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So, I've been recently having a conversation with several folk about Slack vs Discord and which platform may be more advantagous for organizing events and building community. I and others were surprised to learn of how wide the gulf is on various people's ranges of experiences on each service, in terms of community, harassment, security tools, and users feeling welcomed.
I recognize that my experience as a femme-presenting person who uses my real identity is different from that of an anonymous person with a profile photo showing a bearded guy in a Patagonia vest holding up an IPA. This tracks with the discussions I've had today: tech bros generally seem to lean toward one platform while all of my other business-owning women friends opt to steer away from that service almost entirely.
If you're femme and use your real identity online, do you have a preference for Slack or Discord? Have you ever opted out of using either Slack or Discord? In addition to discussion of general vibes and security tools, we also can all recognize that there are some surveillance/privacy tradeoffs in play, as well. (Just as, if you're an organizer, maybe you have thoughts about which service offers tools or features or pricing that steers you one way or another, as well?)
What are your stories on this topic?

I am not a fan of having everything I create on every platform which I don’t completely own being auto-opt-in for them to monetize my labor for LLM (fake-#AI) training.
https://front-end.social/@benschwarz/1

benschwarz (@benschwarz@front-end.social)
Attached: 1 image Huggingface "BigCode" AI project did a shitty thing where they indexed public code from GitHub, making it an OPT-OUT experience. You can see if your account is included and request removal (along with 1,800+ other disappointed souls) here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack I had 81 repositories included, and while my more important work is private, I am still sending eye-daggers towards huggingface's general direction. You can do it too! Or just opt-out,…

Three best fits for Dolphins in first round of 2024 NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/three_best_fits_for_dolphins_in_first_round_of_2024_nfl_draft/s1_13132_40179479

Three best fits for Dolphins in first round of 2024 NFL Draft
The Miami Dolphins hold the 21st overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, which is set to begin on April 25. Late-season injuries and a number of notable offseason subtractions have left Miami with several holes around the roster that need to be filled in the draft. However, considering that the Dolphins only own six 2024 selections, they could opt to trade the 21st pick to acquire additional draft capital. Even so, since they own a first-round pick for the time being, here are three prospects who w…

Algorithmic strategies for finding the best TSP 2-OPT move in average sub-quadratic time
Giuseppe Lancia, Paolo Vidoni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19878 htt…

Algorithmic strategies for finding the best TSP 2-OPT move in average sub-quadratic time
We describe an exact algorithm for finding the best 2-OPT move which, experimentally, was observed to be much faster than the standard quadratic approach. To analyze its average-case complexity, we introduce a family of heuristic procedures and discuss their complexity when applied to a random tour in graphs whose edge costs are either uniform random numbers in [0, 1] or Euclidean distances between random points in the plane. We prove that, for any probability p: (i) there is a heuristic in the…

🦴 China’s small towns thrive as more opt out of demanding megacity life
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/04/23/asia-pacific/society/china-small-town-boom/

China’s small towns thrive as more opt out of demanding megacity life
As an economic downturn in China’s biggest cities prompts layoffs and competition for remaining posts, many are finding a better quality of life elsewhere.

I don't think I'll ever come to terms with this platform refusing to offer a basic search function, even for people who want to opt in to one.

Looks like I made the right call not letting the Shell fuel rewards app access my location 🤦🏼

Telegram turned on ad revenue sharing for all channels with 1000 subscribers. You can't opt out unless your channel's boosts match 20% of the subscriber count.
Ads can target individual channels without the channel owner's consent. Great scam potential.
https://telegram.org/blog/monetiza…

Sharing Revenue with Channel Owners
Today, we're introducing one of the most generous reward systems in the history of social media. Telegram channel owners can now receive 50% of the revenue from ads displayed in their channels.

Other socmed users out there sending each other jumpscares and rickrolls meanwhile tumblr is going through The Boopening™.
It's opt-in. You click on the boop button next to someone's username and a cat paw appears on your screen and they can boop you back and there is no limit to booping (two people were collectively responsible for booping me 94 times).
I have spent an absurd amount of time booping everyone who appears on my timeline, I love it.

