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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-21 10:03:20

King Ortler (3905m)
No picture can do it justice... For scale, note the mountain hut (Berglhütte, at 2188m) in the bottom-left corner...
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

View of the Ortler mountain with its glaciated peak and prominent nortwest ridge leading down deep into the valley. A tiny speck — actually the 2-storey mountain hut (Berglhütte) — is near the (visible) bottom of that ridge, just above the tree line. Another glacier (Niederer Ortlerferner) was coming down in the valley in front of the ridge, but by now stops much further up, its tongue barely visible in the shade... Deep blue, clear sky.

In a censored society everyone needs debates about harmless topics
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-07-21 19:50:14

This whole opinion, while well-meaning and bringing up generally good points (we humans can decide what technology we research and how we use it)—misses the point: there will not be an “AGI” that derives from current “AI” technology.
What the “AI” companies are proposing and the media is accepting at face value is like saying ever more realistic graphics in computer games will suddenly reach some threshold and the graphics will become the real world.
It’s nonsense.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

@rberger@hachyderm.io
2025-08-21 16:35:55

The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America | US supreme court | The Guardian theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-20 07:00:06

Exactly one hundred sixty days apart.
(This past Friday vs. early Feb, Raintal)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Phtography

A mountain hut in a peaceful alpine valley, surrounded by meadows with grazing cows, forest and steep rock faces rising up on the LHS. The pass at the end of the valley is visible in the distance. Sunny day with blue sky and some streaky wispy clouds.
The same mountain hut in mid winter. The valley is covered in ~50cm snow. The nearby trees and forest appear almost black. The pass at the end of the valley is the only place lit by the sun, most of valley is in the shade of the surrounding mountains. Clear day with blue sky and a few isolated clouds.
@servelan@newsie.social
2025-08-21 17:51:08

The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America | US supreme court | The Guardian
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-22 10:50:02

Planned for months, but only been away for a few days and new deep memories for a lifetime: Visiting, revisiting and documenting some personal bucket list places in Tyrol/Vinschgau, Sondrio (Valmalenco) and the Engadin, collecting references & research... Landscapes too large & overwhelming, mountain passes (and the human ingenuity to traverse them), vast valleys full of ancient history & struggles (with nature and each other), disappearing glaciers leaving behind incredible stru…

View of the grand Morteratsch glacier, its valley and surrounding peaks of the Bernina range (incl. its namesake Piz Bernina, 4050m, on the right). Most of the valley is already in deep shade, only the highest peaks are illuminated in golden sunset light. On the right side of the valley, the line between vegetation and gray rock in the parts where the glacier has already retracted, marks the previous extent of the glacier. Large pieces of exposed bedrock. Blue sky with streaky clouds.
@paulwermer@sfba.social
2025-08-21 14:11:38

My earliest recollections of #SCOTUS rulings date to the mid 1960s, along with both family and classroom discussions of rulings such as Brown vs Board of Education and Loving vs Virginia.
I never dreamed that #SCOTUS would provide cover for a

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2025-08-21 14:11:38

My earliest recollections of #SCOTUS rulings date to the mid 1960s, along with both family and classroom discussions of rulings such as Brown vs Board of Education and Loving vs Virginia.
I never dreamed that #SCOTUS would provide cover for a

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-07-22 06:18:50

A lawsuit has been filed against Airbnb
Seized, settled, let: how Airbnb and Booking.com help Israelis make money from stolen Palestinian land | West Bank | The Guardian
theguardian.com/world/ng-inter

@geant@mstdn.social
2025-07-22 08:49:23

🎉 Meet the new GÉANT Community Committee (GCC) - Part 2
What does the GCC do?
They act as the motor of the GÉANT Community Programme, connecting our special interest groups (SIGs), task forces (TFs), and initiatives with the General Assembly and the Board of Directors, ensuring community voices are heard and ideas can turn into action.

