
2025-08-21 16:03:00
It's astounding how Mozilla manages to consistently add shit to Firefox even at a time when people look for alternatives to Chrome. (Newest versions have started to force more AI crap into the UI.)
Onebrief, which makes military workflow software, raised a $20M Series C extension led by Battery Ventures at a $1.1B valuation, taking the round total to $70M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-softw
Advocacy works, if done right. Find out how investigations by WorkerRights Consortium led to a joint effort along the supply chain to eliminate gender-based violence in Indonesia’s garment factories – more in my feature with TriplePundit.
https://www.triplepundi…
Inside the Box: Everything I Did With an #Arduino Starter Kit
https://lopespm.com/hardware/2025/07/15/arduino.html
A personal update, I’m going to be based in Europe for most of the next two months. I’m currently in Weymouth UK setting up a long term rental home for us (we got tired of random AirBnBs) close to my aging parents. My father is in a care home now, and my mother is adjusting to it…
Sources: ESPN and MLB have a deal framework giving ESPN exclusive rights to sell out-of-market regular-season games digitally and in-market games for five clubs (Andrew Marchand/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6567327/2025/08/21/ml…
The Iranian Parliament has voted in support of closing the Strait of Hormuz,
one of the world's most critical oil transit chokepoints
Any final decision on retaliation will rest with the country's Supreme National Security Council and leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The parliament vote merely advises him of the option to pursue.
#Microsoft outsourced administration of classified #DoD data to cheap workers in #China. 🇨🇳 🕵️
My latest update on
Thanks for the sweet notes yesterday, Mastofrens. 😘
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/epa-endangerment-finding-rescind.html
So, gerade gezeichnet.
https://mastodon.social/@ak_text/114900970362032238
Just found the video again of an old experiment from 2009, showcasing the volumetric voxel brush and mesh conversion of my Java geometry libraries. Even though it's very different, but as for the overall aesthetics, this is the first thing I thought of when seeing the White Tower...
https://mastodon.thi.ng…
U.S. Military Is Pulled Back Into Middle East Wars (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/us/politics/military-middle-east-wars.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p75#a250621p75
An einigen wenigen Stellen blüht sie schon, die Heide in der #wattpampa.
from my link log —
GPUHammer: rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical.
https://gpuhammer.com/
saved 2025-07-16 https://dotat.at/:/M…
🥵 Heat wave duration is accelerating faster than global warming, researchers find
#climate
In #Posterstein entsteht einer der größten Solarparks Thüringens.
Auf 45 Hektar werden 80.000 Module Strom für rund 14.000 Haushalte erzeugen. Die Gemeinde profitiert jährlich mit etwa 100.000 Euro aus der #Kommunalabgabe sowie durch
If you have no stuff to do today, GO WATCH K-POP DEMON HUNTERS!!!!!
If you have stuff to do today, GO WATCH K-POP DEMON HUNTERS!!!!!
GO WATCH K-POP DEMON HUNTERS!!!!!
paying the cute animals on the internet tax - the duckies got bigger and more feathers while I was away
/cc @…
Una noche con los autores de 2 de los mejores discos chilenos del año pasado: Pedropiedra y Gepe en Gran Arena Monticello.
#Pedropiedra #Gepe #GranArenaMonticello
På vej til Tirpitz Museet - museum indrettet i en gammel bunker, så vidt jeg forstår. Ser spændende ud: https://tirpitz.dk/
Oh dear…
AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified - Ars Technica
#horrified #suchnicepeopletoo #sarcasm
Afstand nemen van [bijdragen aan] genocide volgens de verplichting van internationaal recht is natuurlijk belangrijk...maar waarom is daar zoveel aandacht voor in relatie tot bijvoorbeeld discussies over solidariteit, de super rijken, terugdraaien van privatiseringen, UBI, de veestapel/gijzeling door big Agro...
#glpvda
#Microsoft streicht erneut tausende Stellen – vor allem im Vertrieb. Hintergrund: KI wird Priorität, Rechenzentren boomen. Die Botschaft an die Belegschaft: Ihr seid austauschbar. Ein trauriger Trend, den auch andere Techriesen wie Amazon mitmachen, so heise und Reuters
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#LesserKnownFanConventions
Yeah, that's some freakishly good AI. 😜
(I think he used HeyGen & Eleven Labs, the same AI that Sara used in her video.)