«Five principles for building generative AI products» @…'s keynote title for #CollabW24 🙄
tl;dr:
1. no decisions: use "AI" as 'assistive technology’
2. design for failure, consider the cost of getting it wrong
3. have it be grounded in reality
4. make it invite only: opt-in to using it
5. leverage: “explain like it's me”: personalize responses to personal knowledge level
(My 6. obvious addition: as we say in German: “wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing”)

There are so many accounts by the #news media on #Threads, that could but do not yet federate. Doesn't make much sense to ask here for them to do that, so I posted something over there.
If you have an account and want more of the media federating, feel free to share the post:

I agree that some form of not-the-default, opt-in, multiple-choice, BYO-algo, natively available within the Fediverse (thus accessible to all the clients) would be hugely powerful and very popular. Use it if you want, don't if you don't. Fwiw, there *are* clients that have started to try and build algo-based feed. If you're on iOS, check out Sora for example.

"…consider how #Threads is handling #misinformation: They’re flagging fact-checked posts, and including an opt-in setting that will downrank those posts in the algorithm that sorts a Threads’ users timeline. That reduces visibility for those posts on Threads—for users who opt-in, anyway—but it w…

Elektronische Patientenakte: Psychotherapeuten fordern Opt-in für Kinder
Der Bundesverband der Psychotherapeuten fordert bei der elektronischen Patientenakte für Kinder eine Einwilligung, solange bis Datenschutzfragen geklärt sind.

Google is testing AI overviews in the main Google Search results with some users, even if they do not opt in to the Search Generative Experience labs feature (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-st

Google starts testing AI overviews from SGE in main Google search interface
Some users who do not opt in to the Google Search labs SGE feature may see AI overview answers in the search results.

Commanders get blindsided by FedEx with company deciding to pull out of $205 million stadium naming deal

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/comman…

Commanders get blindsided by FedEx with company deciding to pull out of $205 million stadium naming deal
FedEx had a clause in contract to opt out of the deal if the team ever underwent an ownership change

I don't think I'll ever come to terms with this platform refusing to offer a basic search function, even for people who want to opt in to one.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00445 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Long Plane Trees
In the longest plane spanning tree problem, we are given a finite planar point set $\mathcal{P}$, and our task is to find a plane (i.e., noncrossing) spanning tree for $\mathcal{P}$ with maximum total Euclidean edge length. Despite more than two decades of research, it remains open whether this problem is NP-hard. Thus, previous efforts have focused on olynomial-time algorithms that produce plane trees whose total edge length approximates $\text{OPT}$, the maximum possible length. The approxima…

Sources detail Grindr's push to monetize, including plans for an AI chatbot that can engage users in sexual conversations and may be trained on opt-in user data (Zoë Schiffer/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/grindr-ai-boyfriend-wingman-mo…

Inside Grindr's plan to squeeze its users
The company’s bet on AI boyfriends and other paywalled features is making some employees nervous

First papercut with #Silverblue — I have roughly forever kept a symlink /m − /media/johnsonm because I really don't like typing all that.
I built a local package with that symlink to get my symlink back, and then when I tried to install it immediately hit

RetailOpt: An Opt-In, Easy-to-Deploy Trajectory Estimation System Leveraging Smartphone Motion Data and Retail Facility Information
Ryo Yonetani, Jun Baba, Yasutaka Furukawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12548

RetailOpt: An Opt-In, Easy-to-Deploy Trajectory Estimation System Leveraging Smartphone Motion Data and Retail Facility Information
We present RetailOpt, a novel opt-in, easy-to-deploy system for tracking customer movements in indoor retail environments. The system utilizes information presently accessible to customers through smartphones and retail apps: motion data, store map, and purchase records. The approach eliminates the need for additional hardware installations/maintenance and ensures customers maintain full control of their data. Specifically, RetailOpt first employs inertial navigation to recover relative traject…

@… After subscribing to the forum, I would suggest going on with:
1. Opt-in for the *community* plugins-taxonomy
2. Opt-in for the *blocks* taxonomy, see https:…

So, Federated Threads will be "Opt In" only -- which is fine -- but do we think any Threads users have enough of any idea of what we do here to even know to want to "Opt In?"
#Threads #Mastodon #OptIn

How do I opt into full text search on Mastodon?
"In case you missed it, you can make the entire text of your public Mastodon posts searchable by other people by opting into the "full text search" system. This means all the words in your public posts would be searchable, not just the hashtags."

How do I opt into full text search on Mastodon? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

Discord wants to void your right to sue them, but you can opt out.
https://www.polygon.com/2024/4/20/24134970/discord-arbitration-how-to-opt-out
Or you can just delete your account which is what I did.
"We have received a (dare we say, terrifying) request to permanently delete your account. Your account has
been deactivated and will be permanently deleted after 14 days.
Just in case you change your mind (or were a bit too curious with pushing buttons), or did not request to
permanently delete your account, please login to Discord to cancel this request."
Fuck 'em.

