@johnleonard@mastodon.socialWhoever thought it would be a good idea to rely on a handful of companies from a single country to maintain the UK’s digital infrastructure?
Well, the government for one.
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2026/why-cloud-first-has-…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comICE to maintain 'presence' at 13 airports and help with crowd control (Anna Giaritelli/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/4500317/ice-maintain-presence-13-airports-help-with-crowd-control/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p91#a260323p91
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNew Seahawks offensive coordinator Brian Fleury: Goal is 'to maintain' Klint Kubiak's offense https://www.nfl.com/news/new-seahawks-oc-brian-fleury-goal-is-to-maintain-klint-kubiak-s-offense
@cdarwin@c.imIran’s plan to maintain a chokehold on the strait by extracting a payment of $2m from each passing tanker has raised concerns that
“Tehran’s tollbooth” for Middle Eastern oil could lead to higher prices for years to come.
Within Tehran’s 10-point peace plan is a requirement that Iran and Oman will be free to charge a fee of up to $2m on each vessel transiting through the strait, according to reports.
Iran suggested this money would be used for reconstruction.
The sugge…
@nemobis@mamot.frI see that the European Commission is adopting that well-tested method for "simplification", called "let's rewrite all basic definitions in the law from scratch and throw 10 years of court rulings out of the window, so we can start anew!".
https://…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIBM reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $15.92B, vs. $15.62B est., software revenue up 11% to $7.05B, and maintains FY 2026 guidance; IBM drops ~6% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/22/ibm-q1-earnings-report-2026.html
@drewmcmanus@hachyderm.io“Even small adjustments, which are easier to both begin and maintain, can have a lasting effect on your health over time.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/well/small-changes-for-better-health.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dVA.7SYp.CNgm0U8oCZ-8&smid=url-share
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI've been in my career long enough that there are some things that I used to be exceptional at that I literally have no idea about now. It will never not be hilarious to me how long it takes me to debug any LAMP stack problem now - but I once taught some of the people who lead and maintain these things today.
(Cloudflare rules were obscuring a problem that Wordpress hid the error message of and tl;dr Apache uses an older version of PHP which was missing the XML extension. Got there eventually!)
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineThe closure of the Strait of Hormuz, due to potus’ war of choice, cuts off sulfur shipments, and so endangers *checks notes* the United States’ ability to wage war. Behold: the self defeating military!
“Chemicals like sulfuric acid…can determine whether the US military can maintain industrial base production of electrical and digital systems needed to sustain the fight as munitions are expended and combat losses mount.”
@benb@osintua.eu⚡️ UKRAINE will maintain 800K ARMY after WAR, – Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/05/ukraine-will-maintain-k-army.html
@outer@mas.to@…
Hi, Anna! Welcome to Mastodon! May your days get better and better.
"Programming sucks. Code sucks. It's hard to read, hard to test, and hard to maintain. Only a handful of people can understand any particular software project."
I agree. I was lucky to do a lot of my programming alone, and in small teams. That helped a lot. I co…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzNASA is taking steps to potentially roll back the #ArtemisII rocket and Orion spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after overnight Feb. 21 observing interrupted flow of helium to the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s interim cryogenic propulsion stage: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/21/nasa-troubleshooting-artemis-ii-rocket-upper-stage-issue-preparing-to-roll-back/ - the upper stage uses helium to maintain the proper environmental conditions for the stage’s engine and to pressurize liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant tanks; the systems worked during NASA’s Artemis II wet dress rehearsals, but teams were not able to properly flow helium during normal operations and reconfigurations following the wet dress rehearsal that concluded Feb. 19.
@crell@phpc.socialRE: https://furry.engineer/@ret/116261128430565318
So, who is sufficiently skilled to maintain a fork of systemd?
@servelan@newsie.social'What is needed is not the abolition of masculinity, but its recovery. [A] public ethic of manhood that refuses the rot. It says a man can drink a beer, drive a truck, work with his hands, serve in uniform, love his country, and still maintain a zero-tolerance toward rape, coercion, harassment, and every form of “rape-adjacent” behavior that has long been excused as just how men are.'
Online Rape Academies? Enough. It's time to reset the paradigm.
https://whiskeyleaks.org/online-rape-academies-enough-its-time-to-reset-the-paradigm/
@hex@kolektiva.socialAfter the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.
