@rmdes@mstdn.social2026-02-01 13:49:27
@rmdes@mstdn.social2026-02-01 13:49:27
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-01 19:51:11
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…
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-02-02 20:23:08
Kangol’s Silence to Rabbit Torture is LOUD – Ban Angora NOW! #AnimalRights
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-12-31 07:27:56
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…
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2026-02-02 14:52:51
MicroSucks STOP WITH THE CHANGES! I had Word showing one page as my default view. Today it switched to multiple pages. I DIDN'T GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO CHANGE THAT SETTING.
Small change, but one I should not need to make! I think they are annoyed that I changed from Edge to Firefox.
Also, annoyance is that in SharePoint using Firefox I MUST sign in every site I open. Massive (middle) finger pointing right now.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-31 16:00:49
AIs are newly landed alien intelligences.
What we are seeing now are emergent properties that very few people predicted and fewer still understand.
The emerging superintelligence isn’t a machine, as widely predicted,
but a network.
Human intelligence exploded over the last several hundred years not because humans got much smarter as individuals
but because we got smarter as a network.
The same thing is happening with machine intelligence only much fast…
@rmdes@mstdn.social2026-02-01 21:40:31
🎶🎵 Dire Straits Š l’honneur ce soir …
je me suis pris de nostalgie tout d’un coup et j’aime bien ma page qui s’actualise automatiquement avec ce que j’écoute 🤓
https://rmendes.net/listening/
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-02-28 13:00:00
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#MusicMatters
- Turning the Page
Violinist Tasmin Little talks to soprano Lesley Garrett and John Sherba from the Kronos Quartet about finding new meaning after a performance career.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rryk
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-01-29 09:52:39
Which ~~phrase, paragraph, or page~~ are you most proud of writing this month?
#writerscoffeeclub 2026-01-29
"all of the people who live in the land that was promised and is now tortured have equal claim to be of the seed of Abraham"
It's not from fiction, it's from a bleak essay about the situation in
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-28 23:50:35
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…
@pre@boing.world2026-02-02 12:33:00
One thing which is annoying about Vivaldi and also Firefox and presumably also all the other Android web browsers is the way the "Add To Homescreen" button works on pages like Mastodon which are Progressive Web Apps.
If you add the shortcut to the homescreen then it opens as a WPA which means the browser stuff is all gone and hidden. No back button. No way to bookmark. No way to launch a link in a new browser window etc.
Ought to be two separate buttons for "Add a link to the homepage" vs "Add this app as an app to the homepage" but there isn't.
You can get around this by turning on airplane mode and adding a link to the error page to the homescreeen, which then works as a link to the website in the browser, not a WPA app, when you're online again.
I did this to the links I use with Vivaldi before I realized it's proprietary and so will not do.
Trying to rebuild them as Firefox links again and sadly something is broken now. Won't add the error page. Tells me the pixel launcher is crashing.
So I can't have the old web bookmark links to pages in WPA apps. Boo. 😦
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-02-24 02:45:19
Marineland Permits: Demand ‘No Breeding’ Guarantees for Exports of Whales & Dolphins #AnimalRights
@kctipton@mas.to2025-12-28 09:30:12
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.
@chrislowles@mastodon.social2025-12-29 14:41:36
dril turned on fedi sharing on threads and now i can repost this https://www.threads.com/@dril/post/DSxUmi4FF6A
@wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net2026-01-19 03:22:18
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…
![How to draw this:
From a point in the center of the page
draw two yellow-dashed rays sloping left-up and right-up at 45° to the edge of the page. Mark the right angle between the two rays. ([center] pt)
On each of these mark a point near the corner right before it runs off of the page ([upper-left] pt and [upper-right] pt)
From [upper-right] draw a downwards-left blue arrow, slope 3/2, to a point directly below [center],
label that "moving Now snapshot"
label the destination "Here and Now"
…](https://mastodon.murkworks.net/system/media_attachments/files/115/919/541/566/228/628/original/966e2ed39686f9a8.gif)
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe2026-01-20 19:30:58
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?
@nelson@tech.lgbt2026-02-17 17:39:32
I tried to open a Word document in LibreOffice. I've now spent 5 minutes waiting for it to update itself. The updater regularly flashes new windows on the screen, fake progress bars, occasionally opens a web page. All interrupting me the whole time.
I just want to see a single page of text.
Update I finally got it to work by manually killing the updater process. Had to be fast: it'd only last a few seconds before dying and relaunching itself.
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-12-22 10:33:20
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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@mia@hcommons.social2025-12-04 11:52:42
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
@cheeaun@mastodon.social2026-02-09 14:03:51
RE: https://mastodon.social/@staff/116015299592234843
Adding support for disabled "live feeds".
