@mpsgoettingen@academiccloud.socialIt may appear to be looking empty and quiet at the MPS Göttingen right now - but we have been bustling about and are very busy getting everything ready for our visitors at the Night of Science tomorrow! Care for a few sneak previews in today's thread?
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#ndwgoe
@EmilyMoranBarwick@mastodon.socialNothing I’m trying to write is "flowing"...it's all laborious.
I'm encouraged by "Your labor isn’t a sign of defeat" from @… wherein she quotes Verlyn Klinkenborg:
"if you accept that writing is hard work, And that’s what it feels like when you’re writing, Then everything is as it should be. Your labor is…
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialEvery tech oligarch wants to build an Everything App - because they now have the power to do so, but also because they're completely out of ideas.
This week's issue of my newsletter tackles the rise of the "data-driven" Nothing Manager responsible for building Everything, with the "power" of #GenAI.
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.netWe learned how to search instead of memorizing everything. And it’s the same with AI today - there’s no need to know everything by heart when AI can handle that for us.
AI is here to stay, and even if it evolves or gets replaced by something better, the transformation never stops. It’s perfectly fine to not have all the answers in your head because we can focus on more important things.
@TFG@social.linux.pizzaSometimes you work on a case where the suspect is so incredible unsympathetic to you - who represents everything you can imagine in terms of despicable character traits - you just keep digging and digging and digging in the suspects devices data to find the evidence you already know is not there.
It happens once or maybe twice a year but ...gosh... this guy...
#DigitalForensics
@samerfarha@mastodon.socialEyesight is so weird. My watch is 45mmx38mm. When I look at it, my brain filters out all the info that I am not looking for.
If I’m on a walk, I can instantly know how many miles I’ve gone, but everything else on the watch face isn’t noticed. I have to look again if I want to see the time!
@denmanrooke@social.coopOh hey, it's #ScreenshotSaturday , here's the latest mockup from the video game adaptation of Battle of Tarot I'm working on with some lovely people.
Everything is still a work-in-progress and not final at all, but trying to get the visual style nailed down.
#GameDev
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialIf the US starts participating in striking Iran the danger for further escalation is great. Because why would Iran in that case not attack oil fields, US bases in the Gulf states? Close the strait of Hormuz? It could then also try to unite everything that is extreme/radical in the muslim world against the US. What is missing is a scenario for de-escalation, also because Netanyahu is not interested in that is my impression.
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.uskaoshipnótico – Ascensores, aeropuertos, escaleras, ahorcamientos, castraciones
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/05/17/kaoshipnotico-ascensores-aeropuertos-escaleras-ahorcamientos-castraciones/
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@Jaffa@social.linux.pizza#Iceland is reminding me, heavily, of _Everything is Awesome_ from The Lego Movie.
#Eurovision
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialWith everything else that is going on, it is always nice to see things growing, like these radishes that I planted last week!
#Radishes #HomeGarden
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaI saw our local grid voltage dip down to 213.6V today. Everything is fine, nobody worry, European power grid is healthy and stronk like bull!
@gnuslashdhruv@social.linux.pizzaI really appreciate in how bad Amazon is at recommendations in 2025, when everything else is headed for some kind of AI fine-tuned personalization. Meanwhile Amazon is like "I see you bought an allen wrench last month, I bet you want even more allen wrenches"
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI finally got rid of the old bed I’d kept since moving in, so the room feels pretty empty right now.
I’m in the process of reorganizing everything and plan to turn this space into my own anarchist sanctuary.
Soon, I’ll add a bookshelf and more anarchist art to the wall, right next to the communist hammer and sickle symbol.
#Declutter
@markhburton@mstdn.socialDoes the fuckwit know he's contradicting himself?
"We've already been moving assets to the region, including jets, and that is for contingency support across the region," he told reporters.
"Our constant message is de-escalate, and therefore everything we're doing, all discussions we're having are to do with de-escalation."
UK sends more RAF jets to Middle East as PM urges de-escalation - BBC News
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialGoth attire is dark & has spiderwebs because it goes with everything & we haven't had the energy to go out in years and the spiders made a mess
@thomasrenkert@hcommons.social
@lanefu@social.linux.pizzaSo the plan for tomorrow is just stop being depressed about everything and somehow do it while not being in denial.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@randombaywatch@mastodon.social
@toothFAIRy@scholar.socialMy favourite way to trick myself into thinking that I'm doing work is to ask questions related to my task in Slack channels.
In my defense - there is currently very limited brain space because a certain funder decided to drop a figurative bomb on our institute and everything revolves around this now...
@servelan@newsie.socialMeidasTouch: "This is an important reminder: even the LAPD acknowledged yesterday that everything was peaceful. Then Trump brought the chaos. He is responsible." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3lr5clnaqcc2j
@fortune@social.linux.pizza"On a normal ascii line, the only safe condition to detect is a 'BREAK'
- everything else having been assigned functions by Gnu EMACS."
(By Tarl Neustaedter)
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI honestly don’t get how this is possible in 2025.
There’s no excuse for not having protected backups of everything critical. That was true 30 years ago, it is true today. Back then a bigger piece of the risk was hardware, less malware. Today it is unlikely for a disk failure to take your data because we all learned that RAID was worthwhile. But RAID is not a backup and backups today need to be resistant to intentional malicious deletion.
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaSome thoughts:
- While the "mini" part of minirack might be debatable for this build, the footprint of my Proxmox cluster has become miniscule when compared to the size of three full-sized ATX builds.
- The Minisforum MS-A2s are very warm bois. Keeping the cables clear from behind the server nodes will pay off tons later as the hot air is unobstructed.
- Putting those massive power bricks into the bottom of the minirack is not going to work. I'm not sure exactl…
@CondeChocula@social.linux.pizzaI was bored and I made this. It could be better.
Everything is made with #inkscape except the logo 'The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening'.
#nintendo #linksawakening
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deA democracy is – how Pratchett puts it in Small Gods – a system where everyone distrusts the government, so everyone is somehow (un-)happy about it. And this is how it is meant to be and where checks and balances comes in.
And now there is a Trump administration where a alarming number of people just trust everything done by them regardless of what it is.¹ If we needed another sign² of Trumpism being far from being democratic: here it is.
I really hope people in Germany continue …
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaGenghis Khan lay on his side, towel across his back like a funeral sash. His face was stiff with dried cheese - gruyère now, or perhaps something worse. He blinked slowly. One crusted lash fell into the folds of a nearby flannel.
“She’s been folding towels in threes,” he muttered. “That’s why everything is jagged.”
A single tissue slipped from the box and fluttered to the floor like a condemned moth. I dared not move. My knees were numb beneath me, half-buried in damp hand towels…
@malik@Mastodon.SocialI wish it was coming. They will simply show it in a video.
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/114627287109071234
@floheinstein@chaos.social
@levi@social.linux.pizza
@pbloem@sigmoid.socialIf you want to help people in #academia who are maybe less fortunate than you, who have less famous supervisors, or work at less prestigious universities, here's one simple thing you can do:
Do proper literature research.
That means complete forward and backward snowballing from a decent seed set. Find everything that is relevant to your paper and cite it. Budget a couple of full…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@datascience@genomic.social @jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaAll three nodes are installed. The "server room" is an absolute mess, but figured I'd snap a picture of the back of the minirack. I'll be cleaning up tomorrow, but for now: we are 100% back online here. Migrations work, iSCSI works...well, everything works. Very happy with how this has turned out thus far.
#minirack
@hey@social.nowicki.ioAliExpress is a UX nightmare. They send notifications for everything,order status, promos, God knows what else, on every channel in the same time. Whatsapp, push, email. Ffs I'll remove my account soon after I get the package and never come back.
@emilis@social.linux.pizzaJoin our #Luanti server they said. A few days have passed and I built this. Now what?
Contemplating my life choices.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itOur hotel wifi keeps glitching. I'm guessing that there's a captive portal or something that is disabled, but the device randomly wants to send people to that network. Sometimes you'll have a 10.0.x.x IP address and everything will be fine, but other times you connect and you'll get a 192.168.1.x IP address and can't even reach the gateway (192.168.1.250). So on two different laptops, I've had to disable dhcp and hardcode 10.0.x.x IP addresses in order to get working …
@danyork@mastodon.socialDear @… ,
I get that you need to FOCUS, but I'm personally bummed you are killing off #Pocket, as it's a service I use pretty much ** every single day! ** 😞 (I don't care about Fakespot )
But please... literally *** NO ONE *** is asking for mor…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaSomeday, I want to erase everything and vanish offline, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
I’m sick of being trapped in this endless cycle of digital puppetry and mental sludge, where every click feeds some shallow algorithm designed to keep you hooked and dumbed down, turning people into another batch of screen-zombies chasing cheap hits and empty dopamine hits.
I want out of this rat race of constant noise and manufactured crises, where reality is warped into a carnival…
@crell@phpc.socialBuilding the right mental model is always crucial. Build the wrong one, and you'll forever be confused. Get it right, and everything makes sense.
#CSS
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.social
@lysander07@sigmoid.social"Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else", but how to do this with Linked Data? Eero Hyvönen is quoting Leonardo Da Vinci as an intro to his presentation "How to Create a Portal for Digital Humanities Research Using a Linked Open Data Cloud of Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs: Case SampoSampo"
paper:
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.comToday is Privacy Party, where me and @… sit down and go through all the legal documents and todos that come about when you want to do everything perfectly right regarding user privacy
It’s pretty repetitive, which is why we‘re framing it as a party where we get to virtually hang out 🥳🥳🥳
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaAV1 might take a ton of time to encode, but the results are awesome. I do need to take a look at the VMs though as I'm seeing a ~33% increase in encode times when compared to the previous nodes I was using. Either way, the minirack is still quiet and taking everything that's been thrown its way.
#homelab
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@poppastring@dotnet.socialAfter months of coding with an #LLM I'm going back to using my brain
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/20/after-months-of-coding-with-llms/#ato…
@laimis@mstdn.socialThe latest LLM models from the major providers continue to come in a rapid fashion. And each is just better and better. Latest model from Anthropic is very fast, and with improved output from everything I have tried.
I will say that "thank goodness" for the competition where it's not only OpenAI that's pushing the tools forward. It's such a powerful arena that one player locking the market down would be super scary. Kind of crazy to think how Google was able to do…
@toothFAIRy@scholar.socialThe @… is on Mastodon!! Thanks @… for making everything happen!
Give them both a follow!
The Open Research Calendar can be used by you to follow #OpenResearch #OpenScience events, or to add your own events to the calendar!
https://openresearchcalendar.org/
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaDid a quick test fit of one of the Minisforum MS-A2s and ran some of the cabling. I think this should turn out pretty clean and everything fits better than expected which is a good thing. The PSUs will go in the bottom 2U "compartment" without issue which I didn't run.
#minisforum #homelab
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.netBest of all: everything is free, thanks to #openrouter 😍
I am so sick of all these none-free bullshit websites or chrome-plugins that don't work. Even the custom GPTs in #chatgpt are bullshit. The only YouTube summarizer that works is
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialEvery company is undergoing an invisible reorg. You report to your boss but your boss reports to an #AI, offloading the job of management entirely onto a bot and then merely communicating its wishes back to the team.
This is the Nothing Manager, surrounded by #LLM tools to avoid having to interact with…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza02:31—Good Night #Fediverse! 😴💤
I just made myself a new banner for myself, using (mostly) open source software. The only exception was that I used a random website to add an outline to my Rudolf Rocker image, I was too lazy to get out of bed and use GIMP on my PC for that step. For everything else, I used this tool from GitHub:
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaI'm starting to think that people who just drink and watch sports on TV may have a point. Seems like everything I do with my time is either infuriating, expensive, or both.
