@NFL@darktundra.xyzCowboys free agency: Why Brandon Aubrey's reported $10 million asking price is absurd but reasonable
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-free-agency-brandon-aubrey-…
@davej@dice.campOh, FFS. More than 80 gay men were murdered by youth gangs in #Sydney—that we know about—between 1970 and 2010. The actual number is probably far higher.
This isn’t a new phenomenon by any stretch. Only the perpetrators’ faces have changed.
Isn’t it about time #NSW took anti-
@cdarwin@c.imOn the day of Abrego's indictment,
the district's criminal division chief Ben Schrader resigned.
We just learned he wrote a memo explaining why he thought Abrego shouldn't have been charged.
He wanted the memo forwarded to "D.C."
It never was, per testimony.
https://www…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems1. Plan going to Opole, via Kościan.
2. When you enter the train to Kościan, you discover that the change to Opole is delayed 15 minutes already. Consider changing in Leszno instead; if the delay increases, you'd have more options there.
3. Discover that there aren't any more options in Leszno today. Your change is delayed 30 minutes already. Return the reservations, and take one the other way, to Poznań instead.
4. Train station in Kościan. The displays aren't showing any delays, trains are announced normally. Tell people about the delays, so they won't stand in the -10°C waiting for the train to arrive.
5. Take the train to Poznań, and try to figure out what to do next.
6. Discover that the only reasonable choice going forward is Inowrocław: no delays and good return connection. It's the same train, so take another reservation. Your current seat is already taken there, so move elsewhere.
7. Your train should be followed by another one in the same direction, that departs from Poznań 6 minutes later. However, your train ends up waiting for another delayed train, so the other train goes first. The delay further increases as your train needs to slow down after the other train.
8. Reach Inowrocław 10 minutes later. That's not a problem, since you didn't have enough to see for all the time there anyway.
9. Discover that the town is more interesting than you thought, and you'd use more time.
10. When you almost get to the station, discover that your train is 10 minutes late. Not that you have any use for that time at this point.
11. When you're at the station, the train keeps increasing delay while waiting at the previous station, in Bydgoszcz. The station displays are completely useless, as they show only a random subset of regional trains, for no apparent reason. The announcements include all trains, but are rarely given.
12. The delay keeps increasing. Start thinking about getting a reservation for the next train to Poznań, in case it arrived first. You can't return the reservation after the planned departure time, and you can't have two reservations simultaneously, so reserve the seat from Mogilno, the next station.
13. The next train arrives first. While on board, you discover that you're not going to have any train home for 1.5 hr. Take another seat reservation to Leszno, where you can change into a suburban train and get home 15 minutes earlier than from Poznań. This time, your seat is still free.
14. The train departs 15 minutes delayed from Poznań. After all, you're changing trains in Kościan.
So I was going to go south, to Opole, via Kościan. Instead, I've ended up slingshotting north to Inowrocław, and getting back home via the same train as if I were in Opole.
#rail
@NFL@darktundra.xyzMike Evans' agent: Longtime Buccaneers WR 'wants to look at all 32 teams' in free agency https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-evans-agent-longtime-buccaneers-wr-wants-to-look-at-all-32-teams-in-free-agency
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Predicted to Land 4-Time Pro Bowl Pass-Rusher in NFL Free Agency https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-predicted-to-land-4-time-pro-bowl-pass-rusher-in-nfl-free-agency
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterOver on the west coast of America they're probably going to bed about now. And it's still a couple of hours before the east coast wakes up for their brekkie.
So we have our usual glorious few hours of US-free posting time on Fedi. And if any one of you lot even so much as MENTIONS turkeys, I'll be very upset.
Yes, even you over there. Just don't.
@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizza"AI and facial recognition to be rolled out as Britain’s ‘broken’ policing system faces sweeping reforms"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-overhaul-shabana-mahmood-home-office-ai-b2907845.html
@al3x@hachyderm.io@… I am looking at river with mostly news and I don’t see any difference in how items are displayed.
My understanding was that by the time they age, items start to fade away being displayed more and more like those marked as read and then vanish completely.