This is why my default search engine is not Google.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/google-search-will-start-automatically-showing-a-chatbot-to-some-users/

Reflectionless propagation of beams through a stratified medium
Sounak Sinha Biswas, Ghanasyam Remesh, Venu Gopal Achanta, Ayan Banerjee, Nirmalya Ghosh, Subhasish Dutta Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20129

Reflectionless propagation of beams through a stratified medium
Reflectionless potentials following the prescription of Kay and Moses allow for total transmission of incoming waves of any kinetic energy. The optical analogue of such potentials occur as dielectric stratified media that can offer null reflectivity and near total transmission over a large range of incidence angles and wavelengths. In a previous work (S. Dutta Gupta and G. S. Agarwal, Opt. Express 15, 9614-9624, 2007), this was demonstrated for linearly polarized plane waves. We extend the earl…

Reminder that you can already choose who can follow you on Mastodon, turn off “Automatically accept new followers” in “Settings > Public Profile > Privacy and reach” to make following you opt-in.
[If you get a lot of unwanted requests from one source (like a specific server) consider a domain block.]

Meta started rolling out its new opt-out political content settings on Instagram and Threads last week to "limit political content from people you don't follow" (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/2411160

Meta’s new setting shadow bans politics on Instagram and Threads
How to find a new opt-out setting in Instagram that “limits” the recommendation of political content from accounts you don’t follow in both Instagram and Threads.

Some interesting (but flawed) UX-design on the Fediverse sharing opt-in modal on threads.net.
If your screen is tall and the modal content has no overflow, you can’t move on. Had to shrink the window and give it a scroll for the button to enable. 😅

I get that there’s a colloquial convention for this in the UI design language (left off, right on), but it’s uaully accompanied by a label or at least a colour change.
This is especially complicated for an international audience (e.g. US power switches up for on; UK down for on).
I have a hard time believing this is not an intentional anti-pattern to trick users into doing the thing the website wants them to do (which is often the opposite of what the user wants to do).
Ple…

Kinda weird people want opt-in for the bridge yet the entirety of the Fediverse isn't even opt-in....😬🤷‍♂️
#Fediverse #Bluesky

It’s fine for the bridge to Bluesky to be opt-in. But however it’s constructed, I am looking forward to sharing *some* of the fine content here in a space where algorithmic discovery is easy and uncontroversial.

Roku faces a backlash after it appears to lock devices of users who don't agree to its new Dispute Resolution Terms, asking them to write a letter to opt out (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0

“Disgraceful”: Messy ToS update allegedly locks Roku devices until users give in
Users are opted in automatically unless they write a letter to Roku by March 21.

Wäre vielleicht mal wieder ein Thema für einen #FediverseModerationsTreff :
Föderation mit #bluesky
https://

Some notes on the current status of #Threads users joining the #Fediverse:
- Threads users must opt in.
- If you like a post from Threads, the user there sees likes show up only as "X likes from fediverse users" (no account names)
- If you reply to a post coming from Threads, it…

Threads has enabled Fediverse integration. It's opt-in, and major institutional accounts do not appear to have it available yet. But if you can find an account you want to follow you can subscribe on a Mastodon site and read without being pummeled by tracking beacons.

Jerry Jones says Tyler Smith could replace Tyron Smith at LT https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/jerry_jones_says_tyler_smith_could_replace_tyron_smith_at_lt/s1_17236_40155446

Jerry Jones says Tyler Smith could replace Tyron Smith at LT
The Dallas Cowboys have hard decisions ahead after letting long-time starting left tackle Tyron Smith walk into a new one-year deal with the New York Jets. Figuring out how to replace Smith now becomes a top priority with many speculating the team will opt to draft a left tackle in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft. Perhaps not wanting to confirm their big draft plans for their No. 24 overall selection, team owner Jerry Jones told reporters at annual league meetings in Orlando this week tha…

Israel must end its occupation of Palestine to stop fuelling apartheid and systematic human rights violations.
"The world must recognize that ending Israel’s illegal occupation is a prerequisite to stopping the recurrent human rights violations in Israel and the OPT."

