@benb@osintua.eu2026-01-21 01:18:32
Ukrainian Navy outlines problems with Russia’s Zircon missile after strike on Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/ukrainian-navy-outlines-problems-with.html
@benb@osintua.eu2026-01-21 01:18:32
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-21 06:21:10
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Imposes a Temporary Import Duty to Address Fundamental International Payment Problems (The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-imposes-a-temporary-import-duty-to-address-fundamental-international-payment-problems/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p2#a260221p2
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-01-20 20:15:34
"Staffing problems caused by DOGE resulted in the Defense Information Systems Agency warning of “extreme risk for loss of service” across the military."
DOGE Cuts “Unexpectedly and Significantly Impacted” Critical Pentagon Unit
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/19/do
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-20 09:51:03
On Condensation Management - Learn how you can best avoid problems with condensation, damp and mould in winter. #mould #condensation #ventilation -
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-01-19 11:41:10
I think people who use AI/LLMs for programming want to solve problems, but people who choose *not* to use AI/LLMs want to solve problems but also want to *understand* those problems.
We need more understanding in our world.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-18 09:25:57
An in-depth look at a recent research paper that offered a roadmap to the viability of 3D HBM-on-GPU integration for improved AI performance and utilization (More Than Moore)
https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/solving-the-problems-of-hbm-on-logic
<…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-02-19 23:55:06
Just a final thought: The fact that "AI" has become this big economic bubble sucks. It endangers many people's savings if they put them in the stock market.
But TBH, it's one of the problems I think about the least. It's probably not even in my top 3 problems.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-20 22:39:38
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115929450635562848
Tried all three variants of it and nada, I think the cpu or storage is bad.
Diagnostics said no hardware problems.
I’ll try booting of USB but need to make a drive for that
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-12-17 21:05:22
»Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems«
What is your opinion about this article? Regardless of whether from a developer or user position. :BoostOK:
🤔 https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2025-12-17-yep-passkeys-still-have-problems/
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-01-22 05:41:30
Added a scrollable list of errors to the filter graph editor so you can see multiple problems more clearly.
The error message automatically spawns, docked to the south side of the filter graph editor, when an error appears and disappears when the last error is resolved.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-02-20 15:47:01
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-02-19 16:13:29
Bears-Raiders blockbuster trade proposal would solve huge problems for Chicago, Vegas https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/chicago-bears/news/bears-raiders-blockbuster-trade-proposal-solve-problems…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-20 19:05:15
The first elements of the Russian Orbital Station, or ROS, were to launch in 2027
so it would be ready for human habitation in 2028.
Upon completion in the mid-2030s, the station would encompass seven shiny new modules,
potentially including a private habitat for space tourists.
It would be so sophisticated that the station could fly autonomously for months if needed.
Importantly, the Russian station was also to fly in a polar orbit at about 400 km.
Thi…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-01-20 15:13:54
One of those problems where we know the solution - but there's no profit incentive, I guess. Wonder why the #ProLife community isn't pushing for solution.
World is short of nearly a million midwives, report warns
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-01-20 15:13:54
One of those problems where we know the solution - but there's no profit incentive, I guess. Wonder why the #ProLife community isn't pushing for solution.
World is short of nearly a million midwives, report warns
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-12-22 02:18:23
Do prawns feel pain? Why scientists are urging a rethink of Australia’s favoured festive food https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/22/crustaceans-feelings-sentient-christmas-new-year-prawns-australia
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-02-20 12:24:55
Working with #LLMs both at work and at home make me reconsider the usual #developer approach to problems.
We should probably let go of reaching for deterministic results and instead become true engineers and implement #DemingWheel
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-12-20 13:25:38
I love the idea, however (sorry) I can not recommend Flarum. UX problems.
For example, at <https://forums.ghostbsd.org/d/530-enabling-yubikeys> seek this three-word phrase:
asking for PINs
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-02-21 17:05:27
Recently I've traveled next to a person who were apparently studying pseudomedicine while discussing with a friend. She was studying, or rather memorizing, some utter bullshit. She already started practicing too, though she wasn't planning to use homeopathy, because she was afraid to. She complained that her boyfriend (?) didn't take all the supplements she's prescribing him. In her own health problems she stopped taking real medicine already. She also discussed their common friends, making comments related to their Chinese zodiac horoscopes.
