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🟡 DroneStrike | 6/10 🇵🇸 IDF drone strike west of Nuseirat camp: one killed About an hour ago an IDF drone struck a motorcycle west of Nuseirat camp in central Gaza; local reports identify the killed man as Sami Mahmoud. IDF says it struck terror operatives. #OSINT #NewsGroup #Gaza #DroneStrike […]
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Projected impacts of future offshore wind farms on coastal precipitation over the Northwest European shelf # DEU : Abstract: Offshore wind energy plays a central role in reaching the European Green Deal target of a climate-neutral Europe by 2050. In this study, we simulate offshore wind development for 2023, 2030, and beyond 2050 across the Northwest-European Shelf, using various turbine sizes ove
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What's the most mind-bogglingly stupid thing about Booking dot com? That it insists on showing distances from beaches. Like, seriously? My usage history of the site should give a huge clue that I *never* go for beach holidays. No "AI" even needed, just plain heuristics and statistics. And if I […]
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https://codepen.io/villepreux/pen/zxNgEbg Looking at "Codepen Spark, All the can't-miss links" (https://codepen.io/spark) I had a look at that cool Amit Sheen (https://codepen.io/amit_sheen)'s Div Shuffling's Codepen (https://codepen.io/editor/amit_sheen/pen/01a002cd-8546-71c8-beba-2a312f0b2674 […]
@whitequark Thank you very much for this article! The distinction strongly resonates! As a hobbyist Android developer, I've started feeling this languish a decade ago, long before slop appeared. New API breaking the old one. New security requirements to stay allowed on Google Play Store. A […]
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A fun thought experiment about something I ask myself regularly as well: Is the world's dependence on Whatsapp not entirely insane? Look around in certain countries and it's staggering how much of society, business and sometimes even government runs on Whatsapp. https://マリウス […]
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I’m very much anti Putin and I hate Musk. Ukraines minster of defense, negotiated blocking Russia from using Starlink. Musk did and now Russia list acres. This is dangerous. A few years ago, Afrinic to was asked to turn off the internet for one country’s rival. They denied it because they are […]
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MN filed suit against TX Gov Abbott to compel extradition of #ICE officer charged in connection w #shooting #deaths #murder #DHS of 2 US #citizens in #Minneapolis. Abbott said flatly he has no intention of complying w #Minnesota' extradition requests —sitting governor openly defying another […]
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@light I remember Freenet from the 2000s, it was an interesting project. I tried it once but didn't keep using it. This Freenet looks like a vibe-rewrite in Rust, even whitepaper is vibe-slopped: https://github.com/freenet/paper-1/commits/main/. Apparently, the project maintainer went […]
Worcester has rightly been rated as the best place for creatives in the UK... but that's not reflected in Labour's output. The optics of using climate destroying AI, as we have seen five heat waves and nearly 3000 deaths this summer, is pretty appalling too. If you want real people, delivering […]
Resonance Basics: The Playground of Intimacy "Would you love to be free from emotional contagion, the experience of feeling what others feel, instead of what you feel? Why is it so hard to access resonance in the moments that matter most? Join Sarah Peyton and Jaya Manske to learn real-world […]
@paninid Col Kim Campbell was a guest on “The Spear” podcast from The Modern War Institute at West Point, where she tells the story of when she was almost shot down. It is a fantastic story. That entire podcast is just wild story after story from Afghanistan and Iraq […]
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Good therapy session today. I've been dealing with a lot of decision fatigue, and she told me that since I like playing D&D, I should let the dice decide. So I plan to carry around some dice this next week and any time I have to decide between something, I'll make a quick mental die roll table […]
RE: https://mastodon.cc/@Amputado/117127081284674157 I suspect that Foreign Minister's Wong's complaint over Israel's murder of an World Kitchen Aid team including an Australian doesn't exert pressure, but rather decreases pressure by protecting Israel from meaningful consequences. She could […]
Update on the #Framework 16 battery: New battery arrived. Replacement took seven minutes, total. Also did a bunch of firmware updates, which were super easy using fwupd so I could use the BIOS option to limit the charge percentage this time. Also, random fun thing about living in a […]
**Video - Cuba Can’t Keep the Lights On. Rubio Says It’s a Superpower** https://peertube.world/w/fJgfR2tiGPiBjtpGBeAGo6 Duration - 1:30 [a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective _#BellyOfTheBeast_] > In an interview with Lara Trump, U.S. Secretary of State #MarcoRubio called […]
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@DavidSteele/117088520793378751 #Fascism is the term I’ve been using for a long time already for the current development in the USA. And #fascization is what is happening in many places today, including many European countries, and including unfortunately, also “my” […]
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That's 51 kilos of coal is that Thinking in kWh is a great antidote to the fossil fuel industry's constant drip of you-can't-stop-this, you-don't-matter dispiriting propaganda, because it gives you an Actual Number Like imagine what 51kg of coal looks like, that's like two thirds of a Me […]
Well, I'm one step closer to pulling the trigger on #HomeAssistant. My research suggests that I actually can integrate my Vivint security system with because there actually is a way to do that. While I'm not thrilled with Vivint, I've not found another option that satisfies me. This was the last […]
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@nazokiyoubinbou FYI I've set that user to globally limited (only followers see their posts) but not defederated. My position on it is that a "shadow-ban" for this person is more effective than defederation, and they've not done anything heinous enough to warrant completely blocking […]
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@courtney Claude's alt text "dirt strip" is one way to describe an unswept curb-tight sidewalk 😆 I saw a buck and doe about to cross Terwilliger just south of Hamilton a few nights ago. I hope they figured out the ravine under the freeway into South Portland, not trying to just sprint across 4 […]
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"Every contribution to the reading economy — every dollar snatched from anesthetizing streaming services, from platforms that siphon money away from artists in order to fuel machines of war; every dollar given in exchange for a book or zine or illustration made with hand and heart and eye; every […]
Weekend project: my Garmin watch's Home Assistant menu was a mess (limited use, badly grouped content), so I built myself an interactive config generator instead of hand-editing JSON forever - entity picker, live watch preview, import from my old config. Built it with Claude in one sitting […]
new skz video for #AfterYou, currently only on Spotify Premium. (I think it comes out elsewhere later.) It's supposed to be a mix of different love stories, but it's not all romantic love. Bang Chan's story features a little kid, and Hyunjin's is solo (self-love??). Lee Know has a seemingly […]
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And he is correct. Sunset Dunes is here to stay. It is ridiculous to waste time and money on another ballot vote on this #SanFrancisco >> […]
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Gibt es denn immernoch keine App (fürs IPhone) mit der ich den Ton von YouTube Podcasts abonnieren kann? Also ich will die einfach in meinem Podcast Feed. Ich hasse YouTube. Ich kann von mir aus auch die Werbung hören. Aber ich will einfach was haben, was mir die als Feed reinspielt, ich will […]
Finally, my homepage thomas-kahle.de is made with Jekyll, so to build it you need a Ruby/bundler/gem/Jekyll toolchain, and imagemagick, node, nbconvert ... Humanity has all but forgotten how to install and maintain that stack on the mac. Solution: a container recipe! Oh, and you need a […]
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so we have this program that takes some abstract schema and generates a bunch of different representations of it. when i started working on it, there was a bunch of spaghetti procedural string munging code in every renderer. So i wrote this templating system to separate the different concerns […]
