A World of Chess: Its Development and Variations through Centuries and Civilizations
Edition
Published in 2017
@Federation_Bot
If at least 80% of your clothing isn't navy, are you even a man?
@jonathanhogg Well yes, but vibe coding does not solve that, or does it? People kind of know what they want, but they still cannot get it. Just something that looks like it and is really hard to debug. That's got be even more frustrating? Maybe I misunderstood you. I'm definitely not arguing that programming (what's the other one called now? the non-vibe programming. Does it have a name yet?) is easy and fun and the tools are good, oh no.
I'm honestly very surprised by the love for chat interfaces. I don't get it. But apparently that's an amazing way to for example search the web. Not keyword -> list of links, but full question -> long answer text -> follow-up question -> even more text, etc. I thought people don't like to read long texts? But apparently the key is something in the wording. Make it say "i" and "talk" to me and add emotions.
Maybe we'll get better tools out of this in the long run? Harness the power of the ball of statistics to create not the subtly wrong full app, but parts, smaller, clearly delineated building blocks of well-known, testable code that are easy to put together to create the whole thing? Okay, that's libraries, aehm, but with a different interface? Scratch/blockly but as a chat?
@dasgrueneblatt I think you have misunderstood me: I think vibe coding is a horrendous problem, but it is a symptom of an industry failing. That people are trying to steer a tank with a speak'n'spell is because we have not made decent bikes.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jrboehnke/116085219010288309
Reading these prompted me to pack out Porter/Teisberg's "Redefining #HealthCare" again.
It remains an interesting read, but it is very influenced by the time of writing and geography.
Any suggestions for sources with similar depth & breadth, but that
- are more recent?
- are more EU/UK focused?
- have a stronger focus on primary #MentalHealth care?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@DiaaAyad/116079921329323446
I’m asking you from my heart… please don’t leave me alone.
I truly have no one but you standing beside me.
Your support means everything to me. 🙏💔
https://chuffed.org/project/133500-support-diyaa-a-home-a-future-and-hope-lost-in-gaza
@joynewacc @joynewacc @welshpixie
@lokigwyn
@jepyang @SehrLesbisch
@kotaro @_L1vY_
@jon_bon @prolrage
@jasper @Wen
@Af_Redelius @Huubje
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The Transformations of John Donne
Paperback Edition
352 pages
Published in 2023
by Picador
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Disappearing from Search: A personal story about visibility, #dotcons, and the shrinking #openweb
Recently I’ve been doing media interviews - one mainstream piece for a #boatingeurope article coming out in traditional media, and another for the Cherwell student paper in Oxford focused more on biography. Both journalists said the same thing: “It was surprisingly hard to find information about you online.”
Around the same time, a boater friend told me something similar. After finally discovering my YouTube channels - which contain thousands of videos and millions of views - they […]
Perdez pas votre temps, @olivier_truchot, nous on a cherché et on a pas trouvé.
https://bird.makeup/users/alma_dufour/statuses/2023840546931044417
Perdez pas votre temps, @olivier_truchot, nous on a cherché et on a pas trouvé.
https://bird.makeup/users/alma_dufour/statuses/2023840546931044417
It's Tuesday, pocket friends. And that means visiting Bob, who today is sporting a rather fetching red and white coat. #TherapyDog #ChowChow
Building Zavala 4.0: vincode.io
NEW REPORT – The AI climate hoax
Access the raw data, chart files and other documents
I guarantee you’ve heard the harms of data centre expansion justified on the grounds that “AI” will ‘solve climate change’. These range from sci-fi claims of superintelligence through to detailed reports stacked with hundreds of examples of ‘AI for good’ helping energy, transport and industry cut emissions.
In partnership with the good people at the organisations shown below, I’ve created a new report that, for the first time, interrogates both the logic and the evidence for this claim.
We found that most of the ‘benefit’ tends to relate to older, smaller and leaner forms of machine learning, what has been called ‘traditional AI’, while we also know that most of the new harm is likely stemming from consumer generative AI over-deployment.
This distracts from the decisions made by companies that result in their own fossil fuel use rising at an unprecedented rate.
