According to CPJ, as many journalists were killed in the first 11 days of the Gaza crisis as in the first 20 months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
fair.org/home/israeli-attacks-โฆ
Israeli Attacks on Journalists Stifle Reporting on Gaza Horrors - FAIR
The ability of reporters to cover Gaza is jeopardized by the alarming number of newspeople Israel has killed since the crisis began.Ari Paul (FAIR)
Using #SiliconPhotonics to Accelerate #HPC Workloads
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Using Silicon Photonics to Accelerate HPC Workloads
Silicon photonics brings benefits for HPC workloads requiring faster data-transfer speeds, better energy efficiency and lower latency.Hal Conklin (EE Times Europe)
Biden led the Democrats into war in Iraq: vox.com/policy-and-politics/20โฆ
Now he has us in two new wars, to which he has promised unrestricted support. He seems to really believe war is a great way to solve problems.
This is a pattern, and it is putting more blood daily on American hands.
This is Joe Bidenโs checkered Iraq history
In the Senate, Joe Biden backed Bushโs Iraq push. As vice president, he backed Maliki but helped defeat ISIS. Will 2020 election voters care?Tara Golshan (Vox)
Budgie Should Never Announce Toolkit Changes
Over the years the Budgie desktop has announced a few toolkit changes and it's never worked out well and finally Joshua Strobl has realised he should stop an...YouTube
Now would be a good time for all European politicians and journalists to setup accounts on Mastodon.
reuters.com/technology/musk-coโฆ
Musk considers removing X platform from Europe over EU law - Insider
Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, is considering removing the service formerly called Twitter from Europe in response to a new internet platform regulation in the region, news site Insider reported on Wednesday.Reuters
Siamang Symphalangus syndactylus
Siamang Symphalangus syndactylus Endangered Indonesia, Thailand, Sumatra The Siamang lives in primary and secondary semi-deciduous and tropical evergreen forest. All levels of the canopy are used, โฆPalm Oil Detectives
Oh, Iโฆ i really, *really* dislike the new-in-the-last-few-minutes change to the โฆ menus in Mastodon Web where everything that isn't the menu gets grayed out. I maximize my browser windows! This is like literally a full screen flash! Do not penalize us by *flashing the entire screen* on a common operation like bringing up the menu! Also why is the menu so wide?
I guess the list of Stylus CSS hacks I require to use Mastodon is just going to get longer and longer ๐
@Gargron Thanks. On a mobile screen I imagine it would look correct.
I was getting it 100% until I reloaded the page. This is very strange.
Iโฆ this is a real stretch but I *may* have actually found a bug with Linux Firefox. I just installed Ubuntu and it has some REAL weirdness around suspend/resume. When I resumed just now the window was resized in a weird way. I wonder if it was misreporting its size.
I get that thereโs a underclass locked into using SpoutSocial and reporting monthly social engagement metrics.
But Twitter is not going to get better. Never ever ever.
You, your organization, & your government can plan for an orderly migration nowโor you can scramble to improvise something after youโre forced off.
washingtonpost.com/technology/โฆ
Elon Muskโs X removes the New York Timesโ verification badge
The gold badge was the only symbol distinguishing the Timesโ 55-million-follower account from impostors amid two major global conflicts.Drew Harwell (The Washington Post)
ใKH DDDใPlease Continue Your Exam, It Is Definitely Not A Trap
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CURL Project Trolled By Fake AI Bug Report
When you're a project as big as curl sometimes you get some weird bug report and recently Daniel Stenberg got a completely AI generated made up report, pleas...YouTube
I think putting up pinned post on the bug report tracker might help with this. People can clearly see that bug reports generated by AI are not allowed. The post can also explain what uses of AI are and are not allowed. For example, you can use AI to do things so long as you verify that what the AI is doing is correct.
Won't stop everyone but at the very least I think it will reduce the people with good intentions doing it.
The hallucination thing is often characterised as an unfortunate side effect or exceptional, whereas it is really inevitable from how these models are designed, particularly how they score their own output.
We can imagine marketing a chess program that produces moves quickly and "wins" because it doesn't check for legal moves, or one invents a fairy piece to tackle a position (while yes fairy chess is a real thing where both sides agree on new piece types with special moves).
Martin Scorseseโs 81 Greatest Movie Characters, Ranked
In celebration of the upcoming release of โKillers of the Flower Moonโ (and his 81st birthday next month!), weโre counting down the greatest figures of the legendary directorโs careerThe Ringer Staff (The Ringer)
When I feel burnt out from painting realistically, I draw mushroom bears.
#DigitalArt #DisabledArtist #Art
30 Years Ago: The STS-58 Spacelab Life Sciences-2 Mission
On Oct. 18, 1993, space shuttle Columbia lifted off in support of the STS-58 Spacelab Life Sciences 2 (SLS-2) mission to conduct cutting edge research onJohn Uri (NASA)
Elon Musk doesn't really want your dollar. He wants something much, much more valuable: for you to pay for somethingโhell, anything at allโon X.
