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The War on Physical Media
Listen now (31 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - January 12, 2023 â Read more
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, A Matter of Honor https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/12/matter-honor.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
[47°09âČ16âłS, 126°43âČ12âłW] Automatic systems disengaged due to blizzard
A smarter, quieter Dependabot
Dependabot is getting a little smarterâand, a little quieterâby reducing bot-based noise from repositories based on your interaction with Dependabot. â Read more
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**RT by @mind_booster: MiniDebConf Lisbon 12 - 16 February 2023
#Debian #Linux #FOSS
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/01/msg00001.html**
MiniDebConf Lisbon 12 - 16 February 2023
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On my blog: Free Culture Book Club â Life Blood, chapters 1 â 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/31/life-blood-1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Tweets from 12/26 to 12/30 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/30/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
GitHub and the Ekoparty 2022 Capture the Flag
Learn about the design behind, and solutions to, several of GitHubâs CTF challenge for Ekopartyâs 2022 event! â Read more
** I read some books in 2022, and have some thoughts about computer science writing **
At the start of this year I set out to revive my long dead reading habit. After having kids it fell by the wayside. Iâve read 41 books so far this year. Mostly a mix of science fiction and nonfiction computer science books. Hereâs the complete list of everything Iâve read. Iâve got mixed feelings about keeping track and sharing cou ⊠â Read more
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Schizoid Man https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/29/schizoid-man.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
GitHubâs top 10 blog posts of 2022
As the year winds down, weâre highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHubâs engineers, product teams, and security researchers. â Read more
[47°09âČ37âłS, 126°43âČ12âłW] âwhite noiseâ
Bitwarden Unified
Bitwarden (my favorite and recommended password manager) is offering a ânew deployment optionâ. This new option combines all microservices into a single Docker container and doesnât require 11 different containers anymore. And it supports PostgreSQL and MariaDB in addition to MS SQL. â Read more
Achievement for today: I can finally correctly reply to Mastodon/Fediverse/ActivityPub posts. đ„ł â Read more
Achievement for today: I can finally correctly reply to Mastodon/Fediverse/ActivityPub posts. đ„ł â Read more
On my blog: Developer Journal, Boxing Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/26/boxing.html #programming #project #devjournal
Just setting up a quick Mastodon instance to test some compatibility is a pain. Using test accounts on public instances is also unreliable, because many instances are already overloaded and I donât want to create spam. So I got a new DigitalOcean account with a $200 starter credit⊠â Read more
On my blog: đ Looking Back on 2022 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/25/review-2022.html #retrospective #newyear
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club â Quantum Flux https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/24/quantum-flux.html #freeculture #bookclub
[47°09âČ12âłS, 126°43âČ38âłW] Wind speed: N/A â Cannot comunicate
On my blog: Tweets from 12/19 to 12/23 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/23/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Whatâs with all the ducks?
What in the world do rubber ducks have to do with programming? And why were they everywhere at GitHub Universe? A lot of you asked, so Iâm here to help explain. â Read more
A Modest Robot Levy Could Help Combat Effects of Automation On Income Inequality In US, Study Suggests
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT News: What if the U.S. placed a tax on robots? The concept has been publicly discussed by policy analysts, scholars, and Bill Gates (who favors the notion). Because robots can replace jobs, the idea goes, a stiff tax on them ⊠â Read more
Oof, LastPass suffered a major breach
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Loud As A Whisper https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/22/loud-as-whisper.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
How to create a keyboard shortcut to export the current slide in Keynote
Lately Iâve been using Apple Keynote to create graphics for using in videos and blog posts. Itâs a quick way to arrange things on a page, copying and pasting most things just works, and there are enough built in shapes and tools to get the point across. However, after spending a full day creating graphics for a video, I found myself frustrated by the number of clicks required to export a single slide at a time. â Read more
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GitHub Gives 2022: Creating positive, lasting contributions in our communities
This year, we took GitHub Gives, our company-wide giving campaign, to new heights and wanted to share our learnings to provide best practices in programming a successful hybrid giving campaign for employees. â Read more
WordPress implemented SQLite support! đ± (Not merged into Core yet, but youâre able to test it.) â Read more
WordPress implemented SQLite support! đ± (Not merged into Core yet, but youâre able to test it.) â Read more
Increase developer productivity, save time on developer onboarding, and drive ROI in 2023
Forresterâs Total Economic Impactâą study dives into how GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security help businesses drive ROI, increase developer productivity, and save time on developer onboarding. â Read more
How we use GitHub to be more productive, collaborative, and secure
Our engineering and security teams have done some incredible work in 2022. Letâs take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left. â Read more
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[Video] How has open source changed in the last 10 years?
Whatâs the state of open source and how has it changed over the last decade? GitHubâs VP of Developer Relations, Martin Woodward, tackles that question and more in a 2022 keynote. â Read more
On my blog: Developer Journal, International Human Solidarity Eve https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/19/solidarity.html #programming #project #devjournal
**Have you decided how will you be celebrating this yearâs Winter Solstice yet?
@tidalclub is organizing a 24 hours long online festival, and Iâll be playing there! More info:
https://merankorii.blogspot.com/2022/12/live-at-club-tidals-night-stream.html**
Have you decided how will you be celebrating this yearâs Winter Solstice yet?
