Trump’s approval rating is so low that he broke Gallup.
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Chip Butty
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@pluralistic @eazy So a quick update.
On the library's website, there's a form you can fill out to request a book.
So I left a little note saying that given a number of people clearly want to read this book, maybe they should get some more copies.
Well, just now, I got an email back from a librarian confirming they'll do just that. Screenshot below.
The moral of the story: If there's a book you want to borrow from your local library and it's not in stock, you can help the author out by filling in a request form.
I’m seeing so much about LLMs in my feed today.
Web designers and developers — how are you feeling about AI and what it means for your work?
Are you using the tools? How? What’s changing?
How do you expect AI to be used in the future for making websites & web apps?
@jensimmons Even though I’m not using LLMs at all, the constant onslaught of news and tech bro boosters has beaten me into a state, where I’m loosing interest in web development altogether.
Right now I’m hoping that I can just survive a little bit longer than the AI hype bubble. But the fun is already not there anymore. Doing my job feels like slowly getting sucked down a quicksand hole.
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw::paw:
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the only photo I'd ever put on a dating app
@GeofCox this is incredibly cynical and ignores all of the benefits of advertising. Google is free to me. I watch many entertaining things without paying more than partial attention during commercials.
I don't disagree with the points you are making but this seems an intentionally one-sided view.
But Google is not free to you. It is collecting information about you and selling that to advertisers - and you pay Google for that - albeit indirectly - when you buy the advertised products or services.
starting to worder how many times some of these disconcertingly AI-pilled formerly competent devs have had COVID
@davidgerard oh so it was not 5g after all, it was the AI kool aid ‘ checks out
Sanofi Pushes Out Paul Hudson in Sudden Leadership Change
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-12/sanofi-pushes-out-paul-hudson-in-sudden-leadership-change?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business @business-bloomberg
d@nny disc@ mc²
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Astronauts’ brains shift slightly upward and backward in microgravity, with bigger changes after longer stays in orbit, according to a study of before-and-after MRIs 👨🚀
Fedify 2.0 will probably be out by the end of February. No, it has to be.
Chip Butty
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I have managed to set up a #Flohmarkt instance, thanks to some project devs who fixed a bug that stopped me from configuring it properly 🥳
Thanks @grindhold and others for creating it ❤️
I have created one to play with for the #Derby (UK) and nearby areas.
If anyone wants an account, feel free to join at https://flohmarkt.gogreenit.net and read the rules :)
I need to add some other servers so you can see more items for sale, as I've only put 1 item of my own on there as of now.
@smallcircles @jerger > In the case you mention it becomes confusing to still use client/server terminology.
In this case, I think the terms makes sense in the specific content of #ActivityPub clients and servers. There's significant overlap in the behaviors of the two, but there are significant differences too. For example, a client cannot federate and often runs in an environment where it can't expose listening sockets (browser, behind a firewall, etc.).
@smallcircles @jerger I feel like using C2S client and S2S server is a bit more precise than "app" for this thread. At this point, I haven't been able to determine how you define "app".
Sami Määttä
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Sain juuri mailin, jossa kerrottiin, että Rsync.netin laskutusjärjestelmiin pääsi ulkopuolinen taho 29.1 - 5.2 välisenä aikana.
Mitä tietoja asiakkaista on saattanut vuotaa:
- Yhteystiedot
- Maksutapa
- Muita satunnaisia tietoja, kuten tallennusrajat sekä mahdolliset alennukset
Mitä tietoja EI ole vuotanut:
- Luottokorttitiedot
- Oman tiedostojärjestelmän tiedostot
- IP-osoitteet
- SSH-avaimet
Toisin sanoen maksujärjestelmä on täysin erillään varsinaisesta palvelusta, jota rsync.net tarjoaa. Mitkään asiakkaan itse tallentamat tiedot eivät ole olleet vaarassa.
Tiedotteen mukaan rsync.net ei tallenna mihinkään järjestelmään selkokielisiä luottokorttitietoja, salasanoja tai henkilötunnuksia.
The top executive at Meta's Instagram defended the platform's choices around features that some company insiders called harmful to young users, at a trial on claims the app helped fuel a youth mental-health crisis. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/12/tech/instagram-ceo-mental-health-trial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #instagram #meta #facebook #socialmedia #addiction #mentalhealth #adammosseri #markzuckerberg
Kom over en interessant nettside: https://nestebok.no/
Biblioteksentralen sin oversikt over bøker de mener ligner på hverandre, så du kan slå opp en bok du likte og finne andre bøker du kan like. Gøy!
@forteller Kult, takk for tips! Slo opp Anna Karenina, og fikk ingen treff, men gleder meg til å prøve mer med andre bøker.
new phone case, who dis? 🤙
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The age verifier knows how old you are at all times. It knows this because it knows how old you aren't. By subtracting how old you are from how old you aren't, or how old you aren't from how old you are (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or remainder.
The verification system uses deviations to generate corrective dark patterns to drive you from a date of birth that isn't yours to a date of birth that is, and arriving at an age where you weren't, but now are. Consequently, the age you are is now the age that you weren't, and it follows that the age that you were is now the age that you aren't.
In the event that the age that you are is not the age that you weren't, the system has acquired a validation error. The validation error is the difference between the age the verifier thinks you are, and the age you weren't. If the validation error is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by by the upload of a high-resolution JPEG. However, the verifier must also know how old you were.
The age verification scenario works as follows: Because a variation has modified some of the information the you have input, it is not sure just how old you are. However, it is sure how old you aren't, within reason, and it knows how old you were.
It now subtracts the age you should be from the age you weren't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of the year you shouldn't be and the year you were, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called January 1st, 1970.
@hipsterelectron its like buying organic or something
@milo organic.......now that's a successful ad campaign
Chip Butty
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So my company, in my absence, decided to destroy my team. I have no idea what I am coming back in in a month and a half. 🫠
Anyone hiring a 25+ year experienced software engineer who's done a bit of everything over that time?
RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/116056070658188349
This is a really odd take. We know what RNA is and its importance since the dawn of molecular biology. We've been measuring RNA by in situ hybridization, RT-PCR, ESTs, microarrays, then RNA-seq, to understand genome function since before genomics.
Can we promote science without pushing revisionist pseudo-revolutionary stories please?
@marcrr yes, please