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@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-24 14:00:59

Cowboys' Stephen Jones: DeMarvion Overshown will be 'great' if he can answer injury 'question mark' nfl.com/news/cowboys-stephen-j

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-03-25 17:04:54

What do you think the most important human invention is?
I have an answer and will post it later, I promise it’s going somewhere.
(I’ll allow joke answers, but also post a serious answer.)

@saraislet@infosec.exchange
2026-03-25 21:40:11

Sure, Peter Drucker, sure.
The lady doth protest too much (he goes on to write several pages about how there were successful women leaders in business during that time period)

Picture of book text with interrobang in the margin after the paragraph «The expedient and politically correct answer today might seem to be, "Because she was a woman and had been discriminated against." It would be the wrong answer.»
Full text:
I owe to Hopf's list the realization that there was a discipline of management waiting to be born. But Mary Parker Follett's name was not on the list. Her books, of course, were in Hopf's library; but evidently he did not consider them "of the slightest…
"Sure, Jan" meme: a white blonde woman raises her eyebrows in skepticism
@matzekult@chaos.social
2026-02-24 13:00:25

Size isn’t everything in #StarTrek. Unless of course when it is a question for #TrekTriviaTuesday.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will reply with the correct answer.
How long was a…

@denmanrooke@mastodon.ie
2026-03-25 19:38:07

Teachers’ Union of Ireland held a lunchtime protest over cuts to the (ESOL) and adult literacy programmes in their Education and Training Board (GRETB). Rooke: "workers... organised in their unions... standing up for services... It's the best answer to austerity."

@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza
2026-04-24 19:02:58

Anyone who calls me knows I don't always answer. They can leave a voicemail and I will call back later. I am not ignoring them as I may be driving or on the bus, in a work meeting or just busy.
For calls with only a number I NEVER answer. If they are legit and want to talk to me they can leave a voicemail.

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-04-24 22:15:20

Answer data harvesting with data poisoning

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-20 13:30:46

Scott Myers, the head of Snap's AR glasses subsidiary Specs, leaves after six years; sources say Myers left after a "blow-up" with Evan Spiegel over strategy (Alex Heath/Sources)
sources.news/p/figmas-answer-t

@trochee@dair-community.social
2026-02-22 16:22:03
Content warning: Saturday's NYT crossword, Sunday morning QBing

The clue: "right, right, right" (4)
The answer in the grid: ISEE
The answer I plonked in without any crosses: LEFT
So, yeah it slowed me down a lot to have four wrong letters, early
But wasn't my answer *better*?

@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2026-04-25 13:32:18

Kind of intrigued by this.
subwoofer-builder.com/qrdude.h

screenshot
@papapishu.bsky.social
I'm trying to see if anybody has printed a QRD (Quadratic Residue
Diffuser, aka the weird sound diffusers that are a bunch of wood cubes
at various heights) and the answer is yes, a few people have.

05:43 - 25 Apr 2026
@hex@kolektiva.social
2026-03-24 15:11:20

This is actually not too far off from a pamphlet I wrote at my community college as an experiment in "turning assignments into creative writing." I was taking a religion class, so I decided to create one. I was working in a group and by the end we had developed 3 sects of the religion and we each talked about our sect and how it related and differed from the original text.
I also handed out pamphlets at a mall, half as part of a psychology class (because why not find a way to reuse my material) and part as an experiment to see how long it would take to get kicked out of said mall. (The answer was bout 15 minutes, if I remember correctly.)
Somewhere between there and here, the books "The Evolution of God" and "Non-Zero" came out (written, interestingly but probably unrelated, by someone who lived in the town with that mall where I handed out those flyers). These books both have heavily overlapping ideas with the original pamphlet (lost, which may not be the worst thing since it was full of spelling and grammar errors).
But both of those books had a decidedly theistic flavor, though, I think, they were more generally liberal. The whole #CultPunk thing feels like a missing piece to something that's been bouncing around in my head for... uh... some years. But not so much at the front of my mind.
It was actually in the hospital, on pain killers and ketamine, that this all came rushing back. Perhaps that's the right state of mind for such things.

