Tootfinder

some excellent notes on the recent stash of boredoms recordings surfaced by @…. https://archive.org/search?query=subject:"boredoms%2…

HTTP has a new method: QUERY. Tl;dr: GET with a body.
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-14.html
(Doesn’t have an RFC number yet but has been approved, will get one in a few weeks.)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115945071431971557
Also, yes you can connect to WiFi in Mac OS 9.2 with AirPort in a 27 year old iBook from 1999 and yes, iTunes can still query Gracenote for CD track titles.

Kathi asks ChatGPT "how to test a graph algo".
Repeats the query 6 months later…now it mentions PBT.
Huh! We ask it why it mentioned PBT. It cites back…
Our own papers and blog, and specifically mentions our own education research work on why graph algos are a great eg.
Moving the needle!

reading a prelim paper on scaling up gpu-accelerated database query engines and feeling kinda gobsmacked at where that world is at
i remember when we built a “massive” memory machine at princeton with … i think it was 256 MB of RAM. (it sat idle except when ken thompson was logged in and building hash tables for chess endgames which was most of the time)

Wow, une petite révolution en train de se discuter entre experts très investis.
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-14.html
On n'a plus qu'Š attendre 3-5 ans pour pouvoir utiliser des QUERY au lieu de PO…

from my link log —
trustydns: DNS Over HTTPS proxy, server and query programs.
https://github.com/markdingo/trustydns
saved 2019-06-28 https://do…

Epstein Files Transparency Act:
"The Attorney General shall ... make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format."
NYT:
The DOJ "website also contains a search function, though it is unclear if it’s working properly.
A query for 'Epstein' returned no results."
-- Ryan Goodman

Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
Epstein Files Transparency Act: "The Attorney General shall ... make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format." NYT: The DOJ "website also contains a search function, though it is unclear if it’s working properly. A query for 'Epstein' returned no results."

A programmer estimates his typical day of coding with Claude Code is equivalent to running the dishwasher an extra time, much more energy than a "median query" (Simon P. Couch)
https://www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01-20-cc-impact/

@… Hey, it is me again 😅
Just to let you know that I receive some 400 Bad Request errors from some DoH servers (dns.quad9.net and ns0.fdn.fr for instance) while some others accept my queries (dns.google and Cloudflare 1.1.1.1).
I am not sure yet if the error is on my use of the library or within the library itself.
Here is the code to run the query:

@… thanks!
Hints:
― procfs(5) is deprecated (the FreeBSD Handbook is outdated; <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?qu

The US House Armed Services Committee formally asks the Defense Department how it plans to safeguard Stars and Stripes' congressionally required independence (@erikwemple)
https://x.com/erikwemple/status/2013744189641470264

ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) on X
A little followup on the Pentagon's move to "refocus" Stars and Stripes: The House Armed Services Committee has sent a bipartisan query to the Defense Department asking how it plans to safeguard the publication's congressionally required independence, among other questions.

Oh great, new issue spam attack on @…. People really have too much time on their hands. This time posting random images from 4chan, etc., as well as AI-generated bogus issues.
Sorry you guys have to deal with such crap.

3 days ago the RSS feed of planet.ubuntu.com stopped working due to a TLS cert error.
I THINK it's due to them overhauling & moving it to a github-hosted replacement, but as this was done just by redirecting DNS the new host doesn't have a TLS cert with the correct name. If so, this means that people following the old RSS feed can't do so any more and they got no notice that this was going to happen.
I don't know for sure though because my query remains unansw…

Extended The vOICe web app with xres and yres query parameters for setting the capture and on-screen preview resolution (default 320 x 240), e.g. https://www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/webvoice.htm?preview&xres=1200&yres=800 You may hav…

👨‍💻 Created by Sachin Beniwal, open for feedback and contributions
📚 https://benodiwal.github.io/pg_ai_query
💻 https://github.com/be…

I finally found a way to print #logseq queries. There is no native way and every plugin also just prints the query and not the query output.
https://github.com/cldwalker/logseq-query
Th…

GitHub - cldwalker/logseq-query
Contribute to cldwalker/logseq-query development by creating an account on GitHub.

