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@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2025-06-11 13:46:25

Dupont Circle: The Birthplace of Television
wtop.com/dc/2025/06/only-on-wt

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-12 05:45:55

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Alvarius B:
🎵 God Only Be Without You
#AlvariusB
suncitygirls.bandcamp.com/trac
open.spotify.com/track/49hSdac

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-06-11 09:59:04

Calculating water/energy usage for "AI" per token is a bit problematic: A data center has a massive base load even if nobody uses it just by sheer existence. And since we have no actual data for any of the popular platforms all numbers floating around are problematic and not very useful.
Like how much power does one of those servers NVIDIA cards really save if its utilization is only 50%? And are the overhead costs actually counted?

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2025-06-11 09:51:03

Why Do Start-ups? (2025) - Is getting rich the only reason to found a start-up? #podcast #startup #why -

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2025-06-11 16:51:20

@… here at peloton engineering we only allow cyclical dependencies

@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-11 17:54:50

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Beach Boys:
🎵 God Only Knows
#NowPlaying #TheBeachBoys
abstractfunktheory.bandcamp.co
open.spotify.com/track/1Umw3vh

@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-11 20:01:18

The first MS-A2 node is up and it only took the entire day. After fixing a ton of networking issues across the homelab I've got all the VMs running on the new node. The old nodes have been decomissioned which kinda marks a milestone. Still need to get the other two new nodes into the cluster, but should be fairly straightforward and can wait until tomorrow.
#homelab

A screenshot of the `ranga` node's Proxmox WebUI showing all of the VMs online and working along with the proper CPU and RAM information (AMD R9 7945HX and 96GB)
The `ranga` node MS-A2 sitting on top of the minirack.  Both SFP+ ports are connected and online along with the 2.5GbE Intel NIC being online as well.
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2025-06-10 19:57:17

NASA: May 2025 was the 2nd warmest May on record, globally: 1.07°C above the 1951-1980 average. Only May 2024 was warmer.
Highest anomalies in the Siberian Arctic, Central Asia, and the West-Antarctic.
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

World map of temperature  anomalies May 2025. Very high in the Arctic and the West-Antarctic.
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com
2025-06-10 19:21:06

Just playing a bit of Dwarf Fortress in a biome where it rains poisonous mucus, so the surface is kind of tricky.
All my grazing animals died before I could reach a cavern layer (my incompetence).
Traders came but brought no food.
The only thing my dwarves have eaten for 2 years is turkey eggs.
Hopefully I can sort this out before they are all clad head to toe only in turkey leather.
Got some pigs but they take ages to grow to adulthood.
Spirits are amazing…

A screenshot from the game Dwarf Fortress showing the population count and their moods. There are 23 citizens, of which:
- 2 are ecstatic- 
- 4 are happy
- 11 are pleased
- 4 are content
- 2 are displeased
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-12 15:45:29

With militaries: amateurs focus on weapon systems like tanks & planes. Professionals focus on logistics.
kegseth is a drunk amateur misusing & abusing our soldiers.
“…snafu is…slapdash mission where…welfare of troops has not been…priority…service members described inadequate living conditions at…Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, on…outskirts of Los Angeles…soldiers are sleeping outside on cots…Others cited intermittent issues with food & fuel supplies.”

@publicvoit@graz.social
2025-06-12 08:51:37

@… is one of the very few (maybe the only!) platforms that do provide excellent default protection against megacorp #espionage and even state actors like #trojanhorses

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2025-06-11 13:59:34

Hmmm. Does this PicoBlade connector (J2) look too close to the PMOD to its left?
It only needs to get connected once during assembly, this won't be frequently actuated, so it's OK if it's a bit annoying as long as I don't like physically collide.
(The PMOD is just-in-case GPIO expansion and I have no plans to use it as of now)

KiCAD 3D render of a densely populated PCB with a PicoBlade series connector fairly close to an 0.1" right angle pin header socket

Hey, Mast Scary Monsters and SUPERGEEKS - can any of you Mac mavens tell me why the Music app only reports 25,298 tracks in my music folder whereas Roon reports 73,062? (This is after drag and dropping the folder into Music, an empty library.)
I've looked online, found nowt apart from other frustrated Mac users.

