The 2023 Ubuntu Summit has been living in my head rent free... especially now that it is only two weeks away 😏
If you want to get ahead on your summit game, be sure to check out the posted timetable here: events.canonical.com/event/31/…. We have excellent talks and workshops across nine different tracks ranging from using #Ubuntu on #ARM-based laptops to using #SLURM with #Kubernetes for efficient #HPC job scheduling.
Hope to see you there, whether it be via a WiFi 🌐 or IRL 🤙 connection!
Ubuntu Summit 2023
The Ubuntu SummitUbuntu Summit is an event focused on the Linux and Open Source ecosystem, beyond Ubuntu itself. Representatives of outstanding projects will demonstrate how their work is changing the future of technology as we know it.Canonical / Ubuntu Events (Indico)
#Boulder City Council Member and Mayoral Candidate Bob Yates joking about apartheid as Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Law Journal.
“I'm giving plenty of advance notice to the pinhead neo-liberals that from now on, we're not running any more of that anti-apartheid garbage. Who cares?”
Research by @ChelseaCastellano
![I'm in charge
BY BOB YATES
Editor-in-Chief
That's right. Editor-in-Chief. Who wants to know? Listen.
I've been getting a lot of flak from a few of you NLG-types
out there claiming I brandish the title of Editor-in-Chief like I
was Hearst.
So what?
This is my newspaper and I'll run it the way I damn well
please. If you've got a problem with that, write a letter to the
editor. I'll see to it that it gets in the proper file.
Free speech" Hey, I don't see that as a problem. I've never
had any trouble saying exactly what / wanted. If you got a
problem. get your own paper. Jack.
And just to show that I'm fair. I'm giving plenty of advance
notice to the pinhead neo-liberals that from now on. we're not
running any more of that anti-apartheid garbage. Who cares?
Lighten up guys, this is law school.
Oh, and another thing. I don't want to hear any more crap
about this paper being too conservative. I asked Bert Prunty
and he said I'm doing a fine job.
[…]
To the editors, writers. photographers, and support staff. To
the laculty and administration. And particularly to you my
adoring fellow students:
Piss off.
hastings law news
Robert M. Yates](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1161008 "I'm in charge
BY BOB YATES
Editor-in-Chief
That's right. Editor-in-Chief. Who wants to know? Listen.
I've been getting a lot of flak from a few of you NLG-types
out there claiming I brandish the title of Editor-in-Chief like I
was Hearst.
So what?
This is my newspaper and I'll run it the way I damn well
please. If you've got a problem with that, write a letter to the
editor. I'll see to it that it gets in the proper file.
Free speech\" Hey, I don't see that as a problem. I've never
had any trouble saying exactly what / wanted. If you got a
problem. get your own paper. Jack.
And just to show that I'm fair. I'm giving plenty of advance
notice to the pinhead neo-liberals that from now on. we're not
running any more of that anti-apartheid garbage. Who cares?
Lighten up guys, this is law school.
Oh, and another thing. I don't want to hear any more crap
about this paper being too conservative. I asked Bert Prunty
and he said I'm doing a fine job.
[…]
To the editors, writers. photographers, and support staff. To
the laculty and administration. And particularly to you my
adoring fellow students:
Piss off.
hastings law news
Robert M. Yates")
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries🙏
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #MotherEarth #LifesBetterWithTrees #ClimateCrisis #CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay
#BetterWithForests #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #Boycott4Wildlife #SaveTheOcean
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #MotherEarth #LifesBetterWithTrees #ClimateCrisis #CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay
#BetterWithForests #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #Boycott4Wildlife #SaveTheOcean #CoporateGreed
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" But, once, we are told the sun forsook his reign;
Scorning to dip his chariot in the main,
He stormed the pole and fired the frozen sky;
Melted each mountain; sucked each ocean dry,
'Till in the mud the dolphins seemed to fry.
Dispoiled of ice the mountains seemed to flow
In liquid fire upon the plains below."
Sampson Arnold Mackey --- "The Mythological Astronomy, In Three Parts"
youtube.com/watch?v=1yOCiy7NhU…
Giant solar storms: a warning from 14,300 years ago
By analysing ancient tree-rings found in the southern French Alps, an international team of scientists has revealed a huge spike in radiocarbon levels 14,300...YouTube
The nuttiness of our sqirals technovia.co.uk/2023/10/16/mar…
#dotcons are core to the mess we make
Ian Betteridge - Marc Andreessen's manifesto
It would take a far, far longer post than I’m prepared to spend my time writing to go through Marc Andreessen’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” paragraph by awful paragraph, but a few points probably won’t go amiss.technovia.co.uk
backends/native: Add support for variable refresh rate (!1154) · Merge requests · GNOME / mutter · GitLab
Status There are a few small design decisions to make, but overall the core VRR experience is quite good in my...GitLab
You want to know why GNOME devs are "toxic"? Because they're regularly dealing with entitled users.
If you have nothing to add, then don't bother commenting. Get lost; we don't want you.
Couldn't say better myself. I'll just add that continuous interaction with trolls indirectly gives an original reporter and other participants injustice. Why? Because, now that discussion got flooded with other disturbances and MR got locked as a result, nobody gets to contribute a word.
@BrodieOnLinux Why can't people just be nice online?
Yes I know this is a pipe dream just let me have this
These New Xorg Vulnerabilities Are Older Than Me
Xorg is known to be a spaghetti code nightmare so it shouldn't surprise you that every so often ancient vulnerabilities like these 5 get discovered some of w...YouTube
Student Work Gallery: Summer 2023
We’ve collected work from undergraduate and graduate students, spanning three of the six major disciplines within the college.CMCI Now Magazine
We gathered testimonies from #Gaza to understand the devastating impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on innocent civilians.
Are you from Gaza? We want to hear from you: what's the situation like from the ground? How do you keep safe? What's changed since last week?
📍Read more: globalvoices.org/2023/10/13/in…
In the shadows of destruction and despair: Voices from Gaza's devastation
Voices from Gaza: "The house where nearly 30 people lived is now gone, and we find ourselves displaced and homeless, uncertain of our fate or what lies ahead for us. "Global Voices
This looks awesome!
Can we dare to dream to get rid of google scholar?
I have a preprint: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/…
Title: Scalable distance-based phylogeny inference using divide-and-conquer
I suggest a divide-and-conquer method as an alternative to Neighbour Joining, building on old ideas but with a couple of new (I think) advantages.
You can easily try it out: install "dnctree" from PyPI.org!
Scalable distance-based phylogeny inference using divide-and-conquer
Distance-based methods for inferring evolutionary trees are important subroutines in computational biology, sometimes as a first step in a statistically more robust phylogenetic method.bioRxiv
Doctoral student in in structural and functional protein bioinformatics
Description of the workplace In the Atkinson lab we are interested in making discoveries about protein function and structure, with a focus on bacterial immune system components that protect againstlu.varbi.com
Everyday you learn that carbon offsets are more of a racket than you thought the day before.
newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10…
The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle
Offsetting is hailed as a fix for climate catastrophe—but the world’s biggest carbon firm, South Pole, sold millions of worthless credits to Gucci, Porsche, Nestlé, and many others. Heidi Blake reports.Heidi Blake (The New Yorker)
Near-Earth Asteroids as of August 31, 2023
Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun like the planets with orbits that come within 30 million miles of Earth’s orbit. NASATricia Talbert (NASA)
In follow-up to what Tim is saying, the social-collaborative aspects of knowledge gathering and curation lend themselves well to decentralized social networking.
Furthermore what the explosion of personal knowledge management tools shows, is that there's multiple spheres of knowledge, connected but having different requirements. Roughly: personal --> communal --> common knowledge. Concept of "gardening" can be used.
I took notes on this in: discuss.coding.social/t/semmy-…
Semmy: Social knowledge fabrics
Combining Fediverse and Wiki’s In follow-up to discussion with Mike Hales, @bashrc and @bhaugen as well as Exploring semantic knowledge base solutions - Fediverse Futures - SocialHub some thoughts / brainstorm of what a wiki-like semantic knowledge …Discuss Social Coding
Epic Games cuts almost half of Bandcamp pre-Songtradr sale
Update: A spokesperson for Epic Games clarified to Game Developer that the Bandcamp layoffs aren't new, but part of Epic's previously announced reductions.Justin Carter (Game Developer)
IMPORTANT
Tech people, could you please help Ursula, President of the European Commission, delete this tweet? It would be awfully embarrassing if it were to resurface, given her unwavering support of Israel 😳
via @Leeborg’s Scope of Work entry. #3Dprinting #sporespondence
Making Myco-clay
RECIPE 2 parts rotting mycelium 1 part hay/pink oyster mushroom mycelium A giant bucket A large tarp to lay out material 2+ feet/hands to stomp, turn, squish…Mediamatic
Fun free workshop idea: Cyber-mutant coloring jam!
Yesterday at the Dinalab Craft night we had a fun little workshop where we experimented and discussed nature and technology in a hands-on chill way.
Fun free workshop idea: Cyber-mutant coloring jam!
