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#FilmPhotography #Kodak #TriX #Camera #Film120 #MediumFormat #Rolleiflex #BWfilm #Monochrome #Photography #ATX #TX #Downtown #Austin #Texas #Outdoors #Urban #Bovine #Metal #Artwork #April_22_2025
Stone Tombs Discovered in Morocco
A team of archaeologists has uncovered tombs dating back to around 2000 BC, as well as rock shelters decorated with mysterious drawings and standing stones in the Moroccan city of Tangier.www.saba.ye
A DHS reality show where immigrants compete for citizenship? No, this isn’t "The Hunger Games"—but it sure feels like it. Nothing says "land of opportunity" like turning the American Dream into a game show.
Apple denies removing Fortnite from alternative marketplaces in the EU and says it asked Epic Sweden to resubmit the app update excluding the US App Store (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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Apple denies removing Fortnite from alternative marketplaces in the EU and says it asked Epic Sweden to resubmit the app update excluding the US App Store
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#OpenAI signals it plans to release a new open-weight AI model - joining #Meta and #Mistral in the race to make #AI more open and accessible. Great rundown by @lizziegibney.bsky.social.#OpenWeights #LLM #AGI #ResearchSky
‘AI models are capable of nove...
‘AI models are capable of novel research’: OpenAI’s chief scientist on what to expect
Jakub Pachocki, who leads the firm’s development of advanced models, is excited to release an open version to researchers.Gibney, Elizabeth
ICC prosecutor to step aside until probe into alleged misconduct ends
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/16/icc-prosecutor-to-step-aside-until-probe-into-alleged-misconduct-ends?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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ICC prosecutor to step aside until probe into alleged misconduct ends
ICC says Karim Khan will take a leave of absence pending the conclusion of UN-led investigation.Al Jazeera
MESOPOTAMIA: BEIRUT E ANP VOGLIONO DISARMARE LA RESISTENZA PALESTINESE NEI CAMPI PROFUGHI IN LIBANO
Il presidente dell’Autorità Nazionale Palestinese Mahmoud Abbas sarà in Libano il 19 maggio per coordinare insieme al governo libanese il disarmo dei gruppi della resistenza palestinese attivi nei...Radio Onda d`Urto
Marcello and Haydn with Vary and Beethoven from Budapest - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet, and the Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra conducted by Péter Tfirst Conductor play: Alessandro MARCELLO: Trumpet Concerto in D minor. HAYDN: Symphony in F minor 'La passione' no. 49. BEETHOVEN: Grand Fugue op. 133...www.worldconcerthall.com
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Donald Trump minaccia dazi al 100% sui giocattoli Mattel, mettendo a rischio il futuro delle Hot Wheels e il settore globale dei giocattoli
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Deutsche Bahn vor Gericht: Wie der DB Navigator Nutzer trackt, Wahlfreiheit untergräbt und gegen Datenschutzrecht verstößt – Antworten auf wichtige Fragen. 👇
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#deutschebahn #bahn #dbnavigator #klage #datenschutz #dsgvo #tdddg #tracking
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Former US-China Ambassador Nicholas Burns on the Trade War and Diplomacy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/former-us-china-ambassador-burns-on-tariffs-the-trade-war-and-usaid?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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El enoturismo mundial supera los 51.000 millones y refuerza la imagen de regiones productoras
El enoturismo cerró 2024 con un fuerte impacto económico y un perfil más diverso de visitanteVinetur
Médico é indiciado por homicídio culposo após morte de influenciador durante anestesia para tatuagem em SC -
O médico anestesista responsável por aplicar a anestesia geral no influenciador Ricardo Godoi, que sofreu uma parada cardiorrespiratória e faleceu em janeiroGazeta Brasil
WeRide Launches First Fully Driverless Robotaxi Operations in Abu Dhabi
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🚀 NEW on We ❤️ Open Source 🚀
Coding less, communicating more—AI is reshaping how devs work. Learn how prompt engineering and open source together create faster, more inclusive workflows.
