2025-12-11 09:31:33
What David said :) 💯
And more so, please remember that @… and I couldn’t hold the verification calls without @… and @…
What David said :) 💯
And more so, please remember that @… and I couldn’t hold the verification calls without @… and @…
This week I’m thinking back to this powerful quote (long-circulating, origin unclear):
❝
Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person”
and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “If you won’t respect me I won’t respect you,” and what they mean is “If you won’t treat me like an authority then I won’t treat you like a person.”
❞
Re @…: https://mas.to/@fsinn/115874975151407409
From that well-known hotbed of leftist radicalism, the daily Bloomberg markets newsletter.
That (paywalled) column is at https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-11/the-insurance-crisis-is-about-to-get-even-worse
One of the points Mr Masala made was that one of big requirements for democracies and free countries in Europe to be successful in resisting Russian and American imperialism is for societies to be resilient and cohesive. My comment there would be that we have seen a general reaction in Canada of common resolve against Trump’s comments and actions. I don’t have any doubt that if push came to shove, the Canadian population would be extremely united and resistant against any kind of attack by the USA. Likewise, I think Danish citizens are showing a similar reaction. But would Canada band together to send troops to protect and potentially die in Europe?
Maybe. But I am less sure.
@…
Epic and also wildly fascinating thread on solar dynamics by @… ...
The good and hard science really is on mastodon.
https://social.sciences.re/@jaztrophysicist/115699880320576048
"Public AI, Built On Open Source, Is The Way Forward In The EU". -Glyn Moody @…
This seems to opens the door to work on important problems, for instance building a solid climateGPT in Europe.
Where should we recommend events & community host long videos that isn't YouTube?
* Vimeo - paid, embeds work, recently acquired is a bad sign
* @… - free, no embeds
* BunnyCDN - paid, lots of options including APIs, no embeds
* Peertube - self-hosted, no embeds
Full write up in the forum
Welcome to the Fediverse, new people and critters!
Don't forget to watch @…'s helpful orientation video to get you started here. :blobcatbusiness:
https://
I’m reading Civilization Before Greece and Rome, by H.W.F. Saggs. The old saw about how if history doesn’t repeat itself, it certainly rhymes, comes out quite clearly. Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians and hosts of other kingdoms and tribes, were pulling all the same gags 3 and 4 and 5 thousand years ago that Putin and Trump and the rest are doing now, especially the bits about how god’s on their side. Plus ça change, plus c’est le même chose. It’d be funny, if it wasn’t depressing…
Sources: Amazon, Google, and others plan to skirt Trump's $100K H-1B fee by finding workers in categories that don't include the fee, like existing H-1B holders (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.co…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Hüsker Dü:
🎵 Divide and Conquer
#HüskerDü
https://malachiteriot.bandcamp.com/track/divide-and-conquer-husker-du
https://open.spotify.com/track/64TRHp0ZprKw6LmTiB0dgQ
🆔 DC4EU final report proposes pluralistic trust model to realise EUDI Wallet vision
A key message in the report: no single trust model fits Europe’s diversity. Instead, DC4EU proposes a pluralistic approach, weaving together three complementary trust infrastructures.
⏳ With less than a year left to achieve Europe’s 2026 digital identity mandate, the report calls for coordinated action to move from feasibility to real-world deployment at European scale.
Read more:
lol WHAT THE FUCK
The fact that these dipshits aren't in prison, my god..
https://www.404media.co/government-loses-hard-drives-it-was-supposed-to-put-ice-detention-center-footage-on/
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Using MS365 for email is accepting the combined unknown unknowns of both MS operating policy choices and their other customers’ security.
And the KNOWN risk that it makes phishing much easier to execute in ways which are harder to catch.
#Sysadminnery @…
"These deals represent the corporate capture of the UK state including, our cloud capacity, National Health Service, and now our military establishment...
Starmer’s inability to speak the truth is not diplomacy. It’s evidence." @…
This is good.
Do show it to all your normie friends.
(And there's shit-emoji merch now, @… ?)
https://youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE
So, um, it looks to me like Dev Containers (https://containers.dev/) are, like, Lando and DDev, but more standard? Am I following that right?
