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🥳 New module release: Hetzner Cloud OpenAPI Client
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/hetzner-cloud-openapi-client
This is an OpenAPI client for Node.js generated from the official Hetzner Cloud OpenAPI specification using Massimo.
Recently, while reviewing t…

“The state as patronage machine” — that’s the concept here.
The article then does a weird pivot in paragraph 10 where it tries to shoehorn Israel’s international lobbying and propaganda efforts into being an example of this same principle.
It doesn’t work. The shoe doesn’t fit. What the Israeli government has done to find political covers for the horror it has committed in Gaza is an example of something else.
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At 67,800-years-old, These Handprints Just Discovered in Indonesia Are Oldest Example of Rock Art https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/at-67800-years-old-these-handprints-just-discovered-in-indonesia-are-oldest-example-of-…

At 67,800-years-old, These Handprints Just Discovered in Indonesia Are Oldest Example of Rock Art
In the last five years, 3 of the 4 oldest cave artworks ever found on Earth were identified on the same small island off Sulawesi, Indonesia

Ran into this little quirk of (many) C-syntax languages, yesterday. Hadn't seen it before.
#PHP
```
<?php
function getApiData() {
https://example.org/api
return file_get_contents("

Today I tried to get our new Hetzner mailbox to work with gitlab issues, but failed. I blame Hetzner, because a) they don't seem to support subaddressing (foo 123@example.com) and b) they don't set the proper mail header (Envelope-To and Delivered-To) when doing a mail forward. Both of which work for example with mailbox.org, and both are needed to allow issue creation via email in gitlab (what they call Service Desk). Grrr...

Example 1: the EU's Kaja Kallas: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/03/kaja-kallas-says-maduro-lacks-legitimacy-and-calls-for-restraint/

Kaja Kallas says Maduro 'lacks legitimacy' and calls for restraint
The European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, stated that Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro “lacks legitimacy. “ She urged for restraint and respect for international law regarding Venezuela’s situation. Kallas mentioned discussions with U. S. officials and emphasized the EU’s monitoring of the situation, advocating for a peaceful transition and adherence to the principles of international […]

Lazypost, is there a good tool to fix (as much as possible) somewhat broken audio from a CD that has some read errors (I've fixed surface of CD and read with EAC to extract as much info as possible, you can hear everything but it sounds a bit like a crackling record).
I am not looking for CD reading software (EAC already spent 70 hours on extracting the one track I'm interested in).
I am looking for fixing errors in a ripped lossless audio track, for example through interpolation and/or specifically tuned ML algorithms.
If helpful, I have access to Logic Pro and to Adobe tools.
(Please only recommend software you personally have used and that you like, thank you.)

Is there a real example of a long "quote chain" (chain quotes?) here? (quote of quote of quote of quote of…)
#MastoDev

A Chinese hospital says Alibaba's PANDA AI tool has analyzed 180,000 CT scans and detected ~24 pancreatic cancer cases since its deployment in November 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/world/a…

In China, A.I. Finds Pancreatic Cancer That Doctors May Miss
A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine’s tough problems.

@… Font Awesome does *icons* and icon fonts are one method but they also provide SVG for everything! The @… plugin is SVG exclusive, for example.

The oldest known pyre, located in Alaska, dates back 11,500 years and contains the created remains of a 3-year-old child.
But HOR-1 in Malawi is the oldest example of adult cremated remains found in a pyre.
We will likely never know the identity of this woman, or why her death inspired such a carefully coordinated ritual. But it seems safe to assume that the cremation was a significant event for the community that expended so much forethought and labor to perform it. 

Scientists Discover One of the World’s Oldest Cremations
Hunter-gatherers cremated a small woman in Malawi 9,500 years ago, revealing a glimpse of their capabilities and practices.

Police, jail, and banning stuff seem to be this board's/mayor's only "solutions" to the public health crisis of addiction, and not, for example, voluntary treatment: we still lack enough treatment facilities to accommodate every San Franciscan who comes in ready and wanting help to kick their habit.
This policy is particularly dumb because of its obvious harm to nightlife. People want to be able to buy snacks when they leave the club.

