Ratpoison: The worst Linux Desktop Environment of all time
Ratpoison should be sent to The Hague and put on trial for crimes against humanity. ⌘ Read more

Two tools for translating text between languages… from a Linux Shell.
Because sometimes you need to translate a quote without leaving the terminal. ⌘ Read more

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which doesn’t have to be this way! blue tribe & anti-agi risk people have mostly orthogonal concerns (i really don’t see the overlap of algorithmic fairness & agent foundations, tbqhwy), and probably ample opportunities for trade (which blue-triber actually cares about compute governance etc.?) but i think zero-sum anti-trade genre affiliation thinking from blue-tribes side will prevent most of that mutually beneficial governance from happening.

looks like blue tribe will end up anti agi risk. sucks, but should have been forseeable—the connection to gray tribe & techbros is too strong.

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An unexpected visitor came to the tree in our neighbor’s yard today. ⌘ Read more

Old: losing weight by playing Dance Dance Revolution. Bold: losing weight by dancing to the elevator music in The Stanley Parable.

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Another reason to like spring: cherry blossoms. ⌘ Read more

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My April ‘22 in Review
April is also over now, time to take a short look back. ⌘ Read more

i don’t know of any Gentle Introduction to Why Prediction Markets are Awesome, à la Wait But Why, with stick figures and just going slow in on the topic, answering objections along the way. i consider it a collective action failure that no such text exists, and also that i don’t know of any book that does this (other than superforecasting)

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have to admit that switching to python & numpy for data analysis from klong relieves me from a huge pain in the ass—klong is just slow for that.

Gajim: Development News April 2022
This month came with a lot of preparations for the release of Gajim 1.4 🚀 Gajim’s release pipeline has been improved in many ways, allowing us to make releases more frequently. Furthermore, April brought improvements for file previews on Windows.

For two and a half years I (wurstsalat) have been writing (and translating) Gajim’s monthly development news. Keeping this up on a monthly basis takes a lot of time and effort. Upcoming development news will … ⌘ Read more

I have to get my haircut tomorrow and I’m not really feeling it

The First Lunduke Journal Founding Member Hangout… a success!
So much fun. We’re definitely going to be doing more of these! ⌘ Read more

Microsoft attempts to block Elon Musk purchase of Linux
“Hey! We already bought Linux,” says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadela ⌘ Read more

Bringing code navigation to communities
Thanks to the efforts of the Elixir community, GitHub supports code navigation for Elixir repositories. Read how favorite language can add this support too! ⌘ Read more

In reply to: ~karlen

I was recently introduced to this series by @dozens where blogposts that are at least a year old and feature the phrase“no one will ever read this but” are read allowed…and…it is remarkable. ⌘ Read more

Talk to a Politician, Get Arrested ⌘ Read more

Pixelorama – a truly spectacular pixel art editor for Linux, Mac, & Windows
Open source, gorgeous user interface, easy to use animation tools… Pixelorama is one of the best pixel art editors I’ve ever used. ⌘ Read more

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RT by @mind_booster: Copyright is more often a bump in the road than a true enabler of creativity, leading to chilling effects - @glynmoody https://walledculture.org/ed-sheeran-wins-copyright-lawsuit-but-now-films-himself-as-he-writes-songs-to-forestall-more-litigation #copyright #creators href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23CopyrightAbsurdity”>#CopyrightAbsurdity**
Copyright is more often a bump in the road than a true enabler of creativity, leading to chilling effects - @glynmoody [walledculture.org/ed-sheeran…](http … ⌘ Read more

“Cool Things People Do With Their Blogs”
I do from time to time forays through the Internet and like to visit cool blogs. Wouter has created a list with a few examples and even mentioned my blog in it. 🤓 ⌘ Read more

Working with Mac Files via Linux
How to work with Mac-specific files (DMG, HQX, SIT & others), even ones from 30 years ago. ⌘ Read more

Best practices to keep your projects secure on GitHub
These days software is subject to an ever-changing threat landscape. Check out the many ways you can keep your projects secure on GitHub today. ⌘ Read more

**R to @mind_booster: “Cinco anos não é assim tanto…”

Cinco anos foi desde a queixa da @direitosdig, a Lei (errada) já vem desde 2008. Transpõe uma directiva de 2006 que só foi invalidada em 2014.