GÉANT Community Committee member quote from Michel Wets, SURF
GÉANT Community Committee member quote from Ivana Golub, PCSS
GÉANT Community Committee member quote from Dawn Ng, GÉANT

In a remarkable turn from prominent American conservatives,
-- who until Trump’s return to power in January had long complained of a censorious leftwing “cancel culture”
-- now seem happy to reframe that, too, as “consequence culture”.
Nancy Mace, a House representative, sounded a lot like the progressives she has often decried for their political correctness when she declaredlast week, during an effort to censure one of her opponents in Congress, that “free speech isn’t f…

@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-22 12:41:41

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[4/5]:
- LaMP-Cap: Personalized Figure Caption Generation With Multimodal Figure Profiles
Ng, Hsu, Ramakrishnan, Kveton, Lipka, Dernoncourt, Lee, Yu, Kim, Rossi, Huang

@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-22 07:53:31

Fluid Antenna System-assisted Physical Layer Secret Key Generation
Zhiyu Huang, Guyue Li, Hao Xu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
arxiv.org/abs/2509.15547

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-17 07:02:03

A profile of Song-Chun Zhu, an AI scientist and NSF and Pentagon grantee, who left the US after 28 years to lead China's state-backed AI institute BIGAI in 2020 (Chang Che/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/news/n…

@arXiv_mathCT_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-22 10:31:36

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.CT. arxiv.org/list/math.CT/new
[1/1]:
- Generalized Symmetries From Fusion Actions
Chongying Dong, Siu-Hung Ng, Li Ren, Feng Xu

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-22 17:41:53

Ndamukong Suh says Lions should have paid him more than Matthew Stafford

cbssports.com/nfl/news/ndamuko

@arXiv_statML_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-22 09:08:51

Bayesian Optimization with Expected Improvement: No Regret and the Choice of Incumbent
Jingyi Wang, Haowei Wang, Szu Hui Ng, Cosmin G. Petra
arxiv.org/abs/2508.15674

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-19 13:50:26

Been working on n-dimensional sampling/filtering functions for thi.ng/tensors and created an interactive Desmos graph to illustrate 1D Lanczos filtering/interpolation:

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-07-18 04:03:20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Tiny Giant:
🎵 NgŠy Mới
#TinyGiant
tinygianthanoi.bandcamp.com/al
open.spotify.com/track/1Ue0nMC

@eichkat3r@hessen.social
2025-08-20 05:38:21

irgendwann lernen KI agenten dass man türen repariert indem man "techniker ist informiert, bitte hinterausgang nutzen" schilder daran hängt
fortune.com/2025/07/23/ai-codi

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-09-20 14:33:54

Morning under explosions: Russia launched 619 air strikes on Ukraine in 24 hours!: benborges.xyz/2025/09/20/morni

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-23 01:27:39

Training Camp Presents Its Challenges for Carroll, Raiders si.com/nfl/raiders/news/traini

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-08-16 08:42:59

‘I’m proud to have made this stand’: over-60s arrested at Palestine Action ban protest explain their decision theguardian.com/world/ng-inter

@muz4now@mastodon.world
2025-08-20 15:16:02

Addiction Among Indie Musicians: Tips to Help Get Health Care muz4now.com/2020/addiction-amo

@arXiv_eessSP_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-22 12:08:00

Sum-Rate Maximization for Movable-Antenna Array Enhanced Downlink NOMA Systems
Nianzu Li, Peiran Wu, Lipeng Zhu, Weidong Mei, Boyu Ning, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
arxiv.org/abs/2507.15555

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-20 12:07:22

Live performance of "All Those Moments", a recent beautiful track by OORA with a great arc/evolution, full of analog sequences and layers...
youtube.com/watch?v=1MOp69-uum

@arXiv_astrophHE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-21 09:33:10

High-resolution Radio Study of Pulsar Wind Nebula MSH 15-52 and Supernova Remnant RCW 89
S. Zhang, C. -Y. Ng, N. Bucciantini
arxiv.org/abs/2508.14476

