David Airlie, Red Hat kernel maintainer, about the Rust-for-Linux drama: "if people start acting as active roadblocks to work, rather than sideline commentators who we can ignore, then I will ask Linus to step in and remove roadblocks"
Discussions: discu.eu/q/lwn.net/Articles/98…
#linux #programming #rustlang #unix
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Since Jill Stein only shows up every 4 years I wanted to quickly remind everyone, not just of this photo, but how notoriously difficult to it is to have access to war criminal Vladimir Putin, let alone *a seat at a table with him*. Backing Jill Stein is willful ignorance.
#music #митол #Евровидение #kb
Gåte была основана в 1999 году в Трёнделаге, Норвегия. Группа быстро завоевала популярность благодаря своему уникальному стилю, который сочетает традиционную норвежскую народную музыку с элементами рока и электроники. Их дебютный альбом "Jygri" (2002) стал коммерческим прорывом, особенно в Скандинавии и Германии. После нескольких успешных релизов и туров группа взяла перерыв в 2005 году, но вернулась в 2017 году с новым материалом и концертами. В 2024 году Gåte представила Норвегию на конкурсе Евровидение с песней "Ulveham".
Gåte известна своим уникальным сочетанием норвежской народной музыки с элементами рока, металла и электроники. Их музыка часто описывается как прогрессивный фолк-рок. Вокал Гуннхильд Сундли и использование традиционных норвежских инструментов придают их звучанию особую атмосферу и глубину.
На «Евровидении '24» ребята и девчата дали понять: для того, чтобы исполнять музыку, не обязательно наряжаться в одежду противоположного гендера и исполнять клоунаду.
Конец немного предсказуем: заняли почетное последнее 25-е место...
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Covenant of Water: A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Audible
Welcome to the RB family, MTG Familiar 🥳
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"MTG Familiar" is a collection of utilities for the "Magic: The Gathering" trading card game, including a searchable offline database …
To folks in the fediverse working in Islamic Studies (broadly conceived), some colleagues of mine, Jonathan Parkes Allen and Taimoor Shahid, are conducting a survey on Digital Humanities and Islamic Studies. They're not just looking for people who consider themselves DH practitioners, but rather "anyone using digital resources and tools" in studying the Islamicate world. If that's you, then please check it out!
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Can someone remind me why we paid to build a Novavax factory in Montreal?
the one who spend your tax dollars in the hundreds of million to cancel a contract of exclusivity to the oligarchs that should never have existed in the first place.
but I digress.
![Image description] two panel comic made with screenshots from the show Invincible
[Panel 1] Omni-man and Invincible look at the sky, where is superimposed a graphical representation of how a floating point number is stored in memory on digital systems: a sign, an exponent, and a mantissa.
[Panel 2] Omni-man looks at and speaks to Invincible, the subtitles reading "Look at what they need to mimic a fraction". The rest of the usual quote, "of our power" is blanked out.
Thanks @Siph](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/588208 "Image description] two panel comic made with screenshots from the show Invincible
[Panel 1] Omni-man and Invincible look at the sky, where is superimposed a graphical representation of how a floating point number is stored in memory on digital systems: a sign, an exponent, and a mantissa.
[Panel 2] Omni-man looks at and speaks to Invincible, the subtitles reading \"Look at what they need to mimic a fraction\". The rest of the usual quote, \"of our power\" is blanked out.
Thanks @Siph")
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Next @thunderbird live streaming session is happening this Friday!
youtube.com/watch?v=-tFxa5PZ_H…
#thunderbird #live #coding #design
I've been running mail servers and writing email software since the dialup days of 1995. I guess by today's trends, that could brand me a holdout.
But we're still hosting mail for hundreds of company domains across dozens of mail servers, all in a nicely packaged system that's always just an "apt install" away.
The landscape has changed over time, and, yes, it is annoying dealing with the imbalance that the behemoth mail providers represent these days.
But there's a lot to be said for not bargaining away your digital autonomy.
