@prachisrivas@masto.aiGood ideas and good research take years to incubate, grow, and realise.
You need *time*.
Time to think, to try, to talk, to throw up and out 'silly' ideas and theories - some which aren't so silly in the end - to be bored, to revisit, to connect.
"We are witnessing the dismantling of a system that once made space for pure curiosity."
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at seven UX issues in the Fediverse web experience, including complex onboarding, the lack of a dedicated DM UI wrapper, and fragmented user discovery (Tim Chambers)
https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgIt did feel good to be invited to examine a PhD by the same University of Plymouth dept where I more or less failed my undergrad degree (scraped a BSc without honours after spending too much time in the computer labs instead of going to lectures..)
@n8foo@macaw.socialThe high precision time nuts, a.k.a. the “Time Lords” had a pretty good demonstration at #Hamvention. They built an LLM that had ingested 10 years of papers and mailing lists and could answer questions reliably
@jredlund@social.linux.pizzaSynth Riff Morning Jams
This series of jams will start with a synth riff or figure of some kind. This time it is a Zebra 2 patch called "HS Rhode Lady." I put bass on with my Rondo Douglass Violin bass and discovered that the bridge pickup is dead. I will have to take that apart to see what is going on. Fortunately, the neck pickup sounds good.
@fell@ma.fellr.netI'm thinking of starting a YouTube (& PeerTube) channel about Linux, but primarily aimed at bloody beginners.
There are already some good ones, but they are trying to reach a broader audience and get a little too technical sometimes.
Let's be honest, though: I ain't got no time for that.
#Linux
@marcus@hachyderm.ioGot Ori and the will of the wisps as part of a humble bundle a couple of weeks back. Such a good game. Runs great on the steamdeck as well. Apparently I'm 31% through it. Should be done with it by the time silksong is out. Just hope this rumor is right. 😇 https://fandomwire.com/did-we-just-get-a-hollow-knight-silksong-release-window-major-leak-says-yes/
@CondeChocula@social.linux.pizza.: Resident Evil: Outbreak :.
Completed!!🏆
This game is very weird and unique at the same time. Its gameplay is different to others games from the saga and obviously its goal is playing it on-line cause the NPC controlled by AI system is so awful and frustrating.
But well is a good game despite all.
PD: In my honest opinion the best level is the last one. Is very long than the others, intense and filled of sort of monsters.
@adamhotep@infosec.exchangessh never@ansi.rya.nc for a good time (no pw needed)
@… had some fun with colors on this one
@bourgwick@heads.socialpeace to viv savage/david kaff. have a good time all the time. https://www.jambase.com/article/david-kaffinetti-viv-savage-spinal-tap-obituary
@Hans5958@mastodon.socialGoing to lament about the changes on Drive World in Roblox, because somehow they somehow do the "you get some, you lose some" updates every time.
Who thought that it is a good idea to change the trucking and delivery system? Now that all of this is replaced with the "Daniel" system (finding trailers on the wild and delivering it to a place), it is now harder to do them.
#DriveWorld
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca“A strong Europe is a very good thing”
Is not what Putin wants to hear from his puppet.
So that's good.
Time to raise the Ukraine flag!
#RussiaUkraineWar https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/114852395704727274
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgGood morning all! A rare day without any real meetings, and only one calendar entry (and that's a fun one, a networking thing to talk about how social media research can go forward in Germany). I'm not sure I can be trusted with that much freedom from time constraints #academicChatter
@muz4now@mastodon.worldWhen the day in the #RecordingStudio doesn't go as planned, it may be time to make a new plan...
Cold Vocal Comping – Scratchy, Shaky Good Sounds
#recording #singing
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyzSounds like they picked up where the Quiet American project left off. That’s a good thing! There’s a new Mirt, recorded in the mountains of Thailand, out today.
https://mastodon.scot/@brianlavelle/114853519342164455
@mlawton@mstdn.socialAs for the youth, of which I tend to think of these games as sales presentations for loans, they were good.
At 16, Ngumoha really looks like an up and comer. He's patient mostly, but quite direct as well.
I liked Nyoni last year and I liked him yesterday. He wasn't flashy, but he always made the right decision at the right time.