Não vale a pena agora discriminar quem tem culpas, apenas apontar que erros demoram décadas a corrigir**
“Cinco anos não é assim tanto…”

Cinco anos foi desde a queixa da @direitosdig, a Lei (errada) já vem desde 2008. Transpõe uma directiva de 20 … ⌘ Read more

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Developer of popular password manager to drop Ubuntu Snap packaging
KeePassXC developer refers to praise of Snap as “a bad joke.” ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: New Staff, New Commands
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; … ⌘ Read more

**R to @mind_booster: “Estás a pedir dinheiro?”

Pode ser. Mas há muitas formas possíveis de contribuir. As mais directas serão:

🗳️ fazendo-te sóci@ da associação;
💵 contribuindo financeiramente;
📚 colaborando em temas nos quais estás por dentro;
💻 dando visibilidade à associação e suas acções.**
“Estás a pedir dinheiro?”

Pode ser. Mas há muitas formas possíveis de contribuir. As mais directas serão:

🗳️ fazendo-te sóci@ da associação;

💵 contribuindo financeiramente;

📚 colaborando em temas nos quais estás p … ⌘ Read more

**R to @mind_booster: Mas a @direitosdig só consegue fazer o que faz graças aos recursos que tem, principalmente humanos (e voluntários), mas também de outro tipo.

Também achas que é importante continuar a haver uma associação assim? Aplaude a D3 com a tua contribuição:

https://direitosdigitais.pt/comunidade**
Mas a @direitosdig só consegue fazer o que faz graças aos recursos que tem, principalmente humanos (e voluntários), mas também de ou … ⌘ Read more

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Why I now mute my watch
I am a user of a smartwatch. It is already the third smartwatch in my life (first the Sony SmartWatch 3, then the Samsung Galaxy Watch and now the Galaxy Watch 4) and I am actually quite satisfied with it. I always need an easy way to see the time, even when I’m riding my bike and can’t look at my smartphone (being on time is important to me!), plus it counts my steps and gives me the ability to view notifications right on my wrist so I don’t always have to get my smartphone out of my pocket firs … ⌘ Read more

Annual Lunduke Journal subscriptions drop to $1 / month!
All thanks to the generosity of the Founding Member subscribers to The Lunduke Journal. ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: The Musk/Twitter press release states that the company will authenticate “all humans.” I’m not sure what this means, but there is at least a chance that it could compromise users’ ability to be anonymous. In this thread I explain some concerns with this possibility.
The Musk/Twitter press release states that the company will authenticate “all humans.” I’m not sure what this means, but there is at least a chance that it could compromise users’ ability to be anonymous. In this thread I expl … ⌘ Read more

fair enough, I forgot to remember that something being a hatecrime is considered a good thing around these regions let me pull my dick out alright

Just for the record: I left Twitter before it was cool to do so. 😊 But seriously, it was the right decision back then and I have no regrets. ⌘ Read more

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Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects
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no, niplav, you won’t get sucked into reading the heraldry wikipedia articles, even though “escutcheon” looks like a really good word to drop in a conversation.

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Make Linux Shell scripts declare “Success” or “Failure” using the Super Smash Bros announcer voice
… or any other audio files if you want to get creative about it. ⌘ Read more

@prologic moving around servers, managed to break my twtxt client so using literally the first one I could find

R to @mind_booster: 5/5, I’m definitively happy with my choice!
5/5, I’m definitively happy with my choice!

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I can’t get twtxt to work properly on my machine so I hope this works

**“overblessed” is quite an interesting word, specially when it is being negated.

What I was not expecting was to see it hyphenated like this: overb-lessed.**
“overblessed” is quite an interesting word, specially when it is being negated.

What I was not expecting was to see it hyphenated like this: overb-lessed.

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Naming kids is hard for us computer nerds.
There’s just so many great names to choose from. ⌘ Read more

new version of our introduction to uxn e-book with the screen auto byte and other updates in varvara devices | https://compudanzas.net/introduction_to_uxn_programming_book.html

Ubuntu, facing declining marketshare, doubles down on most hated feature
How long before Ubuntu abandons Snap packaging in order to save the Linux distribution? ⌘ Read more

5 simple things every developer can do to ship more secure code
From plug-and-play automations to protected branches, here are simple ways any developer can build more secure software on GitHub—all with a free account. ⌘ Read more

three aspects of feedback loops: 1. speed (how quickly do you get feedback); 2. thickness (how much information do you get about your performance); 3. signal (how related is that feedback to your performance)

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Your guide to GitHub InFocus: Improving the way software development teams work in 2022
We’re kicking off InFocus, a global virtual event focused on accelerating, securing, and improving the way software development teams work. ⌘ Read more

10 reasons every nerd wants to become a Lunduke Journal Founding Member subscriber
Number 10 will SHOCK you! ⌘ Read more

Nix 2.8.0 released
We’re pleased to announce the availability of Nix 2.8.0. It will be
available from NixOS -\
Getting Nix / NixOS.

Here are the release notes:

• New experimental command:nix fmt, which applies a
  formatter defined by the formatter.<system></system> flake
  output to the Nix expressions in a flake.

• Various Nix commands can now read expressions from standard input
  using--file -.

• New experimental builtin function
  builtins.fetchClosure that c … ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: What are the key trends in digital payments? part ½
Payments are the backbone of a functioning global economy. A payments system can be defined as any system that can be used to settle a financial transaction by exchanging monetary value. Payments are a part of financial services that have undergone rapid and transformational change over recent years, and the Erlang Solutions team has been at the cutting-edge of many of these changes working on exciting cli … ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Understanding Processes for Elixir Developers
This post is for all developers who want to try Elixir or are trying their first steps in Elixir. This content is aimed at those who already have previous experience with the language.

This will help to explain one of the most important concepts in the BEAM: processes. Although Elixir is a general-purpose programming language, you don’t need to understand how the virtual machine works, but if you want to take advantage … ⌘ Read more

Reflecting on my work
I have been a full-time software developer for over a year now. I’ve since settled in well in the job, and I’m getting along better and better, even if the topics are sometimes still quite complex and difficult to understand, especially when it comes to “historically grown” things. ⌘ Read more

Organization profiles leading the way
Organization profiles can now display custom content visible only to members of the organization. A new Member view can be tailored to show an alternative README and pinned private repositories. ⌘ Read more

You can now subscribe to The Lunduke Journal via Patreon!
Patreon subscribers can now get all the same perks as subscribers on Substack or Locals. ⌘ Read more

Sharing security expertise through CodeQL packs (Part I)
Introducing CodeQL packs to help you codify and share your knowledge of vulnerabilities. ⌘ Read more

W: The Window System before X… that nobody seems to remember
(Nobody seems to even know what it looked like.) ⌘ Read more

Run a full, desktop Linux distro on your Android phone with UserLAnd
Just as if it were an Android app. Because… well… you know you want to. ⌘ Read more

First Founding Member group hangout next week!
Thanks to all the Founding Members, we were able to drop the subscription price this month! ⌘ Read more

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How to Vote! ⌘ Read more

English is probably the worst language you could use to translate any Asian language into Lost in Translation: Drama Titles That Steer You in the Wrong Direction - MyDramaList

I’m exhausted. I don’t know when it all started to go wrong but I’m exhausted. Every relationship feels like work. Every moment that I’m awake feels like work. kdramaspace

Not only Telegram implements new features, I spontaneously had an idea and a bit of programming desire. As an optional feature GoBlog now offers “reactions”. I don’t think I need to explain this feature, just try it out on this post. 😉 ⌘ Read more

