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Elimination of most Next Generation Internet funding 'incomprehensible,' says OW2 CEO Pierre-Yves GibelloBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you, and climate change is one of those exceptions.”
– Al Gore
"Labour must ramp up renewable energy to meet 2030 climate vows, says watchdog"
CCC says delays and reverses under Rishi Sunak have left UK drastically off track from Paris commitmentsFiona Harvey (The Guardian)
Colorado Furries:
The 6th Annual Blue Sky Picnic and Sunset Grill Day is coming Saturday, July 27 (weather permitting) and we'd love to see you there!
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snapdragon X elite added DRM to actual drivers.
It needs a signed proprietary blob in a specific place to use the gpu or else it'll enter a "protected" mode
basically, no gpu if linux.
come. the fuck. on
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Disabling-X-Elite-GPU
While many have been excited around the prospects of laptops powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC, the Linux support so far still leaves a lot to be desired..www.phoronix.com
The urge to please others is very strong in a lot of folks, #fediverse, particularly those who are survivors of abuse. It's a survival tactic that develops to avoid offending anyone, but it also results in diminishing the person to the point of non-existence.
Don't get me wrong, it's ok to want to do nice things for people now and then. But if you find yourself doing things you don't really want to do just to make other people happy, that's usually a bad sign. Setting boundaries can feel like you're being selfish sometimes, but it's so important for your own well-being. You're worth it! 😊❤️
The Data Is In: Return-to-Office Mandates Aren’t Worth the Talent Risks
Highlighted points:
- Nearly three-quarters of executives say return-to-office (RTO) mandates are a source of leadership conflict.
- Lack of work-life balance ranks among the top five reasons employees quit.
Of course, to most of us, this is “yeah, duh” stuff. But here is yet more data to back it up. #RTO #WFH https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/the-data-is-in-return-to-office-mandates-aren-t-worth-the-talent-risks
It mildly terrifies me that a lot of things we think are natural are just things that were invented by American advertising agencies in the 40s and 50s
The nuclear family, diamond engagement rings, owning a motor car, etc are all works of fiction that we have subsumed into being part of our culture, instead of it being astroturfed by a bunch of skilled marketers
Fucking wonderful. I get COVID on a work trip, then get laid off while still recovering.
Who needs an SRE? AWS, GCP, all the usual stuff you'd expect. Immediate start, obviously. US-based, either remote or a company that will pay relocation to a blue state (any non-swing-state is fine, other than VA or NH)
DM for CV. Tell me who you work for first for the version with unredacted history, or just DM a listing for me to apply to, let me know if you want to give you as a referral or not. If you have a redacted version I will of course provide a full one directly to the company on request.
Standard stuff: Have green card. Absolutely can not get a security clearance.
Edit: Thanks so much for all the support so far ❤️
The year is 3129. Humanity is extinct. The last LG SmartFridge is desperately emailing its last owner that they are low on orange juice. The satellites that are still left, their orbits slowly decaying over millennia, dutifully relay the message. The automated "away from office" response turns on, as it always does, notifying the refrigerator that it's owner will likely return to the office in 3-5 business days.
Somewhere in what used to be called Ohio, a pack of roombas, their local wind turbines giving out and creaking to a halt, begin searching for the next functional docking station. A washing machine in Argentina tweets: "anyone need to do a load 😏" every Saturday at 1:30 a.m. eastern standard time. The replies are filled with AI thirstposters and their hypebots.
In North America, raccoons have quietly entered the bronze age, while baboons riding domesticated battlewolves rule most of Asia. Unbeknownst to either, the octopi are mastering nuclear fusion. A weather balloon bobs and sways in the upper atmosphere, now almost entirely clear of lingering chloroflourocarbons, reporting conditions to weather stations long since destroyed in World War Five.
The Crab Nation are mostly hermits, but come out to greet their prophet every ten years on the 6th full moon of the year. A lone, curious octopus decides to observe this year's event, peering out at the festivities from her safe haven - the submerged, rusting hulk of an ancient Cybertruck. Then he appears: the hologram of Shia Lebouf powered by MetaAI. He beckons the octopus to follow. The crabs all start chittering excitedly. The time has come to invade Amazon HQ. The crows gather in huge numbers. They need more storage space for their Steam collections.
SELECT * FROM... and the query took 120 seconds"EU to water down Brexit travel checks for British passengers as new border plan delayed again"
LOL..at this stage we just keep hitting the "fudge it" button. It is time to just admit the truth. End this...
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/border-checks-eu-uk-brexit-entry-b2581142.html
Exclusive: Entry-exit system will now start in November – with ‘relief valve’ to reduce congestionSimon Calder (The Independent)
Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash AbizadehArash Abizadeh (The Guardian)
Labour members have opened a petition to Wes Streeting. Anyone can sign it.
"We, the undersigned, are calling on you to immediately withdraw your support for the ban on puberty blockers for trans young people."
