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.
I think one of the biggest changes in how I communicate online came after moving to Fedi. For the most part now I am able to have serious conversations with people who share my values, without being constantly pulled into squabbles with assholes who are wasting my time.
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?
They have inspired me to finally get rid of the remaining calls to strcat and other stupid functions in my own code. This also got rid of lots of data copying, making the code faster. Good graphs.
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 :)
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.
I haven't been around here much today because I've had problems with my email account. I had to change the password, which I managed to do through my email provider's iOS app, which is reasonably accessible: I can read emails there, but not as easily as on the computer. Unfortunately, after changing the password, Thunderbird, my default Windows app for email, won't accept my new password. If anyone has any idea what I should do, please let me know.
Interesting one. Can you type the password into say, notepad and then copy/paste it across, to see if there's any special characters that aren't coming over with it?
D Do you have any special characters there? It's the only reason I could think why it doesn't work. Also can you go to the website in your browser and type it there? Maybe something got a bit transposed when you edited on phone.
@FreakyFwoof I'd go into the website if I could, but as soon as I pres Enter on the log-in link, there is a complicated captcha. My Mum, the only other person in this house most of the time, is not very mobile, so it wouldn't be fair for me to ask her to run upstairs every time I want to do anything with emails.
Is there no audio captcha option? If not, I recommend changing the password once more on the iOS app and see if you can avoid any non-standard characters just so you can get Thunderbird to see it. Failing that, delete the account entirely from Thunderbird and start again, though that's probably last resort.
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."
I'm not sure. In my terminology each separate "line" is a plot, while each individual image that may contain multiple plots I call a graph. It might not be entirely kosher.
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
There was a small snafu with the Git repository of GTK which required rewriting the history of the main development branch to drop a large file that was committed by mistake; if you have a local clone, you may need to force an update. Nothing else should have changed, and the latest commit is: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/c…
Doesn't it make you feel so much more secure, though? Imagine any attacker trying to get to your message history, and having to go through all this hell. Ultimate security.
Fun fact: I routed Claude Code to a local model and captured its system prompt. It is about 16K tokens long, compared with 6.5K tokens for Codex and 5.5K tokens for Gemini CLI. Some of the length is due to tool call descriptions, but I didn't have any additional MCP. No wonder why you can't effectively use local models with it unless you have a crazy machine that can run a bigger model capable of following lengthy instructions and handle very big context window. #LLM #AIgist.githubusercontent.com/chi…
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.
Ik kan gewoon niet meer - net gehoord dat een van de allergrootste verwerkers van privégegevens binnen de Nederlandse overheid druk bezig is met zijn totale migratie naar Microsoft Azure. En de mensen die het tegen zouden kunnen houden worden buitengesloten & hebben het opgegeven. Stukje: berthub.eu/articles/posts/nee-…
Alternativy nejsou nic moc, ale je fajn vědět, po čem v případě nouze sáhnout. Snad to nebude zapotřebí někdy velmi brzy. european-alternatives.eu/alter… #links
já ještě teď přesunuju krypto z Coinbase na Coinmate a mám prakticky hotovo. Nemám závislost na službě z USA v žádné podstatné funkci. Něco jiného je to v práci, kde jsem v tom až po uši, ale tohle je spíš problém firmy než mě.
@sesivany Ty služby, kam jsi přešel, asi mají hromadu věcí někde na AWS, což? 😅
Je to vznešená snaha, ale ten ekosystém je složitý a (pouze) osobní zodpovědností to vyřešit nejde. Když hovno bouchne do větráku, budeš nejspíš stejně nahraný, jako všichni ostatní.
