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What's the most severe example of a fake version of a book you've ever seen?
  • The first Don Quixote book was so popular it spawned a lot of fake sequels. Cervantes killed off Don Quixote in the second book to preclude any more copycats. That's what I remember anyhow from the preface of a paperback edition from way back.

  • Physicists Generated Sound Waves That Travel in One Direction Only
  • Ah, like the Cone of Silence from "Get Smart!"

  • Boxer - by Bill Mayer
  • One of the noblest and saddest characters in one of the most cruel stories ever written.

  • Guo Cuon -- Vietnamese salad rolls -- made from freshly harvested lettuce
  • As I recall it was longaniza, cucumber, and carrots.

  • Guo Cuon -- Vietnamese salad rolls -- made from freshly harvested lettuce
  • Yeah, I should have taken a cross-sectional cut to show what was inside. Next time....

  • Ebooks library (cross platform)
  • I don't know if this will fully meet your requirements, but my combination, which I'm happy with, is Moon Reader Pro on my Android devices and Ubooquity on my server.

    Moon Reader has a Sync to WebDAV option but I haven't needed to use it. If you're not inclined to pay for an ebook reader software, there is also Librera which is free.

  • What 90's movie or media trope would be great as a stranger things style show?
  • Any of the 90s horror anthology shows. Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Friday the 13th: The Series heck even X-Files and Buffy. I don't think we've had a decent horror anthology show in recent years. Black Mirror is less horror than just plain meanness sometimes.

  • Everything going on has got me down, I need a break. What's something good that's happened in your life recently?
  • My daughter just started school. She's pretty stoked about it, and so are we.

  • What's new in Joplin 3.0
    discourse.joplinapp.org What's new in Joplin 3.0

    Desktop application Trash folder Joplin now support a trash folder - any deleted notes or notebooks will be moved to that folder. You can also choose to have these notes permanently deleted after a number of days. Support for the trash folder has a somewhat long history in Joplin since it's an ob...

    What's new in Joplin 3.0
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    Sacred Grounds Groover Blend from Australia
  • Just drip for now, but I'm going to try it with French press and Aeropress soon.

  • Sacred Grounds Groover Blend from Australia

    Smoothest brew I've had in a while, no hint of sourness or bitterness.

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    Share Your Story: The Impact of Losing Access to 500,000 Books
  • It would help if we knew even just a smidgin of what these titles are.

  • Vegetarian sisig with fried egg
  • My wife used fried tofu in this case. The tofu brought the texture while the sauce and the other garnishings carried the flavor.

  • Why Python Is So Slow (And What Is Being Done About It)
    thenewstack.io Why Python Is So Slow (And What Is Being Done About It)

    PyCon 2024 showcased a number of ways to speed the pokey Python programming language including sub-interpreters, immortal objects, just-in-time compilation and more.

    Why Python Is So Slow (And What Is Being Done About It)
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    Mr. Moustache
  • Immortalized! Thank you!

  • Mr. Moustache

    Found this stray cat while out on an evening stroll.

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    Color coding crops

    Using genomic techniques to change the color of plants to make it easier for robots to harvest them.

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    Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me.
  • For several years I was using TTRSS, but this year I moved to a Miniflux instance that I host at home. I couple it with an instance of Wallabag for saving articles for later reading. I like the experience of the Miniflux PWA app better than TTRSS.

  • Huawei's woes really were just a flesh wound – profits just soared 564 percent
  • Is it east vs west, or man against man?

    Can any nation stand alone?

  • Bruce Perens Emits Draft Post-Open Zero Cost License
  • The key idea from the article is --

    ...Companies making more than $5 million annually by using Post-Open software in a paid-for product would be required to pay 1 percent of their revenue back to this administrative organization, which would distribute the funds to the maintainers of the participating open source project(s). That would cover all Post-Open software used by the organization.

  • Is there a "personality test" you've done you found helpful?
  • I enjoy the D&D alignment chart.

  • What is your favorite zombie book?
  • World War Z (the book, not the movie) had many memorable moments.

  • Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance”
    spectrum.ieee.org Hello, Electric Atlas

    Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance”

    Hello, Electric Atlas

    ...replacing the previously hydraulic version.

    Insert obligatory welcome statement here.

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    Unearthing APT44: Russia’s Notorious Cyber Sabotage Unit Sandworm
    cloud.google.com Unearthing APT44: Russia’s Notorious Cyber Sabotage Unit Sandworm | Google Cloud Blog

    APT44 is a threat actor that is actively engaged in the full spectrum of espionage, attack, and influence operations.

    Unearthing APT44: Russia’s Notorious Cyber Sabotage Unit Sandworm | Google Cloud Blog

    What's worrying about this report is that it's coming from Google itself.

    With Russia's full-scale invasion in its third year, Sandworm (aka FROZENBARENTS) remains a formidable threat to Ukraine. The group’s operations in support of Moscow’s war aims have proven tactically and operationally adaptable...

    ...Mandiant continues to see operations from the group that are global in scope in key political, military, and economic hotspots for Russia. Additionally, with a record number of people participating in national elections in 2024, Sandworm’s history of attempting to interfere in democratic processes further elevates the severity of the threat the group may pose in the near-term.

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    Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI
    aeon.co Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI | Aeon Essays

    We can split light by a prism, sounds by tones, but surely the world of odour is too complex and personal? Strangely, no

    Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI | Aeon Essays

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14276504

    > Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI

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    Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI
    aeon.co Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI | Aeon Essays

    We can split light by a prism, sounds by tones, but surely the world of odour is too complex and personal? Strangely, no

    Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI | Aeon Essays
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    Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed
    www.technologyreview.com Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed

    The Synthetic Memories project is helping families around the world reclaim a past that was never caught on camera.

    Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed

    Dozens of people have now had their memories turned into images in this way via Synthetic Memories, a project run by Domestic Data Streamers. The studio uses generative image models, such as OpenAI’s DALL-E, to bring people’s memories to life. Since 2022, the studio, which has received funding from the UN and Google, has been working with immigrant and refugee communities around the world to create images of scenes that have never been photographed, or to re-create photos that were lost when families left their previous homes.

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    "Permission is Hereby Granted" -- MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI
    arstechnica.com MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI

    "Permission is hereby granted" comes from Suno AI engine that creates new songs on demand.

    MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI

    On Wednesday, prompt engineer Riley Goodside tweeted an AI-generated song created with the prompt "sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License," and it began to circulate widely in the AI community online.

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