S.F. supervisors say late-night store ban is working. Not so fast, say criminologists. 
Researchers urge caution on policy implications, as San Francisco supervisors use study's results to push for a broader late-night ban.

Does anybody know, by any rare chance, what #Firefox settings might cause CORS errors? Since last week I'm unable to access, for example, a local #Jellyfin instance with Firefox due to this problem, as it causes a lot of CORS errors (same origin policy).
I have already tried changing &quo…

Once again I wonder "Do the authors/maintainers of LibreOffice actually use it?"
For example, I am here on MacOs (Tahoe) and the buttons in LibreWriter to control Bold, Italic, etc are effectively same-color-on-same-color-background, in other words, unreadable. The only time they are actually visible is when the "Dark" theme is used.
Almost every time I use LibreOffice I am reminded why people pay actual $$ for products like Word/Office365.

This is your reminder that Trump is a blatant racist. Here's yet another example on video.
#trump #racism

Sometimes it is handy to use archives formats that do not confuse our windows friends. Or perhaps you want a quick listing, or to update files without reading and writing the entire thing (i.e. non-solid archives).
Zip or 7z can be handy. The problem is that with their Windows hertitage they do not (reliably) retain certain UNIX-y 'things'. Be that permissions or symlinks.
Here is an example symlink workaround. Permissions left as an exercise for the reader:

A simple shell‑based workaround for archiving projects with symlinks in formats that don’t preserve them (e.g. .7z or certain .zip files). It generates a script that records all symlinks, excludes them from the archive, and later recreates them after extraction.
A simple shell‑based workaround for archiving projects with symlinks in formats that don’t preserve them (e.g. .7z or certain .zip files). It generates a script that records all symlinks, excludes ...

RE: #linguistics #ambiguity

How Israel destroyed Gaza’s health system ‘deliberately and methodically’
"The devastation and lack of access to medical care have killed thousands of Palestinians, experts say.
"For example, there were 1,244 kidney patients in Gaza before the start of the war in October 2023. Now that number stands at 622, ..."
| Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

How Israel destroyed Gaza’s health system ‘deliberately and methodically’
Despite ‘ceasefire’, the health sector in Gaza continues to suffer from shortages, destruction and lack of equipment.

Wireless Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (#ICVP) without intracranial cabling: Feasibility study results after 3 years https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8355958/v1

"Retrocomputing emerges not only as a fun, recreational activity, but also as one with widely applicable skills, particularly for those working in sustainable computing, and those spreading its use in regions of the world where it has not yet reached peak maturity, and where refurbishing old hardware is an effective way to raise standards of living through computer tech. In this age of rising temperatures and rising oceans, reusing old computers is a very valuable skill."

Return to Innocence
The pages of this magazine have often orbited around the subject of retrocomputing. Take, for example, the editions about sustainability, computer museums, hardware, hobbies, gaming, operating systems, or the one about BASIC published last summer. If you pay attention, you most probably have realized how much retrocomputing has grown in popularity in the past few decades, with more and more people learning on YouTube or TikTok how to replace the batteries or leaking capacitors from the motherbo…

@… made me think about my preference for minimalist apps
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/sys_design/

I never get tired of messing around with little circuits like this and seeing how they work. This is an Arduino board from @… running an example that loads data into a shift register. The source code does this with a single call to shiftOut() which hides all the details, but on a scope you can see the individual bits being added serially.

Just added a “Sign in with Mastodon” example to Kitten’s¹ examples:
https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/examples/sign-in-with-mastodon
If I have time at some point, I might make it into a tutorial.
Enjoy!
:kitten:💕

ICYMI, our January newsletter comes with an answer to "why don't people use Google Docs suggesting mode or MS Word's track changes with spreadsheets?" a lot more!
https://support.getgrist.com/newsletters/2026-01/

Xorg pixel fonts traced to TTF, great source for cases when you need a pixel font super family to replicate a more genuine retro pixel-perfect UI.

