Charming and evocative story of a young typist who finds work during the war with MI5. After the war, she’s sent away and hooks up with BBC Schools, and one day inn the 1950s she stumbles across a former colleague in the park. A difficult book to discuss without giving away crucially withheld information, but if you like Atkinson you will enjoy this book.

Roland Tanglao 猪肉面 @rtanglao
@sillygwailo memory leaks are proof that all layers of software are written by fallible human beings with hard to w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

One for the weekly hacks. I use 33mail since 2014 to create on the fly e-mail addresses. That’s very useful, as I use a different address for each webshop, list etc. If one of them sells my info or sees it stolen, and I start receiving spam, I know where it originates from.

33mail is attached to a domain I have. The way 33mail works is it forwards everything to a single e-mail address, and each mail has a code so I can hit reply and send as if from each of those addresses as well. That single mail address is then set-up to forward to my main inbox. Here’s my 2014 description of my 33mail set-up.

In the past few days I noticed I didn’t receive anything from 33mail, in particular when I tried to sign into micro.blog I didn’t receive the login-link.

The 33mail dashboard showed no issues. Turns out the forwarding from my 33mail single mail address to my main inbox somehow fails. I’ve now set it up as a regular IMAP mailbox, so I can access it directly. Also nicely clears up my main inbox.

Eine schöne Überraschung von meiner Wunschliste. Ich habe strengste Anweisung, niemanden zu verpetzen, aber ich freue mich ganz doll. Dankeschön!

satis wrote:
I really have trouble with the idea of swallowing $90 for Mac + iOS
>outliner apps, especially when the iOS one is in such woeful shape (and
>$10 more than it would have cost a few days ago if one had bought the
>previous version, with free upgrade).

I just noticed that prices went up (this year?). Essentials for Mac and iOS are now $19.99 each, and the Pro version is $99.99 on the Mac (insane) and $49.99 on iOS, with no bundle pricing. (I know that Apple doesn't permit bundling, but Ulysses is able to get away with it by including full iOS access if you subscribe to the Mac app, either in the Mac App Store, or as part of the SetApp.com subscription suite.) I own OO Pro for the Mac, and was thinking of getting OO Essentials for iOS, which used to be $9.99, but the price increase stopped me. And if Omni has upgrades any time soon for the Mac app I probably won't upgrade.

It appears that Omni has decided, with little competition at the high end and with outline apps being a small market niche, that they'll milk the app's pricing while keeping it essentially in maintenance mode. Very disappointing.

I recently came across the following review of OO from an author who also uses Scrivener and Ulysses, and the review looked to see if he could integrate OO into his workflow so he could use it with Ulysses instead of using the integrated outlining in Scrivener.

https://chrisrosser.net/posts/2018/08/11/review-omnioutliner/

What surprised me most was how apparently useful the outlining mode is in Scrivener. And the conclusion to the review was that OmniOutliner (under the *old* price) was too much for what it offered.

I found this very interesting. I also own Scrivener, but have used it only a couple of times for some longer-form writing, but I may look into its outlining capabilities now.

Finding Success

Our first completed book is now available as a PDF or epub from Leanpub. You can read more about that there or on the home page. We wanted to tell you a little about where it came from and how it relates to the rest of our work.

As we started writing the book we originally announced, we realized that we have a lot that we want to say about Haskell. We found that the sheer scope of what we were originally trying to accomplish was pulling us in a lot of directions, and that there was some tension between the goals of wanting a desk reference or handbook style and presenting explanations in a linear way, where they could build off each other. We wanted both linear courses and a reference style guide to things like language extensions and libraries. Additionally, we wanted a guide to the topics in logic and mathematics that routinely come up in public Haskell forums.

