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I changed desk at work and I just moved my tower and now use the keyboard mouse combo that was there.
The issue is I keep enabling some feature... when I touch the wheel an "eye" appears as a cursor and I can now move the page I'm in freely .
Although this feature could be interesting in some case, it is not most of the time....
I can't find where to disable this... any clue?

Some years back my wife made the front page of the Wall St. Journal. They did a piece about how she made up fake data (names, locations, dates, CV, etc) to feed to social media in order to disrupt data linking.
We are one of the few places that has a paper copy of the highly prescient HEW report from 1973 that warned of the dangers of the now ubiquitous practice of data linking.
"Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens: Report of the HEW Advisory Committee on Automate…

The UK not getting Imgur now is a PITA; #digikam new release page has lots of Imgur screenshots, none of which I can see.

I of course goofed and left out the explanation of Lorentz Contraction from the obvious place in Part 3 where I should have talked about it.
So I've slotted it in here:
https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/71271.html#hrel3_lorentz
along with a new diagram to make super…

Very good overview of the effectiveness of Honeywell PTM7950 phase-change thermal compound compared to traditional thermal pastes https://www.igorslab.de/en/overhyped-honeywell-ptm7950-in-lab-test-and-as-game-changer-for-graphics-cards/4…

Jeremy Keith found a `<datalist>` bug in iOS 26:
https://adactio.com/journal/22360
I confirmed it affects iPadOS 26.2:
https://

After a Blue Monday start (Orgy's version is my fav) looks like I'm all in on a Radio Head today.

Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

FASPE and the Center for Public Theology/Public Policy at YDS recently hosted a day-long clergy symposium on Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism. Videos of the main sessions now available, including this recording of Session 4! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fURT5QnOt4

“TABS [by Mozilla] pulls exactly the data you need—from HTML to Markdown to JSON—using the fastest, most efficient method for each page. It adapts to the structure and complexity of the site, staying stealthy and reliable so your [AI] agents always get what they need without friction.”
Ethical Stealthy AI Scraping (tm) by Mozilla.
#Mozilla

An international group is organizing an observing campaign through the Citizen Science Working Group of the #LUMIO mission: LUMIO is an ESA space mission to observe lunar #impact flashes (LIFs) from space, on the lunar far side (#Geminid meteoroid stream, 13-15 Dec 2025. During the maximum of the stream, the number of visible impact flashes will be higher than during non-shower times, therefore there is a good chance of detecting at least some impact flashes.
Observations can be made using moderately-sized telescopes and a video camera. On the website https://lif.mi.imati.cnr.it/home_page.php there are now a recording of a thorough talk about the project and its slides at https://lif.mi.imati.cnr.it/open_item_page.php?item_idk=LDB-000000001 and slides about the preferred analysis software ALFI at https://lif.mi.imati.cnr.it/open_item_page.php?item_idk=LDB-000000002 -if you want to join in the LGC please sign on by 21 November.

Feds have reportedly shot another person.
Preliminary info is shaky for now, hearing two people injured.
BORTAC just rolled up in an armored vehicle.
A crowd is gathering outside the police tape—
Minneapolis Police Department presence as well.
The Feds realized they weren't going to have an easy time getting through.
They're reversing out.
And they've launched gas.

Cloudflare gerade so: »A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved«
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7
Wisst ihr noch, wie sie das Internet mal so designt haben, dass bei Ausfällen einfach drumherum geroutet wird? Das w…

Hey Mastodon, can you please help me out here?
Which is the best *free tool* to organise a community of school parents in Italy?
For now they consider a GoogleDoc for documentation (just 4-5 pages for now) a Facebook page (to organise the discussions in threads). I'd like to propose a free alternative
People involved could be 10-30. There should be some sort of collaborative document management (like a wiki), and ideally a space for discussion (like a forum).
Id…

The #ICE wiki is back up. It was under DDOS attack yesterday, but it's back up now.
The ICE List Wiki is a public, verifiable record of immigration enforcement activity in the United States.
It documents incidents, agencies, individuals, facilities, vehicles, and legal authorities involved in enforcement operations. Entries are structured, sourced, and timestamped to support verifi…

ICE List Wiki

So—a little reprogramming of the Morningstar MC6:
⁃ A/B/C buttons now switch to cln/low/mid/hi with a single press, no change to fx; same but dry with double press, same but with verb with a long press;
⁃ Max/min expression toggle on button D
⁃ 30/50/70% exp on button E
⁃ Button F toggles Next Page, which has various fx block toggles for Mercury X on the six buttons
Now I don't need a separate expression pedal, & I can get in the ballpark of what I need with…

