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I was reading Richard Stallman’s political posts on his website. Regarding accusations by the Israeli government against UNRWA, he briefly commented on what he sees as a rigorous hiring process by UNRWA for excluding armed Hamas members: UNRWA investigated accusations that 19 of its Gaza staff were involved in HAMAS’s Oct 7 terrorist attack. For…

“Video Seeking Everywhere” is a open-source browser extension that extends the seeking functionality of websites with media playback. In my case, it allowed me to rewind on YouTube by 2 seconds when consuming difficult foreign-language content (as opposed to the 5 seconds offered by the YouTube player). I had it override the default YouTube treatment…

This is a list of lexical resources which I have found useful for learning languages, and one that I seek to augment when new resources cross my path. All of them are online and free of cost to access as of publication. My language profile (in order of first contact): Language Description Mandarin Native language,…

Type in meeting number; press “OK”; obtain the procès-verbal.

Flurry of condemnations reveals racism in Western societies’ moral conscience. Simultaneously, it can be a productive impetus for change.

You’re not allowed to give up. If they decide to kill me, it means that we are incredibly strong. We need to utilise this power, to not give up, to remember we are a huge power that is being oppressed by these bad dudes. We don’t realise how strong we actually are. The only thing…

With this configuration, the only command you would need to know is flatpak update. All other tasks after initial setup can be performed by intuitive and reliable GUI tools. Why not gnome-software-plugin-flatpak? Indeed, it provides a fully graphical way to install Flatpak software. But it is purportedly resource-intensive with its background daemon. In addition, behaviour…

I have been finding this bilingual version of Le Petit Prince (“The Little Prince”) helpful for learning French. Here are the included audio files (Google Drive) read clearly in French and English by Nadine Eckert-Boulet and Karen Savage respectively at a slow pace. ISBN: 9780956721594Find online or at a physical bookshop Printing is in black…

Originally published 21 January. Transferred from another blog provider. Some changes due to better WordPress formatting capabilities. Ironically, this post is an essay. Perhaps months will go by during which I will be ever more astonished by the naïvity of this opinion. But that’s okay. I constantly reckon with the role of the journalist. In…