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The Guardian has a story about some Harry Potter stories written by Botnki's predictive text keyboard (complete with link to github).

        “He saw Harry and immediately began to eat Hermione’s family. Ron’s Ron shirt was just as bad as Ron himself.

        ‘If you two can’t clump happily, I’m going to get aggressive,’ confessed the reasonable Hermione.”

So not much worse that the original.

#Hanukkah is a time for Jewish families around the world to come together around the lighting of the menorah 🕎 and celebrate the miracles of the past and promises of the future. Melania and I wish all of our Jewish brothers and sisters celebrating this meaningful holiday a happy and healthy eight nights in the company of those they love.

The miracle of Hanukkah began more than 2,000 years ago, when the practice of Judaism was made punishable by death. A small band of Jewish patriots rose up and reclaimed their Jewish identity by vanquishing a mighty army. In their pursuit to rededicate their holy temple, 🕍 the Jewish heroes found only enough oil to light the temple’s menorah for one night. They had big problems because they didn't back their oil industry. However, a miracle occurred and with God’s grace the oil lasted for eight days. 🛢

Folks, America's incredible energy potential remains untapped. It's a wound that is totally self-inflected. And we can't count on a miracle. Under my presidency, we will accomplish complete American energy independence. We will become totally independent of the need to import energy from the oil cartel 🛢 or any nation hostile to our interest. We will get the bureaucracy out of the way of innovation, so we can pursue ALL forms of energy. All forms.

On this holiday, we are proud to stand with the Jewish people who shine as a light to all nations. We also stand with the people of Israel, the Jewish State, 🇮🇱 which has itself a miraculous history of overcoming the tallest of odds. We hope that those observing the holiday here, in Israel, and around the world have a wonderful holiday. pic.twitter.com/D9MVVPq39x

I sold all my Etherium with the ~$3000 proceeds going to my USD wallet. The Dashboard page has the correct amounts.

But the Buy/Sell and Accounts pages incorrectly claim that my USD wallet only has $0.10. So I can't buy the Litecoin that I intended to buy. It has been this way for over an hour.

I logged a support ticket but they're so busy it's likely to be a week until they respond.

I expect just about any other exchange would work better. This because Coinbase is the #1 iOS app. As with Linux and Red Hat back during the dot-com boom, I expect many people think Coinbase is the only place you can get bitcoin.

I've said we’re going to win. We’re going to win so much. We’re going to win at trade, we’re going to win at the border. We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning, you’re going to come to me and go "Please, please, we can’t win any more." You’ve heard this one, right? You’ll say "Please, Mr. President, we beg you sir, we don’t want to win any more. It’s too much. It’s not fair to everybody else." And I’m going to say "I’m sorry, but we’re going to keep winning, winning, winning, We’re going to make America great again." But we need your votes, folks. Everybody in Alabama, today is a very big day. A VERY SPECIAL election day. We cannot afford, this country, the future of this country, cannot afford to lose a seat in the very, very close United States Senate. We can’t afford it, folks. If Alabama elects liberal Democrat Doug Jones, all of our progress will be stopped cold. We already know Democrat Doug Jones is a puppet of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, and he will vote with the Washington liberals every single time. We can't afford to lose that seat.

And did you see what happened with the yearbook? Did you see that? There was a little mistake made. She started writing things in the yearbook. Gloria Allred, any time you see her you know something’s going wrong.

I need Alabama to vote for Roy Moore! He's a winner, he can't win alone. Roy Moore is the guy we need to pass the Make America Great Again agenda. Get out and VOTE FOR ROY MOORE! 🗳

For Christmas 2016, I released a rotating torus and fractal animation. Admittedly, this was test data for a video codec but it was also a fun and frivolous software. For Christmas 2017, I've automated the algorithm for converting 1, 2, 3 or 6 bitmaps into a bitmap which can be folded into origami cube with the pictures on all sides. This has a variety of uses including corporate branding; like an unusual business card. It is also great for making unique Christmas decorations. Indeed, I've now got some really strange Christmas decorations including cubes of:-

• A six sided dice.
• James Bond actors.
• Clover, Sam and Alex from Totally Spies.
• Pinky Pie from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
• Bob Dobbs, the Cheshire Cat from Disney's version of Alice In Wonderland and a hexagonal toroid from Mathematica.
• The Ford Escort RS2000 from Fast And Furious 6.
• Characters from Wingi's BunniSpace.
• Goatse.
• Tubgirl.

The program uses the current verion of the generic Makefile for C programs using libgd. This works with a local copy of libgd-2.2.2 and libgd-2.2.5. Like previous programs, it also requires a local copy of libpng and zlib. On Linux, via bash, invocation is as follows:-

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/build/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
./origami-cube 1.png 2.png 3.png 4.png 5.png 6.png output.png

If you don't have six images, it also works as follows:-

./origami-cube 1.png 1.png 1.png 1.png 1.png 1.png output.png
./origami-cube 1.png 1.png 1.png 2.png 2.png 2.png output.png
./origami-cube 1.png 2.png 3.png 3.png 2.png 1.png output.png

Further documentation is inside the archive:-

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Debug test data which should be saved as test1.png and suchlike:-

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Example data for a dice:-

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Bug fixes and other examples may follow. Actually, bug fixes are most likely because there are multiple techniques for folding an origami cube and I don't think that I'm using the most common technique.

(Usual instructions for uudecode process.)

To my beautiful African American friends & supporters,

Last year I did something no presidential candidate has ever done. I went into your community, to Great Faith Ministries in Detroit -- one of God's greatest gifts to America -- to listen to your message, and to help, with my presence, your message reach new voices. It was an amazing day for me. The most amazing day of my life.

