🎉 Resources 1.9 has just been released, here are the highlights:
• Thanks to the volunteers of GNOME Damned Lies, Resources is now available in many more languages
• Support for the new “xe” driver for Intel GPUs
• Link information is now also shown for Wi-Fi interfaces
• Resources can now halt graphical updates when its window is not in view to save on power
• Update to the GNOME 49 runtime
• Internal changes for less code complexity and clearer architecture…
It's time to crush the patriarchy.
Humanity has to start by ridding itself of religion, because it underpins male hegemony.
No more monarchies.
No private landownership.
Cooperation, not capitalism.
Careful stewardship of the world's resources.
Fair distribution of resources.
Distributed smaller scale energy generation - because power shouldn't mean power over others.
november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata
“I don’t think Jesus would ever ignore people being hurt,
-- especially by the federal government,”
said 17-year Ben Luhmann at the wheel, to a reporter in the back seat.
Sam, his 16-year old brother was pounding an energy drink with one hand,
scrolled through a lengthy list of group chats with the other,
scouring for reports of ICE and other federal immigration agents in their area.
Mornings like this have been typical in recent weeks for the Luhmann fam…
I really just want a few CLI utilities that essentially present what Puppet resources does as a command.
$ thing package ensure zsh —version 1.2.3
It should have exit code API and json output.
Nothing more, just: package, user, service, exec
Ideally with no dependencies like Ruby
Seems like a lot to ask alas.
Rapid Response Network to stop ICE.
Santa Clara County, California - many training dates coming up: https://linktr.ee/rrninscc?ltsid=0a8581bc-3061-470d-b830-861e94680e8b
Get more information about the Rapid Response Network in Santa Clara County:
I've started telling people that the biggest change websites can make in terms of improving environmental sustainability, is to use clear, semantically rich, text mark-up along with well specced public APIs.
This will reduce, to some unknown aggregate, the amount of power and resources used by current and future agentic systems when interacting with them.
Do you have a device with an AMD Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that you actively use? I could use your help testing support for monitoring AMD NPUs in Resources!
I'd really appreciate it if you'd check out the amdxdna-support branch of Resources' GitHub repository and check if NPU utilization correctly shows up in Resources.
You can find more info in this GitHub issue:
What the White House is calling the
"Genesis Mission" is to speed research and scientific discovery
by analyzing massive science, engineering, energy and health care data sets in the federal government, university and private sector
with supercomputing technology.
It's an AI initiative the White House hopes will result in quicker breakthroughs in areas of research including disease therapies.
Michael Krastios, science adviser to the president, t…
"Some are proud because they made a lot of money while cutting down a forest. Others are proud because they are planting trees that will produce the oxygen breathed by their grandchildren. What if success was not privatizing resources but instead contributing to the commons, to make it each day better, richer, stronger?" — @…
Why there’s no European Google?…
Everywhere I turn, I stumble over stories - different in details, but similar in implications - of society in decay. These include rapid growth in student food bank use, spiking anxiety among kids, random acts of aggression on public transit, rejection of expertise during crises of health, homelessness, democracy, etc, and on and on. These stories are always accompanied by hand-wringing over cause and remedy, but somehow state provision of financial resources only rarely comes up. Funny that…
Fair Vote Canada is pleased to announce the Teacher Resources section of our website. The first teacher resource has now been added.
A Fair Vote? Rights, Responsibilities, and Decision-Making in a Democracy is an exciting new resource for Grade 5 Social Studies teachers, which was developed by the Elementary Teachers of Toronto and Fair Vote Canada.
Lendo pela primeira vez o Relatório de Jan Karski sobre os horrores do Holocausto, não tenho palavras para descrever o que sinto.
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/holocaust/karski-report/
This database provides an overview of many of the symbols most frequently used by a variety of white supremacist groups and movements, as well as some other types of hate groups.
