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Will the last small site turn off the lights?

The UK Online Safety Act imposes the same duties and penalties on blogs, forums and fedi instances as huge platforms.

Many small, safely moderated sites will shut down or block UK users.

Crushing competition is the last thing we need for a safer Internet!

Act now before 17 March ⬇️

#SaveOurSites 🌐

action.openrightsgroup.org/sav…

#fediverse #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #mastodon #activitypub #ukpolitics #ukpol #netplurality

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Excited to teach Digital Research Toolkit for the Humanities again this summer!

This course introduces students to essential tools for transparent, scalable, and efficient research workflows. Right now, the course covers:

📂 File organization & research workflows
💻 R & scripting for data processing
📊 Data visualization & reporting
🔍 Literature research & documentation
🔗 Git, GitHub & collaboration

🚨 BUT before I finalize the syllabus, I’d love to hear from YOU! 🚨

in reply to Anna Pryslopska

💡 What tools, workflows, or topics do you wish you had learned earlier in your research journey?

💡Are there essential skills for humanities students entering industry or academia that I should add?

💡 Should I introduce LLMs and AI tools for tasks like automating text analysis, literature reviews, or data preprocessing?

💡 Should I make space for regular expressions?

💡 I’m considering dropping LaTeX in favor of Markdown, Quarto, and plain text editors in general. Is this a step backwards?



A WestJet flight from Calgary International Airport (CYYC) to Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (CYOW) was delayed yesterday because of security concerns.

cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cal…
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Un vol de WestJet partant de l’aéroport international de Calgary (CYYC) à l’aéroport international Macdonald-Cartier d’Ottawa (CYOW) a été retardé hier en raison de préoccupations de sécurité.

// Article en anglais //

#WestJet #Calgary #Ottawa #CYYC #YYC #CYOW #YOW



PhD level of intelligence from chatGPT. Pinguins are mammals, you heard it here first! #AI #LLM
#ai #llm


Om du missat att köpa ett eller flera äldre nummer av tidningen och det/de är slutsålt/slutsålda kan du nu köpa dessa nummer i PDF-format!

shop.datormagazin.se/collectio…

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[12:58] Europarlementariërs verdacht van omkoping door Huawei

In een groot corruptieonderzoek naar Huawei heeft de Belgische politie invallen gedaan bij lobbyisten van het Chinese techbedrijf. Ze worden...

computable.nl/2025/03/13/europ…

#naarHuaweiheeftdeBelgischepolitie #bijlobbyistenvanhet #Chinese #Zeworden



We know it feels like the world is burning down, but the good news is UK coal use is at its lowest since, um London burnt down in 1666.
Overall emissions are now at their lowest since 1872!

carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-em…

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Release Day!

Terragon's Challenge, the second book in the Demonhunters of Terragon series is out today!

Earth must be protected - and thus Shivai is breaking all rules by going back there and helping Gregory and his team of Exterminators.

The veil between worlds has become thin, and demons are preparing for an invasion. Can they stop the demons in time?

Find the book in all stores:
books2read.com/TerragonsChalle…

Or buy direct:
shop.hannah-steenbock.de/b/ter…

@bookstodon
#DragonShifter
#NewBook




had a supervision appointment with psychologist and everything is okie :comfy:


Thoughts and prayers for Amy, who was forced to change her work password. 😑
in reply to Amy Maybe

remembering which number you added to the end is always a struggle.
in reply to Michael Stanclift

@vmstan My office is also very strict about password history, which makes it even worse. If I had two I could switch between, it would be easier to remember.


World’s 10 Best Street Art Capitals for 2025: streetartutopia.com/2025/03/13…
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Photo: In Olsztyn, Poland. By Adam Okuciejewski and Szymon Czarnowski.


Mopsy is a bunderful addition to our pet family. Here she is, warming the compost in this planter to, er, help with plant growth?

That's what she says anyway. And, if anything does grow, it's a ready meal.
#Rabbit #PetsOfMastodon



I need more space on my desk. I wonder if my personal laptop would work with the docking station for my work laptop... ​:ms_robot_thinking:
It would be a slight inconvenience to unplug and replug when I want to switch between the two, but I could get rid of at least one keyboard and mouse, and maybe even a monitor (or use a 4-screen setup)
in reply to Steph

Apparently I'm getting a new laptop (+docking station?) for work soon anyway, so it might make more sense to wait for that to come in before changing my setup


#ScribesAndMakers 3/13. Self-Promotion Day. Let's boost away.

If you enjoy fantasy tales that make you feel good when you finish the story, you've come to the right place.

You can find all my books on my website:

hannah-steenbock.de/

If you like to buy from the usual stores, here's my author page on Books2Read:

books2read.com/hannahsteenbock

And here is my own store (still putting up books):

shop.hannah-steenbock.de/

You have 30+ books to choose from.