No, I'm not going to have an open mind in these matters. And I'm definitely going to speak up when I see that some asshole scammers are making money by creating pseudouniversities and teaching people bullshit.
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-12-20 23:22:58
So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-02-21 09:00:27
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SaturdayMorning
- Felix Klieser: French horn player, problem solver
Tom Service meets horn player Felix Klieser, looks at the problems opera faces with writer Caitlin Vincent, and talks Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells with arranger Robin A Smith.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rhm9
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-18 17:10:51
Sources describe tensions between OpenAI's research and ChatGPT product groups, leading to the "code red"; OpenAI is set to beat its 2025 revenue goal of $13B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-organizational-p…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-12-16 02:14:25
Analyst perfectly encapsulates Cowboys' 2025 problems with 1 sentence https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/analyst-perfectly-encapsulates-cowboys-2025-problems-1-sentence/549bd5e…
@nohillside@smnn.ch2025-12-19 17:52:15
As I said a few weeks ago: #Apple doesn’t have a problems with #ads as long as they are in charge. For users it‘s just more #enshittification.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-02-16 23:35:20
AOC’s reframing here cuts to the heart of it:
A politics that blames the most vulnerable people in society for society’s problems is diametrically opposed to a politics that blames the most powerful. Lumping these opposites together as both being “populism” is nonsense.
It is important, she says, to provide an explanation of the •causes• of society’s problems — both why and who — or the worst people will fill that explanatory vacuum.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-19 13:46:03
TikTok's first awards show, held on December 18, handed out 14 awards, including Creator of the Year for Keith Lee; at the event, none of the screens worked (Kirsten Chuba/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-02-21 00:43:37
Why the Baltic Sea still chokes after decades of nutrient controls #BalticSea
@thomasafine@social.linux.pizza2026-02-19 20:08:23
If the first answer to any problem on a Linux system is "oh just update all the packages again" that is evidence of a broken and fragile package management system.
My experience (at home) with Manjaro so far has been absolutely terrible compared to my experience (at work) with CentOS and Rocky Linux.
With Manjaro, working packages regularly break after updates or new installs. It's clearly not managing dependencies properly. And I've had other weird problems o…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-02-16 06:05:26
Stop Installing Libraries: 10 Browser APIs That Already Solve Your Problems
The web platform is way more powerful than most developers realize — and every year it quietly gains new superpowers.
🧑💻 https://dev.to/sylwia-lask/stop-instal
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza2026-01-19 15:46:54
As far as I understand (granted, I don't understand that much, but...) there is a legitimate and actively debated position in philosophy of mind and cognitive science regarding ant colonies.
That is, colony-level cognition may be real, not metaphorical. Ant colonies:
- integrate information over time
- exhibit memory (via pheromone landscapes)
- solve optimisation problems
- adapt flexibly to novel conditions
- show something like attention (resource …
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-19 12:02:31
Myles Garrett's pursuit of history continues to amaze — with Browns' futility as backdrop https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6869186/2025/12/19/myles-garrett-browns-sack-record/
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-12-17 16:57:25
Why Pete Carroll Can’t Fix the Raiders’ Biggest Problems https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-pete-carroll-cant-fix-biggest-problems
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-01-19 13:06:32
All consequences are unexpected if consequences are never considered.
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/19/doge-cuts-pentagon-it-military/
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-19 13:43:34
So I think about one of the central thesis of Joseph Weizenbaum a lot.
It’s essentially an extension of “there’s no technical solutions to social problems”; it posits that computers are widely used to immortalize and amplify social problems while preventing reforms.
And it has gotten much worse since he wrote about this in the 1970s.
Two of the examples he gives are nation/world-wide stock exchanges and automated trading (lead to wealth concentration and gambling), as well as highly complex but wasteful, punishing and unfair welfare systems (instead of e.g. UBI).