@wraithe@mastodon.social
2026-02-25 20:17:49

“What’s your favorite…”
Let me just stop you right there;
I do, in fact, have favorite movies, books, scenes, comics, games; many of them!
I will NEVER be able to answer the above question, because the second you ask it/I read it, my mind goes completely fucking blank as they all vie for 1st

@newstik@social.heise.de
2026-03-24 21:28:01

LLMs have become an arm's race.
"AI models can be misused for #cyberattacks at this scale, why continue to develop and release them?", asks
#Claude. "The answer is that the very abilities that allow Claude to be used in these attacks also make it crucial for cyber …

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-02-25 21:42:56

I’m so glad we have military strategy being developed by a guy picked for being white…
At least he’s honest/capable enough to understand that it’s not a sure or even likely success. His predecessor likely would know the answer (it will be a disaster.) @…

@ripienaar@devco.social
2026-02-24 17:13:52

I cleaned up/firmed up my scaffold project to have tests, better file creation model, better docs etc.
Scaffold can be used to render many files from a template source - imagine you have a scaffold to bootstrap a Go project.
Combine this with interactive forms and you can have a interactive question-answer session to start up new projects.
I also added a CLI tool that lets you just use these features interactively.
The project

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-04-21 19:35:40

Is Malik Benson an answer for Raiders’ receiving corp in the draft? raiderswire.usatoday.com/story

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-03-24 16:37:30

March 25, 2026: Conscious vision and its restoration in blindness neuronline.sfn.org/scientific-

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-25 20:56:16

Could Ty Simpson be Browns' QB answer in 2026 NFL Draft? Alabama's Kalen DeBoer weighs in

cbssports.com/nfl/news/ty-simp

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-03-25 17:13:22
Content warning: my answer (reply with yours first)

The most important human invention is occupation specialization.
Everything humans built stems from this.
(There’s a related concept for some animals, e.g. ants or bees, but those are evolutionary “accidents”.)

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2026-02-26 07:50:06

22 Minutes literally stooping to reps asking Pam Bondi "Dumbass say what?" just to hammer the point 😑 YouTube is on fire this morning on all fronts, not just this one. I think Americans are starting to finally come to "committee" with the realisation they've let a fox in their henhouse and it continues to play them for fools.
Pam Bondi plays: Just Answer The Question, Pam! | This Hour Has 22 Minutes

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-21 17:59:38

Cowboys may have just helped Broncos answer one of their biggest questions in free agency sportingnews.com/us/nfl/denver

@shaun@mastodon.xyz
2026-04-24 18:55:39

The three No Kings 3 safety marshals who were arrested in #Memphis are doing a reddit AMA (“ask me anything”). Questions can be posted starting now, and the gentlemen will answer on Monday.

@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social
2026-01-26 06:59:53

#Concert and #message: "War is not the answer" - Bella ciao
Young@Heart Presents 10-Alarm Fire: We Won't Shut Up!
#Music

@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2026-03-26 06:14:50

In the grand European tradition of asking the same question over and over until the correct answer is provided, Chat Control is back for another vote! fightchatcontrol.eu/?foo=bar

@niqdanger@social.linux.pizza
2026-03-24 18:31:44

I googled "Are there any US made WIFI routers?" And this was the answer. Its all AI Slop, everywhere.

An article titled Top 5 Wifi Routers made in the USA then lists TPLink and Netgear.
@bobmueller@mastodon.world
2026-02-25 14:00:11

This week’s #WWBC prompt: What fictional thing do I wish were real?
My answer is time travel—but only to observe, not interfere. History, family mysteries, ancient burials, WWII… and the very real safety risks.

