Not sure how many of you use ChatGTP, but you mind want to scale back. "The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform […]

France’s ban on forever chemicals enters into force. The new law, approved by lawmakers in February 2025, bans the production, import or sale of any product for which an alternative to PFAS already exists, including in cosmetics, clothing and ski wax. Some industrial exemptions remain, but the […]

#language #mathematics #English #grammar .

#bloomscrolling #flowers #photography #waxflower #blumen

Some observations about #rustlang from the perspective of a reasonably competent #cplusplus developer: TL;DR: It is good, if you looked at Rust before 2017 last (before the ? operator) have a look at it again! Stuff I really like: * rustc's error messages are some of the best I've ever seen […]

"this new product from microsoft surprisingly doesn't suck!" did they start making vacuum cleaners

@EUCommission @_elena The EU Commission should stop advertising X on "our" web site. They're not the USA Commission nor an ad network. Tap "give us more feedback" in the footer, select "other" and type in the form https://commission.europa.eu Write your […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#myphoto #iphonephotography #scotland #rust #barnacles #red #corrosion #merrychristmas #throwback

🦕🔍 Dino family secrets unlocked! New study flips old ideas: Baby dinosaurs played unique roles in ecosystems, separate from adults—shaping ancient worlds through rapid growth & survival strategies. Not like modern mammals! Read more […]

Two incredibly talented students led the project. We figured out a much less hand-wavy analytical way to calculate close approach rates using real data from public catalogues. And then we also ran n-body simulations to double check. They agree very well! And […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

the last few days have been particularly gray, both literally and emotionally, so for #throwbackthursday why not some distinctly out-of-season #bloomscrolling ? from Wind Wolves Reserve, March of 2023, 1 of 2 #flowers #spring #nature #naturephotography #blossom

by popular demand, I have set up a Peertube instance! https://tube.fasterthanli.me/ It has (almost) all my YouTube videos — and none of the tracking. enjoy!

Je réalise que j'ai oublié de poster la vidéo de ma présentation au dernier #humantalks à #grenoble. Je parle de #git, plus précisément des #worktree, de #bisect et #revert. Ça dure 6mn de live démo, et avec les questions on est à 12mn. Et merci @PacoVelobs pour le caméo ! […]

In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts. Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot 😉.

Demain soir, comme tout les deuxièmes mardi du mois, c'est #humanstalk . Et à #grenoble le programme a l'air bien sympas ! - Jujutsu, un meilleur frontend à Git que Git ? Par Yannick Schini - Monitoring avec Prometheus et Grafana Par Jaros - Peut-on éco-concevoir avec l'IA ? Par Pierre Belabbes […]

A decade after the Paris Agreement, global greenhouse gas emissions are barely rising, up just 0.3% a year since 2015, compared with 1.7% before […]

Joshua Rogers sent us a *massive* list of potential issues in #curl that he found using his set of AI assisted tools. Code analyzer style nits all over. Mostly smaller bugs, but still bugs and there could be one or two actual security flaws in there. Actually truly awesome findings. I have […]

J'ai récemment fait une présentation aux #humanstalk de #grenoble, et je suis bien content du résultat. "Et si on apprenait de nouveau gros-mots" Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas les Human's talks, ce sont des mini-conférences de 10mn à destination d'un public de programmeurs et des métiers […]

App tip this morning SNCF‘s main app - SNCF Connect - is generally terrible. Use @12train to book instead And when travelling use Ma Gare SNCF - it gives useful information like where your carriage will stop before screens in French stations do

Jeudi c'est #tupperrust à #grenoble 19 h à 20 h 30 : * Introduction à Rust (en quoi c'est un langage génial) par Nathan Royer * La Programmation Orienté Objet et Rust par Maxence Vouaillat * Zig vs. Rust `unsafe` par @TheyCallMeHacked 20 h 30 à 21 h 30 : Apéro offert par notre hôte […]

#hammac en pleine nature #bivouac