A tiny fraction of all species forms most of nature: Rarity as a sticky state
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the curl maintainers are receiving bogus security issue reports based on LLM hallucinations:
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02…
i recommend reading the second issue in particular, it's so obviously written by an LLM. every time it gets told it's wrong, it comes out to "clarify" by repeating the same information in a different order.
bogus security issue reports are already a bad enough issue with people reporting impossible "bugs" identified by automated fuzz tests, but this is only going to make it worse.
this has been happening a lot lately in many open source projects and different platforms. I have friends who have received these in the projects they maintain. I can only guess what are the goals of the people behind it...
Anyway, it's extremely unfair and unethical to burden open source maintainers with having to spend time dealing with these.
BISHI on Instagram: "Calling all classical music nerds, who love AI & Lego. (It’s a vibe) These images have been created by Tarik O’Regan. He’s picked the best pioneers and pieces in my humble opinion. 💖🎶🙏🏾🌈 #bishiofficial #tarikoregan #ailego #deliaderb
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It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since #CasualtiesOfCool was released. I've listened to that album about 110 times since then. If I remember correctly, this was the first song anyone heard, as a preview on their PledgeMusic campaign. PledgeMusic doesn't even exist anymore.
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Forgive Me
Provided to YouTube by Republic of MusicForgive Me · Devin Townsend · Ché Aimee DorvalCasualties of Cool℗ 2014 HevyDevy RecordsAuto-generated by YouTube.YouTube
Linux use on Steam ends 2023 with a multi-year high (thanks Steam Deck) gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/linu…
Linux use on Steam ends 2023 with a multi-year high (thanks Steam Deck)
Valve's latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out now for December 2023, and it shows that Linux and Steam Deck overall finished 2023 on a very positive note.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
We knew little about the presence of pharmaceuticals in river waters, despite a growing body of evidence about their harmful effects on the environment. A large group of scientists addressed this gap by sampling 258 rivers in 104 countries on all continents:
💊 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.211394711…
All samples were collected using the same equipment, with strict adherence to a single methodology + all samples were delivered and analysed in one place! 👏 This is what #openscience looks like today!
"Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in WebSocket Handling".
A bot? An AI? Just a silly reporter? Another fine waste of #curl maintainer time.
curl disclosed on HackerOne: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in...
## Summary: Hello security team, Hope you are doing well :) I would like to report a potential security vulnerability in the WebSocket handling code of the curl library. The issue is related to...HackerOne
How To Join A KDE Network
Now that you know about what a KDE network is, how would you go about either joining an existing network or possibly starting your own if one doesn't happen ...YouTube
"Nektar und Ambrosia" by Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (1883).
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Nektar und Ambrosia : Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Nektar und Ambrosia:Mit einem Anhang über die Grundbedeutung der Aphrodite und Athene.Von Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher,Professor und Konrektor am Kgl....Internet Archive
"Lightyears 4K - Milky Way and Orion Astro Timelapse Film."
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Lightyears 4K - Milky Way and Orion Astro Timelapse Film
#milkyway #nationalpark #timelapseLightyears 4K - Milky Way and Orion Astro Timelapse FilmAbout: Milky Way and Orion astrophotography timelapse film explorin...YouTube
"Interactive map of the sky from Gaia’s Early Data Release 3."
🤯
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ESA/Gaia/DPAC. Acknowledgement: A. Moitinho., CC BY-SA IGO 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, via Wikimedia Commons.
Antechinus are not actually related to mice. They are just a very small relative of the kangaroo and koala.
Despite their cute appearance, they are darn feisty! A little antechinus can take down a chicken around five times its size, and eat it! The males also tend to die during a crazed mating season due to an overload of androgen.
These furry beasts are something else!
In the last hour we've had a dark storm roll in. So, the lighting isn't great for photographing the colour, but it's fine.
#art #myart #animals
@su ann lim @Clarice Boomshakala Bouvier @Kenny Chaffin
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OpenGL In Bash Is Terrifying And Incredible
There are so many ways you can write OpenGL code but writing it in Bash and actually making a game like that is not only a bad idea, it's an idea that you sh...YouTube
Excellent article by Charlie Stross
Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlookCharles Stross (Scientific American)
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@Mark Wollschlager I have seen that too. In fact I remember having discussions, even in the early days, where young wealthy optimistic programmers were arguing for "free" as in beer but only ever applying it to others work, not to their own work. "But I'm giving away software for free!" Yes, and then getting six figure or more salaries to alter and maintain it. Meanwhile, you have pulled the rug out from under many other people.
