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Bash csh zsh ksh tksh fish are powerful CLI tools

Entire networks can be controlled and build with them.

Let's take for example command line tools to control media output

For me e.g mplayer and vlc -I cli are much more interesting when it comes down to standard control of media playback. I prefer to use MOC (mocp) Music 🎼 on Console, instead of bulky RAM hungry programs, which go on the internet to _fetch data that I never asked for$ and thus burn bandwidth

The memory footprint of Music on Console is so low that you can use it on a system which has been built more than two and a half decades ago.

The only graphical media playback program I know that can do that also has been written by my friend Andy Loafoe and that is alsaplayer

Andy programmed alsaplayer when he saw Delitracker playing on my Amiga systems
We're talking the period when Linux was barely moving in Xwindows when you had window managers like fvwm & twm and few others.
The alsa audio interface was also just born.

It is within this context that Andy envisioned alsaplayer. It should be modular just like Delitracker Amiga, it should be lightweight Delitracker runs on an Amiga A500 with just half A megabyte of chip ram
That should still be memory left to do other the things so straight calls were made to widget libraries which explains the simplicity yet great usability of the UI. For as far as I remember Andy has also written an API for Alsaplayer

Within a few weeks to a few months of coding alsaplayer came out of Alpha and went Bèta in code stability.

Because everything was written with efficiency in mind and it was programmed as portable as possible, alsaplayer can still be used many decades after It has been written, one of the main reasons is that it has been coded by a command line programmer

For me working on the command line has always been logical, graphic user interfaces were only used when absolutely necessary think about GEOS on the C64

I started coding on the Casio FX 700p programmable calculator. I went so far to make program code that was in the book more efficient by crunching all the commands with two letter abbreviations.

The power of the Command Line something the Young Ones should Learn

Alsaplayer manpage

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=alsaplayer&sektion=1&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE+and+Ports

man.freebsd.orgalsaplayer(1)
#programming#Bash#csh

Columbia deal with Trump administration may set stage for other schools – The Washington Post

Jay Yi Hu, left, and John Perino, two medical students at Columbia University, pick up their regalia for graduation in New York City on May 1, 2024. (Ed Ou / For The Washington Post)

Education lawyers and advocates said Columbia’s deal with the White House was a potentially dangerous government intrusion into higher education.

Updated, July 24, 2025 at 4:37 p.m. EDT, yesterday at 4:37 p.m. EDT, 8 min

By Susan SvrlugaLaura MecklerJustine McDaniel and Joanna Slater

The Trump administration hailed its deal with Columbia University as a victory and a template for agreements with other institutions on Thursday, even as concerns mounted that the settlement represents an unprecedented intervention by the government in the inner workings of higher education.

Under the terms of the deal, announced late Wednesday, Columbia will pay more than $200 million to settle claims over antisemitism and discriminatory hiring. In return, the government will unfreeze more than $1 billion in federal grants and funding to the university.

The settlement represents a dramatic new stage of President Donald Trump’s aggressive effort to exert control over some of the nation’s most prestigious college campuses, cracking down on anti-Jewish bias as well as diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and demanding a shift away from a liberal worldview.

In agreeing to the deal, the elite Ivy League institution in New York City is entering uncharted territory: It is making an enormous payment to the federal government despite not admitting any wrongdoing while relinquishing a certain measure of oversight to an independent monitor.

Columbia’s deal follows one between the University of Pennsylvania and the Trump administration this month. The administration had announced this spring that it was freezing $175 million to Penn over its policies on transgender athletes – which were in alignment with the NCAA’s rules at the time. Penn agreed to no longer allow transgender women to compete on its female teams and said it would send apology letters to swimmers who were affected by its policy.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Columbia deal with Trump administration may set stage for other schools – The Washington Post

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Trump’s EPA says climate pollution doesn’t endanger people : NPR

Climate

July 24, 20255:00 AM ET, Heard on Morning Edition

By Jeff Brady, 3-Minute Listen, Transcript

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency building in Washington, D.C. Jose Luis Magana /AP

The Trump administration wants to overturn a key 2009 Environmental Protection Agency finding that underpins much of the federal government’s actions to rein in climate change.

