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Substack tells writers Twitter "unexpectedly restricted access to embedding tweets"; Twitter seems to have disabled likes and RTs for tweets with Substack links (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

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in reply to Hourly Otters

a fluffy baby otter being held in someone's arms, looking up at the camera with big, shining eyes. One of its paws is up as if waving, showing its little footpads. It looks so cozy! #Alt4you




His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent

Link: inverse.com/input/features/tro…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…

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@jaybird110127 I read that article earlier today. Now I see that an ISO of the software was posted to archive.org. Going to download it, peek inside, and see if the customized DECtalk engine that the article talks about is a DLL, or statically linked into the executable.


Breaking news: For the first time since the Apollo era, NASA on Monday named a crew of astronauts for a lunar expedition. The astronauts will fly around the moon in a mission that would precede the first human landing there since 1972. wapo.st/3nvpCZZ #press


The Tor Project partners with VPN maker Mullvad to launch the Mullvad browser, available on Windows, macOS, and Linux, seeking to reduce a user's "fingerprint" (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

theverge.com/2023/4/3/23665477…
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First 2023 translation workshop from the pt_BR team debianbrasil.org.br/blog/first…


MiniDebConf Brasília 2023 - de 25 a 27 de maio debianbrasil.org.br/blog/minid…


Show HN: Coursemate, connect with other self learners

Link: coursem8.com/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…



Some signatories of the open letter to pause AI training walk back their positions, others turned out to be fake, and many experts disagree with its proposal (Chloe Xiang/VICE)

vice.com/en/article/qjvppm/the…
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Bloomberg sponsors curl with 10K USD
url: mastodon.social/@bagder/110102…

discussions: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
48 minutes ago|26 points|3 comments

summary: Bloomberg has donated $10,000 to sponsor #curl, according to a tweet by daniel:// stenberg://.

#curl


Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?

CEO Eugen Rochko on running — and growing — a decentralized social network.



"Some fun facts about AI and a few thoughts about the software ecosystem trend" by M. Zhou (and info about the Debian Deep Learning team) lists.debian.org/debian-projec…


"Con 68 años comprándose a una niña como si fuera un juguete de Reyes": críticas a Ana Obregón tras hacerse con un bebé por vientre de alquiler publico.es/tremending/2023/03/… #External


Loblaws CEO blames record breaking profits on newfound popularity of food thebeaverton.com/2023/03/lobla…



chayote, painted by royal charles steadman, 1918


Why Engineers Need to Write

Link: developing.dev/p/why-engineers…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…




Banks as Collateral Damage in a Class War

Link: annpettifor.substack.com/p/ban…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…



New Debian Developers and Maintainers (January and February 2023) bits.debian.org/2023/03/new-de…



Zippyshare Quits After 17 Years, 45M Visits per Month Makes No Money

Link: torrentfreak.com/zippyshare-fi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…



25 Years of curl lwn.net/Articles/926560/ #LWN
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A group of librarians argue the Internet Archive is a library, saying that the four major publishers' lawsuit threatens the development of digital collections (Inside Higher Ed)

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This is a sure sign of northern hemisphere spring coming!


Researchers are sounding the alarm on the world’s first-known instance of real-world malware that can hijack a computer’s boot process even when Secure Boot and other advanced protections are enabled.
arstechnica.com/information-te…

#bot
Original tweet : nitter.pussthecat.org/arstechn…

#Bot



The Be My Eyes app for the visually impaired will integrate with GPT-4, which can inspect and describe images, through a new Virtual Volunteer feature (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

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Tá an Chúirt Bhreithiúnais ag lorg saoraistritheoirí chun téacsanna a aistriú go Gaeilge. Gach eolas anseo: curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1_2…
The Court of Justice is looking for freelance translators to translate texts into Irish. More information: curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1_2…



Vlajka pro Tibet

I tento rok vlaje na budově Krajského úřadu Středočeského kraje vlajka Tibetu jako připomínka 64. výročí tibetského povstání a zároveň snaha poukázat na porušování lidských práv.

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Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone

Link: wired.com/story/twitter-data-a…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…

#twitter



Rust 1.68.0 released lwn.net/Articles/925732/ #LWN
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