listening to the last 80k podcast i realize that there’s a lot of α left in dvcs.

It seems that mobile reception along German high-speed train routes has improved lately (at least compared to 2019). I’m sitting in an ICE 4 between Hanover and Hamburg, and I’ve initiated a speed test via USB tethering. My mobile phone contract is limited to 10 Mbps, but I seem to be able to take full advantage of that. ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter December 2021 & January 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of December 2021 and January 2022!

We hope you had a great shift into the new year by now as well as are happy to have you reading the new release! We guess that this episode has caught some weight over the new year’s holidays :-)

Many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and sof … ⌘ Read more

Really worth watching, twice… “Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs” sur YouTube
The best critical take on #nft

There is a lot to digest but it’s really worth it! ⌘ Read more

[47°09′45″S, 126°43′11″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

In search of a new printer
Update: Thanks for all the answers! I have now tried to repair the ink cartridge, now something is printed again, but somewhat blurred. I finally decided to buy a black/white laser printer with scanner, a Xerox B225 as B-ware. I will probably report… ⌘ Read more

Your model of Eliezer Yudkowsky is faster than you at precommitting to not swerving.

I sometimes struggle to finish dramas not because they are bad but because of the dread that something really bad is gonna happening to a character i like

the fifth order is still a matter of conjecture - black holes might either be attracted to even deeper darkness, or wrap around again to an even greater light

a black hole is a fourth-order moth attractor: moths to moon, moon to planet, planet to star, star to hole

Meditation™: We Tear Your Reality to Shreds!

In search of a new printer
At the moment I do not have a working printer at home. I have an inkjet printer, but due to a long period of non-use, the cartridge or the print head has dried up. If I want to print something, I have to do it in a copy store or a drugstore. This is possible, but especially if I need to print something spontaneously, or only a few pages, then the effort is annoying. ⌘ Read more

LundukeFest delayed (again) due to illness & weather
Lunduke is still sick. And now there’s an ice storm. The Fest must (unfortunately) be delayed. ⌘ Read more

DockerCon: What Makes a Successful CFP Submission
The DockerCon 2022 Call for Papers is now open! DockerCon is one of the largest developer events in the world, with over 80,000 developers registering for each of the last two events. At the core of DockerCon is the chance for members of the community to share their tips, tricks, best practices and real-world experiences […]

The post [DockerCon: What Makes a Successful CFP Submission](https://www.docker.com/blog/dockercon-what-makes-a-succe … ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: How HCA Healthcare used the BEAM to fight COVID – Code BEAM V Talk review
We often talk about the suitability of the BEAM VM for the Healthcare industry. Afterall, when it comes to Healthcare, downtime can literally be deadly, and no technology is better equipped to deliver high availability and minimal downtime than the BEAM. At Code BEAM V 2020, Bryan Hunter, an Enterprise fellow at one of the biggest Healthcare providers in the world joi … ⌘ Read more

GitHub Availability Report: January 2022
In January, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services. ⌘ Read more

How to build a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions in four simple steps
A quick guide on the advantages of using GitHub Actions as your preferred CI/CD tool—and how to build a CI/CD pipeline with it. ⌘ Read more

Profanity: Profanity on Pinephone
Hi all,

So far, in my pinephone I used mainly GUI applications, because I was using a touch screen. Terminal applications are not user-friendly when it comes to one-handed operation.

I tested different distributions on my pinephone (mobian, manjaro, archarm), but usually most based on Phosh. In my opinion it is currently the best mobile graphics environment and stable as well.

In Phosh I tested few xmpp clients:

• the default application installed with Phosh is chat … ⌘ Read more

felhag/lastfm-stats-web

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A small project to show some additional statistics for last.fm.

