The 79th edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, we explore trust and its importance in human society and culture; in the Library section, we review “Geekonomics” by David Rice; and in our Vidéothèque section, we watch a video on the Veritasium channel where Derek Muller hacks Linus Sebastian’s phone.
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/issue-79-trust/
#taxesoda #malbouffe
"une nouvelle étude de l'Université de Washington a montré que les femmes qui
qui boivent au moins une boisson gazeuse pleine de sucre par jour sont environ cinq fois plus de risques de développer un cancer de la cavité buccale que le…
"To make a long story short, at some point during early 1996 I bought a cheap 14.4 kilobit per second modem, taking 10 minutes in average to download a single megabyte. Together with a monthly subscription to the new “Blue Window” service by Telecom PTT (soon to be renamed Swisscom), lo and behold, I was online."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/sniffing-packets/
Could anyone spare a "Like" for these kids who are trying to plant some seeds of Open Source in the USA Midwest?
#FOSS
Ok, so... late to the "party", but I'm reading that also @… is jumping into the #LLMs bandwagon.
It's just so... sad, stupid, and infuriating. Really, why?
Project Espresso alpha now available
"We are excited to announce that Project Espresso, our project to port Adélie Linux to the Wii U console, has just released alpha repositories. We will be providing root images for SD cards in the coming days. For more information, including links to the repositories and how to set up your existing install to use these binaries, see the linked blog post. Happy computing!"
"The Tax Foundation is a veteran anti-tax campaign organization from the United States. It has been around since 1937 when it was founded by top brass from companies such as Standard Oil and General Motors. Close links to some of the biggest corporations in the US has been a constant feature of the organization, as has its political aim of bringing down taxes"
#lobbying
I guess there's no real need to explain why I'm doing this, but there's always someone who was lucky enough to be living in the jungle for a while (or something like that), disconnected from everything.
Hypothetical jungle person: I envy you.
Summary: I'm tired of big corporations stealing everything they can to train their #LLMs, and I'm also tired of companies like #Microsoft being active collaborators of the Trump regime.
@… is wondering how much trouble a skipped heading level is for screen reader users. Three users have replied but it'd be great to see more feedback. Anyone else willing to reply to Manuel's post? Here is the link:
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