Russia to spend US$14.5 billion on aircraft amid sanctions
The aviation industry has been in crisis since the West imposed sanctions banning airlines from countries such as Europe and the US, while foreign plane makers have stopped delivering new aircraft and spare parts. ⌘ Read more
Hong Kong star Jackie Chan attracts 5.4 million on Kuaishou as Chinese platforms deploy celebrity live-streams to lure users
In a fierce battle for viewers, Kuaishou, Douyin and WeChat’s Channels platform are making use of star power including Chan, Backstreet Boys, Jay Chou and Andy Lau. ⌘ Read more
Singapore’s return to tighter Covid rules cannot be ruled out, deputy PM Wong says
The financial hub loosened many pandemic-related rules, including scrapping testing for vaccinated travellers and gathering limits – now average daily infections have jumped to more than 5,500. ⌘ Read more
Russia bombs central Kyiv as world leaders gather in Europe for G7 summit
Kyiv had not faced any such Russian air strikes since June 5 and life had begun returning to normal. ⌘ Read more
Hong Kong customs officers arrest 5 men after seizure of HK$4.5 million worth of frozen meat from ship
Tonnes of contraband frozen meat seized by customs officers from ship in the city’s southern waters. ⌘ Read more
Video: China’s Chang’e 5 lunar lander finds water on the moon, but not as much as they hoped ⌘ Read more
Opening of Hong Kong Palace Museum a milestone in the Jockey Club’s support for the HKSAR in the past 25 years
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The construction of the Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) was funded by a HK$3.5 billion donation from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust – the Club’s largest single charity donation to date. The museum will open to the public on 2 July as a highlight of the 25th anniversary of the establishmen … ⌘ Read more
Cash-strapped Pakistan scores IMF financial aid win – but millions of people may face ruin, analysts say
Analysts say energy price hikes after renewal of IMF support package may push many more people into poverty and wreak havoc among 5.2 million small and medium-sized businesses. ⌘ Read more
Unpacking Hong Kong’s laws, 25 years after handover: 5 rulings on Basic Law where Beijing, not the city’s courts, had final say in key cases
NPC Standing Committee’s interpretations ‘averted migrant crisis, improved Hongkongers’ understanding of Basic Law’. ⌘ Read more
Police officer fired and 5 placed under investigation over attack in women in Chinese city of Tangshan
A deputy district commander was dismissed from his post with the others being investigated by the local disciplinary watchdog ⌘ Read more
Perl 5.36.0 中出現的實驗機能 extra_paired_delimiters ⌘ Read more
World swimming’s governing body bans transgender athletes from women’s events
Fina members voted 71.5 per cent in favour of its new ‘gender inclusion policy’ that only permits swimmers who transitioned before age 12 to compete in women’s events. ⌘ Read more
Japan: 5.2 magnitude earthquake hits west coast’s Ishikawa, ‘no tsunami threat’
The quake struck a few minutes after 3pm local time Sunday. The government was gathering information but said initial reports indicated no major damage and nuclear facilities were operating normally. ⌘ Read more
Coronavirus: vaccine roll-out for American children under 5 close after CDC panel vote
US President Joe Biden’s administration plans to roll out the vaccines to the under-5 age groups as early as next week. ⌘ Read more
BTS: US$3.5 million Proof album purchase shows V’s fans in China are undeterred by Beijing’s K-Culture crackdown
The group purchase of more than 170,000 copies was made on the first day of the release of BTS’ new album ‘Proof’ last week despite Beijing tightening its grip over the consumption of South Korean content and fandom culture. ⌘ Read more
Fukushima disaster not state’s fault, Japan top court decides
Ruling leaves Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, solely responsible for slightly over US$10.5 million in damages in four lawsuits. ⌘ Read more
G20 to raise US$1.5 billion for global pandemic fund, host Indonesia says
The money will finance efforts such as surveillance, research, and better access to vaccination for lower-to-middle income countries, health officials said. About US$1.1 billion has been pledged so far. ⌘ Read more
Hong Kong health experts propose 5 key groups, including animal care workers, be vaccinated against monkeypox before exposure
Pre-exposure jab considered for five target groups, but should not be given within four weeks before or after a Covid-19 vaccine is administered. ⌘ Read more
Singapore ramps up ‘Wolbachia’ mosquito breeding as dengue crisis escalates
Amid earlier-than-usual surge in cases, which can be fatal, nation will breed 5 million male Aedes mosquitoes a week instead of 2 million. Carrying Wolbachia bacteria, when they mate with female urban mosquitoes the eggs that are laid do not hatch. ⌘ Read more
Netflix plans Squid Game reality show with US$4.5 million prize, no fatal consequences
Unlike in the fictional series, the worst fate for losers is not death, but missing out on what Netflix claims is the largest lump sum prize in reality TV history. ⌘ Read more
Dependabot Updates hit GA in GHES
Dependabot is generally available in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5. Here is how to set up Dependabot on your instance. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: MongooseIM 5.1 Configuration Rework
MongooseIM is a modern messaging server that is designed for scalability and high performance. The use of XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) extensions (XEPs) means it is also highly customisable. Since version 4.0 it has been using the TOML configuration file format, which is much more user-friendly than the previously used Erlang terms. The latest release, MongooseIM 5.1, makes it more developer-friendly as well by … ⌘ Read more
Perl 5.36.0 帶來的新機能 ⌘ Read more
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 is now generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 is available now, including access to the Container registry, the addition of Dependabot, enhanced administrator capabilities, and features for GitHub Advanced Security. ⌘ Read more
Perl 5.36.0 釋出 ⌘ Read more
“Pay What You Want” for Lunduke Journal – just for Memorial Day Weekend
Want to pay $5 for “Linux Sucks 2022”, a years subscription, and a mountain of extras? Go for it! ⌘ Read more
Stories from inside Microsoft (1998 - 2003)
Watch now (51 min) | Yelled at by Gates. Spit on by Ballmer. NT 5, DEC Alphas, Office for Mac, Windows Media Player for Mac, and more. ⌘ Read more
user/bmallred/data/2022-05-24-05-19-24.fit: 5.01 miles, 00:09:52 average pace, 00:49:25 duration
user/bmallred/data/2022-05-18-11-22-05.fit: 5.17 miles, 00:10:13 average pace, 00:52:51 duration
user/bmallred/data/2022-05-17-05-06-56.fit: 5.00 miles, 00:09:44 average pace, 00:48:38 duration
The biggest “Linux Sucks” ever… is just 5 days away!
