Anything exciting going on in your field of work this year? Or breakthroughs in science, new technologies developed, things like that.
LennethAegis ( @LennethAegis@kbin.social ) 43•6 months agoThe first CRISPR gene editing treatment for sickle cell disease was approved. An amazing start to what I hope is a future of cures for various genetic diseases.
runner_g ( @runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English6•6 months agoThe FDA also approved the world’s first RSV vaccine. If you’ve noticed a lot of ad-campaigns for it this year, that’s why.
PeepinGoodArgs ( @PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ) 22•6 months agoHonestly, AI has been helping me a lot as a student and someone that just likes to research stuff. It’s development over the last year has been incredible.
jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) 21•6 months agoI have been really appreciating open source software this year. I always preferred FOSS over the alternatives (Firefox, Thunderbird, Libre Office etc) but I tried to use it for as much as I could this year, even professionally.
Haven’t bootet into my Windows partition with Adobe Cloud for months now, it’s almost exclusively Inkscpape, Scribus, Blender and Krita on Fedora and I love it! I’m also slowly, slowly getting into Godot which seems like another piece of amazing software.
Sure there are some (very) rough edges here and there and I will have fire up Illustrator or Unity (🤢) at some point when clients demand it but I’m pretty amazed at how well it’s going.
Welp, sending this is totally gonna jinx it but whatevs 😘
HouseWolf ( @HouseWolf@lemm.ee ) English6•6 months ago2023 was my personal ‘year of the Linux desktop’ I barely knew anything about FOSS up until 2018 maybe?, And the only reason I used Firefox was because I had been using it since 2010 and didn’t wanna change.
Now I’m EXTREMELY grateful for FOSS software and use it over non-free alternatives any chance I get.
Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 1•6 months agoThe other day I was trying to get an empty vr project to run in unity. After half a day I just gave up. There’s just so many options and packages and license agreements. I’m gonna switch to Godot and Steam index. Even if it’s a lot of work I know I can share it with others.
jaamulberry ( @Jaamulberry@beehaw.org ) 18•6 months agoMaybe not a breakthrough compared to some of the other comments but home assistant got local voice control this year. For the price of a raspberry pi and a 13 dollar microphone you can have a completely local home automation system controlled by your voice. You can even hook it up to a LLM like chat gpt if you want via a different phrase to do some fun party tricks
TotallyHuman ( @TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca ) 6•6 months agoWe started deploying malaria vaccines!
CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@futurology.today ) English4•6 months agoA multi-material 3D inkjet printer. Most of the rest of science news too.
We have just set up a fund for poor countries effected by climate change.