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@feld do you have time to play with this new pkgbase-legacy mkjail? It does both. zi did some non-trivial work on it which is a big improvement over what I had for pkgbase-only.
cette année on ne sera pas dans le joli, on sera dans le pratique (en reconditionné)
@joachim tu vas te coudre une veste avec des petits nœuds paquet cadeau à la place des boutons ?
@aral ccTLDs are definitely more resilient to pressure from ICANN than gTLDs and sponsored TLDs.
They might have their own issues, obviously. As always, it depends on your threat model.
@rysiek For example #EURid governance is nice on paper https://www.eurid.eu/it/articles-association/ but it's worth little if some bureaucrat at the European Commission decides to give the registry to someone else. Speaking of, I forgot whatever happened to the cancelled 2020 selection of an EU registry https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/funding/call-selection-eu-registry-cancelled which had been announced with much fanfare. https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2020/10/13/contract-to-run-eu-domain-name-registry-is-up-for-grabs-as-brussels-tries-to-avoid-a-co-style-debacle/1533437
We are lucky that Forest are really bad.
@vruz still good enough to take 3 points at Anfield. And writing that we scored. ;-)
I might be one of the few people who preferred the 3 to the 5. The touchscreen bits of the 5 felt bolted on. The keyboard of the 5 was nicer but the battery life was terrible. The bigger screen meant that app designers didn’t need to take as much care to ensure everything was clearly presented and so didn’t.
@david_chisnall Differently-focused devices indeed!
@adamgreenfield Thank you for starting this thread. Most interesting and enjoyable. At almost 82 I've been lucky to have been privy to a lot of system changes, tool changes, and social changes. Degrees in psychology, linguistics, psycholinguistics, years of teaching in environmental and population psychology and then specialising in databases, IT training companies, and consulting.
From working on the early #ARPAnet to today's internet. From discussing "AI" (early machine learning) with one of the original researchers at Stanford in 1964 to working with Microsoft on Natural Language Query processing in SQL Server to watching the absurd claims of #TheGreatAI_Grift.
It's been a wild ride as well as frustrating - The Limits to Growth #ClubOfRome #MIT was written by classmates trying to raise the alarm about the nature of dynamic systems, particularly as they interact at environmental, social, physical, and economic levels. Their early work has been expanded many times but especially in Australia by CSIRO.
The (system) tools and computing informed much about the probable dynamics of global systems and yet many lessons have not been learned. The current #AI_Hype is an extraordinary lesson in a bizarre approach to tools.
One of the best works on tools was written by Prof Bill Merrill.
Well worth a read.
When originally written as his PhD the manuscript was stolen twice - powers in the US didn't like what he was saying. #DangerousIdeas
https://www.amazon.com.au/Wisdom-Tools-Bill-Merrill/dp/0977334813 [Not promoting Amazon]
Otherwise this there are PDF of it.
Just as the unintended consequences of the internet are ever more apparent there are many early warning signs already around the #AI_Con and the tools being bandied about.
All tool makers should print out your comment Adam and make it a morning ritual to reread it.
The World's dynamic systems keep sending us messages and humankind continues to ignore them, to trivialise them, to pretend they aren't system feedback.
#NepalGlacialMelt
#WorstElNinoInLivingMemory
#EuropeanHeatWaves
#NorthAmericanWildFires
The people of the globe need to all stop being distracted by the glitter of the tools and money and focus on actually saving the planet or at least really slowing the downward climate cycle. Heating up the planet with thousands of unnecessary #AI_DataCenters is a particular kind of madness in this epoch. #Nepal is a timely warning to the world.
Another useful perspective is provided by Prof William Rees
https://youtu.be/sZnnvH7FgBw?si=d69JGfttpefj3DCg
How tools are used by humans has always had consequences. Consider them. Consider what goals we really need, not what the short-sighted #GreedyRich tell us.
Thank you again @adamgreenfield 🙏🏽🥂🥂
To real tool wisdom 💖💖
@rkd993 Thanks, that’s very kind of you. As I so often say: the Club of Rome were mostly right.
New article: this time, we use Heidegger to explain why the "it's just a tool" line that often comes up in tech is so very silly:
https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such-thing-as-just-a-tool
@Bumblefish Yes, it made me think of an observation deck, but why three? But the local university (where I work) doesn't have a marine zoology program. Sure, it could be another university... But also, we have many natural observation deck with all the islands... 🤔
Oh, I should go check out now (at night) if they have lights or something.
@David @Bumblefish
Not sure what they are looking for, but the structure looks like a boring survey rig operated by Ehimetisitu Company (愛媛地質調査株式会社).
http://www.ehimetisitu.com/sea.html
I promised I'd focus on Pixelfed, so here's where things stand.
The new webUI is being prepped for beta on a pixelfed.social subdomain, long overdue. Any pixelfed.social user can use it during the beta. Once the bugs are found and fixed, I'll merge it so it will be available for everyone.
No ETA or deadlines, no new features. I've learned my lesson.
Next up: 
mobile apps and the redesigned project website.
Is there a single documented instance of a car alarm actually preventing a crime? Rather than causing one because your neighbours murder you for keeping them up all night because a fox breathed near your car or something?
@afewbugs Funny (or maybe not) story about car alarms. They were popularized by a guy named Darrell Issa, who went on to become the richest member of the U.S. Congress, and he passed legislation that would force car insurers to give a discount on alarmed cars.
He is widely reputed to have gotten his start *stealing* cars.
@Yaku e il disco?
@leodurruti
Devo recuperarlo. Assolutamente.
I saw a ridiculous chocolate dessert that was a billion calories and included an entire actual jar of Nutella - the jar - the glass jar - and a large syringe. Bonkers. So tried to search for it online. Couldn't find it. Searched for 'viral Nutella injected monster' and what the fucking hell is THIS?
@TheBreadmonkey Reminds me of the first time I became of movie ratings when I was a boy. This was in the local cinema for weeks and I was both disturbed and fascinated.
To #Debian community: "Responsible Use Of Generative AI" is an oxymoron. GenAI is irresponsible and pernicious. Your voting means whitewashing Big Tech ecocide, destruction of Free Software & Culture and their agenda against the marginalized communities.
PS: A huge thank you for those Debian members that proposed and voted NoAI options.
Now, there are alternatives:
https://codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index
https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html
https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware
#NoAI #LLM #slop #GenAI
VM is up and running, now to write the actions/bsd thing.
Ideally, I'll want to do something like...
jobs:
netbsd:
runs-on: nixos-latest
steps:
- name: checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v6
- name: build
uses: actions/bsd
with:
host: andreaeaceae
run: cargo build
This would:
bin/shI'll have to update my VM to share forgejo-runner's workdir, and fix up UIDs and stuff.
Also, forgejo runner will need to have access to the SSH privkey.
Over 150 wildfires are burning in Algeria 🇩🇿, but the country has received little international news coverage or aid compared to European countries on the other side of the Mediterranean.
@dallo
J'aurais dit rock en seine mais c'est de l'autre côté, vers l'ouest je crois.
Autistici/Inventati's domains have now been revoked. I updated the link in the above post with a wayback machine copy.
Every now and then someone tells me, "We have a decentralized naming system, it's called DNS!" and I say, no we don't, DNS is extremely centralized? And if that wasn't clear to you before, hopefully it's clear to you today.
@cwebber one day gnunet's gns will solve this...
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