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• Post #4226806

  DIY amusement park, no entry fee, no age limit, scalable difficulty, ...

• Post #3892759

  Stumbled upon the concept of appropriate technology and its pragmatic encyclopedia https://www.appropedia.org What a fascinating empowering rabbit hole to go down. I imagine @trevorflowers and @olm_e are familiar with it but just in case!

• Post #3892758

  @ptrpaws I was chatting with @lvk about PmOS on Lynx, boot2webXR, Monado, webkitxr and others ways to be more free with XR. Where do you think the gap currently is? Which is the "free-est" headset, rooted or not, to actually enjoy content (ideally WebXR) on? If you were to get hardware or even provide some via e.g. CrowdSupply how would you do it?

• Post #3892757

  Damn... #CrossPoint on the X3 is amazing. Just received this minuscule e-ink reader few hours ago, flashed firmware via microSD and voila, WebDAV file server to add content, HTTP interface to do so the same and configure settings. Great on-boarding, it just works! Another freed gadget 🚀 🔓

• Post #3892756

  repurposed blocks from my tangible calendar : X3 stand

• Post #3892755

  What it means to daily drive Linux on a PC, namely a computer that is genuinely yours : - this morning I made a tool, including its UI, without realizing it. The console has a background tab to download using a CLI tool (yt-dlp) & the visual interface is using watch to check a file and directory.

• Post #3892754

  Kbd mishap, so frustrating I ordered 2 others just to be safe. Interfaces do not matter until they break then suddenly it becomes a stark reminder they are close to the most important thing in the World. Whatever matters to you. Fascinating lesson learned the hard way.

• Post #3892753

  That's pretty cool, I had no idea one could run JavaScript scripts on the FlipperZero 🐬 https://developer.flipper.net/flipperzero/doxygen/js.html and access the CLI to run them via a Web interface, no installation needed https://docs.flipper.net/zero/development/cli#method-1-using-flipper-lab

• Post #3892752

  The Fear of Dying Before You Become Yourself https://www.dailicle.com/read/the-fear-of-dying-before-you-become-yourself "People say they're afraid of death, but often what they really mean is dying as the wrong person. What do we think we’re racing toward when we worry we’ll run out of time?" The Dailicle Desk · June 22, 2026

• Post #3181245

  It just does not add up. Those AI companies are supposedly full of 1000x engineers thanks to their powerful tool. The brightest researchers with supposedly STOA security models. Yet they f*ck just like everybody else, not replying to disclosure. Why? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351732

• Post #3181244

  The idea : people looking at me giving XR demo don't have to ponder what it is others are looking at inside the headset, they see on my back. It's v0.1, after reviewing it the in-VR perspective needs to be way WAY bigger.

• Post #3181242

  SpaceX and the ‘enshittification’ of markets https://www.ft.com/content/f724d500-fd45-4f38-86b8-549b5cae88ba?syn-25a6b1a6=1 "The IPO of Elon Musk’s company is a big risk for the millions of investors who have put savings into passive investing" By the very lefist FT. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

• Post #3181241

  AI industry in 1 comment : "The thought behind it was great, but the execution was proving difficult" From https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/starbucks-quietly-retired-its-ai-agent-just-months-after-deployment-after-it-miscounted-coffee-shop-inventories-and-slowed-down-baristas-192259953.html as an "anecdote" of a deployment of a Nasdaq-100 company present in 87 country. No big deal.

• Post #3181240

  Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics https://leidendeclaration.ai " Mathematicians have a choice about whether and how to adopt artificial intelligence in the conduct of their research. They also have a responsibility to ensure the continued flourishing of the discipline. This Declaration calls upon mathematicians to exercise this responsibility, and provides recommendations for individuals, institutions, government, and industry. Although we adopt the perspec...

