Does anyone have this strange ability where based on what name someone has, and how they write, you are able to come up with a 90% accurate voice profile? The 10% for me is usually like, "whoa! Okay I was way off!"
#FreeBSD users behind a proxy who also use #Poudriere: what are your tips for configuring an HTTP/HTTPS (non-SOCKS as far as I can tell) proxy for package builds?
In the "filesystems and I/O" portion of my Operating Systems course in college today. Brought some floppy disks in to help understanding storage system history and the archaic methods for data organization: tracks, sectors, partitions, etc.
I was surprised at how much the disks were investigated and examined by the students and how much curiosity was expressed. We almost had to suppress questions to get to the course material.
I think this is instructive. I'll try and incorporate some kind of tactile thing this spring when I'm teaching.
#Facebook v posledních dnech zaplavila masivní vlna hejtů na vedení pražské radnice a hlavně na náměstka Hřiba. Že prý zavinil dopravní zácpy v Praze. Nevím, jestli je to organizovaná kampaň, nebo jestli jen někdo začal a ostatní se jako stádo přidali. Každopádně fakt dává logiku hejtit (a posílat do Slavičína) někoho, kdo ve funkci za pár týdnů končí 😁
@bogo It's a good idea. But I have there ca. 500 people and almost all of them don't want to move to either #fediverse or #Signal (or any other "rational" messaging system). They are typically non-IT people and use Facebook and WhatsApp (and possibly Instagram or TikTok).
I am collecting other contact information from them (e-mail addresses, phone numbers...), but it's a long-distance run. When done (in the future), I will leave Facebook completely 😎
@bogo Many. Most of them are people from my real life and I want to contact them sometimes. Only a few of them are people that I have never met in person.
The DMA requires Meta to give people using WhatsApp in Europe the option to connect with people using third-party messaging services that have chosen to
Is it better than FairEmail in any way (looks excluded)? I happily use Thunderbird on Desktop, but unless it's better than FairEmail, I'd avoid the entire setup procedure
@bas_spr Honestly, give it a try! One of our goals for the upcoming year is improving performance and bringing more parity with the desktop app (HTML signatures and Quick Filters are first on our features-to-add list) and making setup easier. If you want to wait, definitely keep up on our monthly updates at blog.thunderbird.net for news about the latest changes and improvements.
I'd much rather it was web-based. I'll get off Android as soon as there is a viable Linux option. I'm sick of being controlled by Google. I want Firefox OS back, running on decent hardware.
I know a lot of folks have been going on about it, but Steam's latest hardware announcement has been utterly insane for the day and age in which we live.
Consider that they didn't hype it up with a launch event. They didn't sell a bunch of hype and buzzwords. All they did was release a ~6 minute video that effectively described the hardware and what it would provide, and had a webpage with *actual specs on it*.
They invited a bunch of tech reporters/YouTubers to their HQ, but they let them talk to *engineers*, not marketing people. The discussions focused on real capabilities of the hardware, and actual demonstrations. No vapor and promises. Not glitz and glam.
They made it clear this is all SteamOS driven, and that they have a focus of getting *existing x86 Windows software* running not only on Linux, but on ARM and in VR!!
They aren't pitching a closed ecosystem. They said, outright, "This is your hardware, you can do whatever you want with it".
THEY DIDN'T MENTION AI ONCE.
And they're _already_ making a bigger splash than any competitor ever did, even though those competitors have gobs more money they've thrown at this stuff, and tremendously more staff.
It's flabbergasting. I hope they make enough of an impact with all this that people sit up and take notice.
Steve Ramirez, a neuroscientist who studies the creation (and manipulation) of memory, a truly sci-fi level of neuroscience, has written a book! I can only imagine this may be of interest to the type of folks who follow me:
I played with GUI for #Linux Desktop Migration Tool today. It is still rough around the edges, but it looks promising. Some operations such as selecting applications to reinstall can be done much more easily in GUI than in CLI.
@svaclav partly, the migration logic was reused from the shell script, AI built the GUI structure and then I tuned it manually. I wouldn't be able to build a working prototype so quickly without AI and AI wouldn't be so successful if the core logic wasn't already written.
awesome work! Have you thought about a scenario of backing up source computer to an external storage or cloud and then restoring to the destination computer. This is the case when one wants to wipe existing install, do clean install and restore to same computer from an intermediate medium.
@JigenDaisukeJr It's on my todo list. People often ask for it. I'll probably only support local storage (or whatever GVFS provides, it could actually save it to remote storage such as Nextcloud). But it would only be one-time backup/restore. I don't want to get into the backup business.
The matrix.org room dir is ready for business; the future of room lists in Element Web; opening rooms more quickly in EX Android - all this and more happened This Week in Matrix!
I've switched to zsh a while ago, but I'd be hard-pressed to tell you what's useful or not, outside of using ohmyzsh and enabling things like p10k, autosuggestions, and a few other plugins
@accrescent I hope you win.🙏🏼 I answered every question 👍🏼
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.
The tiny local credit union had to replace their Windows 10 PCs. Their local IT provider got acquired by a regional IT company and no longer offers disk wiping/destruction.
