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Sign up for the Convention Zero games and events are open ... And so it's the sign up for my 'lil seminar about keeping backups for creative folks:
https://warhorn.net/events/conzero-fall-2025
It will be held this Saturday at 8 am EST, 1 pm GMT, 2 pm CET.

Created two small linters improving an ergonomics of type switches in Go by adding exhaustive match check. With those tools adding a new case become a lint error.
https://github.com/gomoni/sumlint
1. oneoflint does an exhaustive check for code implementing protobuf's oneof

GitHub - gomoni/sumlint: Exhaustiveness checks for your interface "sum types" using a lightweight naming convention + `go vet`.
Exhaustiveness checks for your interface "sum types" using a lightweight naming convention + `go vet`. - gomoni/sumlint

I love minding my own business while listening to kids chatting in their own slang, dissing grown-ups, catching each other saying 6-7, being deadly serious about school exams 😄 Language is a fascinatingly human thing when it's flowing without the imposition of scientifically derived rules and years of societal integration. It just can't stay put and tries to explore every crack, break every convention.

Time is running out to get your talk submitted to speak at SCaLE 23x, March 5-8, 2026, at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/cfp

one of the coolest things about the #bcndp convention has been the use if this little ballot book for voting for elected positions within the party.
They announce the number and colour of the page, you rip out the paper and use it to make your selection.
Then the committee folks go around with ballot boxes like offerings at church 😆
Democracy is cool wherever it happens and in all its iterations.
#bcndp #democracy

I joined the BC Green party because there's no other option around here if you care about the earth. My first ever political convention!
@…
#bcgreen #GreenParty

#NorthAmerica's largest #semiconductor #convention skipped its traditional #MosconeCenter setup in

Ohio Linux Fest (Open Libre Free) conference **is still on** in Columbus Ohio!
The conference will be a 1-day event held on December 6th at the conference center in Sonesta Downtown Columbus (south across the street from the convention center).
I'll post a follow-up once registration opens; should be in the next few days, so stay tuned for that!
#Ohio

Whoops. My »USB Sticks Are Not a Back-Up« seminar at ​Convention Zero got the 8am EST slot on Nov 22nd. I've held similar sessions during HistoCamp and LitCampHD, and the topic has never been a crowd favourite. I guess I'll see how many people will be awake enough at that hour. 😬
Relevant Links:
https://conventionzero.carrd.co/

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

There are no weekends in cybersecurity so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed since Friday, including
--Over 60 nations signed a controversial cybercrime convention,
--House Democrat service exposed details of government employees with top-secret clearances,
--AI chatbots push Russian propaganda,
--A third-party contractor exposed details on Dublin and Cork airport passengers,
--Philippines' GCash u…

Over 60 nations signed a controversial cybercrime convention
House Democrat service exposed details of government employees with top-secret clearances, AI chatbots push Russian propaganda, A third-party contractor exposed details on Dublin and Cork airport passengers, Philippines' GCash under probe for leak of 8m e-wallet users' data, much more

fyi: 82% of the #bcndp delegates (740 valid votes cast)
voted against having a leadership convention!
iow: Premier Eby's leadership is solid and safe.
#bcpoli

Trump Advisers Consider Las Vegas for Rare Midterm Political Convention (Alex Leary/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-republican-midterm-convention-las-vegas-8a0efb11
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p139#a251029p139

Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to push the Overton window a bit more to the right by curbing ECHR
No respect for #HumanRights |
Fuckwit.
https://www.theguard…

Make no mistake, the only values the European Commission gives a single damn about are expressed in Euros and cents.
The guiding principle of the successor to the European Coal and Steel Community isn’t human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, it’s the Single Market.
How dare you even pretend to care when you are beyond silent in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, you despicable bunch of fancy-suited hypocrites.

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image 🤝75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights A landmark treaty that reshaped Europe after the second World War, protecting millions of Europeans and supporting our shared values of human rights, democracy and rule of law. Because human rights aren’t optional. They’re universal.

Glen Gordon’s departure is a loss for JAWS (and Freedom Scientific / Vispero):
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glen-gordon-13a625133_today-is-a-very-sad-day-for-me-since-after-activity-7392923860024614912-B9tr

Today is a very sad day for me, since after nearly 32 years, it’s the first day that I’m no longer working on the JAWS screen reader. I’ve voluntarily resigned my position at Freedom… | Glen Gordon
Today is a very sad day for me, since after nearly 32 years, it’s the first day that I’m no longer working on the JAWS screen reader. I’ve voluntarily resigned my position at Freedom Scientific/Vispero because I found myself unable to continue working for a company that’s changing in ways that are moving away from my personal values. As recently as the 2025 NFB convention, I was thinking that I’d be working on JAWS far into the future. Much to my surprise, a recent influx of new Exe…

Another Red Line demo in Amsterdam today - in line with the Genocide Convention, protesters will demand more action by Dutch government against Israel. I'll be there.
https://nos.nl/l/2585235

Rode Lijn-protest tegen Israël-standpunt kabinet, mensenmassa verwacht in Amsterdam
De organisatoren eisen, samen met de demonstranten, een fundamentele koerswijziging van het demissionaire kabinet met stevige sanctie tegen Israël.

