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The word 'welcome' may be interpreted as 'well-come', like 'well-received' and 'well-deserved'.
However, it stems from a Germanic word meaning "desired guest".
Perhaps under the influence of French 'bienvenu' ("welcome", literally "well-come"), the perception and the form of the English word and its Germanic cognates were altered. The infographic shows how.
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This is AWESOME! Herb Alpert does an updated version of Puttin' on the Ritz. Look for him making cameo appearances throughout the video.
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Maintenance updates for Nextcloud Hub 7 (28.0.8) and 8 (29.0.4) are available 🚀
Upgrade to a new version for better and even more secure Nextcloud experience. The updating process is designed to be and smooth - always keep your server up to date!
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July maintenance releases: Nextcloud Hub 7 & 8 - Nextcloud
June maintenance updates 28.0.8 and 29.0.4 for Nextcloud Hub are here! Read an update summary here and access full changelog on the website.Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
Dar al Gani (DaG) 1040 Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.
Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2hyF1yf
Dar al Gani 1040 Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR
CV3 Pathscan Enabler 5 GIMP Photomatix Pro Zoomable panorama coming soon!Flickr
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"Mera Base Camp."
Sangyam adventurer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Elon Musk's X adds pro-Trump icons for Trump hashtags
The move comes after Musk publicly endorsed TrumpMatt Binder (Mashable)
Meteor filmed flying across Brisbane sky
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In collaboration with Harrison Consoles, happy to see the release of Harrison LiveTrax, the latest DAW in the Ardour family. LiveTrax is a DAW focused on the needs of live/front-of-house work. Not exactly unrelated to Waves Tracks Live from 2015, it has nearly a decade of improvements to the codebase and includes several additional features that we felt FOH folks would benefit from.
$14.99 over here: store.harrisonaudio.com/all-pr… for Linux, macOS and Windows.
Obviously, it remains GPL'ed.
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Some fun from Australian National University.
The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements
"Not many people will read your PhD thesis, but if you completed your doctoral research at the Australian National University College of Science, then Tabitha Carvan has probably read one small part of it.
"What she found is a kind of poetry in the science."
The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements
After reading hundreds and hundreds of PhD theses, we accidentally discovered how to write the perfect PhD acknowledgement: it's a kind of poetry.ANU College of Science
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BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Today we plan more Metal Wolf Chaos XD, this game is absolutely ridiculous, the voice acting is horrible but I love it youtube.com/watch?v=FC_YxlkxLi…
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Elon Musk’s X goes full pro-Trump with custom hashtag emoji icons
#MAGA now appears with a pic of Trump with his fist in the air
#Trump2024 appears with an American flag
if you click on the last hashtag, American flags rain down on the search page
read: mashable.com/article/elon-musk…
Elon Musk's X adds pro-Trump icons for Trump hashtags
The move comes after Musk publicly endorsed TrumpMatt Binder (Mashable)
Past, present, future
Over the course of a day we will cover the PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE of our networks, and we are excited to announce the presenters guiding us through each period:
- Lori Emerson, Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder / Director, Media Archaeology Lab
- Joni Schinkel, Engagement Coordinator, Small File Media Festival
- Brooklyn Zelenka, Indie Researcher
- Michelle Kaczmarek, Program Manager, Share Reuse Repair Initiative
- Esther Han Beol Jang, Director, Local Connectivity Lab / Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington / Seattle Community Network
Register for #ournetworks today (sliding scale $30-120): ournetworks.ca#register
Backup your photos and videos automagically 🪄 to your Nextcloud, with a bonus:
Rich photo and video viewer integrations with smart media tagging and facial recognition that take your media library to the next level 🚀
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How to backup your files with an open source file sync tool
Explore a number of easy strategies to keep your data safely stored with Nextcloud's open-source file sync and backup tool.Brent Gervais (Nextcloud)
Each year, the Overton Prize is awarded to a scientist for their significant contributions to computational biology. This year, the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) has the pleasure of honoring Dr Martin Steinegger with this award at the 32nd Annual Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference being held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from July 12 to 16.
