well I guess that's a lie because I tried to build Eclipse against JDK17 and it says
[ERROR] ========================: Type org.eclipse.tycho.core.maven.TargetPlatformWorkspaceReader not present: org/eclipse/tycho/core/maven/TargetPlatformWorkspaceReader has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 65.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 61.0
NVDA Alpha 53084 observations: 1. The key stroke to get an AI-generated description has been altered to something, well, pressable by a hand: NVDA+G. As someone at the White House would say: "Beautiful change." 2. Image descriptions are still almost unusable and funny. For instance, The "This PC" icon on my Windows 11 24H2 Desktop is consistently described this way: "A blue and white laptop on a sidewalk." @NVAccess
I thought you'd like the keystroke change :) Re the AI engine - we haven't changed that, so I'm not surprised those descriptions haven't changed, but we will keep looking at that and if we find a better model we will definitely look at whether we can incorporate it.
it probably relate to 1. marking stuff const as expected 2. UPP (PowerPC vs 68k) with different calling convention. PPC used a lot of registers while 68k used mostly the stack.
I think this actually happened to @SlicerDicer when I tried to setup encrypted email between us somewhere around 2007. It could have been someone else, but my brain thinks it was him
I thinks one of RSA authors managed to send his private key? Not sure it happened to me ever but I have automated key handling in mutt since 8 years or so :)
Calling all #Signal experts. I'm getting this: "Something went wrong with your username, it’s no longer assigned to your account. You can try and set it again or choose a new one." Tried setting from the phone and from the laptop (iOS and Windows respectively), no dice. What should I do now? @signalapp
@jae @pertho the thing that blows peoples minds is how FAST it is as a messenger. They just assume it's gotta be slow because it's email underneath and there will be greylisting and other anti-spam nonsense that will make it frustrating to use.
But this is more like how email worked before anyone did spam filtering at all: fast, direct. Messages delivered via modern internet in less than 1 second usually.
@pertho @jae I would recommend forgetting email exists here at all, install the app, click create account, write a username and bio if you want, and then you're done
you don't even need to know the email address or password involved. Your identity is your PGP key, not your email address, and soon the email addresses being used will begin rotating across a whole network of servers, you'll have multiple paths that you can be reached at, etc etc. And they'll be disposable identities.
how? if the servers involved can only send encrypted mails, we can allow accounts to be created on demand. Spammers can't use them because they won't have any victims to spam unless they can acquire not just the active email addresses of user accounts, but also their public keys... which they won't be able to do
@pertho @jae people you want to chat with on there will have to share their invite link as a URL or QR code (safe to do over insecure comms). Then you'll be able to add them as a contact.
it's so easy to setup, give it a shot. I have an account linked in my bio here if you want to test.
also you can have multiple accounts/identities unlike Signal. This gives you some flexibility for further controlling your opsec
@pertho @jae FINALLY someone who thinks this is cool. Most people are like "but I want to use my own crappy mail server stack / Gmail AND I want to keep using my email address I use for everything else"
ok cool cool nice opsec bud, nobody will ever figure out your identity if they get your hands on addresses used in a conversation
@pertho @jae I am actually. Originally this was firewalled off and it wouldn't federate so I had full control of the only server communications with my wife and my friends would go through, but it's openly federating now
What an amazing #catharsis getting at least the live hostages back to #Israel... But one mustn't forget that we're still missing many of the murdered ones too.
Discussion avec un contrôleur ce soir sur un ter. Lui dit que le train c'est comme l'avion il faut prendre son billet a l'avance et que c'est normal qu'on ne puisse plus prendre son billet à bord sinon les gens frauderaient. Moi je lui dit que justement on prend le train parce qu'on ne veut pas d'une expérience comme l'avion on veut un moyen de transport du quotidien, flexible. Mais il n'en démord pas et préfère mettre des amendes que vendre ses billets. Triste état d'esprit que la #SNCF...
