Nvidia se développe en France ? Vite, punissons-la !
L’intelligence artificielle progresse fortement et chaque semaine apporte son lot de nouvelles surprises et de nouveaux défis relevés par les principaux développeurs. ChatGPT vient par exemple de gagner de nouvelles fonctionnalités lui permettant de “voir” (c’est-à-dire d’analyser des images) et de “parler” (produire ses réponses avec une voix synthétique). Les premiers utilisateurs (privilégiés) qui ont […] ⌘ Read more
Thematic Book Series: How to Downsize a Transport Network?
Image: Book cover. [How to downsize a transport network?](https://www.lulu.com/shop/kris-de-decker/how-to-downsize-a-transport-network/paperback … ⌘ Read more
Announcing Docker Scout GA: Actionable Insights for the Software Supply Chain
We are excited to announce that Docker Scout General Availability (GA) now allows developers to continuously evaluate container images against a set of out-of-the-box policies, aligned with software supply chain best practices. These new capabilities also include a full suite of integrations enabling you to attain visibility from development into production. These updates strengthen Docker Scout’s position as integral to the software s … ⌘ Read more
How IKEA Standardizes Docker Images for Efficient Machine Learning Model Deployment
Learn the vital role Docker plays in MLOps (machine learning operations) at IKEA. We explore how Docker and Seldon-Core work together to turn a convoluted task into a streamlined, agile operation, and how you can harness real-time metrics for profound insights. ⌘ Read more
** Updates from the end of summer **
Today was the last real day of summer for us. Tomorrow the kids go back to school.
You know those last few weeks before the dark of autumn — the ones that hold the last bursts of summer? Those days where you try to squeeze in as many chill summer vibes as humanly possible?
I’ve bee … ⌘ Read more
Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries
Image: a laptop running on direct solar power. Photo: Marie Verdeil.
Conventional solar installations do not question our dependence on fossil fuels and the energy-guzzling lifestyle that results. Both rooftop solar panels and … ⌘ Read more
@New_scientist@feeds.twtxt.net because of course they have.
Emily Bender, a computational linguistic and excellent critic of this generative AI nonsense, uses an analogy of an oil spill to characterize what is happening as a result of generative AI. It’s polluting the world with false information, false images, false “academic” articles, false books. The companies that create this stuff are not cleaning up their misinformation spill; they’re letting the mess spread all over. It’s being used to commit crimes, and that’ll only get worse. Just like an out of control oil spill will destroy entire ecosystems.
Thematic Book Series: How to Build a Low-tech Internet?
Image: Book cover. How to build a low-tech internet?, Kris De Decker, 16 … ⌘ Read more
New hobby:
folding my fingers in weird ways when being photographed - such that people will double-take and guess that the image was made by a diffusion model. ⌘ Read more
Container Security and Why It Matters
Container security is the process of using relevant toolings to protect your images from malware and vulnerabilities.
We look at security for containers in a scalable environment and how Docker can help. ⌘ Read more
The Story of Space Imaging with Carolyn “Madam Saturn” Porco & Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more
Why Are There More Than 100 Million Pull Requests for AI/ML Images on Docker Hub?
We look more closely at how Docker provides a powerful tool for AI/ML development. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Effortlessly Extract Data from Websites with Crawly YML
The workflowSo in our ideal world scenario, it should work in the following way:
- Pull Crawly Docker image from DockerHub.
- Create a simple configuration file.
- Start it!
- Create a spider via the YML interface.
The detailed documentation and the example can be found on HexDocs here: [https://hexdocs.pm/crawly/spiders_in_yml.html#content](https://hexdocs.pm/crawly/spiders_in_yml.html#c … ⌘ Read more
Using Docker Desktop and JFrog Artifactory for the Enterprise
Learn how to configure Docker Desktop to work with JFrog Artifactory as your Docker registry to manage the push and pull of container images. ⌘ Read more
Human Powered Air Compressor and Energy Storage System
Image: Human powered air compressor and energy storage system. Photo by Andy Lagzdins.
When I look around my motorcycle shop, pneumatic tools are everywhere. From handheld … ⌘ Read more
An official FBI document dated January 2021, obtained by the American association “Property of People” through the Freedom of Information Act.

This document summarizes the possibilities for legal access to data from nine instant messaging services: iMessage, Line, Signal, Telegram, Threema, Viber, WeChat, WhatsApp and Wickr. For each software, different judicial methods are explored, such as subpoena, search warrant, active collection of communications metadata (“Pen Register”) or connection data retention law (“18 USC§2703”). Here, in essence, is the information the FBI says it can retrieve:
Apple iMessage: basic subscriber data; in the case of an iPhone user, investigators may be able to get their hands on message content if the user uses iCloud to synchronize iMessage messages or to back up data on their phone.
Line: account data (image, username, e-mail address, phone number, Line ID, creation date, usage data, etc.); if the user has not activated end-to-end encryption, investigators can retrieve the texts of exchanges over a seven-day period, but not other data (audio, video, images, location).
Signal: date and time of account creation and date of last connection.
Telegram: IP address and phone number for investigations into confirmed terrorists, otherwise nothing.
Threema: cryptographic fingerprint of phone number and e-mail address, push service tokens if used, public key, account creation date, last connection date.
Viber: account data and IP address used to create the account; investigators can also access message history (date, time, source, destination).
WeChat: basic data such as name, phone number, e-mail and IP address, but only for non-Chinese users.
WhatsApp: the targeted person’s basic data, address book and contacts who have the targeted person in their address book; it is possible to collect message metadata in real time (“Pen Register”); message content can be retrieved via iCloud backups.
Wickr: Date and time of account creation, types of terminal on which the application is installed, date of last connection, number of messages exchanged, external identifiers associated with the account (e-mail addresses, telephone numbers), avatar image, data linked to adding or deleting.
TL;DR Signal is the messaging system that provides the least information to investigators.
** summer’s lease hath all too short a date **
After the excitement of last summer I was hopeful for a chill one this year. So far, so good.
We visited the island where we used to live and started our family. We saw a few friends, and visited some fa … ⌘ Read more
Rebuilding a Solar Powered Website
A screenshot of the markdown file for this page.
During the last months we have been working on switching the solar powered website from one static site generator (Pelican) to another (Hugo). Many readers will not notice the changes right away, as we have not made any major adj … ⌘ Read more
Make your GitHub projects more accessible with accessibility-alt-text-bot
The accessibility-alt-text-bot leaves automated reminders in a comment when a user shares an image without providing meaningful alt text. ⌘ Read more
Tobacco industry to face tougher restrictions by 2025 under planned laws
Health warnings on individual cigarettes and new graphic images on cigarette packets are among changes the federal government plans to introduce. ⌘ Read more
I setup Joplin with caddy as the WebDAV server. Works okay. The e2e encryption can get messed up sometimes. Supports markdown and images.
Gajim: Gajim 1.8.0
Gajim 1.8.0 comes with integrated OMEMO encryption! Integrating the OMEMO plugin brings tighter integration and better user experience. We also rearranged the chat menu and added some quick buttons for convenience. Both Gajim’s message search and conversation view received some important changes and fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!
In the past, we moved the most popular plugins into Gajim’s core: image preview, plugin installer, HTTP file upload, syntax highligh … ⌘ Read more
160% Year-over-Year Growth in Pulls of Red Hat’s Universal Base Image on Docker Hub
Docker and Red Hat celebrate a substantial year-over-year increase in Red Hat Universal Base Image pulls on Docker Hub. ⌘ Read more
Metadata from a single picture can destroy your privacy
What someone can learn from your Image EXIF Metadata, and how to secure your photos ⌘ Read more
Kaidan: Kaidan 0.9: End-to-End Encryption & XMPP Providers
It’s finally there: Kaidan with end-to-end encryption via OMEMO 2, Automatic Trust Management and support of XMPP Providers!
Most of the work has been funded by NLnet via NGI Zero PET and NGI Assure with [public … ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net @carsten@yarn.zn80.net
(1) You go to the store and buy a microwave pizza. You go home, put it in the microwave, heat it up. Maybe it’s not quite the way you like it, so you put some red pepper on it, maybe some oregano.
Are you a pizza chef? No. Do we know what your cooking is like? Also no.
