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クッソ頭痛するけど乗り切らねば
Did you know that #Youtube can pull your videos straight from your own #Peertube server?
You don't have your own Peertube?
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adb shell settings put system csc_pref_camera_forced_shuttersound_key 0Modelling D&D Spells with Maths via 
@cyplo https://lobste.rs/s/zbcdpw #video #games #math
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrgbi1xPESc
The dead Internet is not a theory anymore
Link: https://www.adriankrebs.ch/blog/dead-internet/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340935
man, if you thought afghanistan/iraq were bad, Iran seems significantly more prepared for a US attack and way more willing to drag it out for a very long time.
The people in charge are really just not very smart.
Favorite Photo: The HTV‑X1 cargo spacecraft from JAXA departs the International Space Station by NASA Johnson https://flic.kr/p/2s1KgaV
helping test a bug fix for Home Assistant- "sorry i can only test this tomorrow when i make coffee again"
Favorite Photo: The HTV‑X1 cargo spacecraft from JAXA is grasped by the Canadarm2 robotic arm by NASA Johnson https://flic.kr/p/2s1Kgb1
RE: https://chaos.social/@gigabecquerel/116210611432201720
“Courier transform” ahahahahahahaha!
ex- relationship
how ironic- i just got offered a spot in a larp about queer drama and emotions and noticed an ex is signed up
(no hard feelings, just funny to me)
I'm poly because it's T4T not T2T
Can we just put it bluntly?
If you're vibe-coding open source, you are *not* doing open source.
To do open source, you must be creating source code that both has clear provenance *and* the new code you're writing is IP you have full rights to offer under compatible license. As is quickly becoming clear, that second one is getting tested and failing legal checks in places like the US.
I'm writing this in English.
Not because English is my first language—it isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated translator, misread it, and respond to something I never said. The responsibility for that mistranslation would fall on me. It always does.
This is the thing Eugen Rochko's post misses, despite its good intentions.
@GargronEugen Rochko argues that LLMs are no substitute for human translators, and that people who think otherwise don't actually rely on translation. He's right about some of this. A machine-translated novel is not the same as one rendered by a skilled human translator. But the argument rests on a premise that only makes sense from a certain position: that translation is primarily about quality, about the aesthetic experience of reading literature in another language.
For many of us, translation is first about access.
The professional translation market doesn't scale to cover everything. It never has. What gets translated—and into which languages—follows the logic of cultural hegemony. Works from dominant Western languages flow outward, translated into everything. Works from East Asian languages trickle in, selectively, slowly, on someone else's schedule. The asymmetry isn't incidental; it's structural.
@GargronEugen Rochko notes, fairly, that machine translation existed decades before LLMs. But this is only half the story, and which half matters depends entirely on which languages you're talking about. European language pairs were reasonably serviceable with older tools. Korean–English, Japanese–English, Chinese–English? Genuinely usable translation for these pairs arrived with the LLM era. Treating “machine translation” as a monolithic technology with a uniform history erases the experience of everyone whose language sits far from the Indo-European center.
There's also something uncomfortable in the framing of the button-press thought experiment: “I would erase LLMs even if it took machine translation with it.” For someone whose language has always been peripheral, that button looks very different. It's not an abstract philosophical position; it's a statement about whose access to information is expendable.
I want to be clear: none of this is an argument that LLMs are good, or that the harms @GargronEugen Rochko describes aren't real. They are. But a critique of AI doesn't become more universal by ignoring whose languages have always been on the margins. If anything, a serious critique of AI's political economy should be more attentive to those asymmetries, not less.
The fact that I'm writing this in English, carefully, so it won't be misread—that's not incidental to my argument. That is my argument.
Huge thanks to 
@spectrumgirl❄️spectrumGirl 🇵🇸 who provided a Spanish translation for my Fediverse Invitation page!
https://invite.jointhefediverse.net/?server=xarxa.cloud&lang=es-es
¡Únete al fediverso!
#fediverse #fediverso #JoinTheFediverse #FediverseInvitation
Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure
Link: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/11/swiss_evote_usb_snafu/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47334982
Transfer Point is a point-and-click adventure game for Macintosh. It was made in World Builder and MacPaint, and it fits on an 800K floppy disk. It also has an egret. Coming soon for most web browsers, or as a download to play on your classic Mac. https://robotspacer.software/transfer-point.html #MARCHintosh
@leanderlindahl Vaultwarden is a clone of Bitwarden. You could ask your preferred cooperative cloud provider to host it for you. 
@coopcloud has both the maintained scripts as well as the betwork of coopcloud providers to dot it for you. Does tgat work for you?
Admitting I, personally, am still at KeePassXCD, that works just for me individually, no team work in that.
@WtebbensWouter Tebbens ⁂ I really like KeePassXC. It's German and I just found out I can add site icons to the different entries in the database.
And if you use a (safe!) cloud service as a central location for your database file, it syncs the site icons across the devices that have access to it. My database file is in my Proton Drive, for instance. Although Proton has a good password manager as well, I prefer KeePassXC.
Today I’m proud to announce the release of Homebrew 5.1.0. The most significant changes since 5.0.0 are expanded brew bundle support, brew version-install, new -full formula handling and installer updates.
Alternative app store AltStore PAL joins the fediverse https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/alternative-app-store-altstore-pal-joins-the-fediverse/
Alternative app store AltStore PAL joins the fediverse | TechCrunch
AltStore PAL now supports the fediverse, using its own Mastodon server to let iOS developers share app updates and alerts across platforms like Mastodon and Threads.
techcrunch.com · TechCrunch
Link author: 
Sarah Perez 💙@Sarahp@mastodon.social
You all just don't understand how relatable this pain really is
Can we just put it bluntly?