▶️ The End of YouTubers
https://youtube.com/watch?v=C7I1-H5FUiY&si=M852fJvwYTVueYgn
📢 NATO einig bei Ausgaben-Ziel von fünf Prozent
Wenige Tage vor dem NATO-Gipfel in Den Haag haben die 32 Bündnisstaaten eine Einigung über die geplante neue Zielvorgabe für die Mindesthöhe der nationalen Verteidigungsausgaben erzielt. Wie mehrere Nachrichtenagenturen übereinstimmend melden, wollen sich die Alliierten beim Gipfel bereiterklären, ihre jährlichen verteidigungsrelevanten Ausgaben auf mindestens fünf Prozent des…
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Michael Schade, Canadian Opera Company Orchestra & Richard Bradshaw:
🎵 Aria: 'O wie angstlich, o wie feurig' - from 'Die Entführung aus dem Serail'
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ce2irPKNzScUnTO6NU6GV
Playing with WinApps on Fedora Podman.
What's WinApps? "Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration."
https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps
The Cowboy Cut
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
My 2019 MBP appears to have had a power supply failure; looks like I'm going to have to take it to a repair shop to get the battery replaced...
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Scott Hirsch:
🎵 Blue Rider
#ScottHirsch
https://scott-hirsch.bandcamp.com/album/blue-rider-songs
https://open.spotify.com/track/3nc6rYz6bme0YjK674pWJQ
Tule mukaan keskustelemaan niittyjen ja maisemapeltojen hoidosta https://www.hel.fi/fi/uutiset/tule-mukaan-keskustelemaan-niittyjen-ja-maisemapeltojen-hoidosta
Was soll das heißen, "nippling" sei kein Wort.
Using (cargo) bikes to get shit done. Had to pick up the car after getting new tires installed, so on the way home from work swapped cargo bike for car at the gas station, drove home, rode the 3-speed back to the garage, and towed it home behind the cargo bike.
The cost of the car repair was equal to the cost of the Big Dummy's frame (though not in inflation-adjusted dollars, the Big Dummy is 16 years old).
#NowPlaying “Desi Oon”, an Indian stop animation short using Deccani wool to spread awareness of its neglect in the wake of urbanization and a tribute to shepherd Balumama who dedicated his life to sustainable pastoralism. https://www.
mal wieder so eine Stelle, an der man sich mit dem Rad einfach so in Luft auflösen muss.
Geplant und umgesetzt von den ausgebildeten und bezahlten Fachleuten der Stadt Stuttgart. :-\
#Schilderbingo #Pragstraße
From David Suzuki
Our current economic path leads to disaster
An economic approach that rewards waste, greed and endless growth isn’t compatible with today’s reality. But as some cling to this destructive, outdated, fossil-fuelled system in their pursuit of greater wealth and power, others are experimenting with better ways.
We invent economic systems to facilitate production and distribution of goods, services and wealth, and to maintain societal stability.
...
Anyone use Fedihost for their mastodon instance?
I get an error ("something has gone wrong”) when I try to load my instance.
I don't see any info on logs nor how to SSH in to poke around.
Any ideas?
#selfhosting #mastodon
- SAVE THE DATE -
Join us next year from June 07-09 at Kulturbrauerei for the 17th edition of #bbuzz!
Our Call for Papers will open this autumn, and tickets will be available very soon, so keep an eye out for updates on our social media channels.
In the meantime, make sure to check out the first recordings from this year's
For anyone who wonders about the absence of system requirements for FreeBSD:
― the two bug reports linked from https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1lcm1ze/freebsd_system_requirements/ may be of interest.
I reopened the first…
florentine_families: Padgett Florentine families
Multiplex network with 2 edge types representing marriage alliances and business relationships between Florentine families during the Italian Renaissance. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 16 nodes and 35 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted
…
Jesus said to his disciples, "Compare me to someone and tell me whom I am like."
Simon Peter said to him, "You are like a righteous angel."
