RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116301661509651336

Yeah sure okay why the fuck not

heise online English » 🤖 🌐 2026-03-27
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Processor shortage to become acute in the coming months

AMD and Intel are apparently shifting their production to server CPUs. Price increases are looming for desktop PCs and notebooks.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Processor-shortage-to-become-acute-in-the-coming-months-11228081.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#AMD #AMDRyzen #Prozessoren #Intel #IT #news

I'm extremely late to this party and I'm likely not the first person to opine on this but

Apparently ARM released their first CPU. Not licensed. They made the thing and are selling it *directly*

Of course they claim "we've been developing this for years!" and "AGI means something else. It's totally a coincidence! (but PLEEEEEASE use it in AI workloads please fucking Christ we want that AI money)"

I don't think they realize (or maybe they did and don't care?) that they've broken the agreement

i wonder what the legality of writing up how to crack a software without distributing any of the pre-patched binaries are

I just wrote stop instead of spot

this is how my adhd brain works, it knows all of the letters and then picks the wrong order that is still a word

I'm worse than AI

TapType is out. It's a keyboard for blind Android users.
There are no visible keys. You tap where QWERTY keys would be from muscle memory, and a spatial prediction algorithm figures out what you meant. It scores nearby keys using a Gaussian proximity model and runs a beam search against an 80,000 word dictionary. You don't need to be precise. That's the whole point.
Swipe right to commit a word. Swipe down or up to cycle through suggestions. Swipe left to delete. It learns what words you use most and ranks them higher over time, and you can add your own words to a personal dictionary.
Every letter has its own unique sound, from Andre Louis's keyboard sound recordings, so you can learn to identify keys by ear without relying on speech. Each swipe direction has a distinct sound too. TTS is there when you want it, adjustable speed, and you can turn it off entirely if you prefer sounds only.
It has emoji search with skin tone selection and favourites, a number pad mode, an upper case mode, and full punctuation support with a customizable quick list. Two-finger gestures handle things like send, close keyboard, switch keyboard, and voice input.
Everything works with TalkBack. I built this because FlickType was a fantastic keyboard for blind iOS users and then it was gone. Nothing like it existed on Android, so I made one.
It's free, no ads, no tracking, no metrics. I'm not evil.
Download: https://github.com/aaron-gh/taptype-releases/releases/latest
#TapType #Accessibility #A11y #Android #Blind #VisuallyImpaired #TalkBack #Keyboard #AssistiveTech

fuck all of you im federating from a wii

RE: https://forcefem.cafe/lea/p/1774186894.068846

lea » 🌐 2026-03-22
@lea@forcefem.cafe

chat is this real

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the video output from a wii, its running a snac2 server in netbsd

oughh i need to get one of those lilygo pagers its just like a rim 850/950

With both the Linux kernel and systemd infected by "AI" and now also the first steps towards government-mandated age-gating and thus the definitive end of privacy, I feel more done with technology than ever before.

I'm just tired, Fedi. I just want to make the pixels go bleep-bloop in weird ways so I can feel smug towards Windows and Apple users. Is that really too much to ask?

How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?

I’m hoping this doesn’t come off as an “I told you so” post, but a number of the people you dismissed as systemd haters were trying to warn you about the longstanding technical and structural issues that make something on the level of slop code in systemd an instant and catastrophic issue with no easy solution

ok kde connect is good enough to make me keep using kde

An iPhone with Apple Pencil support would be so fucking fire like iOS itself is already geared for drawing and other cool creative stuff ​​

Please please please don’t impose dark mode on your websites. Honor the user’s system settings.

There are plenty of people with visual impairments as common as astigmatism who can’t read light text on dark background, because it’s like staring at a strong lightbulb in the dark.

And it’s not hard. Just a few lines of CSS.

#accessibility

I'm sorry but I have to confess.

I see all Fedi users as their profile pictures.

If you're a furry and have furry art as a profile pic, or have a picture of your RL self, that will make sense to you.

But if you have a flower as your PFP, sorry, you're a talking flower now. Your pfp is your pet? You are a dog/cat/hamster. If your PFP is weird and abstract, you are a weird abstract critter.

If your pfp is the default white elephant for Mastodon, you are grouped in my brain with everyone else that uses it. Also, you are a talking elephant.

