We end the first quarter of the year with news that Star64 will be available for purchase on April 4th and that the PineTab2 and PineTab-V(ery good!) will launch the following week€ on April 11th.
Pine64 announced today that the STAR64 Single Board Computer can be ordered from April 4th.
The PineTab2 is a Linux-friendly tablet with a 10.1 inch display, a detachable keyboard, and a Rockchip RK3566 quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 processor.
First unveiled in December, the new tablet has a faster processor, more memory, sturdier build quality and other improvements over the original PineTab. But one thing the new tablet has in common with its predecessor? It’s cheap. The PineTab2 will sell for $159 and up when it goes on sale April 11, 2023.
Been itching to get your paws on some affordable RISC-V hardware? If so, Pine64 has you covered.
Pine64 Star64 is a single board computer (SBC) powered by StarFive JH7110 quad-core 64-bit RISC-V processor equipped with an Imagination BXE-4-32 GPU, and in a form factor similar to the earlier Pine64 model A boards such as the Quartz64 Model A.
The Star64 SBC ships with either 4GB or 8GB of RAM, an HDMI 2.0 video output connector, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, a WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 module, USB 3.0 ports, a PCIe slot, and a GPIO header for expansion.
In this quick how-to, we are going to explain how to fix this by installing the iDRAC service module. We are going to use Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as our OS.
$ fmpeg $(yt-dlp -g 'https://de.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph637366806d6eb' | sed 's/^/-ss 00:05 -i /') -t 01:00 -c copy out.mp4I'm currently recording footage for my upcoming Ubuntu 23.04 video and, while doing so, reminded myself that there's a hidden setting I always use that I don't think I've ever written about on this blog.
Over the years I have found grep to be very versatile. The most common use of grep is to find if the logs have a string that match an IP address, a domain, a service or protocol, some application was logged, etc.
Dive into the world of Ubuntu and its various flavors to understand their unique features and benefits, helping you make an informed decision when selecting the ideal version for your needs and preferences.
Tmux offers a powerful feature that can synchronize multiple panes at once. In this guide, we'll walk you through the process of synchronizing Tmux panes, allowing you to streamline your workflow and improve your productivity.
Are you tired of manually sending the same command to multiple Tmux panes? If you're using Tmux for terminal multiplexing, you may not know that you can send commands to all panes simultaneously. In this guide, we'll show you how to send commands to all Tmux panes at once, saving you time and effort.
RPM is a command-line utility for installing, updating, and removing packages in Linux distributions. For more details, follow this article.
In Bash, there is no “goto” statement, instead, Bash provides alternative constructs that can achieve the same effect as a “goto”.
The -z option in Bash is a powerful tool for testing whether a string is empty. Read this guide for more details.
In Debian, the sources.list file is a configuration file that includes the list of repositories. Follow this article to configure it on the system.
Configuring the unattended upgrades feature in Debian makes the system install automatic updates. For more details, follow this article.
Introduction Hey there! So, you want to learn how to use binary logging in MySQL, huh? Well, you've come to the right place!
Introduction MySQL is a powerful and popular open-source database management system. One of its many features is binary logging, which plays a crucial role in data replication, recovery, and auditing.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FreeIPA on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Neovim on Rocky Linux 9.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Fail2ban on Fedora 37.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Nomacs on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
The term web server can be used to refer to both hardware and software, or both working together. For the purpose of this guide, we will focus on the software side and see how
Spotify is a renowned music streaming platform that has captured the hearts of millions of users worldwide. With a vast library of songs, podcasts, and playlists, it offers an unparalleled listening experience that caters to diverse tastes and preferences.
Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) is a highly-regarded, elegant, and user-friendly desktop environment based on the Debian Linux distribution. It offers a visually appealing and intuitive interface, which has attracted many users seeking a modern and customizable Linux experience.
In the world of Linux, package management is a crucial aspect of system maintenance. There are several package management solutions available to Linux users, such as Arch User Repository (AUR) and Flatpak.
