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Monday, July 8, 2024
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Labour to seek joint declaration with EU on wide-ranging security pact - It will be interesting to see the policy shifts that Labour will start to announce. This was one of the first articles I've seen. Makes sense to get the ball rolling on foreign policy pretty quickly. theguardian.com #
Exit poll shows surprise win for left-wing alliance in French election - High turnout at about 67%, far right in 3rd and Macron's centrist party in 2nd place. Tactical voting, with smaller party candidates withdrawing and asking their followers to vote for the left coalition, appears to have stopped the far right from forming a government. I wonder if Macron's snap election call will now be heralded as a successful yet risky bet. theguardian.com #
ElevenLabs launches free AI voice isolator to take on Adobe - I keep hearing about Eleven Labs, they look to be a pretty interesting AI audio tools company. This product could be very useful for podcasters. venturebeat.com #
After a 10 Year Wait, Mt. Gox Bitcoin Is Finally Being Returned - It‘s horendous what they put their customers through, and it’s not good enough they are only returning 15% of funds, even if the Bitcoin price has increased a lot. They gave been put through hell, at considerable risk, and now only getting back a fraction of what they would have had they invested it elsewhere. Total nonsense to claim that locking them in limbo was good for them. wired.com #
Viktor Orbán’s rightwing group hits quota for recognition by EU parliament - Just as France's newly formed left wing coalition pushes back the far right in their elections, Orban is creating a far right coalition at the EU level called "Patriots for Europe". All the far right parties across the block apear to be joining. More evidence that everything in life is a fractal. theguardian.com #
A Git story: Not so fun this time - I’ve been trying to read this for several days now, finally found time. It’s a little on the long side but really is a great roundup of the happenings that finally led to the version control tool almost all of us use today. I had no idea it was the Ruby community that was so instrumental in git's adoption around 2008. Glad I know the background, since git is so central to all my programming, and now blogging. Git is one of the best open source projects ever. Houray to all those that helped make it such a success, and indeed those that continue to do so, we are all very lucky to have such a great bit of software available, that we can all freely use to build the things we build. blog.brachiosoft.com #