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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz ("Future Sprog") wrote:

Having in camera recognition is absolutely mad and for Yet Another reason it’s a bad idea, have a look at well known criminal* and recidivist Paul Rudd in this clip on how to break so many laws:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=71V-jQVbsh8

* not a criminal

@sarahjamielewis

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Me: “ooh, this looks like an interesting site. Better add it to my feed reader.”

The feed reader: “Error: the feed couldn’t be found”

“Too bad. I wish you well in all your future endeavours. Maybe one day, years from now, our paths may cross again and we can reminisce about what might have been.”

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

one of the new Apple Intelligence™ features:

"Hey Slurry, change my banking password..."

"✨ Here's what I found on the web for ******"

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i can only apologise for my pronunciations of those [names], that's not friendly to a dyslexic mind

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ruari@velocipederider.com ("Velocipede Rider") wrote:

So why did I tell you this? Well obviously the humble brag 😜 but also so that you are not disheartened if it takes you a while. It actually does not matter how long you take and in the grand scheme of things it will not be a long time, nor matter once you have mastered it.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
monkeyninja@10base2.dev ("𝙽𝚘𝚊𝚑 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚍") wrote:

When we were looking for an upgrade to our TV, I specifically wanted a “dumb display.” No internet connection, no built in streaming services, just a display that would connect to a computer and show me the stuff my browser was playing from my Jellyfin server. If you want that kind of device, it seems that “Digital Signage” or “Commercial Display” is the category under which you are wanting to look.

They do often have network ports as they’re designed to be centrally managed (think hotel TV) but there’s zero requirement to give it a connection and it works beautifully without one.

Anyway there you go, hope that helps someone.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

one nice thing about getting a little deeper into software dev discourse is realizing that everyone disagrees with everyone else about everything. the important thing is to find a way to do things that you like and that works and then be consistent (and also, change the way you do things if you learn of a better way)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
roxy@chitter.xyz ("Jess 🌺:itsfree: :eggbug: :therian:&") wrote:

:redpanda: 13 years ago we were screwing around with a friend pitch shifting songs up and down and realized that pitch shifting sonic r made it sound like rick astley. nowadays people think that this funny thing we did in audacity in 2 seconds is AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fYFXFFaBIA&list=PLYHzImzPABh8mInyZ-q3xBiIMWd9PzAi1&index=1

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space ("Thankful Machine") wrote:

Let kids be places. Let kids see shit. Stop making their world smaller.

You can’t raise a kid in Vault 101 and expect them to be prepared for the world and not have a social media problem. Be an available, open-minded parent. Fucking be there when things go sideways. It will. Want to “protect kids”? Make the actual, real wasteland of a world kinder and more forgiving. Quit worrying about fucking apps you god-damned psychos

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

pro-consumer laws prevent EU users being victims of Apple Slurry AI, big win for user rights too!

quite sad how many are lapping up Apple's slopaganda:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-delayed-in-eu-for-ios-27-and-ipados-27/

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
designatednerd ("Ellen Shapiro") wrote:

"Parents are in the best position to decide what's best for their family"

*queers whose parents didn't accept their queerness have entered the chat* #WWDC

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@kornel I also really hate fan noise. Recently I keep having to turn down graphics settings so my GPU doesn't blast like a jet engine while playing games. I wish games, graphics drivers, or some other tool would allow me to automate that process. "Run at this maximum fan speed."

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Some_Emo_Chick ("Frankie ✅") wrote:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ehmatthes@fosstodon.org ("Eric Matthes") wrote:

gh-profiiler's bulk processing feature is a really interesting way to see how AI has been affecting contribution patterns in different projects.

Here's the 25 most recent merged/closed PRs in cPython. Most were merged. Two of the three PRs that were rejected were submitted by a user who raised a red flag when profiled.

To be clear, cPython maintainers are not using gh-profiler to make these decisions. But the output is aligning reasonably well with those decisions so far.

#Python #OpenSource

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

NEW: Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies

EPA and Justice Department officials were looking into potential criminal violations by the vast coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice. Then the Office of the Deputy Attorney General told them “pencils down.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-jim-justice-doj-southern-coal-investigation-west-virginia

#news #government #doj #trump #westvirginia #EPA

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
signalapp@mastodon.world ("Signal") wrote:

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
abraxas3d@mastodon.radio ("Abraxas3d W5NYV") wrote:

This is an amateur satellite milestone.

