[-] aard 9 points 1 day ago

That'd break git repos where files with the same name, but different case exist.

[-] aard 4 points 1 day ago

Das hoert sich doch so an dass die Verantwortlichen da evtl. privat haften sollten - und 4 Millionen hoert sich nach was an das man da mit Beschlagnahmung von Privatgesitz eventuell schon zusammenbekommen koennte. Ansonsten muessen wir wohl mal schauen ob Luigi nen Deutschlandurlaub machen will.

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Miniontaur (kyu.de)
submitted 2 weeks ago by aard to c/imageai@sh.itjust.works
[-] aard 153 points 2 months ago

Recall is a legal term for the car industry which includes stuff like reporting obligations. So if the defect meets the severity level of a recall it should be called as such, even if it is 'just' a software update. Ambiguous terms for safety violations are dangerous and may cost lives.

[-] aard 184 points 5 months ago

The annoying aspect from somebody with decades of IT experience is - what should happen is that crowdstrike gets sued into oblivion, and people responsible for buying that shit should have an epihpany and properly look at how they are doing their infra.

But will happen is that they'll just buy a new crwodstrike product that promises to mitigate the fallout of them fucking up again.

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submitted 5 months ago by aard to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

Screenshots of the UI changes on the Mac - in my opinion it is now just wasting a lot of screen estate for zero benefit.

On non-Macs they're adding an extra usability issue by hiding the top menu bar. I've gove back to 2.7.4 for now - fortunately I had my configuration in git.

Up to 2.7.4:

2.8.4:

[-] aard 190 points 6 months ago

Intel is well known for requiring a new board for each new CPU generation, even if it is the same socket. AMD on the other hand is known to push stuff to its physical limits before they break compatibility.

[-] aard 133 points 7 months ago

Making an exception for one organisation, pressured by politicians, would be harmful. BBC has the following policy about neutral reporting:

We don't use loaded words like "evil" or "cowardly". We don't talk about "terrorists". And we're not the only ones to follow this line. Some of the world's most respected news organisations have exactly the same policy

[-] aard 99 points 8 months ago

All my software can be configured using dedicated configuration files (.c)

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submitted 11 months ago by aard to c/dach@feddit.de
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submitted 11 months ago by aard to c/dach@feddit.de

Vor ein paar Tagen gabs hier ein Post zu Deutschlandwochen im Lidl in Italien, wo einer aus Schweden und ich mich ueber das Layout gewundert haben.

Jetzt sind auch hier Deutschlandwochen - und anscheinend wurde generell das Packungslayout geaendert - frueher war das alles "Alpenfest", jetzt "taste of deutschland".

Einige Produkte haben sich auch geaendert - z.b. waren die Apfel/Kirsch/Pflaumenkuchen frueher grosse runde Kuchen, jetzt sinds mehrere Teile.

Und Maultaschen sind wieder nicht dabei.

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submitted 11 months ago by aard to c/imageai@sh.itjust.works

This is OpenDalle with img2img to make an existing picture into a futuristic city.

I took this picture at work a while ago, and it reminded me of cities with brutalist architecture we see in movies now and then, so I tried to get it made into one:

Other interesting attempts:

Forcing it to stay closer to the source made things look more like a highschool cardboard model:

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submitted 1 year ago by aard to c/edc@sopuli.xyz

I've finally found a bag which nicely fits almost everything I want to carry every day, and alos makes everything easily accessible - it is about the same size as what I used to carry, but now I no longer need to dump everything out to find what I neede, even with some lose parts still in there.

Contents:

Center:

  • 4 empty 64 microSD with SD adapter
  • one rpi 2040 with USB-A interface
  • headphones
  • bag of female jumper cables, with male-male adapters
  • a collection of the most used NFC keyfobs

Left side:

  • USB-C cable with attached USB-A adapter (USB3, missing on picture)
  • two USB-C to headphone adapters
  • satechi USB-C power meter
  • headphone splitter
  • USB-C to SATA adapter
  • USB-C smartcart reader
  • VGA to HDMI
  • USB Ninja (USB-C)
  • proxmark3 with battery/bt
  • collection of NFC magic cards

Right side:

  • USB-C hub with charging port
  • miniDP to HDMI
  • small USB-C dock
  • USB-C to whatever adapters (mini, micro, B, HDMI, ..)
  • Chameleon ultra
  • MPP pen
  • Ninja USB remote
  • USB-C to serial, connected via jumper cables

[-] aard 151 points 1 year ago

While failing at art he was still Austrian.

