Y’all. This is a known spammer who is picking up momentum. We’re seeing LOTS of accounts using the same name and avatar. But the bio varies from instance to instance. And a minority of them don’t have an avatar, but still use the name.
If you see these accounts, please report them. We’re trying to wipe them out, but we can’t until we know about them.
Thanks for the teamwork! 🤝
#Spam #JimmyTruth #Teamwork #Moderation
"What are you thinking about"
"Nothing"
The Nothing:
Thesis: GOTO is bad for managing complex code.
Antithesis: GOTO put humans on the moon.
Synthesis: going to the moon required less software complexity than modern frameworks require of "apps."
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OH: they put a man on the moon with GOTOHynek Schlawack (Mastodon)
you were five years too late to move to washington
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After more than 35 years in downtown Spokane, Rocky Rococo Pizza and Pasta is closing permanently, effective Friday.Amy Edelen (The Spokesman-Review)
Jimmy Kimmel and his representatives are working with Disney and ABC leaders on a compromise to allow 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' to return to ABC.Cynthia Littleton (Variety)
It now appears the Trump administration is going to require government scientists to allow political apparatchiks to review and vet scientific papers before publication to ensure ideological purity. This is gross abuse of the scientific process.
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Trump’s EO on H-1B visas has thrown the tech industry into chaos overnight
I just published an email Google sent H-1B employees yesterday warning them to not leave the US / to return by midnight tonight sources.news/p/heres-googles-m…
“We understand this may create challenges, and we are here to support you,” Google told employees last night.Alex Heath (Sources)
For the next GTK cycle, Matthias has been working on a format for symbolic icons that can be rendered efficiently by GTK, including animations; it is based on a subset of SVG with custom vendor attributes:
discourse.gnome.org/t/animated…
If you want to experiment with content creation apps, or towards a shared implementation, feel free to drop by on Discourse.
I have been working for a while on GTK support for stateful, animated, symbolic icons. This post is meant to provide an introduction to the format, and encourage experimentation with it. The code will land very soon in GTK 4.21.GNOME Discourse
Moje starší nastupuje v pondělí vysokou školu. Jihočeskou univerzitu, přestěhovala se do pronajatého bytu v Českych Budějovicích. Trávím tu víkend, pomáhám zabydlovat a dávám nevyžádané otcovské rady. Tak vás zdravím z jihu Čech.
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 14 updated and 1 added apps:
* PinePods: a complete podcast management solution that allows you to host your own podcast server and enjoy a beautiful mobile experience 🛡️
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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
Leserattenfutterversorgung: 24 frische #eBooks gingen gerade wieder in Richtung ebooks.qumran.org/
Viel Spaß beim Schmökern!
Katalog mit freien eBooks (Public Domain, Creative Commons): kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung stöbern und herunterladen!ebooks.qumran.org
Meta has just announced at Meta Connect that the upcoming Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses will ship with a suite of accessibility features designed specifically for blind and low-vision users.Steven Scott (Double Tap)
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Samsung’s image library flaw opens a zero-click backdoor
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The widely used image-parsing library suffers from a flaw that can allow remote code execution via crafted images in Android devices, putting connected corporate workflows at risk.Shweta Sharma (CSO Online)
Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukrainian cities overnight on Sept. 20, killing at least two people and injuring 32 others, officials reported.Dmytro Basmat (The Kyiv Independent)
How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World: A Short Introduction
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Teaching child visitors how to write their names using an unfamiliar or antique alphabet is a favorite activity of museum educators, but Dr.OC (Openculture.com)
Before and after the 2024 election, Elon Musk made it clear he disliked environmental regulations and considered them a barrier to innovation.
His companies, from Boring Co. to xAI, have been accused of finding ways to sidestep regulations. Here's what to know:
propublica.org/article/elon-mu…
#ElonMusk #Environment #Regulation #Business #SpaceX #Tesla #Musk
Musk considers environmental regulation a barrier to innovation. As he eyes a new project in Houston, here’s what to know about some of his companies’ past projects that have faced scrutiny from regulators and environmental advocates.ProPublica
Since I've been having a lot of fun adapting classical music to chiptune style, I thought maybe I should follow all the way through and make an entire asset pack for RPG-type games...? Since I'm not composing everything from scratch, it could be very affordable relative to the amount of music. This is "Torrent" by Chopin, which I think sounds very Boss Music...
#music #classicalmusic #chiptune #gamedev #rpgmaker #jrpg
Download and print in PDF or MIDI free sheet music for Piano (Solo)Musescore.com
> #Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man
> The man noticed that posts encouraging him to “get Threads” (…) were being dropped into his Instagram feed featuring embedded posts of uniformed girls as young as 13 with their faces visible and, in most cases, their names.
> The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school.
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Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner saysRobert Booth (The Guardian)
From the country that brought you Boaty McBoatface comes Network Rail's leaf-removal train:
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Network Rail says train named after public vote will join fleet of ‘unsung hero’ leaf-busters this autumnJamie Grierson (The Guardian)
Please. Get off Meta sites! Close your accounts! And for god's sake stop posting pictures of your children, or even yourselves, anywhere on the internet.
