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Gustavo

@qgustavor@urusai.social

mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitch

Grammar nazis are welcome to point out any typos and other mistakes in my toots: I still have a lot to learn!

Header picture from Stella no Mahou's chapter 75. I may take days to answer messages. I block people who mass follow people: no way those are human or want to have human interactions here.

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Joined January 23, 2023

GitHub:

https://github.com/qgustavor

Pronouns:

he/him

Keyoxide:

https://keyoxide.org/aspe:keyoxide.org:NZYNEROADL76DMS7SAKHS6Z5EQ

Signal:

https://signal.me/#eu/IRvCPi0rPBIpa3MCO7I4ixdDXcL44VAumqdfnGjtWDvgccTRV-lD66kvycc1PQpZ

Website:

https://qgustavor.github.io/

Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mitchellh The more people I see exiting from GitHub, the more I hope people write guides on doing so. At the moment, the thing that's making it hard for me is GitHub Actions, which I use a lot. Also, I wish I could find an alternative to pr-release that works with Codeberg. :HoloHmmm:

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

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@randahl@mastodon.social My client reminded me. It defaults to warning if I try boosting something without alt text. :zerotwoshrug:

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

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@hacknorris@mstdn.social @NullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place JS, TS, Python, Ada, Brainfuck, C, LISP, PHP, COBOL, Rust, Java, Kotlin... the list goes on, I'm thrilled for this series!

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@GayDeceiver Oh, that's exactly the kind of event the mens group in my church looks like. :Lewds:

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 4mo ago

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@webhat@infosec.exchange @selzero@syzito.xyz I'm mostly discussing the alt text culture here, it looks more virtue signaling over actual helping people. Like, if you take the HTML specification, it says: "The most general rule to consider when writing alternative text is the following: the intent is that replacing every image with the text of its alt attribute does not change the meaning of the page." Adding an accurate description of who is talking in the video ALONE doesn't work for that. A transcript would be more useful for that. I say the visual description of who's talking is mostly irrelevant, but that's subjective.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 4mo ago

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@jwz@mastodon.social @TTimo@mastodon.social Just mute the thread. People will do that even if you say otherwise. And that's why I guess people should migrate to… Edit: jokes aside, humans are social beings, some people will be affected by this change, some will ask for help, some will try to help. Just saying you don't care for their problem will make them not care for yours too. What I recommend for next time: make a reply "Everyone wanting to help or looking for help, please reply to this message!" then mute the thread. IIRC I saw this trick (or something like this) on some subreddits.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 4mo ago

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@signalapp@mastodon.world I hope you support some kind of optional verification in Keyoxide style. E.g. "this Signal account verified they control this Mastodon account and this website", but with better wording so people don't just set up lookalike accounts and websites, but it still works to deter impersonation. The main reason I use Keyoxide is because I got impersonated in Wordpress.org blogs (which do not provide any kind of authentication). AFAIK the only way to prevent that in that platform is using PGP signed messages, which are cumbersome, or using plugins that require login, which are annoying.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io Is it sad that TODAY the sole reason it exists is this one. It's not efficient for anti-bot protection. But back in time it was a way to crowdsource transcriptions of texts that were hard for a machine to read. I wish there were alternatives that were still focused on helping others! Lots of CPU-time is spent with POW algorithms that could be spent solving actual problems. Lots of human time is spent with CAPTCHAs that serve only to train AIs or provide a weak anti-bot protection instead of helping people. Balancing difficulty is a hard problem: original reCAPTCHA had two words, one unknown and other known, which limits how challenges can be constructed. We can't just make a "write the alt text of those two images" challenge or "select which alt texts match this image".

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

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@randahl@mastodon.social If someone needs alt text, I'm not a good writer, but that's just a screenshot of the website with an arrow pointing to the new follow button.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@gerrymcgovern Reminds me of an old client of mine that had an issue: people were calling to them asking for their competitor. Turns out that Google's AI gave their number as their competitor just because Instagram showed one of their posts next to a post of their competitor. So "intelligent".

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

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@infobeautiful I wonder why people are not pushing hard against districts? I say that, but here I'm trying to find people to improve our voting system which also incentives polarization and everyone I find is either "yeah, we are trying to push [insert worse idea here]" or "that's hopeless".

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@iFixit The reason I got my current phone is because my old phone's battery died and the replacement didn't work (the battery went puffy puffy). I'm looking for a new phone in future not due to the battery, but software updates. I could try a new ROM, but there is a lot to consider, like, one of my banks is a snowflake, if you enable developer mode it stops working (which is annoying as hell because I develop Android apps). It's pretty much government backed malware. I can leave this phone just for the bank (and just it) and get a new one for the security updates and nice things.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@lina It is great to see people talking about this. Last time I posted something related people were eager to dismiss the issue.:Brookeno:

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@joelle if it was for helping the disabled there would be great projects that would have succeeded, like Project Naptcha. The only thing that went ok from that project is Tesseract.js, the accessibility part of it still doesn't work.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 4mo ago

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@webhat@infosec.exchange @selzero@syzito.xyz To be fair, this is a instance where the "alt text" seems weird. Like, does it matter if he is white or where he is? If it was a picture of him with what he said overlaid in text, should someone describe his appearance or just the text? I don't think his appearance is important at all here, that's not the important part of the message. He could be a black guy in a podcast and it would not matter at all. But then, should a transcription of the video be the alt text? Maybe, but some people might think "why?". After all, people can hear him, there are subtitles too. Maybe for the braille users?

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place same for people editing posts to incite rage via bait and switch

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@Igigog@mastodon.gamedev.place @jacqueline@chaos.social They sure will use AI for those changes, so, uptime and safety will suffer.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@HailsandAles@metalhead.club You should visit some mom and pop sandwich restaurants in my city: some of them have some that are so large that they are meant to be shared with two or more people.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@admiralwonderboat@mastodon.social If I translate this comic to mom I will have to switch the references from Dr. Seuss (and others I didn't get) to Brazilian authors, otherwise she will never get the joke. :Kurukurupa:

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 4mo ago

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@lina@vt.social Maybe that's just outdated info from when they didn't have a good RGB-only model and had to rely on the depth camera. This reminds of "the dead of the power user" blog post I just read: people are not doing research, they are not trying to understand how things work anymore.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@0xabad1dea Does creating a weights.bin folder work? In case someone has issues setting permissions. (I repeat the same thing I said the entire day: let's not use Chrome! But I love breaking applications with this folder trick.)

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@smitten_ @infobeautiful I mean, here it doesn't exist, so this idea just feels alien to me. Like, IIRC don't the reasons for it to exist exist anymore?

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@itsfoss The software I use at work is Windows only. Fine. But on a Steam Deck?!?

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@NatureMC That's on me, I'm too serious today :HoloLaugh: @alterelefant @odiseo79 @dotjayne

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Alice It reminds me that every mom and pop sandwich stand here calls cheeseburger as x-burger. Which is weird, because people pronounce the burger properly, but they pronounce the X not as ekcs but as... cheese.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@reverseics Well, the server from the last company I worked for only has the root user with password authentication over port 22, so I guess they are safe.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@neil More likely that they will ban camera-based verification (or just it alone) and companies will switch to something more abusive.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@jwz@mastodon.social @TTimo@mastodon.social What are you going to do? Block me? Go ahead. :aquajiji:

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@Yuvalne@433.world @signalapp@mastodon.world So you wouldn't want verification of public identities in Signal? Isn't that exactly the problem of people impersonating Signal? The two verifications don't exclude each other. Make it optional, not everyone has a public identity that needs to be verified, but for those who have, it's important. Also, safety numbers? No one checks them. Maybe you and tech people, but never in my life did someone check others' numbers but me. Even with those numbers people apply scams every single day working around that: "hey, I got a new number! i broke my old phone!" "ok!" then some days later "I'm broke! can you send me some money?". It happens every single day! Even with security numbers! Would an optional identify verification fix that? No. Would it improve in some cases? Yes.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@warandpeas@mastodon.social Weirdly, no cats I find ever care about laser pointers (actually, my laser tape measure when I'm working and I find a stray cat).

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@AzulCrescent@tech.lgbt i know im biased because i got my gf after decades of being single, so I'M ROOTING FOR YOU, GIRL!

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

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@davidgerard People are using LLMs for that? My VSCodium does that without LLMs!

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@campuscodi@mastodon.social Why no one is pointing out why Google is pushing local AI on Chrome? One, so developers use it because it is the shiny new thing that will solve a lot of issues™ and blame users they are not using Chrome when this feature doesn't work in other browsers. Two, it should be local because developers should use it free of charge. The user should pay the electricity bills. It doesn't mean that this data will stay on the device: they will likely send samples of user data for training. The important part of being local is that it should be free and induce developers to use the feature. Soon they will start advertising it to developers like water "you can use AI on your website free of charge*!!!"

