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digg_votes: Digg story votes (2009)
A bipartite network between users and stories on digg.com from 2009. Each user node connects to all story nodes on which that user voted. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 142962 nodes and 3018197 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Multigraph, Timestamps
https://netwo…

A look at ByteDance's Doubao, which became China's most popular AI app in August, with over 157M MAUs, thanks in part to its deep integration with Douyin (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/bytedance-doubao-chatbot-popularity/

How ByteDance Made China’s Most Popular AI Chatbot
An AI chatbot developed by TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is now more popular than DeepSeek. The feat proves that user-friendly design often matters more than having the most advanced AI model.

My talk about #Thunderbird was accepted at @…
it's a talk from a community perspective and I will share my personal story (not so much) and some aspects you wont find anywhere else:

Thunderbird (a community angle) OpenAlt 2025
I am a [community](https://pontoon.mozilla.org/contributors/bogomil/) [contributor](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/user_profile?user_id=359734) and a long-time user of [Thunderbird](https://www.thunderbird.net/). I want to share with you my vision of what Thunderbird was, is, and will be in the future. Many people are familiar with the interface and the fact that it allows you to manage your email, but this is not why I decided to spend time improving it. I'll cover topics like: - What can any …

"Before we go into what is missing, let us take a moment to understand why this partial story is so popular. Many software engineers do not engage with the broad “software engineering literature” very much: through the act of reading this magazine you are placing yourself at the pinnacle of software engineering curiosity!"
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The Other Side Of The Card
If you ask many developers what a "user story" is, you will be told that it is a software requirement expressed using a prescribed formula: "As a category of person, I want to do a thing so that some goal is attained."

Source: OpenAI rolled back ChatGPT's model router, which sent some queries to reasoning models, for Free and $5/month Go tiers, as it was costly and hurt DAUs (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-router-relaunch-gpt-5-sam-altman/

OpenAI Rolls Back ChatGPT’s Model Router System for Most Users
As OpenAI scrambles to improve ChatGPT, it's ditching a feature in its free tier that contributed to last summer's user revolt.

digg_votes: Digg story votes (2009)
A bipartite network between users and stories on digg.com from 2009. Each user node connects to all story nodes on which that user voted. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 142962 nodes and 3018197 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Multigraph, Timestamps
https://netwo…

digg_votes: Digg story votes (2009)
A bipartite network between users and stories on digg.com from 2009. Each user node connects to all story nodes on which that user voted. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 142962 nodes and 3018197 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Multigraph, Timestamps
https://netwo…

By the way, in case you think this is just what "Normies" are into (people buying stuff from the online part of a brick-and-mortar business), I have run these numbers for the debian-user mailing list and they are very similar.
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115687393402468273<…

digg_votes: Digg story votes (2009)
A bipartite network between users and stories on digg.com from 2009. Each user node connects to all story nodes on which that user voted. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 142962 nodes and 3018197 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Multigraph, Timestamps
https://netwo…

Day 26: Emily Short
If you know who Short is, you know exactly why she's on this list. If you don't, you're probably in the majority. She's an absolutely legendary author within the interactive fiction (IF) community, which gets somewhat pigeonholed by stuff like Zork when there's actually a huge range of stuff in the medium some of which isn't even puzzle-focused, and Short has been writing & coding on the bleeding edge of things for decades.
I was lucky enough to be introduced to Short's work in graduate school, where we played "Galatea" as part of an interactive fiction class. Short uses a lot of clever parser tricks to make your conversation with a statue feel very fluid and conversational, giving to contemporary audiences a great example of how vibrant interaction with a well-designed agent can be in contrast to an LLM, if you're willing to put in some work on bespoke parsing & responses (although the user does need to know basic IF conventions). While I didn't explore the full range of Galatea's many possible outcomes, it left a strong impression on me as a vision for what IF could be besides dorky puzzles, and I think that "visionary" is a great term to describe Short.
If you'd like you get a feel for her (very early) work, you can play Galatea here: #30AuthorsNoMen

One does not simply use rootless … me with a rootless Podman walks into Mordor of CI and docker build anyway.
Just kidding! Rootless Podman containers, quadlets and systemd are truly amazing in 2025.
https://vyskocil.me/blog/ci-setup-which-never-worked/

Ci Setup Which Never Worked
In an earlier post about giving up Kubernetes, I wrote that my server is a plain old virtual machine pet. While this works pretty well for a static web server use case, I wanted to explore ways how to automate this blog. This is a story about how I failed. I am writing this because I did my best to make it work, but it turned out its impossible At the same time it has a some good hints about user systemd, quadlets, rootless podman and what I managed to get working.

Remember a few weeks ago I made a Facebook account with the intent of only using it for Marketplace because there are no good options around here for selling stuff.
I can happily report that zuck has not sucked me into his algorithm! But that doesn't mean I haven’t noticed his algorithm at work.
I happened to tap the 'home' button yesterday.
You know what it was?
Charlie Kirk
literally top to bottom.... every story and post was about him. Nothing close to my community. Nothing related to anything else.
Just Kirk.
holy ____ am I glad to be on Mastodon/Fediverse. And god we are so ____ as long as billions of people are exposed to that place.
And just to be clear... my only activity on there is through Marketplace. I don't have any friends, no groups, nothing else that I think would impact the algorithm. So as far as I know, I'm a virgin user to FB's algorithm. And that's what I got.
#CharlieKirk #Algorithm #Facebook #DumpZuck