2026-02-27 04:52:47
It used to be that to use any kind of software you would have a paper manual explaining how to do everything in detail.
Then it moved on to the manual being on the computer, why not, it had the added benefit of being searchable.
Then it moved on to being fully online, slightly annoying since you can't figure stuff out without internet, but OK.
Now.. You get weird "get help" interfaces for which you still need to get online but do not actually provide any useful info. I can't reme…
Kurwa Start!
https://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05163901.pdf
(yea I'm having fun again 🫠)
I have some critiques of "Fighting in the Streets." The last chapter would get you killed. The coms advice are absolutely terrible, which makes me question other elements of the book. But it does provide a framework for thinking about what a militant resistance looks like, and what framework needs to exist to make it possible.
It's a short read, and worth it for the thought experiment. You can read TM 31-210 all you want, but it won't do anything for you without the social framework that makes more than one attack possible. It always comes back to community building, even if (especially if) you're wanting to make sure militant resistance is an option on the table.
https://archive.org/download/fighting-in-the-streets-a-manual-of-urban-guerilla-warfare-urbano/Fighting in the streets, a manual of urban guerilla warfare - Urbano_text.pdf
📉 Reduces token consumption by 99%! From ~47,000 tokens to ~400 tokens when using 6 MCP servers with 60 tools - massive savings for AI agent workflows
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Australian freight software maker WiseTech plans to cut ~2,000 jobs, or ~30% of its workforce, this fiscal year and next, amid CEO Zubin Appoo's embrace of AI (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Wondering what do you call this? Is there a name for this kind of navigation?
Manual pagination? Slow mode? Finite scrolling? Windowed browsing?
#PhanpyExperiment #UX #Design
Having a lot of fun with the Voigtländer Nokton 50mm f/1 and 75mm f/1.5 manual focus lenses for Canon RF mount https://www.flickr.com/photos/kohlmannj/55165385824/in/album-72177720332529506
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[2/3]:
- Diffusion Modulation via Environment Mechanism Modeling for Planning
Hanping Zhang, Yuhong Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20422 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130110576555049
- Heterogeneity-Aware Client Selection Methodology For Efficient Federated Learning
Nihal Balivada, Shrey Gupta, Shashank Shreedhar Bhatt, Suyash Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20450 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_bot/116130191233002036
- Prior-Agnostic Incentive-Compatible Exploration
Ramya Ramalingam, Osbert Bastani, Aaron Roth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20465 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_bot/116130245628406144
- PhyGHT: Physics-Guided HyperGraph Transformer for Signal Purification at the HL-LHC
Mohammed Rakib, Luke Vaughan, Shivang Patel, Flera Rizatdinova, Alexander Khanov, Atriya Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20475 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepex_bot/116130242350426528
- ActionEngine: From Reactive to Programmatic GUI Agents via State Machine Memory
Zhong, Faisal, Fran\c{c}a, Leesatapornwongsa, Szekeres, Rong, Nath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20502 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130180718734838
- Inner Speech as Behavior Guides: Steerable Imitation of Diverse Behaviors for Human-AI coordination
Rakshit Trivedi, Kartik Sharma, David C Parkes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20517 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130223344095649
- Stop-Think-AutoRegress: Language Modeling with Latent Diffusion Planning
Lovelace, Belardi, Zalouk, Polavaram, Kundurthy, Weinberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20528 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130628998822849
- Standard Transformers Achieve the Minimax Rate in Nonparametric Regression with $C^{s,\lambda}$ T...
Yanming Lai, Defeng Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20555 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130512372759166
- Personal Information Parroting in Language Models
Nishant Subramani, Kshitish Ghate, Mona Diab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20580 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130630309564204
- Characterizing Online and Private Learnability under Distributional Constraints via Generalized S...
