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A single serving site that answers the question “Was the Civil War about slavery?” YES — and the site includes receipts. wasthecivilwaraboutslavery.com…
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in reply to kottke.org

this presupposes that we are talking about the American Civil War. Others are available.


A refined single-cell sequencing technique provides insight into how pathogenic #fungi respond to drugs. #Candida #Microbiology elifesciences.org/digests/8140…


Here's the most played Steam Deck games of 2023 gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/here…

#SteamDeck

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

*very* surprised to see Megaman Battle Network legacy collection in there. I though I was one of only a few people who liked that niche game!


I want Firefox to succeed more than ever and I support Mozilla finding better revenue sources than search engine default sales, but I do not support a $7M salary for its CEO.

I canceled my recurring donation to Mozilla because I need that money more than Mozilla’s CEO needs that money.

If there is a direct funding option of developers working on Firefox, I will happily reallocate that money. Send me links.

lunduke.locals.com/post/505329…

#Mozilla #Firefox #webDev

in reply to Jeremiah Lee

I don’t think the CEO is paid through the same legal entity that receives the donations, but I could be wrong. There are two Mozilla entities though, a non-profit and a for-profit.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron Yes, from what I know, the Mozilla Foundation (non-profit, funded by donations) owns the Mozilla Corporation (the taxable one that receives money from Google, and manages the development of Firefox). So basically the CEO is paid with Google money (or Yahoo money in the past), but so is Firefox.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron The for-profit corp is wholly controlled by the non-profit one.

Like the OP, I don't really agree with the CEO's salary (and would not donate for that reason), but Mozilla did increase their revenue considerably over that period. IIRC she has made arguments about her pay scale vs other IT executives that sounded plausible (the $6 mil is not her pay scale BTW; most of that was bonuses tied to the new revenue).

Caution: Brendan Eich has been grinding this axe loudly for years



in reply to Eugen Rochko

Looks fantastic. The contrast & colors are superb. 16:9 crop looks very nice on my screen. 👍



Meteorite fall witnessed and drawn by Josep Bolló on December 25, 1704 in Catalonia.

Xavier Caballe, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#meteorite



The Geminid Meteor "Swarm" (l'Essaim des Géminides) over Kitt Peak (2023).

ἑσμός https://lsj.gr/wiki/ἑσμός

ἐσσήν https://lsj.gr/wiki/ἐσσήν

KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks (NSF’s NOIRLab), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#meteors



"Euclid’s view of globular cluster NGC 6397."

ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, via Wikimedia Commons.



rust9x 1.76.0 is close! Now with unwinding, backtrace support and thread parking working :V

#rust #retrocomputing



I spent a decade of my life creating game assets, the result is a lot of game assets. They're free, no ads, no tracking, no registration, no subscription, no permission needed, no need for attribution and suited for any use including commercial.

gameassets.com



can anyone tell me why debian upgrades take so long on my mac? it's not even that old :face_think_thonking:


I have played with GEOS for C64, and was not impressed. So, I postponed trying out PC GEOS aka GeoWorks aka NewDeal aka Breadbox Ensemble. In the first place, I wasn't sure it will work on our 80286 computer - all the articles say it's for "low-end 386 machines". But it does work, and NewDeal 3.1 runs on 286/2MB as well as Windows 95 runs on 386/8MB. In other words, it runs pretty well!

I am certainly going to play with it more, as the version I've installed doesn't have office apps or Ethernet driver (but both exist, and they're darn good - with Word 97 import and export).

So far I've only tried out media viewer (bmp/gif/pcx, no jpg, sadly), and a web browser (some HTML and CSS, no JS support). I love it.

Because even Windows 3.1 is more painful to use on this machine than GEOS.




Get ready for the New Year's Day 24 Global Stream Parade! from your fedi adjacent alt streaming and broadcasting friends.

We have 24+ hours of amazing special content lined up kicking off at 0100 UTC Jan 1st.

It's a massive distributed parade of party, anti-party, laugh, learn, riot, share, entertain, comfy and more hangouts in the spirit of #JoinIn, #SitTogether and celebrating #community.

Here is where we will keep the parade route (schedule):

radiofreefedi.net/nyd24/

#NYD24Parade



Ubuntu Experiments With Raising CPU Requirement #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/_C-d8z0uF5E
in reply to Brodie Robertson

My Thinkpad T430 oh nooo! The Display is absolute garbage and really its hard switching back after having an also corebootable Clevo NV41MZ. But the keyboard is great! And it is still perfectly working, 2TB of SATA SSD storage, no problem.

