Not just Big Bird: Things to know about the Center for Public Broadcasting and its funding cuts
https://apnews.com/article/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-pbs-funding-cuts-7b4c1aa10a98956aedf02360b3741bd1?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The Trump administration isn’t stopping at skepticism about climate change. It’s moving to bar any future administration from responding to it. Read more from @CNN:
Stop asking the spyware to solve your issues
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
OpenAI scrambles to remove personal ChatGPT conversations from Google results.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
[They] couldn’t fathom that Democrats–or regular people, like me–might have legitimate objections to indefinite detention of children. Or fake nurses in for-profit nursing homes. Or millions of people kicked off their health insurance. Or the long list of ways which this law will physically hurt us. […] What a pathetic flock of sheep the house Republicans are. They knew what they were doing was wrong, on a few different levels, and they did it anyway.
Jennifer Briney does us the public service of actually reading all 840 pages of the One Big Beautiful Bill act, then tells us what’s in it. I guarantee with 100% certainty that your favorit journalist, talking head, politics blogger, youtuber, substacker et al have not done this. They know nothing. Be smarter than them. Listen. Then, GIVE HER SOME MONEY!
Then tell your friends. congressionaldish.com/cd320-on…
The One Big Beautiful Bill is now officially law, ushering in a sweeping wave of reforms that promise to reshape the nation. In this episode, we unpack theLibsynOnPublish (Congressional Dish)
The Windows App SDK is the most recent evolution of the native Windows app development platform. But it's been largely ignored by Microsoft.Paul Thurrott (Thurrott.com)
How do you say "we just want your data and don't care about you as a human", without using these exact words?
Well… in that case, the error code gives me ideas which might be comparable indecent, related to a degree of Fahrenheit 🔥 🙊 💨
> access cannot be granted
@IzzyOnDroid that's passive-aggressive voice right there 
Hahaha, LOL… OK. Recommendation: make that a 451 worldwide, maybe, dear site owner?
(saw the page. The content I came for was maybe 20% of the page. The rest was ads and clickbait for other articles there – so they were maybe right in saying that a decent human being should rather stay away… 🙈 )
So I'm thinking of adding support for %time{} in #curl's -w function.
One reason for doing this is for users who use -w for logging and want to include the time of the event (post-transfer) in a convenient way.
github.com/curl/curl/pull/1811…
Feel free to share your opinion!
Output the current UTC time using strftime format. %f is an extra curl specific flag to output the microsecond fraction of the current second. TODO decide if we want this at all is the strftime ...GitHub
Comcast Corporation, the nation’s largest cable and internet provider, reported a significant loss of 226,000 broadband subscribers in the second quarter of 2025, intensifying concerns about the growing trend of “Cord-Cutting 2.0.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
How the Foundation combated abuse over the last 12 months, new T&S working groups, and an open data powered map of academic Matrix instances!
It's dangerous to go alone, take This Week in Matrix with you! matrix.org/blog/2025/08/01/thi…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
The Gray Area with Sean Illing · EpisodeWhat if humans went extinct next Friday? (Spotify)
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#210 Periodic Updates
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…
Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to weekthisweek.gnome.org
The Datasaurus Dozen is one of the most amusing datasets I've ever seen. Mean and standard deviation: same. X Y correlation: same!
Images: different!
How to lie with statistics. And dinosaurs.
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AUTODESK RESEARCH | Why graphical representation and visualization are so important to understand statistical data.Autodesk Research
#dobrýVečer
Polícia zadržala dvoch mužov, sudca ich vzal oboch do väzby.Aktuality.sk
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I finally have cross-platform (Linux/Mac/Win) release files for my reverb plugin! I wrote today about setting up a CMake build process (instead of Projucer/Xcode) and using GitHub actions to compile each version:
reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/202…
You can get the latest version here: github.com/reillypascal/RSAlgo…
#JUCE #Cpp #CPlusPlus #Audio #MusicProduction #Programming #Coding
Retro algorithmic reverb plugin in JUCE with multiple algorithms (including emulations of classic hardware) and more to come. - reillypascal/RSAlgorithmicVerbGitHub
Someone or something at Google started to hallucinate that #Quicksy is collecting the user's email address and would not approve the app update until we declared that in our data policy.
The sign up process in Quicksy hasn't changed in 7 years. I don't even know where the user would enter their email address and I'm not aware of an API that collects this automatically.
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"A 2023 study found that a single Chat GPT-3 request processed at an Arizona data center uses about 30 milliliters of water, compared to 12 ml per request in Wyoming. That doesn’t seem like much (it’s less than a shot-glass) until you consider that there are at least 1 billion ChatGPT queries worldwide per day and growing, using a total of some 8 million gallons of water daily, worldwide."
coyotegulch.blog/2025/07/31/no…
A satellite view of Mesa, Arizona, showing a handful of the 91 energy- and water-intensive data centers in the greater Phoenix metro area. Source: Google Earth. Click the link to read the article o…Coyote Gulch
Unpopular opinion? AI is way out of control. One of many reasons:
"AI Data Centers in Texas Used 463 Million Gallons of Water, Residents Told to Take Shorter Showers"
techiegamers.com/texas-data-ce…
Texas has long been defined by oil, heat, and huge infrastructure projects. Now, it’s also at the center of a growing environmental debate.Keith Anthony (Techie + Gamers)
Hey.... wanna be my manager?
Come work on the SpiderMonkey team @ Mozilla!
Manage amazing engineers that are also fun :)
Currently listed for Remote Canada, Germany, France, UK
My week: lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel…
vacation, laptop, how I do, death by slop, 8.15.0, EU-STF, msh3, --out-null, equals sign, parallel-max-host, FrOSCon, Open Source Summit Europe, Day Two DevOps, Security, cheat sheet
You buy a new iPhone and your wallet cries. You wake up in your bed and believe that you have to buy a new phone every year. Or, you take the repair pill and you stay on iFixit.com and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
#Matrix #redpillbluepill #iFixit #repair
Microsoft just became the second company valued at over $4 trillion. How did they do that?
They fired over 15K developers and IT workers this year, saying cost cutting was needed. They also spent over $18 billion on stock buybacks, and the board approved $60 billion in buyback options. They poured $100 billion into AI.
Meanwhile, Microsoft's Satya Nadella says job cuts have been 'weighing heavily' on him cnbc.com/amp/2025/07/24/micros…
Seriously? I am speechless. Such a brilliant business model 🤡
Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/24/nob…
Remember somebody got a promotion and/or bonus for that at Google.
Google claims the AI Overview on every search result — a frequently-wrong summary of other people’s work — sends a ton of clicks back to the original publishers they ripped off. This is false. Pew …Pivot to AI
Wonder if the Canadian Digital Services Tax will be resurrected.
Canada dropped it to appease Trump but it doesn't appear to have made any difference.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
#usa #canada #tariff #digitalservices #trump
Decision, described by Mark Carney as ‘disappointing’, comes amid escalating trade tensions between the two countriesRobert Mackey (The Guardian)
In diesem Video erkläre ich euch, wie ihr durch das Hinterlegen einer Mail-Adresse eine Möglichkeit für einen Passwort-Reset für eure XMPP-Adresse bei conversations.im schafft.
Der verwendete Link aus dem Video ist: account.conversations.im/login…
In what should have been called "falsehoods programmers believe about TV program (or should I say programme?) metadata."
Incredibly interesting stuff, if you're into that sort of thing.
Most programmers should be required to design an architecture for a system like this at some point, and then shown this post to realize how many incorrect assumptions they made.
This is a post I've been meaning to write for the last 7 years. In the circumstances it might be more of a eulogy than a birth announcement but since the sub...smethur.st
Stay #anonymous & private with Tuta Mail's #aliases 😎
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✅ What email aliases are
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Give it a read 👉 tuta.com/blog/secure-email-ali…
Learn how additional email addresses can increase your security, protect your identity, and significantly reduce spam issues. Plus: Get multiple aliases with Tuta Mail today!Tuta
Is it possible to prevent the contents of the blog from being automatically translated into another language? Could you just provide a translation link for people who need it?
I live in Taiwan, and the automatic translation is really poor and annoying.
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Photo from the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 This is a translation of the Japanese post: The LibreOffice Asia Conference Committee is pleased to invite proposals for talks at the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025, which will be held in Tokyo, Japan…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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#curl adds parallel host control
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/08/01…
I'm convinced a lot of people have not yet figured out that curl has supported parallel downloads for six years already by now. Provided a practically unlimited number of URLs, curl can be asked to get them in a parallel fashion.daniel.haxx.se
and what is the default value of N? ;)
”It then makes sure to keep N transfers alive for as long as there is N or more transfers left to complete, where X is a custom number but 50 by default.”
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in reply to Drew Mochak • • •All just to live and work here legally, a thing Republicans claim to want. Why? TO be mean and evil. Because they are mean and evil.
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