No Encrypting and compressing files does not always work and especially not if the data is minimal or has compression integrated in the data format – not new but always funny in your own projects.
```tracing
2025-07-19T08:01:20.550231Z INFO myproject: 🔏 file encrypt in 210 bytes
2025-07-19T08:01:20.550610Z INFO myproject: 🗜️ -770.00% file compressed
```
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There’s a new #OpenStreetMap website feature related to #Wikidata!
When viewing objects in OSM that have a Wikidata tag, you can now click the Wikidata icon to turn the opaque QID values into human-readable info (plus a link to Wikipedia if any).
Former Disney CEO thinks Disney and ABC messed up.
Because they did.
source: #USpol
you can now flash an atmega entirely from your browser* https://glasgowembedded.github.io/glasgow-webusb/
* getting files to/from the virtual filesystem left as an exercise for the reader, bearing in mind that `pyodide.FS` is an Emscripten filesystem object
Historically, it makes sense that absurdism is the logical reaction to a climate of oppression and hostility. Dada and Bauhaus for WW I, the "theatre of the absurd" (Esslin) for WW II, or anti-Vietnam war happenings in the 60s.
Somewhat surprisingly, it seems that this role of absurdist relief has today fallen to Tim Robinson and his sketch comedy show "I think you should leave", and the online community around it.
The protagonists change from sketch to sketch…
#DH2025 thanks @flochiff.bsky.social for sharing this link as I wanted to follow up on Pandore! 'Pandore: automating text-processing workflows for humanities researchers' from Sorbonne Université and ObTIC - Observatoire des textes, des idées et des corpus
🚨 I’ve just heard from @… after almost two days.
She’s alive but things are not good.
They left their tent because it was not safe but had to return because they had nowhere else to go. She couldn’t reach me because the Internet was down.
I’m trying to find out if there’s any amount of money we can send over that will mean that she and h…