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Dennis
martiandennis@astrodon.social

What a beautiful launch of Europa Clipper on the Falcon Heavy this morning and what an amazing shot of the spacecraft separation that happened moments ago! Ad Europa!

October 14, 2024
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In #Flancia we'll meet
flancian@social.coop

Which piece of software is everything you wanted it to be?

For me [[Stellarium]] fits the bill -- it does everything I ever dreamed for observational astronomy. Checking out the user interface thoroughly was one "cool, that does something I wanted or might want" after the other.

October 14, 2024
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Charlie Stross
cstross@wandering.shop

I love this!

"One day, Linus accidentally attempted to use his hard drive to dial the university, resulting in his master boot sector starting with "ATDT" and the university modem-pool phone number. After recovering from this, he implemented file permissions in his kernel."
https://lwn.net/Articles/928581/

October 14, 2024
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Jay
jerf@hachyderm.io

The Disco Elysium team has reformed. And they have made a beautiful site for their new collective: https://summereternal.com/#manifesto

#gaming #discoElysium

October 11, 2024
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BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer@infosec.exchange

Mozilla has issued an emergency security update for the Firefox browser to address a critical use-after-free vulnerability that is currently exploited in attacks.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mozilla-fixes-firefox-zero-day-actively-exploited-in-attacks/

October 09, 2024
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_sohalt
_sohalt@chaos.social

Had a great two days at @causalislands with many inspiring talks by @unkai, @TodePond, and Andrés Cuervo among others. Lots of good discussions and found motivation to pick up some old ideas. Great to see the community come together in Europe and excited to see what's still to come!

October 05, 2024
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Ivan Reese
spiralganglion@mastodon.social

The Future Off Computing

October 03, 2024
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Sarah Dal
sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social

Werner's Nomenclature of Colours

A guidebook with swatches to help when describing the colours of things before colour photography - as used by Darwin on his expeditions

https://www.c82.net/werner/

October 02, 2024
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Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer
poetengineer__@bird.makeup

what happens when i use the computer

October 01, 2024
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Eva Pavlikova
evapavlikova@mastodon.social

Štve mě to politikum, které maximálně ovládlo diskusi a vývoj ohledně digitalizace státu.

Společně s kolegy z oboru jsme dali dohromady náš odborný postoj k budoucímu směřování digitalizace služeb veřejné správy.

Míň nás zajímá, kdo za co může, ale víc to, na co je teď potřeba se soustředit, abychom pokračovali v započatém trendu a zachování stabilní a kontinuální priority digitalizace na nejvyšší politické úrovni.

Podepište nebo sdílejte, prosím.

https://portal.gov.cz/e-petice/882-vyzva-za-strategicky-pristup-k-digitalizaci-kvalita-flexibilita-a-udrzitelnost-ve-statnich-projektech

#digitalizace #dsr

October 02, 2024
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Dave Anderson
danderson@hachyderm.io

Today I'm thinking again about the "Children of the Magenta" lecture. In the late 90s, airlines realized that after going all-in on automation and flight assists in the 80s, they had trained a generation of automation-dependent pilots who were no longer capable of dealing with novel situations in which the automation couldn't help, or failed. Children of the magenta flight path line on the computer.

I'm thinking about it because someone this morning bragged about letting LLMs write the code.

September 15, 2024
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Deb Chachra
debcha@saturation.social

FREAKING FINALLY

"Buttons are back, baby!! This piece has been 15 years in the making, more or less."

@mimsical in the WSJ on the resurgance of physical buttons for interfaces.

"Fundamentally, the problem with touch-based interfaces is that they aren’t touch-based at all, because they need us to look when using them."

Materiality and embodiment ftw.

[gift link, courtesy of the author]
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/touch-screens-are-over-even-apple-is-bringing-back-buttons-86fb9ea8?st=XPWkwV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

September 30, 2024
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beka valentine
beka_valentine@kolektiva.social

tired: the Singularity

wired: the Intertwingularity

September 27, 2024