Quixoticgeek
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Happy Flat Fuck Friday
Quixoticgeek
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The local overnight parking lot filled up with more Pizza Tour cars from China. I did run into one of the travelers, and she told me Pizza was just a cute name they could all agree on for their team and it’s not an expedition to track down the world’s best pizza.
(But it should be, imo)
The gentleman driving this truck admired Odin but declined to pet him
Chip Butty
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"Democracy for Sale" email me to tell me that cash for access is operating again, this time it's the Tony Blair Institute, and without even the pretense of brown envelopes:
"We’ve obtained internal documents showing that Tony Blair’s think tank charges corporate members from $25,000 a year for “networking” opportunities with politicians at party conferences and more. Members include BP, Uber, Amazon and Microsoft."
@david_chisnall @skaphle @debcha @rednikki @sundogplanets Yes.. It's a trade off based on how often that's something you need to do in your field. But also just rewriting those fifty citations isn't *that* much work if it happens less than 3-4 times a year, I find after some practice the average citation takes a couple minutes max to write and for fifty citations I'd spare 3-4 hours to get them sorted out if the target format was unfamiliar. I think I could fairly easily do 50 in 2 hours if its Chicago/Turabian.
I used to easily waste more than a few hours a month getting Zotero etc to behave and to fix my citations doing my master's thesis. And the citations still turned out like shit in the end... because fixing metadata and checking generated results is more hassle than checking the references directly and I was too burnt out to do another round of it near the end.
I am in history now and don't expect to have to do that kind of rewriting that often. We don't publish that often, to boot, and by and large Chicago/Turabian is what everyone uses. But I do understand there are fields with multiple common styles and much more rapid turnout of material and manual citations may bog you down for most writing.
@librarysquirrel @skaphle @debcha @rednikki @sundogplanets
In computer science, all of the big publication venues provide their metadata as BibTeX (and normally at least one other option) so maintaining a citation database is just copying the canonical metadata in machine-readable format into a text file. The only time I need to do it manually is when I’m citing something like a web page (and then, doing it via BibTeX is useful because it warns me if I missed a required field).
I guess the major libraries for your field aren’t providing machine-readable citation information?
certo, nessuna fretta, anzi grazie davvero :)
immaginiamo quanto siate presɘ in questo periodo, apprezziamo tantissimo! 
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
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Quixoticgeek
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One of the things that I can admire Nox Mobility for is that they have played the media game, and played it well. They’re the biggest news out of Innotrans, despite the fact that they are one of at least 4 night trains exhibiting there that I’m aware of.
But not only that, a lot of the random photos I’ve seen as fillers for innotrans have their logo on it. For example, the hero image on this roundup: https://www.railin.net/es/noticias/flash/innotrans-2026-record-asistencia-expositores/
Their media blitz has been very successful, well done to their media team.
Now let’s see how they deal with the pushback on the airline-style seats, with their way-too-low “privacy” partitions
theruran 💻 🌐 :cereal_killer:
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As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it.
Read more here: https://www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/vaccine-considerations/routine-guidance.html
Konstantin :coffefied:
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#Akademy2026 attendees convey ("konvey"?) in one word what KDE means to them.
Chip Butty
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Graeber & Wengrow argue that indigenous societies often *only* have property relations in the domain of the sacred, and that these typically come with a duty of care (not just a right to exclusivity and destruction).
It makes me wonder how we might (re)imagine copyright, if we started from this basis
Complex software behaving in unexpected and sometimes harmful ways has been a persistent problem since software was invented. The phenomenon used to be called “bugs” or “defects”, but I guess “going rogue” sounds cooler. It also implicitly frames “rogue” behavior as some kind of inexplicable exception, as if software is somehow usually trustworthy. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openais-ai-us-government-websites.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EFE.RfLT.x6YBjHa1PMz6
@mattblaze
"...as if software is somehow usually trustworthy."
You're probably familiar with the UK Post Office Horizon scandal where some people assumed software is trustworthy. It didn't end well for them (and unfortunately for a lot of innocent people as well).
Konstantin :coffefied:
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Hangin’ on the staircase (observing what the weird human is doing)
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #SiberianCats #Knold
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@decryption is GNOME a distro or are you using Ubuntu or something?
@mittyoz GNOME is the desktop environment on linux - I chose Arch as the distro and GNOME as the "interface"
@mattrobertson pressure cooker mode is almost always better than slow cooker mode
@jpm yeah I usually use that but I thought all afternoon would be enough but no
hypebot
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A teenager struggling with climate anxiety searches for hope in an unexpected place – writing letters to imprisoned activists. Max, 14, is on a quest to understand the human stories behind direct action and why so many climate protesters are in prison.
Why indeed
@Shine_McShine estás seguro de que logseq es inusable? Yo llevo años y me funciona de maravilla*. Eso sí, la versión "antigua", la de archivos markdown. Según dicen los creadores, será fácil pasar a la versión de base de datos, si se quiere.
*Con algunos peros
@Shine_McShine lo que me gusta es su buscador, que lleva gestión de tareas, las queries.y que es FLOSS.
Lo que no tengo claro si me gusta del todo es que todo son listas, aunque tiene sus cosas buenas (puedes referenciar a un nodo, o permite tomar notas rápidas y jerarquicas), si lo quieres para documentación, es un poco meh.
Y lo que no me convence es que al final usa mucho código interno y bulletpoints y no termina de ser tan útil exportado
.. I’m hungry so I’ve deployed pressure cooker mode
@mattrobertson pressure cooker mode is almost always better than slow cooker mode
Does anyone here remember Bruce Tegner's books of photographic instruction in Judo and Aikido, from the early 1970s?
@GeePawHill Yes! Was taking Judo lessons in late 70s/early 80s and our instructor used them.
How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854875
#HackerNews #programming #LLMs #techenthusiast #codingcommunity #softwaredevelopment #developerlife