#knowthesigns
https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbols/search
Investigation: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used two UK-registered companies to move ~$1B in stablecoins since 2023, evading international sanctions (TRM Insights)
https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/how
"Vibe coding" really is indistinguishable from playing a slot machine.
There's (for some) a degree of fun based on the hope of getting something valuable for a relatively small investment. When it won't work you just keep pulling the lever. At some point you surely will win, right?
Also with slot machines the bank always wins while slowly draining your resources.
Easy Adaptation: An Efficient Task-Specific Knowledge Injection Method for Large Models in Resource-Constrained Environments
Dong Chen, Zhengqing Hu, Shixing Zhao, Yibo Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17771 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17771 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17771
arXiv:2512.17771v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While the enormous parameter scale endows Large Models (LMs) with unparalleled performance, it also limits their adaptability across specific tasks. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) has emerged as a critical approach for effectively adapting LMs to a diverse range of downstream tasks. However, existing PEFT methods face two primary challenges: (1) High resource cost. Although PEFT methods significantly reduce resource demands compared to full fine-tuning, it still requires substantial time and memory, making it impractical in resource-constrained environments. (2) Parameter dependency. PEFT methods heavily rely on updating a subset of parameters associated with LMs to incorporate task-specific knowledge. Yet, due to increasing competition in the LMs landscape, many companies have adopted closed-source policies for their leading models, offering access only via Application Programming Interface (APIs). Whereas, the expense is often cost-prohibitive and difficult to sustain, as the fine-tuning process of LMs is extremely slow. Even if small models perform far worse than LMs in general, they can achieve superior results on particular distributions while requiring only minimal resources. Motivated by this insight, we propose Easy Adaptation (EA), which designs Specific Small Models (SSMs) to complement the underfitted data distribution for LMs. Extensive experiments show that EA matches the performance of PEFT on diverse tasks without accessing LM parameters, and requires only minimal resources.
toXiv_bot_toot
Until Sen. Bernie Sanders began holding rallies in Republican-held districts to address DOGE’s destructive impact on federal workers and programs,
most progressives had not dared to dream of rural America as fertile ground for a backlash.
But it’s central to the concept of the "Rural Urban Bridge Initiative" ( #RUBI ),
a group determined to breathe new life into rural organizing st…
During the #COP30 climate conference in Brazil, Australia's opposition party withdrew from the country's net-zero by 2050 target. It now sees net-zero as a potential 'welcome outcome' of using Australia's resources (coal, gas) plus new energy technologies. Reckless.
Grid managers have instructed the country’s largest electricity providers to postpone routine maintenance on power plants and lines
to ensure that those resources are available during and after the storm.
Heavy snow and freezing rain weigh down tree branches and power lines, causing failures that can cripple energy systems.
Frigid cold also drives up electricity demand as heating appliances require more energy and run longer
"Europe needs to recognize this as the crisis it has been waiting for. The continent is in real danger of being sidelined by its most important ally, and its ability to defend itself and secure its future role in the world hinges on its ability to mobilize resources and act collectively.
The EU’s decision last week to extend sanctions on Russian central bank assets—made without unanimous consent—is a good start."
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) is now a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program-Root, thus becoming a central point of contact within the CVE program for national/EU authorities, EU CSIRTs network members, and cooperative partners falling under ENISA’s mandate.
htt…
This is how superficial one needs to get to justify an argument of US global supremacy. Arthur Herman and WSJ deliberately choose to ignore Taiwan's unmatched leadership in superconductors and China's in energy. Instead, they turn to Soviet-style resources and headcount arguments. Apparently there is a force driving them to sacrifice whatever authority they might still have.
"China remains formidable. But from Europe and the Middle East to South America and Southeast Asia, …
@governorwalz.mn.gov
Pay attention to which direction police are facing
If police are facing, for example, ICE, then they're deployed AGAINST ICE & protecting citizens
Facing the citizens? They're deployed AGAINST citizens & protecting ICE
This is what we see
Choose your citizens to protect
Ukraine update: Bessarabia is being overwhelmed by Russian fuckery, as Kremlin diverts resources to the "Transnistria" region of Moldova.
Rumors took little time to confirm, thanks to a true reporter on the ground in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to befuddle a shockingly ignorant and greedy American populace with the same old tricks, allowing Russia to run rampant...
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall, and give the world a better chance to glimpse t…
I got to thinking, on @… Hunt's EpsilonTheory podcast today, about how capitalism hates satiation…which reminded me of Leopard Kohr's 70-year-old observations about "remedial consumption"… which I was surprised to find nowhere on the Interwebs…except here, from an almost half as ancient NewBottomLine essay:
"Digital Learning: Exploring Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use of Open Educational Resources"
#OpenIrony
I’ve moved my “Entry to Left Wing Anarchist Reading” to my personal website.
It’s styled to look a lot like Google Docs, that was intentional, regardless, it’s hosted in a more private, self-controlled space.
⭐ Read more here: https://midtsveen.codeberg.page/resources.html ⭐<…
One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
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’…
The arch wiki, https://wiki.archlinux.org has got to be one of the best open source documentation resources; detailed with examples on most admin commands, and mostly applicable to all distros not just to arch (with minor tweaking). And I don't even use Arch!
I would like to go on record to say that I don't hate LLMs. That would be like disowning maths.
I hate how people sell it with promises that are simply lies and urging people to use it for things that it is unsuitable for, with the commercial LLMs how they train models on stolen data, how users talk themselves into believing they're talking to a human or something human-like while deskilling themselves, how institutions and organizations shoehorn it into every fucking thing, the way it is usurping computing resources and increasing prices for personal computing, how the big companies underhandedly continuously threaten everyone with "if we don't invest enough the Terminators will get us" and how it is used for very obvious large-scale financial fraud. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So we face a serious crisis with #ClimateChange, where we know what has to be done and how to do it, but we chose not to invest in it.
And we know we have the resources, because trillions are being spent on speculative investments in AI, which currently is aggravating the #ClimateCrisis wi…
So we face a serious crisis with #ClimateChange, where we know what has to be done and how to do it, but we chose not to invest in it.
And we know we have the resources, because trillions are being spent on speculative investments in AI, which currently is aggravating the #ClimateCrisis wi…
Yet more proof that our collective resources are being spent on the wrong things. #climatechange #inequality
The way he’s threading the needle of talking about the ICE / local police interactions is fascinating: his line is that Mpls Police being called to deal with ICE (e.g. “there’s an abductee’s abandoned car” or 911 call “omg ICE is at my door”) is an unlawful federal commandeering of local police resources.
I say fascinating because that line of argument has legs regardless of whether police helped ICE or pushed back against ICE, whether the police did the right thing or the wrong thing in any given encounter.
👻 Probiert es mal aus, egal ob gruselig oder heilig, der „Geist” erwartet euch (es funktionieren auch andere Suchbegriffe, Notizen oder Bilder 😊 )
🧠 P.S. Für alle #CultureKnowledgeGraph- und #SPARQL-Kenner unter euch, bitte hier entlang 👉
Wherever students, researchers or staff are working from, they should have secure access to the resources they need.
#eduVPN makes that possible.
Created by and for the R&E community, it provides secure off-campus access to library systems, journals, specialised databases and more.
Already used by 200 institutions in 20 countries.
🔗 Learn how to get started:
Looking forward to presenting tomorrow at Government Information Days 2025 with Rebecca Lindsey of Climate.us. We'll be talking about "Defending Public Information: Resisting Censorship, Rescuing Resources, Ensuring Access" #DefendResearch #Censorship
Thinking about attending Berlin Buzzwords? Don't miss out! #bbuzz provides many resources and perks, especially for newcomers in data science, AI, and search.
