For decades, it was nearly impossible to type in Urdu online. Meet the people fighting to digitally preserve its script.
Spoken by nearly 170 million people in South Asia and the South Asian diaspora, Urdu is written in an alphabet derived from Arabic. But while Arabic is written in a script called naskh, simpler and more linear in its appearance, many other people — including Iranians, Afghans, Pakistanis, Urdu-speakers in India, and Uighur-speakers in parts of China — employ an ornate style of writing that originated in 14th-century Persia called nastaʿlīq.
The last miles and miles of the vaccine.
(…) consulting company Deloitte, a huge federal contractor, with a $16 million no-bid contract to manage “covid-19 vaccine distribution and administration tracking.” In December, Deloitte snagged another $28 million for the project, again with no competition. The contract specifies that the award could go as high as $32 million, leaving taxpayers with a bill between $44 and $48 million. (…) And, who else is involved in all of this? Our good friends at Palantir.
Alaska has the highest rate of sexual assault in the nation. These women and men did not choose to be violated, but they now choose to speak about what happened.
Better BASHing Through Technology.
Before we get to the implementation, make sure you are using ShellCheck it provides static analysis of your scripts, pointing out many things like missing quotes, or incorrectly handling arrays.
21 Bad Front-End Habits to Drop in 2021.
- Pretending Tech is Neutral
Dependency Confusion: “How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies.”
The idea was to upload my own “malicious” Node packages to the npm registry under all the unclaimed names, which would “phone home” from each computer they were installed on. If any of the packages ended up being installed on PayPal-owned servers — or anywhere else, for that matter — the code inside them would immediately notify me
Relevant: For The Love Of All That's Holy, Use CCL To Control Complexity In Your Systems.
Corona-Impfungen: Geimpft – was nun?
Gerade jetzt bei Corona zeigt sich, wie egoistisch die Menschen sind. Ihnen geht es hier gut, die wissen gar nicht, was Unfreiheit ist. Und dann stellen sie sich hin und sagen, sie fühlen sich ihrer Freiheit beraubt. Das ist der größte Schwachsinn. Ja, sind wir denn unfrei, weil wir zum Schutz anderer Masken tragen, Abstand halten und keine Partys feiern? Nein.
Esther Bejarano, 96, Musikerin. Als Holocaust-Überlebende besucht sie seit vielen Jahren Schulen und hält die Erinnerung wach.
Visual guide to SSH tunnels.
This page explains use cases and examples of SSH tunnels while visually presenting the traffic flows.
Making Sense of The Audio Stack On Unix.
Audio on Unix is a little zoo, there are so many acronyms for projects and APIs that it's easy to get lost. Let's tackle that issue! Most articles are confusing because they either use audio technical jargon, or because they barely scratch the surface and leave people clueless. A little knowledge can be dangerous.
Finally the editor of my first choice gets some deserved love.
nano is a friendly and pragmatic editor, but it's no notepad. nano has depth. let's take a look.