Israel must end its occupation of Palestine to stop fuelling apartheid and systematic human rights violations  
Israel must end its brutal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which it has maintained since 1967, said Amnesty International,

So, Federated Threads will be "Opt In" only -- which is fine -- but do we think any Threads users have enough of any idea of what we do here to even know to want to "Opt In?"
#Threads #Mastodon #OptIn

I'm still wondering what would be the best approach towards unique #eMail addresses with my domain.
For a long time, I've been using the " " approach with #GMail but that sucks because:
• A fair number of sites reject e-mail addresses containing a " ", and at this point it's no longer a matter of copy-pasting poor snippets, but people explicitly blocking cheap unique addresses.
• It's quite obvious, and so people can easily take the "base" address out of it.
I'm considering three alternatives:
1. The catch-all, or opt-out approach — just grab mail from all possible addresses. Easy to set up, and lets me dynamically get unique addresses with no effort. On the minus side, it's going to get lots of #spam, and I'll end up having to block a lot of commonly used usernames.
2. Prefixed catch-all — grab mail from all possible addresses starting with a specific prefix. Somewhat similar to the " " approach, except without special characters and less obvious. Would combine being able to quickly make new addresses up, while filtering out most of the generic spam. On the minus side, I don't think most of the mail providers would actually support something like that.
3. Explicit addresses, or opt-in approach — create aliases explicitly whenever I need one. Lots of work, but probably the cleanest solution. I'd probably also have to have a handful of "free" aliases on me, in case I needed to quickly give someone a unique e-mail address.

opt-in, transparent telemetry in Golang:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/58894
https://research.swtch.com/telemetry-design
charts:
https://telemetry.go.dev/charts/2024-04-12

Apple debuts web distribution of iOS apps to EU users, allowing qualifying devs who opt in to its Core Technology Fee to offer direct downloads from their sites (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/16/apple-web-distribution-ios/
<…

Apple will now let users in the EU download apps through web sites, not just the App Store | TechCrunch
Apple is opening up web distribution for iOS apps targeting users in the European Union starting Tuesday. Developers who opt in — and who meet Apple's Apple is opening up web distribution for iOS apps in the European Union from today. Developers who opt in will be able to offer iPhone apps for direct download from their own websites.

ALISA: Accelerating Large Language Model Inference via Sparsity-Aware KV Caching
Youpeng Zhao, Di Wu, Jun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17312 https://

ALISA: Accelerating Large Language Model Inference via Sparsity-Aware KV Caching
The Transformer architecture has significantly advanced natural language processing (NLP) and has been foundational in developing large language models (LLMs) such as LLaMA and OPT, which have come to dominate a broad range of NLP tasks. Despite their superior accuracy, LLMs present unique challenges in practical inference, concerning the compute and memory-intensive nature. Thanks to the autoregressive characteristic of LLM inference, KV caching for the attention layers in Transformers can eff…

Radiative Corrections in Super Rosenbluth Experiments
Quinn Stefan, Axel Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14570 https://arxiv.org/p…

Radiative Corrections in Super Rosenbluth Experiments
Super Rosenbluth experiments, elastic electron-proton scattering experiments that eschew traditional electron detection and opt instead for the detection of the recoiling proton, have several experimental advantages. One claimed advantage is that radiative corrections are more favorable, i.e., smaller and with less kinematic dependence. In this paper, we explore this claim by conducting Monte Carlo simulations of both Super Rosenbluth and traditional Rosenbluth experiments with different models…

Obviously, I'm approaching bridging from an #IndieWeb angle, and a belief that people should have the ability to move their data around the web without losing their networks in the process. I **like** the idea of interoperability, and that's one of the key benefits of the Fediverse in my mind. In the same way that #RSS enables people to access posts on these services, I'd like that to apply to the social interactions as well.
Perhaps there is a way to make that opt-in versus opt-out...

Interesting stuff...
(the original opt-out idea was nuts... it had to cause a major storm. Becoming opt-in, even if discoverability isn't all that well implemented, I don't think I'll mind.
That being said, Bluesky should simply implement ActivityPub. That's the goddamn W3C standard, for crying out loud!)

Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media | TechCrunch
As decentralized social networks become more popular, the way different protocols interact could set the stage for the future of the web.

"Opt out" mail subscribe is the only reason Merlin requires an email address to use the app. And they guilt us by emphasizing it is a "free app". 🙁
This is stupid and disappointing. I just learned about this app and installed it with excitement, but now I'm not sure I want to use the app.
#business

#HallOfShame #Rhetorik
I received opt-OUT (not opt-in!) email, at email that I have definitely NOT made publicly available, so for "third party data providers", read that as black hat #hackers

Rightwing activists ramp up drive to hand-count ballots
If more localities decide to try hand-counting in the November election, results could be inaccurate, untrustworthy or delayed, fostering more distrust in elections.
In places that opt not to hand-count, supporters of the practice could use this choice as a reason to question or refuse to sign off on certification.
Either way, it raises the risk of throwing the 2024 election into chaos.
“It just gives additional…

It has been zero (0) days since Google has tried to trick me into accepting their ad surveillance in their browser. Every single time I set up a browser profile again they opt me in to their bullshit and ask me to OK it.

Mastodon Volltextsuche aktivieren:
Einstellungen
> Öffentliches Profil
> Datenschutz und Reichweite (Tab)
> Öffentliche Beiträge in die Suchergebnisse einbeziehen (aktivieren)
Fiel mir gerade nochmal wegen eines "weiß nicht mehr wer"-Posts ein. Es haben immer noch sehr wenige aktiviert, scheint mir. Vielleicht Absicht, vielleicht aber auch wegen des (guten) Opt-Ins und der langen Wartezeit für diese Option nicht überall im Blick.

meta
what is it with fediverse men and making their dumbass tools opt-out instead of opt-in for no good reason. happens every time
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://snarfed.org/2024-02-12_52106

Reflectionless propagation of beams through a stratified medium
Sounak Sinha Biswas, Ghanasyam Remesh, Venu Gopal Achanta, Ayan Banerjee, Nirmalya Ghosh, Subhasish Dutta Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20129

Reflectionless propagation of beams through a stratified medium
Reflectionless potentials following the prescription of Kay and Moses allow for total transmission of incoming waves of any kinetic energy. The optical analogue of such potentials occur as dielectric stratified media that can offer null reflectivity and near total transmission over a large range of incidence angles and wavelengths. In a previous work (S. Dutta Gupta and G. S. Agarwal, Opt. Express 15, 9614-9624, 2007), this was demonstrated for linearly polarized plane waves. We extend the earl…

They, the gatekeepers.
From: @…
https://www.threads.net/@dkiesow/post/C40r0wxLA78YtYQDsSWEm7TnsiqCbqHO3pyWbU0<…

Damon Kiesow (@dkiesow) on Threads
The problem is not Meta/Threads allowing users to opt to ‘limit’ politcial content in their streams - it is who gets to decide what is ‘political.

Sony plans to add a new opt-in Community Game Help feature on the PS5 later in 2024 to automatically create clips that can help other players complete games (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/26/24112309/sony-ps5-community-game-help

The PS5 is getting an automatic game clip feature that helps other players
PS5 players will be able to help each other with automatic game clips. These will complement existing hint videos from game developers.

Been updating the node enclosures to this design and still very happy with it. Will design the stacking build soon and then do a blog post on the whole thing. Stacking is going to be `fun` with the whole big cooling fan in front. Which I'll make optional in the design so people can opt out of it. One major thing I want to do, before blogging about or and putting the design up on Bricklink/ReBrickable is to get some photo's with a camera to support the reasoning for this design.

2024 NFL Mock Draft: Giants, Vikings opt for quarterback in first round; Bills find Stefon Diggs' replacement

https://www.cbssports.co…

2024 NFL Mock Draft: Giants, Vikings opt for quarterback in first round; Bills find Stefon Diggs' replacement
Here's who your team might pick in Round 1

"It sounds like at first #Threads users who opt into federation will be able to see likes and boosts of their posts from non-Threads accounts, but replies won't come through yet. Again, annoying, but will surely be fixed in time. My expectation here is that one draw of federating will be your increased reach to more people, so broadcasting your posts to more people will have value to some…&…

Stability of pairwise social dilemma games: destructive agents, constructive agents, and their joint effects
Khadija Khatun, Chen Shen, Lei Shi, Jun Tanimoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12809

Stability of pairwise social dilemma games: destructive agents, constructive agents, and their joint effects
Destructive agents, who opt out of the game and indiscriminately harm others, paradoxically foster cooperation, representing an intriguing variant of the voluntary participation strategy. Yet, their impact on cooperation remains inadequately understood, particularly in the context of pairwise social dilemma games and in comparison to their counterparts, constructive agents, who opt out of the game but indiscriminately benefit others. Furthermore, little is known about the combined effects of bo…

How about no, Adobe? Doing this by default is really really dumb. Let people opt in if they want to experiment with this. https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/generative-ai.html

Meta is rolling out a political content option in the Threads app for iOS and Android, letting users choose between "limit" or "don't limit" (Lance Whitney/ZDNet)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/threads-now-…

Threads now lets you control the amount of political content you see
You can opt to allow all political content on Meta's Threads or limit your exposure to posts and accounts considered political.