Matthew said to him, "You are like a wise philosopher."
Thomas said to him, "Master, my mouth is wholly incapable of saying whom you are like."
Jesus said, "I am not your master. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring which I have measur…
I played Sudokuish today after a long absence. I solved all 3 difficulties for today without too much trouble. Maybe today's puzzle set is easier than typical, or maybe I'm just smarter today.
Sudokuish #233/25
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Svær
Spil med på https://www.immer.co/spil/sudokuish
It’s Fireworks Season
Time to sell the fireworks.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/its-fireworks-season/
Trains supprimés :
- Le train LOLA au départ de la gare de Saint Quentin en Yvelines Š 06h10, et pour une arrivée en gare des Invalides Š 06h51.
- Le train SARA au départ de la gare des Invalides Š 07h08, et pour une arrivée en gare de Saint Quentin en Yvelines Š 07h51.
Risque d'affluence Š bord des trains suivants.
Prochains trains Š circuler :
- Le train LOLA au départ de la gare de Saint Quentin en Yvelines Š 08h10, et pour une arrivée en gare des Invalides …
It's crazy Toby Fox made such an insane song the entire fandom had to learn how time signatures work just to understand what the actual fuck is going on
Falls ihr Disney habt, die Doku zum Jubiläum von #Jaws lohnt sich wirklich. Spielberg hatte wirklich so‘ne Art posttraumatische Belastungsstörung nach dem Dreh, weil so viel schiefging mit dem mechanischen Hai.
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Haim:
🎵 Down To Be Wrong
#NowPlaying #Haim
https://open.spotify.com/track/4vLA9tU4dvNvl3ssMTrMql
LiveMCP-101: Stress Testing and Diagnosing MCP-enabled Agents on Challenging Queries
Ming Yin, Dinghan Shen, Silei Xu, Jianbing Han, Sixun Dong, Mian Zhang, Yebowen Hu, Shujian Liu, Simin Ma, Song Wang, Sathish Reddy Indurthi, Xun Wang, Yiran Chen, Kaiqiang Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15760
Replaced article(s) found for math.CT. https://arxiv.org/list/math.CT/new
[1/1]:
- Note on the linearisation of finite abelian groups
Aur\'elien Djament (CNRS, LAGA)
"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself. That is the best combination."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration
The Waste Musk Created (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/opinion/waste-musk-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk8.MFa8.D83Zs5aWzLWg&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p76#a250621p76
🏃🏿♀️➡️ Researchers find that individual practice is the secret to maintaining high team performance over time
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-individual-secret-high-team.html
Die Deutsche #Umwelthilfe warnt vor einem geplanten Abkommen zwischen #Deutschland und den #Niederlanden, das
#kubriX: Your Out-of-the-Box Internal Developer Platform (#IDP) for #Kubernetes
As Diseases Spread and Trust in the FDA Crumbles, Its Leaders Are Obsessed with an MRI Abnormality in 1 in 61,500 Males Ages 12-24 | Science-Based Medicine
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/dontrustfda/
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#SummerHeatASongOrPoem
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Naïssam Jalal:
🎵 Rituel de la terre (Live at Cully Jazz Festival 2025)
#NaïssamJalal
https://open.spotify.com/track/2xxYSVviRLZVSk2fghHpBx
Gorilla Glass schwört Marktmanipulation ab
Corning, Hersteller von Gorilla Glass, wird seine Verträge 9 Jahre lang anders fassen. Das ist ein Erfolg für die Wettbewerbsaufsicht der EU-Kommission.
https://www.
The FBI searches John Bolton's home. For what? Absent strong evidence to the contrary, this seems like obvious political retribution and distraction ploy.
There's a lot of things I don't like about JB, but his willingness to unhesitatingly and openly criticize POTUS47 is worthy of respect. He's one of a few people I'd give the benefit of the doubt to WRT to personal integrity.
#POTUS45
Judge orders Alligator Alcatraz shut down in 60 days, says no more new detainees (Churchill Ndonwie/Miami Herald)
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article311770767.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p63#a250822p63
I JUST WANT BANG BANG BANG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93AJaObdrgY
Man kann eine Pfanne überhitzen? Dann ist es aber doch keine gute Pfanne. Wird vielleicht langsam Zeit, mir eine Edelstahlpfanne anzuschaffen, wenn eine beschichtete Pfanne trotz 5-Jahres-Garantie nicht umgetauscht wird mit der Begründung, sie sei "überhitzt worden".