@arXiv_astrophCO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-22 10:20:50

Simulating a Gaussian stochastic gravitational wave background signal in pulsar timing arrays
Reginald Christian Bernardo, Kin-Wang Ng
arxiv.org/abs/2507.15756

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-08-20 14:15:52

Trump's Smithsonian review is long overdue (Washington Examiner)
washingtonexaminer.com/restori
memeorandum.com/250820/p49#a25

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-07-14 21:10:37

A profile of Pat McAfee, among the top American sports pundits with millions of followers and an ESPN show, and a sports bro culture dominated by ex-NFL players (Aaron Timms/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/sport/ng-inter

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-21 13:06:35

A Startup is Selling Data Hacked from Peoples’ Computers to Debt Collectors 404media.co/a-startup-is-selli

@arXiv_mathQA_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-21 11:40:15

Replaced article(s) found for math.QA. arxiv.org/list/math.QA/new
[1/1]:
- Generalized Symmetries From Fusion Actions
Chongying Dong, Siu-Hung Ng, Li Ren, Feng Xu

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-19 09:01:30

Erosion studies from our morning hike yesterday, a ~500m long section of the valley exposing interesting structures and the fragility of life resting on the thin layer of top soil...
#Geology #Erosion #NaturePhotography

A heavily eroded steep bank of a small mountain creek flowing 20-30m below. Pale grey/beige sand with forest growing on top. Trunks of fallen trees are resting in some of the eroded creases.
A heavily eroded steep bank of a small mountain creek flowing 20-30m below. Pale grey/beige sand with forest growing on top. Trunks of fallen trees are resting in some of the eroded creases.
@arXiv_physicschemph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-22 09:09:01

Reevaluating Anomalous Electric Fields at the Air-Water Interface: A Surface-Specific Spectroscopic Survey
Joseph C. Shirley, Zi Xuan Ng, Kuo-Yang Chiang, Yuki Nagata, Yair Litman, Arsh S. Hazrah, Mischa Bonn
arxiv.org/abs/2508.15422

@drewmcmanus@hachyderm.io
2025-07-20 15:55:40

nytimes.com/2025/07/14/parenti

@vosje62@mastodon.nl
2025-09-19 09:03:02

Samsung brings ads to US fridges | The Verge
theverge.com/news/780757/samsu
Daar stond je als je als consument echt niet op te wachten...

A software update rolling out to Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerators in the US is putting ads on the fridges for the first time. The “promotions and curated advertisements” are coming despite Samsung insisting to The Verge in April that it had “no plans” to do so.

Samsung is calling it a pilot program for now, which — I kid you not — is meant to “strengthen the value” of owning a Samsung smart fridge.
@arXiv_mathSG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-21 11:59:46

Replaced article(s) found for math.SG. arxiv.org/list/math.SG/new
[1/1]:
- An L-infinity structure for Legendrian contact homology
Lenhard Ng

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-07-21 16:06:37

Simulating the unthinkable: Models show nuclear winter food production plunge
phys.org/news/2025-07-simulati

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-17 15:15:51

Added a customizable 2D vector field plot function for #ThingUmbrella

20x20 vector field visualization with vectors visualized as small arrows and directions mapped to different hues. Vector lengths are normalized
20x20 vector field visualization with vectors visualized as small arrows and directions mapped to different hues. Vector lengths are varying.
20x20 vector field visualization with vectors visualized as small dials
20x20 vector field visualization with vectors visualized as small black lines with red arrow heads.
@arXiv_eessSP_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-22 12:04:20

Robust ISAC Transceiver Beamforming Design under Low-Resolution AD/DA Converters
Tiantian Xu, Zhenyao He, Jindan Xu, Wei Xu, Jianfeng Wang, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
arxiv.org/abs/2507.15373

