Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Wildfire Games would like to send you its best wishes for 2024! May you have a prosperous New Year!

#bestwishes #opensource #realtimestrategy #indiedev #HappyHolidays #PC #RTS #2024

For #SilentSunday I want to show you a photography from the 22. of December. It was really more silent than now because of the new year's eve 🎆 today. You could only hear the snow falling.

#winter #urbanphotography #naturephotography #Naturfotografie

He lost his whole family in Israeli bombings, he can't leave their graves!

Heartbreaking video shared on telegram shows a Palestinian child lying on the grave of his parents.

He has no place to go to and bo one to turn on to.

This is the sad reality of more than 10000 Palestinian children in Gaza and less than 3 months of Israeli assault on #Gaza.

#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow

If you want to feel old, it’s four years to the day since this doctor in China privately warned colleagues about a pneumonia case (which turned out to be COVID).. only for his message to be leaked, to go viral on social media, leading to his arrest by authorities for spreading fake news.

A few months later he contracted COVID and died, aged 33.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang

Broncos' updated 53-man roster and depth chart for Chargers game

https://broncoswire.usatoday.com/lists/broncos-roster-and-depth-chart-week-17-vs-chargers/

Broncos Wire

#LosAngelesChargers #53-manroster #BroncosBuzz #DepthChart #Roster #Timely #Week17

Ending the year with cleaning up stuff: deleting files and folders that I will definitely not miss (I still had PDFs from university times), throwing away cables, putting stuff online for sale that I don't want to use/own any more...

Getting rid of stuff always feels so relaxing for me.

Now the racists are setting pubs in Dublin on fire because they heard a rumour about immigrants maybe staying there in the future.

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2023/12/31/fire-at-disused-dublin-pub-falsely-rumoured-to-be-earmarked-for-asylum-seeker-accomodation/

I'm absurdly excited to learn that 2024 = 2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³.

...and it's because:

2025 = 45², and

45 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9, and

\( 1 + \cdots + n \)^2 = 1^3 + \cdots + n^3 !

Via https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/18tr14a/2024_2³3³4³5³6³7³8³9³/.

#math #newyear #newyear2024

I'd really like to see the terms and conditions for 2024.

People are pushing back on the overly-centralized social media platforms, and this year it led to an explosion of exciting projects in decentralization. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/taking-back-web-decentralization-2023-review

This: "There’s not going to be some new killer app that displaces Google or Facebook or Twitter with a love-powered alternative. But that’s because there shouldn’t be. There should be lots of different, human-scale alternative experiences on the internet that offer up home-cooked, locally-grown, ethically-sourced, code-to-table alternatives to the factory-farmed junk food of the internet. And they should be weird."

--@anildash at https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/

EFF will keep fighting against unethical patent owners who claim they “own” basic internet use. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/how-fight-bad-patents-2023-year-review

These Rogue Worlds Upend the Theory of How Planets Form - Scientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating planets that defy classificat... - https://www.wired.com/story/these-rogue-worlds-upend-the-theory-of-how-planets-form/ #science/physicsandmath #unidentifiedobjects #science

Teleportation: if we ever get them, they absolutely MUST exhibit some behavioural commonalities with a relational database—notably they must exhibit ACID properties: atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability.

If teleportation isn't ACID you ain't getting me in that booth!

At #37c3 they have IRC, and Matrix for text and for voice they setup their own LTE/2G/3G/SIP/DECT network where you bring whatever phone-like device and pick a 4 digit phone number.

Meanwhile in the USA for #defcon they just paid Discord money and told everyone to accept their privacy policy, and even the DC Privacy Village asks people to sign up for Slack and Google.

People ask why I fly to CCC from the USA. It is because that is the closest place to find a thriving hacker culture.

4 years ago: Wuhan Health Commission sends urgent notice reporting cases of unidentified pneumonia. It's the first official word about COVID-19.