Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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I am thinking of airtight windows! No other country can build such airtight and beautiful windows. - Angela Merkel in a 2004 interview, answering the question of what emotions Germany arouses in her
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when the LLM doesn’t have enough layers
4·4 days agono relation, presumably
Microsoft managed to put one of their former staff as the CEO of Nokia
“former staff” is maybe not an adequate description; he was the head of their business division and the eighth largest individual shareholder at the time.
sudo apt --update --autoremove upgrade -ynote
this doesn’t actually do the same thing as the previous comment running autoremove afterwards does; the former will remove things which were rendered removable by the upgrade while the latter will only remove things which were already autoremovable prior the upgrade.
31·6 days agoIt is mitigated in 2.6.11
That release mitigates a previous issue, where different devices would sometimes generate identical secret keys due to lack of entropy in their random number generation.
This is their response to the issues which this post is about.
If your face is very easy to remember then it probably isn’t secure enough.
It is recommended to change your face periodically.
Legitimate support staff will never ask you to send them your face; if someone is asking for your face they are most likely trying to scam you.
5·7 days agoThe font is off.
Fixed, sorry about that.
this is the first one i posted, which i found via image search; the new one is a screenshot i just took of this emulator.
also
If you’re looking for a Meshtastic alternative which was designed with cryptographic security in mind instead of adding it as an afterthought, check out Reticulum and its RNode firmware which lets it use (most) Meshtastic-compatible LoRa devices as a modem.
Reticulum also has much more intelligent routing, can work over things besides just LoRa (including the internet), and (some) applications built on it provide reliable transport.
see also
- Sideband - probably the app to start with, for Linux, Android, Mac, and Windows
- https://github.com/liberatedsystems/RNode_Firmware_CE - more actively developed fork of LoRa modem firmware which supports more devices than upstream
- https://rmap.world/ - despite being older and more mature, it unfortunately still has many fewer (publicly listed, at least) nodes than Meshtastic
- https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/wiki/Awesome-Reticulum - lots more
about iOS support...
- https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/issues/116 - explains some of the obstacles
- https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/117
- https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/307
- https://testflight.apple.com/join/ftgW9n0Z - i don’t know if this currently works; i only skimmed the above discussions
caveat about the license
The license of the Python reference implementation doesn’t meet the free or open source software definitions because it contains these two clauses:
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The Software shall not be used in any kind of system which includes amongst its functions the ability to purposefully do harm to human beings.
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The Software shall not be used, directly or indirectly, in the creation of an artificial intelligence, machine learning or language model training dataset, including but not limited to any use that contributes to the training or development of such a model or algorithm.
While I very much appreciate the intention of these clauses, they will inevitably inhibit adoption somewhat.
There are however already multiple compatible implementations in development under free licenses, as you can see on the Awesome-Reticulum wiki page. (Including one by a company marketing products based on it for military use 😦)
The Sideband app is also under a non-free license (CC BY-NC-SA).
10·9 days agothe info line contains the answer:
Info: applications using this runtime: io.github.Hexchat
You need to remove Hexchat if you want to remove the end-of-life runtimes it requires.
I regret to inform you that the maintainer wrote in February 2024: This will be the last release I make of HexChat. The project has largely been unmaintained for years now and nobody else stepped up to do that work.
My computer uses both system and user remotes.
Because my .var directory is almost full, […]
If you’re low on disk space you probably want to have everything installed as either user or system, to avoid having some runtimes installed in both.
“Two economists are walking in a forest” wasn’t supposed to be an instruction manual
i’m guessing it might have something to do with the fact that
jlai.luis configured to default to theLocalview whilelemmy.worlddefaults toAll
Looking at the network tab while loading a thread, I see you need to include
type_=All.(lemmy-ui sends other parameters too but your example URL works for me with just
tyoe_=Alladded.)
4·15 days agoThat is a title rather than an alt attribute, and is a (partial) transcript of the text in the image but it lacks a description of the context.
better version
making it an alt attribute instead of a title attribute means it won’t show up as a tooltip, but (I think?) it will be read by more screen readers than it would as a title.
5·15 days agohttps://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/09/23/fact-check-has-the-netherlands-banned-antifa
tldr
although the motion was voted through, motions are recommendations, rather than legally binding decisions.
This means that, contrary to online claims, the Netherlands has not banned Antifa. The next steps remain in the hands of the government and the cabinet, who are not under any obligation to carry motions through, unless they concern a motion of no confidence.
I try to avoid recommending proprietary software but FYI the multimedia authoring tool formerly known as FutureSplash Animator which you presumably knew as Adobe Flash Professional (or perhaps Macromedia Flash before that) in fact lives on today as Adobe Animate and it can now target HTML5/SVG/WebGL/etc.
There are also many free/libre open source alternatives to it.