2026-01-24 03:48:18
The 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
My #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.
Omg, patently wrong. To begin with, I am the one using the GTX 1650, and my video shows that it's working great even with DLSS, as opposed to the viewer with the AMD problem. And that parrotting nincompoop of an AI wants me to - what? - save time, give technical advice, make some small talk? What a big, smoking hot, pointless pile of b this technology turns out to be.
And I guess Google lets the same fucking stupid LM to determine how to recommend my video to other viewers? Great!<…
This 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:
Q&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…
Q&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…
Nearly missed it AGAIN! Happy #Saturnalia!
Back in 2018, I took the Maglev between Longyang Road and Pudong Airport. The route was so short that the train was only able to get to it's top speed for something like a minute before it had to start slowing down again. The new Chuo Shinkansen is supposed to go from Tokyo to Osaka and be faster than the Shanghai Maglev. I think that's really cool.
#Trains #Maglev #Japan
Bookmarked: Triiiceratops IIIF Viewer - Triiiceratops IIIF Viewer #IIIF A modern, lightweight IIIF viewer built with Svelte and OpenSeadragon. It is distributed a…
The UK's Channel 4 reports streaming minutes up 14% YoY in 2025 to 69B, with total individual audience up 2% YoY; the average viewer streamed 1,000 minutes (Advanced Television)
https://www.advanced-television.com/2025/12/22/channel-4-streaming-…
SplatBus: 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.
toXiv_bot_toot
'gitk' is a simple GUI git repo viewer; I mostly use it when trying to keep a view of the order of my commits as I'm trying to reorder or break them up, or trying to follow a change back to the commit which had the original version of the line I changed.
I find that on huge old repos adding --max-count=20000 keeps the RAM usage down.
https:/…
Smart TV manufacturer ordered to stop collecting viewer data while court case proceeds in Texas https://therecord.media/hisense-ordered-to-stop-data-collection-texas-lawsuit
NFL divisional round viewer's guide: Ranking biggest matchups as Bills' showdown with Broncos tops list
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-divisional-ro…
Thread viewer as a @leaflet.pub embed. Excellent.
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3mabu67zg3c2t
Nuke 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
OpenAI 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
Community 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.
This was from a veterinarians office, but
♫ to be fair ♪
this coulda been my old place of employment
#Shitpost #Shitposting
Two updates (so far) to old posts:
1. Todd Libby mentions `lang` impact on Braille displays: https://adrianroselli.com/2015/01/on-use-of-lang-attribute.html#Update10
2. Added Narrator’s Braille viewer to my Braille viewers post, with video (attached,…
@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
Auch die @… hat eine #OAI-Schnittstelle ... mal sehen, was darĂĽber so verfĂĽgbar ist. Eine Beschreibung konnte ich nicht finden. Hier der Endpunkt:
Okular is a great PDF - and a lot of other format - document viewer.
It's quite happy to deal with a few thousand page PDF file; and I just learnt it can also do images, and mark down (and others).
https://okular.kde.org/
@… Some old favorites come to mind:
- Plan (calender)
- Xpdf (older Motif-based versions)
- XnView (image viewer, distributed as binary IIRC)
- Xplore (file manager)
- Xmmix (audio mixer)
- Xmcd (CD player)
- Xmbase-grok (a really great “desktop” database)
I also see that I've got some Dtksh scripts here: <…
@… Some old favorites come to mind:
- Plan (calender)
- Xpdf (older Motif-based versions)
- XnView (image viewer, distributed as binary IIRC)
- Xplore (file manager)
- Xmmix (audio mixer)
- Xmcd (CD player)
- Xmbase-grok (a really great “desktop” database)
I also see that I've got some Dtksh scripts here: <…
Viewer's guide: Ranking NFL wild card matchups, including Packers-Bears Round 3, strong QB showdowns
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/viewers-guide-ranking-wild-c…
ViewSync 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.
How 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/
This video essay about the look of Sinners (which was shot on 70mm IMAX and Ultra Panavision) brought up something I hadn't realised until now: the large format gives you a wide field of view with the look of a telephoto lens! What that means is that you get shallow depth of field like in closeup shots with the framing of a wider angle lens.
Personal observation: there's also very little barrel lens distortion that usually comes with wide shots on 35mm.
How 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/
Day lily spotted in an upper Collegetown yard last august
#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling