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@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizza
2026-08-25 15:37:04

Taking a break from digital privacy news, online engagement in discussion groups and testing new privacy tools can be a positive, healthy experience.
theprivacydad.com/its-ok-to-ta

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2026-06-25 12:06:39

I recalled a G183 discussion on a TPGuy post from a few years ago.
Vispero memory-holed it all when it subsumed TPGuy:
vispero.com/resources/well-col
Thankfully, there’s Way…

@neuhaus@mastodon.acm.org
2026-07-24 13:59:17

What I’m missing in the discussion of the OpenAI LLM hacking Huggingface:
The fact that a LLM even considered an illegal activity (not to mention putting it into practice) reveals crass misalignment. Disabling the guardrails is one thing. Having the LLM commit a crime is another.

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-08-24 19:59:31

Maxx Crosby's Raiders future questioned as Cowboys emerge as potential trade partner sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-08-24 19:53:35

Maxx Crosby's Raiders future questioned as Cowboys emerge as potential trade partner sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas

@georgiamuseum@glammr.us
2026-07-23 13:41:23

Her inclusion of Kristin Leachman’s “Longleaf 2” invites us to look at minute details of our surroundings, while a woven Gullah basket made from sweetgrass invokes discussion about how we take from the land. One piece that McCaskill is excited about is an untitled work by Radcliffe Bailey because of the artist’s ability to construct polyvocal stories that cross time, generations and space.
8/

@sperbsen@discuss.systems
2026-06-23 14:27:37

RE: discuss.systems/@activegroupgm
It took many hours of thought and discussion - I'm infinitely grateful to our team at @…

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-07-23 08:50:37

For those people interested in digital identity , wallets etc., Architecture and Reference Framework for the EU Digital Identity Wallet, version 3.0 has been released.
#EU

The figure gives an overview of the architecture of the EUDI Wallet ecosystem and its components.
@Dragofix@veganism.social
2026-06-23 04:08:08

Plastic Poisons Primates: One Focus of 2026 American Society of Primatologists Conference plasticpollutioncoalition.org/

@georgiamuseum@glammr.us
2026-07-23 13:40:53

The course also includes works of theater, dance and literature along with the visual pieces in the study gallery. For example, Johnson chose Joyce Kozloff’s “Maui: Sugar Plantation” to connect the colonization of Hawaii to current discussion of Puerto Rico after she noticed her students’ interest in Bad Bunny’s popular Super Bowl halftime show.
5/

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2026-08-21 14:27:52

@… here's the less open public discussion, with greater engagement:
FreeBSD, AI, and LLMs
reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/

@guerda@ruhr.social
2026-06-21 13:05:45

Discovered a segfault in #FastAPI very strange, does only happen on MacOS with Python 3.14.0 ALPHA
The reason was that I was unaware that I ran an alpha version of Python 3.14.
FastAPI segfaults with Python 3.14.0 on MacOS · fastapi/fastapi · Discussion #15819

About "86% of all new power generation in the world this last year was in the form of renewable energy,
so that's real progress.
The problem is we still have a lot of legacy fossil fuel energy."
-- Michael E. Mann .
bsky.app/profile/thebulletin.o

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2026-07-19 19:55:04

A friend is a member of the #DAR and is a local delegate to the recent national convention. She says there was a faction that tried to amend the bylaws to preclude the admission of #trans members, forcing the hiring of a professional parliamentarian to run the discussion up to the eventual vote on the motion, w…

@chrysn@chaos.social
2026-07-20 16:02:46

I was a bit disappointed to see the #T2TRG (Thing-to-Thing Research Group at #IRTF) focusing on AI, but @…'s take and the discussion after that made it all worth it.

Picture of Tobias presenting on stage.

