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"Controversy erupts at the plagiarism machine conference when it turned out people were using the plagiarism machine to do plagiarism."

This is genuine comedy.

nature.com/articles/d41586-025…


Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI

Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
Naddaf, Miryam

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We've released V21.2, as our 'traditional' end-of-year release.

There are some minor changes relative to the beta, most notably the addition of a warning if you are moving a way that has a majority of its nodes off screen, the minimum number of nodes for the check to be active can be set and the default is 5.

vespucci.io/help/en/21.2.0%20R…

#OpenStreetMap

21.2.0 Release notes - Vespucci

Main site for Vespucci the Android OpenStreetMap Editor
vespucci.io
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This was the trickiest part (that admittedly was broken long before moving) of the repair: part of the hip didn't print correctly initially (and as this was a ~20 hour print job when I printing this originally, I didn't particularly feel like reprinting the whole thing). The broken off part also got lost at some point.
Closeup on the repaired hip-bone. There's a very visible (whitetish) seam that matches neither the old nor new filament colours.
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There was no completely straight seam where the part broke off and it also was very hard to judge where exactly to cut the model for reprinting it. So as expected the (two component) glue had to do a lot of work creating a very visible (and very ugly brown) seam. Painted over it with minitiature paint we had lying around.

It's not quite perfect yet, but good enough, I think. The idea specifically was to mend the existing model, not to just reprint it.

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the window for participation in the #osgeo devroom at #fosdem2026 is open for a few more days; if you're able to share in a fossy geo space but are unsure, I can assist - it's easy and fun to get involved. #fosdem #foss4g #geo #brussels #foss pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026…
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FOSDEM 2026

Schedule, talks and talk submissions for FOSDEM 2026
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I have been on vacation so I didn't get to post this until today, but if you haven't seen my bits and bops demo video yet, you really should. This is a super fun game, and the level of screen reader accessibility is very impressive. youtu.be/MdaGu4FSgfI

Let's Play the bits and Bops Demo

Checking out the Bits and Bops demo from Tempo Lab Games.Check it out on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com › app › Bits__BopsBecome a YouTube Member or a...
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RE: coywolf.com/news/social-media/…

„The features matter a lot less than the people who are using the platform. […]

It can sometimes be a bit misleading when you get a lot of ideas and feature requests in a community, and the conversations become, ‘We definitely need feature X to grow because that’s what’s stopping people from using the platform.‘ While that’s true in some cases, the sad reality is that any flaw can be overlooked as long as the people you want to reach are there.“

This feels true for #Conversations_im as well.

#conversations_im
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Dusty

I feel that a platform needs to have an absence of annoying bugs first and foremost. Additional fancy features (as in OP) might *initially* attract new users, but it's an absence of such embarrassing bugs which keeps them there longer term. And people giving up on a failed attempt at a new platform is very costly to one's social capital, to ever recommend any new platform ever again, and be taken seriously.

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Finally hit publish on a blog post I've been writing for a while.

It's common to hear the term "fully accessible" used to describe products which have passed WCAG 2.2 level AA. But, are they really?

In this post, I explore 5 examples which highlight why WCAG, as awesome as it is, is not a measure of great usability or performance.

craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2025/5-…

#accessibility #a11y #wcag


5 reasons why WCAG AA compliance does not mean your website is accessible

5 reasons why WCAG compliance does not mean accessible accessible
Craig Abbott (craigabbott.co.uk)
#a11y #Accessibility #wcag

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The suicide rate at Foxconn in 2010 was lower than the rate in all 50 U.S. states.

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Don't Mean To Be Rude, But Suicide Rate At Apple's iPad-Maker Foxconn Is Lower Than All 50 U.S. States

Apple and Dell launch investigations into Foxconn's working conditions, aiming to improve labor practices.
Business Insider

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I knew it. KDE is goin to make their own login manager. If they can't integrate that piece with the plasma desktop you can't have a coherent OS experience and a ton of functionality is just missing.

So the year of the desktop Linux is a few more away, but it's getting closer I guess

blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog…

# A Roadmap for a modern Plasma Login Manager – David Edmundson's Web Log

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Oh a good HN comment. Also didn't know that SDDM was a potential root cause:

I love Wayland. I just absolutely love hard-rebooting my computer twice a day. Oh, need to walk away from the desk? Better switch into a TTY before unplugging the dock so I can force restart SDDM when it crashes. Oh no! Walked out of WiFi range? Your DE is hard frozen and the only operable button is the power button.
Wayland truly saves me so much time at work. It's forced me to re-up my ctrl+s reflex. Now I never lose work when it randomly crashes!

We've also been playing a fun new game. Every morning when I walk into the office my giant 5Kx1K monitor might be reset to literally any imaginable resolution and I have to figure out how to navigate to the display configuration menu to manually reset it because of course replugging the screen doesn't work.

I love Wayland. It's so easy to use and reliable. But MOST IMPORTANT it's newer than X11. Thank god I don't have to use gross old software written in uncool languages. God for-fucking-bid we have to run old software that works instead of new software that-- while not as good as the old software-- is still new

What's that? Wayland is almost 20 years old and still not to feature parity with any other OS? Well, it's newer than X11!

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Pauline Hanson Condemns Use of Term ‘Black Friday’, Saying ‘All Fridays Matter’

theshovel.com.au/2022/11/25/pa…


Pauline Hanson Condemns Use of Term ‘Black Friday’, Saying ‘All Fridays Matter’ — The Shovel

"My inbox has been inundated with ‘Black Friday this’, ‘Black Friday that’. Granted there have been some wonderful bargains. But as yet not a single mention of White Friday. So typical of this country's disrespect for white people”
The Shovel

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Wellp, I can over generalize, and hate on AI, most specifically LLMs, and simultaneously and stubbornly actively put effort into sabotaging my future prospects and being stuck left behind, or I can try to find ways of utilizing the technology for its strengths, and in ways that allow me to do things that I might otherwise not be able to do.
To this end, my big server in the data center will be shut down at some point to add a GPU.
This will allow for the experimentation with AI models. What interests me right off the bat is image and vision processing models. Definitely something that can certainly do things that I cannot. Should this turn commercial, which is my real intent, I will of course have people with well-tuned visual accuity and judgement to vet anything generated.
I am most certainly approaching this with skepticism, but I am approaching it, as opposed to stubbornly avoiding it, and potentially missing opportunities.
By running the models entirely under my control, and on resources I control down to the OS layer, I am responsible, but also very much in control of what and where the data goes, and happens to it.

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> Peering over QUIC will only use a single stream of traffic, so it’s largely the same semantics as peering over TCP/TLS, but it may be useful in cases where UDP packets have an easier time punching through a NAT or firewall. We generally expect it to perform worse than TCP/TLS, so we do not recommend using it when it’s not needed.

quic slower than tcp, fascinating

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- 7 % žáků uvedlo, že někdo zneužil #AI k vytvoření jejich svlečené fotografie

- vyučující často doporučují #WhatsApp k instalaci i žákům z 1. stupně zš

- ubližuje se především v chatovacích skupinách typu třída-parta na WhatsAppu

- nejčastějším útočníkem spolužák ze třídy

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