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Good news: Enshittification just went into its SIXTH printing.
Bad news: There won't be enough books for tonight's event in Toronto at OCAD U, so please get there early and buy your book right away if you're planning on getting one!
We all knew this moment would come. JAWS dropped SAPI 4 support years ago, and now it is NVDA’s turn with NVDA 2026.1. NVDA is removing support for SAPI 4 because it is limited to 32-bit. PR text and link: "Remove SAPI4. SAPI4 is 32-bit only. As we don't currently have a SAPI4 bridge or a compatibility shim, we need to remove support." github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/… @NVAccess
Link to issue number:
Closes #18310
Closes #19030
Closes #17964
Summary of the issue:
SAPI4 is 32-bit only. As we don't currently have a SAPI4 bridge or a compatibility shim, we need to remove ...
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One National Guardsman, 20-year-old Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, who was shot on Wednesday in Washington, DC, is not expected to recover, Beckstrom’s father said.
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En fait, je préfère les jeux coop parce que sinon quand je gagne, je culpabilise de ne pas avoir signalé l'énooooorme erreur de strategie de l'adversaire (mais hey, je suis là pour vous éclater la rate, hein)
That title might be the best effort I can pull off.Other stuff:Technology Connections on Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/techconnectify.bsky.socialTechnolog...
Όσο και αν αντιπαθώ τη δήμαρχο της Γαύδου, όσο και να ξέρω ότι είναι δικαιολογία ενάντια στο ελεύθερο κάμπινγκ, δε παύει να είναι ξεφτίλα και απόδειξη της κατάντιας στην οποία έχει περιέλθει η κατασκήνωση από ανίδεους φασεους και εγωιστές καβατζοκαργιοληδες που στήνουν αυθαίρετους καταυλισμούς αναμέσα σε αιωνόβιους κέδρους
Σοβαρά ερωτήματα για την περιβαλλοντική συνείδηση μερίδας κατασκηνωτών θέτει η Δημοτική Αρχή του ακριτικού νησιού, δημοσιεύοντας φωτογραφικά ντοκουμέντα
The US is a republic and the word democracy doesn't appear in the US constitution.
I see the online dictionaries allow the people to elect representatives and still call it a "democracy". Plus many pundits use the word "democracy" as long as their opinion is in the majority - making other statements when it doesn't go their way.
If we had a way to force an election for all of the laws being imposed - I might go for that. It would certainly result in fewer laws.
I ask because pretty much everyone I interact with seems to self-identify as on the side of democracy, but a lot of people express cynicism about the electorate and the public’s capacity to participate in reasoned deliberation. the most straightforward implication would be democracy is a bad idea. 2/
Do you support democracy anyway on purely negative grounds? (i.e. “it’s the worst system except for all the others that have been tried from time to time”) 3/
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#rikirachtman #danzig #glenndanzig #MTV #misfits #headbangersball Riki Rachtman talks about his friendship with Glenn Danzig in the 90s, when the band Danzig...
Just finished "Enshittification" by @pluralistic, and despite it not telling me anything new, as I've been following him and this subject for a while, seeing all the case studies, the analysis, and Cory's proposed cure in a succinct, eloquent, and well argued overview was enraging, cathartic, and still hopeful.
I would definitely recommend it to most people, but especially to people who are not as familiar with all the tech nonsense as I am. I have the feeling I will be lending my copy to people regularly.
Oh, and the plug for the fediverse was nice to see.
Die Lobby-Organisation »Die Familienunternehmer« will nun auch mit der AfD kooperieren. Die Entscheidung steht symptomatisch für einen internationalen Trend: Die Unternehmerwelt arrangiert sich mit dem neuen Faschismus.
If you want a specific example of why many researchers in machine learning and natural language processing find the idea that LLMs like ChatGPT or Claude are "intelligent" or "conscious" is laughable, this article describes one:
MIT researchers find large language models sometimes mistakenly link grammatical sequences to specific topics, then rely on these learned patterns when answering queries.
There are quite a few examples of this sort of problem already documented in image processing. Examples include the neural network that learn to recognize *not* the thing they are being trained to recognize, but instead the background, setting, camera, lighting, or presence of markings like watermarks or logos.
It comes as no surprise at all that the same problems can be observed in language models.
Would a *person* give the same answer to a question even when you sub in nonsense words, provided they are of the right grammatical category (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.)?
Would a *person* fall apart and be unable to reliably answer the question just because the grammar was imperfect, even when the meaning and intent is clear?
These language models are statistical machines designed to *emulate* human verbal interactions. They do not capture the essence of what it means to be human. They do not reproduce the richness of conscious experience.
It is surprisingly easy to trick people into thinking a machine is conscious, because we humans are wired to look for conscious behavior. It's just like pareidolia (seeing faces in random inanimate objects, e.g. the front of a car) only for words instead of images. One of the oldest and most famous examples is the Eliza program, a chatbot from the 60s that used a canned answer format to "psychoanalyze" people, and which convinced many non-tech people it legitimately understood them.
The purveyors of this technology keep telling you to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, but you absolutely should. When you do, the magic of the presentation vanished, because you see how the apparatus actually works. It is a simulacrum. Always has been, always will be.
In the first half of the twentieth century, there was a distinction between reaction, with its total rejection of "modernity", and fascism, which embraced aspects of it. In the present, the two have converged, as the old traditional past the reactionaries idealize is high modernity.
I'm struck often how much "techbro" culture is about rejecting every criticism of modernity from the last century.
For instance, modernist philosophers sought a logical foundation to language.
@foolishowl I've been thinking a lot about the Luddites.
The persistent stereotype is that a Luddite is somebody who mindlessly fears progress.
Even most of the (relatively few that come up in search) articles that talk about how there was more to it, STILL lean into that lens and only add a few caveats. Talking about having 'reverence' for handicrafts as if it's a quaint sentimental thing, glossing over the gravity of the phenomenal amount of skill that's been lost and that machines cannot ever replace or supersede. Machines could have been used to AUGMENT and elevate the abilities of craftspeople, instead of being used to cut them off at the knees and replace them with plastic imitations built to break and bury us all in toxic waste.
The Luddites saw this shit coming and tried to stop it. That's what they really were.
The techbros desperately want us to believe that all innovation is inherently virtuous and good, even when it's innovation specifically and deliberately designed for malicious, oppressive purposes. Because they're smarter than us and better than us and know what's best for us, and we're just scared monkeys throwing rocks at anything shiny.
I often think of Wittgenstein, enthusiast for analytic philosophy, and ultimately its most perceptive critic.
Natural language does not and cannot have a first order logical foundation; it's not a closed system, but exists in life and relationships. And studying language is not enough to understand consciousness, which precedes and exceeds language.
Consciousness is not understood, the actual mechanism is not quantifiable. However, I’ve always suggested good enough technology could do a damned good job of emulating it, good enough for humans to fall in love with it. 🤔
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Nous manifesterons le 29 novembre à Paris pour la défense des droits du peuple palestinien sur la base du droit international. - Auto-détermination du peuple palestinien qui doit être l'acteur de son propre destin et droit au retour des réfugiés palestiniens - Fin de l'occupation, de la colonisation, de l'apartheid - Sanctions contre Israël - Cessez-le-feu définitif et fin du génocide.
Manifestation nationale unitaire - Samedi 29 Novembre à 14h - Place de la République (Paris).
@mckensie So it looks like I will actually be able to run my PlayPalace server behind a reverse proxy, since it uses websockets! This means that we'll get playpalace.mad-gamer.com!!!
Yeah leave it in Python, as I wanna at some point make it accessible to those who don't rely on screen readers, namely people who use magnification, and of course, sighted folks like my love.
@alexchapman But still the game being in python, if we reeeeeeeeeeeeeally wanted to, we, could add the fall back voice for the fun of it, because that voice can run on python.
@alexchapman But if we do a tournament mode, it' could have some sort of illimination thing where if you have the loest score you'd get illiminated and when there's 2 players left the 2 would have to play until 1 wins. And oo, we could use the music tracks from q9 during the tournament and each track would sort of, indecate how many players are left and like the finish world for when you are still in the game and such and game over for when you're illiminated and oo, heck, even when you put the game in tournament mode, Chloe H could say, this game is now in tournament mode and such. I could go everywhere with ideas
@alexchapman You know what that's an idea I'm gonna put all of these in a folder and call it tournament mode and then rename it to like for one of these music_3_players_left.ogg or something.
Sarah Hurwitz’s now-viral appearance at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly has exposed the crisis of Zionism in the U.S. and Jewish leaders' desperation to confront it. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/sarah-h…
Sarah Hurwitz’s now-viral appearance at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly has exposed the crisis of Zionism in the U.S. and Jewish leaders’ desperation to confront it.
Mehrere Demokraten appellieren an die US-Truppen, illegalen Befehlen der Trump-Administration nicht zu folgen. Nun hat der US-Präsident darauf reagiert.
How #Native communities are reclaiming their food: Films, books and shows to watch
Ashlie D. Stevens, October 14, 2024
Excerpt: "#Gather" director "Sanjay Rawal said that the film was really made for those people taking 'pride in reestablishing the food systems that were, in effect, destroyed by #colonization.' "
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my """favorite""" sort of aspiring fascist """intellectual""" is the sort of dork who starts their own publishing house, talks about how they're on the cutting edge of thought as the left continues to decay and yet i can't even find their books on libgen
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wacom tablet was on the blink on windows and i figured out why, windows had been creating hundreds of phantom devices in device manager automatically due to being confused by my kvm over ip i use to connect to it in the shop
Lesorganisations paritaires de la radiodiffusion — Les Locales (CNRA & SNRL), la Fédération des Employeurs de la Radiodiffusion Privée (SIRTI, SRN, SRGP, SNRC), ainsi que les organisations syndicales de salariés(CGT-Audiovisuel, CFDT-F3C, FO-Médias, Solidaires) — sont opposés à la baisse de 44 % du Fonds de Soutien à l’Expression Radiophonique (FSER) prévue dans le Projet de Loi de Finances 2026 et tiennent à alerter de ses conséquences sociales majeures si elle devait être adoptée.
Une menace directe sur l’emploi et la cohésion sociale
Cette coupe budgétaire sans précédent met en péril près de 3 000 emplois directs et indirects au sein de plus de 700 radios associatives.
Derrière ces chiffres, ce sont des femmes et des hommes qui font vivre chaque jour le média radio et le pluralisme de l’audiovisuel.
Ces structures, qui emploient souvent 2 à 3 salariés , constituent de véritables espaces de formation, d’expression et d’inclusion pour des milliers de personnes. Leur fragilisation signifierait la disparition d’emplois durables, ancrés au cœur des territoires, en métropole comme en outre-mer.
Des lieux d’apprentissage indispensables à l’ensemble du secteur
Les radios associatives offrent à de nombreux jeunes, bénévoles et salariés leurs premières expériences professionnelles. Elles transmettent les valeurs du collectif, de la rigueur et de la parole publique , tout en formant aux métiers techniques et éditoriaux qui font vivre la radio dans toutes ses composantes.
Elles sont ainsi indispensables à l’ensemble du secteur radiophonique, en assurant le renouvellement des compétences, la découverte de la radio et du son, ainsi que l’éducation aux médias pour de nouvelles générations.
Un appel à la responsabilité sociale
Les organisations paritaires de la radiodiffusion réaffirment leur soutien plein et entier à la CNRA et au SNRL. Elles appellent le Gouvernement et le Parlement à revenir sur cette décision injuste et socialement dévastatrice , et à ouvrir sans délai un dialogue avec les représentants du secteur.
Préserver le FSER, c’est :
protéger un modèle d’expression collective unique en France.
sauvegarder des milliers d’emplois non délocalisables ;
maintenir le rôle social, éducatif et formateur des radios associatives ;
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(all prices in real) ok so the sonic crossworlds deluxe pack is 350 bucks on the switch, i got it for 244.93 THEN to get that amount i purchased a gift card, with 18% discount, so i paid 205 bucks for a 350 bucks game :]
i already have funds to purchase the switch 2 pack when it arrives next week
yokai that kills you
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