Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Well, kids, you may want to try this at home under proper supervision and if you promise to clean up afterwards. 🙂

"Compressed air can be used to levitate rounded objects. Sometimes said rounded objects start spinning so fast that they give up on being round objects. Gav films all the action over 1000x times slower than real time."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nedusgCUZC4

#Science #Apples #Physics

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Reminder that the hackathon on fully shareable textbooks begins this evening at 17:00 EDT (21:00 UTC) at the FSF office, or remotely on #dbd on Freenode!

The fight against unjust ebook #DRM continues in Boston. Don't let your textbooks expire: refuse digital handcuffs! #dbd #DayAgainstDRM #IDAD https://status.fsf.org/attachment/1462250

This looks beautiful! Who says text can be beautiful?

https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/k1vl00/putting_all_the_pieces_together/

Emacs: mail and calendar stuff

#emacs #mail #calendar

EmacsConf is the conference about the joy of Emacs, Emacs Lisp, and memorizing key sequences.

EmacsConf 2020 will be on November 28 (Sat) and November 29 (Sun), 2020 from 9am-5pm Toronto/EST time; equivalently, 6am-2pm PST, 2pm-10pm UTC, 3pm-11pm Zurich/CET.

https://emacsconf.org/2020/

Program:
https://emacsconf.org/2020/schedule/

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#SnalLinux 1.1 is out today https://sourceforge.net/projects/snallinux/ #gnu #linux

RIP Bill Morrow, lead developer of free/libre video editor Cinelerra-GG

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/rip-bill-morrow

New video is out: a quick look at Scribus 1.5.6 and beyond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lnlBufWMfI

A few people told me I speak too fast, and my accent doesn't help. So let's see if I can find my rock bottom by speaking slowly. Everything is an experiment :)

Edited transcript:

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/scribus-1-5-6-and-beyond

Subtitles coming.

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