Parienve @Parienve@social.cleverlibre.org
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- Parienve@mas.to
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- en: they/them/themself misc: ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
en: Mostly tech, but not entirely. Privacy is a human right.
ia: Principalmente technologia, ma non in toto. Privacitate es un derecto human.
Joined Feb 2020
@adaliabooks @Brendanjones @scottjenson
AnySoftKeyboard lets you move the cursor with arrow keys, and if you swipe up on the space bar you have the option to expand a text selection left/right by individual characters.
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The Signal Protocol used by 1+ billion people is getting a post-quantum makeover
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/signal-preps-its-encryption-engine-for-the-quantum-doomsday-inevitability/
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This chatbot could’ve been a form
PSA, VSCode / VSCodium C# opt-out telemetry
The v2.0 update to the C# extension silently installed a dependency, the .NET Runtime Install Tool extension, that has #telemetry enabled by default.
#Microsoft pushed the update to #VSCode users in early August, and it reached #OpenVSX / #VSCodium users a month later.
There is no indication that the dependency respects the `telemetry.enableTelemetry` setting. You can opt out:
"dotnetAcquisitionExtension.enableTelemetry": false
But personally, I've chosen to uninstall the Ionide, C#, and .NET Runtime Install Tool extensions.
Opt-out is not consent.
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@pluralistic @defcon @eff "I am TELLING YOU, that stuff about transparency, open communication and respect, was NOT an indictment of our relationship. Will you stop already!"
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George RR Martin and John Grisham among group of authors suing OpenAI | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/20/authors-lawsuit-openai-george-rr-martin-john-grisham
Good for them!
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The UK safety bill just passed. It is outrageous what governments are doing to control everything that happens on the internet.
It is very simple to understand. "Encryption protects everyone or no one." There is no such thing as a backdoor just for good guys.
Learn more here from the EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-security-and-freedom-all-internet-users
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One other thing is that developers are rightly mad at Unity.
However, all gamers should also be *extremely* mad at Unity because the only way they can enforce their proposed license is carefully tracking user behavior in a deeply invasive way.
@kream @skye
Haskell: you have a PhD in mathematics.
PureScript: you are using your PhD in mathematics for webdev.
F#: since learning about the Mars Climate Orbiter mission failure, you use a language with static checking for units of measure.
Clojure: you are doing this for more money than the Java developer.
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how to decide on a programming language, a small guide
javascript: this is supposed to run in a browser
php: this is supposed to run on a webserver
python: you just want to get shit done
c: you like to feel pain
java: you are doing this for money
bash: sheesh, we get it, you really like linux, please shut up
perl: no
rust: you are trans
c++: you don’t even care anymore
pascal: you stopped caring in 1985
excel: i don’t know what you are trying to accomplish but you should stop
@TidalFlats
This one looks more like plain old speech transcription software. Look at the commas: they're at natural pause points if someone said this run-on sentence out loud. Oh, and the speaker probably took a small breath after the word "pocket". The software then added a sentence boundary there, which the speaker went back and manually removed, accidentally keeping the double space.
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@EricLawton
Linux Mint comes with a built-in system restore utility, Timeshift. This alone is enough for me to recommend Mint as a first distro for basically everyone.
That said, Ubuntu and Linux Mint have very high cross-compatibility - you can install Timeshift on Ubuntu.
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Dear Fediverse:
I'm wanting to reach out to #gaming fans who have personal challenges that make some - or many - games difficult to access for them.
Visual acuity issues. Hearing loss. Dyslexia, or missing limbs or anything else.
I'm planning an article on accessibility features in video games, and would love to hear stories from people for whom those features aren't merely a convenience, but necessary for them to be able to participate in the hobby.
I'd appreciate help reaching out on this.
trans rights, uspol, wa elections law
@biplanepilot
My lay opinion:
It's a violation of RCW 29A.84.250(2) to pay workers based on number of petition signatures they get.
I'm guessing that particular law isn't being broken here, so why does it matter? Well, the legislature indicates in RCW 29A.84.280 that allowing that kind of payment would encourage, among other things, "misrepresenting the nature or effect of a ballot measure". This clearly shows some intent by the legislature to prevent such things.
Also, it's a violation of RCW 29A.84.250(4) to use any "corrupt means or practice" to "interfere" with a voter signing or not signing a petition. Manipulating a voter with blatant lies certainly seems corrupt to me, but it might be difficult to convince a judge that it's "interference".
On the plus side, I bet they'll fail to get enough signatures by the 90-day deadline if they keep getting shooed away fast enough.
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- Parienve@mas.to
- pronouns/pronomines
- en: they/them/themself misc: ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
en: Mostly tech, but not entirely. Privacy is a human right.
ia: Principalmente technologia, ma non in toto. Privacitate es un derecto human.
Joined Feb 2020
