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wrote something about weirdness in the vibe-translations by AI coding agents of the Rust html5ever HTML parser
https://felix.dognebula.com/art/html-parsers-in-portland.html
capybara reading a good book
[Articles] Jake versus 2025
Jake’s 2025 year-in-review reflects a whirlwind year of personal milestones and deep Django community impact, from buying a house and running a half marathon to shipping django.tasks, joining the Django security team, speaking at PyCon UK, and navigating how AI is reshaping the web and independent publishing. #djangonews
Jake versus 2025
Christmas is quieting down in my household, marking the end of yet another crazy life-changing year. At the end of last year, I told myself I needed to slow down and get to a more sustainable place. Needless to say that hasn't happened at all. Instead, life has developed and…
theorangeone.net · TheOrangeOne
Link author: 
Jake Howard@jake@theorangeone.net
I love 
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
and if you do not then you are my sworn enemy and I wish to do battle with swords atop a storm soaked castle under crackling lightning or whatever. Am I the Kurgan? Probably.
Please follow so we don't have to destroy one another. X
sns 見ながら余っているマシーンに仮想基盤セットアップしつつ頭乾かしている。
“I saw a gold SUV swoop in and grab the masked shooter and whisk him off while a woman died alone with no medical intervention on a street in an American city.
I put my phone away, but not before I wrote “Fuck ICE” on Facebook. I lost a few followers for that crass post, but I’m fresh out of nice words for the regime and the masked cowards killing people on the street.”
“I saw a gold SUV swoop in and grab the masked shooter and whisk him off while a woman died alone with no medical intervention on a street in an American city.
I put my phone away, but not before I wrote “Fuck ICE” on Facebook. I lost a few followers for that crass post, but I’m fresh out of nice words for the regime and the masked cowards killing people on the street.”
A new 
@iftas report brings insights from fediverse moderators, administrators, and community managers: worsening mod-to-user ratio, spam, burnout, lack of tools.
"Moderators are the backbone of a safer social web – but most are unpaid, under-supported, and under constant strain. If we want a future for decentralised platforms that respects user agency, civil speech, and community autonomy, we need to support the infrastructure that keeps it safe."
https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/the-2025-social-web-trust-safety-report-is-here/
The 2025 Social Web Trust & Safety Report Is Here
New insights into the people, pressures, and infrastructure shaping decentralised platforms Published by IFTAS, this report draws on detailed surveys and community feedback from volunteer moderator…
about.iftas.org · IFTAS
Link author: 
IFTAS Blog@about.iftas.org@about.iftas.org
I just want to thank everyone who continues to invest their time, money, and other resources into keeping the fediverse alive.
Here's to everyone, from admins and mods, who keep us safe, to shitposters, who keep us entertained, and everyone in-between, connecting with one another.
Grateful and happy to be part of this community!
As many of you will know, I’ve been campaigning for more than a year to get the Govt of Canada off X. This week’s Grok nonsense pushed me over the edge - and I said a very bad word! https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/01/07/get-the-fk-off-there-mps-senators-call-on-government-to-abandon-x-twitter-following-wave-of-grok-porn/487023/ #cdnpoli #X #Grok
« Cam Gaze : À la recherche des premières camgirls », trois vidéos sur #arte https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/RC-027070/cam-gaze/
あけまし
Urgent request in Minneapolis / St. Paul:
Do you have info about business impacts of ICE activity?
→ UPDATE: Especially daycare closures! ←
For example:
- biz closed early last night?
- closed today?
- reduced hours today?
- staffing issues?
- significant loss of business?
A legal group is gathering info for some kind of urgent action today. If you have •personal• knowledge of any of these kinds of impacts, please reply or DM me and I will connect you.
“ASAP ASAP”, they say!
Wow, #Gentoo moving from GitHub to Codeberg is cool. Haven't run Gentoo for years now but still have a soft spot for it (I learned so much running it as main driver).
I also use Codeberg für my code (and joined the association) but we can't just "move everything to Codeberg". That's neither sustainable nor a good model. We should have more associations like Codeberg to offer those kinds of services. Create a whole web of forges for collaboration while we can watch GitHub go to hell.
US, ICE, etc.
Just want all my American friends (and people I don't know over there too) to know I'm thinking of them. With them. In solidarity.
I know that doesn't help you out much. It's almost just thoughts and prayers. But if a little moral support helps, then, why not say so.
I wish you all courage, strength and determination in this terrifying time.
【注目!】コレだけは！2026年公開予定のオススメ映画紹介！！【おまけの夜】 https://youtu.be/yoOrOnjRmAI?si=KHkAkFY-qqbFX68A
Keep your hooman close when it’s cold. ☃️ They don’t have fur.
With the federal government threatening to send ICE "door to door", here's a reminder:
"If an officer knocks on your door: Do not open the door. Teach your children not to open the door. Officers must have a warrant signed by a judge to enter your home. ICE “warrants” are not signed by judges; they are ICE forms signed by ICE officers and they do not grant authority to enter a home without consent of the occupant(s)."
https://immigrantjustice.org/for-immigrants/know-your-rights/ice-encounter/
Wo ihr mich 2026 treffen könnt
Sonntag, 8. Februar, 16:00 Uhr - Andrej Hermlin und sein Swing Dance Orchestra im Konzerthaus Berlin
Das wird dann mein drittes Konzert des Berliner Familienbetriebs Hermlin. 🎶
Und im Konzerthaus war ich noch nie. Abenteuer! 🤠
https://www.konzerthaus.de/de/programm/andrej-hermlin-his-swing-dance-orchestra/12175
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현 정부한테 보여주고 싶은. 전세계에서 무의미한 AI 영상 숏폼 등을 가장 많이 보는 나라 1위.
