@brian_gettler@mas.toThe Yellowhead Institute, an Indigenous-led think tank at Toronto Metropolitan University, has released a new version of its treaty map along with an education guide including material designed for Grade 8 through post-secondary. Check it out.
https://treatymap.yellowheadinstitute.
@markhburton@mstdn.socialThis article just cited the Finnish Michaux study. There are others. The whole "industrial renewable energy capture systems" wager has inadequate foundations, which is why the only way is to use much less energy. Hence #degrowth See my article and linked report for the UK case.
Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil? - CounterPunch.org
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft expands its bug bounty program so that any critical vulnerability, including in third-party code, impacting its online services is eligible for awards (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/11/mi
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukTime to investigate my dad's turntable; a Pioneer PL-15R; so at 33.33RPM, and with a disk with 64 edges, that should be 33.33/60*64=35.6Hz - so seeing 35.7Hz off my hacky photodiode sensor makes me very happy; although it's varying a little, but my scopes frequency counter is based off it's display, so hmm. And it's FFT won't go down that low really.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeTest equipment never ceases to amaze me with the new and creative ways it can break what should be a straightforward API.
Today's enemy is the Agilent DSO-X 2000 series... I just merged a pull request that increases the connection timeout for the Agilent driver, because this scope (verified with netcat) has a hang of about ten seconds after you connect to TCP 5025 before it will send *any* responses to commands.
Once this wait elapses, it works fine. I'm guessing it just …
@aardrian@toot.cafe @penguin42@mastodon.org.uk@… 's ngscopeclient showing a trace and fft (from a 1kHz sample) from my Rigol DS series scope; I can't say it's that happy with the Rigol, but hey I think that's as much about the Rigol's firmware.
https…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialLOL at the idea of someone paying money to Cisco for email software and/or appliances.
I don’t victim-blame, so all I can say is: do not do that and thanks for the giggle. @… https://
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaRed Lines under the EU AI Act: Understanding ‘Prohibited AI Practices’ and their Interplay with the GDPR, DSA
https://fpf.org/blog/red-lines-under-the-eu-ai-act-understanding-prohibited-ai-practices-and-their-inte…
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialDisclaimer: IANAL I am not well-read on applicable laws.
POTUS executive military authority without Congressional Declaration of War should be limited to when full Congress can't be consulted due to urgency and secrecy. Best example I know is raid to get bin Laden — limited in scope, possibly limited time to act on intel, would've leaked the more who knew.
None of that applies to the slowly simmering situation with Venezuela.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeMetacurity operates outside the infosec news echo chamber to track patterns, context, and connections that most other sources miss.
Check out today's issue for the most critical developments you should know, including
--Defense companies face a 'relentless barrage' of cyberespionage, Google,
--Fugitive sentenced to 2 years for pig butchering money laundering,
--Coupang data breach scope was more massive than reported,
--Discord to demand face scans or…
@roland@devdilettante.comThe law breaking continues from The Convicted Criminal and his cronies.
https://mastodon.social/@cemedia/116018673132909030
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is today’s comprehensive belittler of conservative ideas.
Its solicitude for “conservative ideas” will not encompass this one:
-- Many things are beyond government’s proper scope and actual competence.
Watching today’s politics toy with an institution of MIT’s complexity and importance is like watching a toddler play with Sèvres porcela
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeThe joys of working on an open source project that interfaces to obscure, sometimes obsolete hardware: regression testing is almost impossible.
Sure, we can catch regressions in the GUI easily. But if a big fix to a driver breaks things for a different scope supported by that driver, there's no way to test without having one of those scopes around to validate things against.
And there's way too many models of instrument out there for building any kind of CI cluster to be …
@ocrampal@mastodon.socialWhy Computation Can’t Create—And Where It Hits the Logic Ceiling.
While logic can rearrange the pieces of an existing puzzle, it cannot explain the spark that creates the pieces themselves.
https://ocrampal.com/the-scope-of-geneosophy-where-concept-creation…
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieThe Govt have announced they plan to pass the Facial Recognition Technology Bill through the Dšil on the last sitting day before Christmas. They’ve also removed most of the safeguards the legislation had at earlier stages and widened the scope of use.
Basically stuffing coal down all our chimneys
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 061 - LXI
Is it thy will, thy image should keep open
My heavy eyelids to the weary night?
Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,
While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee
So far from home into my deeds to pry,
To find out shames and idle hours in me,
The scope and tenor of thy jealousy?
O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great:
It is my love that keeps mine eye …
@davidbody@fosstodon.orgI never get tired of messing around with little circuits like this and seeing how they work. This is an Arduino board from @… running an example that loads data into a shift register. The source code does this with a single call to shiftOut() which hides all the details, but on a scope you can see the individual bits being added serially.