@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc
2025-06-09 18:05:25

„I wasn’t allowed to speak or offer legal advice to M in the courtroom, so without looking down for too long, I wrote in my notebook:
Ils vont essayer de terminer ton case—tu vas dire NON. Tu as besoin de temps pour trouver un avocat.“
nplusonemag.com/online-only/on

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2025-06-11 11:51:55

Only a year until the start of the next men's world cup! We've got 365 days (plus the tournament itself) to watch FIFA sink to new lows as it works hard to please its authoritarian (majority) host, all the while lining its pockets and those of its officials. Fans will once again pass the time desperately applying the sausage principle - don't ask how it's made - to the largest sporting event on the planet.

"For Glory's Sake - For Vengeance Sake - War"
The predicate is being laid.
There’s a very easy A to B if, after a day or two or three, you don’t see the violence stop,
you could imagine easily that Trump would use that as a pretext for a much more sweeping assertion of power.
So we are at a very, very dangerous time.
The rhetoric is maximal rhetoric. The deployment is relatively minimal, but I’m worried it’s only a matter of time before the depl…

@crell@phpc.social
2025-06-11 15:33:57

I don't mind solving hard and interesting problems.
But I do get unreasonably angry at tools that so clearly care about only one specific use case and give a big FU to any other, like the one I'm trying to solve.
#Programming #PHP

@samir@functional.computer
2025-06-11 10:43:04

@… I’m glad I’m not the only one. I worry the next version of iOS is going to make it completely unusable.

@trochee@dair-community.social
2025-06-12 04:22:30

For my next modern culture and media studies work, I'd like to use "THE SIMPLE NEW SOCIO-ECONOMICGEOPOLITICALBIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH" (TSR 1987)
(The eighties were a very weird time, y'all.)
(I found this in WCA #26, ZODIAC ATTACK)

A yellowed page from a 1987 comic book

Page reads (via Google OCR)

gaz-ə-'ti(ə)r\n:

THE SIMPLE NEW SOCIO-ECONOMICGEOPOLITICALBIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH TO D&D GAMEPLAY.

Even if you've been to the Grand Duchy of Karameikos before, you probably didn't know their vampires could walk under the sun and that sheep are not the only things that are sheared ..Thanks to the Gazetteer, an exciting new con-cept in gaming aids, now there's nothing you won't know about the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS world.

The Gaz…
The cover of West Coast Avengers #26
Subtitle ZODIAC ATTACK! 

A man dressed in orange chainmail and a half cowl mask stands on a table? with legs spread apart in the Marvel power stance. In one hand he brandishes a vaguely Prince-symbol-shaped thing which is emitting rings of Kirby dots. 

In the background, facing us, are silhouettes of various other supervillains (presumably zodiac) and in the foreground facing this guy and away from us are the assembled West Coast Avengers

Of note: iron Ma…
@pre@boing.world
2025-05-11 16:13:09

Make that 2nd in the entire world at Black Magic Hard Reckless Hell. 🤘
Was looking at my other favourite level "Boomtown". It seems to have only ever even been completed once in Hard Reckless Hell at all ever.
It's certainly very challenging. Barely get through the first minute. Hales and hales of bullets.

@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
2025-05-11 11:48:07

#Vietnam amid an unsustainable rush.
"The race to get out of China has gathered so much pace in recent weeks that a social media genre of fixers has surfaced to offer tips on how to reroute goods through not only Vietnam, but places like Thailand and Malaysia too."