The Liquorix Kernel is an advanced, performance-optimized kernel for Linux based on the Zen kernel.
Scrot is a popular command-line utility for taking screenshots on Linux systems. It is lightweight, versatile, and highly customizable, making it an ideal tool for users who prefer working in a terminal environment.
If you’re looking for some free and open-source digital painting software, Krita is a great option to consider.
In this post, you will learn how to install Bottom on Ubuntu / Debian. Bottom is another system resource monitor. However, although focused on the Linux desktop, it is also available for macOS and Windows.
Just two weeks after the last update, Wine 8.5 has been released with support for the WinRT dark theme. Read on to learn more about what's new in this update and how to install it on your system.
A new version of Linux Lite, an Ubuntu-based distro marketed for use on more modest hardware, is available to download.
Linux Lite 6.4, a lightweight distribution, has been released. It features WebP support in the Thunar file manager and ZTSD compression but it does ship with a slightly older Linux kernel.
Linux Lite 6.4 has been officially released, bringing with it a number of exciting changes and additions to the popular operating system. This latest release builds upon the foundation laid by 6.2, with new features that will benefit users with a wide range of machines.
Here's what's new.
Kernels 6.2.9, 6.1.22 LTS and 5.15.105 LTS are now available in the PCLinuxOS Software Repository.
All-in-one voice and text chat that’s free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone. Stop paying for TeamSpeak servers and hassling with Skype. Simplify your life.
The Opera Browser has been updated to 97.0.4719.43 and available in the software repository.
SeaMonkey Browser has been updated to 2.53.16 and shipped to the PCLinuxOS Software Repository.
The 3rd monthly Sparky project and donate report of the 2023...
Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git.
These release notes are also available on the git-cinnabar wiki.
What’s new since 0.5.11?
rra-c-util is my library of supporting functions, code, Autoconf macros, and similar portability and build machinery helpers. This is a very minor release, made mostly because I haven't done a non-work free software release in rather too long.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
April. Cherry blossoms are in full. Beautiful weather.
The Brazilian translation team debian-l10n-portuguese had their first workshop of 2023 in February, with great results:
- The workshop was aimed at beginners, working in DDTP/DDTSS.
- Two days of a hands-on workshop via Jitsi.
In the following days, translation work continued independently, with team support.
Subscribers: 29
New contributors to DDPT/DDTSS: 22
Translations from new participants: 175
- Revisions from new participants : 261
Our focus was to complete the descriptions of the 500 most popular packages (popcon). Although we were unable to reach 100% of the translation cycle, much of these descriptions are in progress and with a little more work will be available to the community.
Ubuntu is easily the most popular choice for an operating system if you're planning to switch to Linux. And if you want to make the transition easier, knowing the meaning of some common terms like sudo, package manager, LTS, and APT is a good idea.
Understanding Ubuntu’s terminology will help you gain knowledge of how it works, helping you utilize the operating system to its full potential. Besides, if you’re switching to Linux, you probably want to become a power user. Knowing the meaning of these terms is the first step to becoming one.
So let’s look at some common Ubuntu terms, jargon, and lingo that you should know about.
T-Firefly introduced a PC with modular design powered by the Octa-core Rockchip RK3588 processor. The Station P3D can be configured with multiple display ports, Ethernet ports and serial ports to target diverse user applications.
Rockchip demonstrated the Rockchip RK3528 TV box SoC at Mobile World Congress 2023, and the first Android 13 TV boxes based on the processors are now showing up for sale starting with the LEMFO X88Pro 13 TV box. The device comes with up to 4GB RAM and 64GB storage, supports up to 8Kp25 video decoding, features Fast Ethernet and WiFi 6 networking, as well as a few USB ports, and possibly optical S/PDIF audio output.
Pico Bricks is a learning platform with the Raspberry Pi Pico at its heart. Embedded components and multiple programming languages enable learners to tackle projects in their own way.