Have I misunderstood the mechanics? (Sorry for bugging you with this question. I guess I’m still super excited for having a guilt-free behave-like-I-used RSS reader)
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialAn extremely simple syllogism, for which the evidence is ample and has been easily available for over a decade:
ICE : white people in Minneapolis ::
regular police : Black people everywhere in America
If you're saying "Abolish ICE" right now (as you should be) but you're hesitant to say "Abolish the police" then you're okay with the brutality as long as it's reinforcing the racial hierarchy, and that's not a good look.
I understand that "Abolish the police" is a scary thing to think about if *your* experience has been that they keep you safe, but recognize how much of that is myth vs reality, e.g. have you ever personally had a positive interaction with police, or do those all happen in stories? Also, even if they do keep you safe, is it worth it if the cost is brutality to the marginalized? (No, it's not.)
At minimum we can see the following behaviors on both sides of the syllogism:
- retaliation for legally "protected" defiance or even just observation
- random killings, with mostly-nonexistent repercussions for the officers involved
- regular widespread harassment & surveillance
-more that I don't have time to list right now. Feel free to reply with your own examples.
#AbolishICE #AbolishThePolice
@arXiv_csGR_bot@mastoxiv.pageLoD-Structured 3D Gaussian Splatting for Streaming Video Reconstruction
Xinhui Liu, Can Wang, Lei Liu, Zhenghao Chen, Wei Jiang, Wei Wang, Dong Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18475 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.18475 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.18475
arXiv:2601.18475v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Free-Viewpoint Video (FVV) reconstruction enables photorealistic and interactive 3D scene visualization; however, real-time streaming is often bottlenecked by sparse-view inputs, prohibitive training costs, and bandwidth constraints. While recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has advanced FVV due to its superior rendering speed, Streaming Free-Viewpoint Video (SFVV) introduces additional demands for rapid optimization, high-fidelity reconstruction under sparse constraints, and minimal storage footprints. To bridge this gap, we propose StreamLoD-GS, an LoD-based Gaussian Splatting framework designed specifically for SFVV. Our approach integrates three core innovations: 1) an Anchor- and Octree-based LoD-structured 3DGS with a hierarchical Gaussian dropout technique to ensure efficient and stable optimization while maintaining high-quality rendering; 2) a GMM-based motion partitioning mechanism that separates dynamic and static content, refining dynamic regions while preserving background stability; and 3) a quantized residual refinement framework that significantly reduces storage requirements without compromising visual fidelity. Extensive experiments demonstrate that StreamLoD-GS achieves competitive or state-of-the-art performance in terms of quality, efficiency, and storage.
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@hex@kolektiva.socialThis is as good a time as any for a thought experiment.
You're in Nazi Germany. You know about the camps, you know what they do, you see the ash fall, you smell it. People who resist alone are killed, some are sent to the camps too. You're afraid to even talk to people about it for fear that they'll turn you in.
You think back to when the camps were being built. You had all the warning signs, but you didn't know how to interpret them. You could believe it would happen. You thought you'd have a chance to vote him out. You thought there might be another way. You thought maybe things would turn out differently if you just sat tight, kept your head down, kept yourself safe.
You see a family being dragged from their home. You know they will be killed. You want to fight, not just for them but for yourself. You opposed Hitler, and at any point you know you could be on the list... Even if you do nothing.
You wish you could rise up, shoot the SS, open the gates, fight it all. You know you aren't alone, but you don't know how to connect with the people who want the same thing.
Using the knowledge we have now, what should you have done in the preceding months and years to connect, to build a community that would open up all paths of resistance?
There were people who resisted. We know it wasn't enough.
Gun laws in Nazi Germany were very similar to US laws in that Nazis were largely free to own guns and everyone else was not. Unlike the US, where "others" have historically controlled using the fear that they might be randomly executed, Germany did codify it. Red flag laws were one more step in the US towards that codification, and there will be more.
When Nazis were taking away those guns, the social networks didn't exist to make resistance possible for most folks. But some Jews were able to resist.
