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Interesting to see what assorted LLM tools think I am:
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116850588672790759
The first pic is one of 11 generally accurate abstracts on me. The second pic is my (not) favorite hallucination about me. Mistral thinks I’m an electron…

I have my own CLI parser - a fork of the old kingpin - and over time its evolved to have deep runtime introspection among other unique features.
Here using that to generate web based help viewers and I think this is a pretty sweet idea, will have to think how to incorporate this into my doc sites.
Short 2 minute video and screenshots
https://w…

Coming up at #ARVO2026, May 6: Comparing tactile and auditory sensory substitution on visual cortex recruitment in the early and late blind https://eppro02.ativ.me/web/pag…

Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and which offers web search tools for AI agents, raised a $100M Series B at a $2B valuation (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/cio-journ…

‼️ BlueSky-Bridging von @… beibehalten? ‼️
Seit > 2 Jahren bridge ich die Inhalte von Mastodon zu Bluesky mithilfe des Dienstes https://bsky.brid.gy.
Ich bin mir unsicher,…

Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

JavaScript addition using the new and upcoming Math.sumPrecise():
❌ 1 0.1 - 1 = 0.10000000000000009
✅ Math.sumPrecise([1,.1,-1]) = 0.1
❌ 1e20 0.1 - 1e20 = 0
✅ Math.sumPrecise([1e20,.1,-1e20]) = 0.1
❌ 0.1 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004
❌ Math.sumPrecise([.1,.2]) = 0.30000000000000004
Read more on MDN:

ChatGPT erhält neue Bild-KI, die mitdenkt und im Web recherchiert
OpenAIs neues Bildmodell „ChatGPT Images 2.0“ plant und strukturiert visuelle Aufgaben, nutzt die Websuche und erstellt auf Wunsch zusammenhängende Bildserien.

Mein Rabbit Hole der letzten Tage war ein kleines Layoutprojekt / Wühlen in meinem Blog. Texte aus den Jahren 2006 bis 2011 wieder zu lesen, ruft einiges an Erinnerungen wach - die Debatten um Web 2.0 und social media in der Politik, der sich abzeichnende Politikwechsel in Baden-Württemberg (und Stuttgart 21 ist immer noch nicht fertig gebaut), aber auch biografische Pfade, die ich nicht eingeschlagen habe.

Blog ins Buch, die Dritte, oder: biografische Wühlarbeiten
Eine gewisse Faszination für bedrucktes Papier kann ich nicht verhehlen. Weswegen ich auch in regelmäßigen Abständen auf die Idee komme, dass so ein Blog sich doch wunderbar eignen müsste, in Buchform gebracht zu werden. Also nicht, dass ich glaube, dass das außer mir irgendwen interessiert. Aber tr

Se ha anunciado la 2 Temporada de Atelier Of Witch Hat (Manga de Kamome Shirahama)
Web Oficial #AtelierOfWitchHat

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q2) – The Euclid Galactic Bulge Survey: https://eceb.astro.uni-bonn.de/public/coordinated_release/beaulieu_etal.pdf -> ESA’s Euclid captures the Milky Way’s crowded heart: https://www.euclid-ec.org/public/press-releases/euclid-quick-data-release-2/ and https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/ESA_s_Euclid_captures_the_Milky_Way_s_crowded_heart (also a video clip at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DtFRq1cgcc and at https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/euclid/q2-data-release all about Q2).

OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0 with new "thinking capabilities", allowing it to search the web to help it create multiple images from a single prompt (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/916166/openai-chatg…

OpenAI’s updated image generator can now pull information from the web
OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Images 2, the latest version of its AI-powered image generator, which comes with the ability to search the web to inform its output.