Možná budeš aspoň na ty alternativy zvyklejší a zatímco my budem prskat nad „tím strašným UI”, ty už budeš mít vychozené klávesové zkratky. Ale to je asi jako mít při přípravě na atomovku schované oproti ostatním pět konzerv fazolí navíc. Lepší než nic, ale má to nakonec vlastně reálný efekt?
no, nemají. To jsem si vyzkoušel při posledním výpadku AWS. O výpadku BigTech se dozvím buď z novin nebo že mi nefungují nástroje v práci, ale ne to, co používám osobně. Já totiž dost selfhostuju a tam, kde ne, vybírám pro důležité věci služby, které mají servery opravdu v EU. Nějaký odsun od BigTech praktikuju už 10 let, takže teď to bylo jen o tom to dotáhnout.
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.
Nemusíme si vykládat, že se lze dnes 100% digitálně odstřihnout od USA. Nejde a není to ani mým cílem. Já mám dva cíle: aby na BigTech v USA bezprostředně nezávisely moje důležité nástroje, které používám, a abych tam neměl důležitá a hlavně osobní data. Vím třeba, že Signal závisí na AWS, ale je to v mém případě jen jeden ze 4 IM, které používám, nemám s ním spojenou svoji digitální identitu. Mám Netflix, ale to je zbytná věc. Vedle něj mám české OnePlay a mraky obsahu na domácím NASu. No a pak jsou ty kritické věci jako domény, email, osobní agenda (kontakty, kalendáře, úkoly, hesla...) a soubory, které mám v EU nebo kompletně v selfhostingu na Nextcloudu, jehož provoz není na USA nijak závislý. Ano, Nextcloud má vývojové repozitáře na Githubu, ale to je taková sekundární závislost. Nijak to neohrožuje přístup k mým nástrojům, maximálně by se na pár týdnů zastavil vývoj NC, než by to rozjeli třeba na Codebergu. Ta závislost má mnoho vrstev od přímé provozní závislosti, kde může člověk o přístup přijít během pár sekund, až po nějaké terciární závislosti, které se projeví až v dlouhém horizontu. Troufám si ale tvrdit, že jsem dnes ve stavu, kdy kdyby USA Evropě zařízly přístup, pojedu zásadně nepostižený dál a ty dlouhodobé dopady by se mezitím vyřešily nebo bychom řešili úplně jiný druh problémů.
@sesivany No, je to stejné, jako když vám Putin zničí elektrárnu. Hledání nestandardních řešení z dostupných zdrojů, vzájemná spolupráce, sjednocení, vysoká aktivita ... bylo by to zajímavé, když by to USA zkusily. Nemyslitelné plodí neočekávané efekty 🙂 👍
Nebo mobilní telefon: mám dnes Pixel 10 s GrapheneOS. Je to telefon od americké společnosti a GOS je Android, takže jeho dlouhodobý vývoj závisí opět na americké společnosti. Ale nemám tam žádnou bezprostřední závislost. Ten telefon není ani přihlášený ke Google účtu, jw na něm jediná (zbytná) aplikace od Googlu (Android Auto), závisí jen na Google Play. Žádná zahraniční firma k němu nemá root access. Není to úplná nezávislost, ale IMO v rámci možností akceptovatelná. A nejlepší na tom je, že se necítím jako nějaký digitální poustevník, že bych se musel nějak omezovat. Je to o nastavení priorit a pak výběru řešení podle těch priorit. Pro mě jsou dlouhodobou prioritou soukromí, nezávislost a diverzifikace, původně jsem vůbec neřešil geopolitiku, ale když má člověk nastavené takové priority, tak zjistí, že je najednou velmi dobře připravený i na tu současnou geopolitickou situaci.
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.
I thought this might have been Tailscale and work VPN fucking up my network config once again but no, traceroute to that adresss is going through the right gateway, so... definitely the train company.
Probably multiple CGNATs going on, and they have rules that allow certain communications to an address that you otherwise cannot talk to? A deeper context on the situation, or what specifically is not resolving, and how this impacts operations would be needed.
@adam Yeah, it feels like somebody changed some config somewhere and didn't realize that the thing which was supposed to block everything but the captive portal now also blocks the captive portal.
@adam It's fine on the DNS side, all other domains resolve to their correct IP addresses, trying any ip : 80 gives you an injected HTTP redirect to their hostname :8443 + some user params, that hostname properly resolves to the internal IP addr, but any connection to that internal IP (TCP 8443, TCP on any of the standard HTTP ports or even ICMP) fails.
