Researchers from Zayed National Museum have discovered text concealed beneath a layer of gold leaf on a page of the Blue Qur’an - one of the world’s most well-known Qur’an manuscripts.
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#islam #religion #IslamicArt
@histodons @historikerinnen @medievodons @dh #MiddleEast #geschichte #histodons #MedievalStudies #medievalists #MiddleAges #Mittelalter #ReligiousStudies #paleography
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I've started looking for a job again. Not too strenuously, just seeing what's out there for a C++ and Fortran programmer with an engineering/physics emphasis who wants/needs something at least close to full remote.
Probably not a lot!
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@ifixcoinops This may be a good time to mention my new Sony TV came with two remotes, and I wish I was kidding. There’s the traditional TV remote, and the “smart” one. Where, and I kid you not, some buttons work via Bluetooth, others via IR.
I’ve never seen such a great example of what results from stitching two products together in something barely sellable. Sony is a shadow of what it used to be. Just like every other electronics brand.
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Mouin Rabbani on What Really Happened in Amsterdam Between Israeli Soccer Fans & Local Residents
Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytDutch Palestinian analyst Mouin Rabbani discusses the violence that broke out last week between v...YouTube
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Dear Apple, when the device is localised (see that S there?) into British English, "chips" does NOT go under "confectionary" in the shopping list.
Goddam fuckmuppet seppo nonsense.
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This is Porterbrook's protoype hydrogen train. It's kind of nice but to me it begs the question: why not just electrify the lines in the conventional way? Producing and transporting the hydrogen for these things is surely going to consume many times more energy than conventional electric traction.
The Class 799 Hydrogen Train
Let's go for a ride on the Hydrogen Powered Train! This is an old 'Thameslink' train now converted by Porterbrook to be the Class 799 "Hydroflex" unit. I ...YouTube
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I have nobody to shout this at right now but it seems like a shame for it to go unrecorded. So I offer this as a free piece of clichéd rage to anyone with occasion to use it.
Breathe my incinerated dick dust!
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Dinner With the Russians | Cockburn's
The second in a series of groundbreaking advertisements for Cockburn's Special reserve.YouTube
Day made less good by the (male) cleaner who shouted at me in the ladies’ at St Pancras. “This is… woman!” he shouted. I calmly replied “indeed, and so am I” and shut the door of the cubicle. Gave him a cheery wave in his cleaning cupboard on my way out.
But.
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Americans: if you're thinking of leaving, beware before considering an asylum claim.
"Safe" countries have treaties recognising each other as safe, and do not recognise asylum claims from each other as valid. So if you as an American try to claim asylum there, at the moment you will be automatically rejected.
Instead, travel on a tourist visa. If things get bad for US trans people, this may eventually change.
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Unfortunately, our university is discontinuing personal web pages for academics for incomprehensible reasons.
Fortunately, our department was allowed to set redirects to external web pages, so that the existing links still work.
My web page is now at gihub, accessible from the original links.
Honestly I remember one university who's main IT help desk was comically incompetent, and incredibly user hostile. For example, you could customize parts of your user experience on lab computers, but the settings would never stay.
The CS department handled their own IT at the time, and it was a _much_ more tolerable situation.
I've yet to understand why IT departments are typically so incredibly user-hostile, like they forget what purpose they actually serve.
> I used to specialise in manufacturing specific needs. In fact, I still do.
Nice quote. That's certainly true of myself as well, to greater or lesser extent depending on whatever tends to capture my attention at that moment in time.
That's probably also why I found it pretty easy to get a bit crosswise with IT departments of all stripes.
this is neat
qcp: QUIC remote file copy for long distance high-bandwidth lossy links
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This is a brilliant take by Gianmarco Soresi on the absurdity of comparing any criticism of #Israel to antisemitism
The Redefining of Antisemitism | Gianmarco Soresi | Stand Up Comedy
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Today's law study amusement. "Even taking into account that the bird had travelled from Leicester in a box on British Rail its condition was rough"
(Partridge v Crittenden [1968] 1 WLR 1204)
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Janey Godley has died.She's been going to do so sometime soon for a while now, and very soon indeed for the last couple of weeks, and now she's gone.
She was always a proper ally, and the world is poorer for her absence.
Long may she be remembered and celebrated.
Trump is still a cunt.
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So I know it’s all very funny, ha ha, but here’s why the orcas don’t go after the boats of the ultra rich.
Two photos. One a multi million euro luxury yacht. Notice it has two props. They steer by vectoring the thrust. There is no rudder.
The other, my boat. It costs what a new car costs (like if you were buying a low end Tesla. Expensive, but not stupid money). It has a rudder because it’s a sailboat. It can’t rely on thrust being present.
No rudder - no orca attack. People who can afford sailboats, which the orcas are attacking, cannot afford luxury motor yachts, which they aren’t.
A sailboat is like a mouldy caravan, but floating, and slower.
