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DrALJONES, to Germany
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~100 educators in Berlin have stated their support of protesting students: "We stand with our students & defend their right to peaceful protest.”

Germany’s Education Minister called the statement "staggering. Instead of taking a clear stand against hatred of Israel & Jews, university occupiers are being turned into the victims."

Police said 79 protestors were arrested & 80 criminal investigations initiated.

8.50 GMT MAY 9 AJ UPDATES

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rzeta0,
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@DrALJONES

Germany's education minister is either stupid or evil.

He's not stupid.

rzeta0, to emacs
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lots of discussion about and on mastodon

is this representative of real world trends or just a bubble on mastodon?

rzeta0,
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@carcosa

thank you.

what do you think is causing the upward trend for both?

is it a concern that vscode, the latest darling of developers, may become sour due to microsoft's behaviour - and so people are reconsidering truly free editors/IDEs?

and lisp - what happened to turn people from python/javacript/rust/etc ... ?

rzeta0, to random
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A nice accessible discussion on "proofs in mathematics"

with eminent minds: Terence Tao, Nalini Anantharaman and Timothy Gowers

( h/t @pieces_of_mathematics )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu9mRw7LqIM

rzeta0, to pizza
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Hadn't made in ages.

Tried again and experimented with adding onions and red raisins for sweetness - a la veneziana.

rzeta0,
@rzeta0@mastodon.social avatar

@rootcompute

My experiment with raisins, onions and olives to make a "sweeter" edition seems to show promise.

It did my mental health some good - I find making pizza or coffee or anything else manually to be therapeutic!

cstross, to random
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Question for election psephologists: is Elpicke likely to win re-election in her own constituency as a Labour candidate?

(Genuine Q, I have no idea how popular/unpopular she is locally.)

rzeta0,
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@emmatonkin @cstross

So we're going to have labour politicians at the cliffs of Dover shouting at the sea, waving fists at the RNLI ?

mjg59, to random
@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer avatar

My annual plea for a thing: I want a type 1 hypervisor that just has a small isolated VM and then passes through the rest of the hardware to the main VM which runs Linux. The small VM is intended to be used to run small pieces of code that the main OS should not be able to interfere with. Does such a thing exist? (Think Xen, but with a Dom0 that can't see into DomUs)

rzeta0,
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@mjg59

surely this is impossible

i mean, you can wrote a dom0 that doesn't make it easy to see what is an dom0 but it is cryptographically possible

to achieve what you want would require the cryptographic isolation to not stop at the shared hardware

so perhaps you need a separate computer?

(i'm no expert, just thinking aloud - would welcome challenge to my notions about how security works)

rzeta0,
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@mjg59

if you have the patience to argue with me I would value your reply..

for me, a security barrier is cryptographic

software and software-controlled-hardware barriers are just inconveniences

so the hypervisor you mention happens not to make it easy to see into a vm, but with the right combination of software failures or subversion it is possible

the openssl and CPU vulnerabilities (heartbleed, spectre) are illustrative examples

am i being too pendantic about a security boundary?

luckytran, to random
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We don’t talk about it enough but it’s a huge failure that there isn’t more urgency to develop better COVID vaccines.

An Operation Warp Speed for nasal vaccines and more variant proof vaccines would transform our ability to deal with COVID and help us mitigate future pandemics.

rzeta0,
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@luckytran

There is little pressure or expectation from the general public.

Why?

Because the vast majority think "it's over".

Which is wrong for two reasons:

  1. SARS-CoV-2 is still circulating, 1 in 100 prevalence last time I checked (appreciate an update)

  2. 1/10 infected will get long covid - which can mean anything from brain damage to immune dysregulation (leading to other infections), blood clots to chronic fatigue, and organ damage eg liver or heart

andypiper, to random
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Co-authored an update from the @MastodonEngineering team with my friend @renchap - a sneak peek at what is coming in 4.3 (and looking ahead from there). We'll aim to make these updates a regular feature for the blog. Let us know what you think! https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/05/trunk-tidbits-april-2024/

rzeta0,
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@andypiper

I've raised a GitHub issue about the lack of a "permalink" in any post on the web interface.

This also prevents "right click to open in new tab".

... now, some have said the tiny "time" indicator is the permalink ... But that is a huge accessibility and UX problem.

Twitter actually did this well - right click anywhere worked.

I'm mentioning it here as the replies on GitHub didn't seem to appreciate the UX dimension.

DrALJONES, to random
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Interview with surgeon Dr. Walid Masoud, just back from Gaza

Northern Gaza has reached full-blow famine after the IDF blocked vital aid, attacked convoys & murdered Palestinian civilians waiting to receive aid.

Masoud describes conditions in Gaza — including children suffering from psychological effects of intense & prolonged trauma.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/6/gaza_doctor_walid_masoud

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rzeta0,
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@DrALJONES

"Never Again" they said.

impactology, to random
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Tofu Kolhapuri

rzeta0,
@rzeta0@mastodon.social avatar

@impactology

I regret not learning to cook from my parents.

So now I go by trial and error!

rzeta0,
@rzeta0@mastodon.social avatar

@impactology

Here's my trial-error recipe.

Base - chopped garlic, green chillis, onions, and anardana seeds powder/dried seeds .. add the sliced and emptied karelas .. and fry slowly. The karelas will take a long time. Turn occasionally. It's ok if they go charred. Add chopped real tomatos later.

Use a spoon to stuff the empty karelas with what you softened above. Cook more.

Finally fresh coriander, fragile so do last.

Serve with yoghurt and fresh pomegranate seeds and bread (roti, naan).

rzeta0,
@rzeta0@mastodon.social avatar

@impactology

I forgot - add your favourite spice mix to the fried veges .. the usual mix of salt, red chilli, turmeric, fenugreek seeds, garlic, ginger, cumin, coriander, cinnamon, black pepper, citric acid, methi leaves, carom, cloves..

I use the Shan Vegetable Masala .. about 2-3 teaspoons and then also add hot red chilli powder as I prefer it.

rzeta0, to tech
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Can anyone recommend a blog/article/video on

Good vs Bad API design / lessons learned

I'm keen to learn about what others have learned crafting, using or managing APIs.

rzeta0, to random
@rzeta0@mastodon.social avatar

Karl Marx was born on this day, 1818.

His analysis of how power works against those without - stands the test of time. Of particular relevance today; the corruption of culture and the negative impact on human psychology.

His solutions were of their time and not applicable today.

But that shouldn't stop us from using the prism of his analysis to ask better questions of our human situation today.

Human rights. The environment. Equality of opportunity. Dignity.

🕊️🌍🌸🌱🐈

thomasfuchs, (edited ) to random
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Germany is banning the rector of the University of Glasgow from entering the EU. Because he’s a witness to genocide (as a surgeon who among other things repairs blown off faces of children) who was to speak at the French senate.

Germany has completely lost it.

rzeta0,
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@thomasfuchs

For anyone who doesn't have the context, the rector is an experienced surgeon and was providing medical aid under the Israeli onslaught.

What Germany and others are afraid of is his testimony.

The truth.

rzeta0, to random
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Spices are good for you.

(zoe discussion is based on peer-reviewed science)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2THwCJL62n8

rzeta0, to UKpolitics
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In this tide against the Tories, ...

... guess what?

💀 The Tories won in Cornwall's PCC election.

💀 Every single MP in Cornwall is a Tory.

💀 And the council turned majority Tory at the last local election.

rzeta0, to genart
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I'll be running an intro and free taster sessions for my course:

⭐️ Creative Coding for Complete Beginners 🚀

Designed specifically for anyone who has never coded before - and of particular interests to artists who want to try coding.

Let your friends know if they might benefit!

https://www.meetup.com/creative-coding-for-complete-beginners/

impactology, to random
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This is an excellent insight on the nonergodic nature of each sub-system's mechanism of our body

That the function of a part depends on its interaction with other parts and with the whole organism and it is not static but can change over time as the needs of the whole organism change.

rzeta0, (edited )
@rzeta0@mastodon.social avatar

@impactology

Reminds me of an idea suggested by NN Taleb that organisms (and organisations) need random stressors to remain fit.

Stasis bad.

Constant challenge and response, and maybe change/evolution, are necessary to stay fit, alive, and for organisations, relevant.

rzeta0, to dance
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Argentine Tango - a thread.

.. about the dance, the music, the culture around it, and a bit of history too.

(caveat - i'm no expert, just an enthusiast)

Let's start with a fun taster - a dance to one of the 3 main genres of music within tango culture - the milonga - we'll talk more about it later.

Enjoy it - but if you do want to watch more carefully, notice the most important element of tango - connection!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFyTwSoAjyI

rzeta0,
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Tango as a dance and as music to dance to has been around for about 100 years - going through two golden ages, by common consensus.

Over that time, and across continents, it has evolved and sprouted new forms.

Modern, tango nuevo, is probably best characterised by the Gotan Project.

Here is there iconic Santa Maria (Del Bien Ayre)

https://youtu.be/bp55S6Wta4M?t=30

(I started my tango journey with London's Federico, very. much a performance dancer, featured in the video)

rzeta0,
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And we can't ignore the legendary Astor Piazzolla - a modern composer who stays true to the heart and essence of tango.

His music is mostly for listening to - but people do dance to it.

This is dynamic soaring Libertango as used in the film "The Tango Lesson"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkxWgpo0PN4

rzeta0,
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Piazolla wrote music primarily based on his own life and feelings - a life with a fair amount of pain, loss and loneliness.

Oblivion is one of his most hauntingly sad beautiful pieces.

For me personally, it reminds me of the feelings Pedro Almodovar's films invoke...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0DQxI3KM7o

Piazzolla often performed his own works - and this one is special -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF-IMQzd_Jo

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