The ESP8266WiFi library error No such file or directory occurs when the Arduino IDE is unable to find the path or header file of this library. Read more here.
Google Chromium is a lightweight web browser that can be installed from the apt command. For more details, follow this article.
Welcome to Bruce Perens – Undeveloped Domain Sites.
This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.19.3. Special thanks goes out to ulfvonbelow who provided an array of patches. This is not an April Fool's joke.
Download links
- gnunet-0.19.4.tar.gz ( signature )
The GPG key used to sign is: 3D11063C10F98D14BD24D1470B0998EF86F59B6A Note that due to mirror synchronization, not all links may be functional early after the release. For direct access try http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnunet/ A detailed list of changes can be found in the git log , the NEWS and the bug tracker.
In the last few blog posts, mentioned a problem with downloading the latest AppImage file. A version may work, a later version may not. Therefore, the Installer now downloads a known working version.
For the first installation, that is. Later on, there can be a deliberate choice to update to the latest. If the update doesn't work, it is easy to roll back, just by renaming /usr/bin/<app>.binOLD to /usr/bin/<app>.bin
This is the March 2023 update for Niepce. This is not an April's fool, and this is not the year I can announce a release on April's fool day. Sorry about that.
Continuing with the renderer / previewer cache.
Software development is a social process. What might be a “bug” for someone might well be a “feature” for someone else. The Guix project rediscovered it the hard way when, after “fixing a bug” that had been present in Guix System for years, it was confronted with an uproar in its user base.
In this post we look at why developers considered the initial behavior a “bug”, why users on the contrary had come to rely on it, and why developers remained blind to it. A patch to reinstate the initial behavior is being reviewed. This post is also an opportunity for us Guix developers to extend our apologies to our users whose workflow was disrupted.
Gedit is a good text editor. Turn it into a good code editor with these tips, tricks and tweaks.
The cout is used in a C++ program to output data to the console. For more details about cout use and its examples, follow this article’s guidelines.
Practical guide on the concept of endianness in computer and how to utilize it by understanding the differences between little endian and big endian machines.
Vectors are very simple to understand in C++ as it stores elements of the same datatype in memory dynamically and there are many ways it initializes vectors.
You can convert a Python program to C/C++ code manually, using online convertors, or by installing compilers. For more details, follow this article.
Echoing shell commands as they are executed can be done by using the set command, the -x option and the DEBUG trap. Read this guide for more details.
The “String equals()” method compares two strings and returns the corresponding boolean values based on the equivalent or unequal strings.
In Java, the “print()” method prints the particular values without any line break whereas the “println()” method prints the values with a default line break.
A “BigDecimal” in Java comprises a 32-bit integer scale. The two BigDecimals in Java can be compared by applying the “compareTo()”, or the “equals()” methods.
The “stream(T[] array)” method of the Arrays class in Java returns a sequential stream of the array passed as its argument.
Reflection in Java is a mechanism that allows you to inspect and modify the behavior of classes, methods, interfaces, and fields at runtime, even if you do not have access to their source code during compile time.
I believe that April Fools’ pranks should be benign violations of expectations, and that they are best when they have a physical reality. If they don’t have a physical reality, they should be targeted to amuse a small group of people.
When I hear or read words I have not encountered, I often make a mental note. "This word is new." If I have my phone nearby, I sometimes look up the definition of a word. This morning, for instance, I read a few words in The Guardian whose meanings I did not know. I looked them up so that I could better understand the articles I was reading. Over the last few days, I have been diligent in documenting the words I have newly encountered.
TL/DR
Star Trek The Motion Picture The Complete Adventure box set claims to contain a special, longer cut of the film. However it seems that this is not the case for some editions. The British edition does contain the longer cut, but the Scandinavian one seems not to. The back of the box still claims that the box set does contain the longer cut.
What did you say?
Some musicals have an enduring legacy long after the final curtain is drawn. Then there's Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds.
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As a kid, I loved HG Wells, Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and, well, pretty much any science fiction I could get my grubby little hands on. As time moved on, I discovered Spider Robinson—whose Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon series remains one of my favorites today—and numerous other authors who would come to shape my love of the genre for years to come. But this isn’t a story about that; this is a story about giant robotic tripods from another planet crashing down to earth, a strange tale of a madman preacher, and a narrator’s cinematic journey—all in the inimitable style of the bombastic Jim Steinman-esque, rock opera that was so popular at the time. Join us in today’s Tedium as we explore the enduring popularity of a one-off rock opera based on the most incredible science fiction story of all time: Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.
Seeing is believing.
I've maintained a Ceph cluster at home since 2011. It spans 3 machines with 6 disks each. For quite a while, in those early days, I experienced the loss of several hard disks, due to local heat, misconfigurations, early dogfooding of ceph and btrfs, and uses that abused the disks too hard, but that has long been left behind, and for years the cluster has been quite stable as long-term storage, mainly for my archival backups.
But as of the past... months? years? I'm not sure... when I ran monthly-ish archival backups, I hit some quite annoying problems.
On one of the servers, one of the disks often seemed to overheat while I copied the backups to the cluster, and then the disk would stop talking to the server until I left it to cool down for long enough. Not a great thing when it holds part of your root filessytem, and a swap partition.
Effective 31 March 2024, all new Cross Connects globally will be Single-Mode Fiber (SMF). Copper (including POTS, UTP, COAX, Cat5, Cat6 media types) and Multi-Mode Fiber (MMF) will no longer be available as media types for new Cross Connects in any IBX data center.
In my continuing series on building a functional computer from a repaired Am386SX motherboard, today we’re looking at getting sound working; and for bonus points, maybe even another IDE controller for free.
My April Cools piece is up! It’s about really weird stuff you can buy online. Now I know that’s standard SEO farm stuff, but I promise I put a lot of time into researching why people actually want to buy these things. If you ever wanted to know where carnivals buy and sell their rollercoasters, now’s your chance.
Anyway, that’s just the April Cools for the blog. I’ve also got one just for the newsletter! It’s about what to do with spare hotel keycards.
The Nordic nation has been ranked the happiest country on earth for six consecutive years. But when you talk to individual Finns, the reality is a bit more complicated.
A ruling by a federal judge this week could set up yet another Supreme Court challenge to the Obamacare health law.
Weird.
Health professionals are concerned about a dip in vaccination rates ahead of winter, predicting the next flu season will be as bad, or worse than before the pandemic.
Objections to voluntary assisted dying by palliative care and health institutions are causing serious harm and emotional suffering to dying Victorians. Some have been left scrambling to be transferred in their final days, so they can take the lethal medication.
According to a new study, a history of participation in campus recreational activities might reduce stress and contribute to academic competency even during high-stress circumstances such as a pandemic lockdown.
A new study has found that normalizing mindfulness practices can improve the emotional well-being of a graduate student. The study was published in the journal, 'PLoS One'
Independent journalist and researcher Michael Bryant returns to Perspective to discuss a neglected aspect of the pandemic – how hospitals abused DNR orders and ventilators to create “covid deaths”, the legislation and guidelines that financially incentivised the process.
Italy is temporarily blocking the€ artificial intelligence software ChatGPT€ in the wake of a data breach as it investigates a possible violation of stringent European Union data protection rules.
Tennis star Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic said she opposes the decision by Wimbledon to lift its ban on Russian and Belarusian players ahead of this year's tournament, saying she felt for Ukrainians amid Moscow's ongoing invasion of their country.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on April 1 officially confirmed that it has served a notice of suspicion to Metropolitan Pavlo of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), a former abbot at the famed Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, and searched his residence.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exposed the nexus between repressive domestic rule and aggressive foreign policy. As long as Russia remains a dictatorship, it will pose an existential threat to the security order in Europe. It is, therefore, in the West’s interest to see a permanent dismantling of the current model of government in Russia. Putin’s departure from office will create a short-term window of opportunity for political change. Contrary to widespread fears, the end of this autocratic pseudo-stability may pave the way for sustainable peace in Europe. Maria Domaà âska€ writes for the New Eastern Europe magazine, partners of LRT English.
