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5 great Perl scripts to keep in your sysadmin toolbox
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Living alone in the wild Siberian forest for 20 years
As a complete and utter juxtaposition to the usual tech stuff we quibble about here on OSNews, I stumbled upon this interesting video about Samuil, a man who, for the past 20 years, has been living in the middle of the Yakutia wilderness, the coldest place on earth with temperatures that go down to -71°. This is a story of Samuil. For the past 20 years, Samuil has chosen to live far away from civilization, together with bears and wolves, in one of the harshest environments on Earth. I’m not going to make some sort of philosophical statement about how this guy’s got it all figured out, and how we, with all our tech, are truly the ones living in the wilderness, because not only would that be incredibly pretentious, it would also be deeply untrue. I’m also not going to make some sort of smug remark about how the guy’s an idiot for living this way, because not only would that be an incredibly douchy thing to say, it would also also be deeply untrue. A few years ago I moved from the stable, predictable, mild, and gentle climate of the Dutch coast to the harsh, unpredictable, cold, and frozen climate of the north of Sweden, a short distance below the arctic circle. Summers here are short, Spring and Autumn last a few weeks, at best, and for the rest of the year, it’s Winter. Every Winter, temperatures drop to -30°, and most days it’ll hover between -5° and -25°. Adapting to this climate wasn’t easy, and the amount of planning even something as simple as walking to the grocery store can take when it’s -27° can be tiring and frustrating. That one time I brought my kid to preschool when it was -28° wasn’t exactly easy-going either. At those temperatures, breathing will slowly start to hurt, your nostrils take a massive beating, your eyes are painful, and your facial hair will freeze. Putting on the countless layers of clothing takes forever, and the temperature difference between outside and inside can feel like walking into a wall of ice or fire, respectively. Taking the car requires planning, as you need to plug it in the external heating system for at least two hours before you can use it, and of course, removing the ice and snow off a car in this kind of climate is basically hard labour. And yet, I love it here. Living in this kind of cold is exhilarating, and it makes you appreciate the comforts of a warm home and modern life much more than I did back in The Netherlands. The transformation from the lush green forests and scattered fields to white, frozen wonderland – and back again – never fails to give me that feeling that somehow we won, again. We survived another Winter. In the comforts of modern civilisation and really not all that dramatic, but still. I’m definitely not going to say that because of this, I understand Samuil at some deeper level, because I really don’t. The difference between my life and his is a million times bigger than the difference between my life in The Netherlands and my life in Sweden, and I wouldn’t survive more than one or two days in his Winter, and probably end up frozen in a ditch somewhere because I got lost, or mauled by a bear because I’m an idiot and didn’t see it. For people used to mild climates, it may seem like the difference between -30° or -35° is academic, but it really isn’t – once you hit temperatures like these, every single degree starts to matter, and one degree can mean the difference between “extremely cold, but manageable” and “good thing we only wanted two kids”. The temperatures Samuil experiences blow my mind. In the microcosm that is a site like OSNews, it’s easy to forget just how varied our world really is, but thanks to the same technology we report on, we can experience a slice of life of someone living on his own in the coldest wilderness on earth, and learn that he is not that different from us.
Airport officials found the equivalent of £63,372 in cash stashed inside a SUITCASE HANDLE
Airport officials found the equivalent of £63,372 stashed inside a suitcase handle.
Officials from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) say they caught a man with the bag at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in northern India’s Delhi.
A video shows officials breaking open the handles to remove the currency – which contained foreign currency including euros and New Zealand dollars.
Security personnel intercepted the man carrying the notes at terminal three during security checks, local sources said.
He was later handed over to Customs officials for further investigation.
The incident happened on January 29, 2023.
#! code: Drupal 10: Programatically Injecting Context Into Blocks
Context definitions in Drupal are really useful when you want to inject context into your plugins and I have been using them for a little while now. It has made building custom blocks to add content to pages much easier as I don’t need to copy the same block of code to find an entity of a particular sort into the block plugin.
One problem I encountered when using this technique was when trying to programatically create and render a block. The problem was that the context wasn’t available in the block when it was used in this way, and it took me a little investigation to find out how to put all of the pieces together.
Rendering a block programatically is sometimes a necessity to do when you need the block outside of the block’s normal region. You might create a block that collects together the output of a number of blocks, which allows you to template them together in a very precise way. You might also need to print out a block without having to create a region on a page.
There are a few steps involved in getting things working in this way. In this article I will show how to print blocks programatically, and how to do so using context.
To show the problem in detail, let’s take an example of a block called UserContextBlock that has a user entity as the available context. This is a custom block, created in a custom module.
solidity gem – (fuzzy quick & dirty) parser for (crypto) contracts for ethereum & co.
Hello, in the ongoing crypto winter programming series in ruby I added yet another gem, that is, solidity that ships with a (fuzzy quick & dirty) parser for the solidity (contract) programming language. What’s the point? The first usage sample is to generate outlines from contract sources – see some real-world examples in the readme. Happy blockchaining with ruby. Cheers. Prost.