@grumpybozo@toad.socialVery early in the commercial registrar era, some registrars priced domains in harmony with their costs: no teaser marketing, just discounts on buying multiple future years at once. Even after everyone stopped giving out-year discounts explicitly, the fact of inflation in upstream fees made it wise for legitimate domain holders to buy many years in advance.
I am close to wanting a return to the InterNIC model. DNS Marxism.
@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.pageA Navigation Framework Utilizing Vision-Language Models
Yicheng Duan, Kaiyu tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10172 https://arxiv.org/p…
@scott@carfree.citySFMTA is adding left turns back to Valencia at 17th, 21st and 23rd streets with a new phase, which will cut down on time for pedestrian and bike crossings. The word is that Mayor Lurie directly ordered this. Signal modifications are very expensive and that money could have gone to safety or transit priority.
Seems small, but it's wasteful and adds to the "death by a thousand cuts" for Transit First in Lurie's SF.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social"I cannot say this strongly enough: until 2026, only two things stand between the authoritarian project and its objectives: the judiciary and a popular protest movement. We have no control over the former. We must not surrender, or abandon, the latter."
Original post: https://bsky.ap…
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialI just saw a post saying someone let their agent AI run for 19 hours to solve a problem.
Is that the expectation?
I’m going to predict a future scandal: A global consulting firm has been caught charging human hours for agentic AI elapsed time. If I were an unscrupulous consulting firm, I could charge customers 24 hours a day at ludicrously high prices to deliver what likely would have been an ill-advised and doomed project anyway.
@LorenAmelang@vivaldi.net@…
Wow! I have a bunch of those Seattle Filmworks files. Do you plan to share your project? How will the results compare to just re-scanning the film with a good slide scanner? #seattleFilmWorks
@groberschnitzer@graz.socialIf you are a last.fm user, i would highly recommend you to have a look at this project:
https://katelyn.moe/bleh/
https://github.com/katel…
@arXiv_csNE_bot@mastoxiv.pageA Topological Improvement of the Overall Performance of Sparse Evolutionary Training: Motif-Based Structural Optimization of Sparse MLPs Project
Xiaotian Chen, Hongyun Liu, Seyed Sahand Mohammadi Ziabari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09204
@dankeck@a11y.socialDigital badges have come to the Fediverse! Courtesy of @… .
Each badge comes with a verification link. Here's the link for my "code contributor" badge: https://
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"We cannot preclude developers from “vibe coding” their way into a working application; but we can teach them how to properly integrate the very likely spaghetti mess produced by those bullshit machines, how to understand it, and how to make it work with today’s compilers, which, let us be honest: are the best we have ever had, and it would be a shame to ignore them completely."
@kazys@mastodon.socialA preview of Monday’s post in case you need a distraction from the state of the world.
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/the-generative-turn-on-ais-as-stochastic-parrots-and-art/
The Generative Turn: On AIs as Stochastic Parrots and Art - varnelis.net GP leaders have halted progress on a predictive AI model based citing concern about whether the correct procedures were followed. The pause is likely to frustrate those advocating for greater use of AI within healthcare.
Kazys Varnelis, Stochastic Parrots, 2025.Large Language Model (LLM)-based Artificial Intelligences have been derided for hallucinating—a topic that I addressed in my last essay, “The New Surrealism. On AI and Hallucinations,”—and labeled “stochastic parrots,” supposedly incapable of generating authentic meaning beyond remixed texts. Coined by researcher Emily Bender and her colleagues, the term “stochastic parrots” describes ... 
@johnleonard@mastodon.social
2025-06-04 11:10:56
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/gps-f…
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comNew ZFS AnyRAID feature would probably get me to use ZFS at home instead of btrfs.
I have a lot of different-sized old SATA enterprise SSDs retired from @… and a cheap 8 bay eSATA enclosure. The performance is good enough. I can't really justify buying 8 new, matching drives.
AnyMirror would be good enough for my purposes.
