What the absolute fuck: https://yossarian.net/til/post/some-surprising-code-execution-sources-in-bash
In short: [[ "$foo" -eq whatever ]] in bash can run arbitrary code.
That looks like something that can realistically trigger in a lot of scripts.
(also test -v, but I barely ever see that one used)
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The best-selling vehicle in France vs. the US.
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Side-by-side comparison of two very different-sized vehicles, with measurements indicating real height and length.
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Side-by-side comparison of two very different-sized vehicles, with measurements indicating real height and length.
Hot take, megacorp employees are better Linux kernel community members than randos with a Patreon
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@drewdevault I'll say "it depends".
We saw how Microsoft started, how Intel is doing with its e1000e driver, and how NVIDIA tried to shoehorn its shim to keep the driver closed for decades now.
While many "randos" don't understand dynamics and weight distribution of a "free but globally used critical project", some of these randos make great contributions where megacorps don't care or don't want to care.
1. Appeal to a kernel maintainer to approve your changes in their subsystem, they say no
2. Complain about them to a general public which has no stake in the matter or domain knowledge about it
3. The gatekeeper is still in charge of the gate and now they don't like you
4. ????
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@drewdevault Is this a subtoot about Asahi linux team ?
@drewdevault Not defending anyone's behaviour here, but if you don't think there is horrible behaviour inside these megacorp companies, you are uninformed. The only difference is the open source community is transparent about more of it. Meanwhile, megacorp does lots of evil political stuff which benefits only them.
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@purpleidea I'm not defending megacorps generally, not by a long shot. I'm only saying exactly what I wrote: employees of megacorporations are more constructive participants in the community on average compared to individuals with a Patreon account.
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@drewdevault I hear you. Fund the same number of individuals, the same average amounts that megacorps are paying, and I think we'll see how much more we appreciate the individuals.
I get your point, but I think most of the "non-constructive/bad behaviour" on the megacorp side is hidden from view.
#GreenLeft #RisingTide #AusPol #PeoplesBlockade Major victory for rising tide as the supreme court rules the exclusion zone invalid. Check out the Green Left website for live coverage of the blockade:
I hadn't seen this in my feed so here it is:
Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities in the Linux utility "needrestart" -- widely used on Ubuntu to manage service updates -- allow attackers with local access to escalate privileges to root
EDIT: needrestart is also available on Debian, maybe other Linuxes.
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#Debian Security team has released an updated package for #stable to mitigate these.
https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/n/needrestart/changelog-3.6-4deb12u2
@mdione How does such a simple utility have vulnerabilities?
Videos from the MiniDebConf Toulouse are now available! View any session via their title in the program here: https://toulouse2024.mini.debconf.org/schedule/ #debian #debconf #miniDebConfToulouse
The reason OpenAI is starting to release "How to use ChatGPT in schools" material is not because they care about the damage they do. It's about pretending their tool can be responsibly used in schools to get access to large, public subscriber bases.
Silicon Valley hates government regulation and paying taxes. But government contracts? It _loves_ them.
New to web archiving (or want a refresher?) Want to archive stuff you care about but not sure where to start? Join us for a DIY web archiving workshop organized by @quinnanya and @sucho
Nov 25th, 1pm ET / 10am PT
More details: https://www.sucho.org/diy-archiving
"Don't cross the picket line" for consumers mean we don't buy from Woolies. #BOYCOTTWOOLWORTHS
Woolworth's workers want better wage and better working conditions. They also want the corporations' 'productivity framework' binned because it's just fucking inhumane. The framework requires a worker to meet 100% of the targets set by management who are just in their airconditioned room probably staring at excel sheets. Those who cant reach the targets often face harassment and then dismissal. And how does Woolies measure that, you asked?
💥SURVEILLANCE💥
Workers are alienated to their own labour, where their outputs are monitored and controlled as if they were parts of a machine rather than human beings wtf. This dehumanisation by design, pushing workers further from the essence of their work. This is to make them feel powerless and feel nothing but a cog in the machine. Fuck the rich.
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Woolworths Sth East workers on indefinite strike
ah i see, bcachefs is the new reiserfs apparently: https://www.patreon.com/posts/116412665
(hans used to be difficult in basically the exact same ways as kent. maybe he is a brilliant and talented developer, it seems that way. but i can’t see myself trusting his filesystem with the way he handles himself on LKML.)
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@ariadne Oh thank god he didn't kill someone, fuck.
