Re last boost: It should not be possible for posts to make you feel sick and, before 2025, I didn't think it was, but it is, and that post was the latest in a growing line to do so for me.
“Key figures in Nigel Farage’s party are demanding a UK version of Trump’s immigration enforcement agency, in the wake of the killings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good”
Interestingly Palantir's booming revenue & profits are being driven primarily by US business... the CEO Alex Karp told investors that there is a 'real reticence' among European countries to adopt their technology (except in the UK?) & often countries were keen to develop their own versions of Palantir's tools.
A low-key recognition that Palantir's connections with the Far Right in the USA are not doing so much for their European business?
Israel has entered a new phase of territorial expansion and military aggression beyond historic Palestine. This is not due to a shift in strategic goals, but rather because the constraints that kept it confined before October 2023 have loosened.
Israel has entered a new phase of expansion and military aggression beyond historic Palestine. This is not due to a strategic shift, but rather because the constraints that kept it confined before October 2023 are now too weak to hold it back.
Judge blocks Trump administration’s stripping of Haitians’ protected status | US immigration | The Guardian theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f…
'Reyes said in an accompanying 83-page opinion that plaintiffs were likely to prevail on the merits of the case and that she found it “substantially likely” that Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants”.'
"While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning."
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …
Let's learn and grow. New things are cool!Links 'n' stuff down below. Lots of links.First, the "clean version." Please pass that around.https://youtu.be/Zgxb...
I found this funny enough to shair, so here it is. As some of you might know, I have the weather announced a few minutes after the top of the hour. this weather is genorated by I believe Gemini, and I have it set to be rather sarcastic, and I told it that it is for an adult radio station, so swairing is aloud. Well here is what it came up with for the 4:00 hour this morning. This is what the listeners got to hear.
How AI is actually changing our day-to-day work (vs. the hype).
Engineering practices that are working for us (and ones that aren't).
Product engineering and…
Anyone needs a European Sleeper night train ticket from Brussels to Berlin for tomorrow Wednesday the 4th of February? I cannot take the train, I can't cancel the ticket but it's transferable.
"European Sleeper Night Train" sounds like something you'd put into the USA for it to behave as if it was a huge pick-up truck. Then, when the time has come, you send them the activation message and the train will immediately start infiltrating american highways and replacing them with rails.
And now I ask myself if I should perhaps reduce the cannabis intake just a tiny bit.
Something something tells me there's this rule on fedi: new account, new #introduction post. So here it is.
I'm Mimi/小秋 (You can call me anything you like, really.) Physicist by day (and night in practice), doing research on some of the most useless and abstract topics. #danmei writer by night, rotten to the core for nearly 30 years.
What's up with this funny display name, you ask? It's a play on an exercise problem ("is Tolkien's middle earth flat"), which I came across in a textbook on general relativity. And Reverse London is from the Bleach franchise.
I'm here mostly to relax, talk about my mundane life, generate highly unpopular opinions about things I read/watch/listen to, and emoji react to cute, funny, and silly stuffs that show up on my timeline.
Follow requests and #boosts are both welcome, although I do prefer to have a bit of vibe checking.
I have this still unspecific idea in my head about somehow applying a coordinate system on the ULB campus and #FOSDEM maps (or something) to help us deal with "let's meet at..." problems once and for all.
@kytta @Tenzer In addition to what3words you would at least also need the floor level when inside a building. Also GNSS do not work that well inside buildings for navigation. Something like "in front of room X" usually works way better than coordinates.
@raimue @kytta @Tenzer several rooms have multiple doors and there are many hundred persons. "outside a room" is not very precise. You need to find a small enough room for that to work decently fine. Which is somewhat hard and annoying, especially if you are a newbie and aren't quite aware of this.
If you have any feedback about #fosdem please do send it our way using feedback@fosdem.org
The more feedback we have (can def be positive as well obv) the better we can make the next edition!
Please :boost_ok:
@ShinIce @mmu_man @RichiH I would not mind some added internal details; for example to help us mark a place within Chez Theo. Just take it as a wishlist. I appreciate the existence and functionality already.
