I really like this blog-post about AI, especially its last sentence: "The most disobedient thing we can do is to thrive." fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-dont-c… #ai
I woke with my head buzzing. Not a headache; literally buzzing. I have chronic, loud tinnitus, and sometimes when I wake up, it makes these short, SUPER LOUD buzzes like a reciprocating saw cutting a tin roof. I don’t have a better way to describe it.
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KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive In Dropping X11 Session Support
KDE developers announced they are going "all-in on a Wayland future" and with the Plasma 6.8 desktop it will become Wayland-exclusive.
I kind of want to feel bad for the people who may have recently maintained X11 window managers; they are going to have to deal with *that* crowd and they don't deserve that.
So unbelievably cool when you are close enough to the cockpit on your CRJ900 to hear the autopilot disconnect cavalry charge just before you touch down. In #AvGeek bliss right now.
Hi. Do you know about the work going on with accessible flight simulation? There are some very cool projects going on. Not just saying that because I started one of them several years ago.
‼️ No es un hecho aislado: la red de ductos en mal estado expone a varias localidades en el norte de Veracruz. Las afectaciones se encadenan a lo largo de su trayecto. 🔴 Lee el reportaje: avispa.org/?p=121098 🐝
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I learned a few weeks ago that in Australia, after you pay your taxes, you'll get a list of what your tax dollars were spent on. That's super cool! It could never work in the US though, all you'd see on your list is "tank, tank, tank, ICE terrorists, tank, tank, yacht, tank, tank, tank, bombs, yacht, tank."
I find it disillusioning to see the casual use of "AI" slowly creeping into our hacker circles. Most of the discussions about AI focus on the quality of its output. I think we're not doing a good job communicating its more fundamental dangers.
In this blog post I write about how tools shape who we are and why the resource intensiveness of AI is ingrained in its purpose. About the devaluation of skills, and power cycles.
~ $ cww<br><br>No command cww found, ☝️🤓 I think you meant eww:<br> Command eww in package eww from the x11-repo repository<br><br>(rookie mistake)<br>
News flash: Headaches continue to be stupid. They were a really dumb invention by whomever designed humans. Why were they included in the first place? Was it done out of pure spite?
I get them from the green Dragon CBD, but I always have to call them because the button to place the order is in accessible. But they always have pretty good deals.
Hello Mastodon Family! Lena here from marketing. I'm writing an article on instant messengers with interoperability and I'm looking for some more information on what actually makes a messenger interoperable. I thought of focusing on: Element, Delta, and SimpleX but I'm open to other suggestions! Could anyone kindly advise? ☺️
Introduction The European Digital Markets Act (DMA) was introduced to ensure fair competition and prevent large technology companies from exploiting their dominant positions. A key aspect of the DMA is the requirement for Number-Independent …
Moin Lena, also #SimpleX sollte auf jeden Fall dabei sein. Finde ich toll, wenn du das tust. Ein immer noch unterschätzter Messenger der auch dezentral gehosted werden kann und meiner Meinung nach "der" Messenger schlecht hin.
Das noch junge Projekt @simplex versucht genau wie Tuta die Privatsphäre und deren Daten ihrer Nutzer und Nutzerinnen zu schützen.
When talking about interop, don't let anyone tell you that they can't become interoperable for security reasons: MLS exists, Google and Apple support it for RCS, and Matrix is migrating there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messagin…
Nothing to tell people who want "just something to use right now", more for an "Outlook" section.
I guess most interoperable from these is Element. You can use it both for daily communication with friends, and for work or working on projects. Most importantly you can self host it, so actually own your data, which is a big plus for it. Yet...for communication with friends I'd still choose Signal, as its more popular, has better performance and privacy mechanisms (in comparison to matrix public instance). Well and for journalists simplex definitely shines. So I'd say it all depends on purpose, but objectively Element has the ability to be any of those 3 if done right.
