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"FIFA urged to rethink the World Cup calendar as summer heat becomes increasingly dangerous"
#Football #Heatwave

Climate change could force FIFA to rethink the World Cup calendar
Scientists warn extreme heat could endanger players and fans at the 2026 World Cup without major schedule changes.

There’s gonna be an open space on Python and complex applications tomorrow at 10am in room 223 224:
“Is Python suitable for writing maintanable (complex) software?”
I’ll try to be there & as far as I am concerned, Betteridge's Law of Headlines doesn’t apply! #EuroPython

Not the most inspiring Proms season, and so much boring boring Mahler. I prefer to listen to paint drying.
Proms 2025 Calendar - By Year - BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/rb5v4f/by/date/2025

BBC Proms
The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning concerts and collaborations.

Randall Munroe (of xkcd fame) posted about an analysis done by David R. Hagen related to his "missing 11th" comic. Great read, which includes some nice statistical analysis, but more interestingly, bias and artifacts.
https://bsky.app/profile/xkcd.com/post/3lrxgvl677…

Went to see a Hoopla improv show at The Bell, a mix of half a dozen different groups doing different thin
gs. "Shuffle improv" were basing their scenes on a shuffled playlist built by the audience on the way in
and an interesting format from a improv-as-a-second-language group chatting about their experiences in a
foreign land and basing their scenes off it. The group called "twelve people" only had six but were good
chaotic fun.
Lots of stuff about cooking and food.
I found myself pondering optimum size for an improve group. In general the larger groups seemed more fun to me, with the exception of three-person "burn the script" who did excellent work. More than eight wouldn't fit in the tiny stage at that venue. In rehearsal I like to have the group split in half and perform for each other. Hard to do that with fewer than six. Still up in the air if our group will get off the ground or not. More people does mean more calendar clashes even if it makes for a cheaper-per-person room hire.
Everyone has instagram pages, which are no use to me. Won't link or visit there. Interesting that nobody has a Twitter profile any more and of course nobody seems to have just a damned website which still strikes me as madness. Imagine not wanting to own your own space on the web?
#improv #london

With moving my calendar away from Google I was looking for a Caldev solution, but ...
Interesting take on CalDev and encryption on Cryptpad's github page.
No chance that that will happen encrypted.
It's waiting for an solution in the Caldev protocol. 😇
[Feature request] Possibility to have CalDAV for the Calendar · Issue #823 · cryptpad/cryptpad

The death of our dear Dog of War #ukraine

The death of our dear Dog of War
Goldie, by a tragic coincidence, was our featured June pup in our Dog of War calendar. This week she died during a Russian bombardment.

Google und die Apple Watch: Calendar kommt, Keep verschwindet
Während es nun möglich ist, seinen Google Calendar direkt auf der Apple Watch im Design der Firma einzusehen, wird die To-do-Liste Keep ersatzlos gestrichen.

Good morning all! A rare day without any real meetings, and only one calendar entry (and that's a fun one, a networking thing to talk about how social media research can go forward in Germany). I'm not sure I can be trusted with that much freedom from time constraints #academicChatter

Another tip for #DH2025 / life in general - calendar appointments added in different timezones in Outlook often display incorrectly on iPhones. Keep that in mind when adding conference sessions / meetings to your calendar!
(It's been that way for years, who knows if Outlook or iOS is to blame)

2025 NFL Calendar: Important dates for the Dallas Cowboys https://insidethestar.com/2025-nfl-calendar-important-dates-for-the-dallas-cowboys

I've been working on a full calendar app upgrade to the Discordian date widget I made years ago for Android. It's nearly ready for release, just got a bug or three to fix first.
#discordianism #discordiancalendar

Google Calendar: I found an event in my calendar for this Thursday, without a title or description, but a specific time (12:20-13:05). It is my private calendar, so I know I created it. So I am probably going to miss something this Thursday, but I don't know what.
What I found interesting is that when I asked Gemini it was able to tell me when I *created* that event, a piece of metadata that is not visible in the Google Calendar UX in any way.

Why would my #Nextcloud homepage Events widget show times as if they were UTC whereas my Calendar app is set to America-Toronto and shows event times correctly. Is there a setting somewhere to tell the homepage widget to use the locale?

I often see some local events and wondered if there is a fedi style calendar where I could post those events.
Friendica seems to have sth like that but.. Wouldn't that be overkill?
🤔

Snap acquires Saturn, a calendar app for high school and college students, and says 80% of US high schoolers attend schools that support Saturn (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/snap

Snap is acquiring Saturn, a calendar app used at thousands of high schools
Snap has acquired Saturn, a calendar app used at thousands of high schools.