We did it everyone! With our antagonism to ad-tracking and marketing database building, we've managed to reach the state in which marketers don't know if our parents are alive or dead. This forces them to have to send everyone "schrödinger's marketing" emails to offer the option of not being reminded that you can't celebrate an upcoming commercial holiday with Mom. The side-benefit for them that if you're a rube you'll think it means they care and deepen you…

"Opt out" mail subscribe is the only reason Merlin requires an email address to use the app. And they guilt us by emphasizing it is a "free app". 🙁
This is stupid and disappointing. I just learned about this app and installed it with excitement, but now I'm not sure I want to use the app.
#business

#HallOfShame #Rhetorik
I received opt-OUT (not opt-in!) email, at email that I have definitely NOT made publicly available, so for "third party data providers", read that as black hat #hackers

Every time I speak about an issue that's divided like the "opt-out" drama, I always get a few that are against my opinion, or in this case, fact.
Those people tend to reply with a snarky comment, then immediately block so I can't rebut it.
Every now and then though, I get to do the same to someone else and I feel like "disallow replies" needs to be a thing. Because now that person who's shit talking AI will have a snarky reply that they can't remove...😜

Recent poll of thousands of voting age #SwingState Americans finds approx 60% have unfavorable opinions of incumbent Prez Joe Biden, a 10% higher margin than #DonaldTrump's #haters.

meta
what is it with fediverse men and making their dumbass tools opt-out instead of opt-in for no good reason. happens every time
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://snarfed.org/2024-02-12_52106

@… Acabo de leer la conversación que has tenido sobre su advertir el servicio de XMPP a todos los miembros de Lectura Social. Sí al final decides hacerlo opt-in, cuenta conmigo. Muchas gracias!

Just read @… article about #Sailfish and I love it. I was quite in love with Sailfish and Jolla, and somehow I still love it (I worked for them, and created JollaEs, the main website in Spanish about it). But we must admit that it is quite hard to use Sailfish if you are …

For the "opt-in" crowd.
https://www.amazon.com/Mollybee-Kids-Keep-Dragon-Diary/dp/B07KY6LJKX/ref=sr_1_2_sspa

Nächster Schritt nach dem Nachbau bisherige Bots, mein eigenes Bedürfnis die Notification-Rollen auf meinem Discord besser nutzen zu können habe ich die API nun so anprogrammiert das ich Schnittmengen von Mitgliedern bilden kann wie Anzahl der Sitzungen, System und optional das Opt-In für bspw. Videorecording.
Jetzt muss ich nur schauen wie ich den eigentlichen zielgerichteten Ping implementiert bekomme, aber jetzt erstmal an den Brotjob.

Topology Change from Pointlike Sources
Yasha Neiman, David O'Connell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04281 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.…

Topology Change from Pointlike Sources
In this paper we study topology-changing spacetimes occurring from pointlike sources. Following an old idea of Penrose, we will opt for a non-Hausdorff model of topology change in which an initial pointlike source is "doubled" and allowed to propagate along null rays into an eventual cobordism. By appealing to recent developments in non-Hausdorff differential geometry, we will describe and evaluate gravitational actions on these pointlike topology-changing spacetimes. Motivated by analogous res…

Deep Bayesian Future Fusion for Self-Supervised, High-Resolution, Off-Road Mapping
Shubhra Aich, Wenshan Wang, Parv Maheshwari, Matthew Sivaprakasam, Samuel Triest, Cherie Ho, Jason M. Gregory, John G. Rogers III, Sebastian Scherer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11876

Deep Bayesian Future Fusion for Self-Supervised, High-Resolution, Off-Road Mapping
The limited sensing resolution of resource-constrained off-road vehicles poses significant challenges towards reliable off-road autonomy. To overcome this limitation, we propose a general framework based on fusing the future information (i.e. future fusion) for self-supervision. Recent approaches exploit this future information alongside the hand-crafted heuristics to directly supervise the targeted downstream tasks (e.g. traversability estimation). However, in this paper, we opt for a more gen…

Roku fucking sucks. Such a bad-faith move, and a middle-finger to their customers.

…and the toggle on my site’s footer is always there to turn off the current page’s CSS (opt-in 🙃)
https://www.zachleat.com/

@… I do often opt to open (in the advanced interface).
Is there an alternative?

