**RT by @mind_booster: Happy I ❤️ Free Software Day everyone! Let’s start by saying thank you to #freesoftware contributors out there who work for #softwarefreedom ❤️ #ilovefs

Don’t let this day pass without saying thank you! https://sharepic.fsfe.org/#ilovefs**
Happy I ❤️ Free Software Day everyone! Let’s start by saying thank you to #freesoftware contributors out there who work for #softwarefreedom ❤️ [#ilovefs](https:/ … ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Elixir, 7 steps to start your journey
Read this post in Spanish.

Let’s talk about Elixir!

Elixir is a functional programming language created by José Valim to build concurrent and scalable systems. It is defined as:

“a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications”.

https://elixir-lang.org/

Its first version was released in 2012. Since then, n … ⌘ Read more

JMP: Threads, Thumbnails, XMR, ETH
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; Shar … ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part XIX
It’s Friday! So let’s look at some funny, nerdy pictures! ⌘ Read more

BREAKING: Gizmodo stuns world by publishing Tech article
“We won’t let computers distract us from our core mission…complaining about Elon Musk” ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: Happy Public Domain Day 2023! Let’s celebrate in style with Erma Bossi’s fun painting “Circus”, which just entered the Public Domain – meaning it is now free to re-use and remix by anyone! href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23publicdomainday”>#publicdomainday**
Happy Public Domain Day 2023! Let’s celebrate in style with Erma Bossi’s fun painting “Circus”, which just entered the Public Domain – meaning it is now free to re-use and remix by anyone! #publicdomainday

![](https://nitter.net/pi … ⌘ Read more

It feels like every time I come across a Gemini capsule I find interesting, the owner suddenly stops posting and leaves the protocol. Maybe that’s a lesson for me: if I like their content, reach out to them and let them know.

How we use GitHub to be more productive, collaborative, and secure
Our engineering and security teams have done some incredible work in 2022. Let’s take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left. ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Busy Year in 2022
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; Sha … ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Busy Year in 2022
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; Sha … ⌘ Read more

I’ll let the head of the bird site comment on that:

Creating an accessible search experience with the QueryBuilder component
GitHub’s search inputs have several complex accessibility considerations. Let’s dive into what those are, how we addressed them, and talk about the standalone, reusable component that was ultimately built. ⌘ Read more

What was the first PDA?
It wasn’t the Palm Pilot. Nor the Newton. Let’s keep going back to find the answer… ⌘ Read more

How to Pronounce Tech Words (part 2)
Watch now (6 min) | Some computer words are hard to say. Let Lunduke help you. ⌘ Read more

Day 2 done in #adventofcode

https://gitlab.com/AsbjornOlling/aoc2022/-/blob/main/02/02.hy

#Hy wouldn’t let me use lisp symbols in pattern matching blocks, so I had to use string literals instead 😢

I wonder if that’s a bug, or if I’m using it wrong… ⌘ Read more

pareto improvement: instead of letting students write bachelors/masters theses that are basically just literature reviews, let them rewrite the respective wikipedia articles instead (and then check the article)

Let Me Be Blunt ⌘ Read more

How to Build a Restreaming Server with a Raspberry Pi
First of all, what is a restreaming server? Sometimes you want to livestream video from a device like an ATEM Mini or OBS to multiple destinations. Many devices and software like this will let you push video to just one RTMP destination at a time. ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: New Cheogram Android Release, Chatwoot Instance
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one … ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.5.3
Gajim 1.5.3 brings back a feature many of you missed: selecting and copying multiple messages. Emoji shortcodes have been improved and cover even more emojis now. Gajim also lets you mark workspaces as read, so you don’t have to go through all conversations. Thank you for all your contributions!

Since we changed the way Gajim displays messages in Gajim 1.4, selecting multiple messages to copy them was not possible anymore. With Gajim 1.5.3 you can now select multiple messag … ⌘ Read more

**Here’s how a patent troll works:

1. Sit and watch as s codec is made specifically to avoid patent fees;
   
2. Wait a decade to let the codec be wildly implemented;
   
3. Try to monetize the work of others, using patents some other parties might have.**
   Here’s how a patent troll works:
   

1. Sit and watch as s codec is made specifically to avoid patent fees;

2. Wait a decade to let the codec be wildly implemented;

3. Try to monetize the work of others, using patents some other parties might have.

[nitter.net/Hi … ⌘ Read more

That time the creator of UNIX built a Trojan Horse that let him log in to any UNIX machine.
And nobody knew about it for years. ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Voicemail Changes, Opt-in Jabber ID Discoverability
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone number … ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part XVI
It’s Friday! Let’s have some fun and look at some funny pictures about programming and Linux and stuff! The Lunduke Journal Community — About the Lunduke Journal — Subscriber Perks The Lunduke Journal Weekly Schedule: Monday - Computer History Tuesday ⌘ Read more

The (very real) history of :-)
On the 40th anniversary of :-) and :-( let’s tell the story of how the emoticon came into existence. ⌘ Read more

Monal IM: Monal IM – project moved
We recently started to migrate the App from Anu Pokharel‘s Apple account to Thilo Molitor‘s Apple account.

