The Brazilian military has been involved in a series of controversial episodes that have undermined emergency efforts to tackle the humanitarian crisis in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory.
Reports show it failed (or sabotaged) airspace control and food deliveries to the Indigenous people, who suffer from malnutrition as a result of mercury contamination from illegal mining.
By André Schröder
news.mongabay.com/2024/09/how-…
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Les astuces de grand-mère.
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Linus Torvalds yesterday at the #ossummit in Vienna explaining that sometimes #boring is good.
And he is absolutely right: if you are want to have some excitement in IT, you should look for it not during deployment and releases but elsewhere. 👍
> Releases are not exciting and they're not supposed to be.
> They are uh timely and they are hopefully very timely.
> But exciting is not, I think, the goal.
#boringIsGood #software #oss #linux
🚀 New IGUANA update is here! 🚀
✨ Re-added query templates for easier querying with placeholders. 🆕 Now supports SPARQL Query Results in XML, CSV, and TSV formats, in addition to JSON. 🔓 License switch to dual MIT & Apache 2.0 for more flexibility!
I'm very torn on #uv. On one hand, I don't get why it is all in Rust (as opposed to just the dependency solver) -- it makes it a lot more difficult for the #Python #packaging community at large to fork and contribute to it.
However, uv finally convinced my team to migrate from Poetry and adopt PEP621-formatted pyproject.toml files, which is a huge win for me!
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The Art of Coarse Sex: Or How to Love Better and Die With a Beautiful Smile on Your Face by Michael Frederick Green, 1983
An addition to the classic Art of Coarse. . . series. The mysteries of sexual attraction and holiday romances, the dismal failure of outdoor sex, and sex for the flagging middle-aged are all fearlessly discussed.
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The internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here, and can we go back?
When it comes to our experience of the internet, “the times, they are a-changin’”, as Bob Dylan would say. You can’t quite recall how, but the internet certainly feels different these days.To some, it is “less fun and less informative” than it used to be. To others, online searches are made up of “cookie cutter” pages that drown out useful information and are saturated with scams, spam and content generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
Your social media feeds are full of eye-catching, provocative, hyper-targeted, or anger-inducing content, from bizarre AI-generated imagery to robot-like comments. You’re lucky if your video feeds are not solely made up of exhortations to “subscribe”.
How did we get here? And can we claw our way back?
If you want to know why student fees are so expensive (and universities want to put them up further) a key (under-recognised) reason is the systemic under-funding of research.
The university system has made research a key indicator of quality, a retention method for key staff & is central to many institutions' self-identity.
But years of under-funding have embedded a massive cross subsidy from student fees (mainly non-UK fees). Its never been a sustainable model!
Have we passed the solar tipping point where renewable solar energy has reached a momentum of deployment that will see prices drop further (and swiftly) and fossil fuels become increasingly a niche power source?
This piece from Nature Communications last year suggest we have (with some caveats around financing the transition & supply chain choke point), but with strategic policies in place it looks like solar may be the future....
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There is an increasing number of studies and articles like this appearing. This series from the Economist got my attention in June.
economist.com/leaders/2024/06/…
They are basically saying its game over. The main point being that Solar is unlike any energy source ever seen in that each year it gets better and cheaper with no end in sight. And now with storage going the same way we might just be able to save ourselves from ourselves.
This is most surprising in that The Economist is known for being a hard nosed capitalist outlet.
#OTD in 1870.
The first performance of Alexander Pushkin's play Boris Godunov (1825) is given at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg by members of the Alexandrinsky Theatre.
It was written in 1825, published in 1831, but not approved for performance by the censor until 1866. It consists of 25 scenes and is mainly written in blank verse.
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Boris Godunov at PG:
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If you use Qt from #Python (from any of its bindings like #PyQt or PySide or QtPy), read this excellent guide from @czaki on writing robust tests.
@czaki has repeatedly cleaned up the test suite for @napari, which often failed randomly in CI, and this post distills many of his learnings. I’ve found it super useful for my understanding of wtf was going on in our CI! 😂
fosstodon.org/@czaki/113146457…
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