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I hadn't really expected seeing a punch card reader and an older Pentium based PC from DEC, but here we are, at the #embroidery museum in Lustenau.
Vorarlberg had been famous for its textile industry.
Now it only has a few machines left running.

The first true garden products of the season - rhubarb jam and syrup! The second is the perfect ingredient for homemade soda/cocktails on a hot summer day. In a few years, when the plants are a bit older, we'll get much more.
#gardening #cooking

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
It's Customer Experience Day. Let's play!
#ComplaintsAtFictionalBiz

Complications from surgery landed my dad back in the hospital late Wednesday. Successful exploratory surgery found and hopefully stopped the internal bleeding.
If a few key numbers remain stabile, he might get released today. But in the interim, it’ll have to be a Father’s Day video call to his hospital room.
There are myriad ways in which to view this, but I’m choosing gratefulness. #HappyFathersDay

Older gay man’s powerful response to being asked why his generation are ‘so mad all the time’
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/11/older-gay-man-powerful-explanation-of-why-his-generation-are-so-mad-all-the-time-goes-viral/

"We need to avail ourselves of GenAI to enhance knowledge distribution": Empowering Older Adults through GenAI Literacy
Eunhye Grace Ko, Shaini Nanayakkara, Earl W. Huff Jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06225

"We need to avail ourselves of GenAI to enhance knowledge distribution": Empowering Older Adults through GenAI Literacy
As generative AI (GenAI) becomes increasingly widespread, it is crucial to equip users, particularly vulnerable populations such as older adults (65 and older), with the knowledge to understand its benefits and potential risks. Older adults often exhibit greater reservations about adopting emerging technologies and require tailored literacy support. Using a mixed methods approach, this study examines strategies for delivering GenAI literacy to older adults through a chatbot named Litti, evaluat…

My much-needed trip to the ocean taught me one thing: Some combination of @… and @… craps our once you’re at ~4k unread toots. And just doesn’t show me the older ones.
Being a timeline completionist is going to be tricky when I get…

Combo flu-COVID vaccine shows good immune response, safety in older adults:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/combo-flu-covid-vaccine-shows-good-immune-response-safety-older-adults

"""
"[…] Wanting a man got me into awful troubles more than once. But wanting to get married, never! No, no. None of that for me."
"Why not?" Tenar demanded.
Taken aback, Moss said simply, "Why, what man'd marry a witch?" And then, with a sidelong chewing motion of her jaw, like a sheep shifting its cud, “And what witch’d marry a man?"
They split rushes.
"What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously.
As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I’ve thought on it. Often I’ve thought on it. The best I can say it is like this. A man’s in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell." She held up her long, bent, wet fingers as if holding a walnut. “It’s hard and strong, that shell, and it’s all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that’s all. That’s all there is. It’s all him and nothing else, inside."
Tenar pondered awhile and finally asked, "But if he's a wizard—"
"Then it's all his power, inside. His power’s himself, see. That’s how it is with him. And that’s all. When his power goes, he’s gone. Empty." She cracked the unseen walnut and tossed the shells away. “Nothing."
"And a woman, then?"
"Oh, well, dearie, a woman's a different thing entirely. Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen, mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island. Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into the dark." Moss’s eyes shone with a weird brightness in their red rims and her voice sang like an instrument. “I go back into the dark! Before the moon I was. No one knows, no one knows, no one can say what I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. Who dares ask questions of the dark? Who’ll ask the dark its name?"
"""
(Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu)

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matching them with the resources they need to run strong campaigns,
win, and change the face of power.
Think EMILYs List for young, progressive courageous candidates.
Leaders We Deserve invests in young people, knocks down these barriers, and elects more young people to office.

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Shout out to Spigen for still selling phone cases for several generations older phones. I have a Samsung Galaxy S20 FE and my old case literally fell apart, so I looked for a new case and Spigen was still selling them.