@jake4480@c.im
2025-06-11 11:40:31

The original Jurassic Park flick was released in U.S. theaters today (June 11) in 1993. I was 13 at the time, and had actually read Crichton's book. I was psyched to see Jurassic Park in the theater, which I did, with my family. I loved it- it was wild. I was intrigued by dinosaurs then, and still am. But this was and still is the only JP movie I've seen- I never saw any of the sequels.
I've certainly had a crush on Laura Dern ever since 😍

The Jurassic Park movie poster, black background with dinosaur logo in black, red and white
Jurassic Park characters stare at a Brachiosaurus from a Jeep
Laura Dern and Sam Neill
The T-Rex and jeeps in the rain
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social
2025-06-11 04:34:33

Quanta Magazine's Stephen Ornes describes a novel algorithm that can factor large numbers using only one qubit. The technique relies on quantum oscillation, and although it has a catch (the larger the number being factored the more energy the oscillators expend), the work points to new ways to perform quantum computing.
"New Quantum Algorithm Factors Numbers With One Qubit
-The catch: It would require the energy of a few medium-size stars."

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2025-06-11 15:04:53

Back from a #cycling loop around the #ammersee !
Unfortunately I forgot to turn on my cycling computer for the first half hour 🥴 Yeah well, the red frame around the statistics page was quite clear but .. well.
Anyways! It was a nice ~50km loop with excellent weather (prepared with a lo…

A serene landscape scene featuring a body of water with boats gently floating on its surface. The water is surrounded by lush green trees, creating a tranquil and peaceful atmosphere. The sky above is a clear blue with white clouds adding a touch of whimsy to the scene.  A single tree with full foliage stands prominently in the foreground, adding a sense of depth and perspective to the composition.
A serene scene depicting a green bicycle parked on a grey road surrounded by lush grass and tall trees. The bicycle, with its green frame and black tires, stands out against the neutral background. The road stretches into the distance, disappearing into the horizon. No people are present in the image, only the solitary bicycle.
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.io
2025-06-11 16:28:10

If you are a vendor or developer for #macOS who has not yet moved to Universal 2 or ship a product only for the x86_64 architecture, there is extremely straight forward guidance for you here to update your product ASAP
#Apple #WWDC25
developer.apple.com/documentat

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-11 21:06:45

Yes, the only video game I play is #Warframe!
MR 26 – Wisp Is Love, Wisp Is Live
Ballas is dead, Margulis’s mercy, Lotus’s final kiss.
But Kaya Velasco? She is eternal.
Ballas gone, but she outlives sentient beings.
BALLAS DEAD, NOT KAYA! 😘 💋
I don’t care if she’s code and pixels, my heart’s got no patch notes!
They can’t stop me from loving a digital …

The image features a character with vibrant blue and pink hair, wearing a white and pink outfit with brown accents. The character is holding a transparent, glowing object in front of their chest, surrounded by blue electrical energy. The background is a solid pink color, enhancing the character's colorful appearance. The character's attire includes a white long-sleeved shirt with a pink vest, brown shoulder pads, and white pants with brown straps. The character's pose is dynamic, with arms rais…
@luana@wetdry.world
2025-06-11 11:00:36

Does AlarmKit let you make an alarm without a stop button, only having an “Open” button?
Would be really useful for apps like Alarmy that require you do do something (such as math or scanning a barcode) before the alarm stops.
#wwdc

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-06-11 14:43:46

It’s looking like Saturday’s No Kings mobilizations are going to be even bigger than Hands Off!
We need to show up by the millions to demonstrate that Trump’s tyrannic crackdown is only deepening our resolve.
Find a peaceful protest nearby:
nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivi

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-06-11 14:30:47

On expected #V2G returns: “Given the Netherlands’ more strained grid, Faton believes savings will be even higher there.”
Tough bet in a country where grid operators provide no financial incentives to residential customers to shift demand, let alone support the local grid with V2G.