🍓 How TRIC Robotics is reducing pesticide use on strawberries using UV light
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/how-tric-robotics-is-reducing-pesticide-use-on-strawberries-using-uv-light/
us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
Reddit Looks to Get in Bed With Altman's Creepy 'World ID' Orbs for User Verification
https://gizmodo.com/reddit-looks-to-get-in-bed-with-altmans-creepy-world-id-orbs-for-user-verification-2000618369
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#HowToMessWithNeighbors
Manipulation: Strafrechtliche Ermittlungen gegen X in Frankreich
Wegen Einmischung in innere Angelegenheiten samt betrügerischen Ausleitens von Daten ermittelt Frankreich gegen X. Dieses kooperiert nicht.
ht…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Carl Maria von Weber, Juhani Tapaninen & Jukka-Pekka Saraste:
🎵 Andante and Rondo Ungarese in C minor, Op 35
#CarlMariavonWeber
https://open.spotify.com/track/4c49Yr8ozhH19AZojqktzG
🪴 New 'gene gun' design boosts efficiency of plant genetic modification
#plants
Mortgage-Fraud Accusations Are Trump's New Political Weapon (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/mortgage-fraud-accusations-are-trumps-new-political-weapon-05641cfd?st=2cqKn9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p147#a250822p147
I am loving Buffy the vamp. slayer btw.
Love to see Supernatural's roots :P
karate: Zachary Karate Club
Network of friendships among members of a university karate club. Includes metadata for faction membership after a social partition. Note: there are two versions of this network, one with 77 edges and one with 78, due to an ambiguous typo in the original study. (The most commonly used is the one with 78 edges.).
This network has 34 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Maîtrise de Garçons de Colmar, Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Ensemble Cantus Figuratus & Dominique Vellard:
🎵 Missa in duplicibus minoribus II
https://open.spotify.com/track/55MzVEmzj1pSBQBKYA7Uil
🏎️ Tiny cars, big stakes: These remote control racers aren't hobbyists. They're pros
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-07/professional-radio-control-racers-california-race
🆓
Epstein breaks Congress (Cameron Peters/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/420745/jeffrey-epstein-files-donald-trump-house-recess
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p146#a250722p146
Hello, is this the SPICE store?
I would like some SPICE please.
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: Beethoven, Bruckner and Tüür
Yunchan Lim makes his Proms debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi, performing Beethoven’s final piano concerto, the ‘Emperor’.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002h1td
White House to announce World Cup draw is coming to the Kennedy Center (Garrett Haake/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-putin-zelenskyy-gaza-dc-national-guard-tariffs-live-updates-rcna225499/rcrd86902?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p72#a250822p72
I walked up the creek and got my feet stuck in a foot of mud and got cut up by sawgrass to get this shot of what used be a much larger beaver pond in the wet meadow upstream of my driveway
#photo #photography #water
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Jack Gonsalez:
🎵 The Man with The Blue Violin
#JackGonsalez
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Mynf8HPqYvJfhcXsDFWEq
I love being online when @… is online.
I watch the toots, and boosts, and favourites roll in live.
Its like people watching, but cyber. cyber people watching.
🛸 High-Quality Manufacturing with Electrochemical Jet Machining (ECJM) for Processing Applications: A Comprehensive Review, Challenges, and Future Opportunities
#manufacturing
its stuck in my head. help
oh zara zara touch me touch me touch me
oh zara zara kiss me kiss me kiss me
oh zara zara hold me hold me hold me
oh zara zara ohhhh ohhhh
bin tere sanam is jahan me
bekarar hu
dam da-dam da-dam
bin tere sanam is jahan me
bekarar hu
Old SPICE, new SPICE, i dont care
Just gimme all the SPICE
SPICE SPICE baby
SPICE is the SPICE of life
Spice makes me feel ALIVE.
if I was a demon, I'd put Holy water in my soups just for an extra kick