How Futurists Envisioned the Future in the 1920s: Moving Walkways, Personal Helicopters, Glass-Domed Cities, Dream Recorders & More
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Many of us now in adulthood first came to know the nineteen-twenties as the decade our grandparents were born.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
A nine-month investigation undertaken by the Guardian, Die Zeit and SourceMaterial found that 90% of rainforest offsets from the world's biggest provider are worthless "phantom credits". Bought by the likes of Disney, Shell, easyJet and Gucci, it seems they may even do more harm to our environment than good.
Videos taken by residents in Peru showed forced evictions, and their homes cut down with chainsaws for an offset project.
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Investigation into Verra carbon standard finds most are ‘phantom credits’ and may worsen global heatingPatrick Greenfield (The Guardian)
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Applications for #Outreachy internships are open!
Outreachy is seeking interns for the May to Aug 2023 internship cohort. Read more: outreachy.org/blog/2023-01-16/…
GNOME is interested in sponsoring three projects this year, make sure to keep an eye out for our projects in early Feb.
An internship program that supports diversity in free and open source software. Learn more by visiting our website!www.outreachy.org
Marines tricked an Aai designed to detect humans by....not acting normal
This is an excerpt from Paul Scharre's upcoming book:
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I'm sharing my 2023-01 Krita brush bundle under CC-0/Public Domain, I hope you'll like them!
Blog post to download: davidrevoy.com/article953/krit…
Website of David Revoy (aka Deevad), artist and instructor using only Free/Libre and Open-Source software since 2009.David Revoy
Build fast web applications with Rust. Contribute to leptos-rs/leptos development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Looming Twitter interest payment leaves Musk with unpalatable options
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Purchased for $44 billion, company is likely worth as little as $15 billion today.Ars Technica
#Linux on the #desktop is becoming more #popular in my home town, but for the wrong reasons.
It's #poverty: many people have no money for a new #laptop or desktop. Their old #computers still work fine, but can't run the latest versions of #Windows.
We backup their data, install #LinuxMint, restore their data, install some extra programs, show them around and they're good to go.
Interestingly no one had problems making the switch so far. All quiet on the support front.
Thanks for compiling the list! This is very useful!
(Small typo: "there is no -128" - should be 128)
Building an Emacs lisp VM in Rust
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Updated: 2023-01-06 About a year ago I was bitten by the PL bug. It started with reading Crafting Interpreters and discovering the wonders hidden under the hood of a compiler.coredumped.dev
✔️ We all want individual freedom.
✔️ We all want peace of mind that we are safe
✔️ We want to control our own digital lives
✔️ We want to be free
Please boost, share and continue to support Purism's social mission.
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Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
A yellow kitchen in Dnipro, #Ukraine 🇺🇦 🏠.
Once a symbol of warmth and family, it now stands as a reminder of the devastating effects of Russian imperialism.
One day a little girl celebrated her birthday with her family in this kitchen. The next day, the kitchen and the family are no more, destroyed by Russian imperialism.
This is what Ukraine is standing up against. This is what we are all standing up against.
📸 © Getty, Yellow kitchen in Dnipro, Ukraine
#StandWithUkraine #EuropeanUnion #EU
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"The Venn Diagram of the Techbro": perhaps the most succinct summary of the paper.
A _very_ interesting and thorough report on toxicity in #OpenSource communities on #GitHub, including a few suggested avenues for improvements.
Let's all strive to do better.
#Community #OpenSourceBehaviours
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ChatGPT gets treated like technological magic, but that ignores the humans behind the curtain that make it function.
OpenAI paid Sama to hire Kenyan workers at $1.32 to $2 an hour to review “child sexual abuse, bestiality, murder, suicide, torture, self harm, and incest” content. Their work made the tool less toxic, but left them mentally scarred. The company ended the contract when they found out TIME was digging into their practices.
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OpenAI used outsourced workers in Kenya earning less than $2 per hour to scrub toxicity from ChatGPT. Here's what to know.Billy Perrigo (Time)
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Tesla engineer testified that promotional self-driving video was staged
This article shared a fun fact of Tesla
> When trying to show the Model X could park itself with no driver, a test car crashed into a fence in Tesla's parking lot, he said.
