A French University has so much interest from American scientists trying to flee the country that it is now asking other European universities to begin taking them into "scientific exile"
too bad Netherlands is just in a slash and cut on higher education and science too π Don't think any university will step in while they're having to lay off current employees
Dear Scientists from the USA, welcome to Germany. Make sure you stay in the western part of Germany (excluding Gelsenkirchen and Kaiserslautern), please.
Who will come? Younger scientists without established jobs and labs. People with energy, courage and vision to uproot themself. The best of the next generation - I hope they will have a good future here in Europe.
New insights about a species that is far more smart and wily than most ever imagined. Is city life cultivating βΓΌber-raccoons,β ready to take over the world? Watch a preview of Racoon Nation.
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Hey, I'm following the Indivisible suggestions, but I'm wondering what the suggestions are for the following:
I called both my senators (one Tues, one Wed).
Part 2 of my Intro to #Zephyr series is out! CMake is a popular tool, even among embedded developers, and Zephyr relies heavily on it for its build process. Get a quick primer on #cmake and see how Zephyr uses it! πππ youtu.be/HSWazjB63cU
CMake is a powerful, cross-platform build system generator that makes managing complex C and C++ projects easier. Rather than relying on a single build syste...
You know what would be a good "bit" is making a detailed YouTube explainer video about an entirely fake science experiment, that never occurred, mimic a real YouTube science video as much as possible, play the hoax totally straight. But if the reader (1) notices the video is fake and (2) pays close attention, they realize the video is just describing the plot of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Google has updated its affiliate link policy following allegations that coupon-clipping website Honey was abusing the program. pcmag.com/news/google-changes-β¦
Just in case like me you didn't know: You can get single SMD contacts like the one in the picture below on digikey under the "RFI and EMI - Contacts, Fingerstock and Gaskets" category, and on LCSC under the "Industrial control electrical / Antenna spring" category. I've looked for these more than once and haven't found them. Links:
OpenAI urges Trump: Either settle AI copyright debate or lose AI race to China National security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20β¦
But that'll just give the same data to China and anyone who cares? One breach, or, indeed, one legal download since it's open sources. The usa doesn't the least 50 years getting rich by forcing copyright BS on the rest of the world, and now is rolling it all back for an attempt at profit?
If I open an @OpenSCAD file that lives in a certain place I get this dialog that shows up and then I click "Allow" and it shows up again over and over until I have to quit OpenSCAD.
a variety of folders have this behavior in recent MacOS versions. See stackoverflow.com/questions/61β¦ for a smattering of possible solutions that might work for you.
I'm using Visual Studio Code with the C/C++ official extension from Microsoft to write C programs, running under macOS Catalina 10.15.3. The project folder lies in a path within the Documents folde...
@jgilbert I despise how global libraries are managed in OpenSCAD. I just manually clone libraries into each project folder. This is why I have 900 different copies of BOSL2 on my machine.
You can probably 'skip' this annoyance by giving the app its access through system preferences. Full disk access for example, since you trust the app (right?)
I do that on Sonoma for apps I regularly use (code editor, spreadsheet app, ftp client and such) just to avoid this nonsense.
I rode the TGV once, and it was light years ahead of anything we have in the US now in 2025, I mean βlike aliens dropped me in the futureβ light years ahead.
@michael_w_busch The Shinkansen is beautiful! I mean, at this point itβs getting hard to find a major economy other than the US that β’isnβtβ’ doing something impressive with high-speed rail.
Itβs just the cheapest of excuses. MUH PROPERTEEZ didnβt stop us from building the interstate highway system. Property counts for diddly when the power brokers want something. Just ask the residents of Rondo in St. Paul. Hell, they planned that interstate with the specific and clearly stated β’intentβ’ of destroying private propertyβ¦of Black and Jewish people.
Nope, propertyβs not a barrier to high-speed rail. Itβs an excuse.
I was going to say that the Amtrak is not terrible - and I think the coaches are fine actually. But the food was terrible and we survived by bringing our own and eating in restaurants during the 30-60min stops along the way. π And it is slow of course. The US not having high-speed rail is quite baffling. @drahardja
Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton were the two biggest comedy stars of the silent era, but as it happened, they never shared the screen until well into the reign of sound.
One of the excellent features of the SPOKE board is the very customisable neopixel lights. The kickstarter ends today if you want to grab an early bird discounted one!
The whole "Unbound Publishing goes into ad ministration--and the owners move on to a new publishing venture, which has also acquired some of the assets of the dying business" seems like a full-on scam to me.
The independent publisher Unbound has gone into administration, with Allister Manson and Charles Turner of Opus Restructuring appointed administrators of the company on 10th March 2025.
Could also be a case of "screw over the early investor who wouldn't allow new investors to dilute their shareholding". It's all going to depend on whether or not the operating debts get paid out by the new venture.
@alan @cstross The thing is, there were no early investors per se; they crowdfunded their projects, and now owe royalties to a bunch of people, and it seems they're keeping some rights for reasons.
I know it's bad form to post links to Bluesky, but one of the authors owed several thousand dollars by #Unbound has found a clause in their contract that means the new (and ever more fucked up) #Boundless doesn't own their work.
It's acceptable to post the link I suppose, but you should verify first that one can read it without an account, which one cannot, so this becomes pointless, because asking people to create an account there is a bit much.
sadly that kind of phoenix company bullshit is a common feature of, at least, UK contract law, and it's usually done to shirk debts - limited liability companies don't pay their bills, go into liquidation, then a new company arises that somehow has all the same people in it, but none of them can be pursued for the bills. a little overlap, and the old company can "sell" all its assets to the new company for a token sum before going into liquidation.
but of course, those assets are usually physical. not licences to intellectual property specifically written to be easy to terminate! oops... someone wasn't paying attention there
Columbia graduate detained by Ice was respected British government employee - theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m⦠"#MahmoudKhalil described by former colleague at UK office for #Syria as well liked and extensively vetted"
βThere is significant public interest in knowing when and on what basis the UK government believes that it can compel a private company to undermine the privacy and security of its customers.β
ORG, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship call for the Tribunal into the UK government's secret order for Apple to break encryption to be held in public.
'There are issues we need to discuss,' Putin says about 'good' US ceasefire proposal as he hints at phone call with Trump - theguardian.com/world/live/202β¦ #putin wants to shout at his underling...
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I bought an M4 Max Mac Studio, it's an upgrade from my M1 Max. Can I offset like 1% of the cost with revenue from this video?Resources I mentioned in this vi...
@lx Heh, I didn't record the whole thing, just because I was too lazy to cut that footage and store an extra like 2 GB of terminal output recording π
In working with my iPad Pro over the past few months, Iβve realized something that might have seemed absurd just a few years ago: some of the best apps Iβm using β the ones with truly desktop-class layouts and experiences β arenβt native iPad apps.
When I was doing MacOS ports of LucasArts games back in the 90s, I needed to provide appropriate "About" screens from the Apple menu, so I got to exercise my Programmer Art skills. Recently a kind MacOS fan extracted them for posterity.
It's difficult for me to believe that Baba Is You is nowhere near even a decade old. It feels more like a found thing than a game, almost a koan; the reverent way mathematicians talk about deep, unexpected relationships being discovered rather than invented.
I loved that game until I got stuck on a puzzle I couldn't solve and now I simply have frustrated memories of it even though 99% of my experience was delight. Brains are weird and mine is not built for puzzles I guess
@darius For my money that's exactly the thing about it that seems timeless, that it's such a simple, elegant idea that contains this bottomless complexity within it.
A friend was in the Toronto area last weekend and got this scam SMS today. Quite a coincidence. Is it possible that the scammers are using Stingray-type devices to scrape phone numbers for this kind of thing? I don't know much about the devices or how they work, just that they exist.
I keep and edit these to train relatives. This one ticks all the boxes: β Non-local (West Virginia in this case) area code (not shown) β Scary language to throw the recipient off balance β Chinese URL β Standard scammer tactic to make the link (and any forthcoming) links active by inviting a reply
Cell-site simulators, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers, are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower.
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in reply to Jason Koebler • • •Robert Berger
in reply to Jason Koebler • • •Make sure you stay in the western part of Germany (excluding Gelsenkirchen and Kaiserslautern), please.
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in reply to Jason Koebler • • •The best of the next generation - I hope they will have a good future here in Europe.
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in reply to Jason Koebler • • •of course
This kind of bullshit the republicans are doing will break the unique American engine. They are truly ignorant pigs.
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in reply to Jason Koebler • • •Good to see this. I advocated for exactly this approach at the very outset of the madness.
As well as being the civilised thing to do, it offers Europe a significant benefit from their knowledge and skills.
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WΓ€re es nicht schΓΆn, wenn unsere (zukΓΌnftige) Regierung einen Plan fΓΌr den Ausbau von Bildung und Forschung hΓ€tte?