@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: about 200 companies accessing Mythos Preview through Project Glasswing have preserved their access despite a recent US government shutdown order (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-19/early-u…
@hippyjo@c.im
@sofia@chaos.sociali gotta say i'm pretty put off by the whole messaging of the new #commodore company. "present bad, past good, go back to the 80s, blah blah blah". yeah, fuck your palingenetic bullshit.
how aren't we all sick of promises to restore some golden age, when the consequences of this shit stare us in the face every day?
if your project seems like its slogan could have the …
@cdarwin@c.imLack of transparency on who manages Trump’s investments adds to questions about possible conflicts of interests that have followed Trump throughout his time in the Oval Office.
"The confusion from the White House as to who manages the president's stock portfolios is deeply troubling,”
Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, acting vice president of policy and government affairs at the Project On Government Oversight, told NOTUS in a statement.
“It would raise serious ethical quest…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialAustralia just approved its largest wind farm ever. The Warracknabeal Energy Park will feature 219 turbines generating over 1.5 gigawatts of clean power, plus battery storage to keep the lights on when the wind stops. The $5 billion project will create nearly 950 construction jobs in Victoria's Wimmera region and help the state hit its renewable energy targets.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI've been talking before why money won't solve the burnout problem. But let's for a minute assume that you really wanted to help people maintaining #FreeSoftware by paying them. The problem is that:
1. You have to pay them a living wage.
While all monetary help is appreciated by developers, they need a living wage. Not "that should prevent you from starving to death" but the kind of money that can support a honest (but not lavish) lifestyle: pay the bills, feed your family, cover other living costs such as repairs, clothes, appliances, and let you save enough for future emergencies.
It's simple as that. If you can't do that, they're going to need a dayjob. If they're lucky, it won't collide with their #FLOSS work. If they're not, it will kill them. Or they'll fall somewhere in the middle, slowly burning out until they can neither maintain their projects, nor work.
2. You need to guarantee that the payouts will continue.
People need security. They're not going to stay unemployed, let alone quit their job or turn down a job offer, unless they either have good guaranties or substantial savings (or they're in a really bad shape and wouldn't be able to handle the job anyway). The job market is hell, and people just know that when the payments stop, they may not be able to find a job soon, let alone a good job. Even "passively" looking for a job can burn you out.
So yeah, one-off payments and pinky swears won't do. And it isn't even a matter of whether we can trust you; it's a matter if you'll actually be able to continue paying us. And honestly, I don't really know how to solve that. Perhaps by paying up front, but for how long? Finding a job may take more than a year, finding a good job may be once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
3. It can't end up being a job.
Perhaps most difficult of all, these payments can't really come with explicit obligations. I mean, that's the whole point: you want to support FLOSS, not turn it into a corporate project. You want the maintainer to remain free and enjoy the work. That is unlikely to happen if their livelihood is now dependent on your satisfaction. And even if it isn't, I for example would still feel indebted to whoever's paying me to do FLOSS, even if they really didn't expect anything in return, and would fall into a spiral of guilt-inflicted burnout if I failed to maintain the software satisfactorily.
#OpenSource
@joxean@mastodon.socialI have just published a new bug fixes minor release for #Diaphora, version 3.4.1.
https://github.com/joxeankoret/diaphora/releases/tag/3.4.1
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
@primonatura@mstdn.social
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgMaintaining a project on microsoft/azure github seems as bad as maintaining a profile on X. Reputational damage for maintaining a github repo will hopefully catch up to reality soon.
It's bonkers that we let the free/open source community get so comprehensively captured by closed source, inhumane corporate tech.
If your community on there doesn't have an exit plan, it might be worth applying some pressure !
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioGood news! There is now a legal defense fund for the Minnesota 15! This is for all the people Trump's feds arrested on Tuesday for their anti-ICE activism in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area. They have a rough road ahead. Let's show them some support.
I can vouch for this specific fund. It's legit.
⚠️ Keep an eye out for the Chuffed site automatically adding a “tip” that is perhaps larger than the amount you want. You can set it to a smaller amount or zero. ⚠️
#Minneapolis #StPaul #Minnesota #iceout
https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund
@geant@mstdn.socialEver wondered how we plan and implement an intercontinental connectivity investment programme here at GÉANT?
The project team from GN5-IC1 have spent years doing exactly that, and they've now shared their lessons learned, recommendations, and insights from a comprehensive analysis in a new summary document.