QUERY: grad student journal #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20131920/query-grad-student-journal

Alexa explodes after Canadian replies to query with, “Oh, yeah, no, for sure.”
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/10/alexa-explodes-after-canadian-replies-to-query-with-oh-yeah-no-for-sure/

Alexa explodes after Canadian replies to query with, “Oh, yeah, no, for sure.”
OROMOCTO, NB - A local man almost lost his home yesterday after his Amazon Alexa smart home device burst into flames. Lloyd Wentworth, 38, says the fire started as he was preparing dinner in his bungalow on Waasis Road. 

This rock wrote some seriously based shit you should definitely read!
🔗 #Anarchism

Somebody Told Me (The User Provider Should Use An Adaptor To Proxy The Query Factory Builder)
https://youtu.be/p03oO_7sCaY

kleiner Service-#SPARQL-Query für Radfahrer:innen in Berlin: Fahrradreparaturstationen in Berlin laut #openstreetmap, abgefragt mit #qlever:

"Hey, let's get some Chinese characters tattooed on our body without knowing any Chinese language!"
https://www.youtube.com/@ChinesewithJessie/search?query=Tattoo

Chinese with Jessie
Hi guys, it's Jessie here! I was born and raised in rural China, learn and laugh with me on this channel! For business inquiries: jessica87968@gmail.com

Tags are sets. Many apps support tagging of content, but most of them (incl. Mastodon) treat tags only as singular/isolated topic filters, akin to a flat folder-based approach. But tagging can be so, so much more powerful when treating tags as sets and offering users the possibility to combine and query tagged content as sets (think Venn diagrams), i.e. allowing tags to be combined using AND/OR/NOT aka intersection/union/difference operations...
Below is a simple query engine to do jus…

Imagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

Schaue gerade in Kohlrabenschwarz rein, die Folgen gibt es gerade in der Mediathek:
https://mediathekviewweb.de/#query=kohlrabenschwarz
Das ganze kommt mit sehr trockenem Humor und passend zur dunklen Jahreszeit mit gruseligem Sujet basierend auf alten Erzählung…

Custom self-leveling, poured polyurethane art floors. Cool video.
I found others, e.g., on youtube:
"epoxy flooring 3d"
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=epoxy flooring 3d

🔍 Schema-aware query intelligence through secure introspection understands your database structure for accurate query generation
🔌 Multi-model flexibility: supports #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #Gemini

Yesterday, after a mild query by some parents, my daughter’s primary school sent out a notice to say they were going to stop using their X account for comms.
It’s as simple as that. There are plenty of alternatives.
But even if there weren’t you can’t contribute to that.
And it can be as simple as
asking to prompt a change.

I just finished reorganizing the cable drawer.
The timeline of events was something like:
- the DNS server for internal name resolution runs inside a Docker container only reachable via IPv4
- if an Android device gets both IPv4 and IPv6 DNS servers, it will only query the IPv6 one
- fuck Docker; I'll install the DNS server on a Raspberry Pi
- creating a Pi image with sshd enabled didn't work
- this household has surprisingly few HDMI cables
- oh, …

I just finished reorganizing the cable drawer.
The timeline of events was something like:
- the DNS server for internal name resolution runs inside a Docker container only reachable via IPv4
- if an Android device gets both IPv4 and IPv6 DNS servers, it will only query the IPv6 one
- fuck Docker; I'll install the DNS server on a Raspberry Pi
- creating a Pi image with sshd enabled didn't work
- this household has surprisingly few HDMI cables
- oh, …

Yesterday, I observed a friend trying to show me something he saw on facebook recently. Every single search he tried resulted in first switching from facebook to “Meta”—whatever that is—without him noticing for quite some interactions, the search field was still there. Sending a query always opened the Meta AI answering the assumed question (but he was actually sending a query as he was looking for an image). He got angry, I got amused. He found the image eventually, but what a wacky UI!

#DNS trivia, especially for those have ever used the "It was DNS" meme. What is wrong with this (real) dig response and what is the likely cause? AI probably won't help you.

dig @1.1.1.1 foobar.gov  norecurse  nocmd  noquestion  noauthority  nostats
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1808
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, A…

pkg query --evaluate '%o = base' '%o\n\n%e\n\n----\n\n'
Why does it not get descriptions of installed base packages?
pkg-query(8)
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg-query&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-…

Telerik software engineer Dave Brock takes a look at improvements in .NET 10 from a web api coder's perspective. Reviewed improvements include:
1. Built in Validation for Minimal APIs
2. Validation Error Responses
3. OpenAPI 3.1
4. Schema Improvements
5. EF Core 10 Named Query Filters
6. C# 14 Improvements
7. Null-conditional Assignments
8. Extension Members
(...)
"What’s New with APIs in .NET 10: Taking a Look at Real Improvements…

Robust forecast aggregation via additional queries
Rafael Frongillo, Mary Monroe, Eric Neyman, Bo Waggoner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05271
arXiv:2512.05271v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of robust forecast aggregation: combining expert forecasts with provable accuracy guarantees compared to the best possible aggregation of the underlying information. Prior work shows strong impossibility results, e.g. that even under natural assumptions, no aggregation of the experts' individual forecasts can outperform simply following a random expert (Neyman and Roughgarden, 2022).
In this paper, we introduce a more general framework that allows the principal to elicit richer information from experts through structured queries. Our framework ensures that experts will truthfully report their underlying beliefs, and also enables us to define notions of complexity over the difficulty of asking these queries. Under a general model of independent but overlapping expert signals, we show that optimal aggregation is achievable in the worst case with each complexity measure bounded above by the number of agents $n$. We further establish tight tradeoffs between accuracy and query complexity: aggregation error decreases linearly with the number of queries, and vanishes when the "order of reasoning" and number of agents relevant to a query is $\omega(\sqrt{n})$. These results demonstrate that modest extensions to the space of expert queries dramatically strengthen the power of robust forecast aggregation. We therefore expect that our new query framework will open up a fruitful line of research in this area.
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RE: https://cosocial.ca/@hyphacoop/115685327547429897
They likely won't like my answers. 😅
FWIW a 7B param LLM costs around 55MWh to train and test, and about 300Wh per query. Then factor that 52% of the answers are unusable, so like Lay's potato chips, NOBODY does only one prompt.

Sometimes i have the feeling that AI results in Google Search are just a placeholder. Results are often awful and incomparable with using the paid version of Gemini 3 with the same query. Google is betting that models will improve and become cheaper so that they can offer a better experience in the future.
#AI #Search

NTP query question - running Alma 10 Kitten. Chronyc only lets you query servers in your config. I want to check servers that AREN'T. Something i used to use ntpq for. But no ntpq is showing in the repos (including epel-release). Suggestions?

Polars is a lightning fast DataFrame library/in-memory query engine with parallel execution and cache efficiency. And now you can use is with the tidyverse syntax: #rstats

More Efficient Tidyverse Code, Using Polars in the Background
Polars is a cross-language tool for manipulating very large data. However, one drawback is that the R implementation has a syntax that will look odd to many R users who are not used to Python syntax. The objective of tidypolars is to improve the ease-of-use of Polars in R by providing tidyverse syntax to polars.

📈 #LogsQL query language provides fast full-text search, advanced analytics, and data extraction/transformation at query time. Can be combined with Unix tools like grep, less, sort, and jq for log analysis.
🎯 Optimized for high cardinality fields like trace_id, user_id, and ip addresses. Supports logs with hundreds of fields (wide events), multitenancy, out-of-order ingestion, live taili…

the rise and fall of stackoverflow
the graph of posts per month is quite something
the decline over the last four years is almost a mirror of the rise 2008-2012
and they are now down to near zero
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#gr…

There's a media query for JS enabled/disabled: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/At-rules/@media/scripting

scripting - CSS | MDN
The scripting CSS media feature can be used to test whether scripting (such as JavaScript) is available.

QUERY: grad student journal
https://ift.tt/1xfnvjD
Contention Vol. 7, Issue 1 Dear Colleague, The new issue of Contention has…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/vIFjTtB…

The rapid decline of #StackOverflow et al in the age of #AI slop https://data.stackexchange.com/stackov

@…
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~> alias iinfo='dpkg-query -W -f="\${Package}-\${Version}\n"'
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~> iinfo nano
nano-8.4-1
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~> man alias
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~> alias --save iinfo='dpkg-query -W -f="\${Package}-\${Version}\n"'
funcsav…

You know that Firefox feature where bookmarks could contain a %s in the url somewhere and then the name of the bookmark could be used as a prefix in the address bar to quickly query some website? What's that feature called? Does it exist in Safari?
#askfedi

Telerik software engineer Dave Brock takes a look at improvements in .NET 10 from a web api coder's perspective. Reviewed improvements include:
1. Built in Validation for Minimal APIs
2. Validation Error Responses
3. OpenAPI 3.1
4. Schema Improvements
5. EF Core 10 Named Query Filters
6. C# 14 Improvements
7. Null-conditional Assignments
8. Extension Members
(...)
"What’s New with APIs in .NET 10: Taking a Look at Real Improvements…

Unlike keyword search,
semantic search lets you search using natural language.
It looks beyond exact matches to understand the meaning and intent behind your query.
This means it can surface relevant precedents even when they're phrased differently
—something keyword searches often miss.
Semantic search is currently available through an API, but we're already working to bring it to the website—stay tuned!
And don't worry, keyword search isn…

Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the first time, in Q3; Sundar Pichai says "AI Overviews drive meaningful query growth" and AI Mode has 75M DAUs (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-posts-

Google Posts First-Ever $100B Quarter in Wake of Historic DOJ Antitrust Battles
Google surged past Wall Street’s Q3 estimates, with shares up over 6% in after-hours trading Wednesday.

SQL is the lingua franca. Hiring, maintenance, and reviews get easier when the query is the spec.
Over time, all NoSQL framework include SQL interfaces.
https://medium.com/@Modexa/the-sql-comeback-fabb86f6bfce

My answer is NO to AI in a browser. All I want is for a browser to go to the URL and render the page. A search site to provide me a list of sites that meet my query, not a hallucination of a list. The page that is edited by a person presenting real information and not AI slop.
And yes, I do use AI at times at work. I use it to quickly find documents, but I will do the review to see if they are relevant.

#AISlop #shitpost #shitposting

Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the first time, in Q3; Sundar Pichai says "AI Overviews drive meaningful query growth" and AI Mode has 75M DAUs (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-posts-

Google Posts First-Ever $100B Quarter in Wake of Historic DOJ Antitrust Battles
Google surged past Wall Street’s Q3 estimates, with shares up over 6% in after-hours trading Wednesday.

from my link log —
Pipelined Relational Query Language, PRQL: a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement.
https://prql-lang.org/book/
saved 2025-11-05 https://

This looks like a bunch of LLM-generated nonsense...
https://arxiv.org/search/math?searchtype=author&query=Barreto, J R
https://arxiv.org/search/math?searchtype=author&query=Reizi, B J
@… Can you do anything about this?

@… ha, thanks … the bears page was amongst the top search results at <https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query="d…

@… @… a checkpoint can be useful in some situations.
zpool-checkpoint(8)
<

Fixed, thanks to @…
With and without less(1):
pkg query --evaluate '%o ~ base/*' '%o\n\n%e\n\n----\n\n' | less
pkg query --evaluate '%o ~ base/*' '%o\n\n%e\n\n----\n\n'
#FreeBSD

@… if a package for firmware is missing from the meta package, that could be a bug report in Bugzilla.
Does fwget get the firmware?
fwget(8)
<https://

When running a query with "out count;" in Overpass Ultra, where is that count actually displayed? I can't find any ui button to switch from the map view to response xml/json (like overpass turbo has).
#overpassultra #overpassql #osm

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