@tidalclub is organizing a 24 hours long online festival, and Iâll be playing there! More info:
[merankorii.blogspot.com/2022âŠ](https ⊠â Read more
I have a question: Is there something similar to Telegram channels in Matrix? What should I do when I want to enable people to be notified about new blog posts using Matrix? â Read more
âAirTags Expose Dodgy Postal Industryâ
Last year, YouTuber MegaLag tried to send several AirTag-ged packages from Germany to North Korea with DHL. But instead of arriving there, they were either misrouted to South Korea or ended up in China. In a new video, he further researches the reasons and also takes a look at DHLâs sorting center in Frankfurt at their invitation. Very interesting! â Read more
La trĂȘve des complotisseurs
Les tempĂ©ratures descendent, le givre sâinstalle la nuit tombĂ©e, les Ă©charpes et â surtout ! â les cols roulĂ©s sont de sortie : pas de doute, la pĂ©riode hivernale est lĂ . Et Ă lâhorizon, alors que tintinnabulent clochettes et hommes politiques au crĂąne vide, on distingue mille et une lumiĂšre colorĂ©e disposĂ©e lĂ par des mairies [âŠ] â Read more
RT by @mind_booster: Ten Years Later, The EU Orphan Works Directive Is Officially A Failure â Just As The Copyright Industry Intended https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/16/ten-years-later-the-eu-orphan-works-directive-is-officially-a-failure-just-as-the-copyright-industry-intended/
Ten Years Later, The EU Orphan Works Directive Is Officially A Failure â Just As The Copyright Industry Intended [techdirt.com/2022/12/16/ten-âŠ](https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/16/ten-years-later-the-eu-orphan-works-directive-is-offici ⊠â Read more
/g/ tomo/os r19344 â Read more
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On my blog: Free Culture Book Club â R. James Gavreau https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/17/rjg.html #freeculture #bookclub
Bio-mĂ©thane, hydrogĂšne, Ă©oliennes : ruĂ©e vers les âchimĂšresâ
Un article de Henry Bonner Le programme sur les Ă©missions de carbone englobe tous les aspects de la vie. Jâai rejoint une journĂ©e au LycĂ©e agricole, en Normandie, Ă la fin du mois dernier, au titre dâun rassemblement pour les clients dâune sociĂ©tĂ© de comptabilitĂ© agricole. La matinĂ©e a dĂ©marrĂ© avec un discours sur le [âŠ] â Read more
On my blog: Tweets from 12/12 to 12/16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/16/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Release Radar · November 2022 Edition
We promised weâd be back soon and here we are! There has been an incredible amount of open source projects shipping major version releases before the year wraps up. I canât believe we are all saying that now. âWhen the year wraps up!â or âSee you next year!â What happened to 2022? Well, we know [âŠ] â Read more
Câest bon, dĂ©tendez-vous, on passe lâhiver !
Si les tempĂ©ratures ne sont pas trĂšs Ă©levĂ©es, reconnaissons au moins Ă certains amateurs de ballon rond de savoir dĂ©geler plus que lâambiance dans les rues françaises. Pendant que lâhomoncule en charge du ministĂšre de lâIntĂ©rieur fait semblant de sâagiter Ă rĂ©duire un peu lâempreinte carbone de ces fĂȘtards Ă©motifs dans les rues de Paris, [âŠ] â Read more
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Outrageous Okona https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/15/outrageous-okona.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Bunny AI
Bunny.net joined the AI hype and created âBunny AIâ (docs), AI images created on the edge. I tried it out, because itâs currently free during the preview, but somehow I donât find the generated images aesthetic or Iâm just to stupid to write better prompts. I guess the Bunny developers also need some distraction from time to time, because they are working hard on S3 support for Bunny Storage for years already. đ° â Read more
My website is powered by GoBlog, a simple and dynamic blogging system thatâs open source, actively developed and implements most IndieWeb functionalities. It packages everything in a single binary and Iâve been so over the moon using it and seeing it improve week after week that Iâm surprised it isnât more popular. So I put on my evangelist boots to share how I use this âstupidly-simpleâ blogging system to power my online presence. â Read more
Forgejo
A few weeks ago, it came to light that Gitea has been owned by a for-profit Gitea Ltd. for several months. The lack of transparency has disturbed the trust of many contributors and users. Thatâs why Codeberg (a German based non-profit association - disclaimer: I am a member of the association) has now started a soft fork: Forgejo. â Read more
Leaked a secret? Check your GitHub alertsâŠfor free
GitHub now allows you to track any leaked secrets in your public repository, for free. With secret scanning alerts, you can track and action on leaked secrets directly within GitHub. â Read more
GitHub Advanced Security customers can now push protect their custom patterns
With just one click, admins in GitHub Advanced Security organizations can protect their custom patterns on push. â Read more
** Thoughts on accessibility in smol computing **
What follows is my attempt to spark a conversation in a few converging, but separate communities I lurk in.