The EPA has crafted a proposal that would undo the government’s “endangerment finding,” a determination that pollutants from burning fossil fuels, such as carbon dioxide and methane, can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. The finding haslong served as the foundation for a host of policies and rules to address climate change. The EPA’s proposal to revoke the finding is currently under review by the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Already, environmentalists, climate advocates and others are bracing for what could be a fundamental shift away from trying to address the problem of a hotter climate. And the Trump administration is celebrating the proposal as a potential economic win.

“Today is the greatest day of deregulation our nation has seen,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in announcing the proposal in March. “We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion to drive down cost of living for American families, unleash American energy, bring auto jobs back to the U.S. and more.”

The administration’s effort comes in the wake of the hottest year humans have ever recorded on Earth, climate-fueled wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes in Los Angeles and hotter ocean temperatures that made Hurricane Helene stronger and more likely to cause damage inland.

The move could still be overturned by courts. But if the decision is upheld, it would speed President Trump’s efforts to end former President Biden’s ambitious climate agenda and make it more difficult for future administrations to limit the human-caused greenhouse gas pollution that’s heating the planet.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump’s EPA says climate pollution doesn’t endanger people : NPR

#2025 #America #ClimatePollution #DangerToPeople #DonaldTrump #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #EPA #GreenhouseGases #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #NationalPublicRadio #NPR #Politics #Reading #Resistance #Science #Technology #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED

By Morgan Sung, Jul 24

Various types of electronics sit on a shelf at the Internet Archive offices in San Francisco on March 24, 2023. The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public. (Beth LaBerge / KQED)

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ongoing legal challenges pose an existential threat to the organization.

California Sen. Alex Padilla made the designation in a letter sent Thursday to the Government Publishing Office, which oversees the program. In the letter, shared exclusively with KQED, Padilla praised the Internet Archive for its “digital focus” and said it “is leading the way when it comes to providing online library services.”

“The Archive’s digital-first approach makes it the perfect fit for a modern federal depository library, expanding access to federal government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape,” Padilla said in a statement to KQED. “The Internet Archive has broken down countless barriers to accessing information, and it is my honor to provide this designation to help further their mission of providing ‘Universal Access to All Knowledge.’”

Under federal law, members of Congress can designate up to two qualified libraries for federal depository status.

Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle said that while the nonprofit organization has always functioned as a library, this new designation makes it easier to work with the other federal depository libraries. That, he said, is a service to everyone.

Brewster Kahle closes a storage container with books from the Allen County Public Library at an Internet Archive storage facility in Richmond on March 30. (Beth LaBerge / KQED)

“ I think there is a great deal of excitement to have an organization such as the Internet Archive, which has physical collections of materials, but is really known mostly for being accessible as part of the internet,” Kahle said. “And helping integrate these materials into things like Wikipedia, so that the whole internet ecosystem gets stronger as digital learners get closer access into the government materials.”

The Federal Depository Library Program was established by Congress in 1813, with the intention of ensuring that government records would be accessible to the American public. It includes maps, environmental reports, health studies, congressional records, newspapers and books.

These records account for “millions and millions of pages” that can take up entire floors of public libraries, Kahle said. San Diego’s public library gave up its federal depository status in 2020 because its government documents took up so much space and often went unused.

These records account for “millions and millions of pages” that can take up entire floors of public libraries, Kahle said. San Diego’s public library gave up its federal depository status in 2020 because its government documents took up so much space and often went unused.

Article…

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED

#2025 #America #BethLaBerge #Books #California #FederalDepositoryLibrary #Health #History #InternetArchive #KQED #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #MorganSung #Movies #Reading #Science #Technology #Television #UnitedStates

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#BostonWeekend 17/x
Sat WHO? WHO? WHO? WHO? #Providence Public Library hosts the world’s leading expert on 'Who Let the Dogs Out', local artist Ben Sisto, who shares the exhibition ‘Museum of Who Let Who Let the Dogs Out Out‘ & hosts a screening of a 2019 song documentary, 25 years after the original release.

Yes.

youtube.com/watch?v=ze7KtG5Bjo provlib.org/who-let-the-dogs-o
#RI #WhoLetTheDogsOut #BahaMen #25years #90s #PopCulture #RhodeIsland #Libraries

Watch: Newly uncovered photos show Jeffrey Epstein attended Trump’s wedding in 1993 | CNN Politics

Newly uncovered photos show Jeffrey Epstein attended Trump’s wedding in 1993.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1rFrQeyAuw&ab_channel=CNN

Erin Burnett Out Front

Photos from Trump’s 1993 wedding and video footage from 1999

Victoria’s Secret fashion show shed light on the Trump-Epstein relationship.

CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski has the story. 03:16 – Source: CNN

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Watch: Newly uncovered photos show Jeffrey Epstein attended Trump’s wedding in 1993 | CNN Politics

#2025 #America #CNN #CNNPolitics #DonaldTrump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #Health #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #Politics #Resistance #Science #Technology #Television #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpEpsteinHistory #UnitedStates #YouTube

Trump’s Epstein nightmare worsens amid new revelations and a GOP revolt | CNN Politics

Politics• 10 min read

Trump’s Epstein nightmare worsens amid new revelations and a GOP revolt

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, Updated 4 hr ago

Sources: DOJ told Trump his name is among many in Epstein files. 1:59.

The Jeffrey Epstein morass surrounding President Donald Trump is deepening amid growing defiance by some Republicans and despite the administration’s most inflammatory attempt yet at distraction.

New reports Wednesday that Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump in May that his name appeared in documents related to the case of Epstein, an accused sex trafficker, offered a plausible explanation for the president’s growing fury over the drama.

They will fuel accusations of a cover-up since the administration has refused to release the files.

And although there is no evidence that Trump was involved in any wrongdoing or that he knew of Epstein’s criminal activities when they ran in the same social circle decades ago, there is bound to be intense speculation about the nature of mentions about the president in the investigative files.

The storm is also intensifying in Congress.

A vote in the House Oversight Committee to subpoena the Department of Justice for files related to Epstein worsened Trump’s political headache, since it revealed the appetite for more disclosure among some MAGA Republicans. The GOP-majority committee also voted to subpoena testimony from Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison term.

Trump responded to the ballooning crisis with the oldest trick in his political book, pushing a conspiracy theory against Barack Obama — a decade and a half after his false claims about the 44th president’s birthplace electrified his coalition and political career. He enlisted the top US intelligence official, Tulsi Gabbard, who misleadingly claimed in a theatrical White House appearance that Obama’s handling of Russian election meddling in 2016 amounted to a coup to destroy Trump’s first presidency, a day after her boss accused his predecessor of treason.

There is no evidence that Trump did anything wrong or illegal in his interactions with Epstein. But days of stalling by the White House and new disclosures drove speculation to a fever pitch over their relationship in the 1990s and early 2000s, long before the wealthy financier was charged with sex trafficking and abuse and died in prison in 2019.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump’s Epstein nightmare worsens amid new revelations and a GOP revolt | CNN Politics

#2025 #America #CNN #CNNPolitics #DonaldTrump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #Health #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #Photos #Politics #Resistance #Science #Technology #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpEpsteinHistory #UnitedStates

Hiring Librarians Podcast S02b E13: Talkin Union with Jaime Taylor

We’re back!

After an unintentionally long break, we’re back. Let’s consider this Season 2b.

This episode my guest is Jaime Taylor. Jaime is a contributing person-who-hires-library-workers on the Further Questions feature here on Hiring Librarians (which returns tomorrow), the Discovery & Resource Management Systems Coordinator at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts, a proud union member, AND a coordinator of library staff working in THREE different unions. On this episode of the hiring librarians podcast, we’re talking about unions, hiring, getting hired, and what exactly systems librarians do anyway. I hope you enjoy and I’d love to hear your thoughts on the topic.

An AI-generated and not completely error free transcript is here.

Speaking of links, in this episode we talk about:

This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube music and other various podcasting sites (let me know if you can’t find it on your preferred platform).

I’d love to hear your requests or other feedback for moving forward. And please do reach out if you want to be a guest!

IDW Boldly Goes Into a New Star Trek Era | Comic-Con 2025 – IGN

Star Trek: Red ShirtsStrange New WorldsVoyager

IDW Boldly Goes Into a New Star Trek Era | SDCC 2025 – IGN

Learn more about the sweeping changes to the Star Trek line happening this summer.

