Schön, dass @Anjapf@kirche.social hier gelandet ist. Herzlich willkommen!
Gern erinnere ich mich an dieses Interview mit ihr zur #UN #Behindertenrechtskonvention:
kom-in.de/189/welche-barrieren
#Inklusion #blind
Das Perspektivforum Behinderung der Evang. Allianz thematisiert die UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention - Ein Gespräch mit Anja Pfaffenzellerwww.kom-in.de
The Matrix Conference 2025 was a huge success! 🎉
We were delighted to be the anchor sponsor! 🙌
With so many governments presenting on their Matrix-based initiatives. There was a genuine realisation that @matrix is the future of government, and inter-governmental, communications.
See our round-up of the conference, which includes the links to all of the presentations: element.io/blog/the-matrix-con…
The Matrix Conference 2025 was a huge success, and the energy and enthusiasm was just incredible!Steve Loynes (Element Blog)
If you're wondering what AWS is, it's kinda like the operating system of the corporate Internet.
I call it bezOS.
I was just listening to the open microphones in my parents' back yard. Heard something that sounded like a rooster. Mom says it's actually a large bird in a cage making roosterish noises.
Anyway, should you care about such things, the stream lives here:
I'm using a pair of very cheap dynamic microphones connected to a Behringer UMC-202 audio interface and a Raspberry Pi running Liquidsoap to stream and archive audio. I would like to one day find a way to upgrade to electret condenser microphones without completely exposing them to the elements, and run the whole thing on solar power.
I wanted a completely headless, very small setup, mostly because I don't live there and can't easily fix things if they break. It stays up all the time, unless it's broken.
If I were to use small condensers, I'm not sure which they would be. I'd love to stick a dummy binaural head out there with a pair of nice, quiet condensers on it, but also shield from wind and rain without affecting the sound. I'm not as worried about that with these cheap dynamic microphones. They get drowned all the time and don't really care.
I've only had to replace them once in 15 years.
Not sure how I would best do that in the existing environment.
I like this post I just came across, "Software can be finished": rosswintle.uk/2025/10/software…
I think the author is too quick to weaken the point at the beginning, and again at the end, so I'll state it more emphatically: more software *should* be finished.
You probably don't want to build "finished software". But what can we learn by thinking about it as a concept?Ross Wintle
Struggling with vibe coding? You just need to get better at prompting. Here is a six video series "course" to teach you how to write the most effective AI prompts and get the most out of vibe coding!
(Do you ever wonder what it would be like if there were some special language for giving commands to computers... a kind of prompting language so they would do *exactly* what you wanted? Maybe someone should invent that.)
After reading this post, I've decided to flesh out the ideas a little. And I think I may have conceptualised the future of vibe coding!
First, the problem of inconsistencies about how AIs respond to prompts.
We need better predictability!
So let's create a standard syntax for prompts, so when you enter a given prompt in a particular way, the machine will always respond in a standard way.
We'll call these next-gen prompts "commands".
As long as you know this simple "language" of commands, the machine will always do what you want!
Now, on to the problem of complex prompts.
Let's take away the guesswork.
Instead of trying to precisely enter one complicated long prompt, let's instead have a series of simpler commands that get executed one after the other.
A "program" if you will.
So you don't have to re-enter your program on prompts, let's invent a physical media for storing and loading these programs.
Now, the next big elephant in the AI room is resource use.
Let's solve this issue so that the command interpreter "AI" software runs with very few resources. I know this is a stretch goal, but perhaps even an 8-bit microcomputer with just 64K of RAM?
And to really make this catch on, let's make this AI vibe command programming language so simple, even an 8-year-old can understand it.
A "basic" programming language, if you will.
Now I know this "Basic" programming language AI vibe coding system sounds extraordinary.
But I promise you that for just $10 billion in VC funding and total indemnity against copyright infringement, I will happily deliver a 64K 8-bit microcomputer with the BASIC programming language preinstalled!
This is the future of AI folks! Feel the singularity approaching!
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Y'know, I think people like the Jimmy Truths dude serve as an example of the shortcomings of #Fediverse moderation. This dude has likely made like, hundreds of accounts on dozens of instances, but all the instance owners can do is suspend his account. It's gotten to the point where the dude now keeps coming back with usernames and posts mocking the admins for being unable to permanently remove him, often on the same instance repeatedly.
Larger companies can do things like send cease and desist letters, contact his ISP, hardware ban him, etc a lot easier. They simply have more resources to deal with really tenacious harassers than the average instance admin does. I'm not a networking expert, but I wish there was a way to actually deal with guys like this because as the Fediverse grows in popularity, it's likely more users like this guy will crop up.
I can imagine it being pretty easy for bad actors to focus their attention on a single instance and overwhelm it if there's enough of them. Or people like this dude so persistent and obnoxious that it wears the often volunteer staff down over a long stretch of time.
