Scheiss auf nen Van... auch wenn meine Goth-Zeit, zumindest optisch, schon seit Jahrzehnten vorbei ist... das ist doch die ultimative Party-Karre.
Ok, jetzt nicht unbedingt fuer die aktuellen Insassen!
Moin #Fediverse und euch einen gesunden Start in dieses Wochenende. Alles wird gut!
Jetzt auch mit Formaldehydspender an der D-Säule.
#Akkoma #Statistics 2026-08-22 09:00 CEST
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#Fediverse
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@evansky_arts/116975412741568931
Additionally, and since you loved them so much, I have restocked this design!
https://evanskyarts.com/products/stained-glass-kitty-suncatcher
Grégory Gutierez 🌻🎸🐧
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Well, at least as a drummer you can cover Angine de Poitrine without having to physically construct an entirely new instrument... 😝
Also, great "The show must go on!" energy from Sina here 😂
i absolutely don't buy this https://web.archive.org/web/20260331174508/https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/08/04/is-extended-random-malicious/
Just remember as you read this: nobody in 2006 was automatically suspicious of protocols that wanted to ensure lots of extra randomness.
in 2004 IBM had that incomprehensible article limiting the discrete log CSPRNG to n - c - 1 bits of randomness per iteration. maybe people not reading cryptographic papers didn't see the problem but academic cryptographers should have been aware of this
Nico Williams and Pasi Eronen discussed whether AdditionalPRF was too useful for inclusion in TLS. The fear was that if AdditionalPRF was standardized, vendors could use it to hack in arbitrary new features without going through the standards process.
IETF must burn
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L’Association La Coccinelle Loisirs et Sports Partagés souhaite acquérir un vélo adapté et un tricycle tandem à assistance électrique. L'objectif est de permettre à des personnes en situation de handicap de réaliser des balades.
Vous pouvez les aider en votant pour eux au Budget Participatif Handicap :
PSA for #Vegan folk that I just learned today (via a post in the #VeganCampOut Facebook group that was almost immediately deleted 🤬) #RedefineMeat donates meals to the IDF https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/israel-hamas-palestine-war-food-tech-founders-feed-6000-vegan-meals-soldiers/
(A couple of other vegan brands are also mentioned in the article but I've never heard of them so they may not sell outside Israel)
@afewbugs
I'm not too sure what to think about #VeganCampOut
While it seems like a great event, it seems the organisation itself is pro Israel?
Although Zack Polanski wore a pro Palestine shirt on stage.
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People often ask me what Chinese propaganda says about Japan these days, especially with relation to their pop culture.
today on Government Propaganda Blog With Cool Branding Aimed At Young People, the headline was straight up just “it’s not okay to be a weeb.“
I hope that answers everyone’s questions 😂
From the Linux Kernel Mailing List: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260818212923.2725202-1-kuba@kernel.org/
> We are completely overwhelmed, of course. The glimmer of hope is that we secured sufficient LLM budget and access (thank you Meta!) to run reviews with multiple frontier models on each patch. This eliminates some hallucinations. That said, in terms of review, the LLMs can only do so much. The sad truth is that our APIs (especially for rare events like PCIe errors, timeouts etc.) have always been racy, and now LLMs don't let us ignore that. I expect our direction for the next release will be to tweak the reviews a little bit more, but start shifting focus to letting the LLMs take care of the busy work - managing patchwork, automating common process complaints, editing commit messages, and maybe applying patches which already got "reviewed-by" tags from people we trust...
I look at the above and can't help but wonder if this is the "vibe bobsled" in action https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/
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@cwebber Dystopian, is this a bad dream? Please wake me up
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I'm at a small healthcare management conference, where I'm the only attendee (of about 40-50) wearing a mask.
I'm reminded of Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, who (borrowing from wikipedia) demonstrated in 1861 that requiring healthcare workers in obstetrical clinics to disinfect their hands reduced the maternal mortality rate from 18% to less than 2%.
Despite his research, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. He could offer no theoretical explanation for his findings of reduced mortality due to hand-washing, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and mocked him for it.
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Isn't that one of the guys from AC and DC, Ben?
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NEW: An investigation by Mayya Chernobylskaya, Marta Àbba and Carlotta Dotto involving four commercial chatbots across Europe found that the systems often blur the line between trusted health information and advocacy, frequently directing users to anti-abortion content without clearly identifying their sources or distinguishing official health authorities from others.
➡️ Read it here: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/chatbots-abortion-ai/
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#OtD 22 Aug 1943 the Statesman published this photo of the Bengal famine, which killed up to 4 million after British authorities under Winston Churchill, who "hate[d]" "beastly" Indians, destroyed and diverted food from the area and restricted imports. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9450/bengal-famine
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A Chinese mother and son spent 5 years on their passion project: an animation about a cow having a dream about walking upright.
They did it in SketchUp. It’s so amateur and primitive that people started buying tickets to see how ‘bad’ it is. Honestly, from all the videos I’ve seen of people in the cinema laughing as they’re in the cinema.. a work of art really.
I’d rather watch this than a crisp but soulless genAI movie
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2026/08/20/unbelievably-terrible-no-budget-film-china/
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The Justice Department appears to have hired a convicted election hacker to monitor elections.
Democracy Docket reported that David Michael Levin appears to have joined the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
A Florida attorney, Levin in 2016 was charged with three felonies for hacking a Florida state elections website as well as a county elections website.
The hacking had no impact on the vote counting or outcome,
but Levin pleaded guilty to the crimes.
Levin argued he just wanted to check in on “the integrity of elections.”
He went to jail for 20 days and did two years of probation.
Democracy Docket reported that he was recently involved in a Minnesota election operation
alongside William F. Mohrman, a senior counsel in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division
and the attorney who represented Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd.
The Justice Department has not confirmed Levin’s hiring or his role in the operation.
The Trump administration has made a habit of offering vindication for people who flat-out violated election laws in an attempt to stop what they believe was fraud
—a lie their president has constantly tried to manifest into existence.
Colorado’s Tina Peters,
the former Colorado county election clerk found guilty of tampering with voting machines,
was hosted at the White House last month.
And more broadly, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon has changed the purpose and function of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division entirely.
The apparent hiring of Levin
—a hacker watching over elections
—may also be a prelude for the midterms,
as the DOJ has already announced plans to send 1,000 poll monitors to ballot boxes around the country during the midterms.
https://newrepublic.com/post/214615/doj-attorney-convicted-hacking-election-sites
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🙂Moi (dans une supérette en Croatie): Bonjour, je ne trouve pas vos laits végétaux, vous en avez ?
🙋♀️La vendeuse : Oui, ils sont rangés là.
🙂Moi: Ah super, je vais prendre le lait de zob alors.
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Ever run a data analysis for hours only to find out it ran out of memory? Then lost hours to troubleshooting and retries? This is a waste of both your time and compute resources (GPU & RAM prices are skyrocketing).
The Futureverse Resource Specification Project aims to lower such waste by introducing a syntax for resource declarations, monitoring and scheduling (https://www.jottr.org/2026/08/11/roadmap-resources-memory/), e.g.
fits <- map(xs, model_fit) |>
resources(\(x) memory(4*size(x))) |>
futurize()