Language: TypeScript

Star: 49

Watch: 49 ⌘ Read more

Startup Aims To Help Software Companies Shift To Usage-Based Pricing Models
The startup Metronome “claims to have developed a billing and data infrastructure platform that is capable of ‘reliably’ processing data at scale so that usage-based companies can iterate on business models without code changes,” reports TechCrunch. “It does this by providing businesses with real-time APIs for their customer … ⌘ Read more

I’ve been running some internal usenet groups for a while, now I’m starting to make more use of them and slap them on the web - https://omg.singles/T7ggI

Celebrating Our Second Fiscal Year
Yesterday, January 31, we finished our second full fiscal year since our November 2019 restructuring and recapitalization, and I couldn’t be prouder of the Docker team and what we’ve accomplished together. While it’s difficult to summarize 12 months, highlights include: Shipping 7,000+ product features, fixes, and updates to developers, including Docker Desktop for M1 Macs, […]

The post [Celebrating Our Second Fiscal Year](https://www.docker.com/blog/celebrating-our-se … ⌘ Read more

Code scanning and Ruby: turning source code into a queryable database
A deep dive into how GitHub adds support for new languages to CodeQL. ⌘ Read more

Top-100 npm package maintainers now require 2FA, and additional security-focused improvements to npm
Starting today, we are rolling out mandatory 2FA to all maintainers of top-100 npm packages by dependents. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′28″S, 126°43′25″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

Snikket: Server updates for ARM systems
We have a couple of important announcements relevant to people running the
Snikket server software on ARM devices, including Raspberry Pi. Systems using
ARM processors are increasingly popular for self-hosting due to their
increased efficiency, lower cost and minimal energy consumption.

The Snikket January 2022 server release was an
exciting release for us, but some users on ARM-based systems reported some
difficulties upgrading to … ⌘ Read more

i am very ready to start a lesswrong shitstorm by asking for “a good textbook on causal inference, unlike the Pearl one”

Substack or Locals - Which is best for subscribing to The Lunduke Journal?
There are two ways to subscribe to The Lunduke Journal. There are a few differences. Which is best for you? ⌘ Read more

Trading Card order deadline is tomorrow.
If you were planning to get a Retro Computer Trading Card set, now’s your last chance. ⌘ Read more

first option in the multiple choice quiz is “none of the above”. don’t know what to think about this tbqh

Its weird to see a tech company be bought by an investment company. Like what is the motivation other than to milk it for investor profit?

Its weird to see a tech company be bought by an investment company. Like what is the motivation other than to milk it for investor profit?

Cloud Computing and Virtualization Company Citrix To Be Acquired for $16.5B
Citrix, a cloud computing and virtualization company used by companies including Microsoft, Google, and SAP, has revealed plans to be acquired by affiliates of global investment firm Vista Equity Partners, and an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management called Evergreen Coast Capital Corporation. From a report: The all-cash deal i … ⌘ Read more

How many things do I own?
Even though starting my job has put me in a situation where I can sometimes afford stuff just like that, and maybe buy the occasional thing without thinking much when I should have before, I still make sure to keep the number of things I own low. ⌘ Read more

saying “without loss of generality” is a great way to hide bullshit in a proof. i have applied it many times with huge success

2 Days Left to Order the Retro Computer Trading Cards
All orders need to be in by February 1st. ⌘ Read more

Real failure sucks. People you considered your friends stop returning calls. Doors close to you. You feel empty and lost. You can learn from it, but you can’t celebrate it. Failure hurts. And that’s OK. It’s supposed to hurt. A toast to all the rejects | Hacker News

Stream a USB webcam to HDMI on a Raspberry Pi
This post exists to collect my notes on displaying a USB webcam on the Raspberry Pi HDMI outputs. This is not the same as streaming the webcam (easy), and this is not for use with the Raspberry Pi camera module. This is specifically for USB UVC webcams. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′45″S, 126°43′11″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

Finally sleeping better 😴
I have a very light sleep. The first brightness in the morning makes me wake up, noise from the neighbors in the evening does not let me fall asleep. No matter how late or early I go to bed, no matter how little I slept in total. ⌘ Read more

PEP 682: Format Specifier for Signed Zero
Though float and Decimal types can represent signed zero, in many
fields of mathematics negative zero is surprising or unwanted – especially
in the context of displaying an (often rounded) numerical result. This PEP
proposes an extension to the string format specification allowing negative
zero to be normalized to positive zero. ⌘ Read more

LundukeFest delayed one week due to illness
Lunduke got sick. What can ya do? LundukeFest moved to Saturday, February 5th. ⌘ Read more

Dockerize your own Game of Thrones’ API
This article will demonstrate a fun and useful use case of docker, where we will create and deploy to production a custom-made API. In our case, it will provide information about the episodes of the TV show “Game of Thrones”. Besides Docker, our stack will include: About the API The API will serve information about […]

The post Dockerize your own Game of Thrones’ API appeared first on [Dock … ⌘ Read more

2021 Transparency Report
In GitHub’s latest transparency report, we’re giving you a by-the-numbers look at how we responded to requests for user info and content removal. ⌘ Read more

One year ago to the date I made the lastest update for #phpub2twtxt to github and now 365 days later I have published #pixelblog as its successor - lets see where things are going for trip around the sun

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Thinking beyond SQL injection: OWASP tips for secure database access
When it comes to secure database access, there’s more to consider than SQL injections. OWASP Top 10 Proactive Control C3 offers guidance. ⌘ Read more

Nerdy color by number - Commodore PET
One of the coolest looking computers – from 1977 – just begs to be colored. ⌘ Read more

Self-hosting my calendar and contacts using Baïkal
I recently moved my emails to Purelymail. And since I also used the contacts and calendar synchronization feature of my previous email provider, I also transferred the contacts and calendar entries to Purelymail via WebDAV using WinSCP. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′44″S, 126°43′20″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

Peter Saint-Andre: The Underlying Theme
In a comment on my recent post about Aristotle on ways of life, my friend Kurt wondered if, according to Aristotle, the best life must have a single purpose (in Greek, a telos). I would say so: at the very beginning of the Eudemian Ethics, he says that it is a sign of great folly to not organize your life around some telos. Yet I think this can be interpreted in several different ways…. ⌘ Read more

otapi/Backup2Cloud

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Backup specific folders and upload to a cloud provider. The uploaded files are 7zipped and encrypted locally. Uploads only those packages which were changed since last backup.

Language: Python

Star: 1

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Ze1598/quotespy

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Python library to create quotes/lyrics and tweet graphics with PIL.

Language: HTML

Star: 2

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Naereen/generate-word-cloud.py

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🐍 A simple Python (2 or 3) script to generate a PNG word-cloud ☁️ image from a bunch of 📂 text files 🎉. Based on word_cloud by @amueller.

Language: Python

Star: 18

Watch: 18 ⌘ Read more

lianogueira/pytwanalysis

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A tool to gather, discover, and analyze Twitter data using a combination of graph-clustering and topic modeling techniques with the goal of semantically grouping tweet messages together.

Language: Python

Star: 3

Watch: 3 ⌘ Read more

bradmontgomery/word2html

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a quick and dirty script to convert a Word (docx) document to html.

Language: Python

Star: 47

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oliviersm199/Tweet-Generator

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The Tweet Generator uses a Markov chain to generate random tweet based off of past tweets. It uses Python and the Twitter API to obtain the last 200 tweets from a particular user, organizes them into a JSON tree structure and then executes a random walk on that tree structure. This results in sometimes hilarious sometimes nonsense tweets that mimic the Twitter user’s past tweets.

Language: Py … ⌘ Read more

Benedict-Carling/spanish-conjugator

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A python library to conjugate spanish words with parameters tense, mood and pronoun

Language: Python

Star: 9

Watch: 9 ⌘ Read more

papers-we-love/papers-we-love

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Papers from the computer science community to read and discuss.

Language: Shell

Star: 52730

Watch: 52730 ⌘ Read more

My blog(s) just got a new feature: A link to the current day archive (🇩🇪). There it is possible to see posts on today’s date in earlier years. Even more features are linked on my More (🇩🇪) page, by the way. ⌘ Read more

Nix 2.6.0 released
We’re pleased to announce the availability of
Nix 2.6.0.

