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📏 Text rendering and effects using GPU-computed distances
#graphics

Text rendering and effects using GPU-computed distances

Also new in #ThingUmbrella: The new https://thi.ng/text-format-image package provides conversion/formatting for bitmap output for CLI/Terminal apps, currently only via the widely supported iTerm2 format (se…

Metropolitana VII - Markings 💮
城 VII - 印记 💮
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Google sues the Chinese-speaking cybercriminal group known as Darcula, behind an alleged US text message phishing ring, in the US, seeking a restraining order (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/google-sues…

Google sues Chinese scam ring over E-ZPass, USPS phishing texts
Google is suing a Chinese-speaking cybercriminal group it says is responsible for a massive wave of scam text messages sent to Americans this year.

When you beat the later levels, Linux restarts the whole game over but in hard mode. Sure, I've installed MySQL on Debian before, but this time around there's extra challenges - like the GPG signature on <https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/checking-gpg-signature…

bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 13919 nodes and 746316 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Today, I am going to be removing a favorite user feature: picking your own font for the Xogot text editor and La Terminal as now you need Apple's approval to use third party fonts installed in the system.
But at least my users will be safe from picking a font in bad taste.

Hi, I'm Thomas. Back in 2005 or so I've practically invented in-browser animations with HTML elements.
PLEASE DO NOT ANIMATE USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS FOR NO REASON.
Do not animate icons, change positions of buttons, do "fun liquid glass animations"; definitely under no circumstances move in or fade in whole blocks of text (unless your design goal is that you want people looking at your website to become nauseous).
Only use animation when it's helpful to the user—for example, when they need to pay extra attention to something because there's a risk of data loss or to pass the time while showing that something is going on when there's a process which takes a bit longer.

Metropolitana VI - Asymmetry ✅
城 VI - 非对称 ✅
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Und es gibt sie doch, die "Deutschland GmbH"?!?
Zumindest wenn man das Logo davor ignoriert ;)

From Nuuk, Greenland:
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"Google is suing alleged members of one 'relentless' Chinese smishing group that it claims has tried to con people in more than 120 countries around the world."
https://www.wired.com/story/lighthouse-google-lawsuit-scam-text-messages/

This Is the Platform Google Claims Is Behind a 'Staggering’ Scam Text Operation
Google is suing 25 people it alleges are behind a “relentless” scam text operation that uses a phishing-as-a-service platform called Lighthouse.

Wer die Webseite der Stadt #Gera besuchen will, landet bei einem 404.
Immerhin besser als der Fehler 503 oder 504, der in den letzten Tagen kam.
Morgen laden wir in der 3XX-Range und übermorgen wieder bei 2XX. 😉
https://www.gera.de/

Scary Events (A Poem in Six Parts) by Brendan Reynolds
"The following poem was composed entirely using material found within Missing 411: Western U.S. and Canada by David Paulides and is dedicated to poet and cookbook author Ronald Johnson."
https://keep-planning.net/text/014

Just because the educational work of Anarcho-Syndicalists is directed toward the development of independent thought and action, they are outspoken opponents of all centralising tendencies which are so characteristic of most of the present labour parties.
Centralism, that artificial scheme which operates from the top towards the bottom and turns over the affairs of administration to a small minority, is always attended by barren official routine; it crushes individual conviction, kills …

WhatsApp führt Mitgliedslabels und Text-Sticker für Gruppenchats ein
WhatsApp erweitert seine Gruppenfunktionen um individuell anpassbare Mitgliedslabels, Text-Sticker und Erinnerungen für Events.
htt…

Es bräuchte ein maximales Text-zu-Emoji Ratio in Posts.

I love living in [automated voice] “San Francisco Bay” 😂

Lustig:
Das #Umweltministerium Baden-Württemberg haut aufn Sonntag eine Erkenntnis von vor einem Jahr raus und gibt allen ernstes die *PIEP*-Zeitung als Referenz an.
Hier das Original von #proveg:

Der Text verhält sich wie eine echte Sprache, will sich aber nicht wie eine solche übersetzen lassen

At an undetermined point in the future, the Commission intends to establish requirements that align uni- bidirectional charging capabilities with relevant grid codes and communication protocols, as is already required for charging infrastructure.
https://single-market-economy.ec.e…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#MetropolitanABookOrPlay

Of course.
In texts, D4 supe Alcaraz wrote of paying workers 'under the table' https://missionlocal.org/2025/11/alcaraz-text-message-under-the-table-taxes-animal-connection/