The International Monetary Fund says its executive board has approved a four-year $US15.6 billion ($A23.3 billion) loan program for Ukraine – part of a global $US115 billion ($A172 billion) package to support the country’s economy as it battles Russia’s invasion.
The man was shot dead early Saturday at the edge of the Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount. The circumstances of the killing were disputed and risked raising tensions during Ramadan.
Despite qualms in Washington, Saudi officials have pressed the United States to help them develop nuclear power. But they are also exploring other options, including China.
With an eye on a possible conflict over Taiwan, analysts have scrutinized the war for insights ranging from the importance of supply lines to the power of nuclear€ threats.
While Moscow's brutal war in Ukraine rages on, Russia took the helm of the council which has a presidency that rotates among its 15 member countries on Saturday.
Ukraine expressed outrage as Russia assumed its month-long presidency of the UN Security Council on April 1.
A top Ukrainian official on Saturday criticised the 'symbolic blow' of Russia assuming the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council.
The security situation in Haiti has spiralled out of control since the shock assassination of President Jovenel Moise in July 2021, with the country increasingly beset by violence.€ Today, unrest has reached such levels that the United Nations is being urged to intervene and there has been a total breakdown of governance.€ The country is increasingly at the mercy of criminal gangs and half of the population struggles to find food.€ FRANCE 24's team travelled to Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, before gangs took full control of the city. They met a writer, a street vendor and a food importer, as well as residents trying to flee abroad.
Voters in Bulgaria head to the polls on April 2 in the country’s fifth parliamentary election in two years with opinion polls suggesting this latest vote will again fail to deliver a result that will break the political gridlock gripping the EU’s poorest nation -- and one of its most corrupt -- as war rages nearby in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday said it was absurd that Russia had assumed the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council, adding this showed the institution's "total bankruptcy".
A suspected assailant was killed by Israeli soldiers after a West Bank car ramming Saturday, the army said, in an escalation that threatens to end a relative lull during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan so far.
Ukrainian forces repelled dozens of Russian attacks in the eastern region of Donetsk over the past day, the military said on April 1, as British intelligence suggested that Russia's monthslong winter offensive in the east is beginning to show signs of failure amid a high rate of attrition.
Several hundred people demonstrated in Sarajevo on March 31 against Christian Schmidt, the international community’s high representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, over decisions he made last year affecting Bosnia’s elections law.
A log of messages shows how agents scrambled after evidence and sought to recruit members of the group all while trying to squeeze in workouts and cope with the bureau’s obsolete technology.
The Commission's executive vice-president appeared at the Atlantic Council in Washington to give an early preview of what the EU's reassessment of its relationship with China might look like.
Researchers found that on Twitter, members of Canada’s far left joined those on the far right in embracing pro-Russian messages created by a two-year Russian influence campaign.
The charge against the religious leader, Pavlo Lebid, came as Russian forces hit the town of Avdiivka, among 70 other targets, along the front line.
The final formalities include an invitation to join from Nato's Secretary General, which is to be signed in Washington, most likely by Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto (Green).
Petro Lebid, the abbot of the 980-year-old Kyiv Pechersk Lavra — also known as the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves — was sentenced to 60 days of house arrest amid a crack down on the Ukrainian Orthodox church over accusations that it has been collaborating with Moscow.
The far-right security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, wants to create a national guard that he would control, saying it is needed to guarantee Israel’s security.
Satellite images show a high level of activity at North Korea’s main nuclear site, says 38 North.
Taiwanese of all stripes – from housewives to middle school students and retirees – are signing up for such civil defence workshops.
Russia has banned imports of dairy products from Armenia allegedly on health issues as relations between the two allied nations sour.
The International Monetary Fund said on March 31 that its executive board had approved a four-year $15.6 billion loan program for Ukraine, part of a global $115 billion package to support the country's economy as it battles Russia's 13-month-old invasion.
