today's leftovers
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Spleen 2.0.0 released with full CP437 support
On top on that, Spleen is now also available in libansilove since version 1.4.0 and in Ansilove since version 4.2.0, making it possible to render ANSI art using a modern font.
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MicroOS Desktop has new names!
As seen in Richard Brown’s presentation at openSUSE Conference 2023 Why you should be running the MicroOS Desktop, we are pleased to announce a name change for both MicroOS Desktop GNOME and MicroOS Desktop Plasma.
MicroOS Desktop GNOME is now: openSUSE Aeon
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XFS bug in Linux kernel 6.3.3 coincides with SGI code comeback
This issue is fixed in today's kernel 6.3.5 – meaning that the kernel developers have reinstated the deleted line. XFS users should settle for nothing earlier, in the 6.3 series at least.
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CentOS Newsletter, May 2023
May 2023 Newsletter The next CentOS Connect will be colocated at Flock on August 2. Watch the website or social media for CFP and registration details. The CentOS project has started a podcast called Connections, where we talk to interesting people doing interesting things across the CentOS ecosystem.
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AI, automation, and the future of cloud: Insights from DXC Technology and Red Hat [Ed: The "rhsummit" in the URL means it's Red Hat-sponsored SPAM about Red Hat with some buzzwords chaff ("AI") to spice up the SPAM]
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Luis Villa: The brief guide to MSCD 5
My primary goal when trying to improve a contract’s drafting is not “plain english”. The goal is simplicity, clarity, and consistency, because complexity is a source of errors. As a pleasant side-effect, contracts drafted with rigorous attention to consistency and clarity are generally shorter, and almost always much easier to read.
Ken Adam’s Manual of Style for Contract Drafting has helped me immeasurably in reaching that primary goal, both by teaching me habits of mind and by being a reference for better linguistic structures.
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If you are confused about why I recommend the book, read “About this manual”, “Traditional Contract Language is Dysfunctional”, and “Excuses for Sticking With Traditional Contract Language”. Skip or skim the rest.
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The RustConf Keynote Fiasco, explained
Recently, RustConf offered ThePhD (aka JeanHeyd Meneide) the keynote speech, then on May 26, suggesting it be downgraded to a "regular talk", despite the author's extreme clarity about the exploratory nature of the work being presented.
This is relevant because, some think the keynote should be representative of the official direction of the Rust project (even though there's precedent for the exact opposite happening).
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Static and Dynamic Web Scraping with R
We’re going to start things off easy with a simple case of scraping content from one static website. Then, we’ll raise the bar a bit and deal with a more advanced case. This involves gathering content from several similar pages, and to make matters more interesting, the links to those pages are displayed with dynamic loading.