Public discussion within the Haskell community tends to be about topics experienced Haskellers find engaging and fun, leaving the impression on newcomers that if you haven’t read the work of Gottlob Frege in the original German, then you don’t really belong here – or, at least, you can’t expect to understand a lot of the discussion. That obscures the fact that many of the topics under discussion are not necessary to be a productive Haskell programmer, whether as a hobbyist or professional. Some of the pedagogical materials available now for Haskell are of very good quality, but for various reasons, many of them leave gaps, and often those gaps are practical things; it’s helpful to see how concepts are used to solve the kinds of real problems that programmers routinely do have to solve, and a lot of the educational materials (not all, of course) out there right lack now these kinds of extended, practical examples.

One of our main goals has always been to make Haskell (and eventually Nix) as accessible to anyone who wants to learn it as, say, Ruby or Python tend to be. As well, we want to create a community where newcomers, hobbyists, and everyone else feels welcome and able to participate in the public discussions. We realized that this set of goals is – well, they’re going to take some serious time and commitment to achieve. We felt we needed to be able to write full time, or close to it, if we were to succeed.

We started Type Classes with these goals in mind. That site has been operational for nearly a year now, and it’s permitted us to spend most of our work time on writing about Haskell (and sometimes Nix). It’s allowed us to develop both structured, linear courses and also reference pages. Another gap we’re starting to fill is showing how concepts in one language may translate to Haskell, in order to ease the transition for Python, Java, and JavaScript programmers, for example. It’s given us the time and structure to work towards all of our goals; doing them on the site is more flexible and permits more experimentation and interlinking than books do.

As we’ve developed content for that platform, it made sense to offer some parts of it as discrete content. The subscription model that allows access to all the content we produce isn’t the right fit for everyone, after all. Also, many people prefer to read paper books than take an online, serialized course. Thus, we’ve been developing the site content into standalone books in some cases. The reference pages are the content for the reference book we’ve mentioned, tentatively titled The Joy of Haskell Desk Reference, while the courses are being edited into short monographs.

The series of monographs begins with the first course that we published on Type Classes; there, it is known as The Validation course because

• it focuses on a program to validate passwords and user names and
  
• it introduces the Validation type and the validation package.

In doing so, it illustrates the relationship of types and typeclasses in the Haskell type system, introduces what monads are and also applicatives, and gives a clear picture of the differences between those two classes. The things we think are important about this book include:

• It starts off by talking about conditional expressions (if-then-else) and their types, because those expressions are accessible to most readers.
  
• Starting from Chapter 3, we work with a single program, successively refactoring it and building it up, so that most of the book is a working, extended example.
• There are exercises at the end of each chapter (except Chapter 10), and we provide solutions and discussion of the solutions. Some of the exercises are challenging and some introduce new things that the main text doesn’t cover, such as using the Text type instead of the String type.
• It encourages the reader to gain some facility with using GHCi, the interactive REPL provided with GHC.
• It starts from the humble conditional expression but by the end, it’s covering topics that are definitely intermediate (or even advanced) Haskell, but, because it maintains its focus on a single program, you can compare the more advanced refactored versions to what you’ve done previously.
• We’ve given it some helpful appendices as well, so you have a concise API reference and a reference to the GHCi commands that we use in the book. Also, it’s been thoroughly indexed, to make referring back to concepts or to earlier iterations of the code easy.

And now this basic structure forms the model for other courses on Type Classes, and thus for future monographs. The next monograph, on web servers, has been written and is currently in editing. It begins with a discussion about sockets and the HTTP protocol and works through parsing, the differences among the string types in Haskell, and how to use a streaming library called pipes.

Another one, from the Type Classes course called Functortown, will be a complete exploration of all the functors – Functor, Bifunctor, Applicative, Monad, Contravariant, and Profunctor, with some things about Traversable and Monoid appearing along the way. Each segment of that course begins with a motivating, practical example – why do we need this function, and then why do we want this to be a typeclass? It also covers details such as property testing your instances to ensure they are law abiding, what features of certain types mean they are not a Functor, and so forth.

