@Techmeme@techhub.socialUK National Education Union poll: 66% of secondary school teachers in England say pupils using AI are losing their capacity for core skills like writing (Sally Weale/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/02…
@qbi@freie-re.deRE: https://chaos.social/@layer8/115994976592015583
Wollt ihr gesund leben? Dann müsst ihr unbedingt heute Hackspaces besuchen.
Unten der @…
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialRE: https://fosstodon.org/@samvarma/116331897650141726
Joke is on them, there won’t be a planet earth in 10 days when they try to land.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de„Der Super Mario Galaxy Film“: Marios Markenuniversum
Der Super Mario Galaxy Film nimmt ein kreatives Meisterwerk und macht daraus solide Familienunterhaltung. Einerseits ist das schade, anderer – da ist ja Yoshi!
https…
@ErikUden@mastodon.deyou are a museum of everything you've loved
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social„So wird möglichst viel Solarstrom direkt vor Ort verbraucht, statt ihn ins Netz einzuspeisen oder bei Bedarf teuer daraus zu beziehen. Die netzdienliche Flexibilität geht einen Schritt weiter: Hier stehen die Stabilität und die Entlastung des gesamten Verteilnetzes im Zentrum.“
https://www.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIf you know people on social.cologne who aren’t Zionists/genocide supporters please let them know that they cannot see posts by me and others who oppose Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people as our instances and accounts are blocked by their Zionist/pro-genocide server.
I can only assume Zionist/pro-genocide servers will not be allowed according to mastodon.social’s new server covenant and suggested as safe spaces to newcomers to the fediverse (including Palestinians suff…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgInteresting call for chapters:
Minimal Computing for Social and Cultural Heritage
❝ At a time when digital heritage infrastructures are increasingly shaped by platform-dependent systems, this volume asks a fundamental question: what forms of digital practice are genuinely sustainable, not only technically and economically, but socially and culturally, for the communities who produce and maintain heritage? ❞
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgInteresting call for chapters:
Minimal Computing for Social and Cultural Heritage
❝ At a time when digital heritage infrastructures are increasingly shaped by platform-dependent systems, this volume asks a fundamental question: what forms of digital practice are genuinely sustainable, not only technically and economically, but socially and culturally, for the communities who produce and maintain heritage? ❞
@anneroth@systemli.socialGespannt, wann SPD und Grüne darauf kommen, dass sie die besseren Linken sind. Verdaulicher.
Tippe auf den kommenden Berlin-Wahlkampf.
@catsalad@infosec.exchange9cat
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTop US general: will take time to achieve objectives in Iran (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/top-us-general-will-take-time-achieve-objectives-iran-2026-03-02/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p58#a260302p58
@noellabo@fedibird.comキャットファイトなのか
@NFL@darktundra.xyzGreen, top-10 QB prospect, sets combine records https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48064834/taylen-green-top-10-qb-prospect-sets-several-combine-records
@cdarwin@c.imThe Pentagon is doubling its Middle East fleet of Air Force A-10 attack planes,
which can support advancing ground troops,
even as President Trump says he wants to end the Iran war in two to three weeks.
The Air Force is dispatching 18 A-10s to join roughly a dozen A-10s already in the region that U.S. commanders have used to attack Iranian boats and Iran-backed militias in Iraq, two Pentagon officials said on Wednesday.
The slow-moving A-10 “Warthog” is a so-called cl…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Détente:
🎵 Holy War
#Détente
https://triumvirateofevil.bandcamp.com/track/holy-war
https://open.spotify.com/track/1CpRIkzsYM6QQBP1HYYH0a
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
R, OpenMP, MKL, disaster.
https://www.jyotirmoy.net/posts/2021-10-03-r-mkl-openmp.html
saved 2021-10-03 https://
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116328504299888679
Wow, next level security /s
I often make fun of developers for coming up with engineering recommendations that are essentially obfuscated versions of “don’t write bugs!,” but here’s a system avoiding security flaws by literally telling itself “don’t have security flaws!.”