I hope you'll forgive me, somehow.

Also if your pfp is cute I definitely want to pet you. Sorryyyyy

NGL I feel like something folks are forgetting about Proton right now is that a. they did not willingly hand data over to the FBI, the Swiss did that after receiving the data from Proton, and 2. payment information is often legally required to be held for some length of time, even if you only do once-off payments.

It doesn't matter who you'd use - Tutanota could easily be subject to the same kind of subpoena, as would an entity like Mullvad if you pay with a card. The best way to protect from this kind of threat model would be to mail money in, use prepaid gift cards that aren't directly tied to you, or finding some way to pay via cryptocoin that goes through multiple hops to try and make it as difficult as possible to pin down the original wallet.

It's very possible that Proton had little reason to believe that the Swiss would do anything further with the subpoena'd information, but then the Swiss govt. handed that over to the FBI right away. Ideally this results in Proton enforcing greater scrutiny regarding subpoena's for PII like payment data, but reality is this just... is how payment processing works. Every jurisdiction has to do stuff like this. You should always assume that your card information is stored for at least a few months, even if you don't have any form of autopay turned on.

Just because your emails, files, passwords, etc. cannot be readily distributed doesn't mean there  isn't sufficient metadata elsewhere that can be used to tie you to, well, you. Like, if you ever donated to Signal with a card, I imagine they, too, could be compelled to share payment data should they still have access to it (per regional law) and you wouldn't have significant recourse in the matter.

Update your threat model to include this possibility, I guess, and account for it where possible. There isn't much else you can do.

I genuinely feel that organizations should be fined for every device they decommission, abandon, or send for recycling with BIOS lock, activation lock, device management, or MS Autopilot still enabled/provisioned.

It's really not that fucking hard to properly offboard devices.

flexing on every french high school student with my immaculate pix score

me when i conceptualize a ui for literally no reason whatsoever (the idea popped into my head and i was compelled to spend the next 2 hours making it) (nothing else will come out of this)

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Concept art of a user interface that has the aesthetic of a canvas board with a bunch of things tacked on it. On the leftmost column, starting at the top is the name of the concept on a sort of torn index card pinned to the tan canvas surface: "multipost!" Below that is a torn piece of paper showing a profile entry for pquirrel (with an emoji). This has a display name, username, status, and pfp, as well as a small bit of highlighted text saying "you!" Below that is a few pinned sticky notes showing menu options. To the right of that is a column of users with similar torn pieces of paper to represent them, and above the user list is a pinned paper saying "viewing posts from..." with another paper taped on showing who's posts are being seen. To the right of that is an example of a post, showing a few paragraphs with some images and a link preview located in between the paragraphs. Pinned on the bottom right is the same user paper as the one shown under "viewing posts from..." Finally, there's a velvety bookmark on the right that shows a few icons indicating some post interactions.

I keep seeing lots of people saying "LLMs are like compilers/assemblers for prompts"

Noooooooooo
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

LLMs are not compilers, and they're not assemblers. Determinism is a key aspect to assemblers and compilers.

And they *certainly* can't be part of a reproducible pipeline

"Defense executives plan to meet at White House as strikes on Iran diminish stockpiles"

that's good, right?

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/defense-executives-plan-meet-white-house-strikes-iran-diminish-stockpiles-2026-03-04/

I’m excited for the MacBook Neo from the perspective of it being a reasonably priced Safari/WebKit testing machine.

I imagine they’ll be cheap second-hand as well due to the education market.

The lower-end specs shouldn’t be an issue for testing either. They might even prove a benefit.

#Safari #WebKit #WebDev

CrossTalk on the Vista machine!

I don't know who needs to hear this today, but:

Perfection is impossible in any system where entropy exists, such as our universe, so demanding perfection is demanding the impossible.

Existence isn't political, but wanting to alter someone else's existence is.

All cops are bastards, including any bastard cops you may know or be related to, because as cops they are perpetuating a broken, unjust system that teaches them to dehumanize people.

You're probably a little dehydrated, drink water.

Wait what, you can't use a *code* editor when you're under 18 now? 🤔

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ToS changes of Zed, including the new 18+ requirement.