The $k$-Opt algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem has exponential running time for $k \ge 5$
Sophia Heimann, Hung P. Hoang, Stefan Hougardy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07061

The $k$-Opt algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem has exponential running time for $k \ge 5$
The $k$-Opt algorithm is a local search algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem. Starting with an initial tour, it iteratively replaces at most $k$ edges in the tour with the same number of edges to obtain a better tour. Krentel (FOCS 1989) showed that the Traveling Salesman Problem with the $k$-Opt neighborhood is complete for the class PLS (polynomial time local search) and that the $k$-Opt algorithm can have exponential running time for any pivot rule. However, his proof requires $k \gg…

If I push a post to Mastodon, which other services should we require collect explicit permission to read that post?
* Other activitypub services like Misskey and Hubzilla that allow users to follow you from other software?
* The wordpress plugin which fetches the post with activity pub & copies it into Wordpress?
* The bridge between Nostr and Activitypub which enables people using Nstr clients to follow Mastodon users and vice versa.
* The coming bridge between Bluesky and Acitivitypub which enables people using Bluesky to follow mastodon users and vice versa.
* Threads, Facebook's service which uses Activitypub to enable people using Threads to follow mastodon users and vice versa?
Click those which should require opt-in permission.
What makes the difference for you?
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Non-Mastodon Acitivitypub servers
Wordpress plugin
Nostr Bridge
Bluesky Bridge
Threads Bridge

For the "opt-in" crowd.
https://www.amazon.com/Mollybee-Kids-Keep-Dragon-Diary/dp/B07KY6LJKX/ref=sr_1_2_sspa

Universal Chemical Formula Dependence of $Ab$ $Initio$ Low-Energy Effective Hamiltonian in Single-Layer Carrier Doped Cuprate Superconductors -- Study by Hierarchical Dependence Extraction Algorithm
Jean-Baptiste Mor\'ee, Ryotaro Arita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07525

Universal Chemical Formula Dependence of $Ab$ $Initio$ Low-Energy Effective Hamiltonian in Single-Layer Carrier Doped Cuprate Superconductors -- Study by Hierarchical Dependence Extraction Algorithm
We explore the possibility to control the superconducting (SC) transition temperature at optimal hole doping $T_{c}^{\rm opt}$ in cuprates by tuning the chemical formula (CF). $T_{c}^{\rm opt}$ can be theoretically predicted from the parameters of the \textit{ab initio} low-energy effective Hamiltonian (LEH) with one antibonding (AB) Cu$3d_{x^2-y^2}$/O$2p_σ$ orbital per Cu atom in the CuO$_2$ plane, notably the nearest neighbor hopping amplitude $|t_1|$ and the ratio $u=U/|t_1&#…

Justin Fields ‘tired’ of hearing Bears trade talk: ‘I just want it to be over’ https://theathletic.com/5290871/2024/02/21/justin-fields-unfollowing-bears-social-media/

Justin Fields ‘tired’ of hearing Bears trade talk: ‘I just want it to be over’
Quarterback Justin Fields caused a stir on social media when he recently unfollowed the Chicago Bears, but said Wednesday he was just trying to avoid football on his timeline amid speculation about whether the team will trade him this offseason. With the Bears holding the top pick in a quarterback-heavy 2024 NFL Draft, one of the offseason’s top storylines is whether Chicago will trade Fields, who is entering his fourth season, and opt to draft a quarterback like USC’s Caleb Williams. Field…

SO many replies saying "You're talking about technological expectations and we're talking about social expectations"
Okay? So I'm talking about HOW IT IS and you're talking about HOW YOU WANT IT TO BE.
These are vastly different things and if you think ActivityPub will become opt-in at the core level, you need to lie down and take a nap.
#ActivityPub #Fediverse

Hong Kong’s Elderly Increasingly Opt to Retire in Mainland China
#RealEstate #UrbanPlanning #Bloomberg #CityLab

The $k$-Opt algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem has exponential running time for $k \ge 5$
Sophia Heimann, Hung P. Hoang, Stefan Hougardy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07061

The $k$-Opt algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem has exponential running time for $k \ge 5$
The $k$-Opt algorithm is a local search algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem. Starting with an initial tour, it iteratively replaces at most $k$ edges in the tour with the same number of edges to obtain a better tour. Krentel (FOCS 1989) showed that the Traveling Salesman Problem with the $k$-Opt neighborhood is complete for the class PLS (polynomial time local search) and that the $k$-Opt algorithm can have exponential running time for any pivot rule. However, his proof requires $k \gg…