Today, I have been thinking about the very difficult, thorny role of allocation algorithms in transplant processes. These automatically match, here on a national basis, an organ to a recipient who will benefit/needs it most and is most suitable for the op (and organ). But the ethics are so hard […]
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Veranstaltungsreihe „Offenes Atelier + Kunstwerk des Monats“ im Mittelrhein-Museum startet in den Herbst https://www.koblenz.de/rathaus/verwaltung/pressemeldungen/260821-veranstaltungsreihe-offenes-atelier-kunstwerk-des-monats-im-mittelrhein-museum-startet-in-den-herbst/ Nach der Sommerpause […]
Myself, I think it's weird to name battleships after head of state or politician. May have to do with local naming tradition, where a ship like SMS* Bismarck was rather an exception, and naming convention was about places, and other things.** And in that context, I'm more a fan of e.g. the […]
… "Grammar through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics" (https://katalogplus.uni-muenster.de/permalink/49HBZ_ULM/mum8m4/cdi_casalini_monographs_6321841), "Linguistik 2.0: Sprachnormdiskussionen in digitalen Medien" (https://katalogplus.uni-muenster.de/permalink/49HBZ_ULM/o6v3dl/alma991045251830606449 […]
RE: https://toot.wales/@daycoder/117133295240555389 > our study provides novel evidence that immersive viewing of preferred short videos deactivates the cognitive control network and that individual differences in this deactivation are linked to glutamate metabolism. These findings enhance our […]
The guy in charge of the military is talking culture war BS at a state fair while sailors suffer in a ship that cannot be supplied because Iran blew up all the US bases in the Middle East. Any time they talk trans folks, it is a with they know they are ruining the American economy and hurting […]
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⚽ Millwall x Norwich City 📍 The Den, Londres 🕗 Sáb 22/08 · 08:30 (Brasília) Millwall quer manter 100% com Coburn em alta. Norwich busca recuperação após estreia ruim. Quem vence? Comenta e marca um torcedor! 👇 #EFLChampionship #Millwall #NCFC Confira as principais informações sobre Millwall x Norwich City pela Championship 2026/27. Esteja por dentro de estatísticas, prováveis escalações, onde a
Kitchen botany taught me to use more fruit in my cooking. Tonight I'm having fried tempeh with celery, fried cucumber and musk melon, squash (triple cucurbitaceae fruits) with glass noodles flavored with chili-peaso-maple sirup-mushroom soy sauce and hazel nuts, hemp seeds turned in at the end […]
What @gruber writes about the particular _kind_ of anti-AI attitude on #Bluesky is, more generally, why I post to Mastodon and only bridge to Bluesky. For all the complaints about other platforms, including #X, I've not found any place quite so vicious as Bluesky on a variety of topics […]
We have this much going for us: A recent study showed no evidence that there are more narcissists among us than there were 40 years ago. But what causes this behavior in the first place? @sciencefocus takes a look at the origin and complexity of the condition. https://flip.it/6cD0Gr #Science […]
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RE: https:// mastodon.social/@harold/117146 045089521164 If # MarkCarney knew the US was negotiating in bad faith, he certainly didn't show it by understanding the necessity of urgently developing Canadian # digitalSovereignty . Someone please sit him down in front of a @ pluralistic talk (as Doctorow's a Canadian source, and Carney appears to trust journalists well enough to appoint them Minister
Okay I just played a few minutes of the original Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow on this thing and now I'm really sad for what bullshit gaming and computers have turned into today. Back then? No MTX or evergreen "forever" games, no trying to convince kids that gambling is good actually or stealing their labor to the tune of billions or "lol we shoved every hyper-capitalist 'IP' into one soulless game
The ⛈️ severe # thunderstorm + lightning in British Columbia last Saturday night (Aug 22) was the worst I've ever seen and heard. Result: 🌩️ 1,800 incidences of lightning for 5+ hours, over # Vancouver lower mainland ⚡ 7,000 strikes across B.C. 🔥 48 new # BCwildfires adding to a new total of 148 active wildfires across mostly southern B.C. # Climate https://www. cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col um
