Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not For Their Own Kids. – The New York Times https://blog.quintarelli.it/2026/08/silicon-valley-executives-are-tech-fans-just-not-for-their-own-kids-the-new-york-times/
@d_rift well sure but i was thinking p >= (q - 1)/2 or at worst p >= sqrt(q) would be appropriate as opposed to DEMANDING 2p + 1
@d_rift i'm not terribly sure if it's "slower" to iterate over large primes and require q = 2p + 1 vs something like (q - 1)/2 because you'd be somewhat trading off the number of iterations for the slightly smaller prime with iterations for the slightly larger prime
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“Spending donor funds to fight worker unionization does not advance our mission of bringing the world's knowledge to all people, the mission I've spent years working at the Foundation to pursue.” -- Wikimedia worker, name withheld
![Worker Statement [021]. Recognition Timeline: Day 25 since WMF declined voluntary recognition on July 27, 2026.
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I think I’ve fixed the issue for those users in Ireland who wanted to download earshot. Would love it if someone can confirm that.
@disorderlyf Huh interesting!
@disorderlyf That actually explains a lot of stuff about Bible
Tonight, our headquarters Berlaymont lights up in the colours of our shared destiny. 🇪🇺🇺🇦
Ukraine is defending the core principles that are at the heart of Europe: sovereignty, democracy, and the right to choose its own future.
The EU’s solidarity with Ukraine is stronger than ever.
Psst, psst, not too far from here there are people losing not only their right to choose their own future: they're losing their right to live.
Don't you have some solidarity left for them? Or are you too afraid of Donny and Bibi?
I was assaulted by a butterfly today. It flew directly at me, went under my sunglasses, whacked me in the eye, and flew away.
"AI is the new punk rock"
@hipsterelectron the 2p+1 thing has a good purpose in some places. Because it's shorthand for the Galois group doesn't have only small factors / does have adequate structure to be worth a damn.
@d_rift well sure but i was thinking p >= (q - 1)/2 or at worst p >= sqrt(q) would be appropriate as opposed to DEMANDING 2p + 1
OpenAI Faces Safety Scrutiny After Introducing 'ChatGPT For Teens' https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/23/2058201/openai-faces-safety-scrutiny-after-introducing-chatgpt-for-teens?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
@slashdot they can’t fucking make it safe for adults! Teens have even less defences.
*to the tune of Spider-Man*
Banana bread, banana bread
Do whatever the banana said
Don't laugh; he exists.
Silver Spook Games
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affirmations when opening a stuck jar:
- I am stronger than the jar
- i know what left and right are
- smashing the jar will make a mess
- i have strong and dextrous hands
- I have opened jars before and I will open jars again
Introverted Canadian Woman Accidentally Breaks World Record Out of Spite at Being Told it's Impossible
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@Taweret Out of all the people in the world, I don’t particularly trust that woman
@bart reviews the Peak Design phone mount for his bike - and @spsheridan and I got to see it in use in real life!
https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2026/08/peak-design-phone-bike-mount/
10 Feb, 2025
If you live outside of the United States,
do you know if your country has a plan if the US government decided to cut access to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon products overnight?
What would happen to your work?
What would happen to your hospitals?
What would happen to your emergency services?
What would happen to your banks?
Imagine overnight, for all those public services and private businesses, no more Windows, no more AWS, no more Google and Microsoft office software, no more remote files storage, no more emails, no more online maps, no more videochats.
What would happen?
Is your country prepared?
@Em0nM4stodon My work? I would be mildly inconvenienced as currently the github action workers are better than the other runners at my disposal, but this would be balanced by the opportunities to make fun of all colleague who went Microsoft 365 "but they promised data was hosted on a datacentre in the country".
Our institute @ethz.ch hosts local instances of gitlab, nextcloud, matrix, etc. that I actively use as redundancy (git) or primary storage (docs).