Slides have TU Wien logo:

Proposition 9:
"Systems that are too complex to be understood by a single person cannot be sustainable."
@danyork@mastodon.social
2026-06-19 01:43:17

RE: #Wikipedia Talk …

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-06-19 03:42:03

Well Played
Conversations on Marketing and Brand is a discussion through the lens of Kate Ware and Esther Kelleher; two career marketers who have seen the industry evolve from the inside since the early 2000's...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/well-p

Well Played   
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2026-06-16 20:43:50

It has begun 🌀

Key Messages for Potential Tropical Cyclone One
Advisory 1: 10:00 AM CDT Tue Jun 16, 2026

1. Potentially life-threatening flash and urban flooding is possible across the Texas coast eastward into central Mississippi through Thursday. Prolonged rainfall may extend the flood threat into the weekend. Widespread small stream and minor river flooding is expected along the Texas coast into southwest Louisiana, with isolated areas of significant river flooding possible across the Texas Coast and Loui…
Potential Tropical Cyclone One Discussion Number   1
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL       AL012026
1000 AM CDT Tue Jun 16 2026

The disturbance (AL90) that we have been tracking for several days across the southern Gulf of America into northeastern Mexico has moved into southern Texas.  While the system is producing plentiful convection, it still lacks a well-defined center. However, most of the guidance suggest that it will move offshore tonight, and winds will increase to tropical-sto…
@seav@en.osm.town
2026-06-19 04:42:37

Oh boy. The #Wikipedia article on the Iran war lists “Iranian victory” as the war’s result on the article infobox. (But this is tagged as disputed and there’s a lively discussion on the article’s talk page.)
I’m sure this will not help with the very dim view of Wikipedia already held by conservative, MAGA, and Israel-allied sections in the United States and Israel. 🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸

@jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2026-06-15 00:34:34

The Speakers
This is a spoken word poem read on top of a vaguely hip-hop backing track posted on the "Twanger Central" section of the guitar-oriented discussion board www.tdpri.com by a player whose screen name is "cminor9." The poem was a morning poem (sometimes I wake up with some lines) that I didn't know what to do with. It fit here. "Speakers" is a synonym for "humans" in this context.

@bobmueller@mastodon.world
2026-06-20 04:20:21

Some recent discussion on one of the OpenTTD groups led me to reminisce about SimCity, and I wondered what it would take to start playing again.
Read more 👉 #FortMcclellan

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-06-16 17:08:54

Remembering dear Roman Verostko, who died this month two years ago, aged 94. An highly influential figure, not just for algorithmic art in general, but also for younger me personally, after meeting him during a panel discussion at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and then corresponding for several years after...
Living as a monk and ordained priest in the 1950/60s, he absolutely cherished his limited computer time which he had first access to as student. The more he learned a…

Close-up detail photo of a multi-layered pen plotter artwork of a cellular automata. 10 layers of acrylic paint, red, oranges, purples, blues, black and white.
Close-up detail of a multi-layered pen plotter artwork of a cellular automata (same system as in previous image), here using finer acrylic paint pigment pens. Blue, yellow, orange and gray card.
@knurd42@social.linux.pizza
2026-07-19 06:29:06

""Several times in my life I’ve tried to break in with a new social group. […] Pretty quickly I learned that the best and fastest way to join a group is to organize events where we do the group’s core activity. […] there is far more demand for social events and things to do than there is supply. […] I’ve found this true everywhere from niche online fanfiction discussion groups to vanguard intellectual movements directing hundreds of millions of dollars annually.""