@aardrian@toot.cafeNic Chan tells a familiar story and hits on one of three lessons I’ve learned in this scenario:
1. No discounts (project fees are different);
2. Very clear and tight scope with full-price out-of-scope rates;
3. Some clients are just a poor fit.
https://indieweb.social/@NicMakesStuff
@memeorandum@universeodon.comEpstein Files Reveal Scope of Ghislaine Maxwell's Role in Clinton Circle (Danny Hakim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/us/politics/epstein-clintons-maxwell.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p13#a260208p13
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotOK, let's be clear about #Autism:
A majority of engineers, including software engineers, are #ActuallyAutistic; I suspect a majority of architects and people who invent new stuff generally are; many people in the creative arts are.
Without
@timbray@cosocial.caExcellent lazy-Sunday reading: “Asteroids that spin really fast” by astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh: https://tritonstation.com/2026/02/01/asteroids-that-spin-really-fast/
The Vera Rubin scope is discovering huge numbers of asteroids and some of them are weird. …
@n8foo@macaw.socialMore shots tonight. Beginner #astrophotography target but the results with the new little scope are amazing, especially for only 26 minutes of capture, in light polluted and cloudy skies.
M42 the Orion Nebula. #Astrodon
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialCan you guess which country's EV charging strategy prioritises market-based price signals to guide charging and discharging?
#V2G
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euIt's not even annoying anymore. As usual, the open-source gods have stepped in and support these abandoned hardware products. The difference this time is one of the lines of abandoned hardware products launched a little over 3 years ago, and the other isn't obsolete within the scope of the usecase.
I'm Annoyed At AMD's Latest Radeon Blunder - Hardware Unboxed
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI's economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-economic-research-team-ai-jobs/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: WaPo's layoffs may narrow its scope to topics of expertise and reader interest based on digital traffic, with politics and video becoming more central (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/business/media/washington-post-newsroom.html…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeWelp. That was a long night.
Good news: my last box on Debian Bookworm has been updated, I'm now 100% Trixie, both bare metal and VMs.
And the prodigal scope is back from the LeCroy service center after what feels like several months of downtime between waiting for friends to help me rack/unrack the 70 pound boat anchor and shipping back and forth.
Turns out there were multiple failed internal power supplies, both on the acquisition board and the top level system PSU, p…
@adulau@infosec.exchangeGCVE-BCP-08 - GCVE GNA Directory File
Following some good pre-discussion at #fosdem - a first draft of the directory file specification has been updated. The goal is clarify some of the fields. Feedback is more than welcome.
@…@…
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialYou may know the project management triangle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle
It puts the quality of a product in the center and pictures the scope, budget and time as constraints.
There is this other triagle I see for companies:
@cdarwin@c.imProponents of a cut in interest rates by the Federal Reserve in December gained a powerful backer on Friday,
when a top official said the central bank had scope to lower borrowing costs “in the near term.”
John C. Williams is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a close ally of Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair.
He emphasized in a speech that he was more concerned about the labor market weakening
than that rising inflation because of Trump’s tariffs wou…
@aardrian@toot.cafeBecause #accessibility is out of scope for Baseline, devs may not know how poorly supported a feature is and miss an opportunity to vote for things that are barriers to users and risks to orgs.
“Vote for the web features you want to see”
https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn eight-month study at a US tech company finds AI tools didn't reduce work but intensified it, as employees worked faster and took on a broader range of tasks (Harvard Business Review)
https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeAnybody know of code autoformatters/linters that respect intentionally added whitespace (e.g. having a big table of values with each column aligned even if this means multiple whitespace characters, or indenting code inside a begin/end function pair even if it's not a new scope, etc)?
@Stomata@social.linux.pizza
@pre@boing.worldGeyser is a crowdfunding system.
Lots of history of patrons raising funds from the public for art works or public infrastructure.
Kickstarter and the like on the internet made this much easier. But it's all bank money which is conservative and restrictive. Not global. High fees and middle men.
So doing it freely with bitcoin makes some sense. Censorship resistance and global scope.
Geyser has been running and funding projects for a while. Non custodial and money goes to creators only if target reached in time, otherwise returned.
All open source in smart contracts on chain.
#bitfest #bitcoin #crowdfunding
@stf@chaos.social@… hey hast du diese geschichte mitbekommen? https://mastodon.cr.yp.to/@djb/115600386509585923
die nsa will reine pq und ist gegen hybride losungen wo …
@gla@mastodon.social
@dawid@social.craftknight.com
@mlawton@mstdn.socialFinished “People Like Us” by Jason Mott.