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-02-19 23:43:56
Not gonna get into it right now (gotta go to bed) but labeling criticism of LLM based "AI" as "purity culture" and that one can just legitmize using any and all tech if one just somehow creates "free and open" versions of it is not a good take. Really not. Refusing to use LLMs on ethical grounds is also not a claim that problems are solved "by shopping carefully". That's a lot of straw men just to legitimize using an LLM to do spellcheck. Maybe jus…
@drbruced@aus.social2026-01-19 06:10:47
I went to the Australian Open tennis today to see Coco Gauff and Alex De Minaur ease their way into round 2. Gauff had problems with her serve and faced some spirited opposition from the unseeded Rakhimova.
Only blemish on the day was that I decided to remove my bicycle repair kit from the bike (bike parking was fairly crappy, stuck under a bridge) and that proved too much for the Security Theatre at bag check. I’m now down one very blunt multitool, which I asked the security people to…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-02-18 09:51:02
On Condensation Management - Learn how you can best avoid problems with condensation, damp and mould in winter. #mould #condensation #ventilation -
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-12-17 00:05:31
Just finished "I'm Awful, Thanks" by Lara Pickle. A good story that serves as a guide to managing emotions, although it's actually a cute story too, not just framing for the mental health discussion.
That said, I feel like it doesn't get far enough into the details of accepting self-control as our only form of real control vs. understanding that some events outside our control aren't fair or are others' attacks, and trying to manage our own emotions as our only response is a disservice to ourselves and others. Even further, I suspect that the HR resolution depicted here, while not impossible, is less frequent than much worse outcomes, which is part of a larger pattern of systemic assaults on our mental health that aren't totally solvable with individual emotional regulation.
Sure, leveling up one's control of ones own emotions and learning to accept and manage a range of emotions is super useful and it's a good thing overall, but the systemic problems of late stage capitalism are real, and making it seem like everyone is responsible for managing their own mental health in the face of these problems helps avoid confronting them.
Still, it's a good book overall, with vibrant art and a well-structured plot.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-10 10:38:00
Nasa holt ISS-Crew kommende Woche zurück
Wegen eines medizinischen Problems holt die US-Raumfahrtbehörde eine Besatzung vorzeitig von der ISS zurück. Losgehen soll es am Mittwoch.
https://www.heise.d…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-02-17 21:42:03
from my link log —
Fast sorting networks, branchless by design.
https://00f.net/2026/02/17/sorting-without-leaking-secrets/
saved 2026-02-17
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-02-08 11:03:10
Flooding in Alcšcer do Sal among “most worrying” problems as Portugal’s wild weather continues
https://www.portugalresident.com/flooding-in-alcacer-do-sal-among-most-worrying-problems-as-portugals-wild-winter…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-02-17 09:19:15
After a lot of other poking and prodding at other stuff failed, the PAM edge detector got a 30% speedup and the sin(x)/x upsampling filter is about 4x faster just by restructuring some stuff to change memory access patterns.
As a reminder: a GPU is a device for turning compute bound problems into memory bandwidth bound problems.
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2025-12-16 05:36:59
Modern problems make for modern solutions
@jswright61@ruby.social2026-02-18 22:28:09
I have a major new feature for Left Wordle. I am testing the ability to sync settings and game history between devices. This feature is very much beta at this time and everything is subject to change.
My goal is to get as many people testing this as possible to identify any bugs that might cause problems once released. If you have time, please give it a try. Instructions here:
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2026-01-17 13:40:02
A TV (470MHz-790MHz) filter arrived today to try to cope with the temporary traffic light problems I mentioned the other day; they took the traffic lights away yesterday. Oh well, useful to have in the box for next time there's a concert on.
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza2025-12-18 08:29:19
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-02-18 00:31:51
Meta has been blocking news content over the last few years in response to the Online News Act.
That poses a few problems for PressProgress – not only does it mean our journalism is no longer available to millions of Canadians on Facebook, but it also means we can't share information about a lawsuit that could have big implications for journalism and democracy in Canada.
