We introduce the Remote Labor Index (RLI),
a broadly multi-sector benchmark comprising real-world, economically valuable remote-work projects
designed to evaluate end-to-end agent performance in practical settings.
Across evaluated frontier AI agent frameworks, performance sits near the floor,
with a maximum automation rate of 2.5% on RLI projects.
A look at India's $18.2B chipmaking push, with 10 projects across six states to cut import reliance, as experts question if talent and investment are enough (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/india-is-bett…
"I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting."
—Kurt Russell
#acting #coaching #inspiration
constantly re-astounded by alan bishop's post sun city girls projects. 2013 album of weird/menacing tightly-written psych-pop with a band he formed in cairo with egyptian musicians, 2nd LP is same songs with arabic vocal tracks. https://suncitygirls.bandcamp.com/albu
A bit annoying that free/open source communities are almost all hosted by a closed source platform owned by microsoft AI who use it to IP-wash all those projects by training LLMs.. While also supporting genocide etc.
Migrating the big @… and @…
Take One With Samantha Fremont
A new podcast exploring the passion projects and personal journeys of creatives...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/take-one/
There's still 9 days to get in on Tom Tomorrow's kickstarter. You'll get his new book after it's published: Our Long National Nightmare.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomorrow/our-long-national-nightmare-by-tom-tomorrow
"Exploring an Energy Infrastructure Fund for Industrial Decarbonisation", our new Common Futures report for the Dutch National Programme for Industrial Decarbonisation (NPVI).
https://www.commonfutures.com/en/projects/…
Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…
Love that my tax dollars are set on fire to fuel defense contractor projects that will go absolutely nowhere.
Maybe it’s time to learn Chinese.
Bookmarked: International project RAP Repertorium Auctorum Polemicorum De pace et discordia inter Ecclesiam Graecam et Latinam https://pric.unive.it/projects/rap/home Website of the research project "International project RAP", Alessandra Bucossi, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy)…
The Trump administration on Monday said it would
pause leases for five #wind #farms under construction off the east coast
🔥essentially gutting the country’s nascent offshore wind industry
in a sharp escalation of Trump’s crusade against the renewable energy source.
The decision injected uncertainty into…
My very first programming projects when I started self-teaching around 15 years ago were about accounting. I was unhappy with keeping track of expenses in a physical notebook, and the spreadsheet I made was also very limited. And existing #FOSS solutions like #GnuCash felt too weird for my use case and its…
The [Brown Daily] Herald sent out 22 photographers for 24 hours to capture the first day of spring on College Hill, from noon on March 19 to noon on March 20 [2025]. A rather nicer way to imagine the Brown campus.
https://projects.browndailyherald.com/2025/03/21/today-at-brow…
Wishing for a Mastodon plushie this Christmas?🎄
We’re giving away two of the new ones for free to two random people who boost and favorite this post! Winners will be announced on December 25th, just like last year.
If you’d like to support our server and projects like these, donations are always welcome:
✊🎁
Toward Engineering AGI: Benchmarking the Engineering Design Capabilities of LLMs
Xingang Guo, Yaxin Li, Xiangyi Kong, Yilan Jiang, Xiayu Zhao, Zhihua Gong, Yufan Zhang, Daixuan Li, Tianle Sang, Beixiao Zhu, Gregory Jun, Yingbing Huang, Yiqi Liu, Yuqi Xue, Rahul Dev Kundu, Qi Jian Lim, Yizhou Zhao, Luke Alexander Granger, Mohamed Badr Younis, Darioush Keivan, Nippun Sabharwal, Shreyanka Sinha, Prakhar Agarwal, Kojo Vandyck, Hanlin Mai, Zichen Wang, Aditya Venkatesh, Ayush Barik, Jiankun…
Still missing for Europe: a website monitoring local communities against data centers.
„$64 billion in U.S. data center projects have been blocked or delayed by a growing wave of local, bipartisan opposition. What was once quiet infrastructure is now a national flashpoint — and communities are pushing back.“
https://www.datacenterwa…
Investigation: as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick promotes AI, including pressuring US allies, his companies and sons are cashing in on the AI projects (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/poli<…
Postdoc position in brain plasticity (blindness/deafness) at Georgetown University https://apply.interfolio.com/177838 via @…; "lead projects on individual differences in b…
Oook. Free advice for people who collaborate on community support for FLOSS projects: Don't treat users as if they had cognitive development problems.
I understand your urge to assume the worst, I really do, but a little bit of respect goes a long way.
