GitHub Copilot Chat beta now available for all individuals
All GitHub Copilot for Individuals users now have access to GitHub Copilot Chat beta, bringing natural language-powered coding to every developer in all languages.

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technetium, being an element not found in nature, occupies a similar position to cold iron, except it does not interact with magic at all rather than ground it

Types of Solar Eclipse
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Release Radar · July 2023 Edition
After the last Release Radar, I promised the next one wouldn’t be far away, so here it is. This is the low down on some of the best open source projects that shipped major version updates in July. There’s lots of cool stuff from natural language processing, to APIs, money, and SDKs. I won’t spoil […]

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Growers warn ‘unworkable’ Pacific Islander worker changes lack critical flexibility required for horticulture
Changes to the Pacific Islander labour scheme mean workers must be guaranteed a minimum of 30 hours of work each week, but the horticulture industry says the seasonal nature of the work and weather events make that unworkable. ⌘ Read more

listen to new releases from Alaska Reid, Being Dead, Natural Wonder Beauty Concept + more
Haven’t done one of these weekly release recaps in a minute, but this was a special week… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

Natural Wonder Beauty Concept – Driving
Ana Roxanne + DJ Python share another one from their new Natural Wonder Beauty Concept album, coming this Friday… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

Decades-old winemaker pushed into voluntary administration
A winemaker says he has a heavy heart about his business’s latest step after it buckled under the pressure of natural disasters, COVID restrictions and trade tariffs. ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @movq@www.uninformativ.de I’ve always liked the sound of crows, and I really really hate the sound of motorized vehicles, so I also find it absurd. I’ve come to think that some people are at some level afraid of nature, and nature sounds remind them of it.

Natural Wonder Beauty Concept – Sword
DJ Python + Ana Roxanne are Natural Wonder Beauty Concept… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net

Taking Jordan Peterson asn an example, the only thing he “preaches” (if you want to call it that) is to be honest with yourself and to take responsibility.

This is simply untrue. Read the articles I posted, seriously.

In a tweet in one of the articles I posted, Peterson states there is no white supremacy in Canada. This is blatantly false. It is disinformation. Peterson has made statements that rape is OK (he uses “fancy” language like “women should be naturally converted into mothers” but unpack that a bit–what he means is legalized rape followed by forced conception). He is openly anti-LGBTQ and refuses to use peoples’ preferred pronouns. He seems to believe that women who wear makeup at work are asking to be sexually harassed.

He’s using his platform in academia to pretend that straight, white men are somehow the most aggrieved group in the world and everyone else is just whining and can get fucked. The patron saint of Men’s Rights Activists and incels. I find him odious.

being immersed in gorgeous #nature makes me want to write elegant programs, I’m amazed by the underlying systems #coding #phylosophy

🌠 Better Bookmarks, Word Counts, & Borders
Natural language syntax highlighting, improved reviews and habit trackers, and a nifty way to leverage Google for searching your vault. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Getting started with RabbitMQ: A beginner’s guide for your business
RabbitMQ is one of the world’s most popular open-source message brokers. With its tens of thousands of users (and growing), its lightweight and easy-to-deploy nature makes it a worldwide success across small startups and large enterprises across the globe.

But how do you know if it’s best for your business?

Read on and get the rundown on the reliable messaging software that del … ⌘ Read more

🌠 Natural Language Search & a New CEO
Improved flashcards in spaced repetition, guides and tools for spacial thinking, and different perspectives on note taking and naming. ⌘ Read more

**“Salvar a zona húmida das Alagoas Brancas”

A #petição explica bem, mas para quem não quer ler muito, basta saber do “imprescindível valor enquanto ecossistema e de instrumento natural para a mitigação das alterações climáticas e prevenção de inundações”:

https://peticaopublica.com/?pi=PT114513**
“Salvar a zona húmida das Alagoas Brancas”

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Time Domain Audio Compression at 3.2 bits per Sample
Audio formats typically fall into one of three categories: “lossless”,
“complicated” or “bad”. After developing a
simple image format
last year, I tried to come up with an audio format that fits neither of these
categories.

