Tech is political.
You encode your values, your attitude and your bias into the code.
The tech you create can give you legitimacy. It can give you influence. Get rich enough (or start out rich enough) you get doors opened to you.
It's all power.
We can see what some people in tech do with that power.
We can however choose to not contribute to that enablement.
You're in FOSS you've made some sacrifices.
What's a little more?
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Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might pr…Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
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New make !
Laser engraved slate coasters with famous CPU markings...
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@f4grx I will make some burning this week. I can "take orders" if some of you wants. Lets say I can book a total of 10 blank slate coasters for mastodon people.
I need a picture B&W (or vectorized) for ~9x9cm (the tile is 10x10cm but the hammered edges prevents nice result)
I propose 4€ each (without postage cost, to be added depending where you live).
First come, first served.
Coding is being positioned as place where generative AI is going to have a huge impact.
But a new study of 800 developers found GitHub Copilot did little to improve productivity, while introducing 41% more bugs into the code.
https://www.cio.com/article/3540579/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai-coding-assistants.html
Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants
Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.Grant Gross (CIO)
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Alan Turing didn't have our modern boolean circuit notations, so he described circuits by the minimum number of high input lines required to trigger an output. You can almost see it as a neural net rather than logical gates, except when the ≢ sign appears for XOR. The lines with zeroes written over the node outlines are inhibitors.
The semicircles are delays measured in bits, which (as this was a serial machine) can achieve all sorts of shifting and rotation operations. The rectangles are delay lines (mercury tanks designed by Tommy Flowers at the Post Office research centre in Dollis Hill), and the number inside indicates the number of bits cycling around (although in some pages it's the number of 32-bit words, confusingly). Smaller delay lines could buffer a word for combination in a future operation.
The image here is a page from The Logical Design of the Pilot Model ACE, by J.H. Wilkinson,Sept 1951. https://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/archive/l/l22/l22.php #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #Turing #PilotACE
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@grs cause this was the speed it actually ran at back at the day.
(also, until very recently, there was legal limits on how fast I could transmit data over amateur radio in the US)
Hamnet news:
New 35 mile link and repeater brought up on the regional network thanks to involved parties.
I'm implementing dark mode on our dashboard so our users with browsers in their car can display the call log without being hindered by light in the night. A few nuts and bolts need to be adjusted with the map, but we're almost there.
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Working on a way to subdivide blog post content into a format that should comfortably translate into ActivityPub Notes.
Changing my content to run on an intermediary language last summer has allowed for so much flexibility in post-processing.
@Foxarc in the PQC discussion, it is about switching key agreement and key signing (a lower priority) away from weaker cryptographic technologies (which today are computationally-hard, but in a post quantum world are no longer considered computationally-hard) in less than 10-20 years.
If you can call a software transition over 10 years agile..
It is also about making things easier to switch, should the newer tech introduced suddenly have weaknesses that were previously unknown, such as SIDH.
While at a high level it sounds like "great, I can just swap parts" as better ones come, the truth is that these PQC technologies have different protocol level requirements, storage and communication sizes, as well as computational overhead far different than what we have today, and change is fundamentally difficult to have backwards compatibility for.
See, they wanted to call the DirectX -> Vulkan layer "IndirectX" but found out the term was already used for something else!
Specifically, for Indirect X Rendering over the GLX/Xorg pipeline using the LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 Mesa flag to use the older indirect OpenGL renderer for remote X connections
"We have IndirectX at home" :p
https://youtu.be/1wYe-iQ8JHQ?si=PuRxM_wNOnv0snGy
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ME: Hello computer! Please show me what I was doing recently
COMPUTER IN THE 1980's: l cease to exist when I am powered off. Please start whatever you were doing from scratch
COMPUTER IN THE 2000's: Yep here you go champ
COMPUTER IN THE 2020's: I stored 10,000 identical copies of what you were doing in 500 different global datacentres at a carbon footprint equivalent to leaving a semi-trailer idling 24/7 and also sent a copy to the FBI just to be safe. Let me know which one you want and I'll do my best to figure it out. By the way here are 10 things which are similar to what you were doing and 9 of them are ads. Do you like this? Please select "I love this very much" or "I'll be in love with this later" to continue
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Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with your environments safety features and procedures.
- safety exit
- fire extinguisher, hose, alarm
- aed
- first aid kit
- intercom / communication devices
- isolators and emergency stops
- safety wardens
- union rep
Hiltzik: Lynn Conway made life better for millions of people
Lynn Conway, who died Sunday at 85, was a leader in the development of personal computers and microprocessor technology, and a symbol for generations of transgender individuals.Michael Hiltzik (Los Angeles Times)
WE DID IT. My new zine “How Git Works" is out now!
You can get it here for $12: https://wizardzines.com/zines/git
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Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before. Here’s how.
ZTDNS brings the best of both worlds to DNS: encryption and fine-grained control.Ars Technica
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> "By default, the firewall will deny resolutions to all domains except those enumerated in allow lists. A separate allow list will contain IP address subnets that clients need to run authorized software."