@delta and when talking about element don't forget to talk about the privacy leak everywhere in their system, and the fact that 90% of group are unencrypted allowing the server to follow talk without showing in the user list.
I could be thinking completely differently than where you are, but I would go for Matrix rather than Element. Element is cool, but it's the protocol behind it (Matrix) that truly makes Element interoperable. Without Matrix being an open and federated standard, Element would just be another closed chat app that doesn't allow people to speak with anyone unless they use Element. With Matrix I can speak not only to anyone on the Matrix network, but also a bunch of other bridged chat protocols. Incredible!
honestly an interoperable messenger has to be the fact that it can communicate across other servers and/or platforms, instead of covering just element, cover the matrix protocol, the underlying and see/cover docs.mau.fi/bridges/index.html and beeper.com/ (beeper uses Matrix for the underlying core too)
Hello, I see you already had a lots of nice answer.
Here is my point of view: interoperability could be see at the low protocol level or a highter level, lets say at the 'service or company' level.
When today the EU talk about interoperability it's on the company level. Of course it's better if the protocol is the same or at least interoperable. But the real challenge here is to agree to collaborate.
You god a lot of response talking about protocols: matrix, xmpp or email. In my point of view that the easiest part of the interoperability, even if it already not simple.
And I was not aware that SimpleX is interoperable in any way!
I'm working on a project of service that use mainly xmpp to let us talk between xmpp, matrix and sip users ( mio.chat/en/ ;) )
keychat.io has encryption similar to signal but they purport to change keys per message instead of per thread in an attempt to make it even harder to reconstitute the thread should anyone attempt to recover it. Also, Keet is freaking awesome so far.
I keep hearing about #SimpleX but background checks on who is behind it go back to some random Russian guy based in London. Not the best recommendation for either company director or country of registration. There's claims that it's been audited but only by one company "Trail of Bits". Then there's SimpleX disclaimer which specifically states that it may be neither secure or safe. Doesn't instil confidence.
@privacyguides just started a #Loops channel and AFAIK this would be the first organization to be active on this quite new and experimental fediverse platform.
The paper, titled "A theoretical upper limit for offshore wind energy extraction" appeared a few days ago and looks at how well national policy goals align with physics. Below graph shows the problem for the Netherlands in particular: the policies aren't aligned with reality.
"The WIN plan, for example, assumes that offshore wind will provide around 60% of all CO2 -free electricity generated in the Netherlands by 2040, based on capacity factors as high as 53% (in average). If, instead, the system-average capacity factor proves to be closer to 34.6%—as predicted by our theoretical model and supported by global operational trends—then more than 20% of the Netherlands’ planned CO2 -free electricity supply will be missing by 2040 due to the shortfall in offshore wind generation alone."
Translation: the planned 70 GW in offshore wind won't generate 370 TWh annually, but a mere 215 TWh. This 155 TWh drop is equivalent to twelve of the biggest nuclear power plants we can build today, the EPR.
Yes, TWELVE.
Given that offshore wind is presented as the most important backbone of the Dutch energy transition, this is a real big f'ing problem. There is no real solution besides, well, building more than the currently planned four nuclear power plants. A lot more.
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Remember what Google CEO Eric Schmidt said “We can more or less know what you’re thinking about”? This dystopia will now come true with Search AI Mode.
I think most people would benefit more from instructions on how to change their browser's default search engine into @Qwant or something similar. Especially so now that @duckduckgo comes default in more privacy-focused browsers, but they've been jamming those useless "AI" features into their search and browser as well.
If you want, you can add an option for Google's search engine in your browser to results with no AI. You can do the same with DuckDuckGo. See both examples below in Firefox (in Dutch, but it's relatively straightforward in other languages).
After you have added these, you can delete the default search engine entries for both.
As far as I know, the procedure for Chromium-based browsers is broadly similar.
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If Tweesecake had the ability to hide boosts and replies from a timeline so you just could see the actual posts... I would have 150 'selfwritten' posts, all the rest of my 2300 posts would be boosts 🤣
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