Happy 25th Birthday Wikipedia! 🥳 🎂
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Feminist Linux Meetups Vienna
4.2. Text wrangling with Vim
4.3. LaTeX hangout
1.4. Alternative input sources for computing
6.5. Intro to Cryptography
3.6. Soldering Workshop
https://feminist-linux.diebin.at/category/termine/
#vienna #wien #linux #floss #latex #soldering #vim #crypto #cryptography #flintA #austria #meetup #meetings #feminism #feminist
"A concept known as the Szilard point helps to contextualize the issues arising from excessive competition for grants. Named after the Hungarian-born physicist Leo Szilard, who wrote a short story [1] satirizing the bureaucratic nature of scientific funding, this metric describes the threshold at which the total cost of competing for a grant equals (or surpasses) the value of the available funding. These costs are incurred by scientists in writing proposals, by their peers in reviewing them and by the administrative systems that run the process. The question is, which costs more: the research being funded, or the application process itself?"
https://web.archive.org/web/20260115084352/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04060-x
[1] https://www.gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr/~pierre.comon/FichiersPdf/theMarkGableFoundation.pdf
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AWS lanceert vandaag hun "Europese cloud", en @Marloezovic van @nrc_nl vraagt goed door: "Ik hoopte op een ja/nee-antwoord op de vraag of jullie zekerheid kunnen geven?" "„Ik ben niet de beste om die vraag te beantwoorden. Daar moeten we op terugkomen.” De vraag bleef ook in de uren na het interview onbeantwoord.". https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/01/15/een-volledig-soevereine-europese-cloud-geleverd-door-een-amerikaans-techbedrijf-het-kan-bezweert-amazon-a4917563?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=clipboard&utm_campaign=share&utm_term=share-modal&gift_token=4917563~1769073203~xaUY7O7bRbydGeZo43Zzfw~IRSkkiRZibs73Xz7QW6tGaD-DSLgWg9m1Y5vnsHb7TY
LogTape 2.0.0 released!
LogTape is a zero-dependency logging library for JavaScript/TypeScript that works across Deno, Node.js, Bun, and browsers.
What's new in 2.0.0:
lazy()for dynamic context:with()now supports values that are evaluated at logging time, not when the logger is created. Child loggers inherit the lazy wrapper, so they always see the current value.- Configuration from files: New
@logtape/configpackage lets you load logging configuration from JSON, YAML, or TOML instead of writing TypeScript code. - Better error logging: Pass
Errorobjects directly tologger.error(err)instead of wrapping them in properties. - Async lazy evaluation: Logging methods now accept async callbacks for expensive async operations.
isEnabledFor()method: Check if a log level is enabled before running expensive computations.- Time-based log rotation: Rotate logs daily, hourly, or weekly with automatic cleanup of old files.
- New integrations: Elysia framework support and log4js adaptor.
L'India contro le consegne in dieci minuti
https://www.ilpost.it/2026/01/15/india-consegne-rapide-delivery/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su News @news-ilPost
I didn’t even realize how long I had been waiting for a tool like this! Adam Kucharski (https://bsky.app/profile/adamjkucharski.bsky.social), professor of Epidemiology and Mathematics in London, developed a simple web tool to extract numerical data directly from plots embedded in PDFs. Extremely useful for, e.g., revisiting published figures when raw data are unavailable.
🌍 https://adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
📼 by Adam Kucharski
📢 La Commission Européenne 🇪🇺 veut définir sa stratégie sur l’ouverture et les #LogicielsLibres. Dans ce cadre, elle fait un appel à contributions auquel chacun est libre de participer pour apporter de quoi enrichir la réflexion de l’institution.
⚠️ L’appel est ouvert jusqu’au 3 février.
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-Ecosystemes-numeriques-ouverts-europeens_fr
#️⃣ #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #Europe
Il est important de lutter pour que tous les enfants puissent accéder à l’école, sans discrimination ni blocage administratif. Le droit à l'éducation doit être reconnu et garanti pour chacun-e, conformément à la Convention internationale des droits de l'enfant !
25 anni fa nasceva #Wikipedia, l’#enciclopedia online libera e collaborativa grazie ai contenuti di volontari da tutto il mondo.
In un contributo per #LCdM, Mirko Tavosanis esplora il linguaggio delle voci di Wikipedia in italiano, una risorsa chiave per scuola e università, collegandolo alla tradizione della semplificazione #linguistica e alla #didattica della scrittura.
Disponibile qui in #OpenAccess: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/LCdM/article/view/14060?mtm_campaign=mastodon
The era of hybrid warfare:
Poland successfully warded off a massive Russian cyberattack on its powergrid over Christmas.
“Russia’s digital tanks are already here.”
Die #Wikipedia feiert heute Geburtstag!
