2026-02-03 17:22:51
Blog Roll and Podcast Roll
I have been meaning to do this for a while. Finally, @… made me do it.
I added a blog roll and a podcast roll to this site.
Both pages will be updated as my subscriptions change … if I remember.
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Blog Roll and Podcast Roll
I have been meaning to do this for a while. Finally, @… made me do it.
I added a blog roll and a podcast roll to this site.
Both pages will be updated as my subscriptions change … if I remember.
<…
What do you call a country that illegally invades and kidnaps the president of another country?
The USA.
(You were thinking “terrorist state” weren’t you? Tsk, tsk.) @… https://
…it’s a mistake to •stop• the analysis there. This is not the same old US imperialism as ever. The false wisdom of “They’re all the same” is as always a giant intellectual trap for the left. This is not Iraq again. This is not Chile again. This is not a rerun.
The salty anger of @… is appropriate here; see posts below.
US imperialism was and is a terrible thing with a long history. Also, we are now in uncharted waters. Both these things are true.
https://jorts.horse/@AnarchoNinaWrites/115832859270597712
https://jorts.horse/@AnarchoNinaWrites/115832871321693950
https://jorts.horse/@AnarchoNinaWrites/115832717964769375
Optimism about US democracy, with sports metaphors and statics nerdery: https://open.substack.com/pub/natesilver/p/dont-discount-american-democracys?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
@… I can workaround by excluding base and all other options. Still, there was insufficient memory for a simple pkg command:
pkg update -q
– tail of /var/log/messages below.
The apparent hang at ttyv0 might have been a negligible side-effect of my untimely use of --quiet.
A subsequent non-quiet run succeeded,
pkg update
Installation of Fr…
I recently had a PHP problem I was struggling with. Instead of using AI, I asked #mastodon.
I got a great answer and they kept helping as I continued to struggle.
In the end I learned and the community helped.
That’s the way it should be.
h/t @…
I have been away from Mastodon for a while, not finding the time to be active here.
In any case here goes the final version of a paper on content and meaning in LLMs, co-authored with @…. It lived a long preprint life, but is now published in an outstanding special issue of the journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences.
The Vector Groun…
«Decentralized P2P Chat & File Transfer - Secure Messaging Without Central Servers:
Creating decentralized P2P technology. Aiming to provide industry-grade cryptographic capabilities encapsulated into a webapp.»
Do any of you regularly use @… with several people at the same time or even professionally and what is your impression about it?
🐟
Whelp, looks like I didn't catch the announcement that thefolklore.cafe would be shutting down and now #MythologyMonday is without a home.
What server(s) can you recommend for a folklore and mythology-themed weekly hashtag?
Boosts welcome ❤️
@…
DKK 60 million on Microsoft and Google software licences *every year* paid Danish state schools. And imagine how much government IT is paying on top.
It's time to start calling it the #MicrosoftTax
HT @…
https://ing.dk/artikel/her-er-regnestykket-saa-meget-koster-det-smide-google-og-microsoft-ud-af-folkeskolen
@…
'Im Nirgendwo' 'in the nowhere'
It might look like a "normal" hiking photo. But that day I hiked into an area where I didn't see nor hear anybody for quite some hours!
Shortly after I took this photo, I reached a spot where I just stopped, looked around and - except for the trail - everything was just …
The Trump administration orders enhanced vetting of H-1B applicants and their families for past work in "censorship", including fact-checking and online safety (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-adm
from my link log —
A fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml.
https://anil.recoil.org/notes/oxcaml-httpz
saved 2026-02-02 https://
Are you sure your Access Tokens are really secure? 😰
Join @… and me to get the low-down and deep details on securing your web applications using the latest security practices.
https://www.
RE: https://fedifreu.de/@cryptgoat/116158780731513375
With the English version...
Motorola and GrapheneOS collaborate for secure Android smartphones | @…
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Motorola-and-GrapheneOS-collaborate-for-secure-Android-smartphones-11194299.html
"Everything I’ve feared would happen is happening.
America has fallen. NATO is teetering. Europe is on the brink of some new darkness. The Silicon Valley tech companies are now in an alliance with the worst people on the planet" -- @…
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HOAC: 25 January - 1 February https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20140101/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-hoac-25-january-1-february
Hardness and Tractability of T_{h 1}-Free Edge Deletion
Ajinkya Gaikwad, Soumen Maity, Leeja R
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00644 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00644 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.00644
arXiv:2602.00644v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the parameterized complexity of the T(h 1)-Free Edge Deletion problem. Given a graph G and integers k and h, the task is to delete at most k edges so that every connected component of the resulting graph has size at most h. The problem is NP-complete for every fixed h at least 3, while it is solvable in polynomial time for h at most 2.
Recent work showed strong hardness barriers: the problem is W[1]-hard when parameterized by the solution size together with the size of a feedback edge set, ruling out fixed-parameter tractability for many classical structural parameters. We significantly strengthen these negative results by proving W[1]-hardness when parameterized by the vertex deletion distance to a disjoint union of paths, the vertex deletion distance to a disjoint union of stars, or the twin cover number. These results unify and extend known hardness results for treewidth, pathwidth, and feedback vertex set, and show that several restrictive parameters, including treedepth, cluster vertex deletion number, and modular width, do not yield fixed-parameter tractability when h is unbounded.
