Today’s instalment of ‘living in the future is actually pretty neat’:
When I was small, the first step in decorating a Christmas tree was sorting out the lights. Lights used incandescent bulbs, on a long string, wired in parallel. At least one would have blown in storage during the year, and you had to lay out the string, find the blown ones, and replace them (and then discover you’d run out of spare bulbs and needed to go to a shop). If you didn’t, the rest would get more current and would be more likely to blow. If enough blew, the others would get so hot (they were too hot to touch in normal operation anyway) that they would set fire to the tree and burn the house down.
Now, we have LED strips, which consume a fraction of the power, don’t burn out, and are not a fire risk. They also seem to not tangle as easily, but that’s probably unrelated.
- Apply filters to search results, bookmarks, and favourites - Display account pronouns - #quoteposts
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Pachli 3.2.0 is now available. This release applies your filters to search results, bookmarks, and favourites (if your server supports this), shows account pronouns throughout the UI, and supports Mastodon’s new “quote post” feature.
I don't know what's better -- Monero users not running their own nodes which makes them identifiable, or this blog post being a victim of Markdown Hell and every numbered point being "1." because they had the audacity of putting bullet points between the numbered points
The fact that conservative Americans seem not to know the basic fact that our number system is based on Arabic numerals and think that Zohran is going to indoctrinate their kids with some "Muslim nonsense" is really a screaming indictment of our education system, isn't it?
It is, but it's also pretty funny. (speaking as someone living outside of the US). then again, I wonder how many people in my country know that the numbers we use every day are called Arabic?
@VE3RWJ That's a good thought. i remember it personally because in first grade I was taught about roman numerals, and then we talked about why we use the Arabic ones instead. This is 100% Zohran trolling the right, and it is absolutely working.
It seems #mixxx has very limited conditional logic when dealing with variables/toggles in the UI/skin. It is quite hard to get exclusions to work, especially when you are actually in need of a tri-state
I have a 4 decks option, but not the way I wanted it... and for now is a separate branch.
«in a series of deleted X posts, Grok boasted that Musk had the “potential to drink piss better than any human in history,” that he was “the ultimate throat goat” whose “blowjob prowess edges out Trump’s,” and that he should have won a 2016 porn industry award instead of porn star Riley Reid.»
Elon Musk's AI assistant Grok boasted that the billionaire had the "potential to drink piss better than any human in history," among other absurd claims.
Používám GrapheneOS už několik let a je super vidět, jak komunita pořád roste. Mám proto otázku na ostatní: Jak řešíte profily a Google služby?
– jedete jeden hlavní profil + sandboxed Google Play, – používáte více profilů (např. hlavní bez Googlu, druhý pro appky), – spoléháte na Private Spaces (soukromé prostory), – nebo jste úplně bez Googlu a stačí vám Aurora Store?
Vyzkoušel jsem všechny varianty, ale zajímají mě vaše reálné zkušenosti. Co vám dlouhodobě funguje nejlíp? Já se přiznám, že jedu jeden hlavní profil se sandboxed Google Play. Důvod je jednoduchý: – v práci mi volají přes WhatsApp, – jedna pracovní appka přes Auroru nefungovala, – a několikrát denně používám navigaci v autě.
Přepínání profilů mě po čase prostě přestalo bavit.
Asi ta první varianta - hlavní profil se sandboxovaným Googlem.
Více profilů jsem zkoušel, ale pro mne to nedává valného smyslu - pro kalendáře stejně potřebuji mít všechny relevantní profily pohromadě a vytvářet v nich události. Dále, lidé mi volají a píší přes všechny možné messengery, a i když člověk občas zkouší je dostat na svoji stranu, ne vždy to jde :/ a přepínat se kvůli nim je strašně o hubu.
Plus, mám u Googlu nakoupených pár aplikací, na které jsem zvyklý (a včera jsem ještě jednu přidal), takže toho Google Play se jen tak nezbavím. 😄
Ta bezpečnostní vylepšení mi stojí za to, že to zůstává v tom hlavním profilu.
