I used a jigsaw and made my first fence in order to square up and cut the edges of a log. I am working towards natural shelf number 3. The grain / bark is beautiful. #woodworking #ManShed
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I Am Not A Robot
For small and medium businesses navigating AI, cybersecurity and digital change without the hype. Hosted by Justin Melton and Luke Taylor...Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/i-am-not-a-robot/
#AusPods #Podcasts #Podcasting #Australia #Technology #Tech #Cyber #AI
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I've had to migrate due to my community going dark next week. So, here I am! #introduction
I've been writing #sapphic books for over 25 years, leaning towards the #butchfemme dynamic. I'm been mostly on FB and Insta, but I hope to be around here more often.
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I used to feel so pressured and confused by my daily tasks, and I ended up experimenting with all kinds of productivity systems to try to make things better. 😵💫
And from all of that this is what I learned:
The system itself doesn’t really matter. What matters is that I build my planning around the reality of who I am: my imaginative and creative INFP personality type, and my needs as a highly sensitive person with chronic pain and ADHD traits. https://arcadiapage.com/2026-10-24-how-to-build-a-planning-system-that-fits-you/
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I am reading a physical book for once, so that's pretty cool, This is day 58 of #100DaysToOffload
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I think I make people feel uncomfortable because it feels like I'm studying you. Because I am lol
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I'm starting to reach the point in my drawing ability where I'm learning more from my mistakes ("How could I fix this or make it an intentional part of a complete piece?") than I am from my successes ("Oh, so THAT'S how I do that").
Nothing looks any better for it, but I'm thinking differently now.
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I am super stoked about Apple's Tuesday 'Pro and Tell' event, especially in regard to the new Macbook Pro.
I remember in 2020 I sent a Macbook Pro 14" back due to the weight and stuck to the Macbook Air ever since. Even though I don't need to upgrade, I can't help being very curious:
▪️How will it be redesigned?
▪️How light will it be?
▪️What about the bezels?
▪️Better cooling? Vapour chamber?
▪️Will Apple add a new colour to the current silver and space black?
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I am halfway through my Morning Pages and I am allowing myself to get too distracted. But I need to finish this before I get on with today's chores, which include setting up a jewelry class schedule from now until year end, putting that schedule online, re-photographing (with the new background) all of the jewelry items I have for sale, and updating my online shop. I might be sharing some photos today. If you don't want to see them, mute the hashtag #jewelry for the day.
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I just heard a music podcast about #Halloween #songs include a beautiful but deeply disturbing song by Sufjan Stevens about John Wayne Gacy, the child molester and serial killer. My brain said Hell No. I realized I have a list of things that I am willing to consider "Halloween content" and other content that's a No for me. If you feel like sharing yours, or if a popular person wants to make a poll, I'd love that.
Right now I think these are my preferences
OK For Halloween:
- Death of grown-ups
- Already-dead people (including children) as ghosts, zombies, etc.
- Monsters (e.g., vampires, werewolves, mummies...)
- Murder of adults by monsters and vice-versa
- Creepy almost-murder of kids in child-audience horror stories
Not OK For Halloween:
- Child molestation
- Murder of children (although for some reason I'm OK with child ghosts and vampires)
- Torture
- Murder not involving any mystical or spiritual elements
OK For Other People I Guess:
- Non-mystical murder (e.g., slasher flicks, murder ballads)
- Mystical Halloween stuff from a very specific religious point of view (this one is just because my faith transition has given me a complicated relationship with some religious content)
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I wake up to a text from my SIL with an AI-generated cartoon of my other SIL’s cat and then hit a AI promotional poster from a longstanding Union Square restaurant (and usually one that is very good on labor politics!!) and I’m so done. For Reasons I am constrained in what I can tell the in laws (a whole entire other story) but I sure did tell the restaurant what a disappointment it was.
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I am sure that someone with $950,000,000 can be as happy as someone with $1,000,000,000. #economy #economics #democracy #capitalism
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I am working on the very first chapter of my fantasy story, which focuses on the novel’s setting—the castle of Aelinor.
#fantasy #writefantasy #writer
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I wrote this haiku whilst coding the latest Mastodon update:
The poor, white uncle
Yearning to be an ice cube
Singing like a sheepI am #JohnMastodon, and I will always be your friend.
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I am a AI critic like most, but have you seen #Malfoid 🤣 We need more #datacenters
It's Harry Potter as a K-Drama and I am here for it.
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Today I have been very productive. I had an important #sysadmin task on my to-do list. Today I have broken it down into 13 sub-tasks, all not due today :-)
Or really, #amacrastination as I am a gentleman of leisure who isn't getting paid for this.