A post from the archive 📫:
The gift of time
#musings

LLMs fail at old video games because LLMs don't think, they just regurgitate pre-ingested information, and older video games (and some new ones) have so much chaos and unpredictability baked in that you can't navigate them simply by regurgitating things.
#OldGames #RetroGaming

Replaced article(s) found for math.MG. https://arxiv.org/list/math.MG/new/
[1/1]:
H\"older continuity and dimensions of fractal Fourier series

AI analysis: Are Dead Sea Scrolls older than we thought? - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/are-dead-sea-scrolls-older-than-we-thought/

Insights from Designing Context-Aware Meal Preparation Assistance for Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Their Care Partners
Szeyi Chan, Jiachen Li, Siman Ao, Yufei Wang, Ibrahim Bilau, Brian Jones, Eunhwa Yang, Elizabeth D Mynatt, Xiang Zhi Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05663…

Insights from Designing Context-Aware Meal Preparation Assistance for Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Their Care Partners
Older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) often face challenges during meal preparation, such as forgetting ingredients, skipping steps, or leaving appliances on, which can compromise their safety and independence. Our study explores the design of context-aware assistive technologies for meal preparation using a user-centered iterative design process. Through three iterative phases of design and feedback, evolving from low-tech lightbox to a digital screen, we gained insights into manag…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05740 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

ChatWise: A Strategy-Guided Chatbot for Enhancing Cognitive Support in Older Adults
Cognitive health in older adults presents a growing challenge. Although conversational interventions show feasibility in improving cognitive wellness, human caregiver resources remain overloaded. AI-based chatbots have shown promise, yet existing work is often limited to implicit strategies or heavily depends on training and label resources. In response, we propose a strategy-guided AI chatbot named ChatWise that follows a dual-level conversation reasoning framework. It integrates macro-level s…

How spyware, posing as an app from a humanitarian organization, spread among Syrian army officers via Telegram, and fueled the collapse of the Assad regime (Mobile Hacker)
https://www.mobile-hacker.com/2025/06/05/an…

Analysis of Spyware That Helped to Compromise a Syrian Army from Within
This case demonstrates that effective smartphone espionage doesn't always require expensive zero-day exploits or the development of sophisticated, custom and undetected spyware. Instead, attackers can achieve significant intelligence gains using older, off-the-shelf tools like Android SpyMax—especially when combined

Every day I use the #Internet it gets more crap. First we had ads popping up everywhere. Then Google came in and crushed all the good stuff. Now we’re stuck with this AI slop no one asked for.
Remember when pages actually loaded fast? Not bloated with trackers and nonsense. When forums were real communities, not spam factories. When you could browse without being followed by cookies.…

If you're trying to do the trick that was shared for #nintendoswitch2 where you can use a USB HDMI capture dongle HDMI to USB-C cable to use your iPhone as a camera - don't use the True Visage app mentioned in the video
That will rely on screen sharing mirroring and you'll potentially get an aspect ratio mismatch and see the dynamic island floating in your view
I'd personally suggest the free "Blackmagic Camera" app instead, and then go to:
Settings->Monitor->HDMI Out
Switch from Mirror Display to Video Feed and it will cleanly output your camera. Works for a Lightning to HDMI out adapter for older phones, too
Then just tap on Lense and FPS and pick which combo you like.
Also, if you're not getting any output signal make sure the capture dongle you're using supports 1080p out - not sure the Switch 2 supports anything higher as camera input

»June 7: Initial release – first github commit for Kubernetes«
This was June 7, 2014, so 11 years ago. For some people, in IT everything older then 10 years already counts as vintage.
Source: https://blog.risingstack.com/the-history-of-kubernetes/

The History of Kubernetes on a Timeline - RisingStack Engineering
To tell the story of how Kubernetes evolved into the great tool that we know today, we visualized the major milestones on an interactive timeline!

Music-induced cognitive change and whole-brain network flexibility: a pilot study https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2025.1567605/full Now what might visual-to-auditory sensory substitution train…

Frontiers | Music-induced cognitive change and whole-brain network flexibility: a pilot study
IntroductionCognitive impairment that exceeds age-related cognitive decline is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. As the older adul...

The Liquid glass look somehow (to me) feels inferior to me. Also, didn’t older iOS have such a glassy matte finish as its interface? I don’t know why it’s new - iOS always had it or was it macOS?
This year WWDC overall was a letdown. It is a clear example of “updates for the sake of stock price”.
They are boasting about Apple Intelligence all the while its “main” features got pushed to next year.

There was an older lady in the train sitting across from us who was literally opening up a bottle of cough syrup and chugging it. We were wearing masks, she was not.
Perfect timing for our visit: https://aus.social/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy/114628380231359490

Denis - The COVID info guy - (@DenisCOVIDinfoguy@aus.social)
Attached: 1 image 🇬🇧 UK: Doctors call for return of face masks after new COVID strain reaches UK. In the UK, cases of the new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 have been reported. WHO is monitoring due to its rapid spread and possible resistance to prior infection or vaccination. Source: https://archive.md/DTVHw @auscovid19@a.gup.pe

The email template provided by a senior colleague strikes again! I just sent a message containing - horror of horrors - double spaces after every period. The recipient is going to think I'm few years older than I really am.