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#WeLoveOpenSource #AI #OpenSource #PromptEngineering #FOSS
From code to prompts: A developers shift to AI-powered workflows | We Love Open Source - All Things Open
David, a full stack engineer and Chief AI Officer at Nex AI Advisors, sat down with the All Things Open team to share how AI has fundamentally changed the way... Read MoreAll Things Open
Why Fiscal Stimulus Works for Some But Not for Others
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/podcast-why-fiscal-stimulus-works-for-some-but-not-for-others?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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⛔️🇺🇸Trump revisionist history has Putin reacting to him, rather than he cancelling after Putin no-showed, then pities Russian soldiers over Ukrainian civilians yet again (AP News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
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CNN Anchor Trounces Co-Host Scott Jennings Over Tariffs: 'Backing Down Is Not Leverage'
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-anchor-scott-jennings-trump-tariffs-china_n_6827458ae4b0f10918e31d6e?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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CNN Anchor Trounces Co-Host Scott Jennings Over Tariffs: 'Backing Down Is Not Leverage'
President Donald Trump painted the reversal regarding U.S. tariffs against China as victory, which Abby Phillip wouldn't let slide Thursday on "NewsNight."Marco Margaritoff (HuffPost)
The start of this chart is giving me flashbacks to Labour's argument that Tony Blair had 'lost five million voters since 1997'. Is 'the Obama re-elect' a natural starting point for a chart of Democratic party outcomes?
Steam recebe 6 jogos grátis nesta semana! Veja lista e resgate
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Steam recebe 6 jogos grátis nesta semana! Veja lista e resgate
De plataforma a combate entre robôs gigantes: veja os jogos grátis que chegaram ao Steam nesta semanaBruno Magalhães Barbosa (TecMundo)
Anthropic received a $2.5B, five-year revolving credit line, and says annualized revenue reached $2B in Q1 2025, up from $1B in Q1 2024 (Hayden Field/CNBC)
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Anthropic closes $2.5 billion credit facility as Wall Street continues plunging money into AI boom
Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI research executives, launched its Claude chatbot in March 2023.Hayden Field (CNBC)
The image features a close-up of a glass of red wine in the foreground, with the wine's dark color contrasting against the clear blue sky. The glass is positioned slightly to the left, allowing a view of the wine's surface and the light reflecting off it. In the background, there is a white wall with a scalloped top edge, suggesting a rustic or traditional architectural style. The wall has a small, dark opening with a metal grille, and a chimney is visible on the roofline, indicating a building behind the wall. The sky is clear and blue, suggesting a sunny day. The overall composition highlights the wine glass as the focal point, with the architectural elements providing context and depth to the scene.
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Albrich sings Wagner and Verdi in Madrid - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Ferrán Albrich, baritone, and the Spanish RTV Choir and Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christoph König perform: WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Overture/ Lohengrin: Wedding Choir 'Treulich geführt'/ Tannhäuser...www.worldconcerthall.com
Duncan Campbell, celebrated Guardian crime reporter, dies aged 80
Tributes paid to ‘courageous’ journalist who covered police corruption, Rosemary West trial and Hatton Garden heistMichael Savage (The Guardian)
This is an awesome, scary, black hat presentation.
Prompt injection to the next level.
Practical, easy to understand, jargon-free, actionable demonstrations to make it really clear.
I wish more talks were like this.
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#infosec #llm #promptInjection
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Deep down that's inherent in the very idea of a Turing machine. To have a machine read a series of magic numbers, following instructions in those numbers, rewriting the numbers, looping back, follow the new instructions. It's in the the root source of the daemon, if you will, that code and data are not distict. The distinction is something we do as engineers, it's not in the math.
Removing the guardrails and having the wheels come off, seems much in tune with the Zeitgeist.
Point.
I'm a CS major from long ago.
But even ideal, theoretical Turing machine has an initial state table for the "operating instructions," telling it how to operate.
