
2025-09-20 19:51:04
On Website Technicals - Read nitty-gritty tech updates and daily learnings that keep the Earth Notes site up and running; site stats also. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals.html
On Website Technicals - Read nitty-gritty tech updates and daily learnings that keep the Earth Notes site up and running; site stats also. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals.html
How to Delete All of Your Social Media Accounts
Breaking up is hard to do — harder yet when there’s a deactivation period. Here’s how to log off every big social site, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads, Bluesky, and Truth Social.
🚫 https://www.wired.com/story/how-t…
Blast Hole Seeking and Dipping -- The Navigation and Perception Framework in a Mine Site Inspection Robot
Liyang Liu, Ehsan Mihankhah, Nathan Wallace, Javier Martinez, Andrew J. Hill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13785
Police: Noose found at Titans' new stadium site https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45769898/police-noose-found-titans-new-stadium-site-work-halted
The 35-day old baby who starved to death in Gaza was clearly a Hamas terrorist. Anyone who says otherwise is antisemitic.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/19/weeks-old-baby-dies-of-starvation-in-gaza-hospital-amid-ongoing…
Linking Multi-Site Sex Ad Data at the Individual Level to Aid Counter-Trafficking Efforts
Nickolas K. Freeman, Gregory J. Bott, Burcu B. Keskin, Jason M. Parton, James J. Cochran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13477
Meta faces a backlash after using Instagram photos of teenage schoolgirls, posted by their parents with visible faces and names, to promote Threads to a man (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20…
lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
While Trump is attacking the free press with all possible means, Dutch public news site @nos writes that he's "successfully reigning in American media"... https://nos.nl/l/2583235
Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls
to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man,
in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting”.
The man noticed that posts encouraging him to “get Threads”,
Mark Zuckerberg’s rival to Elon Musk’s X,
were being dropped into his Instagram feed
❌ featuring embedded posts of uniformed girls as young as 13 with their faces visible and, in most cases, their names.
The ch…
Heute vor 56 Jahren: Am 20. September 1969 testen die #USA simultan die Atombomben "Kyack-1" u. "Kyack-2". Operation Mandrel war eine Serie von 53 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1969/70 hauptsächlich auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.…
Starting up a run of Dreamscaper on Switch to try it tonight, grabbed it for super cheap ($4.99 for 10 more days) in the eshop, it's like you're this gal and it's an isometric Diablo-esque looking thing, the combat, but it's also very dream based, you do things in the waking world and I believe you battle when you sleep. So it'll be interesting to see how it goes.
More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site https://www.bl.uk/collection/digitised-manuscripts-archives
And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays…
Extremely stripped #supernova reveals a silicon and sulfur formation site: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09375-3.epdf?sharing_token=-91B1DW3w-guLbzqMqlHyNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NoiEk03zQVupBWc3RIFpnZ-YbG1aen1S3iwOSFB_RqF1OTO0bm0p0OHR8FBWxK_mN3eXwuH6ArSJP4HcczCXFHQpGcyTSxTYyDRLdjMKS54rLmINcgiC4lgfYYUiIR0lfeQSiucSVktXCGmKwEy2_IMqVFdcWX7jjZmgmaOssqo_tTEwBI3IeJz_wpoAWLQllnGU6ii1DgLBiibeFsnNsdVtR4XCzzQSogTBu5R7SLsA==&tracking_referrer=www.sciencenews.org -> A dying star revealed its heart: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dying-star-heart-supernova - it’s the first observation of an innermost layer of a massive star.
Mauna Loa Observatory Is One NOAA Site That Could Close Because of Budget Cuts - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/aCsAu
Het werden geen twee weken.
Trump heeft daadwerkelijk de lont in het kruitvat aangestoken.
#WWIII?
If I were the operator of this coal plant - one that is costing me and electrical rate payers (you and me) a $million per day I would simply throw the switch and shut it down.
Yes, a $million per day. For power that is not needed, for pollution that is not wanted. And we get to foot the bill.
