I wonder, what would’ve happened if WaPo just ran the endorsement - was Bezos gonna run down to the printer and shut off the press? Turn off the web site.
I know that it’s easy to say this, but… if I was EIC or whatever, I’d have tried to run the endorsement anyway. social.coop/@chrisjrn/11338000…
I see *someone* at the Post was allowed to file an endorsement column: https://wapo.st/3UqHWRM (Gift link)social.coop
We’re living in times where our information is the new gold. Thus, it is not uncommon for companies to harvest information of users, mainly intended toAccessible Android
Fable Raises $25m in Series B Funding to Protect Accessibility in the Age of AI...Fable
Welcome to the RB family, Privacy Lock 🥳
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Privacy Lock offers an extra layer of security on top of Android’s built-in features – like "shake to lock". Its next release should show the "green shield".
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
Protecting Your Digital IdentityIzzyOnDroid App Repo
Apple is nearing the announcement of its M4-powered Mac Mini, which is rumored to be the company’s smallest computer ever.Chris Welch (The Verge)
Apple released its new iPad mini model earlier this week, marking the first update in over three years. It was...Michael Burkhardt (9to5Mac)
Do not withhold good from those who deserve it when it’s in your power to help them.
Proverbs 3:27
What makes a password strong now? How long should it be? How often should you change it? Here's what the cybersecurity pros at NIST recommend - some of which may surprise you.Ed Bott (ZDNET)
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A study of veterans suggests a link between hearing loss and risk of Parkinson’s disease, with hearing aids potentially reducing this risk.Andy Lundin (The Hearing Review)
Apple earned a mixed victory in a patent infringement lawsuit against Masimo after a federal jury found that Masimo had infringed on some Apple patents.Jay Peters (The Verge)
Want to use Word, Excel, and Powerpoint without a subscription obligation? You can with Office 2024, which is now available on Amazon.Hans-Christian Dirscherl (PCWorld)
Digital Technology and Sustainability with Ishmael Burdeau.
In this episode, Millie Cave interviews Ishmael Burdeau, Sustainability Business Architect at the UK government's DWP, to explore the environmental impacts of digital technology.
looks like Debian's zipalign package is completely broken in testing/unstable. good thing I wrote my own, better version :3
github.com/obfusk/reproducible…
(it's so good tencent ported it to python 2 and violated the GPL (fixed now))
reproducible-apk-tools - scripts to make android apks reproducible - obfusk/reproducible-apk-toolsGitHub
Aurora Australis, captured at the southern tip of Africa where two oceans meet 🌌
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Another one of the Southern Lights captured at the Southern tip of Africa where two oceans meet. The Indian and the Atlantic oceans with the Aurora Australis above.Threads
Eleven years ago, the only long-lived #libcurl fork I am aware of was made: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2013/10/27…
It existed for several years, but it seems to be completely gone now.
Everyone and anyone is of course entitled to fork a project that is released under an open source license. This goes for my projects as well and I don't mind it. Go ahead.daniel.haxx.se
decomplexifying #curl
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(I wrote about this topic in my weekly email this week. This is the blog version, somewhat extended.) Easy to read Two contributing factors that make code hard to read are function length and function complexity.daniel.haxx.se
I'm sure you're aware of the caveats but using function length may not be the best metric to measure complexity. What I'm about to write is therefore likely nothing new to you but I'm doing it nevertheless because there are many voices in the software engineering space that apply a naive law of "long function bad, short function good".
While splitting a function into smaller parts may improve readability to some degree, it rarely decreases the mental capacity needed to understand it. I'd argue that it's quite often even the opposite if the code is well-structured:
Blocks can be used efficiently to mimic a function that is specific to a use case, relatively short and not reusable. A separate function would introduce overhead in form of its signature and disruption of the reader's flow because its location is elsewhere in the code. The block can easily be shoved into a function when it becomes larger or when it can be re-used.
As a general rule of thumb, I agree, I think.
When it comes to reducing complexity, what I'd want is to keep mental capacity needed in an acceptable range. In that regard, I'd e.g. value minimising the amount, scope and lifetime of variables within a function over function length. These metrics are likely much harder to provide but maybe they would be a neat addition next to the cyclomatic complexity.
Je to absurdní, ale Evropa se nemůže zbavit závislosti na ruském zemním plynu.
Paradoxně tak Evropa financuje obě strany konfliktu.
Nejde jen o tranzit přes Ukrajinu, ale i ruský LNG, který dováží čím dál více evropských zemí. Například Španělsko pokrývá 23 % svých dovozů plynu z Ruska.
