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edit: resp. som to nemal povolené ale ináč to vidím iba posledných pár dní

why is the sky a SPHERE???

why do I have to know SPHERICAL GEOMETRY?????

we should live in a CUBE. a CUBE is a nice, sensible shape! flat planes are EASY.

this has been the latest in my series of rants about how astronomy is unnecessarily hard, tune in next week for "why does everything have to be MOVING all the time"

edited to add necessary context: I am a professional astronomer

(Update: I previously said “mailing lists” but very little of the recent report concerns itself with email. The point still stands.)

There is a point getting lost in the noise of the Stallman thing which I’d like to highlight, in the hopes of helping reply guys understand why they’re receiving such a furious response to what they believe is a principled defense of open debate:

The events where Stallman was obnoxious were *for free software projects*. That is to say, a *professional context*.

#SKpolitika, verzia "posledne slovo #BraňoBezák" + #HowItStartedVsHowItsGoing:

1/2

How it started: "Programové vyhlásenie tejto vlády sa volá: Lepšie, pokojnejšie a bezpečne žiť."

dennikn.sk/4252319/newsfilter-…

Newsfilter: Správu o atentáte objednal Fico, píše ju Gašpar. Aký asi bude výsledok?

1. Minister vnútra jedno nedorozprával, druhé odpinkal. 2. Ficova bilancia sa len zhoršuje. 3. Načo sú nám ícečká, keď budú lietadlá? 

^{Tomáš Gális (Denník N)}

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Absolutely wild how many companies are adopting AI notetaking apps for meetings.

Y'all'er just chill sending your planning, product direction and revenue details to some random third party in exchange for them doing the low value task of halfassing note taking for you?

There’s a lot of complexity around what open means and how that intersects with AI, but from a reputational and consistency perspective I really can’t get over this 👇🏽 for the current draft of the OSI AI definition.
mastodon.social/@odoruhako/113…

pedestrian cyclist

2024-10-15 19:08:59

Great. I'm looking forward to the next generation of open source hardware drivers and the "detailed descriptions of all contained binary blobs". 🤡

Just read the OSI "Open Source AI Definition" (opensource.org/deepdive/drafts…)
It's basically pointless but the best part is:
Data information needs to include: "a detailed description of all data used for training, including (if used) of unshareable data"

My man. If the data to train the model is unshareable meaning I cannot get it to reproduce your binary/model, your system _is not open source_.

Hey fedi, let's play a new(?) game! It's called "Stories That Could Have Happened".

The game: Someone picks a phenomenon, a saying, an event, or something else, where we don't actually know for sure how it happened or came to exist, and then we collectively write a Story That Could Have Happened about its origins! It doesn't need to be true or based on history!

There are only a few base rules, to keep it fun and non-confrontational for everybody:
1. You can either post a top-level reply to start a new story about the topic, or reply to someone else to continue on their story chain so far.
2. If you reply to someone else, you must either add to it or refine it with more nuance - you cannot outright contradict their post!
3. Posting with public visibility is encouraged, but make sure to add the #StoriesThatCouldHaveHappened hashtag, so that people can mute it if they want.
4. Keep your post short, and leave enough room for the next person to build on it.

So, anyone up for playing? 🙂 Let's start with this topic:

"Turning lead into gold"

Where did the idea come from?

Extraños tiempos estos.

Es normal una cohabitación entre ambas cámaras, con sus choques, pero hay que cumplir unas normas.

O bien el servicio jurídico y el presidente del Senado han prevaricado al permitir que se "vetase" una norma a destiempo, o bien el servicio jurídico y el presidente del Congreso han prevaricado al enviar una norma "vetada" al BOE.

No creo que ninguno rinda cuentas.
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I'm noticing a pattern here...

#privacy #chrome

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today? Sure! 10 updated and 1 added apps for you:

* Install with Options: more advanced app installs without needing to use ADB (using Shizuku) 🛡️

Number of apps with #reproducibleBuilds is up to 289 (or 23.8% out of 1.213 apps altogether) now.

At apt.izzysoft.de/magisk today 2 #Magisk #modules were updated and 1 added:

* Enable Blurs: enable more extensive blur effects

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repos

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Free idea for anyone who wants it:

True crime podcast but instead of murders etc. it's just a long string of white collar crime that no one has bothered prosecuting.

• Wage theft
• Cooking books by doing layoffs
• Cooking books by canning projects that could earn back their cost
• Paying no tax by claiming your business is based in some random location with low-to-no effective tax rate

You could keep a podcast filled for years with illegal union busting.

SNCF, you’ve lost it. Really. There wasn’t just 1 but 3 guys warning about lost luggage

WHY?

SNCF is screaming it’s short of cash. Last time I needed to go to the ticket office here at Nord the wait was AN HOUR

And you’re using money on this shit?

The U.S. Library of Congress has an open fully-remote position for a DevOps engineer:

usajobs.gov/job/813930400

#GetFediHired cc: @jobs

See this for federal resume advice: bsky.app/profile/harrisj.bsky.…

IT Specialist (DevOps System Administrator)

This position is located in the DevOps Section, Software Engineering Division, IT Design and Development Directorate, Office of the Chief Information Officer. 

^USAJOBS

It's amazing to see the groupthink among dipshits.

Look at this donkey's chorus of billionaire-worshippers filling my mentions with the word "cope" over and over again, evidently in the belief that it will pierce and wound me beyond recovery.

(it's re: this: twitter.com/doctorow/status/18…)

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What is the most inappropriate connector with enough pins to support USB-C?

I suggest:

Space, the final frontier. Our solar system is in space, right? This BBC series gets into the nitty gritty of Earth, asteroids, moons and the other planets near us. Maybe it doesn't sound like edge of your seat stuff but Brian Cox does his best to keep your attention. Cox simplifies complicated concepts while he tries to figure out how life began here while postulating about where else life could be found. BBC 2 on iPlayer.

#tv #space #science #astronomy

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023884

BBC Two - Solar System, Series 1, Volcano Worlds

Professor Brian Cox explores planets and moons erupting with fire and ice.

^BBC

„Wir appellieren an die Ampel, mit einem positiven und solidarischen Gesellschaftsentwurf gegen Hass und rechte Narrative anzutreten, anstatt diese auch noch in Gesetzesform zu gießen. Lediglich als Echokammer für Faschisten zu dienen, darf nicht der Anspruch einer als Fortschrittskoalition angetretenen Regierung sein.“

In einer gemeinsamen Stellungnahme erklärt das Bündnis #GesichtserkennungStoppen das sogenannte Sicherheitspaket zum Totalausfall.

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> ${COMPANY} has seized the ${COMMUNITY} Slack. Join us on the new ${COMMUNITY} Slack.

I wonder what could go wrong next!