Stephenson was good in the middle. I think he looked a bit nervous on the ball, but made no real mistakes. Good performance.
4/n
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
SHRINKER: Good, good.
AVON: I'm glad you're pleased.
SHRINKER: I hate to waste my time.
AVON: Don't let me detain you.
SHRINKER: I'm a specialist, you see.
AVON: Oh, it's written all over you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/5…
@jerome@jasette.facil.services
@NFL@darktundra.xyzMyles Garrett on Aaron Rodgers joining AFC North: 'Good opportunity to put him in the graveyard' https://www.nfl.com/news/myles-garrett-aaron-rodgers-afc-north-good-opportunity-graveyard
@barijaona@mastodon.mgInitially published in April 2010, Steve Jobs' "Thoughts on Flash" is a good reminder that when an ecosystem claims to be "open", you have to be cautious.
Apple's ecosystem is mostly closed, but they are honest about that fact.
While many systems fighting to gain market share claim to be "open", while being little more than APIs subject to use restrictions, which can be closed further at any time.
@todbot@mastodon.social
@bici@mastodon.socialdue scudi
going rate to have good time in Venice in the 1500s
@cdarwin@c.imThe move to Windows 11 isn’t just about security updates.
It increases dependence on Microsoft through aggressive cloud integration,
forcing users to adopt Microsoft accounts and services.
It also leads to higher costs due to subscription and licensing models,
and reduces control over how your computer works and how your data is managed.
Furthermore, new hardware requirements will render millions of perfectly good PCs obsolete.
This is a turning point.
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialRaspberry Pi or Lenovo ThinkCentre M910q? (just saw a used Lenovo for a good price). The Lenovo is ways more powerful but maybe a bit of hazle to install Linux 🤔
Or just none of them and spend the time reading & outside?
@joergi@chaos.socialDo you know: if you don't post an image, pixelfed users will not see your post.
Time to bring back the good old transparent 1*1px gif/png
(Gif powered by #pixelfed
@brian_gettler@mas.toA song I think of every time I hear about major flooding from summer storms (as in #Montreal yesterday). The studio version's good, the live one's better.
Blue Meanies, "Pave the World" (live, 1998)
https://youtu.be/bTiRP8qZmUI
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThere are now exactly 365 posts on my blog. So, considering I've been writing it for twenty years, I have a long term average of one post every twenty days, over all that time.
Some of them are good. I'd go further. Some of them are excellent.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/
@saraislet@infosec.exchangeOne of the problems with vibe coding is that the hardest part of software engineering is not writing the code, rather it's *choosing* what to code, and designing the system (and, later on, maintaining the code/operations/etc)
The barriers and investment cost to writing code is itself a *desirable* aspect of software engineering because it forces you to make careful, good choices before you invest in building something
Because the majority of the time spent writing, say, curl,…
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.socialThis is a really good recipe. Next time, more ginger & maybe a little more cinnamon, but even exactly as written, #YUM !
https://thebusybaker.ca/ginger-molasses-cookies-better-than/
@teledyn@mstdn.caIs now a bad time to point out Canada already has a king, I've met him, he's a nice fellow as is his brother I dined with. Thing is, like most kings, he has absolutely no power whatsoever, the Commons write his speeches. It's a very good system, a living fairy tale.
In the seventies I lobbied to have PET declared king for the same reason, to get him out of politics.
@hynek@mastodon.socialIMVHO the most misunderstood part of the GoF Design Patterns book is that the good part is actually Chapter 2 ”A Case Study: Designing a Document Editor” which carries great design advice (it told us to favor composition in 1994!) & the patterns that follow are mostly a reflection of the state of C at that time.
If you skip the good part and start reading the patterns like a laundry list, it must be very confusing as to why anyone would like that book.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialMilwaukee's "The Bindery" is closing, but the message from the guy who ran things is a good one.
“If our closure feels like a loss… now’s your time to make a new version of what we started here. Now more than ever, we need print media that is truthful, joyous, emotional, smart and led by those in the margins..."
1/2
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social"HSBC becomes first UK bank to quit industry’s net zero alliance"
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/11/hsbc-leaves-net-zero-banking-alliance-climate-crisis
-> Now's a good time to leave
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialLong; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
"""
Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
"""
All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.