@warzazel I use sandboxed google play exclusively for bank and Garmin connect, all other app are on my personal profile, I do not like Viber, but it is necessary because of my work. all other app are FOSS, and the social network is #mastodon and #matrix #grapheneos
@mrakmm Same here — I only use sandboxed Google Play for the apps I need for work, plus Garmin, Strava and my bank app. Everything else is pure FOSS apps. @warzazel
více profilů + v každém z nich privat space. (Owner mam uplně čistý kromě molly+unified push)
druhý profil je daily driver/soukromý kde jsou jen FOSS aplikace (kromě vpn, a správce hesel které jsem prvotně doinstaloval přes auroru ale s aurorou jsem je jen nainstaloval updatuju je přes třetí profil, kde mam throaway sandboxed google + spyware apky jako whatsapp nebo banku a věci co vyžadují google push / v private spacu školní věci jaky spyware365 nebo teamsy tam sandboxed google space nepotřebuju)
+separátní profil na …… V kazdém profilu/privat spacu jiná vpn/tor tj jiná IP adresa
@tyrkysovapanda Tak koukám, že jsem byl za ta léta břídil a to jsem i nosil jeden čas dva telefony. Jako jo, já to chápu. Jen mě už nějak otravovalo to přepínání.
@tyrkysovapanda Já mám GrapheneOs od pixelu 2xl už jsem toho vyzkoušel fakt hodně. Ono nejhorší, že potřebuji pár aplikací do práce. Každopádně díky za informace 👍👍
Mám takový mix: Jeden telefon čistě soukromý pro příbuzné. Mimo Google s F-droid FOSS aplikacemi. Druhý telefon s privátním Google účtem, kde mám také banky a platební karty + stahuji si tam nějaké pracovní e-maily. Třetí telefon čistě pracovní, kde je WhatsApp a všechny pracovní věci. Něco pod Google Play, zbytek F-droid a Aurora.
Takže docela paranoidní režim se třemi telefony + tablet a dva ntb s linuxem a jeden Widloidní. Domácí NUC NAS už raději nepočítám 🙂
Petition in Germany to recognize unpaid contribution to free and open source software projects as 'society-beneficial volunteering' (ehrenamt)!
This will give volunteering for e.g. @postmarketOS , @freifunk , @kde , @nextcloud , @Mastodon and other libre projects the same legal status as taking care of an elderly family member, which provides tax benefits and relaxes requirements for receiving unemployment benefits.
Here is a picture taken this morning showing off how snowy it is around here. I am putting the description in the actual post, as I think it is too big for the image description part.
The image shows a quiet residential area blanketed by a fresh layer of snow, creating a calm and wintry atmosphere. The landscape is primarily white, as the snow covers the road, rooftops, and yards in a thick, undisturbed layer. The overcast sky is a pale, uniform gray, indicating continued cloudy weather, adding a subdued tone to the scene.
On both sides of the road are mobile homes, each painted in various muted colors like white, gray, and pale yellow. The homes have small front porches or steps leading up to their entrances, some of which are partially buried in snow. A few homes have lights on inside, casting a warm yellow glow through the windows that contrasts with the cold outdoor environment. Small trees and bushes surround some of the homes, their branches heavy with freshly settled snow.
A single light gray Jeep is parked on the left side of the image near a home, with a light dusting of snow on its roof, windshield, and hood. Tire marks and footprints are visible in the snow-covered street, leading away from the direction of the camera, showing that someone has already walked and driven on this quiet path recently. These tracks carve through the smooth surface of the snow, suggesting minimal traffic and a peaceful, early moment after the snowfall.
In the background, a red stop sign stands out vividly against the snow near the center right, placed at a street intersection within the mobile home park. The visibility of the stop sign and its bright color provides a striking contrast to the monotonous whiteness of the rest of the area. Spruce and bare-branched trees can also be seen further back, some leaning slightly and covered in a delicate coating of snow.
Overall, the image captures a serene and picturesque winter morning in a modest neighborhood. The footprints and vehicle tracks hint at the beginning of daily routines in a community gently waking up amidst a snowy landscape. The quiet stillness suggests the snow may have only recently stopped falling, leaving everything wrapped in a pristine, soft layer.
@FreakyFwoof yeah, I personally don't want that much snow this early. much closer to actual christmas and I would be ok with it, but right now? nope. lol. it still makes for a nice picture though.