On the positive side, we identify parameterizations that restore tractability. We show that the problem is fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by cluster vertex deletion together with h, and also when parameterized by neighborhood diversity together with h via an integer linear programming formulation. We further present a fixed-parameter tractable bicriteria approximation algorithm parameterized by k. Finally, we show that the problem admits fixed-parameter tractable algorithms on split graphs and interval graphs, and we establish hardness for a directed generalization even on directed acyclic graphs.
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On compute as a commodity “people might be open to a new bespoke pickle vendor. So we're pickling some compute and selling that.”
And
“Our mission is to spread the joy of programming, both in people's personal lives and at work.”
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/pro…
So if you care about technology and its impact on the material world I have a treat for you: @…'s "99th Day" is out.
It is a book showing the data on the material impact that technology, data centers and all that have on our world and is willing to ask the big questions. It's an uncomfortable book and that is good. Check it out!<…
“All the designers listen to the developer talks and all the developers listen to the designer talks. And that’s where you discover you have an interest in something you didn’t think you had an interest in.”
@… in a lovely conversation with @…
I watched @… 's video on his inline whole-house humidifier and I'm jealous of this system.
My house is a breathing-painful ~30% humidity right now (it was ~-20°C outside overnight and it's been COLD for two weeks).
We got rid of our centralized system and adopted multi-headed ductless units. We do, however, still have a heat-conservin…
My dear friends here in the #running community - I have some sad news to share.
Our friend @… lost his father a few days ago on the 30th. He's given me his blessing to let everyone know.
Lee's dad celebrated his 90th birthday this past August, and this photo…
The Jackson Hole region has long been a refuge for the rich,
but an explosion of new affluence has allowed a growing cadre of extraordinarily wealthy people to ⛔️dominate both the local economy and Wyoming state politics.
Teton County is not merely the richest county in the country, per capita -- by far;
⭐️it is a window into America’s near future, as the country enters a new #gilded
@… Duncan Jones posted this video over on BSky, and I thought you might enjoy it as much as I did. I am slain by what a difference having these professional ovens makes - you can control both the heat and the humidity. Beautiful to see all these steps that I have taught myself done with such grace and precision by a pro!
I made a small thing. Just a little automated masto account @… to track updates to 7-Zip and RAR (WinRAR).
Why!? 🤔 These types of archiving tools are very handy but have been known to have security issues (both had exploits last year). Plus they don't always provide automatic update mechanisms on most platforms. 😉
It …
"A package’s value isn’t primarily its implementation code. Anyone can rewrite curl in Rust in a weekend, as Daniel Stenberg has heard many times. What they can’t rewrite is the twenty years of bug reports, the weird edge cases someone hit in production and took the time to fix, the arguments in issue threads that eventually settled on the right behavior. That knowledge is spread across the package’s history and it grew organically. No prompt captures it."
https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/30/will-ai-make-package-managers-redundant.html
Excellent piece by @…
@…
Given Δ-44203's current use of postfix annotation to denote emotion, and Δ-44203's disdain for corporate and state, I issue a recommendation of media, acting as an informal standard for am emotional markup language:
<harmony/> by Keikaku Itoh
I love that Dropout's started doing more absurdist, surrealist, and just plain *weird* shit. Some of the standup specials have definitely been in that vein, and now they licensed "Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared"'s TV show which definitely fits within that. Very Important People also gives that kind of vibe.
Very different from its CollegeHumor days, but definitely scratches an itch for me!
@…
Mozilla want us to have content for some "study" on "Transparency"
https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns/demand-the-data-whats-really-going-viral/
Sorry @…
🪛 5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools
#tools
Prepping for @…’s 1,000th episode
Broadcasting on #Vancouver’s #CoopRadio tomorrow night 10–11 PM at 100.5 FM
And then going out on our podcast at
New and updated edition: top-25 of most followed Dutch (based in the Netherlands) Mastodon accounts.
Part 1:
1 @… 158909
2 @… 54068
3 @…
Play Happens Podcast
The podcast for parents, educators and caregivers who want to understand why play isn't just fun, it's fundamental...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/play-happens/
The ‘Super Flu’ Is Hitting Kids Hard—and Some Aren’t Surviving
https://gizmodo.com/the-super-flu-is-hitting-kids-hard-and-some-arent-surviving-2000704822
Not sure I like this…
I
t seems like @… has conformed to Mastodon quote-toot format, which includes a non-removable @ to the OP.
I understand why that is a default and is a good default.
The thing is, *I* don’t want the quiet quote to dunk on OPs. *I* just am inspired to shitpost about things other people have trenchant wisdom about withou…
@… Thanks for this blog post, which I found, and then recognized your name from Mastodon. ;)
https://andywarburton.co.uk/2020/fix-m
@… And at the same time, I’ve had the “pleasure” of sitting through someone explain how Spec Driven Development is the natural conclusion of TDD.
