God bless people who do stuff like getting in touch with the US patent office and putting the source code for the 1998 furby on archive.org
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The source code of the firmware used in the 1998 Furby.The patent wrapper containing it was obtained and scanned by Sean Riddle (seanriddle.com).Internet Archive
Supposedly a IBM board member once said there's a market for maybe 5 computers worldwide.
Maybe he was just very good at making predictions.
Five computers. MS, Amazon, Google, Apple, Oracle.
To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
passo.uno/letter-those-who-fir…
Hey you, Yes, you, who are thinking about not hiring a technical writer this year or, worse, erased one or more technical writing positions last year because of AI.passo.uno
some of these graphs are truly helpful to us, some of them I think show "interesting stuff" that we can extract from an old well maintained source code written in C even though that data might not really help us.
Then there is a subset of graphs that are mostly silly and they are there simply because I'm obsessed with graphs.
Just 6 graphs left to the big 100. Isn't that what all projects aim for?
Updated daily here:
curl.se/dashboard.html
Oh goody, a LinkedIn connection request with a message!
Let’s break this down:
> …vc backed…
Focused on quarterly profits / RoI instead of outcomes.
> …invite-only…
NDAs and other gag agreements.
> …openAI browser…
Chromium that begs authors for ARIA to parse content.
> …seeing promising results…
Which aren’t genuine results.
> …goal is 100% WCAG testing…
Ah, snake oil.
> …with high capture rates.
Sales targets, not WCAG coverage.
They responded. So I responded:
Because WCAG cannot be automated to 100%:
karlgroves.com/web-accessibili…
Automated tools have demonstrated that for years:
adrianroselli.com/2023/01/comp…
Every time someone claims higher, it's been a lie:
adrianroselli.com/2025/03/be-w…
Or otherwise based on bad math:
adrianroselli.com/2022/07/what…
Another vendor was fined by the FTC for claiming full coverage:
adrianroselli.com/2025/01/ftc-…
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The Short Version Read this if you’re disinclined to read the entire list of specific WCAG Success Criterion and look at how each can be tested.Karl Groves (karlgroves.com)
I made a custom Firefox icon you can actually use as the app icon now! Also I did a little interview with the folks over at Mozilla about it, check it out :)
blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/mo…
Ruud is known for the charming, joyful characters in his comic series heyheymomo, and he brings that same energy to this design. He originally created the artwork as a quick five-minute doodle for fun.Jenifer Boscacci (The Mozilla Blog)
Kiinnostava uusi avaus:
Äänel on tekeillä oleva kirjailijoiden omistama äänikirja-alusta, jossa on äänikirjoja, jotka eivät ole tarjolla muualla, jossa lukijat ostavat kirjan eivätkä kuunteluaikaa ja joka tarjoaa tekijöille asianmukaisen ja oikeasuhtaisen korvauksen työstään, kuten uusi tekijänoikeuslaki vaatii.
Seuraan tätä suurella kiinnostuksella! Toivottavasti se myös kirittää muita äänikirja-alustoja kohtelemaan kirjailijoita paremmin.
"#JBILibrary—the nearly century-old organization dedicated to ensuring that people who are #blind, have #lowvision, or have #print #disabilities can fully participate in #Jewish life—is inviting individuals, families, teens and community groups to get involved in its new #Volunteer Ambassador Program designed to expand access to Jewish #learning and #culture."
We know what a Friday needs to get good and I'm happy I can deliver it: a new graph.
#if density in curl source code over time. Fascinatingly static through the years counted per 1000 lines of code.
Crap, you answered my earlier question already.
Serves me right for reading my timeline backwards!
A thought that popped into my head when I woke up at 4 am and couldn’t get back to sleep…
Imagine that AI/LLM tools were being marketed to workers as a way to do the same work more quickly and work fewer hours without telling their employers.
“Use ChatGPT to write your TPS reports, go home at lunchtime. Spend more time with your kids!” “Use Claude to write your code, turn 60-hour weeks into four-day weekends!” “Collect two paychecks by using AI! You can hold two jobs without the boss knowing the difference!”
Imagine if AI/LLM tools were not shareholder catnip, but a grassroots movement of tooling that workers were sharing with each other to work less. Same quality of output, but instead of being pushed top-down, being adopted to empower people to work less and “cheat” employers.
Imagine if unions were arguing for the right of workers to use LLMs as labor saving devices, instead of trying to protect members from their damage.
CEOs would be screaming bloody murder. There’d be an overnight industry in AI-detection tools and immediate bans on AI in the workplace. Instead of Microsoft CoPilot 365, Satya would be out promoting Microsoft SlopGuard - add ons that detect LLM tools running on Windows and prevent AI scrapers from harvesting your company’s valuable content for training.