Today's Cat Is Tomorrow's Dog: Accounting for Time-Based Changes in the Labels of ML Vulnerability Detection Approaches
Ranindya Paramitha, Yuan Feng, Fabio Massacci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11939

Today's Cat Is Tomorrow's Dog: Accounting for Time-Based Changes in the Labels of ML Vulnerability Detection Approaches
Vulnerability datasets used for ML testing implicitly contain retrospective information. When tested on the field, one can only use the labels available at the time of training and testing (e.g. seen and assumed negatives). As vulnerabilities are discovered across calendar time, labels change and past performance is not necessarily aligned with future performance. Past works only considered the slices of the whole history (e.g. DiverseVUl) or individual differences between releases (e.g. Jimene…

Oh. Just checked the Calendar and the Refused concert is this week? Felt like it was still months away

New game idea. It’s a rogue-lite where you try to book meetings with mini-bosses on an ever-changing calendar system. You get little perks like “bump meeting”, and “ignore family time”, and so on.

2025 NFL Calendar: Key dates to mark down for Cowboys in the season to come https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2025-nfl-calendar-key-dates-to-mark-down-for-cowboys-in-the-season-to-come

China-linked hackers exploit Google Calendar in cyberattacks on governments https://therecord.media/china-linked-apt41-exploits-google-calendar-in-cyberattacks

from my link log —
A leap year check in three instructions.
https://hueffner.de/falk/blog/a-leap-year-check-in-three-instructions.html
saved 2025-05-15

NFL's unluckiest players: Diving into best 'bad luck' stats of 2024 in honor of Friday the 13th https://www.nfl.com/news/friday-the-13th-unluckiest-players-bad-luck-stats-2024

Hey vote for my cat!
(*if you can spare the cash & want to support Pasadena Humane Society) #caturday
https://gogo.photo/589235

Vote for Maxwell in 2026 Calendar Photo Contest.
Show your support for Pasadena Humane by voting for Maxwell in 2026 Calendar Photo Contest

Newly daylighted Canyon Creek brings lost habitat back to Spanish Banks
A long-hidden urban stream in Spanish Banks Beach Park has been brought back to the surface thanks to efforts by the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation.
Local Nations, community members and elected officials gathered today to celebrate the public opening of Canyon Creek, a previously buried waterway that ran through Pacific Spirit Regional Park and under the western parking lot at Spanish Banks

Newly daylighted Canyon Creek brings lost habitat back to Spanish Banks
A long-hidden urban stream in Spanish Banks Beach Park has been brought back to the surface thanks to efforts by the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation.

2025 NFL Calendar: Key dates to mark down for Cowboys in the season to come https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2025-nfl-calendar-key-dates-to-mark-down-for-cowboys-in-the-season-to-come

50 years ago tonight in #berkeley, the final show by #JerryGarcia & legion of mary, also the last circulating garcia/saunders tape until their 1978-1979 reunion (though they gig together ’til the end of july). audience tape:

Title: What is the Consoomer's Liturgical Calendar?
Topics: #Orthodox #OrthodoxChristianity #Protestantism

What you do with this information is up to you, but whatever you do, I assume you do responsibly. 😆
BTW Krishna Navami is the 9th day of the waning moon phase. The next one is on this 19th (and every 28-30 days thereafter).
Excerpt from: #trivia #cheeky #calendar

Just a reminder that if you're on a computer running American software that that offers a "UK public holidays" calendar (eg Apple), you can switch it off and subscribe to a more useful .ics here:
https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays

UK bank holidays
Find out when bank holidays are in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - including past and future bank holidays

After way too long (starting to notice a pattern!), I’m writing the next installment of my newsletter!
If you want more insight into what I’ve been up the in the past *checks calendar* FOUR MONTHS 😱 – or want to see some cute dog photos, make sure to subscribe:
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Cards on deck: Trump keeps stack of orders ready to play as needed
Throughout Trump’s second term, White House staff have maintained a stash of executive orders and proclamations they can deploy
depending on the themes of the moment and the narratives they want to shape,
a senior White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly about internal strategies.

Some orders are put into the calendar well in advance, the official said.
…

Cards in deck: Trump keeps stack of orders ready to play as needed
Trump has a large stack of executive orders prepared and ready — some written before he took office — that he can release whenever the mood strikes.

As a heads up for those who regularly attend SMART's Sounding Board sessions: Starting tonight and for future meetings, we'll be using a new Zoom webinar link. You can find it at http://smartbus.org/soundingboard.
If you're subscribed to TRU's calendar it's been updated t…

Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
AVON: Approximately six million. It was colonized in the last century of the Old Calendar. At first they resisted political affiliation, but then they joined the Federation, and they have remained unswervingly loyal.
VILA: Then they're not likely to welcome us with open arms.
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Drowning in infosec news overload? Check out today's Metacurity for a concise rundown of the most critical developments you should know, including
--UK military will ramp up offensive cyber attacks against Russia and China
--Victoria's Secret hit by cyberattack,
--LexisNexis Risk Solutions breach affects 364K,
--Procurement database exposed Russian nuclear bases to attack,
--US gov't to mix DNA data of migrant children and sex offenders,
--ASUS …

UK military will ramp up offensive cyber attacks against Russia and China
Victoria's Secret hit by cyberattack, LexisNexis risk arm breach affects 364K, Procurement database exposed Russian nuclear bases to attack, US gov't to mix DNA data of migrant children and sex offenders, ASUS routers ensnared by novel botnet, APT41 exploited Google Calendar, much more

Time is short — submit to #ID24 today (or tomorrow, or I guess maybe Saturday):
https://inclusivedesign24.org/2025/
Submission window closes 31 May.
Then block out your calendar for ID24 on …

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

The dumbest feature in Outlook for Mac is that when you want to drag a calendar block to another time, it chooses the position of your cursor as the new time instead of the position of the box you are moving around. Sigh.