Example of available font matrix:
(Helvetica, Times, Courier, Century) × (8 10 11 12 14 14 17 18 20 24 25 34px) × (Regular, Bold) × (Roman, Italic/Oblique)

github.com/blueset/xorg-fonts

GitHub - blueset/xorg-fonts: Xorg bitmap fonts traced to TTF format.
Xorg bitmap fonts traced to TTF format. Contribute to blueset/xorg-fonts development by creating an account on GitHub.

This idea of “state capture” — as opposed to corruption, bribery, propaganda, etc — seems to me a useful one. We can ask when and to what extent the machinery of the state itself •is• a patronage machine.
Take Enron as an example of something that is •not• state capture: there were corrupt politicians turning a blind eye, no doubt, but ultimately the state convicted people of accounting crimes and the market flushed the company down the toilet.
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Miles Rapoport, the co-chairman of Crimson Courage, an alumni group that has urged Harvard to resist any deal that compromises its academic freedom,
said Trump and his White House were “completely unreliable negotiating partners.”
“I hope this strengthens Harvard’s resolve to not make a deal with an administration that is so ready to go nuclear at any moment,” Mr. Rapoport said.
Ryan Enos, a government professor at Harvard, said Trump’s shifting demands seemed to show he wa…

Trump, Changing Course, Throws Harvard Deal Talks Into Chaos
In the latest example of his mercurial negotiating style, President Trump went from dropping his ask for a $200 million fine to demanding $1 billion from the university.

Deeplearning.ai is a resource i can really recommend for free (!) courses on various AI subjects, serious, no hype. For example the Agentic AI course by Andrew Ng does a good breakdown of the hype around "AI Agents" / "Agentic AI".
#AI #Deeplearning

Great example of automatic layout with @…!
https://towns.gay/@nleanba/115822438706346520

How to Live in Hard Times: Holly Gayley on the Example of a Female Tantric Master - online Dec 9
https://ift.tt/CqIJLUt
Critical Survey (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Dear Colleague, The latest issue of Critical Survey…
via Input 4 RELCFP

from my link log —
Microsoft Outlook autodiscover mishandling example.com.
https://tinyapps.org/blog/microsoft-mishandling-example-com.html
saved 2026-01-23 …

Different species in #StarTrek have different physical requirements. And a very obvious example of this is the subject of today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h…

I'm not into audiophile stuff btw, just decent quality things really.
For example, I have a pair Bose 901 speakers that are ~50 years old and they sound fantastic.
But it's not even that, if properly engineered even stuff which hasn't the primary purpose of sound reproduction can sound good.
My 15-year old Apple Thunderbolt Display, the 8-year old iPad Pro and the 5-year old Mac Book Pro all sound great.
But—
The speakers in my 2025 LG TV? They shouldn't have bothered installing them but instead put them right into a landfill.
Speakers in my Asus gaming monitor? Like someone dragging a nail on a chalkboard.
And, weirdly, the Apple HomePod mini is pretty bad at reproducing music. A 10-year old Bose SoundLink mini beats the pants of it. 🤷

Never thought about this. Use the good ol' image maps to provide alt text for possibly more complicated images https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/imagemap/
The `href` attribute for `<area>` may be omitted too

Gemini Nano Banana Pro is a remarkable technical achievement that gives you a sense of what a remastered game might look like. Granted, the original game/graphics have their charm as well.
Still wouldn't use it in a final output, but for conceptualization, it is fascinating.
Here is an example for Shenmue.
https://

Neither #Affinity nor #Darktable seemingly support 1D LUTs, which would have been too easy and useful for my #DigitalNegative preparation tool... Instead they both insist on using only 3D LUT…

Here's a concrete example of how "vibe coding" with Claude Code changes everything for mildly tech-savvy #humanities academics. #digitalhumanities I have been using one particular commercial PDF management app for years to manage a library of 3000 PDFs I have accumulated o…

Australian artist and environmental engineer Tega Brain has created 'Slop Evader', a browser extension search tool for either Firefox or Chrome that evades AI slop by using the Google search API to only return content created before ChatGPT's first public release on November 30, 2022: https://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader

On the one hand, this is absurd. On the other hand, I encourage Alan Wong to lead by example and demolish his own Sunset home to replace it with a parking lot.
