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Dear followers, some of you may know that there is a state in Brazil suffering from a severe climate catastrophe. Well, this state is called Rio Grande do Sul, and I live here. We've been dealing with almost 2 weeks of heavy rain, which made many rivers and lakes to flood, one of them in my hometown, the capital Porto Alegre. Many of my friends had to abandon their houses and some of them lost everything. Since a decade ago we've been dealing with a extreme neoliberal agenda that promoved heavy economic austerity in the capital and in the whole state. Now, the government doesn't have resources to save and protect the people for the next calamities. We are on our own. So, I'll post here a link of a very respectable social organization from Brazil, the movement for homeless workers (MTST) which is accepting international donations. THIS IS A SERIOUS POST, NOT A SCAM, you can search the topic on your own if you want.

Link for donations:
apoia.se/enchentesrs

Financiamento Coletivo na APOIA.se | Crowdfunding Pontual e Mensal

Financiamento coletivo para todos os tipos de projetos e sonhos. Ative sua rede e financie sua ideia. Comece agora sua campanha.
Financiamento coletivo para todos os tipos de projetos e sonhos. Ative sua rede e financie sua ideia. Comece agora sua campanha.

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Here's a high-level writeup of what I've been up to at work for the past year and a half. I'm excited to be able to talk about it, and even more excited for what's to come next. github.blog/2024-05-07-how-wer…

How we’re building more inclusive and accessible components at GitHub - The GitHub Blog

We're making improvements to the way users of assistive technology can interact with and navigate lists of issues and pull requests and tables across GitHub.com.
Eric Bailey (The GitHub Blog)

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Today I thought about the classic binary search algorithm for the first time in months at least, and possibly years. I think I'll be using it in my GTK AccessKit integration. I vaguely remembered someone writing that nearly all binary search implementations are broken. I think this is the post: research.google/blog/extra-ext…

Extra, Extra - Read All About It: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are

Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley's first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D. ...
research.google
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Matt Campbell

And since that post mentions the book _Programming Pearls_, I was pleased to find that the second edition of that book is available as a DRM-free ebook: informit.com/store/programming…

Programming Pearls, 2nd Edition | InformIT

The first edition of Programming Pearls was one of the most influential books I read early in my career, and many of the insights I first encountered in that book stayed with me long after I read it.
www.informit.com
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James Scholes

I know I shouldn't always immediately jump to this mindset, but my first instinct is to wonder how relevant a book written a quarter of a century ago will be today. The landscape has changed so much in terms of how and where we work, the tools, techniques, and languages available, computing power, and so on, even if underneath it's all based on the same fundamentals.
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Matt Campbell

@jscholes No, I was thinking of reading it to look for things I can practically apply. The fact that it's been so long since I even remembered binary search makes me think that I've spent too long immersed in the incidental complexity of real-world software development, especially high-level product development, and that I should get back to the fundamentals.
@James Scholes

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Some might think email is old & outdated, but in 2024, we need a secure email account more than ever.🔒❤️

👉👉 Learn why email is here to stay: tuta.com/blog/email-is-importa…

Picture of a red phone, a red post box, and Tuta Mail - in red!

Email is needed for modern communication and it's here to stay.

Some people might believe email is old and outdated but it still remains a vital form of communication globally for private and business use - here’s why!
Tutanota

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Think of the billions of Apple devices that shipped with Apple logo stickers in the box, stickers that for at least some billions of users were just something to throw away. With the new iPads, Apple has finally stopped including the stickers and it is a relief.
appleinsider.com/articles/24/0…

At last Apple is dumping those pointless, wasteful stickers

Starting with the new iPads, Apple has finally stopped including the stickers and it is a relief.
William Gallagher (AppleInsider)

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@SheDrivesMobility Liebe Katja, der WDR hat eine unserer Schulstrassendemos inkl. dem regelmäßigen Fahrradbus der #kidicalmass in der Sendung „Wie fährt NRW?“ begleitet. Diese wird heute um 20:15 Uhr ausgestrahlt. Der Beitrag ist auch schon in der Mediathek zu sehen. Liebe Grüße aus Köln und Danke für Deine Arbeit ardmediathek.de/video/markt/wi…

