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mikołajczyk, podobno

2024 set a record as the warmest in history, with the average global temperatures 1.6°C above pre-industrial levels.

Multiple global records were broken, contributing to extreme events, including floods, heatwaves and wildfires.

The impact of human-caused climate change accelerates.

Learn more about the Global Climate Highlights ➡️ climate.copernicus.eu/global-c

#EuropeanUnion

Graph titled '2024 was the warmest year on record and first above 1.5°C.' The subtitle is: "annual global temperature anomalies relative to pre-industrial levels (1850–1900)". The bars are color-coded from yellow to dark red, with warmer anomalies represented in red. The chart highlights a steady rise in temperatures since 1940, culminating in 2024 exceeding 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
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sebu

@EUCommission Impressive! Is there an organization that, if it decided to impose drastic changes on its members, could transform this situation?

Jari Nikkinen

@EUCommission We need to build more nuclear power together with renewable energy sources.

joyandsadness

@EUCommission And yet you are extremely happy with large ai data centres and want to reduce a forest protection plan. Sit down and stop being hypocrites. You know why this is happening.

mikołajczyk, podobno

Today Nate Graham from the #KDE project is back on the show, today he's here to talk about the KDE Christmas donation prompt, donation drives in general and apparently KDE sells merch... who knew #Linux #Podcast

Video: youtube.com/watch?v=ll71prN_EH

Audio: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/

Dryadxon

@BrodieOnLinux wait what, they sell merch? Do they sell Konqi plushes?

Vel 🌊
@q3k the last time I posted this somebody wrote an extension for misskey aiscript that added signatures to posts lmao
eta

@q3k I was reading through 2010 forum archives and they all had some random quote in their signature... ah, those were the days

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Dźwiedziu

@nekoewen
I kind of need that hat, and I don't even use VLC (though I still see it as an important piece of software).

I would hope that they appear under this link… (deafening silence)
videolan.org/goodies.html#clot

lonely ranger
@nekoewen oh yes they are dressed like wizards. Probably the best both
mikołajczyk, podobno
The article doesn’t mention that the themes were renamed (and the new names were even localized) shortly before their removal. Looks like this went unnoticed outside the fedi

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill"

404media.co/meta-deletes-trans

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Grueproof

@soller Is it possible to install it along side the standard pop-os desktop? I'd like to try it but I am not ready to commt. :)

Daniel Melzak

@soller Does anyone know if COSMIC will support Enterprise logins at some point?

It would be nice to be able to use this at work and login using my domain account in the future.

mikołajczyk, podobno

I like it how "right" Smithereen UI looks in Windows 7 lol

Daniel Supernault

@grishka bro, this is iconic, can you check pixelfed.social/dansup and share that screenshot?

Gregory

I did find some bugs caused by scrollbars taking up space though, gonna fix those. For example, you can't scroll the photo viewer layer using the scrollbar because it's overlapped by the close overlay thing.

mikołajczyk, podobno

This month in Servo…

🌃🏙️ ‘prefers-color-scheme’
📝🐛 console.trace()
🚄💨 12x speedup on flex column layout
🤏📦 20% smaller binaries
💬🧑‍💻 better compat (#Discord, #htmx)

More details → servo.org/blog/2025/01/10/this

servoshell in dark mode (left) and light mode (right), rendering the MDN article for ‘prefers-color-scheme’ in that mode, when Windows is set to that mode
Discord channel screen in Servo, showing a few of Diffie’s messages and attachments
htmx home page in Servo, with the hero banner thing now working (it relies on XPath)
Equinox :Equihold:

@servo I always appreciate the cat pics in these progress update posts <3

Nyovella
@servo yoo always nice to see more servo progress. Hype :D
mikołajczyk, podobno

My reaction after finishing a £60 game made by some corporate studio: :blobcatneutral:

My reaction after finishing a £10 indie game that upended my perspective on life: :mikusob:

mikołajczyk, podobno

The enshittification of AI has lead to the choice of AI used by VLC to be groaned at. I even saw a post cross my feed of someone looking for a replacement for VLC.

VLC is working on on-device realtime captioning. This has nothing to do with generating images or video using AI. This has nothing to do with LLMs.

(edit: There's claims VLC is using a local LLM. It will use whisper.cpp, and not be using OpenAI's models. I don't know which models they will be using. I cannot find any reference to VLC using a LLM.)

