Got tired of drilling CW in MorseMachine, Morsle, and Morse code for Android, and listened in a few times today to see whether I can copy off the air yet.
During the afternoon on 20m, Winter Field Day was in full swing and every CQ I could hear was too fast for me to copy anything after "CQ". (Well, I did copy what sounded like "FDW9" at one point which I assume was related to field day activities) After dark, 80m had some folks with a more leisurely pace. However, signals fading in and out meant that I still had trouble copying call signs. I could at least recognize more characters even if I couldn't copy enough to understand...
I don't have a key yet, so I don't have to feel bad about not transmitting. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it, for a while! 😀
Microsoft Windows+Office for $55?
What happened?
Usually cheap MSFT license offers are a sign of Linux gains somewhere but I'm not seeing it this time
LibreOffice for Steam OS is taking off?
They're selling at a loss because it makes you train their "AI"?
There's some market share number they need to tweak upward to keep some stock analyst happy?
mashable.com/deals/january-24-… #networkEffects
$55 for a lifetime license to Microsoft Office
One price, two upgrades, no subscriptionsSponsored by StackCommerce (Mashable)
📚 Study: Medical large language models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks
▪️"replacement of just 0.001% of training tokens with medical #misinformation results in harmful models more likely to propagate medical #errors"
▪️"a successful attack potentially executable for under US$1,000"
🌐nature.com/articles/s41591-024…
#AI #technology #LLM #healthcare
Medical large language models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks - Nature Medicine
Large language models can be manipulated to generate misinformation by poisoning of a very small percentage of the data on which they are trained, but a harm mitigation strategy using biomedical knowledge graphs can offer a method for addressing this…Nature
tonight's wikipedia rabbit hole has led me to: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiank…
which has the absolutely *fascinating* property of containing sentences starting with things like "He became widely known" and "He was listed in", in which you can't tell if "He" is an English pronoun or a Chinese name, because either parse results in exactly the same meaning
bsky.app/profile/phillewis.bsk…
Money is going into AT Protocol to build up to what ActivityPub already is
FreeOurFeeds is a $30M plan to take back social media from billionaires
A new project seeks to build an alternative social media ecosystem free from billionaire control, with support from Eli Pariser, Roger McNamee, Alex Winter, Jimmy Wales, and more.Taylor Lorenz (User Mag)
French newspaper Le Monde has decided to stop sharing content on Xitter where they have 11m followers. This lengthy editorial explains their ethical decision.
lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/…
Fighting for facts in the era of Trump and Musk
The alliance between Donald Trump and social media platform bosses such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg represents a global threat to free access to reliable information.Jérôme Fenoglio (Le Monde)
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California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy
Are renewables reliable? A new study says California ran on renewables alone for a record number of days last year.Matt Simon (Grist)
And we can especially think a botched privatization of the energy grid for a lot of it.
There’s a detail about PG&E that’s worth mentioning. The company is split into two parts the energy generation part in the energy distribution part. The latter division is burdened and laden with all the company’s debt. And the energy division is free to peddle energy off.
US, Colombia wage tariff war after Petro blocks Trump’s deportation flights | Migration News
The United States and Colombia have announced tit-for-tat tariffs amid a spat over Bogota’s refusal to accept the return of migrants being deported under United States President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
non riesco a sentirmi ancora a casa qui, non sopporto più instagram.
è tutto molto frustrante.
sto provando a capire come spostare tutto quello che ho messo su ig in questi ultimi tredici anni ma sembra che ci voglia una laurea in informatica per farlo.
sono giù di morale.
volevo solo un posto dove parlare di quello che mi piace. di là è strutturalmente impossibile, di qua mi sento solo stupida e ignorante e non capisco nulla.
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I don’t doubt that the many thousands of farmers who will face extreme trouble if not bankruptcy because of the pogrom, will end up selling to Bill Gates and another billionaires. They all have this fetish now for founding futuristic cities.
The Libertarians were very enamored of the idea of founding city states where the there is an owner functioning as an absolute ruler
We’re out and about today for a drive in the country. We’ve stopped to charge up first and an electric motorcycle just rocked up to charge too.
#EV
I found out what the #EV bike was:
An Energica EVA Ribelle RS.
energicamotor.com/en/models/en…
Energica Eva Ribelle – Energica Motor Company
The special versions Technical sheet This data sheet is provided for reference only.Energica Motor Company reserves the right to substitute or change components.Technical features under development may change or be…Energica Motor Company S.p.A.
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Just one more reason to kick #Meta, #Facebook, #Instagram, #Threads, #Messenger, etc. to the curb.
#Abortion #AbortionRights #AbortionBan #AbortionIsMedicalCare #AbortionIsHealthcare #AbortionIsAHumanRight
phpc.social/@chrastecky/113890…
Dominik (@chrastecky@phpc.social)
#Meta is apparently blocking posts and accounts mentioning abortion pills. I really, really hope that EU makes a push and bans Meta here if they don't comply.PHP Community on Mastodon
California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy | Grist
The state went a record 98 of 116 days providing up to 10 hours of electricity with renewables alone. Source: California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy | Grist
Help with Decluttarr
This is for Gentoo but very applicable to your case as well:
wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=g…
gentoo:pip
or pip is the Packager Installer for Python and it's a great tool to quickly install and manage python tools.wiki.gardiol.org
#FAFO Colombia President Petro responds to Trump tariffs: Read his full statement
newsweek.com/colombia-presiden…
Colombia President Petro Responds to Trump Tariffs: Read His Full Statement
Colombia-US clash erupts over deportation flights, sparking 50% tariffs and fiery statement on sovereignty from President Gustavo Petro.Adeola Adeosun (Newsweek)
This story as written is deceptive and omits key facts.
#Colombia DID NOT reject repatriation of its citizens. It rejected the landing of military planes and the handling of its citizens in chains as criminals. The norm for repatriation is to deliver people unbound in civilian planes. Colombia upheld its duty to protect the dignity and bodies of its citizens, consistent with international treaties, which the US was violating.
English media is routinely distorting the facts.
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