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@michal@sapka.pl
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https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/an-update-on-playstation-store-for-ps3-and-ps-vita/
Looks like it's finally time to dig up my old PS3 and look for a solution to run 'backups'.
Also, check if there's better or updated one for Vita.
Heh... :(
@michal That's what I meant. It's 2026 and I still have non-jailbroken PS3 somewhere. Time to fix it. :)
Sony is closing the PS3 and Vita digital stores https://www.theverge.com/games/960168/sony-playstation-ps3-vita-store-shut-down
@michal
I use local one in hope that's better at local prediction. I haven't seen any benchmarks to support that though.
@michal I go with https://www.met.ie/ in browser, or MeteoBlue on my Android smartphone.
https://www.meteo.pl/meteogramy?lat=50.0619474&lng=19.9368564
@michal may I suggest...#FediMeteo? 😆
Promo picture from #Commodore for their new flip phone.
Remember back in the 80s, when all our CRTs were widescreen? 🤦♂️
@82mhz Yup I still remember. We also connected stuff to the USB-A ports in the front of our 1541 floppy drives in that branch of reality.
Fajnie by było mieć w internecie miejsce do gadania o ogrodnictwie i tematach pokrewnych, ale żeby to miejsce było takie sensowne, bez artykułów sponsorowanych i tekstów "10 sposób na perfekcyjny trawnik"
Może fedigrupa? Nie wiem, ile jest osób zainteresowanych tematami ogrodnictwa, ale kilka widziałem. Sam bym poczytał ;)
@m0bi @Barbara_Sliwinska co jakiś czas chodzi mi po głowie założenie własnego forum :)
Super by było :)
Discourse daje radę, Flarum godne zerknięcia.
Ja bym jeszcze zerknął na projekt FediBook.net, tam też są grupy, jak fora, w tym zamknięte, a UI byłoby przyjazne dla osób w kryzysie Facebooka ;)
Bo w czasie gdy fora idą coraz bardziej w stronę federacji, może coś "od razu" w federacji?
btw, fedibook ma ciekawą architekturę, może Ci się spodobać do selfhostingu 😉
@stfn take młotek mi wyrzuca:
- ogrodniczo-działkowe forum,
- forum ogrodnicze oaza,
- forum ogrodnicze ogrodowisko,
- forum poradnik ogrodniczy,
- forum ogrodowe,
- forum ogrodnicze świat kwiatów
...na początek. warto przejrzeć, na ile tam ruch bieżący. obstawiam, że nie wszyscy miłośnicy roślin siedzą tylko na gupich fejsowych zaśmieconych ejajami grupkach itp.
@m0bi
Zaraz tam zakładanie. Dołącz do zlosniki.pl. Stare forum, utrzymywane przez kilka osób i chętnie przyjmiemy nowych userów bo trochę sie tam robi ghost town.
@stfn A nie wystarczyłby jakiś hasztag na Fedi? Osoby niezainteresowane mogą sobie odfiltrować taki hasztag, a osoby zainteresowane mogą obserwować hasztag, czytać i włączać się do rozmów. Gdzie wady? @m0bi @Barbara_Sliwinska
@stfn nie wiem czy takowe jeszcze są.
Ostatnio wpisałem zapytanie w qwanta jak długo gotować by otrzymać jajko na miękko i dostaje info na 3 strony
Dzięki wszystkim za sugestie <3
Mam takie zboczenie że moją pierwszą myślą jest zwykle "ale bym to selfhostnął", podczas gdy to nie zawsze ma sens.
Trochę mi brakuje starych forów i na początku myślałem o pójściu w tę stronę, ale inne opcje też są warte rozważenia.
Reddit odpada, bo wolałbym coś bardziej lokalnego, polskiego.
Fedigrupa brzmi dobrze, już jest sieć kontaktów i nie trzeba nowej infry. Hasztag też :)
Fedibook zinwestyguję, bo nic nie wiem na jego temat i jestem zaciekawiony.
zlosniki.pl obczaję, dzięki Szymon
Ciągle mam w planach wkręcenie się w szmer i ciągle to odkładam, więc może to jest dobry moment.
Tyle opcji, tak mało czasu.
@stfn A jakie #ogrodnictwo Cię najbardziej interesuje? Ogrody przydomowe? Ozdobne? Dzikie? Permakultura? Warzywnictwo? Zielarstwo? Ogrodnictwo na działce? Na balkonie?
