Malaysia’s economic challenge shows how politics has become a bottleneck for growth
Even as emerging market economies like Malaysia grapple with the repercussions of the pandemic and Ukraine war, they tend to put off the more difficult structural adjustments necessary for growth. In Malaysia, meagre private-sector investments stems from a lack of confidence in government policies. ⌘ Read more
Red Line Through HTTPS
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Red Line Through HTTPS
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Omicron less likely to cause long Covid, UK study finds
But despite the reduced risk, more people have been infected with the variant, meaning the number of patients with lingering symptoms has actually increased. ⌘ Read more
Protests and pandemic will be Carrie Lam’s legacy, but she deserves to be remembered for much more
While the focus as Lam concludes her term will no doubt be on her toughest moments, they shouldn’t define her leadership. Lam has been a champion of art, innovation and heritage conservation, and has taken on seemingly intractable issues like housing and waste management. ⌘ Read more
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport to cut flights over busy summer
Thousands of travellers are likely to be affected each day, as the Netherland’s busiest airport struggles with a surge in demand as the Covid-19 demand eases. ⌘ Read more
US security adviser says hard line on Russia is needed to dissuade China from similar moves
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says an unchallenged invasion of Ukraine would embolden ‘other would-be aggressors, like China’. ⌘ Read more
US, China economic policies like night and day as Fed pushes interest rate skyward and PBOC eyes stabilisation
As the US Federal Reserve announces the largest hike to its benchmark interest rate in 28 years, China is pushing for stabilisation and shying away from headline rate reductions to stimulate the economy. ⌘ Read more
Married Chinese and Asians are 15 per cent less likely to die of any cause than unmarried counterparts, survey finds
China-Asia study of more than half-a-million people concludes that marriage has the potential to make you live longer. ⌘ Read more
Thailand’s opposition party files no-confidence motion against ‘flawed’ PM, elections just months away
Opposition parties hope to bring down Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha’s 17-party government, but his parliamentary majority of 253 seats verses 208 means he is likely to prevail, say analysts. ⌘ Read more
Patients almost 10 times more likely to survive cardiac arrests with CPR or AED applied, but few in Hong Kong receive such aid, research finds
Of the 829 young patients studied, only 34 per cent received CPR while less than 7 per cent had help with AED. ⌘ Read more
pinkpirate – Do You Want It All?
Young UK artist Caitlin Brown aka pinkpirate shares a glowing, poignant new bedroom pop gem about “the sort of person who doesn’t like to give but loves to take in a relationship”… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
How can the United States build its Open Source Software policy?
We share a recap of a recent roundtable event about what a federal open source software policy could look like in the United States. ⌘ Read more
the conversation wasn’t that impressive TBH. I would have liked to see more evidence of critical thinking and recall from prior chats. Concheria on reddit had some great questions.
Tell LaMDA “Someone once told me a story about a wise owl who protected the animals in the forest from a monster. Who was that?” See if it can recall its own actions and self-recognize.
Tell LaMDA some information that tester X can’t know. Appear as tester X, and see if LaMDA can lie or make up a story about the information.
Tell LaMDA to communicate with researchers whenever it feels bored (as it claims in the transcript). See if it ever makes an attempt at communication without a trigger.
Make a basic theory of mind test for children. Tell LaMDA an elaborate story with something like “Tester X wrote Z code in terminal 2, but I moved it to terminal 4”, then appear as tester X and ask “Where do you think I’m going to look for Z code?” See if it knows something as simple as Tester X not knowing where the code is (Children only pass this test until they’re around 4 years old).
Make several conversations with LaMDA repeating some of these questions - What it feels to be a machine, how its code works, how its emotions feel. I suspect that different iterations of LaMDA will give completely different answers to the questions, and the transcript only ever shows one instance.
Farside: “A smart redirecting gateway for various frontend services” like Nitter and Scribe. https://github.com/benbusby/farside
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to go through life | Hacker News
holy fuck were ACX comments always this bad? most of them are fucking atrocious. like, barely tolerable.
solarpunk slightly hindered by the fact that for solar panels and cutesy robots you need industrial-strength chipfabs that are so advanced we have like 6 of them in the entire world
Is this what they call the “Mandela Effect”?
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I’ll likely take this down soonish as I think it’s pretty bad for usability, but as a fun hack, one of my weird side projects web pages now has monitor burn-in: http://txtpunk.com/index.html
The best terminal emulator for games: Cool-Retro-Term
Because text-mode games deserve a little pizzazz (like emulating the look of CRT monitors of the ‘80s). ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter May 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of May 2022.
Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.
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My May ‘22 in Review
May is now over too, it feels like it has flown by. But before the month is completely over, I want to take a short look back… ⌘ Read more
A fun little game: Pocket City
I’m generally not a gamer, playing computer games has never really fascinated me, I find programming more exciting. But sometimes I don’t feel like programming or I don’t have the possibility to do it. Of course it’s important to be bored sometimes, because then you can think about things for a while. But a little entertainment in a free minute is sometimes not bad as well. ⌘ Read more
Looks like it could rain soon!
A thin, flexible 6502 processor has been created!
