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Magdalena Hai📚🦈🏳️‍🌈

@magdalenahai@mstdn.social 15 hr. ago

Youtube vs. Peertube

Kuunkehän kirjatraileri (ladattu 2 kk sitten)
YT: 30 katselukertaa
PT: 44 katselukertaa

Jäähyväiset Royaumelle (ladattu 6 kk sitten)
YT: 75 katselukertaa
PT: 63 katselukertaa

Villipiha 2025/ My Finnish Wildgarden (ladattu 7 kk sitten)
YT: 242 katselukertaa
PT: n. 2100 katselukertaa

(Viimeisessä vaikuttaa varmasti se, että PT-versio on englanniksi, YT-versiossa on tarjolla erillinen tekstitys englanniksi)

Mastodon Migration boosted

GhostOnTheHalfShell

@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai 2 min. ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117152333189494887

@davidgerard

Groan

Alex Chapman boosted

Wil James🍻

@wiljames@tweesecake.social 2 hr. ago

I am using the Monarch as I type this. In iOS 27 Beta 7, it appears when you press the right D-pad up arrow, you get a display that shows you a 2D representation of the graphic. You can now see your home screen icons. The mail app shows a mailbox. phone shows a phone. You can zoom in and out with the minus and plus keys. The fun doesn't stop there! In mona, you can bring up an image and see it on the display! The only drawback is you cannot move the image around yet. At least I haven't figured that out yet. We are making progress with iOS 27 and the Monarch! If you have access to one,, give it a try! In Weather, you can actually see the print letters of "11 PM," "Charlotte," and so on.

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e.e.varis

@varis@mementomori.social 7 hr. ago

Olen taas vaihteeksi käyttänyt aivan liian suuren osan päivästä EU-hakemukseni muokkaamiseen, ja viihdytään nyt itseäni etsimällä meemejä, jotka kuvasivat tästä seurannutta henkistä tilaani parhaalla mahdollisella tavalla. Nää on ihan osuvia, mut toivon silti, että olisi aikaa myös piirtää itse. #tutkimushommat

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Pastellipapukaija: None of my work is done but I sure am.

Söpö tuijottava kili: The rage in me builds

Epämääräisen karhumainen pökäleolento: Don’t send nudes, send help

Verestävä sininen silmä Sauronin tornin laella: The all-seeing eye has seen enough.

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr 7 hr. ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: How Canada can save Americans and defeat America; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/elbows-really-up//

#Pluralistic

A Canadian flag, its elements replaced with circuit boards. In the foreground, a bent-double, exhausted Uncle Sam trudges over rocky terrain, shlepping a giant sack on his back. Centered in the maple leaf is the word SORRY.

https://pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026)

Carolyn

@CStamp@mastodon.social 41 sec. ago

@pluralistic About drinking "Wayne Gretzky's shitty rye..."

Just no.

Gretzky is a Spanky supporter and more red hat that maple leaf.

Canada has a lot of great whiskies and ryes without lowering ourselves to that. He really got us riled during the US-Can hockey games.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/wayne-gretzky-draws-social-media-ire-amid-tense-canada-us-hockey-showdown/

CTVNews

Wayne Gretzky draws social media ire amid tense Canada-U.S. hockey showdown

As Canadians revel in the national hockey team's victory at the 4 Nations Face-Off Thursday night, one of the sport's most famous stars is drawing fire on social media for his ties south of the border.

Chris 🦑

@sturmsucht@mastodon.social 2 days ago

@linuxassociation using AI images reflects none of the values you quoted. There is no opportunity for collaboration with an FOSS artist and no support for the creative community. Worst of all: this AI image is meaningless, adds nothing to your post and could have been easily replaced with any real photo.

It doesn't help explaining your work at all. It only shows: you don't care about artists - or the planet. Where is the responsible use here? And the transparency? I see no AI mark anywhere.

Linux Association of Canada

@linuxassociation@thecanadian.social 45 sec. ago

@sturmsucht I appreciate your feedback. The problem right now is: I'm not a graphic designer or artist. If you know someone we would love to hear from him/ her/ them/ they. Please refer to https://linuxassociation.ca/apply-job.php?id=11

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Tobias Eigen

@tobias@social.tobiaseigen.org 59 min. ago

@codinghorror @brentsimmons One of my favorites.