It is really unfortunate that Kent seems to rub others the wrong way and get easily riled up himself, because it *seems* like what he is doing is incredibly useful and a great path forward that should be worked on by many interested folks, but instead it is just... shouting back and forth.
@ariadne I used bcachefs for my storage and rootfs for a few months. Then I discovered I could use Snapper to make snapshots. No GUI works with Snapper when using bcachefs, so I didn’t know I needed to turn on old snapshot pruning manually. After 80-90 snapshots had accumulated, I encountered a system freeze unrelated to bcachefs. This rendered the rootfs unmountable. This all happened while Kent was in Vienna giving talks or whatever, so rather than wait two weeks for him to get back to fixing things, I fucked off back to btrfs. He managed to make a fix within a few days of returning, two weeks later, which finally made it into 6.12 a few months later. I think. I’m not going back, is all.
You’ll find the problem especially droll, too. It had to do with accumulating lots of snapshots. And the code in question wasn’t terminating its search related to deleted but not unreferenced files, and thus going into an infinite loop during fsck. The fix was a one-liner.
@ariadne
The term of art for a brilliant engineer who can't work with people is "bad engineer".
@ariadne just realised this is not pronounced bca-chefs. Thought it was something to do with Canadian cooking originally
@ariadne I haven't been following LKML in quite a while. Is Kent really the problem? His blog post looks pretty reasonable.
@ariadne it is reaching the point where I'm gonna start looking for an alternative. i just want to mirror almost everything between two SSDs :(
arcane s02e02
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@izaya@social.shadowkat.net ohh I didn't realise its started already 🙂
An 
#OpenStreetMap contributor wrote : "OsmAPP 1.6.0 released."
🎋 Read their @OSM diary in 👉🏼 https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/zby-cz/diary/405600.
Excellent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNcmo-K5Xsg
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I really don't understand why they didn't start doing this years ago.
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LibreTranslate is an open source machine translation API.
Google Translate alternative.
Supports hosted/self-hosted instances.
Supports offline use.
Supports per-user limit quotas via API keys.
Run as a Tor Onion Service.
Does not rely on proprietary providers such as Google.
Powered by Argos Translate: https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate/
Website: https://www.argosopentech.com
Mastodon: @argosopentech
API: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/API
Website: https://libretranslate.com
#LibreTranslate #Translation #FOSS #deGoogle
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LibreTranslate logo.
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@blueghost @argosopentech there was recently announcement of Kagi Translate
https://translate.kagi.com/
It's not FOSS though.
@blueghost @argosopentech Do you have anything for the dictionary like meanings of the word?
@blueghost @argosopentech I’m running this on a Raspberry Pi 4 on my home network. A little slowish on the Pi, but it works great.
Don’t like the proposed social media minimum age?? Submissions opened today and close tomorrow, get on it fam.
Please boost 🙏🏻
The San Francisco Dept. of Elections has a policy straight up forbidding poll workers from using gendered pronouns for voters. That's super thoughtful and inclusive, and it's also just impossible to describe using the right-wing language of anti-trans outrage.
fuck writing dot com. what are some alternatives that don't suck as badly (yet) for interactive/collaborate writing?
i'm aware of the SFW https://www.sir-toby.com/extend-a-story/
and also the NSFW BE addventure: https://addventure.bearchive.com/
but surely there must be others?
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OS comparison:
Windows:
Runs League of Legends.
Linux:
Does not run League of Legends.
Conclusion: Linux wins.
Iceshrimp-JS v2023.12.11 is out! It addresses several critical security vulnerabilities. Please upgrade as soon as possible.
Hey libro.fm is giving a free audiobook of your choosing. You can select one out of three.
https://libro.fm/playlists/power-of-community?bookshop=moonpalacebooks
The #bombcyclone has cut off all road access to West Coast communities on #VancouverIsland. There are three roughly equal factors:
1) Extreme Winds - Made More Likely by Climate Change (#MMLbCC)
2) Unusual (unprecedented?) Easterly direction - Due to strength/position of extreme low #MMLbCC
3) Forestry policy allowing huge clear cuts which allow winds to access new areas and knock down more trees. (The reason 300-1500 year old Old Growth forests exist is because they exist IN A FOREST)
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A map of Vancouver Island shows road closures on all westerly highways.
what’s the simple modern day program for windows that lets you WYSIWYG edit an HTML file frontpage/dreamweaver style and e.g drag and drop images that are already in a lower directory. i swear i saw one a while back that was like an actual real program like what programs used to be like and wasn’t some web app embeddable bullshit
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@jk https://www.sublimetext.com/ is pretty WYSIWYG.
