The solution has been around forever and yet the most powerful never want to work with it.
Notice. For those who may not follow astronomical news our Sun is "going through some things" this week.
Huge Coronal Mass Ejections, the largest in decades, directed towards Earth took place yesterday and will result in a severe Geomagnetic Storm arriving tonight and tomorrow morning. There is potential for disruption of communications, the electric power grid, navigation, radio and satellite operations.
For much more on this event @AkaSci has this excellent thread: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/112413669499567336
Fedora Linux 40 is HERE! Check out all our latest variants for desktop, server, and more.
New features include:
* @kde Plasma 6
* @gnome 46
* Fedora Atomic Desktops (rebrand for Silverblue et al)
* PyTorch / ROCm
* And more!
Learn more and try Fedora 40 today! https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-40/
It's official. After 3 months of back and forth, a major medical provider has elected to drop me as a patient for not having a Google or Apple device.
It is unclear if this is legal, but it is very clearly discriminatory and unethical.
Any tech journalists or lawyers interested in this?
I would like to do anything I can to ensure this never happens to anyone else.
Lonely parrots are unhappy parrots, so researchers set out to find a way for some of the estimated 20 million pet birds living in the United States to connect with each other.
Scientists Taught Pet Parrots to Video Call Each Other—and the Birds Loved It.
Wild parrots tend to fly in flocks, but when kept as single pets, they may become lonely and bored.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-taught-pet-parrots-to-video-call-each-other-and-the-birds-loved-it-180982041/ #parrots #birds
So, RSS Parrot is my new favorite fedi thing. You can use it to follow blogs, websites, podcasts, even Bluesky users: https://rss-parrot.net/
Adventist employee: Please sign this form saying we have provided you with a patient privacy statement.
Me: OK, but can I read the form?
A.E.: No, it's in another part of the hospital.
Ladies and germs, this was a real conversation I actually had with an allegedly functioning adult this very morning.
XKCD is brilliant. You knew that, of course. Today's is brilliant and sobering.
We have two new adopted missions!
#LISA will capture the ripples of spacetime, all the way from from supermassive black holes colliding to the gravitational ‘ringing’ from the initial moments of our Universe ▶️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Capturing_the_ripples_of_spacetime_LISA_gets_go-ahead
And #EnVision will head to #Venus, to study it from the atmosphere to the inner core: ▶️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/We_re_heading_for_Venus_ESA_approves_EnVision
Federalist #69,Alexander Hamilton explains key dif btwn "king of GB" & "President of US." King Hamilton explains is "sacred & inviolable" & "there is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable." As a result, "no punishment to which he can be subjected w/out involving crisis of a national revolution." US President can be "impeached" and "removed from office." President of US after leaving office, is "liable to prosecution, punishment in the ordinary course of law." https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed69.asp