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-19 23:05:52

A US judge temporarily orders Meta not to respond to DHS subpoenas seeking Instagram users' info after their accounts posted an ICE agent's name (Alfred Ng/Politico)
politico.com/news/2025/09/19/j

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-22 13:26:13

From pass to pass...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Alps

View of a mountain and nearby pass from a narrow & steep smaller ridge. The main peak is semi-shrouded in clouds and has large rugged rock faces reaching down into the valley on the right. Lush green grassy slopes are leading down from the pass. Small isolated patches of trees .
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-20 09:22:50

SPANER: Shared Prompt Aligner for Multimodal Semantic Representation
Thye Shan Ng, Caren Soyeon Han, Eun-Jung Holden
arxiv.org/abs/2508.13387

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-09-14 17:49:30

Recognizing a Palestinian state is a limited but welcome step that addresses an enduring blind spot: Palestinian rights cannot be conditioned on Israeli interests. theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-18 15:12:21

No footpath to be seen here, but a short impression from near the goal of our morning hike today, back down before more mountain bikers, hikers and horseflies arrived, then followed by a good day's work until late...
Ps. Sound on!
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

Short 20 second video panorama of a herd of young cows (each with bell) grazing in a beautiful alpine meadow, surrounded by large & steep mountains and forested slopes rising up nearby. Bright sunny day, slightly overcast sky.

Honestly, you know what some blue state governors should do?
Send their NG troops to DC to "help."
Openly say that they trust their troops more than SC and OH troops to obey the law and know what's allowed and what's not,
and they're sending them to reduce the likelihood of a tragedy.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-17 10:14:16

Speaking of new tools: Here's some other open-ended and work-in-progress tooling I published recently:
Assorted CLI utilities for data wrangling & media conversion
codeberg.org/thi.ng/thing-tools
This is (will be) a Swiss-army knife type multi-tool for frequent little t…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-17 17:18:30

#WaterfallWednesday meets #ThrowbackThursday — the view from the narrow bridge inside the stunning/infamous Höllental (Hell's canyon), September 2021, almost to the day... ahhh, memories!

A karst spring cum waterfall gushing from the wall inside a steep and very narrow canyon, viewed from a small bridge ~60m above. The camera then slowly pans upwards, revealing the full vertical depth of the canyon and surrounding valley...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-17 10:00:06

Peace & solitude on the Kessel ridge, the rim of a large doline funnel in the Ammergau Alps.
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Panoramic photo of a narrow rocky ridge line with steep beautiful green grassy slopes, mountain passes and forest in nearby valleys. A small lake at the bottom of the doline (RHS in the photo). The rocks have a beautiful light gray color, almost the same as the overcast, cloudy and misty sky, heavy with humidity (80%+).
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-19 17:29:56

Summer evening dessert time... (and my first 100% homemade tart in a long while...)

Top down view of a jelly-less tart (still in the cake form) with mirabelles, blueberries and red currants arranged in concentric patterns
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-19 08:08:47

"New technologies, when introduced, are typically given names that overstate their capabilities, usually by equating them with existing familiar systems or technological artefacts. For example the first computers in the 1940s and 1950s, often little more than glorified electric adding machines, were nevertheless described as “electronic brains”. More recently, large language models (LLMs) have been touted as “artificial intelligence”, and complex physics experiments have been touted as …

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-16 20:39:05

Finally made that tool I've been planning for a while: A configurable batch deleter of #Mastodon #bookmarks, supporting a threshold date (i.e. only older bookmarks considered) and lists of accounts and hashtags to always keep.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-17 15:29:40

Also, in other other #ThingUmbrella related news. My current consulting/advisor contract finishes end of the month, so I will have some time to write about various other recent updates (and unpublished work-in-progress) in early August... Please stay tuned! ✌️

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-17 11:48:59

Long time no listen to this fabulous track, today on repeat:
John Heckle - Inhuman Nature (Vercetti Technicolor's Undead Nature Remix, 2014)
youtube.com/watch?v=K0gXkKW0MR