In other words: a format that is lossy, simple and quite ok.
Naturally, it’s called QOA — the Quite OK Audio Format.

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R to @mind_booster: Temos os distribuidores de gás em Portugal a falar de um futuro descarbonizado, mas para eles isso quer dizer “em 2045 a 2050, gás natural sintético, hidrogénio verde e biometano”. Mesmo que achem que biometano é bom, e 2045 não é tarde demais… gás sintético é óxido de carbono!
Temos os distribuidores de gás em Portugal a falar de um futuro descarbonizado, mas para eles isso quer dizer “em 2045 a 2050, gás natural sintético, hidrogénio verde e biometano”. Mesmo que achem que biometano … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org: Thank you, it’s really nice to hear that! Sometimes I think I’m a moss, because I really love northern nature :D Pixelfed is very slow indeed, and also buggy. @prologic@twtxt.net: I plan to add an RSS feed for the photography page instead of cross-posting to twtxt.txt. Maybe I should post updates of my website here? For example, I made a fancy New Year’s design of https://kolesnikov.se (which makes @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org’s eyes hurt, haha)

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The changing nature of governmental policies around open source
In 2022, governments and the policy community spent a lot of time thinking about open source. Here’s what that means and why it matters. ⌘ Read more

Cette étrange et récente surmortalité
Un précédent article notait l’étrange épidémie de coïncidences qui agitait à la fois les services hospitaliers de cardiologie et quelques obscures revues scientifiques à faible tirage comme Nature, JAMA ou le British Medical Journal : un nombre statistiquement significatif de troubles cardiaques sont actuellement enregistrés alors même qu’une intéressante expérimentation vient de se produire à grande […] ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: As declarações do Chanceler Alemão Olaf Scholz deram ânimo às intenções dos governos de Portugal e Espanha para uma eventual expansão da rede de gás natural fóssil podendo colocar em causa os objetivos europeus de combate às alterações climáticas. https://zero.ong/zero-tem-enormes-duvidas-sobre-expansao-e-interconexao-iberica-da-rede-de-gas/
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Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.8.3 released!
We recently release version 1.8.3 of the Openfire REST API plugin. This version extends the MUC search capability to include the natural name of the MUC (instead of just the name). It also updates a number of library dependencies.

The updated plugin should be available for download in your Openfire admin console already. Alternatively, you can download the plugin directly, from [the plugin’s archive page](https://www.ign … ⌘ Read more

@mckinley@twtxt.net Being German I naturally don’t care for flags, but I have to admit the colored version on your website looks even nicer than the black and white one here. Are JGS at the very end the true initials of your name? And I can’t resist to ask which two states you left out? ]:-> Anyways, enjoy your holiday!

Coal-rich, gas-poor China needs more carbon capture and energy storage tech for new power system, analysts say
Coal-rich and natural gas-poor China must place bigger gets on both carbon capture and energy storage technologies, as it navigates a decarbonisation route that includes a huge renewable energy buildout while ensuring energy security, analysts said. ⌘ Read more

Hong Kong’s housing and economic development must be linked to the environment to create a liveable city
The incoming chief executive should include the environment in his key performance indicators for measuring Hong Kong’s progress. Preserving natural habitats will boost people’s physical and mental well-being and make Hong Kong an example for the rest of the Greater Bay Area. ⌘ Read more

More than 90 per cent of oil slicks threatening global marine life caused by humans, US and Chinese scientists find
Study published in Science reveals major shift from 1990s estimate showing roughly 50-50 split in human and natural sources. ⌘ Read more

Motion Blur
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RT by @mind_booster: As climate change reshapes life on earth, it may also become the single biggest upstream driver of pandemic risk. Our new study in @Nature simulates how 3,139 species will share viruses - and create new spillover risk hotspots - over the next 50 years.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04788-w
As climate change reshapes life on earth, it may also become the single biggest upstream driver of pandemic risk. Our new study in @Nature simulates how … ⌘ Read more

After the repair, I am really excited about my pedelec. The battery significantly increases the range of a “small” bike ride and allows me to visit many beautiful places in the vicinity of my hometown Braunschweig and enjoy the nature. ⌘ Read more

The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey through strange seas and unknown islands, where he will test and prove his powers, and thereby discover his immortality. The man of middle years, who has lived the future that he once dreamed, sees life as a tragedy; for he has learned that his power, however great, will not prevail against those forces of accident and nature to which he gives the names of gods, and has learned that he is mortal. But the man of age, if he plays his assigned role properly, must see life as a comedy. For his triumphs and his failures merge, and one is no more the occasion for pride or shame than the other; and he is neither the hero who proves himself against those forces, nor the protagonist who is destroyed by them. – John Williams in Augustus I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020) | Hacker News

Understanding Color Management
I worked on a project where I dived deep into understanding how modern
color management works, including things like color spaces, ICC profiles
and more. As I learnt here and there, I decided to write this post, both
for my future self, and others who may struggle with some of the
concepts as well.

Color management deals with translating between representations of
colors across a variety of devices. Throughout this post, we’ll use
natural language as … ⌘ Read more

when trying to learn a formula using flashcards, prefix the formula with a natural-language explanation. makes it easier to remember.

How to convert USB webcams to HDMI
There are a handful of interesting USB webcams out there, which naturally work great with a computer. But what if you want to combine video from a USB webcam with your HDMI cameras in a video switcher like the ATEM Mini? ⌘ Read more

First NFT sold for “Tux on Tour”? The Amiga one. Naturally.
%5 of every “Tux on Tour” transaction (sales and re-sales) is donated to Open Source projects. ⌘ Read more

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Peter Saint-Andre: Philosophy vs. Ideology
Today I’d like to explore some implications of my recent series of posts about the nature of opinion; specifically, the dangers of ideology. (As a reminder, so far I’ve discussed holding fewer opinions, opinions about opinions, holding multiple opinions, opinions vs. truths, and opinions weak and strong.)… ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
Yes, I did ask whether or not it was possible to move twts to an “archive” folder, but it will be the same at @stackeffect@twtxt.stackeffect.de experienced (which I have, too), that is, twts will “come back”.

There is no clear solution, I am afraid, right? It is the nature of the beast.

Today I was out in the forest, in nature. To breathe fresh air, move, relax. The inspiration and thoughts you get there! ⌘ Read more

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In reply to: Solarpunk, Climate Change and the New Thinkable — Mangal Media

Solarpunk sits at the intersection of possible positive futures and likely negative ones. It is a recognition of humanity’s wide-ranging damage upon the natural world and inevitably, upon itself. Solarpunk is also a reaction to the cynical and dystopian imaginaries that have come … ⌘ Read more

Quand la nature rassure, la brutalité du vécu s’estompe pour un instant.

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Contexte : trop souvent, depuis le début de l’affaire OKC-Spatz, la beauté de Château de Soleil a été mise … ⌘ Read more

A screenshot of a very tiny c program written on System7

I’ve got to use macOS by nature of my work. Lately I’m increasingly down on this. Here I will not re-hash anything about the current state of Apple’s hardware and software ecosystem. I don’t care.

Wanting to take a trip down nostolgia lane, however (to when I was 2 years old) I thought I’d install Mac OS System 7. What follows is a quick guide for doing the sa … ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: Meditations on Bach #6: Further Instrumental Considerations
Although the first five of Bach’s suites for unaccompanied cello lie quite naturally on the bass (when tuned in fifths, that is!), the sixth suite in D major (BWV 1012) is a slightly different story because it was originally written for an instrument with five strings, not four. The exact identity of this instrument remains a mystery - some think it was written for a viola de spalla, others for a violoncello piccolo. Whatever the truth of the matter, p … ⌘ Read more

implicit music, or the idea that music naturally exudes from everything. composition is not the act of making music, but of starting with music and working backwards. #halfbakedideas

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