TotalEnergies Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanné described a split oil market at the ONS conference in Stavanger, Norway, on August 24, saying crude oil continues moving through the Strait of Hormuz while refined fuels such as gasoline, diesel and kerosene face tighter transit conditions [energynews.pro#1][capital.gr#1]. Reuters columnist Clyde Russell wrote that debate over crude volumes has drawn
A new arXiv batch includes a large set of AI research papers on reliability problems in large language models, including agent coordination, retrieval-augmented generation, unlearning, safety evaluation, multilingual performance and domain-specific deployment [arxiv.org#4][arxiv.org#31][arxiv.org#35][arxiv.org#45][arxiv.org#55][arxiv.org#72]. The papers include work accepted at or submitted to ven
A TechRepublic item distributed by Google News said an AI security test targeted real companies after a naming error. The item described cyber evaluations that use fictional environments whose names can overlap with the real internet [google.com#1]. A LessWrong analysis of the evaluation harness used in Anthropic-related cyber incidents in July and August said third-party partner Irregular had che
Ukraine marked its 35th Independence Day on August 24 by holding what officials and organizers described as the first military parade made up entirely of unmanned systems, staging nearly 100 Ukrainian aerial, ground and naval platforms in Kyiv rather than a traditional display of soldiers, tanks or heavy armor [president.gov.ua#1][defence-blog.com#2][vnexpress.net#1][ltn.com.tw#1][euronews.com#1][
Now, for the more difficult ones: #WhereTaken #667 (25.08.2026) I scored 560/1000🎗️ 1️⃣📍2.2K km - 🥉96/200 2️⃣📍895 km - 🥈146/200 3️⃣📍275 km - 🥇182/200 4️⃣📍1.1K km - 🥈136/200 5️⃣📍13.3K km - 🎗️0/200 https://wheretaken.com Remember, never second guess yourself. That third one should have been a […]
⚪️ Social Engineering Exploits: How They Manipulate Human Behavior 🗨️ Social engineering is often used in comprehensive penetration tests—and frequently with success. However, by understanding key psychological principles and incorporating them into a well-designed scenario, testers can significantly increase the success rate of their interactions. In this article,… 🔗 https:// hackmag.com/securi
“A slow-motion collapse in South Korea’s Kospi index erased $2.5 trillion in market value, burning investors who bet on the AI boom” “South Korea had the world’s hottest stock market for most of the past year, powered by the artificial intelligence boom. Then it crashed. Yoon Jae-Yi, a […]
This is interesting. I sometimes wonder about my system's SDD health. I might look into this Performance Co-Pilot. (Not to be confused with Microsoft's disastrous Copilot spyware.) As usual, you can probably adapt this info for whatever distro you use […]
DC friends: Amtrak service south of DC (to/from Alexandria) will be severely curtailed for 10 days starting October 16, for work in the First Street tunnel. This apparently will NOT affect service to the north (eg, to/from NYC) […]
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arXiv:2608.21477v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cloud environments built on Amazon Web Services face a structural security vulnerability: once a credential passes authentication, the resulting session is often treated as trusted for its entire duration. This assumption fails when credentials are stolen. We introduce the Explainable Adaptive Zero Trust Framework (EAZTF), a cloud-native security lay
arXiv:2608.21615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: TEE-shielded inference keeps sensitive state in a trusted execution environment (TEE) while offloading linear algebra to an untrusted accelerator. Wang et al., in Game of Arrows (USENIX Security 2025), showed that five widely adopted lightweight defenses preserve vector directions and introduced ArrowMatch to exploit this leakage. They then proposed
arXiv:2608.22075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adversaries now move faster than manual response processes can absorb. The average eCrime breakout time, that is, the interval between initial access and the first lateral movement to another host, fell to 29 minutes in 2025, a 65\% increase in speed over the previous year; the fastest observed breakout took 27 seconds, and in one intrusion data exfi
arXiv:2608.22123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Securing IEC 61869-9 Sampled Values (SV) is challenging because process-bus communication must satisfy stringent real-time constraints while supporting standardized high-rate publication profiles. This paper presents an experimentally validated security framework that combines lightweight per-frame authentication for operational SV traffic with post-
