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World must act to prevent ‘ethnic cleansing’ of #Gaza, António Guterres warns - theguardian.com/world/2024/oct… it hasn't and clearly won't #israel

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À l'occasion de la sortie de la définition de l'IA Open Source par l' @osi , le groupe #Framalang a traduit cet article où son auteur @tante se demande si une IA Open Source peut vraiment exister.

framablog.org/2024/10/31/lia-o…

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in reply to Framasoft

Thank you for translating my post to French and enable more people to read it. I appreciate it!
in reply to tante

Our pleasure! Thanks for writing it and publishing it under a Creative Commons licence!
in reply to Framasoft

un argumentaire pertinent, avec lequel je concorde.
J'aimerais tout de même pointer une chose, au moins tout aussi essentielle et dont on parle peu : l'open hardware.
Il n'existe pas dans le commerce de processeur serieux qui soient libres (car les processeurs sont des programmes). Et aucune possibilité d'en produire un.
Si on ajoute à ça que les puces peuvent être par construction backdoor-ée. On est bien avancé avec le typon du circuit imprimé «open source».


Saoirse Ronan taken aback by ‘wild’ reaction to women’s safety comments - theguardian.com/society/2024/o… "Comment on Graham Norton’s chatshow has gained support from women after clip shared around world"



These Tiny Doodles May Be William Blake’s Earliest Engravings, Overlooked for Nearly 250 Years

By Julia Binswanger via @smithsonianmag

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…

#engraving



Ondsel is shutting down its operation. The company couldn't find a product-market fit before it ran out of funding.

Most team members, including myself, are likely to continue contributing to @FreeCAD in some way.

ondsel.com/blog/goodbye/

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It would be good if all #ondsel changes are ported back to #FreeCAD.

At least in Spain were every studio pirates Autodesk Software (CAD + 3D.Max) its difficult for an open source project to get traction. 😔




I just realized I never uploaded this here. From 2020, a full 4K 3D remake of the Windows 3.0 CHESS.BMP wallpaper done entirely in Blender (except the floor which was Inkscape)
#art #blender #blender3d #retrocomputing



Thursday's blog post (31/10) is now posted (17:49 Kyoto Time) - State of Climate 2024 Report signals worse is coming - like very nearly now - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62109


🎉 We’re thrilled to welcome the 3rd Batch of NGI Evangelists!

Dr Leonard Anderson and Kasia Odrozek bring exciting expertise to NGI’s mission.

🔗 Learn More: ngi.eu/news/2024/10/30/3rd-bat…

#NGI #TechInnovation #OpenSource #NGIEvangelists




Disappointing news about typing monkeys. sciencedaily.com/releases/2024…
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🚮 Artist: #Mentalgassi in City: #Berlin Germany 🇩🇪 10/2024 - Title: "The most important thing about trash is to take it out" - #Streetart #ART #Artist #Politics #PhotoSculpture #Trash #Installation #Trump #USA #Elections2024

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Russia’s Gosuslugi Federal State Information System is telling users to migrate their accounts to non-Gmail email addresses, signaling further Google service disruptions in Russia as Moscow's blame game with the tech giant continues. t.co/7k79unEFMh


Forget Electronics: Here Come “Orbitronics”

Electronic devices like phones, tablets, and laptops can contribute to the worldwide problem of electronic waste, or e-waste. While experts are working to make these devices more environmentally friendly, a new advancement at the fundamental level of the electron could provide a much-needed solution. Enter “Orbitronics.”

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland and the Max Planck Institutes in Germany have found a way to harness a property of electrons known as “orbital angular momentum,” which could open the door to a whole new type of technology known as “orbitronics.” This result, which was achieved using experiments conducted at the Swiss Light Source (SLS) and was published in Nature Physics, could help make electronic devices of the future more environmentally friendly.


Via Fix the News

in reply to Andrew Pam

Electrons move around the nucleus of an atom in certain paths or “orbits,”

How does this differ from electron valence? And if it is valence we are talking about, we have entered the world of chemistry.

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they discovered that the signal wasn’t just reflecting the orbital motion directly. Instead, it was rotating around the monopoles in a predictable pattern.

This is interesting. It seems somewhat analogous to magnetism - but it's at a lower level of operation.





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