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Physicist John Tyndall is often credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3 years earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work. climate.gov/news-features/feat… #history #science #ClimateChange

Drawing of Eunice Newton Foote by Carlyn Iverson. Credit: NOAA Climate.gov. Foote's experiments with atmospheric gases and her insights about past climate were overlooked for more than a century.

Happy 200th birthday to Eunice Foote, hidden climate science pioneer

American Eunice Foote was an amateur scientist and women's rights pioneer from the mid-1800s whose experiments foreshadowed the discovery of Earth's greenhouse effect. 
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#history #climatechange #science #climate

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Kudos to @alecaddd and team for taking on the massive challenge of modernizing Thunderbird. Here's hoping it'll finally get a headerbar instead of the 6 toolbars, and real threading!

Your move, @libreoffice :)

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/t…


Why We're Rebuilding The Thunderbird Interface From Scratch

"Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?" Let's answer that burning question with some important history.
Alessandro Castellani (The Thunderbird Blog)
@LibreOffice @Aleca
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LibreOffice

We love improvements too – but our volunteers would appreciate a hand 😉 libreoffice.org/community/get-…

Get Involved | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

community, LibreOffice, office suite, free office suite, Document Foundation, get involved, opportunities, developers, testers, localizers, translators, documentation writers, users support, native-lang, designers, marketers, marketing, design, admin…
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Baudouin Feildel

and you did this while keeping the classical menu bar available 👌👏

@tbernard The process that Thunderbird is going through right now, Libre Office did it few years ago when taking over the OpenOffice codebase IMHO. Sure the design didn't really change at this time, but the internals did.

What is missing is a modern look to Libre Office, but the modernized UX is definitely here.

@Tobias Bernard

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If you are looking for open-source sampled instruments to use in your music, here's a great repository:
sfzinstruments.github.io/

They use the SFZ format which is the best way to make sampled instruments. It's open-source, easy to edit (all based on text + audio files) and well documented.

To use these instruments in Ardour or other DAWs I'd recommend the open-source plug-in sfizz:

sfz.tools/sfizz/

More about the SFZ format here:
sfzformat.com/

#MusicProduction #FOSS

Home - SFZTools

sfz.tools
#foss #musicproduction

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For me this is the last nail in the coffin for #Go.

I've never bought much into the language. I've been impressed by its constructs to natively manage and synchronize asynchronous operations, but its rigidity when it comes to programming paradigms (no proper object-oriented and functional constructs in the 21st century, seriously?) means that I see it as a language that seriously limits expressivity, and doomed to generate a lot of boilerplate. It's a language very good at solving the types of problem that are usually solved at Google (build and scale large services that process a lot of stuff in a way that the code looks the same for all the employees), and little more than that.

After #Rust really took off, I didn't see a single reason why someone would pick Go.

And now here we go with the last straw: Google has proposed to embed telemetry collection *into the language toolchain itself*. And, according to Google, it should be enabled by default (opt-out rather than opt-in), because, of course, if they make it an opt-in then not many people will explicitly enable a toggle that shares their source code and their usage of the compiler with one of today's biggest stalkers. If they make it an opt-out, well, many people won't even notice, and you can grab more data points from people, whether they know/like it or not.

If you build open-source projects in Go, it's time to drop it and start considering alternatives. The market for modern compiled language is much more competitive now than it was a decade ago. We knew already that we couldn't trust a programming language developed by the largest surveillance company on the planet.

theregister.com/2023/02/10/goo…


Google's Go may add telemetry that's on by default

Some devs object because they don't trust Mountain View
Thomas Claburn (The Register)
#rust #go

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This is today's watch. It has to be – the date is broken, and it only shows 11, so it only makes sense today.

It's not winning any beauty contests. The dial has a nice texture, but the hands are nowhere near the markers, and the date window is nowhere near the indexes. Not a surprise, if you look inside. And with these long lugs it somehow manages to wear a little big, despite being classically sized.

