We haven't released a new version of InfiniTime for almost a year, so we are very happy to release InfiniTime 1.15.0 today! The list of changes is quite impressive! I would like to thank everyone w...
Thanks for that. I worried it was something worthwhile that I'd just forgotten about in the mind-boggling meantime of "almost a year" since last update.
Time to pull the old PineTime out from under the bed and throw it on the charger. Probably still won’t be usable, but always fun to try new firmware. Thanks for the heads up!
The update didn't bring mind-boggling features so far. But I still like to wear it daylie, but I only need it as a clock, alarm, and notification system, so my needs are already fulfilled.
I’m not expecting much. I just wish it would work consistently. I don’t know how many times it’s just decided to crash or turn off or fail to wake. It’s never even been reliable as a simple watch like what you mention. At least not for me. But, it’s been fun to play with for a small fee.
Successive governments denied former miners their full pensions, condemning thousands to further hardship after the decimation of their communities. Now, at last, Labour is correcting this historic injustice.
Hezbollah on Monday fired two projectiles toward Israeli-occupied territory, responding to repeated Israeli strikes that have hit Lebanon daily since Thursday, the day after the ceasefire came into force.
The projectiles landed in an open area and no one was injured, according to the Israeli military. It did not specify the type of projectile fired.
Hours later, Israel’s military said it began striking “Hezbollah terrorists, dozens of launchers, and terrorist infrastructure throughout Lebanon,” after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to retaliate, calling Hezbollah’s attack “a serious violation of the ceasefire.”
Lebanon "attacked" in response to Israel's attacks, and it fired warning shots into an open field. Then Israel started hitting targets.
by insisting doctors in Gaza were raping to death Israelis first.
Dr Al-Bursh had become a fixture in the lives of many through the video diaries he posted before his arrest.
His videos showed him with his colleagues, digging mass graves in the al-Shifa yard to bury people because Israel would not let their bodies be taken to a cemetery, operating on the injured and the dying with little or no equipment, and waiting together for the Israeli assault on a hospital where thousands had sought safety.
The assault came in mid-November when, in scenes captured by Dr Al-
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There's always some chud who stumbles in from the wrong instance to say "No You!" whenever Israel commits a new war crime.
I'm looking forward to hearing how you're going to justify
by insisting doctors in Gaza were raping to death Israelis first.
Dr Al-Bursh had become a fixture in the lives of many through the video diaries he posted before his arrest.
His videos showed him with his colleagues, digging mass graves in the al-Shifa yard to bury people because Israel would not let their bodies be taken to a cemetery, operating on the injured and the dying with little or no equipment, and waiting together for the Israeli assault on a hospital where thousands had sought safety.
The assault came in mid-November when, in scenes captured by Dr Al-Bursh, the Israeli army ordered al-Shifa, its patients, staff and approximately 50,000 displaced people sheltering in the compound to vacate.
Dr Al-Bursh made his way to the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza where he worked until that too came under fire in November and he moved to Al-Awda Hospital.
There he was arrested and entered a prison system that Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem describes as “Hell”.
Israel often detains healthcare workers like Dr Al-Bursh, holding them in horrific conditions for “investigation”.
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Four months later, Ofer Prison guards dragged Al-Bursh and dumped him in the prison yard, naked from the waist down, bleeding and unable to stand, according to a statement provided by Israeli human rights organisation, HaMoked.
Recognising him, some of the other prisoners carried Al-Bursh to a nearby room, and he died moments later.
You must know me really well -- better than I know myself -- to be able to spin out of my comment such a detailed profile of me. You are an amazing person! Of course, your assumptions about me are wrong, but still, please keep up your blind assumptions, because the world needs more of that.
Jihadist forces have invaded the Syrian city of Aleppo (Heleb) as part of a new escalation in the country’s ongoing proxy war. But the Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud (Şêxmeqsûd) and Ashrafiyeh have been resisting the invading extremists.
It is very poetic to think of code containing the memory of its maintainers. I don’t entirely disagree with the idea, but it’s overly poetic and the reality of maintenance on systems that have become too unwieldy is anything but poetic.
I am currently polishing off a small demo script that I wrote a year ago. The code takes a Whatsapp export and reformats it to HTML that can be skinned. For fun I’ve used a NES stylesheet which has neat dialogs to represent a conversation à la Whatsapp where the speech bubbles on the left are your friends or colleagues and those on the right are you.
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Code as memory?
It is very poetic to think of code containing the memory of its maintainers. I don’t entirely disagree with the idea, but it’s overly poetic and the reality of maintenance on systems that have become too unwieldy is anything but poetic.
I am currently polishing off a small demo script that I wrote a year ago. The code takes a Whatsapp export and reformats it to HTML that can be skinned. For fun I’ve used a NES stylesheet which has neat dialogs to represent a conversation à la Whatsapp where the speech bubbles on the left are your friends or colleagues and those on the right are you.
The script is largely whimsical, but it has given me plenty to think about if I want to turn this into a production project in the future.
But what does “production” mean here?
All of the code I write professionally these days is heavily tested. The code is organized well, adopts the single responsibility principle, and uses a range of linting tools to make sure the code layout is idomatic and gotchas are addressed early, e.g. linting will often highlight insecure or fragile code.
And I follow the same principles for the most part for the code that I write for myself.
Except for when I am writing fast for fun. Like in the case of Whatsmapper, Take this innocuous example:
try: if line.startswith("["): individual = line.split("] ")[1].split(": ", 1)[0] chat_text = "".join(line.split(individual)[1:]) if individual not in individuals: individuals.append(individual) else: chat_text = line except IndexError: chat_text = line
In this example I make three different decisions about what the “chat_text” variable needs to be set to. But what are these decisions?
I can tell you 48 hours separated from the code that each new message in a Whatsapp message begins with [DATE TIMESTAMP] NAME: MESSAGE e.g. [[9/14/24, 13:06:47] ~ Alfred Stewart: g'day!.
We need to tokenize these values, and so we try and do that in the code above. If a line doesn’t begin with a square bracket it is assumed to be part of a multi-line message and it will be added to the chat text variable.
The code is nested in a try-catch if something goes wrong while slicing the string, but do we need it?
Honestly I already can’t recall and I am loathe to get rid of it just yet. And I only changed this code two days ago.
My mistakes are that I don’t have all the sample data that I used to start the script a year ago and I don’t have tests that show me example inputs and outputs as I would like them to be. The code isn’t separated from the primary loop into a single responsibility function where that responsibility is nicely described by the function name and its documentation (docstring) e.g.
def tokenize_message(msg: str) -> list: """Split the first line of a Whatsapp message into date, time, individual, and message string. """
For the simplest of decisions, I already have a maintenance problem. I have to make a decision at some point: When do I take this code from fun proof of concept to something serious? When do I start adding tests?
What I want to say to those developing their own tooling in digital preservation is that you need to start writing the tests from the very beginning.
If I write tests it frees me and others from a number of coding prisons:
remembering what myself five-years ago wrote.
guaranteeing that what I wrote works if I change something.
code becomes less complex and easier to follow and it makes it easier for others to jump into the code.
guarantees that the work someone else does works with the legacy code.
We work on a lot of formats in digital preservation and we know from experience or anecdotally that a lot of these formats have “quirks”, e.g. written across multiple specifications or interpretations of complex specifications, or having no specification at all. We need to encode these quirks in our code and in our tests so that we can continue to maintain the incredibly useful scripts that we are writing today. Note. formats are easy to pick on because they represent the fundamental aspects of programming but it applies to all and any code we write, e.g. writing manifests for packages; restriction mechanisms for access servers; repository software, and so on. As this script evolves, the different branches that I create that ensure different variations of Whatsapp export are parsed correctly (earlier versions, or those with different export formats, for example) the level of complexity in the code increases exponentially and the ability to reason about decisions made in the code becomes more and more difficult over time.
As scripts become software becomes systems this gets even more important. Good coverage protects us from the risks and costs of the impact of different types of error (and regression of fixes one day in the future). The fewer errors systems have the greater the reputation of those systems. And the easier it is to maintain them, the cheaper those systems can become to maintain, meaning that focus can be shifted to new features, initiatives, or tooling.
It is a hope of mine that one day we can audit our different systems for different metrics such as test coverage or cyclometric or cognitive complexity among other measures (such as ability to perform localization) to provide an indication of the quality of the foundations of the software that we use to maintain our digital legacy.
Code doesn’t represent the memory of its maintainers, it’s just the scratch pad. Memory requires reinforcement and the confidence that it’s accurate, tests are the reinforcement and the confidence, tests are the memory of the maintainers. Without tests, code is simply ephemeral.
