Bids for new Portage middle school well under budget
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Third hottest month of November since 1850.
#climate
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Is your MC more philosophical or action-oriented?
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Not necessarily 'action' action, but definitely interested in driving the story forward. There's always someone in my work who'll wax on about the philosophical aspects, just so no-one misses them.
#writing
Issue 98 – The world’s most corrupt crypto startup operation
Terra’s Do Kwon gets 15 years, crypto banks get the green light, and the Trump family’s crypto grift expands even as one of their treasury companies goes off the railsMolly White (Citation Needed)
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Kat Cosgrove Returns!
Kat is the Head of Developer Advocacy at Minimus, focused on the growth and nurturing of open source through authentic contribution.www.coffeeandopensource.com
🤖 Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans
Senators launched a probe Tuesday demanding that tech companies explain exactly how they plan to prevent data center projects from increasing electricity bills in communities where prices are already skyrocketing. In letters to seven AI firms, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.
🔗 Source: Ars Technica
🤖 Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans
Senators launched a probe Tuesday demanding that tech companies explain exactly how they plan to prevent data center projects from increasing electricity bills in communities where prices are already skyrocketing. In letters to seven AI firms, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.
🔗 Source: Ars Technica
Naturally, right-wingers are trying to pin Rob and Michele Reiner's deaths on trans people by baselessly claiming that their son was trans. Conservatives are truly evil people. www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...
Unraveling baseless rumor Rob ...
Unraveling baseless rumor Rob and Michele Reiner's son Nick is transgender
Nick Reiner, arrested following the death of his parents, Hollywood couple Rob and Michele Reiner, was undergoing gender transition at the time of the crime.Joey Esposito (Snopes.com)
Building A Granular Sampler Synth
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Building A Granular Sampler Synth
Synthesizing sounds from scratch is all well and good, you just use a bit of maths. However, the latest build from [Daisy] eschews such boring concepts as additive or subtractive synthesis, instead…Hackaday
LG Teases Micro RGB evo Ahead of CES 2026, Chasing the Holy Grail of TV Color
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The #FOSDEM FOSS on Mobile devroom schedule is out!
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It's going to be a great day of talks on AOSP, Mobile Linux and more; covering the full stack from SoCs to app ecosystems.
14 full length talks, 7 lightning talks, 23 speakers.
#fosdem26 #FossOnMobile #AOSP #Android #CalyxOS #OpenHarmony #postmarketOS #Phosh #SailfishOS #Gnomeonmobile #LinuxOnMoble #MobileLinux
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Some interesting looking talks there, especially Pavel's one on cameras and photography on mobile linux, as well as the pmOS and Phosh updates.
I do wish there was a higher ratio of mobile Linux talks relative to Android ones there.
Just have to keep on supporting the mobile li Linux revolution however I can in hopes we get to something reliable before Google finishes slowly suffocating AOSP's freedom and utility.
I just wish there was a way to fund specific core needed things like photography, call reliability and power efficiency on MobileLinux directly.
#FOSDEM #MobileLinux #Linux #PmOS #AOSP #Android #Google #Privacy #GAFAAM #FOSDEM2026
@Blort I agree and I'm glad there are talks of interest.
We tried to be as balanced as possible with the mixture of Linux and Android talks. As it happens I think the schedule broadly reflects the submission ratios too.
But I also agree we need to continue to push to make sure phones can run open operating systems.
Concerning funding, I'm not aware of anything exactly like this. But this would be a good question to pose to some of the speakers maybe.
A personal appeal -
We have a lesbian in Somalia who is in extremely dangerous circumstances. We are keeping her alive, but it's draining our very limited resources. We have had two extremely expensive cases in a row. We need to raise 2000$ this week to keep supporting the people we have 'on the road'.
Do something significant for Christmas this year. Make your Christmas gift the gift of freedom by supporting our passengers.
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Crusoe to become first cloud operator in space through strategic partnership with Starcloud
Crusoe partners with Starcloud to launch the first public cloud in space by 2027. This move extends Crusoe's energy-first AI strategy to orbit, using abundant solar power to eliminate terrestrial constraints.www.crusoe.ai
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Ottima osservazione!
Aggiungerei che la cosa che importa è il flusso di energia, nel senso che un sistema che fa lavoro o computazione deve essere tra due bagni termici a temperature diverse, uno da cui assorbe energia, un altro che usa per raffreddarsi. Altrimenti si avrebbe quello che chiamano un perpetuum mobile del secondo tipo.
Non sono un esperto, ma da quello che leggo, mi pare che nello spazio sia difficile ricreare questa situazione sulla scala di tempi che un data center richiederebbe. Tenderebbe a diventare presto una scatola tutta in equilibrio termico.
Credo che il problema stia anche (e forse, soprattutto) nelle scale di tempi dei vari processi termici.
Grazie mille @andrea_ferrero@sociale.network per la precisazione!
Concordo, suona piuttosto complicato costruire nello spazio un centro di calcolo di dimensioni appena modeste. E capisco che il tuo "da tutti i punti di vista", sottolinea giustamente l'inconsistenza degli argomenti che sostengono che in orbita il problema del raffreddamento non esiste. C'è, come quello dell'energia.
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Una discussione pertinente, se può essere di interesse (in inglese):
space.stackexchange.com/questi…
Is it feasible at all to build data centers in space?
Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently said in an interview that he wants to build data centers in space. While his quote that One of our moonshots is: How do we one day have data centers in space so t...Stack Overflow
The president has no moral core. And, according to his own chief of staff, he’s surrounded by amateurs, opportunists, and drug users.
The Psych-Ward Presidency
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#TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #AmericanFascistParty #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
UNK launches new master’s program to strengthen state’s health education workforce – UNK NEWS
UNK is offering a new online master’s degree program in health education that prepares educators, school nurses, community health workers and otherBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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Haha! Talented!