It wasn't the guns that made the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising possible, though they definitely helped. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was made possible by labor organizing in the precessing years.
If there were more uprisings like that, the Holocaust could have been stopped if not prevented. Social networks make resistance possible. Guns are only useful tools to resist authoritarianism *after* you build a community able to support that resistance, and they are only one of many tools made useful by that community.
Getting guns is easy, and not always necessary. Building community is hard. Guns won't keep you safe. Community will.
Single acts of resistance may slow the machine down, but to actually bring down a monster you need to be able to attack more than once. You need a society of resistance. If you are afraid now, build that. Talk to people while it's still safe to do so. Ask them where their red line is. Talk to neighbors. Figure out your network.
Take the steps you need now to keep your neighbors safe, to keep yourself safe.
#USPol
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukGot my mum a Motorola G06 as a new 4G phone; cleared the front screen down to just time, phone, contacts and camera. Fingerprint unlock (done at the power switch) doesn't seem reliable; face unlock works.
Not bad for the £64 tesco are charging SIM-Free,
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaRE: https://mastodon.social/@anearthboundmisfit/115955923962942061
I love nature, I spend lots of my personal free time among it! ❤❤
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA list of times the Trump administration tested the limits of the First Amendment during his second term, stoking alarm among civil rights experts and critics (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/politics/free-speech-trump-timeline-vis
@hakona@im.alstadheim.no@… I assume you know about this https://www.threads.com/@maddowshow/post/DSnrGV4FvtV . I'm lost for words.
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgMoment of Gratitude, this time for GitHub.com
I have been having fun with claude-code and have been using github in ways I did not know existed (like hosting docker images), and so easy! (and, I think, for free)
Thank you GitHub!
https://brewster.kahle.org/2026/02/01…
@scott@carfree.cityThis greenish Scott agrees!
https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGreens/116108992515272064
@NFL@darktundra.xyzChiefs part ways with two-time Super Bowl champion pass rusher Michael Danna ahead of free agency
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-part-ways-with-two-time-sup…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzGiants, Lions, Raiders get good news from latest Ravens free-agent rumor https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/detroit-lions/news/giants-lions-raiders-good-news-latest-ravens-free-agent-rumor/14bd00e7fb45af…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzZach Ertz plans to play in 2026, per report: Landing spots for three-time Pro Bowler coming off torn ACL
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/zach-ertz-free-agent-return-landing-spots/
@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizzaWhile it is fun having the progress shown as 3500 / 13488 with The Complete Wheel of Time ebook, I wanted to enjoy the individual covers as well.
Luckily Calibre with the epub-split plugin made that rather painless, just some metadata adjustments.
Also kudos to TOR publishing for intentionally providing a DRM-free epub, making this possible (without having to remove it beforehand)
#book
@rperezrosario@mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@rperezrosario/115692585722590533
My poll on the form-factor of devices most used by respondents revealed that most of them prefer a desktop or laptop (55%) when computing in their free time. 43% reported they prefer the f…
@jake4480@c.imWe did a zine! @… had this awesome idea and pulled a bunch of us together. We present to you Swampgas #1 for winter 2025 - just in time for the solstice. It's got metal, fantasy, art, photography, poetry, stories, plus music reviews and previews.
Free at itch:
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI’ve felt for a decade like I’m a fool for deploying on either self-managed Linux VMs or (for small projects) free tier Heroku, and now I feel like I was accidentally doing it the smart way the whole time and didn’t know it.
…or maybe I’m still in the familiarity bias phase of learning a new tool?
@frankel@mastodon.topI Love You, #Redis, But I’m Leaving You for #SolidQueue
https://www.simplethread.com/redis-solidqueue/…
@pre@boing.worldLook out everyone, Zack and the Evil Green Menace are going to get you and give you free cocaine and cannabis. They're going to ban your landlord and allow refugees to earn a wage and tax you and they might even stop funding radical genocidal war in the middle east.
Vote carefully man! You should be scared!
-- The entire press.
Our media are entirely hilarious, threaten me with a good time.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWarning: kissing fascist ass may result in liquid glass.
