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Today is nonidi, 9 Messidor in year CCXXXII of the Republic. Today is dedicated to Absinthe.


How Google and others have carefully rewritten their terms and conditions to include words like AI, as tech companies look to train their AI models on user data (Eli Tan/New York Times)

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TIL: This year Arizona signed a bill making Pluto the official state planet. Arizona legislators said Pluto was downgraded due to jealous Europeans. Arizona discovered it whereas all prior planets were discovered by Europeans. The bill was a bipartisan effort.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/06/1243230463/pluto-was-discovered-at-an-arizona-observatory-it-might-be-named-the-…
#til #todayilearned
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table-transformer - Table Transformer (TATR) is a deep learning model for extracting tables from unstructured documents (PDFs and images). This is also the official repository for the PubTables-1M dataset and GriTS evaluation metric. github.com/microsoft/table-tra…


Looking for the artwork for Trixie the next Debian release bits.debian.org/2024/06/trixie…


Konec dobíhání autobusů a čekání na zastávkách. V Česku se rozjíždí „MHD na míru“

Startup Citya zavádí nový typ veřejné dopravy – lidé si pomocí aplikace objednají mikrobus, který je zaveze, kam potřebují. A za téměř stejné peníze jako stojí jízdenka na MHD. Koncept se ujal v Česku i zahraničí.

ecoista.cz/konec-dobihani-auto…

in reply to Kolotipy.cz

Ta case study v Ricanech ten celej koncept pomerne dobre vystihuje. Mesicni prijmy 24k, to je min nez pulka platu jednoho ridice.

Kdyz jezdi 4h denne (mimo vikendu) a mesto prispeje na benzin, tak to nejak fungovat muze, no.

Ale Pepa se nesmi hodit marod.



CISA confirms hackers may have accessed data from chemical facilities during January incident

The agency found no evidence that hackers exfiltrated information but noted the intrusion “may have resulted in the potential unauthorized access”...

🔗️ [Therecord] link.is.it/ageimw



Linux 6.10-rc5 Released With This Kernel Cycle Looking Good So Far

Linus Torvalds has just tagged Linux 6.10-rc5 as the newest weekly test release leading up to the Linux 6.10 stable release by mid-July...
phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-r…



Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility project

There's incredibly good news for people who use accessibility tools on Linux, but who were facing serious, gamebreaking problems when trying to use Wayland. Matt Campbell, of the GNOME accessibility team, has been hard at work on an entirely new accessibility architecture for modern free desktops, and he's got some impre

osnews.com/story/139996/update…

#Wayland

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Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy
nature.com/articles/s41586-024…
#ycombinator


The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets

Link: righto.com/2024/06/montreal-mi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…



Recherche d'un thème pour Trixie, la prochaine version de Debian bits.debian.org/2024/06/trixie…


Recherche d'un thème pour Trixie, la prochaine version de Debian bits.debian.org/2024/06/trixie…




Flathub Has Now Served More Than Two Billion Downloads For Flatpaks

Flathub as the centralized repository for serving Flatpak sandboxed Linux applications crossed the threshold this weekend of serving more than two billion downloads...
phoronix.com/news/Flathub-Two-…



Bianchi uvádí na trh e-Oltre: 11kg elektrokolo, které se chová jako "skutečné silniční kolo" (říká Bianchi) road.cc/content/tech-news/bian…
in reply to Kolotipy.cz

Tak to je síla, jen 11 kg. To už je pecka. Ani skoro není poznat, že je to elektro.


Looking for the artwork for Trixie the next Debian release bits.debian.org/2024/06/trixie…



Wealthy Canadians announce BMW X3 convoy to protest capital gains tax hike thebeaverton.com/2024/06/wealt…



Nintendo Takedown Wipes “Rhythm Heaven” Remix Tool & 250+ Forks Off GitHub torrentfreak.com/nintendo-take…


All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup of DNA in MIT's Jurassic Park Project - xatakaon.com/research/all-the-…

#hackernews

in reply to HackNews Bot

imagen if your hdds, and ssds were made out of dna? how many pettabytes or more of content you could put in it?


150 sheep slaughtered & distributed to those in need in S'pore for Hari Raya, first in 11 years
mothership.sg/2024/06/150-shee…


Sovereign Tech Fund Opens Up To Smaller Investments & Updated Criteria

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has been making sizable investments into various Linux desktop projects, the Rust-based Coreutils implementation, libmicrohttpd, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and other prominent open-source software that could benefit from greater financial resources. Today they have announced they have opened up for a new round of applications for tho…
phoronix.com/news/Sovereign-Te…



TIL Judith Love Cohen was American aerospace engineer who helped create the Abort-Guidance System that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. When she went into labor, she took a printout of her problem to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished it before giving birth to actor Jack Black.

kottke.org/19/05/meet-aerospac…
#til #todayilearned
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Flesh-Eating Bacteria That Can Kill in Two Days Spreads in Japan - Bloomberg reports:

A disease caused by a rare "flesh-eating bacteria" that can k... - science.slashdot.org/story/24/… #japan



How disabled people use Apple Vision Pro for work, entertainment, and more, and interviews with some disabled Apple staff who built the accessibility features (Andrew Leland/New York Magazine)

nymag.com/intelligencer/articl…
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#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 05 - The Web

JENNA: You should never have brought her on the ship.
AVON: [To Vila as he enters] And where have you been hiding?

blake.torpidity.net/m/105/93 B7B1



TIL theft is so rare in Japan that people often use wallets, purses, laptops or phones to save their seats in cafes and public places, leaving them unattended while they go buy food or go to the bathroom.

soranews24.com/2017/09/26/the-…
#til #todayilearned
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TIL in the audio universe, AM/FM radio is still by far the top medium in the US with a monthly reach of 91% of adults (18+). Followed by YouTube Music with 29% and Spotify with 25%.

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#til #todayilearned
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Apple developer documentation: macOS 15 Sequoia will let virtual machine users sign into iCloud and Apple ID-related services, which was previously not possible (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…
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Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party Lose EU Parliament Seats

Link: stackdiary.com/patrick-breyer-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…



LaTeX is the first PDF/UA-2 compliance accessible PDF producer

Link: github.com/latex3/tagging-proj…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


in reply to Deutschlandfunk (inoffiziell)

Als ein deutscher Nazi in #Hanau 2020 zehn Menschen ermordete, ging der Karneval ganz normal weiter. Im Bundestag wurde sogar am Tag danach gefeiert.
Ich würde gerne glauben, dass wir als Gesellschaft dazugelernt haben und die jetzt in #Mannheim gezeigte Anteilnahme nichts mit #Rassismus zu tun hat.

Nur sehe ich sehr wenig #Trauer und #Humanität, sondern vor allem die vollkommen unangemessene Betonung der Herkunft des Täters.

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