Unless you want to surrender to the #vim and #emacs fans. (Please don't).
Why is it that the Google assistant will just ignore the "hey Google" 25% of the time when I say it even in perfect conditions with full clarity but then when someone in a YouTube video says a random string of words or even just makes a weird noise Google assistant will suddenly wake up all like "I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED"?? And the best thing is that if *I* try to wake up the assistant while the phone is playing a video it will pretty much NEVER work! It only works when the video itself says something that vaguely resembles "hey ..." like what??
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Before you ask why I would use Google assistant to begin with: sometimes you desperately need to set up a timer without stopping whatever it is you're actively doing. This happens to me often enough that it's good to have the option. Also sometimes I'll check the weather hands free while getting dressed. That's about it really.
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@njion@bark.lgbt I found that the Alexa was way better
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@Mair I refuse to buy a dedicated Amazon product tho
reading #golang docs to configure #goToSocial:
It is a regrettable historic error that the date uses the American convention of putting the numerical month before the day.
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Screenshot from the anime "Yarinaoshi Reijou wa Ryuutei Heika wo Kouryakuchuu". A young woman says "Donm't worry. Dragons are gentle, clever beings."
I had started to record some educational videos about Linux and Free software for Farsi Speaking people, i started from mint and now i am on debian.
after i finished on debian i would move to #ParchLinux :D
Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42191228
#hackernews #tech
so, its common practice in the industry to wait a month after patching an exploit before disclosing it publicly is there a reason why sharkey is only giving this one 24 hours before disclosure? is it already widely known or something? /gen just wondering, cuz grumpy eepy ashten is being shoved out of bed by her users asking her to upgrade the instance asap
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@ashten afaik it's been kept pretty under wraps only known to a few of the main *key developers
@ashten from what I was told this was being actively exploited so like uhhhh? It’s not exactly hidden knowledge
This came rather unexpected.
I’m seeking in Germany Remote a new role as Principal Engineer/Architect/Expert
In the past I have done:
- Strategy
- PoC and prototyping
- projects from PoC to after SOP
- heavy optimizations within short time
- coaching of devs and leaders
During that i worked with:
- from small PICs over SoCs to multi-hundred-core clusters
- many Languages, e.g. C(++), Java/Scala, Bash, Python, Assembly
- all sorts of frameworks
boosts appreciated !! #opentowork
Netanyahu's home was stolen from a Palestinian named Tawfiq Kanaan.
Let it be known to all.
#Palestine #FreePalestine
#netanyahu #apartheid
#ZionismIsTerrorism
I just migrated @blendernation to a new server as botsin.space, our old host, will be closing down. The process was pretty easy and took no more than 30 minutes, including updating some #n8n workflows that are connected to it. Having the freedom to move between servers is really great!
Did you know:
1.81 billion people (23% of the world population) live in locations that are exposed to a significant level of flood risk. (ie 1-in-4 of the global population)
Reminder: For every degree Celsius of warming, air can hold about 7% more water.
1/4
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Graphic showing the percentage of population exposed to at least medium-level flood risk at the subnational level.
Remember this picture every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.
A decentralized dating site. Just imagine the urls.
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@Thef4ult oh lord I don’t wanna imagine the urls XD
Trans day of Remembrance [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Your not allowed to care about me when im gone if you don’t also care about me while im here.
(also transphobia is not “caring”; no matter how much you claim otherwise)
I finally figured out how to turn off predictive text in my work email app, which might have been contributing to the utter exhaustion I feel when I'm trying to email. I'm constantly having to avoid accidentally writing "With love" to the dean or whatever. Who thought it was a good idea to constantly be pre-writing random words and plopping them down in front of your cursor while you're trying to think about what you're trying to say? It's like screaming numbers at someone trying to do math.
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@carrideen oh God, I once tried to type "that turns out to be a transferrable skill" and had it predicted to "that turns me on" and then had to go and make a coffee and take a few deep breaths to stave off the panic attack about what would have happened if I hadn't spotted that before sending it
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@afewbugs Mine loves to turn "I'll be around" to "I'll be aroused" and when I tell you my eyes aren't in good health and I work with very religious people....
@carrideen I have seen people programming like this and watching them try to have coherent thoughts while trying to decide if the machine was doing the right thing.
