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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 7h

I'm a huge fan of semantic line breaks (sembr.org) when reviewing and maintaining prose. However, I find the resulting text hard to read: the fact that line breaks match the phrase-level semantics seems to make it harder for me to integrate the whole paragraph at once. It's interesting […]

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 19h

"Google Ireland, which runs Google Search in the EU, now faces a fine of up to €250,000 for each breach, or detention of its managers..." Or the detention of its managers. OR THE DETENTION OF ITS MANAGERS! This is the only punishment that can bring firms like #Google into line #Defamation […]

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@timbray Actually seems like a decent way to handle "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"...

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Moof! 🏳️‍🌈 @moof.space · 15/10/2026

TIL that there is a standard for technical English, originally thought up by the airline industry in order to have rules on how to write documentation for that makes it easier for non-native English speakers to understand. It’s called ASD-STE100, where STE stands for Simplified Technical […]

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Please tell me the #CRA makes (or would have made) the fridge company liable for this.

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@seldo You have to buy ice cream quite a lot for this to be true.

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Long ago, @fugueish shared the Ceremony Design and Analysis paper (eprint.iacr.org/2007/399.pdf) with me. With all the buzz around agentic browsers, it's relevant in new ways.

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I just added UTC as a "secondary" time zone in Google Calendar, and wow that makes it easy to apply cross-timezone meetings to my calendar.

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

My wife: What's that program everyone uses to make a web page? Me: FrontPage! Her: No. WordPress!

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

My memory of the "Worse is Better" essay (dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html) keeps running through my head these days. Amusingly, it was originally written in the context of a previous AI bubble. LLMs are clearly the "worse" in this round, and I'm wishing that more people cared about […]

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@fugueish That was all the 8yo. She gets the design sense from her mom.

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

My kids don't like mint toothpaste, but that's what the dentists give out. I'll never need to buy travel toothpaste again.

12 small tubes of Crest Kids toothpaste.

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Your visualization is pretty, but it obscures any underlying connections or insights.

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Just got an actual opinion poll via text, rather than a push poll. That's a first, I think. My eternal optimism has paid off. Claimed to be from "US Opinions".

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

RE: social.vivaldi.net/@kazuhito/117258… www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI This is pretty shocking behavior from Verizon and ICANN, to undermine the TLD that was aimed at helping regular people have a web presence.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

At @Vivaldi we want the web to be the application platform of choice. So to make PWAs more "native" on Android, I filed an interoperability request with Google under DMA article 6(7) to make WebAPK minting available to all browsers. Hopefully this will be uncontroversial, given that our chums in […]

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Nemoralis @neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

The Wikimedia Foundation has declined to voluntarily recognize Wiki Workers United, despite the union announcing majority support among eligible US staff. A new community petition calls on the Board of Trustees to direct the Foundation to recognize the union and begin bargaining in good faith […]

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Nick Doty @npdoty.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

if browsers enabled one-click presentation of cryptographic proofs of email ownership, how would that primarily be used? -- tracking users across domains, selling their identity and personal information to data brokers, and spam could we protect against that small step towards even more […]

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

#Kagi Translate is so much better than Google Translate. So much more detail and explanation of what the text might have meant depending on the context.

Kagi Translate, with a French input of "cent chemins s'emmélaient"

The primary English translation is "a hundred paths were tangled together"

It also says:

Wordplay - The French word ‘cent’ (hundred) is a homophone for 'sans' (without), creating an auditory double meaning between 'a
hundred paths' and 'pathless'.

A literal and descriptive translation that uses the past continuous
tense to depict a state of confusion or physical intertwining.

Alternative translations:
* a hundred paths intertwined
* a hundred paths crisscrossed
* a hundred paths became a tangled
mess
* a hundred paths wound together
* a hundred paths were snarled

It allows changing the "Poetic or Literary Style":
Adjust the imagery to be more evocative or abstract ...