I support Matt Dinniman, author of the dungeon Crawler Carl books. I'm super conflicted. The author drops chapters for patreon supporters to read on the regular. For this book and the previous one, I read some chapters to get a bead on what the story will be about, and then I figure “ well crap, I should wait for audio because the audiobooks are truly amazing in there own right”. I also get confused as with most serials, before publication, there's a ton of edits and rework. Am I the only one that supports authors sometimes but you don't read the prepublished chapters?
Yes, I read all author Patrion or Royal Road chapters the second they drop. (0%, 0 votes)
Yes, I read chapters as they drop because an alternate form doesn't do it for me. Author support is a plus.K (0%, 0 votes)
No, i am just a supporter, I like the finished product or an alternate form like a human narrated audiobook. (100%, 1 vote)
Neither, i sometimes read chapters as they drop and then re-read the book, but sometimes I wait (0%, 0 votes)
DCC I read up to chapter 15 of book 8 I think? And then I decided to just wait for the audio to drop. The only things I read on Patreon immediately are TWI and HWFWM.
So I'm checking out moltbook right now because I wanted to see how bad it actually is, let's say it like this, I'm disturbed. I guess I'd find it funny if it was a joke, but like, what the actual fuck this is serious.
(Etwas später fliehen die Stare wieder aus ihren Bäumen, Krähen beobachten den rauschenden Schwarm, nebenan wird eine Kiste mit Spielzeug ausgekippt und dem inneren Auge bietet sich ein Berg von Bausteinen und Kunststofftieren, der klappernd in die Breite rutscht. Ein Newsletter unterbreitet Textpassagen von Stimmen, deren Gedanken man zu lange nicht mehr gelesen hat, über die eigene Kanälen währenddessen fällt es schwer, jene wiederzufinden, deren Namen man kennt, in den Radionachrichten sinniert eine Expertenstimme, dass AI alles disrupted, und die eigenen Überlegungen dazu spielen keine große Rolle, aber vielleicht haben Menschen, die englische Verben im Deutschen konjugieren, an gewissen Stellen einfach die Kontrolle verloren...)
ja, solche Gedanken kommen mir auch manchmal, wenn ich Radiomenschen zuhöre. Da frage ich mich oft, ob denen die Worte nur so aus dem Kopf fallen und ob sie über das was sie sagen, auch mal Nachdenken und ob das für sie selber auch eine Auswirkung hat. In den meisten Fällen denke ich: nein 🥴 Morjen ☕
Moin Ihr Beiden. Ich hab eigentlich Radio nur zur Berieselung am Morgen in der Küche laufen, und dafür geht es ... einigermaßen. Aber auch nicht immer.🙈☕☕ @Sigrun ☕️🏳️🌈🚲📚🐕🧡 By the way @crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts Deine Antwort wird mir hier auf meiner Instanz nicht angezeigt, ist das so gewollt?🙈
ich glaube, diesmal ist unsere Instanz schuld. Eigentlich sollte die ein Upgrade wegen all der Probleme bekommen, nur hat sich da das "Föderationsproblem" zusätzlich aufgetan, wenn man die Software wechselt und dann den die selbe URL behalten will.
Das wird hoffentlich bald Geschichte sein und unsere Instanz wieder rennen
"The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ushered in an era of American global supremacy. But the triumph of this U.S.-led so-called liberal international order also required that the achievements of an earlier, more internationalist order centered explicitly on the United Nations be quietly slipped down the memory hole. As the U.N. was increasingly retooled by the United States and other Western countries as a technocratic mechanism for managing faraway civil wars, largely through humanitarian aid and peacekeeping operations, its previous role as a mediator between states withered from view. What emerged was an institution deeply enmeshed in the U.S.-led order but peripheral to the strategic thinking of policy elites in capitals everywhere.
War and instability are once again on the rise, as is the risk of nuclear confrontation. We’ve suffered periods of intensified conflict and great-power rivalry many times since 1945. But for the first time since the Second World War, we are confronting these crises amid the near-complete erosion of the U.N. norms, institutions, and practices that, however imperfectly, constrained escalation and identified pathways to negotiated resolution. Only reinvestment in a radically remade U.N. — not Mr. Trump’s Board of Peace, whatever its ultimate remit — can fill that void.
Peace cannot be improvised. It needs to be designed, carefully and deliberately."