🔗 Read more here:
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.socialAdded a link to the #AntiRacist Anaka Women's Collective in #Belfast to this week's episode of @… radio
They're doing good work to build commun…
@danyork@mastodon.socialQ - Does anyone have recommendations for good tutorials about learning how to use QGIS? #OFDS
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaObviously it turned out Aeon was ok, but I wanted else. RakuOS and AerynOS didn't do smb ootb. Started the journey bcs I wanted to have a go at Dakotaraptor, see the link below. That's where we are heading, boys and girls. Amazing project! It's alpha, it didn't work out for me right now. Running the latest Bluefin now, tomorrow it'll head out with me to the job.
#bluefin
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Packaging a Rust project for Debian.
https://blog.hackeriet.no/packaging-a-rust-project-for-debian/
saved 2020-02-01
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialOh, gee - who would have thought #MayorLurie might have made a mistake in ignoring the staff recommendation on awarding a complex contract?
Lurie promised a permitting overhaul. Its builders say it was troubled from the start | The San Francisco Standard
@paulwermer@sfba.socialOh, gee - who would have thought #MayorLurie might have made a mistake in ignoring the staff recommendation on awarding a complex contract?
Lurie promised a permitting overhaul. Its builders say it was troubled from the start | The San Francisco Standard
@theodric@social.linux.pizza> Linus says AI tooling is OK, and Linux is a technical project rather than a social movement
> A subset of people flip because the BDFL isn't onboard with their mission to make every single thing political
> I'm annoyed because now I have to find a way to filter out people talking about politics in Linux without filtering out Linux
I will nonetheless persist with my "No Politics Unless It Shits In My Yard And Then Only As Much As Is Absolutely Require…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialA lot of people will need to die.
Not as a project, but as a natural process. Most of them are pretty old, but they have worked hard to pass on their pathological aversion to progress to their offspring. @… http…
@frankel@mastodon.topStop Using Conventional Commits
#SCM
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeIt's been a few months and I have a lot of new followers so, periodic reminder: I make extra capacity in my home lab facilities available on a best-effort basis to support noncommercial/hobby/open source projects who would otherwise not be able to afford them.
Services are generally provided free of charge if they're not a major time/consumable commitment on my part, or on a cost-recovery basis for anything particularly large. If you're not making money from the project I w…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration will use around $300 million in taxpayer funds to pay for ballroom construction, per internal documents
Who could have predicted that?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio…
@UP8@mastodon.social🚯 Junkyard Computing: Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon
#computing
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeCan anyone find an origin for this FreeBSD graphic?
(It's seen in a YouTube video that does not state the origin. I have left a comment there …)
"FreeBSD provides the entire operating system as one unified project."
I already used an extension – Search by Image <https://addons.mozilla.org/a…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle says Chromebooks will get support through their "existing date commitment", and "many" models are "eligible to transition" to the Googlebook experience (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/05/12/goog
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itThis is an excellent system we've got here.
#HousingCrisis
![residential conversion at 235 East 42nd St.: Would renters pay to move in to a building that almost collapsed during the renovation?
“This project will definitely have a stigma,” said Ross Spivak, CEO of the firm RES Consulting NY. “You’re talking [about] a significant structural failure.”
Other brokers disagreed, arguing that that city's housing supply is so tight that desperate tenants won't be deterred.](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/116/909/006/085/643/746/original/80358d2d7b2e4596.png)
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe hacker group Black Mirror and the anonymous project VChK-OGPU claimed to have leaked correspondence of Russian propagandist Ksenia Sobchak, exposing how Kremlin censorship works.
h…
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energy
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.socialWho would have thought that #Cambridge University's Faculty of Divinity would be a centre of extreme-right extremism, and that the University would so secretive about it.
Read about it
@jake4480@c.imI have one for #GrindayFriday this week. This is one man deathgrind project NAILGUT from Kelowna, British Columbia, and their brief 4 song EP 'Distorted Perceptions of Reality' from 2024. It's nasty, grody, grindy, sludgy stuff with chainsaw guitars and bashing drums. I love it.
@brichapman@mastodon.socialJinkoSolar just locked in a massive deal with Masdar: 2GW of solar modules for Abu Dhabi's groundbreaking round-the-clock renewable energy project.
This isn't your typical solar farm. It pairs a 5.2GW solar plant with a 19GW-hour battery system to deliver continuous clean power—solving renewables' biggest challenge: intermittency.
