2026-06-03T20:08:04Z https://yabu.me Nick Radcliffe https://yabu.me/npub15a3rn4qudlvw4vqxqdgdda09h2s3jsfcchtvcytx2mcauuclcdnqccqcsr https://media.mathstodon.xyz/accounts/avatars/113/019/673/502/733/638/original/334def60fb101543.jpeg https://media.mathstodon.xyz/accounts/avatars/113/019/673/502/733/638/original/334def60fb101543.jpeg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrksrlgj4xcj40mz4zc43we8g9p69ldkz40nezehzjs4j8ye4e9lqzyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkvk4y6jd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq2wkzuhr3383w60lexkwsrmc95phmj7zkal389c02a6p6sh49kmq4xektk'>nevent1q…ektk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><a href="https://dn720706.ca.archive.org/0/items/1973MindOfAdolfHitlerLangerV2Final/1973%20Mind%20of%20Adolf%20Hitler%20Langer%20V2Final.pdf">https://dn720706.ca.archive.org/0/items/1973MindOfAdolfHitlerLangerV2Final/1973%20Mind%20of%20Adolf%20Hitler%20Langer%20V2Final.pdf</a> 2026-01-15T12:59:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspkxn5qfa8jwcfhphq0p37x7d2ejtamgdeck2mfzq964vuhas2kkszyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkvm00cgn Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again<br/>— Cory Doctorow ( <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fdrpydz4n2dpgpy5xhsa6rjg8ytggn82mt0addw6sf93272nhhnqsjlvhs" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cory Doctorow</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fdr…lvhs</span>)</a></span>)<br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/10/trump-beginning-of-end-enshittification-make-tech-good-again">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/10/trump-beginning-of-end-enshittification-make-tech-good-again</a><br/><br/>Better than the average Guardian piece on tech. 2026-01-10T12:52:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst8qfl66ygq5cnhdnvm4pwvrqhxfv4z8sdzr2ew9xhcgyajmsxysczyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkv0mlv60 The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Physical Sciences<br/>— Eugene Wigner, 1959, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 13 (1): 1–14<br/><a href="https://webhomes.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf">https://webhomes.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf</a><br/><br/>I have just re-read this after too many decades. Treat yourself if you have any interest in maths, physics, beauty, philosophy, or writing. It contains no equations, though it does discuss a small number.<br/><br/>#mathematics #physics #theory #philosophy #knowledge #epistemology #pdf #logic #quantum #relativity 2025-12-13T13:14:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs86pscgurpy8lgunrk7w4ch83yq0kxvynuqly4ujcmrsdsjcfnrxqzyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkvrkclma In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqljlj4lum5u6xkr24es9m62m7zm6k4k7sdkyta9w4xum557xlvhc5s66hy'>nevent1q…66hy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Thanks. You’re saying it’s too late and I shouldn’t clog up the mail…?<br/><br/>I’m just writing a section advising people on handling text, and it feel weird to tell them to take out ^L. I would never do that. And if I write a function to do “this”, it won’t do “that”…<br/><br/>I won’t bother mailing…whatever the official address is, though, if you’re say “no chance”. 2025-08-29T16:23:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsppzc29fvvqp46mj2l7qz7wmqq8eed2np5z0y0rcazuks9gu3vrtqzyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkvrdw3yk <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub19ua0a9gu7ggm693nqm6knq3zutckcfde9p6ra7a8fu73xhvy3sgqz253cv" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Tim Bray</span> (<span class="italic">npub19ua…53cv</span>)</a></span> I’ve just been reading (and am writing about) RFC 9839. Great work.<br/><br/>One thing that surprised me: Your (three) useful controls codes do not include form feed (U+000C). Should it be four?<br/><br/>That surprises me. It seems safe, widely used and useful. You might argue it’s not entirely interoperable, but I would refer you to U+0009, U+000A and U+000D, none of which is free from variations of interpretation!<br/><br/>Is this an oversight? Deliberate? Should I mail you?<br/><br/>Please consider this a Comment on the Request For… 2025-08-29T15:28:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp4pvfsh5x6f0s0yc90m7tzad35e0fn87j37mj8z6w0w90xqhzj4czyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkvp2awn6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst6ast5wf44r96j97dk07meg9pn84ef4q7myt2h2plc2xm97xx9ysd89fg4'>nevent1q…9fg4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I dunno. Storage apart, more detail always means you can blow up/zoom more. And/or, being able to zoom more when shooting is always useful, if you can stabilise it and make it work. Is that niche? I don’t think so. 2025-05-13T17:06:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsra950xjjtlfuswqgfx6u643c727586yzxrfderg4dwfknj7sfwlczyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkvgr4s0q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd899eflzvevpwvyh5c48nvpy8kpge4nmzxhghj9cncyvgslajl8g9l7wna'>nevent1q…7wna</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You have enough readers that I’m sure you’d hear if it’s widespread. 