Chinese video gaming billionaire plans relocation with family abroad after draconian Shanghai lockdown
XD co-founder and CEO Huang Yimeng has told colleagues he is making preparations to move out of China, as a rising number of Chinese middle-class families are contemplating relocation to escape strict Covid-19 control measures. ⌘ Read more

China to extend yuan trading hours in bid to boost global use of its currency
Regulators led by the People’s Bank of China have told some banks to prepare for an extension of onshore yuan trading hours, according to sources, a move analysts say will help meet increasing demand for yuan transactions. ⌘ Read more

Iran launches rocket into space as nuclear talks to resume
It is unclear when or where the rocket, Zuljanah, was launched, but the announcement came after satellite photos showed preparations at Imam Khomeini Spaceport. ⌘ Read more

US prepares for second day of protests against Supreme Court’s abortion ruling
America woke up to a new level of division: between states that will now or soon deny the right to abortion, enshrined for 50 years, and those that still allow it. ⌘ Read more

China ‘no-limits’ vow with Russia raises Pentagon urgency to prepare for Guam attack: US commander
‘Extremely dangerous’ if Beijing and Moscow were to make good on recent doubling down of partnership, says US Indo-Pacific Commander John Aquilino. ⌘ Read more

President Xi Jinping’s ‘deep feelings’ for Hong Kong highlighted by state media as city prepares to mark 25th anniversary of handover
Article, headlined ‘Hong Kong’s development is always close to my heart’ compiles a number of Xi’s past speeches which touched on city. ⌘ Read more

‘Spicy policies’ helped fortify Hong Kong’s market, save homeowners from negative-equity trap, defaults, ex-HKMA CEO Chan says
Hong Kong is better prepared today to withstand future financial crises, such as a property market slump, according to former HKMA CEO Norman Chan Tak-lam. ⌘ Read more

Why Hong Kong may need to discuss whether all its judges should be Chinese nationals ahead of 2047: city’s first chief justice Andrew Li
City needs to be prepared should fewer non-permanent, overseas judges be available to serve in next 10 years, he says. ⌘ Read more

Iran preparing for rocket launch, satellite images suggest amid nuclear tensions
A launch pad is visible at the Imam Khomeini Spaceport, the site of Tehran’s recent failed attempts to put a satellite into orbit. ⌘ Read more

Awesome Masculinity, Computers, & You
Watch now (53 min) | Be prepared to make manly, grunting noises. ⌘ Read more

Prepare for next semester with GitHub Global Campus and Codespaces
Teachers, it is now your turn to join GitHub Global Campus with our student community! Get access to exclusive benefits, programs, and the Power of Codespaces at no cost in GitHub Classroom! ⌘ Read more

**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**
EU Commissioner @YlvaJohansson is preparing to launch a new law to force the mass surveillance of private onli … ⌘ Read more

Welcome to the Niplaverse! Take a seat over there, your ultrasound-stimulation helmet is being prepared in right order.

Gajim: Development News April 2022
This month came with a lot of preparations for the release of Gajim 1.4 🚀 Gajim’s release pipeline has been improved in many ways, allowing us to make releases more frequently. Furthermore, April brought improvements for file previews on Windows.

For two and a half years I (wurstsalat) have been writing (and translating) Gajim’s monthly development news. Keeping this up on a monthly basis takes a lot of time and effort. Upcoming development news will … ⌘ Read more

I’ve always found that “living at my means” has paid dividends. To many folks, ‘round these parts, they’d consider it “living below my means,” but that’s mostly because they “live beyond their means.” Ask HN: How can I prepare for hard economic times? | Hacker News

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.6.5 released
Although we’re preparing for the Openfire 4.7.0 release, the recently discovered vulnerability in the Apache Log4j utility prompted us to push an immediate release of Openfire to address that issue. This release, Openfire 4.6.5, is available now.

We urge you to update as soon as possible. If that’s not feasible, then we advise you to apply the documented workaround (in the form o … ⌘ Read more

Preparing for Advent of Code in Teliva: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2021-11-30 (video; 15 minutes)

Jérôme Poisson: Libervia v0.8 « La Cecília »
I’m proud to announce the release of Libervia 0.8 « La Cecília » (formerly known as « Salut à Toi »), after more than 2 years of development.