@adam Hotspot. It's using my tiny little iPhone antenna, and trains are essentially giant metal cans not too dissimilar from faraday cages, so that's much worse than using the big antenna on the outside of the train.
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.
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Open standards – like the Open Document Format used by #LibreOffice – are extremely beneficial to end users. They reduce vendor lock-in, improve compatibility between apps, and preserve your data for longer: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #openSource
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.
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...
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.
Well in the UK, you've only got to have a couple of centimeters of either snow or sleet and it causes mayhem, schools closed, you name it. But I do remember events like the beast from the east which literally had red weather alerts and I couldn't go anywhere.
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.
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.
tbh, if there was a method that provides age verification *without* ID being stored and connected to activity, I wouldn't be opposed to it. "age-verified, user is at least xyz years old" needs to be nothing more than a flag containing exactly that information.
@Tutanota, wow! I’ll instantly delete anything requesting my ID. If you need my verification, please do it through government apps and don’t share my ID with anyone. Something where only a flag like “adult: yes/no” will be exchanged with third parties. But even with something like that I'm against it 100%
Hurrah!! Excellent news!! I don’t want young men inducted into pornography and sexual abuse of minors! And I don't want young women inducted into the belief that that kind of abuse is normal! I would like to see high costs for ALL pornography, and the obligation to REGISTER to allow Authorities to verify whether a registered user is guilty of sexual criminal behaviour and abuse! Maybe YOU like it, and maybe YOU like little children being targeted, but most of us do NOT!
the other day reporting on Roblox (game platform) some people were happy that the platform added age verification by scanning a photo. So voluntarily having children giving their pictures for facial recognition… (the kids were unimpressed. One 12 years old was identified as 16-17, another claimed to have shown a random photo of an adult)
The thing that annoys me most about all of that is this: They already have my ID.
My ISP, as in the Internet Service Provider that Provides me with access to the Internet, already required my ID to sign up.
I only have any access to the internet in the first place because I already gave them my ID.
There is absolutely no need for me to hand out my ID to everyone like candy at a halloween party just for one of them to leak it in a breach because that's five dozen attack vectors.
I'm happy.. I'll start using simple phone or smartphone with minimum services or apps with custom rom.. ☺️😊Atleast it ll give me full time to hangout with my people locally.
The reality is that to fight disinformation, misingotmation and scams, only ID verification will work IF and it's a big if, cannot be controlled by governments and corporations, plus the "fake accounts" and bot farms are locked out of Internet, especially social media. And it ain't going to be good if governments take the lead on developing the solutions.
age verification is not for the teenagers. It’s for the adults. The presumption is you are a teenager unless you can prove otherwise, so basically all Internet users will have to register..
The way you install software updates on Galaxy Buds has always made very little sense to me. Why do I have to wear the earbuds to update the software? just connect and update and leave the audio routed to the phone speaker. Other companies, notably Apple, do this absolutely fine and it's seamless. This process is just annoying.
Well, that's a new way I guess. Apple just, makes it work, even google needed time here to allow payments, 15 days to be exact... Apple just does some things pretty well I guess, including currency changes and updates, except when the whole MACos thing gets bugged, then we yell at them like all the others. I hope the update for those samsung earbuds brings some cool stuff you can play around with. Do they sound better than airpods? I wonder.
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."
The hard truth is that 'ordinary people' nowadays do not use computers; they use mobile devices. When they also need to use a keyboard, their usual choice is a tablet with a keyboard. A computer is generally a last-resort device, and most people find both Windows and Linux equally unfriendly because they are not designed for mobile-first people. I know tons of ordinary people who no longer own a computer or use it very rarely.
@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.
I found that such idiosyncrasies with tablets stem from people's past experiences and specific bad choices by some apps that enshittify the UX. I'm not a mobile-native, and as such, I still find it more productive to use a laptop (and a desktop is better than a laptop). Very young people have exactly the opposite experience.