@ELLIOTTCABLE@functional.cafe@… @… is Curio also dead right now? The 'Login' button seemed to have no effect on any browser/computer I tried; was really excited to try a new GM project, haha )=
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotDear everyone
Ghada Elkhalili is an orphan, the eldest surviving member of her family. She is supporting six other family members in a tent close to the yellow line in northern #Gaza. I have been in touch with her for some months; other people in Gaza whom I'm in touch with and who know her have verified her story.
She is receiving very little support; in the past month she's had …
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsDid you know that you can use #PyTest 's plugin manager instance to check whether a particular plugin was loaded? You might have known that.
And did you know that pytest plugins have no "canonical" name, and every plugin's name is literally whatever was passed while it was registered? So if a plugin was autoloaded, it's its entry point name. If it was loaded via `-p` or `PYTEST_PLUGINS`, it's whatever the argument was (i.e. entry point name in the first case, object reference in the second one). And if it was loaded via an explicit call to plugin loader, then it was whatever you passed to the plugin loader.
https://github.com/syrupy-project/syrupy/pull/1142/changes
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialWhat's better for a researcher working to publish a project but also applying for fellowships and with their current contract ending in 1 year?
Make a paper with a focused claim that might not go in "high impact" journal because it's too focused (and perhaps work on other findings from the same data later) but would be ready faster
Make a paper with several claims which might have a bigger chance of "high impact" but will take several additional months to be fini…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialThe batik process and results look cool, but I don’t think it’s something I’d want to try unless it was in a workshop setting.
https://handprinted.co.uk/blogs/blog/creating-layered-fabric-designs-using-batik
@cdarwin@c.imThe luxury resort planned by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner faces a new challenge from villagers who say their land was wrongfully sold by an accused gangster.
The president’s daughter and her husband plan to develop a $1.4 billion resort on the uninhabited island of Sazan in Albania, as well as a wider hotel development along the Zvërnec coastline worth around $4.7 billion.
Weeks of protests have raised concerns that the wildlife-rich area, with its flamingos and sea turtles, co…
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.placeI have no opinion about the project itself but I just want to highlight that OPA is the german word for Grandpa.
Grandpa as a Gatekeeper!
https://www.openpolicyagent.org
@pygospa@social.linux.pizza
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhat Does the Correspondents Dinner Have to Do With Trump's Ballroom Project? (Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-does-the-correspondents-dinner-have-to-do-with-trump-s-ballroom-project
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p113#a260429p113
@gwire@mastodon.socialWhy doesn't Project NOVA - a multi-country network of telescopes monitoring for space threats - have a bleedin' website?
https://space.blog.gov.uk/2026/05/05/the-king-visits-site-of-new…
@pkraus@berlin.socialThis might be a long shot, but if anyone wants to do a #PhD in #Chemistry or #MaterialsScience in #Berlin, I have an open position in my lab at @… :
https://www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-postings/204252
The project is on modelling and measuring electrical conductivity of materials. I'm looking for someone with experience in DFT and python, also willing to work in the lab. Feel free to reach out by email or forward to anyone you think might be interested.
Funding is confirmed at 100% TV-L E13 for 2 years.
@hanno@mastodon.socialI no longer think E-Methanol is a good idea ⚡⚗️
I am not saying this lightly. But it's hard to argue with thermodynamics, and making energy-rich molecules from nothing but CO₂, water🌊, electricity⚡ faces some hard truths.
Recently, a significant project developers for E-Methanol⚡⚗️, Liquid Wind💧💨, filed for bankruptcy.
E-Methanol⚡⚗️ & other CCU/E-Fuels/PtX/PtL processes all have one problem: they need so much clean electricity that it's questionable if this is pl…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI have another fun project idea that I'm not going to realize.
What I'd love to have is a heat map of "how soon can I get there". One where I select my train station, and get a map of all train stations I can reach within N hours, each marked with the earliest arrival time and colored by how late I'll get there. Including all the reasonable transfers.
Say, the first train from here goes to Konin, so I get its arrival times marked on all stations towards Konin. Then, I can transfer to a few trains in Poznań, so I get their arrival times on their respective stations. And then all the transfers there, and so on.
So what I'd get is a pretty colorful map, with arrival time getting later with distance, except for major stations where IC trains get earlier than suburban trains, and then backwards from major stations where I can get via IC and then change into suburban going back. It would be such a cool experiment!