Meanwhile, we continue to work on reference materials for the Desk Reference, and they appear on the site first and then we edit them into a suitable style for what will be the standalone book. We hope to have an initial version of that out this year. It will be similar to a pocket reference book, intended more for looking something up quickly than for linear reading, and will cover important vocabulary, GHC language extensions and other pragmas, GHCi commands (including some of the lesser known ones and how to use them) and some critical libraries, among other topics.

The Type Classes site does host some content that will likely never make it into a book; not everything can be distilled in that way. A Type Classes membership allows members to access everything we write, as we write it, while also ensuring we are able to continue the work we’re doing.

Over time, in line with our goals of easing access and promoting inclusivity in the Haskell and Nix communities, we will also be offering more free resources on the Type Classes site. Our Transitions content is already free, along with tutorials about using the fltkhs package to make native GUI apps, posts about contravariance and profunctors, and more. We hope it will be recognized that having two people write full-time to not only produce but also maintain, as the ecosystem changes, all this writing means that we can’t release it all for free; it’s an enormous amount of work, and relies on expertise in teaching, writing, and programming that we’ve gained over many years. That said, we do have a couple of large(ish) projects in the works this year that will be freely, publicly available. Additionally, we release open-source libraries from time to time, taken from the work we’ve done building the Type Classes site (almost entirely written in Haskell and Nix).

As we enter our second year of business, we have a lot planned and a lot of exciting work to do. We hope that we can help bring the joy of Haskell to everyone who wants it.

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You probably know by now that the Librem Tunnel is part of Librem One, a suite of privacy-protecting, no-tracking apps and services created by our team at Purism, which also includes Librem Mail, Librem Chat and Librem Social.

Librem Tunnel offers an encrypted, no-logging, virtual private network tunnel, making sure all your network traffic is secure and your privacy fully protected. This means you can safely and conveniently use any public hotspot and not have to worry about how private your connection really is, using standards-based OpenVPN with any compatible client. You are not the product in Librem Tunnel: you will not be tracked, we do not sell your data, and we don’t advertise.

Imagine you’re at a coffee shop, at a work seminar or on campus. Or maybe you work remotely, or you’re traveling, or your kids want to go to the park and the nice little cafe you’re having ice cream at happens to, conveniently, have free WiFi. You know you need to use HTTPS to get the little green lock, but you can’t be expected to review the network security of every WiFi access point you use. Do you really want the cafe owner to know the names of the web sites you visit, what IP addresses you interact with, what protocols you use? Why not use a secure tunnel you can trust?

You may be wondering why we are more trustworthy than an arbitrary access point. Well, we guarantee that we don’t ever monitor or log your connection. We also recommend HTTPS Everywhere to make sure you’re using HTTPS whenever possible. And for even more, extra safety, use Tor Browser.

You’re probably thinking: well, why not just use Tor Browser, without the tunnel? The answer is, because it would only secure your web connection, and your device makes other connections too. Additionally, if you make an unencrypted connection over Tor, you are again relying on an arbitrary endpoint. Trust us instead.

Want to stop your coffee shop recognizing your device every time you come in? We’ll cover that in a separate guide soon.

And here are a couple of bonus tips for PureOS users interested in defense-in-depth at the connection layer:

• You’ll probably be happy to know that HTTPS Everywhere is included by default in PureBrowser.
• Finally, we have instructions for installing Tor Browser, for that extra layer of protection.

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With Memorial Day weekend approaching and the "semi-official" start of summer travel, what better to celebrate then learning how folding ebikes can take road trips to the next level! Whether traveling by car or RV, the Blix folding electric bike model is an easy travel companion. Below we discuss the benefits of folding ebikes on road trips and check out how some of our full-time RVer affiliates use the Blix Vika+ during their travels.

                                                                                                                     

 Best Bike for Road Trips:

Road trips can be super fun, especially when staying at a campsite or RVing cross-country. Sometimes, however, it can feel like a chore to get back in the car to explore a new town, check out the coast, or even run errands. That is one benefit of bringing a folding ebike along for the journey! Folding ebikes offer an alternative method of exploring and adventuring when on a road trip because riders can enjoy longer bike rides without fear of exhaustion. Additionally, compact folding ebikes can be easily stored in the trunk of a car or in an RV. 

