8-Bit Week: The Grand Finale
Listen now (28 min) | Scheduled: BSD Week, Linux Games Week, Serenity OS Week, & Plan 9 Week! ⌘ Read more
8-Bit Week – Days 3 & 4 Roundup
More 8-Bit fun than you can shake a stick at. ⌘ Read more
Intel 8008: The wild tale of the first 8-Bit CPU
Not technically the first… and not actually designed by Intel. ⌘ Read more
8-Bit Week – Day 1 & 2 Roundup
Listen now (27 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - January 5th, 2023 ⌘ Read more
8-Bit Week begins at The Lunduke Journal
Listen now (21 min) | Apple II. Commodore 64. Atari 400. NES. Sega Master System. And so many others… all week long! ⌘ Read more
I bought my Galaxy Note 8 five years go today. This is by far the most use I’ve gotten out of one smartphone!
Huge Tails update. Better persistent storage, Wayland, QR codes for bridges: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.8/index.en.html
Account Problems
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user/bmallred/data/2022-11-05-04-31-02.fit: 8.55 miles, 00:09:51 average pace, 01:24:12 duration
Evento online dia 8 de Novembro, organizado pela Wikimedia Portugal e Arquivo.pt para celebrar os 15 anos do https://arquivo.pt/
user/bmallred/data/2022-11-02-03-27-43.fit: 8.02 miles, 00:10:35 average pace, 01:24:53 duration
**RT by @mind_booster: And while Russia has “severed one of the main arteries of global energy trade”, IEA cautions against a rush for new fossil fuel supplies
🕦avg 19yrs from licence to production
🌍new supplies a “clear risk” to 1.5C target
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https://www.carbonbrief.org/in-depth-russias-war-means-fossil-fuels-will-peak-within-five-years-iea-says/**
And while Russia has “severed one of the main arteries of global energy trade”, IEA cautions against a rush for new fossil fuel supplies
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user/bmallred/data/2022-10-26-03-46-39.fit: 8.51 miles, 00:09:43 average pace, 01:22:40 duration
Disable RAM Plus on OneUI 4.1
When Samsung released the Android 12 update for my phone a few months ago, I noticed a new RAM Plus setting, which uses the storage to expand the memory. Pretty useless on my phone, as it has already 8 GB of RAM. ⌘ Read more
Lunduke Journal Community Weekly Highlights - Oct 21, 2022
Listen now (37 min) | From “Command Line” shenanigans to 8-Bit fantasy VMs. So much fun stuff happened this week. ⌘ Read more
user/bmallred/data/2022-10-19-04-15-59.fit: 8.51 miles, 00:08:56 average pace, 01:15:58 duration
user/bmallred/data/2022-10-12-04-31-29.fit: 8.27 miles, 00:10:08 average pace, 01:23:46 duration
HM [03;03;07]: 8 mile run: 9.16 miles, 00:12:24 average pace, 01:53:31 duration
met up to run with beth for her 10k time trial
#running
user/bmallred/data/2022-10-05-04-01-18.fit: 8.62 miles, 00:09:29 average pace, 01:21:44 duration
user/bmallred/data/2022-09-21-03-53-39.fit: 8.33 miles, 00:10:33 average pace, 01:27:51 duration
8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot
Developers all over the world are using GitHub Copilot to help speed up their development and increase developer productivity. With GitHub Copilot available to developers everywhere, we’ve found some fun and useful examples of how developers can use GitHub Copilot for things you may not be thinking about. ⌘ Read more
user/bmallred/data/2022-09-14-03-46-37.fit: 8.28 miles, 00:09:50 average pace, 01:21:25 duration
It should be illegal for firealarms to sound a low battery after 10pm and before 8 am.
user/bmallred/data/2022-09-07-03-40-28.fit: 8.28 miles, 00:10:11 average pace, 01:24:16 duration
user/bmallred/data/2022-08-31-04-49-22.fit: 8.32 miles, 00:10:59 average pace, 01:31:23 duration
user/bmallred/data/2022-08-24-04-30-06.fit: 8.36 miles, 00:10:53 average pace, 01:31:01 duration
user/bmallred/data/2022-08-17-04-04-18.fit: 8.05 miles, 00:11:35 average pace, 01:33:20 duration
user/bmallred/data/2022-08-06-07-40-12.fit: 8.09 miles, 00:11:45 average pace, 01:34:59 duration
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.3 released
The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire version 4.7.3. This version brings a number of bug fixes and other improvements and signifies our efforts to produce a stable 4.7 series of Openfire whilst work continues on the next feature release 4.8.0.
