Less than 30 minutes for Path of Exile II, and the queue of players waiting for the servers to open the gates is now at 22,525. More than 1 million have purchased the early access to the game. It is going to be a rough ride!

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End of year holidays are a mix of sadness and happiness for me. I can’t help but remembering those who are gone, with which I spent so many good times. A part of me wants to feel happy, and celebrate another completed round around the Sun, while the other feels sad because of those I will never see again.

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On dit à la radio que Morançais veut réduire le budget de la culture. Mais bien sûr, cela évitera aux gens d’avoir des idées et de penser en-dehors du cadre imposé par Bolloré et autres partisans d’extrême droite. Empêcher les gens de se cultiver, empêcher les artistes de créer… Dystopie!

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J’en avais déjà parlé, mais je l’ai désormais totalement fini est il est vraiment bien. Le #livre de Salomé Saqué ‘Résister’ se lit vite car c’est bien écrit, c’est sérieux car sourcé, et permet de disposer de faits concrets ainsi que d’idées pour faire face à l’extrême droite. Il ne coûte que 5€, moins en version numérique. Lisez-le, offrez-le! https://www.lalibrairie.com/livres/resister_0-11697790_9782228937597.html?ctx=397de3ecca38cf20254f77d136f28b52

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Been down for +7 effing hours … Power went out for a while and I didn’t even bother to check if things went back up normally afterwards. and guess what? they didn’t 🤡

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je viens juste d’installer ankidroid. Voilà de quoi m’occuper plus intelligement que 9gag tiens. Je vais me coller à la LSF, afin d’avoir un language aussi cool que celui des Atréides à partager avec mon fils :)

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We had 5cm snow at our scout yard at 10 o’clock. But it was nearly fully gone when we called it quits after sunset.

In May we charred cloth to be used as tinder. A fire steel and some wood shavings lit the fire in under a minute. Maybe half. That was good fun. I reckon I have to replenish the charred cloth soon, though. It’s crazy how great that works. I’m absolutely amazed.

We cut back the thorny brushes for hours and eventually winched out some heavy fallen trees. That was really cool to see this powerful winch in action. Absolutely effortless. It was also a complete one man show. We couldn’t do anything and just watch. There is no chance that we could have moved the tree trunks up the steep hill with just man power. Well, a few dozen people might have made it with great struggle.

Next time we have to cut them into smaller pieces and split them into firewood or keep some for contruction. I will see whether I can safe some to cut some boards from. A sawmill would be really cool to have. :-)

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https://lyse.isobeef.org/plaetzlestag-2024-11-23/

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Meta Removed 2 Million Accounts Linked to Organized Crime ‘Pig Butching’ Scams
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNET:

Meta says it’s taken down more than 2 million accounts this year linked to overseas criminal gangs behind scam operations that human rights activists say forced hundreds of thousands of people to work as scammers and cost victims worldwide billions of dollars.

In a Thurs … ⌘ Read more

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its important to see clearly: the rejection of mastodon for bluesky is not a rejection of the desire to be free of our corporate overlords; its a rejection of white bros controlling digital spaces. sit with that

eugen and his interlocutors have had immense power with which to challenge twitter but their racial and cultural and ideological insularity prevented them from using it https://alaskan.social/@seachanger/113500023546622076

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Been forcing myself to use vim more often, just because it honestly does run better on my machines. The mode-based UX still hasn’t grown on me, but I’m getting used to it.

On the positive side, I’m using vimwiki again, and it definitely fits my needs better than zim-desktop, or running a full-blown wiki on a webserver.

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Bluesky Says It Won’t Train AI On Your Posts
Bluesky, the social network surging in popularity, says it has “no intention” of training AI tools on users content. “The social network made the announcement on the same day that X (formerly Twitter) is implementing its new terms of service that allow the platform to use public posts to train AI,” notes TechCrunch. From the report: “A number of artists and creators have made their home … ⌘ Read more

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🔥 ATTENTION: I have really bad news folks 😢

Today, (just this morning in AEST) I accidentally nuke my pod (twtxt.net). I keep backups, but unfortunately the recovery point objective (RTP) is at worst a month! 🤦‍♂️ 😱 (the recovery time objective is around ~30m or so, restoring can take a while due to the size of the archive and index) – For those that are unfamiliar with these terms, they essentially relate to “how much data loss can occur” (RPO) and “how quickly you can restore the system” (RTO).

This pod (twtxt.net) is back up and online. However we’ve last the last ~5 days worth of posts y’all may have made on your feeds (for those that use this pod).

I’m so sorry 😞

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OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further

Once you’ve trained your large language model on the entire written output of humanity, where do you go?

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/14/openai-google-anthropic-admit-they-cant-scale-up-their-chatbots-any-further/

So we’re going to destroy the environment for AI slop that isn’t fit for purpose now and, if you believe the above post, never will be.

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