This version is a big milestone preparing the future of the project. Let’s have an overview of some major changes.

In the interest of simplicity, the project has been renamed to “ Libervia ” (with was formerly the name of the web frontend), and all official frontends have now a … ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.4 Preview: Workspaces
The Gajim team has been hard at work in the past months to prepare the next v1.4 release. The upcoming version brings a major interface redesign. In this post, we explain how the new interface works and what remains to be decided or implemented before the release.

Of course, your feedback is important! No interface can please everyone, so please react to this post with how this change would impact you positively and negatively, and ideas you have to make it even better … ⌘ Read more

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since hydra blood is poisonous, most traditional methods of preparing its meat involve marination and fermentation, but some modern breeds can almost be eaten raw

hydra neck, if properly prepared, is one of the few vegetarian cuts of meat as harvesting it doesn’t kill the hydra

LARBS preparing for release ⌘ https://larbs.xyz

Not-Quite-Livestream in preparation ⌘

New Forum Up and Under Preparation ⌘

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Database Basics https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/05/database.html #database #intro #education #preparation

Periodic reminder: nothing has prepared us for The Strange Times

The workflow app on iOS is magic. I now have a button that asks me to select a picture, then converts it to png, resizes it, strips the metadata, scps it to my jumphost, scps it further to my gopher jail and into my paste directory, constructs the http proxy URL and opens it in safari. All without user-interaction. Now I can share my mobile life with you guys! Prepare for cat pictures!

Hot take: the whole ‘you need to code in your free time’ is partially justified by the way a 4 year CS degree doesn’t remotely prepare you for an entry-level code-crunching position.

As the year draws to a close it becomes ever more clear: nothing has prepared us for the Strange Times.

She lets the motorbike fall left and you already prepare for a crash, but it rotates smoothly through the ground and you’re driving on the underside of the street

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Yeah, but yet a lot of sites are preparing the jump to http/2.0 with its inbelievable complexity. And even http/1.1 is probably a little bit over engineered.

@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx But be prepared that you terminal is b0rked! In what language are you writing your client?

A timetraveller has arrived but got the direction wrong. We watch his corpse reassemble itself, prepare to pull out the knife to unkill him.

The mountains hear the challenge and prepare for battle, to meet civilizations worth of architecture, led by the renegade demimountain

Morale
Last week I wrote about Kent’s Spelling Bee, and how preparing for it was hard for him and I.

Well, the Bee came and went, and I forgot to come back to post the results. He misspelled “ _morale_” (he spelled it as “ moral”) and finished in 4th place—for me, it doesn’t make sense, as I have always considered first, second and third place relevant, but fourth?—, which still qualified him to go to the State competition. That, of course, means more pract … ⌘ Read more

Mi vieja

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She created me, all my flaws and gifts unintended. She nurtured and guided me through life the best she could, suffering for my mistakes—but always hopeful—and rejoicing on my victories. Always supportive she gave herself to me (and my siblings), selflessly.

After a lifetime mission, her time around here has expired. We knew it would come, but never fully prepared for it. And so we wept, sadness seeping throu … ⌘ Read more

Upcoming presidential elections
I really need to get into politics—as much as I hate it—to prepare for the upcoming presidential elections. I have the feeling that it’s going to be nasty… as always. ⌘ Read more

Prepare to pay more
It seems that within four years –if nothing is done to prevent it (and nobody really knows what to do)– we [americans] will be paying $7 for a gallon of gasoline.

A very interesting post over Wired explains some of the reasons. A brief summary of them:

1. Oil companies getting tax breaks, and not passing those savings down, butpocketing them.
   
2. Theeconomic development in China and India, which increases the dema … ⌘ Read more

But Death and Taxes
“In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes” wrote Benjamin Franklin, 200 plus years ago and that truth remains unabated. It should be easy to figure out that we were involved on preparing our taxes. Being part of the decadent american middle class it is not hard to imagine that we treat taxes as what they are: a serious matter.

Years ago I used to get great refunds. Then they started to diminish and one lucky year I ended up paying $200. When Kent was born we got a sweet … ⌘ Read more