Aspart of this transition we also deployed some new push servers to not let an old retired developer pay for the infrastructure needed for Monal.

Coming along with this transition from the old developer team to the new one is our new clean website at https://monal-im.org/. From now on, this blog will not be used for Monal anymore.

**Many t … ⌘ Read more

gemini capsule open ; let fill it :P

@mckinley@twtxt.net We need to make something like computer time or something like that so people using a computer can say like lets have a chat thursday at 7:00 and no timezone things.

Now that I have access to Udemy Business and can watch many, many courses for free, I subscribed to two courses. One to improve my English and one to improve my quick-wittedness. Let’s see if I complete them and if they really help. ⌘ Read more

Integrated Terminal for Running Containers, Extended Integration with Containerd, and More in Docker Desktop 4.12
Docker Desktop 4.12 is now live! This release brings some key quality-of-life improvements to the Docker Dashboard. We’ve also made some changes to our container image management and added it as an experimental feature. Finally, we’ve made it easier to find useful Extensions. Let’s dive in. Execute commands in a runn … ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: New Employee, Command UI, JMP SIM Card, Multi-account Billing
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone … ⌘ Read more

Progress! so i have moved into working on aggregates. Which are a grouping of events that replayed on an object set the current state of the object. I came up with this little bit of generic wonder.

type PA[T any] interface {
	event.Aggregate
	*T
}

// Create uses fn to create a new aggregate and store in db.
func Create[A any, T PA[A]](ctx context.Context, es *EventStore, streamID string, fn func(context.Context, T) error) (agg T, err error) {
	ctx, span := logz.Span(ctx)
	defer span.End()

	agg = new(A)
	agg.SetStreamID(streamID)

	if err = es.Load(ctx, agg); err != nil {
		return
	}

	if err = event.NotExists(agg); err != nil {
		return
	}

	if err = fn(ctx, agg); err != nil {
		return
	}

	var i uint64
	if i, err = es.Save(ctx, agg); err != nil {
		return
	}

	span.AddEvent(fmt.Sprint("wrote events = ", i))

	return
}

fig. 1

This lets me do something like this:

a, err := es.Create(ctx, r.es, streamID, func(ctx context.Context, agg *domain.SaltyUser) error {
		return agg.OnUserRegister(nick, key)
})

fig. 2

I can tell the function the type being modified and returned using the function argument that is passed in. pretty cray cray.

Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Base implementation
The last few weeks were quite busy for me, but there was also a lot of progress.
I’m happy to say that the base of stateless file sharing is implemented and working.
Let’s explore some of the more interesting topics.

File hashes have some practical applications, such as file validation and duplication detection.
As such, they are part of the [metadata element](https://xmpp.org/extensio … ⌘ Read more

Still two unresolved issues with WeeChat:

1. How can I mark the current buffer as read? There is /input set_unread to mark it as unread (although I can’t tell that it does actually anything in the TUI) but there’s no set_read command that would put my read marker below the last message. Sure I can switch buffers and then the read marker is at the bottom, but this sounds like a silly workaround. There must be something better.
   
2. I want the beep trigger to also fire when a regular message is sent. But the adjusted condition ${tg_displayed} && ${tg_tags} !!- ,notify_none, with the && (${tg_highlight} || ${tg_msg_pv}) removed then also includes joins and parts, which I don’t want to be alerted by. Now fiddling around with ${tg_message_nocolor} !~ ^(-->|<--), let’s see.
   

How do you folks do that?

Oh nice, there’s now a bit rain and even lightning in the distance. \o/ \o/ \o/ Let’s hope that that doesn’t start a fire.

Before we were sexually herrassed by flying ants in the end, we picked the first blackberries of the season on today’s hike. Very yummy, let me tell you!

It’s super dry everywhere, just have a look at the dried out grass in the first two photos. Two nights ago we had the first and biggest forest fire about eight kilometers away. The newspaper article claims that 7,000 m² (sic!) of forest were on fire. In the morning of that day the district fire chief introduced the new alarm plan for forest fires. Eight fire brigades responded with 83 fire fighters in 17 vehicles. Eight trucks shuttled 30,000 liters of water to the scene. Luckily, four and a half hours later they had it under control. A fire fighting drone specialists department of a neighboring fire service located several pockets of embers. I wasn’t even aware, that we have such specialists here in the county, pretty cool. Unfortunately, one fire man probably broke his Achilles tendon in this fire run, the article says.

Other than that, there had been four other wildland fires with a hedge, bunch of trees, a 20,000 m² big stubble fields and another vegetation fire since June in our county. I actually didn’t know that. Well, that’s all nothing compared to the fires they have in East Germany at the moment.