In text exchange, new D4 supe writes of paying workers ‘under the table,’ skimping on taxes
New texts raise more questions about Mayor Daniel Lurie’s vetting of newest supervisor, Beya Alcaraz

Uns ist heute so novembrig... Osloer Straße

Interesting 👀 https://social.zarchbox.fr/notes/agclhhyre66bnqz3
Extension from @… :

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Protect aviation safety in the NDAA!
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"This is a new reality that we are dreaming and weaving together."
This is either the last or second to last section of Kairos I'm writing. This is the most specific so far. After that it's editing and making it feel more like a single consistent text than a bunch of essays. I hope it's worth the read.
Feedback is always welcome, especially editing (typos, grammar, etc), and questions.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-creating-a-viable-system-91h5

Not sure about a new career but something fulfilling is what I hope to get.
#fortune #FortuneCookies #PandaExpress

Introducing Meta Segment Anything Model Audio (SAM Audio) https://ai.meta.com/samaudio/

SAM Audio
With SAM Audio, you can use simple text prompts to accurately separate any sound from any audio or audio-visual source.

Make sure your code follows a consitent style using the {lintr} package. #rstats

A Linter for R Code
Checks adherence to a given style, syntax errors and possible semantic issues. Supports on the fly checking of R code edited with RStudio IDE, Emacs, Vim, Sublime Text, Atom and Visual Studio Code.

Heute in einer firmeninternen Weisung gelesen:
"Aus Gründen der Lesbarkeit wurde im Text die männliche Form gewählt." 🙄
Nächster Satz: "Nichtsdestoweniger beziehen sich die Angaben auf Angehörige aller Geschlechter."
Progress, I guess 🤔

Urban Adventure II 🏞️
城市探险 II 🏞️
📷Nikon FE
🎞️Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

check it out — ten bucks at the used record store up the block! this wasn't there last week.
this is a 1974 EMUS reissue of the 1958 Roulette LP.
#nowplaying
ooh yeah it sounds great!!!!
#jazz #basie

No words needed

💔 Are Foundation Models Ready for Industrial Defect Recognition? A Reality Check on Real-World Data
#computing

Are Foundation Models Ready for Industrial Defect Recognition? A Reality Check on Real-World Data
Foundation Models (FMs) have shown impressive performance on various text and image processing tasks. They can generalize across domains and datasets in a zero-shot setting. This could make them suitable for automated quality inspection during series manufacturing, where various types of images are being evaluated for many different products. Replacing tedious labeling tasks with a simple text prompt to describe anomalies and utilizing the same models across many products would save significant…

Heute dann gegen 14:45 Uhr doch noch #rausgeschafft, sodass ich kurz vor Ladenschluß bei der Bike-Zone Baden war, um ein Velorücklicht mit gelben Seitenmarkern (ja, aus Amiland 🤓) zu kaufen, das ich eigentlich nicht brauche, dort aber deutlich günstiger war als sonstwo. Das war ein guter Motivator für eine #Radtour

I am trying out #Zed.
One of the first questions when starting up is what Base Keymap I'd prefer with the options: VS Code, JetBrains, Sublime Text, Atom, Emacs (beta), Cursor.
That's a very interesting target audience.

The Unfinished Work: Why Artists Demand Proof of Life
A playwriting teacher of mine once said something that has rattled around in my head for decades: "You can write a play, but it doesn't exist until it finds life in the first production." The Chair of our department disagreed with that assertion, and vehemently so. The script is the work, he argued. The text is complete in itself. The playwright's obligation ends when the final period strikes the page.

The Unfinished Work: Why Artists Demand Proof of Life | David Boles, Blogs
A playwriting teacher of mine once said something that has rattled around in my head for decades: “You can write a play, but it doesn’t exist until it finds life in the first production…

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).

Well, I had the dip switches set incorrectly and it was trying to test memory that didn't exist. Fixed that and the floppy drives seem to work as well...
I'm also impressed that the Dell System 200 DOS 3.3 Master disk (circa 1987) is still working.
#retrocomputing
#IBM5150

For today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent here's a tiny tool we have used in our pipeline: pyRenamer is a simple app to rename/renumber a bunch of files.
Unfortunately it's pretty much an abandoned fork of a Python 2 app that has been abandoned for even longer ago. It still works and for renumbering there's no easier solution at hand. But for file name search & replace …

Wer wie ich einmal ein Prime-Abo bei Amazon hatte und infolge einer Preiserhöhung per AGB-Änderung mehr zahlen muss, sollte sich vielleicht - sehr einfach - an der Sammelklage beteiligen. Außerdem gibt es ein Verfahren gegen Werbeeinblendungen, auch dazu bringt euch der Text der Verbraucherzentrale NRW weiter.

