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#rustlang 's 'as' keyword in it's use clause is nice when you want to use your local spelling:
use smart_leds::{colors as colours, SmartLedsWrite};
(and esp-hal-smartled works nicely using the esp's RMT (remote control unit) to drive the LEDs rather than bitbanging)).

My opinion:
1.) Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy) is good for the fediverse.
2.) Threads (https://www.threads.com) is good for the fediverse.
3.) If you disagree with #1 or #2, the good thing is that you can block either on a user-level. You don't need to hammer folks like @… for also being @….
4.) If someone is hurting your experience, you can block or report them. You can also create keyword filters to block haters. This is supposed to be enjoyable.

Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model that can make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/lyria-3/

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
Lyria 3 is now available in the Gemini app. Create custom, high-quality 30-second tracks from text and images.

Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model that can make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/lyria-3/

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
Lyria 3 is now available in the Gemini app. Create custom, high-quality 30-second tracks from text and images.

Nuke bug of the day: Nuke's color pipeline breaks with completely nonsensical errors whenever you add the keyword "default_view_transform:" to your OCIO configuration. That's really weird because it doesn't really do anything color-related except define which value the viewer should be set to initially.
#Nuke

Gemini 3 Flash is priced at $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3 per 1M output tokens, compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash's $0.30 per 1M input and $2.5 per 1M output (Tulsee Doshi/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-flash/

Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed
Gemini 3 Flash offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost.

When even #Firefox ends up in my Mastodon filters. What a timeline. #FuckAI

"Das Keyword muss genau 2,5% im Text vorkommen!" 📉
Dieser Mythos hält sich wacker seit 2010.
Tools, die Ampeln auf Rot schalten, weil ein Wort einmal zu wenig drin steht, sollte man kündigen.
Google versteht Themen und Kontexte (Semantik).
Ob das Wort nun 5x oder 7x vorkommt, ist dem Algorithmus egal, solange der Text das Thema umfassend behandelt.
Lesbarkeit schlägt Mathematik. Immer. 📖

The Deceptive Phrase Behind Trump’s Medicaid Purge – Mother Jones #ablebodied

The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge
How the idea of “able-bodied” is abused

Marriage annulled in the Netherlands because the wedding vows, allegedly written by ChatGPT, did not contain the phrasing required by Dutch law.
Here's the court's decision:
https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/deta

Swift: the language with a `sending` keyword that's specifically designed for non-`Sendable` values.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keyword-search/id1558453954 seems to work well in Safari Version 18.6 (20621.3.11.11.3)

there's something very amusing to me in how the `go` keyword is among the least essential parts of the Go language
it could've been a part of the standard library, like every other language does it, and absolutely nothing of value would be lost
(`select` is a different and much more complicated story)

Google releases TranslateGemma, a suite of Gemma 3-based open translation models available in 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes with support for 55 languages (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/translategemma/

TranslateGemma: A new suite of open translation models
TranslateGemma is a new family of open translation models built on Gemma 3.

I have 28 keyword filters in Mastodon across the categories AI, Bluesky, Donations, Instagram/Threads, Newsletter, Substack, Twitter, Defederate, and Mastodon HOA, and it works so incredibly well that I wish I could set up the same thing in GtS.

An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/x-wants-its-haters-back

X wants its haters back
Product chief Nikita Bier's message to journalists who left: “We have to earn their trust.”

Ooer missus
@… https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/115656952528729283

Nicht jedes Business braucht eine Website 🙀
Gerade viele kleinen Unternehmen, Freelancer und Selbstständige, die lokale Kunden werben, sollten ihre Zeit lieber in das Anlegen und Pflegen eines Google Business Profils stecken 🗺️📌
Die wichtigsten Faktoren um mit einem Google Business Profil in der Suche aufzutauchen sind:
⭐ Der Name (am besten direkt mit Keyword)
⭐ Eine ausführliche Beschreibung mit allen Fakten zum Unternehmen.
⭐ Bewertungen (auch erstmal von Fre…

Okay Shutterstock, I get the sentiment, but isn't it too much to suggest "animals in the wild" as a keyword for a photo of human crowd at the presidential rally, eh?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox#w_how-to-use-keywords-with-bookmarks
https://old.reddit.com/r/Safari/comments/pmu979/possible_to_have_keyword_shortcuts_like_firefox/
https://safarikeywordsearch.aurlien.net

Investigation: Google removed AI Overviews for two liver health queries after expert inaccuracy warnings, but slight keyword tweaks still trigger AI responses (Andrew Gregory/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/11…

@… Careful curation. Keeping my mastodon focused on gamedevs instead of games helps: My broader bsky follows are all doom. Keyword filters for all kinds of cheeto-man topics, GoFundMe, and other topics correlated with life going wrong.
Add a content filter for ice and be okay with missing some posts about a cool ice level. Or use …

An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/x-wants-its-haters-back

X wants its haters back
Product chief Nikita Bier's message to journalists who left: “We have to earn their trust.”

Mehr Content ist nicht immer besser. Oft ist es Selbstsabotage. 🔪
Viele Blogs produzieren jede Woche Artikel zum fast gleichen Thema.
Das Ergebnis: Keyword-Kannibalisierung. Drei Artikel konkurrieren um dasselbe Keyword, keiner rankt richtig, weil Google nicht weiß, welcher der "beste" ist.
Statt immer neue URLs zu erzeugen, ist es oft schlauer, bestehende Artikel zu aktualisieren und zu erweitern (Content Refresh).
Qualität und Tiefe schlagen Frequenz. Imme…

Google updates Gemini 3 Deep Think to better solve modern science, research, and engineering challenges and expands it via the Gemini API to some researchers (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gem…

Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering
We’re releasing a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, our specialized reasoning mode.

Google DeepMind launches an enhanced Gemini Deep Research agent accessible to developers via its new Interactions API, along with a new DeepSearchQA benchmark (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/technology/developers/deep-research-agent-gemini-api/

Build with Gemini Deep Research
We have reimagined Gemini Deep Research to be more powerful than ever, now accessible to developers via the new Interactions API.

Google says Gemini 3 Pro sets new vision AI benchmark records, including in complex visual reasoning, beating Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 in some categories (Rohan Doshi/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-vision/

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
Build with Gemini 3 Pro, the best model in the world for multimodal capabilities.