We also found that the evidence presented for examples of climate benefit, regardless of AI type, tend to be weak whether from companies or organisations like the IEA. The potential benefits are overstated, in surprising and significant ways.
What we see is companies veering wildly away from their climate targets. In most cases, this is true whether you use their ‘adjusted’ metrics that incorporate renewable energy offsets and deals or not.
That is a choice, and this focus on ‘AI for climate’ is a distraction from the decision to worsen the pollution of data centres through an unprecedented explosion of digital bloat.
Video and social
3 minute overview: AI vague-washing (watch on Youtube)
3 minute overview: Weak evidence for benefit, strong evidence of harm (watch on Youtube)
Supported by
Very genuine and warm thanks to the good people at the follow organisations, who supported this work and continue to push for accountability from polluters:
About Beyond Fossil Fuels
Beyond Fossil Fuels is a civil society network committed to ensuring a just and rapid transition to a fossil-free, renewables-based future. Building upon the Europe Beyond Coal campaign, its goal is for Europe to be coal-free by 2030 and phase out fossil gas from the power sector by 2035. A clean and flexible energy system will deliver lasting benefits for people, the climate and the broader economy. Beyond Fossil Fuels is a non-profit organisation with an office in Berlin, with staff spread across Europe.
http://www.beyondfossilfuels.org
About Stand.earth
Stand.earth is a global advocacy organization delivering large-scale change for our planet and its people by interrupting the systems that create environmental and climate crises. Its mission is to challenge corporations and governments to treat people and the environment with respect. Stand’s worldwide community of more than one million members advocates for a climate-safe, equitable future, where environmental and climate justice policies uphold the dignity of people everywhere – at the scale our world requires.
https://stand.earth
About Climate Action Against Disinformation
Climate Action Against Disinformation is a global coalition of over 120 leading climate and anti-disinformation organisations across the globe demanding robust, coordinated and proactive strategies to deal with the scale of the threat of climate misinformation and disinformation.
https://caad.info
About Friends of the Earth U.S.
Friends of the Earth U.S. works to reduce the spread of disinformation that potentially affects all of our campaigns. As technology and media companies consolidate their power, our fundamental ability to campaign on any issue is threatened, as corporate polluters gain more control over the basic communications systems that are needed for social change and democracy itself.
https://foe.org/projects/disinformation/
About Green Screen Coalition
The Green Screen Climate Justice and Digital Rights Coalition is a group of funders and practitioners looking to build bridges across the digital rights and climate justice movements. The aim of the coalition is to be a catalyst in making visible the climate implications of technology by supporting emerging on-the-ground work, building networks, and embedding the issue as an area within philanthropy. https://greenscreen.network
About Green Web Foundation
Green Web Foundation is a non-profit organisation working towards a fossil-free internet by 2030 by reducing absolute emissions and phasing out fossil fuels in data centers – fast, fairly and forever. The foundation maintains the world’s largest open dataset of websites that run on green energy and builds open source tools for measuring and mitigating emissions from digital services.
https://greenweb.org/
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« Quand AWS ou Azur tombera, la communauté éducative peut ne plus du tout s’en apercevoir »
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Replay de l'intervention de Benoît Piédallu, Chef de projet national des services numériques partagés à la Direction du Numérique pour l’Éducation du Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale,du #20Janvier 2026 @iscpif – Fournir des Communs Numériques aux agents publics : un exemple au ministère de
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@Tutanota @ElGatoOscuro Supongo que es muy difícil tener la certeza de que un servicio no sea un "honeypot", es un riesgo que se asume. Sin embargo, en mi opinión, Tutanota se diferencia de otros servicios por su apoyo al ecosistema de software libre al tener cuenta en Mastodon, aplicaciones android en F-Droid y cliente en Linux.
