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Vinnl

23,938 karmajoined 10 anni fa
I work for Mozilla, and volunteer for two projects:

- Solid, Tim Berners-Lee's new set of standards that aims to give people control over their data. See https://solidproject.org

- Plaudit, a project aimed at making more research freely available. (This is why you will often see me showing up in threads about Open Access.) See https://plaudit.pub

Blog: https://vincenttunru.com

Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@VincentTunru

Email: [email protected]

Submissions

Briar Is in Maintenance Mode

briarproject.org
4 points·by Vinnl·l’altro ieri·0 comments

Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further

spectrum.ieee.org
349 points·by Vinnl·23 giorni fa·84 comments

Europe's Growing Rift with Trump Ensnares a $115M Tech Deal

nytimes.com
2 points·by Vinnl·mese scorso·1 comments

Six Million Selections Later: How the DMA Is Giving People Browser Choice

blog.mozilla.org
1 points·by Vinnl·2 mesi fa·0 comments

Chrome looks set to ship an LLM Prompt API to the web. We oppose this API

mastodon.social
24 points·by Vinnl·2 mesi fa·1 comments

Trump Said Congestion Pricing Would Make Manhattan a 'Ghost Town.' He Was Wrong

nytimes.com
4 points·by Vinnl·4 mesi fa·0 comments

Independent Browser Engines Matter

blog.mozilla.org
4 points·by Vinnl·4 mesi fa·0 comments

US subpoenaed tech companies for messages with EU officials that enforce the DSA

waag.social
7 points·by Vinnl·4 mesi fa·0 comments

How to protect your privacy at a protest

proton.me
5 points·by Vinnl·4 mesi fa·0 comments

US algorithms judging EU travellers not excluded in draft data deal

euractiv.com
5 points·by Vinnl·5 mesi fa·0 comments

Dutch regulators block access to Polymarket over illegal gambling

nltimes.nl
3 points·by Vinnl·5 mesi fa·1 comments

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims

techcrunch.com
1 points·by Vinnl·5 mesi fa·1 comments

Euronews: How Europe's broadcaster became an influence network

euractiv.com
6 points·by Vinnl·5 mesi fa·0 comments

The Netherlands rethinks its US tech addiction

politico.eu
29 points·by Vinnl·5 mesi fa·5 comments

Firefox and Linux in 2025

mastransky.wordpress.com
4 points·by Vinnl·6 mesi fa·0 comments

Signal downloads growing amid rising tensions, number one in Denmark

aboutsignal.com
2 points·by Vinnl·6 mesi fa·0 comments

How the internet tracks you beyond cookies

europeancorrespondent.com
3 points·by Vinnl·6 mesi fa·0 comments

How GitHub Could Secure NPM

humanwhocodes.com
3 points·by Vinnl·6 mesi fa·0 comments

Linux is good now

pcgamer.com
1,194 points·by Vinnl·6 mesi fa·1,000 comments

Making end-to-end encrypted AI chat feel like logging in

confer.to
1 points·by Vinnl·6 mesi fa·0 comments

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Vinnl
·15 ore fa·discuss
Sure, but I'm interested in a steelmanned explanation before judging.
Vinnl
·15 ore fa·discuss
It was the second reading, but was it also treated as such? (Because if so, it sounds like this would have been a rejection?) If not, what is the steelmanned reason for doing so?
Vinnl
·l’altro ieri·discuss
I did get the first one straight away, so it's not too unclear, but it did induce a short moment of panic, which I'm not sure I'd categorise as fun :P
Vinnl
·l’altro ieri·discuss
This is fun! Could use a short "how it works" blurb on the landing page though :)
Vinnl
·l’altro ieri·discuss
Thanks. Do you know then why of the majority that voted against today, enough people voted in favour of the urgency procedure?
Vinnl
·l’altro ieri·discuss
To understand whether/to what extent this is brazen, I'd be interested to learn the reasoning why urgency procedures are possible, and in particular, why the apparent majority against shouldn't have been enough, and what is needed to classify something as urgent.
Vinnl
·4 giorni fa·discuss
I don't think it's just French. The million-billion distinction is different from English in many European languages - [1] lists basically every language other than English in the EU. And in my example, "actual" to mean "current" and "eventual" to mean "possibly" are at least also present in Dutch and sometimes used in that way in the EU.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Current_...
Vinnl
·4 giorni fa·discuss
Thanks! Although these, possibly with the exception of #2, sound like things that Zed handles, rather than the harness?
Vinnl
·4 giorni fa·discuss
I was the same, but did end up switching due to features. I'm not sure I remember which sealed the deal, but I remember at least being able to remove/change the left-most button that just points to an About screen IIRC, and updating maps without going through the app store? And just the fact that improvements to Organic Maps also seem to make it to CoMaps, whereas I don't think they flow in the other direction.
Vinnl
·4 giorni fa·discuss
No, but: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421
Vinnl
·9 giorni fa·discuss
Ah, I'd heard that latter one, but I thought that was just a mistake in the sense of "could of". TIL!
Vinnl
·9 giorni fa·discuss
I think it's a bit quick to want that variant to be actual already, but eventual we might be able to make it work.
Vinnl
·9 giorni fa·discuss
Not even the accents - different voices are annoying enough. When I was young I watched some cartoons in English, and hearing them in Dutch later, despite being my native language, was still uncomfortable.
Vinnl
·9 giorni fa·discuss
Wait, "couldn't care less" is British?
Vinnl
·9 giorni fa·discuss
I declared my blog to be `en-GB` as well, but I'm fairly sure it's neither that, nor any other pre-catalogued locale. There's just no way I'm able to know where any of the references I use came from, let alone which weird contortions I came up with by myself. There are probably a few in this short comment alone.
Vinnl
·9 giorni fa·discuss
Ah OK, so the ACP connector ensures tool calls work with Zed, and communicates the available tools and their results to the harness, and then the harness mainly provides a system prompt and the API calls?
Vinnl
·9 giorni fa·discuss
So if you use Claude via Copilot in Zed... You use Zed's harness, I think? What does Copilot do, at that point?
Vinnl
·10 giorni fa·discuss
I volunteered for a project [1] with roughly this philosophy. Traditional publishing currently serves three purposes:

- Organise peer feedback - Publish the work - Recognise good work, helping with both discovery and credit

That latter part especially is what allows publishers to charge the ridiculous markup that they do.

But with "modern" technology, feedback and publishing really doesn't require all that infrastructure - email and arXiv can easily be used to self-organise that. So we built a system of recognition that does not block publication, and can be used as a layer on top of arXiv and any other venue, allowing peers to vouch ("endorse") for a work.

I had even proposed and implemented an integration for arXiv Labs that got accepted, but then never merged. I should follow up on that...

[1] https://plaudit.pub/
Vinnl
·13 giorni fa·discuss
Awesome, thanks!
Vinnl
·13 giorni fa·discuss
I never understood why we're OK with placing billboards, which by definition try their best to get you to look at them, next to the road, which we're supposed to look at.