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Born in 1794, pioneering marine biologist Jeannette Villepreux-Power collected specimens from local fisherman in Sicily for study. She built a natural history collection & was especially interested in cephalopods like octopus & squid ๐Ÿ™.

Villepreux-Power invented the modern aquarium was one of the first people to observe living cephalopods & their behaviors.

Unfortunately, much of her work & collections were lost in a shipwreck in 1843. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanneโ€ฆ #HistoryRemix #science #history

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

perhaps a #EarlyWomenInScience is called for? I'm amazed at the significant work women have done WHEN the prevailing wisdom was that women couldn't/ shouldn't do this.


How does every discussion eventually become an argument about CSD vs SSD in this project gitlab.freedesktop.org/waylandโ€ฆ
in reply to lea

@BrodieOnLinuxI don't understand how this is an issue. On gnome the top icon is not even rendered.


Everyone talks about how the first 'computers' were people (usually women), but how about the first packet switches? #ComputerHistory
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in reply to Brodie Robertson

Are you saying that we haven't been talking for weeks and I invested in someone else's new idea?


There is no metal music video better than this. Maybe no music video at all.

youtube.com/watch?v=0_e4YX73Wwโ€ฆ

#NP #NowPlaying #Haken

in reply to Eugen Rochko

Butโ€ฆhave you seen this Cuntroaches video for โ€œBorborygmusโ€? _ youtube.com/watch?v=8YAALSBYtRโ€ฆ
in reply to Eugen Rochko

That was not what I expected, in the best way possible. Epic.


I remember a time people were saying LLMs were just another VC-driven hype train like Web3.

Do people still think that or is there now an understanding that a foundational shift in white collar work is underway? Workers are about to get more productive and certain jobs vanish.

in reply to Dare Obasanjo

I still think that. But "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" is also true.


Perhaps you're distressed about the "perfect storm of disinformation" that's hitting the world now, and will only ramp up during the next US election.

Fear not!

Read my latest book (co-authored with @seanlawson) Social Engineering:

mitpress.mit.edu/9780262543453โ€ฆ

You'll see that none of this is new.
(It's just far far more intense! And scary! Ok, I'm scared, too!)

in reply to Robert W. Gehl

wow, great to see it is open access! That makes me want to exchange it for Hadnagy in my Hacker Culture course: nathanschneider.info/school/haโ€ฆ

How would you compare the two books?

in reply to Nathan Schneider

@ntnsndr We consider Hadnagy's work (the books, school, and podcast) primary source material. We put Hadnagy and contemporary social engineers into a larger historical context, link his work to older phreaks and still older propagandists.

I don't think our book is a direct replacement for stuff from Hadnagy.

in reply to Nathan Schneider

Honestly chapter 4 of your book is perfect, paired with the "Catching Kevin" essay. The stereotyping analysis is just what I needed.


In order for the 2024 indie web revival to work: โ€œWe need more tools for it. We need simpler tools for it. And we need to make installing and using them trivially simple.โ€ gilest.org/indie-easy.html
in reply to kottke.org

we need one click mastodon, one click pixelfed, one click lemmy, and other smallweb tools for the masses.
(Also: one click federated bandcamp alternative!)
in reply to kottke.org

silly question ๐Ÿšจ

Why donโ€™t have to pay for a domain yearly? Canโ€™t I buy it and own it?



10 Years Ago: The First Operational Cygnus Cargo Mission to the Space Station nasa.gov/history/10-years-ago-โ€ฆ #NASA #NASAHistory


This NPM Package Has 2.5 Million Dependencies!! #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/xnPNKRs5TVo
in reply to Brodie Robertson

Ohh, so a public repository many people rely on, where anyone can publish their stuff was never really a good idea?


The IPCC should hire the BBCโ€™s graphics team for AR7.



Hubble Finds Weird Home of Farthest Fast Radio Burst science.nasa.gov/missions/hubbโ€ฆ #NASA #BlackHoles #Galaxies #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #HubbleSpaceTelescope #Missions #NeutronStars #TheUniverse


NASA Ames Awards Task Order Modification for Wind Tunnel Upgrades nasa.gov/general/nasa-ames-awaโ€ฆ #NASA #General #AmesResearchCenter


La NASA comparte avances sobre las primeras misiones lunares Artemis con tripulaciรณn nasa.gov/news-release/la-nasa-โ€ฆ #NASA #Artemis #Artemis1 #Artemis2 #Artemis3 #Artemis4 #HumanLandingSystemProgram #Missions #SpaceLaunchSystemSLS


La presentaciรณn del X-59 de la NASA personifica la tradiciรณn aeronรกutica nasa.gov/es/la-presentacion-deโ€ฆ #NASA #NASAEnEspaรฑol #Aeronรกutica



when2meet (when2meet.com/), which has been critical infrastructure for a lot of people for years, is run as a free service by this apparently mom-and-pop web dev shop: 8degreesllc.com/

I wonder how much money that donate button brings in.



