Qesser Zuhrah has just been picked up by an ambulance seconds ago. I wish for his survival and future wellbeing. Shame on Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy for not even listening to the hunger strikers and their demands!
The silencing and criminalization of Palestine Action has seen hoards of arrests, with the hunger strikes it may even claim its first lives. We must do everything in our power to prevent this, which means at least giving all arrested a chance to a fair trial!
“The United States of America came within a few minutes of dying at the Battle of Gettysburg.
In fact, America came within seconds of being destroyed.
During those decisive moments a unit of the United States Army saved the republic.
The saviors of the Union were from Minnesota.”
https://stev…
acid tests @… forensics update: an eagle-eyed head noticed that the merry pranksters' full film includes 45 seconds of silent footage of the velvet underground (!), likely shot at the exploding plastic inevitable in LA or san francisco, may 1966. …
I tried to open a Word document in LibreOffice. I've now spent 5 minutes waiting for it to update itself. The updater regularly flashes new windows on the screen, fake progress bars, occasionally opens a web page. All interrupting me the whole time.
I just want to see a single page of text.
Update I finally got it to work by manually killing the updater process. Had to be fast: it'd only last a few seconds before dying and relaunching itself.
If you're planning your holidays: this year it's possible to see a total Eclipse in Iceland, and you get about 30 seconds more totality than you do in Spain.
Svår idag?
I solved today's #TiledWords puzzle!
🐦🔥 “Transformation”
🕒 4 minutes, 49 seconds
💡 1/3 reveals used
https://tiledwords.com/puzzles/2025-11-18
Me and my Cat:
Me: mew why do you always sleep?
Cat: meow ?
Me: awake already?
Cat: mewo! *stresses her entire body* meooowww!..
Me: .....
Cat: oi human, open the door, I want to go outside 😾
Me: *opens the door*
* 47 seconds later *
Cat: oi human! , open the window 😾
#cats
unscrewing an external SSD enclosure) "it's nice that they included a couple spare screws, but I'm careful enough to not need them"
no more than 3 seconds later I dropped a screw and it disappeared into oblivion
The countdown had stalled at 'T' minus 69 seconds when Desiree, the first
female ape to go up in space, winked at me slyly and pouted her thick,
rubbery lips unmistakably -- the first of many such advances during what
would prove to be the longest, and most memorable, space voyage of my
career.
-- Winning sentence, 1985 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
Just upgraded my Macs to IOS 26.2 and ... kaboom, one of the machines just went into permanent spinning rainbow disk mode with the mouse pointer trailing my movements by several seconds.
Not a promising sign.
bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps
Many years ago I was working with a friend to find a bug in a Makefile generator. We had a megabyte or so of Makefile we needed to examine. He was an emacs user. It took him minutes just to open the file. I was using sam. It took about a second for sam to load, and I found the problem before he'd even finished loading the file.
The speed of tools matters, and big files are common nowadays. Things should stay fast as their workload grows. That goes double for interactive tools.
By the way, it still takes me 30 seconds to log in to my bank. I wonder how long it will take when it's an LLM-generated landing page.
https://phanpy.social/#/hachyderm.io/s/115891592999188880
Vad säger det om min att dagens var så svårt
I solved today's #TiledWords puzzle!
🎉 “Party”
🕒 9 minutes, 54 seconds
💡 3/3 reveals used
https://tiledwords.com/puzzles/2025-12
Anyone have issues with audio sync when using the HDMI out of an M4 MBP?? Tried to send video to a TV with 2 different normal HDMI cables (that I know work) and audio sync was a couple seconds off, with audio stuttering/glitching throughout, and it kept getting worse until it was over 10s behind.
It's basically unusable. I'm super pissed because it fucked up a potentially very important screening.
"WE ARE two weeks into 2026, and less than a fortnight from the resetting of the Doomsday Clock a year after it was set at 89 seconds to midnight — the closest in its 78-year existence. How close will it be as Trump continues to attack the oil-producing nations that have turned their face to China and their backs on the petro-chemical dollar, threatening the foundations of the house of cards on which the US economy is built?"
North Carolina led for just .4 seconds in Saturday's rivalry game against Duke.
But that's all they needed to secure the win.
Seth Trimble's three-pointer with 0.4 seconds left delivered the Tar Heels a 71-68 win and closed out a 9-0 run in the game.
After Trimble's three-pointer, the fans rushed the court before having to clear it,
leaving a delay and one last heave for the Blue Devils.
But a turnover sealed it and the party can begin on Franklin…
Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
SOOLIN: Thirty seconds to impact.
