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The Fork Bomb: What it is, how it works, and where it originated
The idea started in 1969… and it’s been causing computers to crash ever since. ⌘ Read more
Game Night Ordering
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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 don’t want to create spam. So I got a new DigitalOcean account with a $200 starter credit… ⌘ Read more
An interesting read about testing code using nullable states instead of mocks.
https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/projects/testing-without-mocks/testing-without-mocks
An interesting read about testing code using nullable states instead of mocks.
https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/projects/testing-without-mocks/testing-without-mocks
What do Computer Scientists Read? - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Help us translate Spark and Openfire!
We have started to experiment with an online tool that facilitates the process of translating Spark and Openfire. Both already have a bunch of translations, but none are complete.
I’m looking for people wanting to test the tool and/or provide translations. The aim is to make providing translations become so easy that little technological know-how is required.
If you’re interested, please sign up to [Ignite Realtime localizati … ⌘ Read more
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Haiku Beta 4 – The Definitive Review
With the latest Beta, the open source Haiku Operating System becomes viable for daily usage. ⌘ Read more
Why I Won’t Go to Restaurants in 2023
I’ve decided after some consideration to not go to restaurants at all in 2023.
You can call this a New Year’s Resolution.
It’ll require at least some sacrifice, pain, annoyance to myself and perhaps others, but I’m going to stick by it and I think it will have a good effect.
Restaurants are a drastically over-used creature comfort of … ⌘ Read more
What’s 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 I’m here to help explain. ⌘ Read more
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**Missed my #Merankorii concert earlier this week? Not to worry, you can still see me trying to #livecode with #tidalcycles here:
https://youtu.be/NSjgJyNJl4M**
Missed my #Merankorii concert earlier this week? Not to worry, you can still see me trying to #livecode with #tidalcycles here:
. Because robots can replace jobs, the idea goes, a stiff tax on them … ⌘ Read more
Pando
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Time Travel For Real This Time with Brian Greene & Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more
How to create a keyboard shortcut to export the current slide in Keynote
Lately I’ve been using Apple Keynote to create graphics for using in videos and blog posts. It’s 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. ⌘ Read more
December Extensions Roundup: Improving Visibility for Your APIs and Images
Check out the new Akita and Dive-In Docker Extensions released in December. ⌘ Read more
Happy December Solstice! ⌘ Read more
Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
Payments to nonexistent companies? Funding politics? Reliance on a single customer? And that’s just for starters. ⌘ Read more
tbh whenever someone is like “the existing arguments for agi xrisk were insufficient/unclear, here’s my better version” the arguments read exactly the same to me as the existing ones.
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. ⌘ Read more
photojournal: updates from this month; finished reading 2666
Ignite Realtime Blog: New Mastodon service for the Ignite Realtime community!
Some of you might already have followed along with the discussion on this in the open_chat chatroom, but: the Ignite Realtime community now has its own Mastodon service at toot.igniterealtime.org! This service is graciously sponsored by Free Solutions Sàrl - a big thank you to Claude and his team!
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How To Argue Like A Scientist At Holiday Dinner: A Cosmic Perspective from Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more
WordPress implemented SQLite support! 😱 (Not merged into Core yet, but you’re able to test it.) ⌘ Read more
WordPress implemented SQLite support! 😱 (Not merged into Core yet, but you’re able to test it.) ⌘ Read more
Increase developer productivity, save time on developer onboarding, and drive ROI in 2023
Forrester’s Total Economic Impact™ study dives into how GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security help businesses drive ROI, increase developer productivity, and save time on developer onboarding. ⌘ 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. Let’s take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left. ⌘ Read more
Reduce Your Image Size with the Dive-In Docker Extension
Use the Dive-In Docker Extension to see how to reduce image size in an easy-to-use UI. ⌘ Read more
MDE under the Hood (Model Driven Engineering) - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: 🇪🇺@vonderleyen: France has withdrawn from the Energy Charter Treaty – a toxic agreement hampering EU’s Green Deal and Paris Agreement goals 🎉
Why is @EU_Commission keeping ECT on life-support?
Listen to 1M people: Coordinated EU withdrawal now!
