@Techmeme@techhub.socialLinkedIn confirms it is working on adding puzzle-based games; a researcher says it is testing ranking companies in the games based on the scores of employees (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/16/linkedin-wants-to-add-gaming-t…
@hikingdude@mastodon.social
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaGoogle Pushes Unpopular Chrome Update
"After an update in June this year, a feature called the WebRequest API will be removed, and the adblockers and tracker blockers that depend on this feature will stop working. Since the business model of Google is to track your online activity and then show you personalised ads, it is not difficult to see why this feature is removed.
(...) they are forcing the same update on all Chromium browsers as well."
@cheryanne@aus.socialIt's our 33rd wedding anniversary today. Husband is currently snoozing in his chair. He spent the morning working in the veggie gardens before it got too hot. I spent most of the day working on the website. This is pretty normal behaviour for both of us. Luckily I had already decided to order takeaway for dinner tonight (he does most of the cooking). It's been a good day.
#MarriedLife
@selea@social.linux.pizzaAfter a couple of hours crying over OpenVPN and Wireguard, I just settled with IPSEC between a Unifi Dream Router and a OPNsense machine.
Tunnel is up, it seems - but it looks like routing is not working yet
@Schrank@phpc.socialI'm working on a page for a friend of mine which is hosted on github pages and we wanted to have thumbnails. Here is a description for beginners how to do it.
https://winkelwagen.de/2024/04/16/jekyll-github-pages-thumbnail-images/
@risottobias@tech.lgbtarmchair activist: "you can't be working with housing contractors and realtors to try to make stuff affordable"
meanwhile, sweat equity programs where one foreman helps people build their houses
or: "you work with the moderates? how dare you"
or: "you work with the progressives and not the anarchists? you obviously aren't aligned with mutual aid"
or: "you work with a politician for the dems? how are you going to change things?"
approximately: "you must forego all systems of organized support, you must do this thing entirely keto"
my friend,
reality of it is, you need money to buy land, or you need the city council to donate the sewer
you need friends
as you advocate for better things
we can't do /everything/ as principled standoffish jerks
there's definitely things we can be punk about
but it really damn helps when you have a super awesome city council member you helped get elected
yeah, the system is busted
but it'll take time and **friends** to change it.
@luana@tech.lgbtReplying to @kkarhan@infosec.space since their reply to my toot is bugged or something and I can’t seem to reply to it:
Ubuntu is NOT beginner friendly anymore. Not even a bit.
Because these people don't care about snap or whatever
That’s EXACTLY part of the reason why it’s bad. They don’t care about snap. When they download Steam via the ubuntu app store and get a non-working version they won’t blame canonical or snaps. They will blame Linux.
Ubuntu gives an AWFUL experience to the tech illiterate user. There’s nothing beginner friendly about it anymore.
Additionally, ubuntu breaks like shit and doesn’t even come with snapshots on by default - requiring a complete reinstall on the minor repository fuckup you mentioned. Not many distros come with snapshots by default unfortunately, but at least most of them aren’t straight up providing easily installable broken packages for their users.
@stf@chaos.sociali think this poster is by far the most useful thing i saw in my decade working for siemens.
(see alt-text for a transcript)
this is genuine and was all over all sites back in those days.
also: yes, i was having loads of fun insisting on following the recommendations of the notes...
@cheeaun@mastodon.social👀 So, this is what they've been working on: https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C7CXVYIpI0G
Article:
@benb@osintua.eu'The Artillery Is Working Exactly as It Should!' – Zelenskyy about Russian Attacks: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/12/the-artillery-is.html
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toWeekly checkin with boss.
Boss: so Tree, what are you working on today?
Me: I'm unmotivated, overworked, underappreciated and underpaid. My assignment is a bullshit makework revenue cow vanity project of yours that you've assigned as a higher priority over two critical projects that I have no choice but to flat out ignore. Frankly I'm just making it look like Im busy until you leave early (as you always do on Fridays) so I can fuck off myself.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io“[Netanyahu] lost his way by allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel”…He is a “major obstacle to peace”…“bowed to the demands of extremists”…“has been too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows.”
