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jwz wrote:

Fuckin' perl...

$caption = HTML::Entities::decode_entities ($caption);

+ # If this is still a Latin1 string, upgrade it to wide chars.
+ if (! utf8::is_utf8($caption)) {
+ utf8::encode ($caption);
+ utf8::decode ($caption);
+ }

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

We should, in fact, improve society somewhat.

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

tamarasellman@social.seattle.wa.us ("TamaraPNW") wrote:

Yes: Merrick Garland sucks. Yes, the report needs outing for posterity’s sake.

Re-staining 45 in his own filth after his fake baptism in a rigged election is Snickers-satisfying.

Lady MacBeth knows all about this.

https://mockpaperscissors.com/2025/01/10/the-record-the-record-the-record/

jwz wrote:

Since the strings "unicode" and "UTF" do not appear anywhere in the Mastodon documentation, can someone explain to me how to make this not throw error 400?

wget -dqO- https://mastodon.social/api/v1/statuses --header 'Authorization: Bearer XXXXX' --post-data='status=Hello+I+am+an+%E6lig.'

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

reverseics@infosec.exchange ("K. Reid Wightman :verified: 🌻") wrote:

When the company says that quantum computing won't be generally useful until after my expected retirement age:

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• RDJ relieved. (remote)

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge update, wherein we engage in some barchaeology
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/01/10.html?utm_source=sp_ma

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• Screenshot

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Periodic reminder: I don’t do any affiliate marketing or paid recommendations. Whatever I share is because I wanted to share 🫡.

Maybe that changes one day; I don’t want to say never. But if it does, I’ll be loud about it.

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jwz wrote:

@gleick If you're still asking "how is this legal?" you're still fighting the previous war.

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• 9fe095a1b29a6fcf.mp4

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SutroTower@sfba.social ("Sutro Tower :sutro: 🎄") wrote:

Not today thank you very much

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• 3f8e2518fa7fe796.jpeg (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Two thumbs up! This is a really good overview of evangelical Christianity's weird commitment to young earth creationism.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/10/man-tracks/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UDXdqqJQPE

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jerry@infosec.exchange ("ChatJERRYPT") wrote:

This person gets it. #PushToProdFriday

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• 5c3720f52d64f209.mp4 (remote)

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

If you're snowbound, it's a good time to catch up on some books. https://brianmcfadden.org/2025/01/03/winter-reading-pile/

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• (panel 1 - Title on a book pile in snow.) Winter Reading Pile (panel 2 - A puzzle book.) MEANS TESTS Mandatory puzzles to play when you need something urgently. (panel 3 - A medical book.) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders "Now including Billionaire Derangement Syndrome!" (panel 4 - A romance novel.) Passive Voice Passion Including These Tawdry Tales: Sex Happened in the Vicinity of a Cottage, An Orgasm Occurred and Genitals-Involved Incident (panel 5 - A dragon at a school desk.) Young Adult Fantasy The Dragon School Where Active Shooter Drills are not necessary (panel 6 - Project 2026) Project 2026 50% More cruelty, fascism, AND stupidity than the previous edition!

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:

picard: we have come to make peaceful contact, but our universal translator can only partially understand your language

alien captain: mcmahon observes with interest

alien number one, skeptical: squidward looking on, looking down

alien captain, insisting: squidward looking on, missing out

picard, vaguely aware of 21c memetics: surprised pikachu?

alien crew, in unison: LEO DICAPRIO POINTING

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

a critical thing to realize is that your employer is pulling the mask off another mask it was also always wearing - there was never anything sincere about its earlier cooptation of your queer identity, and the only morally positive payment for your years of complicity is to damage that machine's capacities for harm as much as possible before it discards you.

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• screenshot of a now-deleted page from military surveillance company Palantir's website: "For Palantirians, by Palantirians Over the years, Palantirians have organized many community and interest groups that receive support and resources from the company. Active groups include Women in Technology, Veterans at Palantir, Palantir Parents, and Palan-Queer (our group for the LGBT-identified and allies). below the text are a few photos of employees: a group of women, people marching in a pride parade, and a group of veterans.