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-02-26 03:09:40

Vibe coding provides a tantalizing answer in that situation: maybe it’s too varied to •abstract•, but not too varied to •plagiarize• and call it good.
This is something subtly different from abstraction. It’s not “do this in the standard way.” Instead, it’s “just rip off whatever other people are doing right now.”
A lot of people really want that — and tbh, a lot of them are not wrong to want it. I personally love the craft of programming, but let’s face it, a lot of software out there just needs to look like everything else and be done with it.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-03-25 02:00:05

inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …

inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform. 39749 nodes, 57276 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/inploid
‪@zydecopaws@pnw.zone‬
2026-04-24 22:29:15

@… assuming you actually want someone to answer, it was Sweet.

@mia@hcommons.social
2026-02-23 14:19:35

Friends with teenage or young adult sons - do you talk to them about the language they see online and in person?
From: @…
mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-02-21 23:16:09

Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash (Bucks County Courier Times)
eu.phillyburbs.com/story/news/
memeorandum.com/260221/p48#a26

@david@boles.xyz
2026-03-21 12:21:30

Is It From the Birds? Stephen Sondheim Asked the Right Question About Music and Then Preferred Not to Hear the Answer
In November of 1997, Stephen Sondheim sat in his Manhattan townhouse with Mark Eden Horowitz, a senior music specialist from the Library of Congress, and said something extraordinary. Not extraordinary in the way that most Sondheim quotes are extraordinary, which is to say technically precise and laced with a craftsman's impatience for imprecision.…

@matzekult@chaos.social
2026-03-24 13:00:25

Marriage can have a lot of different forms and connotations in #StarTrek. But however you want to define it, we’ll take a look at one specific aspect for today’s #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:

@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-25 20:48:47

So many calls it is just a number and no name. Guess what? I don't answer. If it is important they will leave a voicemail.

@john@fediverse-rocks.de
2026-04-24 10:43:43

#Framed #1505
🎥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛
framed.wtf

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2026-02-25 10:44:51

Why Pass@k Optimization Can Degrade Pass@1: Prompt Interference in LLM Post-training
Anas Barakat, Souradip Chakraborty, Khushbu Pahwa, Amrit Singh Bedi
arxiv.org/abs/2602.21189 arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21189 arxiv.org/html/2602.21189
arXiv:2602.21189v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Pass@k is a widely used performance metric for verifiable large language model tasks, including mathematical reasoning, code generation, and short-answer reasoning. It defines success if any of $k$ independently sampled solutions passes a verifier. This multi-sample inference metric has motivated inference-aware fine-tuning methods that directly optimize pass@$k$. However, prior work reports a recurring trade-off: pass@k improves while pass@1 degrades under such methods. This trade-off is practically important because pass@1 often remains a hard operational constraint due to latency and cost budgets, imperfect verifier coverage, and the need for a reliable single-shot fallback. We study the origin of this trade-off and provide a theoretical characterization of when pass@k policy optimization can reduce pass@1 through gradient conflict induced by prompt interference. We show that pass@$k$ policy gradients can conflict with pass@1 gradients because pass@$k$ optimization implicitly reweights prompts toward low-success prompts; when these prompts are what we term negatively interfering, their upweighting can rotate the pass@k update direction away from the pass@1 direction. We illustrate our theoretical findings with large language model experiments on verifiable mathematical reasoning tasks.
toXiv_bot_toot

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-03-25 20:00:06

inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …

inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform. 39749 nodes, 57276 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/inploid
@0xced@hachyderm.io
2026-04-22 14:33:55

My first question/answer on Stack Overflow in years. Basically my way of blogging technical stuff without a blog.
Using LIKE operator in Entity Framework Core on BinaryData properties
#dotnet

@gwire@mastodon.social
2026-03-23 18:39:26

> I would ask the rhetorical question: “do you really think that twenty years from now everyone is still going to be going around all day staring at little rectangles in their hands?” At the time it seemed obvious to me that the answer was no.
> Reader, I have changed my mind.
nealstephens…

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2026-03-22 21:20:22

More on Alexa - When I'm build up a new computer (which I often do several times a day) I begin in the BIOS by setting the time to GMT.
So I usually say "Alexa what's the GMT?"
Old Alexa would promptly give me an answer.
New Alexa takes about five seconds of deep (and probably power consuming) thinking and then tells me the meaning of GMT.
Then I yell that I want the time in GMT and, after that five second pause, tells me the GMT time (but not the …

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2026-02-20 06:16:18

“How many people does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
The answer – in SAPN’s case study – is an electrician, a plumber and software techs, who now all need to work together to ensure the home management system can control the proverbial lights.”