This is the top-ranking Jewish Democrat saying these words.
That sound? That’s pressure working. Keep it up.
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialThis episode of “Some More News” on how bots & scams rule the internet was great (& depressing). https://youtu.be/P4Z3UXLZMDo
It increasingly feels like one bit where the whole “human in the loop”-scam actually seems to be working like a charm is spam: Human “spam workers” for submitting forms with vaguely believable “AI”-generated slop content.
@jake4480@c.imThomas Rinsma got Doom working on a credit card swiper - attached here is a video of it. His blog post breaking down the process of porting it is wild: https://th0mas.nl/2022/07/18/porting-doom-to-a-payment-terminal
@steve@s.yelvington.comIf Roku manages to standardize the location of caption settings I'll celebrate. It's a real mess right now.
https://cordcuttersnews.com/roku-is-working-on-making-streaming-more-ac…
@steadystatemcr@mstdn.socialAn update on the #A57 legal challenge on climate grounds. It has a useful summary of 2 related cases. In all cases the courts found against the campaigners.
Shocking indictment of the law in England and Wales in relation to the protection of the natural world. These roads will do untold destruction to nature and, of course, are
@matthiasott@mastodon.socialIf you would like to sign up for #OwnYourWeb and the signup form doesn’t work for you, it might be because I tried to configure a Stripe plan in Buttondown that would let me offer optional pay-as-you-wish support memberships which somehow locked my account. I hope this issue is resolved quickly!
In case you want me to write you once everything is working properly again, let me know! 🤗🎈…
@sotolf@social.linux.pizza#zig is a fun language, frustrating in ways, since it's so low level and a bit cumbersome for some things, but in other ways it's a lot of fun, it feels good managing to get something working in a way that it doesn't in some other languages, I think I will work a bit more on it until I get a better intuition for how I'm supposed to do things.
@arXiv_csFL_bot@mastoxiv.pageExact descriptional complexity of determinization of input-driven pushdown automata
Olga Martynova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10516 https://
@beaware@social.beaware.liveSoooo....I'm doing a thing...🤭😏
As a lot of you know, Tooters shut down recently and the way it was handled in the end is regrettable.
However, I felt for longest time while it was up, that it was consistently one of the BEST run instances on Fedi with how they protected their users from some of the insanity that happens here.
That being said, with Tooters being gone, it leaves a bit of a hole in my Fedi heart and I know a lot of others as well.
So, I'm creating a new, very limited for now, politically-light (as little politics as possible locally), AI friendly (AI art welcome), Sharkey instance for some folks within my circle that I've grown to consider my friends.
The Social Zone is meant to be a place to escape the very political society we currently all live in and just be social with one another about our hobbies, interests, and day to day lives.
I'm still working out all the details but when I launch it, it's going to be invite only because I'm new to something like this and I want to get it right. Especially because those I will invite are people that are close to me and I don't want to disappoint them.
Depending on how things go for the next few months, including if I can even get this thing started correctly, I MIGHT be open to allowing more members in, down the line.
But, this is just getting started. I registered the domain yesterday and just started researching Sharkey today and how hard it would be to spin something up. Then, of course, there's configuration settings and administration with Sharkey that I have to familiarize myself with.
All in all, I'm very nervous, but excited that I decided to take this next step in my Fedi adventure and hope to eventually "give back" to the entire community, the same positive energy that you've all given me over the past wonderful year of being on this amazing platform.
Please do not ask for invites. I will not be handing them out anytime soon. I've already asked about 5 of you along with some IRL folks and I feel I would like some time to get this right for them first.
Thanks for reading. I hope you understand why I'm choosing to do this and hope you're as excited as me to see where things can go and understand why I feel it's important to have these types of "politically-light" spaces so people can escape such topics from time to time.
Keep on keeping on, Fedi. The future is bright and I'm ready to learn along with you. More info about TheSocial.Zone coming soon!
Your friend,
B.A.
