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i don’t think i’ll ever understand monads even though I literally spent years studying category theory in grad school but I really liked this paper “What we talk about when we talk about monads” tomasp.net/academic/papers/mon…

I love that it talks about cases where monads have been misapplied and the social aspects of how they’re used

(please do not try to explain monads to me and please no links to your favourite monad explanation)

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@Jason J.G. White @Leianora Bluetooth 5.2 brings audio related improvements such as two way audio and better latency however I think we need to wait a bit in order this to propagate into the main stream electronics. If it indeed exists I'd even like wired bone conduction headphones but I can't find one these days.
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Folks, @conservancy 's got 10 days left on our match challenge and $40k to raise. It would be so sad to leave so much money on the table for software freedom.

We work hard and get real, concrete results: we're establishing a legal right to request source code on copylefted code. We give paid internships to folks that need them most. We educate students. We support free software developers. We advocate for this cause with our hearts and souls.

Please spread the word. sfconservancy.org/sustainer/


Support Conservancy!

Software freedom is critical to many of today’s most pressing social issues, but it’s only effective when FOSS is for everyone. Support Conservancy today to help make that happen!
Software Freedom Conservancy
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🆕 Máme nový podcast (kdo ne, co? 😏)
💡 Koncept: Probrat s podnikateli, jak vydělali svoje první peníze, jak se vůbec k podnikání dostali, jak začínali. A uzavřít to tím byznysem, který mají dnes.

Ochutnejte a dejte vědět, jestli to nějak rezonuje 🙏

👇 0. díl 👇

Apple Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/robotí-podcast/id1722596929

Spotify
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…

Overcast
overcast.fm/itunes1722596929

Youtube
youtu.be/T9xJkplkCjk?si=AJ0_xu…


Robotí podcast • A podcast on Spotify for Podcasters

Tam, kde ostatní podcasty o podnikání začínají, my končíme :-) Honza Korbel a Lukáš Konarovský, zakladatelé Fakturoidu, si povídají se zajímavými lidmi z českého byznysu, kteří vzpomínají na to, jak vypadaly skutečné začátky jejich podnikání: první n…
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Pepo, nemeli bysme to poslat na korekturu, nez to pujde do tisku?

Aaale prosimte, je to na 100.0000% uplne v pohode.

Dnes jsem zjistil spoustu zajimavych veci:
🎯 Co se deje v Liberci v lednu
🎯 Ze tistenou verzi Zivy Liberec nekdo sazi do tisku rucne (v databazi ten preklep neni)
🎯 A ted navic zjistim, kolik lidi ty tistene odkazy pouziva.

Stalo me to skoro 300 Kc, ale nelituju ani halire!

#liberec #kultura

Foto pruvodce Ziva Kultura v Liberci. Detail na url www.palac-liebeg.cz
#liberec #kultura

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World Braille Day 2024 habengirma.com/2024/01/04/worl…

World Braille Day 2024

It’s World Braille Day! A blind teacher named Louis Braille created this tactile reading system, and now his birthday, January 4, is a day to celebrate this marvelous way to read! Braille exists in multiple languages, and I recently had the honor …
Haben Girma

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Strategies for the free fediverses

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The fediverse is evolving into different regions

- "Meta's fediverses", federating with Meta to allow communications, potentially using services from Meta such as automated moderation or ad targeting, and potentially harvesting data on Meta's behalf.

- "free fediverses" that reject Meta – and surveillance capitalism more generally

The free fediverses have a lot of advantages over Meta and Meta's fediverses, some of which will be very hard to counter, and clearly have enough critical mass that they'll be just fine.

Here's a set of strategies for the free fediverses to provide a viable alternative to surveillance capitalism. They build on the strengths of today's fediverse at its best – including natural advantages the free fediverses have that Threads and Meta's fediverses will having a very hard time countering – but also are hopefully candid about weaknesses that need to be addressed. It's a long list, so I'll be spreading out over multiple posts; this post currently goes into detail on the first two.

- Opposition to Meta and surveillance capitalism is an appealing position. Highlight it!

- Focus on consent (including consent-based federation), privacy, and safety

- Emphasize "networked communities"

- Support concentric federations of instances and communities

- Consider "transitively defederating" Meta's fediverses (as well as defederating Threads)

- Consider working with people and instances in Meta's fediverses (and Bluesky, Dreamwidth, and other social networks) whose goals and values align with the free fediverses'

- Build a sustainable ecosystem

- Prepare for Meta's (and their allies') attempts to paint the free fediverses in a bad light

- Reduce the dependency on Mastodon

- Prioritize accessibility, which is a huge opportunity

- Commit to anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, and pro-LGBTQIA2S+ principles, policies, practices, and norms for the free fediverses

- Organize!

#fediverse #freefediverse #threads @fediverse @fediversenews


Strategies for the free fediverses

How to leverage the free fediverses' many advantages?
Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)
#fediverse #threads #freefediverse @Fediverse News @Fediverse
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The Nexus of Privacy

The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances

Part 4 of Strategies for the Free Fediverses

privacy.thenexus.today/the-fre…

Here's how @zkat describes caracoles: "you essentially ask to join concentric federations of instances ... with smaller caracoles able to vote to federate with entire other caracoles."