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in Guatemala Friday on a visit to shore up ties with dwindling allies following a trip to the United States that angered China. Tsai’s visit to Guatemala and its Central American neighbor Belize comes after Honduras became the latest country to cut diplomatic ties with Taipei in favor of Beijing.
Russia on Saturday assumed the presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the month of April 2023. Russia’s commencement of its leadership role of the 15-member council rotation was unaffected by its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Storms that dropped possibly dozens of tornadoes killed at least 21 people in small towns and big cities across the South and Midwest.
The tech industry has a growing power usage and environmental impact problem. Between the rise of cloud and compute-intensive applications such as cryptomining and artificial intelligence, power demand has expanded at an alarming rate. The Bitcoin network uses approximately the same amount of energy that Washington State does yearly.
For five years, the French capital has permitted the renting of electric scooters, which have proven both popular and perilous. On Sunday, voters will decide whether to end the experiment.
Self-service e-scooters have become commonplace on the streets of Paris since they were first introduced five years ago, but irresponsible use and a rising accident toll have hardened city hall’s attitude towards the popular mode of transport. On April 2 residents in the capital will vote on whether to ban them altogether.
When the tourists who rode them disappeared from resort destinations, Thailand’s captive elephants, and their owners, went back to their birth villages, where finding enough food has been a struggle.
Thousands of migratory birds were seen flying south from the Finnish coast last week because of chilly, snowy conditions, says the birding association BirdLife Finland.
Iceland had an unprecedented tourism boom that helped lift it from recession. But there was a downside for the local ecologies - and it’s happening in Australia too.
The head of the U.N. World Food Program is warning that without billions of dollars more to feed millions of hungry people, the world will see mass migration, destabilized countries, and starving children and adults in the next 12 to 18 months. David Beasley praised increased funding from the United States and Germany last year, and urged China, Gulf nations, billionaires and other countries “to step up big time.”
My Complaint Against GEICO is on the Docket for the Illinois Department of Insurance. I filed a complaint against GEICO with the State of Illinois Department of Insurance, which is the same agency that helped investigate my sister-in-law when she took out a fraudulent life insurance policy on my spouse and forged his signature.
Anupriya Patel said that the new Foreign Trade Policy 2023 will give further impetus to the country's exports.
Consumer price inflation in Pakistan accelerated to a record 35.37 percent in March from a year earlier, eclipsing February's 31.5 percent, the statistics bureau said on April 1.
>Hong Kong has long been renowned for its huge fiscal reserves and prudence in public spending. Ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic, in January 2020, the government had nearly HK$1.2 trillion in fiscal reserves, the equivalent of 22 months of public expenditure.
As U.S. tax filing time looms, Sarah DeVries explores a burgeoning expat movement by U.S. citizens to do away with citizenship-based taxation.
The UK Government on Thursday revealed their newest environmental policies to ensure energy security for the UK. The plans include schemes to drive investment in renewable energy as well as a consultation addressing carbon leakage that could result in a border tax on carbon-intensive goods.
In this blog post, I explore who are the Twitter Blue subscribers. It is not celebrities, businesses or governments. It is our regular old Joe with fewer than a hundred followers.
Elon Musk on Friday defended his controversial pay model for Twitter, claiming that any social media platform that didn't follow suit would fail because they would be swarmed by bots.
No, not april fools.
Hacker News is one of those websites where the commenters are often very angry people. Note, I said commenters not lurkers/passive browsers/link clickers. Anyone who uses Hacker News just as a website to find links on, I have no beef with.
But most people who comment on it.. I don’t want anything to do with them.
So I used link referrer to “block” the site: If someone sees a link to my blog on there and clicks it, depending if your browser sends a referral header or not, it gets 403 forbidden warning and stops there.
Easy to circumvent of course, but average HN commenter likely doesn’t care enough to copy paste links and open sites in privacy mode or w/e.