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EdyBolos@androiddev.social ("Eduard-Cristian Boloș") wrote:

"One of our deepest, most fundamental problems as a craft is that we have enshrined «velocity» above all else, willfully blinding ourselves to the long-term consequences of gimcrack software."
Great quote by @bcantrill , from https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2018/09/18/falling-in-love-with-rust/.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

When Donna Summer sang "Someone left my cake out in the rain" I felt that.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:

#book #cover #satire #spoof #mars #SciFi #ScienceFiction #fake #funny #humor #fun #LOL

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• Retro sci-fi book cover, showing a man trying to grow something on Mars. The fake title reads "This was a shit idea", and the subtitle "Look at all this dry shit ─ I'm gonna die here." (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

iFixit wrote:

"If you couldn’t replace the tires in your car, you wouldn’t buy a car.

But overwhelmingly, lithium batteries have become glued in, and that’s just not viable.

Right now, the lifespan of a thing is the life of the shortest-lived component: the battery."
- @kwiens

Full article: https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/in-depth/damage-control-how-repairability-could-help-address-the-e-waste-crisis
—
#iFixit #ewaste #repair #RightToRepair

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• AirPods charging case that is completely mangled in order to expose the battery. One hand is holding the mangled case while the other is holding the battery (which is still connected) directly above it. The battery has visible glue residue on it.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The Warmonger Problem (YouTube)

A sharp analysis of the movie Gladiator II, Black radicals portrayed in cinema, and the “bad guys have a point” phenomenon. https://youtu.be/1Qp1a4bPoQY?si=NOzNY9DLe_wRtNmj

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

ammaratef45@social.coop ("Ammar (they/them)") wrote:

#coopcloud had a nice 2024 year, check out the new year update post https://coopcloud.tech/blog/new-year-status-update-25/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

baking pies & cooking stews: my Winter Blues Rx

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• cherry pie, fresh from the oven and cooling on a countertop rack (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I have to convince a bunch of biology students that everything is better with lots of math slathered on it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/10/once-more-unto-the-breach/

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• Comic arguing that it isn't mathematics, it's "talking precisely about precise things" (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

gvy_dvpont ("Guy Dupont") wrote:

designed some business cards that only show my info when you're in the sun.

DO NOT contact me unless you are OUT OF OFFICE 😎

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• Two business cards, one front-up, one back-up. The front side says "to reduce the risk of accidentally doing business this card only works when you are outside". The back looks blank (though you can see some very faint ink if you look close)
• The back of the business card in the sun. The transparent ink has turned purple. It shows my name and a QR code pointing to my website.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

bedast@beige.party wrote:

The enshittification of AI has lead to the choice of AI used by VLC to be groaned at. I even saw a post cross my feed of someone looking for a replacement for VLC.

VLC is working on on-device realtime captioning. This has nothing to do with generating images or video using AI. This has nothing to do with LLMs.

This is not generative AI.

While it would be preferred to use human generated captions for better accuracy, this is not always possible. This means a lot of video media is inaccessible to those with hearing impairment.

What VLC is doing is something that will contribute to accessibility in a big way.

AI transcription is still not perfect. It has its problems. But this is one of those things that we should be hoping to advance.

I'm not looking to replace humans in creating captions. I think we're very far from ever being able to do this correctly without humans. But as I said, there's a ton of video content that simply do not have captions available, human generated or not.

So long as they're not trying to manipulate the transcription using GenAI means, this is the wrong one to demonize.

#AI #Transcription #VLC #HearingImpaired #Deaf #Accessibility

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/5c1cdf4a0c60a_PeEk3nD__700.jpg

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

at least there is that

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• a361193760be9dcb.jpeg (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

jessie ("Jess Rose") wrote:

The British Heart Foundation is hiring for London or remote UK for a head of product (£75k) and technical support as a service coordinator (£31k)

https://jobs.bhf.org.uk/vacancies/vacancy-search-results.aspx

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

ksylor@front-end.social ("Katie Sylor-Miller") wrote:

As promised, here’s part two of my two-part list of my favorite, most shared, mind blowing articles, talks, and books about software engineering! https://sylormiller.com/posts/2025/my-fave-articles-part-2/ I can’t believe I actually managed to write two blog posts in a week lol!

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

dyno-mite piece +100

https://sylormiller.com/posts/2025/my-fave-articles-part-2/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

thebeavertonbot@toot.community ("Beaverton Bot") wrote:

Trump threatens to tariff California wildfires unless they immediately extinguish themselves https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/01/trump-threatens-to-tariff-california-wildfires-unless-they-immediately-extinguish-themselves/