And honestly, I could start playing with it even with a partially automated tool: one that lets me select a given train and updated the map if it arrived somewhere earlier than I had before.
#rail
@ddrake@mathstodon.xyz🧵 1/N
I've always thought it was a bit ironic that git was designed to be perfectly decentralized, only to have Github become the one centralized way one uses git (for many people, at any rate).
But this post makes a good point: the centralization also means that it functions as a reliable archive. If a popular open source project spins up its own git server, and then later goes mostly defunct -- or least, the git server goes away -- the code is pretty much gone. But with git…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialMy dad is a journalist. He wrote about a pilot project with self-driving busses recently. And something that none of the men I have talked to seem to realise is that it is fucking scary to think that you are in a bus alone at night without a driver and then someone starts harassing you. My male friend said "what is the bus driver gonna do?" but honestly, just the presence of another person is often enough. And a bus driver can call the police or stop the bus if need be, there are …
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialJob loss? That one really seems weird. The numbers are not adding up to the stories we hear yet. But the numbers are not dire yet. Of course, our actual tracking of those numbers is increasingly suspect because of the US fascist project.
The big tech companies are absolutely pulling shenanigans, and using "AI" as an excuse for layoffs in a great number of cases, and in many cases, openly admitting they don't have any good ideas, so they'll lay people off instead of allocate them better. We are absolutely seeing the shifts in what are viable careers in tech though. And that was underway before AI: the UX bootcamps, for example, destabilized those job function, devaluing the workers, and the resulting shifts absolutely wrecked those job titles and the pay for them, leaving a bunch of people in the lurch.
But behind that too was our broken education system in the US: it was a shortcut around the massive debt that going to college can produce for people. But it didn't last, because it was vocational training being used purposefully as a wedge to change the labor market. Similar, sometimes intentional effects have happened in other aspects.
A huge amount of the "AI" problem is actually labor problems coming home to roost. We can blame Reagan for a lot of this.
@frankel@mastodon.topProject #Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in #JDK
https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valha
@anderelampe@chaos.social
@adulau@infosec.exchangeWe are exploring some ambitious ideas around reducing external dependencies and relying more on our own libraries across MISP and related tooling. Over the past year, we have been working on a replacement network graph library for the new MISP interface and things are getting really interesting. Pivotick is already used in around ten open-source tools, including CTI Transmute, AIL Project, and Rulezet. It has also recently been integrated into the new MISP UI, OverMind. The library is, of co…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialInternal doc: Disney plans to bring Hulu's content and features to Disney by year's end, and to decommission the Hulu app after users have transitioned (James Faris/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-hul
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialKris Freedain and Carlos Juzarte Rolo will be taking the stage at #bbuzz26 to talk through what transition has looked like for the OpenSearch Software Foundation, what they have learned, and where the project is headed next.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/opensearch-software-foundation-1-year-of-open-governance/
@jochenlingelba1@h-net.socialUniversity of Leiden @… will soon have their #africa maps collection online
"(re)Mapping Africa: Colonial cartography collection soon ready for search"
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaI am starting to worry.
Dwl installed just fine, I compiled it from source. Learned how-to and applied the specific wlroots version in Gentoo. Applications I need are there. Five patches applied, all good. Even got noctalia-shell running. The project has been revived and a lot of patches have been updated to the latest version in the last month.
I stop tweaking now. Have to end the weekend on a high. Beer is cold. More next week!
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
http…
@deabigt@universeodon.comFunny, I keep hearing Colossus: The Forbin Project being cited as a view of dystopian AI, even though at the end of the movie and in the other 2 books of the trilogy, the AI is shown to have mankind’s best interests as its prime directive despite the humans not liking how it took control. Rewatch? https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/colossus-the-forbin-project
@awinkler@openbiblio.socialdoes anybody happen to know if the results of the #europeana Linked Data Task Force have been published somewhere?