@stfn A sprawdzałeś forum muratora? Może brzmi śmiesznie, ale dla mnie to było kiedyś najlepsze źródło informacji w kwestiach około domowych: remonty, wykończenia itp. Może ogrody tez.maja u nich własne forum.
Schools: Your children have to wear white shirts.
Also schools: Your children are having spaghetti bolognese for lunch at least once a week.
@Nickiquote kiddo came home the other week with grass stains. I never saw any grass when we went to pick her up.
@Nickiquote If it's any comfort, our school made us wear light blue shirts, and spag bol doesn't come out any easier 😁
I speak as someone who has found that steeping in stain remover for several hours does not touch the sides.
@Nickiquote From my decades of experience, I would suggest white wine.
It won't remove the stain, but you won't care anymore.
@Nickiquote what about waxed white shirts?
@Kierkegaanks I’m thinking disposable paper ones might be the best option.
i had a mr man apron at primary school.
but it was for art.
https://mrmen.com/collections/aprons
i loved the smell of glue.
and glitter.
not the smell obviously.
and tissue paper.
I think setting my handle as crmsnbleyd on all social media was a branding error by 13 year old me. I should've picked puppygirlhornypost
@crmsnbleyd this except I did sounddrill
My friends asks me what I drilled the night before... Okay that's a lie I don't have too many friends
@sounddrill what did you drill the night before
@crmsnbleyd when I was 14/15 I signed up on some iOS modding forums as iRaid3r and that followed me for years
@vindo you're free now
@michal crmsnbleyd is such a random word it's available most everywhere. Sometimes I use drewsclues
@crmsnbleyd @michal were you a bayblade watcher?
@crmsnbleyd @michal ah I didn't connect it to rpg. I can only think of he-man when I see blade :P
@viz @crmsnbleyd @michal WAIT HUH? IT WAS CRIMSON BLADE?!
I know this information is going to mean nothing to me in 2 minutes but wtf?! Why did I never make that connection
@sounddrill @crmsnbleyd @michal I see that you're not a mnmnlst yourself (or are not familiar w SMS speech)
@viz @crmsnbleyd @michal I can barely decode UwU text
@viz @crmsnbleyd @michal I grew up privileged 😭 talktime minutes were cheap enough to not need to bankrupt my kiddy balance
And I only really needed to call parents at the time
@sounddrill @crmsnbleyd @michal I was too young to experience such constraints but that style def leaked through to other areas such as fb chat. (Sometimes I wish we would go back to limited talk time and SMS count. There is a romance to them that is missing in unlimited packs and WhatsApp et al., and they will probably improve my sanity idk.)
"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told lawmakers that open-source AI is moving down a “very dangerous path.”
His warns that once powerful models are released openly, companies lose the ability to monitor misuse, revoke access, or update safety guardrails."
@golemwire @michal Microsoft had some success with calling open source insecure for decades, I guess Anthropic Is deploying the same strategy for the open weights models.
@golemwire @michal
It's amazing how shamelessly these people can lie...
@michal I'm amused how one simple trick to check is a thing a propaganda or a bullshit — works incredibly well here 
Just replace the main subject with something other, already existing in our world, and if text looks like as an utter idiocy or hipocrisy — then the original is the same 
Like: "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told lawmakers that open-source OSes is moving down a “very dangerous path.”
His warns that once powerful operating systems are released openly, companies lose the ability to monitor misuse, revoke access, or update safety guardrails."
P.S. Sorry for a lot of emojis, but I can't resist to insert them here :-)
What are some good Markdown to Presentation software (No AI please)
I would like it to include diagram functionality too. Search engines keep suggesting bad stuff
@joel something along the lines of pandoc? https://opensource.com/article/19/5/convert-markdown-to-word-pandoc it also depends on how complex is your md and your template to fill
@joel here's a list of markdown presentation tools: https://gist.github.com/johnloy/27dd124ad40e210e91c70dd1c24ac8c8
Also iA Presenter (Mac only): https://ia.net/presenter
have been using it for multiple presentations already and once you're set with a template and a personal cheat sheet it really lets you be efficient!
diagrams would be images tho...
Consider using plantuml or drawing for that.
@joel Quarto is neat. Though it uses pandoc in the background, it has great default templates which you can change. Haven't used it for two years though, as I've switched to Typst.
As expected, #EU #ChatControl is back on the table.