Instead of spending more time in a car or struggling to find parking for the RV, you can quickly unfold the ebike and go! Not only will more time be spent outdoors, travelers can save tremendously on gas expenditures. This extra money could be spent on a nice dinner, souvenirs, or saved for the next trip.

Blix Vika+:

The Blix Vika+ is a great folding ebike option. Depending on the size of car trunk or RV, choosing a folding ebike that is convenient and easy to store is important.The Vika+ has a 48V battery, 500W motor, 5 levels of pedal assist and a throttle. You can ride for miles, reach 20 mph, and conquer any hill with ease. The Vika+ comes in chic colors such as racing green and cream. It also has smart mounting points which means you can add Blix baskets, racks, and bags!

Life on the Road with a Blix:

For firsthand experience of life on the road with a Blix folding ebike, you can check out how RVLove, Slow Car Fast Home, and Mavis the Airstream use their Blix Vika+ ebikes during their RV travels. 

Mavis the Airstream says "These foldable electric bikes are a game changer for us as we travel!" 

RVLOVE is also a big fan of the Vika+ stating, "The Vika+ folds up very compact to store in our car or our RV. It allows Julie to keep up with Marc on long rides and even leave him in the dust, especially on hills." 

Even if you don't plan on road tripping for ever, the folding ebikes will add to any adventure!

                                                                                                                 

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I’ve been a Jane Siberry fan for as long as it’s been possible to be so, and it’s not an exaggeration to say that no musician has been more influential in my life over the course of the last 35 years.

And yet, after seeing her play live at Ontario Place, and then again at Victoria Hall in Cobourg, both in the late 1980s, I hadn’t had a chance to see her perform for the last three decades.

But last night she played Harmony House in Hunter River and I had a seat in the front row.

It was a unique evening.

I’d imagined myself to be the only Jane Siberry fan on Prince Edward Island: from the size and ferocity of the audience, this is clearly not the case. To my surprise, there were many who I’d consider part of my not-too-distant-extended-community in the house last night, people I’d never considered I might have this in common with. It was a good reminder that commonality is often hidden behind closed doors.

And it was a weird concert: a kind of aural patchwork quilt of sounds and stories that appeared, initially, to be too random and too slapdash but that, over the course of the evening, shimmered into something larger. It was really quite delightful to witness and be a part of.

At the end of the evening Jane offered up three of her paintings for sale–”I can’t take these on the plane with me”–and the one you see between her guitar and her feet, right in my eyeline, was the one that caught my eye (when it’s not rendered in black and white it’s all manner of orange, green, red and blue). So I waited until the crowds had cleared, offered her all the money in my wallet, and we had a deal.

A good night.

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Google’s excellent Duo video calling platform — and the better half of failed chat app Allo — is set to get a lot better if you’ve got lots of people to call at once.

Google is globally rolling out group calling to Duo on both iOS and Android. Duo’s group calling supports a reasonable eight simultaneous callers. Further, Google boasts that all of Duo’s calls are end-to-end encrypted.

To compare, Apple’s FaceTime allows for 32 members in a group call, while WhatsApp offers four. Skype and Facebook Messenger both offer 50-member group calls, but Messenger will only show six video feeds at a time.

Duo also forms the basis for video calling on Google’s smart displays, but group calling is reportedly exclusive to mobile at launch. While the Nest Hub Max is currently the only Google smart display with a camera for video calling — and it’s not yet in Canada — the mobile exclusivity also affects the Duo web client. In other words, if you want to group call in Duo, you’ll need to use a mobile device to do it.

Finally, Google is also adding a Data Saving Mode to Duo, but it will be restricted to select regions, including Indonesia, India and Brazil. If you turn on Data Saving Mode in settings, both you and the person you’re calling will use less data in the video call.

Google says Data Saving Mode will roll out to more markets in the coming months.

