This Week in @gnome 5 "Freeze Frenzy" is out! And we establish a new record of 18 news reported for a single week 🎉
"I cannot succinctly convey how interesting I find this.... The large-scale change of one of the basic premises of internet design, from a peer-to-peer system to a strictly client-server system, happened by accident."
@freemo i am justt posting the webinar info as it may be useful or interesting.
@thor They are saying the same thing about Fentanol (or what ever is is called)
job search, life, -
1.. Stay positive, which is hard I know.
2 Try and tailor your resume so that it reflects the skills you have and how they relate to a job.
Network here too, what roles are you looking for? What skills do you have, people may be able to help.
job search, life, -
I am really, really at my wit’s end regarding job hunting. Nowhere seems willing to hire me - not even the places I thought I was qualified for. I don’t have nearly enough money to pay my share of rent, the landlord is talking about raising rent or we might have to move. I don’t know what to do.
For jobs, I don’t even get interviews. The one place I had an interview with I just got rejected. I’ve been looking since May. What should I even do?
Archaeologists discover 4k-year-old ancient city in Iraqi desert
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/archaeologists-discover-4-000-year-old-ancient-city-in-iraqi-desert
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Hey everybody! We have upcoming free webinars! Save the dates:
‣ Intro to Overleaf, Part I: Beginner Features: Thursday, Aug 12, 2021, 11AM ET / 3PM UTC / 8AM PT
‣ Intro to Overleaf, Part II: Intermediate Features: Thursday, Sep 16, 2021, 11AM ET / 3PM UTC / 8AM PT
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If anyone is interested in Learning LaTeX / Overleaf
Hey everybody! We have an upcoming free webinar: Intro to Overleaf, Part I: Beginner Features.
Save the date: Thursday, Aug 12, 2021, 11AM ET / 3PM UTC / 8AM PT. Join the fun and learn how you can make the most of your Overleaf account! See you there!
I have some exciting professional news to share!
The Sloan Foundation has generously funded "Collaborating on Software Archiving for Institutions" #CoSAI, with 3 streams of work:
1) technical development on open source, decentralized toolkit for software archiving & replay; 2) community building and education on software archiving; and 3) optimizing machine and human workflows
Psyched that this is a big collaborative project, feat. the one and only @wilkie
@dansup Could be a feature that gerts more new users.
Reached out to a few projects regarding Groups federation, looking forward to working together on compatibility.
Uber asked contractor to allow surveillance cameras in employees homes, bedrooms.
#Uber #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy #workersrights
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/uber-asked-contractor-to-allow-video-surveillance-in-employee-homes-bedrooms/
Users Can Be Just As Dangerous As Hackers https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/users-can-be-just-as-dangerous-as.html
The IBM PC, 41 Years Ago
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-ibm-pc-41-years-ago/
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Plymouth shooting: Suspected gunman and five others die
@yogthos@mastodon.social Why !!!, Surely it is useful to track how misinformation is spreading so it can be countered, or perhaps Facebook wants to spread misinformation.
We need to invite these researchers here perhaps @freemo any suggestions on how we can do that.
A Limitlessly Scalable Transaction System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05236
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