Fun fact! The current dismal state of scientific publishing is largely attributable to Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine Maxwell.
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brisk@aussie.zoneto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•This $30 DIY E Ink Reader Is a Pocket-Sized Library
10·1 month agoHow close do you want it to be?
I’m a big fan of the OpenBook
brisk@aussie.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Android's new developer verification rollout begins, sideloading changes are nextEnglish
29·1 month agoBecause anti-trust has not been enforced this century, with the exception of Lina Khan’s work as the FCC director.
Companies have been pushing the boundaries further and further for decades, with almost no push back.
Not enough brass, though
brisk@aussie.zoneto
Technology@beehaw.org•We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI
23·2 months agoThis predates the ai bubble. There used to be a really common “plagiarism detector” (something like CheckMeIn?] that would generate a “similarity score” with a database of literature. Institutions were welcome to set their own thresholds of what they considered too similar. I hit the threshold multiple times in completely original works by using language that was simply too literary or formal in nature.
Mind I had been accused of plagiarism by teachers prior to those tools for much the same reason based only on vibes, so maybe that was a step up, since students could use it ahead of time.
There was a news story around that time of somebody getting taken through disciplinary action due to getting close to 100% similarity on the tool - eventually to discover that their own essays had Venn included in the database.
PCjs uses JavaScript to emulate a small collection of hardware and software that I grew up with in the 1970s and 1980s, allowing you to experience their slow CPUs, low-resolution displays, and primitive sound effects, all in the comfort and safety of your desktop or mobile web browser.
Over time, PCjs emulations have expanded to include selected IBM PC Compatibles and more classic machines, such as Minicomputers, Programmable Calculators, Terminals, and Arcade Games. To learn more or contribute to these very modest preservation efforts, visit the PCjs open-source project on GitHub.
I’ve hung out with swans heaps in Australia and they’ve been almost entirely chill bros who will take food if offered but won’t harass you for it. I wonder if different species have different demeanours, like how Canada geese are known for being especially aggressive.
brisk@aussie.zoneto
Buy it for Life@slrpnk.net•Work/commuting backpack, ideally not a US companyEnglish
1·3 months agoCan you recommend any panniers or features to look for?
brisk@aussie.zoneto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Vim 9.2 Is Out with Comprehensive Completion, Wayland Support, and More - 9to5Linux
1·3 months agoVim hasn’t been able to copy to the clipboard since I switched to Wayland. Now it can and hopefully will do so in general as I have unnamedplus enabled, making the system clipboard the default one.
brisk@aussie.zoneto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Vim 9.2 Is Out with Comprehensive Completion, Wayland Support, and More - 9to5Linux
14·3 months agofull Wayland support (including clipboard support)
Woohoo! This limitation has significantly reduced the utility of vim for me in recent times, so it’s great to see
brisk@aussie.zoneto
Science Memes@mander.xyz•Easier or Harder | Litterbox ComicsEnglish
1·3 months agoThanks, I was reading this as pertaining to subsequent children, not stages, and was confused
I don’t have a specific recommendation, but I believe the key words to search for these days are “Digital Audio Player”.
I’ve been following the open hardware Tangara for a while, but they’re between production runs right now so you can’t buy from them (you might be able to build your own though, the design is all there)
As a heads up, like so many other technologies the middle has fallen out of the market thanks to the proliferation of smart phones. You’ll be paying a lot for anything decent from what I’ve seen
My CamelBak is. From looking at them on this page, KleanKanteen advertises it too.
brisk@aussie.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patchEnglish
14·4 months agoI can hear this picture
What’s the second crank for?
Looks like it was accurate at its peak in 2008
brisk@aussie.zoneto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Something that happened to you but no one believes you?
2·6 months agoIt was a deer
(Because a moose is a deer)
brisk@aussie.zoneto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button
24·7 months agoI literally cannot understand how Outlook is so awful and unpleasant to use. Constant pauses, regular freezes and a search that will show a document I sent to myself five years ago regardless of search terms but won’t surface the perfect match I received yesterday, in the world’s most prominent email client.
The only worse software I have to interact with on a daily basis is Adobe’s PDF reader, which gives me five popups within one minute of opening it and takes over a minute to do a text search in a five page document.
brisk@aussie.zoneto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•I can't find any calendar that is offline and cross-plat across Win+Android+Linux (goal: leave Google Cal) Edit: Server-less
2·7 months agoAh, fair point. When someone says “org-mode” I think of the file format usually, but I guess that’s probably not what colournoun was saying.
But also, apparently Emacs is on android












Currently “older cards” is GTX 10xx series and earlier
This is a deliberate choice made by Nvidia with respect to their proprietary drivers, and has nothing to do with the operating system.