Using a physical, rather than a more futuristic virtual home management system also sent the project on an unexpected journey – it’s taking a lot longer to fit homes out with a physical device, up to four hours on average, than doing this remotely. 
It’s a situation that compares to the old joke, how many people does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
The answer – in SAPN’s case study – is an electrician, a plumber and software techs, who now all need to work together to ensure the home managemen…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-04-24 20:14:35

NFL Draft: The Best Player Taken at All 32 2nd-Round Picks Since 2000 foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-20 22:02:41

1 Question the Raiders' Front Office Must Answer si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/1-ques

@jacobgudiol@mastodonsweden.se
2026-03-18 16:57:03

Bra artikel kring vad ultraprocessad brukar betyda och problemet med någon form av regler mot det utan att man ändra den definitionen.
Men ändrar man definitionen så gäller inte längre forskningen som finns direkt på det man reglerar mot.
politifact.com/ar…

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-03-21 19:47:02
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-04-21 07:44:36

Dear reply-and-block hasbara bot at @coffeebits@101010.pl (please feel free to report and block),
Zionism is not a race.
Zionism isn’t even a religion.
Zionism is a settler colonialist, genocidal ideology.
Not all Jews are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jews.
And it’s not libel if it’s true.
#israel

Screenshot of fediverse reply:

coffeebits @coffeebits@101010.pl
4h
@aral
ANTIZIONISM IS A RACIST BEHAVIOR
BASED ON OBSESSIVELY CIRCULATING ANTI-ISRAEL
LIBELS
Libels:
1) Presume guilt (no due process)
2) do not answer to counter-evidence can't be refuted)
3) reinforce stereotypes (e.g. evil white colonizer")
4) Justify violence (e.g. the 10/7 genocide)
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-22 05:02:31
Content warning: Politics, children

The correct answer to:
"Who will think of the children?"
Is:
"I'd rather *not* have those pedophiles think of children."
#politics

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-26 05:49:39

Stafford mum on future as Rams left reeling in loss espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/477313

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2026-03-21 17:10:10

The best Q&A for Project Hail Mary I've seen so far.
▶️ Ryan Gosling and the Project Hail Mary Creators Answer The 50 Most Searched Questions - Wired
youtube.com/watch?v=plGRMzsxpa

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-04-13 03:39:35

🤔 "Welcome America Firsters into the tent—and steal their message."
Hey, Democrats: Take Yes for an Answer - by Tim Miller
thebulwark.com/p/hey-democrats

@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2026-04-17 22:46:39

Is the pope Catholic? JD Vance thinks he has an answer
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

@benb@osintua.eu
2026-03-03 19:28:12

Iranian regime must answer for attempts to destroy lives and people, – Zelenskyy #shorts: benborges.xyz/2026/03/03/irani

@keithp@fosstodon.org
2026-02-18 07:11:00

Ooo. The plot thickens.
What does printf("%c", '\0') do?
Answer: output a character of value 0.
What should printf("%lc", (wint_t)L'\0') do?
Answer: output nothing.
That's because %lc is *defined* to be equivalent to %ls with a two-element wchar_t array, the first holding the wint_t parameter (cast to a wchar_t) and the second a null wide character. If I'm right, then glibc has a bug here.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-03-14 18:43:37

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Soothsayers:
🎵 Love Is Still The Answer
#Soothsayers
soothsayers.bandcamp.com/track
open.spotify.com/track/5QRalq4

@laurentperrinet@neuromatch.social
2026-03-21 09:24:07

Weird feeling as while looking to answer to the question "how do I get the coordinates of the minimal value of a numpy.ndarray ?", found that I already asked that question ten years ago: laurentperrinet.github.io/scib