This is why I was working with Ted Nelson. His micropayment system was genius for providing a way for everyone to get paid for content provision, without having to worry about a YouTube or a Spotify to figure out how to dole out as little money as possible to creators. Could this also have been subverted so that a different pyramid of wealth extraction would emerge? I think the possibility is real, sadly.
Have you seen the movie The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind? Now THAT is what I mean by appropriate technology. We need more of THAT.
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind | Offical Trailer [HD] | Netflix
Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine. Based on the best selling b...YouTube
Most posts about #37c3 were published on the Fediverse.
I found 11.130 posts on the Fediverse (known to chaos.social or mastodon.social), 2.620 posts on X/Twitter and 1.069 on ATProto/Bluesky. Published between 2023-12-23 and 2023-12-31. (I haven't figured out how to collect posts on Threads, but I have found 150 there. Maybe there are more, but they don't show up in the search results.)
Lots-of-alone-time project update: I picked a bunch of willow yesterday because we have tons of it, and I started trying to make a basket after watching a bunch of youtube videos. Turns out...it's a bit harder than I guessed at first! But maybe I'll manage to make a couple of crappy baskets. We'll see...
I also learned that willow branches wobbling around in the air while I work (badly) with them is ABSOLUTELY irresistible to cats, who kept attacking the willows. Not helpful, guys!
If anyone else is interested in trying this, I used these two tutorials on youtube. Both are really great!
youtube.com/watch?v=iaPbg3C3lL…
youtube.com/watch?v=SpYqs_ry_1…
PART 1 - How to weave a round willow basket - The base
The first in our comprehensive 6 part tutorial. The round base can easily be adapted to make a flower.Running order00:18 Starting the base 02:16 The slath 07...YouTube
Peeping sheep.
(#Nikon f70, Nikkor, Ilford Delta 400)
#somerset #filmphotography #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead
Releasing videos to a schedule is one thing, but releasing videos to a weekly schedule non-stop for a decade is something else entirely.
Raise a glass to Tom Scott
Enjoy your rest, you deserve it!
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After ten years, it's time to stop making videos.
Find me here: ❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: https://lateralcast.com/ https://youtube.com/lateralcast 📰 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER https://www.tomscott.com/newslett...YouTube
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#comics #comicstrip #funnycomics #kevincomics #funny #lol
Welcome to the public domain, Mickey Mouse
The version of Mickey Mouse seen in Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy enters the public domain alongside the play Peter Pan, the song “Mack the Knife,” and more.Adi Robertson (The Verge)
I don't know if I would like Fleur Cowles as a person, but her paintings are amazing!
I had her picture books as a child and love them to this day.
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Goats--lots of cute goats!
The people who care for these goats are only a block and a half away. They aren't always close enough to photograph, but they are friendly. They just have more important things to do like eating from a bale of hay!
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Cockatoo and alpacas.
I don't have a terribly powerful camera. Most animals like to stay distant. So, it's hard to get good pictures of them.
The cockatoo at least was chatting to me. I started to walk by, and it had a whole lot to say before I could see where it was in the tree!
Kangaroos...sorry, I couldn't catch them on camera today. I thought I had missed them all together. On the way back from my walk I suddenly found myself almost face to face with a small mob! So close that the male roo freaked out and hopped off! Well, darn it! Next time!
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Why Isn't Every Linux Distro Shipping KDE?
When you look at the Linux world it looks very GNOME but KDE does exist and it looks like it's great so why don't more distros just ship KDE instead, well th...YouTube
Flowers and a nest
I don't know what flowers these all are. The red ones are definitely indigenous to Australia. The white ones--maybe?
I'm not certain what bird made this nest. Clearly the nest had been blown done from its tree. I am fascinated by the colourful threads the bird found to make part of its little home (marry me! I'm a great home decorator!)
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The NYD 24 Global Stream Parade officially kicks off in les than an hour at 0100 UTC.
This will be our thread for announcing upcoming stops on the parade route which can be seen at: radiofreefedi.net/nyd24
We and the broadcasters will use #NYD24Parade if you want to keep an eye out, or mute for the day. Boost the participants and let's celebrate discovering some of your fedi streaming friends.
#streaming #broadcasting #live #JoinIn #party #antiparty #community #friends #owncast #peertube
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Barry Goldman
in reply to Frank Aylward • • •ok in long term biodiversity is useful, but maybe no so much, in the short term and so maybe we shouldn't be focusing on it as much as we do for conservation efforts?
something to look at more carefully i guess
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