@cheryanne@aus.socialBeautiful With Plants
Shows you how to use everyday food to support your skin's glow and maintain your youthfulness...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/beautiful-with-plants/
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Interesting JavaScript bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression in ESLint.
https://eslint.org/blog/2022/07/interesting-bugs-caught-by-no-constant-binary-expression/
saved 2023-11-09
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialYou know what's wild? If a piece of software isn't in your native language, it's now relatively easy to just maintain a fork that is, ongoing.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzFinal Cowboys 7-round mock draft: Trade up for Bailey, grab 2 LBs CB https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/19/cowboys-mock-draft-david-bailey-avioen-terrell/89695339007/
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsKinda related to #Gentoo, so cool" or "they stopped using it, so sad". And I'm like, "why should we care?"
Do they donate money to Gentoo? They don't. And if they did, it would probably come with obligations making this not worth it.
Do they contribute back? Rarely, and if they do, they are unreliable. They benefit more than we do. They just want to dump the packages they need, quickly duct taped together, so that we would maintain them going forward. Their employees rarely reveal that they're paid to do this, and if they do, it's not so they'd be held to higher standards, but to emphasize their importance: "you must placate us."
Well, sometimes they hire Gentoo developers. It's nice that these developers get some gratification for their work, especially if they're able to continue contributing on work time. But in the end, company priorities win. We are either left with loads of new packages with no maintainer and unclear significance, or a Google employee who appeared every once in a while to dump a bunch of ChromeOS patches and never bothered handling the fallout.
So, sorry, but I'd rather care for volunteers who want to make Gentoo better, than companies who see some profit incentive in it.
PS. I'm probably focusing too much on the negative aspects, and we likely had some positive interactions that are far less known and usually don't meet with such fanfare.
#FreeSoftware
@UP8@mastodon.social😈 Enzymes work as 'Maxwell's demon' by using memory stored as motion
#enzymes
@rmdes@mstdn.socialProbably that everyone has its own setup but when I read this I’m like, really?, all of this just to operate claude ? is there such thing as “claude burnout” ?
if not it should be patented because all these plugins are making it harder to use, maintain, memorise, its like a server overload
https://rmendes.net/bookmark…
@hex@kolektiva.socialIt's also critical to understand the Democratic Party as part of the counter-insurgency program. While the current regime has no ability to recover, the state can maintain a fallback position with the Democratic Party.
@brian_gettler@mas.toSince the university library got rid of late fees and began automatically renewing loans instead, my house has become something of a minor branch. I figure my colleagues and I are providing storage, in the process helping to maintain the collection from which books would otherwise have to be purged.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeEach Saturday, Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and paid subscribers a digest of the best infosec-related long reads we couldn't cover in the crazy mix of daily news.
This week's selection covers,
--Tracking down the culprits in the Polish energy cyberattack,
--How China uses geo-blocking as reverse censorship,
--How Russia maneuvered spy satellites alongside Western satellites,
--Secure provenance methods can maintain effective cybersecurity,
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIBM closes its $11B deal for data streaming company Confluent, unveiled last December; CEO Arvind Krishna expects IBM to maintain its head count over five years (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/ibm-closes
@cdarwin@c.imCALAIS, a trade and transit hub on the north coast of France, is also a portal to an underground world
—standing on the deck of a ferry as it arrives at the port city, you might spot people riding on the back of a 39-foot-tall, fire-breathing creature that’s creeping along the waterfront.
Part sculpture, part machine, part puppet, the dragon has become a beloved piece of interactive street theater—but its charming ways require the devotion of an entire entourage.
@gwire@mastodon.socialPeople are incorporating the UK Fuel Finder API into their Home Assistant setups.
https://github.com/philmale/UK-Fuel-Finder
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRams maintain interest in A.J. Brown trade with Eagles: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7115737/2026/03/13/eagles-rams-aj-brown-trade-talks/
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialWe see how El Cheato has blocked the opening of the new bridge between Canada and the US in Detroit - apparently in an effort to maintain a flow of bridge toll revenue from a competing bridge owned by a Cheato-buddy.
If I were Canada I might consider retaliation by shutting down the older Cheato-buddy bridge.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIf you don’t have the resources to write and understand the code yourself, you don’t have the resources to maintain it either.
Any monkey with a keyboard can write code. Writing code has never been hard. People were churning out crappy code en masse way before generative AI and LLMs. I know because I’ve seen it, I’ve had to work with it, and I no doubt wrote (and continue to write) my share of it.
What’s never been easy, and what remains difficult, is figuring out the right probl…
@al3x@hachyderm.ioRE: https://mastodon.social/@isaiah/116223186970163061
Coding is not equivalent with "here's the app that we can sell/rent".
