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.
Tucker Carlson getting fired kinda hid the news that the Supreme Court just cleared the way for cities & states to sue the hell out of oil companies over climate change they way they did cigarette companies over cancer
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High court lets cities and states sue Exxon et alBill McKibben (The Crucial Years)
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.
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Meta's looking to provide a Twitter alternative to gather up cast-offs.Social Media Today
This is very cool.
#LibreOffice #Calc can now spell out numbers as words.
@libreoffice - I am very impressed.
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#FOSS #Spreadsheet @jeffjarvis
Download free office suite for Windows, macOS and Linux. Microsoft compatible, based on OpenOffice, and updated regularly.www.libreoffice.org
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...GitHub
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We've just released Ardour 7.4 with bugfixes and several new features: MIDI subgroup busses, volume control for the clip picker, optional neutral color for new tracks & busses, a Lua script to downmix 5.1 to stereo, and more.
Release notes: ardour.org/whatsnew.html
Downloads: ardour.org/download.html
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
The Jason Scott Myspace Story, in my own words, recorded for a myspace history podcast.
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MySpace was the first major social media company. And it was the first major social media company to collapse. But what happened on MySpace would have broad implications for all the platforms to follow.iHeart
I have in my possession one of the greatest operating system releases of all time, 20 years ago.
INTRODUCING... LINDOWS
YouTuber’s House Raided By WotC Over Magic: The Gathering Cards
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A Magic: The Gathering YouTuber found Pinkerton agents at his front door on Saturday morningSisi Jiang (Kotaku)
Magic: The Gathering Fan: Pinkertons Threatened Jail Over Cards
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The content creator would have been in a lot of trouble if he didn’t hand over Wizards of the Coast’s trading cardsSisi Jiang (Kotaku)
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.
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The content creator would have been in a lot of trouble if he didn’t hand over Wizards of the Coast’s trading cardsSisi Jiang (Kotaku)
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 ...GitHub
Analog shutdowns from around the world.
Australia, then Finland to start with:
Credits are down below. ↓The last part in a series of analog shutdown compilations, this one compiles clips of analog's final moments from across various dif...YouTube
NitroKey disappoints me
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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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…
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Speaking at a Senate Committee, Konrad von Finckenstein says CRTC may have to hire outside expertise to help them regulate Bill-C18Marie Woolf (The Globe and Mail)
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
What would happen if the richest 10% reduced their CO2 emissions to the EU average (which BTW is a nice standard of living).
Answer, there would be a 35% decrease in global CO2 emissions.
So, all would be fixed, if we could limit the excesses of the top 10%.
HTML-first front-end frameworks can help you develop modern interactive web applications while keeping page load times low and responsiveness high.SitePen
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)
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Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM file transfers over SSH using Qodemwww.cambus.net
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
Das Team von mailbox.org hat kürzlich eine kritische Sicherheitslücke im myMail-Client für iOS entdeckt.mailbox.org
Brazil’s mineral wealth could power the energy transition, but mining is a very dirty business.Robert Muggah (Foreign Policy)
#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
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.usbeketrica.com
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.
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
@Oskar456 That’s just not true. If I go to a random website, I will have to type in the card number. (And flippin’ Booking keeps forgetting it.)
Yes, there is things like Apple Pay, but that is basically just a re-implementation of what iDEAL does. So by arguing with it, you kind of argue _for_ iDEAL.
My browser is always offering to autofill these.
But then again, if the news is that iDEAL will support more banks, that's a good news. One would finally not be forced to have a NL bank account (or Revolut), just because their merchant requires iDEAL payment.
A new version of effortlessly easy audio player Amberol is rolling out on Flathub. Amberol 0.10 is composed of small but welcome changes that provideScott Bouvier (OMG! Linux)
Does anyone know any way to verify that the account at floss.social/@gnome is official?
I suggested to them they might verify their web link, but as far as I can tell the haven't? Also emailed GNOME via their official website to check if this is their account, but didn't receive a response.
Any ideas? Anyone know someone at GNOME who could verify?
I'm not suggesting it's fake by the way, it's just frustrating not to be able to verify! :)
trurl 0.6 Changes since previous release o offer {puny:host} and {puny:url} for --get o provide built-with libcurl version info for --version o support for skipping tests o test.py replaced test.pl...GitHub
This has probably come up before, seeing as the mascot is a robot - but do you also have plans for a Klapaucius?
In the TestFlight app, if you saw a message says ”the developer removed you from the test program.” that’s a bug of TestFlight. I did not remove anyone from the test program of Mona Beta.
To continue using Mona Beta, please tap “Stop Testing” on TestFlight’s Mona Beta page, then use this invitation link to re-enter our test group: testflight.apple.com/join/xNdg…
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#Netflix ha perdido UN MILLÓN de usuarios en #España desde que se ha prohibido compartir contraseñas. Nice deal.
#noticias
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Netflix Inc. lost more than one million users in Spain in the first three months of 2023 according to market research group Kantar, a sign that the streaming giant’s crackdown on password-sharing could backfire.Clara Hernanz Lizarraga (Bloomberg)
⚖️Un juzgado británico ha realizado un embargo al Instituto Cervantes en Londres. El TJUE y la Comisión Europea dan la razón a España.
Por @EconoCabreado
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