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On my quasi-blog: "Separation of concerns in a bug tracker"
A thought about bug trackers I've used, how they make some kinds of database query difficult, and how one might be designed more sensibly.
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@luis_in_brief @brainwane I've been known to get really angry at bulk or automated closing of old bugs, for purely sociological reasons. No matter how stale the bugs are, closing them without going through them by hand and attempting to reproduce each and writing a personal note for each is disrespectful of the original reporters' time and effort.
But I don't think this argument would carry over to a tracker with Simon's facts/plans split, as long as automated sweeping only applied to the plans side. "We don't have the capacity even to investigate whether this is still relevant, so we're not going to make plans to do anything about it" is not what a reporter wants to hear, but it's honest and doesn't disrespect anyone.
@zwol @luis_in_brief @brainwane The OldFoo bugs need not pollute a search for still-relevant bugs, because you probably already wanted to search for bugs in a specific component in any case.
But probably someone will still _want_ to check the OldFoo bugs to see if they're fixed in NewFoo. And if the dev team doesn't have time by 2 orders of magnitude, they'll still have to ask the users to do it, one way or another.
So probably the JWZs of this world would still have been annoyed about it!
Oh no! They got beer and ketchup all over their legally protected beliefs!
Patrons douse TERFS in drinks & ketchup for staging an anti-trans protest at barlgbtqnation.com/2024/10/patron…
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Day 2 in Oxford for medical trial fun and games. Today was the infusion, 50% chance of ketamine vs placebo. After doing a variety of questionnaires and having blood and urine samples taken it was time to be infused. It was fairly relaxing. Maybe a bit boring. I idly let my mind wander. I think I either didn’t get ketamine or I did and it had nearly no effect on me. I felt maybe slightly lightheaded at one point, and now feel a bit weird, but nothing especially noteworthy.
After that there were more questionnaires and computer tasks. Rather cruelly one of these asked me to remember things from another task, which they hadn’t warned me about. Testing memory when you’ve not been asked to remember stuff is a valuable thing to do.
Tomorrow afternoon is an MRI session where I remember various things while in the machine and they look at what bits of my head light up.
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Horrifying/Fascinating thought:
Antivirus Vendors are already one of the richest sources of aggressive malware.
What if the false dichotomy was simply scrapped?
“Improve your corporate security with Phageware!”
“Self deploying”
“Eradicates all other malware undetectably”
“Attacks and cryptographically detains hostile actors on your network”
“Make the C&C seat YOUR seat for a change!”
DISCLAIMER: This is a fucking awful idea and under no circumstances should it be allowed to happen (as if we had any say in it)
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Bluesky now owned by crypto-grifters.
My "we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience through tokens, crypto trading or NFTs" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Thanks @Sarah Brown. As I wrote that bit about sex organ related disease, I was thinking about who, other than the individual, would be rightly concerned about our sex organs. So my point is, I know details about my sex organs, my wife Wendy knows and has legitimate interest and during a doctor's visit, medical professionals of my choosing may concern and interest. But a co-worker? Ah, no! A fellow congregate at church? Ah, again, no. Some random poster on Reddit? Most certainly not.
"if you tried to find my prostate in the traditional manner, you’d discover that my vagina is in the way" 😀 You are so open! Us cis gender folks can learn so much by just listening to members of the trans community.
Thanks for the trust comment. That makes sense. The relationships you have with wider cis gender world would involve levels of trust you and a cis gender friend reach. However, in the wider world, discrimination
... show moreThanks @Sarah Brown. As I wrote that bit about sex organ related disease, I was thinking about who, other than the individual, would be rightly concerned about our sex organs. So my point is, I know details about my sex organs, my wife Wendy knows and has legitimate interest and during a doctor's visit, medical professionals of my choosing may concern and interest. But a co-worker? Ah, no! A fellow congregate at church? Ah, again, no. Some random poster on Reddit? Most certainly not.
"if you tried to find my prostate in the traditional manner, you’d discover that my vagina is in the way" 😀 You are so open! Us cis gender folks can learn so much by just listening to members of the trans community.
Thanks for the trust comment. That makes sense. The relationships you have with wider cis gender world would involve levels of trust you and a cis gender friend reach. However, in the wider world, discrimination should be unlawful wherein an anti-trans individuals or groups are prevented from bringing harm. That so many Americans have recently decided to throw trans and other minority under the bus, is awful.
I'd only ask folks outside of the USA to appreciate many of us here are deeply concerned about the road ahead and are looking for ways to help shield minorities from harm.
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in reply to Alanna • • •@Alanna yeah. There’s a bit of guesswork because our breasts tend to be younger, and lots of us don’t take progesterone. They don’t know enough.
I had my first mammogram in Portugal at 49, but I never told them I’m trans.
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in reply to Ailbhe • • •@Ailbhe @John_Loader first line treatment for prostate cancer is the drugs that the media insists on calling “puberty blockers” (yes, exact same ones).
And since we already take blockers, or are castrated … well.
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