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Everyone likes free stuff! Here's a bunch of free e-books "on Palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions" from Verso Books.

I'm thinking of recording myself reading excerpts from these seven books (and/or some zines?) this weekend in solidarity with those holding it down, and putting them up to listen to/download on my site. Please note that you have to provide some kind of e-mail/contact info when downloading free e-books from Verso, so if you'd rather not do that, I'll put downloadable copies of these e-books alongside the recordings; I'll reply with a link to that page here once they're ready.

versobooks.com/blogs/news/in-s

Looking at VimScript for the first time and wondering who thought `fu!` was a sensible shortcut for defining functions

I'm proud to announce the launch of the public beta for Clew, my independent web search engine! 🎉🎉🎉

Try Clew: https://clew.se
Add to your browser: https://clew.se/add/

Clew maintains an independent index and is aiming to be a copyleft (APGLv3), self-hostable, privacy-respecting, customizable search engine which prioritizes independent creators/bloggers/writers and penalizes sites with ads and trackers.

Many features are yet to come. If you'd like to support Clew's development and server costs, you can donate to its Liberapay team: https://liberapay.com/Clew/

Boosts are very welcome, as is feedback of any kind!

Oh, you think you’re better than me? Most people are, pal. You need higher standards

Browsers should refuse to respect paste-disabling. This is not something that any user wants.

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We've released #PuTTY version 0.81. This is a SECURITY UPDATE, fixing a #vulnerability in ECDSA signing for #SSH.

If you've used a 521-bit ECDSA key (ecdsa-sha2-nistp521) with any previous version of PuTTY, consider it compromised! Generate a new key pair, and remove the old public key from authorized_keys files.

Other key types are not affected, even other sizes of ECDSA. In particular, Ed25519 is fine.

This vulnerability has id CVE-2024-31497. Full information is at chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtath

Quick advice to Americans doing their taxes at the last minute (as I do).

If you can't or won't pay the full amount owed by the tax deadline, just pay something.

Pay anything. Pay $1, pay $10, pay $100, and you'll go into the bucket of "underpayment" (which is common and relatively minor) versus "nonpayment" (which is serious, and gives them permission to garnish your wages.)

Best advice I ever got from a tax preparer.

Revolut does not have a UK banking licence.

If you are a victim of fraud you'll be SOL.

Best advice; close your account and move conventional bank elsewhere.

Please boost to make people in the UK aware.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/apr/10/im-a-victim-of-scammers-but-revolut-says-no-to-a-refund

#fraud

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I scored 867/1000 🎉

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I urgently need local advice finding a doctor in central Strasbourg, France, on Monday, 2024-04-08. (If you do not know Strasbourg, could you forward this to anyone who might?)

I need a doctor to treat a severe hand infection. I’m not an EU citizen, but I’d be •very• happy to pay. (Je regrette aussi que mon français soit très limité, but at least I remember the subjunctive!)

This infection first manifested itself on my flight to Europe one week ago. “I must have been bitten by a United Airlines Death Spider,” I joked, but soon it became extraordinarily painful and quite debilitating. I was prescribed amoxicillin after I arrived; it’s reduced the spread of the infection but not its core, and I’ve spent most of the last week flat on my back in bed.

I’m on the Viking Rhine Getaway Cruise, a.k.a. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. We arrive tomorrow morning, Monday 2024-04-08, in Breisach, Germany, across the river from central Strasbourg, France. (Unfortunately, ich spreche kein Deutsch.) I need a doctor to treat me before the boat leaves later that day, and before I exhaust whatever stamina I can muster. I also need a pharmacy selling finger splints and slings. (The boat has nothing of the sort in its first-aid kit. There’s almost no internet connectivity either, but I’m hoping I can post this query… eventually….) Any suggestions on how best to find a doctor to see me? (I’ve already tried the more obvious things, thank you.)

Today, Bulgaria and Romania join the Schengen family.

We welcome the lifting of internal air and sea border checks.

This is a great success for the people of both countries.

It also benefits millions of EU citizens across Europe.

Making the Schengen area even stronger.

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