There are dozens of jokes that Bill Gates faced a Windows blue screen when he was promoting Microsoft. However, when similar things happened on cars, these stories are more scary, instead of being funny.
@zhenboli "that's why it's still in beta".
This is also why I'm horrified at self driving vehicles, even more when they are managed by this guy.
Everyone is talking about ChatGPT. We’ve asked the AI to explain why privacy matters! 😎
Read this essay to judge for yourself who is better at writing: You or the AI. 👇
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An essay on privacy written by ChatGPT. Find out who is the better writer: You or the AI.Tutanota
Apple is facing criticism online for offering poor Mac trade-in values following this week's launch of new MacBook Pro and Mac mini models. ...Sami Fathi (MacRumors.com)
With just two settings the LibreOffice UI can be adjusted to look almost similar to the Microsoft Office products.Claudio Kuenzler (Geeker's Digest)
Reading is what we do, and readability refers to qualities of a text that make reading easier. This includes content decisions, or format decisions, which help a reader to easily engage with and comprehend the message intended by the author.Google Fonts
Delivering incredible audio quality, enhanced Siri capabilities, and a safe and secure smart home experience.Apple
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Oh, yeah, ATK is still widely used. It was *the* accessibility library that was promoted back then as the way to make toolkits accessible.
LibreOffice, Firefox, and gnome-shell still use it, even though they don't use GTK.
A lot of accounts offering similar deals are still out there, and they seem to go under Twitter handles that are some sort of variation of “Pizza Plug.”Wyatt Marshall (VICE)
Maíra Canal just finished her #CodingExperience at @igalia and has written this very nice post about the awesome work she has done around IGT, the #v3d and #vc4 Kernel drivers and #Mesa3D
Zákazy jsou poměrně ostrý krok. Mně by pro začátek stačilo, kdyby objednávání vlakových jízdenek pro služební cesty nebylo výrazně složitější než objednávání letenek. Snad to na té univerzitě tak mají.
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Opatření univerzita vysvětluje menší ekologickou stopou železniční dopravy.Jan Sůra (Zdopravy.cz)
It's been a while, but yesterday we released Dendrite 0.10.9, containing our first Helm chart, several bug fixes and optimizations™
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Features Stale device lists are now cleaned up on startup, removing entries for users the server doesn't share a room with anymore Dendrite now has its own Helm chart Guest access is now handled c...GitHub
Měli spolek, ale chodili jim tam lidi. Velmi zajímavá argumentace Sokolem, napadá mě ještě mnoho dalších spolků v podobné situaci.
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Spolek PilsFree poskytuje internet 30 tisícům svých členů. Podle soudu spolkovou činnost jen simuluje, aby ušetřil na daních. Lupa prostudovala rozsudek plzeňského krajského soudu.Martin Drtina (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
PSA: Today Thunderbird 102.7.0 releases with a crucial change to how we handle #OAuth2 authorization with #Microsoft accounts. This may involve extra work for users currently using Microsoft-hosted accounts through their employer or educational institution.
READ MORE: blog.thunderbird.net/2023/01/i…
#Enterprise #Outlook #Exchange
In Thunderbird 102.7.0, there are changes to the way we handle OAuth2 authorization with Microsoft accounts. This may involve some extra work for users currently using Microsoft-hosted accounts through their employer or educational institution.Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
UPDATE:
We have delayed further rollout of Thunderbird 102.7.0 while a suitable patch is implemented to resolve a critical OAuth issue
If your client was already upgraded to 102.7.0 and you wish to use a previous version for the time being, please install and launch an older version, for example, 102.6. Thunderbird should automatically detect your existing profile.
However, you can launch the Profile Manager if needed by following these instructions: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/p…
Thunderbird stores your personal information and settings in a profile folder. Learn to work with different profiles on Thunderbird.support.mozilla.org
UPDATE:
A solution to the authentication issue will ship with version 102.7.1, releasing during the week of January 23.
Version 102.7.0 is now available for MANUAL download only, to allow unaffected users to choose to update and benefit from the fixes it delivers (thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderb…)
Please note that automatic updates are currently disabled, and users of Microsoft 365 Business are cautioned to not update.
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