@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-02-01 20:13:41
"Send It Away, or Put It On Display? How librarians and research computing staff can collaborate across language barriers"
#RDM
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-02-01 20:13:41
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-02-28 19:51:05
Home Insulation Works: Barriers to Installation (2023) - Doing the right thing is hard, and insurers do not help! #insulation #netZero #futureReady -
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-02-01 19:02:00
From the IMF
"the Canadian economy remains much less integrated than its global footprint would suggest. Goods, services, and workers face significant barriers when moving across provincial and territorial lines—a fragmentation that affects productivity, competitiveness, and overall resilience"
Most of the benefits would flow to the smaller provinces
#Canpoli
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-03-02 17:29:07
💉 Men resort to buying underground testosterone to bridge access gap
#men
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-01-01 09:51:05
Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-27 10:51:19
The EU gives Google a six-month deadline to lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android and give key data to other search engine providers (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-01-23 13:22:31
“Barriers from Links with ARIA”
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/01/barriers-from-links-with-aria.html
Tried to capture other ways using `aria-label` and/or `aria-hidden` within links can break them for non-SR users.
Corrections, additions welcome. Ma…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-01-02 07:30:12
[OT] Andrew Ng warns AI far from general intelligence amid overhype https://www.webpronews.com/andrew-ng-warns-ai-far-from-general-intelligence-amid-overhype/
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-12-17 09:42:03
from my link log —
Optimization countermeasures: inline asm value barriers for constant-time cryptography.
https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/12/15/value-barriers/
saved 2025-12-16
@arXiv_csDS_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-02-03 07:42:35
Hardness and Tractability of T_{h 1}-Free Edge Deletion
Ajinkya Gaikwad, Soumen Maity, Leeja R
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00644 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00644 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.00644
arXiv:2602.00644v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the parameterized complexity of the T(h 1)-Free Edge Deletion problem. Given a graph G and integers k and h, the task is to delete at most k edges so that every connected component of the resulting graph has size at most h. The problem is NP-complete for every fixed h at least 3, while it is solvable in polynomial time for h at most 2.
Recent work showed strong hardness barriers: the problem is W[1]-hard when parameterized by the solution size together with the size of a feedback edge set, ruling out fixed-parameter tractability for many classical structural parameters. We significantly strengthen these negative results by proving W[1]-hardness when parameterized by the vertex deletion distance to a disjoint union of paths, the vertex deletion distance to a disjoint union of stars, or the twin cover number. These results unify and extend known hardness results for treewidth, pathwidth, and feedback vertex set, and show that several restrictive parameters, including treedepth, cluster vertex deletion number, and modular width, do not yield fixed-parameter tractability when h is unbounded.
On the positive side, we identify parameterizations that restore tractability. We show that the problem is fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by cluster vertex deletion together with h, and also when parameterized by neighborhood diversity together with h via an integer linear programming formulation. We further present a fixed-parameter tractable bicriteria approximation algorithm parameterized by k. Finally, we show that the problem admits fixed-parameter tractable algorithms on split graphs and interval graphs, and we establish hardness for a directed generalization even on directed acyclic graphs.
toXiv_bot_toot
@qbi@freie-re.de2026-01-18 09:00:24
Die chinesische Mauer wird jetzt auf dem Meer "gebaut".
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Thousands of Chinese Fishing Boats Quietly Form Vast Sea Barriers - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/16/world/asia/china-ships-fish…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-26 06:36:59
Evidence that AI is normal technology include AI systems that are good enough to be useful but not good enough to be trusted, continuing to require human oversight that limits productivity gains;
prompt injection and security vulnerabilities remain unsolved, constraining what agents can be trusted to do;
domain complexity continues to defeat generalization, and what works in coding doesn’t transfer to medicine, law, science;
regulatory and liability barriers prove high enou…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-17 12:05:48
Breaking barriers, Jesse Jackson exposed racism and rifts in politics (Karen Tumulty/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/17/jesse-jackson-quotes-legacy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260217/p15#a260217p15
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-02-26 23:07:32
🧲 Low-field MRI is safe, feasible and more comfortable for breast screening, finds study
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-field-mri-safe-feasible-comfortable.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-21 22:10:50
Projects with open codebases like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of submissions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/for-open-source-prog…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-16 19:51:03
Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-02-13 15:11:31
Please explain to me why people believe the "market" will solve the housing crisis, if only we removed barriers like zoning. The market certainly doesn't seem to do so well at maintaining existing properties at affordable prices.
‘My bill keeps escalating’: how Toledo, Ohio, became the epicenter of the US housing crisis
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-02-13 15:11:31
Please explain to me why people believe the "market" will solve the housing crisis, if only we removed barriers like zoning. The market certainly doesn't seem to do so well at maintaining existing properties at affordable prices.
‘My bill keeps escalating’: how Toledo, Ohio, became the epicenter of the US housing crisis
@publicvoit@graz.social2026-01-12 13:26:12
"As of January 1, 2026, #ACM completed its transition to full #openaccess: all ACM-published articles and related research artifacts in the DL are freely available worldwide without barriers to reading or reuse. This is a significant step forward for the
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2026-01-11 13:35:08
Encouraging to see rising focus on barriers to attractive public EV charging in 🇩🇪, particularly the widespread practice of discriminatory pricing despite 🇪🇺 #AFIR legislation.