@crell@phpc.socialNo one is as good at making their application worse over time as the YouTube mobile app team. They never fail to impress me with how they can make the experience worse so consistently over time.
#rant
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialAfter a full day of sessions, come relax and connect with fellow attendees at our Get-Together on 16 June, generously sponsored by our partner Search Guard. Enjoy tasty food, drinks, and live music – a fantastic opportunity to meet new people and catch up with familiar faces.
Learn more: https://2025.berlinbuzzwo…
@hex@kolektiva.socialI'm not saying any new shit:
"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail, MLK
@NFL@darktundra.xyzEagles OT Lane Johnson ahead of Year 13: I feel 'young in heart, but can't ignore Father Time' https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-ot-lane-johnson-ahead-of-year-13-i-feel-young-in-heart-but-can-t-ignore-father-time
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.comGood news: We have a diagnosis for Mimi— it’s a rare parasite
Bad news: it means a cocktail of meds for the next 3 weeks, disinfecting THE ENTIRE APARTMENT, and literally washing the cat‘s ass every time she poops.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
I want a good parallel computer.
https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2025/03/21/good-parallel-computer.html
saved 2025-03-21
@arXiv_physicschemph_bot@mastoxiv.pageSelf-Powered Triboelectric Sensing System for Gait-Based Physiological and Psychological Assessment in Track and Field
Tiehuai Liang, Dongyuan Wei, Qi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09903
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Linda Yaccarino told close contacts that the return of some advertisers and X's merger with xAI, which reduced her role, made it a good time to depart (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/linda-y
@tml@urbanists.socialAh, just noticed that #Parallels Desktop on Apple Silicon Macs doesn't support #WSL2 in a Windows VM. Good that I found out in time, before deciding to go down that route for some Windows needs, that requires WSL2.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMatt Eberflus turning heads, making good moves as new DC https://insidethestar.com/matt-eberflus-turning-heads-making-good-moves-as-new-dc
@nelson@tech.lgbtCalamus 16 Who is now reading this?
A funny little poem, omitted in later editions. On the surface it's a challenge to the reader and a chance for Whitman to establish himself as self-aware. Claiming his own flaws.
But the text drips with some latent queer meaning
as if I do not secretly love strangers!
(O tenderly, a long time, and never avow it ;)
A secret love that you can never avow? Hello! At least it's tenderly and a long time.
This seems as good a time as any to link Whitman's Boys, a good recent piece considering Whitman as a queer man and what that means to us in current times. It's a nice overview of some queer theory and is even-handed.
@luana@wetdry.worldAny good resources out there on building secure (but easy for someone who’s messing with javascript/typescript for the 1st time) login systems with nodejs and postgresql?
I think I’ve seen someone on fedi mention that bcrypt wasn’t really safe a while ago?
#nodejs
@sean@scoat.esIt’s hard for me to explain just how disruptive it’s been to be without a reliable and trustworthy browser or password manager, recently.
I can’t believe it’s 2025 and I can’t find either of those, and I spend so much time trying to make this experience as good as I know it can be, from the before-everything-got-hostile times.
I’m so tired.
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaOkay. Gentoo feedback time. MocaccinoOS was okay, but systemd. And after a kernel change (to their mainline) didn't boot. Done.
Redcore has a great looking Qtile live-session. One maintainer, installer from rofi didn't start up. Done.
Calculate Linux: actually pretty good; smooth install, good documentation. OpenRC, switch to the latest kernel went well. Good. Very close to core Gentoo. But.
If so, why not pull out that Gentoo live installer, go from there, use your pr…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgWith so much hype and recent articles on "AI for coding" and how everyone not doing it is dumb maybe this is a good time to relink my article on "Vibe Coding".
Which I think focuses purely on "output" when developing or creating something is not just about the output.
https://tan…
@NathanALV@social.linux.pizzaI have been working and its been a good work experience for being my first, rather not say who my employer is but it is a nice time at the very least :blobcat:
@samir@functional.computer@… It was a really good time, and I miss having that excuse to just devour a chunk of Stilton.