People are going to be talking about this for a long, long time. ⌘ Read more
my watch has been running for ~5 years now, and I’ve never had to change the battery. wow.
The Lunduke Journal Podcast – May 5, 2022
Listen now (22 min) | Linux Sucks 2022 is only 9 days away! ⌘ Read more
Tails 5.0 – The portable, anti-surveillance Linux distribution
A Linux distribution with a focus on… not remembering anything. Seriously. ⌘ Read more
Work just sent out a communication about drawing up 5 year plans. I don’t have to start referring to my coworkers as “comrade”, do I?
Big day for privacy. Tails has been updated to 5.0, now based on Debian 11. https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.0/index.en.html
Mullvad VPN now accepts Monero: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/5/3/we-now-accept-monero/
R to @mind_booster: 5/5, I’m definitively happy with my choice!
5/5, I’m definitively happy with my choice!
5 simple things every developer can do to ship more secure code
From plug-and-play automations to protected branches, here are simple ways any developer can build more secure software on GitHub—all with a free account. ⌘ Read more
5 habits of highly effective creatives ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · March 2022 Edition
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend projects. Here are our top staff picks on projects that shipped major version releases in March. Babylon.js 5.0 We featured Babylon.js in the November 2020 Release Radar. Since then, Babylon.js has come […] ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Using Elixir and WhatsApp to Fight COVID19
Introduction:Discover the inside story of how the World Health Organisation’s WhatsApp COVID-19 hotline service was launched in 5 days using Elixir. At the beginning of March 2020, Turn.io launched the world’s first WhatsApp-based COVID-19 response for the South African Ministry of Health. The service was designed, deployed, stress-tested, and launched.
In 5 days. It scaled, before any kind of public launch, to 450K unique … ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 5, 2022
Listen now (29 min) | On Snap, Flatpak, and Thunderdome-ing your OS ⌘ Read more
Mastodon 3.5 finally supports the Update ActivityPub activity. GoBlog supports sending updates for quite a while already, but only Pleroma showed the updated posts and not Mastodon. That would have been useful recently, when I posted “Spaces!” but wanted to post “Tabs!” and updated my post. 😅 ⌘ Read more
Long intervals: 5.63 miles, 00:10:53 average pace, 01:01:17 duration
Long intervals
#running
Erlang Solutions: 5 Key Tech Priorities for Fintech Leaders in 2022
Issues caused by sub-optimal tech choices are commonplace in the industry, leading to companies failing under unexpected stress or being unable to adapt in time when their business requirements change.
While no two projects are the same, we’ve observed some common themes for using scalable futureproof technologies to build diverse fintech systems. Taking advantage of these learnings sets financial service provi … ⌘ Read more
Why everyone should be concerned about Ontario’s critical race theory bill
Ignite Realtime Blog: Smack 4.4.5 and 4.5.0-alpha1 released
We are happy to announce the release of Smack 4.4.5. Thanks to numerous contributors this patch level release includes many fixes and improvements.
For a high-level overview of what’s changed in Smack 4.4.4, check out Smack’s changelog
The shortlog for the 4.4.5 release is
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Florian Schmaus (21):
Smack 4.4.5-SNAPSHOT
[core] Remo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/smack-4-4-5-and-4-5-0-alpha1-released/91437)```
NixOS Community Survey 2022
The NixOS Marketing Team is pleased to announce the first offical
NixOS Community Survey.
Please take 5-10 minutes to complete it.
Since the Nix community has been growing faster and larger every month, it’s gotten harder to
understand who makes up the community and what everyone cares about. So we’re conducting this survey
to improve our understanding of those questions. We hope to use your responses to devel … ⌘ Read more