Fiction no more:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/12/ohio-coronavirus-vaccine-lottery-1-million

https://www.wlwt.com/article/kentucky-lottery-gives-away-up-to-225000-tickets-in-exchange-for-covid-19-vaccine-shots/36389485

I don't think that there is no need to backup content from Github anymore - in contrary, developers are aware that Github can change their policies at any time and if that happens, their content might be gone, so they do make a backup.

Now that you announced github-backup as withdrawn, I can recommend another tool which seems to aim for the same target as yours: python-github-backup. It seems to do the job of backing up the metadata quite nicely.

I use it in conjunction with a more basic approach of cloning/pulling each repository itself like this:

function doBackup {
    URL=$1
    REPO=$(echo $URL | sed -e 's#^.*/##g' -e 's#.git$##')

    if [ -d $TARGET_REPOS/$REPO ]; then
        cd $TARGET_REPOS/$REPO
        git pull --all >/dev/null
    else
        echo "cloning $REPO"
        cd $TARGET_REPOS
        git clone $URL >/dev/null
    fi
}
curl -s 'https://api.github.com/users/mathisdt/repos?type=owner&per_page=500' \
    | grep -Eo '"git_url": "[^"]+"' \
    | sed -e 's#"git_url": ##' -e 's#"##g' \
    | while read url; do doBackup $url; done

Hope to help!

Mathis Dirksen-Thedens

Hi,

I think what you found might be a variation of TOCTOU - time of creation, time of access.

For example (although slightly different, but it's the same underlying idea):

https://duo.com/decipher/docker-bug-allows-root-access-to-host-file-system

@alex safe-exceptions and unliftio use uninterruptibleMask in its async safe bracket. Which is ok if the cleanup action is fast, but does risk the program not responding to ctrl-c if the cleanup takes a while for whatever reason.

As well as SIGINT, there's also the possibility that an async exception is thrown for some truely exceptional circumstance, like a segfault. Most code would do well to exit immediately on such an exception, not mask it.

I wonder if there's a way to make an uninterruptibleMask that masks only a specific async exception, eg the AsyncCancelled exception. Probably this would need ghc support, if it's possible at all.

@Joey

Sectioning using "article" is helpful, as they provide semantics about the web page layout, but they are not considered to be a navigational landmark, so not all screen readers support navigating by "article" sections. From ARIA: article role

"Articles are not considered a navigational landmark, but many assistive technologies that support landmarks also support a means to navigate among articles. ..."

"header" elements are turned into navigational landmarks when they are descendants of the "body" element and this type of landmark is the "banner". They are the converse of a "footer" element which transform into "content info" landmark when it is directly child of "body". As navigational landmarks they are just meant for the whole page and not for individual sections of the page.

In Section 4.1 of WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 is described which HTML semantic region elements get turned into aria landmarks.

Finally, headings are what most screen readers go to first for navigation of a web page. So for those reasons I'd recommend making the article titles headings. If you don't want to literally make them a "h1-6" because it would mess with your CSS then you can just set aria attributes which will change how the page is understood by assisstive tech but not affect any visual rendering of the page. a role="heading" aria-level="2"Lemons/a (using _ instead of angular brackets)

More info on heading role

@samuel.kacer, the sections of the blog are inside html article tags, and the heading of each is inside a html header tag. That seems like sufficient semantic information to me..

I guess what I'll suggest is, if there's some reason that's not sufficient, you file a bug report on https://ikiwiki.info which is what the blog uses.

Hi,

I just stumbled onto your blog yesterday while searching for information on FRP in Haskell. Really cool stuff using Haskell for home automation in embedded systems!

I just wanted to post a comment because I noticed you include nice alt text on your images, which I greatly appreciate as a blind person. One other note on accessibility is that navigating around your blog would be easier if the article headings were some sort of HTML heading like

. Screen readers give shortcuts for jumping between different headings, so having sections of a webpage of intrest start with headings means as a screen reader user I could very easily switch between them instead of scrolling through the whole article before finding the beginning of the next one.

Just thought I would mention it since it seems you already care about accessibility.

Oh and happy late birthday!

Regards, Sam

Happy birthday, Joey! Feliz aniversário, Joey!

Mom brings it. I make it.

little sis

Startech ST4200USBM.

But uhubctl's home page has a good list of all known usable hubs, many much cheaper.