If you're vibe-coding open source, you are *not* doing open source.
To do open source, you must be creating source code that both has clear provenance *and* the new code you're writing is IP you have full rights to offer under compatible license. As is quickly becoming clear, that second one is getting tested and failing legal checks in places like the US.
クレカに自動支払いオプションがあるのに気づいちゃった。これを有効にしたら銀行口座の残高が無くなるまで生きてられるなw (ちかぢか死ぬとかではありません)
https://zunda-tombstone.netlify.app/
HE'S HERE 🥰🐘 #Plushtodon
おはよう
起きよう。今日は、セミナーを無事に終わらせるんだ……
RE: https://autonomous.zone/@serhilfada/116067698821800017
Good Times. In 2009 we were broadcasting on Pirate TV ;) From our event series "A Hack a Night" with such beautiful guests as 
@serhilfada2serhat5bz
Frühjahrsputz: Wir räumen inaktive Accounts auf
Über die Hälfte der Accounts auf troet.cafe und muenchen.social sind seit über zwei Jahren nicht genutzt worden — zusammen über 35.000.
Bevor wir löschen, schreiben wir alle persönlich an — 60 Tage Vorwarnzeit. Wer bleiben will, muss sich nur einmal einloggen.
Ehrliche Zahlen statt aufgeblähte Statistiken. Wir hören euch zu, bevor wir handeln. Eure Meinung?
One family, the right-wing Trump-aligned Ellisons, will soon control:
TikTok
CBS
CNN
HBO
Discovery Channel
BET
Cartoon Network
Comedy Central
DC Studios
Fandango
Miramax
MTV
Nickelodeon
Paramount
PlutoTV
Showtime
TBS
The CW
TNT
Warner Bros.
And more
This is oligarchy.
We need to push much harder against
Age Verification laws and law proposals.
Contact your local representatives NOW to tell them you firmly oppose these privacy-destroying laws that will harm democracy and civil liberties in unprecedented ways.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
便意で起床
2度寝
お仕事プロファイルLyftにつくるいいよってメールが来てまあもう使わないだろうなあと思いつつも必要になってからじゃ遅いので会社クレカも登録したら私用で間違えて使っちゃいそうなUIだし期限切れのキャンペーン情報来たしちょっと後悔してるw
I'm writing this in English.
Not because English is my first language—it isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated translator, misread it, and respond to something I never said. The responsibility for that mistranslation would fall on me. It always does.
This is the thing Eugen Rochko's post misses, despite its good intentions.
@GargronEugen Rochko argues that LLMs are no substitute for human translators, and that people who think otherwise don't actually rely on translation. He's right about some of this. A machine-translated novel is not the same as one rendered by a skilled human translator. But the argument rests on a premise that only makes sense from a certain position: that translation is primarily about quality, about the aesthetic experience of reading literature in another language.
For many of us, translation is first about access.
The professional translation market doesn't scale to cover everything. It never has. What gets translated—and into which languages—follows the logic of cultural hegemony. Works from dominant Western languages flow outward, translated into everything. Works from East Asian languages trickle in, selectively, slowly, on someone else's schedule. The asymmetry isn't incidental; it's structural.
@GargronEugen Rochko notes, fairly, that machine translation existed decades before LLMs. But this is only half the story, and which half matters depends entirely on which languages you're talking about. European language pairs were reasonably serviceable with older tools. Korean–English, Japanese–English, Chinese–English? Genuinely usable translation for these pairs arrived with the LLM era. Treating “machine translation” as a monolithic technology with a uniform history erases the experience of everyone whose language sits far from the Indo-European center.
There's also something uncomfortable in the framing of the button-press thought experiment: “I would erase LLMs even if it took machine translation with it.” For someone whose language has always been peripheral, that button looks very different. It's not an abstract philosophical position; it's a statement about whose access to information is expendable.
I want to be clear: none of this is an argument that LLMs are good, or that the harms @GargronEugen Rochko describes aren't real. They are. But a critique of AI doesn't become more universal by ignoring whose languages have always been on the margins. If anything, a serious critique of AI's political economy should be more attentive to those asymmetries, not less.
The fact that I'm writing this in English, carefully, so it won't be misread—that's not incidental to my argument. That is my argument.
When the hacker expressed disgust at the child abuse images on the server and threatened to report them to the FBI, agents had to get into a video chat with the hacker to convince him they WERE the FBI.
We continue to live in the stupidest possible timeline.
Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079
5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy
Link: https://newatlas.com/environment/5-200-holes-peruvian-mountain/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319520
The military’s own investigation has preliminarily concluded that the U.S. is responsible for this attack and the deaths of scores of children. Trump claims he doesn’t know about it.
Note for anyone following: I'm not sure if I will or won't keep this account if chaosfem.tw comes back, may just be a temporary thing
강아지들이 미용을 했어요(짱구 타이틀 읽는 톤)
I'm so grateful and proud that the EU MEPs voted yes to amendment 5 and thereby narrowed the #chatcontrol extension down to something surprisingly reasonable.
Now, we just need to ensure that the scope for the permanent law is similar, and doesn't include #privacy invasive #ageverification or #idverification mandates.
Privacy watchdog ‘monitoring’ U.S. auto insurance phone tracking lawsuit
The office of Canada's privacy commissioner says it is 'monitoring' a proposed U.S. class-action lawsuit in which some auto insurers are facing allegations of misusing driver data.
#Canada #Consumer #Tech #USNews
https://globalnews.ca/news/11719462/auto-insurance-lawsuit-data-collection/
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