My April ‘23 in Review
I almost forgot this monthly review, although it should actually be a routine after more than two years. But so much exciting has not happened this month… ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Big Tech Show - Apr 30, 2023
Listen now (79 min) | Special Edition: Fixing all the problems in computing in a single show (or at least trying) ⌘ Read more
Tapetum Lucidum
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A beautiful flowering tree that I see from the window of my second home. 🌸 ⌘ Read more
Lunduke Journal April Wrap-up
A commitment to no ads, live streaming on the way, & April PDF Magazine. ⌘ Read more
Grape growers harvesting vintage directly back onto the ground after difficult year
Australia’s wine industry is limping to the end of one of its most difficult vintages, with widespread disease dramatically cutting yields and a glut of red wine leaving many growers unable to find buyers. ⌘ Read more
Country of origin labelling for Australian-grown flowers will set them apart from imports
Next time you buy flowers, check the rubber band holding the bunch together. Green and gold elastic bands will signify the blooms are locally grown. ⌘ Read more
[CPAN] 如何在安裝 DBD::mysql 時使其使用 MariaDB 的編譯設定 ⌘ Read more
Climate change pushes emerging Tasmanian wine region into spotlight
Step aside Yarra Valley and Coonawarra, Tassie’s traditional dairy and potato heartland is muscling in on the wine scene — with a little help from climate change. ⌘ Read more
This month on The ReadME Podcast: exploring the fusion of technology and progress
Open source’s impact on nuclear fusion research, adapting to technological change, and mastering GitHub essentials. ⌘ Read more
Viewing PDFs in Firefox works again
A few months ago I complained about Firefox not being able to open PDFs without downloading them. Recently, I also wanted to start developing a custom Firefox addon to fix this behavior. ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: Sabes porque o PCP não aparece nas tvs a falar dos teus problemas?
Vê até ao fim, porque é isto que acontece todos os dias.
(1 de 2)**
Sabes porque o PCP não aparece nas tvs a falar dos teus problemas?
Vê até ao fim, porque é isto que acontece todos os dias.
(1 de 2)
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**RT by @mind_booster: 🧰 5 changes to fix the EC’s #RightToRepair proposal 🛠️
1️⃣ No contractual overrides
2️⃣ No digital locks
3️⃣ Go beyond just fixing things
4️⃣ Don’t limit who can repair
5️⃣ Broaden the scope of what can be repaired
Blog 👉 https://www.knowledgerights21.org/news-story/still-time-to-repair-the-commission-proposal-on-the-right-to-repair/
Response 👉 https://kr21.info/r2r**
🧰 5 changes to fix the EC’s #RightToRepair proposal 🛠️
1️⃣ No contractual ov … ⌘ Read more
ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, & the Coming Code Apocalypse
Listen now (24 min) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast - April 27, 2023 ⌘ Read more
Overlapping Circles
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/overlapping_circles.png "\")
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💻 Issue 362 - Beginner’s guide to derivations in Scala ⌘ Read more
Riverland families selling off land and diversifying after generations of growing winegrapes
Vineyard owners in South Australia’s Riverland are hitting the market as the wine industry feels the crush of a difficult vintage and China’s tariffs on red wine. ⌘ Read more
I miss running
I’ve talked about this a few times and posted some of the pictures OneDrive shows me every day. Photos taken on the same day, week or month in previous years. It always gives me a “throwback” and I think about the situation at the time I took the photo. ⌘ Read more
I deleted my Twitter account a long time ago, but sometimes I still used Nitter to search Twitter or we linked tweets. I decided to stop that and removed Nitter from my home server and added “twitter.com” to the deny list at NextDNS. There are too many reasons to list here. ⌘ Read more
Funny Programming Pictures Part XXX
Yep. XXX. Oooooh, boy! You know what that means! ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: so went and dig around to find out that Portugal is investing 77m in AI, from EU funds - that’s settled then - but it goes to 1 consortium of an AI company based in the States and to 1 other company. both of them are proud of their investors and investments
so went and dig around to find out that Portugal is investing 77m in AI, from EU funds - that’s settled then - but it goes to 1 consortium of an AI company based in the States and to 1 other company. both of them are proud of their investors a … ⌘ Read more
CLI tricks every developer should know
Learn some tips, tricks, and tools for mastering the command line from GitHub’s own developers. ⌘ Read more
Tech Layoffs Hit Linux: Red Hat Laying Off 760 Employees
CEO of the largest Linux company: “We must continue to sharpen our focus and do fewer things better.” ⌘ Read more
Microsoft & Google: “You’ll have no real computers, and you’ll be happy”
This is a trend we need to put the kibosh on. ⌘ Read more
This is Still a Sham ⌘ Read more
Definition of e
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Queensland farmer helps boost budding Samoan dragon fruit industry
A Samoan farmer has turned to a Rockhampton dragon fruit producer for rare expert knowledge in growing the “beautiful” variety that can fetch up to $10 a piece. ⌘ Read more
The era of ad supported services is coming to an end (and that’s a good thing).
