Bear in mind that the difference between a "disposable" vape and a "technically rechargeable" one is basically just the addition of a USB port that had to be intentionally removed from the off-the-shelf electronics used to make it.

Selling "technically rechargeable" devices as cheaply as the "disposable" ones they replace won't fix the problem.

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Et voilà pour la facturation électronique on sera obligés de passer par des prestataires privés, propriétaires, et payants.

Un surcoût pour toutes les entreprises, particulièrement les petites.

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Hello!
Who knows how do I pin a package to a specific version in #archlinux? Something like apt's package pinning in Debian.

Why? I don't want to update my kernel to newest versions where the team just silently removed more than 10 Russian developers from maintainers list. This is not fair and I will stay on honest versions with honest maintainers list.

#linux #foss

Q: Where's the Lone Ranger take his garbage?
A: To the dump, to the dump, to the dump dump dump!

Q: What's the Pink Panther say when he steps on an ant hill?
A: Dead ant, dead ant, dead ant dead ant dead ant...

Russell Contreras zeroes in on findings of the PRRI "Challenges to Democracy" study. Who, precisely wants to round up immigrants and put them into camps?

79% of Republicans vs. 22% of Democrats

75% of white evangelicals
61% of white Catholics
58% of white mainline Protestants

#Republicans #Trump #JDVance #immigrants #violence #MassDeportations #churches #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #MainlineProtestants
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I guess we’re still a long way away from calling this what it is: white supremacy AND anti-Blackness

Mediocre, unremarkable white dudes getting graded at a lower standards but receiving greater outcomes is NOT new but this time, like George Floyd, it’s too obvious to ignore

A little known fact that Queen Elizabeth II sent this message, unsolicited, to all ARPANET users way back in 1976.

Thus, becoming the world's very first spammer. :)

chudák kengura 😢

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Voľne žijúca kengura bola na Liptove atrakciou, exotické zviera zrazilo auto

V prírode ju ľudia vídali viac ako rok.

^{Ľubica Stančíková (SME.sk)}

Takové monstrum se jen tak nevidí. Jakub Vágner chytil pod Bítovem obřího sumce

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Takové monstrum se jen tak nevidí. Jakub Vágner chytil pod Bítovem obřího sumce

Jen dva týdny poté, co známý rybář a dobrodruh Jakub Vágner chytil na Vranovské přehradě na Znojemsku rekordního sumce o délce 264 centimetrů, oznámil další monstrózní úlovek. Obří ryba, kterou chytil u hradu Bítov, měřila 252 centimetrů. 

^{Ilona Pergrová (Deník.cz)}

Trying to add TLS session handling for OpenSSL's QUIC implementation. Hit a wall in github.com/openssl/openssl/iss…

Any QUIC implementation takes years to get working. Until then, it will stay experimental.

I am very glad that @samueloph slashed the Gordian knot and pushed curl with ngtcp2+gnutls out there for everyone.

QUIC new session callback has wrong SSL* · Issue #25788 · openssl/openssl

Tested with OpenSSL 3.4.0 in curl. When adding: SSL_CTX_sess_set_new_cb(ssl_ctx, cf_osslq_new_session_cb); SSL_set_app_data(ssl, ); to the main SSL* instance of a QUIC connection, t...

^GitHub

Question for those of us in the UK.

What do you think of Assisted Dying?

I would accept it if we can make the choice to have it before we are very, very ill.

If you have built #curl for visionOS, maybe you can help this user out?

github.com/curl/curl/discussio…

How to build for visionOS? · curl curl · Discussion #15357

Hi, I'm recently wrapping a C libaray, which depends on CURL, into a swift package. It is then used for building a native visionOS app. I've been following the official document for building from s...

^GitHub

🦾6 AI Tos Used by Hackers

🔹Poisongpt
🔹Wormgpt
🔹Speechif.ai
🔹Deepl.ai
🔹Freedom.ai
🔹Passgan.ai

🔖#infosec #cybersecurity #hacking #pentesting #security

Po prvnim dni zatim nase nejuspesnejsi kampan. Nas cil mit kazdy mesic nejvic nejuspesnejsi kampan vsech dob pro rijen odskrtnut.

53 Thieves, faze 1:
unreleased.art/outside

K tomu Asher nasadil druhou fazi s receptem na buchtu. Muzete potrenovat na finale pece cela zeme, vyniknout na Instagramu a ziskat vinyl.

Asher Roth, faze 2:
unreleased.art/new-dessert

#art #music #peceni

UNRELEASED

Not a label. Not management. Just a collective of artists, dreamers, & designers trying to change an unfair industry.

^{unreleased.art}

tbh the tab overview is still one of my favorite things about GNOME Web

(and other GNOME apps that have it but I use it most often in Web)

#GNOME #GNOMEWeb #LibAdwaita

Let's restart the highscore thread again, people are saying it got too long. End of the previous thread: mk.nyaa.place/notes/9zoixlwqn6…
So I figured out how to keep touchpads working in gamepad mode ^^ It involved reverse engineering the payload for the ID_SET_DIGITAL_MAPPINGS feature report - neither SDL nor kernel driver do it, so I didn't have any reference this time.

