Cold Complaints
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How To Argue Like A Scientist At Holiday Dinner: A Cosmic Perspective from Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
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. â Read more
MDE under the Hood (Model Driven Engineering) - Computerphile â Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: đȘđș@vonderleyen: France has withdrawn from the Energy Charter Treaty â a toxic agreement hampering EUâs Green Deal and Paris Agreement goals đ
Why is @EU_Commission keeping ECT on life-support?
Listen to 1M people: Coordinated EU withdrawal now!
#ExitECT #NoECT**
đȘđș @vonderleyen: France has withdrawn from the Energy Charter Treaty â a toxic agreement hampering EUâs Green Deal and Paris Agreement goals đ
Why is [@EU_Commission](https:/ ⊠â Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: As instituiçÔes pĂșblicas devem assegurar a soberania e autonomia das suas comunicaçÔes e relaçÔes com os cidadĂŁos nĂŁo se deixando sujeitas a interesses e caprichos de terceiros.
#SoberaniaDigital #SoftwareLivre #Fediverso #Mastodon #AdministraçãoPĂșblica**
As instituiçÔes pĂșblicas devem assegurar a soberania e autonomia das suas comunicaçÔes e relaçÔes com os cidadĂŁos nĂŁo se deixando sujeitas a interesses e caprichos de terceiros.
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JMP: Newsletter: Busy Year in 2022
ï»żHi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case itâs been a while since you checked out JMP, hereâs 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 ⊠â Read more
BREAKING: Red Hat CEO admits he âhas no idea what Kubernetes isâ
âPretty sure itâs like, Rust, I think,â stated Canonical CEO. â 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. â Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Busy Year in 2022
ï»żHi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case itâs been a while since you checked out JMP, hereâs 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 ⊠â Read more
[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
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 ⊠â Read more
Data Point
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**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
The Linux Foundation launches map foundation to compete with Google
And, you know what? Itâs actually pretty well licensed! â Read more
Commercial Dev Tool vendor adds ARM64 and âDark Modeâ for Linux
The multi-platform Xojo IDE (Mac, Windows, iOS) keeps beefing up their Linux support. Which pleases Lunduke. â Read more
/g/ tomo/os r19344 â Read more
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
âThe Sidecarâ â Adding advanced networking, and a Linux shell, to a Psion palmtop
One of the coolest designs Iâve seen for extending older computers via the serial port. â Read more
How Physics Has Changed The 2022 World Cup â Read more
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
BREAKING: EU orders Apple to add RS-232 port to iPhone
âWeâre⊠super⊠excited to add a serial port to the iPhone,â stated Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a not at all forced tone of voice. â Read more
Retiring My Fiat Donation Portal
Iâve 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.
Itâs 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 ⊠â Read more
Retiring My Fiat Donation Portal
Iâve 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.
Itâs 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 ⊠â 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. â Read more
RT by @mind_booster: #DRM isnât just an annoyance â itâs 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 isnât just an annoyance â itâs 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 ⊠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
AltaVista Search Engine turns 27 years old
Before Google was even an idea⊠there was AltaVista. â Read more
Gravity
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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
How Developments In Nuclear Fusion Change Everything | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains⊠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
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đ 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. 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
đ Finished reading Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
I should write better tests or at least create some automatic tests. đŹ (But ActivityPub is so complicated to test!) â Read more
Development RSS feed location has moved
Please point your feed reader to https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss/releases.atom to continue receiving hnrss development updates. Thanks! 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
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. 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
Horrible, Helpful, http3 Hack - Computerphile 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
ăç„ăăïŒCyberNewsFlashăAppleèŁœćăźăąăăăăŒăă«ă€ăăŠïŒ2022ćčŽ12æïŒă â Read more
Optimal Bowling
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How Do Airplanes Fly? | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains⊠â Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: 1.
âequilibrium 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.â
James Hansen and colleagues release new work for discussion.
This should be front page news.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04474**
1.
âequilibrium 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.â
James Hansen and colleagues release new work for discus ⊠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
Erlang Solutions: Change data capture with Postgres & Elixir
CDC is the process of identifying and capturing data changes from the database.
With CDC, changes to data can be tracked in near real-time, and that information can be used to support a variety of use cases, including auditing, replication, and synchronisation.
A good example of a use case for CDC is to consider an application which inserts a record into the database and pushes an event to a message queue after the record has ⊠â Read more
We have more in common with mushrooms than you think⊠â Read more
What was the first PDA?
It wasnât the Palm Pilot. Nor the Newton. Letâs keep going back to find the answer⊠â Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Spark 3.0.1 Released
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of Spark 3.0.1 version.
This release contains mostly fixes. macOS now uses the default FlatLaf LaF. The user can also choose the type of tabs âscrollâ as in Spark 3.0.0 or âwrapâ as in Spark 2.X. See screenshot below. And also for some users, Spark not saved history.
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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
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
The Tech Bullies vs. Raspberry Pi
The mob of Tech Bullies has chosen a new target this week. â Read more
Hydropower Breakthrough
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Snikket: F-Droid security update
Last week, Snikket Android users who installed the Snikket app via F-Droid
started receiving a warning that it contained a
security vulnerability. This wasnât entirely accurate, as the problem wasnât
with the Snikket app itself but specifically F-Droidâs own build of the app
that was using an outdated version of the WebRTC library.
Like many communication apps, Snikket uses WebRTC for audio and video calls.
Weâve been working on finding a ⊠â Read more
R to @mind_booster: #greenwashing 101
#greenwashing 101 â Read more
O gasoduto ibĂ©rico Ă© um projecto cheio de buracos, mas todas as evidĂȘncias continuam a ser ignoradas. Um desses buracos Ă© que os planos existentes nĂŁo passam a bitola do impacto ambiental, o que nĂŁo faz o @govpt hesitar: se o ambiente nĂŁo gosta do projecto, ignore-se o ambiente.
O gasoduto ibĂ©rico Ă© um projecto cheio de buracos, mas todas as evidĂȘncias continuam a ser ignoradas. Um desses buracos Ă© que os planos existentes nĂŁo passam a bitola do impacto ambiental, o que nĂŁo faz o [@govpt](https://nitter.net ⊠â Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: à procura do teu cantinho no Mastodon? A Ciberlùndia tem inscriçÔes abertas este fim-de-semana.
«A Ciberlùndia é uma comunidade dedicada à cultura digital e aos seus cruzamentos com todas as åreas da criatividade, sociedade e atividade humana em geral.»**
à procura do teu cantinho no Mastodon? A Ciberlùndia tem inscriçÔes abertas este fim-de-semana.
«A CiberlĂąndia Ă© uma comunidade dedicada Ă cultura digital e aos seus cruz ⊠â Read more
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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
Haiku becomes viable for daily use (right on schedule)
Listen now (24 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - December 9, 2022 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
Blockchain Blasphemy and the Technological Antichrist
Thereâs a meme YouTube video by Leonardo of Biz ( here) where the villainous Bogs refer to their desire to attain something called âThe Akashic Recordsâ using blockchain technology.
This random aside not just shows the attention to detail Leonardo gives what would otherwise be silly videos, but articulates something deep ⊠â Read more
Blockchain Blasphemy and the Technological Antichrist
Thereâs a meme YouTube video by Leonardo of Biz ( here) where the villainous Bogs refer to their desire to attain something called âThe Akashic Recordsâ using blockchain technology.
This random aside not just shows the attention to detail Leonardo gives what would otherwise be silly videos, but articulates something deep ⊠â Read more
How to Make Millions Counting Cards â Read more
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