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@carrideen it’s just as bad when I’m trying to code and Microsoft’s coding “autocorrect” keeps completing my statements with things that are so super wrong I need to triple check my work word for word to make sure it didn’t autocomplete things like style with StylusInputForceFunctionIO_DONOTUSE or something similar.
RIPE NCC is looking for a lawyer.
The adverts says that you "should" be based in the Netherlands, but whether "should" actually means "must", I don't know.
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@brett head-on view of a flight attendant in the typical instruction pose. Text above: "we took a moment to locate the nearest x-it". Text above the image: Austrian Airlines final post before leaving twitter. #alttext4you
Criminal, and misled...
"A few weeks before the creation of the State of #Israel, Shepard Rifkin, executive director of the Stern Group (aka Nazi-collaborating Stern Gang), requested that representatives of the group meet with Albert Einstein... “the greatest Jewish figure of the time” according to I.F. Stone. Einstein’s response was unequivocal:"
Einstein Opposed #Zionists Colonization in #Palestine and Predicted the Current Catastrophe
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/11/19/einstein-opposed-zionist-colonization-in-palestine-and-predicted-the-current-catastrophe/ @palestine @israel
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"When a real and final catastrophe should befall us in Palestine the first responsible for it would be the British and the second responsible for it the Terrorist organizations built up from our own ranks. I am not willing to see anybody associated with those misled and criminal people.”
A Berkeley Professor lamented that even his outstanding students with 4.0 GPAs weren’t getting job offers when previously just being a Berkeley graduate meant multiple job offers.
He also suspects the trend is irreversible.
It’s a major shift in tech hiring trends to eschew cheaper college grads in favor of more senior engineers. I believe this is an AI driven trend where senior engineers are now much more productive with AI you can afford to skimp on junior engineers
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@carnage4life I think the remote trend also drives this. Much harder to train junior devs without some proximity.
@carnage4life Good thing senior engineers emerge fully-formed from the womb, then.
@carnage4life Not once have I looked at the GPA of anyone I’ve interviewed.
sexual harassment [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
@carnage4life while we're discussing WSJ articles and Prof. James F. O'Brien, it's important to remember this one: https://www.wsj.com/articles/allegations-of-groping-lewd-comments-and-rape-academias-metoo-moment-1515672001
@carnage4life it’s all anecdote. Where are these people looking for jobs? Big coastal cities or are they also looking inward towards Midwest and country cities?
@carnage4life I believe these jobs will be outsourced as well. Thinking these new AI jobs will be created in North America and stay is wishful thinking.
These corporations know what they're doing and the jobs we are losing now will never come back.
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@jnv @carnage4life „if it can be done from home, it can be done from India“
People won’t like it but WFH culture made it totally acceptable to work with people that you will never see in real life. If someone is in the same country or on a other continent. It does not matter, since everything is happening anyway in a Slack channel.
@carnage4life I write code solo every day for my own startup. I would rather have AI chatbot than a junior engineer helping me out.
@carnage4life someone remind me how we get senior engineers again...
Eepy.moe will be down for an unknown amount of time tomorrow between 9am EST and 5pm EST because the owner of the house it is hosted in is steaming the fucking floors. I am not joking.
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@PixDeVl@wikis.world it's hosted in the house of a family member. That's all there really is to it.
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@julia@eepy.moe @PixDeVl@wikis.world I forget you literally run your instance on a beaten down computer in your house
Anarchists attack the riot police in Thessaloniki on the 51st anniversary of the 1973 student revolt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ragDRA92D1U
17th of November is the day that the student revolt against the dictatorship - that took place in Athens, Greece in 1973 - is being commemorated. The 3days commemoration leads to a march at the streets of almost every city in Greece…
#StudentRevolt #Greece #Dictatorship #Anarchists #Commemoration #CurrentIssues #Marches #Resistance #Honored
In case you missed this before, we still have room for a few more presentations in the FOSDEM DNS developer room!
https://blog.powerdns.com/2024/10/28/fosdem-2025-dns-developer-room-call-for-participation
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Jenny Wright
@JenEWright
My annual reminder that food banks are not part of our social safety net, they are a sign that our social safety net is not working
i want nintendo to own me so someone will finally protect me from the world
Europe is projected to achieve the milestone of one million public EV chargers in early 2025.
This year France added the most public chargers.
But the country with most public chargers is the Netherlands.
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@janrosenow does that graph exist per capita and per square kilometre?