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-18 16:34:20

Memoirs of the CP/M creator released:
“Our father, Gary Kildall, was one of the founders of the personal computer industry, but you probably don’t know his name. Those who have heard of him may recall the myth that he ‘missed’ the opportunity to become Bill Gates by going flying instead of meeting with IBM. Unfortunately, this tall tale paints Gary as a ‘could-have-been,’ ignores his deep contributions, and overshadows his role as an inventor of key technologies that define how compute…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-14 13:04:54

Would love to hear migration thoughts & plans (if any) from other FOSS maintainers (and sponsors!) currently using Github Sponsors. Are you planning/supporting to leave? Are you afraid you'll lose sponsors?
Personally, I'd also love to hear from my own sponsors (some of which are also here 👋). I'm considering migrating various public & still private

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-14 06:45:01

Looking back at a dramatic Gehrenspitze and its pass (aka "Gehrenjoch")...
Another close-up impression of the pass itself (and view in the opposite direction):
mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11505033

B&W photo of a craggy rocky mountain peak with several steep cliffs and a smooth grassy mountain pass curving further down on the right. Dramatic sky with clouds moving through the peaks and larger cumulus building up in the background.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-13 08:10:35

After almost a week of refactoring and experimenting with several different approaches, I've updated my Zig nD SIMD vector library to be compatible with the latest Zig 0.15.1, and at the same time cleaned up some internals.
The solution I settled on is a mix of techniques proposed by others, and was needed due to the removal of the struct/namespace-merging syntax in the new Zig version, which this library heavily relies on. I don't like that the new source code is now more than…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-16 16:32:24

An early morning alone on the banks of the (still young) Isar river some weeks ago... Really more "flow" rather than #WaterfallWednesday, but I just absolutely cherish places and moments like this & feeling so privileged being able to experience these after decades of living in large cities... (each time also a reminder how much we stand to lose...)

Short POV video of a mountain river with crystal clear pale blue water gently flowing. At the beginning of the video some trees are bent over the water, the view then pans to follow the flow with mountains in the background...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-12 12:36:11

Ridges are my thing, 360 views...
(Ammergauer Alps, November 2024)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

First person video, walking on a narrow path along a ridge, looking down very steep slopes on either side, covered in dried grass and forests, rocky cliffs. Views as far as the eye can see. Late afternoon sun with beautiful warm light. Serene clear sky.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-16 15:12:57

Pretty unique, non-clichéd, slow, minimal, dubby, syncopated, accented with vocal/vowel fragments:
Drames Rurals - L'empelt (2021)
youtube.com/watch?v=T3SSti6bdZ

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-13 15:24:20

TIL our garden soil is pH neutral (to my surprise). Beautiful royal blue!
#SoilSamples #Chemistry #Gardening

Closeup photo of a test tube with a soil sample and a small paper box with a pH color scale. The liquid in the tube shows a rich blue color, corresponding to pH 7
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-13 16:36:58

Invisible waterfall (standing directly above it) — Engadin, Sep 2024.
#WaterfallWednesday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Photo of a glacial creek with milky beige water, full of glacial flour. The creek flows over rocks and along a large boulder covered in small pines and bushes in beautiful autumn colors. Low-hanging clouds above the forest in the background. A sliver of blue sky above.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-13 06:30:01

Majestic Trinity: Trettachspitze, Mädelegabel, Hochfrottspitze.
(Picture taken two weeks ago. If you zoom in & squint you can make out the crosses on the three summits...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Photo of the three major summits in the Allgäu High Alps with another mountain pass (hiding another valley in between) in the foreground. Some part of the rocks and the pass are in sunlight. The pass is partially rocky with some grassy patches with low-growth mountain pines. The main summits are partially shrouded in moody gray clouds. The telescopic view and depth compression lends the scene and shapes an almost abstract character (intentionally!)...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-17 11:00:31

"Think tank" vs...

