I have link previews turned off and I'm a very literal person, so it was only after thinking that all the praise in the thread fitted with Norah Jones too, that I realised it was a misspelling...
Mitra I. Arthur | July 22, 2024“I finally made it to Tiny Desk,” singer-songwriter Norah Jones excitedly declares during her performance. Her first Tiny Desk...
three things that Usenet had that could stand to be revived, in my opinion:
* topic-centric organization. you go to soc.politics.us to talk about us politics, you go to alt.folklore.urban to talk about urban folklore, there's an expectation that you keep the politics out of the folklore group and vice versa. hashtags try to do this but don't really succeed.
* subject lines. functionally the same thing as a content warning but because it's the default, always prompted for and your newsreader only shows you subject lines until you click into a thread, people get way less dogmatic about it in both directions.
* proper two-dimensional threading and thread management. i've seen some third party fedi clients attempt two-dimensional thread *display* but not the associated management features, like "ignore this subthread".
we have a subject field, it's always been here. It's called the summary field. Gargron hijacked it and turned it into the "content warning" field against the wishes of literally every other project that speaks ActivityPub
I've attached a screenshot showing you the raw JSON of your post.
America will definitely get a new president - either the astonishing return of the criminally convicted Donald Trump or it its first ever female president.
Some there will see that as choosing the lesser evil, and I'm not sure which way they will go.
Trump took to Truth Social about 6:25 a.m. Monday to rail against President Joe Biden, whom he suggested was involved in the start of an imminent world war.
More: "It’s a new day and Joe Biden doesn’t remember quitting the race yesterday!" Trump wrote. "He is demanding his campaign schedule and arranging talks with Presidents Xi of China, and Putin of Russia, concerning the possible start of World War 3."
Donald Trump confused Barack Obama for Joe Biden at a rally in Virginia, triggering further questions about the age of the likely Republican presidential nom...
Wasn't it a line in Doctor Who where the British prime minister was eventually forced to step down by one line whispered in a bystander's ear: 'doesn't she look tired?'
I have to say the relentless MEDIA drumbeat calling for Biden to step aside, plus their relentless quibbling about his gaffes, together with their absolute SILENCE over Trump's gaffes, crimes, and general insanity is very, very tiring and depressing.
Tiring, depressing, yet completely predictable and not at all surprising, except for the part where it’s somehow taken *this long* for Americans to figure out that media outlets owned by the capitalist class will only ever publish articles that serve their interests above all else.
I don't discount skullduggery, but a lot of it is because Biden's apparent difficulties are newly-known, and Trump's being a monster has been either well-known or completely discounted for literal years now.
We've been talking about his crimes and gaffes for the past ten years. His supporters don't care. Typically, our response to Trump is that we're not as crazy as he is. But that's no longer a very convincing argument.
Left-leaning media called for Biden to bow out because they wanted a better candidate. They're not going to worry about whether Trump should drop out because he's not their candidate.
Right-leaning media won't call for Trump to bow out because they've drunk the orange Kool-Aid. And they called for Biden to drop out because they wanted to make him look bad, and make it appear as if he had no support.
AI Uncertainty: A state of unease where real photographs all seem a little suspect since you have been fooled by or narrowly spotted an AI generated image.
A feeling of unreality and general distrust of everything. Can also apply to text, and the feeling that you are the only person ever to read it since it was generated.
That was a valiant fight back that went down the wire in the final set, but it wasn't to be. Next year I'm sure.
Some photos I found of her, from earlier matches. Also this match we saw her focus, and her smile, and it's so great to see both in the same person... #JasminePaolini
@philsplace @hacks4pancakes fun fact, the original photo ended at the bottom of my elbow and Photoshop with the prompt" blue photo studio background" Added the pants. I needed to make the image bigger to fit all the text so I expanded it with Photoshop
AI is becoming a game-changer for businesses of all sizes and sectors.
In fact, in 2023, 8% of EU companies have already adopted AI technologies, with top-performing countries being:
🇩🇰 15,2% 🇫🇮 15,1% 🇱🇺 14,4%.
What's most exciting is that we're going to give SMEs and startups access to AI factories in the #EU and dedicated AI supercomputers, so they can use AI and stay competitive on a global scale.
The amendment to the EuroHPC Regulation to set up AI factories entered into force enabling the creation of a new pillar of activities for the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).
I found I have an ancient pc speaker set that I used on a previous pc at least 25 years ago. In trying to see whether it could be connected to modern pc's, I discovered it also has a digital(!) input. I never knew...
I have a way too old Windows pc and an oldish but still good Linux laptop. There are some things I need Windows for and this pc is not handling it anymore. So now I am in doubt. Do I:
buy a Windows license for over €100 and install it as a second os on my Linux laptop
don't buy a Windows license for over €100, then install it as a second os on my Linux laptop
buy a new Windows desktop
buy a new Windows laptop
The thing is, to buy a new desktop/laptop that is better than my current linux laptop, it's going to cost €1500-€2000. If I'm going to be reasonable with specs, and look at minimal requirements for photo and video editing, then I end up on the same as my existing laptop. But I feel I want to be future proof... but is it worth €2000?
It basically hinges on whether I'm really ever going to do any 3D rendering and need a dedicated video card which my laptop doesn't have, or whether I'm just kidding myself I'll find the time.
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I have a way too old Windows pc and an oldish but still good Linux laptop. There are some things I need Windows for and this pc is not handling it anymore. So now I am in doubt. Do I:
buy a Windows license for over €100 and install it as a second os on my Linux laptop
don't buy a Windows license for over €100, then install it as a second os on my Linux laptop
buy a new Windows desktop
buy a new Windows laptop
The thing is, to buy a new desktop/laptop that is better than my current linux laptop, it's going to cost €1500-€2000. If I'm going to be reasonable with specs, and look at minimal requirements for photo and video editing, then I end up on the same as my existing laptop. But I feel I want to be future proof... but is it worth €2000?
It basically hinges on whether I'm really ever going to do any 3D rendering and need a dedicated video card which my laptop doesn't have, or whether I'm just kidding myself I'll find the time.
That Linux laptop was probably a really good buy at the time. 16GB memory, i7 cpu, 500GB ssd storage, but a shared video card. Only the storage is probably too small for serious dual booting.
I’m a freelance illustrator based in Hamburg, Germany. My clients are mainly book & game publishers big & small, and museums. I'm available for new projects in 2024!
Illustration with historical themes, nonfiction childrens' book illustration, archeology reconstruction, comics and graphic novels by Kristina Gehrmann Hamburg
it was actually commissioned by CD Projekt Red as part of a promo campaign where the Witcher and his company visit different places in Europe, illustrated by artists from these respective countries. It was a very fun assignment :)
I made myself a new website for my photography. I couldn't get any CMS or website builder to structure the data the way it made sense to me so I made it from scratch. #BelieveInFilm
IO200 is a very nice CMS for photographers. Self-hostable with low prerequisites, though not FOSS. 😕 The Need for your own photo place over pixelfed etc. is understandable. Its not enough to present photos in a kind of feed alongside creations of others. Especially if opening your archives it is good to publish the content with the correct date from the past. This CMS is derived from the great Koken which unfortunately disappeared. io200.com/
Great work. What tools do you use? How are new albums created?
I'm still hesitant to create one. Basically because I have pretty complex ideas about what such a site should do: interface with Google Photos (my preferred photo management tool), handling all viewports (desktop, mobile) in a modern way, subscription to channels and/or tags, comments, purchase/print functionality, merchandize, etc.
Meanwhile my photography is here: @dvidschmdt (and on Facebook, Instagram and Pixelfed)
Why do companies like Adobe think advertising that their products contain AI is a good thing? It's all over their website. While I would consider it a positive feature if the software doesn't contain AI.
When eight-year-old Emma Glenfield wanted to know more about why magpies swoop at people, her teacher (Luke Carr) encouraged her to gather data and analyse it.
She noted that the birds seemed to target tall balding men, and created an online survey with the help of her mum. The survey went viral, with over 30,000 respondents.
The results, as shown in a brilliant Lego graph, demonstrated that the birds do target balding men more frequently (with less than 1% margin of error, thanks to the large sample size).
"According to magpie expert Darryl Jones, professor emeritus at Griffith University, it's the first time anyone has ever examined the link between magpie swooping and appearance."
That's nice, the week after next the trains won't be going in my city because they figure it's holiday, nobody is going to miss them, time to do some repairs. Also that week, the fair will be in my city, which traditionally is one of the really popular ones in this region, where a lot of people come from all over to participate in the fun.
It's one of those 'why didn't I think of it' things. I was wondering how people trying to use a tripod to take a self portrait would focus the camera properly. I was considering all kinds of convoluted solutions involving tall things like maybe a broomstick to stand in for me while focusing. Then on the internet it says: take your camera off the tripod, go stand where you want to be and focus on the tripod... Yeah, that is indeed simpler...
I am reminded of the time when a volleyball coach substituted his whole team in one go when they performed abysmally. There are six substitutions allowed per set and six players in a team. The set continued with essentially the b-team without the coach watching on, because he took the main players to the side and used that time to tell them what's what.
I think people can guess what match I'm watching if I say that that was a really great goal. Well aimed, hard, precise, unstoppable for the goal keeper. Shame it was in our own goal.
Edit: Please stop boosting this. It's too late to register.
I moved to the UK in 2010. I lamented to a colleague that the most frustrating thing about being an immigrant was not being able to vote.
My friend put me straight. Commonwealth citizens legally resident in the UK (regardless of how long we've been here) are allowed to vote. You just have to register.
Are you Canadian? Australian? Indian? Nigerian? If you're allowed to live here, you're allowed to vote.
I hope people are enjoying seeing Hotel Cocaine, because when I just checked it is not out yet. I sort of suspected that, that it would be one of those US only things, but the good news is that JustWatch actually has a card for the series saying that it is not available on any streaming service, rather than just denying its existence as normal, so that usually means it's upcoming. #HotelCocaine
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in reply to Zack Weinberg • • •we have a subject field, it's always been here. It's called the summary field. Gargron hijacked it and turned it into the "content warning" field against the wishes of literally every other project that speaks ActivityPub
I've attached a screenshot showing you the raw JSON of your post.