Why they’re a dying company: More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI / AI is hugely important to Google’s products, & it sounds like the company relies on it internally, too.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says that more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI. He made the announcement on company’s third quarter 2024 earnings call.Jay Peters (The Verge)
What is "Amoc" and why is it so important?
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The dangers of a collapse of the main Atlantic Ocean circulation, known as Amoc, have been “greatly underestimated” and would have devastating and irreversible impacts, according to an open letter released by 44 experts from 15 countries.
There are indications that Amoc has been slowing down for the last 60 or 70 years due to global heating. The most ominous sign is the cold blob over the northern Atlantic. The region is the only place in the world that has cooled in the past 20 years or so, while everywhere else on the planet has warmed – a sign of reduced heat transport into that region, exactly what climate computer models have predicted in response to Amoc slowing as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
Another indicator is a reduction in the salt content of seawater. In the cold blob region, salinity is at its lowest level since measurements began 120 years ago. This is probably linked to Amoc slowing down and bringing less salty water and heat from the subtropics.
It is an amplifying feedback: as Amoc gets weaker, the oceans gets less salty, and as the oceans gets less salty, then Amoc gets weaker. At a certain point this becomes a vicious cycle which continues by itself until Amoc has died, even if we stop pushing the system with further emissions.
The big unknown here – the billion-dollar question – is how far away this tipping point is. It is very difficult to answer because the process is non-linear and would be triggered by subtle differences in salinity, which in turn depend on amounts of rainfall and cloud cover over the ocean as well as Greenland melting rates. These are hard to model accurately in computers so there is a big uncertainty relating to when the tipping point will be reached.
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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
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)
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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)
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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.
Humans are not yet done cooking.Michelle Starr (ScienceAlert)
But, the work of defining open source AI is far from done.LinuxToday
rip botsin space
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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
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.
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
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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)
#Catima 2.32.1 is out!
This fixes a regression in 2.32.0 which could break text display in the add dialog in non-English languages which I sadly missed in review: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…
It also contains some translation updates that were submitted between the last release and just now.
Coming soon to an app store near you :)
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 10 updated & 1 removed apps:
SwiftNotes had to be removed again due to license/copyright reasons (a fork without giving credits), it's repo is meanwhile unavailable too.
Updated apps include Catima, fixing a regression introduced with yesterday's update (yupp, @SylvieLorxu is fast with fixing and really taking care! 😍).
All 7 #reproducibleBuilds succeeded as well!
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
Apple this week updated several of its Mac product lines, as well as the Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad accessories. These Macs have been updated with variants of the M4 chip, the same chip that was introduced with the 2024 iPad Pro.www.applevis.com
Fedora Workstation 41 is the latest release of one of the leading providers of free, open source software, The Fedora Project. Upgrade today!Aoife Moloney (Fedora Project)
How to turn the new Mac mini on/off.
This is not a joke. I repeat, I’m not joking
Democrats on #Twitter are shocked—shocked!—to discover that a mysterious cloak of invisibility has descended over their messages.
LOL. Best design in the world.
M4 Mac Mini's Power Button Has New Bottom Location
(Narrator: it's underneath)
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The M4 Mac mini has an overhauled design that adds more ports in a slimmed down package, and to make everything fit, Apple needed a new place for the...Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsMatthew Hodgson (matrix.org)
If a friend loses her device again without having recovery, she has to abandon her account. Better to be upfront about this than to leave her in confusion as to why she's "banned", so a client should say:
> You've successfully signed in. Before you can send and receive messages with this device, you need to validate it using another device or a recovery passphrase.
> If you lost all devices where you were signed in and do not have a recovery passphrase, you should create a new account.
Apple unveils a Mac mini with a much smaller design, M4 and M4 Pro options, two front-facing USB-C ports, up to 64GB of RAM, and more, shipping Nov. 8 for $599+ (Chris Welch/The Verge)
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Apple’s new Mac Mini is unbelievably small, yet it packs more power than ever thanks to the included M4 processor.Chris Welch (The Verge)
You may not need it often, but this trick comes in handy when you do.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
Kali Linux drops the i386 kernel and images, starting with the 2024.4 release. Users should shift to amd64 for ongoing support and updates.LinuxToday
This weekend a story from ABC News on issues with audio transcription machine learning models did the rounds. “Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said”www.baldurbjarnason.com
The wait is over, videos from The Matrix Conference 2024 are here!
Find recordings, photos, press, and our sponsor prospectus for 2025 in the latest blog post: matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/mat…
#MatrixConf #Matrix #OpenSource #FOSS
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsJosh Simmons (matrix.org)
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Read this awesome article by @fergusosullivan
We couldn't have reviewed the Tuta Calendar any better! 😍
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Curious about Tuta’s new calendar app?Fergus O'Sullivan (How-To Geek)
@panoramax The number of 'panoramax'-tags has suddenly skyrocketed. Maybe cause I've moved about 10K pictures?
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Why move? Even though imgur hosts the images for now, they might delete it whenever they feel like. They suddenly cutoff our possibility to upload too. Loading an image from Imgur has a privacy imp...GitHub
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For clarity: we are moving all images which are on imgur and which have a clear license in the description. These are 99% images which were made with MapComplete.
Why? Imgur updated their TOS and we are now in violation of it. This means that they could simply delete the images overnight and/or cut off our API-access overnight - like they did cut off our access to upload new images. (Luckily, @thibaultmol sprang into action to setup a server and @pietervdvn implemented uploading)
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We moved about 10K images already, about 2.8% of all 'image'-tags in the #OpenStreetMap-database. All those moved images are made in Flanders.
There are 19K images hosted on Imgur, of which the vast majority (probably 18K) are made with MapComplete and will be moved soon.
If your app supports the image tag, it might be neat to start supporting panoramax too. See the wiki for details. OpenAEDMap just implemented it (see github.com/openstreetmap-polsk…, might not be live ATM)
❤️ Backend powering OpenAEDMap.org — an OpenStreetMap's life-saving AED map - Add support for panoramax · openstreetmap-polska/openaedmap-backend@c035154GitHub
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