Because I've already got a fairly well tuned straight Docker Compose setup for my dev that seems fine...? Why would I want this?
Or its alternative:
@… If I have 3 4B drives on my TrueNAS server and want to add 3 more 4TB drives how simple is that?
Do I create a new VDEV with the 3 new drives then add that VDEV to the pool?
Or is it better to create a new pool?
Having a bit of a Daisy Ridley week. First, did Magpie a couple days ago, and now doing The Marsh King's Daughter, thanks to @…'s rec. 👊
https://boxd.it/u2Q8
@… and
@… might like this.
I think this is interesting, from "Frontiers in Neuroscience" mag. New "HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY article" by Joachim Keppler, head of Department of Consciousness …
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#HousePlantABookOrPlay
The NYT says it won't be deterred in its work after Trump posted on Truth Social that reporting by The NYT and others about his health was "seditious" (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-health-press-new…
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115695468912298101
Looks a good person (@…) made a mirror of the support website (with a UI that's amazing and every manufacturer should take note), so at least I found the drivers. https://toshiba-mirror.depau.gay/product/?mid=1073769759
Somebody's got some 'splainin' to do: “137,000 cartridges have been seized since 2012. Of those, 47% come from that company and have been sold in gun shops in the southern United States,”"
Half of high caliber ammo seized in Mexico from US plant: govt
https://www.icij.org/news/2026/02/nearly-half-of-powerful-50-caliber-ammo-seized-by-mexican-government-came-from-us-army-plant-defense-minister-says/
"Anyhow, there will be a crash and a hangover. I think the people telling us that #genAI is the future and we must pay it fealty richly deserve their impending financial wipe-out. But still, I hope the hangover is less terrible than I think it will be."
@… in: …
@… the best idea I have right now (and it’s not good) might be a script to help manage package.json overrides at the app code level.
(also I agree with your take. I’d also accept a dep with an extra CLI that uses Node’s arg parser)
#Concertina player Rainer Süßmilch came up while planning tonight's @… show, and I didn't have any info on him
Searching found this great spooky clip:
Althorn Musik-Trailer für "Play Auerbach" von Avishai Milstein, Uraufführung am…
Queer Renegades
Hosted by Farz Edraki and featuring a bold line-up of LGBTQ trailblazers, Queer Renegades digs into some of Australia’s queer history...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/queer-renegades/
A new PhD programme “migration, time and urban inequalities” run by seven European universities (including @…) has 15 fully funded PhD positions open: https://www.migrationtime.eu…
Stre-e-e-tch.
#caturday
We are happy to welcome @… from RWTH in today's #nfdicore playground talking about "Bridging the Gap from Biomedical to Domain-Agnostic Semantics".
Besides others, he is demonstrating that our
@…
PLEASE BRING BACK THE DARK MODE !!!!!! PLEASE !!!!!!
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/112807/and-again-the-dark-m…
Still looking for a Christmas present? How about giving yourself the gift of really good music by our multi-talented @… and band 🎶
https://obiymydoschu.bandcamp.com/albu
So, is it getting quieter here in the #Fediverse; is it even dying?
That I don't know, but I can add some data: At least for @… it seems to be the opposite; the number of comments and likes keeps on growing.
Space Complexity Dichotomies for Subgraph Finding Problems in the Streaming Model
Yu-Sheng Shih, Meng-Tsung Tsai, Yen-Chu Tsai, Ying-Sian Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08002 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08002 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08002
arXiv:2602.08002v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the space complexity of four variants of the standard subgraph finding problem in the streaming model. Specifically, given an $n$-vertex input graph and a fixed-size pattern graph, we consider two settings: undirected simple graphs, denoted by $G$ and $H$, and oriented graphs, denoted by $\vec{G}$ and $\vec{H}$. Depending on the setting, the task is to decide whether $G$ contains $H$ as a subgraph or as an induced subgraph, or whether $\vec{G}$ contains $\vec{H}$ as a subgraph or as an induced subgraph. Let Sub$(H)$, IndSub$(H)$, Sub$(\vec{H})$, and IndSub$(\vec{H})$ denote these four variants, respectively.
