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It Was So Cold Last Night It Was Impossible To Leave Them Out. I Love Them So Much. 📷: Pat Van Acker

sheep in front of a fire

We have some neighbours who have done something like this. Now, every so often I can hear them yell at one of their goats to "get out of the house!"





I just realized I haven't shared sandstone #photos. Sandstone is fascinating and #beautiful and forms various crazy shapes. Endless possibilities for both large and small scale #photography. Photo is titled 'Among the Waves'.

#thursday #photo #landscape #landscapephotography #rock #pink #shape #nature #naturephotography #color #australia #photographie



#MastodonForHarris morning update - we are well over $300,000 and headed to 4000 contributions!

Funds raised as of this post: $326,239.24
# of contributions: ➡️ 3910 ⬅️
# of recurring contributions: 193

Current target: $500,000

I’m emphasizing the number of contributions because it is as important as the overall amount of money raised. Let’s continue to make an impact! secure.actblue.com/donate/mast…



Lily Tarn. Currently occupied by exactly two friendly ducks (not pictured).

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

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Three NASA Interns Expand Classroom Access to NASA Data nasa.gov/learning-resources/na… #NASA #LearningResources


Hubble Images a Classic Spiral nasa.gov/image-article/hubble-… #NASA #Galaxies #HubbleSpaceTelescope #SpiralGalaxies


Now up: A draft syllabus for an undergrad research course focused on the great election year of 2024. Uses @zizip's latest book to frame our questions: nathanschneider.info/school/di…

Feedback super welcome!

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in reply to Jed Brown

Writing is sometimes an artifact meant to provide evidence of understanding. If you take a document and transform it with a thesaurus and grammatical isomorphisms to obfuscate the source, that is plagiarism. The victim is not just the person who wrote the original content, but also the reader who is being deceived into believing you understand and communicated your understanding. Generative models are automating that obfuscation and everything that comes out is tainted.
in reply to Jed Brown

This part is especially helpful:

> Writing is sometimes an artifact meant to provide evidence of understanding

In my classes, this is almost exclusively its purpose.



Ethical use of AI: How do you ensure your compliance? 🤔

In our review of today's ethical AI challenges, we explore the regulations to be aware of, the Big Tech marketing tricks, transparency concerns, data sovereignty, and AI vendor lock-in.

Read on 👇

nextcloud.com/blog/ethical-use…

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

> Ethical use of AI: How do you ensure your compliance?

We expect from you, @nextcloud, more than mere compliance with the law.

For a project founded and heavily promoted as ethically right, we expect compliance with what #ethics demands.

That means: No use of technology that consumes gargantuan amounts of electricity and fresh water. No use of #LLM corpuses extracted from the internet without consent of the creators.

While that is the "AI" being offered, reject it utterly.

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It's Friday again, so I will be playing some Linux games over at cast.samsai.eu/ in about 15 minutes. Tonight's menu: "Afterplace" and "ExoCross". Then we'll see how close to the end we get in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. See you in the chat!


Combining exploration, city-building and complex resource management, Scorchlands 1.0 is out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/comb…

#LinuxGaming #Linux #SteamDeck



Old School Rally now Steam Deck Verified with an impressive roadmap ahead gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/old-…

#SteamDeck #IndieGame #Retro



Vibrant Sokoban-style game Puzzledorf now available for Linux, works great on Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/vibr…

#Linux #SteamDeck



No Rest for the Wicked now Steam Deck Verified thanks to latest update gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/no-r…

#SteamDeck #RPG #NoRestfortheWicked

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I just fired this update up on my steam deck and I am unconvinced. They give that green check out WAAAAAY too easily.
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I think it's finally time to tell the story of that time the FBI showed up to the studio.......



Listen to smart women with cats. (And with dogs, birds, lizards, rodents… )
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

so true 😄 This movie is part of a series that I showed to my teenage daughter to teach her about life, about being a woman, and about why Science Fiction is awesome. She loved it !


Hubble Images a Classic Spiral science.nasa.gov/missions/hubb… #NASA #Astrophysics #AstrophysicsDivision #Galaxies #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #HubbleSpaceTelescope #Missions #SpiralGalaxies #TheUniverse

in reply to Eugen Rochko

Who will fire up their parody machine to make a mopey theme song:

youtu.be/7ZsQdLlvuk4?si=CzRMnx…



Linux Mint 22 is officially out now supported until 2029 gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/linu…

#Linux #LinuxMint #FOSS



Spinny Dungeon is an upcoming slot machine roguelite that might eat away your time gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/spin…

#IndieGame #Linux

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

You are the absolute worst account to follow...when I want to get things done as you keep suggesting interesting games damn you! You hooked me onto mechabellum and I have like 300 hours on it now :blobfoxcry2:


Valve gives developers some big reasons to add a demo on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/valv…

#Steam #PCGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

"but I imagine this will also increase the complaints from developers on their new releases being quickly pushed down by demo releases."

How is that a bad thing? Every single person that plays your demo is exposed to a very compelling advertisement for the full game

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I never checked it and I don't have anything released on Steam yet, but if Demos will also require a separate upfront fee, like each game you want to sell does.



What a day. We are still fundraising fiercely at secure.actblue.com/donate/mast…. I took time to set up #MastodonBlueWave at secure.actblue.com/donate/mast…. But what has kept me busiest - apart from getting ready for out-of-town visitors - is that I’m starting to make modest inroads with people in and adjacent to the #HarrisForPresident campaign. This is a painstaking process, lots of emails, calls, texts, everybody sounding each other out. 1/


Facing NGC 6946

Image Credit & Copyright: Roberto Marinoni

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240726.ht… #APOD

#APOD


Northwest Africa (NWA) 2224 Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2hz6gNX

#meteorite

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"Needle in the Hay Sense-Making - Drs. M.S. DeLay & A.V. Bendebury DSPod 267"

youtube.com/watch?v=UfkGXVawFD…



Not necessarily my choice, but it would really mess with heads!


Make these as nap spots for humans, and we've got a winner!



LIVE SOON: We're right near the end of Metal Wolf Chaos XD but I forgot to pick the next game so lets find out together after this mission youtube.com/watch?v=TtjR5snyLf…


Since I am not about to blast unsubstantiated claims to several hundreds of thousands of OSNews readers, can someone take a look at this Jira ticket for ReactOS and share what they think?

The creator of the ticket claims ReactOS is using code taken straight from the leaked Windows NT4 code - as in, copy/pasted. I have no idea what to make of this.

jira.reactos.org/projects/CORE…

in reply to Maxi 11x 💉

It's always possible to have some one off contributors making changes that shouldn't be made, it's not necessarily a mark against the core team


NVIDIA Fully Adopts Open Source GPU Kernel Modules #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/6zNsR45RFPI


The editors of Scientific American pull no punches with this editorial in the fact-free, bad-faith rulings of this Supreme Court. scientificamerican.com/article…


This is pretty neat! Steam making demo releases behave essentially like F2P releases doesn't really erode space indies were leveraging. In fact it shoulders in on a space currently dominated by uhhhh mostly garbage.

#GameDev

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in reply to Megan Fox

I don’t understand what problem they are trying to solve.

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