@unixorn@hachyderm.io
2025-05-12 16:12:00

OH:
In other words, this is a bad policy that would only be pursued by people who hadn't thought through the consequences that probably harms everyone for no reason.
#uspol

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-05-11 10:11:05

The only jury I've ever been on faced a question about resisting arrest. The defendant was tackled by an officer and initially fought back (or so the officer claimed). The officer was wearing a police uniform, but we acquitted on the charge, because the defendant was tackled from behind and there was reasonable doubt as to whether the officer actually identified themselves verbally in a way that made it clear to the defendant they weren't being tackled by some random dude.
This ain't legal advice, but in situations where a kidnapper refuses to identify themselves, show a warrant, or even a badge number, I suspect a sufficiently white bystander might not be convicted on interference charges if they did something like a citizen's arrest of a suspicious out-of-town paramilitary type who was in the process of an extrajudicial kidnapping. If there are multiple kidnappers, to be effective you might need multiple people willing to face jail time for such interventions to be successful...
#resist #ICE #kidnapping
Just thinking about this in light of the recent kidnapping in the next town over where some fools called the city police thinking they might actually protect the community from an unlawful assault. Can't blame the fools too much because of how deep positive portrayals of cops are embedded in our media diet though...

@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2025-06-12 12:38:45

It's only a week away until the moving truck arrives and puts an end to our 16 years in Caledon. Today, I'm taking some time to squeeze in 9 holes of golf with my brother, who has a cottage close to our new home. My car is packed with 11 different plants that we split from our current garden, over 70 individual plants for the new house. Two planters will have to wait for the next trip.
#Moving #Gardening

@DiverDoc@mstdn.ca
2025-06-11 19:02:21

Yesterday and today I issued four handmade parking tickets, and left them on the windshield of each vehicle. I hope that when they return to their vehicle, they feel embarrassed. I am a below knee amputee. I am what most people would call disabled, however there are only a few areas of my life in which I actually feel disabled, and it is more accurate to describe me as having an impairment rather than a disability.

@usul@piaille.fr
2025-06-11 14:27:03

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 is that still named the slashdot effect, or is slashdot effect something for old people only?

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-06-12 04:00:04

moreno_sociograms: Moreno's sociograms (1934)
Relationships between pupils in a classroom. A directed edge exists if the source wants to sit next to the target. Each child can only choose two others.
This network has 33 nodes and 64 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
networks.ske…

moreno_sociograms: Moreno's sociograms (1934). 33 nodes, 64 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/moreno_sociograms#grade_3
@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-06-09 19:12:32

(Trying this again, only this time with the right threat group. It's only Monday 🤪)
I had always assumed Salt Typhoon hit Comcast.
nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025

@bici@mastodon.social
2025-06-12 00:04:45

God Only Knows
#beachboys

@steadystatemcr@mstdn.social
2025-06-11 08:13:21

If only landlords elsewhere in #GreaterManchester were selective.
'We’re being picky - it can't be filled with vape shops and barbers' - Manchester Evening News

@laurentperrinet@neuromatch.social
2025-05-12 07:04:15

#generativeAI experiment : for the page of software package, I am trying to generate a woman computer vision scientist in a superman costume...
I tried different ways to force the generated images to depict a woman, but with no success : I only get the same male scientist!

generated images
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2025-06-11 03:49:02

"The disconnection between designers and users has let user interfaces to drift off to a space where only designers are satisfied by them. It is time to remember the users trying to find those buttons, trying to bend those spoons, and to take their satisfaction into account, too."
d…

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-06-10 21:36:40

Just heard another story on Gaza…
I think my mind was poisoned by OSC. I no longer remember which one but in one of his dystopian futures there’s been a solution to the problem of The Levant: a solid plate of Trinitite from the Euphrates to the Mediterranean. If I recall correctly, he didn’t really go into how it got that way, just tossed in the fact that this was a solution which had been implemented, without details.
I can’t stop seeing that as the only way this stupid fight wi…

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2025-06-11 05:47:04
@paulwermer@sfba.social
2025-06-11 05:47:04
@Xexyz@mastodon.me.uk
2025-04-11 10:15:43

Densetsu no Stafy: spin spin spin
When renewing my subscription to Nintendo Online it was only marginally more to upgrade to the expansion pass, which has given my sons access to the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC, will provide me with upgrades for Tears of the Kingdom on the Switch 2, and also gives me access to the N64, GBA and MD libraries. Tempted as I was to immediately start playing through Streets of Rage 2 again, I instead had a look for anything new and interesting.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-10 10:45:46