Is Microsoft trying to take the Internet back to Fidonet or straight back to CompuServe? 🙃
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HRT Source Testing — Trans Harm Reduction
Trans harm reduction has recently begun testing HRT sources which are commonly used by trans people who are self-medicating. This involves testing a vial of HRT for concentration (strength) and testing for contamination (impurities).Trans Harm Reduction
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Link to free knitting pattern
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sword-of-damocles
Sword of Damocles pattern by Grace Lindley
Do you fancy a wall hanging that symbolises the weight of responsibility on you as a ruler and the enemies waiting in the wings to skewer you where you sit? Make this fancy tapestry and remember your own mortality!!Ravelry
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Understanding Apple’s Response to the DMA
What a week. When it began to look like Apple would announce how it planned to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), I expected small changes at the margins that wouldn’t significantly move the needle in the EU or anywhere else.John Voorhees (MacStories)
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Finally, I give an overview of the state of open-source OSNMA implementations. All other implementations I've found are in Python (not suitable for embedded microcontrollers) and under a copyleft license (or no license). So my galileo-osnma implementation in Rust with MIT + Apache license still occupies a singular position.
Read more: https://destevez.net/2024/01/an-update-about-my-rust-implementation-of-galileo-osnma/
https://www.duchess-france.fr/dossier/women%20in%20tech/alli%C3%A9s/2023/01/15/manuel-survie-femme-tech.html
Il est toujours d'actualité, comme il l'était déjà il y a dix ans. Nous avons tous et toutes une part à jouer dedans.
Manuel de survie de la femme dans la tech
Je vois de plus en plus de femmes rejoindre l’informatique, et c’est une très bonne chose. Je vois aussi trop de femmes patir de sexisme ordinaire, se remettre en question encore et encore… et quitter le milieu au bout de quelques années.Duchess France
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Forbearance
in reply to Rachael Ludwick • • •F4GRX Sébastien
in reply to Forbearance • • •but it's a frame along the text, not a popup.
Edited after (surprising for me) confirmation
Abe the Honest
in reply to F4GRX Sébastien • • •F4GRX Sébastien
in reply to Abe the Honest • • •ah, I dont see it. Thats ublock. Surprised. But the guy is not abusive, usually. After this article he should be called out on that popup, btw.
I have edited my previous message, sorry for that.
Abe the Honest
in reply to F4GRX Sébastien • • •Scott VE3QBZ
in reply to F4GRX Sébastien • • •F4GRX Sébastien
in reply to Scott VE3QBZ • • •Scott VE3QBZ
in reply to F4GRX Sébastien • • •https://www.ezpr.com/
Go look at his clients.."unicorn machine led mobile news", "the world's first robot lawyer", "algorithmic interest rate protocol" , "NoHold - AI Virtual Assistance", various FinTech crap, etc.
Dude's entire job is to make the enshitifiers palatable to the masses.
EZPR - Media Relations that actually works
www.ezpr.comF4GRX Sébastien
in reply to Scott VE3QBZ • • •F4GRX Sébastien
in reply to F4GRX Sébastien • • •the vessel of morganna
in reply to F4GRX Sébastien • • •Jess👾
in reply to Rachael Ludwick • • •Oof
> The tools we use in our daily lives outside of our devices have mostly stayed the same. While buttons on our cars might have moved around — and I’m not even getting into Tesla’s designs right now — we generally have a brake, an accelerator, a wheel, and a turn signal. Boarding an airplane has worked mostly the same way since I started flying, other than moving from physical tickets to digital ones. We’re not expected to work out “the new way to use a toilet” every few months because somebody decided we were finishing too quickly.
Makes me think - sending someone a letter in the mail hasn't changed basically at all since 1963 with the addition of the Zip code. And even if you leave that off, USPS generally gets the mail to the place anyways.
Like there's probably nobody alive who hasn't had the "send a letter" workflow for their entire lifetime of:
Buy a stamp
Put a stamp on the top right of the envelope
Write a person's name, street number, street name, city, and state
Put letter in mail
Jess👾
in reply to Jess👾 • • •Juliet Merida, Dum Tran Elf 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Jess👾 • • •Bizarrely, my area growing up had "local long distance" to neighboring cities that used 1 + 7 digits. How/why? I have no idea.
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @r343l@freeradical.zone
Robert [KJ5ELX] :donor:
in reply to Juliet Merida, Dum Tran Elf 🏳️⚧️ • • •Juliet Merida, Dum Tran Elf 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Robert [KJ5ELX] :donor: • • •Yes! They weren't considered local calls so they were billed per minute. And since they weren't technically "long distance" we couldn't choose a different long distance provider for them. Pretty sure it was just a racket.
@0xF21D@infosec.exchange @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @r343l@freeradical.zone
Robert [KJ5ELX] :donor:
in reply to Juliet Merida, Dum Tran Elf 🏳️⚧️ • • •Juliet Merida, Dum Tran Elf 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Robert [KJ5ELX] :donor: • • •This became a big deal once dial-up internet came to town and we didn't have a local number- only local long distance.
@0xF21D@infosec.exchange
Jess👾
in reply to Juliet Merida, Dum Tran Elf 🏳️⚧️ • • •Weird - by 2002 when I moved from an area where one area code covered a significant portion of our side of the state to a metropolis that had 3 different areas codes in the same city, it was still "local" to any of those 3, but only if you didn't dial 1. Telephone switching has always been a little weird I guess.
@julie @0xF21D
Juliet Merida, Dum Tran Elf 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Jess👾 • • •By that time we were able to stop using the 1, but it was still "local long distance" for a few years after that, at least. I have no idea when the area started requiring 10 digit dialing because I had stopped using a land line by early 2007.
I can't talk about phone switching without sharing the "Speedy Cutover Service" video from the 80s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saRir95iIWk
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Speedy Cutover Service, SXS switching cutover to ESS filmed live at Glendale CA central office, 1984
YouTubeF4GRX Sébastien
in reply to Juliet Merida, Dum Tran Elf 🏳️⚧️ • • •