I am currently living a real life romance trope, I just can’t find what this trope is. For weeks now, my neighbor and I have been exchanging text files on a flash drive rather than emails, because our inboxes are flooded and a lot of people have asked us, why not just exchange email addresses […]

In an environment where "success" is defined by innovation, which involves the invention of new patterns, LLMs will not be more valuable than the upskilling, widening of understanding, fostering the wellbeing of human beings.

In a purely utilitarian perspective, for a huge portion of orgs, LLMs-assisted software development & content creation could be highly successful. Agencies that make cookie-cutter kind of websites, marketing content producers, and those who are satisfied with not being "ahead of the curve" in […]

RE: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/ Seems to be a pattern of our day and age? Keeping an open public #archive available becomes an act of civil disobedience. "I am convinced that closing all their excellent open source work is the wrong move for the NHS. I […]

@birb https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog.xml

Looking forward to #BandcampFriday tomorrowwww!

Does #copyfail open any interesting doors for hacking (and upgrading/re-using) old locked down hardware? I'm initially thinking about old routers which couldn't previously have #openwrt installed on them 🤔 (I'm very much beyond my knowledge area, please inform/correct me) #permacomputing […]

I wonder if anything big will get hacked today... #copyfail

""Today, I own six houses, five cars and six boats. ... The Reform leader ... said he did not mean to "boast", asking Greer: "In your Scotland, do you want more people like me, or fewer people like me?" "Fewer people like you," the Green co-leader replied." […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116460294820687486 And for the first part of the talk, about environmental consequences of ground-based AI data centres, I've got a whole lot of very excellent articles and resources to sift through (see quote-toot below). So hopefully I can do that […]

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116479704797697865 Nothing "went rogue". AI didn't delete the firm's database and backups. A human operator built admin automation and ran it in production without adequate testing or backups. I'm sorry, but no: a human gave admin privileges to unverified tools and […]

"The Tiffany problem refers to the issue where a historical or realistic fact seems anachronistic or unrealistic to modern audiences of historical fiction, despite being accurate." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_problem

@cryptadamist How easy do you think it would be to make a fork of a mastodon android app with #fedialgo built in? Even just a janky proof of concept version? Has someone done it already?

My wife and my sketching friend both work at research organizations. During the dog walk we did before the sketching session they were discussing the use of LLMs at their organization. Both of them have PhDs in biology. Listening to the way in which they and others use LLMs, it became clear a […]

Anyone wants to exchange a one-year old and now _-upgradable-_ #framework 13 for a #mnt Reform (Pocket/Next/any)? Extra points if you're in the UK 🫖

Ok fediverse, I have a #linux question - which OS should I use for my #cyberdeck project? It's going to have an fairly small lo-res e-ink screen, run on an old raspberry pi, and run off a battery pack. (Side-note: I think this is probably the point where I start learning about the #ricing […]

found the source of the polycule advert thingy some time ago https://rawandferal.substack.com/p/norman-polycule?publication_id=2642836&post_id=194487998

On a "Internet Infrastructure Walk" today, led by @aleesteele! Here they are explaining the history and notations on manhole covers! https://luma.com/skfkx2ty?pk=g-ojKg5hRitNmO3Lw

Is anyone else here going to attend the #for2026 „The Future of Open Research. Reliable, Equitable, Responsible“ Conference in Munich? The program looks very interesting. A lot of #OpenScience practitioners and visionaries but also critics, accounts from the #sciencestudies etc. I am already […]

Upgraded #libreoffice, saw an option I hadn't seen before and now my life is much improved.

@birb , can you make it so that I can follow https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/posts/index.xml pls?

Hey @k! Sending a follow request to say hi! I was searching for low tech magazine on fediverse and found your post 👋

Hey @mastofeed! Getting an error when trying to authenticate, just FYI

hey @rupdecat! Did you post on here about https://saranjeetkaur.github.io/nanopub_101yet? I just read it, enjoyed it, and came here to look for something about it to boost! :) #nanopubs

Had a wonderful discussion at the #osr26uk about social media, the #fediverse and science communication. I am a firm believer of REAL, venture capital free, social media. Yet, many institutions still refrain from posting to Mastodon. They cannot appreciate […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Hey @cryptadamist, I've been enjoying playing around with https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/ - I'm just wondering how the "AlreadyShown" value is reached? Does it include having been shown within fedialgo? Personally I'd like a binary toggle where I could turn off […]

Huh! Just discovered I can use 2 eSIMs simultaneously on my Pixel 8 Pro. I knew I could use the physical SIM alongside an eSIM, but never twigged that I could turn it of and still connect to multiple networks. What seemingly obvious tech thing have you found out recently?