너무 외롭다.... 이 외로움을 달래줄 수 있는 건 세후 50억 밖에 없겠지.....
HAL 9000 was better than modern "AI". HAL at least didn't allow Dave to do the things he wasn't supposed to do. AI happily claims to do what you tell them to do, but then does them wrong 25% of the time.
Hele jako sorry, ale tohle je fakt hrozná divočina. 
@noelreportsNOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 
@MAKS23MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 
@kravietzkravietz 🦇 @Tendar a všichni další toho dneska večer postujou tolik, že to ani nejde usledovat.
#Ukrajina - stojí vlaky bez elektřiny, v Křivým Ryhu (neumim to přepsat správně) to schytal barák, jsou tam raněný a #Zelenskyj varoval, že hrozí velkej útok
#USA - politici lžou o tom, co se stalo v #Minneapolis, místní náckové trollí truchlící protestující proti #ICE
#Irán - obrovský protesty, střelba na protestující, pokus o zablokování internetu, aby to nemohlo ven...
Nejen, že se svět začal točit blbým směrem, ale on ještě zrychluje! To fakt všem úplně švihlo?
gun fowl 🐔
최고귀여운 고양이 골골송
지금 감기약에 취했기도 하고 내일 새벽 출근이어서 이만 자러 갑니다 안녕히 주무시고 좋은 꿈 꾸세요 고양이 사진 투척
it clearly needs to be repeated that layoffs are a leadership failure, full stop.
Wait.. everyone looks exactly like their profile picture, right?
I'm trying to read a lot of ML papers at the moment but I have to admit I find a lot of the language alien. Sometimes I have this fantasy that it's all familiar stuff but buried under unfamiliar notation and I just need to unlock it with the right key.
Anyway, here's a nice example where that assumption paid off:
There's an important result about "denoising autoencoders" here: https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~vincentp/Publications/DenoisingScoreMatching_NeuralComp2011.pdf
There's this quasimagical step where you need a derivative of a smooth field but you have no access to the field, just values at a scattered set of points, and yet they get the derivative by introducing a new random variable.
Then it clicked.
This is smoothed particle hydrodynamics in disguise. In SPH you simulate fluids with lots of particles and you get fields by splatting a little Gaussian kernel over every particle and summing them all. Now you can take the derivative.
The notation is very different, and so is the language of conditional and marginal probabilities. But it's much the same method. A Gaussian kernel around every data point.
Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothed-particle_hydrodynamics
"Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-02) has announced effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem... after deadly shooting by ICE officer in Minneapolis"
https://mastodon.social/@GovTrack/115859998188030279
extremely angry rant about puritans
Bose recently did an unambiguously good thing, by publishing the API for the audio hardware they were originally going to brick: https://www.theverge.com/news/858501/bose-soundtouch-smart-speakers-open-source
However, I've seen some people say "don't praise Bose for this, they didn't do this until there was backlash".
SHUT UP. Shut the FUCK UP. I'm DONE living in a society where you get dragged through hell if you make a mistake, EVEN AFTER YOU CORRECT THE MISTAKE. I'm so fucking tired of hearing stupid excuses for this kind of puritanism like "they should've known better" NOBODY KNOWS BETTER UNTIL *AFTER THEY MAKE THE MISTAKE*. THAT'S HOW LEARNING *WORKS*.
And before you say "Companies aren't your friend" PUNISHING THEM FOR FIXING THEIR MISTAKES WON'T MAKE THEM DO THE RIGHT THING EITHER. If other people, or companies, see someone get punished for both messing up AND fixing the mistake, they just won't bother at all!
People HAVE to be allowed to make mistakes. They HAVE to be given a chance to improve.
わーあめふってきたー
HAL 9000 was better than modern "AI". HAL at least didn't allow Dave to do the things he wasn't supposed to do. AI happily claims to do what you tell them to do, but then does them wrong 25% of the time.
"Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-02) has announced effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem... after deadly shooting by ICE officer in Minneapolis"
https://mastodon.social/@GovTrack/115859998188030279
Je suis encore étonné que Philipp K Dick a voyagé qu'une fois à l'extérieur du continent Américain, et c'était..pour un festival de science-fiction à #Metz en 1977.
À la médiathèque Verlaine, lors d'un événement SF il y a quelques années, on pouvait revoir des affiches de ce fameux événement.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/051147-000-A/les-mondes-de-philip-k-dick/
Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin
Link: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/rubin-platform-ai-supercomputer
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544016
I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside".
I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇
It’s 2026 and text-based web browsers still do not know how to handle (not so) recent additions to HTML.
(throws tomatoes and a cow into black hole)
spaghettification bolognese
capybara reading a good book
If any of you don't yet know about the Scottish gritters - zoom in and enjoy: https://www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-tracker
My favourites both sound like Carry On film names or characters:
- Spready Mercury
- On Her Majesty's Slippery Surface
More names can be found here: https://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/scottish-gritter-names-tracker-january-severe-weather-5464270
I'm in a situation where it's very important I know immediately if someone speaks in a particular Slack channel. I need my phone to beep when someone speaks in this Slack channel.
My Android phone has Slack installed.
My phone's in DND, but Slack is set as a DND exception (all notifications).
Slack has all notifications enabled.
I go into Slack. I enter the channel. I tap the name at the top, click "Settings & details". It says "Notifications: All new posts".
So why is my phone not beeping?
Andy Piper
Paul Cantrell
Eve La Fée
Jan Lehnardt 
Stefano Marinelli