The data read and written from the "tape" didn't change that state table.
There is a fundamental distinction between instruction and data.
It's the "execute arbitrary data representing a state table and data for an other machine" aspect that gets us in trouble.
How to Install MySQL on AlmaLinux 10 - RoseHosting
Learn how to install MySQL on AlmaLinux 10 using our latest easy-to-follow guide. Alternatively, let our Linux admins install it for you.Jeff Wilson (RoseHosting)
⛔️🇺🇸President Zelensky says Putin was 'afraid' to come to Turkey for ceasefire talks (CNN News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
ChatGPT & Me. ChatGPT Is Me!
For a while now part of my email signature has been a quote from a Hackaday commenter insinuating that an article I wrote was created by a “Dumb AI”. You have my sincerest promise that I am a humble meatbag scribe just like the rest of you, indeed one currently nursing a sore shoulder due to a sporting injury, so I found the comment funny in a way its writer probably didn’t intend. Like many in tech, I maintain a skepticism about the future role of large-language-model generative AI, and have resisted the urge to drink the Kool-Aid you will see liberally flowing at the moment.
Hackaday Is Part Of The Machine
As you’ll no doubt be aware, these large language models work by gathering a vast corpus of text, and doing their computational tricks to generate their output by inferring from that data. They can thus create an artwork in the style of a painter who receives no reward for the image, or a book in the voice of an author who may be struggling to make ends meet. From the viewpoint of content creators and intellectual property owners, it’s theft on a grand scale, and you’ll find plenty of legal battles seeking to establish the boundaries of the field.
Anyway, once an LLM has enough text from a particular source, it can do a pretty good job of writing in that style. ChatGPT for example has doubtless crawled the whole of Hackaday, and since I’ve written thousands of articles in my nearly a decade here, it’s got a significant corpus of my work. Could it write in my style? As it turns out, yes it can, but not exactly. I set out to test its forging skill.
In Which I Meet My Digital Impostor
A couple of weeks ago I covered the news of the impending re-entry of a failed Soviet Venus mission stuck in orbit since 1972. It’s a fascinating story because the craft may survive the experience, and it’s possible that by the time you read this it might have been retrieved. I asked ChatGPT to provide me with a 200 word article on the story “in the voice of the Hackaday writer Jenny List”. Here’s what it came up with:
In the early days of the Space Race, the Soviet Union launched a bold bid to reach Venus: the Venera missions. Among them was Kosmos 482, a 1972 mission that never made it past Earth’s gravity. Now, over five decades later, its descent craft is finally coming home—with a bang.Kosmos 482 was intended to deliver a lander to Venus, but due to a malfunction in its upper stage, it was stranded in a highly elliptical orbit around Earth. Encased in a semi-spherical titanium shell, the descent craft—designed to survive the brutal atmosphere of Venus—has been orbiting quietly, steadily losing altitude. By early May 2025, that orbit had decayed to a precarious 232 x 136 km, setting the stage for an uncontrolled reentry around May 10th.
Unlike typical space debris, Kosmos 482’s reentry carries a bit more drama. Built to endure Venus’s hellish surface, the lander is expected to survive Earth’s atmospheric plunge mostly intact. Impact predictions estimate it will hit the ground at about 65-70 m/s, roughly the speed of a meteorite, packing the punch of a 500 kg hunk of Soviet engineering.
With an orbital inclination of 51.95 degrees, it could come down anywhere between 52°N and 52°S, adding an element of unpredictability. One thing is certain: after 53 years in limbo, Kosmos 482 is finally coming back to Earth—whether we’re ready or not.