My colleagues just published a really nice analysis comparing the performance of (AI-enabled) Primo Research Assistant and traditional library search. TL;DR they pull up about the same proportion of relevant articles, without much overlap. Generated summary text still needs work. https://ital.corejournals.org/in…

View the whole picture to see my comment at the bottom
#ICE #charlotte #CharlottesWeb

Saw a clip of a preacher retelling an anecdote about a chess grandmaster being shown a painting of the devil having apparently defeated his opponent at chess for his soul. The grandmaster studied the painting and saw that there was still a path to avoid a checkmate. So the painting contained a secret inspirational message of hope!
Yet when people accurately model the game state from Die Schachspieler and feed it into chess analysis algorithms, Mephistopheles always wins

Game of Life - Board position and Paul Morphy - Chess Forums
There is an painting "Checkmate" that depicts Satan playing against a young man. The board position is supposed to appear hopeless but it is said that Paul Morphy when seeing the painting studied the picture, called for a chess board to be set up and some time after declared the young man has not yet...

Archival Poetics: Fragmentation, Organization, Multimodality Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/12/archival-poetics-fragmentation-organi…

Phanpy doesn't support quoots yet, so I'm using Mastodon's stock web interface and.. it's bad. Compare how busy it looks with unnecessary stuff (do I really need a "post" input form on screen at all times? Do I need a link to "favorites" visible at all times?), but also - the fonts are bad. Bad, bad, bad. Just so much harder to read. And the timeline toots just kind of run together, rather than being clearly delineated by whitespace in phanpy.

I wonder what graven image moses would have to say about me using the graven image chat app ("Text With Jesus")

Urban Adventure 🏞️
城市探险 🏞️
📷Nikon FE
🎞️Fuijfilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

The programme begins in about 5m over at UncertainFM!!!!

💬 #PlainText #Accounting with #hledger (FOSS for All presentation) | Plain Text Accounting forum

The text file that runs the internet
https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawlers-spiders

Frage: Mit welchem Dienst erzeugt man denn 2026 text to speech-Audios (60 Sekunden, deutsch, gerne als KI-Stimme erkennbar, ohne Werbeeinblendung, bezahlen okay)? Danke!

Great 'text on maps' work presented by Katie and Bert #FF2025
Katie posted: If you want to play around with our text on maps data viz interface the link is https://text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.worke

I think I now know where to draw the line between "good" and "bad" #GenAI, and possibly (or rather obviously) the same for #machineLearning. It's simply whether the input data has been constructed rigorously. Put this way it's the most obvious statement ever, but somehow

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 94 nodes and 424 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

In Today's programming woes consumer grade equipment being mediocre.
I wondered why my password manager didn't work with the input of the ISP router's login. Turns out it declares the `<input>` as `type=text` and changes it between `password` and `text` on focus. Also uses the `autofill=new-password` attribute wrong, should be `current-password`.

Phone is showing SOS only as part of the Verizon Wireless outage.
Can't sign into my account because their 2FA requires a text verification and they've no alternatives.
Text 2FA has always been dumb.

"Terrible things are happening outside.
Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.
Families are torn apart.
Men, women, and children are separated.
Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."
- Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#BooksOrShowsAboutFeet

Moody Urbanity - Odes II 🎶
情绪化城市 - 颂 II🎶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Übrigens:
Der #BND schaltet seit Tagen Unmengen an #Jobanzeigen auf #Instagram. Also wird immer wieder ausgespielt.
Die suchen auch

Google announces MedGemma 1.5 with improved medical imaging support, and MedASR for medical dictation, both available on Hugging Face and Vertex AI (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/next-generatio…

Next generation medical image interpretation with MedGemma 1.5 and medical speech to text with MedASR

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Remove Aviation Safety Rollbacks from the NDAA
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This new #OCR feature in #KDE is fantastic! 🎉 Sadly it's only for Spectacle for now but having OCR as a library is on the road map and I hope it gets added to Gwenview next. The built-in OCR in macOS Preview is so useful that I wondered why KDE still doesn't have it natively yet.

