Traditional Art
Boxer - by Bill Mayer
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One of the noblest and saddest characters in one of the most cruel stories ever written.
dominiquec
3 months ago
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As I recall it was longaniza, cucumber, and carrots.
dominiquec
3 months ago
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Yeah, I should have taken a cross-sectional cut to show what was inside. Next time....
Software recommendations
Ebooks library (cross platform)
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3 months ago
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I don't know if this will fully meet your requirements, but my combination, which I'm happy with, is Moon Reader Pro on my Android devices and Ubooquity on my server.
Moon Reader has a Sync to WebDAV option but I haven't needed to use it. If you're not inclined to pay for an ebook reader software, there is also Librera which is free.
dominiquec
3 months ago
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Seasoned vinaigrette.
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3 months ago
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Any of the 90s horror anthology shows. Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Friday the 13th: The Series heck even X-Files and Buffy. I don't think we've had a decent horror anthology show in recent years. Black Mirror is less horror than just plain meanness sometimes.
Ask Lemmy
Everything going on has got me down, I need a break. What's something good that's happened in your life recently?
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3 months ago
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My daughter just started school. She's pretty stoked about it, and so are we.
dominiquec
3 months ago
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Just drip for now, but I'm going to try it with French press and Aeropress soon.
Smoothest brew I've had in a while, no hint of sourness or bitterness.
dominiquec
3 months ago
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Sorry, all gone! (It was yummy!)
Technology
Share Your Story: The Impact of Losing Access to 500,000 Books
dominiquec
3 months ago
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It would help if we knew even just a smidgin of what these titles are.
dominiquec
3 months ago
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My wife used fried tofu in this case. The tofu brought the texture while the sauce and the other garnishings carried the flavor.
thenewstack.io
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4 months ago
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Immortalized! Thank you!
Found this stray cat while out on an evening stroll.
Using genomic techniques to change the color of plants to make it easier for robots to harvest them.
Selfhosted
Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me.
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5 months ago
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For several years I was using TTRSS, but this year I moved to a Miniflux instance that I host at home. I couple it with an instance of Wallabag for saving articles for later reading. I like the experience of the Miniflux PWA app better than TTRSS.
Technology
Huawei's woes really were just a flesh wound – profits just soared 564 percent
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5 months ago
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Technology
Bruce Perens Emits Draft Post-Open Zero Cost License
dominiquec
5 months ago
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The key idea from the article is --
...Companies making more than $5 million annually by using Post-Open software in a paid-for product would be required to pay 1 percent of their revenue back to this administrative organization, which would distribute the funds to the maintainers of the participating open source project(s). That would cover all Post-Open software used by the organization.
Ask Lemmy, Ouija Style
I am unable to sleep anymore after watching ________
dominiquec
5 months ago
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C
dominiquec
5 months ago
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I enjoy the D&D alignment chart.
Comic Books
Is anyone reading the new Ultimate Spiderman (2024)? Peter is older and have kids, the story seems cool and interesting
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5 months ago
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5 months ago
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World War Z (the book, not the movie) had many memorable moments.
Photo by me.
spectrum.ieee.org
...replacing the previously hydraulic version. Insert obligatory welcome statement here.
Technology
Unearthing APT44: Russia’s Notorious Cyber Sabotage Unit Sandworm
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5 months ago
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My point being that they deem this serious enough to release publicly themselves instead of an internal memory, and that this is about an active threat actor rather than a mere vulnerability.
cloud.google.com
What's worrying about this report is that it's coming from Google itself. With Russia's full-scale invasion in its third year, Sandworm (aka FROZENBARENTS) remains a formidable threat to Ukraine. The group’s operations in support of Moscow’s war aims have proven tactically and operationally adaptable... ...Mandiant continues to see operations from the group that are global in scope in key political, military, and economic hotspots for Russia. Additionally, with a record number of people participating in national elections in 2024, Sandworm’s history of attempting to interfere in democratic processes further elevates the severity of the threat the group may pose in the near-term.
dominiquec
5 months ago
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Go to the other side.
aeon.co
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14276504 > Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI
aeon.co
www.technologyreview.com
Dozens of people have now had their memories turned into images in this way via [Synthetic Memories](https://www.syntheticmemories.net/), a project run by Domestic Data Streamers. The studio uses generative image models, such as OpenAI’s DALL-E, to bring people’s memories to life. Since 2022, the studio, which has received funding from the UN and Google, has been working with immigrant and refugee communities around the world to create images of scenes that have never been photographed, or to re-create photos that were lost when families left their previous homes.
Technology
Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI
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5 months ago
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And those papers get used as training data for next iteration of AI. Reinforcement learning!
arstechnica.com
On Wednesday, prompt engineer Riley Goodside [tweeted](https://x.com/goodside/status/1775713487529922702) an AI-generated song created with the prompt "sad girl with piano performs the text of the [MIT License](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License)," and it began to circulate widely in the AI community online.
Selfhosted
XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group?
dominiquec
6 months ago
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Speaking from experience from the last five years, it's been pretty good for me.
Selfhosted
XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group?
dominiquec
6 months ago
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Nextcloud has chat capabilities. Perhaps it might be overkill for chat alone but presumably you also want some collaboration with documents.
english.elpais.com
english.elpais.com
HistoryPorn
Tupolev TB-3 acting as a mothership for other planes, Soviet Union, 1930s
dominiquec
6 months ago
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Catch that pigeon!
Programmer Humor
Whoa there buddy, calm down
dominiquec
6 months ago
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By any chance is this from Andrew Tanenbaum?
arstechnica.com
I, for one...
www.technologyreview.com
After three years, the AI Act, the EU’s new sweeping AI law, jumped through its final bureaucratic hoop last week when the European Parliament voted to approve it.
spectrum.ieee.org
Globally, according to research by the Rocky Mountain Institute, EVs will comprise two-thirds of the world’s car sales by 2030. However, according to the World Resources Institute, “EVs need to account for 75 percent to 95 percent of passenger vehicle sales by 2030 in order to meet international climate goals aimed at keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F).”
NEW YORK, March 15 (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried should spend between 40 and 50 years in prison after being convicted for stealing $8 billion from customers of his now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange, prosecutors said on Friday. ... "Even now Bankman-Fried refuses to admit what he did was wrong," prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum. "His life in recent years has been one of unmatched greed and hubris; of ambition and rationalization; and courting risk and gambling repeatedly with other people's money."
Technology
Brazil is fighting dengue with bacteria-infected mosquitos
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Thank you. I'll look it up.
www.cnn.com
From the article -- McDonald’s was hit by a system failure Friday that closed restaurants and disrupted online and app orders around the world, including in the United States, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom.
www.technologyreview.com
From the article -- One of the country’s anti-dengue strategies aims to hamper the mosquitoes’ ability to spread disease by infecting the insects with a common bacteria—Wolbachia. The bacteria seems to boost the mosquitoes’ immune response, making it more difficult for dengue and other viruses to grow inside the insects. It also directly competes with viruses for crucial molecules they need to replicate.
spectrum.ieee.org
From the article: AllDone’s managers increasingly turned to the company’s digital assembly line in the Philippines, where contractors performed computational work that stood in for or supported software algorithms. AllDone had hired its first work-from-home Filipino contractor a few months after the company’s launch. Within a year, the team had grown to 125, and during my research it expanded to 200. Most contractors were college educated and between the ages of 20 and 40; about 70 percent were women. Executives often called these workers AllDone’s “human machine.”
spectrum.ieee.org
From the article: 'AllDone’s managers increasingly turned to the company’s digital assembly line in the Philippines, where contractors performed computational work that stood in for or supported software algorithms. 'AllDone had hired its first work-from-home Filipino contractor a few months after the company’s launch. Within a year, the team had grown to 125, and during my research it expanded to 200. Most contractors were college educated and between the ages of 20 and 40; about 70 percent were women. Executives often called these workers AllDone’s “human machine.”'
www.technologyreview.com
From the article: "In particular, five fundamental attributes of social media have harmed society. AI also has those attributes. Note that they are not intrinsically evil. They are all double-edged swords, with the potential to do either good or ill. The danger comes from who wields the sword, and in what direction it is swung. This has been true for social media, and it will similarly hold true for AI. In both cases, the solution lies in limits on the technology’s use."
www.foreignaffairs.com
All the different ways in which geopolitics is shaping AI.
Technology
Nvidia is sued by authors over AI use of copyrighted works
Found in NeMo.
Technology
What Do People Think of Apple's Vision Pro Headsets?
dominiquec
6 months ago
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You da MVP! Thanks for sharing your experience.
thenewstack.io
youtu.be
Filed under "Shut Up and Take My Money!"
apnews.com
aeon.co
A short history of the Dublin Core.
daily.jstor.org
Technology
Learning Human-to-Humanoid Real-Time Whole-Body Teleoperation
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6 months ago
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Clumsy now. Give it a few years. Or months.
dominiquec
7 months ago
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Hello, fellow ex-IBMer.
dominiquec
7 months ago
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The table eggs you eat are not fertilized, therefore not a chicken.
Steam
You can only pick 2 games from steam to play for the rest of your life, what games are they?
dominiquec
7 months ago
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Slay the Spire. I probably don't need a second.
Science Fiction
Typefaces for alien worlds -- making the fonts for "Rebel Moon"
dominiquec
9 months ago
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Oh absolutely! Riddick 2 was a "bad" movie that I could get behind. It captured so much of WH40K worldbuilding without actually being one.
Gaming
dominiquec
9 months ago
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Minecraft has been suggested here but there's also Minete St, free/open source version. The experience isn't exactly the same but the basics are there. Works with PC and Android. You can also run one of the computers as a host and you can do multiplayer. Absolutely no microtransactions.
linuxmemes
which ones do you think I missed?
dominiquec
9 months ago
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Her ex-boyfriends.
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9 months ago
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Try "The High Crusade" by Poul Anderson. According to ISFDB, it was published in Portuguese as "A grande cruzada". Good clean fun almost with a touch of slapstick. Another one would be "Three Hearts and Three Lions", also by Anderson. If he likes them, Anderson has a huge body of work that you can get into.
"The Mansions of Space" by John Morressy might speak to your Dad's religious sensibilities. However, it's a little known title and I don't know if it ever came out in Portuguese. It's epic in scale but meditative to a certain degree of how God works in mysterious ways. Might be a hit or miss with him, depending on his theology.
Technology
Putting VR Goggles...on Mice. But why?
dominiquec
9 months ago
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I was thinking more of Pinky and The Brain.
Technology
Chromebooks are problematic for profits and planet says exec
dominiquec
9 months ago
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Anecdotally, I am writing this comment from a 7-year-old Chromebook. Owing to software updates, it's not as snappy as it used to be (therein lies the irony), but it's still usable up to its Linux container. The battery is dead but I don't want to get rid of it because the screen is still nice and bright and the hardware build is otherwise fine.
I just wish, though, I could boot proper Linux off of it and I could upgrade memory and storage.
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Self-hosted forms builder?
dominiquec
10 months ago
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Budibase.