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I just listened to that podcast episode where @sarahtaber talks with @pluralistic about the commonalities of agriculture history and computing history, seizing the means of production and computation, system change, and the fact that neither doing it all yourself nor voting with your wallet are meaningful options. The system needs to change.

Farm to Taber episode:
shows.acast.com/farm-to-taber/…


DIY isn't enough: systematic change with Cory Doctorow | Farm to Taber

Listen to DIY isn't enough: systematic change with Cory Doctorow from Farm to Taber. This episode, Cory Doctorow comes on to talk about how profits are political: individualistic DIY solutions aren't enough, and it takes large-scale political changes…
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@Cory Doctorow @Sarah Taber
in reply to Alex Schroeder

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Alex Schroeder

Moving on to another episode of @sarahtaber’s podcast, this time about food supply logistics. I liked this passage, copied from the transcript.

“I appreciate automation and I appreciate scale. That's what makes automation possible. I don't think humans were made to just like stoop over in the field 12 hours a day. I feel like we're alive for other reasons than that. So, automation to me and scale are beautiful things. It's just that us as a society, we have not figured out how to do them in a way that's not, like, not run by rent extractors. And I feel like scale itself gets blamed for a lot of things that rent extractors will do even if they don't have scale.”
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Deep dive: food distribution with Errol Schweizer | Farm to Taber

Listen to Deep dive: food distribution with Errol Schweizer from Farm to Taber. There's a saying in food justice: "There's plenty of food to feed everyone! The problem is distribution.
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@Sarah Taber

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I come back to this Tang Dynasty-inspired dance all the time. Love the music, especially when it is sung Chinese opera style, and definitely the beautiful dance, which is about Princess Anle, an arrogant and willful princess who helped overthrow her father and ended up beheaded by rebels.

I know right? Griiim.

#China #Dance #Culture

youtu.be/YQnlHKLuVnY?si=A4rucp…


Classical Chinese dance 'Once Upon a Time in Luoyang' by Tang Shiyi | 舞蹈：唐诗逸《洛阳旧事》| CNODDT

When snow falls on Luoyang (a city in central China’s Henan province considered as one of the cradles of Chinese civilization), the peerless beauty wakes up ...
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#culture #Dance #china

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Dear colleagues,

I am hiring a postdoctoral researcher to work with me in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. Candidates with expertise in category theory, homotopy type theory, domain theory and/or the denotational semantics of programming languages are especially encouraged to apply.

The New Spaces for Denotational Semantics project aims to develop an axiomatic framework for higher-dimensional program semantics with applications to concurrency, using recent advances in category theory, type theory, domain theory, and the polarised structure of computational effects. The project will focus initially on two-dimensional generalisations of call-by-push-value, duploids, and resource modalities.

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible; the posting is open until November 22. Please contact me with any informal inquiries at js2878@cl.cam.ac.uk, and see our official posting here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43755/. More details about the project can be found on my web page: jonmsterling.com/jms-00AL.xml.

Please feel free to forward this message to potential candidates.

Research Assistant/Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Research Assistant/Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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Haló, haló, volám o radu.
Týká se #streaming #music #deezer #spotify

Rád bych doma poslouchal v rozumné kvalitě streamovanou hudbu ze svého Deezer účtu, případně z dalších streamovacích platforem. A nějak nevím, kde a jak pátrat, jediné co vím, že nechci BT reproduktor.
Našel jsem třeba DUNE HD REALBOX 4K, ale jak pravím: Nemám ani tucha.

