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If I made a series of videos about something, what would you like?

The Standard Model? Grand unified theories? Clifford algebras? The octonions? Entropy? Category theory? Quantum logic and projective geometry? Visually beautiful math?

These would all be easy, since I've got the material prepared. I don't want to explain something brand new - at least not until I've covered some of these. Each of these topics could take at least 10 videos.

(I've got a drawing tablet now, so I'm ready to make videos where I show slides of stuff and also write while I talk. It will take some practice to do it well. I thank @Garrett for offering to pay for the tablet. It proved unnecessary, but it helped push me into action.)

A hyperbolic honeycomb called {6,3,5}, since it’s built from flat planes tiled by regular hexagons, 3 meeting at each vertex, and 5 of these planes meeting along each edge of the honeycomb. White struts with a blue background. Drawn by Roice Nelson. More explanations here: https://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/2014/04/15/635-honeycomb/
@Garrett Lisi

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If you have considered applying for GNOME Foundation membership but were discouraged by our asking for a “full name,” we have news: we’ve updated our process and docs to clarify we don’t require members to submit a “legal name.”

As a diverse and global community, we know that the concept of names is far more complex than many realize. What’s important is that your Foundation membership reflects who you are and how people will recognize you in our community—that’s it.

foundation.gnome.org/membershi…


Membership |

The GNOME Foundation supports a free, accessible, and community-driven computing platform through advocacy, funding, and collaboration.
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@Atirut great question! Membership is how contributors to GNOME can participate in the operation of the GNOME Foundation itself, including the ability to vote and run in Foundation elections for the board of directors, and to propose referenda.

Members also get a handful of other perks like a gnome.org email address and Matrix account, a hosted blog, access to our hosted video conferencing software, etc. You can read about the benefits here:

handbook.gnome.org/foundation/…


Membership Benefits

A range of benefits are available to GNOME Foundation members. This page provides information on how to access them. For general information on Foundation membership, including how to apply, see fo...
GNOME Project Handbook
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mailbox takes a clear stance against chat control

On 14 October, the EU Council will vote on the CSA Regulation – legislation that would require email and messaging services to automatically scan private messages. Without cause, without suspicion.

Together with other European tech companies, we've signed an open letter.

More in our news article: mailbox.org/en/news/chat-contr…

#StopChatControl #DataProtection #chatcontrol #stopscanningme

Graphic with the quote “There is no such thing as a little back door,” the statement “mailbox positions itself against chat control,” and an image of a surveillance camera.

Chat control: "There's no such thing as a little backdoor"

Why mailbox rejects the EU's proposed chat control legislation and what you can do now – all the facts at a glance.
mailbox
#DataProtection #chatcontrol #stopscanningme #StopChatcontrol
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EU: „Chatkontrolle!“

Wir: „Alter wir sind gerade mit den BigBrotherAwards beschäftigt.“

Könntet ihr uns nen Gefallen tun und einfach mal eure Abgeordneten anrufen? Wir wissen aus Erfahrung: Das wirkt am besten. Briefpost ist auch nicht schlecht. Aber die muss jetzt schnell raus gehen.

Hier gibts Hilfe: chat-kontrolle.eu/index.php/20…

Wir verlassen uns drauf, dass ihr das jetzt alle macht, ja?

Private Nachrichten scannen heißt: Grundrechte killen, Demokratie schwächen. Und Deutschland ist gerade das Zünglein an der Waage. Jeder Anruf zählt!

#Chatkontrolle #ChatkontrolleStoppen #Überwachung #BigBrotherAwards #Grundrechte

Der Kampf gegen die Chatkontrolle braucht dich jetzt! – Chatkontrolle STOPPEN!

chat-kontrolle.eu
#Chatkontrolle #überwachung #ChatkontrolleStoppen #bigbrotherawards #grundrechte

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Fixed it for you, @CTVNews !

Fascists united. ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/qu… #cdnpoli #polcan #caqastrophe #redneckois


Quebec and Alberta united in pushing back against Ottawa, Premier Danielle Smith says

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her province and Quebec are united in their desire to resist federal overreach.
The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
#cdnpoli #caqastrophe #polcan #redneckois @CTV News

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The Best Line Length

What’s a good maximum line length for your coding standard?

blog.glyph.im/2025/08/the-best…

#typography #UIDesign #webdesign #reading #readability

Spoiler:
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Article says 88 (but I think more like 80)


Deciphering Glyph :: The Best Line Length

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
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#webdesign #reading #uidesign #typography #readability
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The European Open Source Awards marks a celebration and one of a kind recognition of open source excellence in Europe.

Open Call for Nominations: europeanopensource.academy/ope…

Open Call for Nominations: European Open Source Awards 2026 | European Open Source Academy

Call for Nominations for European Open Source Awards 2026
europeanopensource.academy

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5.15 Million Dollar Settlement in California Web Accessibility Class Action Fashion Nova website barriers sparks lawsuit that should have settled lflegal.com/2025/10/fashion-no…

5.15 Million Dollar Settlement in California Web Accessibility Class Action

Digital accessibility is a civil right of disabled people. In the United States and other countries, civil rights are baked into laws mandating accessibility.
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#Politics America, I'm not pointing fingers here. I'm sure this post will get a lot of responses thatwill point fingers, further making my point. If Republicans and Democrats don't start both recognizing that both sides are Americans and not waring countries, if some kind of ability to work together doesn't happen, the American empire is as doomed as all the empires that came before it.
#politics

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This is a fantastic graph the likes of which should be hanging on the walls in schools and offices.