#ExitECT #NoECT**
🇪🇺 @vonderleyen: France has withdrawn from the Energy Charter Treaty – a toxic agreement hampering EU’s Green Deal and Paris Agreement goals 🎉
Why is [@EU_Commission](https:/ … ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: As instituições públicas devem assegurar a soberania e autonomia das suas comunicações e relações com os cidadãos não se deixando sujeitas a interesses e caprichos de terceiros.
#SoberaniaDigital #SoftwareLivre #Fediverso #Mastodon #AdministraçãoPública**
As instituições públicas devem assegurar a soberania e autonomia das suas comunicações e relações com os cidadãos não se deixando sujeitas a interesses e caprichos de terceiros.
[#Sober … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Busy Year in 2022
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; Sha … ⌘ Read more
BREAKING: Red Hat CEO admits he “has no idea what Kubernetes is”
“Pretty sure it’s like, Rust, I think,” stated Canonical CEO. ⌘ Read more
Apple has changed… and not in a good way.
Apple of 2022 is not the same company it used to be. It has, to be frank, lost its way. ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Busy Year in 2022
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; Sha … ⌘ Read more
[Video] How has open source changed in the last 10 years?
What’s the state of open source and how has it changed over the last decade? GitHub’s VP of Developer Relations, Martin Woodward, tackles that question and more in a 2022 keynote. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: GraphQL interfaces in MongooseIM 6.0
MongooseIM is a robust, scalable and highly extensible instant messaging server. Recent releases have improved its configurability and opened new use cases, and the latest version 6.0 continues that trend. By introducing the brand new GraphQL API, we made MongooseIM much easier to integrate with external web services. The entry barrier is also lower than ever because of the automatically generated API documentation, interactive web UI, an … ⌘ Read more
Data Point
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**Have you decided how will you be celebrating this year’s Winter Solstice yet?
@tidalclub is organizing a 24 hours long online festival, and I’ll 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 year’s Winter Solstice yet?
@tidalclub is organizing a 24 hours long online festival, and I’ll be playing there! More info:
[merankorii.blogspot.com/2022…](https … ⌘ 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? ⌘ Read more
“AirTags Expose Dodgy Postal Industry”
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 DHL’s sorting center in Frankfurt at their invitation. Very interesting! ⌘ Read more
La trêve des complotisseurs
Les températures descendent, le givre s’installe la nuit tombée, les écharpes et – surtout ! – les cols roulés sont de sortie : pas de doute, la période hivernale est là. Et à l’horizon, alors que tintinnabulent clochettes et hommes politiques au crâne vide, on distingue mille et une lumière colorée disposée là par des mairies […] ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: Ten Years Later, The EU Orphan Works Directive Is Officially A Failure – 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 – Just As The Copyright Industry Intended [techdirt.com/2022/12/16/ten-…](https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/16/ten-years-later-the-eu-orphan-works-directive-is-offici … ⌘ Read more
The Linux Foundation launches map foundation to compete with Google
And, you know what? It’s actually pretty well licensed! ⌘ Read more
Commercial Dev Tool vendor adds ARM64 and “Dark Mode” for Linux
The multi-platform Xojo IDE (Mac, Windows, iOS) keeps beefing up their Linux support. Which pleases Lunduke. ⌘ Read more
/g/ tomo/os r19344 ⌘ Read more
Bio-méthane, hydrogène, éoliennes : ruée vers les “chimères”
Un article de Henry Bonner Le programme sur les émissions de carbone englobe tous les aspects de la vie. J’ai rejoint une journée au Lycée agricole, en Normandie, à la fin du mois dernier, au titre d’un rassemblement pour les clients d’une société de comptabilité agricole. La matinée a démarré avec un discours sur le […] ⌘ Read more
“The Sidecar” – Adding advanced networking, and a Linux shell, to a Psion palmtop
One of the coolest designs I’ve seen for extending older computers via the serial port. ⌘ Read more
How Physics Has Changed The 2022 World Cup ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · November 2022 Edition
We promised we’d 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 can’t believe we are all saying that now. “When the year wraps up!” or “See you next year!” What happened to 2022? Well, we know […] ⌘ Read more
BREAKING: EU orders Apple to add RS-232 port to iPhone
“We’re… super… excited to add a serial port to the iPhone,” stated Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a not at all forced tone of voice. ⌘ Read more
Retiring My Fiat Donation Portal
I’ve decided to retire my fiat donation portal at donate.lukesmith.xyz, where people could donate to me via debit and credit cards.
