What is Schrödinger’s Cat? | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains… ⌘ Read more
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 is now generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 is available now, including access to the Container registry, the addition of Dependabot, enhanced administrator capabilities, and features for GitHub Advanced Security. ⌘ Read more
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Why I eat the same thing every day. ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Togethr, SMS-only Ports, Snikket Hosting
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 … ⌘ Read more
Top games + source code from Gamedev.js Jam 2022
The recently-ended Gamedev.js Jam 2022 encouraged game developers to create web games and share their sources on GitHub. GitHub Star ⭐️ @end3r shares the best 13 entries and sees what experts and other participants think of them. ⌘ Read more
A read-only, finger(1)-based social network, maybe? http://txtpunk.com/fingers/
Neil deGrasse Tyson Live at Manhattanhenge ⌘ Read more
Neil deGrasse Tyson Live at Manhattanhenge ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: This week on my podcast, I read my @Medium column, “Apple’s Cement Overshoes,” about the cynical fuckery of Apple’s sabotage of #RightToRepair, which ensures its devices end up in overseas e-waste landfills rather than being fixed and kept in service.
https://doctorow.medium.com/apples-cement-overshoes-329856288d13 1/**
This week on my podcast, I read my @Medium column, “Apple’s Cement Overshoes,” about the cynical fuckery of Apple’s sabotage of [#RightT … ⌘ Read more
Hey everyone, I’m Janne Heß,
the release manager for 22.05. As promised, the latest stable
release is here: NixOS 22.05 “Quokka”.
- Release manual - Highlights
- [New\ Services]( … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.05
A new ejabberd release is finally here! ejabberd 22.05 includes five months of work, 200 commits, including many improvements (MQTT, MUC, PubSub, …) and bug fixes.
– Improved MQTT, MUC, and ConverseJS integration
– New installers and container
– Support Erlang/OTP 25
When upgrading from the previous version please notice: there are minor changes in SQL schemas, the included rebar and reba … ⌘ Read more
A Message For Peter Dutton ⌘ Read more
d65536
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**RT by @mind_booster: ⚡A política energética portuguesa tem de salvaguardar a sustentabilidade ambiental e não pode falhar face à emergência climática
ZERO lança 𝟱 𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘀 relativos às políticas nacionais na área da energia e clima
👇
🔗Conheça em https://zero.ong/29-de-maio-cinco-apelos-da-zero-no-dia-nacional-da-energia/
#energia**
⚡A política energética portuguesa tem de salvaguardar a sustentabilidade ambiental e não pode falhar face à emergência climática
ZERO lança 𝟱 𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘀 relativos às políticas nacionais n … ⌘ Read more
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A fun little game: Pocket City
I’m generally not a gamer, playing computer games has never really fascinated me, I find programming more exciting. But sometimes I don’t feel like programming or I don’t have the possibility to do it. Of course it’s important to be bored sometimes, because then you can think about things for a while. But a little entertainment in a free minute is sometimes not bad as well. ⌘ Read more
**Estou de regresso à escrita, e à Ficção Científica.
Desta vez, participo com um pequeno conto para o livro “Lamego 2022 - o antes e o depois”, uma colectânia de textos nos mais variados formatos e estilos, que olha para a cidade onde nasci.
https://tilde.pt/~marado/blog/lamego-2022—o-antes-e-o-depois.html**
Estou de regresso à escrita, e à Ficção Científica.
Desta vez, participo com um pequeno conto para o livro “Lamego 2022 - o antes e o depois”, uma colectânia de textos nos mais variados formatos e est … ⌘ Read more
I will be at Southeast Linuxfest 2022 (June 10-12) in Charlotte, NC.
Title says the gist.
In 2018, I went to Southeast Linuxfest and gave a presentation which you can see here or .
It was nice meeting the (shockingly normal) people who knew me from the interest last time.
I’m going to be attending again this year, as the title says Ju … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP & Google Summer of Code 2022: Welcome new contributors!