@ke7zum @FreakyFwoof I only go outside when I have to when it is like this. my ballence is nothing like it used to be, plus my arthritis gets mad when it is cold, and I know that tonight we are going down to 14F, -10C for a low, which means standing outside waiting for the boys bus is really going to suck!
@ke7zum Curious, is there a reason you stand and wait for them, when they know where the house is because they're not blind? Genuine question, not trying to be a troll.
@ke7zum You said standing outside and waiting for their bus to get in, but... They know how to do that by now, no? And it's not too far from home if I remember, as I'm pretty sure I heard a recording of you leaving your house and going to where the bus comes. Isn't it a 30-second walk from door to outside?
@FreakyFwoof @ke7zum I am going to try to answer what I think you are asking. if I am wrong, please clairify. normally here you take your kids down to where the office is, and that is where the bus picks up the kids. with may and I both being totally blind, plus at least one of our boys having ADHD, it makes it really hard for us to try to keep them under control, and hear where things are that we need to hear, so there bus actually stops right across the street from our trailor, for us only. so when I say we wait for them, we are waiting for them to get to across from our trailor. they don't show up the same exact time every day, so we go out a few minutes early just in case.
@ke7zum No no, that makes total sense, and that's what I was wondering. In this cold, I thought if you could stand in the doorway and save yourself a bad fall and less pain, it would be worthwhile, but with ADHD being what it is, you do kinda have to be there.
If you are one of those transphobic motherfuckers who won't use someone's correct pronouns, you do NOT fucking get to say you are "in a relationship" with a chatbot.
You won't acknowledge the humanity of a trans woman, but you will build an emotional connection with a computer simulation you assigned a gender to?
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TIL Mariah Carey makes $2.7-3.3M per year from All I Want For Christmas Is You
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/22/how-much-mariah-carey-makes-from-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you.html
#til #todayilearned
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Da gibt es mehr von. Der Typ, der „Stop the Cavalry“ veröffentlicht hat, kann von den jährlichen Tantiemen durch Streaming und Radioeinsätze auch leben. Und George Michales Erben und Andrew Ridgeley können von dem, was Last Christmas so jährlich generiert, mit Sicherheit auch sehr komfortabel leben.
There's a song by Bad Religion called I Love My Computer, whose interpretation I will not attempt to make, but the lyrics speak of an obsession with a computer, as if it were a rather masoginestic sexual relationship with a powerless woman with the man dictating all, and in full control. I haven't gotten all philisophical about it, but I enjoy it for its surface-level lyrics, in the computer sense of the words, not the sexual parts, and simply because not many even try to sing about anything to do with computers, couched in metaphor or not. So its a unique niche genre topic, amongst the ranks of Its All About The Pentiums by Weird Al, and not really too many others.
So with all that preample out of the way, part of the lyrics of the above discussed song, 64 characters of them, to be exact, became my very first WiFi password, using the WEP encryption scheme. For individual end users, this was the best on offer at the time. You either had an open network, or you had a WEP encrypted network with a textual password with a hard limit of 64 characters. The password from the lyrics of that song, and my very first WiFi password was: ILovemycomputeryoumakemefeelallrighteverywakinghourandeverylone Of course, I became quickly aware that RC4 had been broken, and WEP was essentially at best an annoyance, quickly overcome, by anyone really wanting to listen to your network, so after I reprogrammed my mind for the acronym WEP standing for Wired Equivalent Privacy to Wire-exposed Privacy, I moved to WPA enterprise and set up a RADIUS server, and had MAC authentication going there for a while. But with the prolipheration of devices, rapid upgrades and swaps, that became untennable. So I went back to WPA2 Personal and now WPA 3 Personal. I may investigate the enterprise modes a bit further, but authenticating devices is simply unwieldy, most especially with MAC randomization, its just impossible now. But I'm really not all that worried about my network being hacked. Not to say it can't or won't ever happen, but its not something that keeps me up at night anymore. I just rock the latest protocols and schemes, latest firmware, and roll with it. So that's a bit of a story on my first use of WiFi encryption and what locked it down. Until it didn't. LOL.
I am still (unfortunately) using WPA2/WPA3 mixed mode, which is probably no better than just WPA2 by itself, because of a couple of stupid devices that don't support WPA3. There are workarounds, such as putting said devices on their own VLAN/SSID, smashing them with hammers, or just not using them, but all those options have different sets of pros and cons.