My latest for Slate: slate.com/technology/2023/10/eโฆ
I Think I Know the Real Reason Elon Musk Wants to Charge X Users $1 a Year
The social network wants users to pay to post, but itโs after way more than your dollar.Scott Nover (Slate)
Public Invited to International Observe the Moon Night Oct. 21
NASA is hosting an International Observe the Moon Night event on October 21 that is free to the public at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.Beth Ridgeway (NASA)
Instagram โSincerely Apologizesโ For Inserting โTerroristโ Into Palestinian Bio Translations
The "see translation" feature for user bios was auto-translating phrases that included "Palestinian" and โalhamdulillahโ into "Praise be to god, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom."Samantha Cole (404 Media)
โNecesitamos una polรญtica de gรฉnero dispuesta a comprometerse con las tecnologรญas y a entenderlas para afrontarlas mejor, y un feminismo que crea que una cultura tecnolรณgica mejor es necesaria y posible.โ
Recomendamos esta entrevista a Helen Hester ๐๐
pikaramagazine.com/2023/10/hayโฆ
Roll20 Bundle
Adventure online in Roll20, the world's most popular virtual tabletop! Get Compendiums for Pathfinder 2E, Dune, and more games, plus more Roll20 resources. Pay what you want & support charity!Humble Bundle
The Moon Casts a Shadow
NASAโs Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) captured the lunar shadow during the Oct. 14 annular solarMonika Luabeya (NASA)
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@rooftopaxx we are going to be thinking about shutting down all #OMN instances as the is currently no money to pay the hosting, and outreaching is not working without a LOT of help.
The #DIY coding project is not actually working anyway, the has been no movement beyond chatter on the tech side of #OMN for the last few years, and the #fedivers stuff was set up to seed this dev.
Any ideas for a good path, happy to pass the instances on to a new responsible crew.
don't really see any great coherence or mutuality within 'campaign', let it go gracefully. that is all.
@rooftopaxx
If the community has not already forged and formed itself such that they will self-support, then it's time to let go.
While I don't see masto as particularly harmful, it and the fediverse as it currently stands is not proving to be one of the ways to solve actual problems.
Social _media_ is useless to most people, in much the same way as news _media_.
We need social _discussion_, or social _cooperation_, social _news facts_ ? and social _tools_ to #GetShitDone
At the #NextcloudConference Austrian lawyer and privacy activist @maxschrems gave an inspiring keynote about taking on Big Tech in the courts - and winning. Twice! Listen to the harrowing tale of European courts, politicians playing games and lobbying to sell out European citizens' data. And what comes next! #privacy #lobbying #BigTech
nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-cโฆ
Nextcloud Conference 2023 keynote speaker: Max Schrems - Nextcloud
We are pleased to announce that privacy activist and lawyer, Max Schrems, will be giving a keynote at this yearโs conference! Max Schrems is a pioneer in the European data privacy movement, most well known for his lawsuits on the Safe Harbor agreemenโฆMikaela Schneider (Nextcloud)
Grab more Steam Deck games with Fanatical's Premium Play on the Go Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/grabโฆ
Grab more Steam Deck games with Fanatical's Premium Play on the Go Bundle
Fanatical have another Play on the Go Bundle live, this time a "Premium Edition" with some games they thought deserved that status. All games are Steam Deck Verified too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Prof. @davekarpf gives Marc Andreessen's freshman writing seminar essay thorough feedback:
Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?open.substack.com/pub/davekarpโฆ
Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?
On Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto"Dave Karpf (The Future, Now and Then)
We've just released Ardour 8.1 with bugfixes and improvements. Connecting to Launchpad Pro has been fixed, the Varispeed dialog now shows percentages, drawing velocity curves now only affects selected notes if there are any. For more info, see here:
discourse.ardour.org/t/ardour-โฆ
Ardour 8.1 is released
Hot on the heels of 8.0, we are happy to bring you a mostly-hotfixes 8.1 release. Thereโs a couple of tasty new features also. The full notes for 8.0 and 8.1 are in the usual place, with the new stuff & fixes for 8.1 also listed below.Ardour
A video showing how drawing velocity curves in Ardour 8.1 now only affects the selected notes. Examples show drawing straight lines and freeform lines to apply velocity values to notes.
Watch Live as NASA Astronauts Conduct Spacewalk, Upgrade Space Station
Two NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station will conduct a spacewalk Monday, Oct. 30, to complete maintenance activities at the orbital complex.Claire A. O'Shea (NASA)
NASAโs Innovative Rocket Nozzle Paves Way for Deep Space Missions
The Reactive Additive Manufacturing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or RAMFIRE, project focuses on advancing lightweight, additively manufactured aluminum rocket nozzlesBeth Ridgeway (NASA)
Stellaris goes into uncharted territory with the Astral Planes expansion gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/stelโฆ
Stellaris goes into uncharted territory with the Astral Planes expansion
Stellaris Astral Planes is the latest main expansion announced today for Paradox Interactive's popular space strategy game, and this one sound delightfully different to their previous additions and quite exciting.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Turbo Overkill - Steam Deck - An INSANE FPS
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Turbo Overkill - Steam Deck - An INSANE FPS
#TurboOverkill is a seriously nuts FPS for #SteamDeck and it does work nicely, with some caveats noted in the video. Running on #SteamOS 3.5 with Proton 8.0-...YouTube
Vampire Survivors v1.7 is out now with new free content gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/vampโฆ
#VampireSurvivors #SteamDeck #Linux
Vampire Survivors v1.7 is out now with new free content
The game that spawned a great many clones, Vampire Survivors is back with a brand new free content update for all players.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
eviloatmeal, resident Death Stranding 2 apologist (arch, btw)
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in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •Sengoku Babara 2, Cascom vs SNT 2, .pack, Higurashi no Nakanai Koro ni, and "Crash? Bandecou 4" though.
I love how many reference they managed to put in that one screenshot (though not as impressive as Konoha's collection).
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