Some very smart, talented, and creative friends of mine recognized that "herculean tasks" and "sisyphean tasks" seems a bit limiting, so they came up with some more.
My cousin Jared wins a lot of radio contests and basically every DJ in Ontario knows him by name. I asked him to share his tips and had fun writing them up for WIRED: wired.com/story/how-to-win-rad…
Survey by Owl Labs finds that if the ability to work from home was taken away, 66% of workers would immediately start looking for a job that offered more flexibility; about 39% would promptly quit. cnbc.com/2024/09/03/working-10…
I wrote this blog post in 2019 with the confidence that the WordPress starter theme I built would stand the test of time, no matter how many things changed in the WordPress core.
I'm happy to say that after upgrading to the latest WP version, including PHP, everything works as smoothly as it did on day one.
Blowing my own horn here, but this is a great testament to how a modular and lean source code can be resilient and reliable without needing constant maintenance.
I have a weird issue: an APK (i.e. ZIP file) with deflate-compressed data which I cannot recreate using python + zlib, even with code that tries every possible combination of parameters (with the obvious exception of providing a predefined compression dictionary) instead of just varying the compression level.
One file's compressed data can be reproduced using strategy Z_FILTERED, but for all the other files I've tried the script doesn't return any matches (it works fine with the APK we built ourselves, which should have had identical compressed data as the build is supposed to be deterministic).
Reminder of how much we like to criminalize being poor.
Skipping a $3.50 transit fare results in a $425 fine while skipping a $20 parking pass lands you a $70 fine that rich people complained to high heaven about. What justification, other than hating poor people, is there for this not scaling?
Make parking fines $2000 and then let's talk about the fictional "war on cars"
In My Day™ we whined about restaurant website menus that were PDFs. Today, a restaurant’s “website” is an Instagram account which doesn’t list their address or hours, and the menu is a Story. Requires you to be logged into Instagram, goes away after four seconds, can’t be zoomed in. Just perfect.
I confirm that I don't know anybody wanting that stuff in a browser... We need to find an alternative... Maybe a Webcurl ? You're just missing an UI, after all
I've finished adding subtitles to my 4th DebConf presentation, and with that I wrote a blog post with a summary of everything.
There's some background into curl and wcurl, including the draft wcurl logo and the recording of the Debian curl maintainers BoF, if you want to have a peak at the maintenance of curl on Debian.
Others have said this, but the Internet Archive's appeals-court loss to Big Publishing is a disaster for everyone but the cartel of companies and a tiny number of A list authors.
The publishers will tolerate libraries only as long as they can control everything about how books can be loaned. If public libraries were being invented today, the cartel would make their core functions illegal.
The August 2024 report from the Reproducible Builds project has been published.
"In Android news, the IzzyOnDroid project added 49 new rebuilder recipes and now features 256 total reproducible applications representing 21% of the total offerings in the repository."
Featured are Holger Levsen's DebConf24 talk (and the related LWN article), PostgreSQL removing intermediate build artifacts from tarballs, various improvements to our website, and more.
Bis auf Weiteres haben wir uns entschlossen, unseren Mastodon-Kanal ruhen zu lassen. Folgt uns auf unseren anderen Kanälen für spannende News zu den Themen Bildung und Forschung:
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Because I can’t be arsed to re-up my Dragon license, kudos to @siblingpastry for the most recent test of voice control support for wrapped labels: tpgi.com/should-form-labels-be…
Cisco's site for selling company-themed merchandise is currently offline and under maintenance due to hackers compromising it with JavaScript code that steals sensitive customer details provided at checkout.
Added a "2 month update" section to my blog post about #Amazon bricking my kindle and reading at least 26 books on the Kindle Paperwhite I bought to replace it.
tl;dr: I regret buying a paperwhite instead of the Kobo Libra Color.
What a total pain. I unDRM my Kindle books so I can read them in Braille, but to do that I have to download and transfer via USB then use calibre. Presumably my device will also stop being supported soon.
@cachondo wait.... you unDRM them still? Like present day? I haven't figured out how to do that for the latest kindle DRM.
Please tell me your secrets!!!
I used to use calibre for that, but I'm pretty sure it can't do the latest anymore. I tried 2 paid apps too. They could extract the content but they lost all the formatting and things like bold and italic.
To be honest I'm still using the old setup. I had to add the serial number of the physical Kindle into a Calibre plugin somewhere for it all to work. Doesn't work on the newer KFX files, but every book I've acquired is still downloadable as an AZW file from the website. It's a paperwhite 10th gen.
@cachondo ahh i didn’t know you could still download the AZW files. That was the piece i was missing.
As far as i know there’s no good decryption for the KFX files although the paid ones may work for you, unless braille readers do something useful to designate bold and italics
Long story there. They do now, but didn't when I learned Braille as a kid so I don't miss the formatting. In fact many of the Braille books from the 80's in the UK didn't have capital letters in them either!
@cachondo why do people keep making such half-assed accessibility accommodations? Like, i get that it can be hard but “fuck-it. I did the bare minimum” and then wandering off is just a dick move
and will fix a blocker that is hurting adoption of JPEG XL.
The reference implementation has unfortunately been written in C++ just as browser vendors started looking into migrating away from C++ for security reasons, and saw the C++ codec primarily as a big new attack surface.
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