Yup, this is the quality of our Lurie-appointed D4 supervisor #sfpol

"Studies have found roundabouts reduce all vehicle accidents by 40% and those with injuries by 75%."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/climate/roundabout-auto-emissions-new-hampshire.html?unlocke…

Roundabouts in Keene Help Cut Emissions and Air Pollution
Despite its small stature, the city of Keene, has become an example of the safety and climate benefits of swapping traffic lights for roundabouts.

It doesn't matter if Nicolšs Maduro is a dictator or not, at all: no international law supports USA kidnapping a president and his wife bombing the capital of a country. For example: USA isn't going to kidnap Mohamed bin Salman, Saudi Barbaria's King, regardless of it being a brutal dictatorship, for a single reason: they already control Saudi oil.
#venezuela

spent some time looking at rust html5ever and the vibe-translated python justhtml and its vibe-translated js, ocaml, swift descendants.
there are some weird things going on.
tokenization in the html spec is a well-defined state machine. one state is Data, which is normal chars between tags. it's a small, simple state.
the vibe-translated Data states are all different, unrelated implementations, clearly not derived from their example code. they're hallucinated from a…

Here's what bothers me about AI-generated code, and I'm going to use my own fuck-up as an example. I was calling a DBus interface from C , which I'd already done elsewhere in the code. So I cut & pasted, and adjusted variable names.. It didn't work. So naturally I assumed something was wrong on the other end. I added delays to make sure the other side had enough time to bring up interfaces, I wrote some introspection code to ensure the interface was available, etc.

(yes, I'm avoiding a link to Failbook):

Any pivot-table people out there? I've got this example pivot table I've been messing with and I can't figure out wth a value (23.53..%) comes from - it's a sum displayed as % difference to next field, so I'm reckoning it's (21-17)/17 - but I don't understand wth it's referencing the 17 field.
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@… see, for example, <https://old.reddit.com/comments/1pf68ci/-/ntmz37p/?context=3> (you may need to click to reveal comme…

Copypasta from LinkedIn:
Recent blogs by KnowledgeRights21 blaming copyright and the creative industry for knowledge hampering instead of, for example, the enormous bureaucracy in place in Horizon Europe / European Commission grants is really something.
Don't get me wrong, I think #copyright should be reformed and in its current form is indeed strange - why can we copyright research articles for example?
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What a great dialog by A. A. Milne between aunt and niece about a colorful hat:
Aunt: “Oh, it’ll suit you all right, and it would have suited me at your age. A bit too dressy for me now, though wearing better than some other people, I daresay. I was never the one to pretend to be what I wasn’t. If I’m fifty-five, I’m fifty-five—that’s what I say.”
“Fifty-eight, isn’t it, auntie?”
“I was just giving that as an example,” said Mrs. Stevens with great dignity.

What appears to be a very successful example of district thermal. I wish more states understood the importance of energy efficiency as we transition off fossil fuels.
‘The LED of heating’: cheap geothermal energy system makes US comeback
https://www.…

What appears to be a very successful example of district thermal. I wish more states understood the importance of energy efficiency as we transition off fossil fuels.
‘The LED of heating’: cheap geothermal energy system makes US comeback
https://www.…

@… But even with those techniques, I'm sure that for most authors, Dragon isn't the answer. For example, having recently read Pynchon's Shadow Ticket, I can't imagine writing that using Dragon.

Why OpenAI is a prime example of the ethical limits of capitalism https://theconversation.com/why-openai-is-a-prime-example-of-the-ethical-limits-of-capitalism-270407

Why OpenAI is a prime example of the ethical limits of capitalism
Money and morality are a challenging corporate combination.

PLEASE SHARE: Folks, I need *public domain* or *purchasable stock imagery* photos of especially older women holding signs in protests that essentially say "I can't believe I still have to protest this shit". They *cannot* be CC-licensed - they either have to be public domain or licensed for royalty-based purchase since they'll be in an e-book.
This is an excellent example from Shutterstock:

@… For me, the question remains, why roll out AI “summaries” at all? None of the cited benefits are very compelling. For example, wouldn’t non-native speakers be better served by translations? If not, why?