The older Cito gets, the less she wants to walk and the more she wants to sniff trees.

I had this idea for a Cairn lifepath generator where there are three stages of life and you roll 1d6 for your stats at each stage, and also get appropriate items.
It has not been playtested, it's barely been proofread, but I've been having a lot of fun generating guys
perchance.org/lt8m69fg35
#ttrpg #CairnRpg

EGOISM - Getting Older (Official Video) #music #youtube

The Epoch of Giant Planet Migration Planet Search Program. III. The Occurrence Rate of Young Giant Planets Inside the Water Ice Line
Quang H. Tran, Brendan P. Bowler, William D. Cochran, Chad F. Bender, Samuel Halverson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Joe P. Ninan, Paul Robertson, Arpita Roy, Gu{\dh}mundur Stef\'ansson, Ryan C. Terrien
https://

The Epoch of Giant Planet Migration Planet Search Program. III. The Occurrence Rate of Young Giant Planets Inside the Water Ice Line
We present statistical results from the Epoch of Giant Planet Migration RV planet search program. This survey was designed to measure the occurrence rate of giant planets interior to the water ice line of young Sun-like stars, compare this to the prevalence of giant planets at older ages, and provide constraints on the timescale and dominant inward migration mechanism of giant planets. Our final sample amounts to 85 single young (20-200 Myr) G and K dwarfs which we target across a 4-year time b…

And now an older male boarded he train, and looking at his face, I was like: "Gargamel!"
And now I can't stop smiling. And the young 'uns these days probably don't even know Gargamel!

Hush little baby, don't say a word,
Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird.
And if that bird dies of #AvianFlu,
Mama's gonna buy you a #doll or two.
And if they break when they get older,
Mama's gonna buy you a baby

It's an #insta-world, baby. 🙄

Hmmm, I wonder if #Youtube is doing some fuckery or if my install of #LibreWolf is just misbehaving.
Well, the live video still plays, so I guess at least there's that.

Lessons from Harlem
#nyc #music

Lessons From Harlem - The American Scholar
A white blues player’s streetside education

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
BLAKE: Kemp, Wardin, Tober, missing in the constellation of 61 Cygnii, seven hundred years ago.
WILER: May I continue?
BELLFRIAR: Sorry.
[Mortuary]
https://blake.torpi…

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

This chainsaw might be older than me. Today, it decided it just didn't want to work. Even a little starter fluid wouldn't do anything. No sputter, no start and stall, just nothing. I ended up using a little electric one with difficulty when this guy would have been done in seconds.

