Chinese Tech Terms Explained in English
Link: 16x.engineer/2022/10/18/chines…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Chinese Tech Terms Explained In English
Chinese tech companies like ByteDance and Tencent are setting up engineering offices outside China. Local hires in these global offices are becoming a norm.Zhu Liang
We've discussed the name squatting situation in our team meetings over the past weeks and concluded that it might be time for a crates.io policy update
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MiniDebConf Brasília 2023 - a brief report — Debian Brasil
From May 25th to 27th, Brasília hosted the MiniDebConf 2023. This gathering, composed of various activities such as talks, workshops, sprints, BSP (Bug Squashing Party), key signing, social events, and hacking, aimed to bring the communi...debianbrasil.org.br
BART ridership is still down nearly 70% from pre-Covid levels
Link: statecraft.beehiiv.com/p/publi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The Long Road to Public Transit Recovery
With Ridership Down 30+%, Agencies Must Adapt or Risk CollapseArman Madani (Statecraft by Arman Madani)
GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitch Deck Effectiveness
Link: clarifycapital.com/the-future-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen
Reddit is messaging moderators of communities that closed to protest its API changes. It says anyone “hindering” reopening can be replaced with someone willing to bring the subreddit back online.Jay Peters (The Verge)
Man locked out of smart home for a week after driver accuses him of being racist
Link: independent.co.uk/tech/smart-h…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Man locked out of smart home for a week after delivery driver accuses him of being racist
‘Unexpected and unwarranted’ exile began after Amazon driver misheard a response from a smart doorbellAnthony Cuthbertson (The Independent)
Registration and the Call for Proposals for DebConf23 are now open!
For DebConf23, we're pleased to announce opening of registration and call for proposal. Following is the info text - Registration and the Call for Proposals for DebConf23 are now open. The 24th edition of the Debian annual conference will be held...Debian Project
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Vzpoura na Redditu: fóra jsou nedostupná, uživatelé protestují proti zpoplatnění API
Modrátoři několika tisíc diskusních fór (patrně drtivé většiny) na sociální platformě Reddit uzamkli obsah svých tzv. subredditů uživatelům (fóra…David Slížek (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
Hello once again to musicians and music lovers of the fediverse!
Music has been written! Forms has been filled out! And deadlines have been reached!
A grand total of 43 songs participate in this #FediVision2023.
They can all be found in a playlist on the website, so you can go listen to them right now!
fedivision.party/
Further info on how voting works can be found in the next post and also here: fedivision.party/how-does-voti…
Let the listening begin!
Meta releases New SOTA Text to Music generator better than MusicLM
Link: ai.honu.io/papers/musicgen/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
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Some more of the cluster serving as the tier0 mirror for Debian images: mirror.accum.se/about/
The old numbers are rrd-wise smoothed too, so those are several hour averages for past years. The 5-minute peaks were closer to our capacity of 20Gbit/s.
Juliette Taka Belin | Juliette Taka's portfolio
Le portfolio de Juliette Taka, illustratrice et sketchnoteuse.www.juliettetaka.com
I've used debian since 2000 or 2001 or thereabouts and this is the first time I'm reading the release notes. 🙂
Before I've just winged it.
It could be that this not reading the release notes is a habit I acquired, because I stayed so many years on testing before I got my first stable upgrade...?
Amount of work that once bought an hour of light now buys 51 years of it (2017)
Link: washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/w…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from its unpopular API pricing changes - Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Reddit is ... - theverge.com/2023/6/7/23752804…
Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from its unpopular API pricing changes
Reddit is creating an exemption to its unpopular new API pricing terms for apps focused on accessibility. Blind users had protested the changes because they could harm apps that help them browse the site.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Apple releases a Game Porting Tool, based on open-source platform Wine, which can translate DirectX 12 into Metal 3, a potentially massive step for Mac gaming (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)
9to5mac.com/2023/06/06/macos-s…
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macOS Sonoma lets developers port Windows games to the Mac
macOS Sonoma lets developers port Windows games to the Mac, here's how it worksFilipe Espósito (9to5mac)
HBO Max new Captcha system
Link: twitter.com/wondermeg_/status/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
La izquierda resiste gracias a los nacionalistas
En lo que es la unidad de referencia de análisis primario, las siete ciudades, el PP es la primera fuerza en cinco, pero solo gobernará en Ferrol. Su otra posibilidad es Ourense, vía ‘Grosse Koalition’ctxt.es | Contexto y Acción
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (March and April 2023)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: James Lu (jlu) Hugh McMaster (hmc) Agathe Porte (gagath) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Soren Stoutner Matthij…Debian Project
In an attempt to enforce Prohibition, the Prohibition Bureau began adding poison to industrial alcohol to prevent its consumption, killing between 10,000 and 50,000 people. This was supported by people like Wayne Wheeler, who argued that the victims had...
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proxmox Platinum Sponsor of DebConf23
We are pleased to announce that Proxmox has committed to sponsor DebConf23 as a Platinum Sponsor. Proxmox develops powerful, yet easy-to-use open-source server software.Debian Project
Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages
Link: github.com/facebookresearch/fa…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
fairseq/examples/mms at main · facebookresearch/fairseq
Facebook AI Research Sequence-to-Sequence Toolkit written in Python. - fairseq/examples/mms at main · facebookresearch/fairseqGitHub
Infomaniak First Platinum Sponsor of DebConf23
We are pleased to announce that Infomaniak has committed to sponsor DebConf23 as a Platinum Sponsor. Infomaniak is a key player in the European Cloud and the leading developer of Web technologies in Switzerland. It aims to be an independent European.Debian Project
Fedivision Song Contest, the annual event where (amateur) musicians from all around the fediverse compete, is about to kick off! It's 2023, it's our third Fedivision, and we can't wait to hear what you all come up with!
Please follow the official bot @fedivision, watch for #fedivision and #fedivision2023 and head over to fedivision.party for all the info!
And start your music production engines - now!
Please note: Fedivision Song Contest is for previously unpublished, original songs.
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Love the concept, still adapting to the execution.
This will probably only reach the void but: is there a community for professional chemists or laboratory workers like r/chempros or r/labrats?
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