It seems to me that AI must be crammed into the DL at any price.

@… For me, the question remains, why roll out AI “summaries” at all? None of the cited benefits are very compelling. For example, wouldn’t non-native speakers be better served by translations? If not, why?
It seems to me that AI must be crammed into the DL at any price.

People are very flexible and learn to adjust to strange
surroundings -- they can become accustomed to read Lisp and
Fortran programs, for example.
-- Leon Sterling and Ehud Shapiro, Art of Prolog, MIT Press

Wow, Apple's issues with one of their most important core values (#UX, #UI design) does seem to be worse than I'd have expected.
More and more complaints do pop up in my bubble.
Latest example:

Had cause to visit, thought I'd share just in case
#FCPX #DaVinciResolve #Premiere #VideoEditing

The Definitive Aspect Ratio & Resolution Guide For Video: 2K, 4K, 6K, 8K & Every Other Major Format - Noam Kroll
Below, you will find a detailed aspect ratio and resolution guide. Among other things, you can use it to help identify which resolution to use in post-production when setting up a new project or timeline. For example – if you want to master your project to 2.39:1 aspect ratio in 4K, you can use this guide to find the correct resolution settings: 4096 x 1716 There are of course many other reasons you may need to reference this document, so feel free to bookmark the page for future use. Huge th…

The initial example is based of my current character and it's looking decent. I'm not happy with the skill section, but this should get the job done. Still have to figure out how I want the damage to look on weapons. I also need to get spells into the schema, but I'll leave that alone for the time being.
#pathfinder2e

This was written by an old friend and I found it pretty packed with good info. It’s also an example of using NotebookLM for research and content development. I found this inspiring enough to give it a try. I’ve found that it is a “Centaur" enabling tech that helps one to create on their own the overall content and leaving details to the NotebookLM tooling.
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SLOs Can’t Catch a Black Swan: A Classification Framework for Thinking About Incidents -Geoff White
"Your SLOs can be green, and your systems can still be falling over. That doesn’t mean SLOs are broken. It means they were never designed to describe every class of risk we encounter in complex systems.
I’ve released version 1.0 of SLOs Can’t Catch a Black Swan as an open, living framework hosted on GitHub.
This is not a book you read once, and it’s not something you consult in the middle of an outage. It’s a way to think more clearly about incidents—across the incident lifecycle.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/slos-cant-catch-black-swan-classification-framework-thinking-white-ybc0c/?trackingId=ShCzMMVCQTChcTi8xT19tg==

Well that tears it, I’m definitely not going to any more of Hillary Clinton’s comedy shows

I'm trying to play through the implications of some software I've been thinking about maybe designing.
It's legal to make a digital copy of the media that you own (videos, audio) physical copies of. It's legal to give a physical copy of your media to someone else or loan it out, which transfers your viewing license while they have It. Then it should also be legal to let someone else use a digital copy of your media given that you don't also use it at the same time. So as long as you keep track of your license, you should be able to let exactly one person stream some media you own.
If someone else then "steals" that content and views it without a license then that has to be legally on them, otherwise streaming platforms would be liable whenever someone cracks some DRM.
So then, it should be completely legal to set up a local community media library streaming service where you can share content you own licenses to as long as you track your license count and don't let more people stream at any given time than there are licenses available.
Is there something obvious I'm missing (aside from the MPAA and RIAA don't care about the law and will just sue anyone they can just to make an example)?

So I know I haven't been very active over here the last few days, December hasn't been very kind to me (or 2025 for that matter), but there's always a silver lining: For example on the 11th I got to see the amazing Shonen Knife perform for the first time in South America!

I remember a time where you had to pick a competitor in an industry based on who you think will still be around in twelve months and who has a product that works on the devices that you own. (Example: Nook vs Kobo vs Kindle for ebooks or iTunes vs Amazon VOD vs Microsoft Movies and TV for streaming movies) I miss the days when it was still that simple.

"Americans afford the unique historical example of a people which has passed directly from a condition of barbarism to one of decadence without an intervening period of civilization."
