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Jeff Bezos Rowing Boat

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Fantastical for Windows has a lot of unlabeled buttons, checkboxes and links without text in its UI. I am hoping we can start to colaborate with the development team on this to make this an engaging platform for all users.

I mixed up my floppy notcher and my sim cutter but at least now my phone has 1.44mb of storage

People on the EN #Wikipedia keep editing the ill-fated communist leader Musso's name to be "Munawar Musso" or "Musso Munawar". (It's currently the latter.)

In any old newspapers from the 1920s-50s he was only ever Musso. The oldest appearance I can find online of "Munawar Musso" is from the World Marxist Review in English in the 1970s. In recent English and Indonesian books (2010s-2020s) he seems to be now referred to regularly as Munawar Musso.🤔
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musso

#Indonesia #Communism

black and white grainy newspaper photo, portrait of a 1940s Indonesian man with a bowtie and suit and slicked-back hair (the communist leader Musso)

Indonesian communist politician (1898-1948)

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#wikipedia #communism #indonesia

I am impressed at how #Apple’s #AIWritingTools re-worded my text messages into a “professional” voice.
Today 6:03 PM At what time do you intend to dine at Taco Tuesday? Which establishment have you selected? Are you aware that James has expressed a lack of interest in attending? I have devised a comprehensive plan. It is time to defecate.
#apple #aiwritingtools

Today is the 50th anniversary of women gaining the right to have mortgages, business loans and credit cards in their own names.

I am 47 years old. My mom did not have access to her own credit card without her husband or father's approval. People like to think that this stuff happened in the ancient past. It didn't. People you know were directly affected by anti-women systemic oppression.

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Hey fediverse, I'd like to become more active in something that is more meaningful than building webshops. Since I'm quite good with #computers I'm looking for stuff that combines #computing with #sustainability or #ecology, #restoration etc.

But I don't know what's out there and am not sure what exactly to look for, so I'm hoping for some fediverse magic.

Anything you have, articles, projects, etc. Would be cool if you boosted for reach.

#climatechhange #rewilding #permacomputing #tech

#sustainability #tech #computers #Ecology #computing #permacomputing #restoration #climatechhange #rewilding

IT ticket: Request for wired mouse.
Justification: The workstation lock policy is causing my wireless mouse to discharge too quickly.

IT: "The what now?"

Me: "The thing when my laptop locks if I step away for a few minutes, even though I work from home."

IT: "What does that have to do with your mouse."

Me: "The mouse jiggler I bought keeps my mouse continuously active, and sending all those packets takes power, and the battery runs down. You do know how batteries work, right?"

IT: ...

Trump, Fascism

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Apple order page: Two marketing points in spec list: • Apple Intelligence • Carbon Neutral

Rawr. 🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖

universal-blue.discourse.group…

#bluefin


Bluefin GTS is now based on Fedora 40

Bluefin GTS Guardians, today Bluefin GTS switched its base from Fedora 39 to Fedora 40. The team has been using F40 based builds throughout the last cycle, and we feel it’s mature and ready to serve you over the next six months.
Universal Blue
#bluefin
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Seirdy
Seirdy
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just in time for the original Fedora 41 early release date!

food, veg

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physical health +

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Seirdy
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physical health +

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Wish #AppleIntelligence didn't show summaries in the list of unread emails in Mail on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS? On iOS and iPadOS, you can turn this off by going to Settings > Apps > Mail and switching the "Summarize message previews" toggle off. You can turn this off on macOS by choosing Mail > Settings, (or pressing Command-Comma) clicking the Viewing button in the toolbar, and deselecting the "Summarize message previews" checkbox. #TipTuesday
#appleintelligence #tiptuesday

9 Reasons to Learn Linux lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

9 Reasons Why You Should Learn Linux

There are plenty of reasons for you to consider investing time to learn Linux. Here, we shed light on some of them.
Community (It's FOSS)

reshared this

Pongo la tv de ruido de fondo en lo que hago la comida y empieza un fulano con que "Descubrieron una estructura que mide 1,200 años/luz".
Ya me confundí. ¿Cuántos segundos/luz mide de alto mi casa?

So, botsin.space will be shutting down. This means that @mapcomplete@botsin.space will need a new home. Anyone suggestions on where to move to?
@MapComplete (bot)
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Thibault Molleman🇧🇪 🌈🐝
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floofy.tech/@arch/113396400761…

@arch has been active on fedi for a while, it'd trust em with this. (Considering the amount of images maybe it makes sense to donate a little more than that but that's just my personal opinion)

Arch :arch: (@arch@floofy.tech)

Okay, systems are up and running for https://botsinbox.net. Bot accounts can be bought through my ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/archdog for $1/month/bot.
Floofy.tech - Where the fluffy beans run around
@Arch

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If you're a subscriber to the NLS BARD service and have an interest in learning more about the #Catholic Mass, the following book was recently released in audio format.