While it would be preferred to use human generated captions for better accuracy, this is not always possible. This means a lot of video media is inaccessible to those with hearing impairment.

What VLC is doing is something that will contribute to accessibility in a big way.

AI transcription is still not perfect. It has its problems. But this is one of those things that we should be hoping to advance.

I'm not looking to replace humans in creating captions. I think we're very far from ever being able to do this correctly without humans. But as I said, there's a ton of video content that simply do not have captions available, human generated or not.

So long as they're not trying to manipulate the transcription using GenAI means, this is the wrong one to demonize.

#AI #Transcription #VLC #HearingImpaired #Deaf #Accessibility

The enshittification of AI has lead to the choice of AI used by VLC to be groaned at. I even saw a post cross my feed of someone looking for a replacement for VLC.

VLC is working on on-device realtime captioning. This has nothing to do with generating images or video using AI. This has nothing to do with LLMs.

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Bethany Fannin

@bedast I appreciate this take. I am a huge AI skeptic, but if everything is demonized it all becomes alarmist noise. I love the idea of AI being able to help people and support its usage for that purpose. I just don’t know if it will be put to such purposes (in any meaningful way) in the current tech environment, where endless growth and shareholder supremacy are practically tenets of a new religion. There’s no incentive to be thoughtful, slow down, and add the necessary guardrails.

Jeffrey Hayes

@bedast Thank you for this clarification. A coworker of mine who deals with oral histories has been using AI for transcription, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't initially wince on hearing that.

Paul Sutton

@bedast

Sounds a good idea to me, the tool can take a video and create captions. Your comment about humans being more accurate is also good, as surely once those captions have been created, a human can go through them, and I would assuek captions are stored in a external file, if this can be edited then the human job would be to simply edit the file and correct any minor errors.

Any tools that can make life a little easier is surely welcome. Perhaps the importantj point though is also transparancy, if you have used a tool to transscribe this should be clearly stated, so people know how the captions have been generated.

@bedast

Sounds a good idea to me, the tool can take a video and create captions. Your comment about humans being more accurate is also good, as surely once those captions have been created, a human can go through them, and I would assuek captions are stored in a external file, if this can be edited then the human job would be to simply edit the file and correct any minor errors.

mikołajczyk, podobno

Can we please establish the social norm not to point our phone's cameras at each other's faces in public, on trains, busses, and so on? Just tilting the phone a few degrees would be enough to stop creeping others out.

P.S.: Yes, I know. Meta's spyglasses unfortunately exist.
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#privacy #PrivacyMatters #PrivacyHabits #DataProtection

mikołajczyk, podobno

Ależ Emejzonie, przecież nie mogę tak bezczelnie robić konkurencji twojemu szefowi.

mikołajczyk, podobno

idk if this has been shared yet by others here but like, beyond just what Meta’s “transparency center” already describes publicly, the leaked internal documents are Insane.

full article: theintercept.com/2025/01/09/fa

Examples of newly permissible speech on Facebook and Instagram highlighted in the training materials include:
"Immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit."
"Gays are freaks."
"Look at that tranny (beneath photo of 17
year old girl)."
The changes are part of a broader policy shift that includes the suspension of the company's fact-checking program. The goal, Meta said Tuesday, is to "allow more speech by lifting restrictions."
Overall, the restrictions on claims of ethnic or religious supremacy has been eased significantly. The document explains that Meta now allows “statements of superiority as long as the statements do not refer to inferiority of another [protected characteristic] group (a) on the basis of inherent intellectual ability and (b) without support.” Allowable statements under this rule include “Latinos are the best!” and “Black people are superior to all others.” Also now acceptable are comparative claims such as “Black people are more violent than Whites,” “Mexicans are lazier than Asians,” and “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians.” Off-limits, only because it pertains to intellectual ability, is the example “White people are more intelligent than black people.”
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unusual zone of infecundity
@h this seems deliberately designed to cause as much harm and antagonism as possible

it feels like a last ditch attempt to farm ever-increasing engagement
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

@h sign-up prompt bypass: use the email address thisisnotanemail@theintercept.com -- they don't validate it first before accepting it.

sarah 🦦

@h most progressive company when the government gets a a change:

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