#Perl @PerlWChallenge 360 Text Justifier and Word Sorter https://wlmb.github.io/2026/02/08/PWC360/
#noxp

The Weekly Challenge - 360 #Perl #RakuLang
Task 1: Text Justifier
Task 2: Word Sorter
https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-360

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116022803319662931

‘Anyone who says that "immigrants should just follow the rules" has missed the fact that the rules are impossible to follow.’

This truth about our #immigration system is right up there with the fact that “they should just get in line and wait” is silly because there *is no line*.

#Perl @PerlWChallenge 359 Digital Root and String Reduction https://wlmb.github.io/2026/02/02/PWC359/
#noxp

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) was born #OTD in 1832.

An interesting comment from one proofreader at @DProofreaders : "It is said that Queen Victoria enjoyed the Alice books so much that she sent for all the author's works, and was then appalled to find herself confronted by mathematics."

"Curiosa mathematica, Part I: A new theory of parallels" by Dodgson, Charles L. coming soon at PG.

Lewis Carroll at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7

#books #literature #mathematics

Great news today the French government have launched their own Visio video conferencing tool #digitalsovereignty

But the PR stories, while explaining it is French built, don't mention it is Open Source and based on LiveKit - so any government can reuse what they have done.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/01/27/france-to-ditch-us-platforms-microsoft-teams-zoom-for-sovereign-platform-amid-security-con

https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet

#Perl @PerlWChallenge 358 Max Str Value and Encrypted String https://wlmb.github.io/2026/01/26/PWC358/
#noxp

#gnuplot turned 40 years old (!) back in December. Happy birthday!

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths,_detentions_and_deportations_of_American_citizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration

#USpol #USpolitics

This is pretty broad but thank you every open source developer who makes my computer awesome

#Perl @PerlWChallenge 357 Kaprekar Constant and Unique Fraction Generator https://wlmb.github.io/2026/01/19/PWC357/
#noxp

Pluralistic: It's not normal (14 Jan 2026)

'A manufacturer can sell you a device and then mandatorily update it at a later date to take away its functionality, and then sell that functionality back to you as a "subscription"'

Our just stop it from working.

'"Terms and conditions apply", and we can change them whenever we want.'

@pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/14/sole-and-despotic/