You can find download artifacts on our website with the fol … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.8.3 released!
We recently release version 1.8.3 of the Openfire REST API plugin. This version extends the MUC search capability to include the natural name of the MUC (instead of just the name). It also updates a number of library dependencies.
The updated plugin should be available for download in your Openfire admin console already. Alternatively, you can download the plugin directly, from [the plugin’s archive page](https://www.ign … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.2 released
The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire version 4.7.2. This version fixes a number of bugs and signifies our efforts to produce a stable 4.7 series of Openfire whilst work continues on the next feature release 4.8.0.
A major highlight of this release is fixing of BOSH bugs found under load testing.
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Cosmologist Gift
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Quarter of world’s population at risk from once-in-a-century floods
Around 1.8 billion people face a “significant” risk, including hundreds of millions in the world’s two most populous countries – India and China. ⌘ Read more
Brave battle of Chinese cancer boy, 8, who has overcome 4 surgeries and dozens of painful treatments, captures hearts on social media
Xiaoxuan is a plucky eight-year-old Chinese boy who has been fighting cancer despite four years of pain and endless rounds of surgery and treatment. ⌘ Read more
Philippines’ Duterte leaves brutal legacy in presidency marked by drug war, US-China policy flip-flops
The extrajudicial killings of some 8,000 people has ‘opened the floodgates for a type of governance that disregards the rule of law, due process and human rights’, activists say. ⌘ Read more
Hong Kong customs seizes 3.8 tonnes of date rape drug GBL in first half of 2022, dwarfing amount detected over past decade
Despite significant rise in seizures, Customs and Excise Department says Hong Kong has not become a transit hub for illegal drugs. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.8.1 released!
Earlier today, version 1.8.1 of the Openfire REST API plugin was released. This version removes the need to authenticate for status endpoints, adds new endpoints for bulk modifications of affiliations on MUC rooms, as well as a healthy number of other bugfixes.
The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the pl … ⌘ Read more
BN(O) scheme: more than 8,500 Hong Kong students estimated to have applied for school places in Britain since September, according to UK report
Influx attributed to BN(O) scheme offering pathway to citizenship, with Nottinghamshire getting the most applications. ⌘ Read more
Explosion at pesticide firm in northwestern China leaves at least 8 hurt and 6 missing, cause still unknown
More than 300 fire and rescue personnel and 47 rescue vehicles were sent to the scene of the explosion in the Lanzhou company’s sewage treatment workshop. ⌘ Read more
Amazon, Cartier slap Chinese social media influencer, 8 others with lawsuits over trademark infringement, false advertising
The legal action reflects more signs of trouble for merchants belonging to the ‘made in China, sold on Amazon’ community. ⌘ Read more
Cathay Pacific to hire 4,000 staff by the end of 2023 as part of ambitious recruitment drive, CEO Augustus Tang says
Across the Cathay Pacific Group, a total of 8,000 new staff will be hired from now to the end of next year, CEO says. ⌘ Read more
I believe the benefit/risk calculation is that a passphrase is more memorable to users then a random string of alnum + symbol. i can remember the 20-30 chars in a passphrase quicker and longer than a 8-10 random.
ultimately they hold nowhere near the benefit of passphrase + MFA
Dragons Lair 1 & 2 for Apple IIgs has been released… with source code!
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Long run (shortened): 8.06 miles, 00:11:22 average pace, 01:31:39 duration
Long run (shortened)
#running
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjMu3_djryM watching “C from scratch” ep 8
The Fusion arcade stick for Switch is pretty good, though probably not worth the MSRP of $130 USD. I’d give it a solid 8 out of 10.
Nix 2.8.0 released
We’re pleased to announce the availability of Nix 2.8.0. It will be
available from NixOS -\
Getting Nix / NixOS.
Here are the release notes:
New experimental command:
nix fmt, which applies a
formatter defined by theformatter.<system></system>flake
output to the Nix expressions in a flake.Various Nix commands can now read expressions from standard input
using--file -.New experimental builtin function
builtins.fetchClosurethat c … ⌘ Read more