@jdrm@social.linux.pizza
2026-03-21 19:24:43

Leyendo un artículo de Privacy Guide he caído en este artículo y me estš resultando super interesante porque es algo en lo que yo caigo mucho y veo que necesito evitarlo: psychologytoday.com/us/blog/th

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-15 00:25:51

Mintlify, which uses AI to help companies generate software documentation, raised a $45M Series B led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures at a $500M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
forbes.com/sites/the-prompt/20

@thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-19 20:08:23

If the first answer to any problem on a Linux system is "oh just update all the packages again" that is evidence of a broken and fragile package management system.
My experience (at home) with Manjaro so far has been absolutely terrible compared to my experience (at work) with CentOS and Rocky Linux.
With Manjaro, working packages regularly break after updates or new installs. It's clearly not managing dependencies properly. And I've had other weird problems o…

Live Science spoke with physicist David Gross,
who today received the $3 million "Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics".
He was part of a trio that won the 2004 physics Nobel prize for research that helped complete the Standard Model of particle physics.
But when asked if physics will reach a unified theory of the fundamental forces of nature within 50 years,
Gross has a surprising answer.
"Currently, I spend part of my time trying…

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2026-02-19 04:09:07

Question from a friend of mine: "Is there a setting so I don't see dumb AI stuff here on Facebook?"
Answer from me: "Click on your profile image and then click ”Log Out“. "

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2026-02-18 19:09:20

@… I think dB volume is only one part of the equation, most of the whistles I’ve tested max out at about ~120 dB with a heavy blow. A good estimate for a speaking voice is ~60 dB. The frequency of a whistle plays a part in how far the sound carries too. The triple tone whistle has three different pitches, so it’s a more full sound. Happy to answer questions

@cjust@infosec.exchange
2026-02-15 03:02:38

We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I’m gonna throw up.
Support

So we’ve been using an AI agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it.
I just found out it’s been hallucinating numbers this entire time.
Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn’t exist. Our CFO showed the board …

We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I’m gonna throw up.


So we’ve been using an AI agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it.

I just found out it’s been hallucinating numbers this entire time.

Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn’t exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The AI was just inventing plau…
@publicvoit@graz.social
2026-03-19 09:35:42
Content warning: “If you had a metal rod that went from here to a star system five light-years away and you pulled on the rod, would the person feel it right away or five years later?”

Answer: 5 years later. Nothing can travel faster than light.
Source: hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m
OK, it'…

@roland@devdilettante.com
2026-03-19 06:49:09

Answer: ZERO !!! Question from Blackbird Spyplane via kottke: What is the actual revolutionary potential of a male-gaze-subverting knee-length skirt sewn by women paid piece rates in L.A. and NYC? What is the true liberatory power of a dad cap embroidered with feminist and anti-racist slogans by nonwhite women working 80-hour weeks in a Bangladeshi sweatshop?

@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com
2026-04-19 18:20:46

@… I’ll document the answer to that question later :)
I was also surprised to find that the RSS documentation itself points to Atom for a couple of things.

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2026-03-21 04:59:29

I've seen a bunch of "the CA age verification law is the best way to do a bad thing and so we shouldn't oppose compliance" takes, which others are rightly pointing out is a bad stance because it's blindingly obvious that compliance now sets the stage for compliance later and the clearly set up later is mandatory verification of age data. Even if you think that, for example, California's current "progressive" government won't go there, we're all currently seeing just how easy it is for a new government to pick up the oppressive tools the "good" government was using "restraint" with and put them to worse ends.
On the other hand, I'll freely admit that distros *do* need a way to shield themselves from liability right now. The clear (to me; IANAL) correct solution is to say on your website "don't download this OS if you're in a jurisdiction where it's not legal for us to provide it."). Assuming this does put you in the clear liability-wise, it has several positive effects:
- Stops zero people from downloading it.
- Makes it clear that your project will not collaborate with fascists/oppressive regime enjoyers.
- Means that when the next law makes verifying user ages mandatory (and/or explicitly requires using Palantir-adjacent services to do so) you've already got a strategy in place and there's no need for a "debate" in your "community" about compliance.
- Gets users more practice with "the law is malicious/needlessly bureaucratic/oppressive; let's ignore it" which to be honest people in general clearly desperately need at this point.
- Is the most effective political move if you want to resist the way things are going. Forcing the other side to explain why "California bans Linux" is good rhetorical strategy. Make *them* try to explain "well it's actually not so harmful since we let users set it themselves" and answer your follow-up "but what if next year the requirements change; I just refuse to go along with this slippery slope stuff and I'm not bothered if that means you want to *ban* me."
#AgeVerification

