boot
everything before u-boot is proprietary, we are hoping to be able to optionally disable hyp and get EL2 for KVM but work will be needed (probably from the community) to get the DSPs to work in that case so we have audio
Ugh, yeah, that's unfortunate. But could be worth it, if this SoC has much better power consumption than the RK3588. Or is there some other advantage you're hoping to get out of this SoC?
speaking of that... the maintainer for the OpenSSL package wouldn't happen to be among them? We'd love to hear from them, and IIRC they were not in the room. See mastodon.social/@RezzaBuh/1153…
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OpenSSL Distributions community meeting at the OpenSSL Conference in Prague. The goal was to establish communications channels and reach out to othe OpenSSL distributors, not only Linux distributions and to make sure the community …
Em 2017, muito antes de haver CHEGA, Dr. Miguel Milhão e petições para o estado de Israel encarcerar pessoas indesejáveis, já eu andava nas ruas a recolher a...
You want to write software that indues the principles of liberation but yourself can't stand for the liberation of all marginalised peoples? What are you doing with your life??? How do you even reconcile that with yourself? That's not software freedom in the sense of building a movement for the benefit of the world we share, that's having a hobby and humble bragging that you have the spare time and education to do so freely
Everyone: Rust has great error handling! Also everyone: *uses anyhow or thiserror whenever a project gets greater than like 100 lines*. To be clear, I'm not shitting on anyhow or thiserror, they both work great, as does tokio. But this pattern of not providing basic building blocks in the standard library and letting crates do it has some pros and cons. Pros because you can iterate quickly and the standard library stays small, cons because, well, supply chain attacks can now happen simply because you want to make Result more sane or use async.
@ragb Agreed, at least as far as error handling goes. I get their reasoning for keeping an async runtime out of the standard library, even if I don't love it, but the fact that literally everyone pulls in a crate to make Result more sane is saying something.
We took for granted that at least our tech bubble would understand what the Google Decree means for Android, #FLOSS and freedom. Unfortunately we never saw the uproar we were expecting and people just shrugged it off taking for granted that "nothing changes".
@marcprux great #FDroid post brought the issue into the light, waking up developers, users, media and (we hope) concerned authorities to the immense danger the newly proposed gatekeeping controls Google wants to add.
Wij hebben beide een OnePlus 8 telefoon met daarop e/os. Beide lopen we tegen hetzelfde probleem op, er komen geen meldingen binnen van de mail Proton en Thunderbird. Ook meldingen van Marktplaats komen niet binnen.
We hebben alle instelling nagelopen en alle machtigingen voor meldingen staan aan. Is er iemand die weet hoe dat komt en hoe dat opgelost kan worden?
Tweede vraag die daaruit voortkomt, hebben mensen met een Fairphone die bij aankoop is voorzien van e/os hier ook last van?
Probeer eens om 'ntfy' uit FDroid te installeren. Die vervangt push notifications die normaalgezien door de Google Play Services voorzien worden (ik ga ervan uit dat jullie die laatste hebben afgezet/niet hebben geinstalleerd).
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I mean, #LinkedIn, I like you quite much, but why do you recommend me following rugby players? Rugby is one of the farthest things from my interests and hobbies that ever exists.
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Color contrast affects readability on the web and in print. It is especially important for users who are low vision or for users who are colorblind. Good color contrast means all users can see your content no matter the device they’re using or the lighting of their surroundings.
Musím říct, že POSSE je zajímavý koncept, ale nejsem si jistý, jestli s ním úplně souzním. Mám za to, že publikováním někde tu platformu taky endorsuju, což bych u některých fakt nerad. Ale uznávám, že tento postoj je mnohem jednodušší zaujmout u hobby blogu než u něčeho, co člověka živí.
Hele na to, že podnikám, tak mám podle mě ještě docela dost zásad. Každá zásada tě omezuje v rozletu, a tuplem když ji většina ostatních nemá. Mám štěstí, že nemám konkurenci.
Zatím mám ten luxus existovat bez reklam. Ale existovat bez (všech hlavních) sociálních sítí, to fakt ne. A i ty reklamy asi budu muset začít, pokud nebudu chtít připustit, aby mě současná situace na trhu položila.
@sesivany Další věc je, že pokud na těch sítích nebudu, nevystavím nikoho mým názorům. Nikdo si tam nepřečte můj článek, nikdo nebude přemýšlet nad tím, jestli jsou ty sítě něčím špatné. Takhle třeba jo.
Neber to jako nějakou kritiku. Já jsem taky kromě TikToku asi všude a postuju tam o tom, co napíšu. Akorát se holt držím toho opačného přístupu než POSSE a dávám tam jen odkaz na blogpost. Vím, že je to ze strany těch platforem penalizované a obírám se o dosah, ale zase si říkám, že to lidem aspoň trochu připomíná, že pořád existuje nezávislý web mimo tyto platformy.
@sesivany Ajo takhle. Jasně, to bych dělal taky, ale ty sítě to prostě penalizují a znesnadňují čím dál víc. Kdybych dělal IG, kde mám hodně velkou cílovku, tak tam nedáš odkaz nebo blogpost vůbec, musíš sdělení přizpůsobit médiu a jen doufat, že si k tobě najdou cestu. Stejně jako nedáš odkaz do reklamy v rádiu. Takže tak to beru, adapt or die. POSSE je to, co děláš ty, ale naráží na hradby. Já se je rozhodl překonat.
Die geschmeidigste Version war, glaub ich, die 14. Ich bedauere, dass man danach den #Unity #Desktop aufgegeben hat.
Er hat m. M. nach ein innovatives Bedienkonzept gehabt. Schließlich möchte ich kein besseres Windows, weshalb ich mit dem #KDE Desktop oder #Linux #Mint nie richtig warm geworden bin. Das sind trotzdem gute Projekte.
Aber inzwischen hat #Gnome sehr aufgeholt und ich finde die ubuntu Anpassungen besonderes für das #DarkTheme sehr professionell.
Was eine augenfreundliche Farb- und Kontrastgestaltung wert sind, ist mir erst durch eine schwere Erkrankung und folgende chronische Einschränkungen bewusst geworden.
Das upgrade auf Version 24 war allerdings, was die Stabilität des upgrade-Prozesses angeht, seit einem Jahrzehnt die frustrierendste Erfahrung. Deshalb hab ich mich für meine Workstation für eine Neuinstallation entschieden.
Aber nicht nur deshalb bin ich mit dem upgrade meiner Maschinchen diesmal etwas hinterher. Die Umstellung auf #Pipewire ist für anspruchsvollere #Audio Produktionen schon etwas herausfordernd. Mal sehen wie das im Alltag wird...
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