Anyway, now touchpads are fully working, with the same behavior as for Steam's gamepad action set - right touchpad moves pointer and does a left click on press, left touchpad does a right click on press and that's it. I'm not sure why it doesn't also scroll, but I wanted to keep it consistent (steam's desktop action set scrolls it and middle clicks on press instead, tho it does mean you have to use L2 to right click)

When Steam is running, you still have to switch to gamepad action set or you'll have double input, but I don't think I have any way of mitigating that - oh well. When Steam is not running, it will switch everything automatically at least, so at this point it's probably good enough. I'm yet to find an example of any app doing it well, so I don't think libmanette apps would stand out in a bad way here.

So, at this point I mostly just need to clean up the code and think again about what the public API should look like.

That said, I want to rework libmanette API entirely. It's not in a very good state right now, it's a lot more convoluted than it needs to be.

Do you love and/or hate HoTT or dependent type theory? Come do a Ph.D. with me to develop applications of HoTT to verified functional programming and/or think outside the box about how we can make dependent type theory work better.

I recently received a grant to study the Univalent Verification of Parameterized Structures, and I need Ph.D. students to spend that money on. Application deadline December 15 to start Fall 2025. Lots more info here: carloangiuli.com/pages/phd-rec…

Leyendo el anteproyecto de la ley gallega de medidas (técnicamente le de acompañamiento de los presupuestos) me alegró ver que se prevé el establecimiento de un impuesto sobre estancias turísticas, en el artículo 8. Después, vino la decepción:

3. Os ingresos obtidos por este imposto estarán afectados cando menos nun 80% a investimentos e gastos vinculados á promoción, impulso, protección, fomento e desenvolvemento do turismo sustentable, na forma que se determine na lei.
5. A lei determinará os supostos de estadías exentas, como, entre outras, as de menores de dezaseis anos; as subvencionadas por programas sociais; as realizadas por motivos de saúde das persoas e dos seus acompañantes; as que se realicen por causas de forza maior; as realizadas en albergues da Rede Pública do Xacobeo S.A; ou as de persoas que acrediten un grao de discapacidade igual ou superior ao 65 %.
11. Sobre a cota íntegra do imposto correspondente á administración autonómica, a lei establecerá inicialmente unha bonificación do 100%. O Consello da Xunta de Galicia, á vista do seguimento da aplicación e do impacto da lei, e tendo en conta a evolución dos indicadores do sector turístico en Galicia e a eficacia do imposto, ponderando a non esixencia de cargas administrativas innecesarias para o sector, poderá presentar ao Parlamento de Galicia un proxecto de lei no que se reduza a contía da bonificación.
12. De acordo co que se determine na lei, os concellos poderán establecer de forma voluntaria, en execución da súa autonomía municipal, unha recarga sobre o imposto autonómico ás estadías turísticas, cuxos ingresos estarán afectados cando menos nun 80 % a investimentos e gastos vinculados á promoción, impulso, protección, fomento e desenvolvemento do turismo sostible, na forma que se determine na lei.
Esta recarga esixirase aos mesmos suxeitos pasivos e nos mesmos casos contemplados na normativa reguladora do imposto, e consistirá nunha porcentaxe sobre a cota íntegra de ata un máximo do 100 %.
As competencias para a aplicación, recadación e potestade sancionadora correspondentes á recarga municipal corresponderán aos concellos.
Os concellos que decidan establecer a recarga deberán aprobar, con carácter previo, unha ordenanza fiscal en cuxo procedemento de elaboración se xustifiquen as razóns da esixencia da recarga, e se avalíe o impacto e eficacia da recarga para as finalidades pretendidas, ponderando as cargas administrativas que supón para os establecementos turísticos substitutos do/a contribuínte. No procedemento de elaboración deberá, en particular, garantirse a consulta, participación e audiencia ás organizacións e asociacións representativas do sector turístico sobre os problemas que se pretenden solucionar coa norma; a necesidade e oportunidade da súa aprobación; os obxectivos da norma e as posibles soluciones alternativas.
Na ordenanza asumiranse e determinaranse as competencias de xestión, recadación e inspección, así como a potestade sancionadora.
Na ordenanza determinaranse ademais, de acordo co que se estableza na lei, os posibles tramos anuais da recarga, así como os prazos e a forma para efectuar a correspondente liquidación.
Así mesmo, a ordenanza preverá a constitución, organización e funcións dunha comisión municipal de asesoramento e seguimento da implementación do imposto conformada por persoas representantes do concello, así como por persoas representantes das empresas do sector e asociacións de veciños/as. Esta comisión realizará funcións de asesoramento e seguimento permanente da aplicación do imposto, tendo en conta indicadores como a evolución do nivel de ocupación, o número de prazas turísticas, o rendemento por cada praza ou calquera outro indicador dos sectores turísticos do municipio. A comisión aprobará cada ano un informe de avaliación de impacto da recarga en relación coas finalidades pretendidas coa súa aprobación.

En resumen: 1) se aprueba un impuesto autónomico, pero el 80% de la pasta tiene que ir a promoción turística (incomprensible), 2) el impuesto autonómico estará bonificado al 100% así que recaudará 0, y solo si se hace una nueva evaluación de necesidad y de que no molesta a la hostelería se podrá llegar a cobrar, 3) albergues del Camino de Santiago exentos, 4) y se le da potestad a los ayuntamientos a que impongan un recargo, pero también tienen que gastar el 80% en promoción turística, tienen que evaluar que no moleste a la hostelería, y hacer un seguimiento anual.

Que mierda.

I'm old enough to remember the outrage and hand-wringing from western politicians and media when the Taliban destroyed ancient cultural and religious sites in Afghanistan.

Now? You could hear a pin drop.
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