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• Post #4280639

  Reminder: Just as with Age ID and Chat Control legislation justifications, the AI build out, the price gauging of memory, storage (and CPU/GPU/SOCs too), the emerging hardware leasing & subscription models — all this is not just driven by generative AI in the form of chatbots, media generators, automation, job replacements, FOMO stories and other "obvious" reasons repeated ad infinitum by CEOs and in the media... The only way these industry shifts and largest tech investments ever...

• Post #4269702

  RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaVirkkunen/117008348161347403 Not just the plan itself for Europe to "become an AI continent" (🤮), but also the entire cliché phrasing of this announcement couldn't be more tone-deaf even if they wanted to... #AI #EU

• Post #4155213

  Invisible Chasm (2026) #TextureTuesday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Abstract #Mountains #InvisibleChasm

• Post #4094529

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@concretedog/116976794778175500 How TF is it even possible for this new version of "The Stack" (aka 53 TB of stolen/scraped GitHub repos) to contain private repos? Nothing new at all, but it truly is an industry run by psychopaths & sociopaths, devoid of any ethics or respect of other people, and aided by clueless technophobic media companies regurgitating those companies' twisted PR sagas...

• Post #3987154

  Question for other EU-based online shop owners: How are you going to deal with the upcoming EU PPWR packaging legislation changes[1] and specifically requiring a third party legal person/entity in every single EU member state you want to ship to after August 12, potentially having to contract & pay another EU-wide one-stop service or up to 26 middlemen just so are allowed to ship all EU countries? What happened to the idea of a single market? Some of the "cheaper" offers I found p...

• Post #3956498

  TIL that I've actually created a few "high impact" packages on NPM (with 1+ million downloads per week)... Just got this email from them (see screenshot) If each one of these would just pay me $0.001, I could actually comfortably dedicate myself full time to these projects (which has been my long, long dream job). But the system and social contract around open source is completely broken and so I've to balance my time and try to sustain myself and my family via other ways for...

• Post #3955386

  A Conjuring Of Clouds Yesterday's evening walk... It's been a great week for cloud spotting, but with dozens of storm cells & hail moving through the area all week... (Also thinking about the connotation to wildfires raging in Canada... 😢) #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography #BlackAndWhite #CloudAppreciation

• Post #3723950

  Trametes gibbosa (2026) (English: Lumpy bracket, German: Buckel-Tramete) #FungiFriday #NaturePhotography #Fungi #Mushrooms

• Post #3425964

  Glaciers in the Alps are melting at an alarming rate. The brief video shows what we witnessed two days ago at the end of our work trip in Tyrol and what the locals confirmed to us as extreme levels (not that it wasn't obvious)... It shows different tributaries and stages of outflow of remaining glaciers of the Weißkamm and Kreuzkamm feeding into the Rofental, a small side valley of the Ötztal. Two kilometers downstream is the confluence with a similarly intense drainage from the neighboring...

• Post #3373925

  Summer solstice 2026, last night, ten minutes past sunset... on our way back from the very end of the valley. #MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #Video #Alps #Mountains #Lake #SummerSolstice

• Post #2546736

  RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116521724805037412 Reposting for #FootpathFriday. Not because there actually is a path, but because I just love how that single hiker is creating their own path in this surrounding vast (and otherwise completely abstract) landscape...

• Post #2519060

  The Mountains Flowed Before Him (2026) (Given a large enough time scale, these mountains would be almost like waves...) #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Alps #Mountains #Hiking

• Post #2500368

  Churfirsten (View from the Alpstein. Celebrating my bday in one of my favorite places... 🤩) #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Alps #Mountains #Switzerland

• Post #2500366

  RE: https://swiss.social/@lugidani/116555176274067802 The Swiss are still doing better in that respect than many other developed countries, incl. Germany yesterday: https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days/ #Climate #Degrowth #OvershootDay

• Post #2500364

  Simulated opinion polls to drive public policy — what could possibly go wrong! In the name of saving costs and producing more polls (i.e. the double benefit of increased efficiency AND productivity), statistical truth (traditional polls) is being replaced with its derivative, producing statistical insights via a second layer of statistics and agents simulating known, pretrained demographic behaviors & preferences, instead of interviewing actual people. Yay! It seems they're blindl...

• Post #2442862

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@NoveltyBot/116556777340743157 Just maybe there have always been some issues with the unquestioning adoption of the latest breakthroughs/technologies... No risk, no gain, so they say...

