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The goal of those documents is to provide an implementation path for adding fediverse capabilities to Gitlab.

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Python practitioners can now marry scripts and rich visualizations with the widespread accessibility of Excel, enabling an uninterrupted workflow and making your work easier to share with colleagues who primarily use Excel.

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My RSS reader is a place of joy, never of stress. I’ve tried to boil down the principles that makes it so…

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…we want to help journalists share data with each other and with the public without needing to configure and run Datasette on their own hosting provider.

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This document updates some OSPF terminology to be in line with inclusive language used in the industry. The IETF has designated “Guidance for NIST Staff on Using Inclusive Language in Documentary Standards” by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for its inclusive language guidelines. It is intended that all future OSPF documents use this revised terminology even when they reference the RFCs updated by this document.

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There is much to say about the summer of Taylor that is pertinent to technology and the Internet: start with the desire for communal in-person experiences driven not only by the pandemic, but also the general fracturing of culture inherent in a media landscape where personalized content delivered directly to your personal device is the norm.

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Reading is a place. The more you skip, the more it becomes browsing. And browsing is not a place. You want to be in the place.

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“I don’t feel any satisfaction,” Clinton responded. “I feel great, just great profound sadness that we have a former president who has been indicted for so many charges that went right to the heart of whether or not our democracy would survive.”

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This tool is a collection of macros that work with Microsoft Word to export Word comments into a pre-formatted Excel spreadsheet, which is used to disposition comments during a document review and serves as an official record of the disposition of each comment.

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It is an invitation to do your own experiments and explorations and learn about the protocol in this way. And once you have some practical experience with the protocol, trying to read the Spec is probably not as daunting anymore.

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A curated list of modern Generative Artificial Intelligence projects and services.

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The findings paint a picture of youth who are proud to be queer, but still face discrimination and live in fear.

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It doesn’t always take an expert to spot when something is off, but it usually takes an expert to fix it. I think about this as descriptive (what’s wrong) vs. prescriptive (how to fix it).

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Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚catching up my reading list. Finished this a while ago. Everything everyone said it was.

The only code you should ever build yourself is that which adds to your core value proposition.

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Therefore, judicial decisions finding copyright infringement based on the nonconsensual creation of datasets might encourage companies to collect online data more carefully. While this might (briefly) impede technological progress, it would be an important tool in the fight against data colonialism.

From Data Colonialism and Data Sets - Harvard Law Review

My purpose in gathering this informal, conversational feedback is to bring voices into the “how should Mastodon be” conversation that don’t otherwise get much attention—which I do because I hope it will help designers and developers and community leaders who genuinely want Mastodon to work for more kinds of people refine their understanding of the problem space.

From Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t - Erin Kissane’s small internet website, Via

The AI Act holds promise to set a global precedent in regulating AI to address its risks while encouraging innovation. By supporting the blossoming open ecosystem approach to AI, the regulation has an important opportunity to further this goal through increased transparency and collaboration between stakeholders. Unfortunately, current proposals threaten to create impractical barriers to and disadvantages for contributors to this open ecosystem.

From Supporting Open Source and Open Science in the EU AI Act