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Today in Techrights

• Mansion of Pedophilia – Addendum: Accessing and Assessing Court Documents
• Mansion of Pedophilia – Addendum: Progress on Police Request
• Mansion of Pedophilia – Part VIII: More Than 4 Months of Waiting for Police Department to Send Over the Files They Claim to Have an Issue Opening
• Starting a GNU Replacement for GitHub, Possibly Based on GitLab
• European Commission Pushes for Even Greater Patent Maximalism Instead of Rationality, Patent Zealots’ Site Cherry-Picks China as Whipping Boy
• CRISPR Patents Disallowed, But Where Are the Journalists?
• Judges Reject EPO Patents on Life as Constitutional Complaints Against the EPO Pile Up in Germany
• StartPage (System1) Found New Spin Allies. Some Have Been Offered StartPage Jobs. Some Might Already be Working for StartPage in Secret.
• IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 19, 2020
• IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 18, 2020
• IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 17, 2020
• IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 16, 2020
• Links 19/1/2020: Wine 5.0 RC6, Alpine 3.11.3
• Links 18/1/2020: Mir 1.7 and GNU Guile 3.0.0
• Links 16/1/2020: Mozilla Layoffs, PinePhone Braveheart Shipping, KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Reaches Beta

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Bash if else statement

Bash if statement, if else statement, if elif else statement and nested if statement used to execute code based on a certain condition. Condition making statement is one of the most fundamental concepts of any computer programming. Moreover, the decision making statement is evaluating an expression and decide whether to perform an action or not. In this tutorial, you will learn Bash if statements and how to use them in your bash script. Moreover, we can understand if statements through the flow diagram. The Bash if statement represent the following 4 different type forms. if Statement if..else Statement if..elif..else Statement Nested if Statements Syntax: ------- if EXPRESSION then STATEMENTS fi Example: -------- #!/bin/bash echo -n "Enter a numeric value: " read value if [ $value -gt 0 ] then echo "Value is Positive" fi

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Programming Leftovers: Python, Perl, Rust and More

• Keep a journal of your activities with this Python program

  Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using.

• Perl Weekly Challenge 43: Olympic Rings and Self-Descripting Numbers

  These are some answers to the Week 43 of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar. Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a couple of days (January 19, 2020). This blog post offers some solutions to this challenge, please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own.

• SaltStack Introduces Plugin Oriented Programming with New Open-Source Innovation Modules to Power Scalable Automation and Artificial Intelligence

• JFrog Launches Free ConanCenter to Improve C/C++ DevOps Package Search and Discovery English

  JFrog, the Universal DevOps technology leader known for enabling liquid software via continuous updates, announces today the launch of the free ConanCenter, enabling better search and discovery while streamlining C/C++ package management. Conan is an open-source, decentralized, and multi-platform package manager for developers to create and share native binaries.

• Rav1e Kicks Off 2020 With Speed Improvements For Rust-Based AV1 Encoding

  Xiph.org's Rustlang-written "Rav1e" AV1 video encoder is back on track with delivering weekly pre-releases after missing them over the past month due to the holidays. With Rav1e p20200115 are not only performance improvements but also binary side and build speed enhancements. The new Rav1e pre-release should be roughly 30% faster while also delivering slight enhancements to the image quality at the highest speed (10). That's a winning combination with speed and image quality improvements together!

• RPushbullet 0.3.3

  Release 0.3.3 of the RPushbullet package just got to CRAN. RPushbullet offers an interface to the neat Pushbullet service for inter-device messaging, communication, and more. It lets you easily send (programmatic) alerts like the one to the left to your browser, phone, tablet, … – or all at once. This release further robustifies operations via two contributed PRs. The first by Chan-Yub ensures we set UTF-8 encoding on pushes. The second by Alexandre permits to downgrade from http/2 to http/1.1 which he needed for some operations with a particular backend. I made that PR a bit more general by turning the downgrade into one driven by a new options() toggle. Special thanks also to Jeroen in help debugging this issue. See below for more details.

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