Public holiday today but only in NSW/ACT and WA. Although I'm in Canberra I still had a few commitments. Managed to squeeze in a coffee walk with husband between web work and a zoom meeting. Now to watch a couple more episodes of The Pitt season 2 before bed.
#SuburbanLife #Canberra

Quick strategy discussion, for those who understand Google indexing and SEO:
If I want to yank a web site out of Google’s now-fully-extractive search, should I (1) disallow googlebot in robots.txt or (2) add `<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">` to all the page headers?
The goal here is not just to remove my contributions to the commons from Google’s results, but to •make Google aware• that sites are pulling consent. What will best do that?
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Gefühl jedes Mal wenn ich ein Problem mit #Nextcloud habe, hatte es der @… einen Tick früher schon: ht…

Unable to update from 32.0.3.2 to 32.0.8
The Basics Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x): 33.0.3.2 Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04): Gentoo 2.18 Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25): 2.4.66 Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2) * PHP version (e.g, 8.3): 8.3.29 Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No): Yes When did this problem seem to first start? After restoring Nextcloud from Backup Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.) Bare Metal A…

from my link log —
Dorking: how to find anything on the web.
https://www.alec.fyi/dorking-how-to-find-anything-on-the-internet.html
saved 2020-08-11

Found: the 2009 announcement.
Official Google Blog: Relevance meets the real-time web
<https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/relevance-meets-real-time-web.html>
"… new partners that we're announcing today: Facebook, MySpace,…

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee?
Geen Kerncentrale in de Eemshaven!
https://actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/geen-kerncentrale-in-de-eemshav…

My web site (blog) has been around since 1997, and every now and then some company gets in touch and wants to have me add a link to their site or whatever and I always offer this:
Send me your product (to keep) and I will review it and write at least one blog post about it, with links to your site. There's a good chance I will write multiple blog posts about it, and each will link to your site.
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Added Steve’s “AI effluent never stops” at https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/04/23/ai-effluent-never-stops/ to my post “OpenAI, ARIA, and SEO: Making the Web Worse” at

Not my field at all, but a very interesting and potentially controversial one.
By sheer chance 2 contrasting podcasts on the "wood wide web" hypothesis crossed my @… this week...
Science Fictions: Episode 91: Entangled Life and the wood wide web
https://sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-91-entangled-life-and-the

The World, the Universe and Us: The Wood Wide Web: The Forest Discovery That Sparked a Backlash on @…
Media file: https://tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/mgln.ai/e/211/traffic.megaphone.fm/ARML1134826042.mp3?updated=1777040556

The North Dakota State University Press publishes books on the "plains of North America ... and comparable regions of other continents."
We* just held our Press Party, celebrating recent releases - check them out! Order from the web site
*I'm on the advisory board
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ndsupress.org/books/

I find myself in want of an affordable way of doing regular cybersecurity scans. Anyone have anything good or bad to say about https://barrion.io/?

Found this terrible picture of my computers circa 2000 (shot on a 640x480 Vivitar digicam). The janky-ass PC is a dual PPro Linux box. The other one is an SGI Indigo² Solid Impact.

One last example:
The first LLM code example that really made my eyes pop was early after the release of GPT, when somebody got it to combine Breakout with Conway’s Game of Life (a truly delightful idea). It worked!
Funny thing: the Breakout code and the Life code had a •completely• different style and flavor. Red flag. In about 15 minutes of web searching, I was able to find one of the projects (can’t remember if it was the Breakout or the Life half) which it had copied wholesale, with just a few variable renames. And the other half? It was in Python, but it used dictionaries where it really should have used objects — tons of `thing["prop"]` where it should have said `thing.prop`, and lots of other un-Pythonic stuff besides. It was a machine translate of code from another language, very likely Javascript.
The entire thing was a plagiarized Breakout and a plagiarized Game of Life, one transpiled, and all stuck together in a single run loop. To be fair, figuring out how to (1) run both halves of the logic from a single loop and (2) count the Life cells as Breakout bricks is work I'd cheer on from a second-semester intro CS student! It's not, however, quite what's being sold by these companies.
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Wo gibt's die geringsten Einkommen in D?
(Spoiler: Spritpreis spielt keine Rolle)
3 von 5 im Ruhrgebiet beim Ranking der niedrigsten realen Einkommen:
2. Gelsenkirchen
3. Duisburg
5. Herne
23.000€ und weniger pro Jahr.
Basis ist eine Datenauswertung des IW Köln zu regionalen Preisen in kreisfreien Städten, Kreisen sowie Stadt- und Landkreisen in Deutschland, die mit Einkommensdaten des Statistischen Bundesamtes verknüpft wurden (aus 2023).