Mo\"ise Blanchard, Abhishek Shetty, Alexander Rakhlin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20585 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130525452248337
- Amortized Bayesian inference for actigraph time sheet data from mobile devices
Daniel Zhou, Sudipto Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20611 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130543144314661
- Knowing the Unknown: Interpretable Open-World Object Detection via Concept Decomposition Model
Xueqiang Lv, Shizhou Zhang, Yinghui Xing, Di Xu, Peng Wang, Yanning Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20616 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130795466851481
- On the Convergence of Stochastic Gradient Descent with Perturbed Forward-Backward Passes
Boao Kong, Hengrui Zhang, Kun Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20646 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathOC_bot/116130476952419594
- DANCE: Doubly Adaptive Neighborhood Conformal Estimation
Feng, Reich, Beaglehole, Luo, Park, Yoo, Huang, Mao, Boz, Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20652 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130551664144143
- Vision-Language Models for Ergonomic Assessment of Manual Lifting Tasks: Estimating Horizontal an...
Mohammad Sadra Rajabi, Aanuoluwapo Ojelade, Sunwook Kim, Maury A. Nussbaum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20658 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130809228818544
- F10.7 Index Prediction: A Multiscale Decomposition Strategy with Wavelet Transform for Performanc...
Xuran Ma, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20712 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophIM_bot/116130530693731576
- Communication-Inspired Tokenization for Structured Image Representations
Davtyan, Sahin, Haghighi, Stapf, Acuaviva, Alahi, Favaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20731 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130824303022936
- SibylSense: Adaptive Rubric Learning via Memory Tuning and Adversarial Probing
Yifei Xu, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20751 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130739757479992
- Assessing the Impact of Speaker Identity in Speech Spoofing Detection
Anh-Tuan Dao, Driss Matrouf, Nicholas Evans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20805 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/116130218074059060
- Don't Ignore the Tail: Decoupling top-K Probabilities for Efficient Language Model Distillation
Sayantan Dasgupta, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20816 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130753521420972
- DRESS: A Continuous Framework for Structural Graph Refinement
Eduar Castrillo Velilla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20833 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/116130545112457981
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National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info
State attorneys general won’t get climate chapter removed from a legal manual
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/national-academies-of-sciences-r…
It also shoots RAW (rare at the time for non-professional camera), has full manual controls if you need it,and can handle both memory sticks and CF cards.
Learning how to psyop Third World populations with Manual of The Mercenary Soldier
https://archive.org/details/PaulBalorManualOfTheMercenarySoldier
Lei da relatividade documentada:
Nada é tão fšcil quanto parece e nem tão difícil quanto Š
explicação.
do manual.
If you are in the Triangle area, especially near Raleigh, and have been curious about ham radio, my wife and I are helping teach an introductory ham class next month, with three sessions. The class will cover everything you need to pass the test, and then you can take the test for free. Your total cost will be one copy of the
I'm volunteering as a parkrun marshall and scanner this weekend - the point about manual scanning promoting interactions is so true! 'Just enough technology' is a great mantra for life https://tumshie.me/its-a-run-not-a-race/
Nu devas esti ke okazus. Vikipedio priskribis la indikilojn, kiujn ili uzas por malkovri tekston kaj artiklojn, kiujn AI kreis. Do iu faris liston pri instrukcioj donotaj al AI dirante ke ĝi devas eviti tiujn konstruaĵojn.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/…
Simple Sabotage Field Manual 2026:
Use automation to create order-of-magnitude increases in “productivity” in the early stages of internal process pipelines with downstream bottlenecks.
Generate •massive• amounts of code. Flood the system with promising leads. Start more initiatives than there are people.
I'm using Davmail to get Linux to talk to Outlook for my work email.
https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
Works great, except for a tedious manual re-authentication every 90 days.
Panicking today, though, when re-authentication appeared to work at first and then stopped. Has MS put another…
Last night my wife was trying out Tunic on Switch 2, which unfortunately has untranslsted game menus, dialog boxes and such. Luckily, there's a fully translated version of the manual online. But before we looked that up, she tried translating some via her phone, and the results were hilarious. I was LOSING IT about this last night. 😂🤣😂
(And now I'm finding out that the manual and dialog boxes are PURPOSEFULLY a made up language that translates as you play. But, like.. any kind …
What's that!? You're looking for the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (aka the "MUTCD")?
https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/
Under pressure from Republican state attorneys general, the agency that advises
the U.S. Supreme Court and federal judges on scientific and technical matters has
withdrawn the entirety of its content on climate change from a new judicial reference manual.