The media would be running horror stories about the terrible trend of workers getting the same pay for working less, and the awful quality of LLM output. Maybe they’d still call them “hallucinations,” but it’d be in the terrified tone of 80s anti-drug PSAs.
What I’m trying to say in my sleep-deprived state is that you shouldn’t ignore the intent and ill effects of these tools. If they were good for you, shareholders would hate them.
You should understand that they’re anti-worker and anti-human. TPTB would be fighting them tooth and nail if their benefits were reversed. It doesn’t matter how good they get, or how interesting they are: the ultimate purpose of the industry behind them is to create less demand for labor and aggregate more wealth in fewer hands.
Unless you happen to be in a very very small club of ultra-wealthy tech bros, they’re not for you, they’re against you. #AI #LLMs #claude #chatgpt
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gsk: Add straight gradient interpolation See merge request GNOME/gtk!9357GitLab
Matrix... The modern IRC replacement. Working on phone, app, web browser...
Today greeted me with "your key store is not synchronized" (loose translation from Polish) which means BLABLABLAH to me.
And the only option is to continue with erasing whole history, reverifying all clients and contacts.
At same time FluffyChat on Android works fine, does not complain about anything.
WTH?
@deshipu O man... Those modern IM apps and their security models...
"No, you cannot use it in a web browser - here is a web browser as an app which you should be using instead."
Wellp, the Qwen2.5 LLM model has been useful in increasing the productivity rate of my annoying legacy PHP code refactoring and modernization project by at least 100%. Why 100%? Because before I started using the model, I was doing nothing on the project, LOL.
Don't worry, I'm not being radicalized. AI in its LLM format is everything that I've always gone on and griped about here, and elsewhere. It has no situational awareness or context. It is not intelligent. It halucinates. It will lie to your face, with a smile on its own.
So it has wasted my time with all of this. But all of that aside, it has been able to provide very accurate one-liners or very short code blocks. I purposefully keep any examples for ingestion short and to the point. I always ask for output that is concise, accurate, and to the point. However, I've been treating it like a robot, not a human. I don't waste frivilous words that pander to feelings. Just straight to the point. I am trying to optomize my words for tokens used in prompt analysis, but also having to be as absolutely as specific as possible, as to not waste tokens on having it do useless work.
So I'm trying to optomize for a tool, not an intelligence, personality, or chat buddy.
Its just like a real big knowledge pool, and a crude understanding engine. Instead of looking it up across thirty manuals, or sections of manual, then pieceing it together in your own head, the computer is doing all that in seconds. Sure, there's a comprehension barrier, a language barrier, now and again, but that's why you the human are still needed in the loop. So stead of fighting it, I'm trying to use it. Its pretty neat that way. Just don't trust it, ever. And anyone giving this thing a fair chance will very quicly come to realize that. Humans are still needed, and this thing will not permanently kill any jobs that won't be replaced in some other field, very quickly. Its just not that good or smart. Its a glorified tape recorder that can find and stitch humanity's knowledge together quite quickly, with just enough errors to make it useless without the human behind the keyboard looking after it. But that's what we want, eh? If it got any better than this, then it probably will well and truly wipe out jobs.
De hele korte versie: het is waanzin om onze maatschappij en overheid over te zetten op Amerikaanse clouds.Bert Hubert's writings
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We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.European Alternatives
Nějak se mi nechce věřit, že kdybychom se odstřihli od USA, tak všechny ty věci, co používáš, budou dál fungovat.
Servery jsou jedna věc, ale šlo mi spíš o to, že těch infrastrukturních věcí různě po cestě, které z USA přebíráme, je milion. A spoustu si ani neuvědomujeme.
Produkt může být ze 100 % v EU, ale vsadím se, že kdybych vypnul Google nebo Apple, tak se zaměstnanci té firmy ani nedostanou do práce a nepřihlásí k e-mailu. To je to, kam jsem původně svým komentářem mířil.
A aby bylo jasno, přijde mi dost hustý, o co se snažíš, a neuvěřitelný, že to zvládáš, ale je to možná asi jako když někdo jiný obdivuje, že nemám auto. Jako jo, nemám ho, ale kdyby někdo auta zrušil, tak se můj svět zhroutí, protože závisí na systému, ve kterém se všechno autama vozí.
This is yet another train with a captive portal at 10.230.0.1, with that address resolving to exactly nothing. This is one of the major Polish train carriers, the most expensive kind of train to be had, and that issue has been unfixed for at least half a year.
At least it's not Deutsche Bahn I guess.