2025-01-11T23:58:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd899eflzvevpwvyh5c48nvpy8kpge4nmzxhghj9cncyvgslajl8gzyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkvpzv0az In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg8ua3mg4jnew6rdt8xlufann5ze8fq7qa9j92snu9xlmqhx4xjjg5jdkzn'>nevent1q…dkzn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Clearing history didn’t help in Safari (on the machine where Safari is downloading) nor for Orion.<br/><br/>I’m largely out of ideas. 2025-01-11T23:57:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg8ua3mg4jnew6rdt8xlufann5ze8fq7qa9j92snu9xlmqhx4xjjgzyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkv0mmft4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs909llc4su52wm8s3ny8a5xk9mekd5enjqt4tv50hqzzqp9dhq50c2809ep'>nevent1q…09ep</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Caching? I’ll clear caches... 2025-01-11T23:53:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs909llc4su52wm8s3ny8a5xk9mekd5enjqt4tv50hqzzqp9dhq50czyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkvjf6gtd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswz87k3wdlg6rpxwfg22fqcz3r2l47vj5a7pjf4jzzr7nm04ye2aqzu02vk'>nevent1q…02vk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Presumably not a weird user agent from Safari and I haven’t changed any settings as far as I know.<br/><br/>Orion seems to be using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/605.1.15<br/><br/>The only other thing I can see that looks weird is that when Orion downloads the page it doesn’t add add .html…which it does for a BBC sites. But maybe that’s just how Orion is.<br/><br/>It feels like Orion (and Safari on the other Mac) don’t think they’re HTML pages. But I don’t know why. 2025-01-11T23:53:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrpu3534herkqxhaqsmqxaa4ddsg2amyeqyvhryqfztxq9969mnaczyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkvqz5yrs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqktn0cytsdzxh2d70994dp28t7h8n9hyqwrljvm3tsqzne8gqv4q75z2xm'>nevent1q…z2xm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>curl us stll the same for me too. I’ll try it on another Mac 2025-01-11T23:38:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8c3j8z2waqmd5fnd9wk33gz2d5quh4azyguqyaucqzn084mqxn4qzyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkveqyxct In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw8gua2pqm7utfm2ehvvgwp8cza9pyer3gpsq3a0jxv98w0kg2zhqqhs78x'>nevent1q…s78x</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Computers, eh?<br/><br/>Still not working right for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. 2025-01-11T23:22:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswh2nt2shhrglzxrd5kn8mh4n7w9ytget4efd7jmtja38gdtgny5gzyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkvsv9w0m In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswelcqj5vqrsycm05q27nakne9p05gzrph39mwsnzclgj255kl8uqxurwv9'>nevent1q…rwv9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If I compare the front page (which works) and an article page, it looks like the front page has Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8, but the article pages don’t?:<br/><br/>$ curl --head -i <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/">http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/</a><br/>HTTP/1.1 200 OK<br/>Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 07:44:52 GMT<br/>Server: Apache<br/>Last-Modified: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 05:01:41 GMT<br/>ETag: &#34;428e-62b671b6b7780&#34;<br/>Accept-Ranges: bytes<br/>Content-Length: 17038<br/>Vary: Accept-Encoding<br/>X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff<br/>Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors &#39;self&#39;;<br/>Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload<br/>Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8<br/><br/>vs.<br/><br/>$ curl --head -i <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/01/10/Photo-Noise-Reduction">http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/01/10/Photo-Noise-Reduction</a><br/>HTTP/1.1 200 OK<br/>Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 07:44:37 GMT<br/>Server: Apache<br/>Last-Modified: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 05:01:32 GMT<br/>ETag: &#34;1ed5-62b671ae1f3b7&#34;<br/>Accept-Ranges: bytes<br/>Content-Length: 7893<br/>X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff<br/>Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors &#39;self&#39;;<br/>Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload 2025-01-11T07:47:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswelcqj5vqrsycm05q27nakne9p05gzrph39mwsnzclgj255kl8uqzyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkv5pf6c3 <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub19ua0a9gu7ggm693nqm6knq3zutckcfde9p6ra7a8fu73xhvy3sgqz253cv" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Tim Bray</span> (<span class="italic">npub19ua…53cv</span>)</a></span> Not sure what’s happened on Ongoing, but if I go to the front page and click an article (Safari and Orion but not Firefox) on Mac (Sonoma), it’s downloading the page, not going through to it.