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Raphael van Lierop :

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what GenAI is.

GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, because you don't have evil in your heart.

But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, and anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.


Bianca's answer :

Not just that but Tolkien also said: "Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.".
Sound familiar ?
Screenshot of the two bluesky posts. Raphael's post is illustrated by a still from The Fellowship of the ring, and shows Boromir holding the One Ring in front of his eyes. His left hand is about to take the ring from its chain.
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Important Acronyms in IT Technology

IPv4: Internet Problem, Version 4
IPv6: same, but 6 times more Problems
DHCP: Desktop Hardware Cleaning Protocol
DNS: Destroying Network Protocol
VPN: Very Problematic Network
EthO: Eternity, low Level
Eth1: same, but stoned
SDA: Software Defined Anger
CPU: Core Problem Unit
RAM: Random Access Mismatch
HD: Historical Device
SDD: Self Destroying Device
TCP: Total Complex Protocol
UDP: Undefined User Paranoia
USB: United Shit Bracket
GW: Genuine Witchcraft
ROM: Rusty Old Malware
GPU: Great Picture Utensil
C#: Chaos
C++: same, but much more
CAT0...n: Number of Cats lying on keyboard, what else?

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I just wrote up some docs on how to hide images in public rooms on Matrix in several clients.

matrix.org/docs/chat_basics/pu…

If anyone was able to add info for more clients that would be awesome. Here's my change for reference: github.com/matrix-org/matrix.o…


Document how to hide images in Element by andybalaam · Pull Request #2971 · matrix-org/matrix.org

As discussed within the Trust and Safety Research and Documentation Working Group. ✔️ Checklist Check for common mistakes: Wrap plain URLs in <> to linkify them (learn more). Use the ri...
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Jiří Eischmann

"But that’s just the Economics 101 reason not to do this. The other one is this: I’m pretty sure people actually hate this? You have the data, you know."

Oh yeah, they do, but their goal isn't making features people don't hate. Their goal is making profitable features which people hate, but not to the extend they would leave the service. And because they have data, they have learned that the threshold is really high for most people.
So we have a market with a handful of dominant services which are hated by their users, but it isn't going to change until people stop complaining about it and actually start leaving them.

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Filip Hracek

I take your point. People apparently don't hate this enough to leave right now. But the thing about losing goodwill is that things happen gradually, and then suddenly. I think that a good business leader should be sensitive to this. The fact that the data doesn't show enough outflow to worry about _today_ doesn't mean you're not going to see something much worse in the future.

We all know the rationale of shoving AI on people. I just thing 2 massive buttons around every email is stupd

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Just tried building a rust project using cargo and it started pulling and building 385 dependency packages without any confirmation prompt. This is insane and super not secure. How are rust devs ok with this?

EDIT: to make it clear, my problem is that it didn't stop for confirmation. This is not ok. I thought NPM was bad but this is insane.

#rust #rustlang

#rust #RustLang
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Dear Fediverse, I recently acquired a second-hand #guitar that I had "love at first sight" for as soon as I saw it online. It really is lovely to play, but I know very little about it, though, except that it's from a now defunct brand called #Dreambow. I can't find any other name or serial. Do you know what model it might be, and/or year? It definitely is a single cut, but it's not a Les Paul replica as you can see in the picture. Please help me boost this until it reaches someone who knows 😅
Picture of a natural wood finish Dreambow single cut guitar I bought
#guitar #dreambow

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Just a quick note to explain why I'm transliterating Hebrew instead of just typing it: Eloquence, which is a speech synthesizer used by a lot of blind people who use screen readers, really freaks out with Hebrew, to the point where it just announces characters. So it's a lot easier for screen reader users to read if I just transliterate it. #Chanukah #Mazeldon #Accessibility #A11Y
#a11y #Accessibility #Mazeldon #chanukah
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Jiří Eischmann

@the_art_of_giving_up You're right. I took the info from this article: lupa.cz/aktuality/ceny-operacn…
They probably made a mistake because when looking at price history the minimal price on Sep 21 was 5400 CZK. I'm going to fix the original post.

Ceny operačních pamětí v ČR vyrostly do absurdních několikanásobků. Krize asi potrvá dlouho

Tento týden jsem přes online bazar prodal jedny své operační paměti DDR5. Jelikož jsem měl obměkčenou předvánoční náladu, dal jsem tento 32GB kit za…
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Got a few minutes to brush up on your typing? @Marconius and i made an accessible typing game with speed stats that plays right in your browser. Touch typing takes practice: just roll with it and then share it with the tech instructors and students in your life marconius.com/fun/rollWithIt

Roll with It Typing

A fun accessible typing tutor that you can really commit to.
marconius.com
@Marco Salsiccia

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GotaTun is a WireGuard® implementation written in Rust aimed at being fast, efficient and reliable. Now available to all Android users, we aim to ship it to the remaining platforms next year.

