
Trello – If you click (and keep clicking) on the “Send to Trello” link instead of dragging it to your bookmarks, the “Drag this link” words will become bigger and more eye-catching at each click
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"Python 2.x versus Python 3.x": this is by now an old question. In the eyes of some people Python 2 is here to stay, and in the eyes of others Python has long been 3 only.
PyPy's own position is that PyPy will support Python 2.7 forever---the RPython language in which PyPy is written is a subset of 2.7, and we have no plan to upgrade that. But at the same time, we want to support 3.x. This is particularly true now: a relatively recent development is that Python 3.5 seems to attract more and more people. The "switch" to Python 3.x might be starting to happen.
Correspondingly, PyPy has been searching for a while for a way to support a larger-scale development effort. The goal is to support not just any old version of Python 3.x, but Python 3.5, as this seems to be the version that people are switching to. PyPy is close to supporting all of Python 3.3 now; but the list of what is new in Python 3.4 and 3.5 is far, far longer than anyone imagines. The long-term goal is also to get a version of "PyPy3" that is as good as "PyPy2" is, including its performance and its cpyext layer (CPython C API interoperability), for example.
So, the end result: Mozilla recently decided to award $200,000 to Baroque Software to work on PyPy as part of its Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) initiative. This money will be used to implement the Python 3.5 features in PyPy. Within the next year, we plan to use the money to pay four core PyPy developers half-time to work on the missing features and on some of the big performance and cpyext issues. This should speed up the progress of catching up with Python 3.x significantly. We are extremely thankful to Mozilla for supporting us in this way, and will keep you updated on the progress via this blog.
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) has launched an investigation into a video filmed at night on its Geneva campus depicting a mock ritual human sacrifice.The ceremony appears to have been staged in front of a statue of the Hindu deity Shiva that is on permanent display at the complex, home of the Large Hadron Collider.
"Cern does not condone this type of spoof, which can give rise to misunderstandings about the scientific nature of our work."
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It's looking increasingly likely that the hacking tools put up for auction by the Shadow Brokers group are real – after Cisco confirmed two exploits in the leaked archive are legit.…
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"One side, our side, sees a foul as being against the rules, and if you do it too many times you have to be removed. The other side sees fouls as things you're allowed to get caught doing twice, and if you don't, you aren't trying hard enough.""So you're mad at Jimmy because you think his side cheats at life."
"Partly. Mostly I'm mad because I'm pretty sure his side is going to win."
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Last month saw the shutdown of KickassTorrents and the arrest of its alleged founder, a development which sent shockwaves through the file-sharing community.
That was followed by the surprise shutdown of Torrentz, the world’s largest torrent meta-search engine. It’s not known why the site chose to close its doors but its departure from the scene was somewhat more orderly than that of KAT.
Meanwhile, and as revealed in our earlier report, streaming continues to prove increasingly popular with Internet users, a fact the authorities are well aware of.
With that in mind, the UK’s Police Intellectual Property Unit (PIPCU) has just carried out a new operation against individuals it believes are involved in streaming content online and distributing set-top boxes modified to receive it.
Following a series of dawn raids carried out yesterday morning in Lancashire, PIPCU arrested three men aged 36, 40 and 58, on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering offences.
PIPCU say that the operation received assistance from local police and a forensic investigator from the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT).
While previous operations against streaming pirates have usually resulted in the seizure of Kodi-enabled Android set-top boxes, this operation appears to have gone a step up the chain.
Photographs provided by PIPCU show what appears to be a somewhat sophisticated operation, beginning with satellite TV reception.
The PIPCU operation spanned three residential addresses and an as-yet-unnamed business premises. It seems likely that the photograph of the server room shown below was taken in the latter location. Thus far, PIPCU say they have seized approximately 30 servers.
In addition, PIPCU say they also recovered set-top boxes which had been modified so that users could access hundreds of premium subscription-only channels.
“Some of the channels available on the devices include pay-per-view sports, the latest movies and UK broadcast television only available to UK licence fee payers. Officers have also identified 15 satellites,” PIPCU report.
Neither the police nor FACT have provided any information which allows us to easily identify those arrested or their operation. However, there are a number of clues which point us in a particular direction.
Firstly, PIPCU claims that the devices were being sold as legitimate products that could provide content to users anywhere in the world for an annual fee of around £400. Second, the unit also identified a small town with a population of just 41,000.
So, given the location of the raids and the specific nature and size of the business, TorrentFreak sources familiar with IPTV operators in the UK told us that one company in particular stands out as the most likely candidate.
The outfit has not yet responded to our requests for comment so naturally we won’t name them, but we do know that they offer IPTV packages to the expat market and those abroad for just a few pounds less than the £400 mentioned by PIPCU.
The packages (and indeed the hardware) are also marketed and sold as entirely legitimate. We’re also aware that a staff member at the company was previously involved in another business dealing in satellite communications.
At the time of writing their website is still up and running and registered to a business premises in Chorley, Lancashire, the town mentioned by PIPCU. Furthermore, a posting discovered online by TF indicates that the IPTV operation had been established for a number of years and was recently running 30 servers.
In a statement, head of PIPCU, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Ratcliffe, described the outfit as “a significant and highly resourced operation to distribute pirated television on an industrial scale” to tens of thousands of people across the globe.
“Operations like this remain an integral part of protecting livelihoods supported by the entertainment industry and the law abiding public who pay for their channels with their hard earned cash,” he said.
Director General of the Federation Against Copyright Theft, Kieron Sharp, said his organization will continue to pursue those engaged in this growing area of piracy.
“Illegally modified set-top boxes, along with infringing apps and add-ons, have created new opportunities for criminality and piracy. Tackling these threats and the people behind them is one of our highest priorities and therefore today’s multi-agency action is another great result for law enforcement and the creative industries,” Sharp said.
“We will continue to work with our members and partners, such as the City of London Police, to crack down on those involved in the illegal supply of these boxes so that both the content and its creators are protected.”
When TF has solid information concerning the identity of the company involved we will post an update.
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
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Dwarf Fortress is ten years old today. Happy birthday! To celebrate, here’s a list of the best patch notes, like “Fixed bug with mules shitting luggage”.
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many a moon ago, i switched from intensedebate (a comment management system) to disqus (a comment management system with more moderation tools). i paid nothing for either one. so i understand the need to revisit your business model and figure out how to make your free thing pay, without losing your users.
the new ads around the comments here are served by disqus; this was their solution. and i’m not ad-averse, nor am i deaf to their need to make their product start making money for them. it’s that the ads are always the same, no matter the website, no matter what the pitch is. these ads do not work on my audience. i do not want to have the audience that these ads work on.
i’m changing them up so hopefully we will no longer see the one that implies melissa mccarthy died (not true), when in fact she is just “getting fired for losing too much weight with this amazing supplement” (also not true)
come on internet. are we not better than this
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All images via Daniel Kordan
Determined to find a destination where he could photograph a completely dark sky, Russian photographer Daniel Kordan traveled to the Altiplano region of west-central South America, an area known for its absolute darkness, and which rises 12,300 feet above sea level. While here, Kordan captured the Uyuni salt flat with a special astrophotography camera. This type of camera unlocks the colors found in the sky, opening up the barriers between earth and space and casting the Milky Way onto the reflective flats.
Kordan’s next voyage is to the Faroe Islands and Greenland to lead several photography workshops and explorations. You can see more of his photography on Instagram and Facebook. (via My Modern Met)