It came to me with a bracelet, and I lasted maybe 2 minutes with it. It's an excellent hair removal tool, so it went back to the box of crappy parts, making room for this leather strap. Now it looks somewhat nice, if you squint a little.

Seems like it's overdue for service for decades, the amplitude (at a glance) is probably around half of what it should be. Somehow manages to keep decent time though.

Rectangular-ish gold-ish Slava, 21-jewel manually wound movement
The movement of the watch, quite a bit smaller than the case, padded with a plastic spacer.
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Just finished watching this almost an hour long video doing a deep dive into the music and sounds of Wario Land 4 on the GBA and holy crap this game has so many cool audio things going on in it. youtube.com/watch?v=G6ih-1kP6D…

The Bizarre Music and Sound Design of Wario Land 4

homepage: https://geno7.neocities.orgtweeter: https://twitter.com/geno7_geno7 fun club: https://www.patreon.com/geno7webcomic: https://ruthanddianne.comalbum...
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Mastodon v4.1.0 got released today!
Some awesome additions that people have been after for a while now:
- Add support for importing/exporting server-wide domain blocks
- Ensure exact match is the first result in hashtag searches
- Add support for editing media description and focus point of already-sent posts
- Add listing of followed hashtags

And the list of fixes inbound with this version is monstrous.

This is great to see, but please keep in mind that your particular instance will need to be updated to this version so not all instances will update at the same time.

Some apps may also need to be updated in order to support these new features.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…

#Mastodon #Update #MastodonTips #FediTips


Release v4.1.0 · mastodon/mastodon

Changelog Added Add support for importing/exporting server-wide domain blocks (enbylenore, ClearlyClaire, dariusk, ClearlyClaire) Add listing of followed hashtags (connorshea) Add support for edit...
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#Mastodon #FediTips #mastodontips #update

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More dark mode and compatibility improvements are coming to #LibreOffice, thanks to the work of our QA team! Here's their summary from January: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org…

QA/Dev Report: January 2023 - LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities LibreOffice 7.4.5 was announced on January 26 Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode support, made the BASIC code editor warn in case of read-only modules and dialogs and made it possible to toggle the display of section boundar…
x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
#libreoffice

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If you've been waiting for full-text #search on #Mastodon, please go to #TootFinder and sign in. The more the merrier.
tootfinder.ch/

Thanks to @buercher for building it.

It's opt-in, not opt-out. It respects Mastodon culture and doesn't index accounts that don't sign in.

That means the index might be small if we don't spread the word.

#mastotips #feditips

Tootfinder

www.tootfinder.ch
#Mastodon #mastotips #FediTips #search #tootfinder @Matthias Bürcher
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Coming up live at 01:00 UTC (8:00 PM Eastern, 5:00 Pacific in the Americas) onThe Global Voice Internet Radio: an hour of Smooth Jazz, Chillout, and Easy Listening music on Smooth and Easy with Kelly Sapergia. More information about the show is at ksapergia.net/smooth. Tune in at theglobalvoice.info and click on the Listen Live link, or put the following URL in your favorite media player: theglobalvoice.info:8000/broad… #audio

Smooth and Easy

If you need to take it easy after a busy day, but don’t want to fall asleep, then Smooth and Easy is the show for you. It features an hour of the best Smooth Jazz, Chillout, and Easy Listenin…
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#audio

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De puro coraje y tomando un soplo de inspiración divina puse en una entrada de #blog las cosas por las que creo que #slack es #software 💩. ¿A ustedes se les ocurre alguna otra? blog.categulario.xyz/slack-es-…

Too much of a free spirit - Slack es mal software

Bitácora del programador feliz, el matemático enamorado, y el montañista empedernido.
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#blog #software #slack

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Pencils and pens look very old as well. That's because they dither very slightly around an evolved functional shape that happens to be quite simple.

I'm glad that I can choose whether to "enjoy" having the shape of my tools arbitrarily rearranged. I don't need to have scrollbars shrunk, whitespace added, tail fins, uncomfortably skinny jeans, optical function of glasses shrunk, etc.