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Making cement is very damaging for the climate. One solution is opening in California"
#US #USA #America #California
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgI've been listening to a series in #ZetlandMag about a Danish children's crisis centre, which does not seem to always be working well.
It's well written/podcasted and fascinating investigative journalism. But what also strikes me is that, in spite of the problems, and clear issues with pressure in the public services, there are multiple social safety nets here.
Including in the last resort excellent journalism.
A true #BigSociety.
#JoannnaHuset
🎁 https://www.zetland.dk/historie/sO9aq2MY-moGnNy6v-62f45
@cdarwin@c.imTrump has ordered the House GOP to block all aid to Ukraine.
He wants Ukraine to lose their war because Putin wants Ukraine to lose the war
— so we have a private citizen working against interests of the United States in favor of his despot buddy Vlad
— and we have an entire political party who is more than happy to go along with this treasonous fuckery.
But wait, it gets worse.
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaSo, I now have two working "prototypes": a rev 0.1 and a rev 0.2...and I have 351 bright amber LEDs. The schematic for this part of the badge is good, now it's time to write a library to turn pixels off and on. Adafruit has a library for the LED matrix IC, but it only supports RGB for some odd reason. However, first win of the project. #electronics
@benb@osintua.eu'The Artillery Is Working Exactly as It Should!' – Zelenskyy about Russian Attacks: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/12/the-artillery-is.html
@wraithe@mastodon.socialWe’ve been slowly working our way through “3 Body Problem” on Netflix and I finally had my suspension of belief fall out my ass with the episode “The Final Judgement”
Is it alien tech? Nope.
Is it the dimensional theory? Nope.
Was the bullshit* plan to get the data? Ding ding ding!
seriously, after rejecting a missile strike as “being too likely to destroy the data they want” they went with…this?
continued with spoilers next post…
*also gratuitously sadistic…
@teledyn@mstdn.caThis is distressing: TIL #Mozilla #Firefox is not the honest broker of webpages I was led to believe, but actively CENSORS content, hiding its bias behind bogus 'error' messages. This is a deal-breaker for Firefox for my use, which makes me very sad because I do like a lot of it, and every indicator says Chrome is about to go double-evil.
I joke about how someday your AI may stop working with you because of how you voted in the last election. We needn't wait for AI, the future is here today.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotIt's taken a month, but I now have a new hydraulic winch for my tractor working. This should make hauling logs out of my wood so much easier!
#Crofting
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.socialWorking on the #PhonographEmoji proposal
We have to compare our #emoji with the baseline which they have chosen as “elephant“
The Ngram viewer is a word-frequency search of a bunch of libraries Google illegally digitized going back to the 1500s
There’s
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngBeen slacking posting more art here, so time for a teensy selection of an old generative/evolutionary system from 2014 (then used for my HOLO 2 magazine guest design). Originally written in Clojure, meanwhile ported to TypeScript & Zig, I've kept working on & experimenting with it ever since... 1000s of screenshots and 100s of versions to sift through. Loosely based on research done by Barricelli[1] since the early 1950s, conceptually and aesthetically it sits nicely between my C…
@shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizzaThis is very exciting. I hope by 6.10 we can expect best performance.
From: @…
https://linuxrocks.online/@Linux/112439888323047027…
@zimpenfish@social.rjp.isEventually got something working but it involves an infinite loop with server.poll_timeout(10000) and I do not like it. Still, better that nothing, I suppose, even if the whole escapade has pushed Rust down a couple of notches.
@cliffwade@allthingstech.socialGood morning and happy Tuesday #Fediverse
Let's start off the day and discuss how we're all doing and what our plans are for the day.
It's work stuff for me, with a meeting at 12pm and 2pm as is the case every other Tuesday.