Reading it is a fascinating experience, because superficially it feels like a Hackaday piece. It has my vague style with some phrases such as “packing the punch of a 500 kg hunk of Soviet engineering“. It’s casual in its language, and it’s captured my wordiness; in contrast to the more terse style it does when for example I ask it to do the same thing in the voice of my colleague Al Williams. It fails though in several senses, I feel it doesn’t capture my sentence style and the very British way I use punctuation, it relies on far more figures than I would put in a piece, and perhaps most importantly it has no inference. It relies only on the facts it can find, indeed those figures are a sign of it overusing them, and it doesn’t go further in commenting on any likely outcomes. In my human-written version of the same piece I finished up by speculating on who would own it if retrieved, and anything of that nature is absent in its output.
Don’t Worry, Humans Still Needed
So it’s clear from the above that while it can write something which is superficially coverage of the same story in my voice when writing a Hackaday piece, it still fails at the task in hand. Where we would try to give a little introduction, background and comment to the story, it instead presents only a summary of facts it has found. The fact that it can’t infer beyond the story is reassuring, because it means we meat-based Hackaday scribes still have the edge. There are many people who will tell you to look for certain words as clues to AI-written text, but the truth is much simpler. Look for the human touch.
Toei Animation To Apply AI to ‘Various Processes of Animation Production’ in the Future
Toei Animation To Apply AI to ‘Various Processes of Animation Production’ in the Future - Anime Corner
More details emerge on Toei Animation's AI aspirations after its investment in PFN, described as possessing "top-level AI technology competence in Japan."Chike Nwaenie (Anime Corner)
EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE: Zionists Target Farmers in South Lebanon
Laith Marouf & Hadi Hotait chase Zionist drones as they terrorize civilians in South Lebanon, and find themselves to be the only reporters at the scene when three missiles murdered a farmer in the village of Hula, and when two missiles hit an excavat…Free Palestine TV (FPTV’s Substack)
Switch 2 で『サイバーパンク2077』をプレイ。震えるマウス操作のリコイル感がイイッッ、携帯モードのナイトシティにもうっとり – ファミ通
Switch 2 で『サイバーパンク2077』をプレイ。震えるマウス操作のリコイル感がイイッッ、携帯モードのナイトシティにもうっとりファミ通Switch 2 版『サイバーパンク2077』、「ほんとにちゃんと動くのか……?」と試遊してみたら、しっかりと安定したプレイが楽しめた。丁寧な最適化を経た大作オープンワールドRPGは、「マウス操作」も「携帯モード」も大変スムーズに操作可能電ファミニコゲーマーNintendo Switch 2 版「サイバーパンク2077 アルティメットエディション」プレビュー…WALKNEWS (WALK NEWS)
Buenas tardes, miserables.
Humor de perros. Sobreviviente de 2013, llueve fuerte en #LaPlata (bah, todo el #RíoDeLaPlata), seguirá lloviendo hasta nuevo aviso. Entre otras desgracias menores (o no tanto, tiendo a minimizar) que me visitaron durante el último mes.
La lectura o las manualidades o la droga (química o social) ayudan pero hasta por ahí nomás. Subiré entonces la apuesta, seguiré fingiré demencia con el planteo de una encuesta, tan abierta como me sale porque maldita si sé cómo reducir esto a opciones finitas.
Estás jugando al #ajedrez y por razones de fuerza mayor tenés que levantar campamento en lo mejor de la partida; tablero y trebejos no magnéticos ni de otro modo capaces de ser fijados; sin cámara fotográfica para registrar la posición; es menester anotarla en un papel, y joderse, no lo hiciste durante el desarrollo.
¿Cómo lo hacés? ¿Dibujás velozmente cuadrícula y piezas (símbolos, letras)? ¿Omitís la cuadrícula y tirás algunas líneas, flechas incluso, para fijar ubicaciones relativas? ¿Lista de coordenadas (ni pregunto por #notación Forsyth-Edwards: la supongo ignota salvo para programadores, no la podría usar sin un manual)? ¿Se ha inventado otro modo práctico?
¿Tal vez describirla de viva voz en persona, por teléfono o radio o para registro de un grabador, ¿eso existe?
¡El pueblo ajedrecista quiere saber!