The Google Summer of Code 2022 is about to lift off and coding starts soon! The XSF has not just been
accepted (again!) as a hosting organization for XMPP projects, we also can welcome two new contributors who will work on open-source software projects in the XMPP environment! We have updated our [designated web-page](h … ⌘ Read more
Concussions with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Leonard Marshall, & Heather Berlin ⌘ Read more
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**RT by @mind_booster: Revelador como não largam o osso. Como o governo não conseguiu dar a volta ao sensato chumbo do TC, tenta dar a volta e dizer que as operadoras têm de recolher mais dados “pra faturação”
Obv não tem nada a ver com faturação, e isto é +1 jogada rasteira
https://www.publico.pt/2022/05/27/sociedade/noticia/proposta-governo-alarga-metadados-operadoras-podem-guardar-efeitos-facturacao-2007952?ref=hp&cx=stories_cover__important_b–608204**
Revelador como não largam o osso. Como o governo não consegui … ⌘ Read more
Based.Cooking has become more grandma-usable.
Over the past month, I’ve taken some off-time to tinker with
Based.Cooking, the cooking site I/we made a year or so
ago as a proof of concept for a simple and unintrusive recipe website. There
have been over 250 recipes submitted, but the hobbled-together static site
generator originally used proved unable to keep up and with all the
submissions, there was a big issue of content organization.
There have been two big changes. Firstly, I port … ⌘ Read more
sqlite3 fiddle
With all my SQL and SQLite posts, this link is probably also quite interesting: sqlite3 fiddle. ⌘ Read more
npm security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens
npm’s impact analysis of the attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens and additional findings. ⌘ Read more
Field Topology
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/5/ i could really use a sabbatical ⌘ Read more
What Now? ⌘ Read more
Identifying the Unknown Soldier with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Tim McMahon, & Franklin Damann ⌘ Read more
Switzerland has some nice and beautiful places! 🇨🇭 ⌘ Read more
I 3D Printed a Water-Cooled Jet Engine in Plastic ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: WombatOAM & the machine learning library
WombatOAM, the powerful operations, monitoring, and maintenance platform has a new machine learning library to assist with metric prediction. Learn about the main features, the algorithms used and how you can benefit from it together with WombatOAM’s new UI from Mohamed Ali Khechine, [Tamás Lengyel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tam%C3%A1s-lengyel-715b7 … ⌘ Read more
**Sem surpresa: o mais recente número do @JornalMapa está cheio de boas leituras, são 40 páginas com as quais vale a pena acompanhar este vosso trimestre.
Desta vez, o artigo final fala em Software Livre (tema que não é novo nestas páginas, mas sempre bom de ver na imprensa).**
Sem surpresa: o mais recente número do @JornalMapa está cheio de boas leituras, são 40 páginas com as quais vale a pena acompanhar este vosso trimestre.
Desta vez, o artigo final fala em S … ⌘ Read more
Election Wrap-up ⌘ Read more
How we use Dependabot to secure GitHub
A two-part story about how GitHub’s Product Security Engineering team rolled out Dependabot internally to track vulnerable dependencies, and how GitHub tracks and prioritizes technical debt. ⌘ Read more
Why Information Theory is Important - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: Amanhã, 26 de maio, entre as 12h e 13h, online, a @ESOP_PT vai ter mais uma sessão aberta: desta vez dirigida aos jovens profissionais que queiram fazer carreira no software open source.
Para aceder:
https://meet.jit.si/SessaoAbertaESOP_26deMaio_OpenSourceEJovensProfissionais
Amanhã, 26 de maio, entre as 12h e 13h, online, a @ESOP_PT vai ter mais uma sessão aberta: desta vez dirigida aos jovens profissionais que queiram fazer carreira no software open s … ⌘ Read more
Voyager Wires
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Gajim: Gajim 1.4.2
As promised earlier, releasing new Gajim versions is now much easier! 🎉 Gajim 1.4.2 comes with better performance and an important bugfix. But there is more! After popular demand, we brought back the calendar for browsing history.
Mainly it’s one bug we fixed in this release. We improved how Gajim manages chat messages it displays to you. Before this improvement, messages would sometimes only show after changing focus or resizing the window. This issue has been fixed.