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-06-17 21:31:43

@… Ouais… J’ai reconnu certains éléments mentionnés dans le fil, mais l’interprétation est... bizarre. Si j'ai bien compris, la keynote et la discussion étaient en anglais, donc il y avait potentiellement un problème de communication, mais je suis d'accord en ce qui concerne le ton du post…

‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-06-17 21:31:43

@… Ouais… J’ai reconnu certains éléments mentionnés dans le fil, mais l’interprétation est... bizarre. Si j'ai bien compris, la keynote et la discussion étaient en anglais, donc il y avait potentiellement un problème de communication, mais je suis d'accord en ce qui concerne le ton du post…

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-07-16 20:09:24

The feds have returned to Black Hat/DEFCON
businesswire.com/news/home/202

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Black Hat, the cybersecurity industry’s most established and in-depth security event series, today announced the Keynote lineup for Black Hat USA 2026 (August 1–6, Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas). These will include the Opening Session fireside chat with White House National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross, followed by a panel discussion with Nick Andersen, Acting Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA); Brett Leatherman, Assistant…
@nemobis@mamot.fr
2026-08-16 08:46:13

Every time I visit a #StackExchange site I get a little bolt of joy as I find someone upvoted a decade-old answer of mine. Sometimes on Meta SE, of all places.
meta.stackexchange.com/users/2

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2026-08-21 14:14:58

@… try commenting like a real reader and don't misunderstand what's written.
I described a single discussion, not Reddit, as "open (non-blocked) anti-AI".
Would you like to know why?
Cc @…

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-06-15 19:46:06

Here's @… — who is fundamentally a spiritual person — leading a very serious discussion about how we do politics. Worth a listen.
Accidental Gods: Grown Up Politics: A Chance for Change - Round Table with Neal Lawson of Compass and Rupert Read of the Climate Majority Project
Episode webpage:

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-06-11 15:25:56

“The vast majority of German political science scholars and the German international relations community have made virtually no analytical contribution to the discussion.
Either they refrained from taking a stance, or they went so far as to use their own academic authority to justify Israeli warfare or to endorse official Israeli perspectives on the conduct of the war. Such justifications were offered without any substantive engagement with the available analyses and documentation of wa…

@crell@phpc.social
2026-08-16 03:00:02

Programming language tradeoffs.
garfieldtech.com/blog/language

Programming language trade-offs
This article is also available in
Serbo-Croatian This article is also available in Dutch There has been much discussion of late in Drupal about Object-Oriented Programming. That's not really surprising, given that Drupal 7 is the first version that has really tried to use objects in any meaningful way (vis, as something…

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-07-09 09:40:21

Devil Talks
ift.tt/4GgD2fP
H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 15-16 on Levine, _Allies and Rivals_ H-Diplo | Robert…
via Input 4 RELCFP ift.tt/8RC6Pq2

@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.de
2026-06-18 06:32:24

RE: mastodon.social/@mcc/116768002
This could also end the discussion about the toot length. 140 characters should be enough for everyone.

@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us
2026-06-17 10:47:49

@… the Roave Discord holds a monthly discussion/show and tell/banter. Not sure if Roave itself is on Mastodon /cc @… @…

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-08-18 23:00:05

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007). 51083 nodes, 140778 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/slashdot_threads
@jonippolito@digipres.club
2026-07-16 12:57:30

Insider trading steering military decisions and politicians betting on their own campaigns. Prediction markets could be the most dangerous new technology since ChatGPT—especially for this administration. My new Substack at jonippolito.substack.com

Screenshot of a Substack post titled “Corruption gets its own platform” by Jon Ippolito, dated July 15, 2026. Below the headline is a photo of a roulette wheel surrounded by stacks of multicolored casino chips, visually linking gambling with the article’s discussion of prediction markets and corruption.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2026-08-14 05:25:07

Peter Alexander & Jen Psaki have an wicked, almost intense discussion about Trump, Karoline Leavitt & the WH Press Corp.
▶️ Psaki reacts to Leavitt stepping down from being WH press secretary
youtube.com/watch?v=ialjwTS5l4

@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc
2026-06-12 08:16:35

These days, we often read that the richest person in the world is getting even richer. There is hardly any discussion of the nature of this wealth – namely, that it consists largely of fictitious capital, the capitalization of a claim to wealth to be produced in the future.
1/2

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2026-07-12 16:28:07

Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2026-08-11 16:44:15

We could avoid so many fights if we could just agree to disagree.
And - 🤔 maybe - a disagreement might even lead to some reflection and discussion later on. Maybe more than hardened fronts. Well at least in my case. But maybe I'm not representative for the majority of people..
Well... Just thinking.. Feel free to disagree - or agree - or not to take a position at all.