In dieser Stadt leben die wohlhabendsten Deutschen
Wo sind die Menschen in Deutschland am wohlhabendsten? Will man dabei nicht nur wissen, wie viel die Menschen verdienen, sondern auch, was das Einkommen vor Ort wert ist, wird es kompliziert. Das Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW) Köln hat das nun berechnet - und kommt auf einen Sieger.

Heute habe ich einen 2. Versuch mit #Fontcrafter von @… gemacht. Diesmal ist das Ergebnis schon ziemlich gut! Nur das ß (Esszett) vermisse ich noch schmerzlich.
Und echte DE-Anführungszeichen („66/99“) wären mehr als ein netter Zusatz.
Trotzdem…

FontCrafter: Create Your Handwriting Font for Free
Turn your handwriting into an installable font — free, no account, no uploads. Works on every platform and the web. Print, write, scan, download.

Dogfooding was one of RDF’s biggest challenges prior to the arrival of LLMs as powerful general-purpose clients. Why? Because transforming and presenting RDF specifications in RDF form was difficult. Today, that problem is gone. Here’s an example of the new RDF 1.2 primer, deployed as a knowledge graph that uses Linked Data principles to manifest a Semantic Web.
#RDF

Anthropic appears to have removed access to Claude Code from its $20/month Pro plan; Anthropic says it is "running a small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups" (Ed Zitron/Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
https://www.wheresyoured.at/news-anthropic-removes-pro-cc/…

News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing)
Executive Summary:  * Anthropic appears to have removed access to Claude Code for its $20-a-month "Pro" Plans. * Current Pro users appear to still have access via the Claude web app. * Claude Code support documents exclusively refer to accessing Claude Code via "your Max Plan," after previously saying you could access "with

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Diplo: 7-14 June
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#ARVO2026 today, May 6, 2:30-2:45pm room 403 talk 4493 in Emerging technologies for low vision: Comparing tactile & auditory sensory substitution on visual cortex recruitment in the early and late blind https://

Dogfooding was one of RDF’s biggest challenges prior to the arrival of LLMs as powerful general-purpose clients. Why? Because transforming and presenting RDF specifications in RDF form was difficult. Today, that problem is gone. Here’s an example of the new RDF 1.2 primer, deployed as a knowledge graph that uses Linked Data principles to manifest a Semantic Web.
#RDF

Security firm Calif says it used OpenAI's Codex to discover HTTP/2 Bomb, a remote DoS exploit affecting web servers like Nginx, Apache HTTPD, and Microsoft IIS (The Hacker News)
https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/new-http2-bomb-vulnerability-allows.html…

New HTTP/2 Bomb Vulnerability Allows Remote DoS on NGINX, Apache, IIS, Envoy & Cloudflare
HTTP/2 Bomb exploits HPACK and flow control; a single client can hold 32GB memory in 20 seconds, causing server outages.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-USA: 31 May - 7 June
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Important post about the Semantic Web vision, history, and reincarnation in the age of AI.
I have a raw chat with Robert Scoble about the journey.
Links:
[1] https://youtu.be/4OQEXG5JukU?si=Y_xn5tuVv7f0vZm2 -- YouTube edition
[2]

Google has quietly shut down Project Mariner, its Chrome-browsing AI agent for completing tasks on users' behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025 (Max Zeff/@zeffmax)
https://x.com/zeffmax/status/2051824497242833234

Max Zeff (@ZeffMax) on X
NEW: Google quietly shut down Project Mariner yesterday, the web-browsing AI agent it highlighted onstage last year at Google IO. I reported for WIRED, nearly 2 months ago, that Google had moved staffers off the Project Mariner team as it responded to OpenClaw-style agents.

Important post about the Semantic Web vision, history, and reincarnation in the age of AI.
I have a raw chat with Robert Scoble about the journey.
Links:
[1] https://youtu.be/4OQEXG5JukU?si=Y_xn5tuVv7f0vZm2 -- YouTube edition
[2]

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-USA: 7 June - 14 June
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If you're looking for another thing to thank #LLM techbros for: #OpenAI is now acquiring #Cirrus Labs, and #CirrusCI is going to shut down in <2 months.
#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Devil: 31 May - 7 June
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Buddhism: 7 June - 14 June
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Interfaith: 31 May - 7 June
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JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Buddhism: 31 May - 7 June
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JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Buddhism: 31 May - 7 June
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