❤️ 🎶: To You My Light (feat. Lee Raon) by MAKTUB, Leeraon

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Security alert: Attack campaign involving stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party integrators
On April 12, GitHub Security began an investigation that uncovered evidence that an attacker abused stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party OAuth integrators, Heroku and Travis-CI, to download data from dozens of organizations, including npm. Read on to learn more about the impact to GitHub, npm, and our users. ⌘ Read more

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tried to figure out how to use university springer access to download a textbook, gave up after two minutes and just used libgen. lmao

9 wikipedia edits today! yay me! (also a bunch of small scale contributions to other people’s texts: https://niplav.github.io/contributions.html)

The Lunduke Journal about to hit our subscription goal for end of April! Awesome!
Can we push it over the top today? ⌘ Read more

the joy of having written down a possible improvement for a wikipedia article, only to go & find out somebody else has already done it. glorious

He loves freedom of speech so much he wants to buy a publicly traded company to stop a 14 yo from posting his private jet flight plans.

He loves freedom of speech so much he wants to buy a publicly traded company to stop a 14 yo from posting his private jet flight plans.

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Elon Musk Offers To Buy Twitter For $41 Billion
Billionaire Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for about $41 billion, just days after rejecting a seat on the social media company’s board. From a report: Musk’s offer price of $54.20 per share, which was disclosedin a regulatory filing on Thursday, represents a 38% premium to Twitter’s April 1 close, the last trading day before the Tesla CEO’s more than 9% stake in the company … ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Introducing Stream Support In RabbitMQ
In July 2021, streams were introduced to RabbitMQ, utilizing a new blazingly-fast protocol that can be used alongside AMQP 0.9.1. Streams offer an easier way to solve a number of problems in RabbitMQ, including large fan-outs, replay & time travel, and large logs, all with very high throughput (1 million messages per second on a 3-node cluster). Arnaud Cogoluègne s, Staff Engin … ⌘ Read more

❤️ 🎶: Want to be Free by Lyn

After the repair, I am really excited about my pedelec. The battery significantly increases the range of a “small” bike ride and allows me to visit many beautiful places in the vicinity of my hometown Braunschweig and enjoy the nature. ⌘ Read more

Lunduke explains ways to hide your activity on the Internet… using an iced coffee.
Incognito Mode… VPN… Tor… what’s the difference? ⌘ Read more

We need to talk about carbon credit rorts | with Polly Hemming ⌘ Read more

JMP: Computing International Call Rates with a Trie
A few months ago we launched International calling with JMP.  One of the big tasks leading up to this launch was computing the rate card: that is, how much calls to different destinations would cost per minute.  While there are many countries in the world, there are even more calling destinations.  Our main carrier partner for this feature lists no fewer than 59881 unique phone number prefixes in the rates they charge us.  This list is, quite frankly, incomprehen … ⌘ Read more

Weird Unicode Math Symbols
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To kick off my few days of Easter vacation, I took my freshly inspected and repaired pedelec (e-bike) with beautiful weather (20 degrees and sun) and drove a round on the “Ringgleis”, a bike path around my city. The total mileage has now also finally reached the 3000 km. That’s still not much over several years, but I still have my second, non-electric bike, with which I probably ride a lot more. ⌘ Read more

What’s new in GitHub Discussions: Organization Discussions, polls, and more
Today, we’re excited to bring you a few new features that will help you communicate, collaborate, and connect seamlessly with teams and communities about the software you’re building with the help of GitHub Discussions. ⌘ Read more

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The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey through strange seas and unknown islands, where he will test and prove his powers, and thereby discover his immortality. The man of middle years, who has lived the future that he once dreamed, sees life as a tragedy; for he has learned that his power, however great, will not prevail against those forces of accident and nature to which he gives the names of gods, and has learned that he is mortal. But the man of age, if he plays his assigned role properly, must see life as a comedy. For his triumphs and his failures merge, and one is no more the occasion for pride or shame than the other; and he is neither the hero who proves himself against those forces, nor the protagonist who is destroyed by them. – John Williams in Augustus I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020) | Hacker News

I added pointlessArgument: 'is a taco a sandwich' to a pile-of-arguments object today