PressProgress, along with CBC News and the Toronto Star, are at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsui…
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2025-12-18 12:52:45
If you can manage to get your hands on one, the Lenovo ThinkPad C13 Yoga (a chromebook reflashed with MrChromeBox firmware) is the most perfect basic Linux laptop I've ever had. DO NOT get the 4GB RAM/eMMC model (problems); preferably get the 16GB RAM model if available; OLED screen is the max spec. The battery life is great. Everything works out of the box in openSUSE, including esoteric stuff like the touchscreen and pressure-sensitive stylus. It's just a delight, the best €140 I&#…
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com2026-02-16 09:20:05
@… I'm just doing it slowly so that I can react to any little problems that sometimes crop up when switching to a new architecture
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-10 17:44:11
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Fantan Mojah:
🎵 So Many Problems
#FantanMojah
https://irieites.bandcamp.com/track/so-many-problems-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/4kpkV16aGI6bysXqXIzrvW
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-13 16:18:20
“In a recent meeting where BBC studio executives again voiced problems, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices. I chose the latter. It broke my heart.”
– @…
Told you folks he’s a good egg :)
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nl2026-01-16 20:40:01
"At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/16/super-rich-inequality-politicians-extreme-wealth?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@unixorn@hachyderm.io2026-01-16 15:42:23
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-02-16 21:20:24
"I think a lot of times I see people talk about this stuff in relation to AI. It's right to talk about it, but I hate when people act like AI is the only tech that has these problems. What you see with AI now is a reflection of the broader tech and internet industry that has grown for the past 20-30 years."
References provided 😔
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/808733064965570560/anatomy-of-an-ai-system?source=share
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2025-12-16 23:57:34
@…
So to reiterate this conversation:
You: Passkeys don't have problems A, B, C and D!
Me: Actually B is still a problem.
You: Yeah well, B is also a problem for passwords! And so is F and G!
Me: Yes, but B is still a problem.
You: But if I hacked the pentagon, then Z would also be a problem for passwords!
I'm not a…
@joxean@mastodon.social2025-12-14 10:23:49
My wife's Macbook laptop from 2015 was causing her problems because the operating system was old, the disk was always filled with Mac's shit she couldn't control, wasn't able to install modern applications, etc...
So, I've installed Ubuntu in her laptop and everything goes faster & smoother than before, and she has now a modern operating system in a perfectly working piece of hardware.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-01-16 13:41:28
The problems inside the Eagles' offense went far beyond Kevin Patullo https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6976115/2026/01/16/eagles-offense-jalen-hurts-nick-sirianni-aj-brown/
@mlawton@mstdn.social2025-12-16 18:44:53
Today alone, I've:
* received a message confirming an "upcoming" appointment for 12/12 that I actually attended -- without a time machine -- last Friday
* tried to access my healthcare insurance provider (attached image)
#US #healthcare is so terribly lost.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-15 04:59:53
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-16 04:01:05
Moore wrestles with Md. lawmakers as national profile grows (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/15/wes-moore-maryland-legislature-problems
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p37#a260215p37
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-12-06 08:05:23
It's not "always" the AI's fault?
»Most Technical Problems Are Really People Problems«
🤷 https://blog.joeschrag.com/2023/11/most-technical-problems-are-really.html
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-02-17 19:51:03
Thermal Imaging Survey: DIY vs Professional - Learn how a thermal imaging survey can spot real problems. What does it cost? Is a trained operator useful? #thermalImaging #cutCarbon -
@floheinstein@chaos.social2026-01-15 08:31:28
After a coworker told someone to just deactivate IPv6 ("it only makes problems, noone needs that, it should be scrubbed completely"), we got into a heated discussion over a distance of several desks and space dividers.
Coworkers without IT-background pulled up chairs, brought snacks 🍿 , played Godzilla sounds from their phones.
They probably didn't understand most of the technical terms we shouted at each other, but they liked to watch.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-13 06:01:27
A look at Higgsfield, an AI video startup that grew to $300M ARR within 11 months, as it faces a creator backlash over aggressive and shocking marketing tactics (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishriva…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-12-14 11:20:55
With the emergence of more processors with 64 cores or more, I'm thinking more about whether it makes sense to implement a hypercube virtualised on a single chip with a single vector of memory, or as a literal hypercube of 64 (say) RP2350s. I understand the problems of transferring data across a hypercube, but I don't have a good feeling of how the bus contention on a multicore processor scales. What should I read?
