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🔗 Software is supply-constrained (for now) https://www.wreflection.com/p/ai-dial-up-era

https://www.wreflection.com/p/ai-dial-up-era

When big corp is whining, you're on the right track.
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-slams-eus-proposed-space-law-as-unacceptable/

US slams EU’s proposed space law as ‘unacceptable’
Brussels proposed the law in an attempt to dial up regulatory oversight of satellite operators.

What’s everyone getting sworn in on?
I’m going with the Dial-a-Pirate code wheel from Monkey Island.
https://www.oldgames.sk/codewheel/secret-of-monkey-island-dial-a-pirate

🎛️ A new system can dial expression of synthetic genes up or down
#molbio

A new system can dial expression of synthetic genes up or down
For decades, synthetic biologists have been developing gene circuits that can be transferred into cells for applications such as reprogramming a stem cell into a neuron or generating a protein that could help treat a disease such as fragile X syndrome.

> try to test my software
> it uses codeberg.org for a test checkout
> /info/refs?service=git-upload-pack": dial tcp 217.197.84.140:443: i/o timeout
> open codeberg status page
> it times out
What am i supposed to do now. Touch grass?

watching bf play Elden Ring, it strikes me that we're close to peak graphics. the realism dial can still be turned up a bit, but games are generally better when they're a step away from reality.
what's missing though is physicality. when characters swing weapons at enemies, it's clearly just sprites doing canned animation, and there's no actual contact happening.
a couple decades from now, perhaps average 3d games will have processing budget for procedural ani…

As fun as the previous face was, I decided I wanted a bit more information displayed.
So I switched to this alternate ternary dial (also made by my friend).
The colours are all customisable. I have the minutes in a different colour to the hour so that I can locate them quickly at a glance, as I tend to decode them first (given I usually know the hour already).
This face can also show a step count but that is way too much effort to decode right now! 🤣

NBC's entire primetime lineup on Sundays and Tuesdays is now reserved for sporting events through the spring, a stark example of broadcast TV's focus on live TV (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/business/media/broadcast-tv…

It’s Easier Than Ever to Turn Your Dial to a Live Event
Broadcast TV continues to draw big audiences. And they are increasingly getting special events, award shows and sports — lots of sports.

free waves audio magma stressbox ig https://www.waves.com/black-friday-2025/free-plugin

TikTok will let users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed and plans to add more advanced labeling tech for AI-content (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/tiktok-now-lets-you-choo…

TikTok now lets you choose how much AI-generated content you want to see | TechCrunch
With the new AI-generated content control, users who want to see less of this sort of content can dial things down, while those who enjoy it can choose to see more of it.

Very literally, for half a million #Optus customers: no one is coming to rescue you. 😬 #australia #telco #TripleZero

At a friend's shop.
Tempting... *Looks at pile of pending scopehal pull requests awaiting review, then thinks about writing a new driver for the lulz*

Here is what inspired the #Golang APIs:
https://youtu.be/PuYPOC-gCGA
Now you can dial!

Describing modem dial-up noises to the 13yo as "two computers screaming at each other"...
"See, nowadays everything is over the internet. You make a phone call, it's routed over the internet. Back then [we wore an onion in our belt as was the style at the time] everything was over voice networks, so when you were on the internet it was translating bits and data into sound.."
I'm not sure at which point he tuned out.

Second participation for this year #nodevember made in Blender.
day 15 : Trap
(I Got to dial down my ambitions , this one took several days)
Everything is nodes exept for the camera.
I used some of nodegroups from @erindale , higgsas and Bradley_animation
Did a similar idea as one of my 2019 QuillTober : ( https//pachyder.me/@Nael/102888467994814393 )

"Rise in Chinese off-grid coal plants in Indonesia belies pledge to end fossil fuel support"
#Indonesia #FossilFuels #Energy

Rise in Chinese off-grid coal plants in Indonesia belies pledge to end fossil fuel support
A surge in the supply of Chinese-backed coal-fired power plants built to supply electricity to Indonesia’s fast-growing nickel mining and processing sector is undermining Beijing’s efforts to dial back support for fossil fuels, a study released Nov. 3 has found. In his speech to the U.N. General Assembly four years ago, China’s president, Xi Jinping, […]

I know all the bootleg phone cheat codes #tech #shanzhai

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Django Django feat. Yuuko Sings:
🎵 Don’t Touch That Dial
#DjangoDjango #YuukoSings
https://djangodjango.bandcamp.com/album/dont-touch-that-dial-feat-yuuko-sings-remixes
https://open.spotify.com/track/6qBNOloNXkCXW8Xc7orNlO

The same receptionist in my office building that nagged me today about leaving my computer (that I dial into remotely when working from home) on when I'm not in the office, just asked me to leave the front door of the building wide open because she's too warm.

Localist LLMs -- A Mathematical Framework for Dynamic Locality Control
Joachim Diederich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09338 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09338

Localist LLMs -- A Mathematical Framework for Dynamic Locality Control
We present a novel framework for training large language models with continuously adjustable internal representations that span the full spectrum from localist (interpretable, rule-based) to distributed (generalizable, efficient) encodings. The key innovation is a locality dial, a tunable parameter that dynamically controls the degree of localization during both training and inference without requiring model retraining. This is achieved through group sparsity penalties on attention mechanisms, …

TikTok will let users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed and plans to add more advanced labeling tech for AI-content (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/tiktok-now-lets-you-choo…

TikTok now lets you choose how much AI-generated content you want to see | TechCrunch
With the new AI-generated content control, users who want to see less of this sort of content can dial things down, while those who enjoy it can choose to see more of it.

My wife broke her watch today. It got hooked on her bag and she pulled too hard and the strap broke, causing it to fall to the floor. She sent me this picture.
Weirdly she does not want me to buy her a new one without her direct involvement. I don't know why. 🤷

#WristCheck no, I mean #PalmCheck

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
The Replacements:
🎵 Left of the Dial
#TheReplacements
https://fdrlabel.bandcamp.com/album/left-of-the-dial-a-pop-tribute-to-the-replacements-2001
https://open.spotify.com/track/7nL0nuLhX6ItOoEq9RpkOO
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1r22YroTqfHn6X0RvVg67f
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg