„Many weak and few strong links“ seems to be a common pattern in many ecological networks. 1st author Franziska Koch shows that this pattern can enable stabilising effects of network structure, using competitive hierarchies as a case study. We argue that skewed link strength distributions should hence receive more attention, especially in studies based on #RandomMatrixTheory.
Ecological networks tend to contain many weak and only a few strong links. Furthermore, link strengths are often patterned within a network in ways that enhance system stability considerably, increasing the ability of the system to return to equilibr…
340. That's the number of brand new billionaires we made in 2025. Roughly one a day and more than any other year.
9 million. That's the number of people who died of hunger in 2025. Over 24,000 every single day for an entire year.
40 billion. That's the number of dollars it would cost to end world hunger. Not to alleviate it. Not to lessen it. To eradicate it.
11. That's the percentage tax we would have needed to impose on ONLY new wealth on ONLY billionaires in ONLY 2025 in order to eradicate world hunger. Eleven percent. That's all. Compared to the vast coffers of wealth they've already accumulated that's a rounding error.
you need to come up with a ridiculous prize for attendance ... for those hardy souls who survive all the way to closing talk - maybe gold medal giveaway ?
als es um die chatkontrolle ging, konnte nicht genug getrommelt werden. Hier geht es um viel mehr. An fehlenden Accounts kann es nicht liegen, dass die 30000 immer noch nicht voll sind. Mitzeichnung ist auch ohne deutschen Wohnsitz möglich. Keine Führung eigener Register zur Erfassung von trans* und nichtbinärer Personen epetitionen.bundestag.de/petit…
2025 had ups and downs, but I loved my 2025 at #IzzyOnDroid.
Our team has grown with several new members and we launched izzyondroid.org/, our new web home!
We even got our first grant ever (thanks, @nlnet!), allowing us to bring download statistics to IzzyOnDroid and integrate it directly into #NeoStore (and soon #Droidify), improve the #ReproducibleBuild system and more.
I'm grateful to the team for giving me a space where I feel able to make a difference ❤️
@IzzyOnDroid I won’t be at FOSDEM, but one of our advisors, @aeva will be. They can explain the power of Artifact Dependency Graphs… the underlying technology that Spice Labs uses
On Christmas Eve I will take on the toughest cycling challenge of my life…I will attempt to ride 5,000 km on Zwift in eight days, for a new official world re...
@mireeek No brutál ty kilometry. Tady v tom je Zwift super, ta komunita je tam hodně dobrá. Sice jak PC hra, ale hrozně moc možností. Teď postupně hledám co tam vše jde.
Já se družit nepotřebuji, jsem individualista, klidně budu ve své tělocvičně šlapat sám. 😁 Mimochodem, jak jsem se zde dověděl, my introverti máme dnes svátek. 🎇
@mireeek Já nemyslel chat, ale můžeš na společné výjezdy, jedeš v háku atd. Samozřejmě každému vyhovuje něco jiné. Ještě jsem to nezkoušel, tak ani nevím jak to funguje.
the AI slop in security reports have developed slightly over time. Less mind-numbingly stupid reports now, but instead almost *everyone* writes their reports with AI so they still get overly long and complicated to plow through. And every follow-up question is another minor essay discussing pros and cons with bullet points and references to multiple specifications.
We need another AI trained on Linus' kernellist posts.
"Please rewrite this slop into something short and concise, as if Linus had sent it"
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Hopefully the AI deluge with end when the novelty wears off and people realize sounding like you work in marketing and customer care isn't the way to communicate tech.
Sounds like AI made the reports smarter but not necessarily easier to read; trading mind-numbing errors for brain-numbing length 😅. Sometimes I miss the days of short, punchy reports!
Oh, yeah... no. That "issue" has been known about for literal decades. Some probably consider it a feature. I don't personally, but I can understand their perspective, and yeah... this is the caller's responsibility IMO.
you mean because of my few complaints they would start doing 20 line responses instead of 400 line ones? First: why would that be bad? But then: I'm absolutely sure they don't adapt to my few comments in a world drowning in content.
On the first point: I imagine that an LLM improving in style is way way easier than improving in substance. So if LLMs read your posts and improve in style, you'll get the same substance-slop but harder for you to detect. That's bad for you.
On the second point. I'm not so sure about that. I'll come back on this point.
I'm not fighting the use of AI. I'm fighting users making my life harder. If an AI can explain their issue in 20 lines and the issue is legit, that's a pretty big win.
> poisoning attacks require a near-constant number of documents regardless of model and training data size. This finding challenges the existing assumption that larger models require proportionally more poisoned data. Specifically, we demonstrate that by injecting just 250 malicious documents into pretraining data, adversaries can successfully backdoor LLMs ranging from 600M to 13B parameters.
To me this suggests that an LLM could indeed learn from one specific individual if it deems that individual "important" enough.
In that article they talk about triggering on a "specific phrase", but an LLM has its own internal representation of the text, so in principle might trigger on different things like specific phrase plus the name of the user on a certain website, or something.
(See how I cleverly did not mention AI in the title!) You know we have seen more than our fair share of slop reports sent to the curl project so it seems only fair that I also write something about the state of AI when we get to enjoy some positive a…
Agreed. But as a non programmer trying to submit to any project is mostly replied by "Not enough data, what about FunkyMethodYouCantKnow()?" - AI helps mitigate this.
Either developers accept the fact that there are incapable human beeings on the other end OR they accept its a LLM. Whats not going to happen: 100% qualified bug reports.
I'm not sure people understand how cognitively tiring these things are until they have had to deal with it themselves. When they first started appearing as bug reports I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out where an issue was, or even if there was an issue at all. But now if I see an LLM generated report my brain just skips it over which isn't always the right thing to do either.
yeah, I've come to do that as well and I skip straight to asking follow-up / clarification questions directly instead of trying to read that wall of text
“Finally, LLM-generated prose undermines a social contract of sorts: absent LLMs, it is presumed that of the reader and the writer, it is the writer that has undertaken the greater intellectual exertion. (That is, it is more work to write than to read!) For the reader, this is important: should they struggle with an idea, they can reasonably assume that the writer themselves understands it — and it is the least a reader can do to labor to make sense of it”
Proposal: for your followup requests, you say "you can use AI to start your followup, but what you send must not have the standard AI pros and cons, nor silly bullet points; otherwise, it will be ignored". That is, let them use the tool they know, but force them to also do some editing.
I think once people have to pay the real cost of using AI, the slop will subside, but I think we're probably a few years away from that light at the end of the tunnel
We should talk about the availability of basic medicine without doctor’s prescription. Basic painkillers, nose sprays, typical medicine for seasonal viral infections.
This is not available in Austria without prescription and I’ve had enough of this paternalistic bullshit attitude.
I don’t believe doctors want to clog up their waiting rooms with very simple cases of flu/covid infections.
I think one reason we still have this is without it doctors visits would be just about the paperwork.
This really is bs. I'm glad ours aren't like that. I can't live without painkillers and a nose spray some days... Like, that's basic stuff, why should you be forced to go to a doctor for it? Or interact with one at all? if their goal is to give people more reasons to go to the doctor, maybe they did it. Most stuff here doesn't require a prescription unless it's something very specific, antibiotic, or stuff that helps some mental conditions.
I’ve just created a new Django starter pack on FediDevs 👀
It collects non-human accounts only: Django projects, conferences, podcasts, news, and community initiatives. No personal accounts, just things you may want to follow once and forget.
@kboever Guten Morgen, und danke, euch ebenfalls ein frohes neues Jahr! Bei uns soll es im Lauf des Vormittags auch stürmisch werden. Aber es soll auch weiter Regen und Schnee von oben geben, die Temperaturen nur so um die 2° heute im Lauf des Tages.
@fasnix Danke Dir! Ja, ist wirklich sehr selten, und im Moment schneit es auch noch weiter. Vorhin gab es eine große Schneeparty mit Kindern, Eltern, Schlitten, vielen Schneebällen und viel Spaß.
