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RSS Is Growing Again

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7 points·by vogu66·5 mesi fa·4 comments

Compendium of cultural policies from various countries

culturalpolicies.net
2 points·by vogu66·6 mesi fa·0 comments

From stagnation to sustained growth (Nobel 2025) [pdf]

nobelprize.org
1 points·by vogu66·7 mesi fa·1 comments

Zotero: Retracted item notifications with Retraction Watch integration

zotero.org
5 points·by vogu66·7 mesi fa·0 comments

Smart Bulbs can be Hacked to Hack into your Household

arxiv.org
1 points·by vogu66·8 mesi fa·0 comments

Blog Discovery Requires Effort

winther.sysctl.dk
1 points·by vogu66·8 mesi fa·0 comments

Aaaaxy is a nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer taking place in impossible spaces

divverent.itch.io
2 points·by vogu66·8 mesi fa·0 comments

An Introduction to Ada [video]

youtube.com
4 points·by vogu66·10 mesi fa·0 comments

Intercellular communication through ultra-fast hydrodynamic trigger waves

nature.com
4 points·by vogu66·10 mesi fa·0 comments

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vogu66
·4 mesi fa·discuss
The article has comments on pubpeer (below) and comments on the pre-print page. https://pubpeer.com/publications/973ABFB81F504E8CB1B50E941CF...

The gist of several comments is that the paper does not actually demonstrate an accelerated global warming, but instead an acceleration of anthropogenic global warming, when removing the influence of several natural factors. To be clear, they are not discussing the fact that there is global warming, just saying that currently, we cannot say that global warming has been getting faster after 2010 with statistical certainty.
vogu66
·4 mesi fa·discuss
My default is ecosia and below sponsored links there is only the github and pages talking about the thing, no official or unofficial page. I guess that's better?

It gives two sponsored links to openclaw things, so no fake either (presumably, I don't know what they are).
vogu66
·4 mesi fa·discuss
(For the record, that issue has now been fixed by the dev)
vogu66
·5 mesi fa·discuss
maybe it could

I've tried out hys recently (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293564). It's been pretty nice, though new, I hit a bug where the feed list disappeared. There are a couple others mentioned in the thread, https://newsboat.org/ seems mature.
vogu66
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Capable doesn't mean capable of office work though, I could see someone with a language disorder doing electronics and have trouble with words, not numbers. Or someone who has trouble with written words specifically doing most of their learning with classes and videos.
vogu66
·7 mesi fa·discuss
not software engineering, but https://practical.engineering/
vogu66
·7 mesi fa·discuss
Additional link with more details: https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2025/10/advanced-economic...
vogu66
·7 mesi fa·discuss
> I left them exposed for 30 minutes. This is a ridiculous amount of time to leave agar plates open for, since usually you’d only open them for a few seconds.

It's actually really common to let them exposed that long. Not when using them, but to make them: once the agar medium is melted and poured in the petri dishes, closing the lid during cooling causes condensation. Having the petri dish full of water when using it is more difficult and annoying, so it's better to let them cool down with the lid open (a space-efficient way to do so is to have a pyramid of plates where each lid rests on two plates and can support one)

Also, two contaminations out of 4 plates sounds really really bad, but then the blog doesn't say how the agar plates were prepared (how many plates without exposures were contaminated?) and how long they were incubated (sometimes something starts growing after a week or two, if you're culturing a fast-growing bacteria then it's mostly irrelevant).
vogu66
·8 mesi fa·discuss
for what it's worth, my ophthalmologist recommended I use light mode only, with reduced blue and red (because red light actually activates the blue cones too apparently)

Then my screen time started affecting my sleep so I still use dark mode at night

But anyways all software should be configurable and follow the parent software (browser, OS) by default, css even allows for that now. There is even a "prefers-contrast" property in order to design for people who need high contrast stuff.
vogu66
·8 mesi fa·discuss
I do that too, I wonder how much of it is the LLM being helpful and how much of it is the RAG algorithm somehow providing better references to the LLM than a google search can?
vogu66
·9 mesi fa·discuss
that would be client side if it happens, though, I'm talking about server side generation

xsltproc was preinstalled on my machine actually, the fact I could just run it without installing anything is pretty cool
vogu66
·9 mesi fa·discuss
I've been thinking of how to make a blog simple recently, and I came across xslt. It looks really cool and seems pretty set in stone, so I thought I'd ask, what are the advantages/drawbacks of making your own tech stack versus xslt? At first glance, it seems perfectly able to handle rss and other simple linking patterns, and pretty much anything can easily be turned into an xml then xslt could be used to generate an html (server-side, or rather writer-side, not like the blog is gonna change) that you serve?
vogu66
·9 mesi fa·discuss
It isn't only a software license, though it does seem to be primarily aimed at that.

One of the compatible licenses is specifically: "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike v. 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) for works other than software"
vogu66
·10 mesi fa·discuss
well, for now at least

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794
vogu66
·10 mesi fa·discuss
You can do that with F-droid, it's a lot of fun seeing what open source app people developed
vogu66
·10 mesi fa·discuss
There's Palemoon's Goanna, also
vogu66
·10 mesi fa·discuss
Sorry, not exactly monopoly. Probably too big to fail, from what I gather, though. I don't know enough to know whether there is anyone else that could realistically compete with their scale.

My point was simply that their size is unrelated to this proposition, outside the fact they are big enough to be taken seriously.
vogu66
·10 mesi fa·discuss
> Not mentioned: there would be a single gatekeeper for the internet, Cloudflare.

Cloudflare is already a monopoly though. From what I can tell, what they are saying here, besides proclaiming their continued existence, is that they and AI companies and content creators need the internet to exist.

And what they are building is on top of the 402 response, which anyone can use? So you could use that without using any CDN at all, without too much development cost?
vogu66
·10 mesi fa·discuss
I mean... on the one hand, more people getting in the field may (or may not, I didn't measure) mean less people whose vocation is software.

On the other hand, if that can cheer someone up... * https://ladybird.org/ * https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock * Zig rebuilt a C compiler from scratch https://ziggit.dev/t/zig-as-a-c-and-c-compiler/10963 * Rust rebuilt the core nix utilities from scratch https://github.com/uutils/coreutils I've heard a bunch of people making their own OS from scratch just to see how it works, heck there are guides online (https://github.com/cfenollosa/os-tutorial ... 30k stars...)

So... Cheer up ! If people are building all that, I'm sure innovation and creativity are at least not dead everywhere.