An oriented graph is well-oriented if it admits a bipartition in which every arc is oriented from one part to the other, and a vertex is non-well-oriented if both its in-degree and out-degree are non-zero. For each variant, we obtain a complete dichotomy theorem, briefly summarized as follows.
(1) Sub$(H)$ can be solved by an $\tilde{O}(1)$-pass $n^{2-\Omega(1)}$-space algorithm if and only if $H$ is bipartite.
(2) IndSub$(H)$ can be solved by an $\tilde{O}(1)$-pass $n^{2-\Omega(1)}$-space algorithm if and only if $H \in \{P_3, P_4, co\mbox{-}P_3\}$.
(3) Sub$(\vec{H})$ can be solved by a single-pass $n^{2-\Omega(1)}$-space algorithm if and only if every connected component of $\vec H$ is either a well-oriented bipartite graph or a tree containing at most one non-well-oriented vertex.
(4) IndSub$(\vec{H})$ can be solved by an $\tilde{O}(1)$-pass $n^{2-\Omega(1)}$-space algorithm if and only if the underlying undirected simple graph $H$ is a $co\mbox{-}P_3$.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mrfunkedude/115872195652061942
I followed @… when I got on here and quickly found my p…
I watched Michael Brough’s (smestorp) vlog the other day and he mentioned The Secret Life of Games podcast! Apparaently they discuss all his games now and I thought to myself that this is exactly the kind of thing @… would love and… [touches earpiece]… Raigan is a guest of the introductory episode!
Brough-likes and Raigan are intertwined in my mind…
there seems to be some ongoing feud between @… and the @… people https://
Thanks to Lisa Yin Zhang at @… for selecting our "Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone" as one of "8 Art Books to Read This February." Shepherded by Jeffrey Richmond-Moll and Shawnya Harris with a slew of coauthors, this book accompanies the exhibition that opens February 14 at Peabody Essex Museum, August 8 at Georgia Museum of Art and Apri…
Health insurers ask GOP to fix their fraud problem -- and extend Obamacare subsidies (Kelly Hooper/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/11/health-insurers-fraud-obamacare-subsidies-00683624
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p7#a251211p7
@… documentation is good.
Greatness of documentation is sometimes exaggerated. Gaps and mistakes are too often ignored.
Blaine's talk is SO GOOD @… - I'm going to get his slides too, and we should embed the hertzog video.
Speaking of great talks, will we have more or less tears at this year's #ATmosphereConf?
For a deep dive with some very excellent analysis of *that* white house security strategy, @… 's latest is a must view, and deeply discomfiting.
Anders ends with a suggestion to move off Meta X for blue sky. Which while I appreciate that a rivalry between masto BSky is probably unhelpful should maybe also come with the caveat that Blue sky *really* needs some other servers that federates with the US patent...
https://youtu.be/YAh-xEteBz4?si=yjXMUHc9qm_mxge2
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This is an EXCELLENT article on digital sovereignty, and everyone should read it right now.
Especially the @… and all its members.
https://
Finally
"I think if you're European, then it is a national security priority to stop using X" — @…
Well, indeed. But is there a national security priority to move to yet another #US owned and controlled social media platform, when there…
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#CheesyOneLiners
This via @… deserves underlining:
The behavior you are seeing from ICE and from the Trump regime is the behavior of people who are scared.
Their bluster is fear. Their threats are fear. Their aggression is fear. Their defensiveness is fear. Their scrambling to keep their faces hidden and their actions secret is fear. Their desperate stream of liearrhea is fear. Their panic is fear.
They are acting tough, but they are not acting like people who are winning.
Keep them afraid.
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115866119994364893
Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people is made possible by the world’s top two arms dealers to Israel:
1. USA
2. Germany
Hey, @…, can you make one of your posts about how we’re so different to the US and European values, etc.? They’re usually so inspiring.