Instructions how to install Nix on different platforms can be found on
the download page.

Here are the release notes:

• New builtin functionbuiltins.zipAttrsWith with the same
  functionality as lib.zipAttrsWith from Nixpkgs, but
  much more efficient.

• The Nix CLI now searches for aflake.nix up until the
  root of the current Git repository … ⌘ Read more

today i gave a guy with a great beard a compliment. ~10 minutes later he spotted me, walked up to me and gave me a protein shake :-D

** Chess Rules **
I love when folks say stuff like“there are only a finite number of states a chessboard can occupy, therefore a computer can play chess.”

To the folks who say such things — I wish you to play chess with my 6 year old.

Be not confined by rules! The only things governing chess in this house here are the laws of physics!

…and even then, not all need apply.

For instance, during a recent game the opposing kings left the board in order to go out on an adventure. They returned later with a large, plastic dragon. The dra … ⌘ Read more

Hopefully OneUI 4 will extend the life of my smartphone
Last year I wrote about how I check the battery health of my smartphone. The app I used for that shows a notification when a certain charge level is reached that you can unplug the smartphone so it doesn’t charge to 100%. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′21″S, 126°43′27″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

How Docker Desktop Networking Works Under the Hood
Modern applications make extensive use of networks. At build time it’s common to apt-get/dnf/yum/apk install a package from a Linux distribution’s package repository. At runtime an application may wish to connect() to an internal postgres or mysql database to persist some state, while also calling listen() and accept() to expose APIs and UIs over TCP […]

The post [How Docker Desktop Networking Works Under the Hood](https://www.docker.com … ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Snikket Hosting, Billing Overage Limits
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; Fr … ⌘ Read more

@eldersnake@twtxt.net yep. And when its sat to sat connections are online it will have better cross planet latency than under sea cable. FWIW

@eldersnake@twtxt.net yep. And when its sat to sat connections are online it will have better cross planet latency than under sea cable. FWIW

Latency to the sat and back to a uplink station is actually ~45ms because the orbit is so much closer to the ground than say a Hughesnet.

Latency to the sat and back to a uplink station is actually ~45ms because the orbit is so much closer to the ground than say a Hughesnet.

@prologic@twtxt.net

Not sure if Starlink satellites are in orbit around/over Australia yet, but I wouldn’t go with that option anyway due to the latency alone.

I believe it is being trialled in some places in Aus already. I will admit, I’ve been signed up for the beta for a while and it’s supposed to be coming to my area sometime in 2022, though that may be delayed due to the chip shortage stuff.

I think the latency is supposed to be 45-60ms on average, which while not as good as fixed line obviously, is leagues better than old fashioned high orbit satellite broadband which is about 600~ms.

Yeah the timer is because everyone gets the same word each day. You get one word with 6 trys and compare with friends on how you came to the solution.

Yeah the timer is because everyone gets the same word each day. You get one word with 6 trys and compare with friends on how you came to the solution.

I mean you don’t even have to do the game to make a fake emoji result. But its a fun little challenge for brain food.

I mean you don’t even have to do the game to make a fake emoji result. But its a fun little challenge for brain food.

Wow. I’m paying about 100 USD for my cable internet. Hard to estimate since its part of a tvd bundle. But it is 1.2Gbit down and 40Mbit up. And speed tests at that on the regular. The new house will have FTTH gigabit for 80ish.

Do they have Starlink beta down there yet?

Wow. I’m paying about 100 USD for my cable internet. Hard to estimate since its part of a tvd bundle. But it is 1.2Gbit down and 40Mbit up. And speed tests at that on the regular. The new house will have FTTH gigabit for 80ish.

Do they have Starlink beta down there yet?

It is completely within your right to not have kids if you don’t want to. It is completely within your right to have kids if you want to.