Read more here: mullvad.net/blog/announcing-go…


Announcing GotaTun, the future of WireGuard at Mullvad VPN

GotaTun is a WireGuard® implementation written in Rust aimed at being fast, efficient and reliable. Now available to all Android users.
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🎄🎁 Christmas Giveaway: Tuta is giving away a 🇩🇪 German-made Volla Phone by @volla

The Quintus, worth €719, is a Google-free smartphone built for freedom, simplicity & security. 🔒

✨ VollaOS (with multi-boot option) or Ubuntu Touch
📱 6.7” AMOLED display
📸 50 MP triple camera
💾 8 GB RAM | 256 GB storage
🚀 Powerful Mediatek Dimensity 7050 8-core processor

⚡ For a chance to win, just comment what is most important for you on a #deGoogle phone? ⚡

#Privacy #DigitalFreedom #Giveaway #VollaPhone

Christmas Giveaway: Win a Volla Phone! with image of the phone.
#privacy #degoogle #VollaPhone #giveaway #digitalfreedom @Volla

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bazzargh

somewhat nerdsniped into just coding something that generates cross-stitch.

gist.github.com/bazzargh/be402…

from there it'd not be difficult to drop it in three.js and get a 3d version, in a wood-textured frame, but I've wasted enough time on this!

"Never expect two independent url parsers to treat every url identically", as a (fake) cross-stitch design

cross-stitch generator. paste into p5js.org to see it. fakes "3d" just by drawing threads 3 times in different shades.

cross-stitch generator. paste into p5js.org to see it. fakes "3d" just by drawing threads 3 times in different shades. - crossstitch.js
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altbot v2.4 is here!!

just pushed a pretty significant update, swapped out the old gemma3 27b model for qwen3-vl:30b-a3b-thinking and holy shit the difference is noticeable

the cool thing about this model is it's very dynamic, simple images get quick, concise descriptions without overexplaining everything. and with complex images, it takes its time and actually thinks through what it's looking at. you get better alt-text without wasting compute on stuff that doesn't need it.

basically: smarter where it counts, efficient where it doesn't.

oh and here's the part that made me double-check my math: electricity usage dropped by MORE THAN 10x. complex images that used to cost ~0.950 Wh now only use ~0.092 Wh. this is thanks to MoE (mixture of experts) architecture, despite being a 30b parameter model, it only activates 3b worth of parameters at a time. so you get way better results while using a fraction of the power.

been testing this for a bit now and honestly really happy with the results. descriptions are more accurate, less hallucination-y, and the model describes way better than before.

as always, altbot is fully open source and processes everything locally, no data gets sent to third parties. your images stay private.

if you wanna support continued development:
☕ ko-fi.com/micr0byte
💜 github.com/sponsors/micr0-dev

source code: github.com/micr0-dev/Altbot

thanks for helping make the fediverse more accessible :3


GitHub - micr0-dev/Altbot: Accessibility bot designed to enhance the Fediverse by generating alt-text descriptions for images, video, and audio.

Accessibility bot designed to enhance the Fediverse by generating alt-text descriptions for images, video, and audio. - micr0-dev/Altbot
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Derek Lane

Been there, sometimes had to deal with that. If I’m even just the tiniest bit dehydrated, standing is not an option… Do you wanna talk about crumbling, having to pull up on a counter in order to throw myself on the toilet to use the bathroom kind of sucks. For some strange reason, Gatorade, and cheese crackers is the cure. I don’t know why, but it’s proven itself as great multiple times.
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Derek Lane

I think the only reason I don’t have that problem is because I try to go for the 1410 rule. That’s essentially where you have five hours between when you get up and then eat, and 5 between eating and then going to bed. Plus, trying to make sure I have enough water. I learned about this from a student. I had several years ago, who was celebrating the fact that he was down to 270. This is very significant progress considering that he started at 350.

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Jsou ty populistické kurvy u moci asi týden a už se člověk několikrát stydí, že je Čech: irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/online…

ONLINE: EU půjčí Ukrajině 90 miliard eur. Ke garanci se nepřipojí Česko, Maďarsko ani Slovensko

Za půjčku se tak zaručí jen zbývajících 24 unijních států. Půjčka z finančních trhů má ale být pouze dočasným řešením. Budou pokračovat jednání o reparační půjčce garantované zmrazenými aktivy Ruska.
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Jim Fuller

in a few months time (yes new year's prediction) the industry will have a financial correction of indeterminate size ... after that it will be easier to reason with folks. As with any tech surge, there are a few things that are useful and a lot of speculation ... the scale (and speed) of all this is daunting mostly due to uncontrolled outcomes. Calm heads prevail.
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miki

People underestimate the power of calling random numbers unrelated to their case (investor relations, press inquiries, legal and so on), and saying "sorry, Chat GPT told me to call this number when the main customer support hotline couldn't help me, can you give me the number for office x instead?"

Those people are usually a lot more empowered to actually help you than some outsourced third-world-country customer support contractor with no access to internal company systems beyond what's required to complete 90% of the most common inquiries.

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I've moved pretty much all my daily driver stuff (except web browsing) from Windows to Mac, in preparation for my up-coming trip. I don't want to drag two laptops with me, so I'm using as much as I can on Mac OS, and have a Windows 11 virtual machine for the rest of it.

I stepped away from using Mac OS for a few years, and am now once again at the point where using it doesn't feel completely odd. So, that's exciting, I suppose.

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The USA's continuing attrition against Venezuelan small boats in the Caribbean has now reached a death toll of over a hundred.

Noam Chomsky always used to point out: if you want to understand how power works in international relations, in a case like this reverse the protagonists & ask what would then be happening?

So, if Venezuelan armed forces had attacked a number of small US boats in the Caribbean, killing their crew, how would that now being playing out?

I think we know!

#politics

#politics
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Iván Novegil

a la comida invitó el jefe de servicio, pero al desayuno y a la fiesta esperan que lleves tu propia comida, lo digo para que te vayas preparando por si lo hacen ahí también, ahora la modernidad es eso. Y hombre, estuvo curiosa la experiencia de que cada uno llevase lo que le gustase, pero queda un poco bastante rácano. Pero bueno, como siempre, para lo importante no hay presupuesto, y luego se gasta una pasta en gilipolleces.

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So, Takealot remains significantly better than Amazon South Africa, but it has still gotten consistently worse in one specific area:

Delivery times are becoming more and more meaningless.

Order something as a Christmas gift. For reasons of being an actual human being with a budget and having to wait till salaries arrive before ordering, we ordered the same month we expected it.

We paid extra for next-day delivery.

Three days later, "Your order has not been processed yet, we'll message you when it gets put in a box"

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Krásné dobré ráno mastodonští! 🙋‍♀️🐶🐈
Už téměř měsíc se potýkám s bolestmi zad. Někde se mi uskřípl safraportský nervík a nejde to uvolnit. Cvičením, protahováním, léky. Šéfová to dobře ví. A hádejte co. Včera mě poslala za holkama na výrobnu, kde se netopí. Dělat vánoční svícny na hroby. 😂 Asi abych to rozehnala mrazem. No, obávám se, že dneska tam budu znovu. Teplé vybavení mám. Ale po sedmi hodinách už vám mrzne úplně všechno. Aspoň že je tam s holkama sranda. Jen se obávám, že v pondělí oznámím, že si vybírám dovolenou do konce roku. 😂😂😂
A vy si pamatujte, ne nutně všechno, co se zdá být špatné, je pro vás skutečně špatné. 😇
#dobre_rano
#dobréRáno
#dobre_rano #dobrerano
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Kateřina

@archos Volno je za rohem! 😊 A já jsem nabalená jako tučňák a mířím za rozesmátýma holkama, co mají pořád dobrou náladu. Lepší být v zimě s nimi, než v teple s (v poslední době stále) nenaladěnou šéfovou. Jenom se holt budu pohybovat jako osmdesátník s artrózou. 😁
(Tučňák s artritidou.... 🤣🤣🤣)
Užívej volna a krásný den Archosi! 😊👋
@Archos

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Tomáš Odehnal

Když nejede displej a data, tak na 6a dva dny dám. Data mi přijdou jako největší žrout, subjektivně víc než to bylo na CalyxOS s MicroG. U tebe zda se, to jsou taky data.
Když nad tím přemýšlím, mohlo by to souviset - bez Google Play fungují notifikace u některých aplikací jinak, u tebe to bude třeba Signal, tedy pokud nepoužíváš Unified Push. FairEmail bude záviset na mailserveru a podpoře push notifikací, tam to systém myslím neovlivní.
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Milan Hubáček

@archos na vlastníkovi žádné Google aplikace nemám (zatím tedy ani Google play). Kalendář, kontakty (synchronizace přes DAVx5), e-maily (Gmail přijímaný přes FairMail) atd. používám buď ty předinstalované, nebo fossify.
Asi si nezvyknu na to přepínání profilů, tak přemýšlím, že nechám jen 2 (vlastník a banky) a smířím se s tím sandboxovým Googlem.
Musím udělat inventuru toho, co mi chodí na Gmail, nechat ho jako zombie a začít využívat jako hlavní můj protonmail..nebo vymyslet něco jiného.

@def

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Archos

Já s profily taky bojuju, vždy to vyzkouším a pak je vymažu. Prostě to není komfort. Já vydržím tři týdny a pak si řeknu, že to sraní mi za to nestojí 😀😀
Hlavně Google play je v Sandboxu, to ze Google ví co mám za aplikace je myslím úplně jedno.
Jinak s tím gmail atd chapu, jasný chce to všechno postupně 👍👍
Proton je super, mně teda vadí jak je to přeplácaný a cena, ale jinak super

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A while ago, I made a deal with myself. If my music streaming service found me a song I really enjoyed--I played it a lot, felt happy when it came on--I'd buy the song. If the album were cheap enough and I like two or three songs on it, I'd buy the whole album. In the last couple days, I've spent around $35 on music from two artists I only just discovered, and I don't regret it at all. The artists got a little bit of actual money, and I own the music as unencrypted files not tied to streaming.
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