@chriscz@social.linux.pizzaFrom July 1 if a new maintainer isn't found then tcpflow will be archived. From the GitHub page:
> tcpflow is a program that captures data transmitted as part of TCP connections (flows), and stores the data in a way that is convenient for protocol analysis and debugging.
https://github.com/simsong/tc…
@lysander07@sigmoid.socialYesterday attending a project strategy meeting for MaterialDigital at the Institute for microtribology. No, I don’t have any idea why they have put this in front of it😜
#pmd #materialsscience #mse
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageThis https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03437 has been replaced.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.ioTwo folks here on the Fediverse, @… and @…, have set up a giving circle to help several families trying to survive in Gaza. This is direct mutual aid, with a direct impact.
I set up a recurring donation. If you have a little money yourself to chip in, it will have an impact.
https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.social
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeSome cool footage and discussion of full-scale EV fire testing by UL/FSRI. This should have been done a long time ago, given how many EVs are on the roads now, but better late than never I guess.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6j3GtcAfE0
Project website:
@seeingwithsound@mas.toA Project Moohan benchmark gets spotted, and may have revealed the Android XR headset's key spec https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality…
@stiefkind@mastodon.socialTIL: »Specific typographic rules have been developed for each language for centuries, but in recent decades, especially due to globalisation and the unification of software tools, they have been disregarded. The international project of a typographic proofreader for European languages will preserve these rules as an expression of European cultural diversity for future generations.«
Source:
@cdarwin@c.imThe IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk of being killed by Intuit’s lobbyists and Donald Trump’s megabill.
Meanwhile, several top developers who worked on the software have left the government and joined a project to explore the “future of tax filing” in the private sector
@froqstar@social.linux.pizzaProject #minirack is done :)
The goal was to have a nice "living room capable" 10" rack to hold my #homeasssitant box with a touch display for smart home control, a network switch and a UPS.
And no it is not living in the livingroom now, nor was it planned ;) I…
@arXiv_csDB_bot@mastoxiv.pageKramaBench: A Benchmark for AI Systems on Data-to-Insight Pipelines over Data Lakes
Eugenie Lai, Gerardo Vitagliano, Ziyu Zhang, Sivaprasad Sudhir, Om Chabra, Anna Zeng, Anton A. Zabreyko, Chenning Li, Ferdi Kossmann, Jialin Ding, Jun Chen, Markos Markakis, Matthew Russo, Weiyang Wang, Ziniu Wu, Michael J. Cafarella, Lei Cao, Samuel Madden, Tim Kraska
@bourgwick@heads.socialfab interview with @… guitarist dm hotep about building the wildly cool/expansive ghost horizons project around marshall allen & collaborators. https://pos…
@gerrit@tabletop.socialVery happy to have the printed version of the German edition of Dream Askew Dream Apart in my hands. Thank you, @… , for giving the German language community this important game. This game is special to me as I somehow had it again and again in my mind while developing my own future I want to live in, the sustainable community housing project @…
#ttrpg #indierpg #pnpde #bob #DADA #averyAlder
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI am ignorant on what it is to be trans or a woman or a world-class athlete, but I THINK the problem here is a doomed project of representing a multidimensional continuously variable attribute with a single Boolean https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/114639211101368863
@akosma@mastodon.online"Because I deserved support in that moment. I deserved having my boss taking me to the side to have a coffee and asking me how I was doing. I deserved having somebody more in my team to help me figure out a new technical solution for that project, instead of leaving me alone. I deserved having a product owner communicating issues to that customer. I deserved having someone giving a fucking shit about my mental health."
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.pageImproving LLM-Based Fault Localization with External Memory and Project Context
Inseok Yeo, Duksan Ryu, Jongmoon Baik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03585 http…
@lornajane@indieweb.socialYour open source needs docs - and to get you through this experience I have written a guide to creating minimal open source project documentation in a single afternoon. https://lornajane.net/posts/2025/just-enough-docs
Assemble the basics, immediately benefit your project, and also create a space for future documentation contributions to land!
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialOh great... employee department had a project to create a company cookbook. Since we're a very international company we have people from more than 60 countries and first cookbook turned out really great. Now where to get those partially "exotic" ingredients in Germany...