So my phone tricked me into updating to iOS 26 (nice one, asshats). And wow: it really is a case study in form over function. Gratuitous, meaningless aesthetics and motion. Decoration, not design. “Look what I can do!”
Oh well, if it gets me using my phone less, that’s a good thing, I guess.
But the next time you hear someone from Apple talking about design, please feel free to laugh in their damn faces. What a sad j…
@hex@kolektiva.socialEverything I've written is my own, made by hand. I have used an LLM in this case, not to generate the text but to verify the payload. ;)
As usual, feedback is welcome. I have ADHD, mild dyslexia, and not a lot of free time. Grammar and spelling, especially typo checking, is always very much appreciated.
Edit:
There may be a few more mistakes than normal since I've kind of rushed it to hit while it's especially relevant.
Also... Open to formatting notes. I rushed that a bit too.
@timbray@cosocial.caEd Zitron offers 15K words on whether Nvidia is like Enron (or several other famous fraudsters) or not. It's amusing and erudite and most people just won't have time to plow through it. Which is a pity, because 80% of the way through there’s a section called:
“Is NVIDIA Shipping Millions Of GPUs And Putting Them In Warehouses? Where Are The 6 Million Shipped Blackwell GPUs?”
His findings are absolutely shocking. Tl;dr: That headline just above.
@neverpanic@chaos.socialWent for another training flight today, ran into an examiner by pure chance after landing, he had time, I had time, we could shuffle things around to free up a plane. An hour later, my single engine piston (land) class rating is restored. Yay!
#aviation #generalaviation
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaGetting more and more burned out and tired of school. I'm way too far in to give up now, but man sometimes I just really hate spending so much of my free time on this. I really hate that so many of my CS courses seem to be geared around exactly the type of dictate development that I have zero interest in - using some bloated web framework that's basically a black box to implement a list of features for a commercial oriented app I'd have zero interest in using or working on in the…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRavens TE Isaiah Likely on impending free agency: Baltimore is home but business is business https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-te-isaiah-likely-on-impending-free-agency-baltimore-is-home-but-business-is-business
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.usAGAS echo – A New Time
https://www.zenapolae.com/zen325
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2026/02/10/a
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIf you need something and Black Friday is the only time you can afford it or the only time you think it’s worth the price—please go ahead and buy it.
Doubly so if it’s something that helps you for a disability or maybe something that helps you free up time in your life for fun things.
It’s not your fault that we live in a capitalist society.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/politics/trump-fraudster-pardon.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p72#a260116p72
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzNFL has a short break before it's time for the combine, free agency and the draft https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/nfl-has-a-short-break-before-its-time-for-the-combine-free-agency-and-the-draft
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageReplaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[2/5]:
- The Diffusion Duality
Sahoo, Deschenaux, Gokaslan, Wang, Chiu, Kuleshov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10892 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114675526577078472
- Multimodal Representation Learning and Fusion
Jin, Ge, Xie, Luo, Song, Bi, Liang, Guan, Yeong, Song, Hao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20494 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114749113025183688
- The kernel of graph indices for vector search
Mariano Tepper, Ted Willke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20584 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114749118923266356
- OptScale: Probabilistic Optimality for Inference-time Scaling
Youkang Wang, Jian Wang, Rubing Chen, Xiao-Yong Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22376 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114771735361664528
- Boosting Revisited: Benchmarking and Advancing LP-Based Ensemble Methods
Fabian Akkerman, Julien Ferry, Christian Artigues, Emmanuel Hebrard, Thibaut Vidal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18242 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114913322736512937
- MolMark: Safeguarding Molecular Structures through Learnable Atom-Level Watermarking
Runwen Hu, Peilin Chen, Keyan Ding, Shiqi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17702 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115095014405732247
- Dual-Distilled Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Adaptive Margins for Trainable Global Protot...
