A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones
Link: arstechnica.com/health/2024/11…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
It turns out you may not have needed those implants after all.Ars Contributors (Ars Technica)
Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as the "infinite monkey theorem".Hannah Ritchie (BBC News)
It's been over two years since the initial release of the CLAP API for making audio effects and virtual instruments. Has the project been successful? Let's find out!
librearts.org/2024/11/clap-api…
Let’s take a look at the evolution of the project and its adoption by developers of DAWs and plugins alike.Alexandre Prokoudine (Libre Arts)
Daniel's weekly report November 1, 2024
lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel…
FOSDEM, ABI, source code age, release prep, hackerone, slowember, deleting cookies, rock-solid, MVP
Apple Intelligence takes things a little bit too far sometimes.Nelson Aguilar (CNET)
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Teaching how to create sketchnotes is one of my big passions, but nothing compares the joy when seeing others thrive with it! @acbdev created a sketchnote for my talk from this week, and I couldn’t be any prouder. I mean look at it!!! Thank you so much Anna ❤️ I love it!
Printed ✅
Hung on my wall ✅
#sketchnote #PragmaConf24
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The Global Voice's Chat Room Welcome to The Global Voice's text-based chat room, where you can communicate with DJs and other listeners live! Rules We ask that you please keep the following rules in mind: Keep the discussion family friendly.The Global Voice
Everyone should read the brilliant @emptywheel 's new piece on Musk and X/Twitter. We know what he has done over there is bad, but the depths of the criminal depravity can only be described as horrific. Empywheel has been on the case for over a decade, and has done a great job of laying it out here:
emptywheel.net/2024/11/01/elon…
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, one of Trump's most gleeful supporters, has set up a one-stop shop: Joining false claims about the election with networks of fascists who'll take to the streets.emptywheel
"Jezz Bezos and Elon Musk emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average human does in their entire life."
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“Half of the world’s emissions come from the richest 10% of people. The wealthiest 1% by income account for 16% of emissions, which is more than the poorest two-thirds of people in the world,”
gizmodo.com/billionaires-are-t…
#inequality #CarbonFootprint
A new study found that half of the world’s carbon emissions come from the richest 10% of people.Matthew Gault (Gizmodo)
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Miniflux is a minimalist and opinionated feed readerminiflux.app
Miniflux is fantastic. I have been running a private instance for years without issues, except when reddit blocks it.
On the Mac, you can use NetNewsWire, which uses the Googld Reader API integration, it works quite well.
“Oxfam identified 23 superyachts owned by 18 billionaires and estimates the average annual carbon footprint of each of these yachts to be 5,672 tonnes, which is more than three times the emissions of the #billionaires’ private jets... This is equivalent to 860 years of emissions for the average person in the world, and 5,600 times the average of someone in the global poorest 50%.”
gizmodo.com/billionaires-are-t…
A new study found that half of the world’s carbon emissions come from the richest 10% of people.Matthew Gault (Gizmodo)
RIPE Atlas is the RIPE NCC's main Internet data measurement system.atlas.ripe.net
A RIPE Meeting is a five-day event where Internet Service Providers (ISPs), network operators and other interested parties from all over the world gather.ripe89.ripe.net
Here’s your chance to learn new skills for a potential future career change, or expand your knowledge and have fun on the way: get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2024! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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By all means, email me about your piano.
Ever seen the posts on Facebook from parents wanting to give away their PS5? Ever wanted to know who's really behind them? This video will show you.Young peo...YouTube
“El president de la Generalitat dijo a las 13.00 horas en un vídeo que la Dana se debilitaba a las 18.00 y se iba a Cuenca, cuando los expertos y los meteorólogos de todas las televisiones insitían en lo contrario. Se congratuló públicamente de que no hubiera “alerta hidrológica” poco después de que su propio departamento de Emergències la hiciera pública.”
At #FOSDEM 2025, for the first time, we will be hosting the Android Open Source Devroom, bringing together developers working on the open source components of Android operating system and associated board support packages
We are looking for speakers: aosp-devs.org/fosdem25-cfp.htm…
But, don't wait too long before submitting a proposal - the CfP ends 1st December!
reminder: the Luddites were not anti-*technology*. They were anti-*factory owners firing weavers and replacing them with lower-paid loom workers*. They could have retrained the weavers and kept their pay high, but bosses gonna boss. We are all Luddites today.
The name later became a slur because the bosses won, and used propaganda to hide the history, and because smashing looms is a dramatic symbol, and humans like retelling dramatic stories, not depressing facts.
Apple refuses to give iPhone 15/15 Pro AI features the $500 iPhone SE 4 will have. The excuses keep getting weirder.Martin Filipov (PhoneArena)
Microsoft says it needs more time to cook its controversial Recall feature. This time, it plans a public test for December 2024.Taras Buria (Neowin)
With five days left until Election Day, the candidates are making a last-minute pitch to Latino voters in Arizona and Nevada — talking about border security, one of the biggest issues for the campaign.apple.news
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