Afte … ⌘ Read more
Why is the Night Sky Dark? | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains… ⌘ Read more
Improved REST API documentation
We’re excited to announce some big improvements to our REST API documentation. We know developers rely on this documentation to integrate with GitHub, and we are committed to making it trustworthy, easy to find, and easy to use. ⌘ Read more
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GitHub Sponsors launches in India
GitHub Sponsors is now available to all developers in India – no more waitlist, you can sign up right away! ⌘ Read more
“Dodecahedron Assemblies was the publication I chose to read on my way to heaven”—apparently Uriel has managed to gain short contact via the Gato agent.
Eight years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program
It was another record year for our Security Bug Bounty program. We’re excited to highlight some achievements we’ve made together with the bounty community from 2021! ⌘ Read more
**“Candidatei-me e fui eleito para um cargo complicado e difícil, e agora fazer o meu trabalho é difícil e complicado”.
Que mediocridade.**
“Candidatei-me e fui eleito para um cargo complicado e difícil, e agora fazer o meu trabalho é difícil e complicado”.
Que mediocridade.
Labor Wins ⌘ Read more
Goofs
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** That one time when Buffy the Vampire Slayer maybe saved my life? **
A secret pleasure of mine in high school was getting home before my parents and watching 30 - 60 minutes of TV. I technically wasn’t allowed to do it, but I suspect they new I snuck this time whenever I could.
My favorite show to watch in this secreted me-time was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Of all the episodes 3 have stuck with me the longest — the musical one…because of course…and the a pair of episodes;“I Was … ⌘ Read more
**R to @mind_booster: “What about live?”
I got you covered:
https://youtu.be/IlYI4_Iq_wk**
“What about live?”
I got you covered:
⌘ Read more**10 years later, and “Wake Up” is still my ‘go to’ album from @psenough.
Relevant now, as it was a decade ago, these “sounds to awaken the world to a new tomorrow” still resonate, as - it seems - we collectively decided to stay in bed for a while longer.
https://archive.org/details/enrmp300_ps_-_wake_up**
10 years later, and “Wake Up” is still my ‘go to’ album from @psenough.
Relevant now, as it was a decade ago, these “sounds to awaken the world to a new tomorro … ⌘ Read more
Here we go…
Here we go…
“Common Table Expressions in SQL”
I’m currently working in a project that involves a lot of data processing and therefore databases. This means that we often come into contact with SQL at work and have to write an SQL query at least once a day. ⌘ Read more
**R to @mind_booster: Bem, 1997 foi um ano muito prolífico (o início do “boom” da Internet em Portugal?), e erro se não mencionar também que foi o ano do nascimento do Terràvista.
A @jonasnuts “celebrou” o seu quarto-de-século aqui:
https://jonasnuts.com/25-anos-de-terravista-592111**
Bem, 1997 foi um ano muito prolífico (o início do “boom” da Internet em Portugal?), e erro se não mencionar também que foi o ano do nascimento do Terràvista.
A @jonasnuts “celebrou” o … ⌘ Read more
**R to @mind_booster: Ainda sobre a PTNet, se por um lado a “data oficial” parece ser 1997, as experiências começaram logo em 1996 (quando é que se considera aquilo PTnet? Não sei bem…).
Já os “serviços” (recordo NickServ 1º, depois ChanServ) são de Outubro 1997.
+info: https://student.dei.uc.pt/~rfonseca/historia.html**
Ainda sobre a PTNet, se por um lado a “data oficial” parece ser 1997, as experiências começaram logo em 1996 (quando é que se considera aquilo PTnet? Não sei bem…).
Já os “serviços” (rec … ⌘ Read more
I CALL THE SHOTS ⌘ Read more
I have neglected my homepage for a while. But now I have deleted or updated a few pages, like the list with the hardware I use or the list with my self-hosted services. 🧹 ⌘ Read more
[47°09′30″S, 126°43′39″W] Raw reading: 0x6288C632, offset +/-3
📚 Finished reading Books that Matter: The Analects of Confucius by Robert André LaFleur
**Para onde vai parar o dinheiro do 5G em Portugal?
(resposta certa nos comentários)**
Para onde vai parar o dinheiro do 5G em Portugal?
