On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, A Matter of Honor https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/12/matter-honor.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Life Blood, chapters 4 – 5 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/07/life-blood-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Unnatural Selection https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/05/unnatural-selection.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Our life is about to change. ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: As of today, most published works from 1927 have entered the public domain in the US! Celebrate with us on Jan 19 & 20: http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/30/the-best-things-in-life-are-free-two-ways-to-celebrate-public-domain-day-in-2023/
Welcome to the #PublicDomain:
🎞️ The Beloved Rogue, starring John Barrymore
https://archive.org/details/TheBelovedRogue**
As of today, most published works from 1927 have entered the public domain in the US! Celebrate with us on Jan 19 & 20: [blog.arc … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Life Blood, chapters 1 – 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/31/life-blood-1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Schizoid Man https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/29/schizoid-man.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
I think boredom is a real force that pushes ourselves to the edge, to hopefully make a change in life, like going out to see real people. Social media creates this cozy, safe place to keep your mind occupied, letting life pass without realizing it. Social media may prevent users from reaping creative rewards of profound boredom | Hacker News
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Loud As A Whisper https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/22/loud-as-whisper.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
**RT by @mind_booster: 🇪🇺@vonderleyen: France has withdrawn from the Energy Charter Treaty – a toxic agreement hampering EU’s Green Deal and Paris Agreement goals 🎉
Why is @EU_Commission keeping ECT on life-support?
Listen to 1M people: Coordinated EU withdrawal now!
#ExitECT #NoECT**
🇪🇺 @vonderleyen: France has withdrawn from the Energy Charter Treaty – a toxic agreement hampering EU’s Green Deal and Paris Agreement goals 🎉
Why is [@EU_Commission](https:/ … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Outrageous Okona https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/15/outrageous-okona.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
A beautiful present for the #BookLover in your life
https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2022/12/14/a-beautiful-present-for-the-booklover-in-your-life/ ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · October 2022 Edition
Before you say it, yes, the October Release Radar was supposed to be shared in November. But with Hackatoberfest, GitHub Universe, Turkey Day, and in real life (IRL) conferences returning to their pre-COVID frequency, we’ve all been so busy. And our community has been hustling to ship all kinds of open source projects. We wanted […] ⌘ Read more
Solar System Model
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Solar System Model
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On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Elementary, Dear Data https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/08/dear-data.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
📚 Finished reading Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John N. Gray
📚 Finished reading Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Where Silence Has Lease https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/01/silence-lease.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Child https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/11/24/child.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Love Island Gives Me Life ⌘ Read more
📚 Finished reading Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life by Nick Lane
📚 Finished reading Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life by Nick Lane
Why my life is boring on purpose. ⌘ Read more
Can We Bring The Dead Back To Life? ⌘ Read more
❤️ 🎶: Beautiful in my life by Lee Yejoon
Easy Or Hard
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Easy Or Hard
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Battery Life
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Battery Life
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Down the rabbit hole: Making my life private and secure
From E-Mail and Cloud Storage… to Operating Systems and Traffic Cameras. ⌘ Read more
❤️ 🎶: LIFE by HEDY
Integrated Terminal for Running Containers, Extended Integration with Containerd, and More in Docker Desktop 4.12
Docker Desktop 4.12 is now live! This release brings some key quality-of-life improvements to the Docker Dashboard. We’ve also made some changes to our container image management and added it as an experimental feature. Finally, we’ve made it easier to find useful Extensions. Let’s dive in. Execute commands in a runn … ⌘ Read more
A 21 year old bug in Firefox just wasted half an hour of my life.
**2 days, 2 laptops to which a new life was given:
1st, an installation of Bodhi Linux on a 14yrs old machine. From unusable to usable - there are no miracles (web browsing is *soheavy nowadays!), but it works.
Then a 10yrs old laptop upgrading from Win8 to Ubuntu 22.04, fresh!**
2 days, 2 laptops to which a new life was given:
1st, an installation of Bodhi Linux on a 14yrs old machine. From unusable to usable - there are no miracles (web browsing is *so*heavy* nowadays!), but it works.
Then a 10yrs ol … ⌘ Read more
Apple Police arrest man for “malicious sideloading of DOOM”
If convicted of “Malicious, Intentional Sideloading” he faces life in Apple Prison ™. ⌘ Read more
by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to their current age. Thus, the Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, the longer its remaining life expectancy. The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions — brandur.org
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert You can be both dull and innovative | Hacker News
**R to @mind_booster: Metaverse? Yeah, that other new thing, haven’t you notice? Nevermind that book in my shelf claiming that Second Life is Linden Lab’s Metaverse, or years of Metaverse references older than Facebook in papers, conferences, etc.: the Metaverse is now.
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Second+Life%3A+The+Official+Guide-p-9780470096086**
Metaverse? Yeah, that other new thing, haven’t you notice? Nevermind that book in my shelf claiming that Second Life is Linden Lab’s Metaverse, or years of Metavers … ⌘ Read more
How a fresh start changed our life ⌘ Read more
the legal way to take a life ⌘ Read more
the legal way to take a life ⌘ Read more
**You know your life is getting back to normal when …
You’re back to buying music.
(@I_Killed_Techno tape just arrived!)**
You know your life is getting back to normal when …
You’re back to buying music.
( @I_Killed_Techno tape just arrived!)
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Lone surviving attacker in Paris massacre guilty of murder, jailed for life
Islamic State extremist Salah Abdeslam was given the most severe sentence possible for his role in the deadly 2015 bombings and shootings that killed 130 people. ⌘ Read more
Russia bombs central Kyiv as world leaders gather in Europe for G7 summit
Kyiv had not faced any such Russian air strikes since June 5 and life had begun returning to normal. ⌘ Read more
In reply to: Oatmeal - That one time when Buffy the Vampire Slayer maybe saved my life?
After giving my brain bleed time to heal the neurosurgeon called me back in to hospital; the plan was to reassess, attempt to fix it using the minimally invasive technique that they tried once before, and if that didn’t work, do something a bit more squidgy dir … ⌘ Read more
Hongkongers all: drawn to the city for different reasons, they call it home
Living the expatriate life or struggling to make ends meet, immigrants find reasons to belong. ⌘ Read more
Man in China with no arms shows millions how the disabled can live full lives in videos of cooking, writing and sewing with his feet
A man in China who lost both his arms as a child shows millions that a disability does not mean you can’t have a full life, with videos of him cooking, farming and even sewing with his feet. ⌘ Read more