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@deane Isn't it quite common to put sqlite DBs in all kinds of interesting places?

@eugenialoli I've never used it myself, but hear so many good things about it from people who have jumped over to using it from commercial offerings. Good job to all involved!

FreeCAD 1.0 is out, and the binaries for various platforms are now available for download too (yesterday they released the source, but today binaries are available too). After 22 years of development, it's now a very robust app that competes head to head with heavyweights in the CAD space.

FreeCAD 1.0

@mitch I saw earlier this week that they're playing shows in South Africa next year... I didn't realise they're still around!

Rick Astley has done a better job of preventing people from clicking random links than any corporate cyber-security training.

@LALegault Still better than a maga hat.

After all this time on the Fediverse, I finally had a reason to use the Mute button. I can see what the hype is about, it actually feels good to use it.

@humm @bagder I just checked its man page, I'm not sure what best in class means, but overall it does seem to be an exceptionally well put together man page, even despite some things that you mention that can be improved, I'd at least put it up there in the top 5%.

Bluesky is the Microsoft Word of social media, which I mean in the derogatory sense, as the fediverse is the LaTeX of social media, which I also mean in the derogatory sense

This is how it works, and some of U.S. know this.

The people of Amsterdam won't let themselves be stopped by an arbitrary, oppressive ban on protests.

Here's Dam square right now. Around 150 people hold flags and banners, chanting:

  • Amsterdam is saying no to genocide!
  • Tout le monde déteste la police!

They are surrounded by masses of cops and at least 20 police vans.

live surveillance cam on dam square: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9d4q6WvUY

A night scene with decorative street light. In the middle of a large square around 150 people have formed a protest in solidarity with the people of Palestine and against racist police violence. Around 20 police vans surround the group.

@juliank Yep, when Ukraine were made to give up their nuclear weapons programme they were told that they would have the full force of the US and their allies behind them if Russia were ever to attack in any way... instead they're being used to make politicians and their buddies rich while Ukraine is slowly being wiped out completely.

@algernon @ariadne I also had a 386SX and so badly wanted a co-processor. Eventually I saved up and upgraded all the way to an AMD 586-133. That was such a huge upgrade heh.

@praveen Plagiarism is a massive problem. Big corporations are using massive amounts of public data and processing it and presenting it as something that their LLMs have generated, but in fact it's a fancy form of autocomplete of other people's work.

IN A TIME OF DESTRUCTION,
CREATE SOMETHING.

The 'Woke Agenda' is actually just Human Rights. Every time someone says 'woke agenda', mentally substitute 'human rights' and the conversation will become clearer.

I remain mystified why people who – based on their deep tech reporting – I can only assume know better than this keep abusing the terms "hacker" and "hack". 🙄

"Researchers", "pranksters", "attackers", "malicious actors" are so much better and more clear in any relevant context.

Similarly "compromise", "break-in", "leak", "vulnerability".

The audience of any tech-related piece will understand these terms just as well as "hacker" or "hack". Or *better*.

There is no good reason for this.

@LucasWerkmeister I played Civ6 for the first time last month, and just saw that a friend is playing it too, suddenly feels like everyone is playing it :)

Speaking as someone living in Hungary, to friends in the :

The greatest weapon the system has is outrage fatigue. Doing so many unimaginable things at the same time that people just sigh and go on. Having so many things to protest that you run out of days and hours. Piling on so you start focusing on surviving with your bare mental health day to day.

Pick your cause and stick to it. Support others who focus on different causes. Don't try to do everything at once.

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