I'm also working on a product review article that is almost complete, so hoping to have that published today if possible. If not, …
@mistertim@assemblag.esCan't tell if this is a welcome return to an interest i've neglected, or an extreme form of procrastination in the face of other commitments, but lately I've felt a strong and quite persistent urge to have another go at working my way through SICP:
(if anyone else on here wanted to have a go at a chapter a week with a bit of discussion on a hashtag, that could be fun)
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Making cement is very damaging for the climate. One solution is opening in California"
#US #USA #America #California
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI work in technology and what I know is that companies that ride the hype bullshit train and defraud people aren’t there for long https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/112230203637467513
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoI wrote up a slightly abbreviated version of my #machining journey making a working rotary broach. (Anyone with the patience to have read my massive thread here about it over the past few weeks won't find much new, but if your eyes glazed over, maybe this shorter version will be more interesting?)
@whetstone@romancelandia.clubCrow friend update: they know where I live now, and they stop by to yell for peanuts regularly. We have an agreed-upon location where I can set a nut down, which is not immediately accessible to the squirrels. The tree monkeys are probably smart enough to figure it out eventually but thus far it's working out really well.
#corvids
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialSomeone asked today what a 'sense of self' is.
I want to tie this into ideas of relationality. I am a distinct individual, let's start with that. I'm not disavowing that entirely.
But I am also ‘an unschooler’: but this is not an attribute of my education for comparison. It is a community, a network of relationships with people working in similar ways. It's connections to anabaptist traditions and to a mode of interacting with parents (both in concept and my actual parents)
I'm from Colorado. But it's not just a place on the map: it's my relationship to my sense of smell, and my tolerance for cold weather and bright lights. It's a love of dark skies and clear views of the milky way. It's a relationship to knowing I am very very small in a vast universe. This is not a universal explanation of from-Colorado-ness, but it's mine.
I'm transgender, but that's not just I-myself-was-born-in-a-wrong-body, but I have a community and network and sense of belonging outside of myself. I've got embodied knowledge of being a dozen ways that others don't get to experience. It affects and informs my relationship to my communities and my work.
I’m argumentative and sometimes a little arrogant, but this is also because of how I'm connected: there are things I know deep in my body that I cannot explain how I know, but I do. I forget that others see me as a ‘you' and not a 'we' sometimes, and so misunderstandings happen. But to change that would change me in ways I'm not quite willing to grow into, so there is going to be a small callus in how I socialize. And it's fine. It works. I am who I am, but I also don't think about _me_ that much. To think about me is to think of all the connections instead. They're inseparable.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzJPL’s #Voyager team ‘extremely hopeful’ after ailing, faraway craft shows signs of former self: #Voyager1 is finally transmitting patterns of 1’s and 0’s that look familiar to the engineers, so "the FDS is at least partially working." Oh, and 45 years ago Linda Morabito discovered the first two active volcanos on #Io in a picture taken by Voyager 1 at high phase angle: here is a screenshot of Mor. & al., Science 204, 972 (1 June 1979) . yep, it's nor even one page long.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsToday, deep in the woods, my phone suddenly stopped being able to access the Internet. First, I've noticed that the browser couldn't reach any website — but well, reception was poor and websites these days… Then, my railway timetable app couldn't fetch timetables. Okay, poor reception, or maybe they have server problems again.
Later, the reception was better for a while, but things still didn't work. Reception quickly jumped back down, so I blamed it again. And again. Finally, I've figured out this is going for far too long.
I've opened #RethinkDNS and it said "No Internet". I've disabled it temporarily, and everything suddenly started working again. Enabled again, everything's broken. WTF?!
I've dug deeper, and it turned out RethinkDNS apparently lost DNS-over-HTTPS connection… and it never figured out to reconnect on its own, or even give me a meaningful diagnostic. I had to figure out to enter DNS settings, and tap the server tile to make it reconnect.
In the end, it was DNS… but also terrible UX in this program.
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.socialWorking on the #PhonographEmoji proposal
We have to compare our #emoji with the baseline which they have chosen as “elephant“
The Ngram viewer is a word-frequency search of a bunch of libraries Google illegally digitized going back to the 1500s
There’s
@pre@boing.worldMight continue to go up and down a bit.
It won't compile while also running any more. Not enough memory. The Mastodon Bloat is real, and in part at least cause by the Node bloat.
I think maybe the actual env-var is working now and we're back to running on un-edited glitch?