Amid Trump standoff, Smithsonian says only secretary can hire and fire (Washington Post)
washingtonpost.com/entertainme
memeorandum.com/250610/p11#a25

@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.us
2025-06-11 09:14:02

Jazzaria – Bad Cream
#byncnd

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2025-06-11 22:57:50

NSD-Imagery: A benchmark dataset for extending fMRI vision decoding methods to mental imagery arxiv.org/abs/2506.06898

Qualitative comparison of reconstruction methods on simple and complex stimuli seen during vision. Reconstructions selected for the figure are the best samples for each method and stimuli as assessed by quantitative performance.
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-06-12 06:18:17

This is the header from a german book seller's website. Notice, that the sorta *wishlist* heart icon badge maxes out at single digit 9 !
Is that the real world, where people only have like nine items that they save? Is this just for “design aesthetics”? My wishlist contains 107!

Four icons left to right, labeled in german (i’ll translate)

Local Store with icon map pin and a green badge with a white heart
My Account with generic person icon with a green badge like a checked todo arror
Wishlist with a heart icon where the green badge shows the string 9+
Shopping basket with a green badge showing the number 0
@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-06-08 21:53:43

Repeat it like a broken record, tell your friends and neighbors who are not Extremely Online and are not getting these firsthand reports:
The only people who were violent were ICE and the police.
The only people who were violent were ICE and the police.
The only people who were violent were ICE and the police.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-10 22:24:28

WR Adams: Joining Rams 'exactly what I needed' espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/454878

@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com
2025-05-11 11:25:13

Sonnet 048 - XLVIII
How careful was I when I took my way,
Each trifle under truest bars to thrust,
That to my use it might unused stay
From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust!
But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,
Most worthy comfort, now my greatest grief,
Thou best of dearest, and mine only care,
Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.
Thee have I not lock'd up in any chest,
Save where thou art not, though I feel t…

@rafa_font@mastodon.online
2025-06-09 07:19:42

MOSQUITOS ON SALE!!
Buy your own mosquitos.
Only males.
Only sterile males.
Only sterile males for companies that work in the field of pest control.
Only in Italy

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-10 19:17:54

This arxiv.org/abs/2505.00533 has been replaced.
initial toot: mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.info
2025-06-09 13:59:24

Irgendetwas stimmt mit nvmi nicht :(

(unkorrigiert, aber ich denke das Problem ist erkennbar…)
S el 54974) EXT4-fs (on-432): Remounting {ilesysten read-only

36454) EXT4-s (on-432): L/0 error uhile uriting superblock

7765) EXTd-f< (dn-d32): Remountlng fLlesysten read-only

55137] EXT4-fs (dn-¢32): 1/0 error uhile uriting superblock

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@arXiv_csCV_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-12 10:15:41

InterActHuman: Multi-Concept Human Animation with Layout-Aligned Audio Conditions
Zhenzhi Wang, Jiaqi Yang, Jianwen Jiang, Chao Liang, Gaojie Lin, Zerong Zheng, Ceyuan Yang, Dahua Lin
arxiv.org/abs/2506.09984

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-10 17:23:53

Is there anything I can put in robots.txt that will stop Scrapy?
Failing that, let’s take the ship up and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-09 21:41:02

Apple says macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last release of macOS that supports Intel Macs, with future macOS versions only available to Apple Silicon Macs (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)
9to5mac.com/2025/06/09/apple-w

@arXiv_csLO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-12 07:38:31

From Partial to Monadic: Combinatory Algebra with Effects
Liron Cohen (BGU), Ariel Grunfeld (BGU), Dominik Kirst (PICUBE), \'Etienne Miquey (I2M)
arxiv.org/abs/2506.09453

@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-12 08:40:41

Dataset of News Articles with Provenance Metadata for Media Relevance Assessment
Tomas Peterka, Matyas Bohacek
arxiv.org/abs/2506.09847

@arXiv_eessSP_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-11 08:01:05

Graph signal aware decomposition of dynamic networks via latent graphs
Bishwadeep Das, Andrei Buciulea, Antonio G. Marques, Elvin Isufi
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08519

