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@mattly There's always the Wheaton's Law rule - don't be a dick.

@liztai @dalias I don't think it's as wide spread as the press makes it seem. And I've not seen huge crowds. It's just that the small gangs of thugs have all come out at the same time in multiple places.

I probably wouldn't want to be back in Bolton town centre right now (where I grew up). Although, as a white guy, I'd probably be safe as long as I didn't tell the bigots to fuck off with their regressive racist views!

@dalias @liztai I don't think the "protests" by the far-right have ever *not* been violent. But it was previously "I'm a drunken yob who thinks he can punch a few police officers because it's my right as an Englishman" and scuffles broke out. Now it's full-on broken windows and torching stuff.

I guess the election didn't help either. Now we have the Labour party in power for the first time in 14 years and they're not seeing their racist dreams in government manifestos and they don't like it.

@dalias @liztai Yeah, it's "I was a football hooligan and now I've been validated by Tory party/Reform UK/Daily Mail rhetoric and false promises of sunlit uplands after Brexit, and so I'm going to get violent and trash things because we haven't been taken back to a nostalgic pure white Britain that never actually existed".

What seems to have turned these occasional "protests" into more violent riots is apparently lies about the identity of a teenager who killed some kids and injured more.

Ugh. What is it with the state of desktop ebook readers?

Gnome Books: Dead.
Calibre: Clunky, heavy, ugly.
FBReader: Went closed-source and mostly abandoned Linux.
Bookworm: Poor filtering, poor sorting, paged library, only had translation updates in the last year.
Foliate: No real library management. No sorting.
Librum: Flatpack-only (also, C++ and QML). Appears to depend on a server. Has "AI tooling".
Lector: Crashes on launch.

#Linux #ebooks #epub

@thomasfuchs Generative AI seems to have an extended version of text embeddings in it (ChatGPT can do embeddings with more parameters than various HuggingFace models), so it has kind of encoded some semantics through that.

BUT it doesn't understand it. The same as a spreadsheet doesn't understand finances, even though it encodes transactions and amounts of currency.

@inthehands Was that not originally "QA/dev watching as the user uses the product"?

If your QA team aren't shoving everything in every hole then they need firing!

Whereas it's well known that users will find unexpected ways to interact with your device/app/website.

@thomasfuchs It felt like there were some very excited people on the first couple of days. Multiple "here's my demo app that's probably impractical for normal users, but I think it's an awesome interface".

And some "this floating screen and arm waving is the future of computer interfaces!" while ignoring the expense and inconvenience, and the trouble that a fit person like Tom Cruise had using the Minority Report interface for any length of time 😐

I'm not generally a fan of Dub Step (I prefer music over noise 😉) but I found this remix of Incubus's Stellar somewhere years ago and it's great 😁

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NIB6QvnudA

#Incubus #NuMetal #DubStep #Remix #Psymbionic

@kriswd40 The only reason to do triangle is because you're a shop boxing the sandwich and pretending that it's bigger and deeper filled than it really is!

Otherwise you're just leaving yourself with pointless floppy corners where the filling falls out more easily.

@mattly "If you know me then you'll know that I wouldn't install their app and so the lack of verification verified that it's me" 😁

@csepp @edri Nearly went to sign this.

Then remembered that the UK decided to disadvantage itself with Brexit and so it's not applicable to me and my voice probably doesn't count.

Instead, we'll get the Tories forcing through a more dangerous version on the back of trans panic, racism and the screams of the Daily Mail ?

Still trying to break that "EU means it applies to the UK" mindset ?