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Bewitched' broke ground 45 years ago To hardcore fans, ABC’s Bewitched had jumped the shark eight years before the Happy Days expression was even coined when in 1969 actor Dick York was swapped out...www.facebook.com
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A moment that changed me: I stopped speaking at 19 – and found my artistic voice
I was mute for two years because I couldn’t convey my emotions. It helped me discover a new way to express myselfGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
How in 2024 are news reporters still punching down on people that play video games
Sky News are clowns
How to never get a speeding fine again — and maybe save a child's life
Most drivers admit to speeding and it’s causing an increasing number of deaths on our roads. Using intelligent speed assist technology can reverse this deadly trend.The Conversation
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A lot of new vehicles have cameras to identify speed signs, and some have some annoying beeps if you exceed the current speed. I drove a Mercedes Sprinter this summer with that feature. It also had camera based lane departure warnings (that were really annoying at times). All the big new transport trucks have these features too.
Tesla had been using data in Google Maps (I think) that gives speed limits on most roads (at least in North America), though apparently their newer vehicles use the camera method (as well?). Tesla only display a warning unless you turn on "Joe Mode", in which case you get a not-so-annoying warning bell, and you can adjust it so the warning only happens after some number of units over the posted limit.
The Complete Learn to Code Bundle 2024
Learn to code in 2024! Learn Unity, Unreal, and Godot basics & leverage cutting edge AI tech like GPT and Stable Diffusion. Your purchase supports charity!Humble Bundle
MSI teasing a handheld gaming PC like the Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/msi-…
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MSI teasing a handheld gaming PC like the Steam Deck
Begun, the handheld wars have. It seems like every company now wants a piece of the pie doesn't it? Even MSI appear to be jumping into the fold now with an announcement due at CES 2024.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
...huh.
Well, Intel's been making a push for more performant graphics hardware. It'll be interesting to see how it works out here.
“Con mi cara no”: la vigilancia masiva a través del reconocimiento facial en Paraguay
En un mundo cada vez más digitalizado, la tecnología de reconocimiento facial se ha convertido en tema de revisión, observación y debate, tanto a escala internacional como también regio
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“Con mi cara no”: la vigilancia masiva a través del reconocimiento facial en Paraguay
En un mundo cada vez más digitalizado, la tecnología de reconocimiento facial se ha convertido en tema de revisión, observación y debate, tanto a escala internacional como también regional.TEDIC
Mobile Suit Baba combines Baba Is You puzzling with Into the Breach strategy gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/mobi…
Mobile Suit Baba combines Baba Is You puzzling with Into the Breach strategy
Indie developer Hempuli Oy has released a follow-up to their incredible puzzle game Baba Is You, this time taking the idea of Into the Breach from Subset Games and putting a new spin on it with Baba Is You word rules.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Humble Tech Book Bundle: Become a Linux Master by Packt
Get your Linux skills up to speed with this book bundle, covering from the basics, to topics like DevOps, cybersecurity & more! Your purchase supports charity.Humble Bundle
Bodycam horror shooter Chasmal Fear looks like a riot gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/body…
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Bodycam horror shooter Chasmal Fear looks like a riot
MystiveDev emailed in about Chasmal Fear, an upcoming horror shooter you play as if you're viewing it from a bodycam set in an underwater facility.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Learn about the migration and benefits for your organization after the Kiteworks acquisition.
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Make the switch from ownCloud to Nextcloud - Nextcloud
Due to popular demand, we're hosting a repeat of our webinar. Explore the advantages and ease of switching to Nextcloud. Gain insights into our migration tool and learn about our migration package designed to facilitate your transition.Nextcloud
The Cooperative That Could
How S Group became Finland’s most dominant retailerRyan Cooper (The American Prospect)
dotAGE now Steam Deck Verified and sold over 30K copies gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/dota…
dotAGE now Steam Deck Verified and sold over 30K copies
Showing that the indie dream for some is alive and well, the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder has managed to sell over 30,000 copies in three months. It's also now Steam Deck Verified!Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Linux Mint planning an upgraded EDGE ISO with kernel 6.5 gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/linu…
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Linux Mint planning an upgraded EDGE ISO with kernel 6.5
For people wanting to install Linux Mint on newer devices, the Linux Mint team have announced a plan to update their EDGE ISOs with a later Linux kernel in the latest blog post.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation gets a new release with Flatpak support gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/jazz…
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Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation gets a new release with Flatpak support
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is a much loved classic that continues to live on thanks to the Jazz² Resurrection project, with a new release that went live recently bringing Flatpak support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
SteamOS 3.5.12 Preview and new Steam Deck Beta and Steam Desktop Beta released gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/stea…
SteamOS 3.5.12 Preview and new Steam Deck Beta and Steam Desktop Beta released
Catching up from the end of the holidays, Valve recently released SteamOS 3.5.12 Preview and today there's also a new Steam Deck and Desktop Beta release.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Best parts of my day:
- planning care packages for academics who are going to be targeted in the next year
- hearing a compelling talk on racial justice and algorithms from a junior scholar
- praying for everyone who's preparing for attacks and just plan tired, with the news of Dr. Claudine Gay's resignation this week
This evening, I'm thinking about my friend Javier, who passed away in June 2021, and the conversation I wish we could have had about this
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Envisioning the Common Good from Broken Institutions
How can Christians reach for excellence and the common good in a broken world whose brokenness we are also part of? I often asked myself this question as a postdoc at Princeton University, whose…J. Nathan Matias (Medium)
"Drugs that originate from public health organizations in Brazil or India are often different in key ways from ones developed by a pharmaceutical company in an industrialized country, Dr. Kratz said: The scientists creating them think about access from the start, knowing that whatever they design will have to be delivered by a low-resource health system."