Depends. If they treat you loyally too, you should too. I always treated my employees as equals and any gain in profits was evenly distributed.
In a perfect world that would be the norm. People actually liking their work, having a good balance, and also not just working for someone else but for themselves. Do help make it a good year and we all have a good year. Can't make it to work today? No problem. As long as the respect is mutual.
But people with tiny egos and great greed are ruining everything.
In December 1950, a BBC cameraman captured the fall of Pyongyang, a defining moment in the Korean War, when US General Douglas MacArthur threatened all-out nuclear war.
My current conspiracy theory is that he is gonna get assassinated by the """far left""" (aka totally not the Republican party), which will trigger a full fascist takeover. He's too old for me to imagine him being able to make it through a full second term, and too unpredictable for Republican politicians to actually want him to be around; so the ideal situation would be to have him publicly assassinated and use that to drum up support for massive surveillance and restrictions on personal freedom.
This is where I disagree. I've watched this trump fellow for quite some time. The universe has a ginormous hard on for the guy, sure there might be 100 assignation attempts but guaranteed he squeaks through each one of them.
First is the obvious saying that there’s nothing stopping him from running for a 3rd term, and once again using Jim Crow era vote suppression and other slimy tricks to win again.
The second option is to just declare that presidency is a for-life position. He can do that, after all.
And he’s making that last part perfectly clear. He is above the law. There are no consequences for him breaking the law, and nothing stopping him from doing whatever he wants. The people who could are so polite that if words won’t stop him, they say more words at him. That’ll do it!
Isn’t there something about insurrectionists not being allowed to be president?
We’re about to allow an insurrectionist to be president.
Pretty sure no silly little written amendment on a piece of parchment will stop him. They sure haven’t before. Those rules only apply when HE wants them to.
I’m not aware of any such thing. In fact, I’d say that makes you more qualified.
I also think it’s bullshit to call Jan 6th an insurrection. I want a guillotine on the Capitol steps and actually armed people going against the police. Not for the reasons they did, just in general.
In my complete lack of knowledge of SK politics it appears to be an unpopular president accused of corruption trying to stay in power to avoid... The said corruption chargers
Your “complete lack of knowledge” is apparently more than sufficient for you to see (kind of) what’s going on here. Have you ever considered inventing “psychic punditry”? We’ll ask you questions about things you know nothing about and you’ll give us answers. Kerching, all the way to the bank.
Seriously, are there really pro-NK supporters in SK?
I'm definitely not saying it's a common thing at all but US and western media really, super play up the image of the DPRK and the tension on the peninsula.
They ran Kim Jae-Yeon for president. She once said:
On 4 June 2012 during an interview with KBS, the emcee asked her to confirm her view towards North Korea. She answered, "If a person does not want to recognise North Korean regime, it means that he/she wants a war with them". When the emcee also asked about what if North Korea attacks the South, she replied, "Still, we should not fight back."
She received 37 thousand votes. Not a lot, but they do exist.
Any more left than them tend to get banned under "National Security" laws.
Seriously, are there really pro-NK supporters in SK?
They have been separated from their families by a military occupation from people thousands of miles away who drew an arbitrary border and put them under a dictatorship with the most brutal fascists the local population could produce. There's a reason in America they call it "the forgotten war". It's real bad what went down there and there's no moral equivalence with the two different sides.
Last government talked about reunification the same way US talks about a 2 state solution in Israel. He talked about this without occupying US approval as a long term goal. Yoon is full US puppet that wants war. Logic is similar to everyone who thinks a war on Russia is a bad idea can only be paid by Putin.
Other comments touched on it, but it makes more sense to look at them as pro reunification rather than pro NK. They're still nutty, but not quite as nutty as being pro NK. This is the same group desperately trying to downplay NK involvement in Russias invasion of Ukraine because calling it what it is might damage chances at reunification.
Korea, over the last hundred years, has been victimized by Japanese and American Colonialism, Imperialism, and has been split in half arbitrarily, been the focus of a brutal proxy war, had the entire peninsula bombed into oblivion, and families torn apart. There is a deep cultural desire among both sides of the 38th parallel to reconcile in some fashion. Economically, it would be nice for both sides to engage in trade with each other, but it isn't the core of the matter, plus the DPRK is no longer in the serious "struggling phase" it was in in the 90s and 2000s, and is more like Cuba these days.