Fatema Siddika, Md Anwar Hossen, Wensheng Zhang, Anuj Sharma, Juan Pablo Mu\~noz, Ali Jannesari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19009 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115100269482762688
- STDiff: A State Transition Diffusion Framework for Time Series Imputation in Industrial Systems
Gary Simethy, Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo, Petar Durdevic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19011 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115100270137397046
- EEGDM: Learning EEG Representation with Latent Diffusion Model
Shaocong Wang, Tong Liu, Yihan Li, Ming Li, Kairui Wen, Pei Yang, Wenqi Ji, Minjing Yu, Yong-Jin Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20705 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115111565155687451
- Data-Free Continual Learning of Server Models in Model-Heterogeneous Cloud-Device Collaboration
Xiao Zhang, Zengzhe Chen, Yuan Yuan, Yifei Zou, Fuzhen Zhuang, Wenyu Jiao, Yuke Wang, Dongxiao Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25977 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115298721327100391
- Fine-Tuning Masked Diffusion for Provable Self-Correction
Jaeyeon Kim, Seunggeun Kim, Taekyun Lee, David Z. Pan, Hyeji Kim, Sham Kakade, Sitan Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01384 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115309690976554356
- A Generic Machine Learning Framework for Radio Frequency Fingerprinting
Alex Hiles, Bashar I. Ahmad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09775 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115372387779061015
- ASecond-Order SpikingSSM for Wearables
Kartikay Agrawal, Abhijeet Vikram, Vedant Sharma, Vaishnavi Nagabhushana, Ayon Borthakur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14386 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115389079527543821
- Utility-Diversity Aware Online Batch Selection for LLM Supervised Fine-tuning
Heming Zou, Yixiu Mao, Yun Qu, Qi Wang, Xiangyang Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16882 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115412243355962887
- Seeing Structural Failure Before it Happens: An Image-Based Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN...
Omer Jauhar Khan, Sudais Khan, Hafeez Anwar, Shahzeb Khan, Shams Ul Arifeen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23117 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115451891042176876
- Training Deep Physics-Informed Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Spyros Rigas, Fotios Anagnostopoulos, Michalis Papachristou, Georgios Alexandridis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23501 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115451942159737549
- Semi-Supervised Preference Optimization with Limited Feedback
Seonggyun Lee, Sungjun Lim, Seojin Park, Soeun Cheon, Kyungwoo Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00040 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115490555013124989
- Towards Causal Market Simulators
Dennis Thumm, Luis Ontaneda Mijares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04469 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115507943827841017
- Incremental Generation is Necessary and Sufficient for Universality in Flow-Based Modelling
Hossein Rouhvarzi, Anastasis Kratsios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09902 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115547587245365920
- Optimizing Mixture of Block Attention
Guangxuan Xiao, Junxian Guo, Kasra Mazaheri, Song Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11571 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115564541392410174
- Assessing Automated Fact-Checking for Medical LLM Responses with Knowledge Graphs
Shasha Zhou, Mingyu Huang, Jack Cole, Charles Britton, Ming Yin, Jan Wolber, Ke Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12817 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115570877730326947
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@PaulWermer@sfba.socialSan Francisco's leaders say we need to act on #climate. So why does #MayorLurie propose gutting San Francisco Environment's climate team? Please tell the SF Supervisors not to do foolhardy cost-cutting - the climate work is URGENT. Here's an explainer and draft letter to send:
@paulwermer@sfba.socialSan Francisco's leaders say we need to act on #climate. So why does #MayorLurie propose gutting San Francisco Environment's climate team? Please tell the SF Supervisors not to do foolhardy cost-cutting - the climate work is URGENT. Here's an explainer and draft letter to send:
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPEN America elects novelist Dinaw Mengestu as president, as the organization navigates free speech challenges across the US and criticism of its Gaza response (Jennifer Schuessler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/arts/dinaw-mengestu-pen…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeLooks like I'm going to be attending HARRIS in Bochum again this year. Any German folks interested in a meetup somewhere in the greater Bochum / Cologne / Dusseldorf / Dortmund region?
Current itinerary:
* Sat Mar 21: land DUS around dinner time, probably will be jetlagged and not want to stay out late
* Sun Mar 22: no plans, able to meet up anywhere within reasonable train range of Bochum
* Mon Mar 23: open in the morning, conference trainings start 13:00, free afte…
@cdarwin@c.imStudent loan debt tops $1.6 trillion
The average tuition has doubled in the past 30 years.