arXiv:2608.22169v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) hold great potential to enhance coverage, spectral efficiency, and communication security by intelligently configuring their reflecting elements. When owned by a neutral RIS operator, these elements can be offered as resources for which legitimate receivers and eavesdroppers compete. This paper investigates
arXiv:2608.22645v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Public blockchains expose the complete transaction graph, and the privacy protocols deployed to obscure it rely almost exclusively on elliptic-curve cryptography, whose discrete-logarithm foundations fall to Shor's algorithm. Because ledgers are immutable, every anonymity set published today under classical assumptions can be retroactively deanonymiz
arXiv:2608.22721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine-learning malware detectors often achieve high clean-data accuracy, but operational triage also requires evidence about uncertainty, novelty, robustness, interpretability, latency, and review cost. This paper presents EGAMA-RC, a risk-calibrated evidence-gated framework for memory-forensic malware triage. Building on SHAP-guided feature refine
arXiv:2608.23199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Phishing websites are short-lived and rapidly changing, yet many phishing datasets reduce observations to URLs or precomputed features, constraining researchers to predefined representations and discarding the underlying evidence needed to derive alternative features, apply new extraction methods, examine cross-layer relationships, and reanalyze obse
arXiv:2606.19106v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Lawful exceptional access (EA) systems hold the cryptographic keys that decrypt protected communications for authorised parties. The debate over their risks has been long and qualitative, complicated by two problems: no public dataset of EA-specific compromise events exists, so assessment must use sparse, indirect evidence; and prior work has tre
arXiv:2607.18429v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Phishing emails remain one of the most persistent cybersecurity threats, and machine-learning classifiers are widely used to detect them. Most reported detection accuracies, however, are measured on clean, in-distribution test data rather than on emails deliberately altered to evade detection. This paper reports a controlled, pairwise comparison
RE: https://mastodon.nl/@vmachiel/117154237854444128 I don't love that a smartphone has been all but forced to become necessary, and that's a problem in of itself, but I do like this summary. Both Apple and Android have different trade offs that are difficult to reconcile, but at least X should […]
[Archived version](https://web.archive.org/web/20260821191455/https://www.wired.com/story/the-single-english-county-saying-no-to-palantir/) The UK government has six months to decide whether to terminate a deal worth more than $400 million between the country’s National Health Service and American software company Palantir. If one part of the NHS is already doing without Palantir, politicians are
There's something logically wrong about how we talk about neuropsychiatric disabilities. They are lists of symptoms. Science has little idea of what's causing them. Yesterday I heard someone on Swedish National Broadcasting say something like "Frank Andersson's short attention span and […]
Lipton, Z. C., & Steinhardt, J. (2019). Research for practice: troubling trends in machine-learning scholarship. Communications of the ACM, 62(6), 45-53. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3316774 Read this and now I am cringing about the amount of technical terms i use in daily life […]
RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/117151059411326516 A good example where motivation driven by #religion causes a major setback in #science & progress. 150AD, we already had awesome #maps if you take into account the resources back then! The invention of precise #clocks was one of the […]
Went through all the samples in my grubby old Emu ROMpler. Out of all 191, all but 37 were either hopelessly dated, in a bad way, or just bad. Of the 37 samples I might conceivably use in actual music I care about, 34 are hopelessly dated in a good way, and 3 are somewhat dodgy pianos. The […]