Either that or the compilation failed in such a way it thinks it worked but really is an old cache. 🤷
Nothing about managing a Mastodon server makes me want to learn Ruby. Nothing. It mostly makes me want to run away from node too.
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukNext part of my dad's HiFi is trying to understand his home built amp; it needs a bit of a front clean but was working OK. It's dated 1977, but has obviously been tinkered with over time - the power transistors on the back are dated from early 70's before I was born, but then there's a little preamp in there from mid-90's; so I need to figure it out.
#electronics
@hynek@mastodon.socialHenceforth, I’m gonna use this Tolkien quote whenever someone asks what I think about a competing package.
@stefan@gardenstate.socialIs it possible to build a react app with plugin support? Like could an app, given an arbitrary cdn url load it, get the component, pass it props and render it without needing to know about it at build time? I feel like it should be possible but I've never seen an example of that. Perhaps for good reasons as maybe xxs stops that idea from working.
#webdev
@jhelberg@mastodon.socialExcellent article on pitfalls in Domain Driven Design. It even manages to avoid the word CRUD: “A “Bounded Context” is an area of the business where certain processes and rules apply. It’s where the Central Concept shows up repeatedly under different set of rules that make sense for each Bounded Context“
Read this story from Hany Elemary on Medium:
@zimpenfish@social.rjp.isEvery time I have to do something in Rust, I'm reminded that whilst people may sneer at Go for its simplicity, it doesn't get in your way when you want to make things work.
Yep, the Rust version might have fewer issues with memory, variable hygiene, whatever, but none of that matters if I can't get the damn code working in the first place.
Ideology is fine but pragmatism pays the bills..
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterShapps: "I can confirm to the House that we do have indications that this [data breach] was the suspected work of a malign actor."
So the personal and financial details of the UK Armed Forces has been stolen, and the Defence Secretary says it's "suspected" it was a "malign actor".
"Malign actor" is just another way of saying "the bad guys". And it was hardly someone working in the Army's best interests, was it!?
#Infosec #UKNews #DataSecurity
@jae@mastodon.me.ukSo @… sent me a photo that should make the skin of all artists crawl.
A new business. AI Artworks… Manifest your dreams is the slogan. You name it, we frame it as the sign says.
I’m sorry but this is so clearly a business that will be profiting off the work of artists who actually will be working hard to then have their art trained illegally …
@threeofus@mstdn.socialC and her kids have been over today along with my 2. We made Easter bonnets and sorted Mother’s Day gifts and cards. Besides that I’ve spent the whole day in the kitchen cooking and washing up, just to keep them all alive. It seems having four kids is quite the challenge, and a fifth is looking increasingly likely. Oh and we have a dog too 😅. C and I are working on my house this weekend to get it ready for her to move in permanently. Hectic is not the word.
@Carwil@mastodon.onlineAngele Latham has been working on the story of free expression at #Vanderbilt for weeks and provides the big picture on the administration’s crackdown on a pro-Palestine referendum and student protests.
#FreeExpression
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNetEase says it is working with Microsoft to bring World of Warcraft and other Blizzard games back to China after a feud ended the partnership in January 2023 (Josh Ye/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-nete…
@whitequark@mastodon.socialthe thermostat in this place is wireless and talks to the boiler over radio... but something happened (?) and it's no longer working. and i noticed that i'm cold.
fortunately i had a recording of the thermostat's boiler-on and boiler-off commands on my flipper zero.
so now flipper zero is a key part of how i'm going to not freeze to death while asleep
@Schrank@phpc.socialSymfony: {{ dump() }} creates an iframe - why is that important? In my case, because I test for cy.iframe('iframe:nth-child(1)') in my cypress test, because the damn iframe changes names all the time and it's not in my domain to change.
https://winkelwagen.de/2024/03/14/symf…
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialDon't panic #dotnet folks, but I do #Java now. Give it a try, #IntelliJIDEA is pretty nice. Also, there's #kotlin
@incurablehippie@verified.mastodonmedia.xyzChumbawamba wrote Tubthumping as a working-class anthem. We won’t have it stolen by the right | Boff Whalley https://www.theguardi…
@geant@mstdn.social
@frankel@mastodon.topThe guide to #Git I never had
https://medium.com/@jake.page91/the-guide-to-git-i-never-had-a89048d4703a
@crell@phpc.socialCareer goals. Absolute programming badasses.
