Window in the ticket office of Toledo's train station.
#window #trainStation #travelPhotography #toledo #spain
"I’ve now been using [Mastodon] for about two months and I am here to tell you that it is, in principle, what we should want the internet to be."
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via @404mediaco
#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia
Mastodon Is the Good One
Mastodon is interoperable, decentralized, operated by a nonprofit, lively, and, ACTUALLY, isn't hard to use. So why is everyone championing Threads as the main Twitter alternative?Jason Koebler (404 Media)
Has your book been used to train the AI?
Well, one datapoint on that question anyway...Peter Schoppert (AI and Copyright)
Autumn Lisp Game Jam 2023
A game jam from 2023-10-20 to 2023-11-02 hosted by technomancy & David Thompson. Lisp Game Jam is a recurring game jam taking place for a full 10 days. After the jam has finished, 3 days are given to everyone to try out the game su...itch.io
Gearbits is a fast-paced mecha combat indie game now on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/gear…
Gearbits is a fast-paced mecha combat indie game now on Steam
Love mecha combat? Gearbits is a new indie release on Steam from Quackpond Games, following on from their early builds on itch.io.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Blender enables Vulkan as an experimental option gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/blen…
#FOSS #Vulkan #OpenSource #Blender
Blender enables Vulkan as an experimental option
Some fun news for Blender fans, as their work to bring up Vulkan support in the project has hit a big new milestone with support now enabled but it's still experimental for now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
It either gets stuck at the bottom or gets dumped into your face.
#startrek #allstartrek #meme #memes
Sugar causes all sorts of health problems, but hyperactivity isn’t one of them.
My own 6yo sugar expert made his PBS debut in this episode of Serving Up Science where I break down the #science behind a popular myth about the sweet stuff. youtu.be/TlHOLk-tV7g?si=bj7N6y…
Sugar and Hyperactivity: What Does Research Say? | Serving Up Science
Support Serving Up Science: http://bit.ly/ScienceServeGet ready to reevaluate everything you thought you knew about sugar and hyperactivity. From birthday pa...YouTube
This is irresponsible and unscientific.
Just because you found mixed results from historic studies doesn't prove there's no impact. You have done nothing to explain the metabolic chemistry involved here.
In persons with a healthy glucose metabolism (young children, athletes, keto diet) insulin response and glucose uptake are FAST and do result in a 'rush' feeling. In persons who have been overexposed to sugar, the insulin response and following uptake has become SLOW and no longer results in a 'rush' feeling. This is obvious to anyone who understands cellular glucose metabolism and observable to anyone with a healthy metabolism.
Tiny Atolls - Steam Deck - Really relaxing and cosy
Tiny Atolls - Steam Deck - Really relaxing and cosy
A nice cosy game for your #SteamDeck with #TinyAtolls that has Native #Linux support. Buy it on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2246640/Tiny_Atolls...YouTube
Bacterial histones unveiled
nature.com/articles/s41564-023…
Bacterial histones unveiled - Nature Microbiology
Computational, molecular and structural analyses reveal the presence of bacterial histones that bind DNA to form dense, DNA-enveloping fibres in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus.Nature
Begin your industrial revolution in the latest Minecraft Snapshot gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/begi…
Begin your industrial revolution in the latest Minecraft Snapshot
Now that Minecraft Live is over the developers have begun pushing out preview builds ahead of the upcoming release of Minecraft 1.21. A fresh Snapshot was just released with new features like the Crafter block.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Act quick to claim these free games like CRYPTARK and The Evil Within gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/act-…
#FreeGames #SteamDeck #Linux #PCGaming
Act quick to claim these free games like CRYPTARK and The Evil Within
Need some free games for the weekend? Got you covered with a list here of some games you can claim to keep so you'll have no excuse for a boring time.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Lutris game manager v0.5.14 adds EA App integration, expanded Flatpak support gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/lutr…
Lutris game manager v0.5.14 adds EA App integration, expanded Flatpak support
The game manager Lutris has a brand new release out with some sweet new features, so time to take another look at one of the best ways to run games from pretty much anywhere on Linux and Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
APOD: 2023 October 20 - Galaxies and a Comet
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
like this
Galaxies and a Comet
Image Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett
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APOD: 2023 October 20 - Galaxies and a Comet
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Almost weekend! The weather forecast in central Europe doesn’t look amazing.
👩🏽💻Maybe this is a good opportunity to have a look at one of our tutorials and built yourself a new app? It’s easy to get started!
Develop for Nextcloud: App development tutorials
These app development tutorials will help you easily write new Nextcloud applications, extend existing features or integrate other software.Nextcloud
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).
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.
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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
eetimes.eu/using-silicon-photo…
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/20…
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 Biden’s checkered Iraq history
In the Senate, Joe Biden backed Bush’s 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-co…
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, …Palm Oil Detectives
Oh, I… i really, *really* dislike the new-in-the-last-few-minutes change to the … 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 🙁
@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.
I… 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 there’s 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 now—or you can scramble to improvise something after you’re forced off.
washingtonpost.com/technology/…
Elon Musk’s X removes the New York Times’ verification badge
The gold badge was the only symbol distinguishing the Times’ 55-million-follower account from impostors amid two major global conflicts.Drew Harwell (The Washington Post)
【KH DDD】Please 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).
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in reply to kottke.org • • •Also important: who is receiving the benefit from improved service vs. reduced/eliminated fares.
There's a whole lot of nuance that has to be included in any conversation about fare-setting for any kind of public service.
Avi Rappoport (avirr)
in reply to kottke.org • • •zellyn
in reply to kottke.org • • •This article could also be summarized as:
“Despite a 50% increase in GDP over the last decade, a culture that values remote habitation and cars as status symbols, and an absence of government taxes on car purchases, free transit increases ridership numbers, and limits decline in percentage use of public transportation to just 1% per year.”
acm
in reply to kottke.org • • •Sami Määttä
in reply to kottke.org • • •Excerpt from the article on why: ”The local leaders I met offered several explanations for the underwhelming response to free fares. The first is that Estonia’s growing wealth prompted a surge of car purchases and reduced residents’ desire to ride even free buses and trams. Economists often cite transit as an example of an inferior good: a product that holds less appeal when people become wealthier (as was certainly the case in Estonia during the past decade). Automobiles, on the other hand, are often prized possessions for those whose income has risen. Estonians in 2021 owned 621 cars for every 1,000 people, an increase of 12.5% from 2017 and more than all but four other European Union countries.”
More reasons in the article. Interesting read!
Rick
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