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We’ve reached the point where the linting spellcheck system on my phone is just… wrong. A substantial portion of the time. It flags correctly spelled words, it often suggests misspellings.

PSA to folks born this millennium: in my lifetime, there was a time when spellcheck for english language text was *excellent.* Grammar check was getting pretty decent. The code existed and was polished and *available constantly for everyday users*.

That is gone, now. We lost that tech *in your lifetime.*

@kenobit hai messo per iscritto una sensazione simile alla mia: visto il trailer, ed ho pensato "si ok bello, però..."

@trrektor Dankjewel voor je antwoord! Fijn om even een beetje input van een kenner te krijgen. De fietsenmaker zei inderdaad iets over dat het niet anders lukte dan hoe hij het nu heeft gedaan, zonder het tandwiel verkeerd uit te lijnen. Maar dan is dus het materiaal niet goed.

As the reuse market continues to boom, Japan's government has begun working to combat malicious actors among businesses that collect used items to sell at secondhand shops. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/09/09/reuse-market-malicious-businesses/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #secondhand #recycling #inflation

Not too happy with myself for this one (and one day, I need to stop confusing Costa Rica and El Salvador)

www.maptap.gg September 9
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Final score: 922

Kinder möchten Rad fahren. Wir möchten, dass sie sicher ankommen. 🧡

Damit Kinder sicher und selbstständig #Fahrrad fahren können, braucht es hochwertige, durchgängige Radwegenetze, geschützte Kreuzungen, sichere Schulwege und Tempo 30 innerorts. Und zwar überall, nicht nur punktuell. ✊

🗓️ Genau dafür gehen vom 12. bis 27. September wieder bei den #KidicalMass Aktionswochen auf die Straße. 😍 Mit bunten Fahrraddemos, Schulstraßenaktionen und Fahrradbussen.

👉 Mehr dazu: https://www.adfc.de/neuigkeit/sichere-wege-fuer-kinder

@tfardet I think it definitely has something to do with phase change cooling.

The amount of water I had in the pan was very thin in this case though (I wasn't paying attention and it nearly evaporated dry!), so I don't think there is any convective movement for cool water to go to the bottom.

My guess would be that temperature gradients on the frypan probably play a role. Maybe as the pan cools as the water boils off, but the heat from the hot section rushes in to the cool areas, and that causes an oscillation

@spla @lalgorisme I amb Linux també te feina eh? Recordem que això és només el nucli, no tot el SO sencer com amb Microsoft.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-kernel-nears-2-000-cves-per-release-as-ai-bug-hunters-scour-40-million-lines-of-code-maintainers-say-they-are-completely-overwhelmed

Crisp and drink giant #Pepsi runs quirky ad campaigns enticing zoomers and millennials into a lifetime of #obesity and #diabetes. Yet few people know PepsiCo are linked to #indigenous #landgrabbing for #palmoil Take action! #Boycottpalmoil @palmoildetectives https://wp.me/scFhgU-pepsico?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Da amante di Zelda e Nintendo, sono abbastanza basito dall'emozione con cui è stato accolto l'ennesimo remake di Ocarina of Time.

Mi emozionerei con uno Zelda nuovo, mentre questo, semplicemente, l'ho già giocato. Operazione "rivendi l'infanzia ai millennial".

Un'industria che vive di seguiti infiniti e remake è un'industria che non sta troppo bene.

@charles @ligaturerecords @Eldeberen

Non, droite doit communiquer pour montrer aux droitards que ce sont eux qu'on écoute.

On s'en tape des actions, faut juste convaincre les bagnoleux que c'est pour eux qu'il faut voter.

Elle compte bien sur la conscience écologiste des cyclistes pour continuer, et pas embouteiller… mais discrètement !Pendant qu'elle cire des pompes aux électeurs en leur montrant que ELLE, elle les écoute tavu

Hey! If you want a sneak peek at my new project, you can do so here: https://patience.c3.cx/

It’s a set of patience/solitaire card games for iOS. Highly polished, good looking, no ads, no AI, no tracking. Hand picked to actually be fun, instead of just including every game out there. A mix of classic, new, and weird. Good card games to keep the mind busy and pass time.

Minns ni Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter?

Chat Control 1.0-förespråkarna ger oss den efterlängtade uppföljaren som bland annat lär barn förstå processen i Europaparlamentet... för barnens skull.

(Ursäkta ai-slaskbilden.)

#ChatControl

Very serious stuff happened at the conference yesterday

I can't believe I can't get access to this—it's in the New England Journal of Medicine. Can anyone please help me out?

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM195306112482401

#icanhazpdf

"This can only be the first step. To fully meet its legal obligations, the UK Government must: suspend the UK-Israel trade agreement until violations have ended, impose a *full* arms embargo on #Israel, and ensure real accountability for all those who violate international law."

MAP NEWS: UK recognition of Israel’s illegal occupation and ban on imports from illegal settlements a "substantial and welcome shift" | Statement: Medical Aid for Palestinians
https://www.map.org.uk/latest/news/map-news-quote-uk-recognition-of-israels-illegal-occupation-and-ban-on-imports-from-illegal-settlements-a-substantial-and-welcome-shift/

#Palestine #UK

1/ #SpringerNature just published a report showing certain download and citation benefits of "gold" #OpenAccess. (I'm linking to the executive summary.)
https://stories.springernature.com/from-access-to-impact-open-access-research/executive-summary/index.html

But it's very misleading, even dishonest, in one respect. It shows that #GoldOA articles are downloaded and cited more than non-OA articles. But it attributes this to the fact that they are gold OA (charging #APCs), not to the fact that they are OA. Because it didn't test no-APC or #DiamondOA journals, attributing the download and citation benefits to the APC business model is unjustified and deceptive.

It also says that the gold OA model supports "greater equity" because it allows more downloads than non-OA models in low-income countries. But that kind of equity belongs to all flavors of OA. The report never mentions that APCs severely reduce equity by excluding authors who cannot afford to pay.

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#ScholComm

A reminder that, in the last week, the #UK police had the resources to plan and get a warrant for a raid on an 84-year old vicar's home for planning a demonstration against genocide.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

RE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/117238555582677941

"In the same way that we do not become fit by watching sports but by doing sports, learning does not occur through the consumption of content, but as a productive cognitive struggle of the mind with new material."

Killing it.

@sharpcheddargoblin It's not a given, but yes, the risk is quite high. Tech is generally not political, and there are open models that can do things like code analyzing with "somewhat ok" resource use. But I sadly do not think that is what GrapheneOS is talking about.

To compare with git, using git for your project does not need to mean you support bad people, but the moment you pay money to github, you do.

And it does not really matter if AI is used to produce code or not, what matters in this setting is the cost, and who gets the money.

The cost of this must be taken from donations.

The best bet is that this money ends up with Microsoft, with Anthropic and OpenAI as "close contenders".

Graphene could be open about this. What LLMs are used? What is the cost and who gets our donations?

Already, it is sad to see GrapheneOS be on Github, especially if it involves any financial cost, but I understand it is hard to leave.

But to pay for their LLMs is highly unethical.

@GrapheneOS @aphedges @paulshryock