@… which version of pkg?
When I last tested, the convention of FreeBSD-base first was prone to removal of non-base packages.
IIRC the workaround involved not attempting to be repo-specific.
<https://

I just learned that Frank Gehry passed away. 😔
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts/design/frank-gehry-dead.html
One of his buildings that I hope to visit is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 🇪🇸. I looked at the list of buildings he designed and the only o…

"New ship hull modifications to slash fuel use"
#Ships #Vehicles
https://techxplore.com/ne…

New ship hull modifications to slash fuel use
Researchers at MIT have demonstrated that wedge-shaped vortex generators attached to a ship's hull can reduce drag by up to 7.5%, which reduces overall ship emissions and fuel expenses. The paper, "Net Drag Reduction in High Block Coefficient Ships and Vehicles Using Vortex Generators," was presented at the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers 2025 Maritime Convention in Norfolk, Virginia.

'Confirmation of Kremlin state policy' — Ukraine slams Russia's withdrawal from torture prevention convention: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/29/confirmation-of-kremlin-state-policy.html

💬 All talks and workshops from #hacklu2025 have their own Discourse topic — making it easy to comment, share feedback, and follow updates per session.
👉 https://discourse.ossbase.org/c/hack-lu/…

hack.lu
Hack.lu (and CTI summit) is an open convention/conference where people can discuss about computer security, privacy, information technology and its cultural/technical implication on society. It’s the 19th edition (21st → 24th October) of hack.lu in Luxembourg.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the western German city of Giessen on Saturday
as the far-right Alternative for Germany’s new youth organization was set to kick off its founding convention.
Groups of protesters blocked or tried to block roads in and around the city of some 93,000 people in the early morning.
Police said they used pepper spray after stones were thrown at officers at one location.
The new youth organization of the anti-immigration Alternative for G…

Thousands protest as Germany’s far-right AfD to launch new youth wing
Party hopes to exert greater control over new group after the previous youth party was declared a proven right-wing extremist group by authorities and dissolved

Pirates of the Mediterranean.
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is being entirely ignored, it seems.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/israeli-military-vessels-pro-palestinian-flo…

Freitag bis Sonntag:
Rollenspiel-Online-Convention -> an 4 One-Shots in 3 Tagen teilgenommen.
Me: »Endlich das Gefühl, so richtig sattgespielt zu sein.«
Montag:
Eine regelmäßige Session.
Me: »Uff, langsam setzt Erschöpfung ein.«
Dienstag:
Me: »Ich hätte ja jetzt Lust auf ’ne Session …«

Convention organizer to Linus Torvalds: "You might like to come with us
to some licensed[1] place, and have some pizza."
Linus: "Oh, I did not know that you needed a license to eat pizza".
[1] Licenced - refers in Australia to a restaurant which has government
licence to sell liquor.
-- Linus at a talk at the Melbourne University

#NowPlaying - cheating & celebrating fairport szn before the clocks fall back. from what i can tell, "live at the LA troubadour" & "house full" contain more than half of the same takes from september '70, but (more importantly) have different versions of "sloth." @…

Det här är nog lie exakt rätt sätt att använda avgudadyrkansbegreppet i judisk lag https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1749394340/the-beinart-notebook/what-will-establishment-jewish-leaders-sacrifice-to-defeat-mamdani

What Will Establishment Jewish Leaders Sacrifice to Defeat Mamdani? - The Beinart Notebook
A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This Friday’s Zoom call will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. We’ll talk about the New York mayoral race’s ramifications for the Israel-Palestine debate nationally. Our guests will be Palestinian-American Georgia State Representative, and gubernatorial candidate, Ruwa Romman, who was denied the chance to speak at last year’s Democratic convention, and former Obama speechwriter Ben Rhodes, co-host of the podcast, Pod Save…

Power-divergence copulas: A new class of Archimedean copulas, with an insurance application
Alan R. Pearse, Howard Bondell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06177 https://

Power-divergence copulas: A new class of Archimedean copulas, with an insurance application
This paper demonstrates that, under a particular convention, the convex functions that characterise the phi divergences also generate Archimedean copulas in at least two dimensions. As a special case, we develop the family of Archimedean copulas associated with the important family of power divergences, which we call the power-divergence copulas. The properties of the family are extensively studied, including the subfamilies that are absolutely continuous or have a singular component, the order…

So the #MacOS convention is to only sometimes use ~/Library/Application and sometimes ~/config
Yes perfectly normal to have 2 competing standards for configuration files
https://www.