This is ORI's digital multiplexing microwave band payload, and this is a demonstration of the uplink receiver working.

Here, the channelizer and power detector are working to track a signal swept across the uplink. Point a browser at the satellite implementation, and a web page reports station performance.

Back end is MQTT (a service in the embedded linux image) and it doesn't clutter things up when no one is looking at it.

Demod/decode is next.

Attachments:

• video: A video clearly showing that a signal swept through the uplink of ORI's Haifuraiya design is clearly and completely picked out and filtered. This is a big deal, because anything downstream of this depends on this polyphase filterbank working at its best. The deep purple background lets the yellow and orange spikes at the 64 channels be clearly seen. The signal is swept from low channel to high, and you can see that the energy per channel is captured and filtered correctly. This is a high performance design that protects the communications channels for the Haifuraiya design. This video shows how the plan has come together.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
booknotification ("Book Notification") wrote:

🥹🥹🥹

#bookmemes #getnotified #bookstodon

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

For sound insulation everyone recommends mass loaded vinyl (MLV), but that barely made any difference in my case. MDF/wood is thick and heavy enough on its own.

Foam easily eats high-pitched sound, but low-freqency harmonics almost drove me mad. 5700RPM HDD turned out to have 95Hz harmonic that spread through everything, including foam, felt, rubber feet and my floorboards!

High freq needed closed foam, and the low freq needed layers of butyl rubber mats (for car sound deadening).

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

For the base of the acoustic enclosure, I've used IKEA ALEX. Tight fit. Shelf used for a 12cm duct at the top.
I've used pair of Noctua NF-A14x25 G2 PWM Sx2-PP to pull air out 500RPM. That's quiet enough, but barely enough airflow. Instead of pulling, I should have hidden them inside a duct behind a baffle.

I totally underestimated importance of baffles. I thought smooth airflow would be more important, but nope. Labyrinth matters more. Super important around both exhaust and intakes!

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I'm oddly sensitive to fan noise. A normal person's "quiet" PC to me is still unacceptably annoying. So I (foolishly) built an acoustic enclosure for my already-Noctua-laden PC.
Lots of faff for shaving off ~5dB(A).

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

A tiny door next to a tiny window.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #decay #concrete #window #door

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
firda@sunny.garden ("Firda") wrote:

"Omg flowers!"

#Puffin #Iceland #PhotoMonday #Birds #BirdsofMastodon #BirdPhotography #Nature #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #BloomScrolling

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place ("The Seven Voyages Of Steve") wrote:

I sometimes think about how if open source had never happened at scale, and all LLMs had to train on was proprietary code, how different things might look right now. Breaks my heart; sharing code openly has been a huge part of my life and belief system for so long, and I was so convinced that the good that it did outweighed the bad actors taking advantage. I never imagined that the bad actors would win by automating their behaviour

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
TechTangents@dialup.space ("Tech Tangents") wrote:

I put out a video that was critical of AI without AI being mentioned in title, thumbnail, or description. And it was dogpiled with pro-AI comments almost instantly.

This video has almost 2.5X as many comments per view as my most recent "controversial" video, and 4.5 the average.

I don't want to say that AI bots are being used to astrorturf videos after scraping scripts, but I have a hard time believing this is real based on experience.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Not all parents/grandparents.”

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

So, what are the odds that the reactions to Apple’s early Christmas present to the controlling and abusive everywhere are mostly defined by whether you had an abusive—or at least untrustworthy and controlling—authority figure in your life growing up?

If so, then I’m not surprised that Mastodon has a sizeable population of people with deep-seated authority issues 😝

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ikenndac ("Daniel Kennett") wrote:

I've never seen a group of 150+ people turn hostile faster than the virtual WWDC keynote watch group I'm in as the AI photo editing stuff started.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

@nileane Apple: others use AI for AI’s sake
also Apple, moments later: we made a feature nobody asked for that pretends to change the perspective of your photos by turning the backgrounds into slop

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

RE: https://narrativ.es/@janl/116715771559728532

I’ll take “living in the EU” as a stopgap. #wwdc