Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

In case anyone still happens to have a spare #38C3 ticket: One of the kind people wo was supposed to help us with building+operating the #CCC #ISDN network apparently didn't get one. I know it's unlikely, but I had to ask... #followerpower @c3isdn

@joepie91 who would win: a WAF that costs 400 USD a month, or two bored teenagers

@joepie91 Relatedly, surprising amount of internet far-right movements turn out to be headed up by some aggrieved fourteen year old.

With PHP 8.4 release last week, here is your annual reminder:

Symfony and Laravel have a massive core team, with lots of PHP internals connections, that set an unrealistically high bar for being compatible with new PHP versions.

Don't expect single-maintainer teams to be anywhere close to this without getting outside help in some way.

Run a library's testsuite on PHP 8.4, sponsor some money, whatever. Just don't expect them to simply support PHP 8.4 from day 0.

Press attention for the surveillance camera walk https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Pieter%20Vander%20Vennet/diary/405672

an example of a "social rule" in the terminal is that if you have a noninteractive program, you can generally expect that `Ctrl-C` will stop it, programs can do whatever they want but it would just be kind of rude for a noninteractive program to not respect `Ctrl-C`

(there are different social expectations around how to quit interactive programs)

I haven't totally sold myself yet on this "what are the secret rules of the terminal?” framing but it feels like a reasonable way to talk about how, even though “the terminal” is a lot of separate things working together, it "feels" like a cohesive environment that has a lot of rules that you can generally expect to be true.

Some of those rules are Unchangeable Facts and some of them are just Vague Social Rules but understanding the vague social rules is just as important as knowing The Facts.

Mistodon: @teksttv has drawn a #teletext adaptation of Charles O'Rear's Sonoma vineyard photograph 'Bliss', famously used as the default wallpaper for #WindowsXP & likely the most viewed photograph in human history. This screen was included in the MIST1121 artpack collection.

Generative models are not remotely close to being good enough to match even the most mediocre local news production

This is likely a regional monopoly (or duopoly at best) for local news. If you have a lock on the market and don't have to worry about regulators the easiest way to juice profits is to destroy labour

This is intentional scuttling the product to make more money because they know that neither the workforce nor the consumer have any recourse

This is what generative models are for

If I bought a CD every time an Estonian underground metal band offered me a CD on the streets, I had two CDs. Which isn’t much but it’s funny it happened twice.

Calling all #Blind #Windows users! 🖥️👥 I briefly tried #Beeper after seeing another blind person recommend it, but it didn't seem the most accessible with the #JAWS #ScreenReader. Do you use any all-in-one social media apps like Shift, Franz, Ferdium, or Beeper on Windows? I'd love to hear about your experiences with #accessibility and usability. Please share your thoughts! #AssistiveTech
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@mastoblind @main

So, anyway, whenever you read "some scientists think", think about me and recalibrate the lower end of your expectations accordingly.

'I cannot tell you when the current mania will end and this bubble will burst. If I could, you’d be reading this in my $100,000 per month subscribers-only trading strategy newsletter and not a public blog. What I can tell you is that computers cannot think, and that the problems of the current instantation of the nebulously defined field of “AI” will not all be solved within “5 to 20 years”.'

https://blog.glyph.im/2024/05/grand-unified-ai-hype.html

okay #monday here we go 😬 🙈 #urgh #tryingmybest

“Have you got anything to declare?”
“Yeah, five imported functions and one global variable. It’s an array, hope that’s alright”

Western green #lizard, male | Westliche Smaragdeidechse, m | Lacerta bilineata | La Capelière, #Camargue, #France | #herps #reptiles #nature #wildlife #naturephotography #WildlifePhotography

Ever wanted to see what every(?) Lenovo BIOS is like for the last 10 years? Useful+Strangely Lenovo have you covered with a simulator for a shockingly huge amount of models: https://download.lenovo.com/bsco/index.html#/textsimulator/ThinkPad%20T430%20(2347,2342,2344,2345,2349,2350,2351)

Useful I guess if you want to use it blind?