At the same time, new federal caps on how much parents can borrow for college placing higher education further out of reach for some families.
Against that backdrop, a growing number of schools are making college more affordable
by providing free tuition to undergraduate students from low- and middle-income families.
The movement dates back 20 years but has gained momen…
@arXiv_csDS_bot@mastoxiv.pageFanciful Figurines flip Free Flood-It -- Polynomial-Time Miniature Painting on Co-gem-free Graphs
Christian Rosenke, Mark Scheibner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00690 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00690 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.00690
arXiv:2602.00690v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Inspired by the eponymous hobby, we introduce Miniature Painting as the computational problem to paint a given graph $G=(V,E)$ according to a prescribed template $t \colon V \rightarrow C$, which assigns colors $C$ to the vertices of $G$. In this setting, the goal is to realize the template using a shortest possible sequence of brush strokes, where each stroke overwrites a connected vertex subset with a color in $C$. We show that this problem is equivalent to a reversal of the well-studied Free Flood-It game, in which a colored graph is decolored into a single color using as few moves as possible. This equivalence allows known complexity results for Free Flood-It to be transferred directly to Miniature Painting, including NP-hardness under severe structural restrictions, such as when $G$ is a grid, a tree, or a split graph. Our main contribution is a polynomial-time algorithm for Miniature Painting on graphs that are free of induced co-gems, a graph class that strictly generalizes cographs. As a direct consequence, Free Flood-It is also polynomial-time solvable on co-gem-free graphs, independent of the initial coloring.
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@castarco@hachyderm.ioWe are cooked.
We were always a problem for the ones above: we had the opportunity to enjoy high levels of education, access to relatively free & unpolluted knowledge, and welfare systems that worked relatively well for at least half of our lifes.
That was unacceptable, and "AI" is here to fix that.
Big Tech and their fascist friends have convinced many among our younger generations about the idea that "AI" (in its current form) is cool, amazing, necessary, and unstoppable.
We can resist all we want, except it's not our resistance that matters, but the resistance of the younger ones who haven't finished their formal studies yet.
Mozilla's CEO knows it... so he'll happily contribute to dumb us down as much as possible (before anyone has time to react) to ensure that we don't bother ever again the fragile sensibilites of his friends, our capitalist overlords.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaHey, I’m your friendly neighborhood leftwing extremist; anarcho-syndicalist, anti-imperialist, non-binary mess (they/them, bi as fuck) from Bergen, Norway.
I overthrow capitalism in my free time because states are silly, bread is for the people, trans rights are sacred, and Thinkpads reign supreme 4eva, lol!! 🏳️⚧️💻
#Anarchism
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialWhen you say "we don't need user research, I already know what users want" this is what you look like
#ux #UXDesign #userresearch
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon partners with Harris Farm to offer fresh food delivery in Australia for the first time, starting in inner Sydney, free for Prime members on AU$100 orders (Carrie LaFrenz/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/companies/retail/amazo…
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@zachleat@zachleat.com@… I wish I had the free time this would require 😅
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngJust this one trick... to massively inflate the number of Copilot users... Just rename the entire MS Office suite into Copilot
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@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza‘Only Embrace’ was actually called ‘Only Envelope’ for the longest time, partly because along with the emotional layer I was interested in breaking free of any use of percussion - rather implying rhythm through envelopes programmed into the patches (along with musical use of shifting compression flaring in response to these, and then saturation that would “bloom” out in various M/S configurations.)
@marcel@waldvogel.familySo, #Trump is threatening people that do not like hate speech, claiming this is #censorship. But at the same time, he is restricting the rights to free speech for anyone who doesn't agree 120% with his opinion.
Here's a great Guest Essay by Nora Benavidez in the
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Predicted to Make Near-Record Move on 2-Time All-Pro https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-predicted-to-make-near-record-move-on-2-time-all-pro/
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgHey #GearSquad, anyone know of a device/box for the pedalboard that will listen to ambient stage noise and convert it to tap tempo output? Free The Tone's Flight Time delay could do this...