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… For the course I had in mind it’s a programming project, and students have admitted using ChatGPT at least for some parts. It didn’t work for everything, though.
So, yes, the point would also be to show that some things actually can’t be accomplished this way.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… For the course I had in mind it’s a programming project, and students have admitted using ChatGPT at least for some parts. It didn’t work for everything, though.
So, yes, the point would also be to show that some things actually can’t be accomplished this way.
@samerfarha@mastodon.socialI finished reading Gísli Pšlsson’s “The Last Of Its Kind” recently, and if you want a great look at the Great Auk and the history of extinction, this book is fascinating, if a bit depressing in the end. Well worth reading, especially if you like to learn more about life in Iceland in the 1800s.
@anijatsu@meow.social
@StephenRees@mas.toDemand for LNG in Europe dropped by 18 per cent between 2022 and 2024, and Canadian exports would have a hard time competing in Asian markets, says advocacy group Investors for Paris Compliance. “Investing in infrastructure that will be very expensive and likely won’t be profitable will weaken our economy rather than strengthen it,” Renaud Gignac, an economist and senior adviser for the group, said in an interview.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioTwo folks here on the Fediverse, @… and @…, have set up a giving circle to help several families trying to survive in Gaza. This is direct mutual aid, with a direct impact.
I set up a recurring donation. If you have a little money yourself to chip in, it will have an impact.
https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle
@relcfp@mastodon.socialAuthoritarianism and the decentring of the constitution
https://ift.tt/Ar46wTX
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@IngolfKuehn@fediscience.org#NewPaper out: Anne Reichmuth , Kühn I, Schmidt A, Doktor D (2025) Forested Natura 2000 sites under climate change: effects of tree species distribution shifts. Web Ecology 25: 59–89.
We have modelled and analysed the effect of possible tree species distribution shift in Norway spruce (Picea abies), European beech (Fagus sylvatica), and two oak species (Quercus petraea and Quercus robur), considered jointly on forested Natura 2000 sites, an EU-wide conservation area network. The modelling procedure was performed using 3 to 4 bio-climatic variables derived from 26 variables of the EURO-CORDEX Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) climate simulations for the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) 2.6, 4.5, and 8.5 until 2098. Our results reveal a severe decline in Picea within Natura 2000 sites in central Europe and lower elevations and confirm a strong shift towards higher elevations and latitudes. This amounts to an 18 % absolute mean change (−18 % mean loss, 15 % mean gain). Quercus sp. reveal similar results, with 23 % absolute mean change (−23 % loss, 24 % gain) at Natura 2000 sites, whereas Fagus remains stable throughout the model results with 8 % absolute mean change (−7 % loss, 9 % gain). As ecosystems of any type are highly dynamic, climate change can lead to additional severe pressure on statically defined conservation goals and associated management activities.
#biodiversity #ecology #ClimateChange #conservation
@primonatura@mstdn.social
@al3x@hachyderm.ioWhen you want to evaluate a new framework do you have sort of a “petclinic” project that you are using as a foundation? If yes, could you share what the project does?
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialJoin Andrew Musselman and Trevor Grant as they present the latest developments in Mahout's new quantum compute layer, Qumat. They will provide an overview of the project, explain why Qumat was developed, and demonstrate its current capabilities. They will also present a demo of Qumat in action and conclude with calls to action for researchers and engineers who are interested in using and contributing to the project.
Learn more:
@arXiv_csSI_bot@mastoxiv.pageThis https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07212 has been replaced.
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@lukem@hachyderm.ioAs a former Pebble user (and a big fan of the whole concept) I'm looking at this with interest. At the same time though, this very project killed my interest in any hardware project funded on Kickstarter, so I have trust issues.
https://store.repebble.com/countdown
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsA bad #Python bump morning in #Gentoo:
1. A project that couldn't be bothered to make a release with a security fix for 4 years finally made a release. Of course, if you make one release in 7 years, it is definitely a good idea to replace your build system with a broken #PythonPoetry #setuptools hybrid.