Rep. Gabe Amo (D-RI) sounded the alarm about Trump's international diplomacy tactics during a discussion with CNN's John Berman.
"What's clearly happening is Donald Trump ... still can't stop the war that he started,
and Americans are paying the price," said Amo.
"My constituents are paying the price. And people across the region are less safe."
Amo, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, explained the problem as he saw it…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-10 05:05:59

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center campus in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/op

@scott@carfree.city
2026-07-11 02:29:20

Hoax alert: that legal threat supposedly sent by Flock to a discussion group telling them not to "analyze or speculate" about Flock's security vulnerabilities was made up by the group.
What Flock *actually* does is evil enough, so don't muddy the waters by making stuff up, geez. Also I was mildly suspicious of this but boosted it anyway so my bad I guess.

@peter_mcmahan@mas.to
2026-06-14 00:27:24

Pushing back on the idea that GenAI is "just another tool" for coding.
This comes up all the time in discussions on its use in open source software. People will fall back on the argument that it's like linters or autocomplete, and all that matters is whether the code passes muster. But it's not. In addition to the ethical issues, GenAI is a fundamentally different kind of "coding tool" and needs to be considered differently.
A comment to that effect in…

@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-08-13 09:16:22

Reserved Top Level #DNS Names
datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/

@Techpizzamondays@social.linux.pizza
2026-07-15 21:56:26

This month's Papers Club reading is titled
Textiling World Politics: Towards an extended epistemology, methodology, and ontology
and we are inviting Toronto's makers, scholars, and thinkers of every stripe to come join the discussion. We are extending special invitations to fiber artists - that includes knitting, crochet, weaving, fashion design etc. So if you know a fiber artist friend, please forward them this message :)
Thank you, hope to see you on July 27th!

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-08-21 14:05:13

> "#GitHub advanced security" bot
Checks.
> Reviews random PR telling people to add docstring to a test 🤦.
github.com/praiskup/argparse-m

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-08-18 07:05:20

RE: fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/
This is interesting in the whole discussion about datacenters and AI. Ofcourse they are needed for training but the inference will be possible on local hardware.

@cdonat@hostsharing.coop
2026-06-15 01:35:57

I have finished the outward architecture of #ProFed as a base for discussion. I've used AI to help me put my braindump into a more consistently readable text. be prepared to see a free AI-isms, though it isn't terrible, I think.

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2026-06-03 18:48:33

I wrote this in a discussion where someone was posting anti-ebike stuff:
“I’m a cyclist who switched to an ebike last year due to health issues. As a bonus it also allowed me to bike to work. I ride as courteously as I did on my acoustic, maybe more so. It’s about the rider, their experience, and the respect they show others, more than it is the bike.”
This seems like it’s shaping up to be a rough summer for responsible ebike riders who read the comments.

@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social
2026-06-09 18:55:01

Watch Dr. Rick Altice, Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, discuss the ongoing fight against HIV/AIDS. Moderated by the Rev. Peter D. Thompson '15 M.Div.
youtube.com/live/yCTtPwW0kSQ?s

Three people on a discussion panel.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2026-08-21 05:46:59

@… I can not read the conversation here, thanks to @… for the block /s
I see that he enjoys the phrase "fucking slop", so you can point him and his fucking awful.systems to the open (non-blocked) anti-AI discussion linked below.
A…

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-07-02 20:41:42

Just thinking about the political discussion going on here these days... Seems to me we need better labels. 'Right' in English has the unfortunate connotation of 'correct', and 'Left' the connotation (but perhaps only among the better read) of 'sinister'... I think new terms without that baggage are required. I propose that the Left<->Right spectrum be replaced by the Nobel<->Ignoble spectrum, which is more objective accurate in any case.