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Very well deserved @martinsteinegger 😃
En nuestra última postdata queremos compartir el 'backstage' para que cada quien que resuene con estas conversaciones pueda continuar #TejiendoSignificadosComunes🧶
La postdata 2, entonces serán los Mapas de las Prácticas Narrativas que adaptamos para propiciar estas conversaciones así como una breve descripción de la metodología que proponemos.
sursiendo.org/2024/05/las-tecn…
Las tecnologías que soñamos son feministas | Sursiendo
Podcast «Tejiendo significados comunes. Tejiendo acompañadas desde la escucha profunda». ¿Qué son las infraestructuras feministas? ¿Cómo las imaginamos, soñamos…sursiendo (Sursiendo)
Artigo muito interessante sobre a shittyfication da internet, mas sem catastrofismos do “dantes é que era bom”. Reapropriarmo-nos da internet para desenvolve-la positivamente e a nosso favor é uma ideia que dá alento e é mobilizadora.
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Cambiar Internet desde lo sencillo, desde lo pequeño | Sursiendo
Ante la toxicidad de las redes digitales hay otras formas que visibilizar, que practicar. Necesitamos apropiarnos de las tecnologías digitales y habitar…sursiendo (Sursiendo)
HOW CLARENCE THOMAS CLEARED TRUMP’S PATH IN CLASSIFIED DOCS CASE
Judge Aileen Cannon followed the playbook from Thomas’s solo opinion in the Trump immunity case.
So The Decision In FL is Thomas' Fault
#CurrentEvents #News #SCJ #ClarenceThomas #BoughtAndPaidFor Justice
How Clarence Thomas Cleared Trump’s Path in Classified Docs Case
Judge Aileen Cannon followed the playbook from Justice Clarence Thomas’s solo opinion in the Trump immunity case.Shawn Musgrave (The Intercept)
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Paraquat: Banned in EU, Destroying Lives of Palm Oil Workers in Indonesia
The dangerous pesticide Paraquat is banned in the EU however continues to destroy the lives of palm oil plantation workers in Indonesia. Read this story below originally published in Geographic Mag…Palm Oil Detectives
📢 Nextcloud featured in DIE ZEIT: “Does it always have to be Microsoft?”
The antitrust initiative lead by Nextcloud since early 2021 is finally paying off. But what does it take to fully restore fair competition on the European market?
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Nextcloud for DIE ZEIT: Microsoft’s anti-competitive behavior, PR stunts and salami slicing - Nextcloud
DIE ZEIT interviewed Nextcloud’s founder Frank Karlitschek on Microsoft’s anti-competitive behaviour. Read for a recap of the article.Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
Climate Change Actions Are Far More Popular Than People in U.S. Realize
“False social reality” obscures widespread U.S. support for climate protection measuresRobin Lloyd (Scientific American)
Call for contributors: join Nextcloud design reviews! 🎨
We are inviting developers and UX designers alike to review their Nextcloud app design and participate in Nextcloud design discussions happening weekly on Tuesdays!
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If you want want to contribute to Nextcloud app design or get your app reviewed, join our weekly Nextcloud design review call!Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
Northwest Africa (NWA) 12590 Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.
Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2i2CF8p
NWA 12590 Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR
CV3 Pathscan Enabler 5 GIMP Photomatix Pro Zoomable krpano link coming soon!Flickr
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"NGC 2014, NGC 2020 - HST."
ESA/Hubble, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
To be fair to mozilla it should be noted that "Privasy-preserving Attribution" does nothing when the user has opted out of telemetry already. They just forgot to update the checkbox correctly. In a future release this will be shown correctly to the user.
Most of the drama could have been avoided when people would actually check the source code...
