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NASA Demonstrates ‘Ultra-Cool’ Quantum Sensor for First Time in Space

Future space missions could use quantum technology to track water on Earth, explore the composition of moons and other planets, or probe mysterious cosmic phenomena.

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RizzRustbolt

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I've seen cooler instruments.

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Socialist Mormon Satanist via science

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Unique Neanderthal Lair Reveals How They Lived Before Modern Humans Appeared

They were able to adapt to any challenge – until they met us.

Unique Neanderthal Lair Reveals How They Lived Before Modern Humans Appeared

^{Benjamin Taub (IFLScience)}

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Socialist Mormon Satanist

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Yeah, definitely a typo, unless ancient horses and rhinos had drastically different diets than they do now. lol

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Anti-Christ Christian Atheist

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Lol coward blocks all challengers. Look at this person's profile, people. 3.3 posts per hour at last count. That's how much effort they put into their ... Campaign.

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Rare archaeological site reveals 'surprising' Neanderthal behavior at Pyrenees foothills

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"Our surprising findings at Abric Pizarro show how adaptable Neanderthals were. The animal bones we have recovered indicate that they were successfully exploiting the surrounding fauna, hunting red deer, horses and bison, but also eating freshwater turtles and rabbits, which imply a degree of planning rarely considered for Neanderthals," she said.

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Orbituary

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Is the site rare or are the contents found there rare?

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NASA near-Earth defense telescope retired after more than a decade

NASA near-Earth defense telescope retired after more than a decade - UPI.com

After more than a decade of tracking asteroids and comets that could pose a threat to Earth, NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) is now officially shut down.

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Scientists prepared to save monarch butterfly in event of 'rapid extinction'

Scientists prepared to save monarch butterfly in event of 'rapid extinction' - UPI.com

Scientists in North Dakota announced Tuesday they are prepared to repopulate the iconic orange monarch butterfly, which has been classified an endangered species in North America, in the event "of a rapid extinction."

^{Sheri Walsh (UPI)}

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Roldyclark

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Please. I’ve only seen one this year.

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Socialist Mormon Satanist

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Exactly! Me too. And just 3 days ago as I was walking to work. When I was growing up tho, they were everywhere.

This odd fish has 30 times as much DNA as humans—a new record for animals

https://www.science.org/content/article/odd-fish-has-30-times-much-dna-humans-new-record-animals

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Yes!

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It was made to protect, not to love.

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CERN breakthrough detector captures high-energy neutrinos for 1st time

Physicists at CERN's LHC have directly observed high-energy electron and muon neutrino interactions in the teraelectronvolt energy range.

^{Amal Jos Chacko (Interesting Engineering)}

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I'm more impressed by that cable management seen on the picture.

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NOT_RICK

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Yeah it’s awesome. The LHC is one of humanity’s greatest engineering feats

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Transporter Room 3

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And just think, all of it is some kind of thing we found in the ground, punched slapped and burned the shit out of to varying degrees, and made it DO THINGS!

SCIENCE things!

With so many various teams involved with every step of the project, from planning to construction to operation, I wonder if any one person truly understands all of how each piece works to do the things they do.

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warbond

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I've always liked the idea of calling it teaching rocks to think, but maybe it's more like using rocks to teach math to think.

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Transporter Room 3

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Using lightning!

You cannot convince me science and technology aren't just magic by any other name.

You bring up the question of whether it's the rocks that think or the math that thinks using the rocks... What are we when we think? (meaty bags of mostly water propped up on calcium sticks that makes it's own lightning to think?)

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warbond

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That's a question worth getting high over. I'll need to ponder this.

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Huh, I didn't even know this was a possibility. Amazing.

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American Science is in Dangerous Decline while Chinese Research Surges, Experts Warn | Scientific American

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/39625050

American Science is in Dangerous Decline while Chinese Research Surges, Experts Warn

The U.S. sorely needs a coordinated national research strategy, says Marcia McNutt, president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

^{Saima S. Iqbal (Scientific American)}

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The part about funding being an issue is definitely true. My partner is a professor, and she's constantly worried about writing grants looking for funding.

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expatriado

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when i was working in technology research we had low trust on Chinese publications, they have to gain in quality more than quantity

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China is a publication mill. What’s on the paper isn’t as important as how many papers have your name.

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Zipitydew

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It's still true now. China puts out far more trash than anything worth reading. Their universities still promote and reward researchers based upon number of papers published.

China is near the top nation for the number of published papers later being retracted.

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Azzu

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It's funny just reading the headline... Experts warn that Chinese research is getting good? Like, is that a bad thing, or why do we have to be warned about it xD isn't research in general just good

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partial_accumen

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Not just that China's research is increasing, but that the USA's is declining. Context clues indicate that there isn't one worldwide condition that would explain the decline in USA science, because China is still succeeding and even growing in science.. So the decline of USA's science research indicates a problem in the USA. That is a problem, wouldn't you agree?

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Blóðbók

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Problem for the USA

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partial_accumen

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Problem for the USA

The article is from a publication literally called "Scientific American". Whom do you suspect the intended audience is?

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Blóðbók

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It was posted to this international community. Regardless of the original intended audience, in this place the discussions should not assume nationality.

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partial_accumen

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It was posted to this international community. Regardless of the original intended audience, in this place the discussions should not assume nationality.

Sigh This place isn't assuming nationality, nor am I. Please look back at the top of this thread to see what you're replying to. A lemmy poster read the headline and didn't understand why the headline was written that way. The headline was written that way because of the articles audience was the USA. Thats it. Thats all. This thread isn't a USA vs the world thing. Its 12 words in a headline.

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Blóðbók

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I don't understand how you think you can argue this point, when the conversation is literally

why is it bad that X country is doing better
because USA is doing worse

And so the title assumes that the reader is from the US and would surely agree that this development is bad.

But you know this. You are arguing in bad faith.

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partial_accumen

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I don’t understand how you think you can argue this point, when the conversation is literally
why is it bad that X country is doing better
because USA is doing worse

I don't know which thread you're reading, but you're not summarizing this thread. You're having difficulty following apparently. Here's the original post:

"It’s funny just reading the headline… Experts warn that Chinese research is getting good? Like, is that a bad thing, or why do we have to be warned about it xD isn’t research in general just good" This was posted by lemmy user: @Azzu@lemm.ee

And so the title assumes that the reader is from the US and would surely agree that this development is bad.

You're right on this part. Your quote there, and my quote in prior posts which match that, are the answer to that original poster.

But you know this. You are arguing in bad faith.

I can't figure out what strawman you're trying to build when you're agreeing with me at the end of your post.

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Blóðbók

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I don’t know which thread you’re reading, but you’re not summarizing this thread. You’re having difficulty following apparently. Here’s the original post:
“It’s funny just reading the headline… Experts warn that Chinese research is getting good? Like, is that a bad thing, or why do we have to be warned about it xD isn’t research in general just good” This was posted by lemmy user: @Azzu@lemm.ee

I am summarising this thread. This, from what you quoted:

warn that Chinese research is getting good? Like, is that a bad thing, or why do we have to be warned about it

is precisely what I was referring to with

why is it bad that X country is doing better
You’re right on this part. Your quote there, and my quote in prior posts which match that, are the answer to that original poster.

...and then you proceeded to convey the same sentiment in the discussion:

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partial_accumen

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warn that Chinese research is getting good? Like, is that a bad thing, or why do we have to be warned about it
is precisely what I was referring to with

Are you totally missing the "why do we have to be warned about it?" part of that post?

The ones that have to be warned about it are Americans...because its an American publication...talking to Americans. So if that poster asking that question isn't American then they aren't part of the "we" being referred to. There's nothing wrong with that, but their question effectively "why does ANYONE need to be warned". "Anyone" doesn't. Americans do, which is what that publication is doing. If you're not American, carry on not caring.

is precisely what I was referring to with
- why is it bad that X country is doing better

You know who said that part? The "why is it bad that X country is doing better" part? YOU! Only you! No one else. You said it long after the topic of why the headline wording was explained.