The lamb's supper: the mass as heaven on Earth
DB124296
Hahn, Scott. Reading time: 4 hours, 32 minutes.
Read by Scott Hahn.

Religion

"Bestselling author Scott Hahn sheds new light on the Mass, offering readers a deeper appreciation of the most familiar of Catholic rituals . Of all things Catholic, there is nothing that is so familiar as the Mass. With its unchanging prayers, the Mass fits Catholics like their favorite clothes. Yet most Catholics sitting in the pews on Sundays fail to see the powerful supernatural drama that enfolds them. Pope John Paul II described the Mass as "Heaven on Earth," explaining that what "we celebrate on Earth is a mysterious participation in the heavenly liturgy." The Lamb's Supper reveals a long-lost secret of the Church: The early Christians' key to understanding the mysteries of the Mass was the New Testament Book of Revelation. With its bizarre imagery, its mystic visions of heaven, and its end-of-time prophecies, Revelation mirrors the sacrifice and celebration of the Eucharist. Beautifully written, in clear direct language, bestselling Catholic author Scott Hahn's new book will help readers see the Mass with new eyes, pray the liturgy with a renewed heart, and enter into the Mass more fully, enthusiastically, intelligently, and powerfully than ever before."--Amazon.com Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

I’m thrilled to see this book being made available on BARD.
It’s a great book. It will really deepen your appreciation for the Mass.

#catholic

I would like help. Does anyone know R, and would they be willing to sit down with me for 30 minutes to just show me how this thing works better.

I do not understand Jupyter Lab/Notebook/Project/planet at all. I feel so much empathy for people who didn't understand OSC/OCF/OCI/OC now.

I know it’s supposed to be the time of new seasons and new comment, but I was thinking about my mom today and felt the need to retell a story lost with Twitter. This is the story of how I was nearly raised in a gas station. /1

This Linux distribution doesn't require installation, and still remembers where you left off lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

This Linux distribution doesn't require installation, and still remembers where you left off

If you're looking for a Linux distribution you can carry with you, PorteuX might be just the ticket to the freedom you've been looking for.
Jack Wallen (ZDNET)

Sources: Chinese hackers targeted phones used by Trump family members and Biden admin and State Dept. officials; audio communications may have been captured (New York Times)

nytimes.com/2024/10/29/us/poli…
techmeme.com/241029/p32#a24102…


Sources: Chinese hackers targeted phones used by Trump family members and Biden admin and State Dept. officials; audio communications may have been captured

From New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme

I just remembered that poor American guy who had to explain pumpkin spice coffee to me.
Me: ok, so it has the spice that you put in pumpkin pie?
Him: … it tastes like pumpkin pie???
Me: WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN???
Him: I DON’T KNOW OK!!
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Kornel
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The same spices are used in a pork stew, but nobody has the courage to call them pork spice lattes.

Quebec music store owners say new language law will hurt business

A Quebec law taking effect in 2025 will force labels on all products to include French larger than any other language. As most music equipment is imported with English labels, store owners worry it could run them out of business. #press

cbc.ca/player/play/9.6549462?c…

#press

damnit. My laptop charger has just packed in. I'm supposed to be enjoying a bit of alcohol and a pizza whilst remembering an author, not scrabbling around my untidy box of spares.

Librsvg 2.59.2 is out! This is a stable release.

Limits for unbounded stack consumption, fix a regression when drawing very flat arcs, fix text-anchor for scaled text, and cancellation now works for resource loading thanks to my Outreachy intern.

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg…


2.59.2 - stable · GNOME / librsvg · GitLab

Version 2.59.2
GitLab

So cool, I was just scanning some text labels with VOCR and my Mac’s camera right during the meeting. Just turned off the cam in Google Meet, do the scan with VOCR, and then turn the cam back on. DOn’t tell my colleagues though!

My current Mac Mini is worth $230 in trade-in value. That puts the price of the new M4 Mini at about $370. It's tempting, as that's quite a good price for a brand new Mac. However, I use my Mac so infrequently that spending the money wouldn't make sense, especially not while I'm still paying off my new phone. Still, I definitely feel the pull of the shiny. I love small computers, and this one is both small and powerful.

