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peter, 3 months ago to random

weird how a speaker at a major conservative political conference calling for the end of democracy and the establishment of a theocratic authoritarian state is something i have to read about in goofy little niche websites and social media accounts because i can't find it in, like, the pages of a newspaper whose catchphrase is "Democracy Dies in Darkness."

mntmn, 4 months ago to random

we did a GitLab security update and now our instance is suffering from the "huge logo when logged out" bug, sorry for that https://discuss.kde.org/t/gitlab-has-big-header-when-not-logged-in/9049

mntmn, 5 months ago to random

little productivity thing for linux that i would like: terminal integration of the XDG (?) "Recent" folder. make it an actual Folder ~/Recent with links to the files, or a FUSE fs. i often have to integrate console and desktop tools and this would make it less painful.

larsmb, 5 months ago to random

Most disappointing about Vlad's response on behalf of #Kagi #Brave is not seeing the clash with their pretend-mission of "humanizing the web".

You can't do that while pretending ethics aren't part of it. Or by defending your business relationship with someone who denies basic human rights to some.

Amorality in tech is not a "principled position", much less the only one. And looking at the people who come out in support for your position should tell you something.

https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave/17

quixoticgeek, 5 months ago to random

Oh fuck it, thread time.

Inspired in a way by a certain long discussion by a well known Sci-fi author about the announcement of a Nuclear powered container ship from China. I wanna talk about "technology won't save us" When it comes to climate change.

"Technology won't save us" is the usual refrain when someone mentions Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). CCS is often touted by the fossil fuel industry as a way of us being able to keep burning dinosaurs. Continue our lives unchanged...

1/n

mjg59, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Ok! https://github.com/mjg59/openssh-portable/commit/44cf1b5fed5d4d5b74eaae1544aaebe2aabdf051 is a hacky first pass at allowing TOFU for SSH certificate CAs rather than the host keys themselves. This means that an admin can update the host keys on a server by simply issuing a new certificate for the new key, rather than jumping through the key update protocol. This only adds the CA for the specific hostname, so assuming the CA private key is at least as well protected as the host key this shouldn't be a net reduction in security?

glyph, 5 months ago to random

This is a subtoot of like nine different things at once, but, fellow progressive/left-leaning friends: please for the love of all that is good in the world just stop ranting about "capitalism". if you think some feature of our current market system is bad, just like, describe the market mechanism and the incentive it creates and the bad outcomes of the incentive. Criticizing "capitalism" is like criticizing "evil" at this point. it's so nonspecific and nebulous that it's counterproductive.

gsuberland, 6 months ago to random

endlessly cruel to suffer from a condition that not only hurts like hell but also has a silly name that everyone thinks you made up

larsmb, 6 months ago to random German

Aber #RobertHabeck und Co freuen sich doch immer so über die Möglichkeiten von #KI und warnen davor, wegen Datenschutz und so von Innovationen abgehängt zu werden?

Und jetzt nutzt mal jemand KI, damit #OlafScholz sagt, was er sagen müsste, so viel Potenzial in einem Kanzler mit Grundwerten (sogar das schlechte Gedächtnis kommt hin), und es ist auch wieder nicht recht.

#AfDVerbot #noafd

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/satireaktion-kanzleramt-ki-video-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

bascule, 6 months ago to random

Between Sam Altman being fired as OpenAI CEO and X losing Apple and IBM as ad clients over Elon's anti-semitism, it's a pretty good day of schadenfreude for tech edgelords

larsmb, 7 months ago to LLMs

With #LLMs and #GitHub #Copilot, we finally extend the preference for plausible answers over correct ones from political discourse to software development.

We should be so proud of ourselves.

tante, 7 months ago to random

The "everybody can now build a GPT, we're all development gods now" hype spawning from OpenAIs last PR thing is mindnumbing.

Like one would love to punish these people by forcing them to only consume and use generated systems and media but I wonder if their appreciation of craft, quality and substance has atrophied so much that they wouldn't even notice.

larsmb, 7 months ago to random

"external costs"

... idnk, this planet and global society looks like a shared system to me

mcc, 7 months ago to random

Trying to figure out if it is possible to learn Iced¹ without learning Elm² first

¹ The Rust GUI library
² The JavaScript framework Iced is based on

mcc, 7 months ago to random

Say you're in Rust and you want to stream a wav to disk. By "stream" I mean that you're generating the wav continuously, and you need the final written file to be valid even if the program exits oddly— potentially even if it crashes! This means I need to be able to periodically force the wav writer to seek back to the wav header, write lengths, then seek back to the write point, rather than the interface being "write until you're done, then close, and on close we write a header".

dngrs, 7 months ago to random

#covid safety: it's not enough to just test when you have symptoms

"The 29 cases identified as super-spreaders, i.e., the indexes that had the most positive contacts, showed few symptoms or were asymptomatic. Deepest transmission clusters are those with the highest percentage of asymptomatic members.
The correlation between proportion of asymptomatic and degree of transmission clusters showed that asymptomatic strongly contributed to the continuity of transmission within clusters."

uint8_t, 7 months ago to random

Orbital sander but it is LEO

larsmb, 7 months ago to Podcast German

Höre gerade endlich das @NDR Corona Virus Update Podcast.

Mit 1.75x Speed, bis es einen vernünftigen Informationsdurchsatz hat.

Wie halten die Leute das im Originaltempo aus?

#podcast