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Call me when someone goes to prison. Until then, we have to assume they'll get away with a fine (a.k.a. taxes on their fraud, a.k.a. the state participating in it after the fact), as usual. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/20/sfo-charges-barclays-bank-executives-ceo-2008-qatar...

 

"Verdict: The Surface Laptop is not a laptop. It’s a glue-filled monstrosity. There is nothing about it that is upgradable or long-lasting, and it literally can’t be opened without destroying it. (Show us the procedure, Microsoft, we’d love to be wrong.)" https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Laptop+Teardown/92915

 

The city of Cologne is counting cyclists in various hotspots, and publishing the live data: http://www.eco-public.com/ParcPublic/?id=677

 
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We set out to go camping, but ended up sleeping in a yurt. Now I'm thinking about getting one, because these are fantastic. http://www.yurts.com

 

"E.U. member states today agreed on an ambitious new open-access (OA) target. All scientific papers should be freely available by 2020, the Competitiveness Council—a gathering of ministers of science, innovation, trade, and industry—concluded after a 2-day meeting in Brussels."

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dramatic-statement-european-leaders-call-immediate-open-acce...

 
 
 
 

9 years in, there's apparently still nobody at GitHub who wants to render 72-character-line Git commit messages without breaking them apart.

 

Sending and receiving OMEMO-encrypted messages across Conversations and Pidgin now, thanks to Germán's research and experimental libpurple plugin: https://github.com/manchito/libpurple-omemo-plugin

 

"Today’s release completes Firefox’s transformation into a fully multi-process browser": https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/06/firefox-54-e10s-webextension-apis-css-clip-path

 

Every car should have a "courtesy horn". Or two. So much road rage is just stemming from missing means of communication. It's as if you were navigating a crowd on foot and instead of a friendly "excuse me" you could only ever shout angrily at everyone around you. https://youtu.be/lv8wqnk_TsA

 
 
 

Success: In addition to clothing, I could even fit a sleeping bag in the main compartment of my 25L backpack for this trip.

 

"Where's your bag?"
"This is all I have."
"Ok, put it on the belt... and now, where's your actual bag?"

 

... according to https://im-in.space/users/kdy/updates/3646 it's a Firefox issue and not specific to Twitter. I have yet to see it on other websites myself.

 
 

Tonight at the Berlin XMPP Meetup: "Germán Márquez Mejía introduces the end-to-end encryption technology “OMEMO” and his implementation for libpurple."

https://www.meetup.com/Berlin-XMPP-Meetup/events/240728843/?rv=ea1&_af=event&_af_eid=2407288...

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