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On my way from Bray to Dublin for this evening’s Codú meetup.
Pop by and say hi if you’re around :)
#bray

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A Public and Reproducible Assessment of the Topics API on Real Data
Yohan Beugin, Patrick McDaniel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19577 https://

A Public and Reproducible Assessment of the Topics API on Real Data
The Topics API for the web is Google's privacy-enhancing alternative to replace third-party cookies. Results of prior work have led to an ongoing discussion between Google and research communities about the capability of Topics to trade off both utility and privacy. The central point of contention is largely around the realism of the datasets used in these analyses and their reproducibility; researchers using data collected on a small sample of users or generating synthetic datasets, while Goog…

A Survey of Generative Search and Recommendation in the Era of Large Language Models
Yongqi Li, Xinyu Lin, Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng, Liang Pang, Wenjie Li, Liqiang Nie, Xiangnan He, Tat-Seng Chua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16924

A Survey of Generative Search and Recommendation in the Era of Large Language Models
With the information explosion on the Web, search and recommendation are foundational infrastructures to satisfying users' information needs. As the two sides of the same coin, both revolve around the same core research problem, matching queries with documents or users with items. In the recent few decades, search and recommendation have experienced synchronous technological paradigm shifts, including machine learning-based and deep learning-based paradigms. Recently, the superintelligent gener…

Actual excerpt from a FAQ on a web page about a river in the US south.
Q: How many people have drowned in the river?
A:
All three parts of this answer are sad (the first one is maddening as well) but I need more to fully understand the third part.
#history #interesting

“I experienced firsthand the intended effect of allowing riffraff like me, those who distinguish themselves by way of words alone, to mingle with the giants of capitalism and their cultural attachés. It is to give this anointed everyman a taste of the good life, to make them feel like a prince for a day, and that if they do this with enough scribblers they will write nice words and somehow ameliorate the divide between the classes.”
Behind F1's Velvet Curtain

Behind F1's Velvet Curtain
If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.

“the open source social web (aka the fediverse)”.
Hmm, not sure what to think about that description. I see the appeal but do we want to stretch “open source” all the way to include closed implementations of open protocols?
From a headline in #techcrunch about #flipboard.

Flipboard deepens its ties to the open source social web (aka the fediverse) | TechCrunch
Flipboard users can now see their new followers and other activity around the content they share in the fediverse directly in the Flipboard app.

Flipboard deepens its ties to the open source social web (aka the fediverse)
https://flip.it/tnCzb7

“It was 30 Years Ago Today…”
Adam Clark and I pushed play on an "internet broadcast" called "The Mac Show" focused on Apple. We didn't think of ourselves as pioneers or trailblazers. We were just two guys playing around in this new (it was only five years old at the time!) thing called "The World Wide Web." It wasn't even called "podcasting" until more than ten years later.
But we were the first. The OGs of an entire industry.

After damage to four major African subsea internet cables, some telecoms are rerouting traffic via Brazil or overland cables; repairs may take over three weeks (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Africa Internet Outage Sends Traffic on Winding Trip Around the World
Internet service providers serving Africa have been forced to send their traffic via elaborate detours following damage to four major subsea cables off the continent’s west coast last week.

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The original piece they're talking about here is quite something...
https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46975496/behind-f1-velvet-curtain/
…

I just got back from 2 hours of cycling proficiency training - the first time I've ever had any kind of cycling lesson, unless you count my old friend Gwilym showing me the absolute basics when we were about 20.
Some reflections:
🕳️ I'm tired, but not crawling-in-a-hole tired. Hopefully this is a sign that my health is improving, but I'm not going to get cocky.
🚲 I definitely should have done this years ago. I didn't even know it was a thing until recently! I wouldn't have known to what look for ('adult cycling proficiency training').
🆓 These classes are fully funded, but the Cycling Scotland web site is baffling. You need to find and contact trainers directly - they have a page to search for classes, only there aren't any because they're usually arranged and delivered one to one.
🫧 Chris Gibson of Chris' Bike Repairs was my trainer. He was encouraging and informative. Can recommend.
💪🏻 I'll probably go back for a slightly more advanced session with more on navigating traffic, junctions and so on. He's offered to base this around my commute to work!
🚘 Sharing the road with cars is scary, but it's probably been worse because I've lacked confidence in how to deal with them.