@janrosenow
#1 Weird Trick To End Tinnitus This Thanksgiving In Just 30 Seconds A Day
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https://shorturl.at/x6WJU
@janrosenow Well done Europe. Be good to know what the percapita figures were as well. Netherlands is clearly doing great but is Denmark lagging behind, compared to Germany, France??
@janrosenow Now we just need to also have EVs that don't cost a fortune and aren't total pile of shit at that price. Because all the "cheapest" EVs still cost 30k € with already included subsidies and they are as barebones as one can make them apart from mandatory safety systems which usually just include fuck ton of beeps and bongs that annoy the user. Until then I'm sticking with my 15 years old ICE. It's more economical and ecological to continue using it than buying EV at the moment.
@janrosenow Nice! The backstory for NL is interesting: the country's (nominally private but state-owned) large grid providers have been funding an independent research group for the past 15 years. This group, ELaadNL, has been testing all the pragmatic questions about public chargers as infrastructure: installation, networking, locations, density, grid connections, policies.
Dutch tech website tweakers.nl has a great in-depth interview with the group's head of research: https://tweakers.net/reviews/12608/pionierswerk-van-elaadnl-nederland-als-laadland-met-hoogste-paaldichtheid.html
Now that I have you all focused on subsea cables, may I interest you in how the amplifiers work?
If you don’t know, you probably have a mental model of a repeater—electronics receive a signal and transmit a fresh one for the next span. But that’s not how they work, at all!
Instead, a section of the fiber is doped with erbium ions excited with a pump laser. When the photons belonging to the signal meet the excited erbium ions, the erbium ions give up their energy to the signal.
Wild, right?!
Discover the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, the World’s Oldest Surviving Complete Printed Book (868 AD)
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@openculture Why is a holy book from nothwest China in the British Library? I mean, I get it, we would probably not have modern codicology, if we did not have these artefacts at hand to study them in the past century. But now we have techniques to make replica and copies that suffice for study and are less vulnerable at the same time. We could return the original treasures where they belong.
@openculture Somehow I have come to expect such old texts to be almost unreadable, but these characters are incredibly crisp and seem like they could appear like that in any modern book.
Can you imagine a world wherein your smartphone runs plain Linux with either KDE or GNOME?
Brings tears to my eyes, man.
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@thomholwerda honestly would be nice but ill probably have a different phone at that point
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@SRAZKVT Imagine being able to just go into a store (or order online, we're not animals)... A smartphone running proper Linux.
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@thomholwerda just laptops would be good enough for now, linux phones in store will likely not happen before quite a few decades
@thomholwerda i'd run twm on my smartphone.
@thomholwerda If you can get an old OnePlus, your dream might just come true. I'm mostly on iPhone, but I’ve got a OnePlus 6T running Postmarket OS for when I feel like tinkering
@thomholwerda Dunno about Linux, but reckon even nowadays a PalmOS Treo with 4/5G & GPS would do everything I need, quickly and efficiently...
RT: https://mastodon.social/@ChrisPirillo/113507037201597443
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Goethe’s Theory of Colors: The 1810 Treatise That Inspired Kandinsky & Early Abstract Painting
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@openculture
Last Chance: Extra 10% OFF + Free Gift on Miracle Sheets
Force selling chrome would be a massive win for internet openess and the last nail in firefox coffin :
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/18/24300033/doj-google-monopoly-remedies-search-chrome-android-ai
Do you notice when someone remembers/forgets your name?
| Generally, almost always.: | 82 |
| Sometimes.: | 111 |
| Generally, never.: | 87 |
| It is complex, and in this talk I will...: | 40 |
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I'm in the "hell no who notices THAT?" group. However ever since I forced myself to memorize every name I encounter it's like a have a super power.
It is very very strange, but it works.
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@futurebird What tricks/tips do you have for memorizing names like that? I’ve seen people do this as a kind of party trick, and I’ve never understood how it’s done.
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If you are an anxious person doing it in real time might not be possible. You need to come up with a VISUAL ideally animated thing to help you remember each name and focus on that. I can do this to remember numbers, but not names. Because I like to focus on what people are saying and what they are like not their name.
I memorize in advance which is often easy because of the internet. Make digital flash cards and get it done in 10min.
Then I don't have to worry about names again.
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In my experience people who can memorize dozens of names in real time are NOT paying attention to what anyone is saying. They are literally just processing names full time.
I found this out because the first thing I tried was to learn from someone who could do that trick.