@seeingwithsound@mas.toAttention to speech modulates distortion product otoacoustic emissions evoked by speech-derived stimuli in humans https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1756386/full
@eichkat3r@hessen.social💭: labubu-themed ubuntu distribution
labububuntu
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@benb@osintua.euRussian attacks against Ukraine kill 4, injure 21, including children, over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/russian-attacks-against-ukraine-kill.html
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzTop 10 free agent linebacker targets for Cowboys by skill, salary https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/review/sportsbook/2026/03/01/top-10-free-agent-linebacker-targets-for-cowboys-by-…
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldRemember when someone said they'd reduce the national debt to zero in just eight years?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
https://reason.com/2026/03/31/10-years-ago-today-trump-promised-to-eliminate-the-national-debt-i…
@brian_gettler@mas.toLa pâte de galettes de sarrasin de la veille cuite le matin et napée du beurre et du sirop d'érable : 10/10.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialEurovision expands to Asia: broadcasters from 10 countries plan to compete in the song contest in Bangkok on November 14 (Philip Oltermann/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/31/eurovision-song-contest-expands-into-as…
@adulau@infosec.exchangeWe were trying to import and add as source the vulnerability database of GitLab into vulnerability-lookup as a new feed.
But we discovered the license terms
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/gemnasium-db/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieIf it’s helpful to hear from someone who has seen nearly half a century of news events: if you cannot do anything about them, you can choose not to give them your attention.
It is OK not to let unsolvable horrors into your domestic mental circle.
Know of them happening, but it’s OK not to live them.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@AimeeMaroux/115984993453764306
I decided to combine @…'s and
@drgeraint@glasgow.socialScottish Green Party forecast to overtake Scottish Labour in Holyrood, to be 3rd biggest party after SNP and Reform, according to the Scottish Election Study.
Not mentioned in the article, but the SNP are again predicted to get no seats from the list, due to winning a disproportionately large number of constituency seats.
SNP voters choosing to vote Green on the list could utterly change the balance of Reform and Green seats.
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineNach dem großen #Stromausfall auf der Iberischen Halbinsel rückt die Stabilität der #Stromnetze stärker in den Fokus.
Der niederländische Hersteller #Elestor testet eine
@crell@phpc.socialMoving as a metaphor for software management.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/moving-metaphor
@vosje62@mastodon.nl/2
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@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Evolving the 3-2-1 backup rule for more resilient data"
#RDM
@wandklex@mastodon.artGanz schreckliche Arbeitsbedingungen durch den zu Gast weilenden Fiete, ganz schrecklich. 🤩
@rene_mobile@infosec.exchangeThe democratic, liberal, dependable USA that I have known and respected for most of my adult life is dead and will not be revived even after the orange clown stops pretending to be king. It cannot, because the concept of the USA in the world outside its own borders very much depended on soft power, which requires trust. That trust is gone, completely, and probably irrevocably for at least a generation.
It saddens me deeply that all the value, all the good that this long-term stability …
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.delibimseti: Libimseti.cz social network (2012)
A network of ratings given between users at Libimseti.cz, a Czech online dating website. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i rate user j, and the corresponding edge weight is the given rating, on a scale of 1-10.
This network has 220970 nodes and 17359346 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted
@simoncox@seocommunity.social🤡 🔪 =🪦
@tanyakaroli@expressional.socialJeg har fået kontor! I dag starter mit projekt under Nordic Humanities Center (det handler om polarisering og har delprojekter om bl.a. hadtale, konspirationsteorier og ekstremisme), og som led i pakken får man altså sit helt eget kontor 😭
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deGestern war World Backup Day.
Ich hoffe für euch hier ist jeder Tag Backup-Tag – für Rechner und Smartphone. Ihr habt doch ein Backup eurer Daten … oder?
Ach ja, ich würde gern das Backup vom Ende des letzten Jahrtausend einspielen, und dann eine andere Timeline ausprobieren (ohne Trump, ohne Putin, und mit mehr Klimaschutz). Bei Spielen hieß das Checkpoints, ich hoffe da hat noch jmd einen.
