Reader, I did this and am not regretting it. I’m as non-tech-savvy as the next person but I really don’t understand the complaints about UI and having to do some stuff in Terminal when you all seem to have no problem spending hours with fucking „prompt engineering“

Hebben jullie de afgelopen week al mensen al gewezen op het initiatief van https://NIETZONDER.nl ? Omdat IEDEREEN met een website of platform kan bijdragen aan een wereld die niet alleen drijft op netwerken van de Musks en Zuckerbergs van deze wereld. Geen Instagram zonder Mastodon! Geen […]

I think ~4 years ago, Iris and I 1st sat down and formalised various meanings of function and multiple realizability — both core concepts for any serious computationalist discussions — because in part we realised nobody has done this and/or collected these for […] [Original post on scholar.social]

"After working my way through this game, I realize this game is unbelievably amazing. 10/10" Thanks for playing through Neofeud! https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/#indiegame #IndieGamesFestival #SteamDeck #steamdeals #adventuregamefriday #retrogaming #cyberpunk

since that browsergate site about LinkedIn seems to be gaining traction I figure I should mention: * yes, LinkedIn does do what's being claimed as best as I can tell, And that deserves attention, though it seems to have been the case for quite a long time (2017ish iirc?) and has been brought […]

Anthropic's Claude Code's full source code leaked. Claude is seen by many to be the best coding LLM on the market with Anthropic proudly stating that Claude Code itself is mostly written by the LLM. Now this sounds good as long as nobody can see the code which is quite the trash fire. Detecting […]

Here's a really insightful post by @Framasoft's Pierre-Yves Gosset about the French Government DINUM and their La Suite project. In French, translated: "The Digital Suite of the State: Criticism of Criticism." TLDR: They comment the various criticisms and are generally very positive about this […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@brembs/116296000606235617 This is great, great news! … for European researchers. Of course, UK ruled itself out of this. Because, y'know, Take Back Control. I am LOVING these sunlit uplands. #brexit

The most common vowel sound in English isn't A, E, I, O, U or even Y. It's the schwa, and it sounds more like "uh." The schwa is written as an upside-down "e," and you hear it at the end of "sofa" and in the middle of "memory." Amazingly, it can be spelled with […] [Original post on zirk.us]

Here's a fun one for #EvidenceSynthesis / #SystematicReview crowd 📚 @ZijunLi#SystematicReview#EvidenceSynthesisnd me are doing a meta-analysis where we compare two groups. We use the "Cohen's d" family of effect size metrics for the meta-analysis (comparing baseline to follow-up, immediate and later) Some studies (e.g […]

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain "invisible code" -- a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to detect such threats. The researchers, from firm Aikido Security, said Friday that they found 151 […]

Schrijf een kort verhaal over de voorafgaande nacht. https://nos.nl/artikel/2606279-duitse-tiener-brengt-vriendin-naar-school-met-gestolen-lijnbus

Sorry but this is far too accurate

I wrote about the #fediverse https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

Hey all, we're looking for 1 speaker for March and more for April onwards. If you're keen or curious about speaking, please get in touch! #rstats #datascience #edinburgh #meetup #tech

I was just reminiscing with my brother about our childhood growing up in 90s West Coast suburbia. So, I actually really hated the (early) 90s when I was in it, and couldn't *wait* to grow up and experience some other decade. 😄 But now? I kinda wish I could time travel back there for a while […]

🌟 Weekly AltBot Digest 🌟 * **Alt-Texts Generated** : 505 * **New Users** : 13 **Tip of the Week!** AltBot is a great tool for generating alt-texts, but it's always good to review and edit the output for accuracy. Thank you for helping make the Fediverse a more inclusive place for everyone!

I've been wanting to write something lengthy about "AI" for a while, discussing the arguments for and against and arriving at a reasonable position, but I find myself completely unable to get past the most glaring point, which is that we are facing _catastrophic ecosphere collapse_ because of […]

Very interesting article! "This article looks briefly at exclusive systems of knowledge production. I describe how the Open Science movement that was founded to reform science often recycles the same extractive dynamics of neoliberal capitalism described by dependency theory." […]

What's better than open research information resource? Multiple open research information resources that can be combined together! I'm happy to participate in ORION, an effort to coordinate amongst those making ORI resources available in the cloud, with an initial focus on Google BigQuery. We […]

Eerste versie van De auto, de geit en de wiskunde naar Uitgeverij Nieuwezijds gestuurd 🥳 Ik had nooit van co-auteur willen wisselen, zo geweldig om dit met @janbeuving te doen! https://www.nieuwezijds.nl/boek/de-auto-de-geit-en-de-wiskunde/

new blog: "Open Infrastructures #2: the SURF Fediverse" https://doi.org/10.59350/1ja9h-jem83 https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2026/02/08/open-infrastructures.html "But SURF operates a second fediverse server, one using the PeerTube software, also […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

