#PPOD: This new JWST picture features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537 — the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), JWST has revealed never-before-seen details in this picturesque planetary nebula with a rich backdrop of thousands of stars. Planetary nebulae like the Red Spider Nebula form when ordinary stars like the Sun reach the end of their lives. Credit: ESA, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology)
I live in a house with large open spaces carved up by some alcoves, columns and protrusions. I'm told on occasions that it looks quite attractive.
but as I, a #blind person, miscalculate while bending down to pick something up and yet again catch my head on another bit of pointless wall, I'm reminded how truly subjective design preferences are.
🐓 Vstávej! Je krásná sobota, škoda ji prospat! 😊
Už jsi vzhůru? Tak hezký víkend. 😍
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Most of HumanWare is Linux based these days.
The firmware update files for Chameleons, Mantises and Brailliants also have Linux images in them.
I suspect the serial port you're speaking of is for UARD. Most devices of this kind have an UARD port somewhere, mostly used for diagnostics and debugging, although access to it often requires some disassembly.
"The Gentrifiers of Cattan"
Sounds like a funny table top game.
A Washington DC based international television and radio broadcast network is making a significant reduction in its operations and will make a complete liquidation of all excess television, radio, studio production, field production, switching, broad…rasmus.com
I remember my own experiments with “AI” a long time ago. It could be fun (AI Dungeon, anyone?) even if it couldn’t produce reliable results. But it was also extremely inefficient. Like: even on a GPU, producing a single moderately long response would occupy the entire GPU for seconds! Meanwhile my web server can handle thousands of parallel requests on much cheaper hardware and with a fraction of the power usage. So surely nobody would attempt this at scale…
I clearly underestimated the industry’s dedication to burning money and resources (often enough literally) while chasing the newest fad. investor.nexteraenergy.com/new…
Duane Arnold Energy Center restart to strengthen American energy grid resilience; Iowa's only nuclear facility is targeted to be fully operational by the first quarter of 2029 Project expected to create approximately 400 direct, high-quality full-tim…www.investor.nexteraenergy.com
So OpenAI managed to lose $11.5 billion in just one quarter. Not quite unexpectedly given how expensive it is to improve and simply run their machinery and how little money it brings in. theregister.com/2025/10/29/mic…
And that is totally fine of course as long as this still counts as a huge success, so that even more investor money flows in. And OpenAI (just as everyone else in AI) keeps raising the stakes to justify their need for more money. Now if that isn’t a Ponzi scheme…
At this rate it cannot be long until the bubble bursts. You cannot bring in an investor with pockets as deep as Microsoft’s every few months.
updated: Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promisedMatt Rosoff (The Register)
I’m pretty sure that all those AI companies hold a meeting somewhere and brainstorm bad ideas to outperform each other. Burning massive amounts of power? Nah, too trivial. Let’s support it by building new nuclear plants! No, been there. We can shoot data centers into space! That will take too long. Why don’t we involve AI when military decisions need to be made under extreme pressure?
Well, we have a new contender.
“Microsoft and nuclear power company Westinghouse Nuclear want to use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants in the United States.”
Sure, why not put a bullshit generator in charge of designing something that could contaminate a huge chunk of land for the foreseeable future if done wrong?
404media.co/power-companies-ar…
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.Matthew Gault (404 Media)
I just donate to the @gnome project / foundation. This time I could only manage 10USD! But please if you can spare some money! Support one or more #opensource projects! It does actually make a difference!
"Remember when you thought age verification laws couldn't get any worse? Well, lawmakers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and beyond are about to blow you away.
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of VPNs.
Yes, really.
As of this writing, Wisconsin lawmakers are escalating their war on privacy by targeting VPNs in the name of “protecting children” in A.B. 105/S.B. 130. It’s an age verification bill that requires all websites distributing material that could conceivably be deemed “sexual content” to both implement an age verification system and also to block the access of users connected via VPN. The bill seeks to broadly expand the definition of materials that are “harmful to minors” beyond the type of speech that states can prohibit minors from accessing—potentially encompassing things like depictions and discussions of human anatomy, sexuality, and reproduction.
This follows a notable pattern: As we’ve explained previously, lawmakers, prosecutors, and activists in conservative states have worked for years to aggressively expand the definition of “harmful to minors” to censor a broad swath of content: diverse educational materials, sex education resources, art, and even award-winning literature."
eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawm…
#VPNs #AgeVerification #CyberSecurity #Privacy #DigitalRights
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and…Electronic Frontier Foundation
I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.
So far it’s been working!
Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.
Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.
And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.
They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.
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he is crazy #lazerpig #f111
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The irony that the space race is conditional to oligarch who are doing all they can to dodge taxes, and rely on them receiving tax payer money.
And they are among the worst people walking this planet.
People who self-host (anything, not just Mastodon). Are you running services at your house? If so, are you hiding them behind a VPS that tunnels to your home's IP?
CC @neil , because you're the first person I thought of that would be able to answer.
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QAnon, PizzaGate, anti-trans propaganda, online safety bills—none of it has *ever* been about protecting kids. None of it.
If it was, Republicans wouldn’t now be arguing about what age it becomes ok to traffick and rape someone.
This is TERRIBLE! Mozilla people who used to follow me here... Talk some sense into your coworkers/management!
People don't use Firefox because it's loaded with crap and AI, they use it because it's not corporate owned and not feeding all your browsing data into the data machine. AI is not of any benefit to add to your browser, no matter the hype.
blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai…
AI Window is a user-controlled space we’re building in Firefox that lets you chat with an AI assistant and get help while you browse.Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)
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