🤦 Ain’t no way they actually posted this mess. 🤦
#USPol

I guess we should probably add #Clankerslop and #FurryPorn to Cypher's list
#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

For #TextModeTuesday, some fonts from my old demoscene days, recreated in 2022 for an example project of my opensource libraries:
Figlet style text generator using big fonts:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/big-font/

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 536 nodes and 3600 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwei…

Wer wie ich einmal ein Prime-Abo bei Amazon hatte und infolge einer Preiserhöhung per AGB-Änderung mehr zahlen muss, sollte sich vielleicht - sehr einfach - an der Sammelklage beteiligen. Außerdem gibt es ein Verfahren gegen Werbeeinblendungen, auch dazu bringt euch der Text der Verbraucherzentrale NRW weiter.

Today is our third anniversary on Mastodon and the Fediverse for our daily 9PM #HashTagGames.
This past year, #Fediverse players have played over 100,000 game plays.
Including the special games that popup, we have shared over 1100 unique hashtag games since November 16, 2022.

The BBC charter green paper does at least acknowledge the licence fee's elephant in the room - we're potentially, maybe, ten to fifteen years away from switching off terrestrial TV broadcast towers.

Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation

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Save medical massage therapy program for veterans
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my university friend group's Secret Santa got delayed until today, but that only made the gift I got hit harder

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 800 nodes and 6429 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwei…

Store Norske Leksikon skrev at Norsk Syndikalistisk Forbund ble opplŸst i 1973, men heldigvis er de fortsatt her i dag, takk og pris for det, og for at jeg kunne opplyse dem om det!
NSF-IAA på Store Norske Leksikon:
https://snl.no/Norsk_Syndikalistisk_F%C3�derasjon

I occasionally stop by Reddit for a couple of chuckles. As per usual - the magic is always in the comments
#ShamelesslyStolenFromReddit #shitpost #shitposting

China is upset that Australia accused it of spying.
Beijing launches unusually personal attacks at ‘irresponsible’ ASIO boss Mike Burgess over new China speech

Beijing launches unusually personal attacks at ‘irresponsible’ ASIO boss Mike Burgess over new China speech
Beijing has accused Australia’s domestic spy boss of ‘spreading disinformation’ and ‘sowing division and confrontation’ after he again warned against Chinese hackers.

Time For Christmas o'clock #HashtagGames hosted by @….
#PetsHolidaySongs

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Congress Must Act Before the Insurrection Act Is Abused
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OpenAI quietly rolls out ChatGPT Translate, a standalone website that currently supports plain text translations across 50 languages (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/chatgpt-translate-3632584/

ChatGPT Translate is here to take on Google Translate, but the battle is just beginning
OpenAI has quietly launched ChatGPT Translate, a Google Translate competitor with AI smarts to personalize translations.

Metropolitana VI - Up Above and Down Under ⬆️⬇️
城 VI - 上面和下面 ⬆️⬇️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Time For Christmas o'clock #HashtagGames hosted by @….
#GiftsForNarcissists

bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 67963 nodes and 3710420 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://…

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Stop Billionaire Media Monopolies and Authoritarian Media Capture
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Urban Adventure 🏞️
城市探险 🏞️
📷Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️Ilford HP5, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#HouseGuestASongOrPoem

How David Sacks and AI adviser Sriram Krishnan overcame the opposition to Trump's AI EO, reaching out to lawmakers and finally modifying the text of the order (Washington Post)

How Trump’s tech advisers overcame a MAGA rebellion over AI
President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting states’ power to regulate AI split his supporters and highlighted Silicon Valley’s growing influence over his agenda.

Gloom & Bloom III ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 III ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

https://resist.bot/petitions/PPHIPO

Fully Fund USGS Bird Banding Lab and Breeding Bird Survey Programs
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Congress Must Defend Pipeline Safety Transparency and Ethics Oversight
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Metropolitana V 🍎
城 V 🍎
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Gloom & Bloom II ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 II ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Urban Compo 🧶
城市规则化
📷Nikon FE
🎞️ FujiFilm Neopan SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Moody Urbanity - Relations VI 🧬
情绪化城市 - 关系 VI 🧬
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Metropolitana IV 🏯
城 IV 🏯
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Gloom & Bloom ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Moody Urbanity - Relations IV 🧶
情绪化城市 - 关系 IV 🧶
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ Shanghai GP3 400 Pan
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite