Finally an RGB image of comet #3IATLAS from images taken by #GeminiNorth during the 26 November #shadowTheScientists session: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2532/ - the coma has become bluer due to more gas emission. Also published today: an X-ray image by XMM-Newton at https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/12/XMM-Newton_sees_comet_3I_ATLAS_in_X-ray_light with explanations in http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005646.txt which also contains more 3I news.
Meanwhile the paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae2915 claims an upper limit for 3I's nucleus diameter of only some 750 meters from the measured non-gravitational acceleration (NGA) parameters: that would be waaay more stringent than the 5.6 km upper limit from early Hubble observations reported in https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf8d8 (where also a lower limit of 440 meters is stated).
»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.
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This robots.txt by Bernd Wunsch is lovely. https://www.wunsch.dk/robots.txt
Imagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs
@… two precautions that may help, in lossy situations:
pkg prime-origins | sort -u > /var/tmp/pkg-prime-origins.txt
/usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/411.pkg-backup
If – following an issue – you predict the need to revert to the backup, you can:
service cron stop
@… The most obvious candidates would be BZip2 (Method 12) or XZ (Method 95). BZip2 is pretty widespread, well supported by a range of tools and was first introduced into the Zip APPNOTE.TXT (the official Specification) in 2001. Despite being around for almost 25 years in the spec, MS be like 🤷. Indeed for a long time Apple did not even support Deflate…
There is an ActivityPub proposal that involves the #DNS.
I have only just discovered it and have not considered it deeply so I am reluctant to make any grand statements. It is not obvious to me why this is useful or better than alternative approaches. It appears to involve the use of TXT RRs, any new de facto use of which makes me skeptical.
If you ever wondered what people thought about live coding 21 years ago you can read the livecode mailing list archive here: https://slab.org/tmp/livecode.txt
There was more moaning about AI hype in 2004 than I remember..
robots.txt (but really /dev/zero)
The release of #Linux 6.17[1] brought a few hours of calmness to the #kernel vanilla repos for #Fedora[2], as that means they just ship three different versions[3]. 😊
Soon the craziness will…
catherine writes error messages
existence of challenge implies possibility of defeat
El intercambio de correos en el que se explica cómo nació el formato de codificación UTF-8 de la mano de sus creadores #utf8
»Immer weniger echte Nutzer — Studie zeigt massiven Anstieg von Bot-Traffic im Web:
Menschliche Website-Besucher:innen werden zur Mangelware: Eine neue Analyse zeigt, wie Google, ChatGPT und Co. mit ihren Bots die Spielregeln im Netz verändern - und warum Publisher Alarm schlagen.«
Bots gibt es schon seit den Internet-Anfängen und auch die missachten bewusst die robots.txt Anweisungen.
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Refreshing to see a Twitter spam account straight up tell you what it is
Any reading recommendations for a small collective looking to move from google dependency to self-hosting?
We're collecting some resources here:
https://doc.patternclub.org/s/QCwRlvO1A#
Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments
Alejandro Hern\'andez-Cano, Alexander H\"agele, Allen Hao Huang, Angelika Romanou, Antoni-Joan Solergibert, Barna Pasztor, Bettina Messmer, Dhia Garbaya, Eduard Frank \v{D}urech, Ido Hakimi, Juan Garc\'ia Giraldo, Mete Ismayilzada, Negar Foroutan, Skander Moalla, Tiancheng Chen, Vinko Sabol\v{c}ec, Yixuan Xu, Michael Aerni, Badr AlKhamissi, Ines Altemir Marinas, Mohammad Hossein Amani, Matin An…
With a FreeBSD pkg repository configuration file set to use quarterly for the one and only repo:
― why is latest (not quarterly) used for bootstrapping?
https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/1a36d21e9c6d3bc363cee7ecfe779595#file-2…
SLEAN: Simple Lightweight Ensemble Analysis Network for Multi-Provider LLM Coordination: Design, Implementation, and Vibe Coding Bug Investigation Case Study
Matheus J. T. Vargas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10010
*AI* crawlers ignoring *robots*.txt file. The irony. 🤦♂️
#AI #technology #conventions #web
#WritersCoffeeClub
19. How do you keep track of dates and events in a WIP?
20. What rôle does death (or undeath!) play in your work?
21. What is your take on the adverb debate?
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19. Any WIP that needs dates and events is probably already big enough to void memorization.
I went all the way from stickies to txt files to wikis to, eventually, Campfire. I love m…
Later, after I keyed n (to not continue), installation did continue.
This is partly understandable, because the y/n prompt was in response to a command that used
-y
Not really a bug, just slightly surprising.
https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/1…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
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