(2) You create a prompt for StableDiffusion to make a picture of an elephant. What pops out isn’t quite to your liking. You adjust the prompt, tweak it a bunch, till the elephant looks pretty cool.
Are you an artist? No. Do we know what your art is like? Also no.
The elephant is “fake art” in a similar sense to how a microwave pizza is “fake pizza”. That’s what I meant by that word. The microwave pizza is a sort of “simulation of pizza”, in this sense. The generated elephant picture is a simulation of art, in a similar sense, though it’s even worse than that and is probably more of a simulacrum of art since you can’t “consume” an AI-generated image the way you “consume” art.
An option would be to have /twtxt.txt be the base functionality as bukket intended without subject tags, markdown, images and such truncated to 140 chars. a /yarn.txt that has all the extentions as we know and love. and maybe a /.well-known/webfinger + (TBD endpoint) that adds on the crypto enhancements that further extend things.
The XMPP Standards Foundation: Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023
Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023 - _Source: Wiki Commons, Container terminals in port of Hamburg_
A new sprint is being organised within the XMPP Community: The Elbe-Sprint Hamburg!
We will have several days of good and fruitful exchange … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Normalizing Image Type and Size https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/05/file-type-size.html #linux #programming #techtips
Low-tech Magazine: The Comic
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**RT by @mind_booster: My new hobby: finding public domain images that Getty sells for $500, locating hi-rez scans of their original publications, cropping and cleaning them up, adding metadata, and uploading them to Wikimedia Commons.
First one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fig_6_Le_Telephone_by_T_De_Moncel_Paris_1878.png**
My new hobby: finding public domain images that Getty sells for $500, locating hi-rez scans of their original publications, cropping and cleaning them up, adding metadata, and uplo … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Translations everywhere!
Two months ago, we started using Transifex as a platform that can be easily used by anyone to provide projects for our projects, like Openfire and Spark.
It is great to see that new translations are pouring in! In the last few months, more than 20,000 translated words have been provided by our community!
[![image](https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/uploads/default/origina … ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net this description is applicable. As with PH.D so with this hyper focus.
10 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Codespaces
Unlock the full potential of GitHub Codespaces with these 10 tips and tricks! From generating AI images to running self-guided coding workshops, discover how to optimize your software development workflow with this powerful tool. ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP at Google Summer of Code 2023
XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023
The XSF has been accepted again as hosting organisation at the Google Summer of Code 2023!
Now both students and open-source newcomers are invited to consider and review a participation and
prepare for the application phase. We would like to invite you to review XMPP … ⌘ Read more
The impending first era of AI
There’s an article in WSJ about the imminent ‘AI Boom’ and how a couple of companies, the ones that have already been both enabling and controlling our existence, to a large extent, are bound to become even more powerful. It’s interesting to ‘see’ the interplay if you’ve been working in computing technology for the past decade or so. Christopher Mims, the author of the WSJ article, posits that the computing requirements of large language models, latent text-to-image diffus … ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: 🇬🇧 Users in the UK will no longer be able to share or see images of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats.
Under a new #OnlineSafetyBill amendment, online platforms will have to proactively remove such content.
Read more from @OpenRightsGroup: https://edri.org/our-work/the-uk-will-treat-online-images-of-immigrants-crossing-the-channel-as-a-criminal-offence/
🇬🇧 Users in the UK will no longer be able to share or see images of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats.
Under a new [#Onl … ⌘ Read more
image of the man in the blue overall “I like the schizo Altman arc”
Yet another AI application
AI is currently finding its way more and more into various software. There is ChatGPT, which sometimes feels like an all-knowing human, DeepL uses artificial intelligence not only for its translator, but also for its new tool that improves written text, or Bunny.net provides an API to generate images “on the edge”. ⌘ Read more
Time Domain Audio Compression at 3.2 bits per Sample
Audio formats typically fall into one of three categories: “lossless”,
“complicated” or “bad”. After developing a
simple image format
last year, I tried to come up with an audio format that fits neither of these
categories.
In other words: a format that is lossy, simple and quite ok.
Naturally, it’s called QOA — the Quite OK Audio Format.
![Comparison of Audio Codecs](/content/assets/qoa-comparison-char … ⌘ Read more