Neil Stoker ✨

@tszzl A good portion of this seemed obvious from the early trailers put out months ago. Thanks for confirming 🙂

project hail mary was unfortunately a middling adaptation of a good book. the script has the unfortunate affect of “language model populism” - where every single line has to be some sort of punched up comedic zinger yet still unremarkable. visuals were uninspired and trite and more or less identical to other space movies. everything good about the film comes from the wonderful world scaffolding of the book and the hard science fiction of it all that lets you suspend disbelief on the alien rocky the movie doesn’t really try to get into the xenolinguistic stuff even at the depth the book tries (someone called it “arrival for idiots” which unfortunately hit ) the thing that elevated the book is the commitment to a hard science fiction engineeringporn fiction at a level nobody else is able to write. the direction of the movie doesn’t really convey the same feeling successfully, and you’re left with flat characters, an alien that is more human than several humans i know, and a marvel populism gosling and the german woman are great as actors, but this movie will not be remembered in a year. it is disappointing to see people do so little with a quarter billion, insane acting talent, and incredible source IP

@Itsfoss Better sleep / low power state handling and recovery, across the board (the OS, apps, built in hardware, attached items / BT)

Don't say Copilot. ☠️

@TfL why are the ticket gates at Southfields Tube wide open this morning? Lets anyone in/out of the network without paying/identifying there are staff in the office so can't be that excuse... @MalcolmGrimston / @MayorofLondon

5.4 sooner than you Think.

@SamaHoole @MalcolmGrimston It was taught to us at school Nice write up!

Here is a fact so perfectly constructed it seems like something a polemicist invented, except it is simply true and sitting in every etymology dictionary on the shelf. The Anglo-Saxon peasant kept a cow. He raised it, fed it, moved it to pasture, treated its ailments, watched it give birth, and if things went badly in winter made the decision about whether the family could afford to keep it. He called it a cu. It was his animal, his responsibility, his labour. He did not eat it. The Norman lord ate it. And he called it beef. From the Old French boeuf. The Anglo-Saxon kept a pig. He called it a picga. The Norman ate it and called it pork, from porc. The Anglo-Saxon kept sheep, which he called scep. The Norman ate them and called the meat mutton, from mouton. The Anglo-Saxon watched deer move through the forest that had just been legally declared the king's personal property under the Forest Laws. He called them deor. The Norman hunted them and called the meat venison, from venaison. The animal in the field has an Anglo-Saxon name because an Anglo-Saxon was looking after it. The meat on the table has a French name because a Norman was eating it. This division is sitting in plain sight in the English language and has been sitting there for nine hundred and fifty years, which is roughly the amount of time it has taken for anyone to notice that it tells you something important. Walter Scott noticed it in 1819. He put it in Ivanhoe. The swineherd Gurth says to the jester Wamba: the swine is Saxon when he is kept and Norman when he becomes pork. The observation got filed as a colourful literary detail rather than as the class analysis of the food system that it actually is. The language is the record. The record has been in every dictionary the whole time. The Anglo-Saxon raised the food. The Norman ate the food. The English language has been commemorating this arrangement ever since. I genuinely cannot believe this isn't in the national curriculum.

Conductor gets pranked by orchestra on his birthday

Andrew Ng just revealed why the AI companies throwing the most compute at the problem are going to lose. The winner of the intelligence race won’t use the most compute. They’ll waste the least. Ng: “Most of your high-dimensional data lies on a lower-dimensional subspace. It’s just a fact of life.” Here’s what that means in practice. You have a 10,000-dimensional dataset. Every dimension dragged through every calculation. Every training cycle hauling dead weight the model will never use. Ng: “You’re carrying around these 10,000-dimensional examples throughout your whole training process.” That bloat isn’t just inefficient. It’s a tax on every computation you run. Memory bandwidth. Network bandwidth. Computational speed. All of it eaten by dimensions that contribute nothing to intelligence. They contribute noise. The insight that separates the architects from the arms race: that 10,000-dimensional dataset is almost entirely captured by a much smaller subspace. The signal lives in a fraction of the space you’re paying to process. Compress it. 10,000 dimensions down to 1,000. Ng: “You can run your learning algorithm on a much lower-dimensional set of data and it may be much more efficient.” Same hardware. Same budget. A fraction of the friction. Brute force is the strategy of whoever has the deepest pockets. Compression is the strategy of whoever actually understands the problem. The companies that master this don’t just build faster models. They build models that find more truth in less data than anything scaling blindly ever will. Intelligence was never about processing everything. It’s about knowing what to cut.