Caligula's Horse for #ProgTuesday.

youtube.com/watch?v=Ik601MYRZfโ€ฆ

#NP #NowPlaying

in reply to Eugen Rochko

Caligula's Horse I great! Especially this album is my favorite of them.




A โ€œGreen Monsterโ€ Lurks in Starโ€™s Debris nasa.gov/image-article/a-greenโ€ฆ #NASA
#NASA


The Nextcloud Files app saw many improvements and upgrades in Hub 7 ๐Ÿš€

๐Ÿš€ Did you know Files was recently rewritten in Vue.js for extra performance?
๐Ÿ–Š๏ธ Or that you can now annotate your PDFs?!

Here's a tour of what's new in Nextcloud Files:

youtu.be/6Iw1CEvoVHI



NASA, NOAA to Announce 2023 Global Temperatures, Climate Conditions nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-noaโ€ฆ #NASA #Earth #ClimateChange #GoddardInstituteForSpaceStudies #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter


VACANTE en SURSIENDO

Buscamos Oficial de Comunicaciรณn y Vinculaciones

OBJETIVO DEL PUESTO: Diseรฑar e implementar el plan de comunicaciรณn y posicionamiento de Sursiendo, conforme a la estrategia del รกrea e institucional.

Postulaciรณn hasta 28 de enero de 2024, 23:59 hora Mรฉxico Central.
Inicio de labores: 1 de marzo de 2024.

#Chiapas #DerechosDigitales #SoftwareLibre

Mรกs informaciรณn:
sursiendo.org/buscamos/



S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game engine OpenXRay gets taken down on GitHub gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/stalโ€ฆ

#STALKER #FPS #PCGaming #OpenXRay

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

in all honesty, the DMCA needs a provision to allow for things like this, and to get rid of the vagueness for fair use, and to provide better protection for content creation.
Hopeful that happens without greedy companies either poisoning it or tanking it completely.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

DMCA takedown has been revoked yesterday as it seems that it was made by a troll and not GSC. Maybe they will do some proper licensing this time


Dwight Eisenhower in 1953: โ€œEvery gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.โ€ kottke.org/24/01/massive-militโ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

Notable how, in the current political climate, Eisenhower seems positively left-wingโ€ฆ


Pillars of Eternity from Obsidian has a new patch coming nearly 9 years after release gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/pillโ€ฆ

#RPG #Obsidian #PillarsofEternity

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I was just trying to decide if I was going to play this or one of the many D&D old school CRPGs. I think I'll finally play Pillars of Eternity! I didn't realize Avowed was going to share a world with the Pillars games until a few days ago and I'm pretty excited for Avowed.


Los riesgos que hay en Telegram y cรณmo puedes evitarlos

es esencial estar conscientes de los riesgos que implican los bots maliciosos y tomar medidas proactivas para proteger nuestra informaciรณn personal...

wwwhatsnew.com/2024/01/07/los-โ€ฆ




Thanks for coming to Berlin on such a short notice for an interview! @Gargron

The interview & my video are coming in a few weeks ๐Ÿ˜€

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Be a Burst Chaser and Witness the Most Powerful Explosions in the Universe! science.nasa.gov/get-involved/โ€ฆ #NASA #Astrophysics #CitizenScience


๐Ÿ“ฃ Tomorrow's the day!

Join our webinar "Make the Switch from ownCloud to Nextcloud" at 3:00 pm CET.

Discover the benefits, migration ease and why Nextcloud is your strategic upgrade. โœจ

Register now and join us tomorrow โžก๏ธ go.nextcloud.com/r/GQu

#owncloud to #nextcloud #migration



MSI officially announced the Claw A1M handheld with Intel gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/msi-โ€ฆ

#MSI #HandheldGaming #PCGaming #MSIClaw

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

one more to the e-waste list.... I love what Steam has done with Steam Deck, but all these copy/paste items trying to get a piece of the cake of the handheld boom is just exhausting

Not saying they're crap, but I don't think they will have the long term support and reparability that SD offers



Cross-distribution support improvements coming for Canonical's Snap packages gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/crosโ€ฆ

#Linux #Snap #Canonical #Ubuntu

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

The sandbox of a flatpak is the same on all distributions, unlike a snapยน. In addition, the snapcraft.io backend is proprietary (unlike Flathub), so this format will never be adopted by all distributions. If they really want to be cross-platform, they should start by working on these two points.

ยน en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_(soโ€ฆ search for AppArmor

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

apt-get install firefox is the main reason for me for stay away from ubuntu and never, ever use their server flavour.

They should keep both things, native applications and snap clearly separated instead of silently inject snap packages in apt.

Thats simply evil.



Hey, #rstats champions! Sometimes you might want to consider reordering ๐Ÿ”€ your boxplot groups to more clearly illustrate the differences between them. You can easily achieve this with the `reorder` function within your aesthetic mappings. Check out my blog for a full working example and code.

๐Ÿ”— lpembleton.rbind.io/ramblings/โ€ฆ

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