Re: last boost (aus.social/@MattHatton/1153703…), it may be hyperbolic, but we all know there's a kernel of truth. Now, what are we software developers going to do about this fucked up situation? I don't know, except sometime I want to ship a whole non-trivial desktop app written entirely in Rust, and hope that I don't fuck up its startup time.
worth noting that this is an inaccurate characterization of how people were sent to the moon. c.f. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_F… for example. Even accounting for the hyperbole, it would be more accurate to say that we used the underpowered automatic computers available at the time in the space race to do the calculations that they were capable of, and did the rest with billions of dollars of manual labor
sending people to the moon just requires a bit of trigonometry. displaying a desktop publishing document requires a vast array of much more sophisticated techniques. also, more powerful computers are available now so we use their capabilities rather than wasting tremendous manual effort to imagine we live in a different time. I want my applications to be engineered not cosplayed :)
this is not to say that people should not focus on performance for the sake of a pleasant, fast experience for modern users! but it always rubs me the wrong way when that appeal is made by way of reference to an imagined prelapsarian past. I grew up with the computers that are idolized by the folks who make claims like this and they sucked! they crashed all the time and they were missing oodles of important features. build fast systems by looking forward not back
This uber has a high-frequency, slightly modulated beeping signal coming along with the radio broadcast, and I think this violates the Geneva convention.
Use your blinkers.Links 'n StuffAging Wheels' video on my Figaro:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE2dKZ492TAMy old turn signal video:https://youtu.be/O1lZ9n2...
!MESSAGE Missing requirement: Apache Directory Studio LDAP Browser Core 2.0.0.v20210717-M17 (org.apache.directory.studio.ldapbrowser.core 2.0.0.v20210717-M17) requires 'osgi.bundle; org.apache.directory.api.dsmlv2.parser 2.1.0' but it could not be found
Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found. Software being installed: Apache Directory LDAP API DSML Engine 2.1.0 (org.apache.directory.api.dsmlv2.engine 2.1.0) Missing requirement: Apache ServiceMix :: Bundles :: dom4j 2.1.3.1 (org.apache.servicemix.bundles.dom4j 2.1.3.1) requires 'java.package; javax.xml.stream [1.0.0,2.0.0)' but it could not be found Cannot satisfy dependency: From: Apache Directory LDAP API DSML Engine 2.1.0 (org.apache.directory.api.dsmlv2.engine 2.1.0) To: java.package; org.dom4j 2.1.3
looks like javax.xml.stream is not available in the classpath in openjdk21 as it was moved to some module or something, idk, this is java shit i never mess with
if I build Eclipse with an older version of Java it should work...
The… cool people… at @thunderbird have released a new feature called "Account Hub". It works exactly with Outlook.com and Google Mail and crashes on any self-hosted mail server 🤦.
Do they even test their crap with independent systems? OIDC support being limited to Google and a handful others in code was one thing, but how does a feature that simply breaks all mail accounts but GAFAM make it into a release?
@nik@toot.techkids.org We're sorry Account Hub isn't quite there yet with servers that might need manual configuration. We're actually taking it out of ESR until we can get it right in the Beta and Release channels. You can follow the meta bug report here (bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…). And while we know it's our responsibility to test and get this right, everyone who helps test their setup helps our team do that!
"Starting in December 2024, the researchers began contacting the affected telecoms. T-Mobile responded by encrypting its satellite transmissions within weeks, but responses from other cell carriers were mixed."
sorta surprised T-Mobile fixed this so quickly, but then again they were also the one to resist handing data over to the NSA years ago (unsure if that ever changed)
Ich bin froh, dass dieser Frau der #Friedensnobelpreis zuerkannt worden ist. Sie kämpft seit Jahren für die Demokratie in ihrem Land. Sie bringt sich täglich in Gefahr. Ich bin auch froh, dass ihn der Mann nicht erhalten hat, der nun einmal getan hat, was vom Präsidenten einer Weltmacht verlangt werden kann. mdr.de/nachrichten/welt/panora…
Die venezuelanische Oppositionspolitikerin Maria Corina Machado erhält den Friedensnobelpreis. Das teilte das norwegische Nobelkomitee am Freitag in Oslo mit.
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News alert affecting blind people: Most federal employees within the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services received Reduction in Force notices last Friday.
If not reversed, this action will be detrimental for blind students, adults, and entrepreneurs.
We call upon the Department of Education to immediately rescind this reduction in force.
CNN - Major US airports refusing to play a “public service announcement” from DHS Security Noem at security checkpoints in which she blames Democrats for the federal government shutdown. cnn.com/2025/10/13/us/kristi-n…
Sabem porque é que eu vos digo para usarem ferramentas AI em grande volume desde que não paguem nem um chavo às empresas de AI?
Porque a AI é uma bolha. Como qualquer bolha, quando rebentar vai ter efeitos na economia real. Mas quando mais depressa rebentar, menos efeitos terá. Se rebentar antes dos idiotas meterem AI em tudo será muito menos destrutiva do que rebentando depois.
Portanto, façamo-la rebentar depressa. Usem AI todos os dias. Não lhes deem um tostão furado.
