Would you be willing to skip upgrading your computer/laptop/smartphone for a year and give that same amount of money to Mozilla so they don't have to raise funds through ads or AI related partnerships?
one corporation and 841 random people giving a small amount? That can't be sustainable, they'll never fix the printer dialog that Linus ranted about on that revenue lol
@mWare @piggo I'm asking people to drop their prejudices and think about this from a different perspective
What if Mozilla was doing only the things that you like, but they are out of funds. Their options are ads, AI integration, etc etc to make money. Or raise it from the community. Known costs of developers, hardware, infra, etc to keep things going is many millions per year.
Would you volunteer to pay them so they don't have to turn evil?
Now let's pivot and pick another large open source project that you know in your gut requires a of funded developers to keep going. Maybe it's KDE and they're going to be forced to start including ads on the mainstream distros.
Are you willing to pay for KDE then? How much? What will it take for you to financially support these huge open source projects that you rely on and greatly benefit from?
even if the average ff user gave them $10 a year they'd be swimming in money. instead the average ff user hates them for making it possible to watch netflix
@prettygood @lain well considering somehow we're at the point now that Netflix is going to single-handedly destroy TV/movie industry, perhaps keeping people from watching it would have helped
¡Gracias por tu donación, gracias por compartirla aquí, y gracias por todo el gran trabajo que haces compartiendo las noticias de Thunderbird en tu blog! 😊 💙.
TIL why Sun Microsystems (Bill Joy and all) bought an office suite company in 1999. 🤨
"In August 1999, Star Division was acquired by Sun Microsystems[81][82] for US$59.5 million (equivalent to US$112 million in 2024), reportedly because the acquisition was less expensive than licensing Microsoft Office for Sun's 42,000 employees.[83][84]"
- a) Updated it automatically circa 1 month ago; it lost all my containers and sessions. I think it restarted empty.
- b) Updated it automatically about 5 days ago; again it lost all my containers and sessions, and restarted with my REALLY OLD windows and tabs from before (a).
Neither update lost my bookmarks or anything critical. I just have to re-do my logins in the appropriate containers; no big deal, but it's annoying.
Wildeste Weihnachtspackliste überhaupt - Familienbesuch, Skiurlaub und Congress in einen Rucksack. Immerhin nehm ich dieses Jahr nicht noch einen Weihnachtsbaum im ICE mit. 🙈 #39c3
I'm trying to decide whether I should invest in a Raspberry Pi. Thing about me is, I have everything I need. I don't know what to get this Christmas. My list is empty. As depressing as that sounds, it's not. I have come to accept that the stuff I have always wanted is right at my fingertips.
I’ve built a few Braille-related apps, and I’m learning the hard way how difficult this space really is.
Discoverability is hard, onboarding takes time, and even motivated users often need practice before the apps become useful. Some software concepts are innovative, powerful, but slower compared to hardware tools.
I’m still iterating and listening carefully to feedback.
I’m Stefan, an indie developer working on accessibility-focused apps for blind users.
My current work explores how light, color, and structure can be translated into sound and haptics without being overwhelming. A lot of it is learning by listening — to users, not just to code.
I’m here to learn, exchange ideas, and hopefully contribute something useful.
Happy to connect, and grateful for thoughtful feedback along the way.
Misión cumplida. Comida de trabajo, sin incidente reseñable. Conseguí evitar sentarme con la superioridad. La comida estuvo bien y el vino también. Luego, un rato en un pub, y ahí ya a tónicas por si acaso. De vuelta en taxi, que llovía por un tubo (después de todo, esto es Compostela).
A miserable complaint: You know what really grinds my gears? When people who speak English as their first language have no fucking clue what they're talking about and have the gall to correct you about something they're wrong about, about their own language.
I learned the fucking rules and grammar! I checked the spelling in the dictionary! I read the style guides and the outlines of prose and poetry, I studied the classics! Sit the fuck down and go home to learn your own fucking language you silly oblivious little git. 👿
I can relate. I especially dislike the "that word doesn't exist" some people would confidently assert, which just meant they'd never heard it before. I know my native language pretty well, but it wouldn't occur to me to say something like that; because I'm aware I don't know all the words.
Next investment for this zoom recorder on top of looking for external microphones? A windscreen for the stereo capsules. Honestly I can't really do any recording without one. I didn't realize how sensitve those mics were. good lord.
A Zoom H1 Essential accessoir kit does exist (labelled APH-1e), which contains a case, wind screen and power adapter. From my experience the wind screens aren't top notch, but better than nothing.
Kauai Coffee is a 3,000-acre farm on the south side of the island, the largest coffee farm in the US. Its lease is being threatened by the landowner and they may have to close shop.