• Post #2396172

  For some years now the UI design and interaction methods shown in sci-fi movies have become ever more abstract & complex, driven by minimalist aesthetics utilizing high-res graphics, a design philosophy based on total omniscient access, heavy information density and interactive realtime visualizations (and/or visual ways of browsing) to aid exploration & expose patterns/relationships, the use of layered/spatial layouts, capable of customization/personalization, programmability (o...

• Post #2396171

  AI bros are just loving open source — loving it to death... maybe quite literally! (Godot being latest popular example[1]) More and more projects are impacted by floods of bogus AI pull requests and resulting discussions, stealing precious time and nerves away from their maintainers doing actual productive work. More buggy and insecure software (incl. commercial offerings) due to slopcoding, more websites getting attacked daily by AI crawlers in desperate search for any new bits (literally) to...

• Post #2388393

  LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate "Delegation requires trust - the expectation that the LLM will faithfully execute the task without introducing errors into documents. We introduce DELEGATE-52 to study the readiness of AI systems in delegated workflows. DELEGATE-52 simulates long delegated workflows that require in-depth document editing across 52 professional domains, such as coding, crystallography, and music notation. Our large-scale experiment with 19 LLMs reveals that...

• Post #2280733

  How is it possible in 2026 for Canon to not provide (anywhere) an ICC profile for their scanners?! The colors are completely off and everything has a purple tint... 😩 Does anyone know where to find ICC profiles for the Canon LIDE series (400)? Otherwise I will have to purchase an IT8.7 calibration target and crack out the LittleCMS tooling to create my own ICC profile. Great customer service! #Canon #Scanner #ICC #ColorCorrection #AskFedi

• Post #2235358

  Schlangenhaus (16th century, Werdenberg, St. Gallen) #FensterFreitag #History #Switzerland

• Post #2232415

  New life goal/purpose: Enawesomefication!

• Post #2089998

  Postglacial Abstract (2026) (Forgot to add, find/notice the lone hiker in one of the snow fields, for scale...) #TextureTuesday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Texture #Abstract #Art

• Post #1998674

  Alpstein (To me, one of the most stunning and interesting mountain ranges, the tectonic folds here having created the most incredible forms, formations and stunning valleys in between...) #MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Alps #Mountains

• Post #1978556

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveRudolfi/116279083767770070 "If there’s one insight we all need to focus on most, it’s this: your job is no longer to build a destination. It’s to build a parts library. And one that’s well documented so that when an AI agent re-assembles those parts for the human on the other side, the parts are put together in a way you wish to be represented. The web has always evolved in ways that reduced brand control over the user journey. Ads replaced organic ra...

• Post #1953154

  It's probably a lost cause and also too short notice, but I'm still thinking about #AlgoApril, which I proposed back in 2022, but it's an incomplete list of prompts and sadly never took off... https://github.com/algoapril/algoapril-2022 From the readme: Learning about & applying algorithms and data structures for generative art/design, helping to introduce participants to a wider spectrum of techniques. Unlike other initiatives like #genuary, #codevember, #nod...

• Post #1776102

  Simulated Cyanotype Chemigrams... Lately I've been revisiting my old fluid sim toolset which started out as part of my toxiclibs Java libraries (2007/8, based on Jos Stam's research, also previously mentioned in this thread[1]), then ported & expanded it for #Houdini in 2016, then ported again to TypeScript/GLSL (via https://thi.ng/shader-ast in 2019) and been messing around with it on & off ever since... Fluidsims are just so mesmerizing to work/play with and ca...

• Post #1760120

  The experiments, process adjustments and elimination of environmental factors shall continue until the desired results are obtained (and morale improves again... 😅) Also, Kallitype chemistry is a wondrous/finicky beast and reproduction requires strict discipline, cleanliness and detailed log keeping of pretty much any aspect... The main difference between these two prints is that the red one involved spraying/misting the paper with distilled water 15 mins prior to coating the emulsion... Almost...

• Post #1748318

  "Learning from mistakes" as individuals is hard if those lessons are not (or can not be) percolated up or are even rejected by larger groups or society in general, if the behaviors one might consider a mistake on a personal/ethical level are actually rewarded and encouraged (or imposed) by those larger social structures. So many people have tried so hard for so long to share their knowledge and tools, trying to teach & inspire others, to build communities to help make...

• Post #1723586

  Reading this below on the 36th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and by extension the symbolic end of the GDR, the place I grew up in... with neighbors and parents of classmates belonging to the Stasi (east German secret police), the fear my own parents might be disappeared — years later seeing the thickness of the files of surveillance materials the state/stasi had collected on my family... remembering early autumn 1989, joining friends protesting in the streets every Monday after scho...