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Who could pass up this ballin' opportunity? (lemmy.world)

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The sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet' revealed by AI (www.bbc.com)

Sperm whales communicate with each other using rhythmic sequences of clicks, called codas. It was previously thought that sperm whales had just 21 coda types. However, after studying almost 9,000 recordings, the Ceti researchers identified 156 distinct codas. They also noticed the basic building blocks of these codas which they...

WeDistribute is conducting a poll for instance admins. (social.wedistribute.org)

[FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Planning for Contest Success #podcast (podcasts.itmaze.com.au)

One of my recurring, you might call it, regrets, but probably not quite that strong, is that I often find myself discovering that an amateur radio contest came and went, or worse, I found out on the day, preferably at midnight UTC when many contests start, which happens to be 8 am Saturday morning where I live, right when my...

Doom Fans Go Too Far, Port The Shooter To A Sex Toy [extra hardware plugged inside] (kotaku.com)

Malfunctioning swamp coolers, air conditioning confirmed at Nevada prisons amid heat wave (nevadacurrent.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/malfunctioning-swamp-coolers-ai…

AVP has yet to sell 100k units (gizmodo.com)

Saving American Democracy in Two Simple Steps (youtu.be)

AOC files articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito (www.nbcnews.com)

Two Reporters Covering Education in the Midwest Followed the Money … to a School in New York (www.propublica.org)

[SOLVED] Using clangd with vscode to develop a flatpak

I’m developing a program in C++ targeting flatpak, since I’m on an immutable system I’d rather develop for flatpak than try using a container (plus I can’t get SDL to open a window in a container anyway). Everything works with GNOME Builder but it’s not as nice to use as vscode: less syntax highlighting, doesn’t...

ActivityPods Releases Example App to Help Developers (wedistribute.org)

In an effort to better help prospective Fediverse developers understand Solid, the ActivityPods team has released an example app as a reference point for understanding how everything works under the hood.

Thank you all

Just a quick thanks. Sometimes I read the threads here having no idea WTF you’re all on about and by the end of it come away just that little bit less ignorant. Thank you all for sharing your knowledge and insight.

Always try sudo (programming.dev)

They did not reply. (sh.itjust.works)

Canvas 2024 is live! (canvas.fediverse.events)

Rocky start, but we’re here! also making this almost an hour late due to the rocky start...

Senior official says Netanyahu holding up hostage-truce deal with new demands (www.timesofisrael.com)

Channel 12 quotes officials as saying that they believe Netanyahu is trying to delay a deal because he is likely to lose his coalition over the deal, with far-right parties vowing to quit if the agreement goes through.

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TIL: How the West Debt Trapped The Democratic Republic of Congo; The Richest Country in the World (medium.com)

How do you spend your upvotes? What about tips?

I have heard a few different strategies for this. For example “Upvote everything, even if you disagree with it, if it contributes to discussion”. But my concern with this strategy is that it means the first posted comments just get upvoted the highest regardless of their quality relative to other comments (as all comments...