2026-02-18 16:17:38
Just watched Russell Howard Live at the London Palladium on SBS on Demand (Australian catch up).
Husband and I cried - there were some very very funny bits. Definitely recommended.
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/russell-ho…
Thanks to everyone who recommended Wipr. Bought it and installed it on the iPhone.
On the mac I am also trying uBlock Origin Lite.
We watched all of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People in the last couple of weeks. These are the Alec Guinness BBC series, and i have to point to them and say what fantastic TV this is even though it is now dated.
You could not make series in this way anymore - it is so calm and laid back but with so much tension. There are many scenes where now they would insist on a 10 minute car chases for dramatical tension.
It's all on BBC Iplayer - Recommended.
Ugh, Bluesky is so full of self-important airbags that I may stop going there.
It's the "egosphere" in a way that twitter/X actually never became.
ADDITIONALLY, a new "feature" is a box that shows up in your timeline with 4 recommended "similar accounts" - except they aren't similar at all. Bluesky is putting porn and online prostitution accounts into their recommends! 🤯
It's an American platform, so what else to expect? Whores and…
At San Francisco City Hall rally protesting Blue Shields denial of coverage recommended by physicians to treat a retired firefighter for cancer.
Remember when #GOP was warning us of the risk of death panels? Well, what we have now are private death panels.
At San Francisco City Hall rally protesting Blue Shields denial of coverage recommended by physicians to treat a retired firefighter for cancer.
Remember when #GOP was warning us of the risk of death panels? Well, what we have now are private death panels.
As US officials move to restrict vaccines
-- including the shots to prevent respiratory syncytial virus ( #RSV )
-- more evidence is emerging to confirm how dramatically the jabs reduce hospitalizations.
Announced last week as part of new restrictions on one-third of all routine childhood vaccines,
❌RSV shots are now recommended only for high-risk babies, instead of all infants.
The…
Why does not music streaming platform offer a "block this artist, I never want them recommended or streamed" feature? Is that just not asked for enough?
(Was told that Spotify has that [didn't consider using them given who and what they finance] and that Deezer has a "dislike" button that I didn't see when I looked at them)
Just finished reading the latest #SlowHorses novel, Clown Town. Man o man this is a nasty one. Lamb is pissed that his joes keep getting killed, and that Taverner is more or less responsible. Dunno if this one will ever be televised. #recommended
Haven't recommended Mastodon Starter Packs for a while!
Accounts posting on #mountains, #hiking, #mountaineering, trail-running and the
📋 System Requirements: Linux machine with WebSockets enabled, minimum 1GB RAM & 2 vCPUs recommended
🛠️ Multiple installation methods: automated install script, manual setup, cloud deployment or devcontainer features
🎯 Install script automates most setup using system package manager when available
☁️ One-click deployment guides available for major cloud providers with quick setup
🏢 Enterprise teams can deploy with coder/coder for infrastructure management & tea…
Proud of the release of the latest version of Vienna.
The list of changes is long…
#RSS
catherine picks an IP camera, an adventure in 3 steps:
1. download firmware updates for 174 cameras
2. extract a device tree from each of them
3. intersect the chipset list with https://openipc.org/supported-hardware/featured
(... how else would you do it?)
What a great blog, easily defeats traditional media,
https://open.substack.com/pub/mickryan/p/the-oreshnik-is-the-sign-of-a-fearful?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
RE: https://mas.to/@kissane/115771219606234540
A thoughtful consideration of thoughtfulness. With earthquakes and tsunamis. Recommended.
@… recommended: https://it-notes.dragas.net/categories/server/ by our host, @…
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116015792702941028
Recording successful! At least for a first try, I’ll probably read up a bit on recommended recording levels for various cassette types; plus I might use lossless hi-res instead of records as source, might need to for things I don’t have on vinyl anyway
Stranded in Fulda thanks to winter vs Deutsche Bahn. Luckily, I‘ve found a cozy Café 😋 to shorten my waiting.
#coffeechallenge #fulda
RFK Jr. Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/nwBfA
CDC Pares List of Recommended Childhood Vaccines (Sabrina Siddiqui/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/cdc-childhood-vaccine-schedule-changes-7f7bd45c?st=TuZrJW
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p21#a260106p21
LOL
On my recommended videos list, one goes "Humans are the only animal with a chin and we finally know why".
The thumbnail? A photo of Jay Leno.
😂
Part 3 - Moving forward
One of Mastodon's strengths is its decentralized structure. That also means no centralized marketing or development strategy focused on growth, particularly in Canada. Perhaps a volunteer group could take on that development plan and grow the Canadian user base.
- A vision of what an ideal future state would look like would benefit the planning and action steps. Collecting input from Canadian admins is recommended.
- We shouldn't burden existing admins beyond their current responsibilities. Volunteers would take actions like reaching out to politicians or government agencies.
Potential next steps:
1) Host a web meeting with interested Canadian admins to collect input on a shared vision for this project.
2) Collect volunteers who would be interested in reaching out to politicians or government agencies about creating a presence on Mastodon.
3) Select members of the group to be part of a steering committee.
4) Create a unique hashtag for this project for reporting and followers.
