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Consolidators gotta consolidate. OverDrive's buying spree continues with acquisition of TeachingBooks.net.

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New editions of The Nummulosphere Part 3 and Part 4 have been published on Archive.org:

Part 3: archive.org/details/kirkpatric…

Part 4: archive.org/details/kirkpatric…

#nummulosphere #meteorite #science #history #ocean



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Presentación virtual del libro «Mecanismos de privacidad y anonimato en redes. Una visión transdisciplinaria»

Miércoles 13 de octubre, 7pm (GMT-5)

en el @ranchoelectronico@social.mayfirst.org

ranchoelectronico.org/presenta…



Planning the trip home tomorrow. Google suggest primarily, the Bruce Hwy. This is part of the National A1 Highway, and while the road quality is ok on that leg, it invariably suffers from roadworks and accidents and traffic. Google's 2nd suggestion is to go an extra 80km but a LONG way west.

My route, which I've done before is 34km longer than the Bruce, but very scenic and a joy to drive. It's also generally a straight line home.

Sometimes, local knowledge is better than algorithms.

in reply to Kokan

I didn't in this instance. I do have a range of OSM and other maps available to me, but convenience of interface and ability to send a link to my wife with the route meant this was an easier option (also, *I* already know where I want to go, I just wanted a convenient map) 😉
in reply to David de Groot 𓆉

Oh, I know what you going through:) Only that I don't have Google on a phone, so wife had to search on her own:) BTW, I didn't had much to do and I actually checked your route with MagicEarth, openrouteservice.org and graphhopper.com and guess what - they are give same result as Google's first result:) So...takeaway, local knowledge is still king!😀 At least for a decade or so:)


An urban Tawny Frogmouth visit captured a couple of nights ago by a friend.

LOOK AT IT'S LITTLE FACE OMG

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in reply to Cyberpunk Librarian

Yeah, understandable. We're both picking what we think is the least bad option and disabling the features that make it bad.

What the world really needs is a fully open-source browser that isn't backed by a for-profit company (even tangentially). But in this era, that's at least a Linux-sized project, and the target is moving faster than OSes did for the last 25 years.

in reply to George Dorn

I looked at Chromium UnGoogled as an option but, I dunno... there's something about that and it's likely my own hangup.

Because Chromium UnGoogled feels just as possible as Windows UnMicrosofted.




Nos EUA, rede de saúde de direita ganha milhões com kit covid de hidroxicloroquina e ivermectina theintercept.com/2021/10/11/eu…



We’re in Hervey Bay and have booked a whale watching tour in the morning. Wish us luck, the weather looks “interesting”.
in reply to David de Groot 𓆉

Whales were seen!

We found three pods of whales, most just a mother and calf, but one pod contained mother, calf and an escort.

They were all fairly placid, no breaches or jumps, but still cool to see these huge animals relatively close (closer than the shore anyway).

#whale #HumpbackWhale #AustralianWildlife





Oh, this was actually kind of cool. There was a rotten log at the back of an old shooting range near our troop’s spot at some summer camp, and some of the guys decided to mine for bullets, melt them on a camp stove, and pour lead into molds gouged into another rotten log.


A Simple #OpenPGP API

In this post I demonstrate how easy it is to perform OpenPGP operations in your application by using the #SOP API.

blog.jabberhead.tk/2021/10/10/…

#cryptography #pgpainless #java



Airlie Beach is massively touristy. Pretty beach and water, lots of stupidly expensive boats too. #landscape #AirlieBeach

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