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Anna

Ik had dit als losse gedachte en nu wil ik het. Europese providers: mogen we opslag bij jullie en in-browser officepakketten? Dan krijgen jullie geld van me en zal ik het nooit meer hebben over dat gedoe met de datakabel in onze straat. Beloofd. mastodon.nl/@venite/1138997959

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Sandra de Jong

Wat zijn drie voorbeelden van geluiden die je door merg en been gaan? (ik schrijf over geluid als kwelling en heb al veel materiaal, maar extra inspiratie is altijd goed)

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Broadwaybabyto

Even if you think you’re the exception and you will never become chronically ill, wear a mask.

Even if you’re “young and otherwise healthy”, wear a mask.

Even if your last covid infection was “mild”, wear a mask.

Do it for those who may not be as lucky, and do it to protect your long term health

#covidisairborne #covidisnotover #longcovid #chronicillness #disability

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rant 

So, this is a right to repair rant, I guess. Or a story? Anyway. Some timelines will be redacted for narrative purposes, but everything did really happen, just not in that exact order.

I have an old-ish LG TV. It's way out of warranty, and honestly holding up surprisingly well despite all the scary stories about OLED burn-in (yes, yes, technically burn-_out_, I don't care) on the internet. I like it, and have no real reason to replace it.

So, a month or two ago I see the TV randomly turn off by itself, then turn back on again. I shrug it off, probably a power spike or something. The next day it happens again. And again. And again. AND AGAIN.

OK, at this point I'm willing to admit the TV is not doing so good. Also, somehow it seems to be correlated to me turning the computer on. My first thought is power delivery, since they are on the same power rail. It's, again, a pretty old TV, and maybe there's a bad cap or something somewhere.

So I do what any engineer in my position would - I go online to look for a schematic. There is no schematic. I look for a service manual. There is no service manual. I look harder. There's a service manual for an adjacent model. It says:

- step 1: replace motherboard. did it help? if no, go to step 2
- step 2: replace power delivery board. did it help? if no, call your LG rep

OK, fuck you too, I guess. I call my LG rep, which in my case is just the customer service hotline. They say they'll send out a tech.

Fast forward two days. The tech comes in, pops open a service menu, shows me the error code. I now know there's a service menu with error codes. The error code is "CPU ABNORMAL". Very helpful. The tech says it happens to these TVs, and I need a motherboard replacement. OK, cool. I look up the error online and find a few Reddit threads that seem to corroborate that info.

Fast forward a day. The tech calls me and says they don't have spare parts, and need to order the part from LG HQ. They put in a request and we wait.

Fast forward three days. LG HQ calls me and says they don't have the part. I call the tech (who was kind enough to leave me his personal phone number). He says I should write a formal request for reimbursement (yay customer protection laws). I do that.

Fast forward a week. Somehow, LG HQ decides they don't want to reimburse me for the entire TV, so they dig up a spare part. It's $200, and the tech will be here next week to install it. OK, screw it, I'll pay, that's still a lot less than a new TV.

Fast forward... The techs are here, they install the part, things seem to work. Next day, TV reboots again. At this point, I'm starting to believe it's cursed. The techs drive out again, look at the TV, see the same error, call a higher level tech, I hijack the call, he basically says "we have no idea how those things actually work, if it breaks, we send it to HQ, but let's try another board replacement".

Fast forward to yesterday, when I accidentally stumble onto a new root exploit for the webOS versions these TVs run. I've got nothing to lose at this point, so let's dig. After a few attempts to root the TV, I have SSH in. itsaunixsystem.jpg. More specifically, it's a Linux 4.4.84 (oof) on a custom LG SoC (oofffff). I poke around a few things and what do I find? A kernel panic log. The traceback points to `stmmac`. I unplug Ethernet. The TV has been working fine since.

I don't really have a nice ending to this, especially since I'm not 100% confident that was the only issue yet, and I have not fully identified what exactly is causing the bug (though I found some suspicious looking patches in Linus' tree that are missing from LG's). However, probably an entire week's worth of person-hours has been wasted on a software bug that would have been trivial to identify if LG just gave the user enough information.

