Arturia’s MiniFreak 49 makes its Freak synths more professional https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1014255/arturias-minifreak-49-synthesizer
@ben @cagraphics exactly.
Technically you can run a steam engine on wood (which still means it'll require a foresting industry) but to make it efficient in an industrial application, fossil fuels are required.
And modern natural gas power plants are also steam generators. Running those on wood would be extremely difficult.
The idea of wood-fired power plants reminds me of this: there was talk of using chicken droppings to help fuel a power plant, though we've recently decided not to - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce85dq9qvvlo
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TIL the fediverse basically DDOS's sites when you share a link.
I shared a link from NPR Tiny Desk but there was no image preview or video embed. After investigating this I learned that when you do that, each instance picks up the link and individually retrieves the link preview nearly simultaneously. For gargantuan sites like YT or Reddit, this is a trivial amount of traffic and not a problem, but for smaller sites like NPR this results in a sort of botnet DDOS attack on the site’s servers. More here. Another example here . For that reason, NPR has blocked Fediverse servers like Mastodon.
I have experienced this on my personal server as well (DDOS), but at the time didn’t know why, exactly.
This isn’t the end of the world, but certainly is not great and hurts engagement with the content. Is there a solution for this? Perhaps using some sort of webtorrent service like PeerTube where they just fetch the information from another fediverse server instead of the source server? Maybe fetching embeds client-side? At least that would stagger the requests.
Alex is Canadian now
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Academic Urban Legends. Also, spinach is not a good source of iron.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306312714535679
No, KDE isn't turning into an AI desktop
THE LATEST NEWS AT THIS HOUR:
THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION WITHHOLDS PATRIOT MISSILES FOR UKRAINE:
Washington has delayed the transfer of Patriot #interceptor #missiles, a move that coincided with President Trump’s turn to Russia in recent days, The Washington Post reports.
@serge I do not read anyone dismissing the awful thing of a synagogue being ransacked. I stated property is indeed being trashed, by some looters.
TBC my post (& concern) pertains to the extreme police violence, against brown kids esp, in light of the rising racism in France, something also close to home given my French extended family whom are of non-white heritage, a racism playing out in coverage of the protests as they work ceaselessly to make brown people 'the problem'.
It's about them.
There are a lot of false reports being made by the right-wing press, including some made by AI (like the images of a old couple being stripped naked).
No idea if this "hidden synagogue ransack" is part of them (I did not see this information on respectable news).
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Germany says no to Microsoft, Windows 11 in freefall, Linux distro sabotage - Linux Weekly News
GNOME 51: a look at everything that changed!
third-person dungeon crawler city builder manager
@nolan personally I think both agentic AI *and* web components are a blight on the software industry. I also have a lot of grumpy curmudgeon opinions about React.
@nolan I feel like the fact that this page fails to render anything useful on my web browser sums it up better than anything I could write myself. https://www.webcomponents.org/introduction
Follow the money into November. Affordability tops voters' worries, and Medicaid cuts haunt Republicans in battleground states, reports @politico.
Our editors are tracking every pocketbook story:
Must be done 🐮
Switzerland ditches Windows, Omarchy now raised $18.5M - Linux & Open Source News Weekly
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Meta is not our friend, folks.
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Mastodon makes me feel not as weird because the people here tend to relate to what I'm saying, but then I remember that it's just because we're all weird over here.
Fall smell is leaf mold 🍁
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Poll, please boost for reach, I’m genuinely interested.
Do you use IRC?
Mastodon 5 is out and I don’t even know if I’m running it yet because @mastohost handles upgrades so nicely I don’t have to worry, and @ivory is such a great client that I won’t even notice the UI unless I log in to do admin stuff.
But I hear it is much improved which is super nice for new users or anyone who doesn’t want a third party app so I will consciously go and use it from the web in the next few weeks.
@g Mastodon v5.0.0 alpha is out, but that is a test release. It will only be upgraded on Masto.host when it reaches stable. This can take a while. Only when the Mastodon dev team decides that it has fixed any problems with this new release.
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