**RT by @mind_booster: [1/3]
Más notícias para Portugal 🛥️

Estudo divulgado hoje pela ZERO refere que Portugal mantém o 6.º lugar entre os países europeus c/ maiores níveis de poluição de óxidos de enxofre emitido (SOx) pelos navios de cruzeiro depois de Itália, Espanha, Grécia, Noruega e França.**
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Más notícias para Portugal 🛥️

Estudo divulgado hoje pela ZERO refere que Portugal mantém o 6.º lugar entre os países europeus c/ maiores níveis de poluição de óxidos de enxofre emitido (SOx) pelos navios de cruz … ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: O Presidente da República aprovou hoje a transposição da directiva do direito de autor.

Que soluções acabaram por ser aprovadas? Não se sabe, não são públicas.
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https://www.presidencia.pt/atualidade/toda-a-atualidade/2023/06/presidente-da-republica-promulga-dois-diplomas-do-governo/**
O Presidente da República aprovou hoje a transposição da directiva do direito de autor.

Que soluções acabaram por ser aprovadas? Não se sabe, não são públicas.

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[presidencia.pt/atualidade/to…](https:/ … ⌘ Read more

Survey reveals AI’s impact on the developer experience
We surveyed 500 U.S.-based developers at companies with 1,000-plus employees about how managers should consider developer productivity, collaboration, and AI coding tools. ⌘ Read more

Survey reveals AI’s impact on the developer experience
We surveyed 500 U.S.-based developers at companies with 1,000-plus employees about how managers should consider developer productivity, collaboration, and AI coding tools. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
Doesn’t even compile on my system, which is apparently broken:

> cc -Wall -Wextra -o win win.c $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk4)                                                                                                        
cc: error: unrecognized argument in option ‘-mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2 -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-4.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/uuid -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/graphene-1.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/graphene-1.0/include -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -lgtk-4 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lharfbuzz -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lgraphene-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0’
cc: note: valid arguments to ‘-mfpmath=’ are: 387 387+sse 387,sse both sse sse+387 sse,387

**RT by @mind_booster: This is brutal.

“The world’s remaining “carbon budget”, or the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted to have a 50 per cent chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, has halved in the past three years.” #ClimateEmergency**
This is brutal.

“The world’s remaining “carbon budget”, or the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted to have a 50 per cent chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, has halved in the past three years.” [#ClimateEmergency](https://nitter.net/search?q=%23C … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: The urgency has never been higher. In a separate study, @JoeriRogelj and colleagues found the carbon budget is shrinking faster that previously thought. If emissions continue at the current rate, the world will exhaust its budget for 1.5C before 2030. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-at-all-time-high-study-finds
The urgency has never been higher. In a separate study, @JoeriRogelj and colle … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Green Comet, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/03/green-comet-1.html #freeculture #bookclub

Gajim: Gajim 1.8.0
Gajim 1.8.0 comes with integrated OMEMO encryption! Integrating the OMEMO plugin brings tighter integration and better user experience. We also rearranged the chat menu and added some quick buttons for convenience. Both Gajim’s message search and conversation view received some important changes and fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!

In the past, we moved the most popular plugins into Gajim’s core: image preview, plugin installer, HTTP file upload, syntax highligh … ⌘ Read more

Não é a falta de “inteligência” que mais critico aqui, é o que foi apresentado como uma potencial terceira fase o que mais assusta: ter isto como um intermediário, uma interface após autenticação… e agora no Q&A fala-se de ter isto com acesso ao CRM e outros dados pessoais. ½
Não é a falta de “inteligência” que mais critico aqui, é o que foi apresentado como uma potencial terceira fase o que mais assusta: ter isto como um intermediário, uma interface após autenticação… e agora no Q&A fala-se de ter is … ⌘ Read more

Physical Quantities
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Myth: Windows 3.1 was just a shell on top of DOS
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According to the RedMonk programming language rankings from Jan 2023, Go and Scala are tied at 14th place 😏

1 JavaScript
2 Python
3 Java
4 PHP
5 C#
6 CSS
7 TypeScript
7 C++
9 Ruby
10 C
11 Swift
12 Shell
12 R
14 Go
14 Scala
16 Objective-C
17 Kotlin
18 PowerShell
19 Rust
19 Dart

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user/bmallred/data/2023-05-17-09-14-01.fit: 1.03 miles, 00:10:13 average pace, 00:10:34 duration

#running

Erlang Solutions: MongooseIM 6.1: Handle more traffic, consume less resources
MongooseIM is a highly customisable instant messaging backend, that can handle millions of messages per minute, exchanged between millions of users from thousands of dynamically configurable XMPP domains. With the new release 6.1.0 it becomes even more cost-efficient, flexible and robust thanks to the new arm64 [Docker containers](https://hub.docker. … ⌘ Read more

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no @prologic@twtxt.net @eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club I love VR too, and I wonder a lot whether it can help people with accessibility challenges, like low vision.