-- Georges Clemenceau

#LinuxGaming "poll"
Which steam games have you played on Linux that work as well as on Windows (and which ones didn't)?
For example, anyone playing #Skyrim? Is it working well for you? I tried it (the steam version) and it was way too slow with just normal (or even lower) graphical s…

While Europe complains and whines that transitions in the way cars are powered are not really possible, or at least not within a generation, and that it is best for Europe to abandon any ambition to lead the way in the global car market, because if you cannot win the race by moving forward, you will at least be the first to return if you crawl backwards, Indonesia is demonstrating an impressive example of an S-curve in

Wondering how many people use an 'IP Geolocation' extension in their browser to tell them *where* websites they visit are actually hosted... I use "Country Flag & IP Whois" for (Fire|Water)Fox which, for example, shows me which Aotearoa NZ civil society organisations, gov't agencies, & political parties host their websites onshore... It's quite telling.

I’m not saying the answer will always be “no,” but people are wildly, wildly overselling the number of situations in which the answer will be “yes.”
Sometimes the answer is “no” because incorrectness is a deal-breaker — and that scenario’s been getting a lot of attention (fake legal briefs, vibe-coding faceplants, etc).
Sometimes, however, the answer is “no” because making something •typical• isn’t really helpful. Where humanity needs to come to the foreground, homogeneity is positively unhelpful. Here’s a fascinating example:
https://hci.social/@bwaber/115647856415818492

#Shitposting #Shitpost

"ps. m88k has been the most worthwhile example, since some insane parts
of that architecture permits Miod to find a MI bug weekly."
I just live that quote.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109160932504578&w=2

"Academic Publishing and Academic Ethos – Looking Back to the Future": Analyse von Stefan Klein am Beispiel von Elsevier: "I use Elsevier as an example to illustrate the impact and risks of digitalization of academic publishing house, or ‘information analytics businesses’ as Elsevier has rebranded itself."
https://doi.org/10.308…

US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite #Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims:
“It’s a fundamental error to treat these issues as mutually exclusive – climate solutions are also cost-of-living solutions. Most of the elite discourse is very bad at estimating or understanding levels of public concern, and this is a good example of this.”
#ClimateChange
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/26/us-voters-link-climate-crisis-affordability?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Win11 is filled with tiny little bugs.
This piss me out more than all the big stuff like Co-pilot that I can just not use or disable.
For example:
-Ctrl-C not copying.
-File that refuse to be dragged and dropped unless I close the file manager and restart it
-File that auto-revert to their old name
after I renamed them.
And all kind of other small weirdness that just make my day more painful.

Rams offer 'clear-cut example' of what Falcons want to be, but will this staff get there? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6921233/2025/12/29/rams-falcons-mnf-raheem-morris-job-culture/

#TIL you can concatenate "=~ s/…/…/r" in modern #Perl (in this case since Perl 5.14). Example:
my $a = "foobar";
my $b = $a =~ s/foo/bar/r =~ s/bar/fnord/r =~ s/fnord/gnarz/r;
say $b;
Output:
gnarzbar

"Spoiler alert: unless there happens to be some breakthrough in physics that will drive more gigahertz to our CPUs, more crypto to those GPUs, more watts to our batteries, and more money to cloud providers, we most probably will not see any difference between the computer you are using today and the one you will receive as a gift in Christmas 2033. Get used to this fact."

Return to Innocence
The pages of this magazine have often orbited around the subject of retrocomputing. Take, for example, the editions about sustainability, computer museums, hardware, hobbies, gaming, operating systems, or the one about BASIC published last summer. If you pay attention, you most probably have realized how much retrocomputing has grown in popularity in the past few decades, with more and more people learning on YouTube or TikTok how to replace the batteries or leaking capacitors from the motherbo…

If you want Wi-Fi network to work perfectly, you need to use dedicated, specialized hardware.
At work, everything is fine, but at home I was temporarily using a mini PC with a Wi-Fi card as a router/firewall, and video streaming, for example, was suffering. Now I have an wireless access point with VLANs channeling all Wi-Fi traffic (currently with three devices simultaneously streaming via Jellyfin), and everything is running smoothly, with instant video playback.
