maandag 25 november, 2024

Working with Mastodon

Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife As the popularity of Mastodon continues to increase, with users recently topping 10 million, interest in customizing and working with the platform is also growing.  This multi-part series from Jon Udell takes a deep dive into how to work with Mastodon and provides tips and...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife O’Reilly’s latest learning platform report takes a detailed look at what the platform’s 2.8 million users are working on and learning about day-to-day. This information, Mike Loukides says, provides useful insight into key technology topics and trends for 2023 and beyond.  For example, he says,...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife There’s still time to apply for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2023; the application period is open until April 4th (18:00 UTC). This year’s program, which is open to students and open source beginners 18 years and older offers: Increased flexibility in project lengths (10-22 weeks,...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Khan Academy, a popular student learning platform, has introduced Khanmigo, an application of GPT-4 that will be integrated into lessons and videos, reports John Fensterwald. Sal Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy, says that Khanmigo will act as a virtual tutor, “asking questions and...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife An MIT research team has developed a low-cost, open source mobile pollution detector to help people to more easily measure air quality, reports Peter Dizikes.  The Flatburn device can be made by 3D printing or by ordering inexpensive parts, and the researchers provide complete instructions...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife The GNOME Project has announced the general availability of the GNOME 44 desktop environment, reports Marius Nestor, which brings “several new features and lots of improvements.” GNOME 44 (known as Kuala Lumpur) “introduces a GTK4 port of the Epiphany web browser, a file chooser grid...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife It’s not too late to address climate change. In fact, “multiple, feasible and effective options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to human-caused climate change” are available now, says the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. But, accelerated action in this...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife The PyTorch Foundation has announced the general availability of PyTorch 2.0, reports Sean Michael Kerner. “Performance is a primary focus for PyTorch 2.0 and one that developers have not been shy to promote. In fact, one of the key new features is Accelerated Transformers, formerly...
Nieuw kantoor voorziet Europese markten van kwaliteitsdienstverlening en vergroot de mogelijkheden binnen de internationale hardware-waardeketen ROTTERDAM, 16 maart 2023 – Technology Trading Partners (TTP) heeft een nieuwe vestiging in Rotterdam geopend om de dienstverlening en handel rond refurbished hardware tussen Europa en de VS te faciliteren. De locatie bij de...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife GitHub has formed an open source repository “to help organizations build up their own Open Source Program Office (OSPO).”  The github-ospo repository offers “a collection of tools, processes, and best practices that our own OSPO team uses to help us manage our open source initiatives,...