Services like Substack, Locals, and Twitter (seriously) are leading the way. ⌘ Read more
New Kissabel apple with its red-hued flesh enters Australian market
Ten years in the making, the Insta-worthy Kissabel apple is a cross between a crabapple and a traditional eating apple. ⌘ Read more
Git security vulnerabilities announced
A new set of Git releases were published to address a variety of security vulnerabilities. All users are encouraged to upgrade. Take a look at GitHub’s view of the latest round of releases. ⌘ Read more
I learned a productivity system for organizing life ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Re-implement our first blog scrapper with Crawly 0.15.0
It has been almost four years since my first article about scraping with Elixir and Crawly was published. Since then, many changes have occurred, the most significant being Erlang Solution’s blog design update. As a result, the 2019 tutorial is no longer functional.
This situation provided an excellent opportunity to update the original work and re-implement the Crawler using the new version of Cra … ⌘ Read more
Gearing up for Maintainer Month this May!
Are you looking for ways to support open source maintainers? Maintainer Month is the perfect opportunity! ⌘ Read more
IndiePass, Indigenous or whatever it’s called now (for Android) supports unlisted and private posts now! 🎉 Or did it already before and I just did not notice the setting? At least that was a feature I always missed and needed to use frontmatter when creating a new reply for example. Thanks Mark Sutherland! ⌘ Read more
QOA Benchmark Results and File Format Specification
The specification for the Quite OK Audio Format,
announced in a previous blog post,
is now finalized. QOA is a lossy audio compression format. Typical audio
signals (44100hz, stereo) are encoded into 278 kbits/s, or more precisely 3.2
bits per sample – exactly 1/5 of the bits needed for an uncompressed WAV.
The QOA-Specification [fits on a single … ⌘ Read more
Shaping the GitHub of the future as COO
GitHub is driving the future of software development and, after 10 years as a Hubber, I’m more energized than ever as I take on the role of COO to help bring our vision to life. ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: A nossa democracia não só não está garantida como vive o momento de maior risco à sua existência.
Nos 50 anos do 25 de Abril celebraremos tudo o que conquistámos. Nestes 49 anos alertamos para o que podemos perder.**
A nossa democracia não só não está garantida como vive o momento de maior risco à sua existência.
Nos 50 anos do 25 de Abril celebraremos tudo o que conquistámos. Nestes 49 anos alertamos para o que podemos perder.
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**RT by @mind_booster: Caro @dntwit, a parte de cima da vossa capa ficou em 1971, por isso tomámos a liberdade de a corrigir.
Bom 25 de Abril✌️
#Metadados #DireitosDigitais**
Caro @dntwit, a parte de cima da vossa capa ficou em 1971, por isso tomámos a liberdade de a corrigir.
Bom 25 de Abril✌️
**No @JornalMapa fala-se do pós-#25Abril:
https://www.jornalmapa.pt/2023/04/24/a-vida-quase-se-cumpriu/**
No @JornalMapa fala-se do pós- #25Abril:
**É por coisas como esta que eu ainda ando por aqui pelo Twitter.
A conta que marca o ano, todos os anos, a thread para reviver o 25 de abril.
Haverá quem ainda não conhece ou não segue, mas vão agora bem a tempo.
O 25 de Abril está a começar. 25 de Abril, sempre!**
É por coisas como esta que eu ainda ando por aqui pelo Twitter.
A conta que marca o ano, todos os anos, a thread para reviver o 25 de abril.
Haverá quem ainda não conhece ou não segue, mas vão agora bem a tempo.
O 25 de Abril está a começar. 2 … ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: 1/3 🚨Recent @POLITICOEurope leak revealed that US & EU officials have agreed to cooperate on measures to turn public opinion against #encryption.
Experts’ statements by @edri & @globalencrypt have called out against this plan
➡️https://edri.org/our-work/eu-us-plan-offensive-to-legitimise-police-access-to-data-civil-society-responds-amid-growing-fears-press-release/
➡️https://www.globalencryption.org/2023/04/statement-on-eu-us-cooperation-against-encryption/**
1/3 🚨Recent [@POLITICOEurope](https … ⌘ Read more
Samsung is known for using Apple references in their advertisements. In this ad, they do it again. Kind of funny. 😂 ⌘ Read more
Recipe Relativity
![It says to cut the onions into 1/4](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/recipe_relativity.png "It says to cut the onions into 1/4\")
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The Lunduke Big Tech Show - Apr 23, 2023 - Hour 2
Listen now (0 sec) | Listener questions! All hour! So much nerdiness it makes my head explode! ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Big Tech Show - Apr 23, 2023 - Hour 1
Listen now (0 sec) | The Death of Computer Magazines, A.I. taking away jobs, Tech Layoffs, and iOS Sideloading. ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: Número 16 da #ColecçãoVampiro O Caso da Fotografia Misteriosa https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2023/04/23/numero-16-da-coleccaovampiro-o-caso-da-fotografia-misteriosa/
Número 16 da #ColecçãoVampiro O Caso da Fotografia Misteriosa paulasimoesblog.wordpress.co…
 are used. ⌘ Read more