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialWeil es immer wieder ungerechtfertigte Kritik an scheinbar oberflächlichen Texten der Onlineausgabe der Tagesschau gibt:
Das habt ihr selbst so gewählt! Bei den Landtagswahlen.
Die Länder haben die Beschränkung der ÖRR kürzlich sogar noch regieder gezurrt. Journalistische Online Texte dürfen praktisch nie veröffentlicht werden, wenn es keinen Radio oder TV/Video Bericht dazu gibt. Sie dürfen nicht presseähnlich sein.
@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.info
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeLast Week according to /LastFM
@floheinstein@chaos.socialHat noch jemand Probleme mit filecrypt captchas?
Z.B. hier die Container-Links von serienfans oder funxd
Nach dem Lösen geht's einfach nicht weiter
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialDas vierte Spiel in Folge, das sprachlos macht #BMG #SVW
Ein weiteres Spiel ohne Fortschritt. 1:1 im Weser-Stadion nach einer erschreckend schwachen Vorstellung beider Teams. Schlagzeilen sprechen von Fußball-Verhinderung und Abstiegsfußball. Nur noch drei Punkte bis zur Relegation – und nun wartet Le…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @ErikUden@mastodon.deme getting shot by my best friend for not remembering an ultra specific inside joke which the bodysnatcher could easily synergize from its scan of my mind
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social„Als de bewoners alle elektrische auto’s slim laden, blijft het genoeg, ook als straks alle auto’s in Sporenburg elektrisch worden.”
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/02/27/kleurt-de-app-rood-dan-halen-de-sporenburge…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWow… Google fined a whopping $68 MILLION DOLLARS for eavesdropping on people’s spoken conversations. That’ll teach them! It’s going to take Google a whole hour and a half to make that money back. I guess they won’t be pulling shit like this anymore after feeling that sort of pain. We really showed ‘em this time, eh? https://
@anneroth@systemli.socialAbmahnungen durch KSP Kanzlei (Hamburg) wegen lange zurückliegender Urheberrechtsverletzung (dpa Bild):
Lohnt sich gegenhalten? Mit was für Anwalt*innen? Gibt's Erfahrungen?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/business/trump-foreign-disinformation-iran.ht…
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialIn Brazil they don’t say “that’s a little fruity” they say “essa Coca Cola é Fanta” and I think that is beautiful.
@noellabo@fedibird.comおせちはともかく、お雑煮は毎年と言わず毎日でも食べたいぐらい美味しいものなのだが、餅は毎日食ったらヤバそうである
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioA whole lot of our present moment boils down to resource cost externalities — externalities that in many society has intentionally created.
We made carbon emission and water use way too cheap, and we pay dearly for it every day.
/end
@cdarwin@c.imTwo years ago today I pulled out of Tacoma in this thing and headed for Santa Barbara
—after spending four months downsizing.
I came here help manage the affairs of an aging uncle, that I found through a DNA test six years prior and had only met once.
It's a crazy story but I'm glad I did it!
-- Glen Dunlap
@benb@osintua.euGeneral Staff: Russia has lost 1,240,680 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
@qbi@freie-re.deDer Youtuber The Morpheus ist mit seinem Setup auf #Linux umgestiegen und erzählt in seinem Video davon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhVOkm8B9z4
Als kleines Feature gibt es einen Ratgeber, welc…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineIn #Oberndorf am Lech ist Süddeutschlands größte #AgriPhotovoltaik-Anlage gestartet.
Auf 28 Hektar erzeugt sie mit 17 Megawatt Strom für rund 5.000 Haushalte, während etwa 90 Prozent der Fläche weiter landwirtschaftlich genutzt werden.
Zwischen den Modulen wachsen
@vosje62@mastodon.nlRE: https://mstdn.social/@Shadedlady/115994257483604253
"Maar omdat Mandy de enige Nederlander daar was, was ze daarnaast verantwoordelijk voor alle taken die normaal door verschillende mensen worden uitgevoerd."
