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panzi··on Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake
I see. Good to know!
panzi··on Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake
What's wrong with using the title attribute for accessibility?
panzi··on Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
Also it's a different story intranationally for those of us who live in countries with much more restrictive/no fair use. Are you geolocking your software to the USA?
panzi··on A directory of people who love RSS
Yeah, or people/websites calling short looping MPEG4 videos (even with audio) GIFs.
panzi··on A directory of people who love RSS
Things that I noticed when I had a look at it: Atom supports multiple authors, RSS doesn't. Some say just separate them with commas, but readers don't understand that and it's all broken. Also Atom supports archive links for pagination to older entries. Some use the atom namespace inside of RSS to use archive links. No idea if there are feed readers that don't support Atom, but do support Atom tags inside of RSS.
panzi··on GCC steering committee announces AI policy
Not just when it reproduces code. Since fair use doesn't exist like that in a lot of countries the question is if the training itself is a violation. Are there e.g. EU or Japanese rulings on that?
panzi··on Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
Yes, and JavaScript itself is JITed. I used interpreted here as a shorthand for interpreted and/or JIT compiled at runtime.
panzi··on KOReader
I love the discoverability of blender in the sense that I can hit space and start typing the name of the thing I want to do and run it from there while it shows me in what menu I could find it and what shortcut to use. And next space it remembers the last thing I ran so to repeat it its even faster.

This requires however to remember the name of the command (or parts of it). I often remember that but not where to find it or the shortcut.

It also requires that you chose the spacebar search option, which is the only correct option if you ask me. (Not a pro. Just messing around with blender sometimes.)

panzi··on Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
Either it is only accepting a subset of TypeScript, or it is still interpreting the parts that don't have enough types. Given other comments here it sounds like the later.
panzi··on Show HN: Millwright – Rust-based, self-hosted LLM router
- I don't like to burn down the planet.

- I don't want to make myself dependant on a company from a foreign nation if I can help it.

- I want to keep the ability to use my own brain, especially given that they still are massively undercharging. So once they would start to charge the real price and my brain is gone I would have no choice and it would ruin me (I don't make that much money).

- I am very suspicious about the legal situation. How is it legal to generate software based on other software while not adhering to any license agreement? Don't say "fair use", the American government made sure that doesn't exist outside of the USA.

- I'm not your grandma.

And for outside of programming where you can't easily recognize when something is hallucinated accuracy is a huge issue. When I use Google its AI answers are often complete nonsense. I usually ignore them. Only sometimes notice the nonsense.

panzi··on Show HN: Millwright – Rust-based, self-hosted LLM router
Personally I don't use LLMs, so I wonder what this kind of router is good for? Why not just a library?
panzi··on Firefox 153.0 Beta
So it's old enough already in Europe.
panzi··on Blender 5.2 LTS
Are you confusing Blender with some other software? Blender is free and open source software. People donate to it because they 1) want to support the project and 2) have the money. If you don't have the money you just don't donate.
panzi··on Germany maybe found a new source of renewable energy
Here a German podcast episode not about this publication, but in general about geothermal power in Germany: https://erdeumwelt.podigee.io/11-erdwarme

If you speak German it's very interesting. Sounds like we should build more geothermal power plants.

panzi··on The PDF, or How a Useful Idea Became Everybody Else's Problem
About 90° rotated tables: Sometimes only the text in the headers are rotated. Sometimes not to 90°, but some arbitrary value.

And then there are digital signatures. 5 years ago I looked into automatically verifying signed documents. Either there are multiple competing standards on how to sign a PDF or my government (Austria) just invented their own for the heck of it. Could not figure out to verify those signatures. Our government provides a website where you can upload such a PDF so they verify it for you. Yeah, sure. Nice try. The source of the website is open, but it is the kind of abstracted factory heavy Java where I couldn't figure out where it all happens. It doesn't happen in one place, but multiple abstract places and at some point I just gave up trying to reverse engineer how it is done. The signatures I calculated never matched.

panzi··on Prefer strict tables in SQLite
I also want to be able to debug the database in an SQL console with nice looking date-times.
panzi··on Prefer strict tables in SQLite
Well, I would also like a proper datetime/timestamp datatype that isn't just a string.
panzi··on Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
I am interested in programming language topics and I certainly have heard of Odin and have seen a couple of interviews with Ginger Bill. Same with Zig, Rust, Jai, C++ etc. I haven't used much of these (only C++ and Rust out of these), though. But I find that stuff interesting.
panzi··on Winamp Skin Museum
Yeah, back in the day I made myself one from screenshots of the in-game GUI of Chrono Trigger. It wasn't very good, but hey, it was mine!
panzi··on Winamp Skin Museum
Even Linux DEs have it less now than they used to, but there are renewed efforts to bring a better universal theming engine to KDE at least.

It's more difficult now than it was back then for KDE I guess, because with Qt Widgets, QML, and Plasma you basically have three times as much to support in a theme/theming engine. And then back in the day better KDE themes also provided themes for Gtk, so that Gtk apps integrated nicely. How many concurrent Gtk versions are now used that you would all have to support? And sometimes (especially non-Qt programs) take some colors from the theme, but not others, breaking everything when you want to customize your theme (you get e.g. black text on black background). So I appreciate the renewed effort, but I'm not holding my breath.

panzi··on JSON-LD explained for personal websites
And then there is https://schema.org/ It's the item* attributes, e.g.: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/... Also Dublin Core in <meta> tags. Why do they keep adding conflicting meta data formats to HTML!?!
panzi··on .gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git
Python packages aren't quite so insane on transitive dependencies. The diff of package-lock.json can be novel length.
panzi··on Not everyone is using AI for everything
or for anything
panzi··on Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely
I mean the animated graphics and some other hackery going on when you try to zoom. It thinks to detect a different scroll position and jumps to a different slide. Also means you can't convert it to a PDF or print it, if you want to (though I wouldn't want to do that).
panzi··on Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely
The animated graphics are fancy, but can anyone with a screen reader tell us how that "looks" to them? The graphics are all one SVG mixed together with different parts set to opacity: 0. The accessibility tree in Firefox gives you all the labels randomly mixed together. If that is how people with screen reader "see" it, its unusable.

Maybe make the graphic aria-hidden and add an empty tag with aria-description (or other kind of tag only screen readers see) describing the current graphic to each slide.

panzi··on Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely
While I'm not that against to such a web page (when viewing it on a monitor, not a phone) I'd say follow these points:

• Don't hijack any browser functionality. Scrolling shall scroll the document, the end.

• Don't scale something to the screen size, breaking zoom! Especially don't do it so that when zooming causes a different scroll position and then it all jumps to a different slide. WTF!

• Make it accessible!

If you want to make flashy graphics and animations make a game. That is not meant as to belittle games, I love games.

panzi··on GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)
It's the wrong way around. If we get AGI (or any well working AI) before we abandon capitalism it's going to be a huge disaster. A handful of even richer even more powerful very greedy people will have all the wealth and everyone else will have nothing. I mean, there was a WW3 in Star Trek, so maybe it was that path that humanity took in Star Trek anyway?
panzi··on Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
We have the same saying in German: Operation erfolgreich, Patient tot.
panzi··on Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses
How many ships does Meta have?
panzi··on GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
On one hand yes, sandbox everything. On the other the extensions still can change your code which you then run. Though you might only run it in a container at first.

I heared zed sandboxes extensions. I should have a look at that editor some day.

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