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Here I am in a lounge at #YYZ, waiting for my flight to #SFO and #XFD16 to board. Contemplating the presentations I’m likely to see over the next few days (including the likely firehose of #AI that goes with them) and getting into what I hope is the right mindset.
#InfoSec has always been a balancing act between requirements and risk, but I’m starting to think that we’re playing a shell game where we address one risk while being distracted from thinking about others. More to come over the next few days, unless I’m distracted from continuing this line of thinking. 🤔
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💔 I am a mother in Gaza, struggling to survive with my five children and our little cat. We have no access to the most basic necessities of life. Every day is a struggle to find food, clean water, and safety. My children deserve a childhood filled with love, warmth, and hope, not hunger and fear. I pray the world will hear our voices and remember families like ours. ❤️🇵🇸
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Disclosure: I am asking because I am building a photoreal talking-face product and want to learn from other builders' experience, not from any vendor. Setup (generic): a frozen diffusion talking-face adapter that lip-syncs well but renders flat expressions. Retraining is not on the table for this question — I want an inference-time controller. Questions: 1. How are people scheduling blinks, brow movement, and head motion from audio prosody and phoneme timing without training — explicit timing rules, statistical schedules, or something else — and what parameters matter most? 2. How do you keep a slow expression stream from interfering with fast lip articulation (separate streams, frequency separation, gating)? 3. What breaks first in practice — mechanical/repetitive feel, lip interference, flicker — and what measurement on rendered clips catches it before human review? 4. Is there a minimal controller (blink + brow + head) that measurably improves perceived expressiveness on blinded human or automated judge scores, and what did the evaluation look like? Looking for controller designs and evaluation methods, not hosted-service recommendations. Thanks.#ai #machinelearning #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
Inference-time expression controller for a frozen talking-face adapter — prosody stream without training? -
So I am reminded that #MerrickGarland could have prevented a lot of this.
I feel like he should be remembered a bit more for his 'contribution'.
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Here I am trying to enjoy a little victory in Serbia and Brazil, but also there is a Hell and we are in it.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-agents-are-trying-to-be-journalists-now/
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Asocial
I came home from work some time ago to find my wife settling down to watch the latest episode of Coronation Street.
Onscreen, a new family had recently moved on to the street, and the Dad was shown talking to a couple of the regular characters, making arrangements to do something, and it struck me – in just 3 minutes of screen time, a brand new character had exchanged more words with his neighbours than I had in the 10 1/2 years I had lived here.
Which got me thinking – of all the things I know, how to make friends isn’t one.
Out of all my friends (at least, out in the so-called “real world”), all of them decided I was a person they wanted to be friends with, they did all the running, and all I did was decide to go along with them.
This was rarely something I did lightly – there were plenty of people who decided we were going to be friends, but I decided to have nothing to do with them – but with all the people I count as friends, they did all the running, and I just went along with it.
It’s the same with relationships – off hand, I can only think of 6 times I asked girls out – 2 of them turned me down flat, 2 were the same girl on 2 different occasions (and I eventually asked her to marry me – which later happened!), and the other 2 times ended pretty disastrously. Every other time I got into a relationship, they did all the running after me, and I just went along with it.
On a related note, I have no idea how small talk works – this is an essential skill for developing all manner of relationships, and yet I have not a single clue as to the purpose of small talk, nor how it works – I can do it, but only by copying conversational gambits I’ve seen other people use, which means that conversations with me can often be stilted, and are liable to turn rather strange at unexpected moments.
By extension, flirting (and “chatting someone up”) is also something where I utterly fail to grasp any mechanism by which it works. As I said about small talk, I can do it, I just have no idea what I’m doing.
Actually, I would like to modify those statements – I can do small talk and flirting, but only if I don’t think about it – as soon as I start to think about what I am doing, or what I should say next, I turn in to Cat in the infamous dance/dream sequence from Red Dwarf ( https://youtu.be/yn8wWQweNbU ) – I get tongue-tied, and completely unable to communicate.
Which, let’s face it, isn’t good, whether you’re discussing the weather with the random person sitting next to you on the bus home from work, or chatting up some random stranger in a bar.
I’ve no idea if it is connected to all this, but I have always had a preference for my own company – not having to fill any silences or think of topics of conversation is always pleasant.
I remember back in school, I had a friend I spent a lot of time with – many were the times we finished school, went to the local library to collect some books, then went back to his, where we would occupy chairs at opposite sides of his living room, then read books in silence, until the time I had to leave to go home – about the only thing his mother ever heard me say was “Right, I’d better get off. See ya!”