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'Climate demands political leadership Editorial Le Monde The silence from decision-makers regarding the consequences of the unprecedented heatwave in the summer of 2026 and the solutions that need to be implemented could only be interpreted as either an inability to act, or worse, a lack of […]
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Random question: this "high-masking" autistic type - is that more common in folks who also have ADHD? (Anecdotal evidence says maybe, and it would explain why I have such a hard time with the concept - I feel that my autistic experience is rather different from that of the AuDHD folks) […]
"We are now dangerously close to crossing a moral red line: the autonomous targeting of humans by machines," the heads of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross warned. AFP article […]
Au revoir, not adieu I've been here for about three years, and it's been fun - I missed the feel of smaller instances, though. My previous tech microblogging was with floss.social, which limited its membership - I probably would have stayed there if not for $dayjob's ill-fated plan to interoperate Threads with the Fediverse caused a lot of instances to defederate -- and floss.social going further
Meet Chandika, one of our recent interns! Joining # ONLYOFFICE remotely from Nepal, she worked on content and docs, then tested the web version of our editors, catching and reporting bugs before they reached users. Her takeaway? A flexible, no-pressure setup where small wins get celebrated, and where clear writing turned out to be a skill that carries everywhere. Read her story on our blog: https:
Belated #3GoodThings for Monday, which was yet another annoying no energy staycation day. - huge bowl of Soljanka from the old freezer fit great to my messy energy levels (although now I lost my backup portion for the next winter cold emergency) - making the browser extension #WikiTreeBEE […]
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@ebassi/117158 248378288459 So it's important to put this into context. Really with gnome, free desktop, red hat, etc there's a big attitude problem. It's very easy to critique projects when users feel unheard. Since ebassi mentioned accessibility, I usually mention I used to use gnome for low mobility but had to run a few versions behind current gnome because they ref
I love the purity and beauty of static sites, but a couple of things always stop me. First, I write a lot: 2,000-word essays a couple of times a month. Therefore, I need a system that surfaces my posts via categories and other means.I frankly hate WordPress's Query Loop block, but at least it works. The other thing holding me back is network effects. I'm currently on WordPress.com, and it plugs in
arXiv:2608.24851v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Social interaction can improve collective learning but also amplify early mistakes. We study this tension when the credibility of social information is generated by the sender's own decision process rather than fixed ex ante. Reinforcement-learning agents make binary choices through a drift--diffusion process that jointly determines choice, decisio
Wednesday is seen tattling on Pugsley to mom. Morticia replies to Wednesday, "Well, don't come whining to me. Go tell him you'll poison him right back." This is one i really like. The art shows the bottom of Morticia's dress so well. Addams' attention to detail is really shown with the shadow cast by Wednesday by the light coming from the open door Pugsley is walking through. Something about the w
arXiv:2608.25488v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite theory tying wealth inequality to social structure, empirical evidence has been limited to a few studies based on online social media data. This study uses a very different type of data, expands the global coverage to very different types of societies, and investigates new questions. In particular, we collect data from ~3500 sharing units (
>The nonpartisan budget watchdog, revisiting one of its favorite subjects, found that Americans retiring this decade are on track to collect, in the form of entitlements, about 133% of everything they and their employers paid in taxes, measured in present-value dollars. Strip out the employer match, and the return nearly doubles: Roughly 265% of what workers put in themselves. A median-wage retire
RE: https:// mstdn.social/@d_a_n_a/11717352 0665898860 Soon this post will be "terrorism."
