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Open Source Bites Back as China’s Military Makes Full Use of Meta's Llama 2 AI Model gizmodo.com/open-source-bites-…

Open Source Bites Back as China’s Military Makes Full Use of Meta's Llama 2 AI Model

China’s People’s Liberation Army is using Llama 13B for military applications. That’s against the acceptable use policy, but there’s no way to put the AI back in the bottle.
Matthew Gault (Gizmodo)

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Along with flash floods, we're also dealing with flash droughts — a new term for me.

"Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of US"
phys.org/news/2024-10-bone-dry…

h/t @primonatura
#drought #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming


Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of US

A bone-dry October is pushing nearly half of the United States into a flash drought, leading to fires in the Midwest and hindering shipping on the Mississippi River.
Seth Borenstein (Phys.org)
#climatechange #globalwarming #drought @Primo Natura

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Oh thank god I have a reason to stop being nice to the fucking Walmart greeter.

“Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You”
gizmodo.com/facial-recognition…

(This is clearly me making a joke — I don’t go to Walmart; I have to harass the greeter at their home.)


Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You

Coresight AI has released a new product that sends alerts to store security when customers and staff have anomalous interactions.
Todd Feathers (Gizmodo)

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#CAQASTROPHE! The CAQ pissed away an inherited surplus on its wishlist, which didn't include healthcare spending, and now the CAQ healthcare minister says healthcare spending is becoming untenable... and 1M+ Quebeckers STILL DO NOT HAVE A FAMILY DOCTOR.

montrealgazette.com/news/quebe… #assnat #QCpoli #polQC #cdnpoli #polcan #CAQBS #CAQLIES


Quebec's health-care costs are becoming untenable, Dubé warns

Says this year's budget will be $60 billion, a 50-per-cent increase in six years.
La Presse Canadienne (Montreal Gazette)
#cdnpoli #assnat #polqc #caqastrophe #qcpoli #polcan #caqbs #caqlies

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So... this was a fun compiler bug: the D8 Java to DEX compiler (part of the Android toolchain) eliminated a redundant field load if running the class's static initialiser was known to be free of side effects, which ended up accidentally depending on the sharding of the input, which is dependent on the number of CPU cores used during the build.

issuetracker.google.com/issues…

I made a small example to illustrate why this optimisation is only valid when the class initialiser doesn't have side effects (or the initialiser is guaranteed to have run already, which is the case for a base class of the current one):

gist.github.com/obfusk/8382214…

#ReproducibleBuilds


issuetracker.google.com/issues/366412380

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/366412380. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Gist
#reproduciblebuilds

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Welcome to the RB family, Hash Checker 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.s…

Hash Checker is an app for generating and comparison MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 and CRC-32 hashes from files or text. Thanks to the efforts by its dev, today's release is now RB :awesome:

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid

„Hash Checker“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Fast and simple application for generating and comparison hashes
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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We’re excited to announce a new Access Partnership with Walmart! Learn more about it here: aira.io/aira-at-walmart/
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#AccessibleRetail #InclusiveShopping #DisabilityAccess #OnMyTerms #AccessForAll
A blue Walmart storefront sign is centered. Above, the text reads, "Aira and Walmart Announce Pilot Program," followed by the subtitle, "The Newest and Most Requested Access Partner." Below the storefront image, the locations "California," "Texas," and "Florida" are listed in bold with dots separating them. The bottom section has a yellow banner featuring the Aira logo.

Access Aira at Walmart! Download Now.

Aira is now available at every Walmart location in California, Florida, and Texas! Learn how on-demand visual interpreting can enhance your shopping experience.
Aira
#accessforall #accessibleretail #inclusiveshopping #disabilityaccess #onmyterms

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'Infinite monkey theorem' challenged by Australian mathematicians "...if given an infinite amount of time, a monkey pressing keys on a typewriter would eventually write the complete works of William Shakespeare.
Known as the "infinite monkey theorem", the thought-experiment has long been used to explain the principles of probability and randomness." bbc.com/news/articles/c748kmvw…

'Infinite monkey theorem' challenged by Australian mathematicians

Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as the "infinite monkey theorem".
Hannah Ritchie (BBC News)

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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…


CLever Audio Plugin API two years later

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)

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🕒Z #NowPlaying If you like the sound of new #country, then join Chrissie Cochrane at the top of the hour for Chrissie's Country:: the best in new country with some old favourites thrown in the mix. Get in touch via our text message board at theglobalvoice.info/chatroom and listen at theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio #folk #rock 🎶🎹🎸🎻🪕🤠🛻

Chatroom - The Global Voice

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
#rock #nowplaying #folk #tgvradio #country

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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's Machine for Fascism: A One-Stop Shop for Disinformation and Violence - emptywheel

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
@emptywheel

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"Jezz Bezos and Elon Musk emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average human does in their entire life."
...
“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


Billionaires Are the One Case Where Personal Choices Can Affect Climate Change

A new study found that half of the world’s carbon emissions come from the richest 10% of people.
Matthew Gault (Gizmodo)
#inequality #carbonfootprint

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Gentle, biannual reminder that RSS is great and can be another tool in your toolbox to curate your online experience, improve mental health, and stay informed. It's also a much more accessible way to consume news if you have a client that handles full-text extraction. I've just updated my public list of RSS feeds after going nearly a whole year without doing so: tristanb.me/feeds/. this is a comprehensive list of most of the feeds that I follow, split up by category. #RSS #accessibility

RSS Feeds

tristanb.me
#Accessibility #RSS

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Tristan

@simon I self-host miniflux.app/ and use lire on mobile, which has native support for Miniflux out of the box. Lire provides native push notifications and the ability to edit, add, or remove feeds/folders, and the Miniflux web app is an exemplary experience with great keyboard support when on desktop. I haven't changed this setup in years and it just works™️.

Miniflux - Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader

Miniflux is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader
miniflux.app
@Simon Jaeger

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“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%.”

#ClimateEmergency

gizmodo.com/billionaires-are-t…


Billionaires Are the One Case Where Personal Choices Can Affect Climate Change

A new study found that half of the world’s carbon emissions come from the richest 10% of people.
Matthew Gault (Gizmodo)
#climateemergency #billionaires

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Wow, what an email: "Congratulations! Your #RIPE Atlas probe XXXX is 10 years old!" - I got this probe from @Oskar456 at #OpenAlt This does not have much publicity, so you may read about it (and get one) at atlas.ripe.net/probes/public

RIPE Atlas - RIPE Network Coordination Centre

RIPE Atlas is the RIPE NCC's main Internet data measurement system.
atlas.ripe.net
#openalt #ripe @Ondřej Caletka

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November is here – so what are you going to do this month? How about learning new things and joining the #LibreOffice project? We can help you to get started – and you can grab cool merchandise too: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #freesoftware
Month of LibreOffice banner, saying: Build your skills and meet new people

Starting today: The Month of LibreOffice, November 2024! 🎉 - The Document Foundation Blog

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)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #libreoffice

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“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.”

eldiario.es/comunitat-valencia…


Mazón negó en un tuit que hubiera "alerta hidrológica" y peligro de desbordamiento 50 minutos después de que su propio Gobierno lo publicara en redes

Raquel Ejerique (elDiario.es)

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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!

aosp-devs.org

Creating a community for AOSP developers
aosp-devs.org
#fosdem
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