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Lately I've been approached by #UNICEF volunteer. I wanted to help. It turned out the only way to do that was… to sign a "direct debit" form. Of course, I can't imagine giving someone my PII in the middle of a street, and signing authorizations like that. She was particularly insistent too; I managed to get her to tell me that I can get the account number for regular wire from the website.
Well, I understand the logic there. They need repeated donations, not one-time. A lot of people would just forget about it after talking to her. However, if they fill the form there, they will have to actively put an effort to cancel it afterwards. And if I understood her correctly, she suggested you can cancel anytime by calling *them* — so effectively giving them an additional opportunity to convince you not to. Still, I am dismayed by such psychological games.

There have been many instances documented, do a damn web search.
But forget that for a moment: What I’m doing is the same as what Netanyahu is doing? My opposing genocide is the same as a fucker perpetrating genocide?
Fuck you, Alfred.
Get some fucking perspective. https://mastodon.social/@amsz…

Cybersecurity threats continue to mount, so eyes akimbo and don't forget to check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Airlines, transportation sector are Scattered Spider's latest targets,
--Sinaloa cartel used hacked phone records and surveillance cameras to help kill FBI informants,
--Germany orders Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from app stores,
--Fake US bank accounts fuel romance scam indu…

Airlines, transportation sector are Scattered Spider's latest targets
Sinaloa cartel used hacked phone records and surveillance cameras to help kill FBI informants, Germany orders Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from app stores, Fake US bank accounts fuel romance scam industry, Trump builds giant US citizen database, Canada orders Hikvision to shut down, more

Forget all the bad news; THIS is happening! Joy!
RT: ‪William Gibson€
‪@greatdismal.bsky.social€
I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

Understanding Overadaptation in Supervised Fine-Tuning: The Role of Ensemble Methods
Yifan Hao, Xingyuan Pan, Hanning Zhang, Chenlu Ye, Rui Pan, Tong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01901

Understanding Overadaptation in Supervised Fine-Tuning: The Role of Ensemble Methods
Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on domain-specific data is the dominant approach for adapting foundation models to specialized tasks. However, it has been observed that SFT models tend to forget knowledge acquired during pretraining. In vision models, ensembling a pretrained model with its fine-tuned counterpart has been shown to mitigate this issue. In this work, we demonstrate that the same holds for language models, and, more strikingly, we observe an overadaptation phenomenon: the ensemble mod…

#photography #bloomScrolling #red #noFilter

I love a good borage: Forget-me-nots, Myosotis scorpiodes, outside Acadia National Park back in June
#naturalist #photography #wildflower

Forget best in the NFL, Dak Prescott isn’t the best QB in the NFC East https://insidethestar.com/forget-best-in-the-nfl-dak-prescott-isnt-the-best-qb-in-the-nfc-east

I think that growing up we had a fear of nuclear war because it would all be over in an instant. Modern day warfare goes on for years and assumes you’ll get distracted by some other thing so you’ll forget about it.

Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families (Laura Ungar/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-measles-polio-whooping-cough-rubella-af4cd1aef8f408a960601df6372f9c32
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p73#a250628p73

Forget ransomware - most firms think quantum computing is the biggest security risk to come: Quantum computers will break modern encryption sooner or later.
🔓 https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/for

Forget ransomware - most firms think quantum computing is the biggest security risk to come
Quantum computers will break modern encryption sooner or later

"you need to make it cheap and easy for people to make the switch. If it’s expensive, most people won’t do it. If it’s difficult or inconvenient, then forget it."
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/the-false-dichotomy-of-systemic-and?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Of course this success only happens if the OP actually edits their post. The fact that people are willing to send out a public “I was wrong!” notification via an edit to correct says really good things about those people, and about this community.
Don’t miss that. This isn’t just a technology feature; it’s a social feature. Logic, user interface, individual behavior, and social norms are all deeply intertwined as one big system. We tech folks forget that too easily and too often.

People forget this, but "Dark Shadows" was set in El Cerrito del Norte. "El Cerrito del Norte. Things are . . . different here."

Quite extensive writeup on the whole W/X situation, the title suggesting too political of a discussion - I do recommend reading through it, neglecting stances, and just seeing where the projects stand.
To be clear, I do not endorse or judge anything here. It helps getting an overview. In the end, there are too many aspects, and deciding for either solution requires you to consider your personal preferences and priorities.

The price of software freedom is eternal politics
Comment: Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too

"Here is an example: the Keymaker (played by Randall Duk Kim in the second movie) appears as a… well, a keymaker, sharpening keys as if he were in a Mister Minit shop. Looking at him at work, one can forget the complexity of the software keys represented by those entities; are they symmetric key pairs? Are they based on RSA or Ed25519? Is the keychain in his belt stored in the KDBX format?"

The Button And The Spoon
As my father approaches his 80th birthday, his first contacts with the latest technologies become ever more interesting. As a pen-and-pencil architect and entrepreneur with 50 years of experience, technology is not a necessity; rather, just another useful tool. He setup his first fax machine at the end of the 90s, and got his first computer a decade after that. At some point in the 2010s he bought a smartphone, and one day asked me for help to finish some task on it. I remember his face when I …

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#DontForgetTo

Please do not forget: 30 years ago, Yitzchak #Rabin was cowardly murdered. It was preceded by a smear and #hate campaign, which was particularly driven by Benjamin #Netanyahu. Netanyahu profited the most from Rabin's…

There will be hackathon during the @… annual conference (Sunday
June 22, 2025 09:00-17:00). If you want to join, don't forget to register and also add your project to the discourse below.
🔗

Program Agenda / 37th Annual FIRST Conference
Register Now: Fortresses of the Future, Building Bridges Not Walls: Copenhagen (DK), June 22-27, 2027.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
J. Appiah:
🎵 Forget About It
#JAppiah
https://open.spotify.com/track/1lIp0vWB3rQctjPpN7sL8c

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Monako:
🎵 I Forget
#NowPlaying #Monako
https://open.spotify.com/track/5GXPhorSYoxNOrh2mHfLLj

Dallas Cowboys fans warned 'don't forget' about former second-round pick https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-fans-warned-dont-forget-about-former-second-round-pick

Don’t let this week’s war make you forget last week’s assassinations.
#USPOL

Some days I'd forget my head if it weren't crudely bolted to my neck.

Never forget: Dave met Travis and Travis knew Frank.
#mtv #buzzkill

Why is #postgresql so anal about backup versions?
Did the devs forget that backups are only helpful if you can restore them?

When Forgetting Triggers Backdoors: A Clean Unlearning Attack
Marco Arazzi, Antonino Nocera, Vinod P
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12522 https://

When Forgetting Triggers Backdoors: A Clean Unlearning Attack
Machine unlearning has emerged as a key component in ensuring ``Right to be Forgotten'', enabling the removal of specific data points from trained models. However, even when the unlearning is performed without poisoning the forget-set (clean unlearning), it can be exploited for stealthy attacks that existing defenses struggle to detect. In this paper, we propose a novel {\em clean} backdoor attack that exploits both the model learning phase and the subsequent unlearning requests. Unlike traditi…

Our pick this week is a more modern blast from UK thrash legends Onslaught ... proof that they’re still bringing the fire decades on.
Sharp, aggressive, and very much alive, check it out and see what we had to say about it.
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Onslaught - Perfect Day to Die
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

Cowboys TE gets honorable mention for top 10 at his position https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-te-gets-honorable-mention-for-top-10-at-his-position