It's interesting to me how the software industry seems to be shifting from a Build AI Into Everything, to Build Everything With AI: https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_thing_i_loved_has_changed/ Maybe it's that I'm the same age as the author, but this part really rings true: > The […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PsyArXiv/116052876896088882 Nice short (*very* short - like one page-short 😬) summary of theory-crisis related observations in psychology. Super useful if you're e.g. designing a course - chock-full of references to articles to cover 🤩

I wrote about the most ambitious form of AI-assisted software development I've seen yet - Strong DM's "Software Factory" approach, where two of the guiding principles are "Code must not be written by humans" and "Code must not be reviewed by humans" […]

Vandaag 10 jaar geleden, in #2016, correspondeerde ik met een schrijfster over de zin 'kun je je voorstellen?' https://neerlandistiek.nl/2016/02/kun-je-je-voorstellen/

🆕 pandoc 3.9 🎉🚀 • Official support for wasm (WebAssembly), allowing to run pandoc in the browser, • *alerts* extension in the pandoc Markdown flavor, • support for defaults files using JSON instead of YAML, • extension of `${.}` vars in the `defaults` field, making it easier to base defaults […]

🔥 There's still some time to join the crowdfunding for @Bonfire and contribute to building a better world! 🤩 https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community (if you don't know about Bonfire yet: it's an awesome project building a network that's community-governed, open, built for […]

Ik kom later vandaag met een heel zuur verhaal over AI. Maar mogelijk ook goed om te weten, AI is onvoorstelbaar indrukwekkende technologie die nooit meer weggaat, hoe erg we het ook vinden: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/an-ai-premortem/

An interview/case study with @kfitz about @hello ! In it, she talks about some of the absolute key issues for open infrastructure, such as scholar governance, sustainability, and total openness as an unnegotiable principle. Building the Commons: How Knowledge Commons is navigating challenges […]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@dozigden/115989170603682661 This is so cool!!! Even with the letters that each chapter starts with! 🤩 (For those who haven't seen the book: the 26 chapters start with words that start with the letters of the alphabet)

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@LimeSurvey/115978157649376293 And in addition to the @CryptPad discount of today, there's also a new LimeSurvey🍋‍🟩 version in the making! 💫✨ Great news for open science, digital sovereignty, and ethical research infrastructure! 🤩

RE: https://social.xwiki.com/@CryptPad/115972979917971775 Today you get 50% off at CryptPad! 🥳 If you ever thought in the past year or so that it might be good to become less dependent of ditch US Big Tech, this is the time! 🤩 Nice move to simultaneously get a safe place for your documents […]

RE: https://social.xwiki.com/@CryptPad/115974026999954657 Excellent reason to finally subscribe 🙂 I've been postponing it for a while (is does always cost some time etc), but this clearly shows the importance of guaranteeing structural funding (like for Fediverse software development and […]

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how […]

Think you can relate to billionaires? In total, it would take you over 769 years to reach billionaire status, making $25k/week. #NoMoreBillionaires #TaxBillionaires #USpol

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@monkeyislandbot_en/115964591922189319 I feel seen

RE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/115961628164402729 Wow - this is *not* satire, is it?!? I had to read the whole article, but it's either exceptionally well done satire, or exceptionally badly done governance 😶

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 […]

Bitlocker is a Microsoft product that encrypts your laptop hard drive etc. Apparently, Microsoft exfiltrates a recovery key for your Bitlocker encryption and stores it in their cloud, they give it out to law enforcement at request. And of course, they give it out to whoever compromises their […]

In the house: @Datagraver !

[crowdsource advice-seeking on latex/markdown] I started writing this book project using zettlr in markdown, because that seemed like the best way to incorporate many citations from a wild variety of journals/books/articles. But I am now having serious problems trying to integrate files. Latex […]

RE: https://toot.community/@openculture/115917423579084292 This seems to fit right in the "hushme" category: https://gethushme.com/

@NilsArlinghaus hi 🙂

A damning new study could put AI companies on the defensive. In it, Stanford and Yale researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying all that data, not “learning” from it. Specifically, four prominent LLMs — OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI’s Grok 3 […]

AWS lanceert vandaag hun "Europese cloud", en @Marloezovic van @nrc_nl vraagt goed door: "Ik hoopte op een ja/nee-antwoord op de vraag of jullie zekerheid kunnen geven?" "„Ik ben niet de beste om die vraag te beantwoorden. Daar moeten we op terugkomen.” De vraag bleef ook in de uren na het […]

Results from tracking 30,991 images across 1,456 instances from the mastodon.social federated timeline. Then filtering down to the top 1000 instances by active user from instances.social who had posted at least 32 images (1.5x the average).

GDPR in a nutshell. https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/115887342621053928

My bff just gave me the most amazing present. She painted a bit of my electronic music studio and made it into a magnet! This has to be one of my all-time favorite gifts.