RE: zpravobot.news/@denikcz/115904…
Jo Austrálie, tam by chtěl žít každý.
Když se Rachel Bloorová z australského Brisbane v pondělí uprostřed noci probrala, něco ji tížilo na hrudi. V polospánku se natáhla, aby pohladila svého psa, dotkla se však místo srsti hladké kůže. https://www.denik.Deník.cz :bot: (Zprávobot.news)
Whenever I talk to other technology users — including CTOs, CSOs and ICT managers, who in theory should have a certain level of expertise — I realise that most of them never consider standards when using applications, devices or websites.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
The threat. Today’s cartoon by Anne Derenne. More cartoons: cartoonmovement.com/
#UnifiedPush is on everybody's lips when it comes to #decentralization or #deGoogle or wanting to cut off #BigTech from your live.
But did you know how it was started? How many times its destiny intersected with #FDroid ?
Read here, straight from the creator: f-droid.org/2026/01/08/unified…
Back in 2020, “OpenPush - A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android” has been announced on F-Droid at its beginning, and in 2022 the Unified...f-droid.org
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Looks like we've got snow in the forecast here in central North Carolina on Sunday. My mother will be excited, especially because she won't have to go anywhere that day. She doesn't drive in snow.
Probably won't be too heavy anyway.
It doesn't take much to close things here. This place doesn't know how to deal.
In 2001, we got several inches over the morning period when school buses were picking kids up from school, but they hadn't canceled classes until everyone got to school. They then had to send all the buses back out and pick up the kids again.
Several buses crashed. Two students died. Some didn't get picked up and had to spend the night at school. There were lawsuits.
I was one of the lucky ones who were able to get out.
School was closed for a week after that, I think.
It is Appreciate a Dragon day! ^V^
I appreciate all my dragon friends~ Keep doing your best!
Age verification is spreading like cancer.
First they came for adults site and social media; now they are already discussing about putting VPNs and app stores behind #AgeVerfication 🇬🇧🇦🇺
What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.
Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.
We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!
👉 More: tuta.com/blog/age-verification…
Will the age verification era kill anonymity? As more countries are passing age verification laws, let's take a look at what countries already require it, and for what services, online sites,and social media platforms.Tuta
You know that #Linux is becoming mainstream on #desktop computers when a Czech consumer magazine focused on product testing, #DTest, recommends switching to Linux.
"However, there is another solution. Fortunately, it is no longer true that only Microsoft operating systems are suitable for ordinary people and that only eccentric IT wizards with a silicon soul can use anything else. Now, a number of GNU/Linux operating systems offer a level of ease of use that is at least comparable to that of MS Windows."
@gisgeek Desktops are still used for any serious "computing" work and I have seen very few people who do it on mobile devices (happily). My sister works for a pharmaceutical company and major source of frustration in the company is that they only have an iPad with an external keyboard as their work device. Most of them have purchased their private laptops to do any serious work tasks.
That said, it's true that many people don't have to do any serious "computing" work or not frequently. Those are just fine with phones or tablets.
Awesome!
For info though, my soul as a 15 year linux user isn't only silicon. It's also got a large amount of pizza and coffee in ot. Gotta keep the record clear. 
Die #VRK unterstützt wieder eine Umfrage zur #Digitalisierung in der #kirche.
Sehr schön: diesmal ist #mastodon als soziales Netzwerk dabei
Die Abfrage zur Nutzung von SocialMedia-Kanälen muss zu Verzerrungen führen.
Ich würde z.B. solche nutzen, wenn es eben nicht nur IG/ FB wäre.
I'm doing bad, bad things. Have signed up for a Claude Pro account and installed Claude Code. I'm starting a project that may or may not go anywhere, and most here wouldn't care about it anyway, but it'll be cool if it works the way I want.
I've already hit my rate limit twice in three hours. The initial stuff used lots of tokens.
I am now prepared for all the hate that I will no doubt receive.
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Welcome to Fediverse, to our Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, Henna Virkkunen! ❤️
ec.social-network.europa.eu/@H…
A development server for webxdc apps. Contribute to webxdc/webxdc-dev development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
„Leistung heißt für mich, dass jemand viel arbeitet, etwas aufbaut, ins Risiko geht. Leistung heißt nicht, dass jemand etwas geschenkt bekommt und sich dann noch weigert, Steuern zu bezahlen.“
Blinkist-Gründer @sebklein im ARD-Morgenmagazin zur #Erbschaftssteuer für Unternehmen.
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in reply to Artemis • • •I'm happy to have some back & forth, receive new information from people, get called out if I'm fucking up, etc.
But I do not fucking need jerks who just want to cause problems wasting the energy which I could spend on good, important conversations.