@axbom@axbom.meAn analysis of 1,000 YouTube Shorts videos recommended to kids: the algorithm pushes bizarre, often nonsensical, AI-generated videos, and many lack disclosures (Arijeta Lajka/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/us/ai-videos-children-youtube.html…
For some insane reason, #Utah decided to implement a “medical #AI” system.
Among other things, it can “diagnose” your illness, and send a report to a physician that includes recommended #prescription
An analysis of 1,000 YouTube Shorts videos recommended to kids: the algorithm pushes bizarre, often nonsensical, AI-generated videos, and many lack disclosures (Arijeta Lajka/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/us/ai-v…
Communist Party general secretary Alex Gordon told the Morning Star: “Peter Mandelson’s resignation from a Labour Party he reformed in his own image is like a man trying to resign from his own shadow. He leaves behind a party apparatus that served as a corporate career ladder dominated by vicious right-wing sectarians.
“The only resignation that matters now is that of Keir Starmer as the Prime Minister who recommended him as UK ambassador....”
Cisco said there are no workarounds for the vulnerability and urged customers to apply available patches immediately. The company also recommended reviewing system logs, validating controller integrity, and implementing additional hardening measures where possible.
Five Eyes issue emergency directive on exploited Cisco SD-WAN zero-day
one of the funniest things about the gpg.fail bugs is this user interface and documentation confusion:
using --decrypt to verify a signature (boggle) because that’s recommended in documentation that became obsolete 25 years ago (wince) but which is still published without caveat (facepalm)
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2025…
X described the probe as "politically-motivated"
I'm pretty sure it's nowhere near as politically-motivated as the content recommended by X's algorithm.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo
For KDE I've recently settled on Alpine Linux. I've been around the block on Plasma and I can assure you it is one of the best out there. Couple that with blazingly fast mirrors, LUKS encryption, flatpaks and setup scripts and you have a winner. Not for beginners, but absolutely worth a go. Recommended!
#alpinelinux
Finally get to spend some time lounging in the corner of the bed watching Who Culture podcast on the closet monitor in the tardis bedroom.
The mattress did expand another cm or so during the time away over xmas. It's now been much more than the recommended 72 hours before I should use the bed.
So I used the bed for drinking a glass of wine, watching Who Culture, and mucking about on the tablet screen.
With FreeTube on my Secureblue desktop, I sometimes search for GrapheneOS videos and sort the results by the most recent uploads, and today, I came across a video that shows you how to install GrapheneOS on a Galaxy S20 FE.
It’s important to note that this setup is strongly adviced against, not supported or recommended. What’s being shown in that video is an unofficial port, and unfortunately, it misrepresents what GrapheneOS stands for.
Running an unlocked bootloader on unsuppo…
RE: https://swecyb.com/@orlysec/116144639827797601
Maybe you’ve noticed that I’ve repeatedly recommended that you should block access to *.vercel.app ? Well, here are 31 more reasons. Also, block pastebin.com too.
NFL awards update, analysis: The race for the 2025 MVP isn't over yet
https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/nfl-awards-update-analysis-the-race-for-the-20…
Recommended Linux app of the day, Helvum. Connect multiple Bluetooth sound devices to your machine for shared listening experience. #linux …
Railway is technically a PaaS (like Heroku). “serverless” because you don’t have to maintain the operating system. They have evolved buildpacks to Railpacks which will create containers on the fly.
OR you can use it as a Docker host
They are hosting their own bare metal servers. Recommended!
https://…
I listen to the Volts podcast for technical news about innovations on the electricity grid, so this excellent discussion of the intersection between epistemology and social psychology was as unexpected as it was interesting. Highly recommended.
Volts: The cure for misinformation is not more information or smarter news consumers
Starting from: 00:40:37
Episode webpage:
Sound up! I'm trying to teach Izzy, our fearful rescue spaniel, to ring bells when she wants to go out in the back yard, rather than scratch at the door. One training book recommended putting peanut butter on the bell, so I did that this morning. It doesn't seem to be having the desired effect, since Izzy is now barking at the bells. (She did touch them, at least.) #DogsofMastodon
What a great read and overview, recommended !
"The State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and Predictions"
#AI
Side note: a minimal installation – base without base (pictured in my previous toot) – is not recommended.
Key mapping fails. This might be acceptable with American keyboards, but the consequences for other maps can be frustrating.
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_…
Benchmarking of algorithms for set partitions
Arnav Khinvasara, Alexander Pikovski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01350 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01350 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.01350
arXiv:2602.01350v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Set partitions are arrangements of distinct objects into groups. The problem of listing all set partitions arises in a variety of settings, in particular in combinatorial optimization tasks. After a brief review, we give practical approximate formulas for determining the number of set partitions, both for small and large set sizes. Several algorithms for enumerating all set partitions are reviewed, and benchmarking tests were conducted. The algorithm of Djokic et al. is recommended for practical use.
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Just wondered why I have quite some referrers to my blog from DNIP.ch - and was super glad to see that they recommended my "How to migrate mails from GMail"-guide.
https://dnip.ch/2026/01/20/dnip-briefing-56-geld-und-geiz/
😍