There seriously needs to be focus put on improving moderation tools for Mastodon before we get to that point.
@talon Yeah, I've seen some posts complaining about the sheer lack of moderation tools, and I agree that it's a serious issue.
Like, small instances with very few staff members need to have the tools to deal with targeted raids, ban-evasion, illegal content, etc.
It's always DNS. Except when it's AWS. (In this case, it was both.)
techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/amaz…
The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom and Amazon's own products, including Ring.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
No-frills, easy to use, Email client using the JSON Meta Application Protocolplay.google.com
"Hey what is this thing, man?"
𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙖 🥼🧫 likes this.
In Britain, non-Welsh speakers like to joke that Welsh has way too few vowels and too many accents to make sense.
I am currently in Brno Hlavní nádraží waiting for a tram to get me to Zelný trh.
Your move, Cymru
I have released yesterday version 1.12.0 of the slixmpp python XMPP library. Mostly for python 3.14 compatibility, but there are a few other things as well! More info at blog.mathieui.net/slixmpp-1.12…
There is no single central #Signal server. Signal uses #AWS cloud, plus Google Cloud, Microsoft Cloud and Cloudflare, all under US legislation. If any of these clouds goes down or becomes otherwise problematic, chatting degrades or fails.
With #deltachat you can choose #chatmail relays ( chatmail.at/relays ) which distributes the risk across a wider network. We are currently working on the multi-transport feature to finally remove any central point of chat failure chaos.social/@delta/1153621448…
Chatmail provides FOSS infrastructure for interoperable, secure, speedy and reliable end-to-end encrypted messaging. Check out clients as Arcane Chat, Bots or Delta Chat today!chatmail.at
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it is now officially in the ports tree
however, I'm unsure when packages will be widely available as they're fighting over the current situation with electron because the builds are being very problematic and disrupting the build cluster's stability
freshports.org/net-im/deltacha…
Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure messaging app, available for mobile and desktop platforms. Delta Chat feels like Whatsapp or Telegram but you can also use and regard it as an e-mail app.www.freshports.org
🚨 Another massive AWS outage just took down Roblox, Fortnite, Coinbase, Snapchat, and all Supercell games.
Half the internet has gone dark because of one Big Tech company. This is not innovation, it is monopoly risk.
💡It’s time to choose alternatives.
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It's 17 degrees F cooler in central North Carolina, where my parents are, than it is here in this part of New York City, 500 miles northeast of their location. That usually doesn't happen.
It's currently 64 degrees and windy here, 47 degrees and cloudy there.
With @signalapp having a problem because AWS us-east-1 is having trouble, I'm looking at installing @delta as a side-channel for situations like this ... does anyone know if it does video?
I know it's a chat function, and I'm not asking for miracles. It's a genuine question about capabilities.
I see there are web apps, and capabilities to integrate things, so I'm wondering what's available in the base install.
My investigations begin ...
#Signalapp appears to have some issues. The desktop app appears "offline" and messages are not going through,
EDIT: This likely is an outage resulting from AWS US-EAST-1 having some issues: health.aws.amazon.com/health/s… Many services are impacted. See downdetector.com/
View the overall status and health of AWS services using the AWS Health Dashboard.health.aws.amazon.com
This reads like a warning. So is cURL like nuts? Are people allergic to cURL!?
@bagder my watch might contain your software, maybe. They aren't 100% sure though. 🤷 🤣
[Note to reader, it almost certainly does contain cURL. I would be shocked if it did not!]
@koehntopp All the stuff I scrolled through on the watches about page states "may".
I assume they have complied a list of all the external libs they use in all of their products and then rather than produce a product specific list they just list them all for all products, prefaced with "may".
It is incredibly lazy. Surely they could automate it to have a correct list for each product.
Welcome to #curl release candidate 2 of the pending 8.17.0 version.
A giant of 20th century genre fiction, Bradbury’s imaginative stories lend themselves particularly well to the audio medium. Here’s a collection of...Internet Archive
Hello everyone, welcome back to the blog! Today, we’re diving into the fascinating history and evolution of OpenAI, the artificial intellige...Muhammad chairulanwar (Blogger)
Librsvg 2.61.2 is out! Reduce stack usage (useful e.g. for musl systems), and the gdk-pixbuf loader is no longer built by default.
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg…
Version 2.61.2 librsvg crate version 2.61.2 librsvg-rebind crate version 0.2.1GitLab
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This bug really needs fresh eyes. Not a deal breaker but it's a total nuisance.
Bug 240776 - iwm: Can't find wifi networks after short time since network restart (edit)
Titan submarine: There were 3 fanless PCs and a switch in there before being imploded!
(Originally saw it on Scott Manley's video about this)
From:
data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/…
petur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
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