Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

@skry Poor implementation, but the market is there. I would love to have a (sound) medical advisor who didn't need $500 per interaction and whose advice was not always tinged with the thoughts of "the more they do the more they make."

As a repeat victim of unjustified over-treatment in medicine I would love to have a medical AI that didn't have a financial incentive to prescribe a treatment I didn't need.

This is nice to see..

A student can't afford to pay the $8 per month for #Obsidian sync, so builds a #FOSS alternative. Then posts to HN and says "I probably violate ToS, so will take down the repo if asked".

Then the Obsidian CEO replies. Explains they aren't VC-funded and the $8 bucks subscription keeps the light on. Applauds the work of the student, points to other open ways that content sync can be handled and gives advice "if you rename, there's no ToS problem". 👍

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37247767

I swore off using any closed source Oracle products after watching a large customer of mine getting this treatment years ago with the Oracle Database. At the time I was wedded to the JVM world so it became my insistence to never use anything but OpenJDK on any device. With their latest finger wagging around Red Hat's maneuvers, which I don't agree with btw, I was thinking back to those days. I wondered if they were still up to those shenanigans, assuming that they were. Yep they are. Never ever trust Oracle. To the Red Hat adjacent Linux distros that hitched their wagon to Oracle in that battle, may god have mercy on their souls. #oracle #linux #java
www.theregister.com/2023/07/05…

Or texts, or phone calls, or DMs, or answering the door

I missed this last month: France has launched an initiative to reduce textile waste by paying people to repair their clothes instead of throwing them out.

Starting October, people will be able to claim between €6 and €25 of the cost of mending clothes and shoes. The money will come from a €154 million fund and is meant to support businesses in offering more apparel repair services.

Cool stuff! 🧵🪡

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/12/stitch-in-time-france-to-help-pay-for-clothes-to-be-mended-to-cut-waste

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#sustainability #fashion #waste #environment #france #repair

"wistful" means full of wist.

but wist, of course, no longer exists in modern English.

so wistful is an adjective that has lost its noun form, and can only think back on it with a fond sense of melancholic loss and yearning...

This is my recipe for sautéed spinach.

One thing I learned during 35 years in education: it’s almost impossible to differentiate those who did well in prerequisites from those who did not by looking at current performance.

Lmao. why #Linux is safer than other oses?

Me: Oh, resources to do with creation and the environment, could be useful!

Me,10 minutes later: OMG, what did I just read?!?
I am begging #Episcopalians to just be normal. There is no need to re-write the Creed, the Words of Institution or the Our Father! Making out that environmentalism is incompatible with orthodox #Christianity is not helping!

#Episcopal #Episcopalian

Sixteen Bishops Authorize Use of Liturgical Resource for Creation Season – Episcopal News Service https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/pressreleases/sixteen-bishops-authorize-use-of-liturgical-resource-for-creation-season/

I am *SO* sick of joining #Discord Servers for everything and anything.

I do NOT want to join your server of 400+ people I *do not know* and have no desire to talk to because you wouldn't link me your GitHub or site directly or put necessary information in your README for a thing I just want to download and use.

Please, for the love of Celestia STOP doing this. IF your server gets deleted, that information is GONE. If Discord shuts down, that information is GONE. If someone doesn't want to join a 400+ person chat room, they're SCREWED. PLEASE STOP.

You people know that there are limits to the number of servers people can JOIN right?!

Sweet Luna's Moon! Seriously, just make an RSS Feed..! Put up an info page on GitHub Pages, it's FREE.

I miss forums you could browse without an account

Please... please... #StopDiscordCentralization

/rant

I am looking for work! Interested in Props and Environment Modelling, as well as Materials, Tech Art and Unreal Engine blueprints / prototyping.

If anyone has any leads or introductions, I would greatly appreciate it! ❤️😁🙏

Artstation Link:
https://www.artstation.com/martiandays

A few examples:

the instructions "leave meat to rest after cooking" was invented by pets to increase their chances

@Hypx taking a pickup truck on a cross-country trip is an incredibly stupid idea. Having a ranch truck that can charge of the same circuit that runs your well pump and never having to drive 50 miles to fill up the tank is a great idea. #EV ranch equipment that can not only charge on site, but can also act as a mobile power source capable of running a MIG welder is a fantastic idea. Having a truck that cost less than half as much per mile as a ICE truck that is a real win.

Overt and Predicate Acts Explained: Why Fani Willis Isn't Trying To Criminalize Phone Calls or Tweets, And Also Why Her Approach Is Gratuitous And A Problem

https://popehat.substack.com/p/overt-acts-and-predicate-acts-explained

Patch submitted to the #Linux kernel by a four-year-old girl🤠