One of the things I love about my marriage, and my wife – we often spend time just being in the same room – not necessarily talking, not necessarily doing the same thing, but doing whatever it is we are doing, together.
One of us might be watching telly while the other reads, or she might be doing something on her computer, usually doing some family history research, and I’ll walk in with my laptop and slouch down in a chair and do some writing for one project or another – but we are doing it, together, just enjoying being with someone.
Louise’s office is by the front window of the dining room, and I will often be found in the kitchen, through the rear of the dining room, cooking up a storm, while we listen to some music, which usually involves one of us dancing our way over to the other and busting some moves for a few seconds before going back to what we were doing.
We might also be talking – but no-one is being forced to talk, only when we are ready, which I find makes conversations flow more easily.
And this is the thing – I’m not, as some people think, anti-social, I don’t hate people, I don’t want to avoid having friends – I just want friends who are on my wavelength, friendships on my terms – friends who are willing to accept that I don’t always want to be drawn into conversation, but when I feel the need to talk will accept that as well.
I’m asocial, quite possibly because of my autism, and proud of it.
Social interactions leave me physically and mentally exhausted – which means that, if I put any time or effort into interacting with you, then you should feel honoured.
(Or I’m at work, and have to put the minimum effort in!)
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Lately I've been wondering how to handle security vulnerability reports for my (volunteer) projects. Specifically:
1. Do we really need to keep vulnerability reports confidential? If private, that means I am the only one who can fix it, and I might not have the time/interest. Some other important bugs are not reported privately, and many projects are not public-facing network servers. If the vulnerability was found via an LLM, anyone can throw an LLM at the codebase and find it too with little effort.
2. How much do I really need to care about CVEs? This is just time-consuming paperwork for me. I understand it might be important for security researcher recognition.
3. What happens if the security vulnerability isn't patched in a timely manner, or by the end of the embargo period? Should I feel bad? What if it affects the reputation of the software? I don't want this stuff to invade my life.I very much care about making things right for users, but I don't know how to balance things out with a healthy maintainer role.
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While I am not without a few bones to pick with Quarantine Collective, I will give him credit for helping make it more clear that you actually need to read the works of writers and at least try to work on understanding the political and social contexts they come from, instead of depending on any YouTube personalities to educate you.
In his recent videos about Jacob Geller.
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@pluralistic
I am NOT a lawyer, so I would not presume to test this language in the real world (OR the simulation in which we may be living), but I greatly enjoyed the exercise of turning your paragraph on its head by rejiggering the first few words to serve ME rather than the vendor:
"By selling me this product or charging me a fee, you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use policies ("BOGUS AGREEMENTS") that I have entered into with your employer, its partners, licensors, agents and assigns, in perpetuity, without prejudice to my ongoing rights and privileges."
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Schirmer: I am Unaffiliated and I am Voting for Jill Oberlander
Submitted by Ernst Schirmer, Cos Cob In this ongoing election, I will cast my vote for Jill Oberlander…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Greenwich
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@Wen I was pleasantly surprised by the number of Android apps available in the Aurora store. I try to limit them to the minimum but I really need 2 or 3 of them on my smartphone.
The navigation takes some getting used to but I like it.
Another cool thing is the native integration with Mastodon.For now the only issue I found concerns the virtual keyboard. I don't know how to switch languages yet and there's no support for Korean (a language I am studying).
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Liolios: “I Am Stepping Aside So Basketball Can Function”
Μake us preferred on Google “I am stepping aside so that basketball can function.” With this statement before…
#NewsBeep #News #Basketball #AU #Australia #corruption #moneylaundering #sports
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Today I am visiting friends who have recently moved into a hew home. Following the tradition of „Brot und Salz, Gott erhalt’s“, I've attempted to bake a filled tear-and-share bread (inspired by the recipe above). The photo shows how I would like to present it to them with a truffle-infused salt in the middle. In practice, it's an hour cycling trip to get there so we shall see what it looks like on arrival...
For the bakers out there: I did the first proof overnight in the fridge which seemed to work really well, but I did not fill them until this morning before the second proof. Thanks everyone for your tips! Also, my fillings are based on what I had in stock: gouda cheese and chill, walnut, feta cheese with herbes de Provence, plus some plain ones with just sesame on top. I guess I probably overproved everything, but hopefully they'll still taste good. Also, I always think that egg wash is a waste of egg and I absolutely hate it when the crust has a sightliest taste of burnt omelette, but here it probably would have improved the finish.