"The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school. The parents were unaware that Meta’s settings permitted it to do this. One mother said her account was set to private, but the posts were automatically cross-posting to Threads where they were visible. Another said she posted the picture to a public Instagram account. The posts of their children were highlighted to the stranger as “suggested threads”.
The recipient told the Guardian the posts felt “deliberately provocative and ultimately exploitative of the children and families involved”.
The father of a 13-year-old who appeared in one of the posts said it was “absolutely outrageous”. The images were all of schoolgirls in short skirts with either bare legs or stockings." theguardian.com/technology/202…
Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner saysRobert Booth (The Guardian)
"The mother of a 15-year-old whose picture was used in a promotional post that featured a large “Get Threads” button said: “For me it was a picture of my daughter going to school. I had no idea Instagram had picked it up and are using it as a promotion. It’s absolutely disgusting. She is a minor.” ...
With 267 followers, her Instagram account usually had modest reach but the post of her child attracted nearly 7,000 views, 90% from non-followers, half of whom were aged over 44 and 90% of whom were men.
Another mother whose post of her 13-year-old was used in a promotional post said: “Meta did all of this on purpose, not informing us, as they want to generate content. It’s despicable. And who is responsible for creating that Threads ad using children’s photos to promote the platform for older men?”
After first rolling out AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, Gemini in Chrome is now available to all Chrome users in the US.Igor Bonifacic (Engadget)
With the AirPods Pro 3, Apple's additions of heart-rate tracking and Live Translation provide major advances on a familiar formula.Billy Steele (Engadget)
Bridge language barriers in person—while traveling or navigating in a foreign country—with AirPods.Apple Support
My Hero of the Day is @valadaptive@github.com, who came out of nowhere and, just like that, deleted 11K lines of FontForge legacy code.
After the initial shock and dismay, the rather conservative board eventually agreed, and today her PR was merged 🚀
github.com/fontforge/fontforge…
Resolves #5611 by just removing support for the X11 backend entirely. If the eventual goal is to implement everything in GTK, we can remove some X11-exclusive code and get rid of quite a bit of cru...GitHub
At Meta Connect 2025, Mark Zuckerberg’s live glasses demos repeatedly failed. Why did he risk it in the age of keynotes that are long marketing videos?Sean Hollister (The Verge)
Hey “good white folx,”
So, you’ve proven you can take action. You canceled Disney, rallied around Kimmel, and feel good that you’ve “done something.”
But now what?
Will this be yet another moment where your actions only extend as far as how close to home the issue hits? Or can your outrage and your action, finally be more inclusive?
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Am Samstag wird in Frankreich das 200-Jahr-Jubiläum der Brailleschrift gefeiert. Im französischen Coupvray, dem Geburtsort des Erfinders der berühmten Blindenschrift, Louis Braille, wird ein Gedenktag begangen, mit dem auf die nach wie vor große Bede…ORF.at
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Unknown parent • • •Ah yes, the huge waste problem. If only we could recycle any of that.
Oh wait, we can. And we do. Today.
Meanwhile, let's keep ignoring that other waste, shall we?
Emil Jacobs - Collectifission
Unknown parent • • •Sorry, it is hard to not be sarcastic after dealing with the same one-sided question for years.
Nuclear waste is currently recycled through the PUREX process, where spent nuclear fuel rods are cut down in smaller pieces and then chemically treated to keep the uranium and plutonium (read: the fuel) to create new fuel rods with them, which is called MOX fuel (Mixed OXide).
This is possible because spent nuclear fuel, after having been in a reactor core for four or five years, still have up to 96% of the fuel available. It is just too contaminated with fission products to remain high efficiency at that point.
The fission products, which are a wide group of short lived isotopes, are separated via the PUREX procedure and put in glass granulates. This vitrified stuff is chemically inert and highly radioactive for around 300 years. In the Netherlands we store around 1.5 cubic meters of it each year in an above-ground facility called the HABOG building at the COVRA facility (see below picture). I had a tour there last year, which was really fascinating.
The disadvantage of the PUREX route is threefold: 1. It separates out the plutonium, creating a potential proliferation concern; 2. it's somewhat costly, so only few countries do it (the Netherlands does it via France's Orano facility in La Hague); 3. it's not that efficient in burning up all potential fuel.
There is an alternative in the works via pyroprocessing (yes, by high temperatures), which leaves the plutonium mixed with the uranium. This route in combination with another type of reactor, called a fast breeder reactor, can be used to create a better way to gain a 100x efficiency gain in fuel efficiency. This leaves essentially the short lived fission products.
Then there's another development going on via molten salt reactors. This way opens the possibility of isolating specific isotopes from that 'soup' of fission products, which then can be used for a plethora of industrial and healthcare use cases. If we develop this the coming decades, there is a potential to actually more or less completely recycle all of the waste.
Fast breeder reactors and molten salt reactors get online in the coming decade. China already got one online recently. I expect a lot more developments in this regard in the next few decades.
But again, compared to all other energy sources, nuclear energy has by far the lowest waste stream in absolute volume and the best maintained one by regulation. If for example the solar industry was expected to be on the same level of care, it would go bankrupt overnight. The nuclear industry can only maintain this double standard because of the amazing energy density of uranium.
Hope this helps!