Remember how master branches in :git: became main?

I wonder when Mastercard becomes Maincard :blobcatthinkowo: :mastercard:

Inovacijos yra geros tiek, kiek jos gerina vartotojo kasdieną. Bene labiausiai mane šiuo metu džiuginanti inovacija - išmanusis telefonas su GrapheneOS: su griežtai izoliuotomis Google paslaugomis, be jokių nereikalingų programėlių ir su visomis šiuo metu įmanomomis priemonėmis susigrąžinti išmanųjį įrenginį į savo, o ne didžiųjų technologijų drakonų, rankas :ablobcatwave:

Kai įrenginys užsiima mano, o ne ad tech kontorų interesais, ir skaičiavimo resursų pilnai pakanka: ketverių metų įrenginys veikia ne ką prasčiau nei naujausias flagmanas su Android ar iOS :neocat_phone:

Kompiuteriai ir telefonai gali dirbti jums. Reikia tik nebijoti išeiti iš didžiųjų gamintojų ekosistemų. Visi čia vaikštote iš komforto zonų - išeikite ir iš technologinės priespaudos. Savo pačių labui, nes jau laikas :blobCat_nom_wire:

Dalintasi :linkedin: auditorijai :blobcatboopadorable:

#telefonai #android #grapheneos #privatumas #linkedin #lietuviškai

Tampa tradicija, kad savaitgalį, kai vyksta 1000 km lenktynės, žiūrovų ir medijos atstovų vadinamos Palangos raliu, dalinuosi archyviniais kadrais :blobcatcamera:

Šiemet, vykstant 27-osioms Aurum 1006 km powered by Hankook lenktynėms, įkeliu kelias ekrano nuotraukas iš Automobilių žiedinių lenktynių rezultatų analizės sistemos, kurią kūriau prieš beveik du dešimtmečius tuo metu vystytai autonaujienų svetainei 🏁

Unikali funkcija, anuomet patikusi patiems lenktynių dalyviams, buvo galimybė peržiūrėti ir lyginti visus konkrečios komandos rato įveikimo laikus, nes kiti apie lenktynes rašę naujienų portalai (Lietuvos rytas, Delfi, 15min) tuo metu demonstruodavo tik organizatorių pateikiamą esamą pozicijų trasoje realiu laiku lentelę, kurią medijos atstovai periodiškai gaudavo CSV failu į savo FTP serverius :blobclipboard:

Įdomu dar ir tai, kad diagrama, vizualizuojanti rato įveikimo laikus, buvo pagrįsta :flash: technologija, o supaprastinta rezultatų sistemos versija veikė wap.autonews.lt adresu ir buvo prieinama mobiliuosiuose įrenginiuose :neocat_phone:

#1000km #palanga #lenktynes #1006km

After reading Accepting Probabilistic Software Is A Political Choice
On Walking Away by @pythonbynight (also on Fediverse) I will use term probablistic software whenever I need something more polite than just "AI" slop code :neofox_cool_fingerguns:

Once again, fuck Microsoft :omya_windows: This time - for locking SSD drive to :xbox: Series X / Series S motherboard rendering console electronic waste if hard drive fails :clippy:

Such behavior should be severely punished in the EU :revolving_light_red:

#gaming #console #xbox #hardware #repair

SoftBank, Japanese multinational investment holding company, known for investing in technology companies, shares epic slides quickly becoming internet sensation :ablobcatpopcorn:

Thanks to @dev for sharing :ablobcathappypaws:

#goose #value #eggs #softbank #ppt

Oh my god, these are real, actual slides from a SoftBank presentation. Pulitzer-worthy

https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investors/shareholders/2026/shareholders-meeting_46_05_en.pdf

There is a lot of buzz about W Social these days :blobcatthinkowo: I'd say they start on a high note - see Terms of Services:

3.3. During the W Identity verification process, you will be asked to provide your phone number, email address, and date of birth, and to verify your identity using an official passport (via photo or NFC scan) and a selfie. This process is governed by W Identity’s own terms of service and privacy notice, which are separate from these Terms and will be made available to you before the verification process starts.

And somewhat expected:

5.2. Licence grant. By posting Your Content on the Platform, you grant W Social AB a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable licence to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, publish, and display Your Content to the extent necessary to operate, provide, promote, and improve the Platform, and to distribute Your Content over the AT Protocol in accordance with the AT Protocol’s terms.

#wsocial #european

LRT minint veiklos šimtmetį, labai smagu prisiminti apsilankymą Lietuvos radijuje prieš 10 metų ir susitikimą su legendiniu radijo žurnalistu ir laidų vedėju Sauliumi Liauksminu :BlobCatRSS:

Laidos apie mano ypatingą santykį su radijumi įrašas - radiotekoje (nuo 30:10) :reel_to_reel:

#aktualijos #lrt #Lietuvoje

Museum of the History of Lithuanian Medicine and Pharmacy is a fascinating place in Kaunas, well worth visiting :ablobcatattention: :kaunas:

The exhibition depicts the end of 19th century Lithuanian City Pharmacy. The structure of the pharmacy is introduced: oficina (prescription room), cocteria, medicinal materials stock room, laboratory, basement, doctors’ offices. You can also learn about the beginning of higher medical education in Kaunas.