I'd tell FFOTUS to stuff it up his ample behind and that if he wants it he can hire staff, buy coal, and pay for it.
The longest and shortest days mark Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day
https://web.archive.org/web/20250330163310/https://www.volunteeramnestyday.net/
(ironically, looks like the volunteer running the site ran out of energy)
T…
Accès Š la Justice : réunir 20 000€ pour se doter les moyens d'aller en procès
Pour en savoir plus, consultez l'article sur notre site :
https://chardonsbleus.org/acces-a-la-justice-3-mois-pour-reunir-20-000e/
TIL it’s possible to publish directly to my WordPress site on @… from Obsidian using the aptly named «Obsidian WordPress Plugin».
What will they think of next!
@… @… Most password managers will only fill in a password automatically when on the appropriate domain. So this implies that the user has gone to the correct site… and is then being clickjacked by the site owner? Or is the id…
If I have a pet peeve on social media, it’s folks posting screenshots of posts (from any site) and not including the _actual date_ of the post. Second place is the ones that only have the “4 hrs ago/2d ago”
“OMG this thing is happening!” - yes…3 years ago, so I think the lava has cooled by now.
I be just droppin’ these treasures overboard for any scallywag who knows how to sail!
- https://fitgirl-repacks.site
- https://thepiratebay.org
very important announcement: https://grebedoc.dev now has a grebe on it
It has been brought to my attention that I'm not live posting #CloudAustin #DogDaysOfDevOps 2025.
So, here's Steve Grey talking about how ChatGPT and the like to learn quickly how to build a site from scratch:
Argentina pushes pipeline exports through protected Patagonian waters https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/argentina-pushes-pipeline-exports-through-protected-patagonian-waters/
"For a site that recently rose to prominence despite the calcified nature of the platform ecosystem [...] this is a crucial moment. Bluesky, some users feel, is failing to meet it."
(Original title: Bluesky Really Doesn’t Want People To Say ‘Rest In Piss’ About Charlie Kirk)
https://afterma…
From @… 5 Things AM August 20, 2025:
#news #CNN #censorship
@… do you think the owner of this site has any idea their stuff is being federated
@… do you think the owner of this site has any idea their stuff is being federated
More than 80% of content on Civitai AI image platform is overtly sexual, much of it non-consensual imagery of real living people.
And it's not governments trying to control that, but payment providers.
https://www.404media.co/a16z-backed-ai-sit
The right for companies to do this is in every web service Terms and Conditions you've ever ageed to.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man
State transfer analysis for linear spin chains with non-uniform on-site energies
Chad C. Nelmes, Irene D'Amico, Timothy P. Spiller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13261
Je leest een artikel op internet, ue wijst alle koekjes af en dan...
" De inhoud van dit bericht kan niet getoond worden omdat hiervoor niet de juiste cookie-instellingen zijn geaccepteerd. Pas hier uw instellingen aan. "
Waarschijnlijk een oprisping op Twitter of Instagram, kaar weten zal ik t nooit.
En tja, een link naar het oorspronkelijke bericht is natuurlijk onbestaanbaar, dan klikken de oezers van de site weg.
Weent.
Polymarket says it is buying little-known derivatives exchange QCX, in a move to legally re-enter the US market; a source says Polymarket will pay $112M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-21/cr…
At least 21 Palestinians killed in Gaza aid site stampede | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/7/16/at-least-21-palestinians-killed-in-gaza-aid-site-stampede?traffic_source=rss
So, deciding on a possible domain for my new home for my articles and blogging.
My main site is https://www.davidaugust.com/
And I own davidaugust.net
But maybe that gets confusing, so not great.
Maybe a subdomain?