(Buscando referencias, encontré dos hilos en sendos foros, separados por muchos años entre sí y del presente. ¿Tan rara será la idea?)
chess position index cards? - Chess Forums
Hi, I've read in many sources that chess players used to (still?) make recordings of positions they wanted to study, in notebooks usually, and many used index cards or other methods of making collections of positions to drill and to learn.Chess.com
- Mano alzada (¿con/sin cuadrícula?) (55%, 5 votes)
- Papel cuadriculado común (0%, 0 votes)
- Tablero preimpreso (0%, 0 votes)
- Sellos, plantillas/esténciles, etiquetas autoadhesivas (0%, 0 votes)
- Coordenadas (¿notación descriptiva/algebraica?) (22%, 2 votes)
- Descripción verbal (11%, 1 vote)
- Otro (¿detalles?) (11%, 1 vote)
- no me da la cabeza para el ajedrez, quiero ver (11%, 1 vote)
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¿Narrativo, como estos ejemplos que figuran en Wikipedia?
A text from Shakespeare's time uses complete sentences to describe moves, for example, "Then the black king for his second draught brings forth his queene, and placest her in the third house, in front of his bishop's pawne", which nowadays would be written simply as 2...Qf6. The great 18th-century player Philidor used an almost equally verbose approach in his influential book Analyse du jeu des Échecs, for example, "The king's bishop, at his queen bishop's fourth square."
(En la cita de Shakespeare, draught significa ataque, aclaro porque ya no se usa.)
De Falla and Ravel thrice with Tharaud once from Aarhus - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Alexandre Tharaud, piano, and the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dmitry Matvienko play: DE FALLA: The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No. 2. RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G major/ La Valse/ Bolero. Recorded 15 May....www.worldconcerthall.com
Got noticed in Totton the other day, It's really cool to see so many people happy and sharing about where and when they saw me and my partner.
Surproduction : « Il y a assez de vêtements produits pour habiller l’humanité entière pendant des décennies »
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Inondées par des centaines de milliers de tonnes de vêtements mis sur le marché chaque année et jetés au même rythme, la France et ses ressourceries étouffent sous les déchets textiles. Pendant longtemps, la situation a été maîtrisée par l’export de nos fripes à l’étranger, mais ce système, pris dans un circuit engorgé par la surproduction, s’écroule.
First time trying risoprint for a photo (originally taken on film).
I don't know, I didn't love the process — mainly because it was very digital. I'm also not infatuated with the result.
The thing is, you prep your image on the computer, adding more screen time to your day and knowing what will come out of the printer. Which felt kinda... boring?
(What didn't help was that I brought Affinity to a Photoshop based workshop, lol. I was struggling — literally on Reddit half the time to find workarounds.)
I can imagine returning to riso if I ever want to create posters with photography and text/typography.
But I guess riso isn't my medium — I missed the mystery of the darkroom. 🩶
#analog #filmphotography #risoprint #print #duotone #experimental #shadow #silhouette
A Texas city the size of Corpus Christi, with a population of about 315,000, generally uses around 38% of its #water supply for industrial, commercial or institutional use. In Corpus, a c oastal hub for heavy industry, that rate is at least 58%. texasobserver.org/corpus-chris…
#politics #USpol #news #pollution #environment #ClimateChange #news #Tesla #ElonMusk
A Thirsty Tesla Refinery Could Exacerbate Corpus Christi’s Water Crisis
Local activists warn that while residents must ration, unimpeded industrial expansion is imperiling the region’s future.Justin Doud (The Texas Observer)
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#PopeLeoXIV intends to offer the #Vatican as a venue for a direct meeting between #Russia and #Ukraine
I've been working on better integrating layer effects with the undo/redo history in #GIMP. Currently you can undo/redo adding, removing, and reordering filters.
This WIP connects editing filters as well, so you can revert back to previous layer effect settings. This should also help prevent surprises when Ctrl + Z removes the filter entirely rather than just reverting to a previous edit!
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