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Do you think #trurl should be able to convert an incoming JSON to a URL output? github.com/curl/trurl/issues/1…

Construct and build URLs from JSON · Issue #176 · curl/trurl

Very cool and useful program. I was wondering: The very same JSON output that this util give when using --json could be processed by some other program (like jq) and then this program could reconst...
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#Tories deliver election leaflet to 200 residents in #Norwich saying you don’t need #VoterID to vote, just be on electoral roll.

This is criminal level lying. I don’t buy that it was incompetence. It may be on their leaflets, but they know its a safe Labour seat.

I want an Electoral Commission investigation and proper fines put in place for this outrageous attempt to disenfranchise people.

eveningnews24.co.uk/news/23481…

Norwich Conservative leaflet says voter ID not needed

The Conservative Party has apologised after distributing election leaflets in Norfolk telling people they did not need to take ID to polling…
George Thompson (Norwich Evening News)
#tories #voterid #norwich

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I liked this post about “how to prove theorems" by Asaf Karagila (karagila.org/2023/theorems/), and it was not at all what I expected given the title. Thanks to @highergeometer for linking it.

What this post addresses is not “how to *prove* theorems”, but “how to prove *theorems*” — in an environment where what counts as an actual theorem is socially determined, and depends on what facts the experts of a field are and are not aware of. The fact that you have to think about this at all is sometimes decried as 'folklore', but I think the point of a publication is not to add to your CV but rather to add to the community's knowledge and understanding. Folklore is generally bad not because it makes it hard to publish stuff, but rather because it is unstable: enough people die or retire, and that knowledge disappears. That is why healthy fields are filled with great monographs, dissertations, and even textbooks, which collect this knowledge that can't be published as novel "theorems".

Asaf's stories about how he had plenty of small results that he did not bother publishing because they were only small deltas on things that people already know is relatable, and I think it is admirable that he took the dignified path rather than try to publish them and spend years whining about the lackluster referee reports…


How to prove theorems?

Oddly enough, one of the questions I hear from starting Ph.D. students is how do you prove *theorems*?, so let's talk about that. (...)
karagila.org
@theHigherGeometer
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Do awesome things, and build up your skills! Anyone can join the #LibreOffice project – you don't need to be a coder. At a recent event in Brasil, community members talked about this topic: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #freesoftware #opensource
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Don't know how to code – how to contribute? LibreOffice at the FLISOL-DF Brasília - The Document Foundation Blog

The Brazilian Community Gave a Presentation at the FLISOL-DF event (Festival Latino Americano de Instalação de Software Livre) about the LibreOffice Project. Translation by Timothy Brennan Jr.
Olivier Hallot (The Document Foundation)
#FreeSoftware #opensource #libreoffice

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- Tu objetivo en la entrevista de trabajo es conseguir el trabajo, no decir la verdad
- Nunca te creas imprescindible
- Organízate con tus compañeras, sola nunca conseguirás nada, con amigas igual sí
- Si te presionan para que dejes el trabajo voluntariamente, no lo hagas. Que te despidan y te paguen indemnización
- No hagas horas extras, que contraten más gente
- Los médicos de las mutuas trabajan para la empresa, tu salud no les importa una mierda

twitter.com/Estefierritox/stat…

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#LivingBlindfully Coming up on Living Blindfully episode 226, Voice Dream Reader has a nightmare week and ignites a subscription debate, those pesky e-scooters, and do police sometimes fail to take crimes against blind people seriously? - livingblindfully.com/lbpreview…

Coming up on Living Blindfully episode 226, Voice Dream Reader has a nightmare week and ignites a subscription debate, those pesky e-scooters, and do police sometimes fail to take crimes against blind people seriously? – Living Blindfully

www.livingblindfully.com
#livingblindfully

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B/c it was not enough to silence her voice on the House floor, #Montana Republicans have banished Rep. #ZooeyZephyr from the state legislature for the rest of the session. She will not be permitted to represent her 11,000 constituents who elected her to speak for them. GOP lawmakers misgendered Zephyr & accused her of violating decorum by opposing their anti-trans bills & saying they would have “blood on their hands”. Protesters who supported her were arrested. This is what #fascism looks like.
Rep. Zooey Zephyr holds her mic high in the air to protest her silencing by Montana House Republicans. Flowers offered by supporters cover the desk behind her.
#montana #fascism #zooeyzephyr

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GCC 13 is dropping some really nice C23 features in it (scroll down to the C section in the changelist): gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/changes.htm…

It also has a nice new warning for enumerations.

I'm sure my Rustacean and C++ian brethren will feel like it's a betrayal to do things like improve C, but I have to say it's still a decent day to be working directly with C and being a C developer so far.

GCC 13 Release Series — Changes, New Features, and Fixes - GNU Project

gcc.gnu.org

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Meta’s ActivityPub-enabled Twitter competitor is moving ahead.

The project is called “Barcelona”.

It will be its own independent app, and it’s being pitched as “Instagram for your thoughts”.

How do you feel about Meta joining the Fediverse?

