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{ggblanket}, a wrapper around #ggplot for quick, explorative plots with sensible defaults and less code. https://davidhodge931.github.io/ggblanket/

Simplify ggplot2 Visualisation
Simplify ggplot2 visualisation with ggblanket wrapper functions.

playing whack-a-mole with app notifications that get enabled by default when you get a new phone. geez, how do people get anything done if they just keep the defaults!

“Dear Mozilla, I don't want an ‘Al [sic] kill switch’, I want a more responsible approach for all”
https://hidde.blog/mozilla-ai-kill-switch/
Unlike Hidde, I think the alt text argument is mostly bunk (

Dear Mozilla, I don't want an “Al kill switch”, I want a more responsible approach for all
My concern is that Mozilla is _too_ excited about a technology that has inherent downsides and ethical problems, and I would like to see better defaults and clearer risk mitigations.

I'm running into a really annoying render bug with the latest Kubuntu, which now uses Wayland. Anyone else seen this issue, and know how to fix it?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1559959/chromium-apps-scaling-wrong-in-wayland-kubuntu-25-10

Chromium apps scaling wrong in Wayland / Kubuntu 25.10
I just installed Kubuntu 25.10 for the first time, on a fresh laptop install. 25.10 defaults to Wayland now. Now, Chromium-based apps (Chrome, Signal, and Slack so far) are showing mis-scaled; th...

A paradox I think about:
If advertising doesn’t work - why is that the business model nearly every internet business defaults to?
If advertising online is so lucrative, why are marketing departments all over failing to meet targets and struggling to show any results?
Everything is ads and none of it is working. And I’m just a lone marketer screaming in this forest of nonsense hoping some tree falls and hears me.

One amazing thing about 2025 is that, if you start up an Apple product, it forces you to choose between _three different_ window mangers, but if you start up a clean install of a current version of Linux, it just chooses good defaults for you.

If you're using #Debian 13 and you're wondering why the `ping` command has stopped working for non-root users... `apt install linux-sysctl-defaults` will fix that for you.

'xxd' is a command that is both a hex dumper, and an undumper - i.e. it can turn the hexdump back into a binary.
Being able to go both ways makes it good for being able to edit a hex file in your favourite editor. Other tricks it can do are to generate a C array declaration with the contents. It defaults to hex numbered address (unlike 'hexdump' which confusingly uses octal!)

material for mkdocs is very very good overall but this option feels like a fever dream
> alternate style
> the only supported style
> defaults to not using it
???

I love how, on most Linux distros, you can just do an update and upgrade despite not having touched them for a long time, and you just wait for a little bit, potentially optionally reboot, and there are no nags or new things someone wants to sell you or settings that have changed back to vendor defaults. You just get on with what you wanted to do with shiny, freshly-updated software.
Arch-based distros have been the exception from the experience above for me, but I guess that’s the co…

🔧 Zero-config single executable setup - no tuning required for VictoriaLogs or the operating system. Reasonable defaults automatically adjust for available CPU and RAM resources. Much easier to set up and operate compared to Elasticsearch and Grafana Loki.
🔌 Accepts logs from popular collectors including Fluentbit, Fluentd, Logstash, Vector, Promtail, #OpenTelemetry, DataDog Agent…

I wasn't expecting #qemu to get name checked in a @hossenfelder.bsky.social #video but there you go. Despite spending quite a lot of time experimenting with #ai tools I too get irritated by the defaults as bi…

TIL my preferred Browser @… actually supports JPEG-XL – and better than Safari, because it animates.
Shame that Firefox defaults to nope & Google/Chrome does evil…
https://caniuse.com/jpegxl

Credit Default Prediction with Projected Quantum Feature Models and Ensembles
Andras Ferenczi, Dagen Wang, Mariya Bessonova, Sutapa Samanta, Todd Hodges, John Hancock, Guillermo Mijares Vilari\~no, Amol Deshmukh, Mariana LaDue, Girish Pillai, Hilary Packer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01129

Credit Default Prediction with Projected Quantum Feature Models and Ensembles
Accurate prediction of future loan defaults is a critical capability for financial institutions that provide lines of credit. For institutions that issue and manage extensive loan volumes, even a slight improvement in default prediction precision can significantly enhance financial stability and regulatory adherence, resulting in better customer experience and satisfaction. Datasets associated with credit default prediction often exhibit temporal correlations and high dimensionality. These attr…

So, I guess no one has any idea how to fix Wayland vs. Chromium?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1559959/chromium-apps-scaling-wrong-in-wayland-kubuntu-25-10

Chromium apps scaling wrong in Wayland / Kubuntu 25.10
I just installed Kubuntu 25.10 for the first time, on a fresh laptop install. 25.10 defaults to Wayland now. Now, Chromium-based apps (Chrome, Signal, and Slack so far) are showing mis-scaled; th...

Don't miss this keynote by @… and @…!
> #SocialMedia: We Can Change the Defaults
📅 Th. 27 Nov. 2025 at 8 pm
online and #Amsterdam
> @…, … co-author of #ActivityPub, … will speak about the crisis technologists face. Why must we revise the default assumptions of the web 2.0 era? She will introduce the work @… is doing to make a positive future possible.
#SPUI25 #SaveSocial #Fediverse #OpenSource #FOSS #sovereignty #EuSummit25

I wasn't expecting #qemu to get name checked in a @hossenfelder.bsky.social #video but there you go. Despite spending quite a lot of time experimenting with #ai tools I too get irritated by the defaults as bi…