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Arthur@literature.cafeto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•SSFA instance (Science-Fiction Fantasy Alliance) seems downEnglish
8·2 年前We’re around with no plans to shut down!
Arthur@literature.cafeto
Technology@lemmy.world•Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a weekEnglish
171·2 年前Teenage Engineering is a hardware design firm that Nothing contracts with for hardware design. They aren’t a division of Nothing and they don’t work on just earbuds.
Arthur@literature.cafeto
Technology@lemmy.world•NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to EarthEnglish
14·2 年前You might be interested in the documentary “It’s Quieter in the Twilight” about the engineers who keep the Voyagers alive.
Arthur@literature.cafeto
Technology@lemmy.ml•Google Podcasts is gone — and so is my faith in Google
20·2 年前Google launched “Google Wallet” in 2011. Killed it in 2015 for “Android Pay”. Android Pay was killed for Google Pay. Then Google Pay was deprecated for the version of Google Wallet that you currently use.
What is that music app?
Arthur@literature.cafeOPto
Banned Book Club@literature.cafe•Police Bodycam Shows Sheriff Hunting for 'Obscene' Books at Library
17·2 年前This was my favorite quote from the article.
But neither of those books was actually checked out from the Hayden Library on his trip. One of the books was checked out from another library, and another was stolen off the shelves. Norris refused to return the books at first, and Alexa Eccles, the executive director of the Community Library Network, told me in a phone call that, when Norris eventually returned them, the barcodes had been cut out of the book covers, and the library has not been able to return them to circulation or get new copies.
Arthur@literature.cafeto
Technology@lemmy.world•Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper's 'iMessage to Android' solutionEnglish
162·2 年前Beeper Mini registered your phone number with Apple and connected directly to the iMessage servers. That version was killed after three days of usage. The mac mini farm still works but that’s just through an apple ID email address.
Arthur@literature.cafeto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If so-called AI is basically just Large Language Models, how come predictive text on my phone is bollock-useless?
131·2 年前iOS 17 uses a small gpt-2 based model for predictive text.
Arthur@literature.cafeOPto
Banned Book Club@literature.cafe•A Message from Scholastic on U.S. Book Fairs
21·3 年前Did you read the article further than the title? It’s just a bunch of quotes from people going through the new process. The title is egregious but the content is helpful in understanding why teachers/school admin are frustrated.
Arthur@literature.cafeOPto
Banned Book Club@literature.cafe•A Message from Scholastic on U.S. Book Fairs
3·3 年前It’s an option in all states to receive books that some legislators have declared illegal in their states.
EDIT: I think there’s a misunderstanding between us here. The only issue I’m picking here is that no matter if they made the right choice or not, they did cave/give into the hardliners. Will this choice help book fairs continue and scholastic to make money, definitely. Did they cave though, also I think so.
Arthur@literature.cafeOPto
Banned Book Club@literature.cafe•A Message from Scholastic on U.S. Book Fairs
31·3 年前This situation is just so sad.
Arthur@literature.cafeOPto
Banned Book Club@literature.cafe•A Message from Scholastic on U.S. Book Fairs
4·3 年前They could have at least made this “controversial” collection of books opt-out instead of opt-in.
Arthur@literature.cafeOPto
Banned Book Club@literature.cafe•A Message from Scholastic on U.S. Book Fairs
3·3 年前Yes. It’s opt-in to receive the books tagged as controversial by them.
Arthur@literature.cafeto
Technology@lemmy.world•About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid offEnglish
5·3 年前The layoffs are related to the sale of Bandcamp to Songtradr.
https://variety.com/2023/music/news/bandcamps-layoffs-songtradr-1235758123/
Arthur@literature.cafeOPto
Banned Book Club@literature.cafe•A Message from Scholastic on U.S. Book Fairs
4·3 年前If the choices are to continue to sell these books at book fairs and to not sell them and they are now allowing schools to not sell them, it seems like they caved, correct?











You want to enact a poll tax??? Just kidding just kidding, I’m suffering from all the times I made this argument and a right wing individual came back with that.