Markt: Wie fährt NRW? | ARD Mediathek

Wie fährt NRW? | Video | Die Verkehrswende soll her - gegen verstopfte Städte und Autobahnen, gegen marode Bahnen und das aufgeheizte Klima.
www.ardmediathek.de
#KidicalMass @Katja Diehl
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Second blog post on the #moxxy UI! Unfortunately I've had a very busy month and don't have much new to report. Hopefully I'll have more time in May to work on new screens. #xmpp #penpot #ui

ailyaut.robotfumeur.fr/blog/20…


Moxxy UI: April 2024 progress report – Ailyaut's blog

April has been a busy month, partly due to a Windows Defender Trojan alert that gave me a good excuse to wipe my entire disk and switch to Linux. So this post will be short and without any major news.
ailyaut.robotfumeur.fr
#xmpp #ui #penpot #moxxy

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Das Buchungssystem der Bahn ist .... hmm...😡
insbesondere beim Mobilitätsservice für die Rollstuhlplätze, die nicht mit der Fahrkarte online buchbar sind
Fahrkarte kann man online buchen. Aber MSZ sagt, Rollstuhlplatz (noch) nicht reservierbar
Wie kann das sein, habe ich gefragt.

Nun habe ich die Reservierung.... für Büchen - Dresden statt Büchen Berlin... weil nur Büchen dresden im Computer angelegt ist für den Zug...

Das problematische daran, ist dass der Platz dann auch für Berlin - Dresden gebucht ist obwohl ich da nicht mitfahre, ich hoffe andere rollstuhlfahrende Person wird nicht wegen kein Platz abgelehnt

"Service" für den Einstieg in Büchen, dort wo das Personal erst 7h30 da ist, aber der Zug 7h15, ist nun doch in Prüfung. Mal sehen ob es doch geht....

Passend dazu, mein plakat bei der Demo zum Prottesttag für die Gleichstellung von Menschen mit Behinderungen
#BarriereBahn #Barrierefreiheit #Rollstuhl

Demo mit vielen Menschen im Rollstuhl - aber nicht nur. Es ist nass, viele Menschen stehen unter Pavillonzelte. ich sitze auf meinem Rollstuhl mit T-Shirt mit einem roten und schwarzen rollstuhlfahrenden Menschen - im Still wie im Antifa Logo. und ich trage ein Plakat "#BarriereBrechen Stell dir vor .... Jederzeit spontan Bahnfahren möglich dank Barrierefreiheit #FightAbleism"
#barrierefreiheit #BarriereBahn #rollstuhl
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Der Skoutz Award für Belletristik ist mir in den vergangenen Jahren leider nur noch negativ aufgefallen, u.a. durch Queerfeindlichkeit.
In diesem Jahr möchte er Bücher zulassen, deren Texte oder Cover mit KI generiert wurden. Ein Schlag ins Gesicht für Autor*innen, die an ihren Bücher ohne KI arbeiten.

Ein Statement vom Leseratten Verlag dazu auf Instagram: instagram.com/p/C6rE2P5iT66/

Auf Facebook:
facebook.com/leserattenverlag/…

#noToAI #Literaturpreis


Leseratten Verlag

OFFIZIELLE STELLUNGNAHME! Hallo meine Lieben, mit Freude habe ich erfahren, dass wir mehrfach auf diversen Longlisten des Skoutz-Award für 2024 stehen. Das ist schön, dass unsere Bücher gesehen und...
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#notoai #literaturpreis
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M.S. Bellows, Jr.

Judge Cannon's move today is infuriating, but completely expected.