(resposta certa nos comentários) ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Gajim 1.4.1
Only a week after the release of Gajim 1.4.0, we’re happy to announce Gajim 1.4.1! 🎉 This release brings several fixes for issues you reported to us. Thanks for your feedback!
In order to make it easier to reach us for help, we added a new menu item “Join Support Chat” under “Help”. Clicking it will directly join our support chat at gajim@conference.gajim.org.
While redesigning the message window, we moved message timestamps to the r … ⌘ Read more
What is the Multiverse? | StarTalk 101 ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: Notas da Semana 16/05/2022
Metadados (ainda)
Pressão da CE sobre os Estados-Membros na transposição da directiva do copyright
Relatório da IFLA
Livros & Reviews
https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2022/05/20/notas-da-semana-16-05-2022/**
Notas da Semana 16/05/2022
Metadados (ainda)
Pressão da CE sobre os Estados-Membros na transposição da directiva do copyright
Relatório da IFLA
Livros & Reviews
[paulasimoesblog.wordpress.co…](https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2022/05/20/notas … ⌘ Read more
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Release Radar · April 2022 Edition
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend projects. Here are our top staff picks on projects that shipped major version releases in April. Flyte 1.0 I was lucky enough to discover Flyte during Hacktoberfest last year. Now, Flyte has […] ⌘ Read more
Action needed by GitHub Connect customers using GHES 3.1 and older to adopt new authentication token format updates
Upgrade to GHES 3.2 or newer by June 3rd to continue using GitHub Connect. ⌘ Read more
Do you know the answer to this one? ⌘ Read more
smoke and mirrors ⌘ Read more
Angular Diameter Turnaround
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Indigenous Science with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Dr. Jessica Hernandez ⌘ Read more
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**RT by @mind_booster: .@OpenSourceOrg to the European Commission: make space for patent-free standards too
some supposedly “open“ standards – including those ratified by SDOs like ISO, CEN and ETSI – can’t be implemented without buying a license
https://blog.opensource.org/osi-to-the-european-commission-make-space-for-patent-free-standards-too/**
. @OpenSourceOrg to the European Commission: make space for patent-free standards too
some supposedly “op … ⌘ Read more
Math support in Markdown
Mathematical expressions are key to information sharing amongst engineers, scientists, data scientists, and mathematicians. Today we are pleased to announce that math expressions can be rendered in Markdown on GitHub using $$ as a delimiter for code blocks with math content or the $ delimiter for inline math expressions. ⌘ Read more
How we’re continuing to enable all developers to build
Learn about what GitHub is doing to make their products more inclusive, and what’s next. ⌘ Read more
R to @mind_booster: Um melhor take pela @paulasimoes :
Um melhor take pela @paulasimoes :
nitter.net/paulasimoes/status/1527274573401661451#m ⌘ Read more
Caro @govpt , e em particular @padaoesilva , agora que já temos um “novo prazo” (e já só temos 2 meses), já podemos ter aquela tal consulta pública à proposta sobre a transposição da directiva do copyright, que o governo (e bem) considerou necessária?
Caro @govpt , e em particular @padaoesilva , agora que já temos um “novo prazo” (e já só temos 2 meses), já podemos ter aquela tal consulta pública à prop … ⌘ Read more
If you live in Gosford or Penrith WATCH THIS. ⌘ Read more
Liberal vs Labor ⌘ Read more
📚 Finished reading Books that Matter: The Analects of Confucius by Robert André LaFleur
Securing and delivering high-quality code with innersource metrics
With innersource, it’s important to measure both the amount of innersource activity and the quality of the code being created. Here’s how. ⌘ Read more
TL,DR: not very well at all:
TL,DR: not very well at all:
nitter.net/paulasimoes/status/1527038411432943616#m ⌘ Read more
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The Liberal Government ⌘ Read more