Quina aplicació esteu fent servir pel fedivers usuaris de #jollla #sailfishOS ?
Crec que necessito algunes recomanacions...
@corconegre Tuts per Android 😀
David Clubb
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Track made with the #postmarketOS #OP6T and #osmin, me taking the bike to the local shop. Nice and accurate, even visible inside. And I can see that I am on both sides of the road - right? ;)
The mountain peak appears to be inside the shop, so probably a gps issue due to that ;)
The somwhat silly blurring is made with the #plasmaMobile #photos app on the phone.
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Saw this photo on LinkedIn.
It's quite a clever idea! Rather than having to press potentially dirty buttons in a toilet to record your feedback, you can use a gesture instead. Nifty!
Except… Here's how they describe it on their website.
> No specialist hardware. No complex setup. Just plug in a camera-enabled device and you're live.
Oh. Good. A 24/7 video stream live from the loos. What could possibly go wrong with that?
@Edent
I am extremely dissatisfied that the new method doesn't accept a middle finger as an opt-out \s
jonny (nonvenomous)
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Rome wasn't overthrown in a day. Oligarchies are stubborn, and by the time they've established and entrenched themselves, they have resources, power blocs and even mercenaries they can deploy to repel would-be dethroners.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/05/divorce-court/#irreconcilable-conflicts-of-interest
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@adamgreenfield gotta ask, do you have a complicated relationship with Hakim Bey too?
@rooftopjaxx I’ve written many times about Wilson. It’s less complicated: knowing what I do, I can’t cite him, and dislike it when I see others blithely doing so.
"The most exciting and groundbreaking culture is created by marginalized people, who get ignored and starved of resources until someone from the dominant culture copies what they were doing and gains instant acclaim. In other words? Theft is the soul of monoculture."
https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/this-hot-new-buzzword-is-toxic-and-bad-for-culture/
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@charliejane From the last decade or so, I remember a few titles that were widely talked about. One thing they have in common is that the moment they ended, the talk stopped. Nobody even mentions Peaky Blinders or Fleabag any more. Game of Thrones is occasionally brought up as a bad example. Apparently (I didn't watch them), there was nothing memorable about any of them.
I want shows that are worth watching on their own (lasting) merit, not just because everybody else is watching them.
Die AfD hat es schon lange vor der Machtübernahme geschafft, dass man in Deutschland nichts mehr sagen darf.
Glücksgefühle-Festival: Alphaville wegen Sorge vor politischer Äußerung ausgeladen - DER SPIEGEL
https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gluecksgefuehle-festival-alphaville-wegen-sorge-vor-politischer-aeusserung-ausgeladen-a-df336a3c-a2cd-4181-8fb9-175474da6837
Maybe I should make it a separate library, because, well... I'm pretty sure this would be useful outside of iocaine too. Maybe I should join the "I implemented half of the nft stuff" crowd, but covering the half I need.
In that case, though, I need a good name for the library. Sadly, grift is already taken.
Jonathan Schofield
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Almost right still is wrong ;)
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Almost right still is wrong ;)
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@jwildeboer thanks for sharing this. A fun way to be wrong :)
Konrad Hinsen
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good paper on #zigZag zzstructure comparing it to other kinds of graph: https://profs.etsmtl.ca/mmcguffin/research/zigzag-and-mSpace/zigzag-and-mSpace.pdf
jonny (nonvenomous)
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The numbers tell the story. Before Googbook captured 80% of the display advertising business, the *total* share of the advertising industry's revenues that went to "intermediaries" (middlemen like ad agencies, ad buyers, etc) was about 15%. Today, that number is *51%*. *Hundreds of billions of dollars* have been moved out of publishers' and advertisers' bank accounts and onto Google and Facebook's balance sheets.
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In my search for weird military aviation books, I came across a recent title that has turned out to be very very interesting: "Q-Birds – American Manned Aircraft As Drones" https://crecy.co.uk/product/q-birds
The book title is inaccurate in one respect unless the QF-86 pilot named Rosemary was a man. It's a thorough exploration of the use of converted human-piloted aircraft as remotely-piloted drones. The book came out in 2024 and covers the span of about 100 years from 1920 to 2020 or so.
