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I'm seeing a staggering number of accounts of police abuse from professors and students attempting to go about their daily lives, not even protesting. Here's one from a Columbia University professor.

#Columbia #NYC #ACAB

THIS IS NOT A DRILL
MS-DOS JUST GOT OPEN-SOURCED

HOLY SHIT

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

Threads launches custom mute filters, teases controls for quote posts https://tcrn.ch/3WycGlR

The National Guard battling students on university campuses, the U.S. providing war matériel for a foreign war, and RFK on the presidential campaign trail.

We did it people, we invented the time machine.

🧙 This is massive
The Future of MySQL is PostgreSQL:
Today, at Postgres Conference 2024, we introduced a PostgreSQL extension we are developing, which enables MySQL applications to run on PostgreSQL without any code changes by supporting the MySQL wire protocol, SQL syntax, and procedural language.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40094160
https://nextgres.com/res/20240419-The-Future-of-MySQL-is-Postgres.pdf (edited)

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS #NobleNumbat is now available to download and install.

https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-24-04-noble-numbat?utm_campaign=701N100000AD3juIAD&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

This is another reason why I don't trust proprietary softwares.

Today in things you literally cannot make up: a senior Democrat congressman calls protesters demanding a ceasefire in Gaza "leftwing fascists" and demands their arrest.

Is it any wonder Trump is winning, when both parties are using his rhetoric and making his arguments? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/israel-gaza-ceasefire-adam-smith

What do you say first thing in the morning?

👀 #linux joke 😂 https://x.com/cmuratori/status/1783274430376120770

I think we can now stop saying “google it” if you’re looking for info.

'Facts & Constitution are on our side': S'porean TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi expects to prevail against US ban
https://mothership.sg/2024/04/tik-tok-shou-chew-u-s-ban/

Earlier this week, #BusinessInsider reported that according to app analytics firm #Apptopia, Threads now has more daily active users in the #US than #X.

#MarkZuckerberg says #Threads has 150 million monthly active users
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/mark-zuckerberg-says-threads-has-150-million-monthly-active-users/

I’ve said before that the most precious part of the Web are the pre-Facebook forums run by enthusiasts of specific domains (say, owners of a model of motorbike). There’ll be knowledge there from crusty old riders that means the difference between success and failure at doing what you want to do.

It’s exactly this kind of specific knowledge, like knowing the right steps and way to adjust the valve clearances on a bike, that is threatened by AI content mills, because an LLM doesn’t know if it’s 0.15mm or 15mm, and doesn’t care