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-14 20:56:00
Tony Dokoupil's CBS News road trip, where each episode ends in a squishy pabulum, revealed the problems with CBS' Bari Weiss-era focus on viewers' feelings (James Poniewozik/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/arts/television/cbs-news…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-12-18 10:20:04
"The [resonant computing] Manifesto promises to fix everything that’s wrong on the internet right now. But you look at the authors and the signers, you’ll see the same guys who caused the present problems. These guys made it rich on the Torment Nexus and they’re now claiming they can fix it."
(Original title: The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys)
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-12-14 23:57:45
What Must Change For Raiders to Put Problems Finally Behind Them https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-must-change-put-problems-finally-behind-them
@servelan@newsie.social2026-01-30 23:28:42
Schedule F won’t fix government’s performance management problems, report finds - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/01/schedule-f-wont-fix-governments-performance-management-problems-report-finds/411107/
@chrislowles@mastodon.social2025-12-18 00:50:50
To Mozillas new handlers: Good fucking luck trying to turn a browser with the *GECKO ENGINE* as its base into an agentic AI browser, we have problems with getting 10 year old CSS standards on boarded, you think we can handle an AI that can browse the internet??????
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2025-12-08 07:52:40
#Microsoft, Souveränität und der Frosch im Lizenzkessel #9vor9
Es gibt Gespräche, die bleiben hängen – nicht weil sie einfache Antworten liefern, sondern weil sie die Komplexität eines Problems offenlegen. So ein Gespräch hatten @…
@sean@scoat.es2026-01-13 20:03:58
I know we have bigger problems, but I'd probably vote for someone with “make it illegal to show search results that don't match your search query” in their platform if the rest seemed fine enough.
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social2026-01-13 08:20:33
I like working on the hard problems, even if success may take a very long time to come or never will. Often enough the latter. But when I do succeed, I am more than just excited. 🥳
@h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com2025-12-16 20:52:04
Been noticing a tinned mango shortage in the UK supermarkets, I assume because of problems with the harvest https://www.fruitnet.com/fresh-produce-journal/peru-mango-collapse-dents-uk-supply/260507.article
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-01-19 09:10:31
Who could have predicted that the NHS's past distain for standardised systems would continue to cause problems?
https://www.ukauthority.com/articles/nhs-not-ready-for-ai-royal-college-of-physicians
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-15 16:07:22
Does anybody have a connection at Signal who could receive some urgent app design feedback? The app has several very specific problems / limitations / design quirks that are causing major headaches for neighbor groups trying to communicate here in Minneapolis.
(I’ll eventually try to write up some feedback through normal channels so it can go through the normal user feedback pipeline — but I’m sure any fixes that arrive that way will arrive far too late to be useful to us, so I’m not even bothering now. If there’s any chance of having some issues prioritized, I’d sure appreciate it.)
[ETA: I already tagged Mer__edith, but I’m sure she’s far too busy and her mentions are far too crowded for her to give this attention]
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-15 23:20:34
Democrats' struggles could be partly because they're just too old, says Obama (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/15/obama-democrats-problems-too-old-00782719
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p30#a260215p30
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-05 07:06:04
A look at Axiom, which is building AxiomProver, an "AI mathematician" it claims has solved at least four previously unsolved math problems (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-ai-math-ai-startup-just-cracked-4-previ…
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2025-12-16 23:10:47
@…
I'm saying it is demonstrably a false statement, that "You don't need to worry about how credentials are stored". And ignoring that need leads to a whole host of usability problems (Ones that I appreciate @……
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-02-12 20:52:18
3 Urgent Problems Klint Kubiak Has to Solve for the Raiders Right Now https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-3-urgent-problems-klint-kubiak-has-solve-right-now
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-11 09:45:56
If you think Donald Trump is the source of all our problems just wait until you meet capitalism, neoliberalism, fascism, colonialism, organised religion, white supremacy, and the patriarchy.