Nejste tu někdo schopný mi relevantně poradit? Díky předem.

htpshop.cz/sitove-prehravace-s…


DUNE HD REALBOX 4K - Horizon Trading Prague sro

DUNE HD REALBOX 4K. NEW - první přehrávač médií 4Kp60 HDR10 + na světě a Android Smart TV box na Realtek RTD1395.
Horizon Trading Prague sro
#music #spotify #streaming #Deezer

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Andrej Babiš opäť neuspel v dlhom spore s ÚPN, že je evidovaný vo zväzkoch ŠtB ako agent. Odmietli jeho dovolanie

aktuality.sk/clanok/57jHM1n/an…


Andrej Babiš opäť neuspel v dlhom spore s ÚPN, že je evidovaný vo zväzkoch ŠtB ako agent. Odmietli jeho dovolanie

Najvyšší súd rozhodol o dovolaní českého politika so slovenskými koreňmi už 31. augusta 2023, zverejnil ho až teraz.
Ján Petrovič (Aktuality.sk)

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Learn new things this month, for future career options, or just for fun! Join the Month of #LibreOffice: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource
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Learn new things! Get into the Month of LibreOffice, November 2023 - The Document Foundation Blog

Expand your skillset and gain valuable experience with UX, marketing, documentation, QA and translations – join the Month of LibreOffice, November 2023! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate to improve LibreOf…
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#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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Random regular music post debut: Lagu untuk @thepoliticalcat - since you said you'd like more songs from home and anything after the 50s is still recent for you 😂: here's something I heard a busker perform the other day: Alleycats' Hingga Akhir Nanti (Until The End). These guys were huge when I was a kid. #TootSEA #Malaysia #PlaylistSEA (anyone can join and rec songs pls! Since I know mostly Malaysian songs in Malay and English only)

youtu.be/_QUh8RHUkrE

#cendamuzikita


Alleycats - Hingga Akhir Nanti (Audio)

Music video by Alleycats performing Hingga Akhir Nanti. © 2010 Universal Music Sdn Bhdhttp://vevo.ly/P1T86P
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#malaysia #tootsea #playlistsea #cendamuzikita @thepoliticalcat
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Check it out, free new #piano. Uses #Juce. Accessible downloader too.

Record And Play - #TheCrowHillCompany - Attic Grand: youtu.be/3Ot78DXi8_Y


Record And Play - #TheCrowHillCompany - Attic Grand

Here, I'm testing out the new piano from The Crow Hill Company, which is the first of hopefully many offerings.It's got quite a rugged sound, but that certai...
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#piano #juce #thecrowhillcompany

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To explain to my daughter what I'm working on (make librsvg not load <image href="foo.svg"/> through gdk-pixbuf):

I'm in the kitchen making dinner, and I want to serve some salad. So I order a salad from Uber Eats. They phone me back and ask me to make the salad; I make it, hand it off to the delivery person, they go around the block, and deliver the salad to myself. I then serve the salad to my family.

To render an <image> with an SVG, librsvg calls gdk-pixbuf, which calls librsvg.

in reply to Val Packett 🧉

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Federico Mena Quintero

@valpackett Yeah, see gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg… for details.

Now that Loupe actually uses Rust codecs for images, I think we have a good chance of finding out cases where they lack features, and to fix them. I'm also going to limit librsvg to jpeg/png - per the SVG spec's minimum requirements - to reduce the attack surface.

I'm probably going to do another round of looking at the state of Rust codecs. They are *much* better than e.g. three years ago.


Do not load images with gdk-pixbuf (#513) · Issues · GNOME / librsvg · GitLab

Per https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/conform.html#ConformingSVGViewers, the only image formats conforming SVG implementations need to support are PNG and JPEG. Currently we load images
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@Val Packett 🧉
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

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Federico Mena Quintero

Finally got around to finishing this, after doing preliminary work for it during GNOME Asia.

I'm about to merge the first part of making librsvg not use gdk-pixbuf internally. The first part is to let <image href="nested.svg"/> use librsvg itself, instead of going indirectly through gdk-pixbuf.

Rendering nested SVGs directly, which, you know, is precisely the point of librsvg, now actually follows the spec and passes an extra case in the SVG1.1 test suite. It took some refactoring to get here!