Source: Google Via: The Verge

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Our 11 tips for traveling light on your long-distance cycling tour will help you to successfully prepare for your bike tour. You may be intimidated by the thought of a long-distance bike tour because of all the things you would need to carry. However, fear no more. Our tips will get you focused and make sure you are traveling light.

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It’s a lot easier to launch a new community if you have a lot of customers or thousands of names on your mailing list.

If you don’t, you’ve got a few approaches you can take:

Option 1: Grow an Existing Audience, Then Launch

Most common for founder-created communities is to build a large number of existing contacts in the 3 to 6 months before launching the community. Get them to engage in events, through other groups, and steadily grow from there. Most of the communities you see followed this approach (albeit unintentionally).

Option 2: Pay for Advertising

If you don’t have an existing audience, you can pay for advertising.

Social ads can work well here. Each new member will cost about $5 – $10. Invest a few thousand dollars and you will get 300 to 600 registered members.

Assume you can keep 10% of them engaged, and you have your 30 to 60 founding members to get started. Keep investing a few thousand a month and you will start to see steady growth.

It’s not cheap for many, but it can work out cheaper than spending months building your own audience (your time costs money too). It can also be a lot quicker.

Option 3: Start A Tiny Group and Grow Steadily

Create a group on Facebook, Twitter (hashtag) or another channel that people already use and use built-in network effects to attract members. You can test different concepts and ideas, then grow steadily. Only launch your community on these groups. Once you have some engagement you want to move across to something you control. Remember at any time these platforms can seize control of your platform, reduce your reach, or remove it entirely without warning.

Option 4: Create Something With Viral Power

My favourite (and least used) option. Create a community so remarkable and different that people can’t help but talk about it. Do what Kaggle did for data scientists and Figure1 for doctors. A simple forum probably won’t cut it. Target 1% of your prospective audience who are ridiculously excited or challenged by an aspect of the topic. Then overwhelmingly cater towards it.

Feel free to have crazy rules that no-one else would dare to use. Perhaps ban unverified opinions, force members to mentor at least one other, or perhaps ban questions entirely and force people to share what they’re up to in some other medium. There are endless possibilities.

Select whichever approach makes the best sense to you.

Of course, if you want to grow really fast…select all four.

Same pattern as previous months: Samsung is faster than AndroidOne. Huawei trails.

Düsseldorf, 24. Mai 2019 – satellite für Android ist nach sieben Monaten Entwicklungszeit ab sofort erhältlich. Die kostenlose App bietet alle Funktionen, um satellite dauerhaft als alternative Mobilfunklösung nutzen zu können. Das bald erscheinende Add-On satellite Plus kostet 4,99€/Monat. Es bietet unbegrenzte Telefonieminuten und kommt pünktlich zur Urlaubszeit.

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A recent Focals’ update enables the smartglasses to sync with Google Fit.

Users will now be able to see their weekly progress and their daily activity.

To sync your smartglasses with Google Fit, download the app from Google Play or the iOS App Store. Afterward, select ‘Abilities’ on your Focals app and sign onto Google Fit. Then navigate to the ‘Health’ view to see your progress.

Android users can also keep track of their screen time and how long they wear their Focals throughout the day with digital health. To see your screen time, check out the reports also on the ‘Health’ view.

Recently, North updated the wearable with a personal teleprompter.

Source: North

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the company is close to reaching its target production numbers for its Model 3 electric vehicle.

In an email sent to Tesla employees, Musk noted that the company has received over 50,000 new vehicle orders during this quarter. Because of that, the company has achieved 900 Model 3 deliveries per day, just 10 percent under its target of 1,000 Model 3 units per day.

By hitting 7,000 Model 3 deliveries per week, Musk said the company can exceed the 90,700 deliveries made in Q4 2018 and make Q2 2019 the “highest deliveries/sales quarter in Tesla history.”

Overall, Musk said Tesla has a “good chance” of hitting this milestone if employees come together to “rally hard.”