Donald Trump is a tumour. The cancer is deep set and systemic.
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-02-16 12:10:14
The job of engineers is not to deploy some technology but to build robust, reliable and sustainable (in all meanings of that word) solutions for real world problems based on requirements directly derived from people's needs. Even for an engineer technology comes second at best.
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza2025-12-15 20:09:29
I've just had the misfortune of reading yet another smug, somewhat revered book "explaining" music, this time with all the same problems as most of the others.
It tricked me with its title: 'Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination'.
Some choice excerpts:
"Composers working with [non-Western] scales must labor harder to devise deep musical relations, their melodies will prosper more by contour than harmony, and ultimately…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-18 02:15:53
YouTube appears to be suffering a widespread outage starting at ~7:45pm ET, with feeds, Shorts, and homepage inaccessible, based on 300K Downdetector reports (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/17/youtube-outage-february-2026/
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-15 16:13:27
I get a steady stream in my replies of meant-to-be-helpful advice of the form “You should use [complex F/OSS tech] to [do complex thing] that [solves a problem you don’t have but renders the process unusable for the people doing it]”
…when the real tech problems we’re facing on the ground here, both with Signal and other tools, are 99% just ground-level UX stuff:
- basic, basic usability glitches
- workflow friction
- problematic default settings
- reliability
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-15 10:15:58
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kamaiyah:
🎵 Mo Money Mo Problems
#Kamaiyah
https://open.spotify.com/track/63a6znRAj997vjSbIcv1Mp
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-01-12 02:36:23
Cowboys' familiar penalty problems persisted in Schottenheimer's first season https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/11/cowboys-most-penalized-team-2025/88131547007/
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-01-14 06:43:44
The medical theory of everything: one day it'll turn out that all your problems have a single common cause.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-01-15 15:45:40
Working on improving error reporting in ngscopeclient rather than having filters simply silently produce no output, or log to stdout, when something goes wrong.
Here's my current WIP: the block that has problems displays a warning icon and summary title up top, then you can mouse over it to see more detailed error information.
Thoughts? Anything I should change before I start working on adding this sort of feedback to more filter blocks?
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-15 06:51:57
A new mortgage crisis is quietly hitting those who can least afford
This week, there was yet another warning that many homeowners might be headed for trouble.
💥The mortgage delinquency rates for lower-income households are surging,
according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data, which recently released its Household Debt and Credit report for the fourth quarter of 2025.
🔥According to New York Fed data,
the 90-plus-day mortgag…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-06 13:21:12
DHS' problems go farther than Minneapolis. Republicans are noticing. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/05/noems-problems-go-beyond-the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-00767750
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p32#a260206p32
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-02-12 22:41:06
It’s always so weird when someone you looked up to and liked suddenly out of nowhere starts defending “AI”, especially uninvited (e.g. when you have a conversation with someone else on social media).
I think it’s a reflexive way to try to distract themselves from them knowing that AI has tons of problems yet they’re still using it because it’s convenient in some fashion.
Sure landmines are convenient too for some uses, yet…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-27 22:15:49
TikTok says the new US entity has not updated its algorithm since the joint venture was announced, after users accused it of suppressing posts related to ICE (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/tiktok-ice-minneapolis-techni…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-10 14:13:26
And this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-12-12 21:57:55
Took a few minutes over lunch to iron out the last of the bugs in the happy path of PCIe link training.
There's no timeouts or fallback if there's problems but if the other side is happy, it will train up to L0 and then sit there ignoring all incoming traffic.
After a while, the link partner gets mad that it hasn't seen a single DLLP from me and drops the link. I don't implement recovery yet so things go downhill from there.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-27 22:20:54
TikTok says the new US entity has not updated its algorithm since the joint venture was announced, after users accused it of suppressing posts related to ICE (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/tiktok-ice-minneapolis-techni…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-13 06:05:53
In a letter to the Trump administration, the GOP Senatorial Committee Chair Sen. Tim Scott said the Netflix-WBD deal raises "significant antitrust problems" (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/12/2025/opposition-to-netfli…