Despite being rejected a few times by the Parliament already, despite the unanimous legitimate concerns of many groups of experts called to express an opinion on the matter, Chat Control 1.0 is going to be resurrected by the EU Parliament president Metsola, despite the opposition of her own political group.
I guess that whoever is lobbying to enforce mass surveillance on EU citizens must be paying very well.
Ruben's Retro Corner: Lotus Organiser
My wife's school fête is ludicrous. We were lucky if an old ice cream van turned up in the playground. I just spent an hour on the gin stall and everyone paid with black cards.
@TheBreadmonkey Is your wife fancy?
No she is a SERVANT here. A mere teacher. Allowed the privilege of teaching the children of the stupidly wealthy.
@TheBreadmonkey Ohhhhh, I thought it was a reunion event!
@TheBreadmonkey Is it a boarding school?
Not even! They have a fleet of coaches that go around the villages to collect the children. I have been explicitly told to stop saying 'kidnap'.
@TheBreadmonkey Ben is secretly loaded and lives in the richest part of the country.
That's not a school, those are Ben's house and cars and hot air balloon.
@mayintoronto @TheBreadmonkey I mean, he does spend a significant portion of the day posting wisdom here, which can only mean he is a gentleman of leisure.
@TheBreadmonkey As one of my schoolmates said the other day: “we thought it was the best day ever when a dog ran into the playground”.
@TheBreadmonkey What are the tombola prizes? Fabergé eggs?
@TheBreadmonkey Any of them in charge of that balloon?
No big deal. One of the kids has got on stage to sing and play the piano just like Elton John. That's very normal. Just the talent of Elton John. On the fucking piano. And singing. At a school fair with a hot air balloon. I feel like I've had a stroke.
Talk about higher learning 🎈
@surdfish @TheBreadmonkey I got banned from the Christmas fate my Irish coffee counter was extremely busy I used Jamison’s Whiskey and am adept at making cream float on surface the trick is not to drink it yourself. I was churning out loads of them another parent donated hundreds of special glasses, made a fortune. The problem was majority of people didn’t know that “Irish Coffee” contained alcohol. I got in terrible trouble and roasted worse than any coffee bean folk from town hall furious😬
@AAA365a @webhat @surdfish @TheBreadmonkey Who in the heck doesn’t know that Irish coffee contains alcohol?
@josh @webhat @surdfish @TheBreadmonkey That is what I thought, didn’t need saying but people thought it was just coffee but Irish and it didn’t stop them drinking it and coming back for more either! Maybe they got confused as the hot water came from great big canister things with the pull up spout. I was mortified just kept selling one after the other non stop.
@AAA365a @josh @webhat @surdfish @TheBreadmonkey Ah yes, coffee grown in one of the many coffee plantations in Ireland.
@TheBreadmonkey
Ixnay on the trokesay talk, trying to not flip into Hypertension Crisis here.
Now you mention the Hot Air Balloon.
You know it needs to be liberated.
For True Justice.
@TheBreadmonkey I’m assuming parents were banned from arriving by helicopter because of the balloon, so they had to competitively slum it in the Lambo.
@michal
No kidding... 38°C over here. Unbearable...
@michal @John_Ligher @82mhz True, way worse. As far as I know it might reach 40°C and more in Vienna in the next days...
is destructive scanning disrespectful to book authors?
feel free to boost
| Yes: | 20 |
| No: | 33 |
@eloy I feel like it matters if the book is no longer being printed?
@eloy Yes in the general case, though there are probably times where it's the only realistic option to digitize a book in a time efficient manner.
Also, you don't have to worry about de-warping the page post scanning near as much for the OCR pass, assuming there is one.
@eloy Depends on the use case. Many scientific publishers have digitalized backfiles of their journals and book series using destructive scanning but are offering access to that content in subscriptions or perpetual access licenses to library. In those cases, I think this makes historic research data more accessible than in the past.
However, the recent developments done by genAI corps to bulk buy old books to scan it to feed it to their dataset or just buy it to have proof that they have a legal copy to use for their purposes can be harmful, especially for rare books because it destroys our collective body of knowledge.
@eloy in my opinion it should be a last resort, and should only be done in service of the commons. As an example, imo buying up large swaths of second hand books to feed some LLM is unethical (especially when for-profit), whereas scanning stuff to archive it for the public good is ethical imo (especially when scans are publicly accessible)
@eloy all libraries destroy books by lending them to readers. So it's not a problem as long as people are reading the book.
@eloy i want to say no because technically when you buy a book you can do whateveer you want with it but I don’t like it.