The email led Tesla stock to turn positive for the first time in seven days.

Via: CNBC

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As the trade war between China and the United States escalates, Pegatron, one of Apple’s biggest production partners, may move its production of some Apple products to Indonesia in June, according to multiple sources.

An Indonesian-language report from Detikinet claims Pegatron invested $300 million USD (about $403 million CAD) at an unnamed Indonesian factory in Batam, Indonesia.

The investment coincides with the recently formed partnership between Pegatron and PT Sat Nusapersada, an Indonesian manufacturing company getting subcontracted assembly duty. Pegatron’s latest move confirms an earlier report by AppleInsider that the company planned to relocate at least some of its manufacturing work outside China.

Abidin Hasibuan, CEO of PT Sat Nusapersada, said the products the company manufactures are from a U.S. brand, and they are for the U.S. market. Hasibuan, however, he did not disclose the name of the brand.

Detikinet also says Pegatron picked Indonesia over Vietnam for better labor efficiency.

As tensions between the U.S. and China continues to balloon, a new wave of hefty tariffs will likely diminish Apple’s earnings significantly, says Goldman Sachs, since most of the company’s products are manufactured in China.

Pegatron is not unique in its decision to move production outside the heat zone. Foxconn, another Apple’s key assembly partner, confirmed it will mass-produce iPhones, such as the three years old iPhone 6s, in India.

Source: Detikinet  via: Apple Insider

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Numerous employees at Snapchat mistreated their privileged access to spy on users through the use of dedicated tools that allow them to access user information, according to a recent report from Motherboard.

This news comes after two former employees told Vice‘s tech publication that numerous employees used their power to view Snapchat users’ data a few years ago.

They had tools that would allow them to view location information, saved Snaps, phone numbers and email addresses.

SnapLion is one of the tools that allowed the employees to access user data. It was initially used to obtain data on users if there was a legal request from law enforcement, according to the former employees.

Motherboard obtained an email that shows a Snapchat employee using SnapLion to obtain an email address linked to a user’s account, in a case that wasn’t related to law enforcement.

A former employee told Motherboard that SnapLion gives its users “the keys to the kingdom.”

Snapchat was previously fined in 2014 for not disclosing that it stored and transmitted geolocation data.

A Snapchat spokesperson told Motherboard in an email that, “Unauthorized access of any kind is a clear violation of the company’s standards of business conduct and, if detected, results in immediate termination.”

A current employee told Motherboard that the company has made efforts towards protecting user privacy.

Source: Motherboard 

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Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei confessed that his family uses iPhones and purchases Apple computers when travelling abroad.

Speaking to a group of Chinese reporters on May 21st at Huawei’s headquarter in Shenzhen, China, Ren expressed that Apple should be served as a role model for Huawei in the development their software ecosystem where every device is closely connected.

“Many of my family members have told me the advantage of the Apple ecosystem,” Ren said in Guancha, a Chinese publication. “Richard Yu [chair of Huawei’s consumer division] was very unhappy that I am promoted for another company.”

During the press conference with Chinese media, Ren stated that Huawei will always excuse itself from politics. He defended the U.S. companies that halted businesses with Huawei and expressed appreciation by Google and IBM’s assistance in the past few years.

“Let’s speak out more in favour of U.S. firms. If you are going to attack someone, then aim at the U.S. politicians,” Ren said.

“I’m pragmatic. One can’t be deemed patriotic simply for using Huawei products, or the other way round. Huawei is a commercial business. If you like [the product] then use it. Do not politicise it,” Ren said. He also noted that Huawei’s advertisement in China never contained anything that pictured Huawei as “national pride”.

The ongoing nationalist and anti-U.S. sentiment in China could play to Huawei’s favour and hurt Apple’s sales in the country. Chinese customers are calling everyone to “switch to Huawei” as a sign of support for China during the ongoing trade feud with the United States.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a recent executive order, he placed several companies on an ‘Entity List,’ including China-based smartphone manufacturer Huawei and 70 affiliates.

