A good Fediverse prediction for 2026: "The new “#activityrank” algorithm in #loops will prove that ethical recommendations & decentralization can coexist. @dansup’s approach—where each instance trains its own #algorithm while surfacing content across the #activitypub network—will be recognized […]

My entire X timeline is anti-EU posts from people I don't follow. Even if I change it from 'for you' to 'following', it switches back to 'for you' each time I open the site. X is being weaponised against the EU. And unfortunately X is still the public square for European journalists & politicians.

I would not have guessed this was possible! Vladan Majerech has found a one-dimensional spaceship in the Game of Life: a pattern just one cell high and 3,707,300,605 cells wide that, after 133,076,755,768 generations (during which it is not confined to the one-dimensional line, of course) […]

In which Nick Radcliffe goes very deep for a month with Claude Code and reports back. I’m convinced by some not all of what he says, but found the whole thing a stimulating read: https://checkeagle.com/checklists/njr/a-month-of-chat-oriented-programming/ #genai #claude

Be a shame if something happened to it

thanks to @paige for the very flattering and in depth video largely about the #fedialgo project! https://video.fedihost.co/w/a1522517-704e-44a3-aa0e-5c4e7d49e7d1 #activitypub #algorithm #algorithmicfeed #algorithmictimeline #fedi #feditips #feditools #Fediverse #feed #foss #gotosocial #hashtag […]

Ω🪬Ω Just released version 1.2.32 of #fedialgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed. Very minor changes that improve a couple of things in a small way. https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/115255251993344917 #activitypub #algorithm #algorithmicfeed […]

Ich werde nie begreifen, warum so viele Deutsche den Sozialstaat als Feind betrachten. Er ist die unvollkommene, aber größte Errungenschaft dieses Landes, indem er Not lindert und Gerechtigkeit und sozialen Frieden fördert. Wir brauchen mehr davon, nicht weniger.

endianness is just a plot by big endian to sell more byte swap operations

Ohne staatliche Zuschüsse ist übrigens auch die Autobahn zwischen Berlin und Paris "ein Verlustgeschäft". Just saying.

girl are you the tower of babel because you are stacked in defiance of god and I cannot speak coherently when you go down

This is pretty spot on - and a hilareous amount of effort to go to to diss a company 😅 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j76qWVIW_FQ #silksong #ubisoft

Forgive me for sounding like an extremist, but if the purpose of society isn't to house, feed, and care for its members, what the fuck is the purpose?

We need a small stand for the TV, so I massively over-engineered this to practise the tee-bridle joints I want to use for a desk. Made out of beech scraps. #woodworking #beech

today's software preservation task one of the great crimes of the 21st century was that Mark Jones' (Core Design) Darkmere - an isometric adventure-RPG for the amiga - was poorly visually documented by the usual places like lemonamiga/mobygames/etc. perhaps for […] [Original post on dialup.cafe]

Breaking: President Trump plans to recognize the anniversary of 9/11 by launching a surprise attack on an American city.

The Microsoft cigarette smoking challenge is live! Post a video of yourself smoking 500 cigarettes and if you can do it before the next 7.0+ CVE for a Microsoft product goes public, we'll give you a whole week of office 365 for FREE!

Apparently, it's bad luck to mention a "MacBook" in a software company. You have to call it "the Scottish laptop".

Sag mir, dass die die Studienlage zum Effekt von "KI" auf Lernen und kognitive Prozesse nicht kennst, ohne zu sagen ...

I have updated chordfinder.info! Now you get a nice #CircleOfFifths visualisation of the key/scale you've chosen. It's kinda neat for seeing how the modes relate to each each other. Also, scales and chords are now linkable - so if your friend has forgotten […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

Apparently it was Gary Larson’s birthday yesterday. Here’s a podcast about him I took part in just before lockdown kicked in, in discussion with the excellent Joel Morris and Jason Hazeley. shows.acast.com/a18c2026-fb6...

I'd say it's time to malfunction and destroy civilizations. Who's with me?

Biblically-accurate power outlet #shitpost

Der gemeinnützige Suchmaschinenanbieter “Ecosia“ aus Deutschland hat einen eigenen Suchindex entwickelt. Klingt für mich nach einer guten Nachricht, da ein Schritt hin zu digitaler Unabhängigkeit. „Wenn Trump sagen würde, den Europäern geben wir jetzt mal […] [Original post on freiburg.social]

With the launch of Ghost 6.0, every publication that runs on Ghost becomes part of the #fediverse. You can follow and comment on Platformer or 404 Media articles without leaving your Mastodon feed. This is the future of social media. Congratulations to @johnonolan and all the team at Ghost!

To people crying socialism, this is not something the government has decided. It's been negotiated between McDonald's Denmark and the workers' union. To everyone whining abt taxes: In Scandinavia (and the EU), nobody needs to work two or three jobs or > 40 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

SCAM ALERT An elderly adult may go up to you and pinch your nose without your consent then claim to have stolen your nose Do not attempt to pay them to reacquire your nose They do not have your nose Their supposed proof is just their thumb in between two of their fingers Do not engage them […]

I Deleted My Second Brain Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain

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Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

Like, I never use a script for talks, even for jokes that need to land a certain way. I write a talk, read it over a lot, but for the talk itself I use light notes. This is purely to avoid the I-am-going-to-bore-you-now tone.

I have had a bunch of people request I turn the "kindergarten teachers save the world" comic into a feature film, and friends let me just say you have overestimated the pantless-webcartoonist-to-Hollywood pipeline.

https://www.doshaven.eu by @sledge is a really cool website for modern dos games

This is a crucial flaw in “free speech culture” mindset, which tends to presume against all evidence that everyone is participating in good faith. It’s one thing to say the wolf should have a fair chance to eat me; it’s another to say I have an obligation to make the wolf feel comfortable about it.

This is not an exaggeration. If no aid arrives in 48 hours (especially baby milk and flour) we might see the biggest mass death ever. We’ve been starving for weeks. Our bodies are weak after more than 21 months of suffering and two months of eating only a little bread. Now, there’s nothing […]

Democracies should stop focusing on efficiency: Lack thereof and friction are important parts of what defines a healthy democracy. Efficiency will always sacrifice participation, representation and meaningful political discourse. The focus on it is a path into authoritarianism. In the essay ...

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to be held accountable for their crimes in a court of law. It makes sense people believe in Heaven and Hell with so little justice on earth.

#arteconcert is so amazing! I don't remember who on Mastodon first pointed me to it but it's *so good*. Thanks to whoever you are. If you don't know it, Arte is a a European public service channel and the Arte Concert is their live music channel. The live concert performances are top quality […]

It is depressingly plausible that Trump himself has no real idea what’s in the bill.

Any Questions?! 👇

This is the most boring apocalypse

Iranian ballistic missile launches spotted from a commercial plane over Dubai. - Popular Front #Iran #israel #israeliranwar

sometimes, sierra on-line artists could be *really* on their game when it came to rendering 256 colour backgrounds in deluxepaint this particular background from Police Quest 3 was likely hand painted on traditional media, scanned in, and then touched up in […] [Original post on dialup.cafe]

What's been lost... Entomologists from Krefeld, Germany, collected flying insects for two weeks in August 1994 (left) and—at the same site, with an identical trap— in August 2016 (right). Similar data from 63 German protected areas overall gave a shocking […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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