"what you are seeing here on the DHS website are over and over videos of essentially violence done, viewed as heroic violence against immigrants and liberal protesters. And this is why you're getting a violent force, because this is who they're recruiting.""
Expert alarmed as Trump now taking a page from ISIS: 'Never seen anything like this' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674900040/

If you're using #lazyblorg as your static website generator: I've updated the project today.
It now used "uv" for dependency management, script invocation and unit test execution. Furthermore, I adapted the code to match the #pandoc version of Debian 13 Trixie.
Although you ne…

Right now, you can call your senator (yes, again) and urge them to replace Chuck Schumer.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/nov/10/us-government-shutdown-record-donald-trump-syria-president-ahmed-al-sharaa-rudy-giuliani-pardon-politics-live-news-updates?page=with:block-691237948f08d3736687b5e9

I updated the initial Kitten course based on our first lesson with @… and your feedback here. So now we start with no tooling except for your default terminal app and Kitten and it serves as a gentle introduction to the command line and gets to you seeing your first web page in your web browser far more quickly.

Chrome now has a bug where if a web page pops up "log in with Google" it happens in the browser UI, not in the web page UI. And it freezes things up enough so Ctrl-W no longer works to close the tab while the "log in" dialog is displayed.
Good jerb! I suspect this is related to some monopolistic practice of Google favoring their proprietary, privacy-invading login system in their browser.

I decided to support something for which the only support mechanism is "buymeacoffee" with a monthly donation — so I created a login at buymeacoffee, and now it won't let me go any further without creating a page with my photo, name, link, and a short essay to "Explain how contributions can make a difference in your work" and just no! All I want to do is set up a small monthly donation and be able to manage that in the future!
This isn't hard on liberapay or patreon or…

I’ve tried different ways in the past to manage my phone and social media addiction, but what’s finally started working for me, especially now that I’ve been living in my own apartment since October 2024, is deleting social media altogether and setting up network firewalls to block those sites, including federated addresses.
Moving forward, I know I’ll have to cut even more of my online life. I’ve been using my Pi-hole to block distracting domains at the network level, and since I’m to…

Abstracts for the long papers on now https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=16 and the short papers

Our new ASL Consulting page is now live:
#asl #deaf

Got my Lao e-visa. All this stuff is electronic now. You upload a scan of your passport and it OCRs all your data into the right fields of a form.
Scanning the shiny plastic bio page of a new US passport can be tricky, though.
I will miss the old-fashioned passport stamps. They're the only way I keep track of where the hell I've been.

Tell Congress: NO Funding for Primate Breeding! #AnimalRights

URGENT: Tell Congress NO to Funding Primate Breeding!
Right now, Congress is working on the 2025 federal budget, and the Senate Appropriations Committee has allocated a staggering $30 million to expand primate breeding and research at National Primate Research Centers. This funding will support invasive, unethical experiments on primates—causing unimaginable suffering while advancing unreliable science that fails over 90% of the time in human clinical trials. 🔬 Despite these facts, the NIH asked for $10 million, but the Senate has tripled th…

More gas, more flashbangs.
Feds reappeared, made that arrest.
People screaming for medics.
Feds cleared out from this road but left one vehicle.
It's been broken open.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:s4t4ce7wbksdau5aqb5aqa4u…

This is really funny futuristic HN frontpage post reach HN frontpage and delivers gold satire 😅 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632

Yesterday I tried out Mistral OCR and… wow. I didn’t know that OCR of PDFs with complex layouts, tables, images and everything is basically a solved problem now? Will likely have it run OCR on a 250 page PDF to extract the full text and tables soon, at a cost of roughly 25 cents, if I read the pricing grid correctly. The initial test on a few representative pages was very promising. Next step is to give it a few pages of my terrible handwriting and see what happens 😅.

You can now try @… to ask questions on most recent cs.AI papers.
Examples:
"tell me papers on hallucinations in cs.AI" (you need to specify the category).
https://ma…

A decade of transformation: Regeneration International now connects 700 organizations worldwide, driving the shift to regenerative agriculture. Their 5th People's Food Summit reached 10 million people, while new initiatives expand across Africa and Latin America. Now launching a certification standard and training course to help farmers transition away from harmful chemicals toward practices that heal soils and communities.

They'd be renaming anyone these days in the #WWE
Vacant − Vacant Championship
Now a 4-time NXT Champion.
(def. Oba Femi, Samoa Joe, Karrion Kross and Tommaso Ciampa)
#prowrestling

While updating Wikipedia about tomorrow's new motorway — Victoria's getting an "M4" — noticed some unhealthy obsessions about a long-gone politician
(all fixed now)
(official lies)
#shitpost #m4

> As a long-time Arch user all I can say is that (at least in my experience) #Gentoo requires so little maintenance compared to Arch and if I have a problem there is a wiki page for everything (literally).
#ArchLinux is much more demanding. And now I hide…

> The store page for it notes that it is the "first collaboration between the game developer and the exoskeleton manufacturer," a point that I don't think needed pointing out at all, and also raises several questions we won't get into right now.
https://www.<…

The end of merch culture is upon us with an official Death Stranding exoskeleton
You almost definitely do not need a Death Stranding themed exoskeleton, and yet here it is anyway.