That list also includes telecommunications equipment provider ZTE. The order doesn’t specifically call out Huawei but it “invoke[s] the International Emergency Economic Powers Act,” a law that grants the president the authority to regulate any commerce that could pose a national security threat to the U.S. In this case, Huawei and the other companies added to the Entity List.

Source: Guancha.cn

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Huawei’s laptops, the MateBook X Pro and MateBook 13, are no longer available for purchase on Microsoft Store Online in Canada and the United States.

Searching Huawei on Microsoft Store will return no hardware results and the existing link for MateBook X Pro will now show an error message.

Microsoft declined to comment to MobileSyrup.

The company has also not confirmed whether it will continue to push Windows 10 updates to Huawei computers.

Huawei has not yet responded to this situation and its website is still displaying the link to the Microsoft Store Online.

Microsoft appeared to join Google, Intel and Qualcomm in distancing itself from Huawei after the recent ban by the U.S. government. Under the new restrictions, Microsoft can no longer supply Huawei with the Windows operating system. This could have serious implications on the sale of Huawei computers worldwide since Windows is the default operating system installed on these machines.

If you are planning to buy Huawei computers, MateBook X Pro is still available for purchase on the Canadian site of Walmart and Staples.

Source: CNN Business

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mkalus shared this story from Radfahren in Stuttgart.

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... der Welt weiß zu machen, Rad fahren und zu Fuß gehen passten nicht zusammen. 

Diesen Satz hat Modacity auf Englisch auf Twitter gepostet. (The greatest trick the auto industry ever pulled was convincing the world walking and cycling can’t coexist.)  Die beiden erzählen in dem Post, dass sie seit sie in eine Fahrradstadt (Delft) umgezogen sind, mehr zu Fuß gehen als jemals vorher in ihrem Leben, weil die Straßen nicht von Autos verstopft sind. Da macht man gerne Spaziergänge. Aber stimmt der Satz? Aber was erzählt uns die Autoindustrie eigentlich über uns? 


Ist euch schon mal aufgefallen, dass in unseren Fernsehfilmen in ungefähr der Hälfte aller Seznen Autos vorkommen? Kommissare fahren zur Leiche und finden immer gleich einen Parkplatz am Straßenrand, Autotüren knallen. Autotypen werden prominent, wenn Kommissare sie fahren. In einer Berg-Romanze stehen an jedem Waldweg zwei Autos, die Protagonist/innen steigen in ein Auto, das praktisch an den Tischen der Alp steht, und fahren los ins Grüne. Ein Zelt steht an einem Bach, daneben das Auto. Road-Movies funktionieren nur mit Auto. (Ein Cycle-Movie habe ich noch nicht gesehen). Das Auto ist immer da. Real und in unsere Bilderwelt. Tatsächlich können wir in einer Stadt (aber auch in Dörfern und Nestern) nicht aus dem Fenster gucken (oder zumindest nicht vor die Haustür treten), ohne ein Auto oder viele Autos zu sehen. Wir hören sie in der Stadt ununterbrochen, mal als nächtliches Rauschen, mal einzeln mit offenen Auspuffklappen und hochtourig Fehlzündungen produzierend. Keine Stille und kein Vogelgezwitscher existiert ohne das gelegentliche oder häufige Aufbrummen eines Motors oder das Knallen von Autotüren. Soviel zur absoluten Dominaz des Autos in unseren Augen, Ohren, Köpfen und Straßen.

Wir existieren nicht ohne Auto, das ist die Botschaft.  
Und noch eine Botschaft gibt es: Der Fußgänger ist zumindest in unseren Filmen (fast) immer ein Autofahrer. Er steigt irgendwann in ein Auto ein (nur selten in eine Straßenbahn oder einen Zug). Dagegen ist der Radfahrer fast nie ein Autofahrer. Er ist in Filmen ein Sonderfall. Im Alltag auch.  Für die Autoindustrie ist er deshalb nicht von Interesse, sondern ein Feind. 