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@MrLovenstein@mastodon.social Is a 10 bucks burger too expensive there? A Big Mac here is around 6,50 USD (alone, Big Mac for the Big Mac Index), my favourite mom n' pop burger is 2,45 (with a soda) and an expensive one at a shopping mall exquisite restaurant would be 9,37 (with fries)... Yes, it is expensive.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

How hard is it to implement ranked voting in #Mastodon? I participated of a vote today and I wish I could choose a second option (which, accidentally, was the winner of the vote).

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@NatureMC Are we in a pedantic thread? Is the garbage from AI power plants their excrement? @alterelefant @odiseo79 @dotjayne

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Seveadon Does it work the other way out? BTW my computer accepts input through the headphone output. You can choose how each port works in the settings. Just tried. Seems like a hack Realtek made to accept input on devices just only a headphone jack.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

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@MissConstrue Source for "And, the browser doesn’t use it, it ships queries to google cloud. It exists only so they can say it’s ‘local’."? This says otherwise: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/built-in/overview

Built-in AI | AI in Chrome | Chrome for Developers

Chrome for Developers

Built-in AI | AI in Chrome | Chrome for Developers

Built-in AI brings powerful models client-side, so you can offer AI features to users, while protecting sensitive data and improving latency.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu The pose of the girl seems uncomfortable :HoloHmmm:

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 4mo ago

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@placebo@mastodon.ie @Natanox@chaos.social @mcv @jacqueline@chaos.social @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de if anything, I hope donations increase and people write guides on how to migrate to them. I'm stuck at GitHub because I use a lot of their Actions for NPM deploying. NPM made it harder to deploy from Codeberg claiming "security reasons", reducing token durations a lot and providing an alternative authentication method which isn't compatible with Codeberg, so I will have to find another distribution platform for my projects. The best option I found until now is distributing using HTTP and Grebedoc, but it has lots of drawbacks.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange While I understand the correct context, this sounds like advise to data hoarders. :fuminodepression:

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Seveadon The thing is: I'm looking for low-budget options. Reason: I'm looking about this more for small churches I play sometimes (often less than 10 members actively contributing, so the DAC you showed costs more than the entire budget of most of them). But I also want one for myself: I'm building a wireless MIDI controller (MIDI over BLE, I checked latency and it's good) from a 90s keyboard that's sounding really bad so I need a reliable way to connect a laptop to the mixer. In this case it doesn't need to be too cheap, as it's a long time project, I can make a reserve or pay installments.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@fesshole@mastodon.social I'm impressed they didn't reply with "AI generated, obvious scam" and kept lying to themself they didn't anything wrong.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

IIRC the first big things I bought after I moved from my parents were a bed and a refrigerator. To be fair, I got those on sale: they both had defects. :HoloGrumble:

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@beyondmachines1 While I understand the privacy issue, I wish there were good privacy aware alternatives. For Google Home, there are many that use local keyword detection and local voice recognition with Home Assistant. From what I saw, it works wonders (if you get the right hardware). But for Android? The best I found is an app that requires a persistent notification for the hot word to work. AFAIK Google crippled Android so they are the only ones that can build an app with efficient hot word detection "for security reasons". And no custom ROMs seem to have fixed that or developed alternatives ( including @GrapheneOS ... YET ).

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@b0rk_reruns@social.jvns.ca When I started coding as a kid the language I learned was weird: x * y / z and x / z * y didn't yield the same result. To be fair, I'm sure the reason was because it didn't use floating numbers but integers, but as a kid it annoyed me, I didn't understand why it wasn't working.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

I FINALLY COMPLETED TILING FOREST! :whitejump2:

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

I checked a torrent I uploaded in Nyaa years ago: it has more seeders than the original translation I based on.

Sure, I improved upon the original translation in some ways, but I have to consider something really important:

Maybe the first time people are watching this anime is no longer the old subjectively bad translation, but the one I made.

Not that I think "wow, I made history", it's a terrible anime, I just fixed typesetting, added a second language track, added some fansubber jokes and made it work more like the original DVD rather than a butchered rip from someone with little ripping knowledge.

But I still like that it might be the case.

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Gustavo @qgustavor@urusai.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@signalapp if you start asking for email, you know you will get A LOT of deltachat fans to make jokes about it, right? (not saying that email is a solution for this, but whatsapp started asking for an email for "security reasons", so delta fans mocked them)

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