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Absolutely horrifying story found via today's Boonta Vista podcast, but my total 100% honest reaction is:

"This is what WILL happen if your healthcare system is profit-based. You will get mowed down by the machine. Change your system."

usatoday.com/story/news/nation…


Kentucky man wakes up before organ donation, sparks investigation

Anthony Thomas “TJ” Hoover woke up before his organs were about to be donated after his family was told he was brain dead, an organ preservationist said.
, USA TODAY (USA TODAY)

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When 20,000 Americans Held a Pro-Nazi Rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939

openculture.com/2024/10/when-2…

When 20,000 Americans Held a Pro-Nazi Rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939

Night at The Garden, a film that revisits a night in February 1939 when '20,000 Americans rallied in New York's Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism -- an event largely forgotten from U.S. history.
OC (Openculture.com)

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 15 updated and 3 added apps:

* Swift Notes: lightweight and secure notes app 🛡️
* NotallyX: Minimalistic note taking app 🛡️
* splitcat: split and merge files

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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

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The moral meltdown at the LA Times and Washington Post is a reminder that independent journalism is needed more than ever. It's also a reminder that being an independent journalist is HARD work, with challenges the "professionals" rarely see or grasp.

I urge you to read this from Molly White (hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff), one of the best we've seen:

citationneeded.news/i-am-my-ow…

and then please consider joining me as a paid subscriber.


I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent”

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)

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It's #CyberSecurityMonth! Time to #deGoogle 💪💪💪

What are your favorite privacy-first apps?

Check out our list:
tuta.com/blog/how-to-leave-goo…

App icons of Google alternatives like Tuta, Firefox, F-Droid, and more.

How to De-Google your life – The ultimate list of best Google alternatives.

Start DeGoogling today and stop Big G from exploiting your data! In this in-depth guide learn how to quit Google apps for good, and start using Tuta’s privacy expert’s recommended apps instead.
Tuta
#degoogle #cybersecuritymonth

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A fireball streaked by while Yasutaka Saika was taking a photograph of Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, producing this beautiful, accidental celestial alignment.

Captured on Oct 24 from Tereske, Hungary.

facebook.com/yasutaka.saika/ #space #science #astronomy #photography

Comet C/2023A3 and a fireball seen together in northern Hungary.

Yasutaka Saika

Yasutaka Saika je na Facebooku. Přidejte se na Facebook a spojte se s Yasutakou Saikou a dalšími lidmi, které znáte. Facebook dává lidem příležitost sdílet a dělá tak svět otevřenější a propojenější.
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#photography #science #astronomy #space

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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…

Christopher Neugebauer (@chrisjrn@social.coop)

I see *someone* at the Post was allowed to file an endorsement column: https://wapo.st/3UqHWRM (Gift link)
social.coop

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Welcome to the RB family, Privacy Lock 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.p…

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


„Paranoid's Pal - Privacy Lock“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Protecting Your Digital Identity
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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7 essential password rules to follow in 2024, according to security experts zdnet.com/article/7-essential-…

7 essential password rules to follow in 2024, according to security experts

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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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/zipalign.py at master · obfusk/reproducible-apk-tools

reproducible-apk-tools - scripts to make android apks reproducible - obfusk/reproducible-apk-tools
GitHub

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Aurora Australis, captured at the southern tip of Africa where two oceans meet 🌌

📸 - Kyle Goetsch: threads.net/@kylegoetschphotog…

This image shows a striking natural phenomenon at the meeting point of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, marked by a stone monument in the foreground. The sky above is illuminated with hues of red, pink, and green, suggesting an aurora display, which creates an otherworldly atmosphere. The rugged rocks and ocean in the background add to the dramatic scene, emphasising the wild beauty of this unique location.

Kyle Goetsch | Adventure Through Photography (@kylegoetschphotography) on Threads

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
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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.

he forked off libgnurl

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
#libcurl
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Lenny

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.

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Lenny

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.

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Daniel Fisher(lennybacon)

@f09fa681 Kinda agree when we exclude functions extracted/refactored that contain only one call. While a complex call with a GOOD name of the function might be considered helpful, I tend to find it harmful as it is a context switch while reading code, for only one line/call. So it can turn bad if everything is wrapped in small functions - having unreadable code, and slipping right through the metric.
@Lenny

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