Für den Fußverkehr ist der Radverkehr meist ein Feind. 
Fußgänger/innen und ihre Verbände schimpfen auf Radfahrer. Sie seien rücksichstlos, sie führen immer auf Gehwegen, man traue sich nicht, Fahrradstraßen zu überqueren. Und Radler monieren Fußgänger, die ihnen mit Blick aufs Handy vors Rad laufen. Radfahren und zu Fuß gehen sind gewissermaßen zwei gegenüber dem Autoverkehr schwache Mobiliätsformen, die sich nicht mögen.

Für die Autoindustrie und ihre Lobbyisten gibt es nur den Autoverkehr und den Fußverkehr, die eine friedliche Koexistenz eingegangen sind, vollständig zu gunsten des Wegerechts des Autos. Der Autoverkehr wird nur kurz angehalten, damit der Fußverkehr mal queren kann, ansonsten schleicht der sich am Rand der Autostraßen entlang. Das passt. Das wird von Fußgänger/innen kaum infrage gestellt. Der Radfahrer ist in diesem Bund das Dritte, der Böse, der beide stört, die Autofahrer und die Fußgänger. Beide, Autofahrende und Fußgänger/innen samt ihren Verbänden können gemeinsam gegen Radahrende wettern, ihr verhalten skandalisieren und sie zur Gefahr erklären. Das klappt bestens. 

Für Autos die Fahrbahn, der Rest: Chaos

So hat uns die Autoindustrie oder die jahrzehnte lang implementierte Dominanz des Autos in allen Lebensbereichen in unseren Köpfen uns weiß gemacht, dass Radfahrend und zu Fuß Gehen nicht zusammenpasen, dass Radler und Fußgänger sich nicht vertragen können. Das Radler die Rücksichtslosen sind und Fußgänger die Gehetzten, dass man das Radfahren beschränken muss.

In einer Stadt aber, die das Fahrrad hoch hält, den Autoverkehr beschränkt und dem Fahrrad bequeme Wege anbietet, scheint sich diese Gegnerschaft aufzulösen. Wo es schön ist, weil dort kaum oder gar keine Autos fahren, da geht man auch gern zu Fuß. Da nimmt man für kürzere Strecken (so bis 3 km, schätze ich) auch mal nicht das Fahrrad, sondern spaziert. Das ist interessant, finde ich.

Der Hass auf Radfahrende sinkt, wenn nicht mehr überall Autos fahren.
Vermutlich können wir uns in Stuttgart alle Flanniermeilen sparen, solange wir nicht auch den Autoverkehr reduzieren, der an ihnen entlang braust, und statt dessen wesentlich mehr Radverkehr durch die Stadt lenken.  Dann fahren auf den Fahrbahnen die Radler und die Fußgänger/innen haben ihre Gehwege für sich und genießen die Ruhe.
 

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After more than 20 years of making quality apps you love for Mac and iOS, Panic was ready to try something new…

…and that something was hardware.

Today, after more than four years of work by a small and talented team within Panic, we are extremely excited to introduce Playdate, a brand new handheld gaming system, arriving in early 2020.

Playdate is both very familiar, and totally new. It’s yellow, and fits perfectly in a pocket. It has a black-and-white screen with high reflectivity, a crystal-clear image, and no backlight. And of course, it has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB-C, and a headphone jack. But it also has a crank. Yes, a crank: a cute, rotating analog controller that flips out from the side. It’s literally revolutionary.

It also includes a full season of original games, at no extra charge, delivered each week to the system — games in all sorts of genres that are all hopefully surprises.

Yes, this is all real.

Now before you ask, and you will ask, don’t worry, yes we’re still developing Mac and iOS software. In fact, we’ll be releasing a preview of the next major version of Coda later this year. Stay tuned!

But if you enjoy games, if you like beautiful things, or if you just enjoy having fun, you might enjoy Playdate. Hopefully it’s unexpected, but also totally Panic. We really think it’ll brighten your life.

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