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaAlright, change of plans. I _could_ implement the interrupts for the MOS6502 project...or I could start work on a Z80 emulator. I mean, the docs for the Z80 are so damned good and it would be fun to learn about another CPU. I think it's time.
https://www.zilog.com/docs/z80/um0080.pdf
@lilmikesf@c.im#SlyStone was a good lifelong pal of one of my late friends, and the stories I could tell... but we'll skip those for now :)
I was gifted a rare DVD archive of all the footage Sly had collected a couple decades ago... and I posted some excerpts online, like this performance at The Metromedia West broadcast facility in #Hollywood
@pre@boing.world
A wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
🤨🤔
Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nlMy favourite hammock for on our balcony broke and landed me on my ass, last month. Just got around to fixing it with parts of a new lashing strap that's rated for much more weight than me. The hammock itself is still in good shape, so this should last me some more years, now.
(I got the hammock from Kickstarter years ago, in a time when I was still fascinated by that website...
@ErikUden@mastodon.dethe first time i needed a lawyer an AI chatbot picked up... it was actually a good one who understood me and used my deranged ramblings of what happened, and basically filed a very complex form for me, right then and there, on the phone. It was a random law firm in cologne my legal insurance automatically forwarded me to. I was impressed, as I had not seen such a technology before, and my hatred towards AI Chatbots mainly stemmed from my experience with chatbots, and my hatred towards AI. Th…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukNintendo Switch 2 uses microSD-express, I guess this will be a good time for people to try attacking it via the PCIexpress string.
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageThis https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00486 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaThis is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because
the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it
recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated"
the airline industry. What this means for you, the consumer, is that the
airlines are no longer required to follow any rules whatsoever. They can
show snuff movies. They can charge for oxygen. They can hire pilots right
out of Vend…
@UP8@mastodon.socialThe Time Someone Plagiarized Calvin & Hobbes and Nobody Noticed or Cared
#comics
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Another day in history... another invading force from the USA. Those pesky Fenians were back on this day in 1866, and this time, the 1,800 Irish-Americans riders were repelled back to the United States after they looted and plundered around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec. Although the Fenian raids were unsuccessful, they did encourage the Canadian provinces to band together for defense, leading to our Confederation as a country.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Worst Person at the Worst Time -- The last thing I thought before I fell asleep last night was, "We are at war." (Mary L Trump/The Good in Us)
https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-worst-person-at-the-worst-time
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p49#a250623p49
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Linda Yaccarino told close contacts that the return of some advertisers and X's merger with xAI, which reduced her role, made it a good time to depart (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/…
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.socialThis was a real post on LinkedIn. It was deleted, either by LinkedIn or by the page owner. Long live Sesame Street!
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterHappy birthday America. I hope you have a good party.
But listen. You're going to be 250 years old next year. It's probably time to settle down a bit, stop being quite so obnoxious and start playing nice with others. Don't you think?
#July4th
@servelan@newsie.socialThe first time I voted for governor, I voted for Dan Evans' last term. He got Ralph Munro into government, and I voted for Ralph several times until he retired. Good governor, good SOS; Munro got us voting by mail and motor voter registration.
Ralph Munro memorial to be held in Olympia Saturday | The Olympian
https://www.theolympian.com/news/state/washington/article309558190.html
@Nefsen402@social.linux.pizzaIn light of all the Epstein discussions around US politics, I think this is a pretty good onion link: https://theonion.com/this-will-be-the-end-of-trump-s-campaign-says-increa-1819578486/ With Trump's tweet defending himself and his close circle…
@dr2chase@ohai.socialGot lots of chores done yesterday, spent this morning processing some video backlog, came across what has to be the cleanest "prepared reaction time" measurement I've got. Lest anyone driving wonder, those people on bikes that do it every day and know their traffic and know their route, they have good reaction time, 0.6 seconds from semi-surprise signal to actually decelerating the bicycle.
@compfu@mograph.socialReally cool video about why the video games industry is struggling: everybody has to compete with addictive social media for eyeballs and time. And unless whole new markets are opened up (humans are not born quickly enough) there's just no longer a way to create exponential growth. But billionaire investors need that. That's why they are rather investing in AI.
By the way, this is the same reason that cinemas have gotten in trouble (and now even streaming services...)