Die @uniinnsbruck gratuliert mit einem kleinen Geschenk 🎁: 25 Bilder aus dem Forschungsalltag, zur Verfügung gestellt auf Wikimedia Commons unter freier Lizenz https://w.wiki/HSk9
📸 : Universität Innsbruck | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.de
DigiD MAG NIET IN AMERIKAANSE HANDEN VALLEN
De Amerikaanse techgigant Kyndryl wil de Nederlandse IT-dienstverlener Solvinity overnemen. Dat roept fundamentele vragen op over onze digitale autonomie. Solvinity beheert immers de infrastructuur achter #DigiD, het systeem waarmee burgers zich digitaal bij allerlei Nederlandse overheidsinstanties, waaronder de Belastingdienst en ook verzekeraars en zorg- en dienstverleners kunnen identificeren. DigiD is wettelijk aangemerkt als een dienst die van vitaal belang is voor onze samenleving.
Kyndryl heeft zich bij het Bureau Toetsing Investering (BTI) van het ministerie van EZK gemeld en BTI moet nu toetsen of die overname door de beugel kan. De vraag is of deze toetsing überhaupt plaatsvindt, maar daarover doet BTI geen mededelingen. Over de inhoud van een eventueel genomen toetsingsbesluit kunnen burgers niets te weten komen.
Daarom heeft een coalitie van experts en belangenbehartigers, te weten @marleenstikker Stikker, wim voermans, Esther van Egerschot, Maxim Februari, Joris Luyendijk, Felienne Hermans, Sander Schimmelpenninck, @bert_hubert, Karin Spaink, Kees Verhoeven, Jelle Postma, Caroline Nevejan, Reijer Passchier, ikzelf, stichting Privacy First en de stichting #Firewall, op maandag 12 januari een brandbrief naar BTI gestuurd. Daarin dringen wij met spoed aan op informatie over het toetsingsproces, zodat wij als belanghebbende burgers bij dat proces betrokken kunnen worden.
calling my 90s people: this pic looks to me like a specific album cover, maybe?--but which one?
(also timeline cleanse)
@inquiline Definitely a few on this list (though nothing jumping out at me from the 90s, a few from 2005-2010 look pretty similar though) https://rateyourmusic.com/list/dms_aardvark/album_covers_featuring_trees/
"#ICE does not move like the gestapo, they move like slave patrols."
This is home grown terrorism..
Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTb2VBJkUim/
I can't unsee this now. I can't unsee slaver behavior in #ICE tactics. It makes way more sense, the Gestapo were copying *them*.
Douglas Adams once said something, answering a question from a fan about whether Arthur Dent was a “hero”, and whether the Hitchhiker stories were “gaily whimsical” or cynical. The whole thing won't fit here (see: https://shreevatsa.net/post/douglas-adams-cultural-divide/) but quoting the main part:
> I suspect there is a cultural divide at work here. In England our heroes tend to be characters who either have, or come to realise that they have, no control over their lives whatsoever – Pilgrim, Gulliver, Hamlet, Paul Pennyfeather (from Decline and Fall), Tony Last (from A Handful of Dust). We celebrate our defeats and our withdrawals – the Battle of Hastings, Dunkirk, almost any given test match. There was a wonderful book published, oh, about twenty years ago I think, by Stephen Pile called the Book of Heroic Failures. It was staggeringly huge bestseller in England and sank with heroic lack of trace in the U.S. Stephen explained this to me by saying that you cannot make jokes about failure in the States. It’s like cancer, it just isn’t funny at any level. In England, though, for some reason it’s the thing we love most. So Arthur may not seem like much of a hero to Americans – he doesn’t have any stock options, he doesn’t have anything to exchange high fives about round the water-cooler. But to the English, he is a hero. Terrible things happen to him, he complains about it a bit quite articulately, so we can really feel it along with him - then calms down and has a cup of tea. My kind of guy!
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> I’ve hit a certain amount of difficulty over the years in explaining this in Hollywood. I’m often asked ‘Yes, but what are his goals?’ to which I can only respond, well, I think he’d just like all this to stop, really. It’s been a hard sell.
Video: Governor Walz Addresses Ongoing Federal Presence in Minnesota | 5:55
This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.
Instead of conducting an impartial investigation... the Trump administration is devoting the full power of the federal government to finding an excuse to attack the victim and her family.
Hooray for Santa Cruz #California. More communities can live without #surveillance.
Santa Cruz the First in California to Terminate Its Contract With Flock Safety | KQED
https://www.kqed.org/news/12069705/santa-cruz-the-first-in-california-to-terminate-its-contract-with-flock-safety
This is utterly incredible address by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz
Historic
RE: https://vt.social/@lina/115894482351105982
I say "Spout2 on Linux" because that's easy to understand, but it doesn't really work like that!
This is native Linux frame sharing using PipeWire, plus a Spout2 to PipeWire bridge that is essentially a Wine/Proton plugin. Spout2 exists only in the "Windows world".