But Meta’s approach from the beginning almost seemed like a joke? My first thought was “are they trolling us?” There’s open source metaverse software like Vircadia that looks better than Meta’s demos (avatars have legs in Vircadia, ffs) and can already do virtual co-working. Vircadia developers hold their meetings within Vircadia, and there are virtual whiteboards and walls where you can run video feeds, calendars and web browsers. What is Meta spending all that money doing, if their visuals look so weak, and their co-working affordances aren’t there?

On top of that, Meta didn’t seem to put any kind of effort into moderating the content. There are already stories of bad things happening in Horizon Worlds, like gangs forming and harassing people off of it. Imagine what that’d look like if 1 billion people were using it the way Meta says they want.

Then, there are plenty of technical challenges left, like people feeling motion sickness or disoriented after using a headset for a long period of time. I haven’t heard announcements from Meta that they’re working on these or have made any advances in these.

All around, it never sounded serious to me, despite how much money Meta seems to be throwing at it. For something with so much promise, and so many obvious challenges to attack first that Meta seems to be ignoring, what are they even doing?

@shreyan@twtxt.net probably ~1k up to 1.5k. One I found had 64G ram and 12C / 16T for 1.1k

@xuu@txt.sour.is LOL omfg.

This is the absurd logical endpoint of free market fundamentalism. “The market will fix everything!” Including, apparently, encroaching floodwater.

I do have to say though, after spending awhile looking at houses, that there are a crapton of homes for sale for very high prices (>$1 million) in coastal areas NASA is more or less telling us will be underwater in the next few decades. I don’t get how a house that’s going to be underwater soon is worth $1 million, but then I’m never been a free market fundamentalist either so 🤷 Maybe they’re all watertight.

user/bmallred/data/2023-05-09-06-13-11.fit: 1.01 miles, 00:08:41 average pace, 00:08:48 duration

#running

Tanta coisa e tanto comentário requentado sobre o “caso Galamba”, e tão pouca importância dada à informação. Ainda agora na @RTPNoticias mais uma vez se ouve comentários errados sobre “o computador”… ½
Tanta coisa e tanto comentário requentado sobre o “caso Galamba”, e tão pouca importância dada à informação. Ainda agora na @RTPNoticias mais uma vez se ouve comentários errados sobre “o computador”… ½ ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: Sabes porque o PCP não aparece nas tvs a falar dos teus problemas?
Vê até ao fim, porque é isto que acontece todos os dias.

(1 de 2)**
Sabes porque o PCP não aparece nas tvs a falar dos teus problemas?

Vê até ao fim, porque é isto que acontece todos os dias.

(1 de 2)

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**RT by @mind_booster: 🧰 5 changes to fix the EC’s #RightToRepair proposal 🛠️

1️⃣ No contractual overrides
2️⃣ No digital locks
3️⃣ Go beyond just fixing things
4️⃣ Don’t limit who can repair
5️⃣ Broaden the scope of what can be repaired

Blog 👉 https://www.knowledgerights21.org/news-story/still-time-to-repair-the-commission-proposal-on-the-right-to-repair/
Response 👉 https://kr21.info/r2r**
🧰 5 changes to fix the EC’s #RightToRepair proposal 🛠️

1️⃣ No contractual ov … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: so went and dig around to find out that Portugal is investing 77m in AI, from EU funds - that’s settled then - but it goes to 1 consortium of an AI company based in the States and to 1 other company. both of them are proud of their investors and investments
so went and dig around to find out that Portugal is investing 77m in AI, from EU funds - that’s settled then - but it goes to 1 consortium of an AI company based in the States and to 1 other company. both of them are proud of their investors a … ⌘ Read more

QOA Benchmark Results and File Format Specification
The specification for the Quite OK Audio Format,
announced in a previous blog post,
is now finalized. QOA is a lossy audio compression format. Typical audio
signals (44100hz, stereo) are encoded into 278 kbits/s, or more precisely 3.2
bits per sample – exactly 1/5 of the bits needed for an uncompressed WAV.