PLAXTON: [V.O.] One more connection to- [Her voice is cut off as Avon pushes some buttons.]
TARRANT: [To Avon] What are you doing?
AVON: Programing in the main circuit drive.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/444
Sources: OpenAI plans a 60-second Super Bowl ad during NBC's broadcast, the second straight year of doing so; ad buyers say clients pay $8M for just 30 seconds (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/super-b
I don't exactly follow the Pomodoro Technique but because of my health issues I try to get up and move away from my desk every 20 minutes...
So I built a timer that literally locks me out of my computer when the time is up, forcing me to go away and take a break.
Lots of work to do the on firmware but for now it gets to 0, does a bunch of beeps to warn me, waits a few seconds, then types command-control-Q to lock the screen.
💡 Why hashes over timestamps?
- Timestamps can be manipulated
- Backup restores mess up mtime
- Hashes reliably detect real content changes
🚀 Result: 32,000 files completely scanned in under 30 seconds – syncing only the delta!
I tried to do a longer time lapse video by putting the same cell phone in the window, looking down at the backyard (aka the alley). The goal was to get a full twenty four hour cycle over ten seconds of video. Apparently putting the phone into energy-saver mode was not sufficient. Once it's back up to 100%, maybe I should put it into airplane mode and add a battery pack. 🤷♂️
It is always fun when somebody, when estimating something, does not round the estimation :-) From the other side, it is not that cool it means like hour and half of waiting :-(
#ListeningClub I really like my new induction range but lifting a pan to move food around for more than five seconds automatically shuts off the heat which has been a learning experience.
Hey everyone,
Gaza Verified is now open again for verification calls in 2026.
The new process for signing up for verification calls uses sign in with Mastodon and should remove the last remaining technical hurdle that was giving some of our friends in Gaza a hard time (adding the verification link to your Mastodon account is not intuitive in the current Mastodon interface). With this new flow, you won’t have to, we do it for you.
*new role has a script called `test:turbo`*
*runs it*
Time elapsed: 1303 seconds (21 minutes)
Dead.
Very unique look at a cardiac arrest handled almost flawlessly. EMS arrives while the pt is A&Ox4, he arrests in front of them and CPR is started within seconds, first shock after like one cycle of compressions. ROSC achieved so fast they don't even get drugs or an airway established before he wakes back up.
And the whole thing is caught from multiple camera angles with a HIPAA release from the pt.
Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
BLAKE: Come on, come on.
VILA: They won't fire. The fail-safes keep cutting in.
BLAKE: Override them.
CALLY: Twenty seconds.
VILA: The whole system is locked into negative.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/105 B7B5
My art, but not my video[1] for #Genuary9 #Genuary2026: Crazy Automata
C-SCAPE (2022), a piece of multiple co-evolving cellular automata, running on vertical aspect ratio LCD screen.
Also see:
Some people say you should not @ new accounts within 30 seconds of them signing up and they are all cowards.
I'd noticed on apps with Client side decoration that if they blocked on something they were much more of a pain - you can't move the window like you could when they had a window manager driven title bar. This is much more of a pain than not redrawing or responding for a few seconds.
I'm seeing it in Thunderbird's matrix client as it's syncing.
I managed to get out and I can confirm snow and ice on forest roads.
But it was fine. It all was a bit more technically challenging than usual.
Maybe I've got to clean my bike tomorrow.
#cycling #mountainbiking
📦 Efficient file syncing for massive datasets? Forget classic rsync!
⚡ #BLAKE3 hashes instead of timestamps – hash 70GB in just ~20 seconds thanks to multithreading across all CPU cores
#DevOps #Linux
the team behind material for mkdocs have built a new static site generator
i open their webpage and it lags my entire pc with, i think, this background animation of "moving lines". taking a screenshot took several seconds and chromium stopped rendering the ui at one point
any idiot can make an efficient static site. it takes pure brilliance to make it inefficient (why does it need 1 GB of GPU memory?!)
It only took 5 seconds in this meeting with admin for someone to use the word "leverage."
Fascist paramilitary invaders threatening community members; “You're fucking dead dawg!" (Richfield, MN - 2/10/26)
ICE threatens observers today (2/10/26) in the greater twin cities area (near Hope Church in Richfield MN).
Around 34 seconds into the clip you can hear the agent say your fucking dead dawg to the observer who is interacting with them.
