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mrundkvist, 19 hours ago to random

Hey baby

matthiasott, 12 days ago to random

By the way, do you have a personal website and does it have a home page? (I’m pretty sure it does… 😁)

I would love to know: what’s on your “home” and why?

Feel free to share a link, of course. 🤗 As always, I’m also asking on behalf of my #OwnYourWeb newsletter subscribers.

appassionato, 15 days ago to books

Celts: The History and Legacy of One of the Oldest Cultures in Europe by Martin J. Dougherty, 2024

Before the Vikings, before the Anglo-Saxons, before the Roman Empire, the Celts dominated central and western Europe. Today we might think of the Celts only inhabiting parts of the far west of Europe – Ireland, Great Britain, France and Spain – but these were the extremities in which their culture lasted longest.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#history
#Celts

flexghost, 16 days ago to random

After the parasite, that feeds off brain activity, starved to death leaving only a black spot, RFK jr was asked for a comment:

“Sometimes duck with cheese can purple. Tartar baby staples. Vaccines bad.”

dangillmor, 18 days ago to random

Stack Overflow's deal with "Open"AI is prompting the site's contributors to remove their posts and close their accounts. Good for them.

The "AI" cartel is telling the people who created and populated the open web that they were suckers.

seindal, 20 days ago to random

Apparently some men are unbearable.

TheMetalDog, 24 days ago to random

#TheMetalDogArticleList
#OpenCulture
Pink Floyd Plays in Venice on a Massive Floating Stage in 1989; Forces the Mayor & City Council to Resign
Waters proclaimed, “a spent force.” After releasing solo projects in the next few years, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright soon discovered they would never achieve as individuals what they did as a band, both musically and commercially.

https://www.openculture.com/2024/04/pink-floyd-plays-in-venice-on-a-massive-floating-stage-in-1989-forces-the-mayor-to-resign.html

#PinkFloyd #Venice #Concert #RogerWaters #DavidGilmour

vicgrinberg, 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago) to random

#TIL: the English word "slave" does not just sound similar to "Slav", it is actually derived from it:

▶️ https://www.oed.com/dictionary/slave_n?tl=true&tab=etymology

▶️ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slave#word-history

alcinnz, 29 days ago (edited 22 days ago) to random

Popquiz: Which component of an OS is the most complex?

I could relate this to my hardware-browser hypothetical, but that's pretty irrelevant.

(I'm leaving off scheduling, since that's as complex or simple as you want it)

ajayiyer, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to academicchatter

Dear @linux and @academicchatter folks:

Please suggest libre/open source tools that allow for the extraction of text and images from scientific pdf documents?

P.S: I'm on a linux machine. Would like something terminal friendly, if possible!

RolfBly, 1 month ago to wordpress Dutch

Looking for people who blog in #Wordpress using #Markdown.

I use Markdown a lot & it works well for me. Having recently moved to Wordpress, I find the Gutenberg-type editors very nice for fancy effects, but not for just writing.

Unsurprisingly, I'm facing 24 WP plugins that promise Markdown heaven, and I'd rather not try them all.

Anyone out there would like to share experiences in this matter, please do. @wordpress perhaps?

dakkar, 1 month ago to bookstodon

A friend of mine has brought to my attention that Cassandra Clare has actually used a regional Italian language (a topolect?) in her "Sword Catcher" books
https://twitter.com/jcrdeclan/status/1759596820848685285

Apparently the Italian translators left it as is.

@bookstodon @bookstodon

RE: https://octodon.social/users/esvrld/statuses/112202513213959812

jon, 1 month ago to random

Seeing people I used to follow on Twitter bemoan that network's decline due to Musk... and then big up Meta's Threads as an alternative 🤦‍♂️

What is wrong with you?

Have you learned nothing?

juergen_hubert, 1 month ago to delhi

Why is it that some people get so agitated when you suggest that some other people can happily live without their own car?

I mean, sure, some places are extremely car-centric! But not all places where humans live are extremely car-centric, and some of the places that are extremely car-centric could be changed to offer more options to people who want to live without their own cars!

Why is this notion seen as a threat?

#traffic #cars #urbanPlanning #bicycle #publicTransit

Green_Footballs, 1 month ago to random

I’ll give Elon Musk credit for one thing he did all by himself: he’s destroyed the myth of the super-rich Tony Stark tech genius.

18+ Angle, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

So I've been kicking around an idea for a while - taking big open source projects and slowly pulling things out of them as separate modules that can be more widely used. Like, take Blender, or Gimp, or Firefox, or any huge monolithic open source project. I'm sure there are lots of bits and pieces that would be really useful elsewhere. I was just wishing I had access to Blender's visual shader node system in Godot, for example. (1/4)

appassionato, 1 month ago to books

How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place by Bjørn Lomborg, 2006

This unique book provides a rich set of dialogs examining ten of the most serious challenges facing the world today: climate change, the spread of communicable diseases, conflicts and arms proliferation, access to education, financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition and hunger, migration, sanitation and access to clean water, and subsidies and trade barriers.
@bookstodon
#books
#GlobalCrises

Tutanota, 1 month ago to random

#Dropbox may be popular, but is it safe? 🔒

We've analyzed this Big Tech service, but would be curious to hear your thoughts!

What's your favorite #Drive solution?

➡️ https://tuta.com/blog/is-dropbox-secure

Daojoan, 1 month ago to random

No, AI generated video doesn't democratise film making. Film making has already been democratised. By having pro level cameras and video editing on smartphones. Anyone can already make a film.

You don't actually want democratisation.

You just want to remove as much effort and skill from the process as possible.

drewharwell, 2 months ago to random

With Threads' entry into the fediverse, I'll be posting and playing around with two accounts now.

This one, on Mastodon.social: @drewharwell

And this one, on Threads: @drewharwell

How are y'all planning to do it?

info, 2 months ago to histodons

Venetian Patent law — 1474

The first patent law ever was Venetian, issued by the Pregadi (Senate) on March 19th, 1474.

#LaSerenissima #Sources #Laws #Sources #Translations #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice

https://historywalksvenice.com/2024/03/venetian-patent-law-1474/

info, 2 months ago to histodons

The Dizionario del Dialetto Veneziano by Giuseppe Boerio

The Dizionario del Dialetto Veneziano by Giuseppe Boerio from 1829 is the essential dictionary of the late Venetian language for anybody trying to read old Venetian texts.

#DizionarioDelDialettoVenezianoBoerio #Sources #Translations #Venezia #Venice

https://historywalksvenice.com/article/the-dizionario-del-dialetto-veneziano-by-giuseppe-boerio/

mrundkvist, 2 months ago to history

In the Christian #Medieval heroic literature of the Insular #Celtic area, ancient head hunting and trophy taking figures large. You know, the Mabinogion etc. But there is very little evidence that it was still practiced. Until the #Vikings showed up and started doing really weird shit with severed heads in e.g. #Dublin, probably horrifying the people who wrote that heroic literature.

#history #archaeology

Daojoan, 2 months ago to random

A democracy is working when no one is getting exactly what they want.

kubikpixel, 2 months ago to web

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