#guitar #GuitarPedal
@pbloem@sigmoid.socialme: Finally, some free time. Let's quickly get some things off my to-do list.
technology: Sounds like somebody needs another Mysterious Problem to solve.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWith Mike Evans declining retirement, where do he and the Bucs stand? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47966610/tampa-bay-buccaneers-wr-mike-evans-free-agent-2026
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialMy #AmazonEcho uses a yellow ring notification to try a free #AlexaPlus trial every couple days, even though I say no every time. Decided to try saying yes, and then immediately canceling. Will they get the message that I don’t want it?
@relcfp@mastodon.socialOnline Symposium on Culture
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@detondev@social.linux.pizzaKimi Onoda, Japan's new Minister of State for Economic Security, is a 43 year old half-Irish ex-game industry PR femcel with an extensive history of defending her exclusive attraction to anime boys on twitter
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Archie Bell & the Drells:
🎵 Everybody Have a Good Time
#ArchieBell #theDrells
https://billymellow.bandcamp.com/track/free-everybody-have-a-good-time-billy-mellow-edit
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe National Association of Broadcasters launches a campaign to support live sports on free broadcast channels as more big games move to streaming services (George Winslow/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/platform/broadcast/n…
@aardrian@toot.cafeMy StoryGraph 2025 reading wrap-up was generated two hours before the new year and one hour before I finished another book — so it’s not reflected in the stats.
Anyway if you’re curious where I spend my free time:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/wrap-up/2025/aardrian
@publicvoit@graz.social"I'm an average user, so I don't need all the options and apps the programme has to offer. But, to be honest, #Microsoft is making it increasingly attractive to switch. Now that the company is putting #AI in everything, everything is becoming more annoying to use."
Can Dutch
@raiders@darktundra.xyz @cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Named Best Fit for Two-Time 1,000-Yard Rusher in NFL Free Agency https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-named-best-fit-for-two-time-1-000-yard-rusher-in-nfl-free-agency
@patrick_townsend@infosec.exchangeHave you downloaded Signal and Proton Mail yet? Now is the time.
Signal and Proton Mail won’t go away, but they might be removed from the Apple and Google stores putting them out of reach for most users. Remember ICEBlock? It can happen. Download Signal and Proton Mail today and ask your friends to do the same. Free installation and configuration guides here:
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@chiraag@mastodon.onlineI was unreasonably giddy when I stumbled across the real-time discussion of implementation of a feature I use regularly in Shotcut — the proposal, the math, the initial implementation, and then how it evolved into the feature I use.
There's something so cool about seeing people nerd out about stuff and seeing development happen in the open.
@Richard@worklifepsych.socialIf you're interested in learning about the many myths about leaders and leadership that persist despite the evidence, join me for a free webinar at 12pm UK time today.
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@rperezrosario@mastodon.socialWhich one do you use the most, while not at work, but in your free personal time?
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNetflix wins rights to a FIFA soccer simulation game, developed by Delphi Interactive and set for release ahead of the 2026 World Cup, for free to Netflix users (Laura Cress/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93w7dp42z2o
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Insider Makes Bold Prediction for Spending in NFL Free Agency https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-insider-bold-prediction-spending-nfl-free-agency
@cdarwin@c.imIn 2019, Russia signaled that it was willing to allow the United States to act as it pleased in Venezuela,
in exchange for Washington giving the Kremlin a free hand in Ukraine,
according to Congressional testimony from Fiona Hill,
who ran Russian and European affairs on the National Security Council during the first Trump administration.
The Russians “were signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap arrangement between Venezuela and…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialOnline Symposium on Culture https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142271/online-symposium-culture
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSo I've finished #XenobladeChronicles 3D, and I recommend it. Took me a while (I don't have much free time, you know), but it was worth it.
However, I have to say it's hard to finish it in satisfactory manner without helping yourself with a walkthrough/wiki. To get many of the side quests, you have to find the right NPCs, and they tend to appear at different places at different hours, and sometimes you need to "talk" to some other NPCs first.
