Sonic Onslaught and Full Circle are Canceled this week for a variety of reasons. Please enjoy Halloweek uninterrupted. @Derek would like to inform you that both Scream movies will begin at 2 PM EDT!
I just learned that there are 4 of them, the last 2 of which I haven't seen before. Also, I just looked and although "halloweek" has ran for about 4 days, there is still content that has 0 plays. That's a lot of random stuff to check out. www.hkcradio.com
As a kid, I learned English from English language cartoons on FilmNet. I learned from German TV shows. My passion for Swedish crime series taught me Swedish.
But now, the largest tv medium of our time, YouTube, has begun auto-translating everything. Future generations will not be exposed to foreign languages and be inspired to take an interest.
There was no public review of this, no democratic vote. One company just decided to turn foreign cultures off and make the world dumber.
I admit that it feels kind of special to have #Fedora Linux 43 released on my birthday. Thank you, @adamw and others, for your thorough testing, which delayed the release process just enough to make this happen. ☺️
I largely prefer the architecture and experience of the fediverse/Mastodon over ATproto/Bluesky, but there are a number of accounts I care about that are only on Bluesky and not bridged to the fediverse. And even with bridging, it's not the best experience.
How are other people handling this?
The result for now is that I have two separate accounts… but I really don’t want to manage two different accounts. 😭
@sesivany I do mostly use mobile for social media, but I guess I'll be using the desktop a bit more for work. Hmm. I have tried @openvibe a few times and usually stop because it seems pretty janky scrolling-wise on my Pixel and then the notifications were next to useless last time I tried. I should give it another go.
@sesivany I stopped using Openvibe because it was a frustrating experience. Media uploads would fail to bsky half of the time, it would sign me out of bsky constantly and like you said scrolling was janky and impossible.
I just use the two apps separately and post in both places. Lots of copy and pasting but this also helps curb my usage a little bit.
Yeah I could see it as a nice way to pull in content and aggregate it all into one app rather than bouncing between apps for consumption. I generally really like @moshidon as my Mastodon client though; Openvibe is interesting but feels *so* different. 🤔
"This document specifies the experimental ai Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme. The scheme provides a dedicated access point for Artificial Intelligence (AI) resources, enabling autonomous systems and robots to connect natively while allowing human-facing applications to interoperate via HTTPS gateways"
This document specifies the experimental ai Uniform
Resource Identifier (URI) scheme. The scheme provides a
dedicated access point for Artificial Intelligence (AI)
resources, enabling autonomous systems and robots to connect…
This document describes a non-normative architecture for the AI Internet Protocol (AIIP), centered on the "ai" URI scheme. It focuses on a direct connection model for robots, devices, and software agents to communicate natively over AIIP.
Something somehow resolves to something else that might be an HTTPS endpoint or MQTT topic. But please tell me more of this new namespace registrar that can rent me one of these names needed for doing AI.
@bortzmeyer Artificial Intellidunce continues being so revolutionary! it merely requires a wholly separate standards to match promises! what a small price to pay amirite?!
(I continue to hope for it to become normalized to laugh these clowns out of any room)
they should put soap and xml on top of it so they can easily transport one bit of imformation over 32MB of packets with a round trip time of 2 minutes. This is so nonense to call this ai:. its just an API.
I’m trying to figure out what they mean by Autonomous System. “enabling autonomous systems and robots to connect natively” makes it sound like it’s not real ASes. Did they try to invent a term without searching even once if it’s been previously used? Or did they misunderstand how internet routing works THAT badly…?
not wrong! but they’re proposing an alternative to IP like four paragraphs below that, so I don’t think you can blame me for asking this question. Just downright bonkers.
lol, the “AIIF” which he SIGNS THE DOCUMENT AS does not exist. but the bloke did file a trademark for it. trademarks.justia.com/994/45/a…
so this seems to be just One Sad Guy. I have better things to do than to dig deeper, but thankfully it doesn’t seem like anything will come out of this one
@domi @littlefox all I found was "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INTERNET FOUNDATION (AIIF) INC is a Delaware Domestic Corporation filed on September 30, 2025. The company's filing status is listed as Active "
this seems... pointless? unless they're going to somehow back this up with some sort of global DOI-like URI scheme where you can somehow attribute generative output back to the origin, but I can't see how that could possibly be feasible at scale.