This page here https://pro.europeana.eu/index.php/projec…
@al3x@hachyderm.ioFirst experience with uv tool has been a disaster. I couldn't achieve anything I planned to (create an isolated environment for a project, pull in dependencies using pip, etc.). For every command I have spent a lot more time trying to figure out what command to run. It seems like I came to uv with my baggages and uv's take is rather different.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org“Your mission, should you choose to accept it…”
Finally added an extract from “Mission Impossible” to the slide set introducing the project that students have to work on for the next two weeks, fully knowing that it’ll be completely lost on them…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y9NtHlJvbY…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org“Your mission, should you choose to accept it…”
Finally added an extract from “Mission Impossible” to the slide set introducing the project that students have to work on for the next two weeks, fully knowing that it’ll be completely lost on them…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y9NtHlJvbY…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org“Your mission, should you choose to accept it…”
Finally added an extract from “Mission Impossible” to the slide set introducing the project that students have to work on for the next two weeks, fully knowing that it’ll be completely lost on them…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y9NtHlJvbY…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeStarting to inventory components for the rest of the LATENTRED line card build.
Very confused as to how I ended up with a sealed tray containing *five* VSC8512 PHYs. I need six to populate the three line cards.
And I don't think I have any overstock from the initial prototyping run, at least I didn't see any in my PHY/transceivers bin or the dedicated project bin.
@grumpybozo@toad.socialRE: https://mendeddrum.org/@fanf/116722088494079582
Another source of AS->IPs lists is the Prefix WhoIs Project (pwhois.org) using their “whob” tool.
I have a gadget which pulls the current route lists of many ASs which are fronts for the Russian Mob…
@timfoster@mastodon.socialOh and I have a 2024 vintage Garage Project beer to soothe the muscles. It has travelled a long way from Wellington to get here (was actually amazed to see in a Belfast off-licence)
I'm very glad it made the trip.
@carstingaxion@dewp.space“GatherPress, a WordPress-native event management tool being evaluated as the future of meetup coordination. If you’ve tested it, used it, or just have questions, come share your experience. Organizer feedback is exactly what the project needs.”
https://make.wo…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMaine's governor vetoes a bill that would have led to US' first state pause on data centers, citing its failure to exempt a project in a distressed mill town (Jenna Russell/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/us/maine-moratorium-data-cent…
@ripienaar@devco.socialTrying to really spec up front a personal project like write out a project overview etc.
Not really what I want to be doing with my free time but I think the outcome so far is already looking more solid than if I just winged it as per usual.
Certainly helped to pick better dependencies already - the one I really liked would have been a giant pain to build with now that I see the scope of the idea.
Ugh.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116695372319811855
This!! I am yelling this too!!
And it’s yet another one of the things where now when I yell it, I have to specify that it’s something I’ve been telling students and companies alike since long before the release of GPT, because otherwise people assume it’s just a reaction to gen AI:
“Generating code is by •far• the easiest part of programming.”
“No matter the source, don’t let code into your project unless you understand what it does.”
“Programming languages exist for humans to communicate with other humans. Code does not just make machines go; it encodes and reifies human mental models. Good code communicates •intent•; very bad code has no coherent intent at all.”
and so on
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgAre you an MSc student looking for a thesis topic? Interested in Greenland/Antarctica atmosphere and ice sheet processes? Background in meteorology, geography, earth science or physics (or other quantitative discipline?
Then do I have the project for you...
I have just updated my list of open research ideas here:
#MScThesis #AcademicChatter #Greenland #Antarctica #ClimateChange #Meteorology #Wx #Glaciology #MachineLearning #ClimateModelling
@cdarwin@c.imJared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s controversial luxury resort project in Albania
has hit a new setback after prosecutors alleged that land tied to the development may have been acquired through forged ownership documents.
Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors are investigating Miami-based businessman Artur Shehu,
who sold a stretch of coastline slated for Kushner’s planned multi-billion-dollar resort earlier this year.
Prosecutors allege Shehu and his associates launde…
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaAh, they have this explicitely written:
> The Blender Development Fund is a donation platform. Individuals and organizations contribute to support Blender's development without acquiring decision-making power over the project's direction.
https://fund.blender.org/funding-policy/
@markhburton@mstdn.social
@Lucy@social.linux.pizzaI had some inspiration, maybe an idea for a project. But small. Like maybe a subdomain worth of an idea. And then I talked to my husband and now I have a new domain registration. (For a domain I registered, unregistered, registered, unregistered..) Why. Just why. Can't even formulate the idea, but the website is almost finished.
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nlStarted a new project, the #FreeSewingCrux climbing pants by @…. Also my first project made of #toile (#muslin / #calico ), just to see what it's like to work with it. I have some nice pink denim with a bit of stretch to make the "real" one with, once this one's done.
