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Did you know you can create GIFs with #Python and #Pillow?

Here's an example:



Don’t miss Deepak Mahto's talk from #PosetteConf 2024 💥 “Accelerating PL/pgSQL Code Conversion on Migration from Another Database” and learn from his experience moving customers and large code bases to #PostgreSQL with pl\pgsql 🐘
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Gracias à @ThePSF 🐍 por se juntar a nós como patrocinadora Diamante da #PythonCerrado2024! 🙌 Seu apoio é inestimável para as comunidades #Plone e #Python aqui no 🇧🇷.

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Looks like Rockstar officially dropped support for #GTAOnline on #Linux, but at least they had the decency of not requiring #Battleye on the single-player part. support.rockstargames.com/arti…


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Topics in the latest edition of my "Cornerstone of democracy" newsletter -- a compendium of the best of political reporting/commentary (and more) -- include:

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British Columbia Poll (Research Co) – NDP 44%, Conservative 42%, Green 10%, Other 2% byteseu.com/426532/ #Canada #CanadaPolitics #Politics


Motorists are facing potential charges over £190 under a proposed pay-per-mile car tax scheme. We aren’t all urban dwelling cyclers & walkers. What if you’re disabled? Check out the petition
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Army failed to replace faulty engine in MRH-90 Taipan helicopter before Jervis Bay crash byteseu.com/426530/ #Australia



wants to read A Natural History of Empty Lots
This seems tailor-made for me, and I bet a lot of you mutuals will be interested too.

I found about it thanks to @pluralistic 's thread, check it out: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11315341…

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Watch 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki Free Online: A Four Part-Part Documentary on the Unstoppable Japanese Animator

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#Gaza #Palestine

Eight people are killed and nearly 3,000 are injured after hundreds of personal communication devices exploded simultaneously.

Local media report says the pagers simultaneously exploded across the country after being hacked by Israel.

Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara calls Israel’s cyber attack on Hezbollah a major escalation, describing it as an "act of mass terror".

youtube.com/watch?v=Gq5EGGR-y0…

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Since the advent of OAI-PMH, organizational operators have failed to ensure their endpoints expose #data optimally. Literally for 20 years I have read about this issue! Things are a bit better today but far too many open #repositories are still failing.

CORE has this data provider guide which functions as a steer, if you are interested in your service being harvested optimally -- which you should be! 😀

core.ac.uk/documentation/data-… @oacore #OpenScience #OpenResearch #OpenData #OpenAccess #metadata


in reply to Brad Koehn ☑️

From the look of the video clip, it seems pretty unlikely more than a few innocent bystanders were significantly injured. There were a couple people very close to the target, and they don't seem to have been injured at all.

As noted in the article, Hezbollah uses pagers instead of smart phones because the microphones and cameras of smart phones are more of a risk of being used to spy on them. So I really doubt any of the pagers would be in innocent hands - at this point budget smart phones are cheaper.

If the claimed health official numbers are correct, an absolutely incredible number of Hezbollah were injured in this attack.

Not that I'm a fan of what Bibi is doing in Gaza and the West Bank every day. That's way worse in every respect.

in reply to Brad Koehn ☑️

Lebanon is a quasi-failed state with spotty power and spotty phone network. It's quite probable that a significant number of people chose to use pagers instead of phones because of that. Also, the way Lebanese society is organised means many people depend upon Hezbollah services and hand-outs. So actually quite a lot of innocent people may have been hurt.

That's exactly like Israeli government pretends that they're killing "Hamas members" in Gaza. As Hamas has been running the place for 18 years, whoever works in public services, police, trash removal or street cleaning or bus driving is by this definition a "Hamas member".



mozilla doing everything it can to show its true colors lately.
mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153…

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For a Jew, Lunduke seems not that bad. I appreciate him going after Big Tech, and Big Linux, and exposing their openly racist and sexist practices.

But, in this recent video, he asserts that "From the River to the Sea" is antisemitic, and there CAN ONLY BE one meaning, which is that all jews should be exterminated from the region.

I always thought this was a pro-jewish term, meaning that Israel will conquer this whole region.

What do you think?

youtu.be/D0x25gzFgvA