In case you ever wondered how album covers are embedded in audio files:
MP3 supports it since ID3v2.3. The "attached picture" frame can have one of 20 predefined types. (Front, Back, …)
FLAC has a METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE which has a very similar structure to the ID3 tag. It supports the same 20 types.
OGG only supports it indirectly through VorbisComments. Convention is to use the FLAC format, but Base64 encoded.
AAC only supports it through a video stream.…

Achievement Unlocked: Had tea, Earl Grey, hot, at a Star Trek convention.
#StarTrek

The cybersecurity news machine is cranking at high levels this week, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the crucial developments you should know, including
--JLR cyberattack is the most economically damaging in UK history,
--CISA warns of Oracle E-Business Suite flaw,
--Spyware developer was targeted by spyware,
--Salt Typhoon attacked a European telco,
--TikTok could be sharing your data with the US government,
--UN Cybercrime Convention slated …

JLR cyberattack is the most economically damaging in UK history
CISA warns of Oracle E-Business Suite flaw, Spyware developer was targeted by spyware, Salt Typhoon attacked a European telco, TikTok could be sharing your data with the US government, UN Cybercrime Convention slated for weekend signoff, UK won't probe Afghan data breach, much more

Commerce des espèces menacées : anguilles, rhinocéros et requins au cœur des débats mondiaux Š la Cites, en Ouzbékistan
https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/202

Commerce des espèces menacées : anguilles, rhinocéros et requins au cœur des débats mondiaux à la Cites, en Ouzbékistan
Cette conférence rassemblera les signataires de la Convention sur le commerce international des espèces de faune et de flore sauvages menacées d’extinction (Cites), considérée comme le cadre de référence.

A en croire les CFF, c’est exactement ce qui s’est produit. Siemens a battu Stadler sur tous les critères, y compris ceux liés au développement durable. Car la durabilité ne se limite pas Š la proximité du lieu de production ou au respect de la convention collective de travail suisse, c’est un calcul bien plus complexe.
https://www.rts.ch/info/economie/2025/article/cff-choisissent-siemens-polemique-sur-les-criteres-des-marches-publics-29056136.html

Beyond Single LLMs: Enhanced Code Generation via Multi-Stage Performance-Guided LLM Orchestration
Huashan Chen, Zhenyu Qi, Haotang Li, Hong Chen, Jinfu Chen, Kebin Peng, In Kee Kim, Kyu Hyung Lee, Sen He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01379

Beyond Single LLMs: Enhanced Code Generation via Multi-Stage Performance-Guided LLM Orchestration
While Large Language Models (LLMs) have become the predominant paradigm for automated code generation, current single-model approaches fundamentally ignore the heterogeneous computational strengths that different models exhibit across programming languages, algorithmic domains, and development stages. This paper challenges the single-model convention by introducing a multi-stage, performance-guided orchestration framework that dynamically routes coding tasks to the most suitable LLMs within a s…

"African forest hornbills gain new protections from unsustainable trade"
#Birds #Animals

African forest hornbills gain new protections from unsustainable trade
Negotiators discussing wildlife trade rules have agreed overwhelmingly to back a proposal that regulates the currently unrestricted trade in all seven species of African forest hornbills. Eight West and Central African countries had tabled the proposal at the ongoing summit of CITES, the global wildlife trade convention, taking place in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It calls for […]

#WritersCoffeeClub Dec
3. Do genre conventions provide an essential framework, or stifle original storytelling?
4. What would you like to see explored in prompts for this hashtag game?
5. What’s a no-longer popular trend in writing you’d like to see make a comeback?
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3. Both. And neither. A convention is a tool. With enough experience you begin to see when breakin…

😱 Sci-fi Meets Eldritch Horror in Deck Builder Chaos Zero Nightmare
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2025/tokyo-game-show/sci-fi-meets-eldritch-horror-in-deck-builder-chaos-zero-nightmare/.2…

Evaluating the Evaluators: Metrics for Compositional Text-to-Image Generation
Seyed Amir Kasaei, Ali Aghayari, Arash Marioriyad, Niki Sepasian, MohammadAmin Fazli, Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah, Mohammad Hossein Rohban
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21227

Evaluating the Evaluators: Metrics for Compositional Text-to-Image Generation
Text-image generation has advanced rapidly, but assessing whether outputs truly capture the objects, attributes, and relations described in prompts remains a central challenge. Evaluation in this space relies heavily on automated metrics, yet these are often adopted by convention or popularity rather than validated against human judgment. Because evaluation and reported progress in the field depend directly on these metrics, it is critical to understand how well they reflect human preferences. …

Digital welfare fraud detection and the Dutch SyRI judgment
Marvin van Bekkum, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23843 https://arxiv…

Digital welfare fraud detection and the Dutch SyRI judgment
In 2020, a Dutch court passed judgment in a case about a digital welfare fraud detection system called Systeem Risico Indicatie (SyRI). The court ruled that the SyRI legislation is unlawful because it does not comply with the right to privacy under the European Convention of Human Rights. In this article we analyse the judgment and its implications. This ruling is one of first in which a court has invalidated a welfare fraud detection system for breaching the right to privacy. We show that the …

While the US can protect security in Europe and deserves our undying gratitude for having done so for the last 80 years,
Europeans cannot protect democracy in the US.
They can and must, however, protect liberal democracy in Europe,
which risks becoming a collateral victim of Trump’s domestic and foreign policy agenda.
What happens in America doesn’t stay in America.
It is often a precursor for trends in Europe.
Just as the

Starmer government considers leaving the #Aarhus convention. This is an international treaty signed up to by the EU and other countries in Europe, which protects the right for campaigners to bring legal claims against large infrastructure projects such as waste plants, nuclear power stations and motorways.
Starmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviews | Planni…

Double invitation au Double Mixte - Les potins
https://scriptarium.org/potinier/potins/octogônes-2025-–-double-invitation-au-double-mixte-r377/

OctoGônes 2025 – Double invitation au Double Mixte
Dernière année de présence de la convention de référence du bassin lyonnais en matière de jeux et notamment de jeux de rôle dans les murs du Double Mixte, bâtiment voué à la démolition vu son âge ; enfin bon, c’est pas un monument romain non plus, il ne date que de 1988, mais matériaux, sécurité,...

⌛This is your last chance to become a speaker at SCaLE 23x, March 5-8, 2026, at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California. Submit your talks today
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/cfp

The Falcons have arguably committed organizational malpractice. Are the Raiders next? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6832989/2025/11/24/falcons-michael-penix-kirk-cousins-raiders/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Silver Convention:
🎵 Fly, Robin, Fly
#SilverConvention
https://rafaelcancian.bandcamp.com/track/silver-convention-fly-robin-fly-rafael-cancian-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Wr14AISsCuBGdkA6rids4

US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty https://therecord.media/us-declines-signing-cybercrime-treaty

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers:
--A hacking gang extorted Italy's elite,
--An Indian backwater became a wealthy cybercrime locale,
--The nature of China's espionage threat to the UK,
--Cybercrime laws are used to censor the press,
--The dark side of Apple&…

I've always been pretty non partisan... or at least on the fence between orange and green.
Attending the #bcndp convention as a delegate is definitely a big step for me. It's going to be a seriously interesting weekend!!
#bcpoli #ndp #politics

⏰ Time is running out to become a speaker at SCaLE 23x, March 5-8, 2026, at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California. Submit your talks today https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/cfp

Le Conseil de l'Europe adopte une nouvelle Convention sur la coproduction d'œuvres audiovisuelles sous forme de séries
Premier cadre juridique international favorisant la production indépendante et la coopération culturelle dans le domaine des séries télévisées et en streaming
https://www.coe.int/fr/web/portal/-/council-of-europe-adopts-convention-on-the-co-production-of-audiovisual-works-in-the-form-of-series

US to attend UN cybercrime treaty signing in Hanoi despite industry concerns https://therecord.media/cybercrime-treaty-signing-hanoi

The Council of Europe has officially adopted the final text of the Convention on the co-production of audiovisual works in the form of series – the first international legal framework specifically dedicated to the independent co-production of series for television and streaming platforms. This marks a significant step for the European and international audiovisual sector, strengthening cultural cooperation, supporting independent producers and enhancing transparency.
https://www.coe.int/en/web/programme-for-series-co-productions/convention

"EU lawmakers plead UN body to go hard on wildlife trafficking by 2030"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Wildlife #Animals

EU lawmakers plead UN body to go hard on wildlife trafficking by 2030
More data, better traceability schemes and stepping up enforcement are some of the measures backed by lawmakers to tackle wildlife trafficking ahead of the UN convention in Uzbekistan.