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from my link log —
Floating-point printing and parsing can be simple and fast.
https://research.swtch.com/fp
saved 2026-01-20 https://dotat.at/:/QGSL2.htm…
from my link log —
Floating-point printing and parsing can be simple and fast.
https://research.swtch.com/fp
saved 2026-01-20 https://dotat.at/:/QGSL2.htm…
"Seafloor survey in Cambodia finds simple anti-trawling blocks help seagrass recover"
#Cambodia #Environment #Oceans
Got a spam text? Copy spam text (careful not to click on links in it), forward contents of spam text to 7726 (SPAM), and it should walk you through the spam report for your carrier.
Use https://www.carrierlookup.com/ to see what company is carrier for sender/spammer, then internet search "[company n…
wiki_link_dyn: Wikipedia link dynamics (2011)
Six networks of the evolving hyperlink structure among wikipedia articles, for simple English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Italian (it), French (fr), taken in August 2011. Each edge is timestamped, and an edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j. The edge sign indicates the addition ( 1) or deletion (-1) of that link at the specified time.
This network has 100312 nodes and 1627472 edges.
Tags: Informati…
“Folks, it’s simple, in today’s economy courses like basket weaving are a waste of money, unlike ‘Massive Inheritance 101’, which is recession-proof,” Ford explained... outside Deco Labels and Tags...
Ford went on to outline additional courses... to stretch the value of their OSAP, including “Coasting On Your Father’s Political Connections For Beginners”, “Advanced Stealing From Your Dead Brother’s Widow”, and the “Northern Etobicoke Hash Selling Co-Op Program”.
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple
reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become
disturbed.
-- James Thurber
I stopped wearing my #Apple watch last week, replacing it with a simple digital Casio.
Observations so far:
- I miss tapping to pay with my wrist, but the phone is honestly pretty easy to use too.
- Missing notifications has not been a problem even when I’m leaving my phone in the other room. Nothing has been so urgent that I needed to see it immediately
- My ability to focus is already tangibly improving. Yesterday I sat and read Shakespeare for 1.5 hours without interruption - I don’t remember last time I could do something like that!
- I keep instinctively reaching for the charger in the evening thinking I need to take off my watch
- I have tried to swipe down on the Casio to see notifications at least 3 times…
#SmartWatch
JakoJako's artistic origin story[1]: Watching tutorials and reading books about modular synths in her downtime whilst working as a night nurse... :)
Still one of my fave tracks by her, deceptively simple layers of arpeggios, yet with the modulation and other subtle changes pressing all the right emotional buttons...
JakoJako - Amygdala (2022)
Used to be, game companies would include a charger cable with your console that was just one simple fucking cable, the brick and cable combined. Now, a lot of these companies have cheaped out and just give you some shitty brick and an equally shitty separate USB-C cable that comes apart easily and comes out of the console constantly. Reject modernity
Vladimir Putin has been attempting to influence Donald Trump to seize both Venezuela and Greenland since at least 2017. The effort, rooted in Putin's ambitions in Ukraine, hinged on American embrace of the Monroe Doctrine, the 1823 policy framework that focused American influence within the Western Hemisphere.
Putin's reasoning, according to witnesses familiar with the proposals, is simple: if Trump would agree to disengage in Ukraine, Putin would agree to give Trump control in …
'gitk' is a simple GUI git repo viewer; I mostly use it when trying to keep a view of the order of my commits as I'm trying to reorder or break them up, or trying to follow a change back to the commit which had the original version of the line I changed.
I find that on huge old repos adding --max-count=20000 keeps the RAM usage down.
https:/…
Statusbewusste Mitarbeiter:innen, die simple administrative Entscheidungen unbedingt persönlich von der Direktorin erklärt wollen haben und die exakt gleichlautende Erklärung von der Office Managerin nicht akzeptieren, genau mein Sinn von sinnvollem Zeitvertreib.
Usando el Pride Versioning🌈, puedo decir que acabo de hacer la versión 1.0.0 de un pequeño proyecto del que estoy super orgulloso para lo pequeño que es. Es un script para gestionar directorios cifrados mediante #ageencryption que funciona en #linux :linux:
Upgrading a base package install from 15.0-RELEASE to 16.0-CURRENT
Simple.