Roblox partners with PubMatic to show video ads on in-game billboards to users aged 13 and over; creators that opt to show the ads will get an ad revenue cut (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Justin Fields ‘tired’ of hearing Bears trade talk: ‘I just want it to be over’ https://theathletic.com/5290871/2024/02/21/justin-fields-unfollowing-bears-social-media/

Justin Fields ‘tired’ of hearing Bears trade talk: ‘I just want it to be over’
Quarterback Justin Fields caused a stir on social media when he recently unfollowed the Chicago Bears, but said Wednesday he was just trying to avoid football on his timeline amid speculation about whether the team will trade him this offseason. With the Bears holding the top pick in a quarterback-heavy 2024 NFL Draft, one of the offseason’s top storylines is whether Chicago will trade Fields, who is entering his fourth season, and opt to draft a quarterback like USC’s Caleb Williams. Field…

Deep Bayesian Future Fusion for Self-Supervised, High-Resolution, Off-Road Mapping
Shubhra Aich, Wenshan Wang, Parv Maheshwari, Matthew Sivaprakasam, Samuel Triest, Cherie Ho, Jason M. Gregory, John G. Rogers III, Sebastian Scherer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11876

Deep Bayesian Future Fusion for Self-Supervised, High-Resolution, Off-Road Mapping
The limited sensing resolution of resource-constrained off-road vehicles poses significant challenges towards reliable off-road autonomy. To overcome this limitation, we propose a general framework based on fusing the future information (i.e. future fusion) for self-supervision. Recent approaches exploit this future information alongside the hand-crafted heuristics to directly supervise the targeted downstream tasks (e.g. traversability estimation). However, in this paper, we opt for a more gen…

A look at Meta's plan to build interoperability into WhatsApp and Messenger under the DMA; Meta plans to make third-party chats opt-in and in a separate inbox (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-interoperability-messaging/

WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps
New EU rules mean WhatsApp and Messenger must be interoperable with other chat apps. Here’s how that will work.

I love this open protocol overall and am thankful it's not opt-in or nobody would see my bullshit by default🤣
#ActivityPub #Fediverse

@… I do often opt to open (in the advanced interface).
Is there an alternative?

Jerry Jones comments on Michael Gallup’s future with Cowboys https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/jerry_jones_comments_on_michael_gallups_future_with_cowboys/s1_17236_40051326

Recommending #Fediblock for any instance that wishes to be "opt-in only" as that's what they're literally asking for...
ActivityPub is "opt-out" to the core of the protocol, therefore asking for "opt-in only" can only be percieved as asking to be Fediblocked because the only way to opt-out on ActivityPub is by blocking. That is literally the ActivityPub way to "opt-out".
Just so we're all on the same page of what people are asking for.
So, if you wish to be "opt-in only", please let everyone know so we can abide by your wishes.
Thanks.
PS. You cannot be "opt-in only" on mastodon.social, it's just not possible, there's WAY too many instances already federated with it.
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

Roblox partners with PubMatic to show video ads on in-game billboards to users aged 13 and over; creators that opt to show the ads will get an ad revenue cut (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17840 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_…

A quasi-polynomial time algorithm for Multi-Dimensional Scaling via LP hierarchies
Multi-dimensional Scaling (MDS) is a family of methods for embedding an $n$-point metric into low-dimensional Euclidean space. We study the Kamada-Kawai formulation of MDS: given a set of non-negative dissimilarities $\{d_{i,j}\}_{i , j \in [n]}$ over $n$ points, the goal is to find an embedding $\{x_1,\dots,x_n\} \in \mathbb{R}^k$ that minimizes \[\text{OPT} = \min_{x} \mathbb{E}_{i,j \in [n]} \left[ \left(1-\frac{\|x_i - x_j\|}{d_{i,j}}\right)^2 \right] \] Kamada-Kawai provides a …

NFL Analyst Reveals Bold Take On Dak Prescott, Cowboys Situation https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_analyst_reveals_bold_take_on_dak_prescott_cowboys_situation/s1_17150_40228109

NFL Analyst Reveals Bold Take On Dak Prescott, Cowboys Situation
Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys have reached a stalemate in contract negotiations, and now, the Cowboys seem prepared to head into 2024 knowing Prescott is on the last year of his deal. Prescott is reportedly seeking $60 million annually, and Dallas does not seem comfortable paying him that much, which is why the Cowboys may opt to allow him to test free agency next offseason. The hope is likely that Prescott will not receive any $60 million-per-year offers from any other teams and will the…

So, should we all just Fediblock those who want to be "opt-in only" as they didn't opt-in to seeing our content? Asking for a friend...
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #BlueSky