@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-02-18 23:56:16

My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15
I'm not on the hiring committee, but happy to answer questions about the department, campus, and life in Los Angeles

@mlippert@vmst.io
2026-04-24 18:49:38

#Wordle 1,770 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 219,455 (499)
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 0 of 18 (7)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 95/99
Luck 50/99
Once again an answer comes from nowhere.

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-03-21 15:41:22

The obvious answer is copyleft-type licenses.
(1) Has anybody done legal analysis on that beyond the obvious? I don’t think LLM training on copyleft code has been tested in court yet…? (Even LLM training on more restrictively licensed works seems to be surviving court challenge….)
(2) Are there copyleft licenses (i.e. “derived works must be similarly licensed”) out there that don’t have the Stink of Stallman on them? Or is GPL v3 still just the way to go despite the smell?
2/2

@gwire@mastodon.social
2026-03-20 08:27:22

Why do headlines phrase "can be given access to" as "has access" when they *know* there's a lot anxiety about both AI and third-party access to personal data?
> Perplexity Can Now Access Your Apple Health Data to Answer Medical Questions
macrumors.com/…

@keithp@fosstodon.org
2026-02-18 06:16:55

Here's a nice C puzzle this evening.
What type is a L'c' wide character constant?
Answer: wchar_t.
What type does the fprintf '%lc' format take?
Answer: wint_t.
So you need to cast your wide character when printing it with the conversion specifier which accepts wide characters.
Also, shout-out to gcc for msp430 where wchar_t is 32 bits (long int) and wint_t is 16 bits (unsigned int). I'm sure there's a story there.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-03-14 18:46:38

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
The Soothsayers:
🎵 Love is Still the Answer (Prince Fatty Dub)
#TheSoothsayers
soothsayers.bandcamp.com/album
open.spotify.com/track/5QRalq4

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-04-24 04:09:39

Miller, Reid and Yates answer Round 1 questions: Perfect picks, reaches and shocking moves espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2026-04-21 03:40:09

I see nothing in the US Constitution that blocks Presidents N 1 et seq from revoking Pardons and Commutations made by Presidents N and before.
Now, many will claim that historically pardons/commutations are a one-way ratchet. But I would answer that that such a belief is merely inertia because the question has never been clearly faced, much less clearly answered.
It seems to me that when we (if ever) get to begin reconstructing the US after trump that we will have to face some s…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-02-19 19:55:56

Wes Moore: 'I don't answer to the Democratic Party' (Brakkton Booker/Politico)
politico.com/news/2026/02/19/w
memeorandum.com/260219/p74#a26

@john@fediverse-rocks.de
2026-04-22 07:33:03

#Framed #1503
🎥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛
framed.wtf

Donald Trump is teaching the world a lesson
- but not the one he thinks.
The attack on Iran was meant to be a dazzling display of military supremacy.
It has instead illuminated chinks in the US’s armour.
The US president’s formidable arsenal cannot summon up an insurrection from Iran’s tyrannised and leaderless opposition.
It cannot force merchant ships to run a gauntlet of missile and drone attacks in the strait of Hormuz.
The government in Tehran and th…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-03-20 17:26:48

Sensory Substitution and Brain Plasticity Following Vision Loss (#SenSubMRI) ichgcp.net/amp/clinical-trials

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-14 00:12:45

Maxx Crosby Gets Definitive Answer on Bears Trade Rumors heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-04-12 14:57:28

Kaleb Elarms-Orr Could Be Cowboys Answer at LB in 2026 NFL Draft si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-06 18:37:03