[-] aard 98 points 1 year ago

After my Russian wife was browsing the internal news yesterday to see what level of information is provided over there she mentioned that their solution in the abortion debate is to have everyone give birth, and just give up the kids to be raised by the state if you don't want them.

Also there seems to be a proposal to exclude women from higher education unless they've given birth.

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submitted 1 year ago by aard to c/emacs@lemmy.ml

I recently had to add a Mac to my zoo of hardware I'm trying to do productive work on - which prompted me to clean up and document my environment variable importer, which had grown to platform specific functions with lots of code duplication.

On both Windows and MacOS I have properly configured shells with all relevant variables - so it makes sense to query them, instead of duplicating the logic how they create that configuration into Emacs.

On Linux that'd have worked too, but I also have the relevant variables in the systemd user session, and querying that is a tiny bit faster than launching a shell.

[-] aard 247 points 1 year ago

This was just a matter of time - and there isn't really that much the affected can do (and in some cases, should do). Shutting down that service is the correct thing - but that'll only buy a short amount of time: Training custom models is trivial nowadays, and both the skill and hardware to do so is in reach of the age group in question.

So in the long term we'll see that shift to images generated at home, by kids often too young to be prosecuted - and you won't be able to stop that unless you start outlawing most of AI image generation tools.

At least in Germany the dealing with child/youth pornography got badly botched by incompetent populists in the government - which would send any of those parents to jail for at least a year, if they take possession of one of those generated pictures. Having it sent to their phone and going to police for a complaint would be sufficient to get prosecution against them started.

There's one blessing coming out of that mess, though: For girls who did take pictures, and had them leaked, saying "they're AI generated" is becoming a plausible way out.

[-] aard 125 points 1 year ago

This feature also has the potential of endangering those drivers. If I were a driver I'd definitely not opt in to a function like this.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by aard to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I was thinking about that when I was dropping my 6 year old off at some hobbies earlier - it's pretty much expected to have learned how to ride a bicycle before starting school, and it massively expands the area you can go to by yourself. When she went to school by bicycle she can easily make a detour via a shop to spend some pocket money before coming home, while by foot that'd be rather time consuming.

Quite a lot of friends from outside of Europe either can't ride a bicycle, or were learning it as adult after moving here, though.

edit: the high number of replies mentioning "swimming" made me realize that I had that filed as a basic skill pretty much everybody has - probably due to swimming lessons being a mandatory part of school education here.

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submitted 1 year ago by aard to c/functionalprint@kbin.social

My kids broke the flap on one of our sockets, so I had to look into getting them replaced.

Initially I tried to make them clip on to avoid having to remove the complete socket for future replacements, but that ended up either weakening the hinges too much, or making it impossible to attach it with the spring in the right position.

The gasket and O-ring are donated from the original flap:

The original flap and the first test prints to check if I got the dimensions right:

The whole thing is over on printables

[-] aard 111 points 1 year ago

51% support slower employee response time outside of work hours

Uh, what? That does not compute. Either it's work, or it is not work (and I don't respond to anything, and don't get contacted in the first place)

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submitted 1 year ago by aard to c/doesitburn

Simple packaging, almost classic design of the label.

Promising a good time on the back...

... and delivers:

Very good consistency (gel), making it suitable for a wide variety of applications. Dosing applicator is great for dosing both before and after setting things on fire.

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submitted 1 year ago by aard to c/emacs@lemmy.ml

I'm currently in the process of taking over as maintainer for the emacs-keybindings addon for Firefox.

I've just published the first update in years, with changes including:

  • tested on Windows and Linux now
  • some functionality is now configurable: debug logging, custom new tab page, experimental features, modifier-less high level bindings
  • all keybindings are listed in the options settings page
  • M- keybindings are now also reachable via ESC
  • M-< and M-> was added for scrolling to top/bottom
  • introducing prefix key, currently only used for opening/closing of windows (C-u C-x C-f or C-u C-k)
  • search is introduced as experimental feature - currently it just highlights all matches
  • the extension now registers as browser action in preparation for additional features

Unfortunately a lot of things that used to work with the old XUL plugins few years back just don't work with the new APIs - and Firefox developers have been sitting on relevant bugs for 8 years or more without anything happening now - so this is probably close to the best we can have for now. In combination with setting editing keybindings either via Gnome settings or AHK it makes browsing almost bearable again.

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submitted 1 year ago by aard to c/test

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