I saw @mwl selling his "Run Your Own Mail Server" book and jumped to pick up a copy. Not so much because I had a need for it (though it'll be interesting to compare notes!), but because I strongly support the idea that email is still a shared ecosystem and love that Michael is sharing the knowledge to encourage folks to continue to participate.
Long live the open Internet.
Only now learning about Susan Banks, a prominent #accessibility advocate who "regularly interacted with [large game development studios], pushing for better options and designs", "helped to revolutionize games journalism", and even had an award named after her.
Apparently, she never actually existed.
ign.com/articles/a-prominent-a…
#news
Calling for the help of the fediverse!
Help spread the word of our browser extension Consent-O-Matic that helps automate answering those ever-present cookie consent pop-ups.
It's developed by researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark and free to use for Chrome/Edge, Firefox and Safari including for iOS.
Also, it's open source, so if you have a bit of technical skill, you can help us improve the rule set for greater coverage.
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Really enjoyed this blog post by @graydon talking about the lesser-known Xerox Alto descendent, the PERQ
The Fujifilm X100VI delays
It occurred to me recently that a video is a three dimensional array of pixels that we view in slices along one axis.
And what if we viewed it along a different axis?
Like a well-known 1920 wide x 1040 tall x 483 frames film opener as 1920 wide x 483 tall x 1040 frames?
🚨 Ever spoken about something and the next minute you're getting an advert about it on your smartphone? Almost like your phone is listening..
Well, evidence claims that Meta, Microsoft, Google and Amazon could all be listening!
For more details 👉 👉404media.co/heres-the-pitch-de…
#Meta #Amazon #Microsoft #Google #CMG #CMGpitch #Bigtech #Activelistening
From @mmasnick: techdirt.com/2024/09/05/second…
"Even though this outcome was always a strong possibility, the final ruling is just incredibly damaging, especially in that it suggests that all libraries are bad for authors and cause them to no longer want to write. I only wish I were joking. Towards the end of the ruling (as we’ll get to below) it says that while having freely lent out books may help the public in the “short-term” the “long-term” consequences would be that “there would be little motivation to produce new works.”"
"there would be little motivation to produce new works" without profit motive?
the ENTIRE FANWORK INTERNET WOULD DISAGREE, which is probably, by quantity, a sizeable if not majority of fiction writing in the past 2 decades, it contains some of humanity's longest works!
"Tragically, the Court then undermines the important ruling in the Betamax/VCR case that found “time shifting” (recording stuff off your TV) to be fair use, even as it absolutely was repackaging the same content for the same purpose. The Court says that doesn’t matter because it “predated our use of the word ‘transformative’ as a term of art.” But that doesn’t wipe out the case as a binding precedent, even though the Court here acts as though it does."
It's also really bad and is going to hurt a lot of other things about digital preservation and being able to copy/backup/record stuff if the courts now start to decide that recording TV never should have counted as fair use :\
also, libraries aren't a charity, they're a public service
the anti-IA people say the IA allows anybody to borrow while "real" libraries exist for the poor but that's not the purpose of a library & RL libraries don't just exist as charity for the poor
we as a society have lost the concept of what a public service is, we only see things in terms of profit and charity
public libraries exist b/c our societies decided that access to culture, to information, to knowledge, and to a public space that preserves those things is a public good, it's something everybody should have
public libraries are not and should not be a charity that we only minimally fund b/c some people are too poor to partake in capitalism and therefore need a little handout so they can get smarter to partake in capitalism
I've ranted at length about how I think it's utterly fucked up that RENFE put security checks on their high speed trains. And when people ask why I care I've mentioned not being able to bring a knife on the train with me.
"But why do you need a knife on a train?"
Well on this train I've used it to make me lunch. Cutting open some bread, and slicing cheese. I also used the scissors to cut the elastic in my new cycle cap.
Small knives like this are a useful tool that I often carry.
OK maybe not, I have too many cameras. The 5DMKI i have is amazing except for the loud shutter noise but then i have other cameras
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