Btw interviewing some people working on Coreboot would be cool!

@system76
@novacustom
@3mdeb
@tuxedocomputers
@nitrokey

#Linux #YouTube



My recent media diet of books, shows, movies, music, and experiences including New Blue Sun (André 3000’s flute album), The Vaster Wilds, Emily the Criminal, Vagabonding, Train Dreams, and The Mountain in the Sea. kottke.org/23/12/my-recent-med…
in reply to kottke.org

"...this is a movie that has Something To Say and I still can’t figure out what that is."

That tracks with the misogyny the site occasionally espouses.

To borrow a quote: it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his misogyny depends on his not understanding it.




Media Invited to Learn About Moon-bound Langley Technologies nasa.gov/news-release/media-in… #NASA #LangleyResearchCenter



Well, if you ever visit Melbourne Australia, here are some things to learn!

"Don't you dare go to Starbucks. There aren't many of them anyway, and a real Melbourne café is always going to be a better bet. You can get excellent coffee (a flat white, by the way, is a latte without the foam; a long or short black is a black coffee) as well as, usually, sandwiches like chicken and avocado and treats like caramel slices and brownies."

in reply to Muse

We thought about taking the car on the train when we were moving from Adelaide to Melbourne, so I wouldn't have to drive with the cats all that distance!
in reply to Muse

If I were moving, I would definitely transport the car in some fashion. I've had a moving company move a car once.


This one trick to do sqr() and cube() in C: godbolt.org/z/7qeanM

#programming




“Running this gives us a nice 40 GB file which contains all 4.2 billion comparisons needed to determine if any 32 bit number is even or odd”

andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//j…

ChatGPT is involved. Via Charlie Stross a master hacker shows off.

#jgshare



Las mejores imágenes de las investigaciones en la estación del 2023 nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-… #NASA #ISSResearch #General #InternationalSpaceStationISS


New Factually up now: The REAL History of Gender with Dr. Kit Heyam

Check it out! youtu.be/BsT7UMMfNAY




Reflection nasa.gov/image-article/reflect… #NASA #KennedySpaceCenter


We recently interviewed the developers of the Polls app, which Nextcloud users use to do – well, the name does give it away, doesn’t it?

It’s a very nice app with a ton of features you might enjoy – read the interview with Vinzenz and René and find out why they wrote it!

nextcloud.com/blog/the-nextclo…



NASA Wallops Signs Space Act Agreement to Support STEM Outreach nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #WallopsFlightFacility


✨ We’re proud to present our new website! This is your one-stop source for everything about Exit to Community.

🔎 Find our new collection of case studies and more resources here: e2c.how



NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures a Martian Day, From Dawn to Dusk nasa.gov/missions/mars-science… #NASA #CuriosityRover #Mars #Planets #TheSolarSystem



NASA Sets Coverage for ULA, Astrobotic Artemis Robotic Moon Launch nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-set… #NASA #CommercialLunarPayloadServicesCLPS #Artemis #Missions


“January 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1928 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1923!” Includes Steamboat Willie and works by D.H. Lawrence, J.M. Barrie, Virginia Woolf, Robert Frost, and Cole Porter. web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdo…


Jupiter and the Geminid apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231228.ht… #APOD
#APOD


Casi toda la energía eléctrica empleada es generada mediante la quema de carbón mineral o combustóleo.

Si no cuestionamos el paradigma de crecimiento ¿a quién beneficiará la descarbonización?

Compartimos «¿Cómo descarbonizar nuestros deseos?» ⤵️
moreofus.art/blog/como-descarb…



This snowy scene was captured during a particularly severe winter in Britain in 1894-95 known as ‘The Great Frost’.
The photographer, Paul Martin (1864-1944) pioneered street and night photography, with some shots requiring exposures of anything between 10 to 20 minutes. His nighttime adventures were “amusing experiences” - passers-by were not used to seeing a man with a camera and he was often stopped by the police.

❄️‘Winter Night on the Embankment’, 1894-95.

@V_and_A #museums #winter



Time for a conversation: participate in Nextcloud Community Survey 2023 🔎

Your feedback matters: help us understand our community's life better and find out what we are doing right and what can be improved in our products.

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nextcloud.com/blog/take-part-i…

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

Hi, did you publish the results of this survey anywhere? I can't see anything on the official blog. Thanks.

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