@hikingdude@mastodon.socialJust a little one and a half hour walk nearby before it was supposed to be raining (and rugby starts).
It was a nice walk and good to be out. Strangely, my old GPS device refused to get a location despite having lots of satellites. Just 10min before coming back (after a couple of restarts and taking the batteries out and back in) it worked.
Fortunately, I only had it with me to test if my heart rate monitor also connects to it.
@cjust@infosec.exchangeHere.
Have a little timeline cleanse.
As a treat.
#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore
@ncoca@social.coop
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialOpenAI poliert die KI-Recherche: Deep Research in ChatGPT läuft jetzt auf GPT-5.2, liefert Vollbild-Reports mit Inhaltsverzeichnis & Quellen und lässt gezielt Websites priorisieren. Mehr Kontrolle statt „Wischi-waschi“ – aber kein Freibrief für unkritische KI-Outputs. #DeepResearch #KI
@markhburton@mstdn.socialCommunity Planning Alliance
Grey Belt Tracker
68,000 'grey belt' houses shown.
Of which 65% are at planning application, 14% at appeal and 17% in local plan review.
Sites are listed as mostly arable, meadow, pasture & paddock (plus 14 entries that are flood plain). Not a disused petrol station or car park in sight.
The three worst affected Green Belts are Metropolitan, North West and West Midlands.
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeThe PlayStation Can Produce Mind-Boggling Effects :wow_miku:
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgI realize I may not be the average viewer but shows and movies that show tiny text for text messages (like expecting us to read off a phone someone is holding, that is usually not shown in close up) are frustrating.
This issue has been solved well. Just show a large text graphic with the text. That works well, looks good and is readable. Without the solutions I am not sure I would have thought of it (after the fact is seems obvious), but after it has been solved, use the good idea.
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.deBullshitBench: Models Answering Nonsense Questions.
This benchmark measures whether models detect broken premises, call out the nonsense directly, and avoid confidently continuing with invalid assumptions:
https://petergpt.github.io/bullshit-benchmark/viewer/index.html
@nelson@tech.lgbtHome from our lovely trip. Here's a collection of my postcard posts in a nice web viewer.
I'm thinking of turning this Mastodon − web page script I use into a product others can use too. I really like the result.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itTwig literally pulled out the packing paper so that he had space to sit inside the box. Which is still full of the items that we ordered, btw. #CatsOfMastodon
@cjust@infosec.exchangeThis was from a veterinarians office, but
♫ to be fair ♪
this coulda been my old place of employment
#Shitpost #Shitposting
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeAnd disappear from this realm?
Yes please :3
@awinkler@openbiblio.socialAuch die @… hat eine #OAI-Schnittstelle ... mal sehen, was darüber so verfügbar ist. Eine Beschreibung konnte ich nicht finden. Hier der Endpunkt:
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… my mouth fell open a few seconds after playback began. Still open maybe fifteen minutes after playback ended. If someone was to film me now, a viewer might argue that I'm AI because whilst my eyes blink, my mouth does not.
Thanks for that. I'll send you the hospital bill for rehydration and removal of flies.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHow to watch NFL Honors: MVP headlines 2025 season's player, coach awards set to be announced
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-to-watch-nfl-honors-2025-season/
@davej@dice.campStolen to add #AltText. https://mstdn.social/@GeriAQuin/116342964615241291
@Toots5958@mastodon.socialViewSync for Miku LIVE! Halloween Party: https://viewsync.net/watch?v=UFB-d1_bYEs&t=0&v=Fgibj1ag_uo&t=1815.4
Sharing it here because not sure where I should share it. Took a while to sync the visuals.
@adulau@infosec.exchangeThe Open Contributions Descriptor (OCD) is an open, machine-readable JSON format that allows an organization to publish a structured description of its participation in the open ecosystem.
It's still a bit in flux but the goal of OCD is to make organizational openness discoverable, interoperable, and automatable.
#opensource
@cjust@infosec.exchange
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on Netflix's stock roller coaster, viewer engagement, ads, the WBD acquisition, regulation, competition, Hollywood, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/an-intervi…
@Demirramon@cyberfurz.socialTrying to remake my PNGtuber thingy and getting used to Krita in the process (for real this time) :neofox_owo:
#WIP #WorkInProgress #WorkInProgressArt
@catsalad@infosec.exchange“How does she keep getting in the building?!”
🎨by pizzacakecomic
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialQ&A with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on Netflix's stock roller coaster, viewer engagement, ads, the WBD acquisition, regulation, competition, Hollywood, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/an-intervi…
@boris@cosocial.ca@case.bsky.social is Waiting for the Future to Load!
Which also happens to be a mini test of the @leaflet.pub thread viewer.
https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/3majxlbcqcs2z
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaThis is so cool. Color-cycled animation by Steffest and how it is made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyB5cvA6f78 - or if you prefer: An online viewer of the animation:
@timjan@social.linux.pizzaQuestion for allegro experts:
If I have
1. an Orcad Capture schematic, which at some point, _presumably_ was translated to
2. a schematic in a different format, which I would have assumed would have had to have been edited into
3. an updated schematic, which was used to create
4. a layout in format X (which I do have access to, but only through a viewer, not as an editor), which was subsequently algorithmically translated into
5. an Allegro layout,
@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza @NFL@darktundra.xyzHow to watch NFL Honors: MVP headlines 2025 season's player, coach awards set to be announced
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-to-watch-nfl-honors-2025-season/
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeTired but your housemate is in the way? No problem!