Google Translate with a French input of "cent chemins s'emmélaient"

It asks "Did you mean: cent chemins s'emmélent"

It gives an English translation of "a hundred paths become entangled" and nothing else.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 24/07/2026

one day we will have safety regulations written about “AI”, but, like all regulations, they will be written in blood. when I abstain from “AI” or suggest to you that you do the same, it is in large part because I would rather they not be written in my blood, or yours.

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

RE: timeloop.cafe/@sus/1169321304410751… It's amazing that a person who works at Palantir and loves AI would be so offended by the enshittification of physical goods, but he seems to be passionate about something useful in addition to the terrible things:

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

RE: epsilon-ix.masto.host/@fuzzface/116… I use 1Password for this, with 3 of us able to "break glass" and recover the family's passwords.

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Ow. That poblano was not spicy in my mouth, but my hands have some opinions about having chopped it.

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Embarrassing confusion between chemical and nuclear reactions in this month's Scientific American, who shouldn't have laid off their unionizing employees.

"Other chemical reactions produce rare versions of atoms, including one called carbon-14."

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

I'm working on a native Android weather widget (using Breezy Weather's Content Provider to get the actual data) (because PWAs haven't yet implemented widgets: github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExpl…), and I'm repeatedly surprised by how bad Android's […]

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Jeff Moss @thedarktangent.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

Back during COVID I looked into starting either a #DEFCON #VPN service, or a private email service. Both VPN and email are well understood services, there is no shortage of people with expertise, it is not a big technical challenge to set up and operate... Each became impossible or […]

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

@timbray Are you saying that you got Qobuz to play music that's outside their catalog but that you have saved locally? I've been looking for that capability (and wincing at the price Roon charges for it, and wishing that Plex had an integration with Qobuz), but I don't see how to do it in the […]

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

I'm filing a "Notice of Intent to Participate" in the merger of the Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads, on behalf of my neighborhood association. To do this, we have to send the notice to all 400+ groups that have already filed the notice, including 3 who don't have email addresses […]

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Tyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

RE: nileane.fr/@nileane/116704285750838… If you’re still using Proton mail: The company is sponsoring the videos of French right-wing YouTuber Vincent Lapierre. If encryption is part of your vision for a better society, find a better service provider. #proton #fash

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

We've had coffee, yes, but what about second coffee?

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 03/06/2026

I read the whole encyclical on a plane then I read @laurenshof.online on the encyclical's implications for decentralized networks on a different plane and Laurens is of course extremely good, and between planes the Hallgrimskirkja did me in. A truly odd time. connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...

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FR#164 – The Pope on Defederation

This week, the Catholic Church wrote one of the better diagnoses of why decentralised social networks keep struggling.

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

I need a grammatical marker for "I'm giving information I expect to be new" vs "I'm mentioning things you already know because I think they'll help structure the conversation." ... @lingthusiasm, does this exist in any language?

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

A hundred watts is a guy and every time I make a cup of tea that's like having eighteen guys in my kitchen pedalling on static bikes hooked up to dynamos sweating while I moan "This kettle takes ages, I miss English kettles that run on thirty guys"

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

Signs you might not be moderating aggressively enough: "This follows previous public warnings for disruptive behaviour [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]." mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/h…

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[TLS] Notice of Moderation for Postings by D. J. Bernstein

Search IETF mail list archives

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116584… #TIL that Marcus Aurelius, yes the Roman emperor, had a useful opinion about the Internet: "You are not compelled to form any opinion at all about this matter before you, not to disturb your peace of mind at all. Things in themselves […]

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

@torgo @laser There are definitely gray areas. E.g. a lot of paywalls (but not all) take otherwise-web content out of the "expect my readers to be able to follow links" category. Most bank sites aren't very "on the web", but a lot of them could be more so. E.g. the "my balance" URL could be […]

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Jeffrey Yasskin @jyasskin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

@torgo I don't think it's "on the web" unless someone can link to it and expect most of their users to be able to follow the link.

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dr.-ing. ⁡jaseg @jaseg.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

Stopping the system fans to heat up the system to shift clock phase by a few femtoseconds is one of the less hinged ideas I’ve seen come out of CERN lol. (AFAIU this was an experiment for a software retrofit to hardware otherwise incapable of such adjustments)

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