• Post #3181239

  " the “primary driver” of these abnormally high failing rates is due to a “vast increase in academic dishonesty” due to students’ usage of large language models, such as Claude, ChatGPT and Google Gemini." https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/failing-grades-soar-as-professors-see-greater-ai-usage-dwindling-math-skills-in-uc-berkeley/article_16fad0bf-02cb-4b8c-8d88-888ffd9f8608.html Damn, what a useful technology, we just need MORE of it! /s

• Post #3181238

  Provocative take : I don't think information overload is a novel phenomenon.

• Post #3181237

  Between "The Man Who Sold the World" or "Saviour Machine" Bowie was onto something, more than half a century ago.

• Post #3181236

  Conversation with a 12 y/o today: Me: what's your favorite App? Them: AI - what for? - homework (shows me how to snap a picture of homework to get it "solved") - looks like a robot going to the gym on your behalf, are you actually learning? - sure, the AI teaches me - does your teacher know? - nope

• Post #3181235

  RE: https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/@utopiah/116704926742521139 Imagine this current usage in users too young to have proper self control PLUS fueled by greed strategically leveraging incumbency and dark patterns for addiction. Think I'm exaggerating? Think again https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/

• Post #2568036

  A romantic view : "power no longer lies solely in invention, but in controlling the channels of passage."🤔 It NEVER did. That's the founding myth of the Silicon Valley where innovation trumps control. Sadly it has ALWAYS been about capturing resources, funding projects consolidating that process.🔐 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260503-apple-the-digital-strait-of-hormuz/

• Post #2451547

  So true it hurts "Having to manually register new domains was something that was really holding back my ability to commit fraud." From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031684 Again it's not about the 'potential' of the technology, it's how it's ACTUALLY being used. Today. Against us.

• Post #2451546

  "Within 10 minutes, it had generated a fully functional site for less than 5 yuan (70 cents)." Crazy right? When you read this you can't help but ponder how "advanced" that whole tech stack is. Well... except one could do that for free in like 1999 with Geocities. 🤷‍♂️ https://apnews.com/article/china-ai-us-tech-openclaw-0126a120113a92fa450ecb2e464b35bc I really get triggered when a Web site is used as an example. A welcome page is a Web site. A &amp...

• Post #2451545

  Looking for Foucault's Discipline and Punish (1975) adapted, maybe as comics, boardgame or video game, to very young kids, e.g. 7yo. Any recommendation?

• Post #2451544

  Everybody becoming super genius using AI to be 100x anything while I, like a caveman, learns how ffmpeg works https://fabien.benetou.fr/Tools/Ffmpeg and writes it down in my notes. Today discovering how to use map to exclude a specific stream. Then I manually update my own script to use it. So old school.👴

• Post #2451541

  for the next #WebXR workshop, using my new PinePower (Pine64) for fast charging 5 headsets at once 🔌⚡️ (165W)

• Post #2451540

  RE: https://hostux.social/@fsf/116559839552042868 "we urge Anthropic and other LLM developers that train models using huge datasets downloaded from the Internet to provide these LLMs to their users in freedom." 👌

• Post #2451538

  Journée internationale de la femme en mathématiques. A creuser avec "Matheuses - Les filles, avenir des mathématiques" https://www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/mathematiques/matheuses/ @cnrs editions.

• Post #2451537

  RE: https://fediscience.org/@UlrikeHahn/116559881232517047 Scientific cognitive human centipede. Nice. /s

• Post #1644148

  Rare enough that I feel I have to highlight that : useful generate AI image IMHO. So in this article https://sschueller.github.io/posts/the-free-market-lie/ Stefan Schüller discusses economical problems. They try to showcases irrational decisions. Those typically do NOT have photographs precisely because "bad" decision aren't showcased. They might be hidden, they might be unconscious due to timing, lack of foresight, etc. So being able to having a striking image, here...

• Post #1644147

  Because of Goodhart's law capitalism ate itself. Money can't be a measure of intelligence, wisdom, success or truly anything since people started to think of it as a proxy ... for anything. That's fine for most... but even for the most devout, efficiency itself can't be proxied by more profit.