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Nathan Schneider
@andresmh @cyberlyra There are some things that only humans can do
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Andrés Monroy-Hernández
@cyberlyra @ntnsndr do LLMs also forget to unmute? That’s the ultimate Turing test


Just 13 short years after inviting #BoulderCouncil candidates over to the Masala Co-op for tea and cakes to discuss repealing occupancy limits that discriminate against unrelated people, and 28 years after Cedar Barstow got busted for living in an intentional community in her own home and was sentenced to community service, which she used to help found the Boulder Housing Coalition.

colorado.gov/governor/news/mor…

#CoLeg #Housing

in reply to Nathan Schneider

@ntnsndr I am bitter and scarred and anticipate living out the rest of my days in exile.


What Would You Do As The Wayland BDFL #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/LvZCYVjAkhE


Reproducible Builds: Final Step In FOSS Validation #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/fPUSssZwvLQ
in reply to Brodie Robertson

I did looked into reproducible builds on alpine though!

And found that the package metadata is file system dependant...



When did you start offering swimming lessons @BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online?


I wrote four thousand words on the follies of Humane, theories of what happened, and why you can't build Apple within the Venture Capital system. Enjoy.

sandofsky.com/humane/



What an amazing story. It would make a great movie!

How German Librarians Finally Caught an Elusive Book Thief


In the afternoon of February 21, 2006, Norbert Schild sat down at a desk in the reading room of the City Library of Trier, in western Germany, and opened a 400-year-old book on European geography. Working quickly, Schild laid a piece of blank white paper on top of the book, took a boxcutter from his lap, and discreetly sliced out a map of Alsace from pages 375 and 376.

Schild hadn’t noticed that the desks of two librarians, who were normally tasked with locating books for readers, were raised about three feet above the floor—giving them a clear view of his movements. They approached Schild and asked him what he was doing.

“It was worth a try,” Schild told them. He tossed his library card down on the table and hurried out of the building, taking the map with him.


in reply to Gerhard Hallstein

Das eine ist eine Einstellung, damit der Kontakt nicht auf der Netzwerkseite erscheint. Das andere ist eine Liste mit Kontakten. Ich sehe da nicht die Gemeinsamkeit.


“May thy knife chop and shatter.” A quick update on Choppke’s (my chopped sandwich restaurant chain): a new ad that features one of our snazzy looking hoodies. instagram.com/reel/C5wficAv3VR…


Deliberately friend-sized and friend-shaped, with a soft surface material and soft, squishy stuffing, you will soon be able to have a #Mastodon in your home:

blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/…

reshared this

in reply to Mastodon

@Gargron Is the mailing list sign-up the same one as the one for the other merch mails or is it the same list? Just want to know if I need to sign up again 😀


GE-Proton article updated as GE-Proton 9-4 was released shortly after the last release for some fixes gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/ge-p…

#Proton #GEProton #SteamDeck #Linux



So kottke[dot]org had some significant downtime this weekend but it seems to be humming along nicely now. In celebration, we’re not planning on having any significant downtime today! 🤞 kottke.org/


Paradox announce Stellaris: Season 08, with Stellaris: The Machine Age launching May 7th gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/para…

#Stellaris #Paradox #PCGaming



Get your Deckbuilder fix in this latest Humble Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/get-…

#Linux #SteamDeck



Bazzite v2.5 has fixes for Lenovo Legion Go and ASUS ROG Ally, plus smoother installs gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/bazz…

#Bazzite #Linux #HandheldGaming



OpenTTD 14.0 brings a scalable font, a new ship pathfinder, social platform integration gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/open…

#OpenTTD #FreeGame #OpenSource

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

And they made buses smarter than real life, no longer will a bunch of them show up at the same station at once.