I'm sure that is going to go great. Like when we all agreed to change our websites for accessibility and there were zero problems with it. Super easy to get the entire internet to enable AI companies to steal their content more efficiently.
"Quick reminder that on October 31st, your JAWS, ZoomText, or Fusion software will no longer receive product updates, support, and new features."
OOOOOH NOOOOO! My Jaws for Windows 7.1 from 2006, or something like that, which doesn't support Windows Vista (the last version I can actually run with my own serial number), won't receive updates anymore? SADNESS!
For context, I've been using NVDA as my primary Windows screen reader since about 2009 or so.
Hey, Anthropic owes me $9000! They illegally used at least 3 of my books on LibGen to create Claude. Now they're paying a $1.5 billion settlement, at $3000 per book. See if *your* books are on the list:
Actually I exaggerated: the payment will be split between authors and publishers, but I have to make the claim - so the settlement is making me do some work my publisher should be doing for me. My coauthors and I will just get half, $4500. One of these books has 2 coauthors, one has 3, and one is a book I edited, with essays by lots of authors. So $1000 is a more realistic estimate of what I get. Oh well.
Bizarrely, my most popular book, Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity, is not on the list. But I guess it's not surprising:
"The settlement agreement discloses that approximately 500,000 titles out of the 7 million copies of books that Anthropic reportedly downloaded from LibGen and PiLiMi meet the definition required to be part of the class."
Only books whose copyright is registered with the US Library of Congress meet that defiinition!
If you have a book on the list, you can opt out of the current settlement and join future lawsuits. But you have to take action to do that!!! For more information on that, see item 40 here:
Updated October 2, 2025 IMPORTANT: The Works List Is Now Live on the Settlement Website The searchable Works List and Claim Forms are now available at www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com. Find more info here and below. Background Bartz v.
I agree with that: if something is good, it doesn't matter to me whether it has meat in it or not. The only vegan or vegetarian thing I don't want to eat is imitation meat, fake meat, whatever you'd like to call it.
@frog67 I never tried that, actually. I've eaten meat equivalents, most often tofu, but that's actually a common ingredient in many Asian cuisines, so...
I haven't tried imitation meat either, I simply don't want to. I don't really enjoy tofu: when I was in Taiwan years ago, visiting my brother who worked there at the time, I tasted it in several local dishes.
@frog67 I used to agree with you, but it's gotten much, much better in recent years. I went to a Vegan cafe and had a fake chicken burger, it was genuinely fantastic. I'd have it again any time. Fake prawns and chicken nuggets, also fantastic.
I'm more or less vegetarian myself, and I think the difficulty is that vegetarian stuff in many restaurants is really an afterthought. The taste just isn't there. This has changed recently to some extent, but is still the case quite often. For a good number of years, "vegetarian" was a synonym for "bad". Sad for us who are, but there it is, and it might explain what you've seen. @TheQuinbox
La @dinum soutient (financièrement et techniquement) la fondation @matrix. #Matrix est un protocole de messagerie instantanée libre et décentralisé, utilisé par #Tchap, la messagerie de l'administration française.
La Direction interministérielle du numérique annonce mardi devenir le premier État partenaire de la Fondation Matrix, qui est derrière le protocole open source qui fait fonctionner Tchap, la messagerie instantanée sécurisée des agents publics.
Draupnir call for participation: reviewing the last development cycle and affirming the project direction
If you value the work that we do on the Draupnir project and think that it is important then we need to hear from you.
We are trying something new where we provide a short update and reflection about the project and an interactive vote where you can affirm contributors about the project direction.
icymi, in the Matrix State of the Union they said they didn't plan on pursuing decentralized social media, but they do hope to make it easier for those ecosystems to use Matrix so they don't have to reinvent what Matrix has already done
🥳 I improved the #FluffyChat website a little bit and made it localizeable over weblate. It now even contains an imprint, the changelog, the privacy policy and a long FAQ. 🚀
💡 Incredibly important work from @OpenForumEurope to propose an EU Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF) to strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty, cybersecurity and competitiveness through sustainable, secure open-source technologies.
