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#PearAI offers an AI coding editor.

The startup’s founder Duke Pan has openly said that it’s a cloned copy of VSCode, and another AI editor called Continue, which was covered under the Apache open source license.

But PearAI made a major misstep:

PearAI originally slapped its own made-up closed license on its project, called the Pear Enterprise License, which Pan admitted was written by ChatGPT.

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Infringement cold cases: member states left unpunished for dozens of EU law violations byteseu.com/462229/ #Europe


Honestly don’t understand how people can dislike pigeons. I mean, look at them, they are so cool! We need more pigeon portraits.

#Photography #Birds #BirdPhotography #Pigeons #PigeonPortrait






The #National #Climatic #Data #Center is based in Asheville, North Carolina.

As I write this, the center's website remains offline.
That's because Asheville, a city in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, is the epicenter of catastrophic flooding from #Hurricane #Helene that has played out over the last week.
🔥The climate data facility is inoperable because water and electricity services in the region have entirely broken down due to flooding.

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#dignity : the state of being worthy or honorable

- French: dignité

- German: die Würde

- Italian: dignità

- Portuguese: dignidade

- Spanish: dignidad

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NPR fact-checked the Walz-Vance vice presidential debate. Here's what we found


JD Vance and Tim Walz debated in New York on Tuesday in the last scheduled debate of the election. The sparring was largely collegial, but a number of points on key issues require additional context or corrections.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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It's happening again! The Trans Nerd Meet Up is this Saturday at Zeitgeist in San Francisco, from 12:30 to whenever.

If you self-identify as trans/nb/gnc and enjoy geeking out about absolutely anything, we'd love to see you! Please spread the word! ❤

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Airborne Plastic Chemical Levels Shock Researchers


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"The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember [literally anything that's free of plastic]."