120+ Icons and Counting

Back in 2019, we undertook a radical overhaul of how GNOME app icons work. The old Tango-era style required drawing up to seven separate sizes per icon and a truckload of detail. A task so demanding that only a handful of people could do it. The "new" style is geometric, colorful, but mainly _achievable_. Redesigning the system was just the first step. We needed to actually get better icons into…

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San Diego-Based Social Media Activist Draws National Attention With ICE Patrols, Viral Encounters, And Growing Controversy

A San Diego-based social media activist who built his following documenting protests is now at the center of a rapidly intensifying debate over immigration enforcement, public safety, and the evolving role of independent digital activists.

Arturo Gonzalez, a 24-year-old content creator with a growing online audience - including 120k followers on Instagram, 41k on Facebook, and more than 500k on…

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Bringing it all back home - Part 3

In my first post on this subject I wrote about my intention to make this website the hub of my online interactions.I talked about the vision for the web that many of us had in the late 90s and early 00s, that the web would be a federation of personal websites that we would use to share ideas and communicate. Then came the walled gardens with their corporate management to squash that idea. But…

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Generalizability vs. Transportability in Trials

ESMD:

PRONOUNCEMENTS ABOUT THE NEED FOR “GENERALISABILITY” OF RANDOMISED CONTROL TRIAL RESULTS ARE HUMBUG

Interesting. Hard to say if he fully understood the role of randomization in RCTs (see recent related three part series on why the EBM movement missed this from its inception: part 1, part 2, part 3) but I would bet he did not. The clinical scenarios here include examples of patients that…

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The 6.19 kernel has been released

Linus has released the 6.19 kernel. ""No big surprises anywhere last week, so 6.19 is out as expected - just as the US prepares to come to a complete standstill later today watching the latest batch of televised commercials.""

The most significant changes in 6.19 include initial support for Intel's linear address-space separation feature, support for Arm Memory system resource Partitioning And…

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