The move by the Federal Judicial Center leaves judges without any official support on how to weigh evidence about basic weather and climate changes
-- just as numerous climate cases make their way through state and f…
from my link log —
Testing Rust with manual coverage marks.
https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/coverage-marks/
saved 2020-06-03 https://
RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@Lapizistik/113962612137304594
„Auch das Institut für effiziente Ineffizienz empfiehlt zur Bekämpfung des autoritären Kapitalismus libertärer Prägung – aka zum Selbstschutz – das CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual.“
Can a 600-year-old astronomical clock go digital?
Prague’s Old Town Astronomical Clock now exists in digital form, thanks to CESNET, Prague City Tourism and st.dio.
Using photogrammetry, manual modelling, and procedural generation of repetitive parts, the team created a fully kinematic 3D model.
🔗 Read the full story and explore the digital clock:
Great post on the design and #UX of Current, a new RSS reader by @…
https://www.terrygodier.com/current
My workflow relies on manual categorisation of feeds in folders and liberal use of “mark all as read”
I’m going to give it a try and see if this is a better approach
Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
ZEN: Automatic flight control is now aborted.
GAN: The manual controls won't respond.
VILA: Do something, Gan.
GAN: Something is draining off the power. [Lights dim]
VILA: Orac, it has to be Orac.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/564…
@… thanks, however that's not a typical use case.
The manual page is "typically" …
Extract tables from pdfs with {tabulapdf} #rstats #datasciece
Me: "Why did you write this in the manual:
Press Ctrl Alt Del, Start Taskmanager
You could have just written "Press Ctrl Alt Esc"
Them: "People of a certain age are more familiar with Ctrl Alt Del"
Me: "The people you are thinking of remember that as the key to restart the computer!"
Them: 🤯
Folks, I’m just putting the finishing touches on an update to the Gaza Verified site that will make signing up for verification as easy as signing in with your Mastodon account (with none of the manual adding of the verification link to your profile that proved to be a stumbling block for many).
I’ll be reopening sign ups today once I’m done with that.
In the meanwhile, please remember that there are folks in Gaza who are suffering through an ongoing genocide at the hands of Isra…
Federal Judicial Center Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-judicial-center-climate-change-republican-pressure
Close the cover on the CIA World Factbook:
The spy agency announced Wednesday that after more than 60 years,
it is shuttering the popular reference manual.
The announcement posted to the CIA’s website offered no reason for the decision to end the Factbook,
but it follows a vow from Director John Ratcliffe to end programs that don’t advance the agency’s core missions.
Proc3D: Procedural 3D Generation and Parametric Editing of 3D Shapes with Large Language Models
Fadlullah Raji, Stefano Petrangeli, Matheus Gadelha, Yu Shen, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Gang Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12234 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.12234 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.12234
arXiv:2601.12234v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generating 3D models has traditionally been a complex task requiring specialized expertise. While recent advances in generative AI have sought to automate this process, existing methods produce non-editable representation, such as meshes or point clouds, limiting their adaptability for iterative design. In this paper, we introduce Proc3D, a system designed to generate editable 3D models while enabling real-time modifications. At its core, Proc3D introduces procedural compact graph (PCG), a graph representation of 3D models, that encodes the algorithmic rules and structures necessary for generating the model. This representation exposes key parameters, allowing intuitive manual adjustments via sliders and checkboxes, as well as real-time, automated modifications through natural language prompts using Large Language Models (LLMs). We demonstrate Proc3D's capabilities using two generative approaches: GPT-4o with in-context learning (ICL) and a fine-tuned LLAMA-3 model. Experimental results show that Proc3D outperforms existing methods in editing efficiency, achieving more than 400x speedup over conventional approaches that require full regeneration for each modification. Additionally, Proc3D improves ULIP scores by 28%, a metric that evaluates the alignment between generated 3D models and text prompts. By enabling text-aligned 3D model generation along with precise, real-time parametric edits, Proc3D facilitates highly accurate text-based image editing applications.