Yesterday at the Dinalab Craft night we had a fun little workshop where we experimented and discussed nature and technology in a hands-on chill way.
Here's how to do one yourself:
Double Asteroid Redirection Test Post-Impact Image Gallery
After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration – successfullyTricia Talbert (NASA)
If the first solar entrepreneur hadn't been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century the way they did?
The 1909 incident may have cost the industry decades of progress – and the planet huge amounts of damaging carbon emissions.The Conversation
How to Build a Low-tech Solar Panel? - resilience
In other words, can we build low-tech solar panels? And, if so, what would that mean for costs and efficiency?Resilience (Resilience.org)
Lots of news today!
Congrats to AMD and their ROCm teams for officially shipping ROCm on a consumer RDNA card as part of ROCm 5.7.1!
Providing a source available compute stack is a step in the right direction! Well done.
HT Ben Carr
Cc: @HPC_Guru
phoronix.com/news/RX-7900-XTX-…
AMD ROCm + PyTorch Now Supported With The Radeon RX 7900 XTX
While Friday's release of ROCm 5.7.1 hadn't mentioned any Radeon family GPU support besides the aging Radeon VII, it turns out AMD's newest open-source GPU compute stack is ready to go now with the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and is complete with working PyTo…www.phoronix.com
Dr. Guy Bluford Reflects on 40th Anniversary of Historic Shuttle Flight
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger’s STS-8 mission, former astronaut Dr. Guion “Guy” Bluford, the first African AmericanDoreen Zudell (NASA)
my coworkers who got offers are great people, committed to artists and fans.
And our union has been lobbying Songtradr's CEO to recognize the bargaining unit going forward.
nebunez likes this.
I am happy to hear some good news. The initial news of the layoffs made me angry because I've heard of and followed some great people working there.
Bandcamp has been so important for small to medium artists and I would rather them succeed than fail.
I can only imagine how difficult it is for the union to bargain with these people.
Celebrate International Observe the Moon Night at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
The public is invited to celebrate International Observe the Moon Night on Saturday, Oct. 21, from 6 to 9 p.m. EDT rain or shine at NASA Goddard’s VisitorNancy N. Jones (NASA)
Reminder to #Socialcoop members from the Finance Working Group:
Today’s balance
£18,630.05 GBP
Total raised
£40,696.13 GBP
Total disbursed
£22,066.08 GBP
opencollective.com/socialcoop#…
That is:
- We have spent just over half of our total revenue, ever
- We are not nearly spending what we're contributing
Editorial part (from me):
- We should be more intentional about budgeting for and investing in our community and the broader fediverse ecosystem
social.coop - Open Collective
social.coop: a coop-run corner of the fediverse with a co-operative and transparent approach to operating a social platformopencollective.com
The Nextcloud Conference featured fascinating keynotes and panel sessions.. to give you a good overlook, we just published them in a playlist for you!
Featuring @maxschrems @katrin @webmink @daphnemuller@mastodon.onlineand so many more!
Tune in and check it out on our channel: #NextcloudConf #opensourceCommunity
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4e…
Keynotes and Panel Sessions | Nextcloud Conference 2023
Keynotes and Panel Sessions featured at Nextcloud Conference 2023 September 16-17, 2023 Berlin, Germany https://nextcloud.com/conference-2023/YouTube
The deadbird site is now throttling links to Patreon, WhatsApp, and Messenger, according to @themarkup's crowdsourced analysis.
This latest evidence of interference with speech means nothing to Big Journalism, of course. For most in the craft, it's business as usual on a platform that -- in addition to interfering with competitors -- hates journalism and amplifies extremists.
themarkup.org/news/2023/10/16/…
Twitter Is Throttling Patreon Links, Creators Say It Undermines Their Livelihood – The Markup
Markup readers helped uncover the link delays, which also affect WhatsApp and Messenger.themarkup.org
Launching to a Metal-Rich Asteroid
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This imageMonika Luabeya (NASA)
NASA Hosts Unveiling of Plans for New Silicon Valley Innovation Hub
NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley today hosted an announcement by the University of California Berkeley and San Francisco-based developer SKSRachel Hoover (NASA)
NASA Seeks Development of Universal Payload Interface
NASA is calling on innovators to help solve some of the challenges in rapidly testing technology payloads across a wide range of commercial flight vehiclesSarah Mann (NASA)
Nathan Schneider
in reply to Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. • • •The dig at "neo-liberals" is fun given what the term has come to mean.
But wow, the apartheid. What year is this?
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.
in reply to Nathan Schneider • • •