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Knepherbird Apr 18, 2025

Just upgraded to Fedora 42 on two systems, and now epiphany/gnome-web (fedora flatpak) isn't resolving local hosts (e.g., host.local). No problem with other browsers, and I can ping in a terminal with no trouble. Anyone else see an issue?

Knepherbird Feb 16, 2025

John Overholt Feb 15, 2025

Why is the nonsense phrase “vegetative electron microscopy” turning up in fake scientific papers? Add two-column formatting to the list of things AI doesn’t understand. https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/
Via @researchbuzz

As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends its use

The origin of the phrase? The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet “vegetative electron microscopy” had already made it past reviewers and editors at several j…

Retraction Watch

Knepherbird Feb 7, 2025

"Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there as well."
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cg7zp1dgmxmo

Netanyahu gifts President Trump a golden pager in Washington DC

The Israelis last year used booby-trapped pagers to target Hezbollah, though civilians were also among the victims.

Knepherbird Feb 6, 2025

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evacide Feb 4, 2025

@mattblaze The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.

Knepherbird Oct 17, 2024

Matt Mullenweg Downfall video when?

https://www.404media.co/automattic-buyout-offer-wordpress-matt-mullenweg/

Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg made another buyout offer this week, and threatened employees who speak to the press with termination.

404 Media

Knepherbird Oct 14, 2024

Literal Cosmo Catalano Oct 14, 2024

FRONDER OF WREDPROSS IS

MATT MULLENWEG

MART MULLENWARG

WORT MULLENARG

66.7%

PROG WOLLENYEG

33.3%

Poll ended at Oct 15, 2024 at 8:33pm.

Knepherbird Oct 14, 2024

Nora Oct 14, 2024

After the "A Book Apart" shut down, many authors have relaunched their books. @Meyerweb and Sara Wachter-Boettcher are no exception, and they have had the wonderful detail of offering "Design for Real Life" free for online reading: https://dfrlbook.com

You can also purchase it in print and ebook format.

#books #design #productdesign

Design for Real Life

Knepherbird Oct 14, 2024

Okay, is this WordPress/WPEngine thing going to end up in a shooting war?

Knepherbird Oct 11, 2024

Eric A. Meyer Oct 10, 2024

Hey, everyone! “Design for Real Life” is now available online, in full, for free, at https://dfrlbook.com. It’s all the same content Sara Wachter-Boettcher and I wrote in 2016, but now it’s free for everyone. (If you’d like your own paper or electronic copy, there’s a “Buy the book” page on the site.) Read, share, spread the word—thanks!

Design for Real Life

Knepherbird Oct 1, 2024

SwiftOnSecurity Sep 30, 2024

20 years ago, we found out how is babby formed and how girl get pragnent

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