JMP: Newsletter: Multilingual Transcriptions and Better Voicemail Greetings
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numb … ⌘ Read more

Let’s lower the cost of Lunduke Journal subscriptions!
And have some fun in the process. ⌘ Read more

I’m trying to switch from Konversation to irssi. Let’s see how that goes. Any irssiers out there who can recommend specific settings or scripts? I already got myself trackbar.pl and nickcolor.pl as super-essentials. Also trying window_switcher.pl. Somehow my custom binds for Ctrl+1/2/3/etc. to switch to window 1/2/3/etc. doesn’t do anything: { key = "^1"; id = "change_window"; data = "1"; } (I cannot use the default with Alt as this is handled by my window manager). Currently, I’m just cycling with Ctrl+N/P. Other things to solve in the near future:

• better, more colorful and compact theme (just removed clock from statusbar so far)
  
• getting bell/urgency hints working on arriving messages
  
• nicer tabs in status bar, maybe even just channel names and no indexes
  
• decluster status bar with user and channel modes (I never cared about those in the last decade)

Yesterday, we had a heavy thunderstorm in the evening. At first it wasn’t too bad, just thunder in the distance and then a few drops of rain for at most five minutes. That was it. Alright, I thought, it’s over, let me call a mate and walk to the dairy farm. The heavy clouds looked awesome, a bit threatening but mostly harmless and just beautiful. We decided on a small detour to the home made ice cream vending machine and got ourselves some expensive, but very yummy pineapple/mint, yoghurt and raspberry/basil tubs. Mint was super strong, had to eat three spoons of some other flavors to actually taste it. A few spoons in and then the thunder rolled in from nowhere. So we quickly headed for the dairy farm while eating our ice creams. Half way there the sky floodgates opened and we took cover under a tree at the local playground. A minute later we decided to climb up the slide tower, because it had a proper roof. A tiny bit of hail cam down, but nothing serious.

About 15-20 minutes the rain stopped and the thunder and lighning rolled past. So we continued our journey and I finally filled my two one liter bottles successfully. Every now and then it drizzled a little bit through the forest. We reached our homes and a couple minutes later rain hit again. Thunder and lighning went crazy. The sky lit up every few seconds and this continued through half of the night.

Right after I hung up to meet my mate, another mate called and reported a few villages north of us they experienced hail sized a bit under golf balls. But he luckily managed to get the car in the underground carpark in time.

Today, it rained the whole morning. This was great since the temperatures stayed below 20°C, so my walk was a real joy. It’s going to get close to 30°C tomorrow, though, gnarf, örks, bwäh. :-(

JMP: Newsletter: Command UI and Better Transcriptions Coming Soon
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one a … ⌘ Read more

Chinese breakthrough lets human brains beam radio waves
Researchers say new technology could be used for mind-controlled military radar and other devices. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Handy-Dandy Subscription Info-Graphic
Because, let’s face it, there’s almost too many Lunduke Journal perks to keep track of. ⌘ Read more

Nato to pledge aid to Baltics and Ukraine, urge Türkiye to let in Sweden and Finland
Nato leaders meeting in Madrid this week face the unprecedented challenge of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ⌘ Read more

School in China ditches sleeping on desks at nap time for health reasons and lets students set up their own tents to sleep in
A school in China, concerned by the health impacts of students sleeping with heads on desks, tried something different — now its ‘sleep lying down project’ is winning praise nationally. ⌘ Read more

Quirky China: Chinese factory uses mannequin as ‘fire warden’, pupils use train bench as homework desk, school lets kids wear hanfu clothes
Quirky China: A factory is caught using a mannequin to police fire warnings, three students have turned a train bench into a homework desk and a school is allowing pupils to attend classes dressed in traditional hanfu costumes. ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Modernizing XMPP authentication and authorization
We’re excited to announce that we have received funding, from the EU’s
NGI Assure via the NLnet Foundation, to work on
some important enhancements to Prosody and XMPP. Our work will be focusing on
XMPP authentication and authorization, and bringing it up to date with current
and emerging best practices.

What kind of changes are we talking about? Well, there are a few aspects we
are planning to work on. Let’s start with “authent … ⌘ Read more

Paul Schaub: Reproducible Builds – Telling of a Debugging Story
Reproducibility is an important tool to empower users. Why would a user care about that? Let me elaborate.

For a piece of software to be reproducible means that everyone with access to the software’s source code is able to build the binary form of it (e.g. the executable that gets distributed). What’s the matter? Isn’t that true for any project with accessible source code? Not at all. Reproducibility means that the r … ⌘ Read more

Apple: “Sideloading is the DEVIL!”
Apple, Google, and others are attempting to demonize the act of installing software. We can’t let them succeed. ⌘ Read more

US and allies must stay focused on Ukraine during ‘pivotal’ moment, Pentagon chief says
‘We cannot afford to let up and we cannot lose steam. The stakes are too high,’ US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said. Western countries promised Nato-standard weapons but Ukraine will need support to transition. ⌘ Read more