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeSkies cleared up just in time for solar activity to get even higher (Kp 8)...
... and the sun to come up. I grabbed a single digit number of shots but the eastern sky was already visibly bright naked eye and my long-exposure shots started getting washed out.
Forecast shows activity will be decent all day (good luck Asian/European sky watchers!) and might persist into the dark for me tonight. Fingers crossed.
@jake4480@c.im
@thek3nger@mastodon.socialApril was a bit of a mess (mentally). But I still had time to play Blue Prince and watch at Oni: Thunder God’s Tale (one of the good things buried in Netflix's catalog).
https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/changelog-april-2025/
@skaverat@skaverat.netSome people are annoyed their city doesn't repair a pedestrian bridge like they promised, and are now Guerilla-Woodcafting their own. For the second time in a month
(article in german, should be fairly well auto translatable)
https://www.
@arXiv_csSD_bot@mastoxiv.pageBenchmarking Time-localized Explanations for Audio Classification Models
Cecilia Bola\~nos, Leonardo Pepino, Martin Meza, Luciana Ferrer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04391
@lmc@mastodon.socialIt’s never good when the estimated arrival time goes to TBD. In my experience this usually means at least four hours.🤞
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSo #Gentoo #Python eclasses are pretty modern, in the sense that they tend to follow the best practices and standards, and eventually deal with deprecations. Nevertheless, they have a long history and carry quite some historical burden, particularly regarding to naming.
The key point is that the eclasses were conceived as a replacement for the old eclasses: "distutils" and "python". Hence, much like we revision ebuilds, I've named the matching eclasses "distutils-r1" and "python-r1". For consistency, I've also used the "-r1" suffix for the remaining eclasses introduced at the time: "python-any-r1", "python-single-r1" and "python-utils-r1" — even though there were never "r0"s.
It didn't take long to realize my first mistake. I've made the multi-impl eclass effectively the "main" eclass, probably largely inspired by the previous Gentoo recommendations. However, in the end I've found out that for the most use cases (i.e. where "distutils-r1" is not involved), there is no real need for multi-impl, and it makes things much harder. So if I were naming them today, I would have named it "python-multi", to indicate the specific use case — and either avoid designating a default at all, or made "python-single" the default.
What aged even worse is the "distutils-r1" eclass. Admittedly, back when it was conceived, distutils was still largely a thing — and there were people (like me) who avoided unnecessary dependency on setuptools. Of course, nowadays it has been entirely devoured by setuptools, and with #PEP517 even "setuptools" wouldn't be a good name anymore. Nowadays, people are getting confused why they are supposed to use "distutils-r1" for, say, Hatchling.
Admittedly, this is something I could have done differently — PEP517 support was a major migration, and involved an explicit switch. Instead of adding DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517 (what a self-contradictory name) variable, I could have forked the eclass. Why didn't I do that? Because there used to be a lot of code shared between the two paths. Of course, over time they diverged more, and eventually I've dropped the legacy support — but the opportunity to rename was lost.
In fact, as a semi-related fact, I've recognized another design problem with the eclass earlier — I should have gone for two eclasses rather than one: a "python-phase" eclass with generic sub-phase support, and a "distutils" (or later "python-pep517") implementing default sub-phases for the common backends. And again, this is precisely how I could have solved the code reuse problem when I introduced PEP517 support.
But then, I didn't anticipate how the eclasses would end up looking like in the end — and I can't really predict what new challenges the Python ecosystem is going to bring us. And I think it's too late to rename or split stuff — too much busywork on everyone.
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialA glimmer of good news perhaps? Trump's dictator buddy on the brink?
☑️ Putin’s regime is beginning to come apart - The Telegraph
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/putin-regime-beginning-come-apart-100221661.html
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialI see these images in my browser all the time. All sorts of them. I’ve never clicked on one, ever, but they still show up. I admit to being curious about this one, but since I don’t travel or stay in hotels anymore I don’t really need to know. Still, if anyone knows why it’s a good idea to wrap the doorknob in foil I’d appreciate the enlightenment.