So, tracked down the issue with Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) 2024. The default permissions for the HOTAS `/dev/hidraw` devices is too restrictive. This is why neither MSFS 2024 or Elite: Dangerous saw the devices. I added new entries into the `udev` rules to relax the permissions and both games immediately saw the HOTAS.
```
KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="231d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0126", MODE="0666"
KERNEL=="hidraw*&q…

== Food for thoughts ==
Tariffs equal more expensive laptops, which equals people opting for older machines, and older machines work terribly on Windows 11, but on Linux they work wonderfully, so Linux it is.
Makes you start to dream a bit, picture a renaissance of OS minimalism, DWM and i3 trending on TikTok. Influencers rocking Hyprland.

Yes, #Internet is literal crap!
Why would I want #Google

Just a few months older than me. A lot more useful though 🤗 https://defcon.social/@thedarkener/114575402468471301

We're at the top of the Florence Duomo Cupola climb. There's VERY little room between the outer and inner domes. Tall, older American men are banging their heads.
TOAM: How tall did they think people would be?!?
Me, against my better judgment: 5'2".
(How would you respond?)
TOAM: Who were they designing for?!? PYGMIES?!?
Me: Medieval Italians.
TOAM (with disgust): Oh…ITALIANS!!!
We are not sending our best, folks. (Or, can we send them…

H\"older continuity of Lyapunov exponents for non-invertible and non-compact random cocycles
Pedro Duarte, Tom\'e Graxinha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04124

Hölder continuity of Lyapunov exponents for non-invertible and non-compact random cocycles
We study the regularity of Lyapunov exponents for random linear cocycles taking values in $\Mat_m(\R)$ and driven by i.i.d. processes. Under three natural conditions - finite exponential moments, a spectral gap between the top two Lyapunov exponents, and quasi-irreducibility of the associated semigroup - we prove that the top Lyapunov exponent is Hölder continuous with respect to the Wasserstein distance. In the final section, we apply the main results to Schrödinger cocycles with unbounded p…

Peter Hook tonight in #Buffalo. Never gonna see New Order live, so this will do.
My best pics of the band are from other people.

Take note my #DNS friends
https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/114556401535348313

I ordered collector's plates for my pickup truck yesterday. They were $40 less than the annual renewal on my hatchback, they never require annual renewal, and they never require emissions checks. The only downside is that I can't drive the pickup truck legally in the month of January (which I already don't) and the vehicle needs to be older than 20 years (it's older). 🤷‍♂️

Boundary H\"older gradient estimates for parabolic $p$-Laplace type equations
Se-Chan Lee, Yuanyuan Lian, Hyungsung Yun, Kai Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01018

Boundary Hölder gradient estimates for parabolic $p$-Laplace type equations
In this paper, we study the boundary regularity for viscosity solutions of parabolic $p$-Laplace type equations. In particular, we obtain the boundary pointwise $C^{1,α}$ regularity and global $C^{1,α}$ regularity.

Test @…!
#RudolfRocker

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01600 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Is Triboelectricity Confusing, Confused or Complex?
In this report, we look at the fundamental physics of triboelectricity, charge transfer due to contact and sliding. While much of the report focuses upon recent advances such as the incorporation of flexoelectric contributions, we also include older work, some from centuries ago, which only now can be understood in a general sense. Basic concepts and theories ranging from elements of tribology and contact mechanics through semiconductor built-in potentials, electromechanical terms, mechanochemi…

»This is an awful language. Don't program in INTERCAL«
@… is talking about his work on bringing the original INTERCAL72 compiler from 1973 back to life again. Podcast recommendation, enjoy:

Advent of Computing
Welcome to Advent of Computing, the show that talks about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing. A lot of little things we take for granted today have rich stories behind their creation, in each episode we will learn how older tech has lead to our modern world.

H\"older continuity and Fourier asymptotics of spectral measures for 1D Schr\"odinger operators under exponentially decaying perturbations
M. Aloisio, Silas L. Carvalho, C. R. de Oliveira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03971

Hölder continuity and Fourier asymptotics of spectral measures for 1D Schrödinger operators under exponentially decaying perturbations
We establish $\frac{1}{2}$-Hölder continuity, or even the Lipschitz property, for the spectral measures of half-line discrete Schrödinger operators under suitable boundary conditions and exponentially decaying small potentials. These are the first known examples, apart from the free case, of Schrödinger operators with Lipschitz continuous spectral measures, as a direct consequence of the Dirichlet boundary condition. Notably, we show that the asymptotic behavior of the time-averaged quantum …

As I get older, I'm ever more amazed by the friendships from long ago that when renewed, despite the years that have passed between visits, feel like we never stopped seeing each other every other day.

this is a real serial rapist, violent offender, and danger to society.
sadly the dominant narratives of the last 10 years conflate truly evil fuckers like Andrew Tate, with regular harmless folks who have a sex partner a few years older or younger than them.
https://www.nydailyne…

Learning a foreign language in older adults shapes the functional connectivity of distinct cerebellar sub-regions with cortical areas rich in CB1 receptor expression https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brb3.70565

approximately no one's noticing but stack overflow is reaching its maximum number of questions.
that's because every day, every unanswered, unupvoted, uncommentedon question older than a year gets deleted (see the big jump up on the graph in April 2024). those deletions are now neck and neck with new questions coming in on weekdays. those deletions dwarf new questions coming in on weekends, so the site's already shrinking on weekends.
it was fun while it lasted <3

Long-term impact of PM2.5 on mortality is exacerbated when wildfire events occur
Federica Spoto, Francesca Dominici, Danielle Braun, Joan A. Casey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16613

Long-term impact of PM2.5 on mortality is exacerbated when wildfire events occur
There is extensive evidence that long-term exposure to all-source PM2.5 increases mortality. However, to date, no study has evaluated whether this effect is exacerbated in the presence of wildfire events. Here, we study 60+ million older US adults and find that wildfire events increase the harmful effects of long-term all-source PM2.5 exposure on mortality, providing a new and realistic conceptualization of wildfire health risks.

this is an odd #camera , wouldn't it be better an older one that doesn't require an internet connection and sign up to a #termsofservice you don't agree with? #Odysee