Four Years of Jai (2024)
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I’ve been programming for long enough to be righteously cantankerous about a lot of things. The list of languages, frameworks and libraries I’ve worked with professionally or on personal projects is too long to list – but it includes everything from …Smári McCarthy
Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional
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Judge says tower dumps violate the 4th amendment, but will let the cops do it this one time, as a treat.Matthew Gault (404 Media)
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By Zoe Alexandra | April 8, 2025 Dozens of economists, intellectuals, and movement leaders have converged in São Paulo for the IV International Dilemmas of Humanity conference The IV International Dilemmas ofRepublicofPalestine (Republic Palestine)
Wonder what benefits Senegal will gain from joining BRICS? Find out more about this country's chances.Михаил Гамандий-Егоров (New Eastern Outlook)
How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design
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Israel’s public news broadcaster has calimed that nine American military transport aircraft loaded with bunker-busting bombs landed at an Israeli airbase near Tel Aviv.PressTV
ABYAN, April 18 (YPA) - Two foreign ships, one of which was flagged by a Latin American country, ran aground off the Yemeni coast east of Abyan province in a mysterious incident that has raised many questions.Informed sources indicated that the stranbasheer (Yemen Press Agency)
In 1997, veteran U.S. diplomat George Kennan stated that ‘expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American foreign policy in the entire post-Cold…Strategic Culture Foundation
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi called threats of strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities "unacceptable."Sputnik International
A New ASN.1 API for Python
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We’re working on integrating an ASN.1 API into PyCA Cryptography, built on top of the same Rust ASN.1 implementation already used by Cryptography’s X.509 APIs.The Trail of Bits Blog
India increased its coal purchases from Russia by a quarter year-on-year in January, according to data from the Indian statistical agency obtained by Sputnik.Sputnik India
Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code
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A self-contained game that fits inside a QR code inspired by DOOM 1993 and The Backrooms - Kuberwastaken/backdoomsGitHub
Israel is seizing 'security zones'in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria for claimed reasons of self-defence, with brazen assuredness.Binoy KAMPMARK (Oriental Review)
In the space of a week, a cascade of petitions from the military has suddenly demonstrated the realization by Israeli society that the Netanyahu government’s strategy in Gaza would neither bring back the hostages nor defeat Hamas.Voltaire Network
Ambassador Vladimir Barbin warns Copenhagen that Danish troops deployed to Ukraine risk becoming direct targets, calling Denmark’s policy a dangerous escalation driven by anti-Russian hysteriaOdysee
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Israelis are beginning to realize the horrors experienced by the Palestinians, but for the moment they have great difficulty talking about these crimes committed by some of their fellow citizens.Réseau International
Triplets of Kangryong County, South Hwanghae Province of the DPRK, left the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital on April 17 amid the blessing of all the people. The mother of the triplets...Editorial (Explore DPRK)
Walled Gardens Can Kill
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I'm an Apple ecosystem user, owning an iPhone ever since a past employer got it for me to test our company app some 8 years ago. Over time, as I've upgraded, I'aneesiqbal.ai
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The United States launched a series of airstrikes on Yemen’s Ras Isa oil port in the western Hudaydah governorate, killing at least 38 people and injuring over 100, according to reports from regional media outlets.Tasnim News Agency
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention are subjected to conditions of torture, starvation, and torment that are the worst they have been since 1967. My brother has been imprisoned amid these conditions for over a year.Faris Giacaman (Mondoweiss)
Hamas has condemned the United States’ air strikes on Yemen’s Ras Issa oil port in Al-Hudaydah province, which killed 38 Yemenis and injured dozens, describing the attack as a war...Middle East Monitor
A Math Lesson From Hitler’s Germany (2017)
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In the 1930s, prejudice and anti-science ideology destroyed the world’s leading math department, at Göttingen. It couldn't happen here, could it?Evelyn Lamb (Undark Magazine)
AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive
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Google tried to reinvent email. Everyone said no.Buttondown
Project Esther is more than just a desperate attempt to salvage a crumbling Zionist narrative — it is part of a broader authoritarian shift in U.S. politics, says Tariq Kenney-Shawa. By Tariq Kenney-Shawa Al-Shabaka On Oct.Consortium News
Kit Klarenberg Protests in Las Anod, January 2023, call for Somalian reunification In recent months, Somaliland has become a subject of intense, unprecedented interest for the Western media. As Isr…INTERNATIONALIST 360°