Here’s a screenshot of Barcelona.

socialmediatoday.com/news/meta…

@fediversenews

Meta’s Twitter Alternative ‘Barcelona’ is Taking Shape

Meta's looking to provide a Twitter alternative to gather up cast-offs.
Social Media Today
@Fediverse News

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This is very cool.

#LibreOffice #Calc can now spell out numbers as words.

@libreoffice - I am very impressed.

For anyone who hasn't got it, see libreoffice.org/download/downl…

#FOSS #Spreadsheet @jeffjarvis

Screen grab of spreadsheet with numbers as words in three languages, English, French, and German. 1037 One Thousand and Thirty-Seven; Mille-trente-sept; Eintausendsiebenunddreigi 21377.5 Twenty-One Thousand Three Hundred and Seventy-Eight; Vingt-et-un-mille-trois-cent-soixante-dix-huit; ___Einundzwanzigtausenddreihundertachtundsiebzig:

Download LibreOffice | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

Download free office suite for Windows, macOS and Linux. Microsoft compatible, based on OpenOffice, and updated regularly.
www.libreoffice.org
#foss #libreoffice #spreadsheet #calc @LibreOffice @Jeff Jarvis

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Welcome YX Hao as #curl committer 1135: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1097…

cf-socket: turn off IPV6_V6ONLY on Windows if it is supported by lifenjoiner · Pull Request #10975 · curl/curl

It makes support for IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses. IPV6_V6ONLY refs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#IPv4-mapped_IPv6_addresses https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/ipsock_posix.go htt...
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Today's #AndroidAppRain just has a few updates: 14 apps at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid – plus 1 module at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk (the microG installer). Enjoy them nevertheless! :awesome:

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#AndroidAppRain

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In case you thought Wizards of the Coast learned *anything* from the Open Gaming License debacle, I have bad news for you.

Their next move was to send *The Pinkertons* after a fan/YouTuber who was given an (officially) unreleased set of Magic the Gathering Cards.

He was told, "if I didn’t hand over the product, they would call the county sheriff and detain us until they arrived to arrest us and search my house for the product."

Worst community management ever.

kotaku.com/magic-the-gathering…


Magic: The Gathering YouTuber Says Pinkertons Threatened Him With $200k Fines, Jail

The content creator would have been in a lot of trouble if he didn’t hand over Wizards of the Coast’s trading cards
Sisi Jiang (Kotaku)

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On an Intel-based Mac, the latest UTM (4.2.5) seems to crash right after browsing for a boot ISO image. for me. Could anyone confirm whether this also happens on an M1/M2 device please?
The issue is here: github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/5…

Crash when selecting boot iso image in the creation wizard · Issue #5250 · utmapp/UTM

After selecting a boot iso image in the creation wizard, the file browse window closes and UTM (v4.2.4 and v4.2.5) quit unexpectedly. The crash happens regardless of the selected image, tested via ...
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Erion

@bryn I haven't seen your demo, but thanks for confirming. Yeah basically it's a speed issue, but I also suspect that they fixed something in Ventura, because honestly speed should never dictate whether a UI works as expected. The sad part is that this is not even UTM, but just the UI library.

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Government official confirms it is all about the links with Bill C-18, acknowledging if Facebook and Google stop linking, there is no need to pay “because they were no longer in the business of making news available.”

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RT @globepolitics
CRTC lacks expertise to regulate online news bill says its former chair https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-crtc-lacks-expertise-to-regulate-online-news-bill-says-its-former/?utm_sourc…
twitter.com/globepolitics/stat…


CRTC lacks expertise to regulate online news bill says its former chair

Speaking at a Senate Committee, Konrad von Finckenstein says CRTC may have to hire outside expertise to help them regulate Bill-C18
Marie Woolf (The Globe and Mail)

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violet cybrespace decodes the qr code on a fast food drink cup using pen and paper, long post

in my (seemingly eternal) quest to learn how to read qr codes by eye, i figured it was time to just sit down with a qr code and decode it with only a pen and paper (and the qr code specification and an ascii table because i don't have that memorized yet)

anyway, i got a drink from mcdonald's that had a relatively small version 2M code on it (which is about as small of a qr code that can still fit a reasonable amount of data in it) and i did all the work to unmask the data and extract the various blocks of modules to figure out the message itself. the message is just a bitly link that directs you to download their app from your respective app store but that's not really relevant

when copying down the original code, i chose to draw the locator features and the version information in a different color than the masked data. this made it easier in the unmasking step to not accidentally waste time trying to unmask static features of the code

only the first 5 bits of the version information encode data (the rest is error correction) and of that the main thing you need to worry about is the 3 bits for the mask pattern but once you have that it's straightforward to unmask the data. the mask patterns are defined as like modular arithmetic statements but since they all rely on "mod 2"s and "mod 3"s i like to just imagine them as a 6x6 pattern that tiles over the data sections of the code. if you look closely you can see the orange tick marks around the outside of the codes that i drew to keep track of where the mask patterns tiled