Coding is learning. Coding is experimenting. Coding is preparing to maintain. Coding is an experience.
Indeed, for a corporation all the above do not matter. Even worse, it represents costs. Unnecessary costs.
There are many other unnecessary costs but those creating them will tend to ignore them as they are in the decision making positions.
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaDoes a good farmer neglect a crop he has planted?
Does a good teacher overlook even the most humble student?
Does a good father allow a single child to starve?
Does a good programmer refuse to maintain his code?
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
@arXiv_csDS_bot@mastoxiv.pageIncremental (k, z)-Clustering on Graphs
Emilio Cruciani, Sebastian Forster, Antonis Skarlatos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08542 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08542 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08542
arXiv:2602.08542v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Given a weighted undirected graph, a number of clusters $k$, and an exponent $z$, the goal in the $(k, z)$-clustering problem on graphs is to select $k$ vertices as centers that minimize the sum of the distances raised to the power $z$ of each vertex to its closest center. In the dynamic setting, the graph is subject to adversarial edge updates, and the goal is to maintain explicitly an exact $(k, z)$-clustering solution in the induced shortest-path metric.
While efficient dynamic $k$-center approximation algorithms on graphs exist [Cruciani et al. SODA 2024], to the best of our knowledge, no prior work provides similar results for the dynamic $(k,z)$-clustering problem. As the main result of this paper, we develop a randomized incremental $(k, z)$-clustering algorithm that maintains with high probability a constant-factor approximation in a graph undergoing edge insertions with a total update time of $\tilde O(k m^{1 o(1)} k^{1 \frac{1}{\lambda}} m)$, where $\lambda \geq 1$ is an arbitrary fixed constant. Our incremental algorithm consists of two stages. In the first stage, we maintain a constant-factor bicriteria approximate solution of size $\tilde{O}(k)$ with a total update time of $m^{1 o(1)}$ over all adversarial edge insertions. This first stage is an intricate adaptation of the bicriteria approximation algorithm by Mettu and Plaxton [Machine Learning 2004] to incremental graphs. One of our key technical results is that the radii in their algorithm can be assumed to be non-decreasing while the approximation ratio remains constant, a property that may be of independent interest.
In the second stage, we maintain a constant-factor approximate $(k,z)$-clustering solution on a dynamic weighted instance induced by the bicriteria approximate solution. For this subproblem, we employ a dynamic spanner algorithm together with a static $(k,z)$-clustering algorithm.
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@zachleat@zachleat.com@… @… more to come here but I have pledged to maintain compatibility with 11ty Plugins/Ecosystem and you will be able to keep using the same build commands.
Importantly: this project is still me working on it an…
@adulau@infosec.exchangeWhat really impresses me is the creativity still thriving around the MISP project. I maintain MISP warning-lists for years to help filter false positives, and this week @… built a new stand-alone #rust application for fast warning-list lookups, independent of MISP.…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioHighly optimized code is of course extremely expensive to develop — both to build and maintain. But now even just-average-performance code is the more costly alternative.
And sure, grinding out a vibe-coded LLM horror so you can check that business box may leave you with code that’s not only especially buggy but RAM-hungry and CPU-hungry. And sure that’s expensive to deploy. But hey: your cloud spend is already preposterous, right? And high deployment costs are more predictable than high development costs…right?
3/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialUsing well-chosen public sources, i let NotebookLM and Kimi K2.5 generate a presentation on a subject, amazing quality and very few errors. Good inspiration for the real presentation i will make myself. AI is not only creating "slop", we have to really start more research about how we incorporate AI in our work-processes in a responsible way, how we don't become "dumber", maintain skills, learning and human creativity 🤔
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesCanada’s first fully Indigenous-owned department store closes amid funding challenges
https://www.thestar.com/business/canadas-first-fully-indigenous-owned-departmen…
@cheryanne@aus.socialExpat Mortgage Podcast
All about helping Australian expats secure and maintain a Australian mortgage whilst they're living and working overseas...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/expat-mortgage/
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social"...the real question is no longer whether Europe can afford to make the energy transition. It is whether it can afford not to. From a central banking perspective, the answer is clear."
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/date/2026/html/ecb.…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIn an interview, David Ellison says CNN would retain editorial independence if the WBD deal closes: "it's maintained at CBS and it will be maintained at CNN" (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotIf the use of #GenerativeAI continues to grow in academia, are universities which wish to maintain a reputation for excellence going to be forced to move to examining undergraduates by viva?
It is the only thing I can think of that would work, but it would be hugely expensive.