I have mixed feelings about this because, a) The company provides jobs for the island, but b) Their coffee is absolute shite. They grow it in sandy soil near sea level and it tastes like dog's balls. Sorry not sorry.
@Scott Trying to make a speech synth. Whether it'll go anywhere or not is another matter, but I got a pretty clear "ah" out of it the other day and that's a lot further than I was expecting to get. So I have hope.
Checked freebsd handbook for jail docs and the linux jail is apparently just a regular bsd jail with linux chroot in /compat. That's lame, thought I could just run the jail with linux rootfs directly.
if you do it the handbook way you get the "benefit" of being able to just pkg upgrade on the host and all the linux-y packages installed into that compat/ get updated, thus the Linux jails mounting in the compat/ are affected, which I can see the appeal of but that's not what I want most of the time
you'll have to set a custom exec.start for the jail to NOT be the init, but something (don't treat it like a VM)
also you'll want to set the persist; option on the jail in case you want to start it up with no processes running so you can poke around and figure out what you need to get it working the way you want
@feld Figured it out, exec.start = "/sbin/openrc default". Can get in with jexec, though it randomly throws filesystem errors, ufs_rmdir: Bad link count 2.
#Kundin: Ich hätte gerne Schüßler-Salz Nr. 1. #DerApotheker: Dass das keine nachgewiesene Wirkung hat, ist Ihnen bekannt? #Kundin: Aber das Calcium darin ist doch gut für meine Knochen. #DerApotheker: Da ist nicht wirklich Calcium drin. Das ist Calcium fluoratum D6, das heißt,...
@delta, i've seen some mention of call in some place (app doc etc), is it worked on (and if already working in the advanced / experimental, is it E2EE ?
i see in the settings, that we can set some server, does they need to be set to work or does the default configuration already work ? (i ask because it's not imediatly clear and i prefer avoir breaking it :)
also (wallpaper are like any other not shared with the other people we talk to i guess (just to be sure)).
Zrovna jsem chtěl napsat: "jak strašně hnusný? viděl jsi e-golfa?". No a očividně viděl. E-golf je hodně slušná #BEV ojetina na krátké vzdálenosti a každodenní dojíždění do práce.
vy jste nějací vybíraví. :) já jsem v tomto celkem konzervativní, takže si z evropských značek vyberu. Neurazí mě ani škodovky. Ale aktuálně mám jako vysněné EV Audi A6 e-tron s 95kWh baterií. 😍 Jen ta cena, jen ta cena... 😭
tak ja bych si taky vybral, takovy enyaq/elroq s novou aplikaci uz je dobre pouzitelny, ale ten koncernovy styl ze auto je "levne", ale pridas do neho koberecek a najednou stoji dvakrat tolik me vytaci ... proto jsem taky skoncil u insteru :D Navic potrebuju aby mi do toho duchodci mohli spokojene nastoupit a nebylo preprasene SUV
No hlavně viděl jsi co za to chtějí?! Za 150? Na ježdění kolem komína? Ideální. Ale jinak pardon, to je vykuchaný spalovák, to není designově eauto sauto.cz/osobni/detail/fiat/50…
Inzerát na prodej Hatchback Fiat 500E, ELEKTRO 82kW. Stav: Ojeté;, Elektro; barva Černá; tachometr 60 832 km; cena 169 999 Kč; prodejce MAMA CAR a.s. - okres Hlavní město Praha
za 150 asi dobrý, ale má to jen 24 kWh baterii. Jako jeté už spíš 20-22. Po půl roce s elektroautem už bych nechtěl nic pod 40 kWh ani jako městské auto. V zimě na krátké trasy si to vezme klidně 20-25 kWh/100 km. S takovou baterií to musí být v jednom kuse na nabíječce. Z praktických důvodů je dobré mít rezervu. Když zjistím, že se potřebuju otočit na druhý konec Brna a v baterii mám momentálně třetinu a nemůžu čekat, až se to nabije.
I bought a copy of Lolita like 15 years ago at a used book shop because it seemed taboo and I figured I'd see what the fuss was about, couldn't get past the first chapter, decided that anyone who has the stamina to read that book must be really warped
The first line of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women is “Christmas won’t be Christmas without presents”, while Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1850 short story The Good Fairy is about Christmas presents and, specifically, women trying to help each other figure out how best to navigate the task of choosing them. It is a mark of your columnist’s slow wits, then, that after 20 years o
The first line of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women is “Christmas won’t be Christmas without presents”, while Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1850 short story The Good Fairy is about Christmas presents and,…
It's finally new #WhatsApp app day on Windows for me. If you were thinking I would buck the trend by saying it's not all that bad, then I would have to seriously ask whether you've ever read any of my posts at all.
