That's good feedback. I just added it to the readme:
> "PanicLock fills a gap macOS leaves open: there is no built-in way to instantly disable Touch ID when it matters. Biometrics are convenient day-to-day, and sometimes preferable when you need speed or want to avoid your password being observed. But in sensitive situations, law enforcement and border agents in many countries can compel a biometric unlock in ways they cannot with a password. PanicLock gives you a one-click menu bar button, a customizable hotkey, or an automatic lock-on-lid-close option that immediately disables Touch ID and locks your screen, restoring password-only protection without killing your session or shutting down."
I've more details on the apps landing page - paniclock.github.io
A person might use it to stop someone getting into your computer through certain types of physical coercion, forcing your finger to the reader, or (much less likely but I’m sure security services know how) a copy of your fingerprint.
But it isn’t a why, it is a what. That what is a tool that lets you quickly disable Touch ID for whatever reason you want to.
thank you for this example. It's always heartwarming to see such case. However I have this, maybe defeatist, feeling that companies take more than they give - in general. I remember working in companies, where giving away my source code to the public would require a ton of work approval and effort, which was heavily discouraging that. On the other hand, the companies want the opensource to take care of everything...
Maybe it's only mine feeling, so I hope you guys have different experience.
Yes they took money that they have to spend in AI to evaluate the new uploads.
Basically they got some free tokens, not actual "money".
Also I got a 2 week ban on the python discuss for suggesting that people who contribute on behalf of companies (such as microsoft) should be disclosing it. So PSF is as corporate as it gets in my eyes.
There are multiple topics mentioned in this article. One is quite curious, which I had missed before, I must admit:
Universal Music Group is currently at the center of a growing legal fight against AI music platforms like Suno and Udio, accusing them of training on copyrighted music without permission. [...] The claim is straightforward. These systems learned from real artists without paying for it, and now they can generate songs that compete with the originals
To be honest - I really doubt that Suno-like company created music they taught their systems on. The AI companies are usually using our property (text, music, code) to teach their models and then sell them to us. Quite different view than a constant admiration on how the AI helps us coding...
IANAE but I would go for electric circuit, not electronic software that steers the led. I think that nowadays, with the LLM support it can be easier and better to optimise it for the sake of latency.
If you want minimum latency, you want the input side of an traditional vocoder, not an FFT. This is the part that splits the modulator signal into frequency bands and puts each one through an envelope follower. Instead of using the outputs of the envelope followers to modulate the equivalent frequency bands of a carrier signal, you can use them to drive the visualizer circuit.
That can be done with analog electronics, but even half an analog vocoder needs a lot of parts. It's going to be cheaper and more reliable to simulate it in software. This uses entirely IIR filters, which are computationally cheap and calculated one sample at a time, so they have the minimum possible latency. I'd be curious if any LLM actually recognizes that an audio visualizer is half a vocoder instead of jumping straight to the obvious (and higher latency) FFT approach.
much faster, above all, but this would be electronic signal processing with quantisation etc. I am targeting zero latency purely analog circuit. I'm not sure if FPGA can do it...
I used to think this way, however lately I understood that all wars, I mean all of them (even those religious ones) are motivated by resources. Those resources are money, power, control. People deciding on war to begin are those who benefit from it (usually, unless they've been manipulated).
And sometimes there is crazy. But crazy I can't explain, sorry.
Yet, we all mostly understand we are people and we love each other. But then the big guys come and lead us to war. To get more gas, to get more power, to get influence. Ukraine? They threatened to become independent from Russia (influence). Afghanistan? They threatened to use gold as price factor (influence). Iran? here it might be the third factor I won't explain, but also motivation by money I guess...
Say what? Is the creation of text boxes that float text to each another supported in word? Is correct Setup of pages supported?
Maybe I am outdated a little bit on Word news, but Publisher's purpose was for a certain use case, and it did it well. I understand that nowadays people rarely create magazines, but it's still the thing. And I'd like to be supported in it.
The alternative for DTP is Scribus, but the UI is really giving me headaches, and there is no proper support of copying formatted text...
Canva have promised that Affinity will be 'free forever' so make of that what you will, unless you want cloud AI functionality which requires a subscription. The Affinity software itself is free.
I have been very happy with Affinity Designer (equivalent to Adobe Illustrator) which I purchased some time ago before the acquisition.
I haven't used Affinity Publisher much, and found a few minor things frustrating (paragraph formatting specifically in the older V2 version), but other than that Photo, Designer and Publisher have been solid.
I still have the V2 apps, from before the Canva acquisition; I'm finding new 'unibody' Affinity app nice as I slowly migrate to it.
One also can't argue with free, even if it isn't open source. Designer does work better in some aspects than Inkscape, as some downstream software I use extensively doesn't like exported SVGs from Inkscape for some reason, but I like Inkscape's open-ness.
It is also not Adobe software, which has plenty of upsides in my book.
I used to host a wordpress on my server for some people who configured it. However, when some bots got there, I was unable to keep them at bay. I upgraded WP's version, but the Wordpress had some vulnerable plugin, and I was unable to find out what path did the attack go. I only could find that the malicious files were uploaded into images/ directory and run from there. That's something I blame PHP for (and of course my lousy LAMP configuration skill, but the directory was not allowed to run the code from, I must impress). I tried also to block IPs attacking my server, but this was like cutting one of the hydra's heads.
So, long story short I ended up removing write permission to all the folders, thus disabling upload, and later they went to another server. They host it fine there, I still maintain redirection from the main domain to their host. However I failed, but really this is sad the WP is so vulnerable just by the plugins installation.
Since then I am looking for WP replacement that would not mix up the code and the images from the upload directory (presumably in rust or golang), but this would need to be opensource anyways.
I almost hear that screen cracking when accidentally closing macbook with the camera inside...
I love Mac since I started using it in 2020, but boy this hardware is fragile. I am scared that I will be held accountable for fixing a broken screen of my work MBP
There's a famous Polish song "Mój jest ten kawałek podłogi", written in times of Soviet influence, about a man building wall around his home, but later he gets hungry and there's no exit...
Anyone with translate.kagi can find it and translate
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