Maïder, Soul Raider by Magali Villeneuve
Source: boardgamegeek.com/thread/25537…
#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #character #characterart #art #digitalart
[Preview] The Soul Raiders | Soul Raiders
Hello everybody! Here is the start of a thread to introduce the valiant heroes composing the party of Soul Raiders! This will be updated regularly in the months leading to the Kickstarter campaign, so follow it to have a sneak peek at the characters…BoardGameGeek
Transmitting Wireless Power Over Longer Distances
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Transmitting Wireless Power Over Longer Distances
Everyone loves wireless power these days, almost vindicating [Tesla’s] push for wireless power. One reason why transmitting electricity this way is a terrible idea is the massive losses invol…Hackaday
#weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd #news vice.com/en/article/people-are…
People Are Seasoning Packing Peanuts—and Eating Them
Hey, so…Not sure if anyone told you, but you’re absolutely not supposed to eat those packing peanuts. So don't do that.Sammi Caramela (VICE)
When algorithms take the field – inside MLB’s robo-umping experiment
Technological advances that lead to fairer, more accurate calls are often seen as triumphs. But new technology doesn’t mean perfect precision – nor does it necessarily create a better fan experience.The Conversation
“Are we going to break something?” acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek asked, referring to what DOGE has been doing with Social Security data. “I don’t know."
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#News #DOGE #Musk #ElonMusk #SocialSecurity #USPolitics #Trump
Recording Reveals SSA Head Dudek’s Thoughts on DOGE, Trump
In a recording obtained by ProPublica, acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek portrayed his agency as facing peril, while also encouraging patience with “the DOGE kids.”ProPublica
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"The president wanted it" will not age well when it comes to face the music.
#philosophy #raptor #dinosaurs #meme #memes #dreams #wow
FunHouse Radio
Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.FunHouse Radio
Okay but what is the new way to query hash tables then lol
It’s got to be more than putting a linked list in a slot, which makes x the amount of time to find the slot + an average find time for the depth of the list.
This is the part I am also curious about, something @gvwilson (correctly) gets wound up about regularly. Cutting-edge anything interesting that shows up SIGGRAPH becomes an AfterEffects plugin in weeks.
We've got an incredible new hashtable implementation? Great, but where my libraries at?
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Sparklemuffin peacock spider: The spider with secret iridescent scales that busts a move to win a mate
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Sparklemuffin peacock spider: The spider with secret iridescent scales that busts a move to win a mate
This bedazzled arachnid woos its mate with a sexy thrusting dance.Melissa Hobson (Live Science)
DXVK 2.6 Adds NVIDIA Reflex Support, Improvements for Many Games - 9to5Linux
DXVK 2.6 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with many game improvementsMarius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Audacity 3.7.2 Improves the Linux AppImage Bundle for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - 9to5Linux
Audacity 3.7.2 open-source digital audio editor and recording app is now available for download with improvements for Linux and bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Gesehen auf dem Gelände der #PHTG Pädagogische Hochschule Thurgau in Kreuzlingen
The UK Online Safety Act burdens small sites with duties and penalties that they can't shoulder. They'll shut down instead, stripping us of net plurality.
There’s a simple solution:
✅ Exempt small, safely run blogs, forums and fedi instances
✅ The government can do this now
The duties start TOMORROW – Write to your MP ⬇️
#SaveOurSites 🌐
action.openrightsgroup.org/sav…
#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #fediverse #netplurality #mastodon #ukpolitics #ukpol #tech
Save our sites - Write to your MP
Small UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act.Open Rights Group
Under the UK Online Safety Act, small blogs, forums and fedi instances are faced with disproportionate requirements to:
⚫️ Check if they have UK users
⚫️ Do a risk assessment on whether kids might access the content, or if CSAM or terrorist material might be posted in the comments
⚫️ Put themselves at the risk of fines, and even prison sentences, if they fail to comply with Ofcom’s future directives
#SaveOurSites 🌐
#fediverse #onlinesafetyact #ofcom #netplurality #mastodon #onlinesafety #tech
When it comes to blogs, Ofcom says one thing, the UK Online Safety Act says another.
This lack of clarity over whether blogs with comments are exempt will push small sites to shut down completely.
We need the UK government to tighten up the definitions and exemptions in the Act.
Read our explainer for more detail ➡️ openrightsgroup.org/blog/save-…
#fediverse #onlinesafetyact #ofcom #netplurality #mastodon #onlinesafety #tech
Save our Sites: Deadline 17 March
Incredible as it may seem, thanks to the Online Safety Act, dozens of harmless, safe, small websites are closing down by 17 March, rather than face threats of fines that could lose their operators their homes.Open Rights Group
A historian talks about the state of things. Which appear to be retrograde.... Not the "r" word he's talking about.
"NEW: I guess we have to argue, once again, that the Holocaust was real and Nazis are bad. But flip this around; there’s also good news. Right now, those of us who hate Nazis, but love equal rights and not catching measles, are losing. But we won before. We can win again."