@servelan@newsie.socialHow Merck uses patents to help maintain Keytruda's exorbitant price - ICIJ
https://www.icij.org/investigations/cancer-calculus/keytruda-evergreening-patents-merck/
@deepthoughts10@infosec.exchangeReliaquest has a post on attacker’s use of .SCR files to install remote access software. SCR (screensaver) files _are_ executable files. If you don’t already, please block .scr files from being emailed to your end users. #cybersecurity
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaI used my fork of kwin_wayland all evening yesterday, and it was fine. I swear they're making the Wayland session bad on purpose just to suffer performatively. Whatever, I can maintain a patchset.
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialI'm genuinely embarrassed to use a MacBook Pro today. This is a terrible response from a “leader”. All I read is capitulation and a naive urge to tell folks to maintain a status quo that died a long time ago.
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/27/tim-c…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump touched off a redistricting arms race last year
by pushing Republican states to create more GOP-leaning congressional districts
to help his party maintain its thin majority in the House.
Texas, North Carolina and Missouri responded,
and then Democrats counterpunched by passing a referendum to create five new blue-leaning districts in California.
Virginia is the next biggest prize for Democrats;
Its 11 House seats are held by six Democrats and fi…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMintlify, which uses AI to help companies generate software documentation, raised a $45M Series B led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures at a $500M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-prompt/20
@ruario@vivaldi.net@… FWIW the flatpak (which i personally maintain) is not as secure as the deb. This is the main reason we did not make it official.
While flatpaks are inherently good (and better for most applications with no sandboxing) the use the same type of sandboxing as Chromium uses for interprocess sandboxing (namespace sandboxing). this causes the interprocess…
@laimis@mstdn.social4/ It's very neat to see this play out personally. I built loftyassist with major help from LLMs. Then LLMs took the need for loftyassist away :)
I will continue to support the site and I am now building AI agent interfaces for it. I am very curious to see how this plays out over the long term and how soon users of LoftyAssist die out completely. Or maybe they won't and Lofty.AI will become a hard to maintain soup of AI generated code. Let's see!
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgInteresting call for chapters:
Minimal Computing for Social and Cultural Heritage
❝ At a time when digital heritage infrastructures are increasingly shaped by platform-dependent systems, this volume asks a fundamental question: what forms of digital practice are genuinely sustainable, not only technically and economically, but socially and culturally, for the communities who produce and maintain heritage? ❞
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgInteresting call for chapters:
Minimal Computing for Social and Cultural Heritage
❝ At a time when digital heritage infrastructures are increasingly shaped by platform-dependent systems, this volume asks a fundamental question: what forms of digital practice are genuinely sustainable, not only technically and economically, but socially and culturally, for the communities who produce and maintain heritage? ❞
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgInteresting call for chapters:
Minimal Computing for Social and Cultural Heritage
❝ At a time when digital heritage infrastructures are increasingly shaped by platform-dependent systems, this volume asks a fundamental question: what forms of digital practice are genuinely sustainable, not only technically and economically, but socially and culturally, for the communities who produce and maintain heritage? ❞
@brian_gettler@mas.toFollowing federal cuts to history-focused organizations, the president of the Canadian Historical Association, Colin Coates, sent this letter to Marc Miller, the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture.
One thing might not be obvious: Coates's reference to Carney's recent Quebec City speech suggests Canadians' need for historical context right now. He doesn't agree with Carney's claims. In fact, most Canadian historians would dispute them.
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialFascism is the base state to which a high tech society devolves without the active effort to build and maintain liberatory institutions.
@grist@fosstodon.orgAre governments properly supporting the digital commons? Many adopt open source software but don't fund the upstream projects that maintain it. This amplifies a "tragedy of the commons" rather than being part of the solution. Governments have historically invented ways to shape the playing field - patents, public universities, copyright, taxes ... They can do it again!
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: surging memory and CPU costs could drive the retail price of a mainstream $900 notebook up by nearly 40% in 2026 to maintain current margin structures (TrendForce)
https://www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20260310-12959.html
@cdarwin@c.imIn an effort to crack down on nations it views as promoting terrorism,
the Trump administration has been carrying out a campaign of seizing tankers carrying oil,
-- a move the president has repeatedly characterized as a financial boon for Americans.
But there’s a problem.
The seizures have put the U.S. government in a financial bind.
The ships are highly expensive to maintain.