I realized I wouldn't be present at the event if I did that. Personally it's a neat trick but IDK if it is worth it.
You can find people's name and photo online. Just prepare in advance.
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@futurebird @ramsey When I took a new job, I started carrying a small notebook (think Field Notes) where I wrote down names, companies, anything useful as soon as I could. I also included memory joggers like “this guy looks like Seal” or “Tall woman with purple glasses.”
When I was in a conference meeting, I’d draw a table and write down the names of all the people at it.
The more you get used to capturing data to help your memory, the better your memory gets.
@futurebird @ramsey
I'm pretty bad at remembering names, or connecting them with faces (but better that I was 10 years ago). Sometimes even the names of folks I know well just slip out of my head, even if I used them a bunch in the past.
I've sometimes tried looking up pictures online in advance, but this is hit or miss. My place of work doesn't require pictures, and even folks who supply them sometimes have a cat or their kids or comic character or something in place of their personal photo.
@futurebird @ramsey
I work with a lot of people. Who I work will change often with a core group of people I consistently work with, so I can’t remember a lot of my co-workers names.
However I can remember their faces and under what circumstances I’ve known them. Which include location, relationships, occupation, etc.
If you are stressed out by "social things" memorizing names is like taking a tranquilizer and also suddenly not being bad it.
Especially if you are a "who cares about THAT?" person. Because this isn't on your radar it could be causing people to act strange and feel offended when you don't intend that to happen.
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@futurebird I'm in that group; took me at least 30 yrs to realize that folks like to hear their names and get offended when they think you don't remember. I never understood why they would say "Hi, Cary" when it was just the two of us passing in the hallway, when a simple "hi" would suffice.
Doesn't help that my mind goes completely blank in those first seconds of interaction.
@futurebird I've set up Anki decks with student photos and names in the past. This coming term I'm going to be lecturing to 3 classes with 380 students in total, which is too much, though selectively learning the names of the 30 students who come to each class is doable if I have the data...
@futurebird the principal of our kids' school is so amazing. She knows every single student (~400 students) and seemingly also every little sibling that joins drop off by name.
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I used to think that such people just had magical social powers, and perhaps some do. But, it's also possible to just ... study.
The nice thing is as one is learning a whole bunch of names you think about each person a little and remember things you might want to do or say to them the next time you see them.
But for a long time doing that seemed "creepy and strange" is it?
IDK. I'm not naturally good with names but I do want to know who everyone is.
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@futurebird @blikkie when I was a teaching assistant I didn't start learning students' names until I had graded some of their written work. Like, I needed a little of their personality to hang the name on, somehow?
@futurebird @blikkie 400 hundred people is kinda at a maximum for what our Chimp designed brains can handle.
This is a good size for tribe or village.
After that face blurring sets in and bios scramble.
@futurebird I'm so terrible with names I struggle to truly learn most people's even among those I've worked with. In high school there was one year I even sat with the same people at lunch every day and I did not know a single one of their names.
Apparently they never noticed, lol.
@futurebird
my actual first name is too complicated for most people, and so it's hopeless. If I want people to remember the name, I have no choice but to tolerate some simplification.
@futurebird
Since I'm rather bad at remembering names, I'm pretty understanding when other people forget.
@futurebird I thought "almost always" and then I realized that if I *didn't* notice, I wouldn't know! So I said "It is complex". I'm sure people forget my name all the time, and we just don't interact enough for me to know that they do. Or they're good enough at faking it that I'm completely oblivious.
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@evan@cosocial.ca @futurebird@sauropods.win I'm very good at avoiding names by just structuring the conversation around it. I don't address you by name, instead using pronouns to address you. I'll pretend that I don't know your name for this reply. Most of the time it doesn't come up in conversation. You hear "Hey you!" and you don't immediately think "this person doesn't know my name". It's also incredibly easy to get someone to say their name in a conversation depending on circumstances. For instance with a lot of queer people I know who have a different preferred name from their legal name... It's entirely reasonable for me to ask "What name do you want this under?" and then go from there. Obviously if it's for a bar tab or something related to finances where it's their legal name/deadname that's not really helpful but if you find just the right thing to do it on they'll give you their preferred name.
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@evan@cosocial.ca @futurebird@sauropods.win i am very good at this. i once wrote an essay apologizing to a teacher I forgot the name of (literally while writing it) because I called her "Mrs Substitute" (the context behind that is an interesting one). I did not mention her by name once.
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I notice if they use my name an unusual amount. It's unsettling to me. Though I understand other people like it.
