Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

Made some notes on how Cursor works under the hood based on their security documentation - it turns out an organization's list of subprocessors offers a loose form of "view source" for their infrastructure!
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/11/cursor-security/

Coucou la mastosphère #suisse !Quelqu’un aurait un tuyau pour prêter/louer un écran d’ordi (si possible 4k) à une chercheuse de passage qui tient à son tunnel carpien?

Update: trouvé! Merci ❤️

#jecherche #suisseromande #romandie #vaud

I had no idea how this was going to go, and I was nervous about sitting out there all alone, but I gave it a try, and it turned out great.

So I'm sharing my little story to encourage you to try whatever the thing is you want to try. :)

In my day job, I work for a media company that focuses on the toy industry.

Apropos of nothing, I decided to add the Mastodon plushie (aka #Plushtodon) to the latest products on our Toy Insider website.

Please boost this so our editors will frustratingly tell me to stop trying to make Mastodon happen.
https://thetoyinsider.com/products/mastodon-stuffed-toy/

We had an awesome chat( https://embedded.fm/episodes/500 ) with Komathi Sundaram about her passion for testing and automation!
We dove into the unique joys of testing vs. development, setting up CI servers, and all kinds of tests.

Here's an excerpt from the show:

#testing #engineering #conference #embedded #electrical #software

If you wanna help me make #Anubis happen, please look into pitching in on GitHub Sponsors or Patreon:

https://github.com/sponsors/Xe
https://patreon.com/cadey

If you're looking to hire world class talent, I know some brilliant people looking for work now. I would love to connect you to them.

Carol Lee: https://www.carol-s-lee-phd.com/
John Flournoy: https://johnflournoy.science/

Find me at: https://www.drcathicks.com/

I've written an unhealthy amount of words on "the cloud" and specifically Europe's woes. In the post below I tie many articles together into a hopefully useful overview. It may be good to know that nothing I write on the cloud is novel or original, I mostly hope to report things as they are. Which is scary enough already! https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-overview/

Parakeet-TDT-0.6b-V2 - a Hugging Face Space by nvidia https://huggingface.co/spaces/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 (it’s good) #AI #AudioTranscription #OpenSource

how much will the sleep vaccine cost? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Don’t need much sleep? Mutatio...

I'm looking for a good book that treats high-dimensional geometry. I am in particular looking for something on the geometry of high-dimensional polytopes.

Any recommendations? Please retoot for reach.

🔧 GenAI-Accelerated #TLAplus Challenge is live!
Use GenAI to enhance TLA⁺ specs, tools, or workflows.
Submit your project for a chance to win a prize.
Details: https://foundation.tlapl.us/challenge/index.html

Do you approve of the state of the software industry?

Question for sociologists:

Is there a term for the Overton window that is not linked to political discourse, but rather covers individual personal behaviour?

As in, something that used to be considered an expression of simple decency and respect becoming unusually deferential (ex: lifting or tipping one's hat), or something once commonplace becoming extremely rude (ex: urinating in the street)?

Or would the term "Overton window" apply to that as well?

(Boosts for reach appreciated.)

There may only be two people who can stop OpenAI's for-profit pivot https://www.understandingai.org/p/there-may-only-be-two-people-who (very clear writing about OpenAI as for-profit vs non-profit) #AI #OpenAI

No one would EVER tell me in my field, that a scientist in leadership was not "truly part of my field" and "did not represent me." That is what many many people are telling me in my thread about tech people and users though. It's just very convenient that not a single part of engineering leadership represents engineers???

@codinghorror a short conversation vs a brief one

False Equivalence, 2011 and 2025 https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/false-equivalence

Kerfuffle between the CNCF, one of its projects, and the company that contributed it? Sounds like a topic tailor-made for Oxide and Friends! @bcantrill and I were joined by @rstephensme and @adamhjk to discuss how we got here and possible outcomes. https://youtu.be/dYIgswVvIt0

Qwen 3 offers a case study in how to effectively release a model https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/29/qwen-3/