I think ghost.davidaugust.com would be highlighting the tech runnin…
Reminded someone that not only did #accessiBe’s overlay not help a site, it may have been a factor in the lawsuit against that site (PDF):
https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.paw…
Ad-Shield: 976M people globally use ad blockers that block on-site analytics, whitelisted ads, registration walls, and more, up from 590M in 2019 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/adblockers-stop…
An analysis of ICE data by THE CITY shows that dozens of people are packed into locked rooms
and increasingly held for days inside a Manhattan building the feds say isn’t a detention site.
https://documentedny.com/2025/07/22/26-federal-plaza-ice-manhattan-…
Optimal CO2 storage management considering safety constraints in multi-stakeholder multi-site CCS projects: a game theoretic perspective
Jungang Chen, Seyyed A. Hosseini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11618
Just thinking about this OSA thing and I’ve still not come across a site that is blocking me or requiring proof of my age. Maybe I just look at the wrong websites?
#ukpolitics #osa
Work on Titans' new stadium stopped after discovery of noose at construction site, investigation underway
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/work-on
Hackers hit Dell product demo platform, but impact is limited https://therecord.media/hackers-hit-dell-product-demo-platform-limited-impact
Direct Measurement of the Accretion Disk Formed in Prompt Collapse Mergers with Future Gravitational-Wave Observatories
Arnab Dhani, Alessandro Camilletti, Alessio Ludovico De Santis, Andrea Cozzumbo, David Radice, Domenico Logoteta, Albino Perego, Jan Harms, Marica Branchesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14071
Real-Analyticity of the Density of States for Random Schr\"odinger operators with Point Interactions
Masahiro Kaminaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12664 https://
✅ an HTML web site hosted on a disposable vape
⛔️ a JavaScript-heavy web site that feels like its loading from a disposable vape
\(0^{th}\) announcement for the 2025 Midwestern Workshop on Asymptotic Analysis - October 10 - 12 at #PurdueFortWayne 🐘 .
The web site has a preliminary list of 2025 speakers including our keynote speaker Alexandre Sukhov 🇫🇷 . Online registration and the request form for travel support will be available soon on the web site:
OpenConstruction: A Systematic Synthesis of Open Visual Datasets for Data-Centric Artificial Intelligence in Construction Monitoring
Ruoxin Xiong, Yanyu Wang, Jiannan Cai, Kaijian Liu, Yuansheng Zhu, Pingbo Tang, Nora El-Gohary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11482
On Website Technicals (2025-07) - Tech updates: heating schedule thoughts, FLAC bot good behaviour but RSS badness continues... - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-98.html
National Public Data, the site that leaked millions of social security numbers and was shut down in December, is back only this time it's a people finder that is presumably based on its massive trove of everyone's sensitive data.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/site-b…
@… I just had a look at your various site links and just want to say I love everything about them <3
found a neocities site that hasn't been updated in nine years, empty except for a quote and a strangely poignant why page https://graff-one-point-oh.neocities.org/
Compact Objects in Globular Clusters
Kyle Kremer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14308 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14308
I’ve carefully avoided hearing any #tourdefrance news this summer so that I can watch it all play out in next years #Netflix series… but will there be one for 2025???
I’ve nearly finished watching the 2024 one - those guys are amazing - I really like Jonas’ attitude and conduct. So much more m…
Folks, just a heads up: I’m busily coding a Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal site so that we can raise one amount that will get all our remaining families in the danger zone in the North to safety in the South.
I’m adapting the donation form I’d made for us at Small Technology Foundation (https://small-tech.org/fund-us
Learning the non-Markovian features of subsystem dynamics
Michele Coppola, Mari Carmen Ba\~nuls, Zala Lenar\v{c}i\v{c}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14133 htt…
2025 NFL Week 3 Buzz: Commanders are returning to DC after approval of stadium site https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-week-3-buzz
I feel very seen here: I also write directly into the CMS.
(Original title: A Salute To The 13%)
https://aftermath.site/godot-version-control-statistics-cms
IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.
The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
https://www.…
github: GitHub contest (2009)
The bipartite project-user membership network of the software development hosting site GitHub. A user connects to a project if that user is a member of that project.