@datascience@genomic.socialIts good to have many tests in your R package, but it can be a pain to debug some failing tests when it happens. {lazytest} for the rescue: only rerun the failing tests, until they pass: #RStats
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to @tiotasram@kolektiva.socialSo to summarize this whole adventure:
1. A good 45 minutes was spent to get an answer that we probably could have gotten in 5 minutes in the 2010's, or in maybe 1-2 hours in the 1990's.
2. The time investment wasn't a total waste as we learned a lot along the way that we wouldn't have in the 2010's. Most relevant is the wide range of variation (e.g. a 2x factor depending on fiber intake!).
3. Most of the search engine results were confidently wrong answers that had no relation to reality. We were lucky to get one that had real citations we could start from (but that same article included the bogus 4.91 kcal/gram number). Next time I want to know a random factoid I might just start on Google scholar.
4. At least one page we chased citations through had a note at the top about being frozen due to NIH funding issues. The digital commons is under attack on multiple fronts.
All of this is yet another reason not to support the big LLM companies.
#AI
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net @rasterweb@mastodon.socialOkay, spent a little time with Python's Matplotlib to get this graph of miles biked so far this year...
At some point I should be able to pull the data from Run Gap's SQLite database to automate this more, and get more granular.
I still need to figure out how to space the bars and some other formatting stuff but it's a good start!
#python
@cdarwin@c.imOn Thursday evening, the night of Juneteenth, Donald Trump took to Truth Social with a classic “old man yells at cloud” complaint:
Americans get too much time off work.
“Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed,” he wrote.
“It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
For good measure, he also opined that workers themselves agreed with him on this.
The presi…
@samir@functional.computerMy gut has been uncomfortable since this morning (and for some reason, I woke up at 06:00). This is *not* a good time to drink a coffee.
Someone please stop me from making a coffee.
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialJust came back from a wonderful ~4h hike in the #mangfalltal. We stopped here, had some cake and coffee in the shade and had just a good time.
#hiking #bayern
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzWhat will be the biggest Cowboys storylines during training camp? https://insidethestar.com/what-will-be-the-biggest-cowboys-storylines-during-training-camp
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeituan says daily orders on its instant delivery service surpassed 120M on July 5, setting an all-time high, with food orders accounting for 100M of them (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/artic…
@pre@boing.worldOn the 10th of December 2024 at about 4pm in the afternoon I had a sudden shivering attack. The room wasn't cold, but I was, so I took to bed and shivered on the electric blanket until I napped for a few hours.
Woke up groggy, and never got better. Feeling light headed and occasionally dizzy and half stoned all the time. Can't handle booze or dope at all any more. Doing the job feels like trying to program drunk, concentration shot and short term memory failing.
Various doctors have ordered batteries of tests and put me on drugs to reduce my blood pressure but nothing that's really helped.
They did an MRI last week. Apparently everything looks normal which is good I guess, but still leaves symptoms unexplained.
There are worse fates than feeling half drunk all the time I suppose.
Given no visible brain damage, about the best suggestion anyone has is to stay off booze and drugs (which is easy, since I can't handle them any more) and get back to meditation. If it's damage so small the MRI can't pick it up it'll get better slowly probably. 🤷
Anyway, they gave me the MRI data upon request, so I spent most of yesterday importing it into Blender and making some visualization.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: My apparently completely normal brain in an MRI selfie.
#blender #mri #selfie
@servelan@newsie.social"This is a good time to remind folks that blood transfusions aren’t the only thing that surged since Texas passed its ban: Sepsis among second trimester miscarriage patients rose by more than 50% and maternal deaths increased by 56%."
Blood Transfusions for Texas Miscarriages Increased by Over 50%
https://jessica.substack.com/p/blood-transfusions-for-texas-miscarriages
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.socialI finally got my car washed and figured it was a good time to put on my new decal. Too subtle?
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesGood riddance. It was always meant to end eventually, 2 big egos can’t stay together for a long time. But with all the damage that he did, I’ll be having a hard time forgiving anyone still supporting him. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-…
@mlawton@mstdn.socialWell, the good news is that it’s over. Run/walk staying in HR zone 2 and I think I was walking more than running. My fitness is 💩 right now. The humidity about killed me, even at 0730. I should have gone out earlier.