I just tagged a new release of slidge-whatsapp, the (objectively best (unbiased opinion)) #XMPP to WhatsApp gateway. It fixes a lot of long-standing issues and starts much faster than the previous releases. Enjoy!
Oh, so is that working well? Years ago I tried a WhatsApp-XMPP-Bridge and it made Whatsapp lock my account due to policy violations or something like that.
@denkbeteiligung it's against WhatsApp ToS so I cannot guarantee anything. We're niche enough that they don't care IMHO, as long as you don't spam/scam people. It pretends to be the WhatsApp web client. I had my account locked for 48 hours once in 4 years of use, while experimenting with group creation which I guess made me look like a spammer; it has not occurred since. We have not had such locked account reports from users. Experimenting while developing is the "dangerous" part.
We did not see a Porsche in your neighbourhood, thus we concluded this must have been a mistake. AI summarised the delivery note and we didn't have time to look into it further.
Thank you to absolutely everyone who tuned in to our stream! The any audio download link is slightly defunct right now (should have fixed by tomorrow), in the meantime the archive did work I'm happy to say! It can be downloaded directly here if you don't want to listen on the webpage: anyaud.io/audiodownload?audio=…
You know, I had an idea. What if, the SAPI4 version sof Sam, Mike and Mary were to appear in the continuation of the Star War series? As imposters? While this kind of thing has been attempted before, it's usually the other way around where the SAPI5 voices are the bad guys.
I think this is mostly true, but the introduction of "quote posts" is absolutely meant to tear people down
You can defend it and say "sometimes it's useful to add to a point", but give me a fucking break. The point of that shit is drama, just be honest about it
@FreakyFwoof sorry but for me quote post are essential to social networking. I use them to add something to what I share, either a comment or addition from me, or to quote an extract of the article linked in what I’m reposting that resonated with me, which help other to see why I share it and likely read it. No drama here.
@fabienmarry And yet, most people will still use it to shitpost about others and some won't even see it, especially if they're using a third-party client and it doesn't notify them. What import do you think you have to add to something that was already said for the most part?
@fabienmarry I wrote this years ago about this very topic, kept it around for just such an occasion.
'If you do so, you can equally be shit-posted about by others. That's what quote posting basically is. Even if you potentially say something nice, the original poster will never ever know you did so. No threading, so it might as well be a statement made behind your back that nobody knows about. If you wouldn't like people potentially saying bad things about you, don't potentially say bad things about them. That's all there is to it. Not even a question here. Just simple fact. Quoting is beyond bad, especially given current implementation.'
Now as this was written several years ago, the 'current implementation' part has sort of changed, but of course not for all instances, so it still stands imo. I will be turning off the ability for people to quote-post from my main account, but will leave it on for music if they *must*.
@fabienmarry For myself, the client I use doesn't support notification of QP so I don't see if anyone does so, and of course anyone replying to that person's post is something I also will never see, so I'm very against it for that reason alone, never mind the other things previously stated.
We tortured these shellfish to check that they're aware of physical harm and yep -- they are. So weird, every living thing we check we can find some kind of electrical or chemical response to damage. What are the odds?
Lol ain't it fun to be an european? Woke up at freaking 3 AM to watch @samtupy's new year stream, now it's 7:30 AM, gonna start my day and go to the YMCA to do some youth work. And exactly the same thing tomorrow. F to my sleep schedule. But hey, I kinda like it.
Oh yeah, totally forgot. It's been about a year and a week with Android now. Over all I'm really satisfied, Google has improved talkback a lot. The one and only annoying thing is typing, that's really a disaster and I'm glad I have vision left so I can turn off TB to type sometimes, or being able to attach a bluetooth keyboard. Otherwise though, I love being able to install apks and get updates right from the source like GitHub, Zoom, as well the camera zoom from the pixel 9 pro as well as the ability to Zoom anywhere with the accessibility button in the 3 button nav bar, which also features my best friend the back button, is great, not having to triple tap and swipe around laggy and weird like on IOS. Well, that's all. There are tons of other things I forgot for sure but I really enjoy what this is and would recommend. At some point, probably when I get a new phone whenever that is, I'll root or even gravin OS this thing, gonna be fun. Oh yeah and we have NVGT games, that's fun too.