Just an unsolicited product plug, if you’re in Western Canada. The house we bought in late 2024 has Vinyltek windows, installed during a 2010-12 renovation, and a few of them were a bit twisted out of shape or had dysfunctional open/close/lock controls. So we called up and their guy came by and fixed them all in less than an hour, no charge. https://www.vin…
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On 30 April, 1993, CERN published the complete source code to the #WWW protocols developed by @…, as well as his client and server software with this statement: “CERN relinquishes all intellectual property rights to this code, both source and binary and permission is given to anyon…
A Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University:
“The Government of Canada could easily decide that it was going to use LinkedIn or Instagram or wherever it posts, and journalists would switch to following them there because they want to access what they’re saying,” he continued. “There was zero audience for Truth Social when
Trump created and started using it, but the audience went to the politician. Carney and his government could take a principled position by leaving X and its horrible spawn, Grok, and his audience of journalists and politicos would go with them.”
“Apparently, our political leaders simply choose not to.”
YES!! #Fediverse #SocialWeb #Mastodon
As always a huge thank you for the Senator's @… ongoing activism. It WILL happen. (and by it I mean, government going to the social web... Bluesky is just a temporary blip until it too goes fascist or we get some proper digital sovereignty laws in place.)
https://mstdn.ca/@Paulatics/115861469408403689
Calculated and if we got a donation of about $10,000 I could get all the music on my #AccordionBandcamp wishlist to play on @… radio 🪗
I got a $50 gift card over the holidays to spend on
RE: https://glammr.us/@overholt/115877954398691111
Yup I just turned 51 and needed to get vaccinated for measles again.
In case you’re wondering, blowing snow / sleet rain highway drive between London and Hamilton ON at 5am SUCKED. https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3madnld664k2v
@… yes! (and/or make use of provided runtime arg parsing 😅 code)
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#MashUpBandsAndReligion
"it is official U.S. policy to work toward regime change in European countries and to weaken or even destroy the European Union." — @…
I think this has been coming for a long time – since long before #Trump. The interests of the US and of an incr…
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HOAC: 28 December - 4 January
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#SandwichASong
#HashTagGames
RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewstroehlein/115869757494629163
When Musk bought it and banned 3rd party clients
Facts •do• matter. The thing is, vibes matter too.
This thread was prompted by this story (ht @… and @…), which is •so• tantalizing and so aligned with what I •want• to be true that all my skepticism alarm bells are going off:
https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2675132346/
If if we’re holding a trial or writing a history, well…I’ll wait for the dust to settle, expecting this not to hold up. Facts matter. But — no, not “but”…AND…
5/
@… Yeah, I understand that there is plenty of nuance there but I do appreciate your replies! (and I bet you could aggregate those thoughts into an excellent blog post!)
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"this that makes it necessary for the United States to do something to avoid the civilizational and democratic disaster that is unfolding in Europe." — @…
I'm REALLY going to take issue with this. Yes, it's true that Europe faces challenges. But it is not Europe which faces civilizational or democratic disaster. This is classic pr…
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"Another priority is the issue of free speech, which they regard as very important. The way to understand this, I think, is that it's mostly a question about moderation on social media and that they don't like that."
I think you are much too kind here, @… .
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"The reality is that the views expressed in this US national security strategy are in many ways identical to the Russian viewpoints on Europe and the Russian goals of regime change in European countries." — @…
I think we should all consider the possibility that this may be because
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Webinar: More Than Just Choice: How Religion, Race, and Identity Influence Food Decisions https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134839/webinar-more-just-choice-how-religion-race-and-identity-influence-food
Webinar: More Than Just Choice: How Religion, Race, and Identity Influence Food Decisions
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Webinar: More Than Just Choice: How Religion, Race, and Identity Influence Food Decisions
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DEADLINE EXTENDED: Conference on Religions and Freedom c. 1776
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LECTURE> “Khri Srong lde brtsan and Padmasambhava's Travels through His Land”
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SEMINAR> Dr. Phramaha Anon Anando, “Empress Wu Zetian and Her Faith in Maitreya Bodhisattva”
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Event: Rejoicing Rabbis and the Roman Economy of Emotions
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