Humans are evolving right before our eyes? sciencealert.com/humans-are-ev…

Humans Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau : ScienceAlert

Humans are not yet done cooking.
Michelle Starr (ScienceAlert)

The Open Source AI Definition Is Out linuxtoday.com/blog/the-open-s…

The Open Source AI Definition Is Out | Linux Today

But, the work of defining open source AI is far from done.
LinuxToday

I installed 18.1 and enabled Apple Intelligence. Siri is, so far, unaffected. I asked "weather today", and got the expected answer. I then asked, "What about tomorrow?" and Siri told me about tomorrow's calendar. I sure hope 18.2 is better. The voice sounds more expressive, though, so that's something. Not much of something, but it's technically something.
in reply to Alex Hall

Alex Hall
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I just got my first notification summary, for a couple mentions in Mona. It read: "18.2 is better than 18.2. Apple Intelligence and chatGPT in .2." This is not promising.

rip botsin space
botsin.space/@muffinista/11339…

colin mitchell

2024-10-29 20:26:36


Hey friends, it's hard to write this, but it's time to retire botsin.space. I wrote a post about it here: muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/2…

TLDR the site will go read-only on or around December 15th.

I'm so thankful for all the support and good times here ❤️ thanks everyone


RIP botsin.space

muffinlabs.com

On this day, six years ago, David John Duncan, well-known to some, unknown to most, but wonderful author of science fiction and fantasy novels, passed away. I have read as much of Dave's stuff as I can get my hands on. He is an author that I'm very fond of. I enjoy his books and the stories he tells.

My introduction to Dave was the first book in his Seventh Sword series, which is called The Reluctant Swordsman. It's a portal fantasy novel. It was published in 1988, and it follows the mind of a gentleman called Wally Smith, who ends up in the body of a swordsman of the seventh rank, the mighty Shonsu, who was killed in his fantasy world, and Wally's mind brought across to re-inhabit the body by the world's goddess in an attempt to complete a mission for her. The subsequent two books in the series complete that arc, and it's a very satisfying trilogy of books. 24 years later, Dave published a fourth book in the series, showing the evolution of the characters after the main quest had completed, and it was a very satisfying way to meet Dave as an author.


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Timothy Wynn
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Curious which came first, the audio recording or the written post? If the latter, then you really made it quite natural when reading it it out.
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Timothy Wynn
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Oh good on you. While I'm not self-conscious when actually talking to humans, I don't think I'd ever ad-lib something for the purpose of an audio recording. I should practice that more so that I would sound more polished when speaking off-the-cuff, especially minimizing the filler utterances.
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Sean Randall
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@twynn I hate the sound of my voice, but so few people come and speak about things they care for I feel like it's important to do when I can.
@Timothy Wynn
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Sean Randall
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When I tell people I've read over 18,000 pages of Dave Duncan's writing, they say to me, where do I start? Where do I begin? How do I get into this author? You know, what's a good opening? And that's so hard to answer, because although Dave's got a lot of tropes that he sticks to, and he's got a very distinctive style, he doesn't do the same thing twice, as counter to what I've just said, as that may sound. He makes a new world, a unique world, and then plays by its rules. And that's something that not a lot of authors can say. I think it's even rarer to be able to identify a piece of work as an author's, yet not know where it's going to end up. You know, that's pretty clever. So I would say that you should probably start with the opening to one of the series, because that way, if you don't like it, you don't have to read more. But if you do like it, you know there is more, and that's really cool. So we've got The Reluctant Swordsman, of course, is the start of the fantasy, portal fantasy, The Seventh Sword. The King's Blades books are also based on swordsmanship, although not portal books. And they're really clever, because the stories stand more alone there, and they sort of intertwine, but in a more subtle, non-serial way. The Great Game is a trilogy of books set both during the First World War, and in an alternate world called Nextdoor, one of my particular favourite series. Nostradamus is a series set in Venice, Italy. Those are just a few of the series that you can start off with. And if you like them, and you know you like Dave's Stile, then you can pick a standalone book and think, oh, you know, I'm in the mood for something this long, and give that a try. Lots of options.

dear menstruating ADHD people

There is a student running a survey on ADHD and Menstruation

reddit.com/r/AdultADHDSupportG…

Help them out with their assignment if you have the spoons

#ADHD #AFAB

#adhd #afab

Creo que algo que podría ayudar a vencer el racismo mexicano sería ayudar a los haitianos a abrir restaurantes

Estoy viendo sus recetas y básicamente están cómo

UN HABANERO DOS HABANEROS TRES HABANEROS JA JA JA

botsin.space PSA

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spent some time today working on this diagram of how the ASCII control characters work in unix

there are a lot of mistakes/missing nuance but I think it's really interesting how little structure there is. Special codes (like `3` for SIGINT) that are handled by the OS are mixed with just regular keypresses (like `13` for "enter”) which are mixed with codes that are handled by the application (like `1` for Ctrl-A in readline)

(not looking for an ASCII history lesson right now)

color coded table of ASCII control codes
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@Friendica Support Warum wird mein Blog [Gerhards Gedankenbuch](https://squeet.me/u/gerhardsgedankenbuc] in den Suchen (Google, Searx usw.) nicht gefunden?
@Friendica Support
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