My mom called me the dog's name more often than the dog.
Dunno why, but my sister has the same thing and calls me her son's name, or she calls my nephew my name. They are simply similar.
In decades of retail I have had more names than I can name.
And I notice every time because it usually follows after I say "Hi, (acquaintaince with syllables and umlauts and angel horns that I remember how to pronounce) how ya been?"😆
I just notice everything. Not a bad thing being forgettable.
It's really hard for me to remember people's names, and I'm always surprised when people remember mine.
@futurebird I have the whitest forgetable names out there….that and Dick and Peter
@futurebird we've had to deal with people who just very carefully never use our name and come up with weird ways to say things to that end. they always seem to think they're being very creative about it but it's quite predictable.
so, yes, we notice. our experiences have given us practice at spotting it.
@futurebird I notice when they remember. That someone would forget seems so commonplace to as to be utterly unnoticeable.
*tbf, I am usually distracted at such times by my frustration & embarrassment at not remembering their name. While this is also very commonplace, I find it *extremely* noticable.
@futurebird I notice but I don't care because learning names is hard, shrug
@futurebird Yeah it's one of those things I became hyper-aware of after transitioning.
But most people just ask if they forget, which makes me happy. ☺️
@futurebird I'm generally good with names, but in my experience both in teaching and networking, people notice less if you remember their name and more if you remember other things about them, which has saved me a couple of times 😅
That said, I notice/feel a way about it a lot more if people are explicit about forgetting my name. I know it seems backwards! But I vastly prefer figuring it out during the convo or asking someone else after, over being told "sorry, who are you again?" to my face 😅
It is complex, and in this talk I will consider a few different scenarios.
Most of the time, I think I'm pretty oblivious. I probably assume that people who have known me a long time know my name and people I have recently met do not.
On occasion, I will notice that somebody has remembered my name and be impressed, because I did not expect them to remember my name. Maybe a tinge of guilt because I don't remember theirs.
I will also sometimes notice when somebody is trying to remember my name. I am most likely to notice this if they ask me to remind them what my name is.
Most people are better at learning names than me. I try to remember the names that I hear long enough to be able to rehearse them and connect them to facts about the person, but it takes me a while to get confident with remembered names.
@futurebird I notice, but it's super easy to forgive at the same time. We're all overloaded.
@futurebird I have a weird* name, I notice when people actually get it right, but wrong is par for the course
* statistically improbable for every culture I commonly encounter, including my own: it's not all consonants or a UUID or anything
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1) I often spend time around people who are comfortable saying "I'm sorry, I've forgotten your name." So I don't care, but I am aware of it. (I may not remember meeting them at all)
2) I notice when someone remembers my name on the first try after a big group introduction, because who DOES that?
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The neuro-spicy mess that is my brain doesn't like to remember names, and usually it doesn't, and when it does, it forgets them fairly quickly. I just warn people when we're introduced that I'll probably forget their names, and don't get offended, it's just me. When I write a novel, or even a short story, I just routinely create a "bible" of people and places in second open document, because otherwise, errors are almost certain.
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I never remember anyone forgetting my name. I always just assumed most other folks were really good at remembering names. But maybe I'm just oblivious when they forget. Or maybe I'm just quirky enough in some way to stand out pretty well in their memories.
Living in a retirement community, we have people here with such advanced dementia, they don’t even remember their spouse’s name.
We all have trouble with names here.
I despise my name, yet am glad when someone I respect remembers it.
It doesn’t bother me if they don’t.
I can be thinking about someone by name, remembering I haven’t seen them for a few days, then when they walk up with their walker, cannot remember their name. Just seconds having elapsed.
As an author, I should remember my characters names.
I have been pulled out of writing an intense scene, by forgetting the main character’s name!
So names are… difficult.
I don’t blame anyone for forgetting them.
Of course it doesn’t help when we have at least four people with three different common names, and two couples, with both spouses having near identical names.
@futurebird I may notice, but I also know there's huge variation in how good people are at name-memory or face-recognition or whatever.
I'm deaf, I'm poor at auditory only name memory. If I see a name written and associated with the face, I will remember the name very well.
I hope we can move to an acceptance that name/face/other memory is variable and it's OK to say "Remind me of your name" and that not be a shameful thing to ask.
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Perhaps a more informative question might have been, if you DO notice someone getting your name wrong, do you do anything about it? I probably face this more often than most, in that I go by my middle name "Steven" or "Steve" and not my first "James" which was and will always be my dad to me. Do not like to be called James, but I often tolerate it when the interaction is formal and transitory.