> try to test my software
> it uses codeberg.org for a test checkout
> /info/refs?service=git-upload-pack": dial tcp 217.197.84.140:443: i/o timeout
> open codeberg status page
> it times out
What am i supposed to do now. Touch grass?

"Faking Receipts with AI"
smh ... every part of our digital experience is about to be cooked.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/faking-receipts-with-ai.html

Squirrels at War: Maneuvers
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** The Ilyrians who had gone after the fake ship Lion’s Nose had blasted the beacon and were now after the Dazzler. If they fired on it, Terrans would be …

Next step on the STM32MP2, now that I have the MMU mostly brought up, is going to be turning on the caches and figuring out how to flush / invalidate cache lines when I'm exchanging data with other cores.
Or maybe it'll be simpler to just add a third level page table and mark some/all of SRAM2 as uncacheable since all of my IPC is happening there?
Either way I need to invalidate and turn the caches on.
I think that's really the last major thing left to do before…

- need a thing; raise an IT ticket
- dropdown in IT ticket FORM doesn't have a value I expect
- msg IT guy? hrmm. They raise a DIFFERENT IT ticket to add the value to form
- wait
- value added to form now I can comple-
- this page has expired; lose all data entered on form.
- weep into keyboard
Look all I wanted to do was change the lightbulb ok?

Wow, seems the people farmers of surveillance capitalism have fully embraced scammer techniques now.
Ran into this new flow on a number of sites just now (Indiewire, Variety, and RollingStone) delivered by the colossal douchebags at html-load.com who run report-error.com.
They make it look like a browser error has occurred and then tell you to disable your tracker/ad blocker.
To the asshole developers who built this for them instead of refusing: Fuck you for making everyone…

"We're just gonna kill people": Trump says he does not need declaration of war for Venezuela strikes
https://www.theguardian.c…

We also got a copy of the book “Murder Muzik,” which should make for good holiday reading.
https://www.editionsdarkside.com/produit/35/9782017309055/murder-muzik
(I shouldn’t have looked at this page, because I now know that it costs twice as much in Sw…

We also got a copy of the book “Murder Muzik,” which should make for good holiday reading.
https://www.editionsdarkside.com/produit/35/9782017309055/murder-muzik
(I shouldn’t have looked at this page, because I now know that it costs twice as much in Sw…

""One year from now, with the release of #Chrome 154 in October 2026, […] Chrome will ask for the user's permission before the first access to any public site without HTTPS.""
https://s…

You see a detective on the TV and he’s interviewing all the suspects asking them what they were doing on the night of the murder a month ago last Tuesday night.
And on the TV, the suspects all know. Right away.
If you asked me ten years ago though, I’d have had barely any clue. If you’re lucky it’d have been something planned in my calendar but mostly, dunno. Watching TV maybe? No idea what show. Was that a night I was in the pub?
As we all get older this problem increases I’m told. Eventually full on senility sets in.
But what if you have already built the habit to record what you’re doing? To be able to look back and revise and review how you spent your days? An external aid as a crutch to your own forgetful brain’s cortex?
So I started this Exocortex Log over a decade ago and now I can answer: Ten years ago on Tuesday I was having dinner with the guitarist from my band and his girlfriend and they burned the pudding.
The app has been half finished and barely able to even record let alone review for most of that time, but now it’s ready enough that someone else might use it too if they want.
Try it out: #lifeLog #app #memoryAid

Help End Experiments on Monkeys! #AnimalRights

Help PETA End Experiments on Monkeys!
Experimenters at Dutch research institute KNAW implant electrodes in monkeys’ brains and deny them water – urge the KNAW board to end these experiments now.

