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TIL `C-c C-t` calls "doc-view-open-text", which renders the plain text version of documents.

It just opens a "pdf as text" and its insane as we can cook with this text comfortably.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Document-View.html

My partner just replaced the NVMe SSD in her Thinkpad and installed Linux Mint, and all I did was stand there and look pretty.

Boys can be pretty.

@TheEvilSkeleton @zoeyTheWitch @aylamz @hbons what I’ve also consistently found is that people struggle to identify themselves as disabled and will refuse accommodations because those are for “other people”. When you take an “accessibility features are just features” approach, more people will use accommodations. And like you said this is especially true for cases of temporary or situational disability

boobthink

tumblr post from crafty-butch

anyone else notice how when "digital assistants" were just supposed to do specific tasks when you asked for them we had Alexa and Siri and Cortana, but now that they're being marketed as smart enough to take actions and make decisions on their own they've got names like Claude and Devin

When you see the story
about how the world
now has its first trillionaire,
and when you see the story
about how laboratories
in Congo have run out
of supplies to test for Ebola,
it is important to understand
that in many ways
these are the same story.

@bastian

Klingt so als wäre das ganze *aktuell* noch günstiger weil die großen Anbieter den ganzen Kram subventionieren auf geliehenem Geld.

Bei allem was Computer so machen sind Hardware und Energie die Hauptkosten.

Hardware für AI ist definitiv teuer als "traditionelle" Hardware. Daher können also schon mal keine Ersparnisse kommen.

Bleiben also nur noch die Energiekosten.

Grundlegend benötigt eine Suche mit LLMs mehr Energie wie eine vergleichbare traditionelle Suche. Studien sprechen von bis zu zehn mal mehr Energie. [1]

Ich habe mir Vlads Erklärung durchgelesen, bin aber der Meinung, dass das nicht die wirklichen Kosten von AI darstellt.

AI kostet aktuell nicht so viel wie es kosten müsste um damit tatsächlich Geld zu verdienen. [2]

Meiner Meinung nach ist das also einfach gelogen, dass AI weniger kostet als eine traditionelle Suche.

Das ist nur alles so sehr von Venture Capital Geld subventioniert, dass es sich aktuell "rechnet".

Sobald da mal Profite rollen sollen sieht das ganze wieder ganz anders aus.

[1]: https://kanoppi.co/search-engines-vs-ai-energy-consumption-compared/

[2]: https://isaiprofitable.com/

@bastian

P.S.: Könntest Du mir mal zeigen worauf Du die Aussage basierst, dass Du mit Offline-KI einen kleineren Fußabdruck als mit einer klassischen Suche hast? Bisher habe ich dazu immer gegenteiliges gehört (die sozial-ethischen Aspekte mal außen vor gelassen)

@bastian

Klingt alles super. Ist nur leider eine Nazibar und absolut transphob.

Ich empfehle folgende Lektüre dazu: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

Als Alternative empfehle ich momentan @MetaGer

Nutzt zwar leider auch die Indizes der großen Anbieter ( wer tut das nicht... ) kann dafur aber vollständig anonym genutzt werden.

Guenter GR: "The best Long Covid study to date has now been published, with surprising results that enable new therapeutic approaches. In simple terms: Long Covid is caused (in the areas studied) by autoantibodies in the blood, which then attack very important parts of the brain and can actually explain all the symptoms."

"Key insight: Long Covid patients must absolutely not donate blood, because it appears to be transmissible via those autoantibodies in the blood!"

Article: https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/06/02/autoimmune-long-covid-subset/

Study: https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(26)00509-X

X source: https://x.com/GrGuenter/status/2064237168898216176

SMD soldering using the sun.

it works astonishingly well. the trick is to de-focus the spot and light up the whole PCB. first we failed by heating the metal plate underneath with a highly focused spot. but that led to accidentally burnt PCB spots at corners and didn't melt the paste.

it works so much better than using a hot plate, so I officially declare it state of the art as of today.

Welcome to streamer school, based on having watched too many streams with sound FAR too quiet, and seen too many guides and articles that are wrong, *here* is where your audio should be.

Keep your voice within the red section on OBS without smashing the top end. Use a compressor to keep it there.

Don't let your game go into the amber section (or if it does, not often). If you use music instead of a game, put that a little lower than you would a game.

a simple MS paint graph matching an audio meter. Voice is in the red section. Game is at the absolute top end of the green section. Music is just a bit quieter than that.

As a KWin developer and KDE's accessibility engineer...

https://nocoffei.com/?p=451

This is a problem. We need to solve it. Fast.

can some of you please be nice more often
i don't expect saints on the internet but there is no requirement that you be mean to people

"Du kannst doch nicht die mit der NSDAP vergleichen. Das ist eine Verharmlosung ...!"