@cachondo I suspect a not insignificant number of those minutes have been spent hearing "For more options, press left or right arrow key to access context menu," over, and over, and over, and over again, and then a bit more.
Constantine ending persecution of Christians in 313 AD was really good. The previous policy of persecution under Diocletian was terrible. These are facts.
But, one can't help but lament the shift in Christianity as the faith transformed from being a deliberate rejection of the world to a path of ease and power. This is still true today as politicians and others misuse the name of Christ for their own ends.
We've just released Matrix spec v1.17 (hopefully our last release before v2.0!) including a few new MSCs and some exciting usability improvements for the spec website!
Our so called "leaders" can bring in hate laws, but laws don't create hate, they haven't stopped people killing each other. Ignorance develops/creates hate. Let's spend money on education which develops what MLKjr called "beloved community". This would be a good step towards creating the partnership culture we need so much. #universaleducation
I've been on mastodon a few times over the years but this is the first time I've created an account with the intent of actually interacting. And I'd like to start by making everyone here hate me by sharing a clearly unpopular opinion and say: I... Like using AI. And I hope I can win some of you over as well.
Now don't get me wrong, I see the damage, I hate the people causing it, but I would ask, if we gave up on every new piece of technology that wasn't immediately as good as its predecessor, where would we be? We would never have invested in electric cars, or hell, vehicles at all. We wouldn't dare to building anything for fear our initial prototype couldn't compete with a refined legacy standard.
Many of the people on this platform are the people who actually can affect change. We're programmers, hackers, network engineers, the ones who actually get to do something. But instead of finding solutions, trying to make things better, so many are burying their head in the sand and hoping the world doesn't change around them. And I hate to say it but it won't work.
The world is changing, technology is changing, but we have the ability and knowledge to build the alternative. We're the ones who can challege big AI, and implement solutions built by people, outside of data centers, and in the control of people. As a person who has to implement these solutions for businesses, open source, local and edge applications are where I want to see this technology, not in a datacenter thats destroying a community.
I've done a lot over the years to push for open source technology, more than most can say they have. I didn't sit in a bubble and wait for the world to adopt the tools I want them to use, I climbed the ranks as from an IT professional to a sysadmin, a network engineer, and finally someone who actually has a say. And then I deployed those technologies for people. I gave end users linux, I chose proxmox over esxi, I deployed open source office suites instead of just paying for microsoft office because "that's what you do", even when it made my job harder.
I look at the landscape today in tech and I see an opportunity for us as open source devs and builders to shape things before they take place. To take the place of big AI in communities and businesses before it gains a foothold. And it hurts a bit to see businesses and organizations I've loved and followed for so long digging themselves a grave and praying it will all go away while the people like me have to keep helping businesses use chatgpt and gemini trash without good alternatives. Thank you for your attention, I'll be taking hate mail in the comments below.
Local AI wastes more power than AI that runs in a datacenter.
For LLMs to be as economical and power-efficient as possible, you need to keep your GPUs as highly utilized as you can, preferrably during all hours of the day. For big models, you also want to have as many of those GPUs as you can in one cluster, within limits of course.
THe thing about LLMs is that, unlike let's say Netflix, they require very little bandwidth and are relatively tolerant of latency. This means that there's little disadvantage (beyond the political implications) of running your model at the other end of the world. Unless you're a global organization with offices everywhere, if you buy your own GPUs, those GPUs will likely sit idle beyond 9-to-5. This won't be the case if you rent capacity from a global provider, as that provider can rent the same GPUs to somebody located in a different timezone when you're not using them.
@miki I think there's something to be said beyond the overall global power impact and efficiency in this exact moment and a case to be made for the local impact on communities where these centers are as well as the trajectory we choose to develop in. There's also a case to be made which I firmly believe that perhaps we don't need the largest, most capable model for every task. We don't necessarily need the power of chatGPT to answer every person's inquiry about whether its skynet, we just need to focus on shifting resources to improving the accessibility and functionality provided by smaller models for tasks that many people need. There are also hidden costs to carrying traffic across the world. Infrastructure from one point to another has to travel through the electrical grids of various geographical areas, some more efficient than others. But this is just my perspective, and there's definitely a lot of data that hasn't been collected yet because its a rapidly evolving field so it will be curious to see how perspective shifts as approaches develop.
You don't realize how much not a cost bandwidth is when it comes to AI. One Netflix movie (despite all the layers of CDNs) will probably offset your Chat GPT use for a year (napkin math).