@gisgeek her experience is recent. She joined the company last year and purchased the laptop one month after joining on advice from other colleagues. She is 35, so not a young generation, but also not old. She says the tablet is OK for work on the go: quick replies, checking info etc. But once she gets home, she takes the laptop because any long writing or working with spreadsheets is just cumbersome on the tablet: the screen is small, the keyboard is not comfortable to write on... I'm pretty sure the youngest generation is more comfortable with it, but even among them it's hard to find someone who would want to write e.g. a thesis on it.
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.
Liebe #fedikirche ich folge vielen von euch, also folge ich auch christlichen #Influencern, oder? Die Fragen hier nur die Größen von Insta und YT ab, aber was ist mit euch allen?
Auch die generelle Abfrage zu SocialMedia berücksichtigt m.A.n. nicht den StatusQuo: Es wird Mastodon genannt, aber nicht das FediVers. Wenn Mastodon, dann müssten die ganzen anderen FediVerse-Dienste doch auch zur Auswahl stehen...
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.
The Discord server that does vibe-coded accessibility modding these days recommends no less than the $100/month subscription with Claude to get anywhere. IMO that basically moved the entry level from "having enough knowledge to do proper research and programming" to "having enough money to afford programming". Doesn't sound great to me yet really. Let's hope things like Claude will at some point run locally as well to get rid of that monitized entry level.
@ToniBarth I think Codex at $20 is a very good entry point but haven't tried Claude Code, especially at $100. Certainly could see business use cases for it but that's a bit different.
@Jage @ToniBarth I've gotta say having tried Gemini-cli and now Claude Code, I really like Claude much better, although the Terminal UI could do with some accessibility fixes.
@ZBennoui @ToniBarth I've tried Gemini CLI, can you now use 3.0 Pro with the $20 plan? Codex definitely impressed me over Gemini, Claude may be slightly better for some things, especially at higher levels. But I think it's all much better than a year ago, now that they do chain of thought.
android copies from apple. apple copies from android. do you know what I would love to see apple copy from android? the ability to still get notificaitons, but not wake up my screen! I will wake my screen up when and if I want to look at them. you don't ened to do it every single time a notification comes in. I want my notifications, I just don't always want to look at them. s please apple, please copy this one from android. make it a setting you can turn on or off. then you would have the best of both worlds.
@BorrisInABox the last time I looked into it several years ago, it was either get notifications, and it wakes up the screen, or get no notifications at all. smile. I have just growled about it, and put up with it, but I want notifications, hell make them go off, but don't wake up my screen! you look at my cealing thinking I am trying to use face ID, and you say try again. it's a cealing! not someones face for god sake. if you know how I can fix it from turning on my screen please enlighten me! this has annoyed me for years. lol.
Why do you care if they're on the lock screen in particular? I personally am fine with hearing noises and knowing there are things to look at when I care, and not having it blablablablabing things out to the world, which is what it does when they're on the lock screen.
@BorrisInABox when I am out and about I might not look at my lock screen at all. I might, but I might not. it only blabs them, if you touch them. mine when it wakes up the screen just says what time it is, and says bhow many notifications I have. it doesn't read any, unless I touch them.
If you want to do a fun thing this weekend, maybe write a little webxdc app for your family or friends chats? There are many to fork from, see webxdc.org/apps and for development docs webxdc.org/docs And for development tooling GitHub.com/webxdc/webxdc-dev which simulates a multi member chat environment to run your app, before you post the zip file to a chat of yours. Everyone can start it. No app stores. No logins. No gafam. With built-in end-to-end encryption. Cheers.
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in reply to Dickenhobelix • • •bei uns hieß das eine ganze Weile lang, dass das Paket dann innerhalb der nächsten 10 minuten ankommt. Verstanden hab ich das auch nie. 🤷♀️
Und mittlerweile geht das tracking dann glaube ich auch für die letzten 10 minuten hier.
Dickenhobelix
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