2. Another project made a release with a bunch of test failures — that were fixed in "master" branch already at the time, but I guess nobody bothered testing the release branch.
3. Just discovered that a bunch of projects are using pkg_resources namespaces again — and we were supposed to have gotten rid of them years ago! Of course it's #Google. And on top of that, since pkg_resources are now throwing deprecation warnings, they are indirectly breaking random other test suites.
On the positive side, test_lolwut is failing for me in redis-py.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioDivya and Shantini have vetted that yes, these are real people in real crisis who need help.
The two of them aren’t professional fundraisers or anything. They’re just doing their best with the tools they have, trying desperately to help a few people.
Yes, I wish that we had proper organizations — NGOs, international aid, a functioning democracy! — to help •all• the people in need all at once. We don’t. Elbow grease is all we’ve got.
https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.toThe idea is to provide a safe haven and a fertile ground for the next generation of scientists to work in peace and freedom to solve the most significant challenges of our time; but the geopolitical argument will prevail. As Jorge Luis Borges said in his short story “Nathaniel Hawthorne” from his book “Other Inquisitions” (1952):
“The past is indestructible; sooner or later all things return, and one of the things that return is the project to abolish the past.”
@relcfp@mastodon.socialReligious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – October 9, 2024
https://ift.tt/aHDBoXS
Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 28 new job…
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@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@…
"… I had already ran a script that 'over organized' my project files and made it too complicated for me to access simple files, so I asked ChatGPT
"Can you write me a script that will retrace our steps to how it was organized on my desktop before we ran the last script? Rather than have over organized session folders like they …
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioDivya and Shantini have vetted that yes, these are real people in real crisis who need help.
The two of them aren’t professional fundraisers or anything. They’re just doing their best with the tools they have, trying desperately to help a few people.
Yes, I wish that we had proper organizations — NGOs, international aid, a functioning democracy! — to help •all• the people in need all at once. We don’t. Elbow grease is all we’ve got.
https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle
@StephenRees@mas.toThe BC Ministry of Transport has an album of all the pictures they have been taking of the Broadway Subway project. This can be found on flickr at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tranbc/albums/72157706275278374/
@beeb@hachyderm.ioToday, I finished making a #ForgedCarbon #CarbonFiber #Baker 's lame. This was an idea I had for a while and finally had the time to realize it.
I first designed the part in CAD, then designed and printed a PETG compression mould for it. A generous coating of waxy release agent, and strategically placed holes for a pin punch allowed for a relatively easy demoulding.
After a lot of sanding and a good few gel coat applications, and more sanding and polishing, I finally have a usable lame!
To hold the blade, I simply drilled a hole for an M3 screw which is glued in place, then found these aluminium thumb-nuts which look rather slick. There is a very slight curvature to the blade holder, and some protruding geometry to prevent the blade from rotating.
I realize I could have used tighter clearances on the mould because a lot of fibers moved into the gap between the two halves during compression.
Fun project!
#3dprinting #composites #baking #DIY #carbon
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@LorenAmelang@vivaldi.net@…
About the Caifornia "Virtual Library Card" for the Palace Project...
Most pages and videos neglect a step that is critical if you don't already have a physical library card from a _participating_ local library:
Inside the Palace app, use the “find my library” search function to find “California’s Bookshelf.”
Full instructions:
@al3x@hachyderm.ioDuring “slow time”, if they happen to you, do you have a pet project that you keep working on? Would you share details about it?
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI’ve been using it a bit, and…Codeberg is good.
I mean, I’m sure there are just a bunch of brick walls if you’re relying on specific Github features that it just doesn’t have — actions, project management features, certain tool integrations, whatever.
But if you don’t hit those walls? It works. It works well. It continues to work such that my attention is mostly on other things — and that’s high praise in my book!
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@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI’ve been using it a bit, and…Codeberg is good.
I mean, I’m sure there are just a bunch of brick walls if you’re relying on specific Github features that it just doesn’t have — actions, project management features, certain tool integrations, whatever.
But if you don’t hit those walls? It works. It works well. It continues to work such that my attention is mostly on other things — and that’s high praise in my book!