I did briefly mess with WPA3 Enterprise, and, yes, getting keys on devices is annoying. That being said, if it were just me and no one else in the house, I'd probably do it anyway.
Also, if it were just me in the house, there'd be a lot less WiFi. Most of my stuff doesn't use it as-is.
“AI sceptics” who work on policy and education continue to overestimate the utility of LLMs—portraying it as a potential revolution even as they warn against overhype—simply because they can’t see that generating seemingly coherent text has very little economic value
LLMs are not automation. That would have economic value. The generated text artefacts look coherent and we, as a society, don’t even value the coherent kind. We underpay most forms of writing. Even code has no inherent value (see open source) outside of the associated integration and expertise
Between diffusion models and LLMs, tech has inflated a trillion dollar bubble around automating activities that have immense social and cultural capital—writing, art, photography—but little actual capital. It’s harmful to education, culture, and society with minimal overall benefit
More and more, generative models are looking like productivity tobacco. Promoted by biased research, it’s addictive, harmful, and the little benefit it has (nicotine is a somewhat effective ADHD drug, for example) cannot outweigh the fact that it’s hurting us all, directly and indirectly.
This shit is already turning out to be one of the most harmful tech innovations of the 21st century. It needs to be regulated at least as much as tobacco, if not banned outright from most economic spheres
Wir haben die Datenbank aufgeräumt und wünschen uns, dass wir so etwas in Zukunft nicht mehr machen müssen. Falls jemand in den letzten Stunden eine Nebenstelle registrieren wollte und keine mehr verfügbar war: Jetzt sind wieder 3644 frei. #39C3
@hub I know a guy who bought a little pickup specifically to tow his boat and never carries anything in the truck lest the wear reduce the resale value.
The Australian government has announced on November 3 that, beginning next year in much of the country and spreading to the rest by 2027, all residents will get three free hours of electricity every afternoon.
That’s right: 3 hours of free electricity. This possible because Australia has built enough solar power that in the middle of the day the sun is generating so much electricity that wholesale electric prices often go negative few those few hours. So, they’re giving it away. electrek.co/2025/11/04/austral…
How’s that for a political platform plank? “Vote for us and we’ll build out so much solar power generation that we’ll give electricity away for free in the middle of the day.”
Bill McKibben offers the bottom line: “Australia has enough solar power, and that solar power is so cheap, that now people who live there will get to have it for free. They will be, every afternoon, energy-rich. With just a little bit of care, they’ll be able to get done most of what needs doing for free.”
Meanwhile, Bill writes, “Trump and the corrupt fossil fuel cronies that surround him have done everything they can to make sure Americans will never get to share in this kind of bounty.”
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Für die zweite OP alles gute! Und kurioserweise ist mir im Oktober dasselbe passiert: Mitte Oktober gegen Influenca und CoVid impfen lassen, eine Woche später ein RSV- oder sonstiger Erkältungsvirus, der sich bei mir breit machte, und wo der Husten erst jetzt richtig abgeklungen ist.
Zum Thema lesen: Ihr kennt das meiste aus den letzten Jahren vermutlich schon, aber ihr könnt euch auf viele Arten Texte auch vorlesen lassen, wenn die Augen nicht mehr können. Bei Fragen gern DM.
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Windows update makes sign-in password icon invisible — Microsoft says you can still click on empty space to enter your password
A Windows 11 Update hides the password button on the sign-in page, confusing users who need to type in their passwords. #hardware tomshardware.com/software/wind…
Checking out the Bits and Bops demo from Tempo Lab Games.Check it out on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com › app › Bits__BopsBecome a YouTube Member or a...
I don't think steam is bad. I just don't like being attached to an app just to install, and play my games. I like the fact that something like star dew vally for example, you can not only get on steam, but you can do it threw gog, which doesn't require a seprate program to install, and play the game.
@JamminJerry I mean it's no different than buying a game on Xbox or the PS5. I tis possible i tmay be on itch.io, but I suspect they may just sell steam keys. but we will see when the full version comes out I suppose.
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in reply to Quin • • •I saw those videos too, no idea if they're serious or parodies.
This is not the first time we've seen this play out, I've seen similar statements any time a muslim person was elected to an office somewhere.
I remember there was one in the UK a couple years ago, no idea who specifically.