Racism is systemic in Québec.
FYI It took the police 9 days to decide taking the time to boil water and throw it at a child is a crime...
AND NOW, she's out on bail. Must be nice to be white and pure laine, eh.
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/wo… #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #CAQASTROPHE
Biweekly is a terrible word.
-- Would you know if “biweekly” means twice a week or twice a month in this email?
Edit: Guys, the whole point is that it can mean both :P
The new version of Wagtail, v6.3, has been released.
How many release announcements kick off with a strong commitment to accessibility like this one?
"We're just a little obsessed with accessibility around here. Between our accessibility checker feature, the accessibility workshops we've hosted, the accessibility statistics we shout about, and the dedicated Accessibility page we have here on Wagtail.org, you may have noticed that. So, ..."
💙 @wagtail
wagtail.org/blog/wagtail-63/
Manage alt text like a pro and more with our latest Wagtail releaseWagtail CMS
Happy Friday! We celebrated by releasing Wagtail 6.3! ✨
This is our latest LTS release, so we packed a lot of great features into this one. Have a look. 👀
Manage alt text like a pro and more with our latest Wagtail releaseWagtail CMS
Thousands of people took to the streets after being duped by an AI-generated ad for a parade. The My Spirit Halloween website advertised the fake event.Lawrence Bonk (Engadget)
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger now Lunar Lake’s integrated memory turned out to be a financial mistake, and Intel won’t do it again.Sean Hollister (The Verge)
Quantum computers will one day outpace the fastest supercomputers on the planet, but what will they be used to accomplish?Edd Gent (Live Science)
Following comments on Google's earnings call about continuing cuts, employees wanted answers at the company's latest all-hands meeting.Jennifer Elias (CNBC)
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)
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
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)
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.)
Coresight AI has released a new product that sends alerts to store security when customers and staff have anomalous interactions.Todd Feathers (Gizmodo)
#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
Says this year's budget will be $60 billion, a 50-per-cent increase in six years.La Presse Canadienne (Montreal Gazette)
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…
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/366412380. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.Gist
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 
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
Fast and simple application for generating and comparison hashesIzzyOnDroid App Repo
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
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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
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Worksarchiveofourown.org
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."
...
“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)
Stéphanie
in reply to Stéphanie • • •You guys should follow French on this and do biweekly for twice a week and bimonthly for twice a month.
And every two weeks, for every two weeks.
(this is a joke)
Rick Scott 🏳️⚧️
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