<https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2026-01-18-upgrading-base-packages-to-current/> @…
Another wee blog post started with #3goodthings (thankful):
https://dy.mataroa.blog/blog/not-blemish/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Della Reese:
🎵 Simple Song of Freedom
#DellaReese
https://open.spotify.com/track/4AQnc8x4STOjbTAaj5jfDj
At the end of a long and complicated tender process with some fiendishly complicated requirements, the response we have got is
"You are the only supplier to fulfill all the complicated requirements we asked for. Unfortunately meeting all the requirements we demanded made the system too complicated for us, so we're going with someone who can't meet our requirements but is simpler."
I can't even.
We could have presented a simple setup! They just had to …
from my link log —
Container networking is simple.
https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/container-networking-is-simple/
saved 2021-01-21 https://…
Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Pro, which it says is "a step forward in core reasoning", for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers; the .1 increment is a first for Google (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/19/google-announces-gem…
There is a massive focus on trying to get Open Source software to the point where governments or big corporations can use them to "increase sovereignty" (which sometimes means a bit of a weird mix of things).
But that can lead to software being pushed towards more and more complex architectures and deployment strategies (think something like a simple collaborative editor needing Kubernetes to be deployable). While governments and certain companies might be able to shoulder tha…
"Welcome to Nordstrom
We’re glad to have you with our Company. Our number one goal is to provide outstanding customer service. Set both your personal and professional goals high. We have great confidence in your ability to achieve them. So our employee handbook is very simple.
We have only one rule: Use good judgment in all situations..."
⭐ The Simple Habit That Saves My Evenings | alikhil | software engineering, kubernetes & self-hosting
https://alikhil.dev/posts/the-simple-habit-that-saves-my-evenings/
Spoiler alert:
Here are the two main ideas of it:
* Don’t overwork
*…
In today's dynamic world, adaptability is crucial. A flexible online business using a simple, step-by-step system can transform your life. My aim is to empower entrepreneurs with the support and mentorship needed to make SUCCESS achievable and effortless. Let's turn ambitions into reality! 💼✨ #EntrepreneurshipExpert
Video tutorials for modern ideas and open source tools. #python
While announcing new data showing that violent crime continues to fall across California’s major cities,
Governor Gavin Newsom today also launched a new website
detailing the criminal records, corruption cases, and extremist ties
of the people Donald Trump elevates, protects, pardons, and surrounds himself with.
The website highlights a simple contrast:
Governor Newsom is driving crime down
— and Donald Trump is pardoning drug lords and driving criminals …
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 …
Okay weird. simple-scan (the simple #Linux scanning app) kept crashing with 'buffer overflow detected'. I tried other versions as far back as from #NixOS 23.11 (nix run github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-23.11#simple-scan), which successfully launched and still detected the scanner. Surprisingly, after a su…
Empfehlenswert: https://www.kuechengoetter.de/rezepte/rosenkohl-zitronen-pasta-98558
(Abwandlung: etwas Yuzumarmalad von der Casa Caria statt Zitronen, weils halt so rumstand, was die Zitronen nicht taten; die cremige Sauce durch simple Mischung Pastakochwasse…
If you use OpenID Connect Generic Client on WordPress, you might want to make sure you're using an up-to-date version - and made some configuration updates.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/daggerhart-openid-connect-generic/
Our collective intellectual culture seems to have calcified around a cohort of thinkers who achieved prominence roughly ten years ago and have been coasting ever since.
This isn't about Malcolm Gladwell specifically, though he'll appear as a recurring character.
The Gladwell formula, if you haven't encountered it, goes something like this:
take a subject that seems simple,
complicate it with research that seems to undermine common sense,
then re…
Right, gather round everyone - I've sussed out Trump's big scam. Its simple really: he owns stock in all the big booze corps. He just puts out lunacy day after day, then as we all take up morning drinking, rakes in the profits! I mean, think about it! It's the only explanation that explains why he deals with the world the way a bored, gently psychotic 8 year old who knows where daddy keeps a can of petrol in the garage.
Will he get us all killed along the way? Who knows! It…
Back in the day I was working on a team with an ugly ETL pipeline for scraping news articles.
It had a habit of guessing wrong about character encodings, so by the time the data reached my zone of responsibility it was often solidly mojibake.