This week I'm taking a break from #MetaScience / #openscience and getting back into SCIENCE! I'm at the Rank Symposium on "21st Century Colour Vision" 👁️🧠🌈🤓 Got Colour Vision questions? AMA! (If I don't know the answer I'll have lots of people to pass the question on to...) #rank […]

When I say "taking a break" - my presentation is still titled "Open Colour Research" 😅 (Will share here when it is ready!)

Hey #portfolioday! I'm Emily and I love everything to do with fantasy, folklore & fairytales. www.emilyhare.com

This week I'm taking a break from #MetaScience / #openscience and getting back into SCIENCE! I'm at the Rank Symposium on "21st Century Colour Vision" 👁️🧠🌈🤓 Got Colour Vision questions? AMA! (If I don't know the answer I'll have lots of people to pass the question on to...) #rank […]

What if all public funding and all private donations to our efforts stop tomorrow? Users should be fine for years thanks to the wonderful world-wide community of #chatmail relay operators 💜 Relays are dirt cheap to run. Also, our developments are much cheaper and less complex compared to what […]

Hey fediverse, what's the latest on DIY algorithms for fediverse/mastodon? I'm imagining the sort of thing where I could pull up a feed and it would show me things based on a prediction on what I'd like to engage with, but based on my own parameters which I could somehow tweak. What projects […]

Hey fediverse, what's the latest news on portable mini e-ink computers? I wanna be able to run linux from my hammock in the sunny woods this summer 🌞 #eink #linux #opensourcehardware

RE: https://akademienl.social/@nsunami/116379510476093483 Hey folks following the #osr26uk hashtag: Check out what our friends in the Netherlands did:

I'm at the Open Science Retreat (#osr26uk) this week, at the #CentreForAlternativeTechnology in #machynlleth this week - surrounded by experimental #solar arrays (incl. some cool ones from "history") and it has reminded me about my account on solarcene.community (a #solarpowered #mastodon […]

Hackathon kicking off! ✨ (Pre-event for #OSR26UK) @priyasilverstein and Ruth Davies facilitating the day of updating the #UKRN resource "Open Research Across Disciplines" - "How the principles of open research can be applied to your discipline" […] [Original post on social.coop]

I'm currently looking to expand my social network and would love to get in touch with anyone in the "global south" (especially African countries) involved in #hamradio, wireless community networks, #foss or #oshw development or the #maker and #hacker communities. I'd be very happy if anyone from […]

Out of Office email reply is now on! Bring on the Open Science Retreat! 🎉 🌳 🛌 🥾 #osr26uk

Job listing: #ux designer for asylum seeker support website with a friend of mine https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GY_GrtqnvVXrpGJQpaHwvq2CzSi7o_cHsDy27zDbZWU/mobilebasic#heading=h.6rl19stuc4r2

On this occasion of the launch of Artemis II, I need to reshare this. This is a photo of 8 of the surviving Apollo astronauts, taken on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. The man wearing ... well ... a heat shield, is Buzz Aldrin. I have to imagine his […] [Original post on meow.social]

I hate that it is like this, but surprisingly often something that would have been a long e-mail discussion is a quick "you are right" in a one on one in person conversation ...

"When people say “I’m not a tech person” (perhaps the single most repeated refrain in all our fieldwork) what they normally mean is something like “I can't work out how to operate the Torment Nexus like my niece can, she's a programmer you know”. Rather than seeing the underlying power relation […]

mount(8) #japanese_jesus #unix_surrealism #comic #art #linux #foss

Anyone know if there's a powerline ethernet adaptor that also provides PoE available in the UK?

(forwarding from Slack) 📣 CHARTED flexible funds - call for submissions 📣 You can now apply for two of the #charted flexible funds! CHARTED aims to make the training landscape easier to navigate for new and experienced digital Research Technical Professionals (#drtp), partly through funding […]