Less Slow C++
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Learning how to write "Less Slow" code in C++ 20, C 99, CUDA, PTX, & Assembly, from numerics & SIMD to coroutines, ranges, exception handling, networking and user-space IO - ashva...GitHub
Caitlin Johnstone- Sanders has been uttering “Israel has a right to defend itself” on his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with AOC, which in the year 2025 can only be interpreted as blatant genocide apologithealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
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Ukrainian servicemen surrender in Kursk Region Rossa Primavera News from RussiaAlexey Krechetov (Rossa Primavera International News)
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Bombed, starved and threatened with expulsion.The Electronic Intifada
IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge
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Exclusive: 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purgeThomas Claburn (The Register)
My report yesterday for UK Column News covers the Israeli influence over mental health in the UK - DNA-mining and fast-track drug prescriptionvanessa beeley (Vanessa Beeley)
AI Alexander Dugin breaks down what Trump needs to understand if he’s serious about easing tensions with Russia and stopping WW3.Pravda EN
The AP Headline says it all. Russia struck Ukrainian worshippers on Palm Sunday – proving once again that the Russians have neither shame nor humanity, as we have been told since the 19th Century.The source for the article? Ukrainian media of course.Anonymous834 (South Front)
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei says that the relations between Iran ...Al-Manar TV Lebanon
Lisa Pickoff-White and the California Reporting Project help journalists hold power to accountFreedom of the Press
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Ukrainian officials confirm the information about the signing of a memorandum on the so-called resource deal with the United States of America. In particular, the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko confirmed the information.novosti2 (Военное обозрение)
Despite widespread international condemnation, Israeli attacks in a single day struck tents, schools, and refugee camps across Gaza.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Pyongyang, April 18 (KCNA) — The military-civilian builders in the DPRK have attained the huge goal for the capital city construction, set forth by the 8th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, year after year without fail, while upholding the WPK…Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
The DRC is currently in talks with the US over a mineral deal, and the parties have recently agreed on a way forward for its development, according to the Congolese presidency.Sputnik Africa
NEW DELHI, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-two Naxalites were arrested in three different search operatien.people.cn
Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025?
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German officials say that operating the Taurus system effectively would require involvement from German military personnel, something Berlin is reluctant to authorizePavel Morozov (Pravda English)
TEHRAN, Apr. 18 (MNA) – "Iran considers Russia as a strategic partner. Iran-Russia ties are closer and stronger than ever," according to Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Friday.Mehr News Agency
Defold: cross-platform game engine
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Defold is a free and open game engine used for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games.Defold Foundation
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It has begun, just as we predicted, justified in the name of national security.Michel Chossudovsky
The Yemeni Armed Forces have launched 78 missile and drone attacks against Israel and US warships despite the intense western attacksthecradle.co
arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud
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US President Donald Trump, while speaking to reporters at the White House, said Washington and Beijing could reach agreements on trade within the next three or four weeks.newsmaker1 newsmaker1 (English News front)
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The SBU-organized Konstantinovka massacre is part of a pattern of crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Kiev regime. Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK. Contact…Strategic Culture Foundation
Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry
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Chris Krebs affirmed the 2020 election was secure. Now he's the target of an Executive Order—and the cybersecurity industry’s silence is enabling a dangerous precedent.Forbes
The International Class-oriented Trade Union Movement, the workers, and the militant unions all over the globe honor with struggles the 139th anniversary of the workers’ struggle in Chicago in 1886.WFTU (Labor Today)
From UE News | Photo Courtesy of ueunion.org | UE News Reuse Policy Twelve UE locals, representing over 30,000 graduate workers at both private and public universities, released a statement today urging colleges and universities to form a “Mutual Aca…S.M. Cifone ATU Member (Labor Today)
Blue Collar Empire joins several books in recent years to highlight the US’s staunch anti-communist stance on the world stage (The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins immediately comes to mind) and the various means by which it manipulated foreign union…M. Drezner IBEW Member (Labor Today)