Now the issue is whether to hide the 'Local' and 'Federated' menu items in the main nav. Phanpy allows users to switch servers, so…
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-01-19 18:19:04
Jeremy Keith found a `<datalist>` bug in iOS 26:
https://adactio.com/journal/22360
I confirmed it affects iPadOS 26.2:
https://
@simoncox@seocommunity.social2026-01-19 14:42:19
After a Blue Monday start (Orgy's version is my fav) looks like I'm all in on a Radio Head today.
@rafa_font@mastodon.online2025-12-15 13:05:15
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…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2026-02-12 12:40:35
Trump wins another award no one knew existed, this time as the 'undisputed champion' of claiming that coal is not destroying the planet
https:…
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place2026-01-21 21:37:44
It is one hell of a twist that the Wikipedia page for “Cow Tools”, one of the most niche and controversial single
panel cartoons in history, has now an “Example In real life” section. 😵💫
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-02-16 18:27:29
Den of Angels is a forum dedicated to the appreciation of resin ball-jointed dolls and the artisans who make them, started in May 2002 as a Yahoo! Group
https://denofangels.com/
@publicvoit@graz.social2025-12-13 23:14:30
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…
@Xavier@infosec.exchange2026-01-16 16:51:34
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…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-13 18:05:18
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…
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social2025-12-18 20:34:48
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
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-02-06 23:17:41
From Open Media
Sign Canada’s Digital Sovereignty Charter
Canadian democracy is under threat. Algorithms and deceptive content are shaping what we see, think, and share, while foreign tech giants collect our data without limits.
Our current laws and digital systems aren’t strong enough to protect us. This leaves Canadian voices, our choices, and our digital identities at risk. Parliament must step up and champion Canada’s Digital Sovereignty Charter now
@servelan@newsie.social2026-01-16 01:46:13
"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/
@rmdes@mstdn.social2026-02-17 13:45:12
My indiekit blogroll plugin now supports feeding a blogroll page/widget from OPML URL, OPML FILE, Microsub and Feedland
the first two are a given, but the microsub source basically reuse the already subscribed feed from my indiekit microsub implementation and display them as blogroll items and Feedland is more or less the same idea but the source here is a feedland server providing the dynamic OPML input.
@david@boles.xyz2025-12-14 15:54:56
@steve@s.yelvington.com2026-01-13 15:49:43
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.
@pre@boing.world2025-12-18 09:22:01
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
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-17 13:40:54
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.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-23 15:12:30
Minnesota’s coalition is demanding:
1: ICE must leave Minnesota now.
2: Renee Good’s killer, Jonathan Ross, must be held legally accountable.
3: No additional federal funding for ICE in the upcoming budget.
“These are moral common sense for a state that values truth, freedom, and life.”
https://
@brichapman@mastodon.social2026-01-09 18:20:04
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.
@hacksilon@infosec.exchange2026-01-13 15:06:38
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 😅.
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social2026-02-05 12:44:38
Happy to contribute to #Cilium (#documentation).
Good tools deserve good docs. ✨
https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/
@padraig@mastodon.ie2026-01-10 16:59:08
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
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2026-02-03 23:51:41
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-01-09 17:41:24
> 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…
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-02-09 09:38:09
Pending software update, the changelog now just points to a webpage, web page mentions it's a security update.
Strongly feel that this class of information should be in the release itself. Long detailed changelogs are fine on webpages - but at least give me a précis to gauge whether action is required.
@ginevra@hachyderm.io2026-02-07 04:26:08
"Like many, I never really lost the inner nine-year-old who rejoices at the sight of armed soldiers marching in lockstep"...maaaate, don't admit that on page 25!
Yes, you had the grace to admit you've never experienced war, but how the f*** do you expect readers to react?
Is this what comes of being published by a military history/games publisher (Osprey)? Insufficiently critical editing?
Is this a common sentiment? It's 100% not mine
I'm reading Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine by Mark Galeotti
I realise it was published in 2022 as Russia was invading Ukraine, but that sentence is even more distasteful now, in 2026
@ckent@urbanists.social2025-12-13 05:40:41
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-15 04:16:06
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.
@pre@boing.world2025-12-06 12:43:08
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
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-15 15:51:01
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…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-02-25 17:10:55
The BBC running damage control on its own broadcast is wild to witness. The most egregious part of the affair to me is that no one from BAFTA or the BBC even bothered to apologize to Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo when they got off the stage, let alone tell *them* what was going to be done about it. There was no effort to bring the three people involved together for resolution at the time of the incident, nothing.
But the other part of this that just grates on me with every article is the BBC trying to defend itself by saying “that another racial slur had been edited out of the broadcast.”
#BBC #BAFTA #Racism #FreePalestine #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #misinformation #disinformation #complicity
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165835
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-12-10 17:41:02
This is really funny futuristic HN frontpage post reach HN frontpage and delivers gold satire 😅 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-03 22:58:45
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 …
