Python 3.13.2 and 3.12.9 now available!

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A small release day today! That is to say the releases are relatively
small; the day itself was of average size, as most days are.

Python 3.13.2

Python 3.13’s second maintenance release. About 250 changes went into
this update, and can be yours for free if you just upgrade now.

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3132/

Python 3.12.9

Python 3.12’s ninth maintenance release already. Just 180 changes for 3.12, but it’s still worth upgrading.

Enjoy the new releases

Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development
and these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by
volunteering yourself or through organization contributions to the
Python Software Foundation.

Regards from your tireless, tireless release team,
Thomas Wouters
Ned Deily
Steve Dower
Łukasz Langa

F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Grant

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We are excited to announce that F-Droid has been awarded $396,044 from the
Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability
Fund.
This grant is specifically designed to support free and open-source software
(FOSS) projects in addressing long-term sustainability challenges, and we
are honored to be among the recipients.

As F-Droid’s user base and community of volunteer contributors has grown, so
have the challenges of maintaining and expanding the project. While our
lightweight, resilient architecture has scaled to meet increasing demand, we
now face critical issues that dedicated and consistent funding will help us
address so we can continue to bring FOSS-based, privacy focused apps to
people around the world, even in places with limited internet access. This
OTF funding will help us:

  • Refactor and integrate code with other maintained projects to reduce
    technical debt and improve efficiency.

  • Establish clear policies and legal strategies for handling government
    take-down and censorship requests.

  • Improve our localization workflows to make translations easier to
    manage and maintain.

  • Strengthen our donation infrastructure so we can sustain F-Droid
    long-term.

  • Enhance our hosting and infrastructure to increase flexibility, reduce
    costs, and ensure reliability.

This grant represents a major step forward in ensuring F-Droid’s long-term
sustainability. We look forward to sharing progress as we work on these
improvements.

You can follow our progress here:

A big thank you goes to the Open Technology Fund for supporting open-source
infrastructure and helping projects like ours continue to thrive!

Why Upstart from Ubuntu failed

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Upstart was an event-based replacement for the traditional System V init (sysvinit) system on Ubuntu, introduced to bring a modern and more flexible way of handling system startup and service management. It emerged in the mid-2000s, during a period when sysvinit’s age and limitations were becoming more apparent, especially with regard to concurrency and dependency handling. Upstart was developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, with the aim of reducing boot times, improving reliability, and making the system initialization process more dynamic. Though at first it seemed likely to become a standard across many distributions, Upstart eventually lost mindshare to systemd and ceased to be Ubuntu’s default init system. ↫ André Machado I think it’s safe to say systemd won the competition to become the definitive successor so sysvinit on Linux, but Canonical’s Upstart made a valiant effort, too. However, with a troublesome license, it was doomed from the start, and it didn’t help that virtually every other major distribution eventually adopted systemd. These days, systemd is the Linux init system, and I personally quite like it (and the crowd turns violent). I find it easy to use and it’s never given me any issues, but I’m not a system administrator dealing with complex setups, so my experience with systemd is probably rather limited. It just does its thing in the background on my machines. None of this means there aren’t any other init systems still being actively developed. There’s GNU Shepard we talked about recently, runit, OpenRC, and many more. If you don’t like systemd, there’s enough alternatives out there.

CHEB DRISS KHAYATI 2025 KACHKOUL CHAABI الشاب ادريس الخياطي #noujoum_hyayna_tv #نجوم_الحياينة…

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Trump e China pesam em dia de ata do Copom e dados | MINUTO TOURO DE OURO – 04/02/25

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Video by via Dailymotion Source Confira a edição desta terça-feira (04) do Minuto Touro de Ouro com Pablo Spyer. Ata do Copom, IPC-Fipe, reunião entre Lula e Haddad e guerra comercial entre Estados Unidos e China estão em destaque. Assista ao Jornal da Manhã completo: https://youtube.com/live/KN1AHfIEvqg Baixe o app Panflix: https://www.panflix.com.br/ Inscreva-se no nosso canal:https://www.youtube.com/c/jovempannews…

How to Create a Project and Add Levels in Revit #revit #autocadcivil3d #autodesk #Autodesk #civil3d

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Video by via Dailymotion Source https://dai.ly/x9dgqemhttps://dai.ly/x9d58e0https://dai.ly/x9d2fm6https://dai.ly/x9d176mhttps://dai.ly/x9cytxmhttps://dai.ly/x9cyqdo Step 1: Create a New ProjectOpen Revit and click New under the Models section.Select a Template (e.g., Architectural, Structural, or Mechanical).Click OK to open a new project file.Step 2: Set Up LevelsLevels define the different floors or heights in a Revit project. Method 1: Using the Elevation ViewGo to…