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Reid
the villains of Alien were AI (called MOTHER), capitalism, and an evil tech company (they all work for Weyland-Yutani)
this is the joke you see
CC: @SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
@ramsey Plus to toot my own horn, our communities issues are a huge part of why my @cobbles blog exists.
Technology isn't neutral. Yet there's a sizable proportion of folks (mostly extremely privileged men ) who want to deny this.
Yet it's the rest of us who feel responsibility for the harms caused to us.
Frankly we shouldn't have to. We didn't want this burden, folks have been warning about the issues with the community for years.
We're looking at a sunk cost fallacy with FOSS.
on est vraiment obligé de parler de teddy riner en fait ?
How to shop like a pro during Black Friday and Cyber Monday https://www.theverge.com/21587765/black-friday-cyber-monday-best-deals-how-to-find
Fighting to Expand the Margins of Journalism in Egypt
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/mada-masr-egypt-lina-attalah-journalism
As Egyptian authorities move to shutter Mada Masr—one of the country’s last remaining independent media outlets—co-founder and editor-in-chief Lina Attalah writes about the struggle to continue.
@CyReVolt you might want to see Alex Ellis k3tsup. It does exactly a fast boot (in 1 minute)
@madduci looks interesting, though not what I'm after.
It's for provisioning, and it requires SSH to begin with.
What I want is:
Boot from power-off right into k8s.
Must not take more than 10 seconds.
No OEM bloat in firmware, built for purpose.
'Do not eat' warning issued for soup sold at Tesco, Sainsbury's and Waitrose
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/baxters-cullen-skink-soup-recall-tesco-b3081709.html
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) issued an alert on Friday on behalf of Baxters who have recalled their Chef Selections Cullen Skink soup, a smoked haddock chowder, due to a manufacturing fault which may cause the product to spoil and cans to “swell and potentially rupture”.
The Scottish soup company said the issue may affect 400g cans with batch code L07XC and an April 2029 best before date.
Today in Labor History November 9, 1918: Striking workers stormed the City Palace and the Rote Burg or "red fortress" in Berlin, freeing over 600 prisoners and declaring the buildings to be property of the people. Later that day, Karl Liebknecht, of the Spartacus League, stood on a truck and declared a Free Socialist Republic. This came on the heels of a General Strike, called the night before by the Revolutionary Stewards (union members who had opposed Germany’s participation in World War One), in which thousands of workers took to the streets, many of them armed. The soldiers and police who had been sent to suppress them, instead threw down their weapons and joined the revolution.
The revolution had begun in October, 1918 with the sailors’ mutiny in Kiel. Within a week, workers' and soldiers' councils controlled both the government and military institutions throughout the country. A Republic was declared on November 9, 1918. On November 10, workers formed the Council of the People’s Deputies, led by the two main socialist parties: the Social Democrats and the Independent Social Democrats. The Council promised to implement an eight-hour work day and to give women the vote. The left-wing factions of the revolution, like the Spartacists, also wanted to nationalize key industries, democratize the military, and replace the parliamentary government with one run by Workers’ Councils.
On January 1, 1919, Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg founded the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Discontent over the direction the Social Democrats were going led many other leftist groups to join the KPD. In early January, they attempted to overthrow the Social Democrats in the Spartacist Uprising. The Social Democrats called on the Freikorps, a paramilitary composed of World War One veterans, many of whom were suffering from PTSD, who ultimately quashed the uprising. 200 people died in the fighting. The Freikorps then murdered Luxemburg and Liebknecht in an extrajudicial execution. Members of the Freikorps later supported the Nazis rise to power. Many of them went on to join the SS.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #rosaluxemburg #karlliebknecht #spartacus #socialism #communism #workerscouncils #revolution #nazis #fascism
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Fähigkeitslücke-Bullshit: Sogar Reul versteht offenbar, dass #Palantir nicht mehr als vertrauenswürdiger Partner gelten kann, aber der Vertrag ist noch einmal verlängert worden https://www1.wdr.de/politik/politik-in-nrw/palantir-software-100.html
@CCC Sorry, aber ich sehr da nur noch einen inkompetenten Haufen, der völlig neben der Spur läuft.
Are you still trying to avoid getting covid? Either by masking in public, even if only sometimes, or by avoiding certain high risk activities that involve public indoor spaces?
sports arcade action
You might want to think about getting yourself on the list for my next #zine which is going to be *interesting*.
Reportage about cloud outages in the style of "wonder pamphlets" from the 1600s, anyone?
Speech recognition isn't an afterthought, it's a core testing need. Whitney Lewis shows how macOS Voice Control uncovers issues like visual names that don't match code. If voice users can't say what they see to activate a control, is it accessible? Try speech testing in your next audit.
https://blog.pope.tech/2026/08/31/speech-recognition-basics-setup-and-a-quick-table-demo/
#Accessibility #A11y #WCAG #InclusiveDesign #VoiceControl #AssistiveTechnology
on repeat on my 49th birthday. 🎂
This song tends to calm my soul and relive past moments of life.
feeling grateful ☺️
#today
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/porcelain/815095243?i=815095273
divine invasion, pkd
Reid
the villains of Alien were AI (called MOTHER), capitalism, and an evil tech company (they all work for Weyland-Yutani)
this is the joke you see
CC: @SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
@artificialmind ah. i have 64GB + RTX 3060 12GB and i run a IQ3 quantized Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (the preview of Qwen 4, coming soon) through Niko1221/Strata. i get 30 tps down, 500 tps up. this model is good enough to implement entire compilers.
qwen 3.6 runs on the 32GB UMA laptop with an 860M iGPU. with gemma 4 the only other competent enough model that runs at endurable speeds
@lritter @artificialmind Strata is so weird. I have 128GB RAM so that’s pretty beefy, but only 8GB VRAM and I can run QFN at 40 TPS with 200k context and still use my computer at the same time with noticeable but not horrible slowdown. I don’t think I’ve run any other model (apart from really small really bad ones) that fast and QFN is the best one I’ve tried.
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Fediverse
can we shout out to the fediverse developers, for making the fediverse possible
shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site
shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter
shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist
shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time
ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done
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