so apparently you can't chat/dm in reddit if it contains URLs to chinese companies. i am aware xi and the don arent best friends and scumbag hoffmann is inhumane, but geez, banning legit company urls? how small are US dicks?

"Message failed to send because it contains a banned URL."

maybe someone else want to give a try? i asked someone for the difference between https://jlcpcb.com/ and https://www.pcbway.com/

The Free Software Foundation Europe did an update post on the current status of the legal affair.

Good read, recommend!

Here is the previous one

Post of Article19

The Complaint (PDF)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/45438161

Japan criticised a Chinese diplomat on Monday (Nov 10) for "extremely inappropriate" remarks seemingly directed at Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, after she suggested that Tokyo could take military action if Beijing attacked neighbouring Taiwan.

In a post on X on Saturday, China's Consul General in Osaka, Xue Jian, shared a news article about Takaichi's remarks about Taiwan and commented: "The dirty neck that sticks itself in must be cut off." The post was later deleted.

Beijing has defended the "personal post" made by the envoy in an escalating war of words with Japan's new hardline leader that threatens to strain relations between the historic rivals after a period of relative calm.

The US ambassador to Tokyo also weighed in, saying Xue had threatened Takaichi.

[...]

Karen Kuo, spokesperson for the presidential office in Taiwan, which China claims, said Taiwan's government "takes seriously the threatening remarks made by Chinese officials toward Japan".

"Such behaviour clearly exceeds diplomatic etiquette," Kuo said in a statement.

Passkeys are built on the FIDO2 standard (CTAP2 + WebAuthn standards). They remove the shared secret, stop phishing at the source, and make credential-stuffing useless.

But adoption is still low, and interoperability between Apple, Google, and Microsoft isn’t seamless.

I broke down how passkeys work, their strengths, and what’s still missing

i start my days full of hate <3 ^___^

this is good for my health i would recommend it

Hello, I would like to hear your open source alternatives for programs that we use everyday.

For me:

• Youtube music on phone -> metrolist
• Google maps -> ~~organic maps~~ Now it's coMaps
• Windows -> linux
• Android -> grapheneos
• Reddit -> lemmy (racoon client on phone)
• Youtube on phone -> ~~newpipe~~ Now it's libretube
• Youtube on pc -> youtube-tui with mpv
• Music offline -> yt-dlp
• Clients for offline music -> pc: rmpc phone:gramophone
• communication -> signal, might change to molly
• usage of localsend and syncthing, but syncthing is little buggy for me with long name files and permissions :/
• amplitube plugin for guitar -> guitarix, which i used to under rate
• want to move from discord -> element, but i have to try screensharing with audio and etc.
• maybe will try to move from yt to peertube, but i think it lacks content. I have to dig deeper

Thats my list, tell me yours :)

(This post is focused on the actual Network Effect. But of course content, people/content creators moving will help as well among other things)

Main legacy social media apps suck. So let's switch everyone to better.

Here's the solution for the Network Effect. Instead of having everyone switch fully from one to the other just have them have a foot on both sides till everyone switches over eventually.

During that we can also encourage them to get other people on the platform as they use it more

That's basically what Linux is doing via dual booting and with time/usage people will get off them since they enjoy the experience of the better alternative.

Some YouTubers are already hosting their content on multiple platforms. Many art artists already do that too

Also here are many open source alternatives I hope you will all try out/share with others in case you missed them:

Twitter ➡️ Mastodon & Bluesky

Instagram ➡️ Pixelfed, & Flashes

TkTok ➡️ Loops by Pixelfed, & Spark (Spark.so)

Discord ➡️ Matrix, & Stoat

YouTube ➡️ PeerTube

Meta Horizons ➡️ Resonite (On Steam, free)

Twitch ➡️ OwnCast, PeerTube, Glimesh, & Streamplace

Meetup ➡️ Mobilizon

Facebook ➡️ Diaspora

Snapchat ➡️ ???

Pinterest ➡️ ???

Amino ➡️ ???

Hopefully some groups can be formed to get alternatives for latter 3 done too

XMPP havent tried it yet (Think thats how you spell it)

Patreon recently scooped up high-profile Substack writers.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52834195

https://archive.is/je5sj

“If adopted, these amendments would not simplify compliance but hollow out the GDPR’s and ePrivacy’s core guarantees: purpose limitation, accountability, and independent oversight,” Itxaso Dominguez de Olazabal, from the European Digital Rights group, told EUobserver.

