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Had a co-worker whose last name was Maciejewska, everyone just called her 'Mac.'
But almost everyone mispronounced her first name as well, 'Lara' - most people called her 'Laura.'
She asked me why I didn't have a problem with it, and I said, "It's easy. Same name as Superman's Mom." She got a laugh out of that.
An acceptable answer to 'Merry Christmas!' OR 'Happy Holidays!' is always, 'Thank you! The same to you!'
The Dumbest Firefox Bug Ever Discovered
Firefox is an incredible browser, but like any browser it has to contend with terribly designed websites which do things in ways that don't seem to make any ...YouTube
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Longitudinal analysis of sentiment and emotion in news media headlines using automated labelling with Transformer language models
This work describes a chronological (2000–2019) analysis of sentiment and emotion in 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets popular in the United States.journals.plos.org
oh hey my games are on deep discount on itch.io, and we still need all the financial help we can get in order to stay housed and fed until we can get kitsune tails out next year so buying them would be a huge help: eniko.itch.io/
they're also on sale on steam: store.steampowered.com/bundle/…
Good morning and happy #Caturday from #Helsinki #Finland!
Miss Chicken von Waffles is currently sleeping under the #Christmas tree.
Best present ever!
#cats #catsofmastodon #catstodon #catsoffediverse #catsofthefediverse #xmas
Nicobar pigeon Caloenas nicobarica
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I think a simple change in nomenclature could help Mastodon incredibly. Servers is an inaccurate term and instance is unfamiliar and vague. Both create tension for new users.
Why not simply call Mastodon instances what they are: Communities.
Ask users which Mastodon community they'd like to join. Have community rules, community policy, and community leaders. Not server rules, instance moderators and administrators.
Let me start. Everyone is welcome at our community, thecanadian.social
TheCanadian.Social
Politics,sports,current events and laughs from Canada and across the fediverse.Mastodon hosted on thecanadian.social
Usually the value is in both the moderation style and the interaction of users with each other and the admins, to form, you guessed it... a community.
I'd like to think people that run instances aren't simply volunteer load balancers.
#SocialMedia provider or #socialmedia instance.
#Mastodon and #threads, and #bsky and others are brands. And brands carry baggage.
Just like we host #email. We also host #social
Very few care what is under the hood of our email servers. And it should be the same for social.
Then I go, some people have WAY too much time on their hands... hehehe!
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NVK and Nouveau today are Proton 5 years ago, when Proton was announced it was insanely impressive but so limited compared to now, with 5 more years of development we may no longer even think about drivers when you buy a GPU
Proton Announcement: steamcommunity.com/games/22141…
Steam :: Steam for Linux :: Introducing a new version of Steam Play
In 2010, we announced Steam Play: a way for Steam users to access Windows, Mac and Linux versions of Steam games with a single purchase.steamcommunity.com
Techrights Does Not Do a Response to a Response
Tit-for-tat pingpong is a waste of timeRoy Schestowitz
Today we have my buddy Livakivi back on the show, this was supposed to be about his journey back on Linux and then we spent 50 minutes talking about Japanese study but it's fun none the less. #Japanese #Linux #OpenSource
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#199 Originally This Was A Linux Podcast | Livakivi
Livakivi is back on the show again, originally we planned to talk about his recent endeavours playing around with Linux again but that didn't happen at the s...YouTube
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✨ Oh my! 🥰 A very kind & talented artist who noticed I’m a Ghibli fan mailed this wonderful little watercolor #art for the holidays! I absolutely love it!✨
(Screenshot of my apron from Season 4, Episode 5 of PBS Serving Up Science for context)
That's insanely cool! I love the idea of making the terminal feel more integrated with the rest of the OS.
But, perhaps contradicting the above: Can the terminal drop the menu bar? I use Black Box just for that.
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💔 RIP Dad
Steve Taub 1940 - 2023
Three days in the swamp with Rachel.
#blackandwhite
#blackandwhitephotograph #filmphotography #ilfordfp4 #fp4party #believeinfilm #mediumformat #minoltaautocord #squareformat #6x6
“You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams & such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we found that makes the emptiness bearable, each other.”
- Carl Sagan, Contact
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"I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., do hereby grant a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all current United States citizens and lawful permanent residents who, on or before the date of this proclamation, committed or were convicted of the offense of simple possession of marijuana, attempted simple possession of marijuana, or use of marijuana, regardless of whether they have been charged with or prosecuted for these offenses on or before the date of this proclamation"
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A Proclamation on Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana, Attempted Simple Possession of Marijuana, or Use of Marijuana | The White House
In Proclamation 10467 of October 6, 2022 (Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana), I exercised my authority under the Constitution to pardon individuals who committed or were convicted of the offense of simple possessi…The White House
"Undiscovered bird extinctions obscure the true magnitude of human-driven extinction waves"
Cooke et al. 2023 nature.com/articles/s41467-023…
Meanwhile my neighbor, a cat owner, tells me that domestic cats "only" kill birds that are ill or weak in some way, therefore helping out wild populations stay healthy. The stench of wishful thinking can be felt from across town, cf.:
"The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States", Loss et al. 2013 nature.com/articles/ncomms2380…
Don't be mislead by the statement: "Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality", because "we define un-owned cats to include farm/barn cats, strays that are fed by humans but not granted access to habitations, cats in subsidized colonies and cats that are completely feral".
Undiscovered bird extinctions obscure the true magnitude of human-driven extinction waves - Nature Communications
The true number of human-driven bird extinctions is likely larger than we think. Here, the authors combine recorded extinctions with estimates from the fossil record to suggest that ~1400 bird species have gone extinct since the Late Pleistocene.Nature
There are newspaper articles about these studies:
"Human-driven extinction of bird species twice as high as thought, study says" theguardian.com/environment/20…
"Killer kitties: cats are eating 2,000 species, including hundreds that are at risk" theguardian.com/environment/20…
Killer kitties: cats are eating 2,000 species, including hundreds that are at risk
The first study to quantify what our felines eat on a global scale finds they have a significant impact on wildlifePhoebe Weston (The Guardian)
Responding to misinformation and criticisms regarding United States cat predation estimates - Biological Invasions
Misinformation (or denialism), the disingenuous assertion of information contradicting overwhelming scientific consensus, increasingly poses a challenge for invasion biology.SpringerLink
These dangerous f-ers have really good shelf-life. Need to get back into growing chili. Fun stuff.
Smoked and dried habanero red savigna.
Maybe 4 years old?
(edit: don't know if cursing on this instance)
Winter #Solstice today for those of us on the north end. I don’t have any “solsticey” photos but thinking celestial I have this one of the #MilkyWay that I took while in N. #California last August. Our solar system orbits around the galactic center once every ~225 million years so if there was an equivalent galactic “winter solstice” point there have only been about 20 of them since our sun was but a wee protostar and all of us were just a glint in its eye.
#photography #astrophotography
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from GamingOnLinux
It's coming up on Christmas now, and so GamingOnLinux will be going into it's usual mostly hibernating state to take a little break to recharge.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Steam Deck Verified picks for the 2023 holiday season gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/stea…
Steam Deck Verified picks for the 2023 holiday season
Need some fresh games for the holiday season? Got you covered here with some more games that have recently become fully Steam Deck Verified so you can click play and enjoy.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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