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when you deploy your status page on the same infra
#heroku #uptime

made a single page to get an overview of different channels covering election news
https://ടിവി.com/election.html

PS: if the punycode domain fails to render
https://xn--lwc8b3ab.com/election.html

#Election2024 #kerala #india

KKR wins #ipl24 after a decade <3
#KorboLorboJeetbo

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The bookmobiles - Vintage photos of traveling libraries, 1910-1960

The bookmobile was a traveling library often used to provide books to villages and city suburbs that had no library buildings. It went from a simple horse-drawn cart in the 19th century to large customized vehicles that became part of American culture and reached its height of popularity in the mid-twentieth century. via @RareHPhotos

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/bookmobiles-traveling-libraries-1910s-1960s/

#books #publiclibrary

The Public library of Cincinnati’s first bookmobile, circa 1927.

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From 2015 to 2022, I spent hundreds of hours on Duolingo, translating articles, answering language questions on the forums, and helping to improve the smaller courses by reporting mistakes.

There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo: the course creators who wrote their courses, the volunteers who created grammar guides (some smaller languages had an entire second course in the forums), the wiki contributors, the native speakers who answered questions in the sentence discussions.

All of their work made Duolingo the powerhouse it is today. Duo was built by a community who believed in its original mission: language learning should be free and accessible.

Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company. And now that work is being fed into their AI as training data.

Well, I've learned the true lesson of Duolingo: never give a corporation your labour for free. Don't ever trust them, no matter what they say. Eventually greed will consume any good intentions.

#duolingo #languagelearning #enshittification #capitalism

Much like the peer pressure badge on SO #streakpressure #duolingo #pixelpushing

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are people already familiar with this story about hard-boiled eggs or did i just stumble upon an absolute gem of a cautionary tale about algorithmic perfection? (annals of the history of computing, january 1983, volume 5, issue 1)

Screenshot from a journal article titled "Algorithmic Perfection" about trying to design the perfect algorithm for hard-boiling eggs, only to discover the algorithm was failing because the eggs were hard-boiled from the start.

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If the public library was invented today, publishers would never allow it to happen. Reading books for free? Sacrilege! They are fighting the lending of e-books tooth and nail, but it is the only way that libraries can fully meet their patrons' needs in the 21st century: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/book-publishers-with-surging-profits-struggle-to-prove-internet-archive-hurt-sales/

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🎉 We're growing! Our global #FDroid community is pleased to announce that we now have an official governance plan and a brand-new volunteer Board of Directors. We're excited to work with them to keep improving the leading all #FOSS mobile app catalogue!

https://f-droid.org/en/2023/03/20/f-droid-board.html

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Android

IndiaFoss 2.0 #opensource