Sylvain Miermont @miermont@qoto.org

Les braves cyclistes sous la neige. Bd Arago, Paris 14ème.

#velotaf #paris #tempeteDeNeige #paris14

there are three kinds of programming tutorials:

“look man we both know you don’t wanna learn this shit so just install 30 GB of random frameworks and here’s the code to copy-paste if you wanna make a basic game and feel like you accomplished something. I’m not gonna explain how any of this works because nobody cares as long as your little guy jumps when you press spacebar”
“an endofunctor is a type of monoid which is a subcategory of monad that is variadic over the set of all impure lambdas - therefore all possible expressions in this language can be modeled after- wait where are you going?”
“this is called a variable! a variable is a little friend that can hold onto something called a value! variables love grabbing values and they can even carry them into functions! say hi, variable!”

Wow this talk is very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANECpNdt-4

Folks interested in science should be interested in Retraction Watch, which is now 15 years old. Started by medical journalists Ivan Oransky & Adam Marcus, the site is the only one (that I know of, anyway) that uncovers and tracks scientific retractions, errors, and other controversies. My best friend of 27 years happens to work there too, but that's besides the point! They do vital work no one else is doing. Their year-end summary is impressive.

#science

https://retractionwatch.com/

Anyone got custom emojis that are SVGs or APNGs? Please link me some, need to check they work correctly in #Tusky.

When people talk about social pariahs in the tech industry, THIS is who we should be talking about.

received this card in the mail from a neighbour. paper tape and stickers. 🎄

this is more beautiful and more creative than anything an image generator can ever spit out. :)

Here's that 60 minutes segment - not the Canadian guy filming his TV (thank you), but a 1080p grab from a browser someone posted to Internet Archive.

That 1080p video is 1.4GB. This 720p version (crf:35) is under 40MB, which just happens to be the default / most common media size limit for mastodon instances.

NOTE: mastodon re-encoded the upload to 100MB so HERE'S THE 40MB version
👉 https://drive.proton.me/urls/XA5XYQV47M#VSGTMh8TpDEO

This is unconscionable, and must not be covered up. Apparently CNN is running "the story" now; those jackals just want the clicks.

share / download / re-post elsewhere, etc.

#60minutes #cecot #fascism

Lol is this allowed/legit? Email comes from Google domain...

The link only allows to change region, so I can't oppose this whatsoever - only request to change it back to France after they force me to the US Google and suck up more of my data. FWIW I live in France.

#gdpr #privacy @noybeu

Quick PSA : yes, #Mozilla has been disappointing, but so far, they’re the only organization preventing Google to have a full control over web standards. Blink/WebKit-based browsers (Chromium, Vivaldi…) do NOT help at all in that regard.

So please use #Firefox or a #Gecko-based alternative (#ZenBrowser, #LibreWolf…). Ride the nightly release train and report bugs if you can. #Servo is getting ready, but for the next ~5 years, Gecko is our only suitable option.

The best view from any chemistry lab in the world? Clément has spent most of the afternoon setting up LISA, tomorrow we'll run a test core through to test she's working... (Meet LISA here: http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/09/30/meeting-lisa/)
#iQ2300 #PRECISEnnf #FieldworkPhoto #Antarctica #WasaStation

Just so its clear: there's a blatant reason the chatbot gets applied to climate investments and not to, say, tech or real estate or finance. You apply the slopbot when you don't care about outcome quality and want to minimise cost. NBIM doesn't care about taking good climate investment actions.

A completely unhinged post from the head of Norway's oil fund: to hunt down the "leaders" of groups resisting AI implementation in companies and "remove" them archive.ph/r0u2r

Satellites are emerging as a powerful new tool in the fight to curb emissions of methane. While methane is much shorter-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it is vastly more potent at trapping heat, which makes rapid cuts essential for slowi…
Satellites help tackle landfill methane leaks

'We have to face climate change' in the prism of a world 'wrecked' by conflicts and injustice - and Solar Radiation Management is not a solution for this

Fabio d'Andrea, Head of Geosciences, ENS, Paris, France https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XmFlmX7g70

How do you think Santa is handling cyberthreats? With Dangerzone of course! (Yeah, it took some training.) If you feel like testing his security team, you should know it has a challenge for you: Craft Santa a letter that can bypass Dangerzone's defenses and earn a bounty! 💰🎅 https://dangerzone.rocks/news/2025-12-10-santa-pwn/

this is what I hear in my head when I argue with software engineer guys who decide to give back by teaching programming and fail like 90% of their students btw

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103111003027?casa_token=X6GDNYV7-JAAAAAA:Q-cnPPInSQN0RDApMttemG-kQBb52GKzA3-qtoe2nmJwmcDRoTU5rEreNfPCvFOzQwoDVpNp9A