Do not withhold good from those who deserve it when it’s in your power to help them.
Proverbs 3:27
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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Hearing Aids May Reduce Risk of Developing Parkinson’s Disease
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)
The compact point and shoot market collapsed because of smart phones
Me looking at cheap smart phone picture: 🤮
(over processed splotch. and no need to pixel peep to see it)
What is nice is when the camera vendors use that small footprint to do something that is still challenging with a phone.
I picked up an Olympus TG-6 some time back, and love it. Maybe it just scratches my particular itches: robust, waterproof (50', more with housing), and does beautiful macro shots out of the box.
Apple wins a battle (and $250) in its smartwatch patent fight with Masimo
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)
Microsoft Office 2024 is now on Amazon, no subscription needed
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/zipalign.py at master · obfusk/reproducible-apk-tools
reproducible-apk-tools - scripts to make android apks reproducible - obfusk/reproducible-apk-toolsGitHub
"Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.”
But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers. Those experts said some of the invented text — known in the industry as hallucinations — can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments…"
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Researchers say AI transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said. Whisper was created by OpenAI.GARANCE BURKE (AP News)
Aurora Australis, captured at the southern tip of Africa where two oceans meet 🌌
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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
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
My instance has moved from 1 to 2,000 characters. I rarely hit the old limit. I love writing and am a very wordy guy, but I managed on twitter. hell: I managed with SMS in the 1990's.
I think this is also the first time I have actually started a post with the phrase 'my instance'.
Not sure how I feel about that, either. On the one hand, it's just here, working, and I'm not giving it a second thought.
On the other, I feel I should be paying toward its upkeep.
decomplexifying #curl
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/10/27…
decomplexifying curl
(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.
Why do we still call them set-top boxes? When was the last time you saw a brand new, modern television on top of which such a device could be placed?
For me, this was probably in the summer of 2003, and that's kind of a stretch.
Does this go into the category of why the save icon is still a floppy disk, why phone cameras still make analog shutter noises, and why phones are still called phones?
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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.
I just got word that the 27th #XMPP Summit will indeed take place on the two days leading up to #FOSDEM 2025.
Thursday, January 30th 2025 and Friday, January 31st at the Thon Hotel EU in Brussels, Belgium.
Save the date! RSVP if you plan to attend in person.
If you are an XMPP developer and enjoy long discussions over minute details of XMPP protocol extensions this event is perfect for you!
Looking forward to seeing everyone in person again. Stay tuned for more details.
YSK: We have an official Loops Discord channel!
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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
Video o hodinách na věži frýdeckého farního kostela, mj. o každoroční změně času.
Věž je přístupná veřejnosti a jelikož je v centru Frýdku, tj. na kopci, je z ní krásný výhled na celé město i Beskydy. A naopak já mám z okna krásný výhled na věž, vzdálenou cca 150 metrů vzdušnou čarou 😀
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Změna času na hodinách ve věži. 🕰️ V neděli nad ránem se posunout ciferníky ze tří hodin na dvě - končí letní čas. Většina hodin a hodinek to zvládne...www.facebook.com
Mohl by na Marsu existovat život? Studie NASA nabízí možnosti
sciencemag.cz/mohl-by-na-marsu…
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.
Máme dnes v noci hodinu navíc. Tak pojďme na trochu filozofie - Ship of Theseus.
Za posledních deset let jsem ve svém PC měnil a modernizoval díly až tak, že jsem vyměnil i samotný case.
A přitom ten stroj furt vnímán jako stále stejnou mašinu 😁
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Alfa Romeo, v níž boural Karel Gott, se vydražila za sumu, kterou nikdo nečekal
Alfa Romeo 2000 GT Veloce, ve které kdysi havaroval Karel Gott, se stala hvězdou aukce veteránů na Prague Car Festivalu.Eva Srpová (Aktuálně.cz)
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)
Snad to už brzo zruší.
#anketa Střídání letního a zimní času ano nebo ne?
- ponechat zimní (61%, 61 votes)
- ponechat letní (31%, 31 votes)
- nechat jak to je (7%, 7 votes)
#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.
Sean Randall
in reply to Daily Bible Promise • • •Day Garwood
in reply to Sean Randall • • •Sean Randall
in reply to Day Garwood • • •shame the history of almost every religion doesn't see the leaders living up to those standards.
As a message, I am all for a lot of religious communication. But I'm afraid the reality is often and very sadly harder to accept.
Day Garwood
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