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1908312 - Update settings UI to clarify that PPA is disabled when telemetry is disabled
RESOLVED (gijskruitbosch+bugs) in Firefox - Settings UI. Last updated 2024-07-18.bugzilla.mozilla.org
"Daytime fireball spotted over New York, New Jersey and more states"
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Daytime fireball spotted over New York, New Jersey & more states
The American Meteor Society received several reports of a daytime fireball on July 16, 2024 over New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Deleware, Maryland, Rhode...YouTube
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in reply to Muse • • •Karl Auerbach
in reply to Muse • • •Muse
in reply to Muse • • •@Karl Auerbach That was indeed done in a single take!
This was also done in one take AND... BACKWARDS!
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Always makes me smile!
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in reply to Muse • • •By-the-way, here's the trailer for Russian Ark.
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in reply to Muse • • •Muse
in reply to Muse • • •Was there ever a "making of". I would be very curious to know what rehearsals were like for the production. Also, did they go through this more than once before settling on a take as the final movie?
I never understand why directors frequently by-pass rehearsals. They talk about "freshness" of their actors's performances, but a good actor can perform The Mousetrap hundreds of times and still make it fresh for a live theatre audience.
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in reply to Muse • • •During my decade and a half of work backstage I usually ended up in the one job that required my eyes to be on the actors on the stage for the duration of every performance: lights. Even the stage manager can look somewhere else. So I watched shows evolve and change from the stage of late rehearsal, tech, previews, opening night, and the rest of the run.
My own rules as an audience member are "Don't go to previews", "don't go to opening night [the actors are too tired]", "don't go to matinees, particularly when 'blue hairs' are attending en masse [yes, for some reason many older women dye their hair with chemicals that becomes blue and quite apparent when back lit by the stage lights]. I've generally found that Thursday and Saturday nights are the best times to attend.
(Most people don't realize that on opening night the director hands control of the show over to the stage manager, modulo perhaps some "tune up' visits by the director during the run. It is the stage manager that tries to hold the show from evolving off the rails - it is a greatly under appreciated job.)
... show moreDuring my decade and a half of work backstage I usually ended up in the one job that required my eyes to be on the actors on the stage for the duration of every performance: lights. Even the stage manager can look somewhere else. So I watched shows evolve and change from the stage of late rehearsal, tech, previews, opening night, and the rest of the run.
My own rules as an audience member are "Don't go to previews", "don't go to opening night [the actors are too tired]", "don't go to matinees, particularly when 'blue hairs' are attending en masse [yes, for some reason many older women dye their hair with chemicals that becomes blue and quite apparent when back lit by the stage lights]. I've generally found that Thursday and Saturday nights are the best times to attend.
(Most people don't realize that on opening night the director hands control of the show over to the stage manager, modulo perhaps some "tune up' visits by the director during the run. It is the stage manager that tries to hold the show from evolving off the rails - it is a greatly under appreciated job.)
Anyway, it is quite interesting how a show evolves, how the actors get new ideas, how they get tired or energized, and how the set and props slowly erode. (We had one show that had an actual lawn on stage - it had to be watered - by the end of the run it was a very sad and sorry lawn, it stank, and water had leaked through and damaged the underfloor - the actors worked with that ever-worsening lawn as the run progressed.)
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in reply to Muse • • •@Karl Auerbach My productions were all profit-share independent theatre. So, even though people were getting paid, nobody was getting paid a lot. Australia and Ireland tie for the OECD countries worst at supporting their arts, followed by...the US. This meant it wasn't always easy getting crew.
I had a comedian friend who asked very nicely if he could be involved in one of my shows. When he asked most roles were already filled. I did have one role left. He is blind, but after some thought I realised he could do it, because really good listening would make it work as well.
He became in charge of the lighting.
He sat next to the sound engineer, who if anything went strange could quickly nudge the friend. Nothing did go wrong. When the music came up, the lighting came up. When he heard an actor say a line or move across the floor, he arranged different lighting. Later his experience became great material for his stand-up shows!
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in reply to Muse • • •@Muse - When I worked on shows I always refused to take a paycheck. Not that I was paid very much, I think that it was about $0.50/hour or something like that. Certainly not union scale.
(Now we just write checks - although a couple weeks back I helped move about 450 seats out from storage. Oh, my aching back!.)
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