I'm not ready to date. Not even close.
But several friends have told me something along the lines of: "You have a job, listen to the women in your life, bathe, keep your place clean, care for your pets, have health insurance, cook, exercise, and basically take care of yourself. You'll find someone."
So... the bar for dateable men is on the ground, and I am able to roll right over it? Fine, fine. I'm sure this is great for our society.
@mwl Some of humanity’s greatest creative works came out of challenges. I anticipate great things from you.
No pressure tho.
GenAI update I'm sure y'all will be very surprised about
/s
Turns out giving every staff member hundreds of dollars a day in chat bot tokens = staff piss money up a wall trying to do simple things instead of working for a living.
@GossiTheDog let's not blame this on the workers, since management was pushing people to use "AI" even when the worker didn't want to.
@GossiTheDog The real key here is that people are being measured by token spend with no idea what customer-relevant success might be. It's such a predictable, obvious leadership failure that it's hard to know where to start.
@GossiTheDog Waiting for the day that a company decides to bill its staff for their personal AI usage.
@GossiTheDog When companies tell their employees they're being measured on how much money they can piss up a wall, they should not be surprised with the result.
@GossiTheDog I saw a recent story on how employees are spending considerable time babysitting AI operations, and can confirm!
@michal "But you know Bob, that'll only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmq8N4A1u6A
@GossiTheDog No exaggeration: when given an AI environment with codex, it was easier to type 'ls' into the chat context than to open another window, CD into that directory, and run 'ls'.
... I imagine this at scale gets very expensive.
https://michal.sapka.pl/2026/inet-dosages/
"Internet works best in small dosages"
@michal i'm sorry to hear but you prob know that worse will come from caffeine withdrawal 
@michal I agree partially, personally I cannot suffer coffee, instead I drink energy drinks like monster.
But man i cannot understand people that say "I don't drink coffee" like u missing out on the best thing ever created by nature. Low cost energy, happiness and focus
@michal might not mean anything but you get a +1 from me just for being a coffee lover 
@michal I wouldn't say so. A drinker is the most primitive form of admiration, a person that is somehow yet to acknowledge the greatness of the taste or is yet to despair from the lack of it.
A lover, an enthusiast doesn't necessarily mean to buy the most expensive and the newest and rather it means that the person has the capacity to appreciate only the presence of the taste or to perceive the slightest jolt of energy.
No matter the coffee, everyone that can say they are glad they have coffee in their lives not because of work or because of exhaustion but rather because they enjoy the very existence of it is a lover in my opinion.
Guess who didn't drink anything in the evening?
@michal @rl_dane Nothing like the headaches from too much sleep.
Me too, I don't drink anything until around 3 in the morning if I want to stretch it really far and usually go to bed when I feel like it.
I don't know why people just keep judging people that sleep until noon. Yes, it's not conventional, but it's what works for us so leave us alone. It also means more night time, when I can finally do work without getting interrupted by random tasks
I thought I knew what "oligarchy" meant. I was totally wrong
@michal This pretty much tracks with the original manga and the Stand Alone Complex anime, the "movie" version was very different to its source material :)
Also very hyped!
@michal I wonder if they are tired of "being the product"? And a DVD is something they own. They control it. No logins, no ads, no tracking. No phone.
Now if we can teach them to break the copy-protection, they'll be ready to take on Big Tech and the AI monsters. Ready to make this world livable again.
This makes me hopeful for the future.
@michal Odd. I've never seen or used Tick-Tock (like the clock, right?) ;)
@michal I think a segment are legitimate in wanting to make a change, but yes there will be many who just hop on it for the tik-tok trend. Expect used DVD prices to spike.
Jeff Bezos says bottom half of U.S. earners should pay no federal income tax - CBS News
Was he visited by three ghosts? What's in it for him?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeff-bezos-zero-federal-income-tax-lower-earners/
@jcrabapple What's in it for him?
Easy: As long as people talk about income tax, they don't talk about wealth tax.
https://fortune.com/2026/04/10/amazon-jeff-bezos-80k-salary-billionaires-ceo-executive-chairman/
@jcrabapple The bottom half probably spend much less at Amazon, so he wants them to have more money to spend.
Poll for those that use #RSS or send out a #Newsletter
When you receive/publish something via RSS, do you expect/prefer:
| A preview of the blog/article w/link to the source: | 20 |
| The full blog/article within your RSS feed.: | 55 |
| Just a title and link to alert you.: | 6 |