GPU synchronization in Godot 4.3 is getting a major upgrade
Link: godotengine.org/article/render…
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Say goodbye to placing barriers, hello to the new acyclic graphGodot Engine
Venezuela produced 841,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) during January 2024, the Venezuelan Ministry of Petroleum informed the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). According to the…Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
Air Canada ordered to pay customer who was misled by airline's chatbot
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Company claimed its chatbot ‘was responsible for its own actions’ when giving wrong information about bereavement fareLeyland Cecco (The Guardian)
Spice Girls: Girl Power! | Live In Istanbul
Girl Power: Die Spice Girls, das einst größte britische Pop-Phänomen seit der Beatlemania, eroberten 1996 die Welt im Sturm mit ihrer ersten Single "Wannabe", die in über 30 Ländern die Charts anführte und eine Erfolgswelle auslöste, die keine andere…
Judge Dame Victoria Sharp’s family have attained high-level positions in the British establishment after being appointed by Conservative ministers.MARK CURTIS (Declassified Media ltd)
UI = f(statesⁿ)
Link: daverupert.com/2024/02/ui-stat…
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“UI is a function of state” is a pretty popular saying in the front-end world. In context (pun intended), that’s typically referring to application or component state.Dave Rupert
Thousands of students and teachers, with the support of the class unions demonstrated again on Thursday February 15, escalating their almost 2 months of struggle against the government’s attempts to impose privatization of education and Private Unive…Ρουδάμα Σιούλα (Πανεργατικό Αγωνιστικό Μέτωπο (Π.Α.ΜΕ.))
Pure Bash Web Server
Link: github.com/dzove855/Bash-web-s…
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A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc... - GitHub - dzove855/Bash-web-server: A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc...GitHub
The controversial "fact-checking" censorship complex could get a rebrand if researchers get their way.Didi Rankovic (Reclaim the Net)
Occupied Jerusalem, SANA- Following are the latest developments of Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” launched by the Palestinian resistance last October in response to the Israeli attacks: -Palestinian Health Ministry: Generators have stopped and the power …Syrian Arab News Agency
The buildings and the people in them are burning while the soil, sea, air, and groundwater are being poisoned in Gaza. Joshua Frank’s article, Making Gaza Unlivable ought to be read by everyone. Frank is the managing editor of CounterPunch.Pat Elder (CovertAction Magazine)
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First, bit by bit, and now, chunk by chunk, the cocoon of the clueless is being dismantled. The scales are beginning to fall from the eyes, and the minds, of the people of the trans-Atlantic world.Dennis Speed (EIR News)
The Palestinian factions called on Arab and Muslim governments to take urgent action and exert political pressure at the international level to halt the Israeli aggression and confront displacement plans.The Palestinian Information Center
Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game
Link: frenchie14.itch.io/driftmania
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Medicins Sans Frontiers reports “an unknown number of dead and wounded” following Israel’s attack on Nasser Hospital. UNRWA says 84% of Gaza health facilities have been impacted by Israeli attacks, and 70% of civilian infrastructure has been damaged.Anna Lekas Miller (Mondoweiss)
Putin urged to always remember soldiers who fought heroically in Afghanistan Rossa Primavera News from RussiaAvis Krane (Rossa Primavera International News)
Plastic industry knew recycling was a farce for decades
Link: euronews.com/green/2024/02/16/…
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Plastic producers should ‘pay for the damage they’ve caused’ after decades of deception, the report's authors say.Angela Symons (Euronews.com)
Jews like to say “Never again” referring to the Holocaust, but it is happening once again, and the film makes us all come to face…Strategic Culture Foundation
Even the US business magazine Forbes expressed surprise at the reimposition of US sanctions on Venezuela’s gold sales and its threat to do the same with oil.Dissident Voice | a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice
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Just like the caged-up Palestinians BY PHILIP GIRALDI • UNZ REVIEW • FEBRUARY 15, 2024 Over the past four months I have carried out my daily morning scan of the major online news websites increasin…Aletho News
The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl
Link: mashable.com/article/x-twitter…
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These numbers are legitimately shocking.Matt Binder (Mashable)
Showmax has displaced Netflix in Africa
Link: restofworld.org/2024/showmax-s…
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Showmax cut its subscription price by nearly 50% in 2024. It partners with Comcast and HBO, and recently displaced Netflix as Africa’s biggest streaming platform.David I. Adeleke (Rest of World)
Paying people to work on open source is good
Link: jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/payin…
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If you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.jacobian.org
In this episode of Tim Kirby Russia, I was asked to shed light on the invisible hand behind the border crisis now threatening to spark a Civil War in America 160 years after the first attempt to break the USA up for the first time failed.Matthew Ehret (Matt Ehret's Insights)
BEIJING, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- An article by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of Cenglish.people.com.cn
Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero said on Tuesday that his country and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are working to boost mutual relations in renewable energies, agriculture, tourism and biotechnology.Ahora
If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly
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It is interesting how the colonizers and the colonized continue to build relations and solidarity around the same old principles.admin (Politics For The People)
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Israel took advantage of 123 million TV viewers -- the most since the 1969 Moon landing -- to ply its propaganda during Sunday's U.S. football championship match, writes Alan MacLeod.consortiumnews.com
Antony Lerman went from living on a kibbutz in Israel and serving with the IDF to becoming a formidable critic of the Zionist movement. He has unique insight...YouTube
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A massive police presence surrounded pro-Palestine activists protesting against the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Berlin. Protesters demanded accountability and justice for Israel’s crime...Odysee
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Popular Git config options
Link: jvns.ca/blog/2024/02/16/popula…
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Training LLMs to generate text with citations via fine-grained rewards
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2402.04315
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While recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have proven useful in answering user queries, they are prone to hallucination, and their responses often lack credibility due to missing references to reliable sources.arXiv.org
Hezbollah says the regional resistance axis is resolved to liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation and aggression no matter the cost.PressTV
WASHINGTON February 16. 2024 (Saba) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Washington receiving Hamas' response regarding the detained prisoner deal, saying there were some very difficult issues to resolve.www.saba.ye
Ecuador, Hotspot der Artenvielfalt | Von den Hochanden zu den Galápagosinseln
Ecuador gehört zu den artenreichsten Ländern der Erde: Vom Amazonas-Regenwald auf der Ostseite der Anden hinauf zu den über 5.