You're meeting the literal definition of a stra

form of argument and an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent

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istanbullu

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Another thread where Americans cry about China 🤣

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Eezyville

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It's not about americans crying but more a comparison.

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As an example, UW Madison which has a fairly large and profitable athletics program generated 12 million in profit last year. They aren't the largest athletics program in the country, but it is bigger than many. Sits around the middle.

The patents and IP owned by the university provided $134 million in grants and support. Again, the school has a large STEM component, but it isn't a top tier university. Again, sits around the middle. The organization providing this funding manages its investments carefully and intends to provide this level of funding year after year.

Research departments generated more revenue and the funding is likely more reliable.

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Yup, Beijing has some of the best bioengineering papers I've seen lately regarding gene editing and microbiology, even some biochemistry. Chinese medical philosophy trends towards holistic systems, versus Western medicine which looks at discrete conditions. So China has made a lot of advancements in areas where this flexible thinking is benefiting them and is a more accurate way of looking at biology.

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Blóðbók

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This sounds very interesting. I wouldn't mind if you expanded on it.

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FDA rejects ecstasy as a therapy: what’s next for psychedelics?

But Marks points out that the FDA typically follows the advice of its independent advisory committees — and the one that evaluated MDMA in June overwhelmingly voted against approving the drug, citing problems with clinical trial design that the advisers felt made it difficult to determine the drug’s safety and efficacy. One concern was about the difficulty of conducting a true placebo-controlled study with a hallucinogen: around 90% of the participants in Lykos’s trials guessed correctly whether they had received the drug or a placebo, and the expectation that MDMA should have an effect might have coloured their perception of whether it treated their symptoms.
Another concern was about Lykos’s strategy of administering the drug alongside psychotherapy. Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), the non-profit organization that created Lykos, ha

FDA rejects ecstasy as a therapy: what’s next for psychedelics?

Nature talks with researchers about the outlook for other hallucinogens in clinical trials as psychiatric treatments.

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So (to point #1) we can’t approve a psychedelic for medicinal use because we can’t fool people into thinking they took this psychedelic. Despite the evidence it’s helpful as a medicine.

Somehow that’s reminiscent of Nixon making pot a schedule I drug - highly dangerous - to prevent Democratic votes.

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I was on MDMA when I had an aha moment that allowed me to set down my mother's bigotry and stop being homophobic. Smoking cigarettes outside in light rain at a rave, this flamboyantly gay guy was cracking jokes and was really funny. I had the thought, "He just wants to take drugs and have a good time on a Saturday night, he's just like me." Instant loss of homophobia forever.

I advocate MDMA use in therapy. I'm convinced it can be useful.

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Scientists achieve rapid upcycling of microplastics to graphene

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I've been doing my part and trying real hard to get em out of my balls.

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they are everywhere, but you could probably get them out of SOME stuff, some point in the ecosystem you could use as a removal vector, so when they hit that point in the plastic cycle, they can be cleaned up. like how we mostly control mosquito populations by going after stagnant water.

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En 33-årig man från Malmö är dömd för att för att ha styrt flera olika narkotikaligor i Skåne. Till 11 års fängelse. Nu är denna narkotikabrottsling misstänkt för mordplaner och misshandel.

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Narkotikabrottsling misstänkt för mordplaner - Svenssons Nyheter

En 33-årig man är dömd för att för att ha styrt flera olika narkotikaligor. Nu är denna narkotikabrottsling misstänkt för mordplaner

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#Narkotikabrott #Misshandel #Mordförbredelser

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Två åtalade för kokainsmuggling, Två män har tillsammans och i samförstånd med varandra och andra personer inom ramen för en organiserad narkotikaverksamhet, koordinerat och organiserat hanteringen av ett större parti narkotika.

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Quiblr: Quiblr is an intuitive, accessible, and modern interface to connect users to the fediverse.

It's a Web Lemmy client.

