Nostr notes by Kevin Marks

I think the IFF family of file formats predates XML for your ...

2026-06-03T05:05:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…fcrp
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I think the IFF family of file formats predates XML for your point 1, but they were always binary and not plaintext.

I've had 2 impersonators on mastodon.social in the last ...

2026-01-31T21:55:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…er9x
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I've had 2 impersonators on mastodon.social in the last month, so prioritising accounts with bidirectional rel=me links in autocomplete would help.

this is what rel=me integration is for.

2026-01-31T14:59:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…ezf0
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this is what rel=me integration is for.

Key findings: 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant ...

2025-10-22T11:51:47Z

Key findings:
45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content

well, Activity Streams has Article as well as Note, but Mastodon ...

2025-08-04T15:36:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…83mf
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well, Activity Streams has Article as well as Note, but Mastodon skipped that part of the spec, so here we are. Use phanpy.social to get better thread handling.

no, it was an XKCD joke first, then the EFF made it real at etech ...

2025-08-04T15:34:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…4c5n
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no, it was an XKCD joke first, then the EFF made it real at etech 2007 This thread was fun at the time https://xkcd.com/341/ and even funnier when Randall came to Google and Knuth asked him for the O(n log ( log n) ) proof

ah, then you can edit the html to wrap the footer in ...

2025-08-04T15:13:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…ynek
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ah, then you can edit the html to wrap the footer in <details> like I said above. You can nest them, or do one after each <hr> if you want to present the different sections. It's like collapsing an outline in an outliner, but as native HTML.

I don't know how you do it in WP, that's a standard HTML ...

2025-08-04T15:04:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…yddk
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I don't know how you do it in WP, that's a standard HTML way to make sections collapsible. Are your sections separate plugins? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/details

I read Cory's posts in a feed reader, and I have a related UX ...

2025-08-04T10:17:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…7eh6
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I read Cory's posts in a feed reader, and I have a related UX improvement suggestion. Could you wrap the long thread of footer info after each post in a block like this:
<details open><summary>Hide footer</summary>[long thread of footer stuff]</details>
so I can close it and read the next post without scrolling past it for ages? That would be nice.

no lies detected https://flickr.com/photos/zippy/437271856

2025-08-04T07:47:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…dmuw
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no lies detected https://flickr.com/photos/zippy/437271856

I made the edit ...

2025-04-01T21:07:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…ckst
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I made the edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Exoplanet&oldid=1283492979

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet has a 'discredited ...

2025-04-01T17:50:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…uft7
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet has a 'discredited claims' section that mentions Barnard's star - adding a summary of the 61 Cygni claims to that would be a reasonable edit.

infinitemac.org is great, it means that I can run the CD-ROMs I ...

2024-11-23T21:11:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…8h99
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infinitemac.org is great, it means that I can run the CD-ROMs I worked on in the 1990s again. Now I'm wondering what kind of PICT they were originally, as PICTs could be bitmaps, vector graphics or compressed images too.

No Markdown. Not even once.

2024-11-20T20:19:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…q3s3
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No Markdown. Not even once.

“I believe — though I would be happy to be proved wrong on ...

2024-11-06T13:37:30Z

“I believe — though I would be happy to be proved wrong on this — that current generative AI systems represent a dead end, where exponential increases of training data and effort will give us modest increases in impressive plausibility but no foundational increase in reliability. I would love to see compositional approaches to neural networks, hard as it appears.” https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/does-current-ai-represent-a-dead-end/

oblong industries - the people who did the original multiscreen ...

2024-10-31T05:01:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…795l
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oblong industries - the people who did the original multiscreen demo for Minority Report built a thing called Mezzanine that let you move video around a room full of screens using a Wii wand. The idea being that you build a war room full of screens and collaborate in it.
Splendidly satirized in the most recent Slow Horses series.

it reminds me of the oblong stuff, which was all about a flashy ...

2024-10-31T01:34:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…g5tu
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it reminds me of the oblong stuff, which was all about a flashy demo and not actually about integrating data

also, medievalists are clustering on bluesky ...

2024-10-19T14:39:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…crut
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also, medievalists are clustering on bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/profgabriele.com/post/3l6uhaunlvr2n

you might get some reading from Ada Palmer, whose Ex Urbe blog is ...

2024-10-19T12:46:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…p28x
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you might get some reading from Ada Palmer, whose Ex Urbe blog is full of the sense of chaos eg https://www.exurbe.com/machiavelli-s-p-q-f/

you could mark the other css file for preload

2024-10-07T14:45:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…5wq0
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you could mark the other css file for preload

Maybe Google shouldn't strip non-ascii characters when ...

2024-09-16T22:33:02Z

Maybe Google shouldn't strip non-ascii characters when training AI

would offshore wind work for Iceland? (Not for crypto nonsense, ...

2024-08-25T16:30:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…826w
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would offshore wind work for Iceland? (Not for crypto nonsense, but for households)

After the riots, Keir Starmer should tell us the truth about our ...

2024-08-19T08:28:23Z

After the riots, Keir Starmer should tell us the truth about our country. This is why he won’t | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/19/riots-keir-starmer-racist-anti-immigration-narratives-truth

I got an updated router from Virgin Media last week and the ...

2024-08-08T21:31:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…5u63
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I got an updated router from Virgin Media last week and the config app was trying to police what password I could set for my home network.
Fortunately they did it in an SPA so I could set a breakpoint and allow the typeable one I wanted.

as Deniz Opal said “I'm British so have never heard of a ...

2024-08-03T12:59:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…qxlw
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as Deniz Opal said “I'm British so have never heard of a "DEI hire". They make it sound like it's about hiring people that are not qualified, so I can only assume it stands for Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka.” https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/112887613927499819