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@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2026-08-20 10:00:01

An anglers’ pressure group has won a landmark legal ruling confirming that the company building Hinkley Point C cannot refuse to answer environmental information requests simply because it is privately owned. wsfp.co.uk/news/environment-ne

Hinkley generation company must now respond to requests for information
Hinkley generation company must now respond to requests for information

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-07-09 20:42:02

from my link log —
A simple ray tracer written in the meson.build language.
github.com/annacrombie/meson-r
saved 2023-11-19

GitHub - annacrombie/meson-raytracer
Contribute to annacrombie/meson-raytracer development by creating an account on GitHub.

@gwire@mastodon.social
2026-08-17 13:32:13

I think people resent the story that AI is a super-genius who can do your job, but also that every error is a consequence of user input because you should have expected that the computer-brain would be super-literal.
> “It was asked, can you find this? And it did find that. It just didn’t say if there’s more here, then don’t do it. It just simply said, is it there? And the answer was yes.”

Flock Says Its Cameras Worked 'Correctly' When Police Tracked and Ambushed Me for No Reason
Flock says its AI-powered surveillance cameras need humans in the loop to input target license plates correctly and verify its alerts.

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-07-07 06:27:37

Whatever the expectations for the July 7-8 NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey,
the geopolitical situation favors Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan so heavily that he is all but guaranteed to emerge the winner
—if NATO summits can have winners at all.
In the wake of the disastrous Iran war,
both the timing and the venue are highly auspicious.
Donald Trump told reporters that he was coming to Ankara solely for Erdogan
—another small, symbolic victory.
The…

Erdogan Has Laid a Trap in Ankara
No matter what happens at the NATO summit, the Turkish strongman wins.

@stargazersmith@social.linux.pizza
2026-07-15 03:16:16

The Oldest Stars in the Galaxy Just Weighed In on One of Cosmology's Biggest Arguments - Universe Today universetoday.com/articles/the

The Oldest Stars in the Galaxy Just Weighed In on One of Cosmology's Biggest Arguments
Astronomers have measured the ages of over a hundred and fifty thousand ancient stars scattered across our Galaxy, and found the oldest of them is just the age it should be if the standard picture of the universe is correct. That simple agreement quietly undermines one of the leading attempts to explain a stubborn mystery, and hints that the real answer to the Hubble tension may lie somewhere else entirely.

@smashtie@mas.to
2026-08-15 13:44:13

Zurbaršn was definitely a bit bonkers. Genius, sure, but woa, some of the symbolism is out there! The cherub heads with wings are a recurring theme, hovering with holy payloads. Check out the alt text for all the details.
#art #NationalGallery

Saint Margaret of Antioch Francisco de Zurbarán about 1630-4 The story of Saint Margaret tells how she emerged unscathed after being swallowed by a dragon. Zurbarán depicts the unruffled saint in luxurious shepherd's dress, with a carefully drawn fabric saddlebag sling over her arm, and the dragon in the shadows, subdued behind her. Her expression says "yeah what about it?"
The Immaculate Conception Francisco de Zurbarán 1632 Mary appears standing on five cherubim (round heads with wings, no more!) occupying a half moon. She is wearing a necklace with the anagram A(ve) M(aria), while a host of stars and angels emerge from the clouds in the halo around her head. Two young students pray on either side below her.
The Vision of Saint Alonso Rodríguez Francisco de Zurbarán 1630 Alonso Rodríguez was an early proponent of venerating the hearts of Christ and the Virgin Mary - seen here emitting rays of light that zap the poor saint right in the chest. He looks upwards, surprised and enraptured. Of course, Jesus and Mary are hovering on little islands of cherub heads with wings, as if the rest of the painting were not bonkers enough.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-06-14 14:46:17

«Ça me prend presque autant de temps d'aller relire ce que l'IA a fait que de l'avoir fait moi-même et lŠ, je trouverais normal que mon employeur me dise: ‹mais attends, est-ce que tu es vraiment en train de gagner du temps ou est-ce que tu es juste en train de t'amuser avec un gadget?›»
Est-ce peut-être pourquoi Microsoft a labellisé Copilot «for entertainment purposes only»? Ça ne me semble pas vraiment un «secret de productivité».

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org
2026-06-14 14:46:17

«Ça me prend presque autant de temps d'aller relire ce que l'IA a fait que de l'avoir fait moi-même et lŠ, je trouverais normal que mon employeur me dise: ‹mais attends, est-ce que tu es vraiment en train de gagner du temps ou est-ce que tu es juste en train de t'amuser avec un gadget?›»
Est-ce peut-être pourquoi Microsoft a labellisé Copilot «for entertainment purposes only»? Ça ne me semble pas vraiment un «secret de productivité».

L'intelligence artificielle, le secret de productivité le mieux gardé des bureaux romands
En Suisse romande, 72% des travailleurs et travailleuses utilisent l'intelligence artificielle, selon une étude Qualinsight. Mais beaucoup le font en cachette de leur employeur, par peur du jugement ou de perdre leur emploi.

‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-06-14 14:46:17

«Ça me prend presque autant de temps d'aller relire ce que l'IA a fait que de l'avoir fait moi-même et lŠ, je trouverais normal que mon employeur me dise: ‹mais attends, est-ce que tu es vraiment en train de gagner du temps ou est-ce que tu es juste en train de t'amuser avec un gadget?›»
Est-ce peut-être pourquoi Microsoft a labellisé Copilot «for entertainment purposes only»? Ça ne me semble pas vraiment un «secret de productivité».

@stargazersmith@social.linux.pizza
2026-08-11 00:49:37

#marswaterhistory

The Odds of Finding Water on Mars
Mars has plenty of water, and almost all of it is in the wrong place. The poles are rich in ice, the equator, where you would actually want to land, has none within reach. That leaves the mid-latitudes, and until now the honest answer about what lies beneath them has been a bit of a shrug. Two new studies from the Planetary Science Institute have changed the shape of that answer. Rather than simply asking whether the data are consistent with buried ice, they have started calculating the odds an…