We kick off this year focusing on press freedoms. We welcome back to the program independent journalist Kevin Gosztola, author of Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange.…Kate Horgan (Project Censored)
Mickey’s guests for the hour are philosophers Leonard Grob and John K. Roth, coauthors of the 2023 book, Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy. They outline what is…Kate Horgan (Project Censored)
Addis Ababa, February 15, 2024 (SPS)- The Member of the National Secretariat and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr.Sahara Press Service (SPS)
Jerusalem /PNN/The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said today that 84% of health fenglish.pnn.ps
The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023)
Link: emacsconf.org/2023/talks/emacs…
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Trading trust
Link: seths.blog/2024/02/trading-tru…
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The Brookings Institution did a fascinating survey series over the last five years. I have two takeways from this: The first is that focused and persistent propaganda is able to shift public opinio…Seth's Blog
News - Yemen: The spokesman for Ansarullah - head of the National Delegation, Mohammed Abdulsalam, affirmed that the decision to classify Ansarullah asenglish.almasirah.net.ye
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No one cares about open-source, until
Link: blog.cryptpad.org/2024/02/15/n…
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If you follow privacy news, you have probably heard that Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted productivity suite, announced that it has been acquired by Notion. We could not resist chiming in since Skiff was compared with CryptPad in the past.blog.cryptpad.org
Why is Rep. Rashida Tlaib echoing Israel's lies about 7 October mass rape?The Electronic Intifada
The lead U.S. prosecutor in the case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange raised the idea that the U.S. may argue Assange has no First Amendment rights.Kevin Gosztola (The Dissenter)
Händel: Deutsche Arien | Festival für geistliche Musik in Madrid
Das internationale Festival für geistliche Musik – FIAS – in Madrid präsentiert jedes Jahr eine Vielzahl von Werken und Aufführungen mit bekannten Namen sowie Nachwuchskünstlerinnen und -künstlern im Rahmen eines internationalen Programms, das an ver…
HODEIDA, Feb. 16 (YPA) – The US-British aggression coalition warplanes launched on Friday a new attack on Hodeida province, western Yemen.Security sources in the province reported that US-British coalition fighters conducted two airstrikes on Al-Jabaعماد (Yemen Press Agency)
“Pro-Israel forces currently have control of NHS, Foreign Office, Home Office and Ministry of Defence data. Your data” Click Here To Get Your FREE Newsletter No Advertising – No Government Grants –…Information Clearing House.info
All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name (only available in desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here.Global Research
LWM – Open LLM with 1M Tokens Context Window
Link: github.com/LargeWorldModel/LWM
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Contribute to LargeWorldModel/LWM development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Data structures as topological spaces (2002)
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Why we stopped building cut and cover
Link: worksinprogress.co/issue/why-w…
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We used to dig up roads to put trains underneath – cheaply. Ever-better tunnel boring machines have made the disruption this causes unnecessary.wip-admin (Works in Progress)
An infuriating, thuddingly predictable genre of article has emerged: the “Biden is really upset with Israel behind the scenes” story. By Jack Mirkinson The Washington Post published a rep…Counter Information
ARTE Journal (16/02/2024) | Kremlgegner Alexej Nawalny wohl tot / Selenskyj in Berlin und Paris
Der russische Oppositionspolitiker Alexej Nawalny ist laut Gefängnisangaben gestorben. Der 47-Jährige verbüßte eine jahrelange Haft in einer Strafkolonie.
Erlang/OTP 27.0 Release Candidate 1
Link: erlang.org/news/167
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Putins Gift (3/3) | Der Ukrainekrieg
Um Putins Strategie auf die Spur zu kommen, werden vier Vergiftungsfälle untersucht, die trotz der unterschiedlichen Methoden, Ziele und Machtverhältnisse ein merkwürdig kohärentes Gesamtbild ergeben.
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Westerners who don’t appreciate the extreme dysfunctionality of western civilization are like someone in an abusive marriage who hasn’t yet recognized that there’s a problem, or someone who had a violent and chaotic childhood who still thinks their h…Caitlin Johnstone (TheAltWorld)
Alahednews - Fastnews - “Israeli” army announces death of a new soldier, taking ground invasion toll to 233english.alahednews.com.lb
Late on February 15, Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at the northern Israeli settlement of Kiryat Shmona in response to...Anonymous669 (South Front)
Dear writers: Delete your Findaway Voices account NOW
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Such is the World. Some people, including me, believe that western leaders are an international criminal organization dominated by Satanists. Genuine card carryingMark S. McGrew (Pravda English)
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