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Here's my latest free to read article from Prairie Voice about digital ghost towns:
#tech

@… thanks.
Re: <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/714424>, was the new volume from a snapshot ultimately _not_ required?
I get the impression that whilst the original…

This is just to answer a question on the forums.
https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/855986

I forgot how good and nice are @… forums.

In 2011, I posted to our forums to explain "Why not Windows?" Our goal is not to make the most money; it's to make the best software that we can make. There are other successful platforms, but I don' t think our software would be better on any of them.
Since 2011 we've moved to different forums and the hardware hosting our archived forums died. Maybe someday I'll revive it from backups, but in the meantime it's nice that the Internet Archive still has a co…

People handing in comments for my blog don't want to have their name/nick added because they fear negative consequences by #reddit administrators. 😲 🤦‍♂️
This is also why I wrote:
https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-…

Today, Maker Forums Discourse came under fairly heavy spam attack. It took me almost two hours to clean up and shore up our defenses a bit against the next wave.
This attack came from IPs all over the globe, not just from a few poorly-administered ASNs in the developing world as has sometimes happened in the past. One account name made it clear that this was a Fiverr job. 😭
Shout out to

@… @… There is at least one thread on this at the Mint Forums, but it sounds quite complicated.

From Misunderstandings to Learning Opportunities: Leveraging Generative AI in Discussion Forums to Support Student Learning
Stanislav Pozdniakov, Jonathan Brazil, Oleksandra Poquet, Stephan Krusche, Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Shazia Sadiq, Hassan Khosravi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11150

From Misunderstandings to Learning Opportunities: Leveraging Generative AI in Discussion Forums to Support Student Learning
In the contemporary educational landscape, particularly in large classroom settings, discussion forums have become a crucial tool for promoting interaction and addressing student queries. These forums foster a collaborative learning environment where students engage with both the teaching team and their peers. However, the sheer volume of content generated in these forums poses two significant interconnected challenges: How can we effectively identify common misunderstandings that arise in stud…

'Tarik - A Golden Axe Story' is being ported/worked on for the Atari 2600 - it's a WIP. Here's POC and the latest version: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/369085-tarik-a-golden-axe-story-great-update-2025

I didn't go digging, this one just dropped in my lap whilst I was browsing for something else.
User: "… Can somebody please tell me, how does one add a user to the sudoers file?!"
Forum member: "I can but I won't", and four other members congratulate this person for his bad manners. What the fuck?
User: "… visudo is broken. It doesn't let me type anything. Got any ideas?"
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User eXperience Perception Insights Dataset (UXPID): Synthetic User Feedback from Public Industrial Forums
Mikhail Kulyabin, Jan Joosten, Choro Ulan uulu, Nuno Miguel Martins Pacheco, Fabian Ries, Filippos Petridis, Jan Bosch, Helena Holmstr\"om Olsson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11777

User eXperience Perception Insights Dataset (UXPID): Synthetic User Feedback from Public Industrial Forums
Customer feedback in industrial forums reflect a rich but underexplored source of insight into real-world product experience. These publicly shared discussions offer an organic view of user expectations, frustrations, and success stories shaped by the specific contexts of use. Yet, harnessing this information for systematic analysis remains challenging due to the unstructured and domain-specific nature of the content. The lack of structure and specialized vocabulary makes it difficult for tradi…

Ich bin heute auf dem @… Summit in Berlin. Sprecht mich gerne an, falls ihr mich erkennt. 😎 #SCSSummit #Sovereigncloudstack

“Anyone who claims to rely on the best scientific consensus today must report the current death toll in the Gaza genocide as ‘more than 115,000’ violent deaths or ‘more than 460,000’ overall.
Here, in detail, is why.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/202…

The Real Gaza Death Toll is Impossible to Know Today, But the Minimum Isn’t
The problem with leaving this sentiment at “we have no idea how many people have been killed” is that we do have a very clear idea of the minimum, based on the most rigorous, detailed analyses that statisticians, epidemiologists, and experts on urban warfare, working together under stringent peer review in the world’s leading research forums, agree on. And that minimum number is indeed much higher than the Ministry’s count. That minimum scientifically plausible number of traumatic death…

Morgen um 10 Uhr findet die nächste metadaten.community-Stunde statt: https://metadaten.community/t/11-metadaten-community-stunde/855
Eine herzliche Einladung an alle Interessierten, insbesondere an Menschnen, die mit

@…
<https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/718447> that's unexpectedly useful, the -R,
--repo-conf-dir
I never imagined that as an effective override, to en…

Having been a long time supporter of the Affinity suite I was troubled when they sold out to Canva in March 2024. But nothing changed and I was still able to create the things I do. Then I had an email from them about big changes coming. Nothing is in the App store and the Affinity forums are shut.
I am terrified it might be pure enshitification.