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**RT by @mind_booster: 1/3 🚨Recent @POLITICOEurope leak revealed that US & EU officials have agreed to cooperate on measures to turn public opinion against #encryption.

Experts’ statements by @edri & @globalencrypt have called out against this plan

➡️https://edri.org/our-work/eu-us-plan-offensive-to-legitimise-police-access-to-data-civil-society-responds-amid-growing-fears-press-release/
➡️https://www.globalencryption.org/2023/04/statement-on-eu-us-cooperation-against-encryption/**
1/3 🚨Recent [@POLITICOEurope](https … ⌘ Read more

Recipe Relativity
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The Lunduke Big Tech Show - Apr 23, 2023 - Hour 1
Listen now (0 sec) | The Death of Computer Magazines, A.I. taking away jobs, Tech Layoffs, and iOS Sideloading. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net @carsten@yarn.zn80.net

(1) You go to the store and buy a microwave pizza. You go home, put it in the microwave, heat it up. Maybe it’s not quite the way you like it, so you put some red pepper on it, maybe some oregano.

Are you a pizza chef? No. Do we know what your cooking is like? Also no.

(2) You create a prompt for StableDiffusion to make a picture of an elephant. What pops out isn’t quite to your liking. You adjust the prompt, tweak it a bunch, till the elephant looks pretty cool.

Are you an artist? No. Do we know what your art is like? Also no.

The elephant is “fake art” in a similar sense to how a microwave pizza is “fake pizza”. That’s what I meant by that word. The microwave pizza is a sort of “simulation of pizza”, in this sense. The generated elephant picture is a simulation of art, in a similar sense, though it’s even worse than that and is probably more of a simulacrum of art since you can’t “consume” an AI-generated image the way you “consume” art.

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Expedition Sasquatch, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/22/sasquatch-1.html #freeculture #bookclub

On LinkedIn I see a lot of posts aimed at software developers along the lines of “If you’re not using these AI tools (X,Y,Z) you’re going to be left behind.”

Two things about that:

1. No you’re not. If you have good soft skills (good communication, show up on time, general time management) then you’re already in excellent shape. No AI can do that stuff, and for that alone no AI can replace people
   
2. This rhetoric is coming directly from the billionaires who are laying off tech people by the 100s of thousands as part of the class war they’ve been conducting against all working people since the 1940s. They want you to believe that you have to scramble and claw over one another to learn the “AI” that they’re forcing onto the world, so that you stop honing the skills that matter (see #1) and are easier to obsolete later. Don’t fall for it. It’s far from clear how this will shake out once governments get off their asses and start regulating this stuff, by the way–most of these “AI” tools are blatantly breaking copyright and other IP laws, and some day that’ll catch up with them.
   

That said, it is helpful to know thy enemy.

The Lunduke Big Tech Show - Apr 16, 2023 - Hour 1
Listen now (46 min) | How boring is Ubuntu 23.04? The answer will shock you! ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Big Tech Show - Apr 9, 2023 - Hour 1
Listen now (51 min) | RISC-V Tablet, New Linux Laptops, The possible End of the Internet Archive, and the Substack v. Twitter War! ⌘ Read more

1-to-1 Scale
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user/bmallred/data/2023-04-07-13-19-28.fit: 1.52 miles, 00:08:59 average pace, 00:13:37 duration

#running

**RT by @mind_booster: Há 2 semanas, a Universidade Lusíada do Porto realizou um debate sobre #VotoEletrónico

Opiniões dos intervenientes: 🧶
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https://www.porto.pt/pt/noticia/voto-eletronico-e-uma-inevitabilidade-mas-tem-muito-caminho-para-andar**
Há 2 semanas, a Universidade Lusíada do Porto realizou um debate sobre #VotoEletrónico

Opiniões dos intervenientes: 🧶

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[porto.pt/pt/noticia/voto-ele…](https://www.porto.pt/pt/noticia/voto-eletronico-e-uma-inevitab … ⌘ Read more

Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails
Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily. We deploy as often as 20 times a day, and nearly every week one of those deploys is a Rails upgrade. Upgrading Rails weekly Every […] ⌘ Read more

user/bmallred/data/2023-04-05-06-24-03.fit: 1.55 miles, 00:07:43 average pace, 00:11:57 duration

#cycling

RT by @mind_booster: Two ‘discourses of climate delay’ which are super prevalent right now
1⃣ “The solution is nuclear”. The Swiss Govt is pushing this one, via Energy, Climate & Transport Minister Rösti (also a fossil fuel lobbyist and climate denier) & lobby groups are advertising with billboards.
Two ‘discourses of climate delay’ which are super prevalent right now

1⃣ “The solution is nuclear”. The Swiss Govt is pushing this one, via Energy, Climate & Transport Minister Rösti (also a fossil fuel lobbyi … ⌘ Read more

So. Some bits.

i := fIndex(xs, 5.6)

Can also be

i := Index(xs, 5.6)

The compiler can infer the type automatically. Looks like you mention that later.

Also the infer is super smart.. You can define functions that take functions with generic types in the arguments. This can be useful for a generic value mapper for a repository

func Map[U,V any](rows []U, fn func(U) V) []V {
  out := make([]V, len(rows))
  for i := range rows { out = fn(rows[i]) }
  return out
}


rows := []int{1,2,3}
out := Map(rows, func(v int) uint64 { return uint64(v) })

I am pretty sure the type parameters goes the other way with the type name first and constraint second.

func Foo[comparable T](xs T, s T) int

Should be

func Foo[T comparable](xs T, s T) int

The Lunduke Big Tech Show - Apr 2, 2023 - Hour 1
Listen now (48 min) | Modular laptops! Tech Layoffs! Linux-powered Street Curbs! Pure insanity! ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: A tarde hoje vai ser ocupada com actividades práticas, vamos ter 1 hackthon; e oficinas de @wikipedia, @wikidata, @commons, cujo tema será JAZZ, em jeito de homenagem a José Duarte que faleceu esta semana. #rádioportuguesa #jazz #ameninadança href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%235minutosdejazz”>#5minutosdejazz**
A tarde hoje vai ser ocupada com actividades práticas, vamos ter 1 hackthon; e oficinas de @wikipedia, @wikidata, [@commons](https://nitter.net/Com … ⌘ Read more

CodeQL zero to hero part 1: the fundamentals of static analysis for vulnerability research
Learn more about static analysis and how to use it for security research!
In this blog post series, we will take a closer look at static analysis concepts, present GitHub’s static analysis tool CodeQL, and teach you how to leverage static analysis for security research by writing custom CodeQL queries. ⌘ Read more

We Won (1 MILLION SUBS!) ⌘ Read more

Every Classic MacOS Release, Emulated in Your Browser. Seriously.
InfiniteMac.org provides ready-to-run versions of every MacOS, from 1.0 through 9.x. ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: O Director Nacional da Polícia Judiciária afirmou que espera que eu nunca venha a precisar da PJ, enquanto vítima, devido à minha opinião no tema dos metadados 😶

Uma expressão infeliz… espero eu.

Segue🧵

Podcast Soberania @dntwit @ValentinaM2015
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https://www.dn.pt/podcast/soberania/episodio/soberania-ep3-metatados-combate-ao-crime-e-o-direito-a-privacidade-16071953.html**
O Director Nacional da Polícia Judiciária afirmou que espera que eu nunca venha a precisar da PJ, enquanto víti … ⌘ Read more

Low-tech Magazine: The Comic
This is a test to check the margin alignment This is a test to check the margin alignment This is a test to check the margin alignment This is a test to check the margin alignment

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On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Snowbound Blood part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/25/snowbound-blood-1.html #freeculture #bookclub

Update lagrange to version 1.15.6 in slackbuilds.org

**RT by @mind_booster: Highlights from IPCC report:

• The world’s on track to hit above 3°C of warming by 2100.
  
• Emissions must peak by 2025 and nearly halve by 2030 to keep warming to 1.5°C
  
• 3-bil people likely to suffer water scarcity at 2°C.
  
• No gov has a credible plan to keep warming in target.**
  Highlights from IPCC report:
  

- The world’s on track to hit above 3°C of warming by 2100.

- Emissions must peak by 2025 and nearly halve by 2030 to keep warming to 1.5°C

- 3-bil people likely to suffer w … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: RT @fsf@fsf
LibrePlanet 2023: Charting the Course keynote “Education and the future of software freedom” by Erin Rose Glass (erinroseglass) will be starting soon in the Jupiter room. Check this talk out and more via: https://u.fsf.org/3yr (½)
RT @fsf@fsf

LibrePlanet 2023: Charting the Course keynote “Education and the future of software freedom” by Erin Rose Glass (erinroseglass) will be starting soon in the Jupiter room. Check this talk out and more via: [u.fsf.org/3yr … ⌘ Read more