We all _know_ that the media coverage is skewed, and it's all understandable, but seeing a graph like this has the power of actually updating your brain a bit.

ourworldindata.org/does-the-ne…

A graph titled: What Americans die from and the causes of death the US media reports on.

Does the news reflect what we die from?

What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on?
Hannah Ritchie (Our World in Data)

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Je suis sûre que - si vous êtes anglophone - vous aurez bien quelques minutes pour écouter Ursula K. Le Guin vous lire un extrait de son roman "Lavinia" pour votre déjeuner.

kboo.fm/media/5399-ursula-k-le…

L'enregistrement date du printemps 2008, et j'suis toujours très émue de l'entendre, pour ma part.

Ursula K. Le Guin

A special featuring a recent reading by noted Portland author Ursula K. La Guin.  She reads from her new novel, Lavinia, which is based on a secondary character mentioned briefly in Virgil's masterpiece, The Aeneid.
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⚡ Nicht nachlassen: Innen- und Justizminister entscheiden HEUTE über die #Chatkontrolle!⏰😡

Eure Anrufe/Mails kommen "mit großem Schwung im Bundestag an", höre ich - es WIRKT! 💥💪

📞 JETZT MINISTERIEN&ABGEORDNETE ANRUFEN UND PROTESTIEREN:
fightchatcontrol.eu/de/?countr…

Das Bild verwendet das bekannte Meme-Format „Disaster Girl“. Es zeigt: Vordergrund: Ein junges Mädchen mit einem leicht schelmischen Lächeln blickt direkt in die Kamera. Ihr Gesichtsausdruck vermittelt eine Mischung aus Unschuld und unterschwelliger Genugtuung. Hintergrund: Ein Haus steht in Flammen. Feuerwehrleute sind dabei, den Brand zu löschen. Auf dem Feuerwehrauto ist die Nummer „38“ zu sehen. Text-Overlays: Über dem brennenden Haus steht: „PRIVATSPHÄRE & SICHERHEIT“ – ein Hinweis darauf, was hier symbolisch „in Flammen steht“. Über dem Gesicht des Mädchens steht: „EU-KOMMISSION“ – sie wird hier als die vermeintliche Verursacherin des „Brandes“ dargestellt.

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
fightchatcontrol.eu
#Chatkontrolle

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I wonder if we should have #GPL 4 that would cover machine learning. Something like "if this code is used to train an LLM, then the code produced by the LLM must be released under the same license". I know there are many challenges, such as effective enforcement, but if this issue remains unaddressed, I believe LLMs may become a way to evade license virality.

#freesoftware #OpenSource #licensing

#FreeSoftware #opensource #gpl #licensing

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AGRO TURBO.EXE SATAN 🇺🇦🇨🇿

@mirek that is very curious, i'm wondering how familiar the lawyers were with the actual technology.

i don't use llms too much, so i'm not familiar myself -- but to me it looks like some creative work goes into writing the prompt?

i don't use these tools too much, but just a few days ago i ended up using one and it turned out that a good way to avoid shit output is feeding in pseudocode or commanding it to make the very same sort of edits as one would otherwise make manually. it'd be surprised if someone considered this not a creative process?

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Glyph

Copyright licenses are not a magic spell. If LLMs are adjudicated to be derivative works of their inputs, no additional license is needed; existing GPL (or indeed, even Apache or MIT, given the lack of license text reproduction in LLM output) is fine. If LLMs are adjudicated to be fair use, no additional license will help.

Focusing on licensing is fighting the last war. Public communications and movement-building is what is needed now.

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Given that there are new people to fedi, if you are interested in chinese webnovels and chinese dramas, this account sometimes organize watch parties and read alongs!

Currently, we are doing a Panguan readalong, details in this post:

blorbo.social/@watch_read_toge…

We're currently reading chapters 26-30 this week.

Feel free to join!

#cnovels #cnovel #panguan

Watch and Read Together (@watch_read_together@blorbo.social)

It's Panguan Read Along week 6! For the week of October 5-October 11, read chapters 26-30 Post your thoughts/reactions using the hashtag #PGReadAlong then tag surf and interact with others who are also reading! Rules: - Read at the pace you are c…
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#cnovels #cnovel #panguan

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LibreOffice turned 15 years old in September! We also had our annual conference, an update to the software, guidebook translations, news about migrations from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and more: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
Montage of photos from LibreOffice events

LibreOffice project and community recap: September 2025 - The Document Foundation Blog

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… At the start of the month, the LibreOffice Conference 2025 took place in Budapest, Hungary.
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#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource

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So many stories of suffering in Africa are told by others; so few by the people living them. 'The World Was In Our Hands', an oral history of people living through the Boko Haram conflict, aims to correct this. @hrb has the review. continent.substack.com/p/revie…

Review: Victims of a terrorist insurgency talk back

So many stories of suffering in Africa are told by others; so few by the people living them. An oral history of people living through the Boko Haram conflict aims to correct this.
The Continent
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Neil Craig

@bagder Yeah, I suspect the stats are odd because those countries are pretty low traffic so a small number of modern computers probably skew their stats.
Looking at yesterday's stats for DPRK, the main client we saw was an iPhone running iOS 18.5 & using Chrome. There's a couple of Macs, a Windows machine and a couple of Android phones and that's about it.
This is all assuming no GeoIP errors & ignoring VPN usage with out-of-country exits of course...
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