For Day 1 of #FunEmployment, the plan is to bum around on Mastodon, update https://jws.dev, and then go over to Mom and Dad's house to watch movies.
Thanks to everyone who boosted that toot, yesterday. I …

The story was published in, and then removed from Road and Track. You should probably read it.
“If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.”

I am loving the story of Road & Track taking down a fantastic article on Formula 1 and failing to provide any suitable explanation for doing so. The article is a wonderful piece of sports journalism, and if the aim is to expand the audience for F1, it achieves its goal. Road & Track is now experiencing the Streisand Effect in full. Anyway, I recommend reading the article (which is on the Internet Archive of course):

Behind F1's Velvet Curtain
If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.

I've been playing around more with #pixelfed to get back into the groove if the web interface. Here's my first post back on that server:
https://px.tosk.in/i/web/post/687536474211962…

From Sightline
It’s (Past) Time for British Columbia to Legalize Roommates
Another piece of the puzzle to make housing more affordable in the province—and keep up with southern neighbours Washington and Oregon.
Author: Daniel Oleksiuk
(@dannyoleksiuk) on April 15, 2024 at 7:00 am

It’s (Past) Time for British Columbia to Legalize Roommates
Another piece of the puzzle to make housing more affordable in the province—and keep up with southern neighbors Washington and Oregon.

I mean, I’m not saying you should stream CSS changes from the server every 300ms… just that you can if you want to ;P
(I’m playing around with the new/experimental Streaming HTML flow in Kitten* and testing its limits and trying to get a feel for how it wants to be used.)
* https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

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A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

You know, I remember using both JPEG and GIF in the mid/late 1990s.
1998 Kyle would be incredulous if someone stated that the same image formats stick around for more than a quarter century.
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/07/jpegli…

Jpegli: Google’s Better JPEG And Possible Death Knell For WebP
Along with the rise of the modern World Wide Web came the introduction of the JPEG image compression standard in 1992, allowing for high-quality images to be shared without requiring the download o…

I feel like more people should know about the #NTS web radio! One of the last truly independent music outlets for which I've been a supporter for some time. It's very eclectic and almost anyone can find something they like in the huge on-demand backlog of shows.
https:…

NTS | Don't Assume
NTS is a global radio platform broadcasting music from over 50 cities around the globe, live 24/7.

“It was 30 Years Ago Today…”
Adam Clark and I pushed play on an "internet broadcast" called "The Mac Show" focused on Apple. We didn't think of ourselves as pioneers or trailblazers. We were just two guys playing around in this new (it was only five years old at the time!) thing called "The World Wide Web." It wasn't even called "podcasting" until more than ten years later.
But we were the first. The OGs of an entire industry.

Obviously, I'm approaching bridging from an #IndieWeb angle, and a belief that people should have the ability to move their data around the web without losing their networks in the process. I **like** the idea of interoperability, and that's one of the key benefits of the Fediverse in my mind. In the same way that #RSS enables people to access posts on these services, I'd like that to apply to the social interactions as well.
Perhaps there is a way to make that opt-in versus opt-out...

Holy shit it is AMAZING what you can find by just adding "filetype:pdf" to a google search and seeing what's been left in web-accessible folders around the internet.

Kate Wagner's Behind F1's Velvet Curtain story was incredible. Removed from Road & Track's website, posted to AOL, and then removed from there too!
It's all fascinating: her revulsion to the extravagance in the VIP box at F1 and being born again in how she sees the cars and drivers. I love her writing style.

@… have you seen this? https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.road…

Remember what a shit-show "Windows as a Service" was? https://web.archive.org/web/20180403164049/https://pocketnow.com/2018/03/31/windows-as-a-service/

Heute entdeckt: der #Webscrobbler #1livePlayer …

Web Scrobbler — Scrobble music all around the web!
Web Scrobbler helps music listeners to scrobble their online playback history.

Related to that last boost (https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/112212980289113651), I have already encountered orgs who have scaled back their accessibility efforts or plans because they feel automation that can do it *all* for them is right around the corner.…

Welcome to Critical thinking web
We have over 100 free tutorials on different aspects of thinking skills. They are organized into modules listed below. Our tutorials are used by schools and universities around the world
https://philosophy.hku.hk/think/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01639 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

On the Effectiveness of Large Language Models in Domain-Specific Code Generation
Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have shown remarkable capabilities in code generation. Despite the great achievement, they rely on enormous training data to acquire a broad spectrum of open-domain knowledge. Besides, their evaluation revolves around open-domain benchmarks like HumanEval, which primarily consist of programming contests. Therefore, it is hard to fully characterize the intricacies and challenges associated with particular domains (e.g., web, game, and math). In this p…

Insights into Galaxy Morphology and Star Formation: Unveiling Filamentary Structures around an Extreme Overdensity at $z \sim 1.5$ Traced by [OII] Emitters
Ronaldo Laishram, Tadayuki Kodama, Takahiro Morishita, Andreas Faisst, Yusei Koyama, Naoaki Yamamoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06369

Insights into Galaxy Morphology and Star Formation: Unveiling Filamentary Structures around an Extreme Overdensity at $z \sim 1.5$ Traced by [OII] Emitters
We explore the morphological features and star formation activities of [OII] emitters in the COSMOS UltraDeep field at $z \sim 1.5$ using JWST NIRCam data from the COSMOS-Web survey and Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam. We also report the discovery of large filamentary structures traced by [OII] emitters, surrounding an extremely overdense core with a galaxy number density $\sim11\times$ higher than the field average. These structures span over 50 cMpc, underscoring their large scale in the cosmic web …

Amazon launches Rufus, an AI-powered shopping assistant trained on its product catalog and information from around the web, in beta for some US customers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/amazon-debuts-rufu…

Amazon debuts 'Rufus,' an AI shopping assistant in its mobile app | TechCrunch
Amazon announced today the launch of an AI-powered shopping assistant it's calling Rufus that's been trained on the e-commerce giant's product catalog as

Just updated my 2014 post “W3C CSS Odor Module Released” to mention GameScent, which spews smells at your face while you game:
https://adrianroselli.com/2012/04/w3c-css-odor-module-released.html#Update07

W3C CSS Odor Module Released
The web was always a visual medium, but with the addition of sound and video it has locked up two human senses. With development of specifications and techniques around vibration, the internet you “feel” is getting closer, too. That leaves only a couple senses left to cover Ever since the…

I didn’t know this was possible (and it’s here: https://myaccount.google.com/connections/settings ), but… I already had it turned off and that cursed poison still follows me around the web.

I just updated https://jws.dev: I added my "Vue Offline Boilerplate" to the projects page
I wrote this app as a common "starter app" for 2-3 other apps that I have kicking around in my head. It uses:
- Vue 3 and the Composition API
- Pinia
- The vite-plugin-pwa plugin

Coming soon: it’s going to be trivial to deploy a different app on your Small Web server. Useful if you’re a dev and you’re playing around with different apps.
https://vimeo.com/932120624
(Also, notice the speed at which deployment happens. I’m one step away from implementing this in Domain …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06369 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Insights into Galaxy Morphology and Star Formation: Unveiling Filamentary Structures around an Extreme Overdensity at $z \sim 1.5$ Traced by [OII] Emitters
We explore the morphological features and star formation activities of [OII] emitters in the COSMOS UltraDeep field at $z \sim 1.5$ using JWST NIRCam data from the COSMOS-Web survey and Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam. We also report the discovery of large filamentary structures traced by [OII] emitters, surrounding an extremely overdense core with a galaxy number density $\sim11\times$ higher than the field average. These structures span over 50 cMpc, underscoring their large scale in the cosmic web …

A Survey of Web Content Control for Generative AI
Michael Dinzinger, Florian He{\ss}, Michael Granitzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02309 https://

A Survey of Web Content Control for Generative AI
The groundbreaking advancements around generative AI have recently caused a wave of concern culminating in a row of lawsuits, including high-profile actions against Stability AI and OpenAI. This situation of legal uncertainty has sparked a broad discussion on the rights of content creators and publishers to protect their intellectual property on the web. European as well as US law already provides rough guidelines, setting a direction for technical solutions to regulate web data use. In this co…

I just updated https://jws.dev: I added my "Vue Offline Boilerplate" to the projects page
I wrote this app as a common "starter app" for 2-3 other apps that I have kicking around in my head. It uses:
- Vue 3 and the Composition API
- Pinia
- The vite-plugin-pwa plugin