Just use them as a pillow.
@compfu@mograph.socialNuke bug of the day: Nuke's color pipeline breaks with completely nonsensical errors whenever you add the keyword "default_view_transform:" to your OCIO configuration. That's really weird because it doesn't really do anything color-related except define which value the viewer should be set to initially.
#Nuke
@cjust@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchangeFluffer Overflow
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialMy #silentsunday... Do you know that? You're lazy but you also know that you want some physical activity?
The weather wasn't motivating either. But I finally did one of my standard loops. It was indeed silent as there were almost no people out today.
No more than an occasional "hi". Besides that, no talking, nothing but a fox 🦊 in the distance on a field.
@arXiv_csGR_bot@mastoxiv.pageSplatBus: A Gaussian Splatting Viewer Framework via GPU Interprocess Communication
Yinghan Xu, Th\'eo Morales, John Dingliana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15431 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.15431 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.15431
arXiv:2601.15431v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Radiance field-based rendering methods have attracted significant interest from the computer vision and computer graphics communities. They enable high-fidelity rendering with complex real-world lighting effects, but at the cost of high rendering time. 3D Gaussian Splatting solves this issue with a rasterisation-based approach for real-time rendering, enabling applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, virtual reality, and extended reality. However, current 3DGS implementations are difficult to integrate into traditional mesh-based rendering pipelines, which is a common use case for interactive applications and artistic exploration. To address this limitation, this software solution uses Nvidia's interprocess communication (IPC) APIs to easily integrate into implementations and allow the results to be viewed in external clients such as Unity, Blender, Unreal Engine, and OpenGL viewers. The code is available at https://github.com/RockyXu66/splatbus.
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@catsalad@infosec.exchangeLet me shniff shnoff you real quick
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialIn the interests of starting a more productive dialogue than yesterday's main character was interested in, let's make a #brainstorm thread about design changes to ActivityPub and/or client UI that could actually help address drive-by (often racist) harassment on the fediverse.
Feel free to discuss pros/cons but don't feel an idea needs to be perfect to suggest it. Also since this is a brainstorm don't worry about complexity/implementation cost. If you have a great-but-hard-to-implement idea someone else may think of a way to simplify it.
Note that the underlying problem *is* a social one, do there won't be a technological fix! But tech changes can make social remedies easier/harder.
I've got some to start:
1. Have a "protected mode" that users can voluntarily turn on. Some servers might turn it on by default. In protected mode, users whose accounts are less than D days old and/or who have fewer than F followers can't reply to or DM you. F and D could have different values for same-sever vs. different-server accounts, and could be customized by each user. Obviously a dedicated harasser can get around this, but it ups the activation energy for block evasion and pile-ons a bit. Would be interesting to review moderation records to estimate how helpful this might or might not be. Could also have a setting to require "follows-from-my-server" although that might be too limiting on private servers. Restriction would be turned off for people you mention within that thread and could be set to unlimit anyone you've ever mentioned. Would this lock new users out of engagement entirely? If everyone had it on via a default, you'd have you post your own stuff until someone followed you (assuming F=1). One could add "R non-moderated replies" and/or "F favorites" options to soften things; those experiencing more harassment could set higher limits. When muting/blocking/reporting someone who replied to your post, protected mode could be suggested with settings that would have filtered the post you're reporting.
2. Enable some form of public moderation info to be displayed when both moderator and local server opt-in. Obviously each server would be able to ignore federated public tags. I'm imagining "banned from X server for R reason (optional link to evidence)" appearing on someone's profile & an icon on their PFP in each post viewed by someone on server Y *if* the mods of server X decide it's appropriate *and* server Y opts in to displaying such tags from server X specifically. Alliances of servers with similar moderation preferences could then have moderation action on one server result in clear warning propagation to others without the other mods needing to decide whether to also take action immediately. In some cases different moderation preferences would mean you wouldn't take action yourself but would keep the notice up for your users to consider. Obviously the "Scarlet Letter" vibe ain't great, but in some cases it's deserved, and when there's disagreement between servers about that, mods on server Y could either disable a specific tag or disable federation of mod tags from that server in general. Even better shared moderation tools are of course possible.
3. Different people/groups have different norms around boosting. Currently we only have a locked/public binary. Without any big protocol changes, adding a "prefers boosts/doesn't" setting which would warn in the UI before a viewer chooses to boost if the preference is "doesn't" could help. This could be set per-post, but could also have defaults and could have different values for same-server or not, or for particular servers. For example, I could say "default to prefer boosts from users on my server but not from users on other servers" or "default to prefer boosting on all servers except mastodon.social." Last option might be harder to implement I guess.
#ActivityPub #Meta #Harassment
@cjust@infosec.exchangeYou're gonna punch me?"
"Yeah"
"Then you're gonna in trouble for that”
"Okay"
#OkayPunch #Shitpost #Shitposting
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeMeow
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng @cjust@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchangePirate cat guarding their booty
@cjust@infosec.exchange