@trondc@social.linux.pizzaI am officially "homeless"... Had to sell my apartment because of runaway cost increases, and today the new owner officially took it over. Currently living partly in a borrowed house, and partially couch surfing, while trying to find out what to do next... I am strongly considering just packing up everything and moving to South America. Brazil is nice, and so is the Caribbean...
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialThe countdown is on - only three weeks until Berlin Buzzwords 2025!
To ensure you have a seamless experience, whether you're joining us onsite in Berlin or online, we've prepared a blog post containing all the essential information you'll need to make the most of your conference days.
To the blog post:
@jolly@social.linux.pizzaIn a conversation about the social effects of some new or emerging technology I often here the bromide "technology is neutral." The idea being that some manifestation of tech has no intrinsic value.
Facebook is trying to bring a wearable AR product to market, it will record everything you look at and use facial recognition to track people around you. Facebook has a track record of being evil, so trying to defend the product by saying "well, Facebook might be bad, but tec…
@fennek@cyberplace.socialWhat has ... DRM (?!) ever done for us?
https://infosec.exchange/@dangoodin/114546912959367470
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.comI did search for a pizza oven but this is even better 🤔
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@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social"The past is never dead. It's not even past." - William Faulkner
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." - William Gibson
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"Everything happens so much."(horse_ebooks)
@sebobo@neos.socialPlayer the #oblivionremastered version yesterday for a few hours. It brought back soo many great memories of how I setup a room with my brother all those years ago with a Xbox and a beamer to play the game for many hours.
Everything looked so amazing back then and the remaster does well at transporting a similar feeling. Though the game world is sometimes a bit bare when one looks …
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @pbloem@sigmoid.socialWe need to stop reasoning about AI like this. Every time it can do something amazing it's "well that's just because its training data is so big, everything is bound to be in there."
Then, when it shows some limitation, it's "Well that's because it must not be in the training data".
It can show a shark jumping out of the moon through a computer screen. It can generate stuff that's not in the data. Also, hands counting down are obviously in t…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaOkay, I have my page on Codeberg as a guide on how to install Chimera Linux. That helps a lot (and it works 😄)
But 28 minutes for an install, everything updated, services started, some bells and whistles and a running terminal in a labwc session is still pretty good.
Off to the races!
Cc @…
#ChimeraLinux
@Wolkensteine@social.linux.pizzaJippi!
I've repaired my Laptop! Or lets say I've replaced my cracked trackpad... With one of another colour, as I am only able to check compatibility on technical level, not a stylish one ... Well anyways I'll just say it has its own character.
@boltronics@social.linux.pizza@emi200@sakurajima.moe GOG is my first platform of choice these days. They suck when it comes to GNU/Linux support, but Heroic with Wine or Proton largely fixes that.
I used to get everything physically, but I'll rarely be doing that going forward (with everything going digital, and even physical carts mandating a download for the game, or updates, or DLC...). As such, there's no longer any point prioritising games on console unless it's a really good exclusive — and even t…
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaIn one of the more painful purchases I've done in a bit: just ordered 3 kits of Crucial DDR5 RAM for the MS-A2 servers. This will take them from 32GB -> 96GB which should work out a bit better for Proxmox. Unfortunately, my wallet is crying. If everything goes well, the RAM should get here just before the servers do.
#homelab
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaSwapped the nVidia RTX 4070Ti with a nice, regular-sized AMD Radeon 9070 XT. Everything is running perfectly though I did have to reinstall Linux because I couldn't undo the futzing I did to clear up a few issues with Wayland with the 4070Ti. Not a huge deal, but still annoying. However, everything is fine and now just enjoying some gaming.
#linux
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaWelp, after breaking out the level and getting everything perpendicular: those shelves are absolutely driving me crazy as it still looks like everything is sloped. Ended up buying the full-length T2 shelves and that should fix the problem. If not then I will resort to more drastic measures.
#minirack #homelab
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza
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