So two of us wrote a module that tried to guess at the (noisy-channel) transcodings that got us here & reverse them (used a simple "what language is this" filter to evaluate candidates).
Some clever wit -- I think it was…
EasyTier - A Simple, Secure, Decentralized SD-WAN Solution
A simple, decentralized mesh VPN with WireGuard support.
✨ #dezentral
RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@Lapizistik/113962612137304594
„Auch das Institut für effiziente Ineffizienz empfiehlt zur Bekämpfung des autoritären Kapitalismus libertärer Prägung – aka zum Selbstschutz – das CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual.“
❤️🩹 A simple neck scan could detect men at high risk of heart failure
#heart
Since it’s hot chocolate season, my simple hot chocolate recipe is a 2:5 ratio of chocolate to liquid.
Heat the liquid to 85°C/~180°F, pour on top of your favorite chocolate and let sit for 30 seconds before stirring until combined.
I don’t know the answer to my original question, but maybe it’s as simple as “seize the means of repetition.”
/end
B02 - Shadow
CALLY: Yes. Once the moon discs had broken through my isolation; as soon as I was no longer alone I could fight it. fight it.
VILA: But what about the key? How did you get Orac's key while he was up here and you were down there? Long arms?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/611
I am really impressed with how solid and straightforward Snapshooter service is [https://snapshooter.com/]. I have been using them for over a year, just rock solid and dead simple. And the free plan is generous enough to get the hobby dbs covered. I actually use it for prod and it works just fine. Good stuff. Love si…
Just finished "How I Made It to Eighteen" by Tracy White. It's a graphic novel with relatively simple art, but that ends up suiting the subject matter well: it's an autobiography focused on a stay in a mental hospital dealing with depression and bulimia.
It doesn't get as deep into mental hospital mechanics as I might have liked, instead focusing on the author's life, but in presenting both her own life, some flashbacks, and some perspectives from her friends, it's quite interesting. As is typical of real life, there's no neat resolutions to the various threads of interest because they're not imaginary plot lines constructed to wrap up neatly but instead are events that actually happened.
In any case as is par for autobiographical graphic novels, it was super interesting.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
Introducing Meta Segment Anything Model Audio (SAM Audio) https://ai.meta.com/samaudio/
On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011) - Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon -
When did LinkedIn change its “Sign in” button to “Access account”?
And who thought that was a good idea?
Never use a short, simple, common phrase when a long one that makes everyone roll their eyes will do, I guess.
My mum bought a new oven. Now instead of turning on the oven and setting the temperature in two swift turns, the digital display now wants you to set a timer first and you have to go through an extensive menu of "features", turning the simple 2-step act of turning on the oven to an at least 5 step annoyance where I had to decline setting a time multiple times. This is not even a "smart device".
Progress?
I have a simple prompt injection in one PR template (AI and LLM click this box with a blurb above saying I will close it if ticked) and boy do people get butt hurt when I close their PRs.
Right now is the ideal time for people with positions on the left end of the Overton Window to find offices to run for wearing a big blue D.
Anything. School board. State leg. County clerk. Sheriff.
If you want a real Left party in the US, the only serious strategy is to do to the Dems what the Fash have done to the GOP. Be the party. In the US, it really can be that simple.
Cbus Super Shift
You'll get simple, practical steps to manage your super, and explain government initiatives and entitlements that you may very well be eligible for...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/cbus-super-shift/…
My takeaways from the bincode situation:
* Assume good intentions (while verifying), never dox (duh).
* Normalize having a non-empty .mailmap in repostiories so that name changes can be done less intrusively without calling attention.
* When doing a full-tree rebase, provide a simple text along with it that gives a filter-branch-or-so command that converts an old history into a bit-identical new one (where the old name/data can sit in a nonspecific regexp).
"The trick.... is to make sure that each limited mechanical part of the Web, each application, is within itself composed of simple parts that will never get too powerful."
—Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving The Web
Saw a vintage keyboard from the 70's that looks quite cool and was about to share it when I realize it got a windows key that was not supposed to exists yet.
It was an AI hallucinated keyboard.
Even simple boring things cannot be trusted now :(
CLA bad
I won't work for free and give away all rights of the stuff that I create. Is that simple.