Now it's Smith's turn to take the fight to her. Here's a helpful explainer on how he can ask to have her replaced; the difficulty (but not impossibility!) he'll face in doing so; and why, in light of the Constitution's double jeopardy clause, it's absolutely vital that he move to DQ her now: thebulwark.com/p/what-it-would…


Here’s What It Would Look Like to Remove Judge Cannon

Plus: The actions she could take if she were determined to kill off the classified documents case against Donald Trump.
Philip Rotner (The Bulwark)
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“It’s comically difficult” to turn off your new car’s data collection, EFF’s @Thorin told Sherwood News. “I do this for a living and I am not 100% positive I have gotten everything correct, which is ridiculous.” sherwood.news/tech/how-to-opt-…

How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas

I was the first person to ask my Honda dealer how to turn off data sharing. It didn't go well.
Rani Molla (Sherwood News)
@Thorin Klosowski

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Two former Republican officials join @timmillergram today to explain their break with Trump. Former DHS @neusummits flipped in 2020, while Geoff Duncan broke ranks yesterday and endorsed Biden. lnk.thebulwark.com/3JRrJPW

Elizabeth Neumann and Geoff Duncan: Republican Voters Against Trump

Two conservatives describe their break with Trump. Former DHS official Elizabeth Neumann saw both the mafia culture up close and Trump's disinterest in doing the work of being president.
Tim Miller (The Bulwark)
@timmillergram @neusummits

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Do take the time to read this brilliant piece.

It contains excellent explanations on the spread of COVID mutations/variants, why vaccination alone isn't the answer, why we should continue to mask and negative communications.

#WearAMask #WearADamnMask #CovidIsNotOver #COVID19 #covid

open.substack.com/pub/thegaunt…


Does the public understand that "variant" means "vaccine resistant"?

Getting boosted is critical because the virus is changing. Other forms of mitigation are critical to slow the rate of change.
Julia Doubleday (The Gauntlet)
#covid #COVID19 #WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver #WearADamnMask

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hovoriť že som to hovoril že to raz povie je asi zbytočné že

aktuality.sk/clanok/jcYhmBt/pe…


Peter Pellegrini: Ak to bude potrebné, na mierové rokovania ponúknem aj Bratislavu

Novozvolený prezident vyhlásil, že 79 rokov bez vojny spôsobilo istú devalváciu mieru samotného a vnímame ho ako samozrejmosť. „Žiaľ, v tomto čase vidíme, že to tak nie je,“ dodal.
TASR (Aktuality.sk)

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This is what 45 years of spent nuclear fuel looks like safely stored at North Anna nuclear power plant.

Each cask helped avoid more than 3 million metric tons of emissions and all of them helped generate 600 TWh of clean electricity!

And we're not done with it: this is future fuel for breeder reactors. The resulting actual waste is around 1% in volume and remains radioactive for just 300 years.

Can we store something safely for 300 years?

Yes we can.

Let's recycle this ♻️

Shown are two rows of casks inside a fenced area.

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Beskydy mountains, below the ridge we meet a spotted newt. There's still plenty of water here. The ridge of the mountains catches the clouds, there is moss everywhere, beautiful shades of green around us. Green light, the way the sun shines through the young leaves of the beeches. It's been like this since the end of the ice age, at least 10,000 years. In a few decades it will probably end, this type of forest will not survive the temperature rise and water shortage due to climate change.

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Omdat Google Podcasts stopt zocht ik onderdak voor mijn 188 abonnementen. Daar had ik best wat voor willen betalen tot ik op Mastodon werd gewezen op @AntennaPod , een open source app voor Android en F-Droid. Omdat het platform gedecentraliseerd is, krijg je geen notificaties maar scant het je kanalen af wanneer je wilt. Dat duurt in mijn geval enkele minuten.
Antennepod leest RSS-feeds, dus kan de vervelende app #NPO Luister ook weg. antennapod.org/nl/

AntennaPod – De Open Podcast Speler

AntennaPod is een podcast-speler die volledig open is. De app is open source en je kunt je abonneren op elke RSS-feed. AntennaPod wordt gemaakt door vrijwilligers zonder commerc...
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#npo @AntennaPod

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Podepište prosím tuto petici.

