Time for serious questions on #Reform and #Russia
(In March, the New York Times reported that “one of the biggest corporate donors to the #populist #ReformUK party has sold almost $2million worth of transmitters, cockpit equipment, antennas and other sensitive technology to a major supplier of #Moscow’s #blacklisted state weapons agency”.)
heraldscotland.com/politics/vi…
As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…Neil Mackay (The Herald)
Hunter Biden was Chairman of the World Food Program,... which just won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Eric Trump, Donald J Trump Jr, Ivanka Trump are banned from ever operating a charity again because they stole donations to children with cancer.
Any questions?
I am collecting texts and resources on the "Haitian Revolution" for my Human Rights class and I thought I'd share a few things with you.
First of all, this Graphic Novel (online), which helps you understand what happened: "The Slave Revolution That Gave Birth to Haiti" thenib.com/haitian-revolution/
And this short article which also gives an overview - both written by historian Laurent Dubois, who is an expert on the field: aeon.co/essays/why-haiti-shoul…
#HumanRights #Haiti #HaitianRevolution #Slavery
Haiti, not the US or France, was where the assertion of human rights reached its defining climax in the Age of RevolutionLaurent Dubois (Aeon Magazine)
Another fun mistake the AI analyzer found:
One of the curl test servers (for SOCKS) had a help text output listing around ten command line options. One of the options it listed was never implemented and thus didn't work. The AI found out and reported.
Kind of cool.
I've been thinking about your post a lot, especially after seeing such tools at my $dayjob. I'm biased due to their ethical impact, but even without it I consider them, on average, harmful. I write code, I make sure it works for my usage, I write tests, I do linters and static analysis, I do a peer review to share the knowledge and get external inputs. And then this thing, supposedly state of the art, goes over my code, mansplains it to me and finds either a false-positive (I wonder who removed false-positives from the lists you've got?), or a nit ("don't forget to add an extra check here!", "The comment is stale!"), or a misguided optimisation possibly introducing new bugs. I spend lots of time thinking over those useless blanket reports that ultimately don't matter because I have empirical evidence that my code works for my use case.
I have seen so called AI tooling generating "helpful reports", but they cannot replace decent tooling and tests. And yet some people replace their LSPs with LLMs :/
@nina_kali_nina all analyzer tools, including compilers, give a certain amount of false positives. I don't think we should expect AI tools to be any different. As long as frequency is manageable and there are decent ways to inhibit them.
The AI tools I've mentioned recently don't seem to have much more false positives than the state of the art static code analyzers we use also do.
I want to move away from YouTube Music.
What open source music player are you using on Android?
What's the modern equivalent of flipping through CDs? Physical album cards with NFC tags that bring back the tactile joy of music discovery.Jordan Fulghum
Asking in English in hope that it'll reach more people! I'm french, windows user and unfortunately not playing locally. Do you know of some software a deafie could use to game with her pals? One that could transcript what people say in their mics? Not necessarily free, I'm willing to pay for something that works well.
Asking for a me.
Please, boost so a girl can play with her friends 🥰
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Slidge is a chat gateway library for XMPP built in Python, and a set of gateways for other networks.slidge.im
The word 'Vrede' jumped out at me from this 'Peace' installation. 'Vrede' is Danish for anger, fury, wrath. I wondered if it was an artistic provocation. But it seemed too confined to chance, that someone who happens to understand Danish happens to see this German artwork. So I looked it up and learned that 'vrede' is Dutch for 'peace'.
Vrede. Peace in Dutch. Wrath in Danish. I wonder if there's a word for words like these, that mean the opposite in different languages.
Thunderbird can easily find emails iOS Mail app can't. Significantly better search
edit: I actually meant MacOS mail but same problem, terrible indexing
In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views
Framework, the maker of repairable laptops, is embroiled in a controversy, as the company and its CEO are openly supporting people with, well, questionable views.
If you know a little bit about PR in social media space, you might note that, right out of the gate, a project by a vocal white nationalist known for spli
I think I'm going to convert my blog posts from Markdown to RST, it's so much better for certain things
Markdown has a lot of drawbacks, especially having no real formal standard for a lot of functionality
Go to log in.
<password is incorrect>
No, it isn't, I double-checked by opening my encrypted pwd file.
<password is incorrect>
<Login with backup email to be sent a verification code.>
Entered backup email, received verification code.
Enter verification code.
<must enter this info you never needed before>
What?!
Entered info, logged in.
It was never about an incorrect pwd.
I did remove the added info, though. We'll see what happens next time I need to log on. :(
Yes, I am grumpy.
On my AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS mini PC, NVDA is a bit sluggish in some cases in Firefox; e.g. cursoring through messages in Gmail folders. For reasons I don't fully understand, setting the processor affinity to a single CPU core and setting the process priority to "above normal" helps significantly, even when the CPU is nearly idle. I don't currently have the time/energy to debug the root cause for this or write a proper add-on, but I wrote an NVDA global plugin to make the change for me automatically when NVDA starts. If it breaks something, you get to keep all the pieces.
```
import ctypes
import globalPluginHandler
class GlobalPlugin(globalPluginHandler.GlobalPlugin):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
p = ctypes.c_void_p(ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetCurrentProcess())
ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetProcessAffinityMask(p, ctypes.c_void_p(1))
ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetPriorityClass(p, ctypes.wintypes.DWORD(0x00008000))
```
#nvdasr
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As if today couldn't get any worse, the bill for the server that runs this instance came out today and it was £1.60 more than expected. I never got any emails saying I'd gone over any limits or anything, but anyway, I'm now £0.02 negative. Some support to help keep this server going and help my other services grow, as well as covering personal costs, would be greatly appreciated.
* Patreon: patreon.com/seediffusion
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At a critical moment, the tech press are failing to connect the dots between Apple and Google's craven capitulations and the authoritarianism they have nurtured within their own ecosystems. Apple is now corrosive to democracy itself, and we have to get smarter about the way these forces interact:
infrequently.org/2025/10/the-a…
/cc @owa @pluralistic
Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend its power to extract rents, rather than innovate.Alex Russell
Trump admin lies about #ICE being attacked, so they can be the victim.
The Technique is called DARVO
(Deny Attack Reverse Victim & Offender)
But when people see that the "attackers" are people in frog costumes, it visually destroys the lie.
This means us sharing our silly protests on social media is REALLY important.
This @TomSullivan post explains
digbysblog.net/2025/10/11/liar…
Cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war.
-Nora Reed
#Portland #Frogs #Antifa #AntiFascistFrog #FrogBrigade
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