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@me is this is a way to give Mozilla more money they can waste on LLM bullshit nobody wants, or does it actually support someone working on actually useful features users actually want?
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@me is this is a way to give Mozilla more money they can waste on LLM bullshit nobody wants, or does it actually support someone working on actually useful features users actually want?
@oblomov No it will probably go towards some random service they'll launch or buy and then kill off a year or two later.
No money is allowed to go directly to Firefox development. That'd seemingly break some unwritten rule of our universe.
Regardless, I picked up a shirt and stickers because I still like promoting Firefox and Firefox-based browsers like Zen (which is the biggest contributor to most at my work migrating -- replacing their use of Arc). The less Chromium in the world, the better.
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@potatomeow@fosstodon.org the blog itself could be a Group, and your account as the Person.
That's one way you can set up a WordPress install.
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@j12t@j12t.social I had a chance to read @ben@werd.social's position statement and it was so well written that it pretty much encapsulates everything I feel about how to grow the open social web 🙂
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@thedarkknight257@mastodon.social it's simple, but it's so vague and underspecified in some places. But that's why there's a working group making it better 🙂
It excites me that I'm building software on the forefront of open social tech.
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Ddl buongiorno: mobilitazione nazionale a livello territoriale domenica 15 febbraio. manifestazione nazionale a roma sabato 28 febbraio
@anarchia
Per contrastare il ddl Bongiorno nasce il collettivo ‘Consenso-scelta-libertà’ composto da Associazione Nazionale Volontarie del Telefono Rosa, Casa Internazionale
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@Ryoma123 fumetti in spagnolo. Sui torrent è pieno.
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l’IA sta falsando sondaggi e ricerche online?
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British Museum removes the term #Palestine from certain Middle East exhibits
The museum told The Jerusalem Post that the term Palestine no longer holds a neutral designation and may be understood in reference to political territory.
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Removing the BIOS Administrator Password on a ThinkPad Takes Timing
This would be a bad time to slip. (Credit: onionboots, YouTube)
In the olden days, an administrator password on a BIOS was a mere annoyance, one quickly remedied by powering off the system and pulling its CMOS battery or moving a jumper around. These days, you’re more likely to find a separate EEPROM on the mainboard that preserves the password. This, too, is mostly just another annoyance, as [onionboots] knew. All it takes is shorting out this EEPROM at the right time to knock it offline, with the ‘right time’ turning out to be rather crucial.While refurbishing this laptop for a customer, he thought it’d be easy: the guide he found said he just had to disassemble the laptop to gain access to this chip, then short out its reset pin at the right time to make it drop offline and keep it shorted. Important here is that you do not short it when you are still booting the system, or it won’t boot. This makes for some interesting prodding of tiny pins with a metal tool.
What baffled him was that although this method worked, and he could now disable the password, on the next boot, it would be enabled again. As it turns out, to actually save the new supervisor password status to the EEPROM, you should stop shorting its pin, else you cannot write to it. Although the guide said to keep shorting it, this was, in hindsight, a clear case of relying too much on instructions and less on an obvious deduction. Not like any of us are ever guilty of such an embarrassing glitch, natch.
At any rate, it was still infinitely faster than trying to crack such a password with a brute-force method, even if helped by an LLM.