#Kaunas #Lithuania #Lietuvoje #medicine #pharmacy #museum #lsmu

Oh look, @rust bans certain opinions about LLMs :ablobcatpopcorn:

No comment on this PR may mention the following topics:

• Long-term social or economic impact of LLMs
• The environmental impact of LLMs
• Anything to do with the copyright status of LLM output. We have gotten initial confirmation from US lawyers that LLM output likely doesn't cause issues under US law. We still need to confirm this with EU lawyers and in other parts of the world.
• Moral judgements about people who use LLMs

@Athena already got banned :blobCat_nom_wire:

I know it means little to nothing, but I applaud people who dares to say "Fuck you!" to LLM grifters :ablobcathappypaws:

#developerlife #rust #rustlang #aislop #llm #llmshit

Stop naming Large Language Models as AI - you are better than that! :revblobfoxdrakedislike:

What type of Machine Learning (ML) LLMs fall under and how ML maps to specific type of definition of Artificial Intelligence - read on my Wiki :blobcatreading:

Be smarter than the whole tech industry slapping "AI" just about everywhere! :revblobfoxdrakelike:

#ai #ml #llm

Remember Qualcomm acquiring Arduino? Well, there are changes already :blobcatthinkowo:

Recently purchased several new :arduino: devices and immediately spotted the difference: proud "Designed and assembled in Italy" is now replaced with "Manufactured in Taiwan" :blobcatrollingeyes:

#arduino #opensource #qualcomm

If cookie consent dialog does not contain explicit Reject All button, it is not GDPR compliant :blobcatjustright:

Making visitors move one hundred toggles to refuse non-functional cookies is not GDPR compliant inplementation and never was :dumpster_fire:

As reported by @harrysintonen :blobcatfingerguns:

How come Microslop is even legal in Europe? :blobcatheadinitshands:

Apparently Microsoft thinks Enable is the right default choice for GitHub's privacy setting to Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training :blobcatfacepalm:

#microslop #github #microsoft #aislop #developerlife

After setting up DNS over HTTPS, got curious how DNS leak test tools, which discover your DNS resolver, such as Browser Leaks, work :blobcatthinking:

Turns out, it's quite clever setup: while you are visiting browserleaks.com website, in the background it queries a number of hostnames generated especially for you, such as 9d0pafrc5tnu.dns4.browserleaks.net, 0zfannouveb4.dns4.browserleaks.org and so on.

Because the website generates those hostnames specifically for your session, it is able to associate your external IP to the hostnames you attempt to resolve.

Now because site operators controls authoritative name servers behind those generated hostnames - specifically ns2.browserleaks.net and ns1.browserleaks.net (also with .org), from logs they can check what exact DNS resolver asked for those unique hostnames.

Simply matching a resolver DNS that attempted to resolve those unique hostnames is enough to link it to your visit of a website session - it is often going to be the resolver of your internet service or virtual private network provider, unless you've explicitly changed your resolver to something else. Still, easily visible to authoritative DNS server.

Voila! No magic, just simple, nice setup :blobcatcheer:

Just think of how many fingerprinting schemes can big techs carry out to track you across the internet with vast compute resources available to them... :blobcatheadinitshands:

#itsalwaysdns #dns #resolver #dnsleak #survelliance #tracking #privacy

When I met David John Pleasance at Gamescom 2024, I was curious to know more about Commodore - once legendary company that made awesome computers, but went down in 1994 :commodore:

Only a bit later, in 2025 learned Commodore is being revived and releasing Commodore 64 Ultimate - naturally, needed to get one and finally it arrived :ablobcathappypaws:

#commodore #c64 #c64ultimate #retrogaming #retro #computing

Damn, @mozilla is doing everything it can to make good folks hate it :blobcatnotlike:

First Mozilla enables Google Safe Browsing, and then blocks accessing about:config on Firefox Android :blobcatthumbsdown:

Google is banning @IzzyOnDroid for no good reason, yet I have to jump multiple steps to configure Firefox: that is, first to enable about:config by accessing chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml and toggling general.aboutConfig.enable to even access nasty browser.safebrowsing.* settings.

Google is known for breaking antitrust law, this may be yet another case of eliminating alternative app stores from the radar.

Seriously, Mozilla, why you are trying so hard to make everyone hate you?

#mozilla #firefox #google #safebrowsing

Nobody express their feelings better than Dr. Adrian Mallory (John Malkovich) from :netflix: Space Force :blobcatcheer:

Fuck Microsoft, fuck!

#microsoft #fuck #netflix #spaceforce