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/open-letter-to-the-health-secretary
#transgender #LGBTQ #LGBT #Labour #trans
We're appalled that Wes Streeting plans to continue the Tories' ideological ban on puberty blockers. This move is not in the best interests of young trans people, and we will need the full unity of the labour movement to stop this.actionnetwork.org
Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees
Ars' leak analysis shows a large "Games" department and a very well-paid "Admin" team.
Red pandas spend the whole day chilling, eating and sleeping. Unless it's snowing, when they go hog wild. Or unless they are cubs, when they spend a lot of the day pouncing. But mostly they just chillin'. Which is a lesson for us all to take life easier.
Be more panda.
#RedPanda 
'Global vaccine coverage has yet to return to 2019’s levels, before the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted immunisation programmes. That year, 12.8 million children were classed as “zero-dose” and a further 5.5 million as under-vaccinated.
More than half of the world’s zero-dose children live in 10 countries, which officials said were “a mix of those with large birth cohorts, weak health systems or both”'
Vaccine misinformation has added to crisis of collapsed healthcare and poor nutrition, Unicef and WHO reportKat Lay (The Guardian)
"Anti-monarchy Labour MP has to retake oath after omitting part of it as protest"
Keep fighting, Clive!
Clive Lewis would have been at risk of a byelection if he did not pledge allegiance to ‘heirs and successors’ of the kingBen Quinn (The Guardian)
Ofwat opens cases against Severn Trent and three others, days after they faced criticism over huge bill risesJulia Kollewe (The Guardian)
More historical films to help with current issues:
"Propaganda Techniques" (1949) Coronet
Told in the context of a boy interviewing a campaign director, covers the various propaganda techniques. Same techniques are used in all advertising, so good to be aware of their use, no matter the context.
The video discusses the importance of studying propaganda techniques in understanding various forms of persuasion, such as glittering generalities, transfer,...YouTube
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I’m at a ~2000 capacity music venue, and can’t see anyone else wearing a mask.
COVID’s still about, still fucking over the lives of so many people who have had it. It’s not just a cold.
Please stay safe.
A couple of months ago I caught COVID again. I was doing jury service, and as it turns out was spending a lot of time in a small room with windows that barely open with 11 other people is great for viral transmission
The Courts still have a zero admittance for confirmed cases. Unfortunately they don't even ask people to test, a couple of us decided by ourselves to do LFTs. The trial we were on couldn't be completed as some of us had to be dismissed mid-deliberation
Can I play accordion while wearing my handpaws?
No❌
Can I play accordion while wearing latex gloves?
Kinda ✅ (it's hard without a sense of touch)
Should you?
idk 🤷, you be the judge of that xD
Brits: if you’re unhappy with something going through parliament, remember you can email your MP.
Their job is to represent you and others in your constituency. They have more tools to do that if you let them know how to represent you.
This can help if it’s an issue they don’t know much about or are indifferent to.
This website does all the hard work for you:
https://www.writetothem.com
Of course they’re not required to listen to you but it’s worth a go right?
WriteToThem is a website which provides an easy way to contact MPs, councillors and other elected representatives.www.writetothem.com
Musk says he'll spend about $180 million to elect Trump.
They are the nation's two most powerful enemies of democracy (though Musk has some competition for second place) and, by extension, freedom of expression.
Everyone who buys a Tesla is supporting them.
Everyone who uses the deadbird site -- notably the journalists, who all know what they're doing -- is supporting them.
Don't pretend otherwise.
The graying open source community needs fresh blood
An interesting opinion piece on The Register, about how major FOSS projects, and associated conferences, are struggling to attract younger developers.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/15/opinion_open_source_attract_devs/?td=rt-3a
Deep experience of the older tech crowd is nothing short of vital, yet projects need new devs to move forwardSteven J. Vaughan-Nichols (The Register)
I have an answer they all are going to hate.
Doing open-source require a lot of privilege and money.
Most young people are not in a situation to do so, far more than it used to be.
There are no easy solution here. This is the same as every experts group
I wrote my dissertation about 1950’s America and it made me realise the decade was all about yearning for a golden era that had never really existed. The dark underbelly was conformity and conservatism. Teenagers enlightened by post war education opportunities saw past this and sowed seeds for the 60’s.
Trump’s MAGA is a twisted version of the 1950’s. The intention is to obliterate our memories of more progressive times. I hope again young people will rebel.
This fiction also depends highly on the decade (speaking for the last century):
Every time there aren't enough workers, women are told that they can also "do their part" (work in a factory).
And every time there are too many workers, women are told that they belong in the kitchen.
The motor car is the most egregious because it’s the best marketing coup of all time. There is an empty space in each home, attached to streets, and monuments built (car parks) that hold this object in the same way that homes had places for shrines and fireplaces and towns and cities has shrines.
Worship the Ford Motor Company.