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Paging @rogueclassicist !
A 3,000-Year-Old Painter’s Palette from Ancient Egypt, with Traces of the Original Colors Still In It
https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/3000-year-old-painters-palette-from-ancient-egypt.html
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/116886085989902239
Sometimes I read a post where people don’t understand why a thing is the way it is and I do understand, but I am not sure if I really want to inflict that understanding on unsuspecting people.
Classic r/Netherlands post and replies:
Can you take napkins from the AH To Go without paying for anything?
@nazokiyoubinbou @never_released My doc told me hes quitting because insurance started using ai to diagnose. And they challenge his diagnosis if the ai recommended treatment is cheaper.
@jfmezei there are still some here and there around Vancouver. I wonder what they are doing?
@timbray Microwave towers still used here and there to serve remove locations. Some islands may not yet have fibre. Also, cell towers often rely on microwave trunk relays though this is going away because microwave links don't provide the capacity people expect for internet access.
One thing I keep coming back to when comparing #ActivityPub and AT Protocol: ActivityPub is basically a convention on top of the #web stuff we already have. An actor is a JSON-LD document you GET. An inbox is an endpoint you POST to. If you already run a website, you can bolt this on without changing the site's basic shape. Ghost didn't set out to join the #fediverse, and then years later it could, just by adding an endpoint.
AT Protocol feels less like that to me. Running a PDS means a signed repo, a Merkle search tree, a firehose, a DID. It's not a layer you add to an existing site. It's closer to standing up another backend beside it.
I think that's why ActivityPub keeps making sense to me. You can join later. You don't have to have built the whole thing with federation in mind from day one.
Ueber 5000 #Hitzetote nach der ersten Hitzewelle und die Regierung so: das ist keine Aufgabe des Bundes, darum muessen sich die Laender kuemmern.
Was ein Wahnsinn! #Klimawandel
https://www.zdfheute.de/wissen/hitzewelle-hitzetote-deutschland-rki-statistik-100.html
@pallenberg Entschuldigung, aber man darf nicht vergessen, dass es sich dabei vorwiegend um sozialverträgliches Frühableben handelt. Also quasi wie in guten alten Pandemiezeiten: "die hätten es eh nicht mehr lange gemacht". Läuft doch also alles super geschmeidig für die Politik.
Zum Tage:
„Wenn Sie 2025 kein E-Mobil für unter 20.000 Euro anbieten, dann werden Sie – so fürchte ich – im Markt scheitern“ Robert Habeck 2019 zu #VW.
Jahr um Jahr haben Bündnisgrüne gewarnt:
1. eMobilität war auf dem globalen Markt der einzige Weg.
2. VW brauchte ein eAuto unter 20K€.
3. China is eating our lunch.
Derweil „die Wirtschaft“™️: „Hören sie doch bitte auf mit dieser Selbstbeschimpfung!“
Altmeier: Aber Schuldenbremse
RE: https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/116888330523903562
Dans le "monde entier" sauf au Japon où je me sens parfois très seul en ce moment. Même presque tous mes collègues sont tombés de dans (comment peut-on être prof et utiliser cette merde, ça me dépasse) ainsi que 99.5% de mes étudiants.
@David AUSSI au Japon !
#TalDíaComoHoy en 1922, nace Kathleen Booth, pionera británica de la informática y autora del primer lenguaje ensamblador de la historia (Contracted Notation). Ayudó a diseñar tres diferentes computadoras, la ARC (Automatic Relay Calculator), SEC (Simple Electronic Computer), y APE(X)C
#WomenInSTEM
There's an interesting piece of work to be done (probably somebody's already had a stab at it it) on the 'histiography' of economics.
Adam Smith and other early political economists (not to mention Marx) warned about capitalism's inherent drive to monopoly - so how on earth did all that 'hidden hand' stuff - so clearly based on imagining national and international 'markets' as if they are indeed like street markets - get applied to multinational corporations larger than countries, and their multi-million-pound lobbying (and worse) operations ?
As to many of the technology multinationals (and much of the rest of the media) - their consumers are not their customers. 'Consumer choice' is not a useful idea when there is no clear price of consumption. The customers of most technology and most media companies are not us - they're other companies that buy advertising.
I beg to differ on the last point on two counts: 1. Microsoft and Apple; and 2 the other corps would not buy the advertising if the 'consumers' weren't consistently using their products (Alphabet, Meta, Amazon - although there is the issue of cloud services but that too is being foisted on ordinary consumers). They all leverage out any alternative to retain consumers.
computers were invented in the *mumblties* and you had to pay to program them
then in the late 70s, you could finally program them! for free! you just had to own a microcomputer! yay
but then in the 80s and 90s you had to buy compilers, which were expensive
by with the 2000s, rapidly compilers and interpreters became free again. anyone could program, for free!
and then in the 2020s someone invented "programming but you have to pay", again.
DON'T FALL FOR THIS TRAP
late #DIDit project: I just migrated my pfefferle.org away from google mail...
was easier than I thought 😊
#Emploi | À temps plein, le revenu d’activité médian des femmes est inférieur à celui des hommes quelle que soit la population observée. Cette différence est plus marquée au sommet de l'échelle socioprofessionnelle.
👉 https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/9019799#titre-bloc-19
And he thinks he is at war with "The Islamic Republic of Japan".
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@randahl
The dementia is accelerating!
When copyright and reality clash. Again.
> Copyright in the European Union and geo-blocking: a work that is in the public domain can be published online free of charge in a Member State even if it remains protected in another Member State.
> The website on which the work is made available must incorporate an 'effective’ technological measure to prevent its being accessed by internet users visiting the website from a Member State in which that work is protected.
Case C-788/24 | Anne Frank Fonds
@bartknubben @FTM_nl @FTM_eu Ik ook!
Oltre l’accoglienza: relazioni, diritti, comunità https://ciaconlus.org/it/chi-siamo/oltre-laccoglienza
Je veux dire: Y'a littéralement un formulaire avec UN champ email, et un UN bouton "Envoyer".
ça échoue.
C'est juste la BDD sous-jacente qui est temporairement innaccessible.....
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