GitHub - Technicolor-Dreamcoat/Quiblr: Quiblr is an intuitive, accessible, and modern interface to connect users to the fediverse

Quiblr is an intuitive, accessible, and modern interface to connect users to the fediverse - Technicolor-Dreamcoat/Quiblr

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She wrote for the Daily Prophet. Mr Lovegood did the Quibbler.

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Oh duh yeah

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I had hoped – and really wanted – to be at Wuthering Bytes / Open Source Hardware Camp this weekend, but didn’t get that sorted out because of Reasons.

So, I spent today doing various other things instead.

I’ve been invited to a couple of events that are arranged using Gathio recently. Gathio has support for ActivityPub federation (there’s an ActivityStreams type for an Event, so this is all another piece of how the fediverse can be used to follow and participate in a broad range of activities). I noticed that there’s a

I had hoped – and really wanted – to be at Wuthering Bytes / Open Source Hardware Camp this weekend, but didn’t get that sorted out because of Reasons.

So, I spent today doing various other things instead.

I’ve been invited to a couple of events that are arranged using Gathio recently. Gathio has support for ActivityPub federation (there’s an ActivityStreams type for an Event, so this is all another piece of how the fediverse can be used to follow and participate in a broad range of activities). I noticed that there’s a new documentation site for Gathio, but certain links and messages still point to the project’s now-discontinued wiki, so I sent a pull request to fix those.
I’ve been playing a bit with Picotron, a fantasy virtual workstation from the folks that also make the PICO-8 virtual retro gaming system. I’ll probably write a bit more deeply on that sometime soon (I hope / if I get around to it).
Our elderly neighbour asked me to go in to help with some issues with her email. It turned out that Microsoft has completely turned off the old DeltaSync service that her mail client had been set up with (the clue was a 404 error which was part of the otherwise incomprehensible message from her computer), so I reconfigured things to avoid going near Outlook / Live Mail – there was absolutely no way she would have been able to work any of that out. Really, I would like to refresh her machine with a nice clean and fast Linux distribution, but she’s older and very used to how things currently work, so I tried to keep the changes to a minimum.
I learned that CloudHiker is a thing. Many rabbit holes to investigate.
I tried out a few different Wayland compositors on the Pocket Reform. wlmaker is interesting – old-style WindowMaker but on Wayland (although I don’t think it supports rotation yet, which is a deal-breaker for now). I also tried hyprland, but couldn’t get it to display anything – the debug log checked out but the display was black. I’m not too bothered as I’m aware of certain issues with that project. The author of [url=https://github.com/Dr-Noob/cpufetch]cpufetch[/url] has a patch ready that adds support for the CPU module that the Pocket Reform uses, I tested that today as well. I spotted a couple of config improvements that we can make in the default Pocket Reform image, so I’ll aim to submit merge requests on those. I posted some wallpapers to the community forum.
I quickly made a Fediwall to aggregate conversations about #OSHCamp, since I was missing out!
The great folks at WeDistribute have made an Events hub for Fediverse (and adjacent) events, which is excellent. I spotted there’s an ATProto talk in London on Tuesday, and I intend to get along to that. They also posted an interesting piece on Flohmarkt, a marketplace instance with Fediverse compatibility. So much interesting development lately.
Caught up-to-date on The Repair Shop.

Tomorrow: a Makeroni meetup in Wimbledon.

(Bank Holiday) Monday: Hampton Court Food Festival.

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Flohmarkt is a Fediverse Marketplace

Historically speaking, the Fediverse has lacked apps related to money, trade, or commerce. Although there's a growing number of small businesses, services, and contractors within the space, the networ

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2024-08-06 21:22:54

A couple of weeks ago I received something I’ve been eagerly expecting from a Crowd Supply crowd funding campaign.
MNT have been making devices that aim to be “open source, accessible and modular” for a number of years. I didn’t get their original Reform laptop, but I’ve seen those around at events like FOSDEM and I’ve been following the team’s progress with interest. When the Pocket Reform was announced I was immediately intrigued – a smaller form factor, 7 inch full Linux system with open hardware that is easily portable.
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I went for the Hyper edition, which came with a beautiful Piñatex sleeve, SSD, and printed manual. Purple, of course, because I want to be on brand 🤓 and, also because I love it!
I posted a very brief unboxing video. I’ve now had a couple of weeks to occasionally tinker, and I’ve been putting off writing about it all in part because there’s a lot of things to dig into!
One of the things I like, surprisingly, is the chunkiness of the machine. It is really well constructed, solid, and feels great. Fits in a small cross-body bag or satchel. It’s less than half the size of a 14 inch MacBook Pro – you can more than fit two of them side by side on top of the Mac – but it is about 3 times thicker – and that’s OK, because, it is in service of making the innards very accessible and user serviceable. It comes with a complete manual and schematic, which is something I’ve not had in a computer since the 8-bit machines of my youth! The top half contains the mainboard and display (all the ports are in the top half), and the bottom contains the battery cells and mechanical keyboard. The upper panel has a copper layer and acts as a large heatsink for the processor module.

The keyboard is ortholinear, which means it is a direct grid layout rather than offset row-by-row. It’s the first time I’ve used this format, which – along with the smaller keycaps – has made it a little challenging to learn, but I’m doing pretty well now. The trackball is nice and responsive. The backlit keys are easy to adjust.

The screen is excellent – bright, and sharp. Actually I think the screen is probably the aspect that has impressed me most so far.
In terms of ports and connectivity – I’ve yet to hook up to an additional screen via the micro-HDMI connector, but I’ve used the USB-C connections (one of which is used to charge / power the machine), and the micro SD slot. The industrial iX connector for ethernet is likely a good choice for the target niche, and certainly does give more space on the motherboard than an RJ45 socket would… but I’ve yet to put my hands on a passive adapter to enable me to plug in to a wired connection, so it’s currently not as useful to me.
There’s a lot more to talk about, primarily (but not exclusively) on the software side, and also around hardware enablement. Out-of-the-box the Pocket Reform runs Debian unstable from MMC, with some customisations to provide a nice getting started wizard. It is important to point out that this is a machine for hackers and tinkerers – although it works very nicely, it’s not all fully baked in places – for example, the firmware for the system controller (a Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip) is being tweaked and tested, and I’ve already tested one update to that. The other day I posted about some issues with an NVMe SSD – that, unfortunately ,was on this machine. I actually think there was a physical hardware issue with the drive, as I’ve now replaced it with a higher-performance NVMe and things are moving along nicely (while the problematic SSD continues to report errors when accessed in an adapter over USB). I also managed to temporarily brick the machine by corrupting the uboot in flash, and needed to rig it up with Dupont wires on headers and access the machine from another via USB to get back to where I wanted to be. Very Open Source! 😎 but, I’m comfortable with this, and knew what I was purchasing. The forums and IRC have proven to be useful so far and I’m enjoying learning as well as hopefully (!?) helping the MNT team through my feedback and bug reports. I have a huge amount of respect for what they have built, their ethos, and their commitment to making this as open hardware as they can.
I should be receiving a modem / WWAN card for the second internal expansion slot shortly. I’ve been both learning the Sway desktop environment and also working out how best to organise my setup, so there will be more to cover in future. I particularly want to play more with the onboard I2C, and other hardware opportunities, as well – for example, potentially swapping in a Raspberry Pi CM4 if that becomes a modular option in the future.

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#Blaugust2024 #100DaysToOffload #debian #firstImpressions #hacker #Linux #maker #mnt #openHardware #openSource #pocketReform #purple #review #rp2040

MNT Pocket Reform
A newer, smaller, lighter, more-affordable, seven-inch mini Reform laptop that remains fully open source
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John Lewis memorial unveiled on the Decatur Square

From Decaturish:

Decatur, GA — Hundreds of spectators, including various local, state and federal officials, celebrated the unveiling of the John Lewis memorial on the Decatur Square on Saturday, Aug. 24. The 12-foot statue replaces a Confederate obelisk that stood on the Square in front of the Historic DeKalb County Courthouse. The obelisk was removed in 2020. […]

https://decaturish.com/2024/08/john-lewis-memorial-unveiled-on-the-decatur-square/

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SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99

Title copied from HN since it's more descriptive

GitHub - dpjudas/SurrealEngine: Unreal Tournament Engine Reimplementation

Unreal Tournament Engine Reimplementation. Contribute to dpjudas/SurrealEngine development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Listen, if there isn't a server you can download maps and umods on that allows you to fly a shark in the sky with redeemer rockets over a Burger King, then I'm not interested...

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13ft: Self-Hosted 12ft.io Alternative

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Seems to have some severe bugs: github.com/wasi-master/13ft/is…

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Just a grammatical nitpick in the readme but as a compound adjective it would be 13-foot Ladder. "That ladder is 13 feet tall" vs "That is a 13-foot tall ladder".

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Copilot AI calls journalist a child abuser, Microsoft tries to launder responsibility

Martin Bernklau is a German journalist who reported for decades on criminal trials. He looked himself up on Bing, which suggests you use its Copilot AI. Copilot then listed a string of crimes Bernk…

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Copilot then listed a string of crimes Bernklau had supposedly committed — saying that he was an abusive undertaker exploiting widows, a child abuser, an escaped criminal mental patient. [SWR, in German]
These were stories Bernklau had written about. Copilot produced text as if he was the subject. Then Copilot returned Bernklau’s phone number and address!

and there’s fucking nothing in place to prevent this utterly obvious failure case, other than if you complain Microsoft will just lazily regex for your name in the result and refuse to return anything if it appears

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Bypass Paywalls Add-On Takedown Notice

dmca/2024/08/2024-08-09-news-media-alliance.md at master · github/dmca

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propter_hog [any, any]

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Someone have a local clone? Post it to a different host.

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What a truckload of bull.

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Bullshit DMCA abuse

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hedgehog

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How is the accused project designed to circumvent your technological protection measures?
The identified Bypass Paywalls technology circumvents NM/A’s members’ paywalls in one of two ways.
[private]For hard paywalls, it is our understanding that the identified Bypass Paywalls technology automatically scans web archives for a crawled version of the protected content and displays that content.

If the web archives have the content, then a user could just search them manually. The extension isn’t logging users in and bypassing your login process; it’s just running a web search for them.

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leopold

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Dunno. Regardless of the method used by the extension, I think any extension called "Bypass Paywalls" that does what it says on the tin can pretty unambiguously be said to be designed to circumvent "technological protection measures". In this case, it circumvents the need to login entirely and obviously it circumvents the paywall.

Though as you said, these guys should probably be sending DMCAs to the Internet Archive if they actually want to stop their paywalls from being bypassed. I know they do honor takedown requests. Maybe archive.today is the problem? Maybe they don't honor DMCA requests. I very often see them used on Hacker News whenever someone wants share a paywall-free link to an article.

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Dunno, I think regardless of the method used by the extension, I think any extension called "Bypass Paywalls" that does what it says on the tin can pretty unambiguously be said to be designed to circumvent "technological protection measures".

“Bypass” and “Circumvent” are nearly synonymous in some uses - they both mean “avoid” - but that’s not really the point.

From a legal perspective, it’s pretty clear no circumvention of technological protection measures is taking place*. Yes, bypassing or circumventing a paywall to get to the content on the site itself would be illegal, were that content effectively protected by a technological measure. But they’re not doing that. Rather, a circumvention of the entire site is occurring, which is completely legal (an obvious exception would be if they were hosting infringing content themselves or something along those lines, but we’re talking about the Internet Archive here).

* - to be clear, I’m referring to what was detailed in the reques

Dunno, I think regardless of the method used by the extension, I think any extension called "Bypass Paywalls" that does what it says on the tin can pretty unambiguously be said to be designed to circumvent "technological protection measures".

“Bypass” and “Circumvent” are nearly synonymous in some uses - they both mean “avoid” - but that’s not really the point.

* - to be clear, I’m referring to what was detailed in the request, not the part that was redacted. That part may qualify as a circumvention.

In this case, it circumvents the need to login entirely and obviously it circumvents the paywall.

Following the same logic, Steam could claim that a browser extension showing where you can get the same game for cheaper or free circumvents their technological protection measure. It doesn’t. It circumvents the entire storefront, which is not illegal.

That’s the same thing that’s happening here - linking to the same work that’s legally hosted elsewhere.

Though as you said, these guys should probably be sending DMCAs to the Internet Archive

Yes - if they don’t want their content available, that’s what they should do. They might not want to do that, because they appreciate the Internet Archive’s mission (I wonder if it’s possible to ask that content be taken down until X date, or for content to be made inaccessible but for it to still be archived?) or they might be taking a multi pronged approach.

Maybe archive.today is the problem? Maybe they don't honor DMCA requests.

Good point. If so, and if their site isn’t legally compliant in the same ways, then the extension becomes a lot less legally defensible if it’s linking there. That’s still not because it’s circumventing a technological protection, though - it’s because of precedent that “One who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, going beyond mere distribution with knowledge of third-party action, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties using the device, regardless of the device’s lawful uses,” (Source), where “device” includes software. Following that precedent, plaintiffs could claim that the extension promoted its use to infringe copyright based off the extension’s name and that it had knowledge of third-party action because it linked directly to sites known to infringe copyright.

The Digital Media Law Project points out that there are two ways sharing links can violate the DMCA:

Trafficking in anti-circumvention tools - which is obviously not what’s going on here
Contributory copyright infringement - which is basically doing something described by the precedent I shared above.

I’m not sure how the extension searches web archives. It if uses Google, for example, then it would make sense to serve Google ae DMCA takedown notice (“stop serving results to the known infringing archive.piracy domain”), but if the extension directly searches the infringing web archive, then the extension developers would need to know that the archive is infringing. Serving them a DMCA takedown (“stop searching the known infringing archive.piracy domain”) would give them notice, and if they ignored it, it would then be appropriate to send the takedown directly to their host (Github, the browser extension stores, etc) citing that they had been informed of the infringement of a site they linked to and were de facto committing contributory infringement themselves.

Given that they didn’t do that, I can conclude one of the following:

The lawyers are incompetent.
The lawyers are competent and recognize that engaging in bad faith like this produces faster results; if this is contested they’ll follow up with something else, possibly even the very actions I described.
The archives that are searched by the extension aren’t infringing and this was the best option the lawyers could come up with.

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The Internet Archive has a special legal DMCA exemption that companies want removed because they want money. They have this exemption for a reason, but they shouldn't have to have one in this day and age where kids get polio in Gaza in 2024. What kind of hell is this... My grandparents mess shouldn't me mine.

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Eligible libraries, archives, and museums have a few exemptions to the DMCA’s anti-circumvention clauses that aren’t available to ordinary citizens, but these aren’t unique to the Internet Archive. For example:

Literary works, excluding computer programs and compilations that were compiled specifically for text and data mining purposes, distributed electronically where:
(A) The circumvention is undertaken by a researcher affiliated with a nonprofit institution of higher education, or by a student or information technology staff member of the institution at the direction of such researcher, solely to deploy text and data mining techniques on a corpus of literary works for the purpose of scholarly research and teaching;
(B) The copy of each literary work is lawfully acquired and owned by the institution, or licensed to the institution without a time limitation on access;
(C) The person underta

Rulemaking Proceedings Under Section 1201 of Title 17 | U.S. Copyright Office

An index of rulemaking proceedings under Section 1201 of Title 17

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Don't know if it's allowed to post links here. If anyone wants it, just ping me in my inbox. 😉

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I was wondering if there will I got was legit for my fork. ~~Well I better back it up now~~ I guess I just keep what I already downloaded a few months ago and hope no major updates had happen lol

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