„Vyzýváme vládu ČR, aby neprodleně realizovala nezbytné kroky k obraně ČR proti hybridním hrozbám, zejména k obraně proti propagandě nepřátelských států a informační válce, kterou proti nám vedou.“

#ceskyprostor #dezinformace #russko

ceskyprostor.cz/

Petice za informační bezpečnost, svobodné a férové volby

Petice za informační bezpečnost, svobodné a férové volby. Událost v Praze.
www.ceskyprostor.cz
#russko #dezinformace #ceskyprostor

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spoluobčania

Veď toto... ja tomu nechápem, naozaj tomu nerozumiem ako to môžu naši spoluobčania takto chápať. Čo je na tom sociálne ja neviem.

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Politológ: Preferencie vládnych strán neklesajú, voličov zaujímajú sociálne opatrenia a kritika opozície ich neovplyvňuje

Značná časť voličov koalície je presvedčená, že vláda pri svojich krokoch postupuje správne, tvrdí Mesežnikov.
Pravda.sk
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Daniel Tóth 🦄

spoluobčania

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126 people have already taken part in the Month of #LibreOffice, May 2024! But we're just getting started. Join them, and get some cool merch at the end: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Month of LibreOffice banner

Do something awesome – Join the Month of LibreOffice, May 2024! - The Document Foundation Blog

Want to learn new skills, for a potential future career change? Or just expand your knowledge and have fun on the way? Get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2024! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate …
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#libreoffice

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1. do not assume that URLs will be treated the same cross user-agents.

2. do not assume that IPv4-mapped IPv6-addresses can be written in octal.

Another day. Another security report against #curl we could close.

hackerone.com/reports/2493548


curl disclosed on HackerOne: Incorrect Type Conversion in...

## Summary: Octal Type Handling of Errors in IPv4 Mapped IPv6 Addresses in curl allows unauthenticated remote attackers to perform indeterminate SSRF, RFI, and LFI attacks on many programs that...
HackerOne
#curl

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Reading a bit about diacritics, I learned of the existence of lexical sets.

Lexical sets are sets of words which share the realisation of a phoneme in most accents of a language. They're useful in describing phonemic features without using special symbols, and they avoid the phoneme/phone distinction (mostly). They can also help characterise accents by determining whether certain mergers exist, for example whether north and force are pronounced with the same or a different vowel.

Each set contains a number of exemplars, and is quickly referred to by a representative word. Typical lexical sets in English: kit, dress, trap, lot, strut, foot, bath, cloth, nurse, fleece, face, palm, thought, goat, goose, price, choice, mouth, near, square, start, north, force, cure, happy, letter, and comma.

Further info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_…

Group of words that fall under a single category

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

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These packages had stickers? I never bothered to even empty that envelope of paper in any of the Apple packaging since I started buying Apple products, the only exception being the SIM card tool when I still needed it. It’s funny to what things a blind person can be completely oblivious. 😉 mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/11240…

9to5Mac (@9to5Mac@mastodon.online)

Attached: 1 image PSA: New iPads won’t include stickers in the box due to Apple’s environmental goals https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/07/new-ipad-pro-ipad-air-apple-stickers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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"To me, the latest is the latest my OS provides me. If #curl maintainers dont care about pushing the latest into the OSes they support, it's not me to blame. I think curl maintainers should push Centos to provide the latest to all users. What's the purpose of you fixing multiple bugs and security holes if you dont spend time to make it available to the broader audience?"

We are obviously all just too lazy.

github.com/curl/curl/issues/13…


americanas.com.br immediately sends RST_STREAM · Issue #13546 · curl/curl

I did this The website americanas.com.br is the largest ecommerce in brazil after amazon.com. For some reason, simply requesting the main page returns with error. It's not a protection or any secur...
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#curl

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Un bon moment per migrar a @AntennaPod! Doneu-li una oportunitat, que és realment bona! I com no, és lliure i de codi obert!

La migració és molt fàcil i la teniu ben explicada aquí: antennapod.org/blog/2023/11/go…

Correu de Google Podcasts on s'avisa del tancament de la plataforma durant aquest any.

Migrating from Google Podcasts to AntennaPod: why and how to do it – AntennaPod

Other apps might come and go, but AntennaPod is always by your side!
AntennaPod
@AntennaPod
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