@ragb Esses usecases não vão desaparecer, mas duvido que sejam suficientes para pagar a batelada de massa que aquilo custa, mesmo depois da bolha rebentar e tudo voltar a um nível mais sustentável.
was just chatting with a former student about how much interesting compiler work never gets written up, and of course other work is written up and then forgotten.
on that topic, was there ever a good overview or retrospective for Microsoft's Phoenix compiler? and does anyone have an educated guess as to how many engineer-years they put into it?
I'm way more interested in IBM's Montana project (Visual Age C++ that was more about ASTs than text files). They pivoted to Java and the useful stuff (C++) vanished.
Though I never had the opportunity to program in Smalltalk professionally. I only programmed in Java professionally for less than a year. I'm mostly an embedded systems guy, by which I mean bare metal or RTOS, not Linux or BSD systems. Neither Smalltalk nor Java are suitable for the typical things I do.
my college was officially 100% java, and yet taught operating systems classes. how? they had to waste the first couple weeks of every OS/advanced data structures classes TEACHING EVERYONE C AGAIN
For the record, I committed new features written in Pascal to Mac OS in 2001. I think I was the last to do so. It was easier given the surrounding context of what I was adding functionality to.
I kind of regret that I've never gotten to play with mac pascal. Pascal was my first compiled language so I've got a soft spot for it, and I can see it being pretty OK once you take the CDC's IO system, and drag it to the trashcan that it so richly deserves.
And simply saying "We're not interested in portability" hoses like half of Kernighan's reasons why he didn't like Pascal. 😉
The CDC-inspired I/O system of original Pascal (and, I presume, ISO Pascal) only needs fairly minor extensions to make it reasonable as a fully synchronous I/O system, as was done in UCSD Pascal and Borland Pascal. I would never argue against the proposition that original Pascal was unsuitable for production use. Of course, that's not what Wirth intended it for. Nevertheless, it is a reasonable base on which a good strongly typed language system can be built.
I programmed in Ada '83 professionally, and it definitely had some nice improvements over Pascal. (Ada '95 and later standards are even better.) However, the Ada I/O system is totally different than Pascal's, not an extension of it.
The R1000 is deeply interesting for more reasons than you can imagine, but what impresses most people is this:
Imagine you maintain a library in some corner of $ReallyBigAndImportantProject and one of your exported functions has a parameter which defaults to 3.
Now you want to change the default to 4.
Who do you call ?
On the R1000, you change the 3 to 4 and when you try to commit that change, it will tell you /precisely/ which other code modules would be /semantically/ affected by that change, and ask you what to do about that.
Only calls which do not explicitly specify that parameter will be on the list.
When we demo that for modern developers, some of them get upset that was possible in 1980 but they can't do it today.
@CapitalB they wrote about gassing people and constantly spewed racial epithets because they're all fat ugly neckbeard retards who also are devout Catholics?
Edit: This is now released. Say all works, though the audio becomes choppy sometimes. But it doesn't crash. Right! I now have a copy of Eloquence that works on the 64-bit alphas of #NVDA, with the following issues: say all on the web doesn't work (it stops whenever the type of element changes for reasons I don't understand), and dialect switching doesn't work (but it doesn't crash everything anymore). If you want to play, you need to follow the build instructions; I only understand about a quarter of this code and have no intention of actually releasing things that are still broken: github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/
@jscholes At this point I would estimate that every line of code has been read by at least two humans, and about 50 percent of them modified directly by a human once the AI was done.
@jscholes Oh, also, I used spell check on the build docs. So I guess that counts. And Titet11 is Mexican and more comfortable working in Spanish, so AI translation was involved in communication and some of the comments. If you want to avoid anything that uses AI you need to avoid this, as it couldn't exist otherwise.
@jscholes Hah no worries. Your question got me thinking about what that even means. Like if my collaborator doesn't speak my language, does that mean I should disclaimer the code as AI assisted? If the code started off as entirely human generated, and an AI rewrote it, is it now AI generated? If a human rewrote large parts of what the AI did, when does the code stop being AI? I really don't know.
@jscholes So with more code updates this morning, the thing I'm noticing is that the more rewriting that is done, the less and less code there is from the initial AI rewrite. The AI solution mostly worked, but was over-complicated and multi-threaded where it didn't need to be. We're slowly arriving at code that is both simpler and works better.
