Tootfinder

Thank you all for 3,000 followers on here! Here’s a photo of Danny to celebrate the occasion ☺️
3 years into being part of Mastodon, I continue to be impressed with how wonderful the people here are and how much this social network actually FEELS social. People replying to one another, having conversations, learning things, sharing moments of joy, making friends.
Mastodon brought my business clients, helped me gain confidence in my own voice, freed me from dependence on big tech and algorithms, rekindled my interests, introduced me to incredible people and projects, and served as a source of hope in humanity in the times when cynicism and nihilism felt all but inevitable.
I love our little corner of the internet, and am so glad that it’s still here despite everyone who professed it was doomed to fade into irrelevance.
Thank you to everyone reading these words for being here on the Fedi. The world is a little better thanks to your choice to support an independent web.

Success! Proxmox upgrade is mostly just Debian's process and it went smoothly. A bit of scariness around systemd-boot config changes but it all worked fine. Some notes here.

NFL Announces Punishment for Raiders Player in Loss to Texans https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/thomas-booker-nfl-punishment-texans/

Living a charmed life. I just installed a new video card and it took like 5 minutes, worked first try. (My old 1080 Ti with 8GB served me well. Just got a new 5060 with 16GB. For all my AI projects, of course.)

Replaced article(s) found for nlin.CD. https://arxiv.org/list/nlin.CD/new
[1/1]:
- Complex multiannual cycles of Mycoplasma pneumoniae: persistence and the role of stochasticity
Nielsen, Park, Howerton, Lorentzen, Jensen, Grenfell

OpenAI has made a decision to encourage its users to form a parasocial relationship with ChatGPT. It's gross and dangerous. Also just not useful for serious use. But it will make their users more loyal and encourage psychological dependency.
GPT‑5.1 Instant, ChatGPT’s most used model, is now warmer by default and more conversational. Based on early testing, it often surprises people with its playfulness while remaining clear and useful.
(I really like ChatGPT and use it all the time. But this change is the exact opposite of what I want.)