P.S. If someone from LG is reading this, DO BETTER. You lost SO MUCH fucking money on this. I lost SO MUCH fucking money on this. Hiding this information doesn't help you, and it sure as hell doesn't help me. I don't care about your giga proprietary AI picture improvement algorithm, just give me _something_ I can look at next time my computer (and yes it's a computer) shits itself.
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Sven Slootweg

CW-boost: "AI" 

social.coop/@graue/11389372240

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clar fon

poisoning AI by disregarding disabled people 

just posting this on its own since it probably got lost already, as a comment on a different thread:

basically every method of "poisoning" AIs by messing with content in "unnoticeable" ways for all clients, will make your content less accessible.

trying to analyse network traffic and put AI scrapers into mazes is fine and won't affect most people. adding hidden text "off screen" has a very high chance of affecting screen readers and other accessibility aids, while not affecting AI scrapers.

one key example is where people have proposed to modify subtitles in videos to add lots of garbage that is "invisible" or "off screen", similar to the age-old trick of having white text in the background of a PDF that gets picked up by résumé scanners. the solution that all of these tools have chosen is to just render the document and OCR the text, meaning that the bad actors continue as usual, but the good actors get messed up as their screen reader lists out all sorts of nonsense, and everyone suffers as the scanners fail to properly OCR text that isn't perfect Times New Roman Eleven Point Font.

for videos, people have argued that blind people can listen to the unmodified audio track, whereas deaf people can read the subtitles which are only showing what's on the screen. this excludes deaf-blind people who are forced to read the transcript with a braille reader: they will get the nonsense you put in the subtitles. or, just anyone who wants to read the transcript for any other reason.

it really is admirable for people to try and "poison" AI data, but unless you do so in a way that is tailored to the clients doing the scraping (network traffic), you are going to just fuck over people who need your accessibility data. please don't

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Cheshire (Alicja, Artemida and Mara)

transphobia 

You know what I "love"?

When people who were previously openly bigoted towards me feel a shift in attitudes and start appealing to my humanity or sense of community or empathy or good political sense without owning up to, or even acknowledging, their past wrongdoing.

Pretending to be the "bigger man" when no longer allowed to be shitty has got to be amongst the most disgusting tactics out there.

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LLMs, article link, someone's personal vent that contains slurs 

Sharing this in the hope that it can help to get the point through to some LLM fanatics: ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will

Note that it contains slurs that are ableist or antisemitic in origin, although I do not think that was the intention behind their use here.

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⛧-440729 [sophie raven]

there really needs to be a kind of nix that can run reasonably well on lower-power devices like the librem 5. plasma mobile is barely able to keep running while the nix config is being eval'd (and no, this isn't even the build yet, the eval part alone takes nearly 9 minutes and is enough to make this device struggle)

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Marvin

Ik wil graag een CW als er een foto van de oranje miscreant wordt gepost. Daar krijg ik namelijk stress van.

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made by betalars :panbug:

The first step of creating a #wheelchair model that isn't a total disgrace is to not forget about the human.

Step zero might be having friends in wheelchairs or having seen actual wheelchairs.

(if you want to know why this trot seems a bit salty, look for wheelchairs on sketchfab ...)

Feel free to give feedback if you use wheelchairs.
#3dart #blender #modeling

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jackson (China edition)

computer, linux help, :boost_requested: 

hi, I have a "server" that's occasionally completely freezing in correlation with LVM snapshots

Update: 2025-03-07 update has some more actually useful info, including the fact that lvremove on a snapshot followed by a freeze. and it somehow happened when i did a manual trigger backup

note: i have much more up to date information on my wiki. short link is w.jc6.xyz/9 because the long link is wiki.jacksonchen666.com/wiki/R :p

please check my wiki for complete information. below is kind of a summary version that's not complete.

