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👀 JHC. As Hurricane #Milton approaches Florida #meteorologists are staying awake for days at a time trying to get vital, life-saving information out to the folks who will be affected. That’s their job. But this year, several of them tell Rolling Stone, they’re increasingly having to take time out to quell the nonstop flow of #misinformation during a particularly traumatic #hurricane season. And some of them are doing it while being personally threatened.

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Obama in 2009 had a chance: “People around the campaign were BEGGING him to keep the movement infrastructure alive and he scuttled it for a strategy of glazing of the biggest shitstains in the world.” Obama went for the money, not the people, ...

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Meet Redox OS: The Rust-based OS looking to challenge Linux and BSD!

news.itsfoss.com/redox-os/

in reply to It's FOSS

Interesting article!

Just one error; the Linux kernel is a monolithic kernel, not a hybrid kernel like macOS or Windows NT, and not a microkernel like Redox OS.

in reply to cameronbosch

@cameronbosch Thanks for pointing it out! Fixed it. Should reflect soon enough after cache is refreshed! :)
in reply to It's FOSS

Nice! There could be an article about Genode/Sculpt OS as well. It's c++, but also uses microkernel(s), and can use drivers straight from linux, providing comparable hardware support



U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has written to Deere & Company (John Deere) accusing the company of undermining its own “right-to-repair” agreements and evading its responsibilities under the Clean Air Act by failing to grant its customers the right to repair their own agricultural equipment.

warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre… #agriculture #farming #righttorepair #uslaw #uspol



This talk by @TodePond is such a breath of fresh air (and hugely entertaining) and so much the same philosophy as that behind me trying to make it as easy as possible to make little (slippy?) things with Kitten*.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ft6xOAij…

Absolutely loved it 💕

* kitten.small-web.org

#tadiWeb #smallWeb #kitten #slippy #littleThings

in reply to Aral Balkan

I absolutely loved watching your talk @TodePond. For the best part of this year I have had Tadi web on my list of things to look at, am glad I got to watch you explain it, albeit via video rather than in person.

@aral thank you for sharing and for all you do to promote the small web.



Unprecedented peril - disaster lies ahead as we track towards 2.7°C of warming this century:
theconversation.com/unpreceden…
#ClimateDiary


In pandering to the membership, the Conservatives have ditched Cleverly – who might have improved their fortunes – and messed up … again! | Ann Moody

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Wishing everyone a great time at LibreOffice Conference by Volunteers on 10-12 October 2024 in Digital Learning Hub and local campus of 42 Luxembourg in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette in #Esch-sur-Alzette, #Luxembourg

foss.events/2024/10-10-libreof…

#libocon24 #LibreOffice #Conference #foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe



🔒 Protecting #Linux systems and applications from common attacks requires a proactive security approach.

By shifting from reactive to #ProactiveSecurity, organizations can significantly reduce the risk of successful attacks and ensure the security & stability of the systems.

Key strategies include:
✅ comprehensive patch management
✅ leveraging automation & centralized control
✅ best practices for open-source security

Want to learn more?

Check out the #InfoQ article by Prashanth Ravula: bit.ly/4dF2OeU

#DevOps #Security



"Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon"

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Initial conditions:
m1=40.3 m2=33.8 m3=18.5 (solar masses)
v1x=-2.917 v1y=-4.21 v2x=-5.426 v2y=2.41 v3x=-0.594 v3y=5.81 (km/s)
x1=4.0 y1=4.0 x2=19.0 y2=-19.0 x3=19.0 y3=12.0 (AU from center)
Music: Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor (Posthumous) – Chopin


Good evening to everyone except the excrement who just hacked the Internet Archive.