Lesson learned.…

A Florida judge grants The Guardian's and others' motions to dismiss Trump Media's defamation lawsuit over reporting on a federal criminal investigation (Sarah Rumpf/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/lawcrime/judge-throws…

Judge Throws Out Truth Social’s Defamation Lawsuit Against The Guardian
A Florida judge granted motions to dismiss to The Guardian and other defendants in a defamation lawsuit filed by Truth Social's parent company, Truth Media & Technology Group Corp., the latest example of President Donald Trump's legal actions against media companies not holding up in court.

"In a new executive order, Mr Trump said that Cuba constitutes “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the world’s richest and most militarily powerful country.."
I didn't know that the USA was so weakened.
Seriously, this is a further tightening of the 6 decade blockade - the threat of a good example indeed

US to place extra tariffs on the goods of any country that sends or sells oil to Cuba | Morning Star

@… 😃
Incidentally, there's more than mirroring to be done, before the announcement. For documentation, please see (for example):
― <https://

All of what’s happening in Minneapolis is deeply rooted in US history. And in Minneapolis and St. Paul history specifically: Read about the Rondo neighborhood, for example. It’s no accident the the flagship lake in the City of Lakes was named after the vice president of the Confederacy until just a few years ago. Don’t get too excited about making saints of us all here.
It’s crucial for us to recognize that historical precedent. It’s also crucial for us to recognize the extreme new danger of the present moment.
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I suspect it's been said before, yet many have forgotten:
California's CPUC polices on the TNCs (Uber, Lyft, etc) that prohibited local regulation are example of how wealth transfer really works - Toward capital, not those at the lower income levels. This situation is absolutely shameful.
Pity I haven't heard concerns about this from politicians, especially those with strong SF connections, like Governor Newsom, or our reps in Sacramento.
SF taxi drivers wan…

Struggling taxi drivers seek help from Lurie
Hundreds still carrying medallion debt, want relief.

I suspect it's been said before, yet many have forgotten:
California's CPUC polices on the TNCs (Uber, Lyft, etc) that prohibited local regulation are example of how wealth transfer really works - Toward capital, not those at the lower income levels. This situation is absolutely shameful.
Pity I haven't heard concerns about this from politicians, especially those with strong SF connections, like Governor Newsom, or our reps in Sacramento.
SF taxi drivers wan…

Struggling taxi drivers seek help from Lurie
Hundreds still carrying medallion debt, want relief.

I'm running an improvised tutorial on #Zotero at my work tomorrow. Do you all have useful tips that I could share with my "students" - beyond the basics? Or specific use cases that you might use it for, beyond citing references in papers that you write?
For example I recently moved on to using its integrated PDF reader for peer-reviewing and it works well…

Uruguay used to rely heavily on oil & gas-based power.
But as the economy grew and electricity demand threatened to overtake supply from the early 2010s,
it needed to add additional generating capacity, and fast.
New hydro wasn’t an option as it had already made the most of that resource.
To chart the way forward, the president appointed Ramón Méndez Galain,
a particle physicist from the private sector,
as the country’s director of energy
— a pos…

'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for 10 straight months
Uruguay achieves energy independence by running on 100% renewable energy for 10 consecutive months, setting a global sustainability example.

Boats can have duplicate names, but I understand the IMO to be a unique identifier. For example, Jeff Bezos' yacht is called KORU and has an IMO of 9857298. Sites like vesselfinder can take the IMO as an argument to the URL:
https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9857298

@… C'est bizarre... Disons que mon document s’appelle short_example.md et je me trouve dans le dossier pandoc-lecturenotes (donc le filtre se trouve dans le sous-dossier filters):
pandoc -s -t revealjs -L filters/native-slides.lua short_example.md > short_example.revealjs.html
Ça ne marche pas?

@… C'est bizarre... Disons que mon document s’appelle short_example.md et je me trouve dans le dossier pandoc-lecturenotes (donc le filtre se trouve dans le sous-dossier filters):
pandoc -s -t revealjs -L filters/native-slides.lua short_example.md > short_example.revealjs.html
Ça ne marche pas?