I’m at my in-laws place in Tennessee for the holiday weekend, of which this beautiful neighborhood has so few mature trees. As such, the sun gleefully poured out its angry menace upon me the entire time and I suffered. I am meant for cold weather.
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukMy JS Krups is resisting netbooting. I see it doing a DHCP discover, and I see Kea responding with an offer, but then it just sends another Discover. Hmph. I can get to the serial console and doing boot net from there doesn't help; none of the keyboard shortcuts for network diag etc seem to work (except the one that displays the help for it...). So I took the flash SIM out and now it boots to Net rather than flash by default; alas with the same DHCP behaviour. Time to try isc-dhcp.…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialGood article summarizing a lot of things relevant to continued COVID'19 caution:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/beyond-long-covid-1.7485888
Key points:
COVID'19 weakens the immune system:
"""
So it's not just about infecting you and causing respiratory illness and fever and all of the things that we usually get with the viral infection. This virus also specifically causes your immune system to become weaker.
"""
It damages blood vessels:
"""
In addition to SARS-CoV-2's ability to dysregulate the immune system and suppress the immune system, the spike protein itself is very damaging to blood vessel structures as well as red blood cells and platelets themselves.
"""
The folk idea that infections make our immune system stronger and stronger like a muscle just isn't true (or at least, doesn't apply to COVID'19 because of how, unlike most other viruses, it damages the immune system):
"""
For the longest time in the field of immunology, there was the sort of adage that your immune system needs to be tested every now and again to stay strong. That's an old-fashioned idea.
The more new-fashioned and evidence-based idea is that, although your immune system can take on [a COVID] infection, you want to avoid testing it as much as possible because your body is sustaining damage with each infection that it survives.
"""
@samir@functional.computer@… It’s almost as if people were not lying when they told me I need a sleep cycle. :-p
Seriously, I am really glad it works for you. And TBH, I think I need to do the same. I have always cherished my alone time at night, but I’m discovering that alone time at 6am is just as good.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Get Positive News Right When They Need It https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-get-positive-news-right-when/?adt_ei=[email]
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialWhy AI can't possibly make you more productive; long
#AI and "productivity", some thoughts:
Edit: fixed some typos.
Productivity is a concept that isn't entirely meaningless outside the context of capitalism, but it's a concept that is heavily inflected in a capitalist context. In many uses today it effectively means "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations." This is not really what it should mean: even in an anarchist utopia, people would care about things like how many shirts they can produce in a week, although in an "I'd like to voluntarily help more people" way rather than an "I need to meet this quota to earn my survival" way. But let's roll with this definition for a second, because it's almost certainly what your boss means when they say "productivity", and understanding that word in a different (even if truer) sense is therefore inherently dangerous.
Accepting "productivity" to mean "satisfying your boss' expectations," I will now claim: the use of generative AI cannot increase your productivity.
Before I dive in, it's imperative to note that the big generative models which most people think of as constituting "AI" today are evil. They are 1: pouring fuel on our burning planet, 2: psychologically strip-mining a class of data laborers who are exploited for their precarity, 3: enclosing, exploiting, and polluting the digital commons, and 4: stealing labor from broad classes of people many of whom are otherwise glad to give that labor away for free provided they get a simple acknowledgement in return. Any of these four "ethical issues" should be enough *alone* to cause everyone to simply not use the technology. These ethical issues are the reason that I do not use generative AI right now, except for in extremely extenuating circumstances. These issues are also convincing for a wide range of people I talk to, from experts to those with no computer science background. So before I launch into a critique of the effectiveness of generative AI, I want to emphasize that such a critique should be entirely unnecessary.
But back to my thesis: generative AI cannot increase your productivity, where "productivity" has been defined as "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations."
Why? In fact, what the fuck? Every AI booster I've met has claimed the opposite. They've given me personal examples of time saved by using generative AI. Some of them even truly believe this. Sometimes I even believe they saved time without horribly compromising on quality (and often, your boss doesn't care about quality anyways if the lack of quality is hard to measure of doesn't seem likely to impact short-term sales/feedback/revenue). So if generative AI genuinely lets you write more emails in a shorter period of time, or close more tickets, or something else along these lines, how can I say it isn't increasing your ability to meet your boss' expectations?