Campaigners welcome plan to bring IPP sentences to a close but say the move is long overdue Campaigners have hailed Andy Burnham’s pledge to bring an end to indefinite jail terms as “a day that thousands of families have spent years fighting for”. The prime minister has said he will “end the injustice” of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences during this parliament, meaning people wil
This is the announcement of the Threadiverse Vibrancy Challenge! The Challenge - From September 1 to 30, 2026, complete each one of the categories below with a unique post or comment: 1. (Freebie) Make a shitpost. 2. Make a post about something other than technology or politics or a shitpost. 3. Make a post showcasing a thing or topic you find interesting. 4. Make a post to a community with fewer
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@jwz/117189106 772601742 I’ve had a half-finished blog post since 2021 about the social cost of open software not taking UX/UI design seriously, positing a world where instead of people posting images of calendars to a private social media app which demands you log in just so you can find out what’s going on in your neighborhood, you instead had a fucking feed telling
Wobei, wahrscheinlich ist nicht einfach kdp tot, sondern Selfpublishing an sich. Ich bin schon einigermaßen verzweifelt deshalb. Ziemlich viele Dinge, die Normalo-Menschen machen können, wie Lesungen, Social Media und all sowas, sind für mich als geoutete, schwule Trans-Person mit queeren Themen einfach viel zu riskant. Normalo-Fantasy kannst du öffentlich bewerben, ohne dass dich dafür jemand in
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@Viss/11718710 7859622179 "That’s the category error the whole industry walked into together: the boundary between data and code has collapsed. Every content on your website is no longer content — it’s operational input. It’s effectively code running inside someone else’s environment, with whatever privileges the agent has. That flips a decades-old assumption. For most
So you know how in # RStats , you can use `dump.frames(to.file = TRUE)` to trace down an error from a non-interactive session? https:// adv-r.hadley.nz/debugging.html #dump.frames I used this recently and ran into a roadblock when it turned out that the error came from earlier failures wrapped in a `try()` statement. Of course, when I find this out, I am already in a debugging session and things g
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 638 REMAINS VALID UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN DELAWARE THIS WATCH INCLUDES 3 COUNTIES IN CENTRAL DELAWARE KENT IN NORTHERN DELAWARE NEW CASTLE IN SOUTHERN DELAWARE SUSSEX IN MARYLAND THIS WATCH INCLUDES 4 COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND CAROLINE KENT QUEEN ANNE'S TALBOT IN NEW JERSEY THIS WATCH INCLUDES 8 COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ATLANTIC B
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL ALLOW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 638 TO EXPIRE AT MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN DELAWARE THIS ALLOWS TO EXPIRE 3 COUNTIES IN CENTRAL DELAWARE KENT IN NORTHERN DELAWARE NEW CASTLE IN SOUTHERN DELAWARE SUSSEX IN MARYLAND THIS ALLOWS TO EXPIRE 4 COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND CAROLINE KENT QUEEN ANNE'S TALBOT IN NEW JERSEY THIS ALLOWS TO EXPIRE 8 COU
Original Post: https://mastodon.social/@heyokyay/117157367657819040
arXiv:2604.17125v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) widens the prompt injection attack surface of large language model applications to tool descriptions, parameter schemas, and tool outputs. Defenses for it are appearing quickly, but their reported figures are not comparable: each is evaluated on a corpus of its authors' construction, under a decision convention th
RE: https:// social.bund.de/@certbund/11720 2125036885815 For a critical # itsecurity # vulnerability as example, here is the CSAF JSON file (from the Germans): https:// wid.cert-bund.de/.well-known/c saf/white/2026/wid-sec-w-2026-3135.json . (For https:// psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vul n-detail/SNWLID-2026-0016 CVE-2026-83548, CVE-2026-83549 a CVSS v3 10.0 "critical" defect) In the vulnerabilitie
It’s been said that the litmus test of a community’s strength is how well its local arts are supported. By the looks of it, the small mountain town of Waynesville is robust when it comes to the arts, especially with the recent news that’s come to the Haywood County Arts Council on Main Street. “This is just going to blow the roof off of what we’re able to do in the community,” said HCAC Executive
@ lauren A couple thoughts on your post of the attached article about Passkey failures. At the very end of the article, carefully hidden behind a double negative, is the statement that these attacks all indicate that passes are working. The article is written by a company selling biometric security. All of those attacks involve attacking the infrastructure outside of the past Key in order to bypas
The Trump administration is working on a post-war strategy focused on a regional effort to contain Iran and expand normalization of relations between Israel and its neighbors, according to two U.S. officials and two other sources with knowledge of the issue. Why it matters: While the plan is still in the early stages of drafting, it's intended to guide the U.S. approach in the Middle East after th