Doch, kann ich!
Die AfD ist vergleichbar mit der NSDAP um 1930.
Die sind auch nicht gleich mordend durch die Straßen gezogen. Das kam später, als sie nicht mehr zu stoppen waren.

Sie haben sich das Mäntelchen des "bürgerlichen" übergeworfen - wie die AfD.

Richtig übel wurde es erst, als die Nazis an der Macht waren!
Wollen wir wirklich warten, bis die Nazis wieder an der Macht sind, bevor wir reagieren?

Have you ever wondered "What if Zelda II, but gay"?

Check out Enigma Heart! We've got:

- Sword lesbian
- Found family
- Giant ice woman who may or may not step on you
- Cow

- And oh yeah -- A PLAYABLE DEMO, FINALLY!

Get it now:
steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2986980/

Screenshot of Enigma Heart. Zalia, the main character, swings her sword at a bat-like creature hovering in the air, while a rock rolls along the ground toward her feet Zalia and her friends, sitting around a table enjoying food and drink. Zalia inside an icy cave, standing before a blue-skinned woman with purple hair and wearing a blue dress with a slit up the side. Her hand is on her hip, her hair is in a bob, and she sparkles. She looks like a cross between a belly dancer and a flapper girl from the 1920s. Oh, and she's twice Zalia's height. Zalia standing in a forest clearing in daytime. She's laughing. In front of her is a cow.

There are several proposals for a first version of an LLM policy for the Rust project, which haven't even been accepted/merged yet, and yet there are now pro-AI people outraged because we're banning AI, and anti-AI people outraged because we're allowing AI. What a day. :)

I promise you many of us care very deeply about the ethical impacts of AI. The project is not banning any discussion topics, but we do want to keep some GitHub threads focussed to avoid them derailing into discussions we're already having in other places.

A scary quick calculation: there are 10,375 Starlink satellites in orbit https://planet4589.org/space/con/conlist.html, all coming down within 5 years.

That's an *average* of 5 or 6 a day for the next 5 years. And the v2's are bigger than the v1's. v2's are (conservatively) 1000kg and (conservatively) half aluminum. That's 2.5-3 tonnes of aluminum per day. 8 times the natural infall rate of aluminum (and there's lots of other scary things like lithium). What will that do to our atmosphere?

SpaceX is awful.

are everywhere, but investigators are fighting back:

🌍 https://scim.ag/42dMPBg

To verify images, digital forensics investigators will often check whether the geometry of the scene is realistic. In a real photo, lines that run parallel in reality—like floor tiles—should meet at a single vanishing point. In this image, however, the dotted lines do not meet in a single point, indicating it is a fake.
Image: an AI-generated image of soldiers marching down a hallway in three lines, wearing fatigues and carrying rifles. Four dotted white lines have been added over the image, running along the floor tiles visible in the foreground and extending back to where the vanishing point should be, behind the soldiers. Instead of meeting in a single point, the lines all cross at different points. Investigators also examine reflections. The lines connecting points on an object to matching points in its mirror image run parallel in reality, so similarly should meet at a vanishing point. In this image, the lines again do not converge on one point, revealing it to be a fake.
Image: An AI-generated image of a plastic cartoon dinosaur toy with its reflection visible in a small mirror. Four dotted white lines are layered over the image, connecting points on the toy with the same points on its reflection: the top of its eye, the end of its jaw, its hand, and its foot. The lines extend out to the side of the image, where they all cross at different points rather than meeting at a single point. Shadows can be a giveaway, too. Because the Sun is so far away, its rays are essentially parallel when they reach Earth's surface. That means that the lines connecting points on an object to the shadows they cast in sunlight should also intersect at a vanishing point. In this Al-generated image, that is clearly not the case.
Image: An AI-generated image of colorful, semi-transparent plastic cubes arranged in a group in a city plaza. Six dotted white lines are layered over the image, connecting corners of several cubes with the corresponding corners in their shadows. The lines extend upward off the edge of the image, toward where a vanishing point should be. Three of them converge on roughly the same point, but two extend further, and one cuts across all the others at an angle.

She is soooo awesome <3

How senior engineers are *really* made
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y0MS-TZN1OE

Please boycott JK Rowling. I do not have the health to listen to defenders of Potter on why they won't boycott. Take that somewhere else please.

For those boycotting, here are alternative worlds from authors who are supportive of marginalized people:

* Young Wizards series by Diane Duane
* Emelan series by Tamora Pierce
* Akata Witch series by Nnedi Okorafor
* Animorphs series by Katherine Applegate
* Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
* Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn

Share others below!

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