I think you have a point re: community impact, but due to how much of a non-concern bandwidth is, we have a really great opportunity to build AI datacenters very close to green energy sources (or build green energy sources closer to AI datacenters). THis includes things like geothermal. If eveybody is running their own AI, they'll use whatever power they have.
This is one of a very few industries that a) uses insane amounts of energy, and b) the energy can be used at the other end of the world from where the product user is, with 0 loss to the user experience.
THis is why some people are putting AI GPUs in abandoned crypto mines. All you need for them is stable (but not necessarily fast) internet access, some space, a lot of cheap power and a lot of cooling. Those are the same conditions as are needed for crypto mining.
Bei meinem Vortrag auf dem 38c3 habe ich gezeigt, dass die deutsche Zweigstelle der International Association of Accessibility Professionals peinliche & falsche Übersetzungen, die den Sinn einer Prüfungs-Aufgabe für eine Zertifizierung entstellen, veröffentlicht hat.
Sie haben danach noch sehr lange rumgeeiert und mich der Lüge bezichtigt, obwohl der Beweis direkt auf der Folie war und ich auch mehreren (!) IAAP-Mitgliedern gegenüber die entsprechende Quelle gezeigt habe.
Ende vom Lied: Es hat sich niemals irgendwer dafür bedankt, dass ich einem Verein, den ich ablehne, so sehr geholfen hab, seine Professionalität zu wahren.
Etwas später dieses Jahr teilte mir eine Person aus der Bubble mit, man wolle sich noch bei mir melden und mir auch einen Gutschein für eine Zertifizierung ausstellen.
Sie schließt ganz zentral die meisten Neurodivergenzen, Seh- und Körperbehinderungen aus, es gibt keine Instanz bei der man sich über das Nicht-gewähren von Nachteilsausgleichen durch die beaufsichtigende Person beschweren kann.
- Für die Prüfung sollten Sie nach Möglichkeit Ihren eigenen Laptop mitbringen, da nur so die Nutzung Ihrer assistiven Technologien sichergestellt werden kann. Bitte beachten Sie, dass die vor Ort bereitgestellten Computer keine assistiven Technologien oder sonstige Software enthalten.
- Wenn Sie assistive Technologien mit Audioausgabe (z. B. Screenreader) verwenden, ist die Nutzung von Kopfhörern zwingend erforderlich
Wie ists mit lauten Braillezeilen oder belüfteten Hilfsmitteln? Was, wenn ich auch eine Hörbehinderung habe, die die Nutzung von Kopfhörern unmöglich macht? Was ist, wenn ich Schaltersteuerungen benutzen muss oder Spracheingabe, und dadurch erheblich langsamer bin? Was, wenn ich ADHS oder Autismus habe und mich in einem Raum mit anderen Prüflingen nicht konzentrieren kann?
Tja, dann ist das Angebot der internationalen Vereinigung der Barrierefreiheitsspezialist*innen für dich unzugänglich.
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Unknown parent • • •@mischievoustomato @mWare @piggo are you going to wait until they announce they're at the end of their rope, or are you going to donate before then?
donate.gnome.org/
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in reply to feld • • •@mischievoustomato @mWare @piggo I mean just look at their donation page, it should make you want to cry
one corporation and 841 random people giving a small amount? That can't be sustainable, they'll never fix the printer dialog that Linus ranted about on that revenue lol
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Unknown parent • • •@mischievoustomato @mWare @piggo oh it's ancient Linux Lore at this point
smh.com.au/national/torvalds-w…
Torvalds wades into desktop debate
Sam Varghese (The Sydney Morning Herald)CapitalB
in reply to feld • • •No. Not them.
Anybody else doing the exact same stuff maybe. 100$ or so.
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in reply to feld • • •they can eat shit imo
They're bankrolled by Google and the CEO takes royal paycheck from it
Myke
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in reply to Myke • • •@mWare @piggo I'm asking people to drop their prejudices and think about this from a different perspective
What if Mozilla was doing only the things that you like, but they are out of funds. Their options are ads, AI integration, etc etc to make money. Or raise it from the community. Known costs of developers, hardware, infra, etc to keep things going is many millions per year.
Would you volunteer to pay them so they don't have to turn evil?
Now let's pivot and pick another large open source project that you know in your gut requires a of funded developers to keep going. Maybe it's KDE and they're going to be forced to start including ads on the mainstream distros.
Are you willing to pay for KDE then? How much? What will it take for you to financially support these huge open source projects that you rely on and greatly benefit from?
lain
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🎄🌟🎅 Christmas Crashout! 🎅🌟🎄
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