@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-12 10:07:31

Device Independent Quantum Key Activation
Bora Ulu, Nicolas Brunner, Mirjam Weilenmann
arxiv.org/abs/2506.09772 arxiv…

@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-11 08:35:15

MoRE: Mixture of Residual Experts for Humanoid Lifelike Gaits Learning on Complex Terrains
Dewei Wang, Xinmiao Wang, Xinzhe Liu, Jiyuan Shi, Yingnan Zhao, Chenjia Bai, Xuelong Li
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08840

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-06-09 20:45:06

I read this press release and I think the only thing I found interesting was the bit about improved accessibility...
apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/app

@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-11 07:34:53

One Patch to Rule Them All: Transforming Static Patches into Dynamic Attacks in the Physical World
Xingshuo Han, Chen Ling, Shiyi Yao, Haozhao Wang, Hangcheng Liu, Yutong Wu, Shengmin Xu, Changhai Ou, Xinyi Huang, Tianwei Zhang
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08482

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-11 15:46:40

ESPN's worries about Dak Prescott's health are warranted, but that's not top concern cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story

@jhutar@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-11 09:39:55

OK, did not knew that and that last line saved me quite some time today:
$ unset my_var
$ echo "${my_var:-default}"
default
$ my_var=""
$ echo "${my_var:-default}"
default
$ unset my_var
$ echo "${my_var-default}"
default
$ my_var=""
$ echo "${my_var-default}"
It is so cool when you are not a first one who needs default value for variable but only if not set, not when emp…

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2025-06-12 03:16:01

Cursed idea: push-pull logic family similar to CMOS (i.e. not using resistors like PMOS or NMOS logic did).
But only using NMOS transistors.
Low side: standard NMOS with body at ground
High side: NMOS with body at Vdd and charge pump gate drive boost like fancy low Rds(on) high side load switches use.

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-11 07:56:35

Implementing Keyword Spotting on the MCUX947 Microcontroller with Integrated NPU
Petar Jaku\v{s}, Hrvoje D\v{z}apo
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08911

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-06-06 19:12:36

Some statistics about all robotic #LunarLanding attempts so far from 1965 to 2025 compiled from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ and scicomm.xyz/@AkaSci@fosstodon. in which I only count those for which descent to the surface had been initiated, not missions lost at launch or on the way - in a nutshell ~70% of all landings by government agencies went well (essentially the same rate 60 years ago and now!) but only ~30% by private companies. Here goes ...
There have been two separate periods of soft lunar landing attempts of ca. a dozen years each, from 1965 to 1976 and 2013 to 2025 (ongoing) with a huge gap between them.
In the first interval there were 20 attempts with 13 successes (Luna 9, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 24 and Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7), one partial success (Luna 23, counting as 50%) and 6 failures (Luna 5, 7, 8, 15 and 18 and Surveyor 4), so the success rate was 13.5/20 = 68 %. All missions were by - the Soviet and U.S. - governments.
In the second interval there were so far 14 attempts with 6 full successes (Chang'e-3, 4, 5 and 6, Vikram 2 and Blue Ghost), three partial successes (SLIM, IM-1 and 2, counting as 75%, 50% and 25%, respectively) and 5 failures (Beresheet, Vikram 1, Hakuto-R 1 and 2 and Luna 25) so the success rate was 7.5 / 14 = 54%.
But looking only at the government missions it was 72%, slighly up from 50 years ago. While for the commercial attempts it was only 29%. In total the success rate was 19 (18 government-run) missions out of 34 (28) attempts or 62% but 69% for governments only. And if you throw in the 6 Apollo landings, the total success rate rises to 68% and the government-only rate goes even up to 75%.

@blaise@mastodon.cloud
2025-06-10 19:07:17

It's almost like the only way to prevent your entire life from being used against you is for someone to pass a law...
404media.co/airlines-dont-want

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-06-09 21:46:44

As men's USA soccer continues to call each other names I'm reminded why I only like women's soccer.
Also why previous Carly Lloyd statements have seemed out of tune with the rest of the sport.