Except SDD is literally the large upfront design we’ve been trying to avoid, this time designed up front by an LLM instead…
Some days man.
A profile of Mubi, as it deals with backlash including employee dissent and subscriber and partnership cancellations over its investor Sequoia's ties to Israel (Will Tavlin/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/mubi-art-house-movies-streamer-distributor…
RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116130113129035572
Hey everyone,
Thanks to two new anonymous patrons who contacted me via private message here with pledges for $35/month and $25/month, our monthly pledges for covering @…
This — exactly this! — and also note first and note repeatedly that the racist right-wing video about Somali daycare is a bunch of bullshit. They don’t appear to have even found any fraud at all. (They visited day cares before they open and cried “scandal!!” because there’s no kids there, stuff like that.)
It’s •exactly• what Needham says (via @…), and it doesn’t even matter what really happened. Create chaos, invent fraud, lie to justify more chaos, repeat. https://journa.host/@atrupar/115826096367870411
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HOAC: 25 January - 1 February https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20140101/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-hoac-25-january-1-february
FreeBSD 15.1 overview – with KDE Plasma and applications, Ly, and SDDM
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rje9xu/freebsd_151_overview_with_kde_plasma_and/
@…
xAI rolls out Grok Imagine 1.0, which it says can generate 720p 10-second videos with better audio, and says Imagine generated 1.245B videos in the past 30 days (@…)
https://x.com/xai/status/2018164753810…
Favourite talks from day 1 at #LaraconEU:
* @…’s talk on building better abstractions…I learned a strategy on more effective error message and was reminded about a ideasthat I need to get back in to
* @…
"The Zersetzung is working. He is taking himself apart, piece by piece, and replacing the parts with synthetic fillers because the world has told him his own parts are defective."
"The Colonization of Confidence" by Robert Kingett (@…) is one of the best pieces of writing about "AI" I have ever seen. Read it over lun…
Always check your spelling when translating 🍻 🪗 🏴
@… radio co-host @… found this vintage Scottish #accordion <…
@… look… when I am driving down the road as a 43 year old person in a Honda Odyssey minivan and I see another person driving a Honda Odyssey minivan — I always say to myself: “MINIVAN BUDDIES” even though the factory year of the minivan may not be identical
I think what I’m trying to say is that we needn’t be age identical twins to be friends
End Cover for Initial Value Problem: Complete Validated Algorithms with Complexity Analysis
Bingwei Zhang, Chee Yap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00162 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00162 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.00162
arXiv:2602.00162v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We consider the first-order autonomous ordinary differential equation \[ \mathbf{x}' = \mathbf{f}(\mathbf{x}), \] where $\mathbf{f} : \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}^n$ is locally Lipschitz. For a box $B_0 \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ and $h > 0$, we denote by $\mathrm{IVP}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h)$ the set of solutions $\mathbf{x} : [0,h] \to \mathbb{R}^n$ satisfying \[ \mathbf{x}'(t) = \mathbf{f}(\mathbf{x}(t)), \qquad \mathbf{x}(0) \in B_0 . \]
We present a complete validated algorithm for the following \emph{End Cover Problem}: given $(\mathbf{f}, B_0, \varepsilon, h)$, compute a finite set $\mathcal{C}$ of boxes such that \[ \mathrm{End}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h) \;\subseteq\; \bigcup_{B \in \mathcal{C}} B \;\subseteq\; \mathrm{End}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h) \oplus [-\varepsilon,\varepsilon]^n , \] where \[ \mathrm{End}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h) = \left\{ \mathbf{x}(h) : \mathbf{x} \in \mathrm{IVP}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h) \right\}. \]
Moreover, we provide a complexity analysis of our algorithm and introduce a novel technique for computing the end cover $\mathcal{C}$ based on covering the boundary of $\mathrm{End}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h)$. Finally, we present experimental results demonstrating the practicality of our approach.
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@… Is there any chance importing a `dotnet-dump` collection will be supported in dotMemory or Rider for macOS and Linux users?
Asking for a friend... actually just me. :)
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HOAC: 11 January - 18 January https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138438/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-hoac-11-january-18-january
Oracle says the Nvidia-OpenAI deal has "zero impact" on its financial relationship with OpenAI and it is "highly confident in OpenAI's ability to raise funds" (@…)
https://
Why I always go pick the food up myself. https://mastodon.social/@amirbkhan/115826283829344704
RE: https://fediscience.org/@eumbot/115831289980712405
Quick reminder from EuMetSat (Europe's *other* space agency), we only have one world. We share it with each other and it's beautiful. If you feel you need a regular reminder of this, the @… is there to help...
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Sources: Alphabet plans a new complex in Bengaluru, India, which can accommodate up to 20K extra staff, amid US visa restrictions and proposed H-1B fee hikes (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/alphabet…
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New York-based Ease Health, which is building an AI-native OS for behavioral health providers, emerged from stealth and raised a $41M Series A led by a16z (Vignesh R/Tech Funding News)
https://techfundingnews.com/ease-health-41m-series-a-behavioral-health-ai-os/…
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