I attached the pockets with my Bernina 930's triple stitch, which gives this really nice top stitching. I do hope I was supposed to sew the seam allowance with the pocket... The instructions were a bit unclear there 🫣
#FreeSewing #Sewing @…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaYou know what's the problem with Linux Mint? It's so damn good.
Apparently yesterday's update borked sth in my Slackware Current. SDDM and then everything stops, usb mouse and kb dead, radio or bluetooth. Look at it later.
Made an LMDE iso, booted with that and start salvaging some files, prior to surgery. Has always worked.
Because I have this Gentoo project to finish 😝
#slackware
@gwire@mastodon.socialOne aspect of open source development that some organisations have difficulty with, is that it's such a good signal of an organisation's resource priorities. There's no point putting out a statement saying you're still committed to something, when a key project repo hasn't had a commit in months.
@frankel@mastodon.topIn the previous post, I described the Seasons project: a #timelapse of hundreds of pictures taken from nearly the same viewpoint over the years. The hardest challenge wasn’t taking the pictures or assembling them, but aligning them.
I’m a human being, not a tripod. The position changes ever so slightly, and so does the exact angle.
Alignment is the process of warping each photo so it…
@anderelampe@chaos.social
@unixsteve@social.linux.pizzaI have written up my Masters degree research project in a less-academic, more technical style, and in half the word count. I did enjoy the project and I do think that it has some interesting findings (such as 3,500 fraudulent login attempts per day) and provides useful results on password policies and approaches for securing SSH servers on today's internet.
"When you put a Linux server on the internet with a running SSH service, anecdotally people will confirm that you will s…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource calls UK- and OpenAI-touted plans in 2025 for Stargate's ~£20B Cobalt site a PR stunt; OpenAI and Nscale failed to visit Cobalt or lodge planning forms (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialBerlin Buzzwords 2026 has come to an end, and it wouldn't have been possible without the support of our amazing partners. We're incredibly grateful to each of them for helping make it happen.
A big thank you to our Gold Partners OpenSearch Project, Qdrant, and Vespa.ai, our Recording Partner Bloomberg, our Silver Partners Hornet.dev, Linkup, NetApp Instaclustr, Thomson Reuters Lab, and Search Guard, our Bronze Partner OpenSource Connections
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAdvocacy groups including WGA West and The Tech Oversight Project have written a letter urging the FTC and DOJ to probe Netflix for antitrust issues (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-d19eb230-4263-11f1-8a96-47c…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeI'm wondering how plausible it would be for the new ngscopeclient CI to have a private web form (probably just restricted by simple https basic auth with creds shared among project maintainers) to request a build of a specific commit in order to enable testing of PRs.
The idea is that this will still allow pre-testing of PR content before we merge them, but won't allow any possibility for an outside attacker to trigger a build on our infrastructure without a maintainer at least…
@cdarwin@c.imAt a time of mounting political violence and shrinking civil rights,
the promise of civility and bridge-building is appealing.
Donors have flocked to finance these initiatives,
while universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy have eagerly embraced them.
“At a surface level, who could be against civility?”
said Bethany Moreton, a historian at Dartmouth College
whose forthcoming book focuses on the so-called “culture wars” in academia.
Bu…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsComputers used to be fun. I used to use Windows 9x, and it was unstable as hell, and you kept having to lean over backwards to get things to work. Then I used bleeding edge Linux, and at some point I've ended up running pure framebuffer tty for months because X11 was broken. But despite all the breakage (or maybe even because of it), it was fun. It was fun because random accidental breakage was the worst you could expect.
Nowadays, accidental breakage is rare. Things are relatively stable. However, every step of the way you have to watch out for bad actors. No, not criminals, they are rare. Evil corporations who are looking at every opportunity to fuck you up. Using computer is no longer fun, it's no longer a tool that helps you, and it's no longer your choice. You are forced to use it, and if you don't want to be hurt every step of the way, you have to spend all the effort on fighting back. And you're fucked up anyway, because even if you manage, your family and all the people around you won't care and will let their devices, their computers and their smartphones fuck you up.
I've started using FLOSS so many years ago, for the trivial reason that I didn't want to pay for software. I stayed because I enjoyed doing it. And I wanted to make a difference, I wanted to contribute positively to the world. Even if in a little way, but I wanted to be able to say that as much harm I've done to the planet, there's at least something positive to balance it out.