OpenRazer v3.8 adds support for 6 more Razer devices on Linux gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/open…

#Razer #Linux



MineClone2, inspired by Minecraft, gets renamed to VoxeLibre gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/mine…

#FOSS #OpenSource #FreeGame



GE-Proton 9-3 released with a new option to help with modded games gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/ge-p…

#SteamDeck #Linux #Proton

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I am no expert on how precomputed shaders work but are they not specific to the GPU model you are running on? If so wouldn't that cause more pain than gain unless you are running an rdna 2 GPU?


Clever light-manipulating puzzler Closure from 2012 gets upgraded for modern PCs gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/clev…

#IndieGame #Linux #PCGaming



You've seen package managers
You've seen piping curl into bash
But have you ever seen sourcing a script from curl every time you launch the shell
in reply to Brodie Robertson

I do enjoy making spawning a new shell dependant on network connectivity.

Gives it that real living on the cloud feeling.



"Mr. Cat registers annoyance." From More Mr. Cat and a Bit of Amber Too by George Freedley, illustrated by Victor J. Dowling.



George Harrison in a past life!
@Christoph S

youtu.be/CFSiu9csN6w?si=_wfA99…




I travelled like a monarch for the price of a cab ride!

youtube.com/shorts/UCAvmYTbwEc

in reply to Matt Gray

It looks like you enjoyed it! But you could not pay me to get in a helicopter 😅
in reply to Matt Gray

a shame there is no direct public transport link form the airport to the city (afaik).
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Made a video to help other artists deal with the anxiety caused by AI Art. Hope it helps! =D

youtube.com/watch?v=wC7JpuLJ-n…

#youtube #generativeAI #illustration #art




Just saw this—my #GovernableSpaces interview with the great theorist and journalist of technology Mike Masnick is up and out on the Techdirt Podcast: techdirt.com/2024/04/09/techdi…

I hugely admire Mike's grounded thinking on protocols and decentralization. This was a really fun conversation.



I guess I can just give up now, my channel is complete


Help save them #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife palmoildetectives.com/2024/04/… via @palmoildetectives

in reply to Muse

@Christoph S @Cass M 👋🏽 Yes the sprinkler Malte has already met. Both with strong curiosity and some caution - since they were the large ones that work the Sanssouci Park lawns, working with a lot of pressure. ^^
in reply to Muse

One of our dogs was afraid of the hose, in all forms. Then he grew up. We would find him under the sprinkler spray, soaking it up.
Still didn't like being hosed off, but it was a change that brought a smile. And got the towels out.



Post from @rabble on why he's chosen to use #Nostr and not #ActivityPub and the #Fediverse. He makes some compelling points. Personally I am not too worried about the server admin parts of his argument (I have enough control, even if I don't control the server), but I agree that this isn't ideal:

"You can’t use a single fediverse identity with your profile and followers in Peertube, Mobilizon, WriteFreely, and Pixelfed. You need a totally separate account in each one."
njump.me/nevent1qqsfqlx6wpl526…

in reply to Richard MacManus

Pixelfed and Mastodon are not isolated from each other. I have Pixelfed users in my home feed on Mastodon. That's a very weird definition of isolated. Mastodon has search too. Phanpy has a catch-up algorithm. I don't find the arguments in the post compelling.


phys.org/news/2024-04-team-pot…
So cool!
#Science
#Ocean
Great pics of new ocean species recently discovered!


'In the 1920s, an American professor named Ivan Wallin (1883–1969) published a string of articles and a book about mitochondria. Wallin’s day job was teaching anatomy to medical students at the University of Colorado, but he was also fascinated by cell biology. Over the course of a decade, Wallin forged the concept of “symbionticism,” whereby speciation in animals and plants is triggered by the acquisition of bacterial symbionts. Wallin believed that mitochondria were such symbionts and had evidence to prove it—his publications included camera lucida drawings of “mitochondria” growing happily on agar plates!'

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/…



I've been too burnt out doing the comic, needed to draw something else to stretch the brain.

So I started to do portraits of characters. This is the vox of the city, her mentor is the lingering whisper of a city that isn't in this world anymore.
#illustration #CharacterDesign #comic

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