i make LVM snapshots on backups, then remove them after it's done. it seems the last syslogs i usually get is a log that the backup is starting, then logs stop there. interestingly, a backup at the time is made and appears to be complete. after i restart the system, the next backup will be empty, then the second next backup will be normal (my script removes snapshots, and doesn't error on existing snapshot name when creating a snapshot)

i don't have logs of what my backups do, unfortunately. currently system logs are sent via network including kernel and syslogs

when it freezes, SSH is impossible and pressing keys on a keyboard does nothing (except for tty 7-8, which might use a different tty program), but the tty cursor still blinks, and system still responds to sysrq. but sysrq actions which dumps info doesn't really dump any info, and I can only reboot from there.

the system also seems to be idle when it freezes, given it's slightly colder?

running alpine linux 3.21.2, kernel 6.12.9-0-lts, lvm 2.03.29-r1 (distro package) (also all might be slightly outdated by now), feel free to ask any info I might've missed

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DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab

saying “LLMs have their uses” is like saying “Agent Orange has its uses” - technically correct. more correct than LLMs often are, even, but folks, I hate to break it to you: “technically correct” is not actually the best kind of correct except in a very very narrow set of circumstances that you’ll rarely find yourself in. “technically correct” is just another version of the Torment Nexus.

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Adrian Demleitner

I wrote a CDC Archive Archiver to pull public information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Just in case people get weird ideas of removing science from the public discourse. This is part of a larger effort that, among others, @lavaeolus initiated. You are welcome to chime in if that's up your alley.

- codeberg.org/antifascistDH/aca
- fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/1138822
- codeberg.org/thgie/antifascist

#AntifascistArchives #DigitalHumanities #ArchivalPractices

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Sven Slootweg

Nieuwsartikel dat Buienradar en co het KNMI aanklagen omdat ze een 'te goede' app hebben gemaakt. Dat vinden ze concurrentievervalsing.

Ik wist helemaal niet dat het KNMI een goede weerapp had, maar nu wel, dus nu gebruik ik die i.p.v. Buienradar. Bedankt, Buienradar!

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Sven Slootweg

Something I've been noticing lately, in a lot of different places, is that as economic conditions get worse, things start getting stolen more often.

I'm not talking about shoplifting here; I'm talking about people stealing from their own communities. I've noticed increased reports of this in a wide variety of communities, across countries.

Please be mindful of who you are stealing from, and don't let it be your community. And conversely, if you are still doing well financially, look for people in your community who are financially drowning and how you can help them.

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actionable, AI 

Massive tech companies have invested absurd amounts of money into "AI" systems, recentering their whole business around it.

It seems to me that one of the most effective ways to hurt these tech companies, would be to sabotage their play by making "AI" as socially unacceptable as possible, so that their investments turn into useless bricks that nobody wants or trusts.

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: I have a Rust question. My usual approach to developing a collection of modular (but related) libraries in JS is:

1. Start with one monolithic package, in which everything is developed initially.
2. But opportunistically minimize assumptions between parts of the package, so that internally it is already mostly modular.
3. Spend some time figuring out reasonable APIs for the remaining, more-difficult-to-modularize cases.
4. Eventually split out all the internal parts into separate libraries/packages and publish them independently, so that users can select only the parts that they need, and easily combine it with third-party libraries.

What would a good workflow for this look like in Rust, especially in terms of internal crate layout (in step 1) so that it's easy to split out into separate crates later, but also in terms of tools to use?

I do not use monorepos, each crate will have its own repository in the end. Also, contributors must be able to use standard Cargo commands to manage the different crates, so no 'wrapper scripts' or third-party tools (unless they can be made to run from within Cargo).

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CyberFrog

Wow, a single comment questioning @dansup@mastodon.social and I was immediately blocked, not even a discussion man? really?

their choice to keep calling loops "open source" while the code is closed, as well as the recent post about hiding federation features behind extra menus so all new users auto-signup to services controlled by him, is concerning for genuine reasons (although I'm sure he's already called me a troll or something)

This combined with the comments/jokes about "exploring" advertising for the loops platform is highly concerning, here you have somebody siphoning users into a single server they control, while developing an app they call open source without any code being available, who also thinks advertisements are a reasonable business model for the fediverse...

We could have just spoken about your views on this, but I suppose my ideas about FOSS and no advertising were too threatening lol

Think twice, or thrice, about actually signing up and supporting #Pixelfed or #Loops while dansup is behind them tbh

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