My interest is mainly in the sampling drones flown through mushroom clouds during atomic bomb tests. I got that and a lot more. There are a number of photos of QB-17s painted in yellow and black stripes with sampling equipment uncomfortably grafted onto the airframes. There are a few pictures of the planes being decontaminated and moved around by ground crew. I'm not sure I trust the captions that note the workers climbing on the plane implied it was minimally contaminated. If Defense Nuclear Agency reports of Crossroads shots in 1946 are to be believed, it was hard to convince some of the sailors on the support fleet that something invisible with no obvious physical effects could be hazardous. Granted, this was 1946 and there were still a bunch of shoe-fitting x-ray machines out in the wild in the US so who knows.
Aside: Three shots were planned for the Crossroads tests - an airburst, a surface shot, and an underwater shot - but only the first two were conducted. They had called off the third (underwater) shot because the second (surface) shot had pulverized, activated, and lofted so much coral that the support fleet had to be withdrawn. The seawater intake lines for desalination systems on the ships were lit up like a Christmas tree from all the radioactive coral particles they sucked in and the ships needed to get to port for more thorough cleanup. The Navy quickly discovered that just hosing everything down and giving it a good scrub was a lot harder in practice than they originally expected.
Anyway, besides the sampling drones the military used surplus aircraft for missile development and target practice. They spent more effort than I imagined keeping the target drones airworthy.
There were a few incidents where drone controllers lost communication with a drone with "The Battle of Palmdale" being the most famous, stupid, and destructive example. It was one thing chasing down a slow-moving piston-engine drone like the F6F, it was quite another when they started converting more modern jet fighters into drones (F-102 & F-106 Delta Dagger/Dart, F-4 Phantom II, etc.) If the plane was under 1500 ft there was a plan to have the plane just fly straight down into the ground before it could leave the test area. They installed self-destruct charges to blow up the drone if it was at higher altitudes. This posed a safety problem - how do you keep the plane from accidentally exploding on the ground? The self-destruct charge was disarmed if there was any weight on the landing gear. My understanding is this same practice is used to keep people from accidentally retracting the landing gear on airliners while they are on the ground. This has happened at least once. Designing automated safety systems and interlocks is tricky business.
Anyway, I'm well pleased with the book; it's much more detailed and interesting than I imagined when I ordered it.
@arclight QF86 you say, as in Hong Kong to Melbourne on Qantas? Not exactly American either…
AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/ai-handles-incidents-engineers-lose-touch-with-their-systems
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574167
#HackerNews #AI #incidents #engineering #automation #technology
hypebot
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Knold enjoys* the weather outside before fall really sets in.
* In small doses
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #SiberianCats #Knold
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What tool, device, or software that you used a lot, but then disappeared from your life (or from the world), do you miss the most? 
I feel that with the slopocalypse, things I depend on have already started to flicker out of existence :-(
jbz
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The pretty amazing feat that comes with GNOME 49 in #Guix is the gnome-session replacement implemented as a layer above the 🐑 Shepherd:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/noe/gnome-session-shepherd
Kudos to @baleine for pulling it off!
It successfully disentangles this part of GNOME from systemd, and it’s a creative use of the Shepherd!
session.add would take an impl Into<Message>, and the helper types would have an impl for that.
The tricky part are the rules, though... not quite sure how I'd do that in a generic way. Then again... I don't need to. This is going to be an iocaine-specific library, not a general purpose one, so I can cheat, and make things highly iocaine specific.
Like maybe:
session.add(Rule::filter().ip()
.saddr("@blocks_v4")
.action(nft::RuleAction::Drop));
session.add(Rule::filter().ct()
.established(nft::RuleAction::Accept)
.related(nft::RuleAction::Accept)
.invalid(nft::RuleAction::Drop));
Eh, that's not too bad. But I do need to look up the naming nft uses, so I name things similarly.
Maybe I should make it a separate library, because, well... I'm pretty sure this would be useful outside of iocaine too. Maybe I should join the "I implemented half of the nft stuff" crowd, but covering the half I need.
Charlie Stross
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