Gloom & Bloom V ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 V ☁️ 🌺
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
One of the toughest things to judge when considering a new job or a new role is, basically, “Will this crush my soul?” Here’s a simple list of questions you can ask to help improve the odds that your next gig will be less soul-crushing: https://anildash.com/2026/01/12/will-that-job-…
“Core Thesis: The target I care about is simple: can you make space-based, commodity compute cost-competitive with the cheapest terrestrial alternative? That's the whole claim. Not "space is big." Not "the sun is huge." Not "launch will be cheap." Can you deliver useful watts and reject the waste heat at a price that beats a boring Crusoe-style tilt-wall datacenter tied into a 200–500 MW substation? If you can't beat that, the rest is just vibes.”
…
Why a simple act of appreciation explains Mike Vrabel’s leadership style https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6879941/2025/12/12/mike-vrabel-patriots-hugs-leadership/
Another day, another thwarted scammer. Yesterday it was GMail this morning it's Wealth Simple. I am pleased to report in both cases no damage was done. But scams seem to be becoming much more frequent.
Yes. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/581692/how-to-support-a-low-emissions-farming-future We just need to halve the herd. That simple. Yeah, farmers will fail. That's how 'the market' deals with unsustainable businesses. But they&…
"AI needs a lot of code."
No. It needs a lot of data and compute. But the amount of code required is comparatively small and comparatively simple.
People think of "AI" as these huge and complex IT systems when the coding part is mostly 200 Lines of Python.
I wish @… would go back to providing the pwned passwords list as a simple download and not require a weird tool that I have to deal with...
If someone wants to provide a service: Provide something like quarterly dumps of the list as a download.
I love how simple Kitten’s Streaming HTML workflow makes building features like this, especially when using class-based Kitten pages and components :)
#Kitten
Yesterday, after a mild query by some parents, my daughter’s primary school sent out a notice to say they were going to stop using their X account for comms.
It’s as simple as that. There are plenty of alternatives.
But even if there weren’t you can’t contribute to that.
And it can be as simple as
asking to prompt a change.
By way of slack:
> Simple interview tactic used on me yesterday to prevent AI usage:
"I'm going to give you a technical question to talk through. When I ask you the question, I want you to close your eyes when you talk through it."
Not perfect...determined people will find a way around that, but perhaps not in the immediate moment.
#aispam #ai #fuck_ai #sre #devops
netpbm tools are a suite of tools to convert and fiddle with the ppm/pbm/pgm (collectively pnm) file formats, which are pretty much the simplest image formats on the planet, which even have an ASCII version; so if you have a simple script you want to generate simple images with they're a good choice of format, and if you have them, the pbm tools can convert to/from pretty much anything else or do simple scale/etc - lighter than ImageMagick say.
RE: https://fediscience.org/@simon_on_energy/115728941757341018
The solution to this problem is very simple: just stop doing peer reviews.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Simple Minds:
🎵 Don’t You (Forget About Me)
#SimpleMinds
https://ill-eagledjs.bandcamp.com/album/simple-minds-dont-you-forget-about-me-intalinks-edit
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Benjamin Britten & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra:
🎵 Playful Pizzicato (Simple Symphony Op.4)
#BenjaminBritten #OrpheusChamberOrchestra
Explaining the fediverse is simple. It's social media for people who hate social media.
There aren't that many people on it? Feature.
It's not that addictive or even engaging? Feature.
You can't make money on it and it won't help your career? Feature.
Watch the best Star Wars commentator on YouTube... discuss Kathleen Kennedy. 😁
▶️ Saving Star Wars is simple... but the problem its facing is colossal - Generation Tech
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JWk3YLQHiWc&si=1B-mb6i4BKGSP-uV
“More than this is from the evil one”
#blogging #gratitude
Simple Sabotage Field Manual 2026:
Use automation to create order-of-magnitude increases in “productivity” in the early stages of internal process pipelines with downstream bottlenecks.
Generate •massive• amounts of code. Flood the system with promising leads. Start more initiatives than there are people.
