It's less that atom/RSS is "dead", and more that its "done".
The protocol is finished. It works well. It's stable and unremarkable as opposed to trendy.
And to capitalists, that's "dead".
Nothing to hype, no wealth to extract.
A tremendous amount of the scientific infrastructure is based on volunteerism and the assumption that the basics of survival have been met.
I'm thinking of all of the infrastructure that makes the process actually work --- reviewing for journals, reviewing for promotion at other institutions, presenting talks, helping students, faculty governance, doing more than the absolute minimum in teaching, helping with collaborations on projects, etc.
As the grant-getting situation gets more difficult, it becomes more and more difficult to actually provide these services (not because I don't want to, but simply because my head is full of funding crises and I just... how do the kids say it? ... don't have the spoons).
Importantly, I do not think that the solution is to start charging for these things. Once you start selling them, you become a business. I *like* the volunteer system. It means that I can do these things because I believe in them. It means I can do these things for the people who deserve them and need them, not for the people who can pay for them. Moreover, the amount that one could reasonably charge for these things is no where close to the cost of running a lab. The amount of reviewing one would need to do at $450 a pop to get to the price of a trainee ($75k+) is not reasonable mathematics and would not leave one time to do the actual science.
But I don't know how much longer I can do these favors for everyone while I watch my laboratory starve to death.
L’attacco alla Global Sumud Flotilla: l’ultimo schiaffo di Israele al Diritto internazionale https://altreconomia.it/lattacco-alla-global-sumud-flotilla-lultimo-schiaffo-di-israele-al-diritto-internazionale/ #dirittointernazionale #detenzioniarbitrarie #GlobalSumudFlotilla #violazionediritto #sumudflotilla #StatiUniti #Attualità #palestina #avvocati #flotilla #diritto #israele #italia #gaza
Yow. Hantavirus has an up to 8 *week* incubation period. That's wild. Also the fact that there's potentially some human to human transmission here is kinda terrifying. (I wonder how long before all the world except the US has a viable hantavirus vaccine available?)
This was a fairly small cruise ship, thankfully, but still. Ocean cruises. Not even once.
Idée controversée :
Se réjouir de la mort ou de la maladie des êtres politiques ou économique immondes de cette planète.
Contrepoint : ces gens provoquent la mort de tellement de milliers d'humains dont on n'aura jamais la moindre idée de l'existence.
Et non je ne ferai pas de part égale entre la vie des ces immondices et celles de milliers d'innocents...
@benjamin
Se réjouir de la mort d un être humain, non, cependant.....
The retirement of the PHP license
@FediThing See the list of DRM-free bookshops at @libreture.
@HolosSocial I'm almost afraid to ask these days, but looking at your code base I'm not seeing obvious signs of LLM development. Are you AI code free?
@reflex
I occasionally use Gemini integrated in JetBrains to help optimize specific functions, but it stays marginal with Holos only.
@FediThing See the list of DRM-free bookshops at @libreture.
Thank you!
what? WHAT?!?!?
The intended use of my string-centric computer is to facilitate communicating over the internet, so how'd I handle it?
Handling the core TCP/IP stack wouldn't take much on practically any CPU, beyond multitasking so threads can block as they await responses. Though TCP also requires counters & timeouts as it verifies it sent successfully.
Caching & port dispatch would be trivial on our string-centric CPU.
Early-boot would stick to UDP-based protocols, on the off-chance it needs internet.
1/3
Beneath the TCP/IP stack we'd need a unique MAC address stored in read-only memory & a wired or wireless connection to nearby devices.
In the case of wireless we'd need to wrap a radio transceiver in real-time processing circuitry ensuring packets are sent successfully. By sending & receiving acknowledgements, & determining when's an acceptably quiet time to send.
Wired would require little if any extra circuitry to ensure the bits are encoded correctly.
2/3
The land footprint of food
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
by @EurCorrespond
@infobeautiful somebody please tell me how to grow 1kg of carrots on 30cm² 
Valkoinen vappu -tapahtuman marssijat pahoinpitelivät henkilön, joka piti "Natsit vittuun" -banderollia. Luin juuri kirjan "Oikeusjuttu", toimittaja tuomittiin oikeudessa, koska kutsui äärioikeistolaista poliitikkoa "natsipelleksi".
Suomessa hyssytellään natseja. Paskaperseet sanovat, että uhri "provosoi" tai "kerjäsi verta nenästään". Natseja pitää voida sanoa natseiksi ja heidän pitää olla ei-toivottuja ilman että tulee turpaan. Olemmeko unohtaneet miten NSDAP nousi puolueeksi 1930-luvulla?
Videon lähde: pahoinpidellyn Threads ja Amnesty: https://www.threads.com/@tuonen_tytti/post/DX9VJHEDaQZ
#Politiikka #Äärioikeisto #SinimustaPuolue #SinimustaSika #Tampere #Miekkarit_Tampere #Natsit #NatsitVittuun #NatsitHelvettiinJokaPaikasta #PS #PerusSuomalaiset #Persut #Vappu
@milan ich hab einen Workaround gefunden, der es einigermaßen erträglich macht: du aktivierst einen Passkey und *deaktivierst* FaceID für die App, dann fragt er nicht mehr jedes mal nach dem Einmalpasswort.
@dns13 danke, werd ich testen!
I grow weary of asking for little, and receiving even less.
How to get rid of that 4GB AI model that Chrome is secretly installing on your machine without asking if you even want it:
https://winaero.com/google-chrome-secretly-downloads-huge-local-ai-models/
Apple Explores Intel and Samsung as TSMC Backup
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-05-05/apple-explores-intel-and-samsung-as-tsmc-backup-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/116523024075066848
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A giant “shadow IT system” inside #Europol containing vast amounts of sensitive personal information, hidden from the EU’s EDPS https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366642525/They-protect-the-law-while-breaking-it-Inside-Europols-shadow-IT-system
@CCC Überall Lügen in der EU !!!
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