By Jesse Schedeen, Updated: Jul 23, 2025 9:46 am, Posted: Jul 22, 2025 1:26 pm

IDW Publishing recently wrapped up a monumental era of the Star Trek publishing line with the Lore War crossover, which capped off Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing’s multi-year run on the flagship Star Trek series. But that’s hardly the end of IDW’s Star Trek line. The company is in the midst of launching no fewer than four new Star Trek books, each set in a different era of the franchise timeline and focusing on a different cast of characters.

Among these new titles is Kelly and Lanzing’s Star Trek: The Last Starship, a book that resurrects Captain James T. Kirk in the bleak 31st Century era known as The Burn. There’s also Star Trek: Red Shirts, a TOS-era book about those unluckiest of Starfleet members. The lineup is rounded out by two series spinning directly out of the events of the Star Trek shows, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation and Star Trek: Voyager – Homecoming.

To get a better idea of what’s coming for this ambitious Star Trek relaunch, IGN spoke with group editor Heather Antos and the writers of all four titles – Kelly, Lanzing, Red Shirts’ Christopher Cantwell, The Seeds of Salvation’s Robbie Thompson, and Homecoming’s Susan and Tilly Bridges. Read on to learn more about these new stories and why there’s going to be a Trek comic for fans of all types this summer.

The Best Star Trek Series of the Modern Era (and the Worst)

Making Star Trek’s 60 Years of Continuity Accessible

The Star Trek franchise is about to celebrate its 60th birthday soon. At this point, the Trek timeline is one of the most sprawling in all of popular culture, comprising numerous shows, over a dozen films, and countless comics, novels, and video games. It’s enough to wonder how a newcomer is supposed to dive into the massive universe nowadays. But the writers make it clear that each book is designed with accessibility firmly in mind, whether it’s telling a standalone story with a new cast (like The Last Starship and Red Shirts) or building directly on one of the Trek shows (like The Seeds of Salvation and Homecoming).

“One of the neat things [about The Last Starship] is we are separating ourselves by time so much from the Star Trek that people know,” Kelly tells IGN. “We’re able to approach these things from a fresh perspective and assume that you don’t have all these years of context, because frankly, our characters don’t necessarily have all these years of context. So we are very specifically trying to lens in on bringing in, if you are a fan of science fiction in general, if you love Battlestar Galactica, come play with us, right, because that’s the broader scope that we’re really hoping to welcome to Star Trek so then they can all fall in love with combadges and meeps.”

Continue/Read Original Article Here: IDW Boldly Goes Into a New Star Trek Era | Comic-Con 2025 – IGN

#2025 #America #ComicCon #Film #Films #IGN #Libraries #Library #Movies #Reading #Science #ScienceFiction #SDCC #StarTrek #Technology #Television #UnitedStates

National Science Foundation staffers express concerns about ‘politically motivated and legally questionable’ Trump actions – The Hill

Energy & Environment

National Science Foundation staffers express concerns about ‘politically motivated and legally questionable’ Trump actions

by Rachel Frazin – 07/22/25 1:25 PM ET

Employees of the National Science Foundation (NSF) are going public with concerns about “politically motivated and legally questionable” actions by the Trump administration related to their agency.

Their concerns range from mass firings by the administration’s Department of Government Efficiency to interference with the grant process. 

In particular, the employees allege that for grants “a covert and ideologically driven secondary review process by unqualified political appointees is now interfering with the scientific merit-based review system.”

The accusation and others are detailed in a letter addressed to Rep. Zoe Lofgren (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. Lofgren said at a press conference that the letter was being submitted to her office as “a protected whistleblower disclosure.”

It was signed by 149 staffers, virtually all of whom signed either anonymously or whose names were redacted in the version of the letter that was made public on Tuesday.

The NSF is an independent science agency that supports scientific research across various fields including biology, engineering, computer science and geoscience.

The agency declined to comment on the letter.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5413880-national-science-foundation-nsf-trump-grants-doge/

#2025 #America #DonaldTrump #Employees #Grants #Health #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #NationalScienceFoundation #NSF #PoliticalBias #Politics #Resistance #Science #Technology #TheHill #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates