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novelwriter, 13 days ago to random

The novelWriter 2.5 Beta release is now available for testing.

The new release includes a new status icon shape feature, support for footnotes, new colour themes, improved dialogue highlighting, better support for font styles, and many small improvements.

This release is intended for testing and debugging. A release candidate will be available in a few weeks, before the full release.

https://novelwriter.io/releases/release_2_5.html

cmconseils, 17 days ago to random French

The first 3 letters of 'Sweden' and 'Denmark' spell out 'Sweden.'

The remaining letters spell out 'Denmark.'

qlp, 20 days ago to python

This joke has probably been made a bunch of times, but...

Python 3.14, not to be confused with PyPI.

#Python

jotbe, 20 days ago to Bulgaria

Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" | Electronic Frontier Foundation

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/big-tech-eu-drop-dead
#rr #DMA #EU

Thanks @eff, @pluralistic!

novelwriter, 19 days ago to random

Patch Release 2.4.3 has been published.

This release fixes two bugs. One affecting adding new spell check dictionaries on Windows, and one related to changing the text font settings, which seems to primarily affect Linux Mint 21.3.

https://novelwriter.io/releases/release_2_4.html#main-release-2-4-3

novelwriter, 21 days ago to random

Patch Release 2.4.2 is now available.

The release updates the Dutch and Chinese translations, and fixes two minor font issues.

https://novelwriter.io/releases/release_2_4.html#main-release-2-4-2

vicgrinberg, 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago) to Astro

It's only since Cecilia Payne's PhD thesis in 1925, that we know what the stars - and our Sun - are made of: mostly hydrogen.

Her thesis was described as ""the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy" and it extremely readable: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1925PhDT.........1P/abstract

Yet It took until 1956, 10 years before her retirement, for her to become full professor - because women were barred from becoming full professors at Harvard.

(Posted because she was born #OTD).

#astrodon #VicisArt #VicisAstro

JoSuus, 30 days ago to random

Eurovision desperately trying and failing to keep the Song Festival free from politics proves what every marginalized person already knows: Everything is political. Life is political.

novelwriter, 1 month ago to random

Patch release 2.4.1 of novelWriter is now available. It fixes a few issues, mainly with the Manuscript Build tool, and makes a few improvements like remembering the scroll position if you update the preview.

https://novelwriter.io

gerrymcgovern, 1 month ago to random

The Paradox of the Nordic "Green" Transition

“The per person emissions in Norway were incredibly high. With this data set we can confirm that from a Norwegian perspective we have a lot of work to do, because we are third in the world when it comes to emissions per person from domestic [flight] emissions.”

https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2024/04/big-data-reveals-true-climate-impact-of-worldwide-air-travel/

Per capita, Norway is 3rd worst in world for domestic flight pollution. It is 1st worst in world for e-waste. Norway has also voted to mine and destroy the deep seas.

gerrymcgovern, 1 month ago to random

"We’re creating content at a mind-boggling pace and scale: 54,000 photos are taken every second, and this year we’re estimated to create around 120 zettabytes of data. By 2035, data creation is predicted to exceed 2,000 zettabytes. Printing out just one zettabyte would require paper from 20 trillion trees (except we only have 3.5 trillion trees on Earth), or would fill more than 212 billion standard DVDs."

https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/06-05-2024/the-climate-cost-of-your-digital-life

futurebird, 1 month ago to random

A single-board command-line computer using the esp32. Look at it! It's cute. Can't buy it yet the creator is starting some kind of online commune for single-board computer freaks. I bet some of you are around here, go say hi at his forum it only has like two posts and its making me sad.

https://a.singleboard.computer/

tjdraper, 1 month ago to random

Any company right now: You want some AI?

Me: Not particularly, thanks

Company: Got it, here's a big huge heaping helping of AI

Me: No thank you please

Company: Make job go fast, do vroom vroom on your career:

Me: I don't really…

Company: We put AI IN YOUR FREAKING MOUSE DRIVERS CAN YOU BELIEVE IT

Me: Kinda but not really

Company: Here's AI tools for your software engineering

Me: These are really obtrusive and in my w…

COMPANY: YOU WILL LOVE OUR AI

Me: …

sbi, 1 month ago to random

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”

Hippo 76th birdbath, Terry Pratchett!

novelwriter, 1 month ago to random

novelWriter 2.4 is now available.

Among updates is a new project search tool, a new heading format to distinguish between soft and hard scene breaks, a new formatting code to highlight text, and a few new settings for formatting your manuscript.

https://novelwriter.io/releases/release_2_4.html

jon, 1 month ago to random

The Norwegian government wants to ban Crypto mining. I hope they do and that others follow. It is time for this nonsense to stop.

https://www.tu.no/artikler/energiministeren-vil-ikke-ha-kryptovalutautvinning-i-norge/545850

MissingThePt, 2 months ago to random

Solar eclipse alt-text:

MOON SUN
MOONSUN
MOONUN
MOONN
MOON
SMOON
SUMOON
SUNMOON
SUN MOON

eff, 2 months ago to random

Have you set up a username on Signal yet? Now’s as good a time as any. https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal#set-or-change-your-username

novelwriter, 2 months ago to random

A pre-release for the upcoming 2.4 release of novelWriter is now available for testing.

Among new features is a global search tool, a new text highlight format, and the ability to separate "soft" and "hard" scene breaks.

You can find the preliminary release notes on the website.

https://novelwriter.io/releases/release_2_4.html

ElleGray, 2 months ago to random

Dedication

jwildeboer, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Again the FOSS world has proven to be vigilant and proactive in finding bugs and backdoors, IMHO. The level of transparency is stellar, especially compared to proprietary software companies. What the FOSS world has accomplished in 24 hours after detection of the backdoor code in #xz deserves a moment of humbleness. Instead we have flamewars and armchair experts shouting that we must change everything NOW. Which would introduce even more risks. Progress is made iteratively. Learn, adapt, repeat.

talia_christine, 2 months ago to random

#Caturday

arstechnica, 2 months ago to random

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections

Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

SteveBellovin, 2 months ago to random

If you use Homebrew on MacOS, you're affected—do 'brew update' and 'brew upgrade’.
https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/112179988525798247

nixCraft, 2 months ago to linux

Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4 #unix #linux #openssh #infosec #security