Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool - https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/08/the-fear-of-ai-just-killed-a-very-useful-tool/ and it won't be the last time...

Bad news for those of us who want to own things.
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/disney-just-delivered-potential-death-blow-to-dvds-and-blu-rays-heres-whats-happening

A spectacular timelapse flying over Mexico and the United States at night in the International Space Station.

4K landscape version on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qf4a02yOsI

Just learned this morning that Bram Moolenaar, creator and maintainer of Vim, passed away recently at 62. I’ve been a user of Vim since my 20s, so even though I’ve never met Bram his work has been an important part of my life.

https://dissociatedpress.net/2023/08/05/w-gnu_bram_moolenaar-md/

New video! I love this terrible $7 digital camera

https://youtu.be/iKxfSrY8Erc

wait, what?

The fantastic dead leaf mimicry of the Uropyia meticulodina moth lets it hide in plain sight.

Video credit: Kazuo Unno
Source: https://www.goo.ne.jp/green/life/unno/movie/movie.html?movieid=1340715995

For todays #ThrowbackThursday, here’s #MarioKart DS, the first game in the series with online play.

Great game with some amazing tracks (Waluigi Pinball, Airship Fortress, Delfino Square, Luigi’s Mansion), and probably the best single player content in the series too.

https://www.mariowiki.com/Mario_Kart_DS

🧠 Calling all trivia lovers! 🧠

Play our trivia at http://t.me/rfj_triviabot to test your knowledge and compete for prizes with the RFJ Trivia Game. Winners can collect their prizes at the RFJ Black Hat booth. 🎯

Welcome to the fediverse BBC!

@BBCRD
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

Going to share a few more up-close shots of the new Mastodon merch! I'm happy that we got to incorporate some Mastodon history in the designs. Mind you there's only going to be 250 of each at launch!

Gnome is "rethinking window management". Yet again, yes. I like the actual behavior, but it's always interesting to see new ideas. https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/

@fuat2mb I agree. "This team of professional bible scholars interpreted it that this way, but *I* interpreted it this other way" makes me skeptical of whatever follows. The speaker is making a big claim.
I feel the same way when someone uses a politically based hermenutic approach. I think we should leave our bias's at the door as much as possible.

To help us raise more funds for our development efforts, we are launching a new line of merchandise for Mastodon including t-shirts, mugs, enamel pins, and stickers.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/new-merchandise/