Xbox showcase: We're carrying our accessibility features over from previous games. Not including blind drive assists. But rather, an enhancement to right-trigger driving called auto-drive. Disappointing. :(
Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health" The onslaught includes LLMs finding bogus vulnerabilities and code that won't compile. arstechnica.com/security/2026/…
I'd love to just pretend I'm sick and stay home tomorrow, because at this point I'm internally broken again and just have to function cuz the system says so. But it wouldn't help and people wouldn't understand, so good night, fixing the 2,5 hours of sleep I got from yesterday.
I don't like talking about politics like this, but I am serious.
I am strongly considering shutting down Pomf because the US Department of Justice continues to manufacture outright lies against people who are innocent until proven guilty.
Running the service (despite my best efforts to mitigate risks well beyond what the law would require me to do up to and including full fledged cybersecurity research) exposes me to some level of legal or criminal threat to my livelihood. I knew this going in five and a half years ago, and the calculation at the time was acceptable because even if the feds came knocking at my door, I was confident the evidence would be in my favor and that a reasonable and functional court system would make the right decision. I was also confident that what happened to Les De Ridder almost eight years ago (archive.is/PJTzS) wouldn't happen here in the USA, because Europe was a communist shithole and we had rights over here.
Well, as the US continues to backslide into a fascist regime with a completely captured judicial branch that is utterly subservient to the executive branch, my evaluation of that risk level compared to my maximum tolerance of risk continues to inch closer and closer to parity, and when that risk exceeds it, I am out. If I am not convinced that I can adequately defend myself against potentially spurious claims and threats due to a corrupt and unequal justice system, then my next defense mechanism is to remove any and all ammunition from those who would try to harm me, and the largest weapons cache someone can bring to bear against me at this time is undoubtedly Pomf. I have never considered the government to be part of my overall threat model, but now I do, and I do not have the energy or resources to fight an entire government at this time despite it being morally the right thing to do.
If this does happen, there will be a reasonable and well defined sunset period, with a final archiving of all Pomf content to cold storage in hopes that in the distant future the risk comes down to a level in which I am comfortable bringing it all back online. I would never wipe Pomf - only make it unavailable at worst.
One last thing - if you think I am some big baby or think I have nothing to fear, consider this simple statement:
Qwen released a new Apache 2.0 licensed text-to-speech model, with full voice cloning abilities, and it's really effective - my notes from trying it out here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/22/…
I haven't been paying much attention to the state-of-the-art in speech generation models other than noting that they've got really good, so I can't speak for how notable this new …
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@me that's not good enough. The human made reports have gone downhill significantly as well through 2025. I suspect that this is because in reality they too get lots of their "info" from AIs, but shield that from us.
would probably been worth a try. As a researcher it's embarrassing if *any* report gets a signal below 1 (ok mistakes happen but in general...). But the average should definitely be above 1
Has anyone ever first try correctly entered the amount to send with Paypal, or similar such currency amount input fields? Wanted to send 2,50€ and suddenly had 2 thousand€ in that field. Da fuck?
Ever since authorship was formalized to make it possible to sell books for profit, the idea that ideas can be property and that art springs from individual genius has been challenged by avant-garde and folk traditions. 2/8
That essay discusses cases like the journal Situationist International, which published with the notice: “All texts may be freely reproduced, translated, and edited, even without crediting the original source.” 4/8
The same text also cites Woody Guthrie, who included this note in a 1930s songbook distributed to listeners who wanted the lyrics to his recordings: “This song is copyrighted… and anybody caught singin’ it without our permission will be mighty good friends of ours.” 5/8
Anti-copyright has been fully recuperated, and it feels like only a matter of time before a tech billionaire claims that ingesting copyrighted material into AI is détournement.
However, only when it is an input to production. 7/8
Feeling empty, and it bothers me. I'll try to keep ranting low this time, sorry if it upsets anyone I know you haven't followed me for this shit. Probably I'm feeling that annoyed because of the lack of sleep I have. But I just want more time for myself. Anyway work was shit today. Tried to tell my instructor about the way I feel, e.g. no time motivation limited big change blah, and he was basically like, yeah that's just a part of it. Right right. This is very stupid, but once again I'm considering just breaking up and going to some kind of school for the blind. I dislike everything about schools for the blind in this country, but at least it would probably work, somehow.
I need a real social life. With people being near me who can just be, there. But it's not like I'd find that in the situation I am right now. I can't do this for another 3 years. Talked to a Goalball team member and she said the same (regarding the school 4 the blind). At this point I don't know anymore. None of the options will improve my life, they'll just lead to other problems. Whatever should probably start introducing CWs for that crap so people can skip it.
You can, of course, ignore any responses here, especially mine. I'm just a guy speaking from his own experience which, needless to say, is far different from yours and comes from English-speaking cultures. Having said that, we have a serious problem in schools for the blind, in North America at least, and I don't see that this is a particularly cultural thing, I suspect it's human. The people who work in that sort of school are of two types in my experience and in a good deal of discussion with others. The first has a deep desire to help people and, unfortunately, that often comes with a lack of humility. That is, many think they know best about everything. The second are people who can't get anything else which will pay them nearly as well. The last type are usually like that for a reason, and you probably don't want to interact with them in general. The first type may sound good, but they may make your life difficult. There is often, and this is not always, of course, a deep inability to accept the desires of others for their own lives as definitive. That is, if you want something, time in your case to do your own hobbies, and person X thinks you would be better off doing something else, you can expect serious arguments at best and attempts at compulsion at worst. I'm not saying such attempts will be successful, but I'm the type who wants a quiet life if I can get it. I have no interest in explaining the alphabet to someone so I can explain what I'm saying so that the person can find a way to disagree to keep up his idea of himself as all-knowing. Again, this may be different where you are but it's at least worth asking others about the environment before you do anything specific.
A woman who I follow on the fediverse just had to delete a post due to sexual harassment.
Men if you want more diversity on the Fediverse you need to speak up and call in your peers. You need to educate them and if they persist ban them. Make it clear they aren't welcome.
Otherwise you're making it clear we aren't welcome.
In the early days of personal computing CPU bugs were so rare as to be newsworthy. The infamous Pentium FDIV bug is remembered by many, and even earlier CPUs had their own issues (the 6502 comes to mind). Nowadays they've become so common that I encounter them routinely while triaging crash reports sent from Firefox users. Given the nature of CPUs you might wonder how these bugs arise, how they manifest and what can and can't be done about them. 🧵 1/31
This release includes a new musl version for the *-linux-musl targets, adds support for #[cfg] inside asm!(), and adds [T]::as_array, VecDeque::{pop_front_if, pop_back_if}, Vec/String::into_raw_parts, fmt::form_fn, and more! ✨
U.S. firm involved in Quebec's digital health records is sued by Texas
> A U.S. software engineering firm that’s responsible for Santé Québec’s two pilot projects involving digital health records is being sued by the state of Texas [...] and is maintaining a monopoly that has proved costly to taxpayers.
> Santé Québec, however, is standing by Wisconsin-based Epic Systems despite cost overruns for its projects of nearly $135 million to date.
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