Jeff Atwood

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange 48 sec. ago

@tobias @brentsimmons ah, interesting, Tobias Eigen is one of my favorites as well 🤗

Jürgen Hubert boosted

Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy yesterday

⚠️ Retired four-star US Army General Barry McCaffrey says that the US has “probably permanently lost access to 15 Persian Gulf bases” as a result of the Iran War:

Barry R McCaffrey
@mccaffreyr3
X.com
In my judgement, the US Armed Forces have probably permanently lost access to 15 Persian Gulf bases. Iran now poised to control access the Gulf States. US will have to negotiate new access in western Saudi Arabia, Israel, southern Europe.

Anthony Scaramucci & @Scar...• 1d
USS Abraham Lincoln's resupply problems weren't a mystery. Iran hit NSA Bahrain—the 5th Fleet's main logistics hub—hard in February. The Navy had to shift to Diego Garcia, 2,20...
6:54 PM • 8/22/26 • 1.4M Views

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 3 min. ago

i hate it when people hide or act coy about doing evil shit. just say it right up front and maybe i will read your paper

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 1 min. ago

they glaze up the fast fourier transform too. don't know why these kinds of people flock to FFTs like a moth to a lightbulb but clearly it excites them somehow

Brent Simmons boosted

Low Quality Facts

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social 15 hr. ago

I know that Elon Musk gets a lot of hate on here, but hear me out.

I think we could hate him more. We have the capacity, we all just need to put in a little more effort.

Mastodon Migration boosted

Hoochie Daddy

@ottsatwork@mas.to 3 hr. ago

Thanks to Mastodon Migration for finding the links. The artist is @Ullilust and the specific comic strip I was looking for is here:

https://mastodon.social/@Ullilust/114138199183667985

There are lots of other great ones—give Ulli a follow!

@mastodonmigration @FediTips

#Mastodon #Fediverse

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Risotto Bias boosted

Rye

@rye@ioc.exchange 9 mo. ago

A green robot with a text box reading today’s forecast calls for some pressure stalls in the plains.. end quote. Behind the green robot is the forecast O Tron. Inside the screen below the banner is a graph of pressure stalls in orange and yellow, showing full and some pressure stalls.

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 4 min. ago

Let A be an n×n matrix over the ﬁeld1 F. What is the least number
of gates in a circuit that computes the linear transformation x → Ax? Each gate is speciﬁed by two ﬁeld elements a and b. Such a gate receives two inputs x and y and outputs ax + by.

i.e. given a single input-output pair, can wee infer the underlying structure of the system, in some hardware circuit to perform a linear transformation A?

1 This problem is interesting for ﬁnite as well as for inﬁnite ﬁelds.

i.e. "this can be used for finite-field modular exponentation"

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 3 min. ago

i hate it when people hide or act coy about doing evil shit. just say it right up front and maybe i will read your paper

Mastodon Migration boosted

Hoochie Daddy

@ottsatwork@mas.to 3 hr. ago

Alternatives to the Algorithm

There are many reasons to seek alternatives to corporate social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram: guarding your mental health, refusing Al "features", keeping your personal information safe, stopping your data from being mined to track you and sell ads; the list goes on.

The Fediverse is made up of social networking platforms that are open, decentralized (meaning a billionaire can't just buy it and turn it into a cesspit), and free of an algorithm that actively encourages unhealthy behaviors. The Fediverse has an alternative to most of the major social platforms:

Instagram > Pixelfed
TikTok > Loops
X > Mastodon
Facebook > Friendica
YouTube > PeerTube
Twitch > OwnCast

And more. Research, experiment, find what fits you, your values, and how you want to spend your time online.

@mastodonmigration @FediTips

#Friendica #loops #owncast #Fediverse #pixelfed #Mastodon

Em :official_verified:

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange yesterday

The problem with using LLMs to research information is that this technology generates text, it does not report information.

Generating a map is not the same as finding an accurate map that already exists. Same for any other pieces of information.

And even if it was able to find and report information without modifying it (what a search engine does basically), it cannot evaluate if this information is accurate.

Adjust your level of trust accordingly.

#NoAI

Jürgen Hubert

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social 3 min. ago

@Em0nM4stodon

Yeah, when I google for information for my German folklore research, Google frequently sends me an AI answer. Which sounds helpful at a glance, but it rarely includes any kind of citations where the information came from.

Thus I cannot trust it and will not use it.