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2026-07-15 17:17:20

Tuesday 21 July, Durham-Raleigh #Accessibility MeetUp (online or IRL in Millersville) will talk about the book, “Digital Accessibility Ethics: #Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech” with @…

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-06-05 07:44:15

"Exploring Stakeholder Awareness, Institutional Support, and Implementation of Co-Design in Higher Education: Challenges and AI Readiness"
scholarworks.sjsu.edu/libphilp
"Findings show that awareness of co-design is moderate and institutional em…

@jensilber@mastodon.social
2026-07-09 13:11:45

As an American who loves language and has spent a bit of time in the U.K., I enjoy the quirks that distinguish the versions of English.
One that I don't tend to see much discussion of is the way Americans will say "would you like ice cream?" or "I'm getting coffee" while Brits say "would you like an ice cream?" or "I'm getting a coffee."
There's no conclusion here, I just enjoy it. It's not like the "team have/team …

@privacity@social.linux.pizza
2026-06-09 14:58:15

Frontier AI Goes Federal: How the Great American AI Act Compares to State Laws
fpf.org/blog/frontier-ai-goes-
@…

@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza
2026-07-10 12:45:05

Tell the city administrator that infrastructure co-ordination is NOT optional and there will be one group responsible, no discussion, no debate, here is your order. That group checks with the departments, province and utilities on what is coming up for the next 12 to 18 months. Also, if there is an emergency they are consulted so that ALL parties are informed.

@gwire@mastodon.social
2026-07-08 13:43:47

Some speculative discussion whether having a bin on your head counts as a hat for the purpose of parliamentary rules.

It’s been described as “the mother of all earthquake faults,”
the source of both our geological birth and, perhaps, our ultimate undoing.
But the most unnerving thing about the San Andreas fault these days may be its silence.
It’s a mystery scientists are still trying to unlock.
The San Andreas is central to any discussion of California.
It’s the massive 800-mile spine of the state,
trundling up the Coachella Valley to the San Gabriel Mountains,
and p…

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-07-30 03:20:46

Posting some typical north American power infrastructure in response to a discussion earlier today.
This pole is in a downtown area and is mixed transmission, distribution, and communications.
Top lines with largest spacing are transmission, feeding to a substation the next block over. Probably 100 kV.
The ones on the cross arm are distribution, probably around 10 kV. Both 3 sets are 3 phase.

Power pole with three wires at the top each attached by long insulators and four below on a T shaped cross arm. A transformer can be seen near the bottom of the frame
@cheeaun@mastodon.social
2026-07-28 12:54:09

😐😐 Maybe other clients like @…, @… or @… can try out this idea 🙏

@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2026-05-30 15:14:55

“For an Irish Government Minister, no movement is imaginable unless the Minister experiences an external pressure. Making decisions because the actions might be a good idea doesn't even enter the discussion.”
thegist.ie/the-gist-the-promis

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org
2026-07-03 10:47:48

“… smart glasses are becoming slimmer, less noticeable […], raising concerns not only about exam integrity, but also about broader privacy risks.”
Maybe I missed it, but so far I haven’t seen much discussion of the risks posed by #smartglasses in academic settings in particular, for both students and instructors.

@adulau@infosec.exchange
2026-05-27 15:37:45

Yesterday, in our very warm office, an interesting discussion emerged: there was no dedicated taxonomy for evaluating Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) in MISP.
So, we created one called: cti-evaluation
🔗 misp-project.org/taxonomies.ht

CTI Evaluation in CTI Transmute
CTI Transmute - Graph Overview of a MISP-STIX conversion
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizza
2026-06-08 07:17:06

I heard the UK Government's Children's Commissioner on #BBCRadio4 #Today Programme about an hour ago.
I won't get into the #UKPolitics of the discussion (a consultation on …