Did someone find a setup where their #NextcloudAssistant performs sensible tasks?
I have context agent running. It seems to provide general access to some #Nextcloud apps as I am asked if I want to create bogus calendar entries when asking the example commands like "list my calendars&qu…

English-speaking people are weird. They eat dates, like there was something nourishing about the calendar.

If a starting date is mentioned in an academic job posting, and if the job involves teaching, which customarily follows a specific calendar, I’d have thought that it’s rather obvious that there are reasons for this particular starting date.
Of course, you can always ask, but it’s typically not possible to move the semester to accommodate you.
#AcademicChatter

While looking for ics import options for Synology Calendar, I found the most Dutch comment ever. Guy didn't need to say where he was from. We knew from the opening sentence.

Official 2025 Cowboys training camp calendar, dates revealed https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/official-2025-cowboys-training-camp-calendar-dates-revealed

and also 50 years ago today, following the dead session at ace’s, #JerryGarcia & merl saunders in #berkeley with a mystery drummer. menke/falenga audience tape, quality getting better as it goes:

My complete setup is currently as follows:
Linux Mint and FreeBSD on all my computers and notebooks
Pixel 9 with Graphene OS (but will be replaced by a new Fairphone 6 with /e/OS from Murena in the future)
Connected via KDE Connect
Office with LibreOffice
My own Nextcloud for files, photos, calendar and contacts
Hardened Firefox with uBlock Origin
Freetube and Newpipe instead of YouTube
Ecosia search instead of Google
Proton Mail and Tutanota Ma…

Now whose genius idea was it to limit calendar event colors to precisely the named colors of CSS in RFC7986, which were never intended as a sole palette because CSS also supports hex colors? 🤯
(Explicitly *not* blaming the author here; this probably comes from legacy systems and was reviewed by any number of people that could have caught it.)
#iCal

Attacker's Noise Can Manipulate Your Audio-based LLM in the Real World
Vinu Sankar Sadasivan, Soheil Feizi, Rajiv Mathews, Lun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06256

Attacker's Noise Can Manipulate Your Audio-based LLM in the Real World
This paper investigates the real-world vulnerabilities of audio-based large language models (ALLMs), such as Qwen2-Audio. We first demonstrate that an adversary can craft stealthy audio perturbations to manipulate ALLMs into exhibiting specific targeted behaviors, such as eliciting responses to wake-keywords (e.g., "Hey Qwen"), or triggering harmful behaviors (e.g. "Change my calendar event"). Subsequently, we show that playing adversarial background noise during user interaction with the ALLMs…

Is posting wrong AI answers still a thing, or do we all just accept they're making stuff up? #ai #googlesearch #aioverview
I mean, just note that the first and last sentence are clearly contradicting each other.

Aaron Rodgers revenge tour will be happening: New Steelers QB to face Packers and Jets in 2025

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-r

Just throw Monaco off the calendar already. What a shitshow. #MonacoGP #F1

50 years ago tonight, #JerryGarcia & merl saunders in #berkeley, billed as legion of mary but with sly & the family stone’s greg errico on drums, the 1st of a handful of sub gigs before joining the garcia band on/off in the early ‘80s. sweet audience tape:

#AskFedi: meeting-booking software like Calendly or SimplyMeet.me
I need to set up one of those things where other people can pick a time for us to meet.
I only need it for a few meetings on a few days, so I don't want to have to maintain an entire online calendar up-to-date just so that it can see where the gaps are. I want one which is easy to use as follows: I go into the thing itself and select a few chunks of time which _are_ available, it turns those into bookable slots.
I'd also like it to be easy to remove unbooked slots manually without messing up any adjacent booked ones.
Previously I've not even used this type of software the other way round, as the person booking someone _else's_ available time - so I'm starting fresh with looking into it!
I've got my eye on SimplyMeet.me, because the below Zapier article said it was a nicely customisable one and can do intake questions, which would be nice. Has anyone else used that?
Any other recommendations or pointers?
Thanks in advance for clues!
(boosts very welcome)
#AskFedi #software #Calendly #SimplyMeetMe

Very cool read! A novel (to me and the author at least) approach to computing recurrence for iCalendar rules.
#RustLang #rust #calendar #RayMarching #SmallWeb

Today, the full-moon day of the fourth month ("aashaada") of the #Hindu luni-solar calendar, is "guru poornimaa" in #India and elsewhere.
In #Sanskrit, "guru" is teacher; "poornimaa" is full moon (literally "state of fullness"). The day honors teachers. So, as they say, "shree gurubhyoh namah", or "salutation to the teacher". 🙏
#Trivia: This year's "guru poornimaa" falls on Thursday ("guru waasara"), the weekly day of teachers. There's more to the weekday name "guru waasara", but that's for a rainy day. 🌈
#teachers #appreciation #gratitude