@Natasha_Jay They use the title of "Librarian" because "Leader of the resistance" is too long to fit on the name badge.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
Will you be celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend?
FreeBSD Now Builds Reproducibly and Without Root Privilege
We’re pleased to share that the FreeBSD Project now supports builds without requiring root privileges, removing elevated access from the release pipeline and improving overall security. This work was completed as part of a program commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency.
Read more: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-now-builds-reproducibly-and-without-root-privilege/
I'm confused....🫤
I believe ZFS is an amazing file system with endless capabilities 🤩 , and nobody did a #Fosdem talk - except Alan Jude - to introduce real word examples of it.
And you know what, you have now a dedicate place for it: https://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigo/fosdem26/
@hosford42 Yes. That's key. Do not fund bigotry.
Chesham, I AM IN YOU.
Would you say your Purpose is
I'm thankful for the Fediverse first, since that's where I'm posting this and a lot of you guys are great to follow. I'm thankful for a community online of Anarchists who gave me a way to understand my natural predilection in a larger historical body of thought. I'm thankful for some of the largest anarchic projects in the history of the world, namely free software projects like the Linux kernel, Homeassistant, OpenWrt, Guix, Debian, Julialang, Tor, and many others.
@Dianora The only conclusion I can come to is that, however questionable the person behind the idea or creation is, the idea/creation itself has a life of its own. If it has merit or worth or utility, it has to be assessed independently.
I was deeply shaped as a kid by Ender's Game, for example, as it taught me to extend empathy to encompass the "othered", even when it's hard to do. As an adult, I found out -- irony of ironies -- that the author is an awful, bigoted person who fails to do that very thing with his fellow real, living human beings. That doesn't erase the positive ways I was shaped by the book. It just makes me want to never purchase a copy again and thereby fund his bigotry.
"In a controversial decision that was appealed by OpenAI on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Ona Wang found that OpenAI must hand over documents revealing the company’s motivations for deleting the datasets. OpenAI’s in-house legal team will be deposed.
"At stake: Billions of dollars and, potentially, OpenAI’s defense in the case. The communications could help prove what’s known as “willful” infringement, which triggers significantly higher damages of $150,000 per work. And if it’s found that the company destroyed the evidence with potential litigation in mind, the court could direct juries in later trials to assume it would’ve been unfavorable for OpenAI."
https://mstdn.party/@sec_yote_agenda/115623120521301347
"Although DOGE is gone, its malign legacy endures. Arguably DOGE’s biggest 'achievement' was shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development. And the dismantling of USAID has left a legacy of death. According to one recent study, closing the agency 'has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.'”
~ Paul Krugman
#DOGE #Trump #ElonMusk #USAID
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/doge-was-a-harbinger-of-trumps-assault
one nipple tells the truth, the other only lies
In theory, if Mastodon revealed which country your Mastodon account was mostly used from, it would not be possible for someone to get paid to influence voters from another country by pretending to be from said country.
For instance, Putin could not pay Russians to influence a US election by posting in English from a secret office in Moscow.
Of course the price would be, Mastodon would then reveal everyone's home country.
Would you like such a feature?
Queen @cwebber in conversation with @jboy is something you do not want to miss 👀👀👀👀
Come to Social Media: We Can Change the Defaults! Free attendance, registration required.
#LocalFirst is the future of app development!
10 more days to submit your proposal to the Local-First devroom at the upcoming @fosdem ! Deadline is 5th of December.
If you are into local first applications, frameworks, libraries and want to show your work, sync protocol, #crdt, now is the moment to apply.
You will be part of a great lineup with all leading actors in the field, gathering in Brussels on the 31 of January afternoon.
More info here:
https://openlocalfirst.org
share and boost!
Wollt einfach mal wissen, was Doctolib Arztpraxen kostet.
In der Regel 139 € pro Monat und Gesundheitsfachkraft (inklusive MwSt.).
Dh mein Hausarzt zahlt mindestens 1000€ pro Monat. Ich hab ihm jetzt die Opensource Lösung empfohlen und den Heise-Artikel dazu geschickt. https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Open-Reception-Open-Source-Terminbuchungstool-fuer-Arztpraxen-steht-bald-bereit-11076033.html
Der hat Doctolib schon am Laufen, hab ich erst bei der Reply gecheckt. Und das ist leider das Problem. Team (und Patienten) wieder auf Neues trainieren kostet auch...
Aber was Doctolib jetzt mit KI vorhat, Gespräche per Mikro mitprotokollieren (hallo???), Notizen verfassen, da erzählt mir doch bitte keiner, die Daten seien da sicher...
A couple of really nice stories about the intriguing subsolar mass candidate #S251112cm
https://www.science.org/content/article/curious-gravitational-wave-may-be-hint-primordial-black-holes-or-just-noise by Adrian Cho
https://www.iflscience.com/candidate-gravitational-wave-detection-hints-at-first-of-its-kind-incredibly-small-object-81582 by @DrCarpineti
A groundbreaking discovery, or just a false alarm? Time (and more analysis) may tell
RE: https://mastodon.online/@cplberry/115577894655909992
I think these articles are great examples of science journalism—not all science is clear cut. Sometimes results are inconclusive. The mystery can dive us on to collect more data to figure things out. Much of being a scientist is not making breakthroughs, but wondering why that odd thing happened?
If you drive, and you enter a car park and there’s just one single other car there, is your first instinct to:
- park right next to the other car, literally in one of the spots either side of it or
- park in any of the other spots *not* right next to the other car?
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