The problem is simple: your boss' expectations are not a fixed target. Never have been. In virtue of being someone who oversees and pays wages to others under capitalism, your boss' game has always been: pay you less than the worth of your labor, so that they can accumulate profit and thus more capital to remain in charge instead of being forced into working for a wage themselves. Sure, there are layers of management caught in between who aren't fully in this mode, but they are irrelevant to this analysis. It matters not how much you please your manager if your CEO thinks your work is not worth the wages you are being paid. And using AI actively lowers the value of your work relative to your wages.
Why do I say that? It's actually true in several ways. The most obvious: using generative AI lowers the quality of your work, because the work it produces is shot through with errors, and when your job is reduced to proofreading slop, you are bound to tire a bit, relax your diligence, and let some mistakes through. More than you would have if you are actually doing and taking pride in the work. Examples are innumerable and frequent, from journalists to lawyers to programmers, and we laugh at them "haha how stupid to not check whether the books the AI reviewed for you actually existed!" but on a deeper level if we're honest we know we'd eventually make the same mistake ourselves (bonus game: spot the swipe-typing typos I missed in this post; I'm sure there will be some).
But using generative AI also lowers the value of your work in another much more frightening way: in this era of hype, it demonstrates to your boss that you could be replaced by AI. The more you use it, and no matter how much you can see that your human skills are really necessary to correct its mistakes, the more it appears to your boss that they should hire the AI instead of you. Or perhaps retain 10% of the people in roles like yours to manage the AI doing the other 90% of the work. Paradoxically, the *more* you get done in terms of raw output using generative AI, the more it looks to your boss as if there's an opportunity to get enough work done with even fewer expensive humans. Of course, the decision to fire you and lean more heavily into AI isn't really a good one for long-term profits and success, but the modern boss did not get where they are by considering long-term profits. By using AI, you are merely demonstrating your redundancy, and the more you get done with it, the more redundant you seem.
In fact, there's even a third dimension to this: by using generative AI, you're also providing its purveyors with invaluable training data that allows them to make it better at replacing you. It's generally quite shitty right now, but the more use it gets by competent & clever people, the better it can become at the tasks those specific people use it for. Using the currently-popular algorithm family, there are limits to this; I'm not saying it will eventually transcend the mediocrity it's entwined with. But it can absolutely go from underwhelmingly mediocre to almost-reasonably mediocre with the right training data, and data from prompting sessions is both rarer and more useful than the base datasets it's built on.
For all of these reasons, using generative AI in your job is a mistake that will likely lead to your future unemployment. To reiterate, you should already not be using it because it is evil and causes specific and inexcusable harms, but in case like so many you just don't care about those harms, I've just explained to you why for entirely selfish reasons you should not use it.
If you're in a position where your boss is forcing you to use it, my condolences. I suggest leaning into its failures instead of trying to get the most out of it, and as much as possible, showing your boss very clearly how it wastes your time and makes things slower. Also, point out the dangers of legal liability for its mistakes, and make sure your boss is aware of the degree to which any of your AI-eager coworkers are producing low-quality work that harms organizational goals.
Also, if you've read this far and aren't yet of an anarchist mindset, I encourage you to think about the implications of firing 75% of (at least the white-collar) workforce in order to make more profit while fueling the climate crisis and in most cases also propping up dictatorial figureheads in government. When *either* the AI bubble bursts *or* if the techbros get to live out the beginnings of their worker-replacement fantasies, there are going to be an unimaginable number of economically desperate people living in increasingly expensive times. I'm the kind of optimist who thinks that the resulting social crucible, though perhaps through terrible violence, will lead to deep social changes that effectively unseat from power the ultra-rich that continue to drag us all down this destructive path, and I think its worth some thinking now about what you might want the succeeding stable social configuration to look like so you can advocate towards that during points of malleability.
As others have said more eloquently, generative AI *should* be a technology that makes human lives on average easier, and it would be were it developed & controlled by humanists. The only reason that it's not, is that it's developed and controlled by terrible greedy people who use their unfairly hoarded wealth to immiserate the rest of us in order to maintain their dominance. In the long run, for our very survival, we need to depose them, and I look forward to what the term "generative AI" will mean after that finally happens.
