Sunday, 30. June 12024
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TIL: A new typography term.

What do you think about Inktraps becoming basically a new serif? (Via reddit.com.)

(They are everywhere atm.)

Relevant: Tintenfalle.

From ZeroVer to SemVer: A Comprehensive List of Versioning Schemes in Open Source.

Wednesday, 26. June 12024
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Aus für Chatdienst ICQ nach fast 28 Jahren.

Charakteristisch für ICQ war auch der Signalton „Ah-Oh“ beim Empfang neuer Nachrichten.

Ich habe sehr liebe Erinnerungen an dieses »Ah-Oh!« ❤️‍🩹

Sunday, 23. June 12024
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Via daily.bandcamp.com.

llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model (via lobste.rs).

(…) an entire LLM inference engine with trained parameters bundled inside, relying on treating text containing magic symbols for fake "ligatures" to initialize the LLM and use it to generate text.

Monday, 17. June 12024
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Q: How to troubleshoot a “Not authorized to perform operation” error message when automatically mounting flash drives and other external USB storage devices?

A: Temporarily disable Chrome Remote Desktop.

🖤

The legacy of Lynn Conway, chip design pioneer and transgender-rights advocate.

Conway, professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science, has died.

JitPack – Easy to use package repository for Git.

(…) makes it easy to release your Java or Android library. Publish straight from GitHub or Bitbucket.

Or: makes it easy to include Java libs not available at Maven &co.

Körnö!

Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich.

The new colonization of Africa

Six years in the making, jaw-dropping new film The Grab shows a secret scramble by governments and private firms to buy up global resources

The Grab hears from farmers with horrific tales of displacement – prolonged homelessness, the death of a toddler from the cold, bulldozed ancestral burial sites. The culprit is not one country or company but a shadowy network of mercenary interests, farms backed by “a Russian doll of LLCs and LLCs” (…)

Source: i.guim.co.uk