<br/><br/> I’m not seeing it on any other sites. 2025-01-11T07:38:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg5pmstqqyh2n9ytf9s6qwhnu9gg3rjmcavsrrm27d0rhzfw8fn3czyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkv07mykl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv68syqgcguxqsmqs0y6h3ph6cfjpzzdg6dkxduns6ees2dlddywgw3qw2y'>nevent1q…qw2y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Untied Kingdom is very clever.<br/><br/>Presumably, shorthand for the geographic area currently called UK with an independent Scotland that retains the monarchy. 2024-12-22T07:48:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg0pz3cy5sja3x9jzn8pqft2expq08fjqhywhv8jrksvl7wvxrneczyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkvw5vxal There’s nothing artificial about the bugs AI creates. 2024-12-16T14:20:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxgqkk8s4ggds3j8gjyz9yth8r65n2fznvjgka2rl7yhtfrwxhufszyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkvpja6t0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszpkacwprfwj03skfh9au5umh9g423v4dv86jwxuqdu9mtwccvegsj2str7'>nevent1q…str7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Elizabeth Warren said it best.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elizabeth-warren-there-is-nobody-in-this-country-who-got-rich-on-his-own/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elizabeth-warren-there-is-nobody-in-this-country-who-got-rich-on-his-own/</a><br/><br/>&#34;You built a factory out there? Good for you,&#34; she says. &#34;But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn&#39;t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did.&#34;<br/><br/>She continues: &#34;Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.&#34; 2024-11-19T18:39:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfzymg6mpdc3perty6ahfqeekxgglcu4sl5wsvfk8yx25n7ql5z0szyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkv6y9lem My favourite Emoticon has long been shrug: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯<br/><br/>I&#39;m tempted to start using this image instead, from<br/><br/><a href="https://petapixel.com/2024/09/25/all-40-photo-finalists-for-the-2024-nikon-comedy-wildlife-awards/">https://petapixel.com/2024/09/25/all-40-photo-finalists-for-the-2024-nikon-comedy-wildlife-awards/</a><br/><br/>via <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ea8n7eft2t2306972rphgh6mj0t3xj672r4lhmphh2uth9ae33yslxm2yp" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Garry Knight</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ea8…m2yp</span>)</a></span>.<br/><br/>(Paging <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1qsazwlyytxtgrv0rg69e3php24m0405669exdy7qtg5uqkut8xvq0trfke" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>sb</span> (<span class="italic">npub1qsa…rfke</span>)</a></span>)<br/> <img src="https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/113/203/482/457/495/590/original/7d5918389eecd7ca.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-09-26T10:54:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdz3t6lnxkynrmvtk5sj2sxnuaxuv5nchegdhrs033kjl2rsm2c8qzyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkvml94d8 Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.<br/><br/>The Book Thief · Markus Zusak<br/>20/20<br/><br/>#20books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon<br/> <img src="https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/113/142/959/887/469/521/original/453f4eaed3891446.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-09-15T18:22:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsguwjcra9732xdjv00q4khqp0952xf99fzx9rshj4vztfmhj8wykqzyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkvukfsca OG LLM.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DivIkDrcCs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DivIkDrcCs</a> 2024-09-12T07:22:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszk2akrws88uwhht07lp7msdfknazulgjuzhhg8hpe5w6mqldr8egzyznkyww5r3ha364sqcp4p4h4uka2zx2p8rzadnq3vet0rhnnrlpkvlhde36 Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.<br/><br/>Gravitation · Misner, Thorne &amp; Wheeler<br/>16/20<br/><br/>#20books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon<br/> <img src="https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/113/119/623/427/609/997/original/bd7aaef88250b412.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-09-11T15:27:53Z