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I also suffer from people trying to spell my name "Stephen," and unfortunately, as a writer, this has happened to me repeatedly in print. Nothing more depressing than opening a magazine or seeing a book ad and I'm identified as "J. Stephen York." Or "Stephen J. York" or "Steven J. York" for that matter.
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Not sure if this is a stretch, but has anyone managed to get automated #captions (or CART) and shareable live #transcriptions working with the public #Jitsi Meet instance, even via a third-party app?
I'm not interested in self-hosting, and I'm open to paid solutions. I know that there are some services that offer a bot that you can invite into your meeting to transcribe, but the ones I've tried don't work with Jitsi (Iist in 🧵)
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Here's what I've tried so far (unsuccessfully):
- Fireflies: the bot was in the meeting and recording, but there was no live transcript
- OtterPilot
- Tactiq
- Krisp.ai
- Notta Bot
- Meeting Baas Trancript Seeker
- Speechnotes
- Reduct.video
I've used the Help/Contact feature to request Jitsi integrations for all these apps. In the meantime, still on the lookout...
Also looked into Jitsi as a Service (8x8), and that has captions, but it seems to be aimed at developers and app makers.
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I don't need AI summaries, topic tagging, chatbots that can query the notes, etc.
Just need an easy, automated way of generating captions that remote meeting participants can access in real time (no sign-in), and that can (ideally) be displayed alongside the meeting.
It can be...
- a bot I invite to the meeting,
- some kind of desktop app that connects to my mic directly
- a platform that I can livestream the meeting to, and that will display the transcript at a shareable link
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So far, after some days of testing, the only solutions I found are:
- Using a continuous voice typing keyboard app on my Android to transcribe into a Etherpad document, and sharing that.
- Livestreaming the Jitsi meeting to YouTube (auto-captions require 1k subscribers, though)
- Giving up on Jitsi, and just using Zoom / Google Meet / whatever else that has this out of the box
Also, if anyone *was* using Jitsi and moved to something else entirely, I'd love to hear about those experiences.
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Alrighty, I have a few more leads (because I'm still obsessing over this):
1. I discovered https://beta.meet.jit.si today, and this #Jitsi version has a "Subtitles" button. It only works if the person speaking is using a Chrome-ish browser, but will display on Firefox. That said, it only works for a few mins before failing...
Edit: Turns out I was at the right place at the right time lol, and they have no plans of offering subtitles in the hosted version (https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/15247)
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Screenshot of the beta Jitsi Meet interface, showing the extra toolbar options. The "Subtitles" button is highlighted.
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2. Another option could be to use #CaptionNinja: https://caption.ninja. It's a #WebCaptioner replacement, and only works on Chrome (and co). Caption Ninja is cool, though, because:
- it has a live feed that can be shared with others or added into #OBS as a browser source overlay thingie
- it seems pretty customizable (https://github.com/steveseguin/captionninja),
- it has a manual text entry mode (for stenographers?)
- can add speaker labels
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Caption Ninja can even do real-time auto translations (see demo GIF)
I'm not sure if it'll work alongside Jitsi, or if I would have to capture these captions and transcripts on separate devices... The ideal would still be to have captions and transcripts that can be toggled on and off within Jitsi.
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Update on my attempts to make #captions work for #Jitsi:
I've heard back from the following re: no plans to support Jitsi Meet: #OtterPilot, #MeetingBaas, #ReductVideo, Fireflies
#Tactiq said it's planned, but no timeline.
Tried reaching out to #8x8 for a quote, but they never followed up...
So far, my options are to run #CaptionNinja alongside Jitsi (free), or to embed a Jitsi-as-a-Service meeting iframe on a web page and enable captions (premium).
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Almost forgot another third, not so FOSS-y option: livestreaming to YouTube and making use of their automatic live captions (free).
In your stream settings, make sure:
- your video is set to "Normal latency"
- toggle "Closed captions" on
- if this is your first time streaming on YouTube, create the stream at least 24hrs before, because YT will put a delay on your first one
Livestreaming a Jitsi meeting to Peertube is also possible, but the captions only get added once the stream is complete.
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Screenshot from YouTube's livestream settings. Make sure your video is set to "Normal latency", and to toggle "Closed captions" on.
More instructions can be found here: https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-enable-youtube-auto-captions-live-streams/
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