And the Trump administration cannot legally sell their oil without a judge’s p…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca @memeorandum@universeodon.comScouting America will alter its policies to maintain support from the US military, Pentagon says (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/scouting-america-pentagon-military-boy-scouts-14a5fc1521fcd1e51103638f6f504214
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p39#a260227p39
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWaterloo-based Mappedin, which uses AI and LiDAR to create and maintain 3D digital maps of indoor spaces, raised $24.5M, bringing its total funding to $35M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/04/…
@brian_gettler@mas.toHas anyone written a history of developer fees? I'd be especially interested in their use by governments to maintain low property taxes. Bonus points if the history focuses on Canada.
#histodons #taxation #RealEstate
@cdarwin@c.imAlthough both parties have
“strong incentives” to maintain a ceasefire,
the deal is “extremely precarious,”
says Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi,
professor of international relations of the Middle East at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
“We’re already seeing it being imperiled as we speak,
with ongoing attacks in Lebanon,
as well as reports of [Iranian] attacks in the Persian Gulf.”
@rmdes@mstdn.socialI have never really been a collector of anything. Maybe music for a while, back in the MP3 era, twenty years ago. Other than that, there was never something I felt passionate enough to collect, at least not in real life, not physical objects.
I never truly understood the collectors around me. To me, collecting always felt like a burden. Something you had to carry, move, store, maintain.
And yet, today, I realized something.…
@gwire@mastodon.socialJust saw someone on a YouTube video referring to the "Road Tax" in the UK.
There's no road tax - as in a tax that's specifically used to maintain UK highways - roads are maintained from general taxes.
It's a long-running anti-cyclist canard that cyclists use roads without contributing. The Conservatives promised - in 2018 - to make this real by ring-fencing Vehicle Excise Duty, but then quietly dropped this.
It doesn't help that AI assistants will …
@eaglw@social.linux.pizza#til that #altstorepal became free for all EU users, and that it’s possible to install AltStore classic from PAL. #sideloading it’s much easier to maintain now.
@fathermcgruder@jorts.horse @Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the White House is debating whether to allow Tencent to maintain stakes in US and Finnish video game companies; Tencent holds a 28% stake in Epic Games (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/dc140eb8-77e5-4b54-b643-637f66371ec2
@cdarwin@c.imThe general election will likely pit Talarico, a seminarian, against Ken Paxton, a philandering crook.
In Texas-adjusted terms, I like Talarico’s odds.
But a known scumbag has no reputation to maintain,
whereas the shine can come off a golden boy in one news cycle.
This is a risk that polling can’t capture.
By contrast, if Crockett’s defining quality is partisanship, what really matters is Trump’s popularity,
and the trajectory of his polling.
T…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn a memo to employees, xAI said both companies will maintain their separate branding and the joint venture is continuing to prepare for a possible IPO in 2026 (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-sends-staff-q-and-a-on-spacex-merge…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems @mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsThe key takeaways from the early part of the #chardet thread (I didn't read beyond the ~30 first comments, I have my limits).
1. People there love cosplaying lawyers. Except when the other side also starts cosplaying lawyers, in which case they suddenly divert to suggesting asking professional lawyers.
2. Almost nobody there is concerned with ethics or morality.
3. There's a lot of GPL haters there. Like, they seem the kind of people who don't really care about licensing at all, just used MIT in their projects because it was cool and they heard something about license incompatibility and now bash at everything that's (L)GPL.
4. People don't get that LLMs are statistical models and can't build anything from the ground up. All they can do is remix, which implies they use existing code for inspiration.
5. The maintainer who did the rewrite is a total asshole, and is perfectly aware of it.
Honestly, I'm truly waiting for the subsidizing to end and companies start charging obscene amounts for the use of LLMs. Of course, the reality is that we're totally fucked. We have a lot of projects that adapted a lot of #slop, and people who are being increasingly addicted to this shit. The moment they can't afford it, we'd be left with lots of broken code nobody wants to maintain.
And I definitely don't want to put my effort into packaging crap if its maintainers don't even bother trying.
#AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
The Liard River is #15 on our #CanadaRivers countdown, and it flows through Yukon, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories. Rising in the Saint Cyr Range of the Pelly Mountains in southeastern Yukon, it flows 1,115 km southeast through British Columbia, marking the northern end of the Rocky Mountains and then curving northeast back into Yukon and Northwest Territories, draining into the Mackenzie River at Fort Simpson. The river drains approximately 277,100 km2 of boreal forest and muskeg. Marked by steep drops in the upper reaches, it has an average flow of 2,446 m3/s and has been studied extensively for future hydroelectric. There are no permanent settlements on the river although Indigenous people maintain summer camps and lodges.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/liard-river