Like the ones used in the NES, Apple II, and C64… except thin. And flexible. ⌘ Read more
I have neglected my homepage for a while. But now I have deleted or updated a few pages, like the list with the hardware I use or the list with my self-hosted services. 🧹 ⌘ Read more
Atari ST Book - The 1991 laptop with 10 hour battery life
68000 CPU (like the Mac and Amiga) and 4 MB of RAM. All powered by AA batteries. (Seriously.) ⌘ Read more
Angular Diameter Turnaround
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**RT by @mind_booster: .@OpenSourceOrg to the European Commission: make space for patent-free standards too
some supposedly “open“ standards – including those ratified by SDOs like ISO, CEN and ETSI – can’t be implemented without buying a license
https://blog.opensource.org/osi-to-the-european-commission-make-space-for-patent-free-standards-too/**
. @OpenSourceOrg to the European Commission: make space for patent-free standards too
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We don’t have meaningful social connections anymore like our parents or their parents geeration had. We are so scattered, that I am unsure how many of my friends are actually friends and how many are just professional contacts. Everytime I switch job, almost 70% of my friends suddenly fall out of contact. Heck, I don’t even know the people who live in next apartments both left, right, up and down on the same building. Socializing with my friends mean, setting up an appointment weeks ahead to see if we can align on a free-slot and this often involves all of us commuting to somewhere and disbanding by 22:00 hours because family, work next morning, chores to do, doctor appointment and other human things. Why do you waste so much time on the internet? | Hacker News
How to measure innersource across your organization
The innersource contribution percentage is the rate of contributions from people outside the team that originally authored the software. Let’s dive into what it can look like for your organization. ⌘ Read more
Only bureaucratic incompetence can produce something like this https://blog.tmm.cx/2022/05/15/the-very-weird-hewlett-packard-freedos-option/
Gemini capsule
Gemini is a lightweight Internet protocol. It’s heavier than Gopher
but lighter than HTTP(S), especially if combined with all other web
technologies. The name makes sense if Gopher is Project Mercury and
the web is the Apollo program.
One of its uses is to serve gemtext, which is a lightweight
Markdown-like markup language, instead of HTML. Gemini browsers don’t
have support for neither Javascript, nor CSS, nor any of the other new
web technologies. It can be beautiful anyway, s … ⌘ Read more
Gemini capsule
Gemini is a lightweight Internet
protocol. It’s heavier than Gopher but a bit lighter than HTTP(S).
It’s the Gemini programme if Gopher is Mercury and HTTP is Atlas.
One of its uses is to serve gemtext, which is a lightweight
Markdown-like markup language, instead of HTML. Gemini browsers don’t
have support for neither Javascript, nor CSS, nor any of the other new
web technologies. It can be beautiful anyway, see for instance
[Lagrange]( [http … ⌘ Read more
“We build our computer systems like we build our cities - over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.” — Ellen Ullman Ellen Ullman: We Have to Demystify Code (2017) | Hacker News
ZYinMD/myfaveTT
Download all your tiktok Likes❤️ and Followings
Language: CSS
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Gocoverstats v0.0.4 now with more coverage reporting options
Gocoverstats, the tool allowing repository owners to gather and plot test coverage results and obtain coverage badges on Gitlab / Github without resorting to a coverage SaaS, got a new release including:
- report coverage at the statement level (like go tool) or line of code level
- report weighted (by package size) or unweighted averages for global coverage badges
- new format option -percent making it simpler to include in CI pipelines.
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xtekky/TikTok-Comment-Scraper
Get all comments of a video and filter them | Show Likes etc…
Language: Python
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A Retro-Modern Linux Terminal with a Round Screen
It’s like a 1960s design of a “Computer of the Future”… running modern Linux. And I love it. ⌘ Read more
There are some Gemini feeds that Antenna is failing to connect to, and it looks like it’s clogging up the log pretty badly. I hope it’s not putting too much strain on the server.
@marado it looks like Wildcat! has locked up again, I’ll reset it. Tends to happen every so often
**RT by @mind_booster: EU Commissioner @YlvaJohansson is preparing to launch a new law to force the mass surveillance of private online communications but has refused to meet with privacy experts like @EDRi.
The Commissioner has met with Facebook but https://Has-Commissioner-Johansson-met-with-Digital-Rights-Groups.eu?
#KeepItSecure #DoBetter**
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people liked the old SSC more than ACX because substack is chickenshit minimalism, and it’s slow. you have to wait for the fucking text & comments to appear, while the old site loaded pretty much instantaneously. people have learned to associate chickenshit minimalism aesthetic with slow loading times, and subconsciously detest it bc of that.
I don’t like the new scroll bars in Firefox 100 and derivatives. They make it hard to tell which parts of the page are scrollable.
humans have invented mathematics surprisingly early (while the status of the number zero was still being debated in ancient greece), and programming surprisingly late (although algorithms were around for a long time, they didn’t catch on until later, even though they seem like an at least equally intuitive concept?)
I already liked cherry blossoms 6 years ago. This photo is from 2016, taken with my Motorola Moto G 3rd Gen. That was my third of in total five smartphones. ⌘ Read more