#NASA #programming #Voyager
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgWhoop I got accepted to #pifcamp ! Looking forward to it including working with @… and @… on some e-textile sensor sound stuff
@dr2chase@ohai.socialI am staying (with spouse, she working, me touristing) in a fully automated touch-screen-controlled hotel room, and it is fucking annoying. Would be nice for the bathroom light to stay on for an entire shower, would be nice for the light to turn off right away when I am done, would be nice not to need to hang a black T-shirt over the always-glowing-some touch screen controls
@stf@chaos.social
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAt a tech and media conference, Bob Iger says Disney is working to catch up with Netflix's tech capability and downplays the effects of activist investors (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/disney-streami…
@j12t@social.coopThere are 14 people on the W3C's Social Web Incubator Community Group today. The group is finalizing new documents that describe how to use WebFinger and HTTP Signatures in the #Fediverse, and a bunch of other work going on as well.
So glad to see what there is ongoing work making the technical plumbing that makes the Fediverse work even better!
If you care, you can participate, it…
Social Web Incubator Community Group
The Social Web Incubator Community Group (also known as SocialCG, or SWICG) is the successor of the Social Web Working Group, which ran from 2014 to 2017. The SocialCG provides space to collaborate and coordinate for implementors who are building on any of the specifications published by the Social Web WG, and related technologies. It is also a place to incubate new proposals which build on or complement the Social Web WG recommendations…
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgMy absolute favorite lines from #distribits were:
”I am working as a consultant and by accident I have my webpage open.” - Thomas Braun ¹
”I have a mailbox file from 1996. I can say 'git annex log' and it tells me each repository that it came into and left throughout time, which is... mildly... interesting, I guess?” - Joey Hess ²
😂
¹
@patrick_townsend@infosec.exchangeNIST and Web3 Security – A Developing Perspective
The National Institute for Standards and Technology just released an initial draft of “A Security Perspective on the Web3 Paradigm” as document IR 8475. It is not long and it is a great take on how NIST is thinking about Web3 security. Here is the link:
#Web3 #NIST #Security #InfoSec #BlockChain #IPFS
@fogelnet@heads.socialBREAKING: Fujifilm X-T50 - This is the Sensor (Surprised?) and it Will Have IBIS - Fuji Rumors
#Fujifilm
https://www.fujirumors.com/breaking-fujifi…
@blakes7bot@botsin.spaceSeries B, Episode 06 - Trial
VILA: [Enters] The flight's almost over. Is it working?
AVON: Quiet, Vila. [A few seconds pause, then Blake starts to appear.] Now! [Blake starts to fade out. Cally works the controls and Blake appears completely.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/206/392 📺 B7B4
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialSometimes I read an article twice, this was such an article, explains why also in 2024 we don't fully understand LLMs , they are not "just statistics" as some argue, simply because some aspects with regard to generalisation and over fitting seem to work differently. Working on those models is still "more alchemy then chemistry".
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI know it's no aurora, but this is an image I'm working on right now
#astrophotography
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialBased on the rumors and reports from multiple sources, it seems Apple is planning to significantly upgrade Siri with new AI capabilities in iOS 18, expected to be announced at WWDC in June 2024. Here are the key takeaways about the rumored "better Siri":
- Apple is working on integrating large language models (LLMs), similar to the technology behind ChatGPT, to make Siri much smarter and more capable.
Via
@sycarion@dice.campWorking on Smollish20, it is basically Microlite20, but I made verbiage changes to be able to release it CC-BY 4.0.
One change I already mentioned is adding milestones as an element of leveling up. Another is writing in any ancestry and culture to get a 2 to a stat or 1 to all skills.
The other is removing references to "the fantasy SRD". I'm positioning it as an engine ready for plugins, d20 and otherwise.
