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Tens of millions of early votes have been cast. What could it mean for Election Day? (Ivan Pereira/ABC News)

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Let's do this North Carolina! Today's the last day of in-person early voting, or make your plan to vote on Election Day! Visit IWillVote.com for all of the info you need on where and when to vote. 🇺🇸

#Democracy #FreedomToVote #NorthCarolina



#ThankGNU! to Matomo.org for helping the FSF to promote #freesoftware See a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness: u.fsf.org/3vy


Women sharing personal stories about abortion bans have become a political force


Women who have suffered unnecessarily after being denied abortions are talking about it publicly, and to support candidates. Could these stories have a political impact in the upcoming election?

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Well, it looks like my initial water forecast is probably going to be close. And this is not a definite.

WLOS reports #Asheville potable water “will” be restored by mid-December, post #helene. There goes the early Xmas baking. And clean clothes.

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The year is 2024. You want to write a cross platform desktop UI (not command line) application. What language and frameworks do you use?

Electron or otherwise browser based options disallowed for this particular hypothetical.

#softwareengineering #development

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the first stable definition of opensource ai has been released

opensource.org/ai

#opensource #osi #osaid

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#introduction #WriterIntro

I write (frequently queer) fantasy fiction with entertaining characters, enjoyably perilous adventures, romantic entanglements, some dark undertones, but always happy, hopeful endings.

They’re widely available in ebook, and the most recent are also in print. Find out more on my website: wendypalmer.au/books/

or find your preferred retailer here: books2read.com/wendypalmer/

My latest book is Grace & Favour, a friends-to-lovers historical gay romance set at Hampton Court Palace.
books2read.com/b/gracefavour

#Books #Fantasy #RomanticFantasy #IndieAuthor #LGBTQRomance @bookstodon



Who remembers THIS badass game from 1990? “My name’s Guybrush Threepwood, and I want to be a pirate!” 💻📀💾🏴‍☠️

#PC #games #monkeyisland #lucasfilm #nostalgia #computers #technology #tech #lucasarts




🎃 Pour Halloween, Extinction Rebellion Perpignan et alentours et ses alliés se sont réunis sur la commune de Villeneuve-de-la-Raho pour alerter sur la construction d'un golf ⛳

Menaces sur la biodiversité, menaces sur les ressources en eau de la population dans une région fréquemment touchée par les sécheresses... et pourtant le projet se maintien...
Ne signons pas le scénario de ce film catastrophe annoncé 🙅



Added the excellent diamond open access journal ‘Sedimentologika’ to Wikidata. This one even has the DOAJ Seal. 💯

Added entirely via mobile phone (!)

wikidata.org/wiki/Q130755380

#OpenAccess #DiamondOA





US Space Force warns of “mind-boggling” build-up of Chinese capabilities
Russia and China "have developed and demonstrated the ability to conduct war fighting in space."
arstechnica.com/space/2024/11/…

in reply to testman

passing the market share of windows

…well windows 7 at least.

in reply to testman

i use a windows 10 agent string in my browser in all of my linux rigs and i wonder if it's hurting stats like these.
in reply to Jerkface (any/all)

but i get cheaper stuff online if it looks like my rig is old and generic; i think i need to get a user agent string toggle browser plugin.
in reply to eldavi

Out of curiosity, why? I have Linux in it and the last time any website complained about “incompatibility” must have been at least 5 years ago. Nowadays i think such workarounds are completely unnecessary.
in reply to Metz

i do it for cheaper prices when websites do server side tracking. i've noticed by accident a few years back that using agent strings for the oldest active microsoft release has a small impact that add up on expensive things like air line tickets.
in reply to eldavi

oh right okay, i forgot that this is a thing. its noticeable on hotel rooms as well with mobile vs. desktop prices for examples. thanks for the answer.
in reply to Metz

Now I need to know which one is cheaper! Please tell us your tricks.
in reply to Wrufieotnak

oh hell, i have to look myself. have not booked a room in over a year. It was on some site similar to booking.com for vacation rentals in Germany. And i noticed mobile was cheaper by sometimes 5%!
in reply to Metz

LibreWolf (for example, among other security-conscious software packages) does it by default to reduce enabling of fingerprinting. The information is misused far more often than it is put to any of the user's interests.
in reply to eldavi

If you use the app, then probably not. I don't know if they would count browser usage anyway.


Black Cities Fantasy Bundle

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Publisher: Eldritch Tides GamesThis special bundle product contains the following titles.By Gate and GutterRegular price: 0Bundle price: 0Format: PDF By Gate and Gutter: An Urban Architect's Handbook Step into the bustling streets, shadowed alleys, and…




🎉 Excited to announce that Renan de Assis will present a talk titled "Abaixo aos prints, ode aos logs!" on 28-11-2024 at 16:30! Don't miss it! 🌟 Check it out: buff.ly/4f62Mya #PloneConf2024 #Plone #Python