Tim Walz is touring Republican-held congressional districts in Iowa and Nebraska
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5327412/tim-walz-is-touring-republican-held-congressional-districts-in-iowa-and-nebraska?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Trump is getting pushback from an unlikely place — the conservative media
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5328623/trump-is-getting-pushback-from-an-unlikely-place-the-conservative-media?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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An animation breakthrough makes it possible to more accurately illustrates Black hair
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5327498/an-animation-breakthrough-makes-it-possible-to-more-accurately-illustrates-black-hair?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Early tractors were wild. This here is a "road locomotive" plowing an entire field at once.
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#Tractor #Locomotive #Steam #Engineering
2021 RECORD! 150 CASE Road Locomotive pulling 44 bottom John Deere plow
Watch the 150 Case pull 44 bottom John Deere plows at the James Valley Threshing Show in Andover, South Dakota! This is a new record for this engine with 36 ...YouTube
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A Tesla protester targeted by Elon Musk speaks out: 'I have to protect myself.'
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5328626/a-tesla-protester-targeted-by-elon-musk-speaks-out-i-have-to-protect-myself?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology @technology-npr
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People in the path of destruction of Oklahoma's wildfires survey the damage
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5329291/people-in-the-path-of-destruction-of-oklahomas-wildfires-survey-the-damage?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-npr
Looking at Solid Project: Can anyone give an overview of how this fits together with or complements ActivityPub?
digiKam, KDE's full-featured photo management software, releases version 8.6.0.
You can look forward to a smarter face management tool, an improved auto-tagging system that identifies elements in your images, fully automatic red-eye removal, and a new image quality feature that classifies images according to their aesthetic quality.
We also fixed 140 bugs!
digikam.org/news/2025-03-15-8.…
#photography #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
digiKam 8.6.0 is released
Dear digiKam fans and users, we are proud to announce the stable release of digiKam 8.6.0.digiKam
Saw the incredible images from the mass protests in Serbia, so I wanted to post this of Seoul yesterday with citizens trying to get the impeached president (Mr. Overnight Coup Attempt) removed from office
Original article:
hani.co.kr/arti/society/societ…
#seoul #korea #southKorea #protests
“사랑하는 이들 지키려”…다시 모인 100만 시민 ‘윤석열 파면’ 외침
14개월 딸을 둔 새내기 아빠 신승룡(34)씨가 무대 올라 수줍게 웃었다. “함께 집회에 온 제 아내, 할아버지 할머니랑 놀고 있는 사랑하는 딸 나현이, 이곳에 함께 하는 사랑하는 동지들…. 사랑하는 이를 지키기 위해 끝까지 투쟁하겠습니다.” 사랑하는 것들을 지키겠다는한겨레
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Repairing Our Clothes 🧵
Thanks to the latest WRAP report (Feb 2025) we finally have some statistics about how choosing to #repair our #clothes and buying #SecondHand is having an impact.
A few key points >>>
🪡 #Repairing our clothes has been shown to displace the need for buying new items by 82%.
This shows that we’re placing value on the pieces already in our wardrobes, showing the #BigCompanies that we don’t want to keep replacing items,
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#WRAPreport #mending #repairing
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The missing children of Syria: Hidden in orphanages under Assad, where are they now?
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/16/g-s1-53476/syria-orphanages-assad?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Health @health-npr
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Attaching an eGPU to a Low Cost Mini PC Without Thunderbolt! - Lon Seidman & Lon.TV Blog
I decided to try something unconventional: attaching an eGPU to the system bus of a budget GMKTec G3 Plus mini PC (compensated affiliate link), curious to see if I could push the limits of what these sub $200 PCs are designed for.admin (Lon Seidman & Lon.TV Blog)
#ClimateChange
Environmental protection laws still apply even under Trump’s national energy emergency − here’s why
President Trump’s national energy emergency declaration does not qualify as an emergency that would exempt energy projects from environmental laws and regulations.The Conversation
Survivors of Pakistan's train hijacking recount the harrowing experience
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5326060/survivors-of-pakistans-train-hijacking-recount-the-harrowing-experience?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World News @world-news-npr
Politics chat: Trump signs stopgap measure, gives DOJ speech; DOGE targets 7 agencies
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5325938/politics-chat-trump-signs-stopgap-measure-gives-doj-speech-doge-targets-7-agencies?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-npr
A tale of two states: Florida and Illinois's responses to the Trump administration
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5324551/a-tale-of-two-states-florida-and-illinoiss-responses-to-the-trump-administration?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-npr
Stimulating article on LLMs in programming: simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/…
My bet is that CHOP will evolve into some state where the methodical person giving it context with well-written and structured business domain and requirements documents is going to still be well-paid, because there'll be some upper ceiling on the useful abstraction that LLMs can handle without it. BA and QA skills will become even more important. (I might be wrong.)
Thanks to @simon for the article.
Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code
Online discussions about using Large Language Models to help write code inevitably produce comments from developers who’s experiences have been disappointing. They often ask what they’re doing wrong—how come some …Simon Willison’s Weblog
yeah, I don't care how good these tools get at writing code (or other software development tasks), there will always be a need for specialists who understand how to build great software
Excel didn't put all the accountants out of work!
#woodworking
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SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly Embarrassing
This should never have happened.Will Lockett (Planet Earth & Beyond)
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