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Semantic versioning ("semver") is for the boring. My next project will use "emdocver" (Emailed Document Versioning). The 1st major release will be FINAL. Next will be FINAL_FINAL. After 1 bug fix, it will be FINAL_FINAL_UPDATED, then FINAL_FINAL_UPDATED_UPDATED with 2 fixes, etc.

With news of #Bandcamp being sold, and advice that you should download your purchases now, I haven't published it yet, but I actually wrote a post recently about downloading from Bandcamp, and here were the three options that took my eye:

github.com/Otiel/BandcampDownl

github.com/RyanBluth/Bandcamp-

github.com/easlice/bandcamp-do

I used bandcamp-downloader, and here is an extract of my post using it:

"I easily managed to install it and configure to download to a chosen directory and in the FLAC format with the following command, replacing the terms `USERNAME` and `/path/to/directory/` accordingly:

`./bandcamp-downloader.py USERNAME -d /path/to/directory/ -f flac`

And then the downloads slowly started to trickle in, all zipped up underneath directories with the artists' name. As such, the music still needs unzipping, but that was the case when downloading manually as well, and then music can be organised however you like.

I like how I can run it the leave it to do all the work in the background with me needing to monitor it or it be too intrusive as I work on something else, but the other two options may be more suitable if you prefer to work with a graphical interface and aren't too comfortable with the command line."

Like, there are so many ways to get this right, without even giving up subscription income. But if you can't be bothered to try anything more than "paywall everything and break the option to share stuff in the process"... well.

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If you put a paywall on your inbound links then I will just not read your articles 🤷

Reverse engineered how Thalys stores their tickets in Wallet links.

Bad thing : on literally the last evening Thalys app and website exist.

#ThalysOneLastTime

if the only alternative to capitalism you can imagine is literally the soviet union, I feel sorry for you

Door over "de coronaperiode" te praten wordt verder gesuggereerd dat het voorbij is. Ja, de maatregelen zijn voorbij. Totaal! Niemand heeft er blijvende schade van ondervonden.

Covid raast echter nog steeds rond, blijft muteren en maakt massa's slachtoffers. Nu vooral #LongCovid zieken, gehandicapten, arbeidsongeschikten + uitgestelde overlijdens door persistent virus.

Tenslotte vermijdt dit "Stilstaan" zorgvuldig de schuldvraag (overheid, RIVM, OMT!). Was dit te vermijden? (Ja!)
#ABCovid

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@mynameistillian Poverty is expensive. Not being able to pay off debts or see a doctor or buy better food or see a dentist and so on all adds up to even bigger problems that will cost even more to fix down the road. Shits why the essentials of healthy life (shelter, heat, food, healthcare) should all be provided by our taxes. A healthy populace ensures a healthy society.

Guess there's no such thing as "four seasons" in "temperate" areas anymore 🙃

I fucking hate capitalism and what they've done to fucking everyone on this planet holy fuck

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I don't want allies.

I want accomplices.

:transgender_flag_black: :anarchism: :transgender_flag:

It's almost as if Mozilla had a point with their "codecs should really be written in a memory-safe language", and Google's claim that "you should just write your C++ more carefully" was always some hot garbage that people only accepted because they were blinded by Google's carefully cultivated propaganda about how all their developers are unmitigated geniuses

Related to the latest round of everyone finding out what happens when you write image decoders in C++ now known as CVE-2023-5129: you may want to update every electron app on your machine as much as possible. Electron is built on the foundation of Google Chrome and it turns out that the webp vulnerability is also present in Electron. Annoyingly, this is going to require you to figure out which vendors have patched their apps for the vulnerability. Good luck.

You probably should update Discord immediately.

It's almost as if Mozilla had a point with their "codecs should really be written in a memory-safe language", and Google's claim that "you should just write your C++ more carefully" was always some hot garbage that people only accepted because they were blinded by Google's carefully cultivated propaganda about how all their developers are unmitigated geniuses

A propos of the poor being a punching bag for the political right, the criminalisation of poverty and the ugly rhetoric they embrace every time they need votes.

Know your enemy.

We can do better. We can look after each other. #Solidarity is the way.

Holy shit looks like the WGA pretty much got *everything it wanted*, including structural change.

UNIONS WORK.

wgacontract2023.org/the-campai

We already have enough for everyone.
It's just being hoarded and wasted.

#EatTheRich #TaxWealth

y'know how they say the "close doors" button on US elevators often does nothing, but makes people using the elevator feel more in control?

website designers, please give us a "save settings" button.

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