#games
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza📌 Pinned Post
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I talk allot about free software, and I use Secureblue, GrapheneOS and Debian as part of my software setup. I also spend a lot of time experimenting with Linux, especially Debian Testing/Sid, GNOME, and KDE.
As an …
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social @deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"One workload I now support would cost an estimated £6000 per month to run on one of the large cloud providers, which would allow me to purchase the actual hardware in use four times over every year. But “spinning up an instance” today using free credits means you can worry about that cost later, whereas ordering a box from Dell means waiting two to three business days by which time the hackathon is over."
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaFor the last few days i was avoiding the online as much as i could on a suicidal episode, self isolating from the noise of the world. Yet paradoxically to some, the best thing to happen during this time and the main reason im back so soon was listening to almost nothing but cassettes from the NOISE-ARCH archive. tap in.
https://archive.org…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzCowboys owner Jerry Jones looks forward to keeping WR George Pickens in Dallas 'a long time' https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-owner-jerry-jones-looks-forward-to-keeping-wr-george-pickens-in-dallas-a-long-time
@cdarwin@c.imThink of this as a good place to start
— for you and your loved ones
— to expand your knowledge of indie news outlets
who are more deserving of your time and money than corporate, billionaire-owned media.
And feel free to add your suggestions in the comments.
https://www.thehandbaske…
@rperezrosario@mastodon.socialOut of the following operating systems, which one do you use the most, not at work, but in your free personal time?
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWorked on some more #Gentoo global #jobserver goodies today.
Firstly, Portage jobserver support patch: #PyTest jobs will also be counted towards total job count.
Again, it's not a perfect solution, but it works reasonably. The plugin still starts -n jobs as specified by the arguments, but it acquired job tokens prior to executing every test, therefore delaying actual testing until tokens are available. It doesn't seem to cause noticeable overhead either.
@cdarwin@c.imThink of this as a good place to start
— for you and your loved ones
— to expand your knowledge of indie news outlets
who are more deserving of your time and money than corporate, billionaire-owned media.
And feel free to add your suggestions in the comments.
https://www.thehandbask…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSeahawks to hold Super Bowl championship parade Wednesday: What you need to know https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7033602/2026/02/09/seahawks-super-bowl-60-parade-time-location-details/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmpere Analysis: UK streaming subscribers on ad-supported tiers will reach 26.5M by the end of 2025, surpassing the 23.1M ad-free subscribers for the first time (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/26/t…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaRE: https://kolektiva.social/@BigTittyBimbo/115667885319262803
I'm ashamed that I've let corporate giants profit from my watch time on platforms like Twitch.
Even so, I keep using it because they’ve hooked me with free in-game drops yo…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Kicker Brandon Aubrey Sends Message to Fans on His Cowboys Future https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brandon-aubrey-future-free-agent/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzRecent talk about George Pickens is extremely concerning https://insidethestar.com/recent-talk-about-george-pickens-is-extremely-concerning
@NFL@darktundra.xyz10 NFL veterans who could unexpectedly be on the move this offseason: Surprise cut, trade candidates https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47201187/2026-nfl-offseason-predictions-surprise-candidates-cuts-free-agents-t…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzSuper Bowl Favorite Urged to Make ‘Big Time’ Move for Cowboys WR George Pickens https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/big-time-move-broncos-george-pickens/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRavens owner wants new Lamar pact done by March https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47602451/ravens-owner-bisciotti-wants-new-pact-jackson-march
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys shouldn't give George Pickens blockbuster deal, 3x Super Bowl champ says https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-shouldnt-give-george-pickens-blockbuster-deal-3x-super-bowl-champ-says<…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBengals' Trey Hendrickson opts for surgery, likely to end season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6873762/2025/12/08/trey-hendrickson-core-muscle-surgery-bengals/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys shouldn't give George Pickens blockbuster deal, 3x Super Bowl champ says https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-shouldnt-give-george-pickens-blockbuster-deal-3x-super-bowl-champ-says<…
