@lilmikesf@c.im2025-08-11 01:45:31
More Joutnalists killed in #Gaza by #Israel
#AlJazeera said the attack “is a desperate attempt to silence voices in anticipation of the occupation of Gaza.”
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-08-11 01:45:31
@axbom@axbom.me2025-08-10 00:13:42
@… The chatbot involved in this tragic story in Belgium (2 years ago) was called Eliza (inspired by Weizenbaum's).
https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/31/man-ends-his-l…
https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/31/man-ends-his-l…
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-09-02 13:31:44
Three updates to old posts this morning:
Another post pointing out CSS-only widgets are problematic:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/03/css-only-widgets-are-inaccessible.html#Update02
Narrator is getting a Braille viewer:
@muz4now@mastodon.world2025-08-31 17:12:01
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-07-31 15:27:27
Yes, it’s absurd.
LLMs don’t scale to reach “AGI”. That is mathematically proven[1], so it doesn’t matter how large your data center is.
But that’s not the main reason why this is absurd—as a society we shouldn’t spend these enormous resources and lasting environmental damage on this _even if it would work_.
[1] https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/debunking-agi-inevitability-claims/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 18:38:58
Time is running out for wild salmon in the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest.
Their populations, as well as those of some other native fish, have been declining for decades.
Now, Donald Trump is attacking the progress that had been made to restore those once-abundant salmon runs.
In June 2025, Trump signed a memorandum signaling his administration’s unwillingness to abide by the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement signed in December 2023 after two years of neg…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-08-01 07:11:08
Trotz der UN-Vereinbarung von 2023, die globale #Energie aus #Erneuerbaren bis 2030 zu verdreifachen, haben nur wenige Länder ihre Ziele angepasst.
Laut Analyse bleibt die Welt deutlich hinter dem 11-TW-Ziel zurück. Vor allem große Emittenten wie die
@muz4now@mastodon.world2025-07-31 16:41:01
Cycle of Creativity – Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat #creativity #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2023/cy…
@yachtbar@mstdn.social2025-08-31 12:43:02
@arXiv_econGN_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-07-29 09:02:01
Assessing the Sensitivities of Input-Output Methods for Natural Hazard-Induced Power Outage Macroeconomic Impacts
Matthew Sprintson, Edward Oughton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19989
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-08-31 15:53:14
Content warning: cautionary tale: removing free tiers that people rely on
"After 18 years of providing free, production-ready container images to millions of developers worldwide, Bitnami was effectively ending its free tier. ...
"Hock Tan doesn’t do interviews about his strategy. He doesn’t need to. His pattern is so consistent that VMware employees were updating their résumés before the ink dried on the $69 billion acquisition deal ...
"His formula never varies. Buy a company with sticky enterprise customers. Fire thousands of employees—VMware alone lost 2,900 employees by December 2023, according to CRN and The Register. Kill the free tiers and small-business offerings. Jack up prices by 200%, 500%, sometimes 1,000%. Then use the cash to fund the next acquisition. ...
"For two decades, developers built an incredible ecosystem based on sharing and mutual benefit. Bitnami alone grew to over 4 billion downloads annually, according to their own statistics. But that era is ending. Not with a bang, but with a pricing page.
"In its place, we’re getting a new model: enterprise software as hostage situation. Build your infrastructure on our platform. Integrate deeply. Depend completely. Then watch as we turn the screws, knowing you have no escape."
#Bitnami #FreeTiers #software #infrastructure
@arXiv_qfinTR_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-07-16 08:57:31
Kernel Learning for Mean-Variance Trading Strategies
Owen Futter, Nicola Muca Cirone, Blanka Horvath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10701 https://
@muz4now@mastodon.world2025-07-31 21:51:01