Todd Hayen I was lying on my bed this morning playing with our new puppy, Daisy, and was focused on the moment. The cute dog, the soft bed, the warm room, the fact that I could breathe, my heart was beating, all seemed good and pristine.
Legal experts fear it could distract public attention from the other cases more focused on attacks against the country’s democratic institutions and traditions.
Fuelled by bravado, ruthlessness, a keen political antenna and alleged theft, Chinese property tycoon Guo Wengui moved in high circles.
Anybody even remotely invested in keeping up with current events here in America, knows that TikTok is on the verge of being banned. If you are a frequent reader, you already know that I am against that. Doubly so in this case as the US Government has yet to provide a single evidence based argument to support the move, much less addressed the fact that American tech companies engage in largely the same exact kind of behavior that TikTok does.
Chief Executive John Lee will lead Hong Kong’s 90 lawmakers on a trip to the Greater Bay Area next month, where they will visit different cities and meet with provincial leaders. The matter was discussed during a Legislative Council meeting on Friday afternoon.
A growing number of TikTok users are touting a decades-old labor law that they say could give workers a heads-up about impending layoffs, but experts say the videos are breeding misconceptions.
Using artificial intelligence to make videos of people doing and saying whatever you want them to is the essence of a "deepfake".
Don't get distracted.
The women were handed a 'severe warning' for placing 10 rainbow flags on campus to campaign against homophobia.
Russia continues to pressure musicians who have spoken out against the country’s invasion of Ukraine as the Kremlin seeks to squash any signs of opposition to its unprovoked war.
Waheed Arian fled the war in Afghanistan when he was a teenager. Now an emergency room doctor in Britain, he has made it his mission to bring hope and healing to others.
Andrew Tate, an Internet personality who has spent months in a Romanian jail on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking, has won an appeal to replace his detention with house arrest.
The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) Thursday published a report detailing that it had noticed “unlawful pushback practices and ill-treatment of foreign nationals” throughout 2022.
The City of Minneapolis Friday reached an agreement with the state of Minnesota to revamp the city’s police department.€ The agreement lays out a wholesale evaluation of policing practices within the City of Minneapolis, spanning use of force procedures to data system transparency.
Brussels, 1st April 2023 - The Unified Patent Court has announced that they will fire all their elected judges and replace them with GPT7, a cheaper sentient artificial intelligence that produce better results than human judges.
The same thing tech has always done.
By Greg Baker Painters in a Chinese village once known for churning out replicas of Western masterpieces are now making original art worth thousands of dollars, selling their own works in a booming domestic art market. Home to more than 8,000 artists, southern China’s Dafen has been producing near-perfect copies of timeless masterpieces for years.
It was a really nice day out today. A *really* nice day out: it felt like early Summer. The weather said 22c / 71f but I think it was quite higher; more than a few people were in shorts and t-shirts.
I inhaled some of that early Summer air today, and it was fantastic. Cold air in Winter doesn't smell like anything to me, but now in Spring the flowers are out and I could smell the river, and the sun was overhead, not far away, low on the horizon anymore.
March has been unbelievably busy in my real life. We are moving into a smaller, cheaper house next month in preparation for my wife to attend graduate school, and we've spent the last few weeks packing like madmen to ready our current house for showings. That, combined with a packed schedule at work has left with little time to relax at all, much less specifically devote to Gemini.
Last week my capsule went offline for two days. The downtime was due to the house showings, which required me to disconnect my home server from the switch. The Ethernet cable had been haphazardly strung across our living room and down our basement steps to reach the server! We worked around the issue using powerline network adapters.
/bin//sh is typically used for not so legal purposes. /bin//sh unlike the normal form /bin/sh fits neatly into a 64-bit box, and one may not want any NUL characters in that box...because reasons.
I did not realise until very recently that jq, the command line utility for working with JSON files, is a fully fledged programming language. Like AWK, script files can be passed in with the -f flag in addition to the one-lines that are passed in as string args.
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.