But nowadays I hate FLOSS. It's been overrun by the worst people in the world. The people who aren't happy with just fucking you up. They want everyone to keep fucking everyone up. It's the kind of horror where whatever you do, it turns out you're causing harm.
I don't trust my #Gentoo #packaging work anymore. So much of the software I touch turns out to be #slop. When I file a pull request, I'm worried it will trigger #LLM reviews. When I file a bug, I'm worried it will trigger LLM responses. And today, I've learned that my old bug report to a #NoAI project resulted in a dozen slop pull requests already. Whatever you do, #AI folks smile and tell you "see, you fucked up the world even more after all".
Honestly, I don't know what to do. I hate all of this so much. But even if I managed to figure out something else to do for a living, I can't escape computers. And if I stop doing them, if I stop fighting them, I will only end up being fucked up more.
#NoLLM #AI #FreeSoftware
@adulau@infosec.exchangeEU project proposals have become a bureaucratic endurance test.
The application process is painfully long, the evaluations often opaque, and rejection letters can feel almost dismissive. Even when a proposal succeeds, far too much of the budget disappears into compliance, coordination, reporting, controls, and audits.
When roughly 60% of resources go to administration rather than impact, something is fundamentally broken.
Europe cannot afford to turn innovation into paperwo…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
http…
@theodric@social.linux.pizza @cdarwin@c.imLutfi Dervishi, 58, an independent political analyst, said he had grown up before the collapse of Communism and looked up to the United States as a beacon for the rule of law and media freedom.
“I never in my wildest dreams thought that Americans would be looking to Albania for inspiration,” he said.
The Albanian protesters have inspired mainly American progressives.
Senator Bernie Sanders hailed them on X as the vanguard of resistance against the “global oligarchy,”
@ddrake@mathstodon.xyz🧵 1/3
I've followed the story of Anthropic's new Mythose model. Some say the Project Glasswing stuff is, at its root, just a marketing stunt; others say this is a really, really big deal. The truth, no doubt, is somewhere in the middle, and I don't have any particular insight there.
But it does sound like this new model shows particular improvement at chaining together multiple bugs and vulnerabilities to create exploits.
We are seeing lots of very deep research…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeSwitch project continues to make progress, although at a slow pace.
Spent a couple hours at my friend's shop tooling up the PnP for populating the back side of the remaining line cards, but didn't have time to actually run the job.
25G SI tuning is going well, I'm carefully rerouting all four of the 25G pairs and doing a ton of simulations to make sure I absolutely nail it.
The rest of the transceiver lines are going to get a once-over but they're 5 Gbps so …
@cdarwin@c.imIran’s parliament speaker and chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, signalled Iran has yet to fully respond to the US attempt to reopen the waterway.
“We know full well that the continuation of the status quo is intolerable for America;
while we have not even begun yet,”
he said in a post on X.
His statement did not mention negotiations with the US that are now in the form of passing messages via Pakistan.
Hapag-Lloyd AG, one of the world’s largest container…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeGot the Windows CI runner building and passing tests on the dashboard! Tonight I'll try and finish the Arch runner then move on to Fedora.
At that point I think I'll have every supported platform building in my infrastructure other than MacOS ARM64 which is going to be a whole other can of worms.
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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
http…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeThinking of submitting a tech talk on ngscopeclient to Vulkanised 2027.
This will be focusing on the architecture and some GPU acceleration tricks, more so than the feature set and end user side of things (i.e. the intended audience is GPU shader developers, some of which I hope to get interested in joining the project).
I'm throwing around potential titles, so far the best I have is "Real Time GB/s Oscilloscope Waveform Processing" but I'm sure I can improve on…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Heritage Foundation,
author of the Project 2025 roadmap guiding the second Trump administration’s legislative agenda,
has a new policy platform chock-full of ideas that could steer mothers out of the paid workforce.
In January, the right-wing organization released a 168-page report called
“Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years,”
which suggests that U.S. women have gotten a raw deal thanks in large part to contemporary femin…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza @cdarwin@c.imAt Cornell University in upstate New York, researchers are testing how a deep geothermal system can work
far from the tectonic boundaries and volcanoes that have long defined where distributing their energy is even viable.
By tapping into the planet's internal warmth, the project, known as
"Earth Source Heat",
could supply the 2,300-acre
(931-hectare) campus in Ithaca with fossil fuel-free heat to help the university become carbon neutral by 2035.…