This will happen by the end of this calendar year.
It’s more in keeping with my principles of free software, self-ownership and everything else to only allow cryptocurrency donations.
This also is a subtle nudge to people who want to donate in streams to get into Bitcoin and Monero, as opposed to using fiat o … ⌘ Read more
Configure, Manage, and Simplify Your Observability Data Pipelines with the Calyptia Core Docker Extension
Find out how to use the Calyptia Core Docker Extension to build and manage observability pipelines in Docker Desktop. ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: #DRM isn’t just an annoyance – it’s a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campaign account at @enddrm
#DRM isn’t just an annoyance – it’s a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campa … ⌘ Read more
C’est bon, détendez-vous, on passe l’hiver !
Si les températures ne sont pas très élevées, reconnaissons au moins à certains amateurs de ballon rond de savoir dégeler plus que l’ambiance dans les rues françaises. Pendant que l’homoncule en charge du ministère de l’Intérieur fait semblant de s’agiter à réduire un peu l’empreinte carbone de ces fêtards émotifs dans les rues de Paris, […] ⌘ Read more
AltaVista Search Engine turns 27 years old
Before Google was even an idea… there was AltaVista. ⌘ Read more
Gravity
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Bunny AI
Bunny.net joined the AI hype and created “Bunny AI” (docs), AI images created on the edge. I tried it out, because it’s currently free during the preview, but somehow I don’t find the generated images aesthetic or I’m 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. 🐰 ⌘ Read more
How Developments In Nuclear Fusion Change Everything | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains… ⌘ Read more
My website is powered by GoBlog, a simple and dynamic blogging system that’s open source, actively developed and implements most IndieWeb functionalities. It packages everything in a single binary and I’ve been so over the moon using it and seeing it improve week after week that I’m surprised it isn’t more popular. So I put on my evangelist boots to share how I use this “stupidly-simple” blogging system to power my online presence. ⌘ 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. That’s why Codeberg (a German based non-profit association - disclaimer: I am a member of the association) has now started a soft fork: Forgejo. ⌘ Read more
Leaked a secret? Check your GitHub alerts…for 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. ⌘ 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. ⌘ Read more
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📚 Finished reading Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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PDA Week Wrap-up!
Spending a week reminiscing and marveling at the glory of the PDA. ⌘ 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.
I’ve 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 isn’t meant as an accusation against anyone in these communities, nor the goals of t … ⌘ Read more
📚 Finished reading Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
I should write better tests or at least create some automatic tests. 😬 (But ActivityPub is so complicated to test!) ⌘ Read more
Should I sell my PC?
I’m not sure yet what I’m going to do with my desktop computer (ASRock Deskmini A300), which I don’t really use anymore since I got my new laptop. ⌘ Read more
Reading The Precipice & struck by the fact that it was released before GPT-3, just as COVID-19 was ramping up. Pretty insane
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I think it was a very wise decision to buy some long merino underwear, a new and warmer jacket and new winter shoes. It’s so cold! The whole week already under 0°C. ⌘ 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 we’ll begin our rollout, and what you can expect as we begin requiring 2FA. ⌘ Read more
Horrible, Helpful, http3 Hack - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
L’année 2023 s’annonce décidément pleine de surprises et la France vide d’industries
Comme l’avait courageusement souhaité Bruno Le Maire au début de l’invasion ukrainienne par la Russie, l’économie est maintenant à genoux, avec le petit souci qu’il s’agit de l’économie française : après neuf mois de sanctions diverses et de décisions – notamment énergétiques – parfaitement consternantes, la France réalise grâce à quelques bidouillages statistiques a … ⌘ Read more
Optimal Bowling
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How Do Airplanes Fly? | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains… ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: 1.
‘equilibrium climate sensitivity is at least ~4°C with a likely range of 3.5-5.5°C.
global warming in the pipeline is greater than prior estimates.’
James Hansen and colleagues release new work for discussion.
This should be front page news.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04474**
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‘equilibrium climate sensitivity is at least ~4°C with a likely range of 3.5-5.5°C.
global warming in the pipeline is greater than prior estimates.’
James Hansen and colleagues release new work for discus … ⌘ Read more