The draft includes adjustments to what is considered “personal data,” a key component of the GDPR and protected by Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

Wikipedia, the online nonprofit encyclopedia, laid out a simple plan to ensure its website continues to be supported in the AI era, despite its declining traffic.

https://archive.is/je5sj

“If adopted, these amendments would not simplify compliance but hollow out the GDPR’s and ePrivacy’s core guarantees: purpose limitation, accountability, and independent oversight,” Itxaso Dominguez de Olazabal, from the European Digital Rights group, told EUobserver.

The draft includes adjustments to what is considered “personal data,” a key component of the GDPR and protected by Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

As someone who loves both coding and learning Japanese, I’ve always wished there was an open-source, truly free tool for learning Japanese, kind of like what Monkeytype is in the typing community (fun fact: we actually have 2 Monkeytype devs on board with us now!)

Unfortunately, most language learning apps these days are either paid or closed-source, and the few free ones that are still out there haven’t really been kept up to date. I felt like that left a gap for people who just want a straightforward, open-source, high-quality learning tool that isn’t trying to milk them and/or sell them something.

That being said, I didn’t want to just make another “me too” language app just for the sake of creating one. There needed to be something special about it. That’s when I thought: why not truly hit it home and do something no other language learning app has done by adding tons of color themes, fonts and an extremely fun and customizable experience, as a little tribute to the vibe that inspired me in the first place, Monkeytype.

So, that’s what I’m doing now. We've already hit half a thousand stars on GitHub and reached thousands of Japanese learners worldwide, and we're looking to grow our forever free, open-source platform even more.

Why? Because Japanese learners and weebs deserve a free and genuinely fun learning experience too.

Live demo: https://kanadojo.com/

If you wanna make our day by dropping us a star or even contributing, then you can do so here --> https://github.com/lingdojo/kana-dojo ^^

どもありがとうございます！

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5554417

Nazi Germany confronted its crimes only after military defeat made denial untenable. Russia, by contrast, continues to equate victory with moral legitimacy. Without a clear and undeniable defeat, there is no sense of guilt—and without guilt, no basis for reflection or reform.

We started translating ProleWiki to french locally which would have taken 8 days of local inference on my computer, and then we found out Mistral AI offers a free API. You get 500,000 input tokens per minute, and a total of 2 billion token generation per month. All you need is to give them a phone number.

Basically with this kind of limits we could translate all of ProleWiki English (about 50 million tokens currently) to, well, every single language in existence or something like that. (the answer is 40 per month per account).

All of their models are freely accessible like this (they have thinking models, coding, etc for different tasks) but the counterpart is they are allowed to train their models on what you send. Which is fine with me lol here have some communist propaganda in your AI.

I can only speak for French but the translation quality is very, very good with the 3.2 Large model. Previously I could only run the 3.2 Small on my computer. The speed is also much faster than my computer and because it's an API you can multithread (running more than one instance of the script at a time).

For example it's able to figure out acronyms and automatically reorder them. Oh and we're also translating our entire English-language library which contains over 1400 books. And just to preface - yes many of these are already available in French but it's not a problem, down the line we can easily replace the machine translation with the existing 'official' editions. That's the beauty of the internet, this would have been too much of a pain in print.

Of course language capabilities depend on a lot of things, but we may look at this for other language instances if the result is worth it. It requires a lot of testing with native speakers, changing the prompt one word at a time to test different outputs on the same chunk of text each time.

It does introduce some artefacts but this is very easily fixable with some regex to clean up the files which I think a lot of people just don't bother to do but it's literally so simple. For example the Large model likes to say "Here is the French translation of the provided wikitext:" sometimes, but you can very easily remove that in bulk. The small model didn't have this quirk funnily enough.

Honestly I have to wonder how long this will keep going, this can't be profitable for them. I don't know how Mistral AI makes its money but they aim to be one of the big players in the sphere (and they're based in France so western tech).

I made the script with crush + deepseek API and adapted it to be compatible with their API which is OpenAI format, and it works out of the box. I just run the script on my computer and they do the heavy lifting. And the more you use crush the more you know what you should have in your script or what you should ask crush/deepseek, like any tool. If I had to redo this script from scratch I think I could get it in just one prompt, maybe 2.

You could also use crush with their API, it's just that the data will be used to train their AI. I also don't know how good their model is at coding.

I was worried about potential censoring ("I'm sorry I can't help with that let's talk about something else") but it seems APIs are generally more permissive than the web interfaces, probably because it would drive away enterprise clients.

Anyway, instead of running cycles for 8 days with my GPU this should take only 2 days, though we are spreading the workload between 4 people and have added the entire Library to this run.

Anyway if you wanted to try all of this stuff out you could begin with the free Mistral API. Open this link and it should prompt you to make an account, follow the steps then you can generate an API key here: https://console.mistral.ai/home?workspace_dialog=apiKeys.

The tech giant says the change will enable users to use their voice more naturally to access content and more.