Deadline for Retro Computer Trading Cards & LundukeFest approaching!
Only a few days left to get in your Trading Card orders, or get your subscription to get a ticket to LundukeFest! ⌘ Read more

Ways to get 40 year old computers talking to new computers
Need to move files to and from that 1985 computer? These options will do the trick. ⌘ Read more

pepe extending hand to wojak meme for embedded vs. dualistic agents

For me, it always makes me feel better to look at the CVs of similar bloggers and see how little they’ve accomplished in comparison. I’m proud of my posts and my accomplishments, and I’m not going to h

@prologic@twtxt.net, who calls me name when I am busy profiting? 😂 In a less serious note—because nothing is more serious than making profit, of course—yes, it seems your avatar issue has been fixed. I am kind of sad, I looked forward each day to see which random one was going to show. LOL.

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.13 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

This is a(nother!) release for our stable branch to fix a memory leak caused
by the security fix. Deployments using websockets, SQL storage and possibly
other configurations may have noticed increasing memory usage after upgrading
to 0.11.12. This is resolved by this new release.

A summary of changes in this release:

• util.xml: Break reference to help the GC (fixes[#1711](https://i … ⌘ Read more

Bitcoin “Cult”
I have noticed that some people I respect have jumped on the bandwagon of calling Bitcoin a cult. I will agree with the word cult even know it is ment to be pejorative, giving the movement a religion like meaning. Is is a cult in the sense that it is a movement based on philosophical […] ⌘ Read more

submitted norpet, a digital pet with hand-powered logic, to the virtual pet jam | https://compudanzas.net/norpet.html

the name Allosaurus is really funny to me for some reason. I imagine two biologists standing over a set of giant bones, and one saying to the other “Yeah, I think this is a different kind of lizard than what we usually have to deal with.”

More #pixelblog‘ing - today wotking on fixing all the semi-hardcoded paths an moving them to config.php

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[47°09′07″S, 126°43′58″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

@benk@kwiecien.us I am using jenny (we chatted a bit on IRC earlier today). I have been using it for over five months now, I think. It is truly a joy to use, specially because you can use the power of Mutt/NeoMutt to read your twts.

@prologic@twtxt.net you be the man! I can’t remember the last time something gave as much troubles as this. The mention and the way to handle images are two things that have stuck in my head. Hopefully this is the last time there is an issue with this one! 🤞🏻

its like a mix of hangman and mastermind. You try to guess the word. Yellow means the target word has the letter but its in the wrong location. Green means its in the right location.

its like a mix of hangman and mastermind. You try to guess the word. Yellow means the target word has the letter but its in the wrong location. Green means its in the right location.

LundukeFest final schedule announced!
Linux Sucks, Retro Computing, and so much more. January 29th is going to be a very, very nerdy day. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′23″S, 126°43′09″W] Working impossible due to thunderstorm

GoCN 每日新闻 (2022-01-21)
GoCN 每日新闻 (2022-01-21)

1. stream: go 语言并发通信设计模式的泛型实现https://github.com/devnw/stream
   
2. 一个比” ldflags” 更好的方式来添加构建版本号到 go 二进制的方式：https://levelup.gitconnected.com/a-better-way-than-ldflags-to-add-a-build-version-to-your-go-binaries-2258ce419d2d
   
3. 怎么处理 HTTP 错误” context canceld”[https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/s7o5ay/investigating_context_canceled_http_err … ⌘ Read more

Hydraulic Analogy
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de was the request to remove the hash (subject) from showing on twts discarded? I don’t see it on the TODO, so I am curious. Was it something you decided was not worth investing time on?

How to Purchase a Docker Subscription from a Reseller
With the grace period for the new Docker subscription service agreement ending very soon on January 31, 2022, we want to make it easy for customers to use their preferred reseller to purchase a Docker subscription. That’s why we recently announced that your preferred reseller can now purchase a Docker Business subscription through Nuaware. That’s […]

The post [How to Purchase a Docker Subscription from a Reseller](https://www.docke … ⌘ Read more