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Under GOP Pressure, Federal Agency Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges (Abrahm Lustgarten/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-judicial-center-climate-change-republican-pressure
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p124#a260210p124
Simple Sabotage Field Manual 2026:
Feed sensitive internal data into an LLM. Include private credentials.
From @…:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/115896936490108026
hjälper en förening som ligger på one.com. Får mail om att php behöver uppgraderas och läser deras manual om hur att göra. Gå in i portalen står det, men tyvärr går det inte att installera portalen. Sucka och tänker på att det snart är fredag...
This looks very useful but I‘m reluctant to share this. Every computer tip that is just „open an admin terminal and enter this command that executes stuff right from a github URL“ is dangerous. Even if that one is OK - it teaches people that this kind of thing is not a super red flag for malware exploits. https://toot.communi…
What you do if you actually should do more boring things… 😇🤓
And now back to the future—eh—more boring things… 🥴
#LEGO #BackToTheFuture #DeLorean
Dear everyone who builds and sells things that have instruction manuals: I enormously appreciate if you provide those manuals at an easy to find place online as PDF files.
I don't like to own unnecessary physical things, and particularly, I don't like to own physical things that could be digital, so one of the first things I do when I bought something with a manual is to try to find a digital version of it.
Got my indiekit syndicator for #Linkedin to work 🤓 with a nice backend to refresh the token (using OAuth) via the backend directly with the user linkedin session once every 2 months, it’s a manual step but it’s smooth
https://rmende…
@… I'm using groups.io for the first time. (I know! Sorry, I usually avoid mailing lists.) It's very good, thank you for running this valuable service.
I found the locked topics feature very interesting. It never occurred to me to have that in a mailing list, since the underlying tech doesn't allow it. Does it work well in practice? Do people use it? The group I'm on uses it extensively.
LLMs hallucinate? Groundbreaking discovery: a statistical model works statistically. 😉 It’s the ultimate tech irony. We abandoned GOFAI because manual rules couldn't handle the messiness of reality. We moved to the 'bottom-up' statistical approach, only to find ourselves frantically retrofitting those same rules onto a black box to stop it from hallucinating.
The most important lesson that one can learn about technology writ large. RTFM. @… https://eigenmagic.net/@daedalus/115839190423202974
Adding to the institutional knowledge, AKA writing up an incident in the "Things that have previously gone wrong" section of the Ops Manual
Who needs 32GB of system memory anyway? 🧐
I couldn't resist installing #CachyOS back on my main PC, on a separate SSD, alongside Windows. AMD is a first-class experience in Linux. I just downloaded The Alters, and FSR 4 simply works with my poor RX 7800 XT - without Optiscaler or any kind of manual DLL swaps.
O...kay... The BASH Reference Manual is in the Epstein Files
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 9/EFTA00315849.pdf
Well, I guess that helps explain why it's millions of pages long... 😉
Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
ZEN: Automatic flight control is now aborted.
GAN: The manual controls won't respond.
VILA: Do something, Gan.
GAN: Something is draining off the power. [Lights dim]
VILA: Orac, it has to be Orac.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/564…
Simple Sabotage Field Manual 2026:
Encourage reckless LLM adoption. Exaggerate successes. Cultivate FOMO about it.
Me han mandado un vídeo de una hora para explicar como hacer una documentación técnica. No un manual, un documento, una plantilla.... no, un vídeo de una hora.
Mštame, camión
Consider supporting your favorite organization, free-software project, or digital-rights activist. I donate $10 every month to my email provider: https://autisitci.org, avalable at @……
I've rebuilt kwin_wayland three times now, making more drastic cuts each time, and I still haven't managed to evict the gestures. What am I missing? The patch applies fine manually. Am I misunderstanding how to declare the patch in the spec file? Do I need to declare it as a Patch rather than a Source? Am I not supposed to provide the .patch file extension? Some previously-unconsidered fourth thing?
