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Sunday 21st April, 2019 #

  • I almost forgot, happy Easter! :)
  • How to iterate over associative arrays in Bash?
  • How to pass an associative array as argument to a function in Bash?
  • Immediately after my last post about Jesus, Mohamed and Buhda, the internet cut out for several minutes, just wanted to make a note of that here
  • I'm wondering how possible a software project would be where the 3 major components are called Jesus, Mohamed, Budha (in no particular order), it doesn't really matter what the software does, I'm just curious to know whether a diverse group of programmers would be capable of working together on such a project and what the dynamics would be like, naming shouldn't really affect things, but we all know that it does, quite a lot as it happens
  • French government open-sources in-house-made end-to-end encryption IM app named Tchap - Node.js build system, React based app with entirely static content that runs on your web server, can also run as Desktop electron based app - Interestingly the name of the app sounds like the french slang expression for "you're escaping", also translates to "you escape", and is based on a project called Riot which is a client of another project called Matrix "an ambitious new ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging and VoIP"
  • C.I.A says they have proff that Huawei was funded by Chinese state departments including the intelligence services
  • The French region with a new currency - There are lots of micro-currencies across Europe that help to strengthen local communities
  • "The figures show that if the land were distributed evenly across England’s population, each person would have just over half an acre – an area roughly half the size of Parliament Square in central London"
  • Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Population, Researcher Says