@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social
2026-05-30 15:56:33

RE: mastodon.scot/@GlasWolf/116664
This is an absolutely brilliant discussion. Worth a listen:

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-07-01 00:32:02

RE: mastodon.social/@aka_pugs/1168
i like the part in
PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION OF THE LOGICAL DESIGN OF AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTING INSTRUMENT
(28 june 1946)

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-07-13 09:24:38

Kanga TV
Join host Marnie Cohen for all the latest news, previews, reviews, interviews and discussion from Arden Street...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/kanga-

Kanga TV   
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2026-06-13 14:21:40

@…
"It's completely pointless to even start any discussion about that junk!", shouted the participant who encouraged discussion by adding 170 words of AI-generated text.
<forums.fr…

@stiefkind@mastodon.social
2026-05-31 13:04:54

Pretty sure here are people interested in the history of NeXT, Inc. On the occasion of the new book "Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary" by Geoffrey Cain, the Computer History Museum published a recent discussion with Geoffrey Cain with some early and central NeXT people. Enjoy:

@curiouscat@fosstodon.org
2026-06-10 17:40:07

Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA on Hacker News
#management

@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net
2026-07-04 00:05:06

📂 Your past agent sessions are stored in local provider history files. ctx indexes them into a #SQLite database on your machine, so current & future agents can find the prior discussion, command, or failed attempt before repeating it

@TobiasFrech@ijug.social
2026-07-05 08:28:12

Whenever I use an #LLM it really annoys me it's offering multiple choices. So it puts the burden of checking and filtering out invalid responses back on me. It's practically impossible to follow a chain of thought in a conversation. Why did they call it a chat? Probably because it will always stay on the surface of things and never turn into a thoughtful discussion.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-08-06 16:21:01

Sources: Stripe recently entered exclusive talks to buy OpenRouter in a cash-and-stock deal that would value the startup for close to $10B (The Information)
theinformation.com/briefings/e

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-06-15 02:00:06

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007). 51083 nodes, 140778 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/slashdot_threads
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-06-12 12:34:42

There should be more discussion about the costs of AI related to their actual added value in organisations. It is great to have an enormously capable model like Fable5, but is it worth it, can't we do the same tasks or parts of those tasks with much cheaper models?
artificialanalysis.ai/#price

Costs of various AI models, source https://artificialanalysis.ai/#price

Hurricane Lala began its path toward Hawaii’s Big Island on Saturday,
though the possibility of a direct hit, which would be the first in 155 years, was uncertain.
In its latest forecast discussion, National Hurricane Center meteorologists said the hurricane is displaying a possible new track,
making it “unclear if Lala will actually make a landfall on the Big Island.”
The tropical cyclone is unleashing what could be life-threatening rain on the Big Island
as it…

@bobmueller@mastodon.world
2026-08-11 20:01:43

Interesting discussion over at /r/books. I haven't followed that many book series after an author's death or retirement. The first ones that spring to mind for me are Clancy, Parker, and Cussler.
reddit.com/r/books/comments/1v

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2026-08-18 17:04:25

@… you chose social media and your thousands of followers to mock a discussion that involved cruelty.

Wisconsin Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman has argued that Congress
“should do a little more” to help wealthy Americans.
The six-term congressman, 71, a Donald Trump loyalist,
spoke up for neglected U.S. elites Thursday during a panel discussion on the economy in Troy, Michigan, with that state’s GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. John James, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and other officials.
As the conversation pivoted to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, passed in J…

‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-07-03 10:47:48

“… smart glasses are becoming slimmer, less noticeable […], raising concerns not only about exam integrity, but also about broader privacy risks.”
Maybe I missed it, but so far I haven’t seen much discussion of the risks posed by #smartglasses in academic settings in particular, for both students and instructors.

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-07-03 10:47:48

“… smart glasses are becoming slimmer, less noticeable […], raising concerns not only about exam integrity, but also about broader privacy risks.”
Maybe I missed it, but so far I haven’t seen much discussion of the risks posed by #smartglasses in academic settings in particular, for both students and instructors.

