The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 gives the US government the right to require the holders of patents on inventions created using taxpayer funds to license those patents to others. However, this right has never been utilized. There is interesting in starting to do this! https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/02/ftc-submits-comment-march-rights-promote-efforts-lower-drug-prices
So apparently the term "patch" in software development comes from punch cards.
"Small corrections to the programmed sequence could be done by patching over portions of the paper tape and re-punching the holes in that section."
Huge congrats to the #Bluesky team, getting to this point is not easy, for any project. Here's a quick update on their first day, along with community reactions and future plans.
Did you know the ⚽ game I'm working on has a free demo available?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1951410/WE_ARE_FOOTBALL_2024/
It also runs flawlessly on Linux! 🐧
Pardon my advertising, but I really want this to succeed, obviously.
#football #soccer #fifa #steam #steamdeck #gamedev #demo #linux #linuxgaming #gamingonlinux #sports #footballmanager
Chita Rivera made her TV acting debut in a creepy 1964 episode of THE OUTER LIMITS as a Mrs. Danvers-esque maid.
Martin Landau and Sally Kellerman co-star in "The Bellero Shield, a sort of sci-fi MACBETH directed by John Brahm (THE LODGER) and written by Joseph Stefano (PSYCHO).
Watch on Freevee.
I'm launching an email series called What's New in R. #rstats
Why am I doing this?
Previously, Twitter served as my primary resource for R updates. However, after Elon Musk's takeover, leading R users have migrated away, spreading across platforms like Mastodon, LinkedIn, YouTube, and more, making it challenging to track R news.
The inaugural issue releases tomorrow, you can sign up here: https://rfortherestofus.com/whatsnew
Microsoft just announced that they were breached by the SVR, the same Russian intelligence agency that broke into Solarwinds.
This is a big deal, and Microsoft owes all of us a much more detailed description of what happened.
🚨 I'm excited to release the 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 📦 for #RStats ! Convert R dataframes to beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, PDF, Quarto, Markdown, etc. Easy to learn; minimalist interface; concise syntax; ultra-customizable tables; and zero dependency. 🧵 https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
Now that the polar cold wave is descending upon the U.S., it is time to pull up this xkcd webcomic by Randall Munroe from Jan 2014 and show it to the climate change deniers who will soon be pointing to snowballs and braying "what global warming?"
Alamo Drafthouse will screen 150 films from 6 “landmark years of cinema” — 1974, '79, '84, '89, '94, '99.
The "largest and most comprehensive retrospective in the company’s history”
https://www.boxofficepro.com/alamo-drafthouse-is-going-back-in-time-this-year-with-alamo-time-capsules/ #FilmMastodon
@J12t@social.coop
@Damon@mozilla.social I think one way of answering that question is: we're trying to build a smarter, better, more inclusive Web where distinct pieces can interoperate together while respecting user consent when it comes to access and privacy.
We want to avoid annoying pitfalls, like MySpace and Facebook never being able to exchange messages, or Twitter blocking Instagram embeds in tweets. We want to make it easier for users to customize their experiences, maybe even manipulate how their tools look and feel directly in the browser. We want to give meaning and purpose to data ownership and portability, and tear down walled gardens in favor of empowering people to say and do whatever they want, in their own spaces.
Some of this is federation, in the sense that users can follow and interact with their favorite sites through their favorite apps. But the deeper, meatier stuff involves inducing change to the fabric of the web itself, as well as the scaffolds.
Economist. Antitrust policy; industrial organization; history of economics