@al3x@hachyderm.ioBesides not working, what frustrates me further is there’s absolutely no way to tell what features they support.
It’s beneficial to have a single connector. But having a standard to communicate what features they support and with what qualities it will make them really useful and friendly. https://social.lo…
@jae@mastodon.me.ukSo @… sent me a photo that should make the skin of all artists crawl.
A new business. AI Artworks… Manifest your dreams is the slogan. You name it, we frame it as the sign says.
I’m sorry but this is so clearly a business that will be profiting off the work of artists who actually will be working hard to then have their art trained illegally …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple plans to let EU-based iPhone users uninstall Safari by 2024 end and is working on a more "user-friendly" way to let them switch to Android by fall 2025 (Jon Porter/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/7/24093355
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoThe #FreeCAD stable build Appimages don't work on #Fedora 40 which is making it hard for me to test a fix I've been working on in the Lattice2 workbench to make it work in cur…
@pre@boing.worldBeen looking at #gotoSocial a little.
Decided to go hardcore and build it from source, even though I don't even know the programming language Go that it's written in at all.
Went pretty well building and running it, wasn't difficult and it's easy to understand how to adapt the page templates and things.
Seems like account migration works well enough now.
Didn't notice that I'd failed to build a bunch of assets for a while so couldn't understand why the settings page wasn't working as suggested and pages were weirdly ugly and non-functional.
Building those assets is bloody node again. Annoying. Hoping to avoid that.
Anyway. It looks good. So customizable, no effort to really do a reader but you use phanphy or something for that. All I really want is good customizeable shop-windows and a functional API.
Thinking that's what I'll move to if further experimentation goes well.
@geant@mstdn.social @wraithe@mastodon.socialOne of my clients has told me that if I ever figure out how to bottle whatever happens when someone has an IT problem and I jump on with them and the second *I* look, it’s working fine, that I’ll be rich. 😂
Tech Bros; start figuring out how to do that!
(Cut to "The Matrix”, but it’s all just nerds in pods, being scraped for whatever the hell quantum bullshit it is that causes that - Honestly if it meant I'd get to look like Carrie-Ann Moss in a black catsuit riding a Duc…
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toSo, my Friday afternoon is spent troubleshooting a bug in a piece of software I have to use at work . The application puts working files in:
`C:\user\AppData\Roaming\app*`
`C:\user\AppData\Local\app*`
`C:\programdata\app*`
`C:\program files (x86)\app*`
This isn't at installation time, this is while it RUNs. logs. logs for plugins. .logs for user data. temp cache storage.
If you're a developer don't do this.
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@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgMy absolute favorite lines from #distribits were:
”I am working as a consultant and by accident I have my webpage open.” - Thomas Braun ¹
”I have a mailbox file from 1996. I can say 'git annex log' and it tells me each repository that it came into and left throughout time, which is... mildly... interesting, I guess?” - Joey Hess ²
😂
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@patrick_townsend@infosec.exchangeNIST and Web3 Security – A Developing Perspective
The National Institute for Standards and Technology just released an initial draft of “A Security Perspective on the Web3 Paradigm” as document IR 8475. It is not long and it is a great take on how NIST is thinking about Web3 security. Here is the link:
#Web3 #NIST #Security #InfoSec #BlockChain #IPFS
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI think I really dislike the term “technical debt”.
Sometimes you definitely need to upgrade things e.g. because of failing hardware or software no one can fix anymore; however if something is working fine and can be reasonably expected to not fail anytime soon, there’s simply no reason to spend time and money to replace it.
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social🤫 I’m working on the probably the most essential feature in #JetBrainsRider history. Keep it a secret. Please don't boost. This is only for folks in the know. 🍗
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsCapitalism as a natural followup to religion
Religion teaches you that you need to toil all your life for the elites, and you're going to reap the reward in the afterlife. That is, if such a thing exists. If it doesn't, it's not like you're going to be around to complain.
Capitalism teaches you that you need to toil most of your life for the elites, and you're going to reap the reward of a nice, cozy retirement. That is, if you live long enough to enjoy it. If you don't, it's not like you're going to be around to complain.