The report ‘Funding Europe’s Open Digital Infrastructure: The Economic, Legal, and Political Feasibility of an EU Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF)’ provides a roadmap for establishing an EU Sovereign Tech Fund to secure, maintain, and scale critical open…
#фалыстыннаш конфликт в судане кстати тоже идет с 2023 года. голод, 150 тыс убитыми, этнические чистки такого масштаба, что отмечаются на спутниковых снимках.
и чем как? где-то может быть певцы/актеры/режисеры объединились чтобы помочь желткам? где флотилии геев? где заседания совбеза? где хотя бы призывы прекратить поставлять оружие?
там нет жыдов? значит всем похуй.
и расскажите мне ЕЩЕ раз что они там про защиту угнетаемых а не про антисемитизм.
NTA 7532 biedt de kans om veilige en interoperabele chat in de Nederlandse zorg vorm te geven. XMPP levert daar al de open, bewezen en gefedereerde basis voor. De XSF nodigt zorg-, IT- en standaardisatiegemeenschappen uit om samen te werken en NTA 7532 op XMPP te bouwen, in lijn met internationale best practices. xmpp.org/2025/10/towards-secur… #XMPP #DigitaleZorg #OpenStandaarden
XMPP is the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, a set of open technologies for instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, lightweight middleware, content syndication, and generalized routing of XML da…
NTA 7532 is an opportunity to define secure, interoperable chat for Dutch healthcare. XMPP already offers the proven, open, federated foundation needed for this. The XSF invites healthcare, IT, and standards communities to collaborate and help shape NTA 7532 on XMPP - aligned with international best practice. xmpp.org/2025/10/towards-secur… #XMPP #DigitalHealth #OpenStandards
XMPP is the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, a set of open technologies for instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, lightweight middleware, content syndication, and generalized routing of XML da…
The Max Velocity live YouTube coverage of Melissa is well suited to blind listeners wanting to keep up with the storm. Lots of good explanation of what's happpening. youtube.com/live/UkpbrMBjiJ4?s…
Today I finally experienced Samsung’s HIYA spam blocking in action. It works perfectly — except that my food delivery courier couldn’t reach me. Clever guy though, he called again from a hidden number. I later found his repeated calls under “Other calls.” No idea why he ended up in the spam filter; it doesn’t seem like there’s a way to unblock him. Maybe adding him to my contacts would help…
Zo verzet je je tegen fascisme.Fascisme krijgt ruimte door een hardnekkige misvatting: dat jij het niet kunt stoppen. Dat klopt niet. Gezamenlijk kunnen we o...
Recognition - with Daniel Stenberg. A walk-through of awards, recognition and the medals Daniel has received during the years doing #curl and Open Source.
So how complicated is it to explain to the IRS (or the Swedish equivalent) that a tuxedo is absolutely tax deductible work cloths for a FOSS developer?
I keep returning to the energy of programming in the 90s and today I realised it had the romantic vibe of a knitting group – a bunch of people doing something weird that is a lot of fun for them regardless of practical application or money. I think Mastodon has some of that vibe, too, and I think we need to keep that here and fight for keeping that in computing in general, against all techbros who want to mass-produce shitty acrylic jumpers.
After reading the press releases about the dark mode station information screens, I now have this conspiracy theory:
The current screens need replacing and the new generation of displays doesn’t like large permanently bright areas, so switching to a dark mode was a given. The research was mostly about finding a colour scheme that was ideally equally well readable and if at all possible, find some groups for which dark backgrounds actually works better.
Sounds plausible, also considering how they argument with energy efficiency, which is not how LCD screens work.
Now they claim up to 4 % savings, which is probably only by those huge LED screens in Utrecht, Rotterdam and Den Haag. If the new screens will be OLED-based, then the promise energy savings in order of 30 % could be plausible.
@Oskar456 Depends if the LCDs use local dimming on direct back light units. Those can save energy. But I am not sure if Digital Signage uses that. But yes, you need energy to create black. On self emitting LED screens a dark mode should save a lot of energy. They don’t really care about brightness, should be reliable. LCDs shouldn’t need to care about that too. They usually won’t live that long anyways. So many layers can break. OLED is problematic.
If you want to do a misogyny on social media, please don't use hashtags; I don't enjoy being flashbanged on non-male participation in computer science and free software by somebody who clearly has opinions about gaming journalism in 2025
#Fedora Linux 43 released on my birthday. Thank you, @adamw and others, for your thorough testing, which delayed the release process just enough to make this happen. ☺️
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