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my hobby: giving bard inoccuous photos to describe but referring to them as "spooky Halloween scene"

then seeing if Dall-E3 can retrieve the original photo from bard's description

aiweirdness.com/the-spookiest-…

Left: A landscape photo of Peyto Lake in the Canadian Rockies, a glacial lake with evergreens at its sides and a glacier at its head. It is full daylight and (as will be relevant in just a bit), there are no islands, ruined castles, or jack o'lanterns anywhere in the image. Right: Recreated by Dall-e3 from Bard's description. It's a nighttime scene with a full moon, an eerie castle on an island in a mountain lake, and gnarled trees and jack-o'-lanterns in the foreground.

The spookiest Halloween scenes

Google Bard has the ability to describe images. But it turns out what you get depends a lot on how you ask. I gave Bard this image and the prompt "Please describe this spooky Halloween scene".
Janelle Shane (AI Weirdness)
in reply to Archos

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Milu P. Pragerova

@archos
Tady ve vesnicích v okolí i zde, jsou ke koupi pouze takové ty velkopekařské chleby. Když je dobře upečený tak víceméně nemám výhrady, ale je zde běžné, že ty chleby jsou bledé a konzistencí jako bláto. A takový bochník stojí cca 45kc. Ale nejhorší je, že není mimo domácího pečení, či jízdy do pekárny 12+ km jiná možnost.
Ale tak uvidíme co manžel na vyúčtování elektřiny :-D
@Archos
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Emmanuele Bassi

SBF is utterly convinced that if he just could explain how much money he siphoned off of a bunch of gullible investors and bagholders, he would totally be able to avoid ending up in jail forever.

davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2…


The beautiful mind of Sam Bankman-Fried

They want you to think they’re the next Steve Jobs. Somehow, they keep turning out to be Elizabeth Holmes.
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

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Gajim 1.8.2 has been released 🚀

Two months after the last release, Gajim 1.8.2 comes with better support for gateways 🌉 improved group chats 💬 ,an easy way to change the font size 🔍, and many small fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!

#gajim #xmpp #chat

gajim.org/post/2023-10-29-gaji…

Gajim 1.8.2

Two months after the last release, Gajim 1.8.2 comes with better support for gateways, improved group chats, an easy way to change the font size, and many small fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!
cal0pteryx (https://gajim.org/)
#xmpp #chat #gajim

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LibreOffice events in Nepal, Indonesia, Czechia, India, Mexico and more... Plus SVG improvements in the software! Find out more in our quick recap of October: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #events
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LibreOffice project and community recap: October 2023 - 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… We started by announcing the LibreOffice Nepali localization sprint 2023, which began on 11 October.
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#foss #opensource #events

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🎃👻 Seymour Licht's photos of subway Halloween costumes are a time capsule of terror
by Dominic Carter @DomCarterWriter at @creativeboom
#Photography #Halloween #costumes #SeymourLicht

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Woman dressed as Catwoman in the open door of the subway. Picture by Seymour Licht

Seymour Licht's photos of subway Halloween costumes are a time capsule of terror

Seymour Licht's photos of New York subway Halloween costumes are a time capsule of terror.
Creative Boom
#photography #halloween #costumes #seymourlicht

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This seems to be working even up to an hour ago: you can help Gazans get/stay connected by buying e-sims. One effort is by Mirna El Hebawi and you can send the purchased QR activation code to Gazaesims@gmail.com. I've seen people purchasing Airalo as well in addition to the ones mentioned here.

Another one is crowdfunding costs to buy e-sims: paypal.com/donate/?hosted_butt…

(Citations in below post)

@palestine #palestine #gaza #MutualAid

If you want to help in buying an eSIM: 1. You can purchase an e-SIM online from HolaFly, Simly, and Numero. 2. You will receive an email with a OR code, just send it to Gazaesims@gmail.com. 3. The OR code will be forwarded to someone in Gaza to help them stay connected! WE DON'T ACCEPT ANY MONEY, JUST E-SIMS
#MutualAid #palestine #Gaza @palestine group
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