Futurology Today

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New features

• Allow creating rules to transform series names in the Bulk metadata editor and Preferences->Metadata download
  • Closes tickets: 2091268
• Conversion: Automatically set the page progression direction for books that do not have it set and have their primary language either Arabic or Hebrew
• Content server: Book details view: Make calibre://show-book and calibre://view-book URLs in the comments work
• Edit book: Spell check: Add a button to export the currently displayed list of words as a CSV file
  • Closes tickets: 2092496
• Add from ISBN: Add a checkbox to automatically convert obsolete ISBN 10 to ISBN 13
  • Closes tickets: 2092483
• Save single format to disk: Allow choosing the book cover as the format to save
  • Closes tickets: 2092395
• Option to show a button to access all available actions from the status bar in Preferences->Look & feel->Main interface

Bug fixes

• Read aloud: Fix no audio produced when text contains <3 and using the Windows legacy speech engine
  • Closes tickets: 2092948
• Fix Tabbing while editing cells in the book list not always working
  • Closes tickets: 2092643
• Windows build: Also sign the portable launcher exes
• Fix viewing books via the Cover browser not working when in device view
  • Closes tickets: 2092630

Improved news sources

• LWN Weekly
• Outlook India
• Livemint

This looks.... Really mediocre. HotD2 was an iconic game that aged well, this looks like a generic Unreal Engine demo scene.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/52280856

I saw a comment yesterday about how IT admins have to restrict the privileges of other developers on their machines and was surprised by knowing this. I simply thought that employees in the software industry were essentially at equal parity in terms of their departments, and that the admin department was there just to centralise all the work done by other departments and keep track of the status of their systems. I did not think there would be a need to apply childlocks on other employees' systems as I assumed that a person working at an industry like this would have basic computer literacy to know what is safe and permissible by company policy to execute and what is not.

This may come off as being too naive of me, but I genuinely want to understand how the hierarchy in such a company is actually like. I always thought of workspaces in the software industry to divide labour laterally and there would be no need for administrative powers apart from the management to exist, at least in regard to regulating other workers' actions beyond normal workspace policies. It would be extremely kind of anyone to shed light on this matter.

“END THE MADNESS. Recall the committee. Defund the CBC.” Credit where it’s due to Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives for writing for radio, as I was taught at a CBC skills course many years ago: short and sharp, three beats, implied subject-verb-object.

The Tories are mad for this gimmick: axe the tax, build the homes, bring it home, fix the budget, stop the crime. It’s addictive and direct and Trumpy, apt to “win the vote” for them, and thus presenting, among other things, a direct existential threat to the CBC. It’s a threat that, starting this month, Catherine Tait, the outgoing president, CEO, and poster-person for bloated bureaucracy, gets to pass on to her successor, Marie-Philippe Bouchard, who hasn’t ticked off anyone significant—yet.

Sarah Perez
11:39 AM PST · January 8, 2025

According to findings announced by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and published in The Lancet journal, there were an estimated 64,260 “traumatic injury deaths” in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza put the figure at 37,877 at the time.

This means the ministry has underreported the death toll due to violence by approximately 41%, the researchers found. As of October, the number of Gazans killed by violence was thought to exceed 70,000, the study said, based on the estimated underreporting rate.

The total death toll attributable to Israel’s military campaign is likely to be higher still, it said, as its analysis doesn’t account for deaths caused by disruption to health care, insufficient food, clean water and sanitation, and disease outbreaks.

It doesn't bother me, I'm of the opinion you should wipe until you see blood either way.