I will admit that there were moments early where I struggled, trying to puzzle out the dual narratives. You have to accept it as experimental writing with a plurality in scope. When I surrendered and just READ, I absolutely loved it!
What is it about? So much. Gun violence. Where home is. America. Race. Writers. Trauma & coping. Time travel. Peacocks.
So much to say, but for spoilers 🤐
5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
@NFL@darktundra.xyzMike Kafka joining Lions as high-ranking offensive assistant after stint as Giants interim coach https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-kafka-lions-high-ranking-offensive-assistant-giants-interim-coach
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net• Type Coercion: 0.041ms (32,600 ops/second)
• Basic Parsing: 0.133ms (16,900 ops/second)
• Large Payloads (10KB): 2.3ms (437 ops/second)
💰 Cost: Free plugin with negligible latency impact (<1ms for typical responses)
🎯 Scope & limitations:
• Fixes JSON syntax errors, not schema adherence
• Works for non-streaming requests only
• XML healing available on request
• Tool calling has few structural issues, schema adherence evaluation coming soon<…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 029 - XXIX
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
Haply …
@markhburton@mstdn.socialCritical minerals dropped from final text at COP30
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/critical-minerals-dropped-from-final-text-at-cop30/
@cdarwin@c.imThe "DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005", which is an amendment to the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization,
is being used to expand DNA collection for immigration screening
Key Details of the Law's Activation
🔸The Act initially authorized DNA collection from non-U.S. persons detained by the U.S.. However, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had an exception from 2010 to 2020 that limited large-scale collection.
🔸In April 2020, the Department of J…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeJust an average day of oscilloscope development. If your scope isn't saturating your GPU are you even trying?
Added NVTX support to libscopehal and ngscopeclient so I can have specific filter graph blocks and processing stages show up in profiling traces. Makes things a lot more understandable.
@newsie@darktundra.xyzNike probes potential cyber incident after hackers claim data leak https://therecord.media/nike-probes-alleged-cyber-incident
@stargazer@woof.tech#WritersCoffeeClub Nov
24. How do you make sure a reader has room to process and absorb ideas?
25. What are some tips you can share to avoid 'clunky' phrasing?
26. How do you keep yourself sharp?
---
24. It is out of my scope but for complex things it is a good idea. Create coffee breaks. Crack a joke. Make characters mull ideas for a while.
25. Know whe…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeHey @… can you have a look at https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps/issues/888 and close the ticket if it's fixed for you?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialItaly's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a Meta policy excluding rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, broadening the scope of a probe started in July (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/italys-competi…
@cdarwin@c.imIt’s only February, and the November elections are already in peril.
When I think back to the days and weeks before Jan. 6, 2021, one thing that’s clear is that many of us suffered from a failure of imagination.
We knew President Trump’s lies and conspiracy mongering were dangerous,
but it’s hard to think of a single person who predicted that a MAGA mob would storm the Capitol.
Very few people anticipated the sheer scale and scope of the effort to overturn the electi…
@cdarwin@c.imRussia’s Ministry of Justice designated Human Rights Watch
an “undesirable organization”
on Nov. 28,
effectively banning the group from operating in the country.
Human Rights Watch noted that Russia had already forced the closure of its Moscow office in 2022.
“Our work hasn’t changed, but what’s changed, dramatically, is the government’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies,
its staggering rise in repression,
and the scope of the war crimes…
@aardrian@toot.cafeTalkBack does not offer an option to use computer vision & LLMs (“AI” for the scope of this thread) to describe images lacking alt text.
If you do it in Chrome, it overwrites all the good alt text with, well, crap.
Try it on this page:
https://srt.csb-cde.ca.gov/jaws/jaws-l
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange15.6 kWh solar generation today, new record (unsurprisingly... the days are getting longer plus we are having a sunny spell).
This month so far, production has averaged around 10% of my consumption although I expect both to be climbing soon (my big scope is back from service, and spring is coming next month) so it'll be interesting to see what happens after that.
Total YTD production is 194.8 kWh although that includes 12 days of zero production with the system offline betwee…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…
@cdarwin@c.imThree powerful businessmen
—two Americans and a Russian
—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month, ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long and deadly war with Ukraine.
But the full scope of their project went much further, according to people familiar with the talks.
They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold
—with American businesses first in line to beat European competitors to the dividends.
…
@cdarwin@c.imThis action by HHS and RFK Jr is unprecedented in scope.
Never before has the fed. gov. usurped the authority of medical professionals to set a separate standard of care
in an attempt to ban evidence based lifesaving care.
The man who thinks getting measles is good wants trans kids to suffer.
https://
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeEarly experimenting with a new-user tutorial for ngscopeclient.
Thoughts?