Sometimes the forums are useful...
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-installation-40/slackware64-current-upgrade-failure-laptop-encrypted-disk-4175753867/
Issue solved! T…

people are nostalgic for forums but i'm not very
github sends me to the forum
forum has a post from 2019 with a hotlink to some storage service
the storage service is dead
this is exactly how using forums was like in their heyday, except that rapidshare no longer exists
edit: i think it was temporarily down or something

"The minimum scientifically plausible number of deaths attributable to the genocide overall is more than 460,000"
This is an area whose population, before the #October7Attack, was 2,226,544. Which is to say, at least one in every five people IN THE WHOLE OF #GAZA has now been killed …

The Real Gaza Death Toll is Impossible to Know Today, But the Minimum Isn’t
The problem with leaving this sentiment at “we have no idea how many people have been killed” is that we do have a very clear idea of the minimum, based on the most rigorous, detailed analyses that statisticians, epidemiologists, and experts on urban warfare, working together under stringent peer review in the world’s leading research forums, agree on. And that minimum number is indeed much higher than the Ministry’s count. That minimum scientifically plausible number of traumatic death…

Microtargeted propaganda by foreign actors: An interdisciplinary exploration
Ronan \'O Fathaigh, Tom Dobber, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, James Shires
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18211

Un Dong #RevedeDragon

Photos d'illustration ou source d'inspiration

Survivors, Complainers, and Borderliners: Upward Bias in Online Discussions of Academic Conference Reviews
Hangxiao Zhu, Yian Yin, Yu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16831 http…

Survivors, Complainers, and Borderliners: Upward Bias in Online Discussions of Academic Conference Reviews
Online discussion platforms, such as community Q&A sites and forums, have become important hubs where academic conference authors share and seek information about the peer review process and outcomes. However, these discussions involve only a subset of all submissions, raising concerns about the representativeness of the self-reported review scores. In this paper, we conduct a systematic study comparing the review score distributions of self-reported submissions in online discussions (based on …

I've archived 2 forums on Autodesk's site related to the RV player. There's a big banner on top that these have been temporarily restored in read-only mode. Apparently ADSK shut them down and in doing so disappeared a large knowledge base for their products.
They'll disappear again sooner or later and there is a frustratingly low amount of developer info about #RV and

FTR: I manage my own domains as well as scores of others with a small team, all with DNSSEC enabled. It has been many months since I last had a DNSSEC-related problem with any of them. It was a registry screwup. https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/115347078328881710

It really pisses me off when a stranger asks a question in a forum, you answer his question, you question them back amd they reply with a "non-answer". :blobrainbow:
#forums

Interesting to compare the response to #framework supporting the far-right between their own forums (which seems to be riddled with vocal nazi safety advocates) and reddit, where the most upvoted posts all condemn the company. 👀

Piefed looks interesting. I hope #voyager will work with #piefed soon
https://join.piefed.social/features/

@… Yeah you can log there or mention on the forums or just ask me here on the fedi. What is the problem?

#Gentoo #Bugzilla is down once again due to #DDoS. Given how much hate we received for putting Anubis in front of the forums, we have no energy to resolve this. Enjoy this wonderful new world.

Sometimes I look at Mastodon and just feel tired. Not because it’s bad, but because I’ve been stuck in it too long. It’s not the site that’s the problem, it’s me getting caught up in it and forgetting to step away.
I’ve spent too much time talking about random things like the Norwegian Syndicalist Federation on small Norwegian forums and scrolling the fediverse until my brain turns to noise.
So I think I’ll take a few days off, go quiet for a bit, and try to remember what it’s li…

Hearing people talk about Xbox in forums and chatrooms right now has a real funeral vibe to it.

