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I spotted this '100 best movies of all time' (maybe most popular/influential, see how they chose them) list via Empire, some I agree with, some I'm disturbed by. Now I can't stop thinking about it. Check the list, agree/disagree? What would YOUR top ones be? I'm gonna throw mine together and see what I get. Can I even come up with 100 that are WORTHY? 😂

The 100 Best Movies Of All Time — And Where You Can Watch Them
Explore Empire's top 100 best movies, ranked by our critics. From blockbusters to cult classics, see what made the list and what you need to watch now!

I updated my website's list of links to add @USERNAME@WEBSITE to every social media account I own.
This way, it’s clearer what my name is and which site it belongs to. It might look like federation, but it’s not on most sites; it just works as a placeholder.
Read more here: https://midtsveen.codeberg.page

"When the Trump regime took over in January and Elon Musk's data-raiders started hacking federal agencies of various kinds, a group chat in which I participate started speculating about what kinds of terrible things this crowd might do. One member of the group wondered if the hacking might include the Social Security Administration's "death master file" – a list of people, presumably deceased, who would not receive any federal benefits and whose names and other identifying information would be flagged so that financial institutions would refuse to serve them.
What if, the conversation continued, the infamously cruel and paranoid regime decided to add living persons to the death master list? Doing so would destroy people's actual lives – which might make it just what a vicious government would do."
#USPolitics
https://cornerstone.dangillmor.com/essentials-april-12-2025/

Replaced article(s) found for cs.IT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.IT/new/
[1/1]:
Network-level ISAC: An Analytical Study of Antenna Topologies Ranging from Massive to Cell-Free MIMO

While still partial and unofficial, the results for the Senate and party-list representatives are very surprising.
Based on months of polling, Bam and Kiko barely made it into the winning 12 circle, but now they are already in the top 5 with 3/4 of election returns counted.
And Akbayan is the top party list? They didn’t win any seat in 2019 and narrowly lost in 2022 but are now poised to get 3 seats?

"We cannot preclude developers from “vibe coding” their way into a working application; but we can teach them how to properly integrate the very likely spaghetti mess produced by those bullshit machines, how to understand it, and how to make it work with today’s compilers, which, let us be honest: are the best we have ever had, and it would be a shame to ignore them completely."

The Allure Of Vibe Coding
"Compiler Explorer" is the name of a fascinating project by Matt Godbolt, a British C++ software developer living in Chicago. It is the simplest and most wonderful thing; just paste a snippet of code on the left pane (in C, C++, D, C#, Java, Python, and a myriad more languages), and you will see on the right its equivalent in assembly code, as produced by one of a long list of compilers, including some commercial ones, for a wide variety of CPU architectures and software versions.

Time to get rid of the monarchs birthday holiday and associated honours list. When someone like Scott Morrison makes the list it's just a slap in the face of people who deserve recognition.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-08/sco

Scott Morrison receives country's highest honour for leading Australia through COVID crisis
The 30th prime minister has been appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for his "eminent service" to the country and direction during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Some statistics about all robotic #LunarLanding attempts so far from 1965 to 2025 compiled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon and https://scicomm.xyz/@AkaSci@fosstodon.org/114636519291241321 in which I only count those for which descent to the surface had been initiated, not missions lost at launch or on the way - in a nutshell ~70% of all landings by government agencies went well (essentially the same rate 60 years ago and now!) but only ~30% by private companies. Here goes ...
There have been two separate periods of soft lunar landing attempts of ca. a dozen years each, from 1965 to 1976 and 2013 to 2025 (ongoing) with a huge gap between them.
In the first interval there were 20 attempts with 13 successes (Luna 9, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 24 and Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7), one partial success (Luna 23, counting as 50%) and 6 failures (Luna 5, 7, 8, 15 and 18 and Surveyor 4), so the success rate was 13.5/20 = 68 %. All missions were by - the Soviet and U.S. - governments.
In the second interval there were so far 14 attempts with 6 full successes (Chang'e-3, 4, 5 and 6, Vikram 2 and Blue Ghost), three partial successes (SLIM, IM-1 and 2, counting as 75%, 50% and 25%, respectively) and 5 failures (Beresheet, Vikram 1, Hakuto-R 1 and 2 and Luna 25) so the success rate was 7.5 / 14 = 54%.
But looking only at the government missions it was 72%, slighly up from 50 years ago. While for the commercial attempts it was only 29%. In total the success rate was 19 (18 government-run) missions out of 34 (28) attempts or 62% but 69% for governments only. And if you throw in the 6 Apollo landings, the total success rate rises to 68% and the government-only rate goes even up to 75%.

Changing tastes
I found a list on my Google Drive account, seemingly from 2008, which identifies itself as the "Best Games". Obviously there have been a number of amazing games released since, but it's interesting to see whether I still consider these to be near the peak of gaming. I'll start with the list, and then below I'll enter some thoughts. Phantasy Star Online…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.IT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.IT/new/
[1/1]:
Entropy Functions on Two-Dimensional Faces of Polymatroidal Region of Degree Four: Part I: Proble...

Torus knots in adjoint representation and Vogel's universality
Liudmila Bishler, Andrei Mironov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06219 https://

Torus knots in adjoint representation and Vogel's universality
Vogel's universality gives a unified description of the adjoint sector of representation theory for simple Lie algebras in terms of three parameters $α,β,γ$, which are homogeneous coordinates of Vogel's plane. It is associated with representation theory within the framework of Chern-Simons theory only, and gives rise to universal knot invariants. We extend the list of these latter further, and explain how to deal with the adjoint invariants for the torus knots $T[m,n]$ considering the case o…

In a few days I’ll have a CSV/json of exported Cryptpad answers for some kind of census. Are there any open source softwares out there that make analysing these kind of stuff easier?
Instead of just like opening it on a fucking libreoffice spreadsheet or something.
Ideally it’d give me like the amount of people who selected each option on a question, same for written ones (being able to set aliases like “abcd = ABCD” and “Guix = GNU Guix” bc people can’t be consistent when answering polls), with the ability to understand comma-separated replies to those questions as if they were multiple selections on a checkbox question).
Maybe being able to generate some graphs too, but at least giving me a list with like “question1, reply1, amount” for each so I can easily make graphs myself.

I must be using Microsoft #Copilot wrong. Most of the things I ask it to do end up screwed up. Example: I asked it to tell me all of the URL shorteners that use the .li TLD. It gave me a few and then pointed me to a list someone maintains on GitHub of URL shortener domains. Ok, good start. I ask it to pull all the .li domains from the list for me. It does that. But I spot checked the list and f…

I think it ranks low on a list of priorities, but as a long-term effect of #DOGE, it's natural that this will make working for US Government much less appealing. I expect US Government workforce management to be much more difficult (less effective & more expensive) in the coming decades.
The implications are:
1. spending more on advertising and recruiting
2. spending more on sa…

One of the most important lessons I've learned in life / continue to learn / managed to forget is the importance of "stopping." It is so easy for life to become overwhelming with all the things I must do. Work, family, friends, volunteering, community, finances, chores, taking care of my health, the list goes on...
"Life is a very simple thing. We make it more complex." - Anonymous
"When we are making our life more complex, that is precisely the time when we are totally incapable of seeing what we are doing. The more complex our lives are, the more we need to be present to them and, surprisingly, this is exactly the time when we are most distracted. When we are distracted, we tend to have poor judgment and make more mistakes . . . usually adding to the confusion . . . and so it goes."
"....We usually respond by trying to become even more controlling and, eventually (or immediately!), this just makes things worse."
"It's time to stop, take stock, take some deep breaths, rest, listen to others, and regroup...We may miss something. We may even miss something we think is important. That's okay. We're more important."
"Taking time to stop may be just what I need to move ahead."
-- Anne Wilson Schaef, Meditations for People Who (May) Worry Too Much, Ballantine Books, 1996, entry for May 6th.
#life #quotes #health #productivity

Hey everyone!
Resources 1.8 has landed with new features such as showing the link type and speed of various devices and better support for more hardware like the Raspberry Pi's GPU.
And, of course, it features the latest GNOME 48 runtime!
Feel free to check it out! :)
https://flathub.org/apps…

Wise says it plans to shift main listing from London to New York, the latest blow to London's stock market, and will maintain a secondary listing on the LSE (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I just did the generic "Applications Engineer" job test for City of SF and it definitely was written by someone who hasn't moved past domain controllers and 2005. I got a "15.0", whatever that means for the rule of the list.

The #DefendResearch team, through the efforts of @… , is maintaining a list of public statements supporting research & higher education against threats from the Trump administration. Please submit any that are missing.

I’ve never seen this memory issue on #MacOS before. I had left Safari with Mela’s share sheet/importer app snippet open overnight and came back to a nearly unresponsive computer. I assume one of these has a memory leak. I was able to reboot via the shell using SSH from another device.

It's amazing how many Default Things in normal modern life are the result of nouveau-demi-riche plebs larping whatever inbred brainrot nonsense the aristocracy was doing a century before. Lawns, for example. McMansions. Manners. Golf. The list goes on.

I think it ranks low on a list of priorities, but as a long-term effect of #DOGE, it's natural that this will make working for US Government much less appealing. I expect US Government workforce management to be much more difficult (less effective & more expensive) in the coming decades.
The implications are:
1. spending more on advertising and recruiting
2. spending more on sa…

Hey everyone!
Resources 1.8 has landed with new features such as showing the link type and speed of various devices and better support for more hardware like the Raspberry Pi's GPU.
And, of course, it features the latest GNOME 48 runtime!
Feel free to check it out! :)
https://flathub.org/apps…

#Mexico forbids killing bulls and subjecting them to the most extreme forms of torture.
#Spain is, sadly, still far behind... but I suspect that Mexico's precedent will help, not just as a good example, but also because it will severely decrease the income of many of those bullfighters (toreros).
Toreros usually travel through many countries to participate in these bloody spectacles and make a living out of it. Removing Mexico from their list will be a big thing, so it is likely that many of them will have to do something else with their lives.

Nuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Nvim 0.11 was just released.
https://gpanders.com/blog/whats-new-in-neovim-0-11/

@… as you have gemini diffusion access, does it support structured generation and extraction? I would love to see it resculpt an input text into a extracted list of entities and relationships :) (Still waiting for my access)

It's #FollowFriday, and I already shared a list of recommendations, but I want to give a special shoutout to @…!
💚 Mastodon: @…

I made a helper for Proximity (a word association game like #Semantle). It lets you poke around the database to see what's close to what:
https://github.com/adamhotep/userscrip

Federalist Society and Leonard Leo are the latest close associates of Donald Trump who he then turned on.
https://newrepublic.com/article/196026/trump-leonard-leo-judicial-feud
How many months will it be before he does the same with Elon Musk…

Why Trump Moved Leonard Leo From the Short List to the Sh*t List
Conservative legal scholars believe in things like originalism and the Second Amendment. Donald Trump’s OK with those, but he really believes in only one thing.

Making to do lists is great. It always reminds me of tasks that are more than finishing the list.
#ToDoList

{purrr} has some lesser known functions that make handling of failing function calls easier: safely, quietly, possibly: #rstats…

Wrap a function to capture errors — safely
Creates a modified version of .f that always succeeds. It returns a list with components result and error. If the function succeeds, result contains the returned value and error is NULL. If an error occurred, error is an error object and result is either NULL or otherwise.

DNSFilter, a #cybersecurity vendor I'm not very familiar with, published their Q1 2025 Threat Report. I think it's always good to review these reports from a #threatintel perspective.
Here's their list of TLD's with domains most likely to be malicious:
.tf

At the end of March we decided to switch to a cheaper electric&gas company. The old company handled the disconnection process starting April 9th, which will be fully completed by April 30th.
This is the complete list of spam calls I received until yesterday.
Luckily I know how to handle the situation, still it seems to me unreal and crazy.
I'll be updating the graph every now and then just to fully understand the madness.

ILC250 Cost Update - 2024
Gerald Dugan, Andrew J. Lankford, Benno List, Shinichiro Michizono, Tatsuya Nakada, Marc Ross, Hiroshi R. Sakai, Steinar Stapnes, Nobuhiro Terunuma, Nicholas Walker, Akira Yamamoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00353

ILC250 Cost Update - 2024
The International Linear Collider was conceived as a global project for an energy-frontier electron-positron collider.It employs superconducting RF and nano-beam technologies with a center-of-mass energy of 500 GeV. Its cost was estimated in 2013, based on the Technical Design Report published in 2013.Japan's high-energy community proposed to host the ILC in Japan as a Higgs boson factory at 250 GeV in its first phase, and a revised cost estimate was conducted in 2017 to host it in Japan. Howev…

After the #Trump administration is revealed to have a list of #BannedWords used for #censorship, I think we can a safely assume it's an emerging

After the #Trump administration is revealed to have a list of #BannedWords used for #censorship, I think we can a safely assume it's an emerging