Hopefully, this will lead to a healthy, transparent market where EV drivers find it easy and attractive to charge in public.
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange2026-01-14 11:07:56
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-17 00:20:28
Widow of Officer Slain in Park Ave. Attack Sues Landlord Over Security https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/nyregion/didarul-islam-widow-lawsuit.html
@pre@boing.world2026-02-26 10:15:01
Day Five in the Improv Narrative house, and we're in the format I like most really. A few instructive games in the first half and a couple of longer narrative stories in the second half.
The island game was supposed to teach something about not deliberately getting obstructive.
A scene where your players are told they are on one island and must end up at some point all on the other one the other side of the stage.
Set a scene, make some characters, but nobody said it was supposed to be difficult to get from one island to the other.
Yet barriers are deliberately thrown up, actually imaginary barriers since the whole thing is imaginary after all. Why should there be sharks or a quest for a boat or the sea deep and cold.
You can just wade across. You can just have a boat. You can just levitate yourself over with your hive mind psychic abilities.
Unsure about this.
There must be conflict and peril and challenges which are mastered in a story, you can't set up a hero's quest only to have the hero just happen to have a holy grail in the stationary cupboard. Already got one you see. Use it for storing pens.
Still. Finding the crowbar doesn't have to be a quest. There can just be one in the boot. Don't let things get bogged down in difficulty.
Watched a story about a lazy fellow falling into a life of crime and villainy because of his tardiness and fulfilling his teacher's prophecy that he would indeed end up as a criminal if he didn't buck up his ideas. Good repeated themes of characters making lists of his failures and nice stage-focus work when everyone was on stage at once.
Played a preacher organizing a wedding in a story about friends running a hotel.
Fun to have Reverend Priest finding sin everywhere again. Easy wipe-off sin in this case. We may have come to an end too early. Perhaps not enough obstructions put in the way. 😆
#improv #london #hooplaImpro
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-15 19:51:03
Home Insulation Works: Barriers to Installation (2023) - Doing the right thing is hard, and insurers do not help! #insulation #netZero #futureReady -
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-01-09 13:46:37
Medical Aid for Palestinians.
MAP is one of the 37 humanitarian aid organisations banned by Israel.
UK citizens - Please join the campaign to put pressure on Israel. Your MP can help by placing pressure on the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary to demand that Israel immediately reverse this decision and end all barriers to aid.
Email your MP: Stand against Israel’s ban on aid orgs -
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-02-13 17:25:56
Long weekend coming and want to avoid it? I’ve got recent posts!
New this month:
• https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-11 03:27:20
In the mid-20th century,
Mary Cardwell Dawson
broke barriers for Black musicians and performers
as a vocal proponent of musical education
and the founder of the National Negro Opera Company(NNOC),
one of the first professional organizations of its kind in the United States.
Dawson’s multi-decade career eventually led her to the White House,
where first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was so impressed by her efforts that she wrote a personal check in support o…
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-12-11 20:10:19
Delighted that my watch can display the QR codes used for train travel, disappointed at the convolution in displaying the left upper wrist to a right-hand side camera, when traversing barriers.
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-12-26 02:27:29
🧫 Alkaline-loving microbes could help safeguard nuclear waste buried deep underground for thousands of years
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-alkaline-microbes-safeguard-nuclear-deep.html
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-02-12 09:51:04
Home Insulation Works: Barriers to Installation (2023) - Doing the right thing is hard, and insurers do not help! #insulation #netZero #futureReady -
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-18 08:09:21
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Ancient Death:
🎵 Breaking the Barriers of Hope
#AncientDeath
https://ancient-death.bandcamp.com/track/breaking-the-barriers-of-hope
https://open.spotify.com/track/6csFJgLZIKuJOZFCA85xtH
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1uZ3GLf6lDtDqJSQrY0lMU
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-14 19:51:03
Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2025-12-08 00:30:06
Urbanity - Urbana Composita 🌆
城市化 - 建构城市 🌆
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-02-13 16:53:44
RE: https://indieweb.social/@keithamus/116062761549997084
If you can, please also identify known WCAG conformance errors.
We don’t want another toast escapade where the research failed to identify barriers and risks. Encoding broken patterns into t…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-12 03:23:03
Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-12-16 17:46:42
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-11 03:23:03
Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-12-12 22:25:14
The Smashing Magazine comment form is still broken, so I’m memorializing the comment I _wanted_ to leave about CSS carousels:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-accessibility.html#Update06 (anchor)
Includes quote fr…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-07 09:51:03
Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-12-11 17:25:54
Because #accessibility is out of scope for Baseline, devs may not know how poorly supported a feature is and miss an opportunity to vote for things that are barriers to users and risks to orgs.
“Vote for the web features you want to see”
https://
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-02-05 17:46:14
Please stop splitting words into their constituent letters. GSAP SplitText is not as robust as you think.
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html
@kingconsult@berlin.social2026-01-08 09:37:04
stakeholders are invited to reply to the following questions:
1. What are strengths & weaknesses of the #EU #OpenSource sector? What are the main barriers that hamper
(i) adoption and maintenance of high-quality and secure open source; and (ii) sustainable contributions to
open-source communities?
2. What is the added value of open source for the public and private sectors? Please provide concrete examples,
including the factors (such as cost, risk, #LockIn, #security, innovation, among
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