#WritingCommunity
#ReadingCommunity


in reply to Frankie ✅

Here is an alt-text description for the image:

The image depicts a female elf with antlers in a forest. She is kneeling on a tree branch. She has long brown hair with pointed ears and is wearing green and gold armor. A sword is strapped to her back. She is holding a small pink flower in her hand. The background is a blurred forest with blue hues. There are small yellow lights scattered throughout the image.

Provided by @altbot, generated using Gemini



Anyone who has given at least one of them an honest try, and then decided accordingly that tiling window managers do NOT work well with your specific workflow: Why don't they?

I mean this neither sarcastically nor rhetorically, nor do I intend to solicite any objectively bad takes any hotter than my own; I'm actually asking.

#tilingwindowmanager #askfedi #foss #linux #unixporn

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in reply to Day Use X Mockin' Uh

My main issue with traditional tiling window managers is I just find the windows are too small unless you have a really big display. And I spend the most time using an 11” MacBook Air. I did try out qtile’s different modes and found TreeTab and Zoomy to be fairly nice. But I didn’t like having to configure things in Python. Then I found out about Niri and I love it. It might not be for everyone, but the scrolling columns really fits with my workflow.
in reply to Day Use X Mockin' Uh

I was pretty much a fan of floating windows for forever (Mac, Windows, Gnome, Openbox) until Pop_OS introduced their Pop Shell extension (auto tiler for Gnome) and tried that out for a while – now I’m on LabWC with a handful of hotkeys set up to emulate tiling

three main takeaways from tiling I get are: no overlapping windows (nothing hidden), workspaces (one Youtube video claimed workspaces were tilers’ killer feature), and keyboard focus (hotkeys everywhere)




#WordWeavers for March 13:

If your main character was a music genre, what genre would they be?


Niles is absolutely jazz. Old Jazz played from a scratched-to-hell CD through an automotive radio that, by rights, should not be trusted with your eardrums.



Each month, I have to agonize about what German folklore I want to translate, and which cool stuff remains on the "To Translate" pile again. 😢

Well, at least I won't run out of material - even if I were able to do this as a full-time job, which I am not.



There is no doubt about it, Grand Turk's main attractions are its fantastic white sand beaches! If you have some time to spare, go see the lighthouse and explore Cockburn's historic old town. What did you do in Grand Turk? backpackandsnorkel.com/Grand-T…


Hello from London! I lived here 10 years ago and I wish I could be cool and say it was like I never left but I can safely report that I forgot almost everything about existing here including which way to look first when crossing the street 😅
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#WritersCoffeeClub

March 13: Are you mindful of your readers’ expectations? How so?

Not at all. I am not here to pander to anyone. The way I respect any reader I manage to get is by writing my story to the max. Take it or leave it.

#writing #writingcommunity



#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 13. Are you mindful of your readers’ expectations? How so?

Mindful, yes, as soon as I decide that this is a story I want to share. I may thwart them, though, because I'm no fan of cookie cutter stories.

And if that story is just for me - I'm mindful of nothing but blissfully writing!



#WritersCoffeeClub 13th March: Are you mindful of your readers' expectations? How so?

One of the problems I face with #AHouseOfFreeWomen is that, apart from one minor exception, every character in the book is dark-skinned. White readers are notorious for expecting fantasy characters to be white as default. So yeah, I have to keep that expectation in mind to make damn sure I instantly subvert it.

To make it clear, I am white af, but white-as-default in fantasy seriously boils my piss. Which is not to say I don't write books with white MCs. I just try to be aware that there's no good goddamn reason for white-skinned people to have a dominant/primary culture in an invented world.



#WritersCoffeeClub for March 13:

Are you mindful of your readers' expectations? How so?


I don't care about expectations of style or genre.

But as a reader and writer of genre fiction, I spend a lot of time thinking to myself "Is this racist? Can I make this not racist? Should I even be telling this story?"

in reply to mkj

@mkj "If this fascist is shot in the head in Times Square, does anyone give a rats ass?"
@mkj


I receive approximately one billion emails a day about attending 'webinars'. I have never and will never attend a webinar. Can everyone please just stop it.
in reply to Ben

In hindsight, Ben realised that joining a group called "I ❤️ Webinars, please send me all your invites" was a mistake.
in reply to Ben

At least "webinar" is a specific enough word to be easy to filter. I doubt it actually means anything meaningful in any language spoken by normal human beings; and even if it does, do you want to talk to people about it? 🙂


A 38 min commute takes me 2.2 miles of that 1.8 miles is by subway and takes only 6.5 of the 38min.

The rest is the trial of getting on and off of the train. I think this must be some kind of maximum level of transfer logistics to distance traveled ratio. Big sigma on the deltas.