@arXiv_eessIV_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-11 08:06:05

Biologically Inspired Deep Learning Approaches for Fetal Ultrasound Image Classification
Rinat Prochii, Elizaveta Dakhova, Pavel Birulin, Maxim Sharaev
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08623

@ncoca@social.coop
2025-05-09 13:31:16

This headline is a *bit* deceptive. Only visa holders from two countries in #Asia are impacted - #China and #NorthKorea
Of course, North Koreans can't get visas, so it really only applies to

@arXiv_csET_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-11 07:35:23

Educators' Perceptions of Large Language Models as Tutors: Comparing Human and AI Tutors in a Blind Text-only Setting
Sankalan Pal Chowdhury, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Donya Rooein, Dirk Hovy, Tanja K\"aser, Mrinmaya Sachan
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08702

@samir@functional.computer
2025-06-11 09:41:03

@… @… Only one way to find out.
So, about that bug bounty… I think you have a case.

@pre@boing.world
2025-05-10 19:15:09

Been playing Pistol Whip again. Such a great game. The Black Magic "hard" level, with Reckless and Hell options is ridiculously hard. Finishing at all is a feat.
Was wondering how the hell the top players managed to score so highly. I was in like 4th place thinking I was playing a practically perfect game.
But it turns out only with 188 hits. The top three, I noticed, has 189 hits! There's a secret dude!?
Found him, flying around in the sky mid level on the right.
Nice. That's me 3rd in the global leaderboard for Black Magic Hard Reckless Hell now then.
Maybe I shouldn't be giving the game away. If someone learns of the secret dude from this post and then beats me into 4th place I'll be miffed.
#vr #games #pistolWhip

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-06-12 08:00:04

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 5793 nodes and 45266 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013). 5793 nodes, 45266 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/facebook_organizations#L1

Amid Trump standoff, Smithsonian says only secretary can hire and fire
The Smithsonian’s Board of Regents said on Monday night that
“all personnel decisions” are directed by Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III,
10 days after Donald Trump claimed that he had fired the director of the institution’s National Portrait Gallery.
The board, which issued its statement after an all-day meeting Monday, also said that it supported Bunch’s “authority and management” of the Smithsonian…

@bici@mastodon.social
2025-06-12 15:53:29

Cycling in Ribble Valley
#Cycle routes
The Ribble Valley has miles of scenic country roads of which many are ideal for riding your bicycle. To the right are some downloadable maps and leaflets detailing these routes.​​​​
You can download several other routes across not only the Ribble Valley but Lancashire as a whole by visiting Lancashire County Council's dedicated

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-09 04:49:39

6 time zones, ~340,000,000 people, ~3,800,000 square miles.
Only 1.2 million sworn law enforcement officers, and only 2.86 million US military personnel, including active duty, National Guard, and Reserves.
Martial law is likely not feasible nationwide. Simply cannot be accomplished even if all LEOs and soldiers were eager to try.
They want to accomplish what 80 years ago was tough (could have gone either way) only in a place with ~21 times the space and ~7 times the peo…

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2025-06-11 14:54:37

Semi-anonymous Internet friend relationships must be so weird to people who aren't used to the culture.
Example 1: guy I've known on IRC for probably ten years and I consider a fairly good friend, I have his personal phone number, we talk quite often.
But I only know roughly what city he's in and his first name. He's in my phone as [first name] [irc handle].
Example 2: Catgirl I've known for a couple of years, she's been to my house, I've been to…

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-12 09:36:32

ErrorEraser: Unlearning Data Bias for Improved Continual Learning
Xuemei Cao, Hanlin Gu, Xin Yang, Bingjun Wei, Haoyang Liang, Xiangkun Wang, Tianrui Li
arxiv.org/abs/2506.09347

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-12 00:56:06

Christian McCaffrey says he feels 'great' at 49ers minicamp as he returns from injury-plagued 2024 season

cbssports.com/nfl/ne…

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2025-06-10 18:54:40

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@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-11 10:21:05