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-17 11:45:46

Crowdsourced collection of examples of hidden e-waste in various products...
mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-11 12:34:14

Do (Or Don't!) Look Down... into the beautiful valley (Rappenalptal) 😍
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Video

Short 18second, 270° video panorama of a beautiful large & deep alpine valley from around 800m above. The ground drops off steeply directly next to the narrow path (already on a slope itself). The mountains on the other side are up to ~2700m above sea level and ~1600m above the valley floor with green & rocky slopes, forest in the lower sections. A small road is leading along the last houses towards the end of the valley (the border pass is briefly visible between 12-14 seconds). Semi-cloudy bl…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-14 14:00:15

How many more memorials to remember and warn of the horrors of war? Lessons learned, when? Ever? The same patterns repeating, over and over...
(This memorial is to remember the Italo/Austrian "White War", part of the WW1 frontline in the Dolomites at 2300m...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

An obelisk war memorial standing on the precipice of a small grassy plateau in a high alpine setting, a deep valley immediately behind it and layers of craggy mountain ridges behind. It's close to sunset and only some of the peaks are illuminated by the sun. Layers of cloud/fog forming.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-12 14:12:35

My son's becoming a true master with #WorldPainter & #WorldMachine and has been creating some stunning and super detailed landscapes (not just alpines ones) for #Minecraft/Ardacraft/…

Minecraft screenshot of an aerial view of a large mountain valley with a lake and creek meandering through it. Partially forested mountain slopes. Misty/hazy atmosphere.
Minecraft screenshot of an alpine lake surrounded by steep mostly bare rocky mountains. Some low-growth vegetation around the lake. Low hanging clouds and gray sky.
Minecraft screenshot of an high alpine landscape, half-way up a mountain slope and viewing across the valley to a small plateau with low-growth vegetation on the other side. Low hanging clouds.
Top down 2D view of the WorldPainter map (2560x2560 resolution) of the entire generated and painstakingly designed alpine terrain with snow capped mountains, lakes and rivers, talus fields, vegetation zones and transitions etc.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-12 06:30:01

A whole bunch of hex grid tessellation options (incl. more complex & colorful ones) for #TilingTuesday in this old thread...
mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11249834

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-16 12:55:37

It's a shame, it's only available in German, but @…'s recent talk about post-modern fascism is such a very clear, rational and well explained treatise — highly recommended watch!

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-10 09:15:19

7AM, out and about on a stunning rainy morning walk between layers of fog and clouds... absolute silence...
#MorningWalk #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Black and white photo of a pre-alpine landscape of rolling hills intersected by layers of dense fog
Black and white photo looking into the Lech valley near Reutte (in the distance), from above layers of fog and low hanging clouds. Silhouettes of forest and mountains fading into the gray background.
Black and white photo of the silhouette of a  hill top surrounded by dense layers of fog.
Black and white photo of the edge of a forest and a mountain meadow with fog moving up the hill, quickly enshrouding trees and everything else
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-13 10:06:47

#PSA Since I've just been asked again if I could use more topic-specific accounts and not mix my photography with other topics — Unfortunately, nope! I'm on a single user managed instance and cannot create new accounts on this server nor do I want to create an account for every single topic I'm interested in or posting about. However, you can filter my posts by hashtags, which I'm tr…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-13 11:34:25

Very much loved this article about a rattled #Switzerland after the imposed 39% tariffs:
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-13 21:25:32

Very interesting take/thread about aspects (i.e. lack) of #AI infosec, enforced usage and data exfiltration in domains not often talked about: nuclear engineering, violation of export control laws, liabilities pushed on employees...

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-09 10:17:25

Saturday AM, a story in two acts...
(Incl. placing crumbs by approaching it like a #PoissonDisk / #BlueNoise problem... 😅)
#CakeDay

Top-down photo of sliced apricots on a thin layer of dough in a pink/rose cake form, waiting for a layer of crumbs to be added...
Top-down photo of the same cake form — the cake now fully baked...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-07 15:21:22

There's a whole bunch of recent #ThingUmbrella updates which I still have to write about, but one of the things is the reworked, improved and more customizable optical flow (aka thi.ng/pixel-flow

Test video (a recent POV hiking clip posted a few days ago) showing optical flow information via color-coded overlaid field vectors. The white arrow/triangle in the center shows the current mean flow direction/magnitude
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-15 07:32:49

Time for another round of critical AI weekend reading:
Crashing hard: why talking about bubbles obscures the real social cost of overinvesting into “Artificial Intelligence”
Aline Blankertz (@…)

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-15 08:52:06

Well, another one bites the dust... Code Climate is shutting down and their new replacement service (only upgrade option) with the fascinating strapline "Code With Vibes, Merge With Confidence" does inspire anything but... 🙄
(Been using CC for years and even though it produced a lot of false positives, it generally was a very useful tool which sent me off on several major refactoring journeys over the years, from which not only I benefited as a maintainer, but all users of my…

Cropped screenshot of a part of the Code Climate dashboard with the message: "🚨🚨 Code Climate Quality will be shut down imminently and replaced with Qlty Cloud. 🚨🚨
Upgrade to Qlty Cloud now"
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-12 04:06:41

Great thread about #Git self-hosting options:
jawns.club/@skyfaller/11498912

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-10 08:06:33

Once upon a time in Switzerland, heading into the vast land of (rapidly declining) ice, leading through a sea of colors... "Like walking through a painting" never felt more true than on that tour...
(Alt text for more detail)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

View of a large glacial valley, with several glaciers, large seracs visible and major fully snow covered mountains (~4000m) along the entire horizon, creating an otherworldly feel. A small rocky path is leading higher up across a slowly overgrowing talus field, along the edge of the forest and covered beautiful yellow/brown grasses, blueberry plants with their leaves already turned intensely red (and still carrying yummy berries). Bright sunny day with clear blue sky. The other side of the vall…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-02 17:35:49

More releases today: New version of thi.ng/genart-api, an art-platform-independent API for browser-based generative art.
The new version (v0.28.0) addresses some recent (type) changes in TypeScript and updates the WebAssembly bindings to support the latest Zig 0.15.1 (just like releases of some of my o…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-08 13:37:08

Happy Roland #808Day with this 1989 UK classic:
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
youtube.com/watch?v=8SY80iH44G

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-13 07:46:35

Fantastic interview with @… and @… about their recent position paper "Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia" with a comprehensive summary of hard-hitting criticisms (and realities!) of said ongoing u…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-13 08:51:08

Governments freeloading on FOSS, not helping with funding (and at the same time collecting taxes on income/donations sourced otherwise) are just as exploitative as privately held companies, maybe even worse...
scalie.zone/@aks/1150123889228

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-10 11:12:48

Full Sturgeon #Moon (from last night)

Photo of the August Full Moon against black sky, taken with a Canon R7, 400mm, f8, 1/320s, ISO 100
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-18 14:52:39

After a weekend of coding, this is my #MountainMonday today... 🥰
#LandscapePhotography #Alps #Hiking

View of a high alpine mountain pass with lush meadows in full bloom (incl. aconite) and looking towards another pass and mountain peak in the (not so far) distance. Clouds are forming around the peaks.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-12 06:01:42

One of the main questions of my life with its many projects and ideas... The only proven solution for me has been a round-robin approach, rather than a binary decision. So for as long as possible more a question of "when" than "what"...
mas.to/@oblique_strategies/115

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-12 21:35:46

Absolutely incredible photos in this article:
mastodon.energy/@jonshell/1148

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-02 09:40:19

Yesterday I released new versions of thi.ng/wasm-api (and its add-on packages), a modular and extensible bridge API & toolchain for hybrid JS/TS/Zig/WebAssembly apps, now updated to be compatible with the latest Zig version 0.15.1...
The update addresses some of Zig's breaking syntax & build …

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-03 10:12:56

Needing more paths in more lives to be as beautiful as this...
(This hike & experiences further up touched me like not many others have...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

A small hiking path leads through beautiful colored mountain meadows into the distance, high above the valley below. The peaks on other side of the valley have remnants of glacier tongues. Further down, green meadows and first generation larch forest growing, for the first time in thousands of years. A single small fluffy cloud in an otherwise clear blue, hazy sky.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-02 10:23:18

Update: The "Mountain Life" calendars are all gone (#NoirCountry

B&W photo of a majestic and rugged mountain massif on the other side of a very steep valley. The view is from the ridge/pass. The vertical rock faces/needles in the foreground and some parts further back are illuminated by the autumn afternoon sun. The rest is in semi-shade cast by a layer of clouds moving in. Some parts of the massif are showing distinct traces of former glacial activity. A grandiose view!
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-02 13:02:41

Monday 7:56AM, on our way to celebrate a major anniversary — wish we could have stayed at this peaceful place all day...
#WaterfallWednesday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

Short video of a deep cyan/blue mountain creek flowing through some rocky narrows, surrounded by lush forest
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-27 09:27:06

Anyone else getting these ridiculous repo scraping spikes? A clean checkout of the thi.ng/umbrella monorepo is ~370MB. Over the past 14 days there were 222k clones (only 117 unique) of this repo which have caused downloads of a whopping ~78TB. WTF! 🤯

Screenshot of a Github activity line plot showing the number of daily clones per day over the past 14 days. In the past week the number of daily clones went up to 60k+ for 2 days, with the total number of clones for the entire timespan 222,356 with only 117 unique cloners.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-02 10:54:08

Even though I've been there quite a few times, I never realized that large swathes of the UK's Peak District look like a series of abstract paintings in satellite view...
Are those traces of turf harvesting?
#MapSurfing #PeakDistrict

Detail satellite view from Google Maps of a section of the Peak District, showing complex traces of (presumably) some form of farming activity, reminiscent of an abstract painting.
Detail satellite view from Google Maps of a section of the Peak District, showing complex traces of (presumably) some form of farming activity, reminiscent of an abstract painting.
Detail satellite view from Google Maps of a section of the Peak District, showing complex traces of (presumably) some form of farming activity, reminiscent of an abstract painting with geometric shapes.
Detail satellite view from Google Maps of a section of the Peak District, showing complex traces of (presumably) some form of farming activity, reminiscent of an abstract painting of shapes & textures.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-05 13:03:18

Navigating the herd.
(There were 170 highland cattle, sometimes just a few inches away... quite a few blocking the path with their calves and feeling agitated so we had to navigate/bypass through the talus fields higher up, giving these beauties more space...)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

A path is leading into the distance in a peaceful grassy alpine valley. Highland cattle with large twisted horns are grazing and standing near and on the path. The steep slopes on the left are covered in forest, only the top parts still catching the evening sun. Most of the valley is already in shade. Mountain peaks and blue sky in the back.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-11 14:15:23

Instant goosebumps on each listen:
Antonio Ruscito - Alodrone (original, no beats, 2020)
youtube.com/watch?v=BtRGiE-DnX
Another version in this stunning 1h45m joint performance with Luigi Tozzi (timestamped link):

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-01 06:43:01

The moon last night, exactly 12h ago...
(Canon R7, 400mm, f8, 1/125s)
#Moon #AstroPhotography #BlackAndWhite

Photo of the waxing crescent moon with Mare Serenitatis, Mare Tranquillitatis and many smaller craters clearly visible...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-07 12:59:19

Had a lot of fun last night, compiling a little playlist of some of my fave old #NinjaTune tracks. So many outstanding artists, tracks, so much variety and also humor (in titles, samples, production)... mementos and signs from a more optimistic era!