Find out why and register for June 7-9: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/join-bbuzz-rhd/
Oops, #Terraform datasources cannot contain write-only attributes, which means you cannot use a sensitive value in a secure way when configuring a datasource... Which leaves us with ephemeral resources which are not always what we want or passing the sensitive value to the provider (assuming the provider can take that value and pass it along to the datasource), which is not always possible...…
november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata
"LLMs use fewer resources doing $task than humans so using them isn't an ecological problem."
So what are you arguing for? What happens with the humans we no longer "need"?
That argument leads only to monstrosity.
Tons of updates to my CM tool:
* An agent for continuous management with fast-monitoring features
* JSON Schemas for editors
* Manifests and Hiera now support HTTP(s)
* ccm extendible with appbuilder for custom UIs around manifests (no code needed)
* Pre-, Post-messages to help users use things they installed
* Generic if / unless on every resource
* New docs
Focus is to excel at adhoc, snow flakes, devel VMs, a la carte CM etc, place where other too…
I just spoke to WGME CBS/Fox last night about a data center proposed for an old Maine mill. Lewiston's climate and water resources are a better fit than in the southern US, but city managers still overestimate the benefits to local economies—about 20 jobs post-construction, many remote.
Can't believe it's 2025 and GitHub's actions/checkout still doesn't support SHA-256. @… reported it a year ago. Apparently Microsoft is a small indie dev company with limited resources, so we should be patient with them /s
#github
Now that the US has created a de facto war with Venezuela I am wondering whether Venezuela or its proxies will engage the US on a military basis. Not that they will "win", but they can do a lot of damage.
For instance, is Air Force One immune to attacks that Venezuela might launch? I doubt that it is.
And are US gov't officials and resources, anywhere in the world, now legitimate war targets? I think they might be.
And I wonder whether this might mean that …
Good Morning #Canada
Overnight news of Trump attacking another country in a blatant attempt to seize their resources should be a wakeup call for Canada. Does anyone here think a strike on Ottawa to remove the current government couldn't happen? Could the U.S. find a stooge willing to become the interim leader? How much oil, aluminum, uranium, hydropower or other resources would be looted before Trump strokes out from too many big macs. Yesterday I would have laughed at this scenario but today it starts to be less of a fantasy.
I glossed over this article when it was first published back in November but now I'm leaning towards support of developing a volunteer force in Canada. Perhaps a 2-year voluntary military service for our youth to provide employment and training. I don't want a volunteer military force to ever be used and hopefully it becomes a deterrent. But unfortunately a serious discussion is needed.
#CanadaIsAwesome #ElbowsUp
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/the-military-plans-for-a-volunteer-force-to-defend-canada/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@CentralBylines/115543613034480430
This is the big problem with action on climate change: the people in a position to lose out have huge financial resources, and they're more than willing to use them, even with the si…
"This means Scotland rapidly expanding its own decarbonisation efforts not just to limit our need for US fuels but also to limit our need for fuels in general – if the civilised world follows then basic economics means that over supply and under demand will crash the price of oil and make it economically unviable for the US to do things like invade other countries for their resources" -- excellent point, @…
UN Emissions Gap Report 2025: new national emission reduction commitments (NDCs) shave another 0.3°C off the projected warming, now at 2.3-2.5°C and 2.8°C based on current policies. The upcoming withdrawal of the Trump regime will mean that 0.1°C is added again.
https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-…
I purposely made my “Entry to Left‑Wing Anarchist Reading” page look almost exactly like a Google Doc, just so the normies wouldn’t freak out and bounce the second they open it.
https://midtsveen.codeberg.page/resources.html
Kash Patel has reportedly assigned a security detail of SWAT agents to guard his country singer girlfriend,
in the latest chapter of the FBI director’s blatant misappropriation of bureau resources.
A group of elite agents from the FBI Field Office in Nashville have been assigned to protect Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins.
The sources added that those agents, who are typically charged with responding to high-risk situations, would likely be unable to respond in the event o…
november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata
The most Britannica manages to mention of what was actually in that land is this:
❝Much of the territory turned out to contain rich mineral resources, productive soil, valuable grazing land, forests, and wildlife resources of inestimable value.❞
Not a single mention, AFAICT, of the fact that there were already people there.
4/
Checked in XP earlier, looks basically identical to Windows 95, just also mentions Internet resources.
https://mastodon.online/@grumpy_website/115673036992705122
One Year of Trump:
The Time to Act Is Now,
While We Still Can.
We can’t count on change being brought about by elections when we can’t count on elections.
We can’t count on the freedoms & resources we enjoy today to still be available to us tomorrow
https://www.
OpenTofu v1.11 is out and now supports ephemeral resources and write-only attributes 🎉
I registered my provider in the OpenTofu registry: https://search.opentofu.org/provider/x-cli/remotefs/latest
Enjoy ♥️
Corridors are a government priority, and the necessary resources have been allocated for the north-south and east-west routes (Imam Khomeini/Khamenei.ir)
https://english.khamenei.ir/news/12037/Corridors-are-a-government-priority-and-the-necessary-resources
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p34#a251227p34
If you’re wondering how you can help…
If you’re in MSP: talk to your neighbors, find the people who are doing organizing work, and get involved. Find something and show up for it. Info & resources here: https://monarcamn.org
If you’re elsewhere in the US: talk to your neighbors •now• about what’s happening, and get your support networks set up •before• this comes to where you live — unless of course it already has, in which case see above.
If you’re not in the US, spread the word about what’s happening here. Make the shame of ICE known internationally.
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I'm an anarcho-syndicalist non-binary person who uses they/them pronouns, is bisexual, from Bergen, Norway, and whose posts automatically delete after seven days regardless of likes or boosts, because I have autism and say random shit sometimes.
I talk allot about free software, and I use Secureblue, GrapheneOS and Debian as part of my software setup. I also spend a lot of time experimenting with Linux, especially Debian Testing/Sid, GNOME, and KDE.
As an …
The AI boom is delaying US municipal projects, as ~$4T in AI infra spending through 2030 shifts skilled construction workers to AI data centers (Brooke Sutherland/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/202…
november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata
According to Chile’s CONAF forestry agency, firefighters were battling 24 active fires across the country as of Sunday morning,
with the largest being in the regions of Ñuble and Bío Bío,
where the government declared the emergency.
The regions are about 500 km south of the capital, Santiago.
“In light of the serious ongoing wildfires, I have decided to declare a state of catastrophe in the regions of Ñuble and Bio Bío. All resources are available,” Boric said on a p…
Second Wave of Storm Arrives Late Friday into the Weekend,
Heavier Rain Anticipated for South Santa Barbara County and Santa Ynez Mountains
https://www.readysbc.org/
Chinese AI executives say China is unlikely to eclipse the US in the AI race anytime soon, citing limited resources and US chip export curbs as key constraints (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-10/ch…
“Belligerent” was how one Democratic lawmaker described a diatribe given by top White House adviser #Stephen #Miller on CNN Monday evening regarding the Trump administration’s right to take over Venezuela — or any other country — if doing so is in the supposed interest of the US.
To Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), howev…
None of the age verification options are perfect in terms of protecting information, providing access to everyone, and safely handling sensitive data.
That’s just some of the reasons that EFF is against age-gating mandates,
-- and is working to stop and overturn them across the United States and around the world.
http…
Jenna Norton, a program director at the National Institutes of Health, says she has been put on paid leave following the end of the government shutdown.
"I was not given a reason for being put on leave, but I strongly suspect it is because I have been speaking up in my personal capacity about the harms that I have been witnessing inside the National Institutes of Health," she said in a video posted to TikTok.
The notice Norton received from human resources stated that the…
FBI deploys more resources to
‘dismantle fraud schemes’
in Minnesota
Cash Patel said the FBI believes
“this is just the tip of a very large iceberg”.
Some of those involved in the alleged scheme are being
“referred to immigrations officials for possible further #denaturalization and deportation proceedings where eligible”.
The Trump administration has por…
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