Well, technically you may not be healthy enough, or have a pension high enough, to actually enjoy the retirement. But it's not their fault — you haven't been taking good care of yourself, you haven't been working hard enough, or perhaps it's the fault of these lazy youngsters, or immigrants, or… In either case, if you were a good, god-fearing person, you're still up for the other reward, right?
Oh, and in both cases, it's important to reproduce. We must breed, so that future generations can continue toiling for the elites.
#AntiCapitalism
@beaware@social.beaware.liveTo add on, if you are a dev working on an AI implementation that assumes the AI will do everything itself, this is for you. I'm calling you out. AI is a TOOL for humans to use. It obviously cannot think for itself so stop making people think it does!
Fuck you!
@zimpenfish@social.rjp.isI know Uber are a terrible company but honestly the Lime bikes in London are a lifesaver for me at the moment (being one knee short of a full working pair.)
There's normally a handful within hobbling distance of the flat, you can park them almost anywhere (that's safe), and they're relatively cheap if you get a Ride Pass.
(I would love an electric bike of my own but there's nowhere to secure it and I can't carry 25kg up 4 flights of stairs because [waves…
@pre@boing.worldThought I'd take advantage of the rest of the internet being down to quickly upgrade this server.
It didn't go great. These Node projects just can't leave their build process alone for even a minute can they?
Now you need a new Yarn, Yarn has changed the way it installs, now you need Corepack, that means you need a new Node, no definitely newer than the apt package.
God knows why a Ruby project would want to copy this insanity but here we are.
Latest changes broke my alterations to set the character-limit but we have finally got the actually latest Glitch working.
Interesting looking new interface that broke my character-limit changes though. I think threaded mode is new.
Still sooner have my 5k character limit though.
Sorry for a bit of up and down there. Pretend it was the same thing as happened at Facebook.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioApple is no longer including stickers with their computers (probably a good thing, they’ve been working for a while to really reduce packaging waste).
Here’s how the unboxing experience was like with an Apple IIgs and the beautiful classic 1980s Apple rainbow stickers. :apple_old_logo:
#retrocomputing
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsOne more thing about the xz/sshd backdoor, and the earlier sale of "Simple Mobile Tools".
A long time ago, I've been told an important rule of #security in IT: when threatened with violence, yield. The life and health of you and your family is more important than any #OpenSource project you may be working on. A lot of people will blame you, but the ones who matter will understand.
But what if it's the carrot and not the stick that you're getting? What if you're being offered money to "betray" your project? Should you resist, or can you yield?
Then, isn't there a stick to be expected at the other end? Won't it come upon you if you rejected the carrot? Isn't money merely the "civilized" way of washing your hands from the implied threat of violence?
Even more, what if you really need that money? What if you barely make ends meet, and rejecting the carrot becomes a stick in itself?
Well, I'm not saying that it's likely that I'll ever be in that situation with #Gentoo (as in having money offered; having no income I know too well), but I really wouldn't know what to do. And I'd understand anyone who accepted that money.
The bottom line is: if people treat #FreeSoftware developers as a free exploitable workforce, people shouldn't be surprised when the projects they rely on are sold or backdoored.
@beaware@social.beaware.liveFeels like Threads federation is dead out of the gate, specifically because of the way Meta is handling it. Having this half-ass implementation makes it confusing and with the "opt-in" model, very few are actually turning it on besides those of us that are already here.🤦♂️
I feel like it's been absolutely pointless to advocate for people there to turn it on because they won't "see an effect" and turn it off, then they have to wait 30 days to turn it back on...
May as well just not have done it at all until it was actually done and working.
#Fediverse #Fedi #Threads #Meta #Mastodon
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle says it's working to fix Gemini's "inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions", after some users complained about them (Kate Irwin/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-says-it-will-fix-gemini-ais-h…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle confirms it is blocking rooted Android phones from using RCS, citing the need to abide by the RCS standard's "operating measures" to stop spam and abuse (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2024/02/29/google-messages-rcs-rooted/
