GNOME Ousts Elected Board Member in Secret, Tells Nobody for 2 Months
Secret meetings. No transparency. Total chaos at the GNOME Foundation as they remove Sonny Piers, one of their Board Members, without telling anyone. This all happens right as the GNOME Executive Director quits, GNOME announces dire financial circumstances, and a disastrous “5 year plan” focusing on DEI. ⌘ Read more

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Is the ‘Diaper’ Method in ‘Twisters’ a Real Solution For Massive Tornadoes? Not Exactly
The Twister sequel, which brought in over $80 million at the box office this weekend, is full of good science. But its big reveal is full of spin. ⌘ Read more

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An Open AI Backed Non-Profit Gave $1,000 a Month to Poor People. Here’s What They Did With It
OpenResearch released the first results of the most comprehensive study on giving unrestricted cash grants to impoverished Americans. Researchers say it will flame both sides of the debate over welfare. ⌘ Read more

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The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine
The DOD wants to refurbish ICBM silos that give it the ability to end civilization. But these missiles are useless as weapons, and their other main purpose—attracting an enemy’s nuclear strikes—serves no end. ⌘ Read more

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iPhone 17 Lineup Specs Detail Display Upgrade and New High-End Model
Key details about the specifications of the iPhone 17 lineup have today been shared by the leaker known as “Ice Universe.”

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Reports in recent months have converged in agreement that Apple will discontinue the “Plus” iPhone model in 2025 while introducing … ⌘ Read more

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OpenBSD gets hardware accelerated video decoding/encoding
Only yesterday, I mentioned one of the main reasons I decided to switch back to Fedora from OpenBSD were performance issues – and one of them was definitely the lack of hardware acceleration for video decoding/encoding. The lack of such technology means that decoding/encoding video is done using the processor, which is far less efficient than letting your GPU do it – which results in performance issues like stutterin … ⌘ Read more

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1989 networking: NetWare 386
NetWare 386 or 3.0 was a very limited release, with very few copies sold before it was superseded by newer versions. As such, it was considered lost to time, since it was only sold to large corporations – for a massive almost 8000 dollar price tag – who obviously didn’t care about software preservation. There are no original disks left, but a recent “warez” release has made the software available once again. As always, pirates save the day. ⌘ Read more

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(#o53yanq) @bender@bender i’m thinking it’s probably worth to try and implement both features as use for configurable preferences just so tha …
@bender i’m thinking it’s probably worth to try and implement both features as use for configurable preferences just so that we can see what it’s like. 🤣 The default, of course would be the regular pagination that exists now. ⌘ Read more

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