Yes, there are Communist supporters of the DPRK in ROK, but that's not what's at play here. President Yoon, the Incel King, is accusing the liberals opposing him in Parliament of being Communist sympathizers. Yoon himself has been saber rattling against the DPRK as well, but that again is not the crux of the situation here.
The US has 28,000+ military personnel occupying the country.
South Korea has no jurisdiction to charge any of these soldiers, if they commit a crime in their country.
South Korean military personnel are required to answer to US generals as a higher authority than their own.
We could also spend a while digging into the political and economic control the US exercises over SK, but a literal military occupation should suffice.
South Korean military personnel are required to answer to US generals as a higher authority than their own.
I've actually heard that the SK soldiers attached to the US military are mostly failsons of powerful people who pull strings to get them put in US formations for their mandatory service, because it's considered a cake-walk compared to the SK military.
According to Joseph Fitsanakis, professor of intelligence and security studies at Coastal Carolina University, “Russian military production is currently outpacing that of the US and all of NATO member states combined. This may be hard to believe, but Russia is obligated to do it if it is going to outpace the support given to Ukraine.
“Such gargantuan spending has essentially created a war economy, which has prevented the onset of a major economic recession,” Fitsanakis told Al Jazeera.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has estimated that Russia has spent a total of $200bn on the Ukraine war alone.
At $1,341bn, NATO’s defence spending dwarfs Russia’s. Yet it seems ineffective in quickly turning spending power into firepower in a crisis.
European contractors do not benefit from increases in national defence budgets, in contrast to Russia, which produces its military equipment domestically and is working to onshore its supply chains.
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According to Joseph Fitsanakis, professor of intelligence and security studies at Coastal Carolina University, “Russian military production is currently outpacing that of the US and all of NATO member states combined. This may be hard to believe, but Russia is obligated to do it if it is going to outpace the support given to Ukraine.
“Such gargantuan spending has essentially created a war economy, which has prevented the onset of a major economic recession,” Fitsanakis told Al Jazeera.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has estimated that Russia has spent a total of $200bn on the Ukraine war alone.
At $1,341bn, NATO’s defence spending dwarfs Russia’s. Yet it seems ineffective in quickly turning spending power into firepower in a crisis.
European contractors do not benefit from increases in national defence budgets, in contrast to Russia, which produces its military equipment domestically and is working to onshore its supply chains.
France is a case in point. Its top defence performers suffered an 8.5 percent drop led by a 60 percent fall in Dassault Aviation’s order book for the Rafale multirole fighter, as European militaries pass it over in favour of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 as their next-generation jet.
as European militaries pass it over in favour of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 as their next-generation jet.
haha, they're being forced (i assume, maybe they're stupid) to buy that useless broken piece of buggy junk, what a clown show.
the article also constantly talks about the amount of money spent on war production as if that was the main thing, only giving cursory mentions to the actual war materiel output.
Researchers studying ageing disagree on just about everything — including what ageing is, whether it is a disease and when it starts — according to a survey of about 100 scientists working in the field.
[Gladyshev] decided to survey participants at an international conference on ageing in Newry, Maine, in 2022, to better understand the views of those researching the topic. Respondents included early-career researchers, established scientists and industry professionals. The results are described in PNAS Nexus today.
Most researchers are clear in their own minds about what ageing is — but their perspectives don’t align with those of others, says Gladyshev. “People joke in the field that there are more theories than people.” Despite this, Gladyshev says he was surprised by the scale of the problem.
Particular interesting to me since I've met Dr. Gladyshev in-person and have discussed this very problem with him...
The DOI link is broken, so here is the actual cited paper (open access):
Gladyshev VA
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Researchers studying ageing disagree on just about everything — including what ageing is, whether it is a disease and when it starts — according to a survey of about 100 scientists working in the field.
[Gladyshev] decided to survey participants at an international conference on ageing in Newry, Maine, in 2022, to better understand the views of those researching the topic. Respondents included early-career researchers, established scientists and industry professionals. The results are described in PNAS Nexus today.
Most researchers are clear in their own minds about what ageing is — but their perspectives don’t align with those of others, says Gladyshev. “People joke in the field that there are more theories than people.” Despite this, Gladyshev says he was surprised by the scale of the problem.
Particular interesting to me since I've met Dr. Gladyshev in-person and have discussed this very problem with him...
