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The KDE desktop environment has seen significant recent success. Following record donations announced at the end of last year, another prominent member of the FOSS community has joined its list of patrons.

The KDE project announced that the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, a nonprofit organization that stewards and governs the Rocky Linux project, the RHEL-based, community-driven enterprise Linux distro, is now supporting KDE’s development through the KDE e.V. patron program.

I am interested in self hosting a Personal Health Record (PHR) system. I don't need my own EMR/EHR, I just want to be able to pull down my own data, host it, and navigate it.

For example, I'd like to be able to pull down my vitals/labs from my provider and look at trends over time. I'd like to be able to pull down my prescriptions to see when I went on/off different medications. I'd like to pull down doctor's notes, so I can see when I first started complaining about poor sleep, to see if it correlates to any of my medications or some other health change.

I have tried Mere Medical, and it was able to pull down my information from my provider (who uses Cerner), but the functionality is quite lacking. You basically get a timeline view, but nothing to really organize or search through notes (they are mostly just linked documents), or anyway to pull down lab results and see trends.

FastenHealth has also come up in my search, but it seems the onprem is a very stripped down, limited version of their paid product.

Is anyone familiar with anything like this? Ideally, it's be combined with a fitness tracker to pull my health data from my phone/wearables too.

Hi friends. Seeing as how the last Steam NextFest just wrapped up, I'm curious about the demos you may have played and what your thoughts were.

AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

The issue in this case starts with an organization called the Open Knowledge Association (OKA), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving Wikipedia and other open platforms.

Wikipedia editors investigated how OKA was operating and found that it was mostly relying on cheap labor from contractors in the Global South, and that these contractors were instructed to copy/paste articles to popular LLMs to produce translations.

For example, a public spreadsheet used by OKA translators to keep track of what articles they’re translating instructs them to “pick an article, copy the lead section into Gemini or chatGPT, then review if some of the suggestions are an improvement to readability. Make edits to the Wiki articles only if the suggestions are an improvement and don't change the meaning of the lead. Do not change the content unless you have checked that what Gemini says is correct!”

Lebleu told me, and other editors have noted in their public on-site discussion of the issue, that these same instructions previously told OKA translators to use Grok, Elon Musk’s LLM, for the same purpose. Grok, which also produces an entirely automated alternative to Wikipedia called Grokepedia, is prone to errors precisely because it does not use humans to vet its output.

“Following the recent discussion, we have strengthened our safeguards,” [OKA's] Zimmerman told me. “We are now rolling out a second, independent LLM review step. Translators must run the completed draft through a separate model using a dedicated comparison prompt designed to identify potential discrepancies, omissions, or inaccuracies relative to the source text. Initial findings suggest this is highly effective at detecting potential issues.”

Zimmerman added that if this method proves insufficient, OKA is considering introducing formal peer review mechanisms.

Using AI to check the output of AI for errors is a method that is historically prone to errors. For example, we recently reported on an AI-powered private school that used AI to check AI-generated questions for students. Internal testing found it had at least a 10 percent failure rate.

Whether it’s jokes about Snap packages or criticism of Canonical’s decisions, mocking Ubuntu often feels like the default attitude in parts of the Linux community.

To be fair, Canonical has made decisions over the years that have not always been well received, and some of the criticisms of Ubuntu and the direction it’s taken have their own merit. Yet, the derisive way Ubuntu is often talked about online isn’t particularly fair and, frankly, misses the point.

hey I'm a solo gamedev and I recently launched the demo for Folk Emerging.

if you're into turn-based strategy games like Civilization and enjoy in-depth characters, cultures, and ecosystems, then this might be for you!

curious to hear what folks around here think

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Today’s game is some more Metal Gear Solid Delta. I made it to the boss fight with Pain, and man. Fuck this guy. I liked the boss fight but those bullet bees were a pain in the ass. I ended up using some napalm grenades saved from fighting ocelot to clear away his bees and then mow him down with the AK.

As much shit as I’m giving it though, I kind of like it. Like. I’m given tools to fight this boss, but there wasn’t a specific way to go about it I feel like. Yeah. I could wait for his bees to vanish. Or I could light him on fire and power through him. It was kind of cool.

Ocelot’s fight was kind of where I got an idea for just how the game is though. Like. The game was serious but also kind of wasn’t afraid to dork around. Like the long cutscenes of him reloading or Ocelot fighting off wasps by spinning his revolvers like fans. It reminds me of how people talk about the Yakuza franchise. It’s serious sometimes but other times it’s just goofing off.

I have had one major complaint while playing. And it’s minute. It was this cave. My brightness was calibrated right but it was so fucking dark in here I had to raise it manually. I found a torch though that made it a little more forgiving so there’s at least that.

What more appropriate to end today with than talking about the save dialog. I like how it ends with a conversation about movies usually. It’s fun in a way that the game really gets self aware. I like it. I remember one of them was about Godzilla. My favorite one so far though has been this James Bond one.

At no point in my lifetime has there not been war going on in the Middle East. Are we going to run out of boots or faces first I wonder? Or will it really just last forever?

Honey, I Shrunk The Vids is an overengineered oversimplified system-agnostic frontend for FFMPEG.

This is a followup to a post I made yesterday, about a silly little Windows application I'd made for batch transcoding files. I wanted something that I could just dump my files onto without having to muck about with Handbrake or Tdarr - post here, for those curious: https://piefed.ca/c/selfhosted/p/568748/honey-i-shrunk-the-vids-a-windows-transcoding-frontend-for-ffmpeg

So I spent today making my silly little Windows application a silly little platform-agnostic application. I rewrote the whole thing in Rust and JavaScript with a webview frontend, and apparently Github lets you compile binaries for quite the range of target platforms, so I have compiled binaries available for Windows, Linux, and Mac (Intel/Apple Silicon). It's got a dark theme because of course and a light theme because I guess, also it's themeable because why the hell not. I'm pretty pleased with how it's coming along - if anyone decides to give it a go, please let me know if you find issues!

screenshots

Compiled binaries can be downloaded at https://github.com/obelisk-complex/histv-universal/releases

Statistics for Strava is a self-hosted, open-source dashboard for your Strava data.

Features and improvements worth mentioning since we lasted posted here:

• Dark mode
• Added a timeline view of your key achievements and milestones over time.
• Added statistics for recording devices, giving you more insight into which devices you use for your activities
• You can now view Eddington metrics in both metric and imperial units, regardless of your default unit system
• Use compression algorithms to store data. This results in a 70% drop in used storage space
• A lot of bug fixes and quality of life improvements

As always, thanks for your feedback and I'm looking forward to more feature requests! Stay fit, stay healthy 💪

• Example: https://statistics-for-strava.robiningelbrecht.be/dashboard
• GitHub: https://github.com/robiningelbrecht/strava-statistics
• Docs: https://statistics-for-strava-docs.robiningelbrecht.be/#/--

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DJanes galore

Hello, I'm announcing this new update for my new 2D musou roguelite with sci-fi queer story-rich indie game named Starfish ROOM: DEFEND THE ROOMS

-Z-depth of characters -New spiders art -Remove aliens/monsters border collision of Player -Count Eternal Loop to Boki fight -Fix Kibo hurt collisions and infinity kick attack

https://kittycreampuff.itch.io/starfishroom

These are the changes I made to my game, I hope you like this