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Some books being elevated to the public domain from Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, etc.
also some movies like Metropolis
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#Browsers, time to bring back the RSS/Atom feed icon displayed when a website has an RSS/Atom feed. 
It's long past-due!
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One of the benefits of #Mastodon being #OpenSource: The EU can help make it more secure.
"Awards of up to EUR 5000 are available for finding security vulnerabilities in LibreOffice, LEOS, Mastodon, Odoo and CryptPad, open source solutions used by public services across the European Union. There is a 20% bonus for providing a code fix for the bugs they discover."
https://commission.europa.eu/news/european-commissions-open-source-programme-office-starts-bug-bounties-2022-01-19_en
#EU #OpenCollaboration
TIL about [cluster headache](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_headache)
> _“The #pain […] is usually described as burning, stabbing, drilling or squeezing. While #suicide is rare, those with cluster headaches may experience suicidal thoughts (giving the alternative name ‘suicide headache’ or ‘suicidal headache’). […] The disease may be the most painful condition known to medical science. […] #ClusterHeadache is probably the worst pain that humans experience. […] Women with cluster headache will tell you that an attack is worse than giving birth. So you can imagine that these people give birth without anesthetic once or twice a day, for six, eight, or ten weeks at a time. […] Their pain was so severe that several of them had to be constantly watched for fear of suicide. Most of them were willing to submit to any operation which might bring relief.”_
#qualia #HedonisticImperative #consciousness
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🗞 Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe steps down as W3C CEO; Ralph Swick appointed Interim CEO https://ift.tt/V1GKpUP
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i maintain the identity associated with the bits I was born with, and also, am very good with computers
that is to say, I'm a cis admin
> _“When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about significantly changing the present by doing something small, but hardly anyone thinks that they can significantly change the future by doing something small”_
🏆 🤯
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@thomasfuchs Just because you haven’t found a use for it (and like me get inundated with bullshit crypto scams) doesn’t mean it isn’t being used in productive ways. They just aren’t very sexy or meme-able.
If ever there was a reason to make #OpenHardware, #FOSS and #standards mandatory in certain cases:
> _“Earlier this year, many people with Argus optical implants – which allow blind people to see – lost their vision when the manufacturer, Second Sight, went bust. […] There's no ethical case for permanently attaching computers to people's nervous systems without giving them the absolute, irrevocable right to nominate who maintains those computers and how.”_
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/12/unsafe-at-any-speed/#this-is-literally-your-brain-on-capitalism
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This is (again) mind-blowing:
Spawn a virtual #EliezerYudkowsky inside #ChatGPT who acts as a firewall filtering malicious prompts for ChatGPT itself, then test it trying to circumvent normal precautions by wrapping/disguising malicious prompts as narration, shell commands and the like (and it seems to work fine).
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pNcFYZnPdXyL2RfgA/using-gpt-eliezer-against-chatgpt-jailbreaking
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📢 ATTN open source maintainers! My employer, Snyk, is re running an event in February called the Big Fix. It’s a month-long virtual thing where we try to put the focus on securing OSS, promoting good security practices and generally “fixing the Internet”. You can get a feel for it from what we did last year.: https://snyk.io/events/the-big-fix/ We are looking for OSS maintainers who can join our livestream on the 28th who can share share their security journey. Ping me here if you're interested!
Novel insight:
if your national team did poorly in the #WorldCup and you're puzzled and looking for an explanation, consider that it might be that YOUR NATIONAL TEAM ISN'T AS GOOD AS YOU THINK.
«Contra la concesión de #indultos a los condenados por sedición en Cataluña, en apoyo al Poder Judicial, atacado por el Gobierno Sánchez, y en defe...