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Mahmoudwow, they're actually building this. this always seemed like a not-good design.

China's Transit Elevated Bus (TEB), a trippy transport that straddles the traffic below it, had its first test run yesterday in Qinhuangdao, Hebei province. It was a very short trip, just 300 meters. According to Shanghaiist, an engineer on the project says that eventually the TEB "will be able to carry up to 1,200 passengers and travel at 60 kilometers per hour." It's expected to take one year to build out a practical version.

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Mahmoudhistory lesson.
Hi. This tumblr won’t be updated anymore. If you want to read Girls Are Pretty, go to girlsarepretty.com.
I started Girls Are Pretty back in 2002, updating it every day for several years before I slowed down and focused on other stuff. Because I’m bad at bothering to do things right, I moved the blog around a bunch of times, and the entries have ended up scattered about many different platforms. First it was on blogger. Then when I put a lot of the entries into my first book Happy Cruelty Day, I paid a friend to design a full-on website. Then for God knows why I went back to a blogspot blog for a few years, until I moved over to this here Tumblr, a platform I never really understood or enjoyed at all.
Jumping around like that meant the archives in every location were incomplete. I’m now going back to the days of its infancy and just posting it as a Blogger blog again. And I’ve managed to gather every single entry from all the different incarnations into that one archive.
So if you’re new to this blog and you want to read the thousand or so entries you might have missed, Girlsarepretty.com now has every single Girls Are Pretty Day since “Tell People You Took A Friend For An Abortion Day” on March 26, 2002. All 2,637 posts are there in the right column, and the search thing at the top works if you remember one you want to find again for whatever reason.
I’l continue to update it sporadically, usually whenever I hate whatever else I’m writing or I’m particularly filled with heartsickness or I want to passive aggressively address people in my life with missives too long for a subtweet. The design is as generic and ugly looking as the very day it started, back when I was living in an illegally converted office space in Los Angeles waiting for a divorce to finalize and discovering all the wonders a dial-up connection could deliver unto me.
I’ll keep everything there from now on. Even though I don’t update it that much, I like Girls Are Pretty. I like that it’s been around for so long and there’s so much of it and I like that all those posts are in one place again.
As long as I’m being sentimental, two people were really helpful to the site in the early days and I want to type their names onto the Internet now. A few months after I started it, Leslie Harpold contacted me out of the blue and actually just went ahead and registered the damn domain for me. Even though we’d never met in person she walked me through moving off of Blogger and making things look more legit. And Chloe Weil designed the fancy site it lived on for a while. They’re both missed.
In closing, all my stuff is somewhere else now. Go there if you want to read it.
Also, buy the book version, Happy Cruelty Day. It’s got at least 50 entries that were never on the web, and when you buy it I get money.
Happy I’m Not Going To Update This Tumblr No More Day!
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If your Python decorator unintentionally changes the signatures of my callables or doesn’t work with class methods, it’s broken and should be fixed. Sadly most decorators are broken because the web is full of bad advice.
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Dental hygiene has been my excuse for feeling responsible while tumblin.

The Associated Press filed Freedom of Information requests with the US government to find the evidence behind the Surgeon General's admonition to floss regularly for dental health and found that there was no good evidentiary basis for flossing. (more…)
Mahmoudi wonder if this triggered any deep canadian thought on the military industrial complex