And many, many of you heard my message. I said to you: look at how much African American communities are suffering from Democratic control. What do you have to lose by trying something new, like Trump? You’re living in your poverty. Your neighborhoods, the inner cities, are war zones. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose? Remember that?

You heard me and you voted for me. In tremendous numbers. I beat Abraham Lincoln.

So now it just came out, African Americans are now enjoying their lowest unemployment since just after the end of the Civil War. That’s pretty good, right? Merry Christmas, everybody! In July, in the summer, I said, you know, we are going to say Merry Christmas. But let me just tell you, the department stores, right, they had the beautiful red walls, they had snowflakes all over the place, they had everything. Only one thing missing, the words "Merry Christmas." They are using those words again. Do you notice? They are using those words again. It's going to be a fantastic Christmas for my African Americans.

And yesterday it was my great honor to celebrate the opening of two extraordinary museums -- the Mississippi State History Museum & the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. More civil rights museums than any other president has ever opened. I beat Abraham Lincoln. Many people are saying I am the civil rights president. Watch my beautiful, beautiful speech. Obama gave big speeches, he never followed through. I'm the guy who follows through. I turned Mississippi into an oasis of freedom and justice. pic.twitter.com/5AkgVpV8aa

And to those of you in Alabama, of Alabama, or if you know someone from Alabama. Big week ahead for Alabama. Because Tuesday is a VERY SPECIAL election. And I want you to get out there and vote for Judge Roy Moore. And tell your folks in Alabama to go and vote for him. Because if we lose that seat in the Senate, if another Dem comes into the Senate, it will be a disaster for all of us. When our economy is failing badly, when crime is rampant, when our military is a joke, when our medical is in the toilet, vets in a very deplorable situation, our borders totally out of control, JUDGES behaving badly, 2nd Amendment badly compromised, schools terrible, it's bad for all of us. It hurts our country. So we need Judge Roy Moore. To Make America Great Again. And one day, right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

Black power, everybody! ✊Ἷ

Our thoughts and prayers are with Rupert Murdoch and everyone in the path of California’s wildfires. Like you, my family owns a beautiful winery; ours is in Central Virginia on the scenic Monticello Wine Trail, within easy access of Charlottesville. 🍇🍷 I encourage everyone to heed the advice and orders of local and state officials. Thank you to all First Responders -- even the many who are convicted criminals serving out their prison sentences -- for your incredible work! And THANK YOU to my very good friend Rupert Murdoch – there’s only one Rupert that we know. Rupert, you've done a lot, a lot to Make America Great Again. pic.twitter.com/g9y9PkB352 trumpwinery.com

I spent the first two decades of my career as a social scientist studying liars and their lies. I thought I had developed a sense of what to expect from them. Then along came President Trump. His lies are both more frequent and more malicious than ordinary people’s.

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The college students in our research told an average of two lies a day, and the community members told one. (A more recent study of the lies 1,000 U. S. adults told in the previous 24 hours found that people told an average of 1.65 lies per day; the authors noted that 60 percent of the participants said they told no lies at all, while the top 5 percent of liars told nearly half of all the falsehoods in the study.) The most prolific liar among the students told an average of 6.6 lies a day. The biggest liar in the community sample told 4.3 lies in an average day.

In Trump’s first 298 days in office, however, he made 1,628 false or misleading claims or flip-flops, by The Post’s tally. That’s about six per day, far higher than the average rate in our studies. And of course, reporters have access to only a subset of Trump’s false statements — the ones he makes publicly — so unless he never stretches the truth in private, his actual rate of lying is almost certainly higher.

I study liars. I’ve never seen one like President Trump.

Welp, i got MycroftAI installed (should i say, FINALLY installed).

Had to jump through hoops and stand on my head holding the rabbit ears sideways, but yeah....

There are a lot of skills that aren't fully working, but so far it has a lot of things i need, like knowing the date and time, lol, and being able to set a quick alarm ("Mycroft, set an alarm for noon""Mycroft, set an alarm for 30 minutes").

Changed it from "Hey Mycroft" to just "Mycroft" cause saying Hey Mycroft EVERY SINGLE TIME is just a pain.

I think i'll suggest an 'interactive mode' where you can say "Hey Mycroft go active" and then it will just try to answer everything thrown its way until told to go out of 'interactive mode' so you don't have to say Mycroft so often.

Right now, it is telling me what pi is to 1000 decimal points, lol. Fun times!

Playah gotta keep playin'!

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Was able to open smplayer with Mycroft, but it sees/hears palemoon as two separate words and kaffs, lol.
Was happy to see it open smplayer, and tomorrow plan on trying other programs.

Wonder what happens if I ask Mycroft to open Mycroft? Duelling AI?

Will have to see about changing its default error message to "I can't do that, Dave" ;)

CNN ran an article yesterday full of butthurt that Cheeto Jesus has been keeping too many of his campaign promises. I figured I'd share it with you lot so the regressive progtards among you could share in the butthurt too.

A politician who actually does what he told voters he would do seems almost unfathomable in Washington, a town of broken promises. For Donald Trump, being a president who delivers is especially crucial, since it's one of the golden keys to his so far unbreakable bond with supporters.

The need to live up to that image helps explain why Trump, who is under ever-increasing pressure from the Russia investigation, on Wednesday recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital despite the widely acknowledged risks.

It was just the latest instance of the President obstinately honoring the bumper-sticker vows he made to his ultra-loyal supporters -- even those that horrify the political and foreign policy establishment, media critics and allied leaders.

Have a nice weekend argument. I may or may not have time to step in and egg things on further, we'll just have to wait and see.