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Tu vois, l'IGPN ?
C'est *possible* !
https://www.euronews.com/2026/11/05/serbia-arrests-police-officers-accused-of-using-violence-against-student-protesters
Nebuly, whose tech helps enterprises measure the business value of AI agents by analyzing their impact on productivity and revenue, raised a $21M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/11/12/nebuly-raises-21m-series-a-to-turn-ai-investments-into-measurable-results/
http://www.techmeme.com/261115/p3#a261115p3
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Decentralized social media for environmental research
www.biorxiv.org/content/…/2026.11.06.764567v1
(Found with Aftergleam, a private reader for new research papers.)
Decentralized social media for environmental research
A. Chai-allah, A. Ghermandi, N. Fox, D. Van Berkel bioRxiv · 10.64898/2026.11.06.764567v1 · ecology · submitted 2026-11-12
Abstract
Social media data are reshaping environmental research. However, recent ownership and policy changes on centralized platforms like Twitter/X have motivated many users to seek new alternatives while simultaneously accelerating data restrictions for scientists. Decentralized social media, particularly Bluesky and Mastodon, are emerging as alternatives for users seeking greater control over their data and as a more stable and sustainable source of data for researchers. This rise may be instrumental in revitalizing the role of social media in environmental research. This study aims to provide a first-of-its-kind analysis of the potential of these new sources for environmental research, demonstrating their potential usefulness through the examples of climate change discourses and people’s appreciation of wildlife. We find an increased adoption of Mastodon and Bluesky, with high linguistic diversity, even if dominated by English. Wildlife image content reveals broad taxonomic diversity, with plants, birds, and insects dominating the records. We find this pattern broadly consistent with that observed on the popular citizen science platform iNaturalist. Climate change discourse is found to broadly reflect the scientific consensus on both platforms, with contrarian claims remaining uncommon. This suggests that researchers may benefit from less polarized opinions and misinformation, arising from interactions that are less driven by engagement maximizing algorithms implemented in other platforms. Our study illustrates the promise of decentralized social media as a new data source for environmental scientists and paves the way for their broader use in environmental research.
zd1 open-source firmware gives the 2011 Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Air AirPlay 2 and Snapcast, flashed over USB
https://lockergnome.com/open-source-firmware-gives-2011-zeppelin-air-speaker-airplay-2-over-usb/
@sylvia_ritter I love the colors on the mushroom ❤️
Tonight,
I thank
The darkness,
For bringing
The stars
To light.
@clacke Gratuitous use of a pie chart which, in this case represents nothing. Classic case of data visualization from the art department. Thank you for attending my (Edward Tufte's) TED Talk.
Zrythm v2.0.0-alpha.8 is out!
Modulators with a routing graph editor, a redesigned mixer with channel sends, dockable panels and a searchable preferences dialog - plus fixes for VST3 UIs that couldn't open (Kontakt, Massive, Battery) and fixed-size plugin windows that crashed Zrythm.
Alpha notice: projects saved by earlier versions will not load.
More info, installers and source code:
https://forum.zrythm.org/t/zrythm-v2-0-0-alpha-8-released
@smallcircles ook maar eens het konijnenhol van de fediverse ingedoken. Erg interessant om de centrale macht bij Social Media weg te halen. Thanks voor het delen!
Aha! Welkom op gezamenlijke ontdekkingstocht van wat mogelijk is, zou ik zeggen 😃 🫂!
In een branch van de discussie gaf ik net aan dat we zouden moeten proberen om met elkaar de 'solution space' te gaan verkennen (zonder steeds verzeild en verdwaald te raken in de tech details op protocol niveau).
Waar @MarloesdeKoning en zovele anderen tegenaan lopen zijn allerlei rare techbeperkingen die mede voortkomen uit hoe we alles uit alle macht op een microblog willen/moeten projecteren om interoperabiliteit te verkrijgen. Ik noemde al een paar design anti-patterns aan @hanscees en hier is er weer eentje: De Golden Hammer.
Voor jouw werkterrein rondom "Sustainability" is het Prosocial web natuurlijk ook reuze interessant. CoolBlue. Enerzijds energie leverancier, anderzijds duurzame producten webshop, en aan klantzijde consumenten die waarde hechten aan duurzaamheid en energiebesparing, maar ook steeds meer aan hun privacy (dit is een heikel punt in de 'smart device' business).
For a while, I was under the impression that all spiciness, or burning sensation in food flavoring, would come from capsaicin, the compound that causes it in chili peppers. Then I realized that Sichuan peppers are a quite different kind of heat. Wasabi (horseradish) is different yet again.
How many hot-flavored compounds are there? At least five!
Kalsec: "The Elements of Heat"
The news that there's an oversupply of Nvidia GPUs convinced me that the AI bubble is bursting and it'll burst *hard*. So here's a thread where I go over the financial, technological and hardware implications of this. Strap in because this is going to be long and probably a bit rambling too. 🧵 1/
At today’s meetup we
* selected and tested radio modules for high school mechatronics high altitude experiments
* updated a hand-me-down laptop to make it usable for a new owner
* helped a mother toward getting a gaming pc for her disabled son
* made progress on a portable LED scoreboard for junior baseball teams
Adding "she didn't get that for knitting more socks than anyone else in Ipswich" to my mental phrase database
YouTube
In conclusion, saying that open source participation requires monthly fees to private companies that run stochastic code generators means you’ve forgotten why anyone is doing this at all. Fuck this whole idea and fuck Linus in particular.
Why does my calculator app have a privacy policy...
@grishka ooowww owwww perhaps....
RE: https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e7a22esv2knusm7myyeyjdhf/post/3n2d7djs27k2s
JUST IN: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei declares his company has the potential to "solve labor rights."
labor costs
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Do we have any alternative to YouTube?
I want to make some videos, but I do not want to add them to TY, I am looking for an alternative, unfortunately I know Vimeo, but this is not what I am looking for.
Why the only socially responsible policy on AI is no AI. Think of the rhinoceros!
> We are in a war for the commons and our humanity. We have chosen to pick a side, we’ve chosen to reject evil.
Seem extreme? Then read why it is right. We all intuitively know this, we only don't want the inconvenience to ourselves that acknowledging this brings. But think of the humans you hurt, or if you can't do that, think of the rhinoceros. 🤔
@librecast statement on AI:
https://librecast.net/2026-11-14-AI-Statement.html
#LLM #noAI
@alxhu Thanks.
However, we're running "net8.0", which isn't in either of these tables.
I *THINK* I'm going to conclude that with ".NET Core 8", Microsoft dropped the "Core" and named it only ".NET 8", and therefore "net8.0" > ".NET Core 3.0"
@mcc @alxhu it's three separate groupings.
.NET Framework 1-4.x (legacy)
.NET Core 1-3.x (an intermediate thing)
.NET 5+ (modern)
if you've come across .NET Standard, that's a set of common APIs that allows you to target both .NET Framework and .NET Core / .NET with the same code. you should only use it if you need to target the legacy Framework stuff as well as .NET Core or modern .NET
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