This network has 177386 nodes and 440237 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/github
Heute vor 42 Jahren: Am 21.09.1983 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Phalanx die 16. & 17. Atombombe "Branco" & "Herkimer". Phalanx war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1982/83 insgesamt 19 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in
Nextdoor unveils a redesign and a partnership with 3,500 local news providers across the US, the UK, and Canada that will contribute material to the app (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nextdoor-social-media-news-ai-c7e12d6…
Multi-Robot Task Planning for Multi-Object Retrieval Tasks with Distributed On-Site Knowledge via Large Language Models
Kento Murata, Shoichi Hasegawa, Tomochika Ishikawa, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Akira Taniguchi, Lotfi El Hafi, Tadahiro Taniguchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12838
Hmm. I got thinking. I know, I really shouldn’t…
HTTPS “creates a secure channel over an insecure network” - and this is pretty much the definition of a VPN.
So, now we look at the Ofcom website and it redirects all visitors to use https (a temporary vpn, essentially) instead of accessing the site directly.
Are they breaking the very rule they demand?
#osa
epinions_trust: Epinions trust network (2003)
A who-trusts-whom online social network of the general consumer review site Epinions.com. Members can decide whether to "trust" each other. These trust relationships are combined with review ratings to determine which reviews are shown to the user.
This network has 75888 nodes and 508837 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
@… it isn’t quite a 1:1 match with the BenchNine web font weight we’re using on the web site
a16z-Backed AI Site Civitai Is Mostly Porn, Despite Claiming Otherwise https://www.404media.co/a16z-backed-ai-site-civitai-is-mostly-porn-despite-claiming-otherwise/
Modular, On-Site Solutions with Lightweight Anomaly Detection for Sustainable Nutrient Management in Agriculture
Abigail R. Cohen, Yuming Sun, Zhihao Qin, Harsh S. Muriki, Zihao Xiao, Yeonju Lee, Matthew Housley, Andrew F. Sharkey, Rhuanito S. Ferrarezi, Jing Li, Lu Gan, Yongsheng Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12247
When I browse YouTube on mobile, I become so annoyed at Google’s constant insertion of Shorts in every feed that I just close the browser and leave. I need YouTube Enhancer or SmartTube for mobile to make that 💩 site tolerable.
Map Of The Web Site Structure For
Art Of Middle Eastern Dance
http://www.shira.net/sitemap.htm
Heute vor 42 Jahren: Am 21.09.1983 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Phalanx die 15. Atombombe "omme/Midnight Zephyr". Phalanx war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1982/83 insgesamt 19 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in
On Website Technicals (2021-11) - Tech updates: more meters, reutils tweets upgrade, DB-based Event and Product schema.org. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-54.html
hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site:
Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to.
Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity.
When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected.
And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers…
Heute vor 53 Jahren: Am 20.07.1972 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation Toggle die Atombombe "Diamond Sculls". Toggle war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 72/73 insgesamt 35 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in #Nevada und Rio Blanco unterirdisch gezündet wurden.
SoftBank buys Foxconn's Ohio EV plant; Foxconn will produce AI servers at the plant as part of Softbank's $500B Stargate project with OpenAI and Oracle (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…
On Website Technicals (2020-12) - Tech updates: vignette ads, year-end to-dos, Big Sur and FTDI, half traffic, time travel, 20/20. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-43.html
Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 21. September 1958 führte die USA mit "Luna" den 4. Atomtest der Operation Hardtack II, eine Serie von 37 #Atomtests auf der #Nevada Test Site, NTS, durch. Von Ballontests bis zu unterirdischen Explosionen wurden verschiedene Methoden erprobt.
Isolated Amazon tribe seen near logging bridge site, alarming rights group
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-08-28/isolated-amazon-tribe-seen-near-logging-bridge-site-alarming-rights-group
Super-Callous-Fascist-Racist-Somehow-He's-the-POTUS
bot by @…
This is a joke, not a threat: please don't extraordinarily rendition me to a black site.
#satire
lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
On Website Technicals (2025-08) - Tech updates: side quests, RSS badness... - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-99.html
lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
A 130,000-year-old archaeological site in southern California, USA
The Cerutti Mastodon site is, to our knowledge, the oldest in situ, well-documented archaeological site in North America and, as such, substantially revises the timing of arrival of Homo into the Americas.
https://www.…
qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…