Optimizing Sparse SYK
Matthew Ding, Robbie King, Bobak T. Kiani, Eric R. Anschuetz
arxiv.org/abs/2506.09037 arxiv.org…

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-06-10 02:41:09

You want to customize the settings, right? Of course you do. Thats why you need settings for the settings.
But…what if you want to customer the •customizer•???
The why we invented Settings Settings Settings. Only from Apple. mastodon.social/@_inside/11465

@pre@boing.world
2025-05-10 22:29:22
Content warning: re: Doctor Who - The Story And The Engine
:tardis:

Nice gimmick with the shop window animating the stories as they're told, and it liking the simple story of Belinda saving a single life.
Not really clear if the Barber here is a story writer or a story collector. He seems to want credit as though he wrote them but also to not have a name to credit them to, and to have weaved some kinda story collecting machine. He surely can't take credit for all human stories? It was a beautiful machine: a story tree that's also a brain with a heart in it.
I find myself sympathetic with the aims of this barber anyway. Yes, do kill all the gods. Great plan! Lets do it.
I play this song from Julian Cope, Psychedelic Odin, in which he swears to undertake a holy task set by a group of River Nixes: Kill all the gods for us, oh do it well.
So I like a story teller killing gods, I don't really want his plans thwarted! Join him Doctor! Kill al
l the gods!
Beautiful big space spider, weaving all the stories into it's web. Not sure why it's there though. Seems like just outer-space with no spider would have done,
Always like the callbacks with all the prior doctor's faces too. His story is truely one of the most epic. Only Coronation Street has him beat for length 😆
This whole season is great.
#tv #watching #doctorWho

@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-11 08:30:15

Towards Biosignals-Free Autonomous Prosthetic Hand Control via Imitation Learning
Kaijie Shi, Wanglong Lu, Hanli Zhao, Vinicius Prado da Fonseca, Ting Zou, Xianta Jiang
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08795

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-11 16:15:19

3 sleepers critical to Cowboys success this season insidethestar.com/3-sleepers-c

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Foreboding only intensified Monday,
when Trump applauded the idea of arresting California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D),
followed by the mobilization of hundreds of active-duty Marines to augment the Guard members already in Los Angeles.

In a city that has increasingly found itself in the crosshairs of the federal government, turmoil can feel personal.
Local leaders accuse the Trump administration of ginning up a crisis for political gain,
and Angelenos from across …

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-11 18:15:01

2025 NFL Calendar: Important dates for the Dallas Cowboys insidethestar.com/2025-nfl-cal

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-12 09:59:31

Learning Obfuscations Of LLM Embedding Sequences: Stained Glass Transform
Jay Roberts, Kyle Mylonakis, Sidhartha Roy, Kaan Kale
arxiv.org/abs/2506.09452

@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-12 08:59:31

Aspect-Based Opinion Summarization with Argumentation Schemes
Wendi Zhou, Ameer Saadat-Yazd, Nadin Kokciyan
arxiv.org/abs/2506.09917

@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-12 10:11:01

Detecting (emergent) continuous symmetry of criticality via subsystem's entanglement spectrum
Bin-Bin Mao, Zhe Wang, Bin-Bin Chen, Zheng Yan
arxiv.org/abs/2506.09889

We are the revolution, apparently, so dangerous only a seasoned military can stop us.
The only problem, of course, is that Los Angeles is not in chaos on this particular sunny Sunday
and the vast majority of Angelenos are just trying to enjoy the weekend without becoming a federal prisoner.

@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-11 10:20:55

Fault-Tolerant Stabilizer Measurements in Surface Codes with Three-Qubit Gates
Josias Old, Stephan Tasler, Michael J. Hartmann, Markus M\"uller
arxiv.org/abs/2506.09029

Masked federal agents with military gear have been firing flash-bang grenades, teargas and rubber bullets at civilians in the streets of Los Angeles for the last three days.
On Saturday, Trump federalized the National Guard to help crush protests
— not just there but potentially anywhere in the U.S. where people demonstrate against federal law enforcement.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to send in the Marines.
They have come for immigrants, as they a…