The scene: Observers report witnessing ICE pulling over a random vehicle and checking their citizenship status before …
"In a key scene of the 2012 blockbuster film “Skyfall”, MI6 quartermaster Q realizes too late that plugging a cable into the laptop of a notoriously skilled terrorist like Raoul Silva was a terrible idea. After a few seconds, the laptop infects the systems of MI6, releasing all physical doors and disabling all security guards, prompting Silva to escape and wreak havoc. A message appears on the laptop screen, taunting Q, reading “Not such a clever boy”."
Trying #radicale to selfhost my calendar and addressbook and having a pretty terrible time. Every calendar action takes 10 seconds even to radicale running on localhost because apparently Thunderbird sends the entire calendar at once on every update wtf. 🤦
EDIT: Okay, authentication must be set up, because only then Thunderbird allows accessing it as CalDAV, otherwise it sees it only as a s…
How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x
10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could
forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.
-- Tom Duff, Bell Labs
I’m not a great ice skater, just competent to noodle around a bit and enjoy myself. That’s fine. Ice skating is for everyone. Parks are for everyone.
My kid hadn’t been skating since last winter, and wobbled on the ice like jello for 10 seconds — and then it all came back, and she was zooming off faster than I could keep up.
2/
A language processing time window of around three seconds https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-026-…
Sleep time *falls asleep in less than 100 seconds*
Several folks asked about day/night. These were both made at roughly mid-day a few seconds apart.
The Olympic career of Lindsey Vonn has ended in a sickening,
split-second crash high on the side of the downhill run in Cortina d’Ampezzo.
The American, one of the most successful skiers in history,
had come out of a five-year retirement to compete in her fifth Games,
and was hoping to become the oldest athlete, male or female, ever to win a medal in the downhill.
was just 12 seconds into the race when her legs gave way beneath her as she rode a bump.
She…
That article is good, but I had to turn off that video interview with Paul Kedrosky after about 30 seconds into his "explanation" of generative AI.
Complete word salad. Using all the right words in all the wrong ways. Poor Paul Krugman. You deserve a genuine explanation.
#GrindayFriday this week is this rad new split with both QUITTER and WEAPON WORLD that came out earlier this month. Grindy powerviolence or powerviolency grind! After the 2 minute intro track, every track is just seconds long. And that's how we like our grindy powerviolence.
@… @…
There is no ad-supported version of Apple Music. I tried it out a couple years ago and was surprised. Seems like few music services have ad versions these days. (Qobuz and Tidal play 30 seconds of songs.)
Deezer and S…
The true geeks among you will appreciate this:
How to convert a day number (and, transitively) a number of seconds since an calendar start date ("epoch", e.g. 1970-01-01) into a readable date in only 24 CPU cycles.
https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-date-64
Welcome to #TextModeTuesday! For the next few weeks I'll be posting some projects & experiments related to this just spontaneously made up hashtag. If you've got something related to interesting text-based art/experiments, patterns, ASCII-art, ANSI-art etc. please share — the more, the merrier...
To start with, here's an experiment from a few years ago to demonstrat…
Many years ago, when I was training more speedcubing, I was once sub-18 with 17.82 Ao100. Today, I finally managed sub-19 again with 18.97 seconds and I'm quite pleased! 😎
#speedcubing #rubikscube
HALO: A Fine-Grained Resource Sharing Quantum Operating System
John Zhuoyang Ye, Jiyuan Wang, Yifan Qiao, Jens Palsberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07191 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.07191 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.07191
arXiv:2602.07191v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As quantum computing enters the cloud era, thousands of users must share access to a small number of quantum processors. Users need to wait minutes to days to start their jobs, which only takes a few seconds for execution. Current quantum cloud platforms employ a fair-share scheduler, as there is no way to multiplex a quantum computer among multiple programs at the same time, leaving many qubits idle and significantly under-utilizing the hardware. This imbalance between high user demand and scarce quantum resources has become a key barrier to scalable and cost-effective quantum computing.
We present HALO, the first quantum operating system design that supports fine-grained resource-sharing. HALO introduces two complementary mechanisms. First, a hardware-aware qubit-sharing algorithm that places shared helper qubits on regions of the quantum computer that minimize routing overhead and avoid cross-talk noise between different users' processes. Second, a shot-adaptive scheduler that allocates execution windows according to each job's sampling requirements, improving throughput and reducing latency. Together, these mechanisms transform the way quantum hardware is scheduled and achieve more fine-grained parallelism.
We evaluate HALO on the IBM Torino quantum computer on helper qubit intense benchmarks. Compared to state-of-the-art systems such as HyperQ, HALO improves overall hardware utilization by up to 2.44x, increasing throughput by 4.44x, and maintains fidelity loss within 33%, demonstrating the practicality of resource-sharing in quantum computing.
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Multi state neurons
Robert Worden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08815 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.08815 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.08815
arXiv:2512.08815v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Neurons, as eukaryotic cells, have powerful internal computation capabilities. One neuron can have many distinct states, and brains can use this capability. Processes of neuron growth and maintenance use chemical signalling between cell bodies and synapses, ferrying chemical messengers over microtubules and actin fibres within cells. These processes are computations which, while slower than neural electrical signalling, could allow any neuron to change its state over intervals of seconds or minutes. Based on its state, a single neuron can selectively de-activate some of its synapses, sculpting a dynamic neural net from the static neural connections of the brain. Without this dynamic selection, the static neural networks in brains are too amorphous and dilute to do the computations of neural cognitive models. The use of multi-state neurons in animal brains is illustrated in hierarchical Bayesian object recognition. Multi-state neurons may support a design which is more efficient than two-state neurons, and scales better as object complexity increases. Brains could have evolved to use multi-state neurons. Multi-state neurons could be used in artificial neural networks, to use a kind of non-Hebbian learning which is faster and more focused and controllable than traditional neural net learning. This possibility has not yet been explored in computational models.
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bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps
Ovanligt lätt idag?
I solved today's #TiledWords puzzle!
👕 “Articles of Clothing”
🕒 2 minutes, 50 seconds
💡 0/3 reveals used
∗️ 57 moves used
https://tiledwords.com/puzzles/2025-12
So, tonight's goal is to continue with ngscopeclient performance work.
I started out by doubling the speed of the eye pattern *again* by moving index buffer calculation from CPU to GPU.
Next up is going to be getting the 100baseTX decoder to not be so slow. Right now of the 43 seconds of CPU time in the current 1-minute benchmark, 26.9 is spent sampling the MLT-3 waveform on rising edges of the recovered clock.
The thing is, we already *know* the sample values at the re…
"Out of curiosity, I used this brand-new search engine you might have heard about, “Google,” to learn more about the subject. I found a copy of CaptureNet, a freeware packet sniffer part of the SpyNet/PeepNet by Laurentiu Nicula; then I looked up for the port number used by MSN Messenger (it was 1863 in case you were wondering.) Finally, I found out how to enable “promiscuous mode” in the network card in my laptop."
wild kubuntu seem to have the nextcloud desktop app in the "store" regular ubuntu did not.
I had to run:
sudo apt install nextcloud-desktop
the nextcloud website has you download some appImage file that I have no idea how to use.
also nextcloud on kubuntu was slow as ass. settings pane took 30 seconds to open.
#ubuntu
How to factory reset your cat
I solved today's #TiledWords puzzle!
⏩ “Last”
🕒 4 minutes, 15 seconds
💡 0/3 reveals used
https://tiledwords.com/puzzles/2026-02-03
New record scopehal filter speedup: Vector Frequency, which computes the instantaneous frequency of an i/q signal as d/dt(atan2(q,i)).
The (single threaded, non simd) CPU version took about 1.5 seconds to crunch 50M samples on my Xeon 6144.
The trivially simple GPU version? About 1.5 *milli* seconds on a 2080 Ti.
My art, but not my video[1]. The piece is ASCII-SCAPE (2022), a pure text-only version of my C-SCAPE [2] multi-cellular automata piece in which several "organisms" are co-evolving in the same space and forming infinitely changing patterns/structures:
https://art.thi.ng/ascii-scape/
(Reload…
bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps
Kul tema idag!
I solved today's #TiledWords puzzle!
🐿️ “Mammals”
🕒 3 minutes, 16 seconds
💡 0/3 reveals used
https://tiledwords.com/puzzles/2026-02-04
I love this time of year intellectually. The weeks of the Analemma Apparent.
(Mornings are getting shorter but afternoons are getting longer, faster.) @…
Kul tema!
I solved today's #TiledWords puzzle!
🖥️ “Computer”
🕒 4 minutes, 16 seconds
💡 0/3 reveals used
https://tiledwords.com/puzzles/2025-11-30
@ErikUden@mastodon.de
![Grok output:
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Q: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
[40 pages]
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Drive.
The goal is to wash the car, not to get yourself to the car wash.
Walking 50 meters gets you there in about 30-45 seconds (maybe 20 if you're speed-walking), but your dirty car remains exactly where it is-still dirty. To actually accomplish the task, the car has to travel those 50 meters.](https://cdn.social.linux.pizza/system/media_attachments/files/116/079/626/974/948/019/original/d825a752e2741c3f.png)