Reading Berys Gauts essay «The Philosophy of Creativity" (2010) while listening to Gangstagrass — a music collective that combines, well, blugrass with rap... Wondering whether this music is an example of combinatorial creativity or transformational creativity (ref. Boden) or something else entirely.
Did they discover this musical mashup, or did them bring it into existence from nothing?
More and more I find myself in disagreement with the emphasis on the *product* of creati…

The many different species in #StarTrek all have different ways to entertain themselves. So let's look at some sports as an example for that for today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:

Can you do a favor for my friend @…? He was already having a lousy enough week with his car and his city falling apart when state troopers arrested his wife @… for protesting against the murder of Alex Pretti. (Arrested for what? AFAICT, they were just looking to make an example of some protestors. Just good old harassment via the legal system.)
Now the family has lost work and impending legal bills on top of that new transmission. I’m sure they’d appreciate it if you can chip in a few bucks:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-miriam-recover-from-legal-fees-and-lost-work

Yeah, sure Google Gemini, sure.
PS: "Banoie" in Basque means "I'm leaving" in the dialect of Bizkaia.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115601979925351548
hear me out, how about NOT CRAMMING EVERYTHING INTO ONE DEVICE that just works mid for everything, but instead, you know, do some actual innovation here and there
for example, make devices specifically tailored for certain tasks
like if you're Apple why in the fuck don't you make devices with e-paper screens for people who don't want to be terminally online

Real conspiracies tend to come out, but some of them take a while. Information on the Iran/Contra scandal broke out about 5 years after the conspiracy started. That would have taken several hundred people to carry out, so it was somewhat hard to hide. Even so, they largely got away with it.
The moon landing conspiracy theory would have taken thousands of people, so it would have come out more quickly. Since we have an example of a real secret program of a similar scale as what would be required to fake a moon landing (that is, the Manhattan project), we know that the fake moon landing conspiracy theory is not true. (There's also the literally tons of evidence in the form of rocks and other samples, and all kinds of other ways to debunk the claim.)
Could Kash Patel's FBI have been trying really hard to entrap people into carrying out terrorist attacks in order to justify #Trump's occupation of DC? Could they have helped a guy plan an attack then just failed to arrest him? There are reasonable scenarios that fall in between malice and incompetence while still indicating some level of false flag.
Could someone have just snapped and ambushed some guardsmen without any involvement from the FBI? Yeah, totally. The US is a country full of guns with a completely non-functional mental health system. Someone coming from a country that the US destroyed, twice, could have a lot of untreated trauma. Might they see the national guard as a threat (even if that wasn't totally true)? Yeah, they were deployed to threaten people (even when they were just picking up trash). The point was to incite this kind of response. It's completely reasonable to believe that the FBI would not need to be involved at all, that this would just be the stochastic response they were looking for.
So the point here is that everything is on the table, nothing is really known, nothing should be surprising, and no matter what it's Trump's fault. This is exactly the escalation he was looking for. If he didn't get it naturally, he would also have had ways of making it happen.
He will use this in exactly the same way as the Reichstag fire, to drive a wedge between liberals and radicals. Don't fall for it.
Edit:
There are plausible reasons to not believe the official narrative at all right now, or maybe ever. The official narrative is also plausible, but there are plausible reasons to disagree with the response even if the official story is true. It is unnecessary to resort to conspiracy thinking in order to account for what happened and to disagree with the response. But it is also understandable why someone might jump immediately to a conspiracy given the circumstances.

What’s a great example you love of a technical blog post (or similarly shaped writing) that:
- explains a tool, technique, technical idea
- by trying it to the author’s specific project or experience
- but also illuminates a larger concept, a bigger picture?
I don’t just want tutorials; I want writing that illuminates. I’m thinking of things where you read it and had a reaction like:
“Oh, FINALLY, I get it now!”
“What a nice example of _____!”
“This is great. I’m going to bookmark this for the next time I need to use / explain / teach a colleague to use _____.”
Looking for writing examplars to share with students. I want your favorites.