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Check out the pixelfed community on Discord - hang out with 752 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.Discord
Mohl by na Marsu existovat život? Studie NASA nabízí možnosti
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Výzkumníci se domnívají, že by roztátá voda pod krustou marsovského ledu mohla podporovat mikrobiální život. Hned na začátek je ale nutné připomenout, že zatím nemáme k dispozici žádné důkazy o tom, že by na Marsu byl skutečně objeven život. Ovšem nová studie expertů NASA zmiňuje možnost, že by potenciální mikroorganismy mohly najít vhodné podmínky téměř na povrchu planety.
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Alfa Romeo 2000 GT Veloce, ve které kdysi havaroval Karel Gott, se stala hvězdou aukce veteránů na Prague Car Festivalu.Eva Srpová (Aktuálně.cz)
Independent publishing is one important facet of the media ecosystem, and while I love it, I know it is not the path for everyone.Molly White (Citation Needed)
#Gruzie 🇬🇪🙏🏻💚
zažila volby a opozice ma koaliční většinu. Gruzínský sen společnými silami poražen a s ním končí éra 12 let pro-ruské vlády.
EDIT:
Oficiálně je sečteno 99.646%
Vítězí stávající autoritářská vláda 54%
Exit poolls ve vládě jednoho prostě nefungují 😔
Gruzie čekají těžké časy od odstraňování opozice až po opětovné zavedení vízové povinnosti do EU a USA.
Držím palce, snad se podvody podaří prokázat 💪🏻✊🏻🤞🏻
PS Omlouvám se těm co jsem mistifikoval exit poollem.
In the decades following its 1958 release, Brenda Lee’s rockabilly-tinged “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” has attained status as an all-time holidayBrian Heater (TechCrunch)
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Forensic Architecture's cartographic analysis of the Gaza genocide, provided to South Africa for use at the International Court of Justice.
Via @ayoub , but let me repeat for emphasis: READ THIS
(a thread with some findings from the summary)
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#Gaza #Genocide #ICJ #ICC #SouthAfrica #Israel #Geography #GIS
So in A Herbivorous Dragon of 5000 Years Gets Unfairly Villainized season 2, the Crunchy English subs make it seem like King Vanessa being a girl is a reveal in ep4, because in ep2, she's referred to as "he".
This is odd since nobody acts like it's a reveal, & her name is "Vanessa". So I looked further b/c Chinese has no spoken gendered pronoun (there is "he" & "she" in text but in speech, it's the same word). The Bilibili Chinese subs say "she" (她), so do their English subs. It's only Crunchy that made the assumption the King is a boy.
I suspect the CR translator was working from just the raw, & without text they had to make an assumption, & they heard "king" & saw somebody who could be a feminine boy & assumed male.
#AHerbivorousDragonOf5000YearsGetsUnfairlyVillainized #anime #donghua
the reason we suspect it's a translator error and not Crunchy using AI translation or something is because in episode 4, a character definitively genders Vanessa, calling her "my sister". That's the first time it's made directly clear. (The character referred to an off screen sister in previous episodes but not that that was Vanessa). And then the Crunchy subs start referring to her using female pronouns. So that's likely when the translator realized the gender of the character.
Crunchy notoriously overworks and underpays their translators so it's likely they don't have time to think too much about these things because of how fast they're pushed to translate stuff, and they're doing it as they get the episodes.
incidentally I really hate how online western anime fandom treats Chinese anime/donghua. There's like constant hate on subsplease and other places on animation that has Chinese audio, and they complain about it being a "dub" even though that's the original language, and then they say they'll wait for the "real Japanese" even tho the JAPANESE IS THE DUB. There's also all the weebs who complain that Chinese sounds worse & is less "real" sounding than the Japanese dialogue and like, most of you can speak NEITHER LANGUAGE, shut the f- up.
And of course Wikipedia often only lists the Japanese VAs for a lot of Chinese anime, and it's so hard to find what the OP of a show is b/c all sites in search results list the Japanese OPs as the only OPs for the show -_-
I sincerely regret to see Linux kernel patches like this one removing Russian developers from the MAINTAINERS file. To me, it is a sign or maybe even a symbol of how far the Linux kernel developer coLaForge's home page
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Yes that’s entirely fair, it would not have taken much to state:
“We are removing these names from the maintainers list because of US sanctions enforcement. No, this is not optional, at a penalty of personal criminal liability but I Linus Torvalds would not challenge this removal even if I could”
(Which was i think the gist of the statements that came out later)
“Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it.”
“Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know.”
It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president
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PeaZip 10.0, a free & open-source file archiver, introduces an updated GUI, enhanced file tools, improved drag-and-drop options, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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