Mesh of Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices with Programmable Intensity Nulls
Jinxin Wu, Dan Wang, Qingqing Liang, Jianhua Hu, Jiahao Dong, Jijun Feng, Yi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18087 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18087 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18087
arXiv:2511.18087v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Light carrying transverse orbital angular momentum (T-OAM) in the form of spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) is opening new degrees of freedom for structured light manipulation. Such spatiotemporal wavepackets hold significant potential for optical trapping, analog optical computing, studying photonic symmetry and topology, among others. Up to now, synthesizing of such vortices is limited in one dimension, either in temporal or spatial domain. In this work, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a two-dimensional flexible mesh of spatiotemporal optical vortices (M-STOV) with programmable intensity nulls, and analyze their diffraction patterns for detection. Furthermore, we extend the spectral range of M-STOV via second-harmonic generation while examining the transfer of OAM in this nonlinear process. This study establishes a foundational framework for designing higher dimensional spatiotemporal vortex fields and promises a high-capacity information carrier based on ST optical vortices.
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Can You Hear Me Now? A Benchmark for Long-Range Graph Propagation
Luca Miglior, Matteo Tolloso, Alessio Gravina, Davide Bacciu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17762 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17762 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17762
arXiv:2512.17762v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Effectively capturing long-range interactions remains a fundamental yet unresolved challenge in graph neural network (GNN) research, critical for applications across diverse fields of science. To systematically address this, we introduce ECHO (Evaluating Communication over long HOps), a novel benchmark specifically designed to rigorously assess the capabilities of GNNs in handling very long-range graph propagation. ECHO includes three synthetic graph tasks, namely single-source shortest paths, node eccentricity, and graph diameter, each constructed over diverse and structurally challenging topologies intentionally designed to introduce significant information bottlenecks. ECHO also includes two real-world datasets, ECHO-Charge and ECHO-Energy, which define chemically grounded benchmarks for predicting atomic partial charges and molecular total energies, respectively, with reference computations obtained at the density functional theory (DFT) level. Both tasks inherently depend on capturing complex long-range molecular interactions. Our extensive benchmarking of popular GNN architectures reveals clear performance gaps, emphasizing the difficulty of true long-range propagation and highlighting design choices capable of overcoming inherent limitations. ECHO thereby sets a new standard for evaluating long-range information propagation, also providing a compelling example for its need in AI for science.
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Conde Nast privacy center https://privacy.condenastdigital.com/ - now that we know Conde Nast got hacked, you may want to delete all your data. This page has what you need.

This is attributed to H.G. Wells:
'The work of woman in prehistoric communities, when carefully analyzed from the fossils with which archaeology, folklore, and philology provide us, assumes somewhat large proportions as compared with the work of men. '
https://skywriter.blue…

Online tickets are now available for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference! #FF2025 is the annual conference of the @… community, jam-packed with inspiration and practical lessons for AI in GLAMs. Sign up to watch all talks on Thurs and Fri Dec 4 - 5 for free!

dril turned on fedi sharing on threads and now i can repost this https://www.threads.com/@dril/post/DSxUmi4FF6A

wint (@dril) on Threads
Just saw some one post some kind of miniature torture device that was fucking 7 roaches in the ass at the same time. This was on my "For You" page, so it was for me

Because I do not see it repeated on my TL nearly enough:
To hell with the Trump regime for sending National Guard into DC for absolutely • no • reason • whatsoever • except inflaming the situation. They’ve been desperately waiting this whole time for something to blow up and some troops to get harmed so they’d have an excuse for more escalation. Hurting troops was the goal. The •goal•.
And now Epstein’s off the front page. They’ve got to be over the moon.

A federal judge on Wednesday shredded the Trump administration’s shallow defense for bragging about its rampant, warrantless immigration arrests.
In an 88-page ruling, U.S. Judge Beryl Howell wrote that the Trump administration had illegally lowered the standard for making immigration arrests
when it instituted a policy of “arrest now, ask questions later” as part of the federal takeover of Washington, D.C.
Howell documented how the Department of Homeland Security and Trump …

Judge Rips Stephen Miller as “Ignorant or Incompetent, or Both”
The judge said Miller had made erroneous claims about warrantless arrests.

If any Canadian artists out there would like to attempt a design of an appropriately tongue-in-cheek T-Shirt for “ByeChuck.ca”, let me know.
Purpose: A humorous campaign to abolish Canada’s connection to the Monarchy.
Proceeds would go to website maintenance, the original artist, and any excess to a deserving charity.
All designs welcome. My only requirement would be that it is fully made by a person, no AI.
byechuck.ca (redirects to UK Republic page for now)
#canada #monarchy #art #artist

“More music is being released today (in a single day) than was released in the calendar year of 1989,” Page explained.
“More of that music is being done by artists themselves, meaning there’s even more demand for music production software.”
It’s true,
the rise in musicians goes hand-in-hand with the rise of music-making software and music-distributing platforms.
Now that making high-quality recordings is possible from the palm of your hand
— and sharing them i…

In 2024, More Music Is Released in a Day Than in All of 1989 Combined
As more music is being made than ever before, the music industry economy is rapidly changing. In 2024, More Music Is Released in a Day Than in All of 1989...

I'm now a silver sponsor of #Mastodon and if you can afford it you should become one too! They even put your picture on this page!
https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors