Francesco 🍁 @fra@qoto.org

Up for Donating Books? try the @internetarchive new app to find out which ones will help fill out the collections (if you go through this, we can sometimes cover postage)

Randomly scanning your or friend's books to see if the Internet Archive already has it... Again, try the app. (I find it fun, but it might just be me)

Search for "donate books" in the apple or google app stores.

You know who DOESN’T get to decide if the concept of “15-Minute Cities,” which supports MORE CHOICE, LESS CAR DEPENDENCY, and LOWER PUBLIC COSTS & CONSEQUENCES, is good public policy?

The same extreme alt-right conspiracy theorists and cynical political opportunists who brought us truck occupations in Canadian neighbourhoods, the January 6th Insurrection, & Brexit.

I won’t let their unhinged lies work. You shouldn’t either.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7g898/walkable-15-minute-cities-con

There are two trends in government over the past 30 years that have collided to cause a never-ending series of high-profile failures:

1. Outsourcing anything technology-related, regarding tech as outside of government’s core competencies (or even government’s proper role).
2. Relying on technology to accomplish nearly all agency goals and intermediating interactions with the public through software.

Can you identify the problem here?

Growth forecast for 2023 (%):

🇮🇪 4.9
🇲🇹 3.1
🇷🇴 2.5
🇱🇺 1.7
🇨🇾 1.6
🇸🇰 1.5
🇪🇸 1.4
🇧🇬 1.4
🇬🇷 1.2
🇭🇷 1.2
🇸🇮 1.0
🇵🇹 1.0
🇳🇱 0.9
🇧🇪 0.8
🇮🇹 0.8
🇪🇺 0.8
🇫🇷 0.6
🇭🇺 0.6
🇦🇹 0.5
🇵🇱 0.4
🇱🇹 0.3
🇩🇪 0.2
🇫🇮 0.2
🇨🇿 0.1
🇪🇪 0.1
🇱🇻 0.1
🇩🇰 0.1
🇸🇪 -0.8

#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #EU #EuropeanUnion

As a committer on a couple of medium-popularity projects I couldn't agree more with this:

"Maintaining a successful open source project is Good Will Hunting in reverse. You start out as a respected genius, and end up being a janitor who gets into fights."

— Byrne Hobart (@ByrneHobart@twitter.com)

Google ha ucciso Golang. Con un colpo secco.
Google ha ucciso Golang. Con un colpo secco. - Das Böse Büro
https://keinpfusch.net/google-ha-ucciso-golang-con-un-colpo-secco/

La procura della Cassazione ha chiesto la revoca del 41-bis per Alfredo Cospito https://www.ilpost.it/2023/02/12/procura-cassazione-41-bis-cospito/

It's science.

https://futurism.com/neoscope/sports-cars-penis-size

Bing Chat Succombs to Prompt Injection Attack, Spills Its Secrets https://slashdot.org/story/23/02/12/0114222/bing-chat-succombs-to-prompt-injection-attack-spills-its-secrets?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

A man named Bruno Schröder, was a mining engineer for most of his life. When passed away in his 80s in June 2022, he had around 60,000 or so books spread out on the 4 floors of his house in Mettingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The books likely weigh about the same as 15 modern cars. 📚
#books #library #BookCollection #collection #Germany

h/t @BrianJopek

Don't

@mcc If you stare into the void long enough it will sometimes throw an exception back.

su repubblica punto it mi pare tutto ok

Watch "Cosa sono state davvero le foibe?" on YouTube

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xr6UgE_3oD4&feature=shares

👩‍🔬In 2021, at NUTS 1 regional level, the highest shares of female scientists and engineers in the EU were in:
🇵🇹Região Autónoma dos Açores (62%)

Lowest:
🇩🇪Baden-Württemberg (30%)

What about your region❓
👉https://europa.eu/!fHYPPb

#WomenInScience #WomenInScienceDay

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Eurostat/status/1624017370544218112

Life Hack: The people at the bakery will never suspect that you eat the entire birthday cake alone in your car when you have them inscribe it to fake family member each time.

ME: what should your tombstone say
WIFE: i don’t want one i want to be cremated
ME: okay

[years later]

╱▔▔▔▔▔╲
▕ I DON’T ▏
▕ WANT ONE ▏
▕ I WANT TO BE ▏
▕ CREMATED ▏
▕ ▏
▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔

I like it that the new Bing has no scruples whatsoever.