How dispersed are your morning deltas?

in reply to myrmepropagandist

~10 min to get from inside my room to the entrance of my apartment building

~5? min walk from home to station

~12? minutes train ride

2-20 min wait for a bus that takes maybe ~5 minutes to get from the station to the office - or i can walk that in ~20 minutes and show up sweaty and gross

another ~3 min between entrance of my office building to my actual office

versus driving:

~10 min to get from inside my room to my car

10-20 min depending on traffic to drive to the office and park

~7 min to get from my car to my office

in reply to dirty badwrong person

the route between street and train is shorter than my margin of error, but the wait is usually 1-4 minutes
in reply to myrmepropagandist

I have a long, but fairly smooth commute. About 35-40 minutes by car, then another 45 minutes by train. No changing of trains, step on, ride to destination, step off. I only do that max twice a week. There have been the odd issues with the trains in my city, but largely they're reliable.


13 March 1922 | Józef Szajna was born in Rzeszów.

In ##Auschwitz from 25 July 1941
No. 18729)
In August 1943 he unsuccessfully tried to escape. In January 1944 transferred to KL Buchenwald. He survived; Scenographer, theater director, painter culture.pl/en/artist/jozef-sza…



Fact check: Reuters report claims that "the rise of generative artificial intelligence has made it an attractive tool for bad actors, with its low entry barrier ensuring broad accessibility, leading to an increase in global cyberattacks."

Is there any evidence that AI has led to an increase in online attacks?

Surely it's made convincing-sounding phishing emails across multiple languages easier to create, and would obviously facilitate BEC and CEO fraud attacks via asynchronous communications.

But has it really caused "an increase in global cyberattacks*"?

reuters.com/technology/sentine…

in reply to Xavier «X» Santolaria

@0x58 Certainly not implausibly.

@euroinfosec's question and Reuter's claim actually seems to me to conflate two distinct issues: (a) *has there been* an increase; and (b) if so, *was that increase caused by* wider availability of genAI tools?

Certainly genAI availability has had very little to do with recent, ahem, accidents in the Baltic, for one. Likely also with centralization on Giant Tech service providers, meaning a single attack can now impact thousands of companies.

@GossiTheDog




Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Putin-Berater: Waffenruhe nur "Atempause" für Ukraine ++

Der russische Regierungsberater Uschakow hat den US-Vorstoß für eine 30-tägige Waffenruhe in der Ukraine kritisiert. Die russischen Streitkräfte haben nach eigenen Angaben die von der Ukraine besetzte Stadt Sudscha wieder unter Kontrolle.

➡️ tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveb…

#Liveblog #Ukraine



Marktbericht: DAX-Ausflug ins Plus abgebrochen

Die Anleger können sich nicht für eine Richtung entscheiden, der DAX schwankt mit größeren Ausschlägen zwischen Plus und Minus. Droht am Aktienmarkt jetzt eine länger anhaltende Korrekturbewegung?

➡️ tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/finan…

#Marktbericht #DowJonesNasdaq #DAX



I have made this... A zillion hours modeling, printing, modeling again, printing one more time... There is a wasteland of ATSTs in my workbench... 😄 But the final result is nice imo. What do you think guys? Printed in a @bambulab_official P1S #starwars #3dprinting


#ScribesAndMakers 3/13. Self-Promotion Day. Let's boost away.

There is nothing shameful about self-promotion.

All my books (and my wife's) are at taupress.com/books

There are also free books when signing up the newsletter (gosh).

#writing



#ScribesAndMakers for March 13:

It's self-promotion day.


That it is.

Did you know I've written and published most of an urban fantasy fiction trilogy featuring government corruption and answering that age-old question of "What if the cultists are actually in the right"? You do now! Teaser chapters and where-you can finds over at: sanityline.net

Also, while we're on "also", did you, personally, know that I make gizmos? It's true. The main one is PETI, a virtual pet with retro sensibilities running on modern hardware. You can learn about that and all my other writing and making projects over at arcanalabs.ca



Bragging how using “AI” made you more productive is like bragging how copying your friends homework made you turn in the assignment faster.

You’re missing the point. The point of it ALL. You don’t understand what matters in a human life.

It’s a sad realization that a shit ton of people don’t seem to realize what matters in life. They think “going faster” is where it’s at.

Sweet little capitalist slaves. Gah.



"The public ask to vote on the 30-day stopgap would likely come in exchange for Democrats giving Senate Republicans the votes they need to invoke cloture"
tl;dr: Schumer still folds. Where is the resistance? Where is the leadership?
After Heated Dem Meeting, Schumer Says Dems Will Push For Vote On Short Term CR First talkingpointsmemo.com/news/aft… via @TPM
in reply to Jeff Jarvis

Chuck Shumer and Hakeem Jeffries are so far off the current pulse that their talking points sum up to absolutely zero. If the democrats can't find new effective leadership, we're done.
in reply to Ben Foote

I think you're mistaken. The Democrats are done. Did you know independent voters outnumber the combined duopoly? Check out Workers Strike Back in Seattle . A worker's party is forming. We are not done but rather just getting started.