But even so, please don't confuse fashion accessories with tools, #Thunderbird

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0…


Mozilla plans ground-up UI redesign for Thunderbird email client this July

"Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?"
Ars Technica
#thunderbird
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Doug Bostrom

@thunderbird

Oh, and I almost forgot: thank you also for Thunderbird! It makes our organizational days vastly more efficient.

Now I'm going to go hit below, not transactionally but because this was an elliptical reminder. :-)

give.thunderbird.net/en-US/


Give to Thunderbird | Give to Thunderbird

I gave to @mozthunderbird today to #freetheinbox. Join me to support communication privacy.
Give to Thunderbird
@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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Librsvg 2.55.91 is out! This is the beta release before GNOME 44.

* Support "turn" units for <angle> values.
* Support the feDropShadow element.
* Fix a panic in filters.
* Tons of documentation updates.

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg…


2.55.91 - development · GNOME / librsvg · GitLab

The minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is 1.64, because of the gtk-rs update.
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Y'all. Please fund my shit so I can spin up the second-best instance (PV is obviously the first LOL) and get my team back together.

Hell, I'll even hard-fork Masto myself if we hit the first milestone.

I am 4k away. Let's make this happen.

patreon.com/Are0h


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Neuestes #GrapheneOS Release:
"add toggle to Settings ➔ Location for force disabling SUPL as a carrier-independent replacement for editing APN configuration since editing APN configuration is unintuitive, not fully respected on Tensor SoC devices and users with no carrier should be able to disable it without using airplane mode" 🤗👍

grapheneos.org/releases#202302…


GrapheneOS releases

Official releases of GrapheneOS, a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
GrapheneOS
#grapheneos
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@MichaelZ @Bubu Das hat @kuketzblog schon vor 5 Jahren hier beschrieben: kuketz-blog.de/android-imsi-le… – und 1 Jahr später nochmal in Punkt 2.4 hier: kuketz-blog.de/android-systeme…

Android: IMSI-Leaking bei GPS-Positionsbestimmung

Nach dem Beitrag »Android: Google erfährt Identität und Standort bei aktivem GPS« waren viele Fragen offen und einige Leser verunsichert. Um der Sache auf den…
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@Bubu @Kuketz-Blog 🛡 @MichaelZ
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

Comments evolve. Der Toggle wird bald ein 3-way-toggle:

"We now have a SUPL TLS proxy, although it hasn't yet been tested with the OS […]
We'll be removing our force disable toggle for SUPL and replacing it with a 3 state toggle between GrapheneOS, Standard (carrier/fallback) and Disabled where GrapheneOS is the default […]"

github.com/GrapheneOS/platform…


add a setting for forcibly disabling SUPL by muhomorr · Pull Request #325 · GrapheneOS/platform_frameworks_base

Contribute to GrapheneOS/platform_frameworks_base development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Upgrade your Librem 5’s WiFi/Bluetooth module with the new SparkLAN M.2 module.

This is the module we are now shipping with all Librem 5s.

Read more about this change in this blog post.

puri.sm/posts/shipping-new-spa…

Shipping new SparkLAN Wifi cards with Librem 5 – Purism

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

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evangelical Christian subculture

This song from my past, from a subculture I am no longer part of, popped into my head a few minutes ago: "Runaway Train" by Marty Magehee youtube.com/watch?v=D2AYsx2LJ2…

I feel like a lot of this song, apart from the overtly religious stuff that really starts in the bridge, expresses a common sentiment of reactionaries of all types. Some of it even echoes feelings about the runaway complexity of software that we see so much in online discourse.


8. Runaway Train | OPEN | Marty Magehee

Used with permission.LYRICS:THE SECOND HAND IS SPINNIN'FEELS LIKE TIME IS SLIPPIN'DRIPPIN' THROUGH OUR FINGERSWE'RE MOVIN' AND WE'RE SHAKIN'BLESSED TIES WE'R...
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