Hoe kun je in vredesnaam eem team van -1- in zo'n situatie op pad sturen?
'...maar zodra de aanvallen vaker of dichterbij kwamen, trek je je toch terug in je eigen team. En dan moest ik het alleen zien te rooien. '
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaPreudhomme's Law of Window Cleaning:
It's on the other side.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Digital Technologies and Reading Habits of Students: A Scoping Review"
https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2025-0040
"This scoping review aims to map the literature on the types of digital technologies and the purposes of using digital technologies by secondary school students."
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… I agree: the measures should in principle cut down on excesses without hurting reasonable requests. But, as you say, we’ll see how it works out.
My fear is that funding for interdisciplinary projects will be even more difficult to obtain because the committees may tend even more to first fund their “core” disciplines.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… I agree: the measures should in principle cut down on excesses without hurting reasonable requests. But, as you say, we’ll see how it works out.
My fear is that funding for interdisciplinary projects will be even more difficult to obtain because the committees may tend even more to first fund their “core” disciplines.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026 NFL combine stock up/stock down, Day 3: Taylen Green among 10 players on the move https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-combine-stock-up-stock-down-day-3-taylen-green-among-10-players-on-the-move
@tanyakaroli@expressional.socialGemalen er sŸd! Selvom det kun er mig der synes det er sjovt at se håndbold, har han sat projektoren op så vi kan se finalen sammen på det store lærred 🥰
(Jeg lover at kigge væk hvis vi er ved at tabe for mange bolde - I ved at de klarer sig bedst når jeg ikke ser med)
#håndbolddanmark
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialQ&A with Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor on modernizing the platform, attracting new creators, managing a fully remote, four-day-per-week workplace, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/busines
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialEveryone's favourite procrastination activity is back: the 'Visdeurbel' [fish doorbell]!
https://visdeurbel.nl/en/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenClaw launches an official China mirror, with ByteDance providing the servers to host the Chinese-language service, as OpenClaw explodes in the country (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/bytedan…
@noellabo@fedibird.comいま自作PC仕様と思うとパーツめちゃ高いの？
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI can easily imagine scenarios where huge swaths of guts-of-the-business software increase their resource needs in production by an order of magnitude, •and• where businesses are perfectly happy to pay that cost.
That’s a story with horrifying environmental costs.
4/
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump is planning to use his attack on Iran to justify a power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms.
The fact that the attack violates the Constitution won’t stop him from trying.
It is our job to expose this plot and ensure that it does not succeed. https://www.
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialEen zeer nodige stap om ook met kleine netaansluitingen (zoals huishoudens, MKB, publieke laadpalen etc.) mee te kunnen doen aan congestiemanagement
https://energiedatawijzer.nl/documenten/ts054-ts063-aggregatie/
@vosje62@mastodon.nl @anneroth@systemli.socialDie radikale Linke ist auch nicht mehr, was sie mal war.
66% solide Demokrat*innen.
https://berlin-monitor.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/BerlinMonitor2025_Aktuell.pdf
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineIn #SachsenAnhalt werden über 80 Prozent der neuen #Wohngebäude mit #Wärmepumpen ausgestattet.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Send It Away, or Put It On Display? How librarians and research computing staff can collaborate across language barriers"
#RDM
@tanyakaroli@expressional.socialI denne kolde tid er det ofte svært at finde fuglefoder i butikkerne, så jeg fodrer dem med en blanding af havregryn og solsikkeolie, ofte iblandet lidt kerner. Det er så hyggeligt at se småfuglene hoppe ind og ud ad foderbrættet 🥰
#stillesondag
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSensor Tower: Latin American downloads of the top 20 microdrama apps rose ~402% YoY in 2025; ReelShort and DramaBox led with 77M and 74M downloads, respectively (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/01/how-chinas-short-video-streamers-ar…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org @Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Chinese optics company and Nvidia supplier Innolight confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $3B ; Innolight is listed in Shenzhen (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioHighly optimized code is of course extremely expensive to develop — both to build and maintain. But now even just-average-performance code is the more costly alternative.