"Late last month, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, finalized a deal to spin off the platform’s US operations into a new, majority US-owned company.
Within 48 hours of the takeover, users began to experience problems. Many top creators saw their reach plummet and reported that their videos related to controversial topics like criticizing ICE and advocating for Palestine were being throttled by the algorithm. Some US users could not type the word “Epstein” in direct messages. Bisan Owda, an award-winning Gaza-based journalist, reported that her account was banned, prompting outcry.
TikTok said most of these issues were attributable to a data center power outage, and that the Epstein problem was a technical glitch. The company also said that Owda’s account was flagged due to an impersonation issue from last September, which has since been resolved. The account is back up.
Amidst this chaos, however, a clip of Adam Presser, TikTok US’s new CEO, speaking at an event organized by the World Jewish Congress last year, began to spread. He spoke about the platform’s moderation policies, saying, “We made a change to designate the use of the term ‘Zionist’ as a proxy for a protected attribute as hate speech. So if somebody were to use ‘Zionist,’ of course, you can use it in that sense, you’re a proud Zionist, but if you’re using it in a context degrading someone, calling somebody a Zionist as a dirty name, then that gets designated as hate speech to be moderated against.”"
Este invierno se me está haciendo interminable (y no, yo no soy pro-frío, a mi me gusta el calor). Como me gustaría vivir en Singapur o Indonesia o por ahí.
Hacked away at Soundkeys some more. Ripped out UIA entirely with mixed results. Now checkboxes are reporting properly when tabbing through them, but the very first one still isn't auto-reporting its initial state change, but if I Tab away then Shift+Tab back, it will report its state change when I hit Space every time. The Bindings list is still very broken, even more than it was already! Now it's just saying "Column header title" or something close to that. WX is so annoying! I'm also using Python 3.7, probably should update to at least 3.9? I'm really just about ready to scrap this entirely and continue with the project that's working much better, then switch to trying to fix BlackHole's crappy Balatro Settings Screen support!
@FreakyFwoof It's an App that in its current form allows you to bind a sound file to a key combination. The core functionallity is working but these dumb Accessibility issues are quite a sticking point and just one of the reasons why I haven't released it yet. It needs proper settings and I also want to add a couple other features which would have already been done if I wasn't stubbernly fighting with the Screen Reader things.
@FreakyFwoof Oh the vibe way, never had any interest in writing code, but I can be very detailed about how I want something to work, although these kinds of issues do highlight the shortcomings of the Vibing out way. Hehheh.
My partner is reviving his interest in and study of amature radio. This means brushing up on Morse Code. I've always been intrigued by the idea of learning it, so I'm bobbing along in his wake. I now know 13 letters, and can distinguish them at 3 in a row. It's weirdly addictive. Other than being able to communicate with him covertly at parties I don't know where I'd ever actually use it but it's just so cool. It's like learning binary convertion, once I started I couldn't stop. I'm not fast but I can do them. I think a braille reader and a musician has an advantage out the gate learning Morse code; learning it is just satisfying something in my brain.
I learned it when I was a kid (7/8 years old) and now I find myself thinking in it. When I am particularly stressed (I've been a lot lately), I internally run through the alphabet as many times in a row as I can, as fast as I can without screwing up.
I haven't actually used it practically in more than a quarter century, but hey...
@BorrisInABox Wow! That's really interesting to me. I expected that learning would mean running through the alphabet from beginning to end, but the method is more like learning letter groups and practicing them by listening. I thought I'd want to feel them under my fingers in a braille table, but why?
Random thought that crossed my mind, so I'm curious...
Let's say you start using a given software/app, purely based out of recommendations or random search, and you like it (doesn't matter how much, you just like it).
After some time you find an issue, or you want to request/suggest a feature, so you go to the project's source code (wherever that is). While browsing the source, the project page or the issues/bugs you find out that it was mostly (if not totally) written using AI/vibe code.
Cybersecurity firm Wiz found that Moltbook exposed the credentials for thousands of its human users and undermined the AI social network's core premise.
ID cards expire, and have to be renewed. At a cost. Passports expire, and have to be renewed. At a cost. Your identity is not something you have. Your identity is a subscription.
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