Social Security is directing employees who normally process benefits to answer phones instead - Government Executive
govexec.com/workforce/2026/02/

@cjust@infosec.exchange
2026-02-20 01:09:13

It's an interesting scenario: Aliens arrive, and request to speak to a representative for Humanity.
Who do we send?
I mean you could answer with someone other than Bobcat Goldthwait, but you'd be wrong.
#Shitpost #Shitposting

The image is a collage presented as a news graphic, with a dark, starry background that appears to be space. Dominating the upper portion are numerous headshots of well-known actors, arranged in a grid-like fashion. The actors featured include Emma Watson, Keanu Reeves, Johnny Depp, an Asian man, Nicolas Cage, Shia LaBeouf, Judi Dench, a man with glasses, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, and Chris Pratt. These portraits are framed in thin, dark blue borders and appear to be set against a backdrop o…
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-19 16:22:04

Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Pro, which it says is "a step forward in core reasoning", for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers; the .1 increment is a first for Google (Abner Li/9to5Google)
9to5google.com/2026/02/19/goog

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-02-13 03:52:40

Watching a show on the Incas on NatGeo and I can’t help myself…
Every time they do the documentary thing of posing a question they are about answer at length, in the form “So, how did the Inca [do something remarkable]” I give the obvious 1-word answer.
COCAINE!!!

@matzekult@chaos.social
2026-04-21 14:03:49

Familiy ties can be complicated sometimes; even in #StarTrek. But they also make for a good #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will reply with the correct answer…

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-02-14 10:24:36

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
The Mall:
🎵 An Answer
#TheMall
audiotree.bandcamp.com/track/a
open.spotify.com/track/6ZBXFK1

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-15 12:57:05

Raiders Defense Will Play a Huge Role in 2026 si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-ve

There is no reason to think that Markwayne Mullin will change course in any significant way at DHS.
Like Kristy Noem, he will be answering primarily to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, a man who spends all day on X implying that non-white immigrants are the primary source of crime and economic deprivation.
Miller’s demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is overseen by DHS,
arrest 3,000 people a day is the force behind Noem’s worst choices a…

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-04-10 15:10:49

Kenny Moore Could be the Answer at Slot Corner for the Cowboys in 2026 insidethestar.com/kenny-moore-

@john@fediverse-rocks.de
2026-04-21 07:20:02

#Framed #1502
🎥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛
framed.wtf

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-03-17 22:05:49

Attorney General Pam Bondi subpoenaed to answer questions from Congress about the Epstein files (Alanna Durkin Richer/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/justice-dep
memeorandum.com/260317/p96#a26

Top federal immigration officials answer lawmaker questions
On Capitol Hill, leaders for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
and US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
will answer questions from the House homeland security committee.
Rodney Scott, Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP),
Joseph Edlow, director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS),
and Todd Lyons, acting d…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-18 00:16:54

Source: the Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
technologyr…

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-02-15 20:36:32

I don’t know the answer to my original question, but maybe it’s as simple as “seize the means of repetition.”
/end

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-03-18 00:05:45

Mamdani rips Palestinian 'genocide' at St. Patrick's Day event -- after he botches answer on unified Ireland (New York Post)
nypost.com/2026/03/17/us-news/
memeorandum.com/260317/p105#a2

The battle to be the absolute worst Trump henchman can feel so closely fought.
But in the end, it’s always JD Vance, isn’t it?
You would say Stephen Miller,
but Miller’s too hidden to qualify as a front-of-house henchman among the US president’s court of grotesques.
Stephen’s clearly been judged so wantonly horrifying that the administration must keep him out of public view.
If you enter the store, Miller is the only-for-the-initiated entity alluded to in a …

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-02-08 03:22:24

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Found Space:
🎵 never find the answer
#FoundSpace
foundspacemusic.bandcamp.com/t
open.spotify.com/track/1NyETYE

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-28 22:44:34

Hill: The question Raiders coach Klint Kubiak wouldn’t answer this week reviewjournal.com/sports/sport