And sure, grinding out a vibe-coded LLM horror so you can check that business box may leave you with code that’s not only especially buggy but RAM-hungry and CPU-hungry. And sure that’s expensive to deploy. But hey: your cloud spend is already preposterous, right? And high deployment costs are more predictable than high development costs…right?
3/
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump’s approval rating has sunk to Joe Biden’s lowest point
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/04/01/donald-trumps-approval-rating-has-sunk-to-joe-bidens-lowest-point
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialUK crypto buyers are required to share their account details with tax officials starting January 1 or face penalties, as the UK seeks to collect unpaid taxes (Rachel Clun/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgl2je65klo
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLabor Department: motion picture and video production employment is down 30% since its late-2022 peak as studios make less content and move production abroad (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/see-how
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgI need a break from the #AmbianceVaudoise and I’m heading to Grisons.
#patschifig
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThere’s a lot of software out there where either (1) the users are captive users, or (2) actual outcomes don’t matter, and the important thing is to check the box, to have officially pretended to build the thing.
That’s the sort of software where development costs are especially painful for the MBAs, and where pushing the frontiers of the “fast build, low quality” quadrant for may be a killer market — even if it’s just fast and not so cheap.
2/
@vosje62@mastodon.nlDuitse groep vrijwilligers uit Gelsenkirchen biedt de Duitse regering aan om de Duitse goud reserves op te halen uit de VS.
Gruppe Freiwilliger aus Gelsenkirchen bietet Bundesregierung an, deutsche Goldreserven aus USA zu holen
https://www.der-postillon.com/2026/01/goldreserven-gelsenkirchen.html
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioPassing thought on the Claude code leak, and how messy and wasteful the code apparently is (as many of us suspected):
There’s been a lot of focus on the energy & environmental costs of running LLMs. There are also energy & environmental costs to deploying LLM-generated code.
Similarly, there’s a lot of focus on the kickbacks cloud vendors who fund AI get from LLMs renting their servers. There may be a similar kickback from computationally inefficient LLM-generated software renting their servers.
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA profile of CBS' Tony Dokoupil: his start at Newsweek and NBC News, the shift to on-camera work, and ex-colleagues' surprise at some of his current coverage (Amos Barshad/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/whats-up-with-
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Oracle has cut ~10,000 jobs in India, or ~20% of its Indian workforce, as part of a restructuring that has reportedly affected 30,000 staff worldwide (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t
@vosje62@mastodon.nlUS envoys to Israel blocked early warning of 'Apocalyptic Wasteland' in Gaza | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/early-warning-apocalyptic-wasteland-gaza-blocked-by-us-envoys-israel-2026-01-30/ (3:38min video)
Diplomaten van de VS in Israel hielden in januari 2024 ambtsberichten tegen omdat de beschreven omstandigheden om Gaza niet 'gebalanceerd genoeg' waren.
Maar de regering Biden en de Democraten hadden al moeite hoe met Gaza om te gaan.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io @Techmeme@techhub.socialAn interview with Nvidia's senior VP of hardware engineering, Andrew Bell, on continuing to provide Shield Android TV software updates a decade after its launch (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioAnthropic, I’ll make you a deal:
Re-train your model without a single line of my open source contributions as input, and I will gladly refrain from ever copying or sharing the code •you• generated by (in part) using •mine•.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioAn AI corporation crying big tears over having its code copied without its consent in a way that undermines its business, maybe its very existence?
If it’s an April Fools joke, it’s brilliant.
It it’s not an April Fools joke, it’s even more brilliant. https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/116330548519902234
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLetters to Sen. Ed Markey: six autonomous vehicle companies say remote assistants don't directly control vehicles; Tesla says its operators are allowed to do so (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-says-its-robotaxis-are-sometimes…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: a KKR-led consortium is nearing a deal to buy Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centers for $10B , as Asia sees a data center investment frenzy (P.R. Venkat/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/kkr-led