@JamminJerry Well, I try to type with TalkBack and it's just slow and painful. I use GBoard, since it's the most compatible. I would like to use Heli Board for its visual customization features but wellp. But even with GBoard, Talkback announces letters twice, is just slow, gets stuck sometimes, Pixel 9 Pro btw. Where in compared to the iPhone, Voice Over flows over the keyboard like everything is awesome. I really love my Android but if I was fully blind this would probably be the dealbreaker for me.
while moving over the keyboard might be a little slow, it really isn't that slow for me. the saying a letter twice, I don't see that at all. it says it when I have my finger on the letter, and then says it again when I lift my finger to let me know it typed that letter. you have one step down from the phone I have. I have the pixel 9 pro xl. what synth are you using on your android? some synths are faster at responding like vocalizer, eloquence, and ESpeak if you can actually understand that one. the google tts to me is a bit slower at responding to things, so I don't use it most of the time. I use the eloquence one, or vocalizer most of the time. sometimes I use the DecTalk one that I have to manually install as it isn't on the playstore.
@JamminJerry Hmm, right now it's actually quite ok now that I know why it always repeats the letter. It's annoying though, like sometimes I'll just instantly click a letter because I still see the keys, so I don't want it to repeat itself twice, also sometimes it would even go on for longer, and yeah there is a very noticeable delay when swiping around the keyboard to find a letter. I tried the mode where you have to double tap a letter and that one also kinda works, though it's way slower of course. Idk it just doesn't feel that polished. It's not impossible but I think I'd get frustrated if I had no vision and had to navigate around that. But as I said, I love it as a low vision person.
Google just charged me 8 cents for my API usage from idk when. Can't imagine I have used the thing that much recently. Seems they've really increased the price, and that even for the 2.5 models.
If you use an AI-generated image for your article/post, this indicates to me you might have also used AI-generated text.
If you use AI-generated text for your article/post then:
1- I have no idea if you verified the veracity of any claimed facts.
2- I have no idea what your own voice is.
3- I have no idea if this truly expresses your own views, and if you even cared to read it.
4- I have no idea what your intention is with this, other than exploiting my attention and clicks with the least amount of efforts on your part.
5- This shows me you have no respect at all for the labour that was stolen to build these tools, exploiting millions of artists and writers to make billions of dollars without any compensation to them whatsoever.
Why would I want to engage with any content like that?
• I don't want to communicate with a machine (I can do that by myself).
• I don't want to participate in this disgusting exploitation of artists and writers.
• And I want to communicate with another human, of course.
If your intention isn't to communicate with another human, then stop deceiving them making them think they are
Link to issue number:
Summary of the issue:
64 bit NVDA can no longer support SAPI4.
Description of user facing changes:
SAPI4 is again availble on 64 bit NVDA.
Description of developer facing cha...
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Hey, I'm sure you did say that already but will there be a blog post or anything describing all the new stuff you presented or would you mind giving a quick summary? I've sadly joined way too late.
Random question, is the anyaudio stream powered by some backend like icecast or did you code this from scratch? I know the bad bad when question, do you know aprox when it'll be open to register? Totaly understand if not. Very interesting over all, it's all rather new to me, I only joined the community in 2022 so sadly I don't have any nostalgia to connect to this but for sure new memories to make.
Na bro I totally get that the when question is basically impossible/ a trap lol. I appreciate the transparency. Was just wondering wether you've had anything in mind already. I didn't expect a certain date or anything. Also glad there is an NVGT game again, that'll surely also improve the engine in the 1 or other way.
Is this any audio going to be a closed source platform that shuts down when one of us plays the right cardtrick like with redspot and awesometech and anyaudio prior?? I presume this is Maybe, an attempt at competing with The already out there audio services? good luck with it though. Also, what are your opinions on those of us with ideas and a coding assistant?