Salut Mastodon. Ma mère, vivant à Paris, accueille un réfugié tibétain chez elle. Ça arrange bien tout le monde, mais ce qui l'arrangerait encore plus lui, c'est de trouver un boulot à Paris ou en banlieue, en journée. Il comprend bien le français mais le parle encore difficilement. En revanche anglais fluent. Il aimerait bien trouver dans la restauration mais pour l'instant tout travail serait le bienvenu. Si jamais tu as ça...et sinon repouet apprécié.
ráno nám přišla fotka ďalšieho neplatiča čo sa naje a nezaplatí, tak pre seba si hovorím to je už asi štvrtá za posledné dva mesiace a dnes vreckári okradli hostí.. ach jo
If you're curious whether an account is an impersonation or not, one way to check is viewing the profile. If any of the profile fields includes a website or similar, and it says something to the effect of: "Ownership of this link was checked on Sep 24, 2025, 04:24 PM", that means there's a link back from that website to that Mastodon account, meaning that in theory, that person has control of both the Mastodon account and the website being linked. If it does not say this, then there is no link between the website and the Mastodon account. You can see this on my profile as an example. Of course you have to make sure that the website is also one that belongs to the person in question, and they have to have linked it. For example, if the URL says something like iamtalon.fakewebsite.com then that's probably not me. It's not a bullet proof system, but it is definitely a tool available to check. Some clients might also display this. Enafore displays it, it says "Verified" under the website link in the profile fields. I'm not sure about other clients, though the website of the instance will show it as well as quoted above.
It's weird how critical personal data got stolen soon after age verification became a thing, and now neither company wants to accept responsibility for the hack. It's almost like, if the government is so desperate to force users to verify their ages, then the government should implement a way to do that. Want to verify someone can drive a car? Government system. Check that someone lives at their address? Government system. Taxes? Government. But verify someone's age? Nothing!
The UK is currently trying to push through digital ID cards which could presumably help with that purpose. There are many detractors to the idea, particularly as mandatory age verification isn't a popular move either so it's seen as a bad idea on top of a bad idea.
@jscholes I've heard of that effort. I don't know enough about it to land on one side or the other for the UK. This is the same UK that keeps demanding backdoor access to encrypted Apple user data,, so I don't know if I trust their IT expertise, but digital IDs sure makes a lot of sense to me.
@jscholes The UK and US are the only two countries with "ID allergy."
In the rest of Europe (and the rest of the world)., it is obvious that every citizen has an ID card, (which is distinct from any other document which could potentially be used for identification, like a passport or driver's license).
Even Germany, which is famously stubborn about things like these (they don't have a single citizen identification number for example) has ID cards.
@jscholes To be fair, not all of those IDs are digital, and integrating with digital IDs as a third party ranges from costly and difficult to illegal and impossible.
@miki @jscholes And a centralized database which is what this country wants to do, means hackers can virtually clone you way easier than without. Estonia's isn't centralized and I believe it's therefore harder to do that, but here, they want to have it centralized which seems stupid.
New, by me: If you're not using ad blockers, you should be! I wrote 2,000+ words on why you should use them and how to get started.
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One advantage of using #AdGuardHome is that it provides statistics on the responsiveness of public DNS providers. For me, #DNS4EU is by far the fastest (10 ms). Perhaps it's because of their geographical proximity, as they're also based in Czechia. The slowest has been #quad9 at 500 ms. I have no idea why.
I'm also glad to learn that DoH doesn't have a significant speed penalty. It's 12 ms versus 10 ms for DNS4EU. So you don't have to trade privacy for responsiveness.
What has been your experience with #DNS providers based in Europe? Do you have any recommendations? I'm interested in unfiltered DNS because I do the filtering in AdGuard Home.
Define based in Europe. Is Google Europe-based? Is NextDNS Europe-based? Most DNS providers have multiple European servers. I am content using Google DNS and Next DNS, both low latency.
@dusoft based in Europe: the server is located in Europe and it's administered by an European entity (company, organization, community...), so Google doesn't qualify. I did use Google and Cloudflare for some time for the sake of latency comparison and they were both slower than DNS4EU for me, so I don't really have a reason to use them.
A free, sovereign and GDPR-compliant recursive DNS resolver with a strong focus on security to protect the citizens and organizations of the European Union.
@slamp You may also want to try dns0.eu/ For me it isn't as fast as DNS4EU, but it's run by a French non-profit, may be a different experience from there.
A free, sovereign and GDPR-compliant recursive DNS resolver with a strong focus on security to protect the citizens and organizations of the European Union.
I have excellent response times from quad9, and I recently learned that an anycast location is very close. DoH even seems to be quicker than plain DNS.
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