The DOI link is broken, so here is the actual cited paper (open access):
Gladyshev VA et al. Disagreement on foundational principles of biological aging. PNAS Nexus (2024). academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art…
I thought we all agreed that aging is the passage of time and is therefor associated with age-related-disease which are diseases that strongly correlate with the passage of time or otherwise the failure of the body to maintain functions in part because of deteriorating genetics?
Whole-brain anatomical and activity surveys identify the lateral hypothalamus as a key driver of recovery from spinal cord injury, leading to a deep brain stimulation therapy that augments the recovery of walking in humans.
A pilot clinical study showed that DBSLH immediately improved walking in two participants with incomplete SCI and, in conjunction with rehabilitation, mediated functional recovery that persisted when DBSLH was turned off.
It's awesome that the effect persists even without active stimulation. The body seems to relearn those neural pathways.
Can't wait for these four years to be over. Not because I like him, but because I dislike him being brought up time and again for the sake of engagementbait.
In March 2011, after heavy lobbying from senior officials including Secretary Hillary Clinton, President Obama authorized a bombing campaign in support of the jihadist insurgency fighting the government of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Backed by NATO firepower, the rebels toppled Gaddafi and gruesomely murdered him in October.
Buoyed by their quick success in Libya, the Obama administration set their sights on Damascus, by then a top regime change target in Washington. According to former NATO commander Wesley Clark, the Assad regime – a key ally of U.S. foes Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia – was marked for overthrow alongside Iraq in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. A leaked 2006 U.S. Embassy in Damascus cable assessed that Assad's "vulnerabilities" included "the potential threat to the regime from the increasing presence of transiting Islamist extremists," and detailed how the U.S. could "improve the likelihood of such opportunities arising."
The outbreak of the Syrian insurgency in March 2011, coupled with the fall of Gaddafi, offered the U.S. a historic op
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In March 2011, after heavy lobbying from senior officials including Secretary Hillary Clinton, President Obama authorized a bombing campaign in support of the jihadist insurgency fighting the government of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Backed by NATO firepower, the rebels toppled Gaddafi and gruesomely murdered him in October.
Buoyed by their quick success in Libya, the Obama administration set their sights on Damascus, by then a top regime change target in Washington. According to former NATO commander Wesley Clark, the Assad regime – a key ally of U.S. foes Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia – was marked for overthrow alongside Iraq in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. A leaked 2006 U.S. Embassy in Damascus cable assessed that Assad's "vulnerabilities" included "the potential threat to the regime from the increasing presence of transiting Islamist extremists," and detailed how the U.S. could "improve the likelihood of such opportunities arising."
The outbreak of the Syrian insurgency in March 2011, coupled with the fall of Gaddafi, offered the U.S. a historic opportunity to exploit Syria's vulnerabilities. While the Arab Spring sparked peaceful Syrian protests against the ruling Ba'ath party's cronyism and repression, it also triggered a largely Sunni, rural-based revolt that took a sectarian and violent turn. The U.S. and its allies, namely Qatar and Turkey, capitalized by tapping the massive arsenal of the newly ousted Libyan government.
"During the immediate aftermath of, and following the uncertainty caused by, the downfall of the [Gaddafi] regime in October 2011," the Defense Intelligence Agency reported the following year, "…weapons from the former Libya military stockpiles located in Benghazi, Libya were shipped from the port of Benghazi, Libya, to the ports of Banias and the Port of Borj Islam, Syria."
In his memoir, senior Obama aide Ben Rhodes acknowledged that al-Nusra "was probably the strongest fighting force within the opposition." It was also clear, he wrote, that U.S.-backed insurgent groups were "fighting side by side with al-Nusra." For this reason, Rhodes recalled, he argued against the State Department's December 2012 designation of al-Nusra as a foreign terrorist organization. This move "would alienate the same people we want to help." (Asked about wanting to help an Al Qaeda-dominated insurgency, Rhodes did not respond).
Despite being privately aware of Nusra's dominance, Obama administration officials continued to publicly insist that the U.S. was only supporting Syria's "moderate opposition," as then-Deputy National Security Adviser Antony Blinken described it in September 2014.
But speaking to a Harvard audience days later, then-Vice President Biden blurted out the concealed reality. In the Syrian insurgency, "there was no moderate middle," Biden admitted. Instead, U.S. "allies" in Syria "poured hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad." Those weapons were supplied, Biden said, to "al-Nusra, and Al-Qaeda and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world."
Just had a google at their methods, that was the first relevant result. There probably is a reason they didn't want to tell as to why they left that bit out.
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