It's half past midnight. I guess I'll knock off and read this again to…
📋 System Requirements: Linux machine with WebSockets enabled, minimum 1GB RAM & 2 vCPUs recommended
🛠️ Multiple installation methods: automated install script, manual setup, cloud deployment or devcontainer features
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☁️ One-click deployment guides available for major cloud providers with quick setup
🏢 Enterprise teams can deploy with coder/coder for infrastructure management & tea…
Field exercises
In malicious compliance
May be in order.
#dailyhaikuprompt - field
#haiku
#poem
Simple Sabotage
<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#style> mentions the one-sentence-per-line rule for manual pages, however:
a) there's no such rule in mdoc(7) <
»The origins of the exact dimensions of Letter size paper are lost in tradition and not well documented. The American Forest and Paper Association argues that the dimension originates from the days of manual papermaking and that the 11-inch length of the page is about a quarter of "the average maximum stretch of an experienced vatman's arms."« 🤡
Source:
Just looked at my sisters car, the check engine light came on. My stupid ODB2 reader still works, even though it came with a Windows XP disk for a manual. The error code was P0420 which I think is just a "your car has 100k miles and will have this problem now" kinda thing. I got cold outside so we are making plans to look more later and figure out if its a sensor or the catalytic converter. Either way, P0420 exhaust code still cracks me up. Someone HAD to do that on purpose.
DEFENSE Secretary Pete Hegseth has refused to release unedited video of a U.S. follow-up boat strike.
The plane used by the U.S. military to strike a boat accused of smuggling drugs off the coast of Venezuela in the fall
was painted to look like a civilian aircraft,
a move that appears to be at odds with the Pentagon’s manual on the laws of war.
The plane,
part of a secret U.S. fleet used in surveillance operations,
also was carrying munitions in the fuse…
"Regardless of the legal speed limit, your Buick must be operated at
speeds faster than 85 MPH (140kph)."
-- 1987 Buick Grand National owners manual.
Ser vi her samme situation fra to forskellige sider? 🤔
#BotModBot
Word and Excel vs LLMs.
Secretaries became executive assistants, their role evolved to higher-level coordination, communication, and decision support. Accountants gained the ability to do far more analysis, strategic planning, and advisory work. The tools eliminated tedious manual tasks, but the roles themselves weren't eliminated. They were elevated.
The same pattern applies to programmers. LLMs can handle boilerplate, generate first drafts, automate simple tasks.
from my link log —
From Pratt parsing to the Dijkstra shunting yard.
https://matklad.github.io/2020/04/15/from-pratt-to-dijkstra.html
saved 2020-04-23
🔥Ensuring a Postmark on the Date of Delivery:
To assure a postmark is applied on the same day a document is delivered to the USPS,
individuals must utilize specific retail services.
The final rule outlines the following methods:
Request a Manual Postmark: Customers may present a mail piece at a retail counter and request a "manual (local) postmark". This postmark is applied at the time of acceptance, so the date aligns with the date the USPS took possession…
@… it's installable.
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~> man leave
No manual entry for leave
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~ [16]> leave
Command 'leave' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install leave
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~ [127]>
@…
Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
JENNA: Neither can I, so let's get on with it.
BLAKE: Jenna, you'll have to fly us on manual.
JENNA: Yes, we'll need to take the impact on the lower hull.
ZEN: Plasma bolt launched.
GAN: Bearing directly.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/179
To ensure you get a postmark that reflects the day you mail something, you’ll have to go to a post office counter and ask for a manual postmark.
This may affect the eligibility of your mail-in ballot, or tax payment
https://www.
Dreamlike daisy field caught with wide-open manual focus lens
#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling
-- Jared Sullivan:
I scoop ice cream to pay my bills while running for the United States Senate.
That should not be rare.
In a country divided on almost everything, one view cuts across party lines:
working-class Americans are fed up with a political system that does not understand their lives.
They are right. Today, fewer than three percent of members of Congress come from the manual labor and service jobs that most Americans work,
a disparity documente…