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by rapnie 2y ago
At Delft University in the Netherlands they started a geothermal research project [0] on-campus. > The campus geothermal well offers a unique full scale research infrastructure of global relevance. This project will be the first geotherm
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Though not yet ready for the public don't forget the promising https://servo.org (It is very usable already in combination with Tauri as alternative to Electron + Chromium)
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I got the same message on an older version of Ubuntu where Firefox isn't installed via snap. On my main machine with Ubuntu / firefox snap I do not get this msg.
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Servo browser engine: Roadmap 2025(github.com)
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Thank you! Yes, that is the one. I actually found it on my bookshelf just now, but in searching for "that book with the wormholes" several times before I never thought to check this one. Great sci-fi story.
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by rapnie 2y ago
There is this sci-fi book about this, but I forgot name/author. In the book a wormhole end can be positioned anywhere in space and time history. The tech starts as an ITER-like project and then becomes available in mainstream products,
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CSS Puzzle Box 2.0 with no JavaScript(lethargic.talkative.fish)
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"Dear fellow Americans. The conspiracy theory that the gold no longer is at Ford Knox is hereby confirmed true. We are totally transparent. Wink wink."
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I remember I made a (in my eyes) pretty decent Donkey Kong in Extended Basic with my father. But we knew nothing about better variants, so our impression wasn't spoiled by that. I am sure the program and game was pretty crude in compar
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by rapnie 2y ago
Even the European Union still has X as their primary platform: https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en
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Bit: Compose performant, consistent platforms from independent business features(bit.dev)
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Based on UNIX philosophy too is Dan North's idea of Joyful Coding that does away with formal SOLID principles in favor of CUPID more playful ones: https://cupid.dev
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Undoubtedly the IBM's of today are primed and ready to get the train rolling again. It is hard to be pro-technology realizing that the ownership of all that tech is ultimately the brainworm billionaire class. Who we already know are fa
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The Bullshit Machines: How to Thrive in a ChatGPT World(thebullshitmachines.com)
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Absolute privilege to have lived the time before the internet. In hindsight.. and as say all people as they grow older and look back at the good old days. That too, but time before internet was really something else.
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Just learned about it here: https://fallows.substack.com/p/it-had-been-16-years-since-a-... Likely more affected are learning about the aftermath via investigation, but I am not sure. Edit: No wait, that article mentio
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Keiichi Matsuda, HYPER REALITY http://hyper-reality.co/
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And DDG also enshittifies from its glory days of being an ethical alternative, where their AI prefers to e.g. explain a commercial service in their Assist section at the top, and not the common dictionary term.
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Yes, I had the same feeling. There's still a massive amount of money sloshing around in cloud vendor market to ensure people remain glued to their services. And then there are a range of new technologies that are all like dark clouds t
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> So who exactly has been harmed? Society, because your free work gives big tech the continuous headstart to focus on bottom line and forget about externalities. Look at current society and how much everyone is cranking their tech out fa
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Isn't Nature like algorithms at work?
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Privacy and Decentralization with Multicast (2020)(spectra.video)
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All kinds of innovations of the network stack would be easier when IPv6 has that penetration. I saw a very cool vid by Brett Sheffield of Librecast [0] titled "Privacy and Decentralization with Multicast" [1] (btw, it is hosted on
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> I wouldn't say the EU has done an amazing job of actually twisting companies arms enough It takes a lot of time to open political eyes, break through lobby barriers, and get sufficient awareness on the deep issues. Then it takes a
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PS. This trend for one-stop-shop platforms will also see their owners start to monetize the absolute hell out of their existing (and often vast, take Github) 3rd-party vendor ecosystem via plugin marketplaces, app stores, and their platform
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And then all software revision control systems / forges have more or less the same conceptual model for their platform, and just adding their specific sauce and some tailoring to specific needs. Some more innovative and deviating platf
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I did not read till the end yet, but "woke" is also a very successfully weaponised word for anyone to help push their ideology to further extremes, both left, right, not center. Woke is also a very good detractor from rich and poo
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> built on multicast, which was a dying horse. There's a fascinating research project Librecast [0], funded by the EU via NLnet, that may boost multicast right into modern tech stacks again. [0] https://www.librecast.net&
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This web framework by Deno was discussed [0] in 2022 when it was announced. The landing page gives indeed a fresh perspective. At the time people saw this as possible NextJS competitor, yet I haven't heard much about Fresh. I wonder ab
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Fresh Web Framework by Deno(fresh.deno.dev)
3 points by rapnie 2y ago|4 comments

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