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Dorgham Qreaiqea led film, theater, and painting projects with a belief in art's power to transcend the war. An Israeli airstrike killed him.Jonathan Adler (+972 Magazine)
Columbia University refused to retract its statement calling pro-Palestine protests “intimidation.” Now, the Trump administration is using it against Mohsen Mahdawi.Meghnad Bose (Drop Site News)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that China and Cambodia set a model for equality, mutual trust and win-win cooperation between countries of different sizes.en.qstheory.cn
Chinese President Xi Jinping said here Thursday that building a China-Cambodia community with a shared future is a choice of history and the people.en.qstheory.cn
I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024)
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Discover why I gave up on self-hosting Sentry before even starting. The high hardware needs, tricky setup, and heavy maintenance made it not worth the trouble.www.bugsink.com
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet on Thursday agreed to build an all-weather China-Cambodia community with a shared future in the new era, and designated 2025 the China-Cambodia Year of Tourism.en.qstheory.cn
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday that Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk is a witness and promoter of the China-Cambodia friendship.en.qstheory.cn
Author of a masterful study on the CIA and the cultural Cold War, British historian Frances Stonor Saunders provided a detailed account for The Independent of the CIA’s covert role in sponsoring Abstract Expressionist painting in the United States.Frances Stonor Saunders (Voltaire Network)
In a rare high-level meeting in Tehran, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman that Tehran and Riyadh can lead the region through unity and cooperation, urging deeper bilateral ties and a joint respon…Iran Press
ECB lowers interest rates by 25 basis points-english.news.cn
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On March 18, U.S. President Donald Trump proposed a 30-day mutual pause on strikes against energy infrastructureTASS
As detailed in his book, CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, and the new Netflix documentary, CHAOS: The Manson Murders, Premiere magazine writer Tom O’Neill turned a feature-article assignment into a 20-year invest…John Potash (CovertAction Magazine)
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The United States launched a series of airstrikes on Yemen’s Ras Isa oil port in the western Hudaydah governorate, killing at least 38 people and injuring over 100, according to reports from regional media outlets.Tasnim News Agency
This brings the total number of soldiers deployed in the South to 6,000, while another 4,000 are in the process of being recruited, amid ongoing Israeli violations of the ceasefire.Al Mayadeen English (Lebanese army deploys 1,500 additional troops along southern border)
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said that the Zionist war machine committed horrific massacres last night by targeting displaced persons' tents in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis and Gaza City, killing dozens, most of them wom…www.saba.ye
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), expressed concern over Israel's ban on international media eQNN Team (Quds News Network)
GOV.UK One Login system built by Government Digital Service faces claims of critical vulnerabilities since 2022 launch.Didi Rankovic (Reclaim the Net)
According to estimates, in January-March 2025 the GDP amounted to Br59.4 billion in current prices, up by 3.1% in comparable prices year-on-year.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that hostilities across the Gaza Strip continue to have devastating effects on civilians, including death, displacement, and destruction of critical infrastructure. UDAILY YEMEN
Over the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 40 martyrs and 73 people suffering from different injuries following Israeli attacks.The Palestinian Information Center
What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?
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Hi there! This is Oleg from Luden.io. We decided to have a deep and meaningful conversation about Lua programming language with Ivan Trusov, lead programmer of the video game Craftomation 101. It…Oleg Chumakov (Luden.io)
Biden’s 2024 airstrikes on Yemen displaced 531,000 people and hit civilian infrastructure months before Trump’s first strike. Few noticed.Robert Inlakesh (MintPress News)
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Provinces of China. It sounds straightforward enough, but this is China we are talking about. Nothing here is ever that simple. Sure, there are provinces, butGareth Johnson (Young Pioneer Tours)
Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
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Palestine Legal has received an unprecedented surge in requests for legal support over the past year and a half, with an additional surge in requests since the start of this year.Danya Zituni (Palestine Legal)
The Venezuelan government has condemned the maneuvers initiated by the Guyanese government in partnership with ExxonMobil in the Stabroek block, located in areas without agreed maritime boundaries between Guyana and Venezuela.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