I modified an STL file, printed it, glued it to another part, then realized I screwed up the model... so now I need to reprint both parts, glue those together, and get set back at least a day. This is... projects!
Surveys…
GAAD / WebAIM Global Digital Accessibility Salary Survey #2 (closes 2 Jan 2026):
https://webaim.org/projects/salary2/
Intopia’s Australia / New Zealand Assistive Technology Survey (closes 6 Feb 2026):
So am I understanding this correctly that the upcoming NPM authentication and token changes mean our only publishing workflow options henceforth are either switching to OICD Trusted Publishing[1] via GitHub Actions or using granular access tokens. The problem with the former is that I wanted to migrate my projects to Codeberg soon (which isn't supported). The problem with the latter is that granular tokens are unsuitable for publishing packages from a large monorepo, since these tokens a…
Bonfire is a very exciting Fediverse project for communities. The funding is for ensuring sustainability.
The focus on being able to move freely and take messages with you is welcome.
https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community
Anyone try Oracle Cloud "always free" tier for their projects? Thinking I'll migrate my masto instance over to it.
I doubt it'll truly be free, because "cloud" but wondering if it's at least cheaper than getting a VPS I pay monthly for.
Right now, I'm on Azure trying out their free credits. After a month, it'll cost me around $30 a month to run my self hosted single user instance. Way too much imo.
I've used BeautifulSoup a few times for personal projects, but hitting the docs again and by chance re-reading the frontmatter led me to discover I hadn't read the obligatory zine, which is excellent (especially cool to read about the anti-arms-trafficking project it links to):
https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/zine/
@… Yyy, it took me a while too - quite large tutorial on udemy, long hours of try and error with Gatsby, but on the end it finally clicked with Tauri as gui for some of my Rust learning projects :)
Once it clicked first time - I started using it everywhere as I found idea behind very clever and I see it as frontend microservices :D
The…
I guess the EU is not worried about a "boring machine" assault from Russia funded by Elon's Boring Company...
https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-proposes-flagship-defence-projects-counter-drones-protect-eastern…
I’m an industry dev turned comp sci prof. I’ve been writing code for 40-some years; my first commercial software was for the Apple ][ . I’ve worked on web, mobile, desktop, server, and data plumbing projects for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100 to arts nonprofits. In short, I’ve been lucky to know a lot of people in a lot of corners of tech.
@…’s opening paragraphs are spot on. If consensus is not 100%, well, it’s 99%.
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/
Run from the Dark ist ein standalone Rollenspiel und eine eigenständige Erweiterung für Forbidden Psalm
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/impioussaint/run-from-the-dark-a-folk-horror-roleplay-game
"about folk horror, th…
That's good to hear.
"After a legal fight with the Trump administration, Wisconsin is awarding $14 million in federally-funded grants to build electric vehicle fast-charging stations at 26 businesses across the state."
#Wisconsin #EV #Transportation
spam of the day
> Hi there, I am [generic chinese name], a senior full-stack developer with 7 years of experience. I’m looking to partner with someone in the US who can handle the client-facing communication side of projects, while I focus on the technical work and delivery.
> The idea is simple:
> You handle communication − I build the solution − We share the profit.
I should have setup per-contact email long ago, so I know how I got on the spam list of John …
STM32MP2 PCIe update: I'm calling things brought up and working at this point.
Working on the test board now. It's going reasonably fast since a lot of it is cribbed from other projects and I already had made a sch symbol for the MP257 (although I found a few errors in it sinc eI had never actually made a board design around it or done a full design review).
Australia just fired up its first solar-battery hybrid on the main grid—and it's a game-changer for evening power.
Quorn Park combines an 80 MW solar farm with a 20 MW battery, storing daytime sun and releasing it during peak demand hours when the grid needs it most.
This is the model for clean energy's future: 20 similar projects just won government backing.
Hi @… @… people!
If you'd like to support encourage software and community development of Strudel, Tidal and sibling projects, now would be great time!
Here's my (probably not complete) list of #FLOSS projects I've donated to or financially supported over the year - and especially now in the holiday season.
If you've recently started moving away from big tech and replaced their tools with FLOSS alternatives, maybe consider sharing a bit of your savings with the people that make the tools you now rely on 🙏
Which tools would that be for you?
#opensource
https://tzovar.as/supporting-floss/
Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
https://projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/
The EU's aim to triple AI data center capacity over the next five to seven years sparks water scarcity concerns, especially in water-stressed Southern Europe (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/water-ai-mega-projects-raise-alar…
Ok, resolved some etcher problems - ubuntu is fast with this stuff - seems to be flashing the bootable driver now.. 🤞
Also found some very cool photos from a trip 10 years ago and some ideas for new projects, also about 7 yeasr old on the USB stick - so that's a win.
10/n
Thank you all for 3,000 followers on here! Here’s a photo of Danny to celebrate the occasion ☺️
3 years into being part of Mastodon, I continue to be impressed with how wonderful the people here are and how much this social network actually FEELS social. People replying to one another, having conversations, learning things, sharing moments of joy, making friends.
Mastodon brought my business clients, helped me gain confidence in my own voice, freed me from dependence on big tech and algorithms, rekindled my interests, introduced me to incredible people and projects, and served as a source of hope in humanity in the times when cynicism and nihilism felt all but inevitable.
I love our little corner of the internet, and am so glad that it’s still here despite everyone who professed it was doomed to fade into irrelevance.
Thank you to everyone reading these words for being here on the Fedi. The world is a little better thanks to your choice to support an independent web.
Living a charmed life. I just installed a new video card and it took like 5 minutes, worked first try. (My old 1080 Ti with 8GB served me well. Just got a new 5060 with 16GB. For all my AI projects, of course.)
@… @… Indeed, the SNSF has been doing a very good job in limiting excesses and improving working conditions. Not only was the number of concurrent “regular” projects already limited to 2, PhD students also get 100% posi…
@… @… Indeed, the SNSF has been doing a very good job in limiting excessive and improving working conditions. Not only was the number of concurrent “regular” projects already limited to 2, PhD students also get 100% pos…
Okay, my obscure background as an erstwhile DC land use lawyer is finally relevant.
There are several agencies that oversee any projects at the White House, including the Commission of Fine Arts, the Commission for the Preservation of the White House, the National Park Service, and the National Capital Planning Commission.
Guess who apparently hasn't filed for approval from any of them?
-- Jamie Baker Roskie
Considering that Trump has one of his cronies running N…
OpenAI says GPT-5 has demonstrated the ability to accelerate scientific research workflows but can't run projects or solve scientific problems autonomously (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/gpt-5-is-spe
The White House on Monday started tearing down part of the East Wing, the traditional base of operations for the first lady, to build Donald Trump’s $250 million ballroom
despite lacking approval for construction from the federal agencies that oversee such projects.
Dramatic photos of the demolition work showed construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows and other building parts in tatters on the ground.
Just as during his first term, El Cheato is stealing money for military housing to use for his pet projects.
During the first term that pet project was "the wall".
Now it is to give "bonuses" to active military personnel.
In both cases this means reduced, or no, housing for military families - which is what Congress intended when that taxpayer money was appropriated.
"Trump’s $1,776 ‘warrior dividend’ repurposed from military housing aid"…
"I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting."
—Kurt Russell
#acting #coaching #inspiration
A month into the new Trump administration,
on the predawn streets of suburban Maryland,
a high-ranking ICE official stood alongside a Mazda sedan that his officers had just stopped.
The official told a local TV reporter at the scene what was about to happen.
“He can either give us a license,”
he said,
“or we’ll smash the fucking window out and drag him out.”
Then, as the driver refused to exit the car, officers broke the glass
A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/
I’m once again asking the #retrocomputing community to please back this Kickstarter! Really want to read this story! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzotto/go-computer-now-the-story-of-sphere
So far in Russia's hybrid war in Europe, most known acts of sabotage have resulted in minimal damage
— nothing compared to the tens of thousands of lives lost and cities decimated across Ukraine.
But officials say each act
— from vandalism of monuments to cyberattacks to warehouse fires
— sucks up valuable security resources.
The head of one large European intelligence service said investigations into Russian interference now swallow up as much of the agency’…
Can you fund this already, there's two days left in the Kickstarter and it's over 90% funded.
Sorry that I'm annoying, I'll stop when it's funded.
#retrocomputing
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzotto/go-computer-now-the-story-of-sphere
Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025 (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-data-center-resistance-has-arrived/
A federal judge on Monday
struck down Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects,
saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was
“arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.
Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
vacated Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order blocking wind energy projects and declared it unlawful.
Saris ruled in favor of a coalition of…
Alphabet's X is increasingly spinning out independent companies via a dedicated Series X Capital fund, which has raised $500M with a minority Alphabet stake (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/02/alph