the two main conveniences that made this a lot easier are the fact that qr codes have their entire data section at the start and all of the error correction comes later and also the fact that this is a small enough code that the error correction is done in one single block. in larger qr codes, the data is split into even groups of 8-bit codewords (up to around 80 groups) and the data is interleaved between all of those groups

anyway, like i said, the eventual goal is to be able to do all of the work that filled up a whole sheet of paper in my head but i am a long way from that future and this is literally one of the first steps

a version 2M qr code on the side of a mcdonald's drink cup. the qr code itself is a square that is basically made up of black and white pixels in a 25x25 grid that encodes information like the barcode orientation, size, error correction level, the data of the code itself, and some extra data to be able to detect and recover from failures to read the code properly this qr code also happens to have the 4 module wide quiet zone around it which is required in the specification but that many companies omit from their qr codes
a sheet of graph paper showing my work of decoding the information contained in the qr code. in the top left of the page is a recreation of the qr code except the locator features of the code that the reader uses to detect the code are in black, the version information is in red, and the data bits are in blue next to the recreated qr code is an excerpt highlighting the relevant portion of the version information which also shows the mask pattern below that is another recreation of the code but with all of the features that aren't data bits shown crosshatched instead of solid. the data bits in this drawing are shown in green and represent the blue data bits after applying the mask pattern which returns the original data used to generate the code. the various data blocks that represent things like the mode indicator, the data length, and the actual bytes that are encoded are outlined in black on the code itself at the bottom of the page are the individual bytes extracted from the code and placed side by side, with the hex representation and the ascii codes they represent below each block
me, showing a small tool that i used to aid in applying the mask pattern to the original qr code. it is a small square of paper with a square hole in the middle that is just big enough to view a 6x6 square of pixels from the code on the page the edges of the viewing window on this tool have tick marks to denote the individual pixels within the window and drawn lines extend the edges of the viewing window to the edges of the slip of paper so that the window can be aligned with orange tick marks on the original code that mark where the mask pattern repeats

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This is a hell of a throwback.

A tool I sometimes miss in era of blighted modernity is sz/rz. scp -J is fine I guess, but on those rare occasions that I'm at the far end of a few hops I frequently think it'd be nice to just zmodem a file through the whole chain. Some modern tools still build it in, apparently? (Kitty and ExtraPuTTY, PuTTY derivatives)

cambus.net/fun-with-kermit-and…

Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH | Frederic Cambus

Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM file transfers over SSH using Qodem
www.cambus.net

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We want to make medicine accessible, available, and affordable everywhere in the EU.

Our new reform of the #EUPharmaStrategy legislation proposes a single market of medicines that will:

💶 ensure affordable access,

🪫 prevent shortages,

💡 foster industry innovation,

🦠 fight antimicrobial resistance,

💚 improve environmental sustainability.

Together, we can create an innovative, patient-focused single market that is fit for the future. → europa.eu/!7prhmX

A stethoscope next to a folded European flag with superimposed text that says "We want chapter, easier and faster access to medicines."

Press corner

Highlights, press releases and speeches
European Commission - European Commission
#eupharmastrategy

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Tohle je dobrý titulek: "Zničí Brazílie Amazonii, aby zachránila klima?"
Nerostné bohatství v brazilské Amazonii (lithium, kobalt, nikl, niob...) by mohlo pohánět energetickou transformaci. Mohlo, pokud dojde k dalšímu zničení amazonských pralesů + těžba je špinavý byznys.
foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/22/b…

Will Brazil Destroy the Amazon to Save the Climate?

Brazil’s mineral wealth could power the energy transition, but mining is a very dirty business.
Robert Muggah (Foreign Policy)

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#Kdenlive 23.04 is out with nested timelines, Whisper engine support, new effects and transitions and much more.

Go check it out:
kdenlive.org/en/2023/04/kdenli…

#contentcreation #contentcreator #editing #production #videoediting

Kdenlive interface showcasing the speech to text and subtitle features.

Kdenlive 23.04.0 released - Kdenlive

Farid Abdelnour (Kdenlive)
#kdenlive #production #editing #contentcreation #contentcreator #videoediting
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Contrairement à des messageries de types WhatsApp ou Signal, qui sont hébergées à l’étranger, @element_hq utilise des serveurs décentralisés, ce qui signifie que si les Ukrainiens perdent l’accès à Internet, ils pourront toujours communiquer entre eux.
usbeketrica.com/fr/article/mat…

Matrix, le protocole décentralisé made in France qui cartonne en Ukraine

Matrix et Element sont respectivement un protocole et une application sécurisés et décentralisés. Avec le conflit ukrainien, ces technologies ont connu un certain succès auprès des utilisateurs.
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@Element

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One of the things that makes living in the Netherlands so convenient may come to all of Europe: the iDEAL online payment system. They just need to figure how to make the UI still work with thousands of banks to choose from instead of, like, a dozen.

nltimes.nl/2023/04/25/dutch-pa… via @isotopp.


Dutch payment processor iDeal to become European standard

The European Payments Initiative (EPI) acquired the Dutch payment system iDEAL with the aim of making it the standard payment solution across all European countries.
NL Times
@Kris (Backup Account)
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