Let's start with what my 24/7 outside Mics, the Clippy EM 272, attached to my window have captured. I sadly didn't have the time to setup better quallity thann opus with meh settings which where already in place, but I'll post some of the stuff I captured with the Zoom H1E as well. this are 5 minutes which give an overviewe quite well, no processing or anything. This was right 5 minutes after midnight, so 12:05 to 12:10.
Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.
No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.
This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.
So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.
I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?
Wow! What an adventure! But first, an explainer. So ever since I had Speedy, my primary Windows machine custom-built in January of 2022, it has been unpredictably unstable when the system was really busy. Specifically, it seemed to crash and reboot randomly, but whenever the GPU was being heavily used. That, or if I switched from playback to recording controls for my PCIe sound card. But again, only sometimes, only randomly. It was really strange. A bunch of Internet research told me that I was very much not alone amongst owners of the particular Asus motherboard. People who know a lot more then me about hardware, and its associated firmware settings and workings came to the conclusion that when devices rapidly changed power states, or when the PCIe bus was heavily loaded with power draw, and that device rapidly changed C states, it would cause an APIC error on a random CPU core, the OS would bluescreen, and auto restart. So whatever, I lived with it for a while, just expected the machine to randomly reboot whenever it decided to, when the GPU was loaded, or the random time it would reboot after changing audio modes on the add-on sound card. But then I went to check for BIOS updates, and what do ya know, Asus still writes terse, if at least non-generic release notes, and amongst these notes was a line that roughly said that the PCIe C states crash problem was fixed! I almost jumped in my chair, but i held myself down, toned my excitement down, downloaded the update, and put it on a USB drive. My motherboard has a pretty neat feature called Asus BIOS Flashback. One of its features is a physical button on the back panel that, when the system is mostly powered down, but not entirely powered off, as in fans not spinning, but ATX power switch is on and motherboard is still getting power, it will update the BIOS from a designated file on a flash drive plugged into a designated port, with no user interaction! You hold the Flashback button in for 8 seconds, wait 18 minutes, and your BIOS should be the version you put on the flash drive. Wellp, I did this, waited, the fans and drives powered up after I tried the power button, but no OS. I was mad, I was growlin' like a mad wuff puppy! I thought I had wrecked the entire machine! I couldn't even figure out the correct key sequences to get a Debian installer booted, to at least see if the BIOS was posting and booting something. Nope. None of it worked. So I just crashed out myself at around 8:00 AM until 3:00 PM, then I tried a few more times, with no good results. But then I had an idea. What if I put the version of the BIOS that used to be on the board back on the flash drive and reflash it? Wellp, what do ya know, it actually worked! I have the computer back! Yay! So now, instead of jumping from BIOS 4602 to 5308 in one shot, I'm doing the upgrades one version at a time. See if that works any better.
my board is an ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING (WI-FI) Rev X.0x, and the bios date is 02/25/2022 if I am reading Belarc Advisor correctly
@JamminJerry Yeah, you don't have the physical flashback button that makes BIOS upgrades actually blind-friendly. Most integrated systems providers distribute BIOS firmware through Windows Update, but that does not happen with OEM systems, the boxes we build ourselves. In short, you're probably fine to just leave things alone. And now for a way longer winded version. Because you know I'm good for those, LOL. If your system is as stable as can possibly be possible with Windows running on it, as in you're not getting bluescreens/reboots on the regular, then you don't really need to update the BIOS. Well... There were a couple bad UEFI exploits and outright unfixable human blunders that may compromise a system's security at the firmware level, but people like us really don't have to worry about it. Probably about is much as we worry about being struck by lightning. Its high-value targets that the smart guys who have the skills to exploit this stuff go after. They want money or information valued in the millions, not social media posts from some rando. In my case, I was upgrading the BIOS to resolve a very long-standing, very annoying bug that the release notes said was fixed, or at least addressed in a BIOS update. But if there's nothing major bad going on with your system, best to just leave it alone and let it run.
@JamminJerry I let the fwupd utility (available on most Linux distributions) update mine, as my system is supported. It's now old enough that further firmware updates are unlikely. If my understanding is correct, the actual update occurs during the UEFI boot process - it runs an EFI executable.
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