Very interesting article here. After a school attack, pundits speculate about why the person was motivated to attack where they did. The usual guesses involve mental illness and psychotropic meds.
What if there was something else going on?
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5479…

Automating API Documentation with LLMs: A BERTopic Approach
AmirHossein Naghshzan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05749 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05749

Automating API Documentation with LLMs: A BERTopic Approach
Developers rely on API documentation, but official sources are often lengthy, complex, or incomplete. Many turn to community-driven forums like Stack Overflow for practical insights. We propose automating the summarization of informal sources, focusing on Android APIs. Using BERTopic, we extracted prevalent topics from 3.6 million Stack Overflow posts and applied extractive summarization techniques to generate concise summaries, including code snippets. A user study with 30 Android developers a…

When Curiosity Signals Danger: Predicting Health Crises Through Online Medication Inquiries
Dvora Goncharok, Arbel Shifman, Alexander Apartsin, Yehudit Aperstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11802

When Curiosity Signals Danger: Predicting Health Crises Through Online Medication Inquiries
Online medical forums are a rich and underutilized source of insight into patient concerns, especially regarding medication use. Some of the many questions users pose may signal confusion, misuse, or even the early warning signs of a developing health crisis. Detecting these critical questions that may precede severe adverse events or life-threatening complications is vital for timely intervention and improving patient safety. This study introduces a novel annotated dataset of medication-relate…

SoK: Scope and Mission of CS&Law
Joan Feigenbaum, Daniel J. Weitzner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08723 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08723

SoK: Scope and Mission of CS&Law
We systematize the intellectual scope of the ACM Computer Science and Law Symposium (CS&Law). In particular, we address the meaning and importance of the word ''and'' in the name of the symposium. We identify previously published papers (from CS&Law and other forums) that exemplify different aspects of the CS&Law scope and note that the scope is expected to evolve as the symposium and the community grow and change. To round out our systematization of the still nascent research area, we also dis…

#ps3
I got to the syscon using my brothers win-pc ( coudnt auth or get the right com port addres on my linux system).
The system has errors related to RSX and i hope not also CELL, since error 3034 is mostly RSX related, but error 4422 on forums can be either CELL or RSX.
Either way if anyone will find useful my syscon log ill post it here:
Communication OK!
>$: au…

"The #cloud isn’t your friend. It’s a business. And when their business needs conflict with your data’s existence, guess which one wins?"
"I wasn’t alone in being targeted by AWS—especially #MENA. Hundreds of Reddit threads, websites, forums, all telling similar stories."
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There is a well known bug with Wayland & SDDM on FreeBSD KDE: Ctrl C by keypress abruptly throws you out of your Wayland session. Two things to add to that:
First: KDE and FreeBSD devs are actively looking for FreeBSD help in this, bcs the regular systemd type of logs are obviously not available here for bug tracing. If you can help, please do!
Second: Found a great solutions in the FreeBSD forums. It's a bit hidden in the threads so for clarity's sake:
I disab…

Here are some details of the new #logseq DB variant (currently in alpha):
https://discuss.logseq.com/t/logseq-db-unofficial-faq/32508
TL;DR:
- you can't edit the …

Towards Simulating Social Influence Dynamics with LLM-based Multi-agents
Hsien-Tsung Lin, Pei-Cing Huang, Chan-Tung Ku, Chan Hsu, Pei-Xuan Shieh, Yihuang Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22467

Towards Simulating Social Influence Dynamics with LLM-based Multi-agents
Recent advancements in Large Language Models offer promising capabilities to simulate complex human social interactions. We investigate whether LLM-based multi-agent simulations can reproduce core human social dynamics observed in online forums. We evaluate conformity dynamics, group polarization, and fragmentation across different model scales and reasoning capabilities using a structured simulation framework. Our findings indicate that smaller models exhibit higher conformity rates, whereas m…

@… @… a correction to the article:

When Shared Worlds Break: Demystifying Defects in Multi-User Extended Reality Software Systems
Shuqing Li, Chenran Zhang, Binchang Li, Cuiyun Gao, Michael R. Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01182

When Shared Worlds Break: Demystifying Defects in Multi-User Extended Reality Software Systems
Multi-user Extended Reality (XR) systems enable transformative shared experiences but introduce unique software defects that compromise user experience. Understanding software defects in multi-user XR systems is crucial for enhancing system reliability, yet remains underexplored. To fill the gap, this paper presents the first large-scale empirical study of multi-user XR defects, analyzing 2,649 real-world bug reports from diverse sources, including developer forums, GitHub repositories, and app…

MHINDR - a DSM5 based mental health diagnosis and recommendation framework using LLM
Vaishali Agarwal, Sachin Thukral, Arnab Chatterjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25992 https://…

MHINDR - a DSM5 based mental health diagnosis and recommendation framework using LLM
Mental health forums offer valuable insights into psychological issues, stressors, and potential solutions. We propose MHINDR, a large language model (LLM) based framework integrated with DSM-5 criteria to analyze user-generated text, dignose mental health conditions, and generate personalized interventions and insights for mental health practitioners. Our approach emphasizes on the extraction of temporal information for accurate diagnosis and symptom progression tracking, together with psychol…