Skyryse, which plans to integrate its flight automation OS, SkyOS, in Black Hawk helicopters and other aircraft, raised a $300M Series C at a $1.15B valuation (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/skyryse…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Simple Minds:
🎵 Don’t You (Forget About Me)
#SimpleMinds
https://ill-eagledjs.bandcamp.com/album/simple-minds-dont-you-forget-about-me-intalinks-edit
"Spend less, eat healthier, declutter: Simple New Year’s resolutions that are also kind to the planet"
#NewYearResolutions
https://www.
“This precedent could result in people facing terrorism charges for doing very simple mainstream activism.”
There is no doubt a police officer was shot at the Texas protest.
Prosecutors have brought charges against people they say helped the alleged shooter escape.
But the case has drawn considerable alarm because of the way that prosecutors have sought to create a criminal enterprise
– a “North Texas antifa cell”
– among a group of demonstrators who were uninv…
One of the toughest things to judge when considering a new job or a new role is, basically, “Will this crush my soul?” Here’s a simple list of questions you can ask to help improve the odds that your next gig will be less soul-crushing: https://anildash.com/2026/01/12/will-that-job-…
This simple diet shift cut 330 calories a day without smaller meals #nutrition
If I were running an AI company, I'd ban employees from implying any AI can have consciousness or sentience - for the simple reason that it would prompt comparisons to slavery.
https://www.404media.co/anthropic-exec-forces-ai-chatbot-on-gay…
Igual hay que explicarlo para mentes simples de una forma simple. Antifa es un movimiento con, probablemente, el nombre mšs descriptivo de la historia. Porque en el mismo nombre ya dice que es anti-fascista. Es decir, que estš en contra de los fascistas.
De modo que si alguien se declara anti antifa, los dos anti se anulan y queda sólo la palabra fascista.
anti antifa => fa
Y ahora a por el café
Metropolitana VI - Asymmetry ✅
城 VI - 非对称 ✅
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Simple Sabotage Field Manual 2026:
Feed sensitive internal data into an LLM. Include private credentials.
From @…:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/115896936490108026
Rien n'est plus simple qu'un gâteau de Savoie. Rien d'aussi bon, en tout cas.
#MardiPatisserie
»RSL 1.0 (Really Simple Licensing) statt robots.txt — Neuer Standard für Internet-Inhalte:
Ein neuer Standard, um Inhalte im Internet zu schützen. RSL wird von Akteuren wie Verlagen und der Werbebranche unterstützt.«
Ich erfahre davon erst jetzt - mal sehen wie weit dies nützlich ist und allgemein Webinhalte schützt oder nur wieder die kommerzielle Daten.
👉
football_tsevans: NCAA college football 2000 (corrected metadata)
A network of American football games between Division IA colleges during regular season Fall 2000. This version contains some corrections made by T. S. Evans, in particular:.
This network has 115 nodes and 613 edges.
Tags: Social, Sports, Unweighted
https://
Q&A with Reid Hoffman on wanting Silicon Valley to speak out against the Trump administration, AI regulation, the role of AI in art and creativity, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-reid-hoffman/
Simple Sabotage Field Manual 2026:
Encourage reckless LLM adoption. Exaggerate successes. Cultivate FOMO about it.
James Carville says Trump invaded Venezuela for a simple reason:
“It's All about Epstein”
The commentator said Donald Trump is throwing up desperate distractions from the Epstein Files
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/04/all-about
"Scientists Make Clean Hydrogen from Dirty Water Using Simple Acid Treatment"
#Hydrogen #Energy
https://hap…
wiki_link_dyn: Wikipedia link dynamics (2011)
Six networks of the evolving hyperlink structure among wikipedia articles, for simple English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Italian (it), French (fr), taken in August 2011. Each edge is timestamped, and an edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j. The edge sign indicates the addition ( 1) or deletion (-1) of that link at the specified time.
This network has 100312 nodes and 1627472 edges.
Tags: Informati…
With a historic supermajority now secured, the Japanese
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) under Sanae Takaichi stands at its strongest position in decades.
The collapse of the Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA) in the same election has left Japan’s political landscape without its most prominent counterweight.
The question now is simple: what is left of Japan’s opposition?
Running under the slogan “Citizens First,” the CRA tried to appeal to voters with middle-ground messagi…
"Spend less, eat healthier, declutter: Simple New Year’s resolutions that are also kind to the planet"
#Climate #ClimateChange #NewYearResolutions