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2026-08-18 17:32:10

@… largely, thanks.
A quote, in response to your use of the word "slop":
"… using an llm isn't necessary vibe coding. … Vibe coding has extremely negative connotations and no real definition so it's not a useful characterization to have a useful discussion. So in addition to being rude, it doesn't tend to promote thoughtful dialo…

@chrysn@chaos.social
2026-07-07 14:34:44

@… is getting ready to party at Donaukanal #Wien. Cool boat!

Wooden boat with sail moored in a canal. Background: Urania and St. Stephan
A hand-written text on wooden board. Transcribing French without knowing the language:

La Fillonnerie

Née en 2007, sous la main des charpentriers d'ieau sous la forme d'un chantal dungeme siécle, ambassadrice de la Loiree, elle parcourt les riviéres de festivals en voyages perpétuant les savoirs faire ancestraux d'une marine disparve.

En 2012, elle se transforme en habitation flottante, se nouve avec les arts du cirque et autres spectacles viavants et commence une carriére de transport fluvi…
Hand-written sign:

Tonight. Batolabo. Institut Francais.

Programme:

5:00pm Opening Remarks
5:30pm Musical Performance
6:30pm Break x Low Tech Fair
7:00pm Keynote "Where nature becomes subject to rights"
7:30pm Roundtable discussion "Voices of Rivers"
8:45pm Break
8:55pm Video message Camille de Toledo
9:00pm Cinema on the sail
10:00pm Closing
@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-08-08 09:25:00

WWGD With Glen James
What Would Glen Do? Listeners of the money money money show put their situation to Glen for an honest discussion...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/wwgd-w

WWGD With Glen James   
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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-07-13 11:00:06

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"More and more people are dying.
So the question arises:
wouldn't it be better to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine
rather than, perhaps later, over Poland?
This is a subject for a very serious discussion,
one that should not become a hostage to party-political rivalry,"
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said.

@seav@en.osm.town
2026-06-27 05:05:48

I love this nerdy #Slidebean discussion into colorspaces (sRGB, HDR10), gamuts, dynamic range, gamma curves, nits, monitors, etc.! 🖥️
youtu.be/6hAVA6_Sczs

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-06-09 03:37:13

Kayshon Boutte Gets Clear on Future Amid Raiders Speculation heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas

@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-05-26 17:23:37

Migrating from #Go to #Rust
corrode.dev/learn/migration-gu

RE: c.im/@cdarwin/1170952882735136
Luigi Mangione’s case has drawn extensive global attention
as Thompson’s death spurred intense discussion about the US’s heavily criticized for-profit healthcare system.
The attention has also been fueled by M…

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-08-11 05:00:05

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@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-06-27 12:16:33

The Sideline Story: Rugby League Podcast
Take the discussion of Rugby League to another level, delving into the hottest topics from the NRL, Super League, international game, women's game, lower grades, and much more...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/sideli

The Sideline Story: Rugby League Podcast   
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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-08-09 10:00:05

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@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2026-08-08 12:18:46

Partly clarified, thanks to discussion (ongoing) with moderators:
<reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/sea>
– seeking "rarehistoricalphotos"
– not "Rare Historical …

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-06-07 09:00:05

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@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2026-06-06 04:19:38

@… also FYI
BACKUP_LIBRARIES
Recent discussion (I'll add something more this weekend): <reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/

When, in 2024, Chinese scientists reported developing an artificial-intelligence tool to design conotoxins, it raised eyebrows in some quarters.
In an e-mail to a private AI and biotechnology discussion group seen by Nature, a senior US government employee flagged the study as a possible biosecurity risk.
The employee, who asked not to be named because of concerns for their job, felt it was especially concerning that the conotoxin AI is based on an open-source protein language …

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-08-06 04:00:05

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