Iâve already had a bunch of amazing conversations around this topic with a lot of people. Those conversations helped to shape what follows. Thanks to everyone who was willing to think this stuff through with me.
Before I get into it I want to say at the top this isnât meant as an accusation against anyone in these communities, nor the goals of t ⊠â Read more
I should write better tests or at least create some automatic tests. đŹ (But ActivityPub is so complicated to test!) â Read more
Should I sell my PC?
Iâm not sure yet what Iâm going to do with my desktop computer (ASRock Deskmini A300), which I donât really use anymore since I got my new laptop. â Read more
I think it was a very wise decision to buy some long merino underwear, a new and warmer jacket and new winter shoes. Itâs so cold! The whole week already under 0°C. â Read more
Raising the bar for software security: next steps for GitHub.com 2FA
GitHub will require all users who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. Learn more about our approach, when weâll begin our rollout, and what you can expect as we begin requiring 2FA. â Read more
LâannĂ©e 2023 sâannonce dĂ©cidĂ©ment pleine de surprises et la France vide dâindustries
Comme lâavait courageusement souhaitĂ© Bruno Le Maire au dĂ©but de lâinvasion ukrainienne par la Russie, lâĂ©conomie est maintenant Ă genoux, avec le petit souci quâil sâagit de lâĂ©conomie française : aprĂšs neuf mois de sanctions diverses et de dĂ©cisions â notamment Ă©nergĂ©tiques â parfaitement consternantes, la France rĂ©alise grĂące Ă quelques bidouillages statistiques a ⊠â Read more
Iâm honestly thinking about switching browsers, because this ânew featureâ where Firefox always downloads PDFs first to display them is annoying me so much. I donât want my Downloads folder to be cluttered with all those random PDFs. If I open a restaurantâs menu PDF, I just want to take a quick look, but donât want to have the PDF in my Downloads folder until I manually delete it and then delete it from the Recycle Bin again. There are some work-arounds, but no real solution. â Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.2 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
This is a regularly delayed release containing a number of fixes for
issues that we have come across since the last release of the 0.12
series.
A summary of changes in this release:
Fixes and improvementsCreating an accessible search experience with the QueryBuilder component
GitHubâs search inputs have several complex accessibility considerations. Letâs dive into what those are, how we addressed them, and talk about the standalone, reusable component that was ultimately built. â Read more
Highlights from Git 2.39
Another new release of Git is here to end the year! Take a look at some of our highlights on whatâs new in Git 2.39. â Read more
On my blog: Developer Journal, Kanji Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/12/kanji.html #programming #project #devjournal
Twitter files, la suite : censure Ă tous les Ă©tages
Inexorablement, le paysage de lâinformation grand public change et ce nâest pas Ă la faveur des institutions officielles, de la presse traditionnelle ou des organes mĂ©diatiques habituels, au contraire. Avec la publication des âTwitter Filesâ dont un prĂ©cĂ©dent billet faisait mention, on a eu la dĂ©monstration Ă la fois de la collusion de lâĂtat et [âŠ] â Read more
[47°09âČ54âłS, 126°43âČ12âłW] Dosimeter malfunction
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club â Colossal Cave Adventure https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/10/colossal-cave.html #freeculture #bookclub
I use Firefox as my preferred web browser both on PCs and my phone. One extension is always installed: uBlock Origin. The web is so much nicer with all the ads and tracking removed. But today I also retried an extension that will probably join the âmust installâ list: DarkReader. Especially when Iâm browsing the web on my phone in the early morning, I donât like to be blinded by white websites. Since March DarkReader has finally an option to detect if a website already has a dark theme and only apply itâs color chan ⊠â Read more
** December adventure **
Over the past couple years Iâve done the advent of code to varying degrees. I thought I was going to do it again this year but decided to try something different. Iâve been calling what came together aâ December Adventure.â
It isnât anything fancy; throughout December I aim to write a little bit of code everyday. So far Iâve written a bit of apl, bash, elisp, explored a bunch of flavors of scheme, and star ⊠â Read more
On my blog: Tweets from 12/05 to 12/09 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/09/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Release Radar · October 2022 Edition
Before you say it, yes, the October Release Radar was supposed to be shared in November. But with Hackatoberfest, GitHub Universe, Turkey Day, and in real life (IRL) conferences returning to their pre-COVID frequency, weâve all been so busy. And our community has been hustling to ship all kinds of open source projects. We wanted [âŠ] â Read more
LâONU, arme dâextinction massive de lâHumanitĂ©
Mercredi dernier avait lieu lâouverture de la âCOP15 sur la biodiversitĂ©â. Oui, vous avez bien lu : il sâagit encore (!) dâun gros pince-fesse international mĂ©diatisĂ© oĂč le petit-four Ă©coconscient produit en biodynamie se dĂ©guste aprĂšs un voyage en jet privĂ© pour discuter dâun problĂšme crĂ©Ă© de toute piĂšce et y apporter des solutions forcĂ©ment gĂ©niales. [âŠ] â Read more