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Ladybug on a rosemary leaf.
Edited with #darktable
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Italian Green Toad (Bufotes lineatus or Bufotes balearicus)
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Gentoo Linux Offers First Party Binary Repo
Gentoo Linux is known as a source based distro but that doesn't mean that it's the only thing it can offer and just recently it has started offering alongsid...YouTube
DVD Resurgence To Prevent Films From Disappearing - Slashdot
smooth wombat writes: The advent of streaming services heralded a new era of movie watching. No longer tied to an inconvenient time at a theater, movies could now be watched at your convenience any time of the day or night in your own home.hardware.slashdot.org
Rolling Stone just put up an article about the 150 Greatest Science Fiction Movies of All Times.
I am happy to see some of their inclusions, such as:
Silent Running
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Brother from Another Planet
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
After Yang
The Iron Giant
Wall-E
Paprika
Forbidden Planet
Fahrenheit 451
Primer
They Live
Godzilla
Metropolis
2001: A Space Odyssey
I am disappointed they didn't include:
Nausicaa (Studio Ghibli)
Laputa (Studio Ghibli)
Alien Nation
Tremors
Slaughterhouse-Five (they may have included it, but I don't remember seeing it)
The Lathe of Heaven
American Astronaut
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
The Adventures of Adele Blanc-sec
Bigbug
The Quiet Earth
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
Look Up
Mostly I came away disturbed at how hyper-masculinist the list was. Even the women were hyper-masculine! And so much post-apocalyptic stuff. There's a science fiction genre known as Sensawunda. I would like to see more of it.
Do you know anything that should have made the Rolling Stone list? Rocky Horror Picture Show is certainly science fiction, and it's not included.
The 150 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time
From space odysseys to star wars, alien invaders to guardians of the galaxy — the best science films since the genre first took a trip to the moon.Rolling Stone
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i've read through the entirety of supermegacomics twice and i think this panel is my favourite
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I could hardly believe that statistic I just reposted was true: more than half of U.S. adults 16 to 74 read at below a 6th grade level?
But I checked, and Snopes says it's true. snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-…
How discouraging and infuriating.
Do More Than Half of Americans Read Below 6th-Grade Level?
A keen reminder to analyze data with a careful eye.Madison Dapcevich (Snopes.com)
The most frustrating thing is that I feel there's little I can do; aside from giving books to my nieces, nephews, and friends' kids and encouraging reading and writing.
#exit-to-community stories | HackerNoon
Read the latest exit-to-community stories on HackerNoon, where 10k+ technologists publish stories for 4M+ monthly readers.hackernoon.com
"... the website loads in a special browser built into the app, rather than your phone’s default browser. In 2022, privacy researcher Felix Krause found that Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords. Other apps including TikTok do the same thing."
What the hell?? This is so creepy.
#Meta #JavaScript #Privacy #web #SocialMedia #News #Threads
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Meet ‘Link History,’ Facebook’s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit
Facebook introduces a confusing new setting as the walls close in on Zuckerberg’s data machine.Thomas Germain (Gizmodo)
A hopeful start to the new year—a library of cases demonstrating that community ownership of startups is possible and powerful. Now we just need to make it easier.
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Now We Know: Exit to Community Is Possible
There is widespread craving for a better kind of exit—and the creativity to back it up. But better exits will require structural change.Nathan Schneider (hackernoon.com)
Fred Wilson: “AI and Web3 are two sides of the same coin. AI will help make web3 usable for mainstream applications and web3 will help us trust AI.”
What do you think this means? He doesn’t really explain it in the blog post: avc.com/2024/01/what-will-happ…
What Will Happen In 2024 - AVC
As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. The Fed has taken interest rates as far as they want at this time and inflation has come down. It seems that a “soft landing” is likely.Fred Wilson (AVC)
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in reply to Muse • • •John Hummel
in reply to Muse • • •I was too young during its run to explicitly understand all the progressive themes, but given the way I am now, I have to wonder whether it had the desired effect on me. (If so, then I'm grateful.) All I really understated at the time was that it was a fun show, and I had a crush on the witch.
I'm very happy to learn the show was more than my young mind could grok at the time.
John Hummel
in reply to Muse • • •I was too young during its run to explicitly understand all the progressive themes, but given the way I am now, I have to wonder whether it had the desired effect on me. (If so, then I’m grateful.) All I really understood at the time was that (a) it was a fun show, and (b) I had a crush on the witch.
I’m very happy to learn the show was more than my young mind could grok at the time.
Tom Grzybow
in reply to Muse • • •I'm sure you were aware that nothing bad was going to happen.
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