There are 49 days until Election Day & although the presidential race remains very close Trump has escalated his attacks on the legitimacy of the election
The difference is that this time Trump has the full support of tech billionaires who are amplifying his false claims
I believe there's a broader ideological war being fought right now, more than capitalism vs. socialism or fascists vs. democracy. The sides are lining up and the technofeudalists are playing a major part... and solarpunk is holding up surprisingly well as a counter-argument.
I talk all about it on a new episode of my BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES podcast.
brightgreenfutures.substack.co…
(glitchy software last Friday but it's out now!)
#ClimateChange #solarpunk #technofeudalism #podcast #capitalism
For all it's infinite faults numerology can be good fun, and I always find it interesting to compare new media or storage formats to their legacy counterparts in terms of size and performance, particularly when they cross some maximal threshold of the earlier format.
Today's example are the now-shipping MicroSD Express cards, that can handle about 650MB per second of sequential write.
Which is, as us oldheads will realize, one full CD burned per second.
*Yeah, that would in fact be me, although tomorrow some entity-or-entities might swipe and pown my Mastodon account
*if I suddenly start pushing crypto, flee at top velocity
One of the most important — and probably difficult — things rich and powerful people should do is figure out how to keep people around them who will tell them when their jokes aren’t funny. (Seriously!)
The state of Lower Austria offers a public dashboard with up-to-date flood data. That's great, but whyyy is it an Angular SPA? Lots of people have no electricity and/or very poor network conditions. They get a loading spinner instead.
👏 EMERGENCY WEBSITES SHOULD BE STATIC 👏
Key SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell receptor signatures maintained to 2 years compared with unaffected control participants
pnas.org/doi/suppl/10.1073/pna…
You've no doubt read about fair use in the conversations around the publishers' lawsuit against our library.
But what is fair use, and why does it matter in today's media landscape? Join us, along with Authors Alliance, for a book talk on RECLAIMING FAIR USE with authors and scholars Patricia Aufderheide & Peter Jaszi:
📅 Tues, Sep 24 @ 10am PT / 1pm ET
📍 Online
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#SailfishOS #Gecko dev diary Week 49 Summary. Pull requests, reviews, a nice TLS fix from @b100dian and some updated packages to install.
Thanks to all of the brilliant feedback the sharp edges are gradually being knocked off and things are progressing towards a proper ESR 91 release.
In-person Space Oddity events (so far)!
Come if you’re nearby!
"Crypto companies are spending $800,000 a day to try to take out Ohio U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown..."
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I've been following this for the last week(end) … amazing stuff.
I just wish it was in emacs. XD
Pregnancy overhauls the brain. Here’s what that looks like.
From Science News: "Neuroscientist Liz Chrastil’s brain scans offer the clearest look yet at neural changes in pregnancy."
Full study here: nature.com/articles/s41593-024…
Marko
in reply to David Llewellyn-Jones • • •Now the work at the next version of ESR can start. 😂
Are there some ideas about a WebKit or Ladybird based browser engine?
If I'm right, the UBports folks think about to switch over to WebKit.
David Llewellyn-Jones
in reply to Marko • • •@decorum It sounds crazy but I'd love to start on ESR 102. It doesn't make sense until ESR 91 is locked down though (or I'd get in a complete mess). If things go to plan the next jump will be a whole lot easier.
I've not seen serious discussion recently about Sailfish moving from Gecko. There are benefits to doing so and it'll interesting to follow UBports (that's news to me, thank you!), but there are both technical and philosophical reasons for sticking with Gecko right now.
David Llewellyn-Jones
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in reply to David Llewellyn-Jones • • •@decorum Regarding WebKit on UBports, is that @fredldotme's Mimi browser?
open-store.io/app/mimibrowser.…
github.com/fredldotme/webhunt
Don Fredl's Circus
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