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#OTD in 1683.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules", later known as protozoa. It gives the first detailed description of protists and bacteria living in a range of environments, sent by the author in a Dutch letter of the 9 Octob. 1676 concerning little animals by him observed in rain-well-sea & snow water; as also in water wherein pepper had lain infused.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protozoa
Original paper
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi…
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iOS 18’s new home screen features are a long-awaited win for flexibility
Wiggle mode gets an update that opens up almost Android-like customization.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…
Great article as always @_elena 😉
My Fediverse summer & the top 3 lessons I learned
blog.elenarossini.com/fedivers…
So, while the UK has a growing battery storage sector (which enables renewable energy to be stored & drawn on during peak use), the National Grid's creaking infrastructure is not allowing the use of this resource effectively;
The storage aspect of the green transition is well under way, the distribution & network element, not so much.
As so often, a lack of investment (here both in IT & actual cable routes) means we are missing the full potential of renewables!
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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Ridgeline is using Matrix to defend privacy, autonomy, and security of individuals and organisations.
Learn more about how at The Matrix Conference in Berlin this week!
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Joe from Ridgeline International, LLC, one of our partners, is presenting at The Matrix.org Foundation Conference in Berlin tomorrow.
Discover how secure communications can shield your data from ubiquitous technical surveillance threats.
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!
Did you ever have to look for the right software? With so many providers out there, making the right choice can be a daunting task.
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#openproject #opensource #projectmanagement #softwarechoice
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.
archive.org/details/artofcoars…
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#sex
#humour
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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!
Mark Jones
in reply to Project Gutenberg • • •#microscopy #microbiology