@ethanlevinsz Did you mean uninhabitable?

@Itsfoss +1 for Alacritty

Seven Linux terminals that look and feel ahead of their time. itsfoss.com/modern-linux-t…

🚨 THIS WEEKEND 🚨 is The London 50-Hour Improvathon It's an improvised comedy epic that runs for 50 hours continuously (yes, right through the nights!) 🤯 You catch one standalone episode (there's recaps!) or 📺 binge-watch the whole season like your fave Netflix show.

Okay freakazoids, ready for an upside-down adventure like no other? 🤪 🗓 27 Feb - 1 Mar 📍 @thepleasance London 🎟 pleasance.co.uk/event/london-5…

4 years since Russia’s unprovoked full‑scale invasion of Ukraine. We remember the lives shattered and the resilience of the Ukrainian people. In Geneva, we continue to support efforts for accountability and the protection of human rights. We stand with Ukraine. 🇬🇧🇺🇦

#Masterchef v strong vibes that the skills test commentary is added after the fact! 🤨

@bo66ie29 Someone captured almost the same angle nearly 70 years later maps.app.goo.gl/Ln3YM74FT21ZEk…

Bed and a gargantuan English breakfast for $2.40 at the Swan Hotel in Lavenham. 1956

@BTPCasey I’m seeking your support for a BTP media appeal after a serious assault on the Tube. I can’t share details publicly, but there were witnesses and the individual remains unidentified. A timely appeal could make a real difference. I’d be very grateful for your backing.

@Itsfoss It's way easier than this 😆 However... When both reach 35,000ft, Bicycle Boy will wish they'd seen the controls before

True story? 😶‍🌫️

@hissgoescobra @hasantoxr I will use it to ask Janelle what's wrong with Wolfie. Could be a life saver...

@hasantoxr Why are you excited about this? You do realize this will be sued for fraud and to inflict pain on all kinds of awful situations right? What safety analysis did you guys do? What’s the legitimate lawful use case? Genuinely wondering.

🚨BREAKING: The "Ollama for voice cloning" just dropped. It's called Voicebox and it clones any voice from just a few seconds of audio entirely on your machine. No ElevenLabs subscription. No cloud uploads. No voice data leaving your device. It's powered by Qwen3-TTS, Alibaba's breakthrough voice model. → Upload a few seconds of audio → Get a near-perfect voice clone → Generate speech in any language → Mix multi-voice conversations in a DAW-like timeline editor All running locally. Zero cloud dependency. But it's not just a TTS wrapper. It's a full voice production studio: → Multi-track timeline editor for podcasts and dialogues → System audio capture + Whisper transcription built in → Voice prompt caching for instant regeneration → Built with Tauri (Rust), not Electron 10x smaller, native performance 100% Opensource. MIT Licensed. macOS + Windows available now. Linux coming soon. This is the moment voice cloning leaves the cloud and runs on your desktop. Link in the first comment.

@implausibleblog merriam-webster.com/grammar/fermen…

Woody Harrelson, "We have a guy running this country who has unearthed a lot of bigotry, a lot of racism" "And it seems to be more virulent than ever" "It seems like we're going backwards" "I wish there was a way to get rid of that son of a b*tch and get in a great president" "It doesn't seem like that's going to happen" "And I don't know how he's going to continue to ferment hate"

ULYSSES 31, a 1981 Franco-Japanese anime series based on the Odyssey, set in the 31st century.

Google launched a brand new AI tool. It's called CodeWiki, and it might be the biggest upgrade GitHub has had in years. And all you do is paste your GitHub repo in, and it turns your entire project into an interactive guide. It also generates diagrams, explanations, walkthroughs, everything you could ever want, and even a chatbot that knows the code better than anyone else. So you never have to dig through a giant repo again wondering what does this do