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  • August 7, 2023 1:31pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    Mark my word, this will be reversed this winter and business will have no choice but understand that WFH is here to stay, WFO makes no sense anyway.

    Zoom asks staff to return to office

    ground.news/article/z…

  • August 7, 2023 12:29pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    Get ready, because this is not over : The Virus is Learning New Tricks and We Humans Keep Falling Behind : The new SARS-CoV-2 variant (EG.5.1), how we are about to FLip, and where are the new Covid boosters? Read the full article here

  • August 6, 2023 11:16pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    Repeat after me : Climate Chaos or Climate Disruption not Climate Change.

    It’s not just warmer or colder, it’s chaotic extremes & peeks that do not make sense and will impact the entire ecosystem.

    I’ve never been so cold in August in 🇧🇪 in 20 years.

  • August 6, 2023 10:20pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    Been eating #Python code for breakfast, lunch and dinner for a month… I’ve learned a lot but there are so much more to learn and sometimes I lose time on things that are so ridiculous.. Like I lost 2h on a XML tag that was URL in my code when it should have been “url” (small letters) 😜

  • August 6, 2023 3:16pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    Just take it, you won’t regret it!

    Sync for #Lemmy play.google.com/store/app…

  • August 1, 2023 11:23pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Politics

    Microposts

    “They need us. We don’t need them:” The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate

    www.salon.com/2023/08/0…

  • August 1, 2023 5:41pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Fediverse

    Microposts

    Currently reading this interesting take : The Fediverse has a Mental Health Problem by @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

    medium.com/@thisismi…

  • August 1, 2023 5:07pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    AI

    Microposts

    I’m using OpenAI Whisper (locally, without access to cloud) to transcribe 3h of French audio recording into text.

    I’m actually really impressed. It’s not fast but it’s doing the job.

    I had to amplify the audio signal +3db to increase the amplitude but other than that it’s amazing.

    Very precise.

  • July 31, 2023 5:09pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Fediverse

    Microposts

    Wow #BBC joining the #fediverse

    social.bbc/about

  • July 31, 2023 12:46am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    AI

    Microposts

    Holy Crap, that’s so cool! #AI #Khoj

    Yes Locally!

    docs.khoj.dev

  • July 30, 2023 2:45pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    News

    Microposts

    The #War Won’t End Until #Putin Loses Offering the #Russian president a face-saving compromise will only enable future #aggression.

    archive.is/202208011…

  • July 30, 2023 1:12pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    We have to stop it!

    Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification

    #googlebeingevil

    vivaldi.com/blog/goog…

  • July 29, 2023 4:53pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Podcasts

    Microposts

    Chatter on Science Fiction and International Relations on the #Lawfare podcast, have a great weekend everyone!

    #starwars #startrek #battlestargalactica #GOT #apocalypse

    podverse.fm/episode/y…

  • July 29, 2023 4:30pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    News

    Microposts

    Seriously? Damn it, we’re not out of the wood, I wouldn’t totally rule out the US becoming a religious theocracy.

    Do you believe in angels? About 7 in 10 U.S. adults do

    ground.news/article/d…

  • July 29, 2023 2:26pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Fediverse

    Microposts

    Another interesting #mastodon tool

    Combine Remote And Local Timelines

    combine.social

  • July 29, 2023 2:23pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Coding

    Microposts

    Interesting tool for devs

    Explore the #ActivityPub protocol interactively

    ActivityPub.Academy is a learning resource for ActivityPub. The protocol is brought to life by showing Activities sent between different instances in real time!

    activitypub.academy

  • July 29, 2023 4:51am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    Interesting…#activitypub

    Vocata/vocata: Vocabulary-Agnostic Transport Agent - #vocata

    codeberg.org/Vocata/vo…

  • New research suggests social media doesn’t fuel political polarization. Oh really?

    July 27, 2023 9:08pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    News

    Longform

    This is interesting, but it doesn’t represent the reality for one simple reason : 3 months in social media is a snapshot in a much more complicated issue. Second, the elephant in the room is the fact most of the societal harm done by big tech platforms (and their ever changing algorithms) has been done progressively in the last 15 years. The drill has been done already. A lost of the most impacted people are not even using Facebook daily anymore. Continue reading →

  • July 27, 2023 11:32am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Videos

    Microposts

    Amazing #drone view of the Litli-Hrútur #Volcano eruption youtu.be/LLHl6ZfYk…

    Yeah that Drone suicide itself!

  • So what makes a "good" guru? #TibetanBuddhism

    July 26, 2023 1:11pm
    Reading Time: 2 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tibetan Buddhism

    Longform

    Context : someone in a survivors support group was asking this question and this was my reply, I’m archiving it on my blog in the hope people stop looking for guru’s, stop losing their discernment in their spiritual journey. What makes a good History teacher? What makes a good social science teacher? Why should we abandon the requirements and expectations we expect and demand from mentors, teachers and give the guru so much power over ourselves, over our lives, over what defines the quest for a spiritual journey? Continue reading →

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