1984
Paperback Edition
400 pages
Published in 2020
by Éditions Gallimard
Année 1984 en Océanie. 1984 ? C'est en tout cas ce qu'il semble à Winston, qui ne saurait toutefois en jurer. Le passé a été réinventé, et les événements les plus récents sont susceptibles d'être modifiés. Winston est lui-même chargé de récrire les archives qui contredisent le présent et les promesses de Big Brother. Grâce à une technologie de pointe, ce dernier sait tout, voit tout. Liberté est Servitude. Ignorance est Puissance. Telles sont les devises du régime. Pourtant Winston refuse de perdre espoir. Avec l'insoumise...
Traduction de Philippe Jaworski.
The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting
Paperback Edition
239 pages
Published in 1956
by Dover Publications
Medieval painters built up a tremendous range of technical resources for obtaining brilliance and permanence. In this volume, an internationally known authority on medieval paint technology describes these often jealously guarded recipes, lists of materials, and processes.
Based upon years of study of medieval manuscripts and enlarged by laboratory analysis of medieval paintings, this book discusses carriers and grounds, binding media, pigments, coloring materials, and metals used in painting.
It describes the surfaces that the medieval artist painted upon, detailing their preparation. It analyzes binding media, discussing relative merits of glair versus gums, oil glazes, and other matters. It tells how the masters obtained their colors, how they processed them, and how they applied them. It tells how metals were prepared for use in painting, how gold powders and leaf were laid on, and dozens of other techniques.
Simply written, easy to read, this book will be invaluable to art historians, students of medieval painting and civilization, and historians of culture. Although it contains few fully developed recipes, it will interest any practicing artist with its discussion of methods of brightening colors and assuring permanence.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116072105823598977
You should definitely support Glyph: they do really good work and are clever and such. And I'm not just saying that because they've been complimentary about *my* work in the past.
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cryptica wrote the following post Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:22:43 -0800Forte permissions when interacting with mastodon
Ok, so I like the granular post visibility permissions and such. I've been setting the post visibility permissions to a list containing all my contacts that are not groups. I've been doing this because "connections" permission looks like it only lets 5 of my ~15 connections have permission (which is a separate issue).
So when I make a post with list permission, and someone on mastodon replies, their reply gets marked with "followers only" permission (which I think means their followers, not mine). If I reply to that post, my reply keeps the original permissions list.
This leads to folks able to see orphaned comments from the 'followers only' permissioned replies, but not my original post or any of my replies.
Is this expected behavior or a bug?
@cryptica
Forte permissions when interacting with mastodon
Ok, so I like the granular post visibility permissions and such. I've been setting the post visibility permissions to a list containing all my contacts that are not groups. I've been doing this because "connections" permission looks like it only lets 5 of my ~15 connections have permission (which is a separate issue).
So when I make a post with list permission, and someone on mastodon replies, their reply gets marked with "followers only" permission (which I think means their followers, not mine). If I reply to that post, my reply keeps the original permissions list.
This leads to folks able to see orphaned comments from the 'followers only' permissioned replies, but not my original post or any of my replies.
Is this expected behavior or a bug?
@cryptica
Yes, there is a known issue with Mastodon folks that have joined forte groups. This occurred during the conversion to conversation containers around a year ago. The fix would be to figure out what folks are using Mastodon and send them an Announce activity for group comments, since Mastodon doesn't support collection operations. This isn't terribly difficult but has not yet been done. And there is no solution for Mastodon participation in private groups, which can't use the Announce method.
It would be better and easier to implement this if Mastodon supported groups and private groups, and we could just emulate their existing mechanisms, but they do not. They don't actually support groups and audience control and reply control. They do support boosts, so that's all we have to work with. You're welcome to file an issue, but being a volunteer project there is no telling when this might actually get implemented. At this point, nobody has been concerned enough to file an issue, so as a consequence, nobody is working on the problem and it hasn't even been properly documented. The lead developer is retired and contributes very infrequently these days. Looks to me like about 3-4 days of effort to sort this out. Maybe a bit more. Private groups and circles/aspects/lists will remain unavailable to Mastodon folks, but this will bring back their ability to interact with public groups, which they could do from around 2018 to 2025 when we upgraded to conversation containers.
@Doug Belshaw
Thank you. The issue of 'amgaf' related "backroom" internet infrastructure is often forgotten; perhaps something to consider also in your project about data sovereignty