What are the best options to wipe or destroy (if required) about 5 SSDs that would satisfy a bank auditor?
I don't know if these are self encrypting drives. If they were spinning disks, I've used DBAN in the past, but SSDs have additional logic for wear leveling and trimming, so I don't know what additional steps are needed to ensure the data is all gone.
A quick check for physical disk destruction devices seems a bit pricey at this low volume, but a handy sledge hammer might not be enough for an auditor.
In the past, a disk random write/wipe plus drilling a hole through the platters was accepable for spinning drives.
ATA secure erase should be supported by the SSD and should be understood by the drive firmware to write zeroes to EVERYTHING including the bits you can't reach, but also even if you did a DBAN and are worried about the wear leveling the amount of extra storage dedicated to handle failing flash is pretty small that I doubt anything of value could be found. Who knows though!
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@marcozehe gerade auf der Freedomsci-Seite bei den alten JAWS-Downloads dein Script zum WinCommander gefunden und mal vorgemerkt, sollte ich einen der Win9x-VMS/Notebooks nochmal verwenden :)
Um Gottes Willen, ich wusste gar nicht, dass die da noch verfügbar sind. Ich selbst nutze ja kein Windows mehr, und daher auch keinen Total Commander, und einen Windows Commander schon lange nicht... Aber wenn's Dir Spass macht...
Der Total Commander hieß ja früher WinCommander, der wurde aus Markenschutzgründen dann umbenannt. Den TC für Windows hab ich letztens erst gekauft xD Ja, wenn ich meinen Windows ME Laptop rauskrame, lad ich das da mal drauf.
So last night, I tried Fedora 43. Fedora-Workstation-Live-43-1.6.x86_64.iso. The installer is now web based, making it really nice to use, even with just Tab and Shift + Tab. I was able to install it with no problem.
Now, first time setup had just one big issue, the timezone selector. It's keyboard accessible, and works like this: you start typing a city name, like Chicago, and then down arrow through suggestions and press Enter on the one you want. But Orca doesn't speak that there are suggestions available, and does not read which suggestion you select until you press Enter.
Other than that, Gnome desktop looks pretty good these days! The settings are much better, and that's about all I had time to test so far. Orca starts if you hit Alt Windows S at the installer and first setup, then starts after first setup is complete. The overview panel where you type to search doesn't read when it opens, but basically you just hit the Windows key and start typing what you want, and Orca reads what you hand on, and you can arrow through results. Notifications read too, and I'm thankful Gnome supports notifications.
Mozilla announces more AI in Firefox, still failing to understand that at this point their market share is made of tech savvy people who do not want that.
Mozilla, please. Stop chasing the fads. Get your own values.
People use Firefox to get access to an open web, use a sturdy browser, and not to be tracked. Build in that direction and that direction only.
Nobody from your current user base will recommend Firefox with AI to their friends.
PEOPLE: we would not like ai in our browser it serves no useful purpose and is destroying our world
MOZILLA: brrrr brrr here comes the yummy ai airplane open wide brrrr hey why aren't you opening your mouth for this yummy ai? ok here it comes again brrrrr brrr...
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The only important take-away from Anthropic's hype piece about an "AI-orchestrated" cyber attack:
Tech company valued at over $180 billion still can't make their product not do things they don't want it to do.
> They broke down their attacks into small, seemingly innocent tasks that Claude would execute without being provided the full context of their malicious purpose. They also told Claude that it was an employee of a legitimate cybersecurity firm, and was being used in defensive testing.
Humans fall for attacks like that too. See e.g. all the well-paid remote "bank transfer website testing" jobs, which are actually money laundering scams.
Computers can count faster and with orders of magnitude fewer errors than we can.
Cars can move faster and longer distances, carrying heavier loads, than we can.
Anthropic and other AI hype companies are making bank on pretending their spicy autocomplete is so much better than human labor. We absolutely should point and laugh at them when these claims fall flat on their face.
LLMs are a lot more like humans (or weird animals) than they are like computers. I think service dogs are a really great comparison. We don't quite understand how and why they do what they do (chemists still can't quite replicate a police dog's nose), we know they make tons of mistakes, but they're better / faster / cheaper / more useful than humans, so we keep using them.
@miki the fact is LLMs are not better nor more useful than humans, research shows. We just keep falling for the hype.
> After completing the study, developers estimate that allowing AI reduced completion time by 20%. Surprisingly, we find that allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19% arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089
> For an organization of 10,000 workers, given the estimated prevalence of workslop (41%), this yields over $9 million per year in lost productivity. hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-w…
Google is starting to retreat on its "developer government ID verification" plan, thank goodness.
But the devil will be in the detail, and Google's positioning that wanting to install software on your own device makes you a "power user" is concerning.
The notion that you need to be an "experienced user" to use @fdroidorg, for instance, is nonsense.
But still: keeping up the pressure appears to be working. A little.
I learned on this trip that a little pouch full of SMA antenna adapters looks like a baggie of bullets to TSA - they got flagged both coming and going😀
Killing time at the airport in Milwaukee now - have a bit of time before my actual flight
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