And @ophiocephalic's "fedifams" are a similar idea: "Communities could align into fedifams based on whatever conditions of identity, philosophy or interest are relevant to them. Instances allied into fedifams could share resources and mutually support each other in many way"

The idea's a natural match for community-focused, anti-surveillance capitalism free fediverses, fits in well with the Networked Communities model discussed in part 3, and helps address scalability of consent-based federation discussed in Part 2.

privacy.thenexus.today/the-fre…

#fediverse #fedipact #threads @fediversenews @fediverse


The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances

Part 4 of Strategies for the free fediverses
Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)
#fediverse #fedipact #threads @Kat Marchán 🐈 @ophiocephalic 🐍 @Fediverse News @Fediverse
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The Nexus of Privacy

The free fediverses should make it easier to move between (and create) instances

Part 5 of Strategies for the Free Fediverse

privacy.thenexus.today/make-it…

There's likely to be a lot of moving between instances as people and instances sort themselves out into the free fediverses and Meta's fediverses -- and today, moving accounts on the fediverse today. There are lots of straightforward ways to improve it, many of which don't even require improvements to the software. And there are also opportunities to make creating, customizing, and connecting instances easier.

#fediverse #fedipact #threads @fediversenews


The free fediverses should make it easier to move between (and create) instances

Part 5 of Strategies for the free fediverses
Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)
#fediverse #fedipact #threads @Fediverse News

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What I love about #ThreeBody is that it shows countries around the world working together with China to defeat this threat. They are all equals in this conflict. There was a conversation between our main lead with one of the leaders of a European nation which I found moving. It showed that they were both humans with loved ones to protect.
I have real worries that Netflix adaptation would forgo this cooperative element and paint some countries as baddies.

#CDrama #CDramas #TV

#tv #CDrama #CDramas #threebody

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LibreOffice documentation updates! Our Czech localisation community has finished translating the Impress Guide 7.5, covering the presentation component of the suite: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Czech Impress Guide 7.5 cover

Czech translation of LibreOffice Impress Guide 7.5 - The Document Foundation Blog

Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes: The Czech team has finished its translation of the LibreOffice Impress Guide 7.5.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource

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Element X může zlepšit vaši komunikaci na serveru Mxchat s funkcí Sliding Sync. 🚀
Sliding Sync: Element X přináší funkci Sliding Sync, která vám umožňuje synchronizovat vaše zprávy rychleji a efektivněji než kdy předtím. To znamená, že váš chat bude rychlejší a plynulejší. Po aktualizaci je již povolena záloha chatu: můžete obnovit předchozí historii zpráv. 🧵 1/3
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This is crazy. Stable diffusion created a verification image of someone doing their KYC for a bank or similar. AI will impact Know-Your-Customer identity verification processes. As AI makes it easier & cheaper to impersonate someone’s likeness and identity markers (often found in a breach) it will become simpler for attackers to takeover accounts and steal money, data, impact brands, etc.
This is crazy. Stable diffusion created a verification image of someone doing their KYC for a bank or similar. AI will impact Know-Your-Customer identity verification processes. As AI makes it easier & cheaper to impersonate someone’s likeness and identity markers (often found in a breach) it will become simpler for attackers to takeover accounts and steal money, data, impact brands, etc.

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“By wastewater levels, JN.1 is now associated with the second-biggest wave of infections in the [US] in the pandemic, after Omicron. We have lost the ability to track the actual number of infections since most people either test at home or don’t even test at all, but the very high wastewater levels of the virus indicate about 2 million Americans are getting infected each day.”

The U.S. is facing the biggest COVID wave since Omicron. Why are we still playing make-believe?
latimes.com/opinion/story/2024…


Opinion: In 2024, why are we still playing make-believe about COVID?

Thanks to the newly dominant strain JN.1, about 2 million Americans are getting infected each day.
Eric J. Topol (Los Angeles Times)

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Spanish novelist Benito Pérez Galdós died #OTD in 1920. He was the leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist. He came to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1912, but his anticlericalism caused him to be successfully boycotted by the most conservative sectors of Spanish society, represented in traditionalist Catholicism, who did not recognize his intellectual and literary value.
Benito Pérez Galdós By Pau Audouard Deglaire
Title cover of Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
#otd

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To je #nostalgie jak 🐖 , #Sandokan 😁
Kdo taky tenkrát koukal v TV?
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#seriály #70s #80s #series

Sandokan OFFICIAL Trailer | Featuring Kabir Bedi | Carole Andre | Adolfo Celi

Check out Sandokan OFFICIAL Trailer | Featuring Kabir Bedi | Carole Andre | Adolfo Celi -Sandokan is the story of an Asian pirate who fights the British Empi...
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#80s #series #Nostalgie #sandokan #serialy #70s

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We don’t plan to add the Copilot key to Framework Laptop keyboards. We’d rather give you Control.

"Microsoft’s new Copilot key is the first big change to Windows keyboards in 30 years"

theverge.com/2024/1/4/24023809…


Microsoft’s new Copilot key is the first big change to Windows keyboards in 30 years

Microsoft is bringing a Copilot key to new Windows-powered laptops and PCs. It’s the first big change to the Windows keyboard layout in nearly 30 years.
Tom Warren (The Verge)
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