Stoic @engelbart@qoto.org
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You may not like it, but this is what peak web design looks like.
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Ich trink doch gar keinen Alkohol, trotzdem toote ich Quatsch.
Sorry.
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It seems like Google is going to close timeline on web in Google Maps.
Any alternatives?
Will LLM companies eventually grab activitypub sources to train their models?
I'd ask rather when.
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You know who will never mine your private communications to train an LLM?
Better yet, you know whose words you don't need to trust, because you aren't obligated to use any particular server? And the software is open source? And regularly audited by security researchers?
Matrix.
It's not perfect, but no tool is. It's a matter of what trade offs you're willing to accept. Just sayin' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#Matrix #Slack #OpenSource #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #Privacy
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The http://matrix.org homeserver has been struggling with load over the last 24h (thanks perhaps to Slack for driving users our way: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/slack-defends-default-opt-in-for-ai-training-on-chats-amid-user-outrage/) - we're working on fixing performance. Folks on other homeservers are of course unaffected. Apologies for the inconvenience. https://status.matrix.org is tracking the incident.
@adidas Facing account closure due to Russian origins, despite not living in Russia & holding different residency.
My lifetime premium is at risk in this witch hunt.
Does ethnic discrimination align with your values?
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Framework 13 has everything working in Linux.
But in fact, not all power saving features of AMD 7040 are supported in Linux yet.
The good thing, patches have been sent and I expect support soon. Here’s a details:
https://github.com/tlvince/framework-laptop-13-amd-7640u?tab=readme-ov-file
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XKCD is brilliant. You knew that, of course. Today's is brilliant and sobering.
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For the record, #fluffychat, another Matrix client, was the first application supporting UnifiedPush, 3 years ago. Thanks again for the impetus you gave to the projet :)
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I saw this online somewhere and I just had to recreate it. This is my coding happy place.
Most of the time when I make my small video blogs, I need two kind of operations
- concat two or more videos
- add some background melody (to hide some noise)
I used to use video editors for this and it wasn't fun. The same actions again and again.
Recently, I learned that it's an easy task for FFmpeg, and can be scripted.
There are two steps.
1. Make a list of paths of video file in a "source file" like this
```
file 'input1.mp4'
file 'input2.mp4'
```
then concat it with
`ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i mylist.txt -c copy output.mp4`
2. Add background music (and repeat it if necessary ). 0.05 = 5% - is its volume.
`ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -stream_loop -1 -i background.wav -filter_complex "[1:a]volume=0.05[a1]; [0:a][a1]amix=inputs=2:duration=first:dropout_transition=2" output.mp4`
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Strip Poker II/Deluxe Strip Poker (Artworx Software Company, 1988) #DOSGaming
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♲ @kennychaffin@diasp.org:
Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels.
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The bill for my knee injection of hyaluronic acid. Note that the injection itself made the clinic a perfectly reasonable $314. The drug was $4900.
I checked the cost of making the stuff. $1100 a kg. Thus, the 48mg injection was billed at over 20,000 times cost.
We are all insane to be living with this madness. Insane.
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Meme photos extended outside the original frame.
#GenerativeAI #AIArt
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#FirefoxRelay Premium is finally available in the #Czech Republic, so I subscribed to it. It's cheap (23 CZK~$1/month).
It's not just a handy way to anonymize your email, it's also a way to financially support the only independent web browser left.
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