#API Specification

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Neo Metal Sonic refs I made for myself but figured would post for other people to use! :]

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alt + random closeups under the cut!

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the anime casually dropping that luffy can talk to dragons

[un-monstre]

Imagine if we picked a random girl to give a bunch of HRT to so she would grow really large and become our queen. That is the life of a bee

[valaratminaforaldrar]

studying computer science atm gives me such whiplash youll be in a group project and theyre using chatgpt for?? every little google search?? and like i'm not even talking about the actual coding yesterday i witnessed someone use chatgpt to figure out where to find a feature in github like my guy! github is not a niche little website i promise you you can google that question and get an answer just as quickly????

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Another cool thing about playing Fallen London is encountering stuff and thinking "-oooohhh THAT is what that thing in Sunless Sea was refering to!!!"

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Did you know that seething bazelguese is based off of a blue star and the star life cycle, ut being more explosive and destructive the bluer it gets

<APIS> Amazing!! That's so cool!!!!

<APIS> Games don't usually pay so much attention to detail on stuff like this... aw MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

<APIS> GOLDDYYYYY LET ME PLAY I NEED TO KICK THIS GUY

[biosynth123]

Bio-Synth: Redefining Pharmaceutical Excellence in Antihistamines

In today’s competitive pharmaceutical landscape, innovation and quality assurance have become non-negotiable. Bio-Synth, a prominent name in the life sciences sector, stands at the forefront of delivering high-quality antihistamine solutions. With a strong focus on research, compliance, and customer satisfaction, the company is gaining global recognition for its role in advancing healthcare outcomes—particularly in the allergy treatment domain.

Among Bio-Synth's core specialties is the development and supply of advanced molecules for second-generation antihistamines. These include active substances tailored to meet stringent Bilastine API Specification standards. By prioritizing consistency, purity, and bioavailability, Bio-Synth ensures that its products align with international regulatory benchmarks. Their well-characterized antihistamine compounds offer therapeutic reliability, reinforcing the company's commitment to global health.

Another critical area of focus lies in the preparation of essential chemical compounds used in antihistamine production. Bio-Synth has built a strong infrastructure for producing bilastine intermediates, with modern facilities equipped to handle high-volume and high-purity synthesis. This makes the company a trusted choice among partners looking for scalable and reliable sourcing options.

India has emerged as a pharmaceutical manufacturing hub, and Bio-Synth has harnessed this advantage to establish itself among the leading bilastine intermediates manufacturers in India. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and a highly skilled workforce, the organization ensures cost-effective solutions without compromising on quality or compliance.

To conclude, Bio-Synth exemplifies what it means to blend scientific expertise with industrial excellence. With a steadfast commitment to innovation and quality, the company continues to play a pivotal role in the antihistamine sector—delivering value across global markets and setting new benchmarks in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

[mp3monsterme]

Open API's Arazzo and overlay specifications

The OpenAPI Specification OAS and its Open API Initiative (OAI)—the governing body—have been around for 10 years, and of course, OAS’s foundation, Swagger, has been around a lot longer. OpenAPI is very much a mature proposition. But the OAI community hasn’t stood still. Two standards have been developed, the first being Overlays and the latter being Arazzo. Overlays Overlays support the Arazzo…

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yall idk wtf is biting me in the ass, maybe its bc i got financially spanked last month but holy shit am i ON TOP of my finances this month

[foodspark-scraper]

Competitor Price Monitoring Services - Food Scraping Services

Competitor Price Monitoring Strategies

Price Optimization

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Market Insights

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Competitive Advantage

To stay ahead in the restaurant industry, you must monitor your competitors’ charges and adjust your prices accordingly. Our solution can help you by monitoring your competitors’ pricing strategies and allowing you to adjust your expenses in real-time. That will help you find opportunities to offer special deals or menu items to make you stand out and attract more customers.

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Knowing how your menu prices compare to your competitors is essential to improve your restaurant’s profitability. That is called price gap tracking. Using our tracking system, you can quickly identify the price differences between restaurant and your competitors for the same or similar menu items. This information can help you find opportunities to increase your prices while maintaining quality or offering lower costs. Our system allows you to keep a close eye on price gaps in your industry and identify areas where your expenses are below or above the average menu prices. By adjusting your pricing strategy accordingly, you can capture more market share and increase your profits.

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The Competitor Price Index (CPI) measures how your restaurant’s prices compare to competitors. We calculate CPI for you by averaging the prices of similar menu items across multiple competitors. If your CPI is above 100, your prices are higher than your competitors. If it’s below 100, your prices are lower.

Benefits of Competitor Price Monitoring Services

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Understanding how your prices compare to those of your competitors helps you position your brand effectively within the market.

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Analyzing customer pricing data can reveal customer behavior and preferences, allowing you to tailor your pricing and marketing strategies accordingly.

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Consistently competitive pricing can enhance your brand’s reputation and make your product more appealing to customers.

Content Source: https://www.foodspark.io/competitor-price-monitoring/

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The "Global Social Protection Domain API Specification Project," featured on the tntra.io website, is a groundbreaking initiative in the realm of social protection. This project introduces a comprehensive API specification designed to improve and standardize the delivery of social protection services worldwide. By offering a clear framework and guidelines for data exchange and integration, the project aims to enhance the efficiency, accessibility, and impact of social protection programs on a global scale. It is a significant step forward in promoting social well-being and reducing poverty, making it a crucial resource for policymakers, organizations, and individuals committed to advancing social protection efforts across the globe.

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"you are expected to have a grasp of c#"

Buddy. Pal. My sibling in Gaia. I have a grasp of C# already. Enough to know that you don't normally get a compiler error for not having a certain normally optional keyword on your class. Quit patronizing me with your "we're not teaching you C#" bullshit like I'm a skiddy.

I do know why it's enforced, but that's only after fifteen minutes of feverishly Google searching and finding the answer on a nine month old blog post. That is a textbook definition documentation issue.

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Are the means of computation even seizable?

I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel PICKS AND SHOVELS. Catch me in PITTSBURGH in TOMORROW (May 15) at WHITE WHALE BOOKS, and in PDX on Jun 20 at BARNES AND NOBLE with BUNNIE HUANG. More tour dates (London, Manchester) here.

Something's very different in tech. Once upon a time, every bad choice by tech companies – taking away features, locking out mods or plugins, nerfing the API – was countered, nearly instantaneously, by someone writing a program that overrode that choice.

Bad clients would be muscled aside by third-party clients. Locked bootloaders would be hacked and replaced. Code that confirmed you were using OEM parts, consumables or adapters would be found and nuked from orbit. Weak APIs would be replaced with muscular, unofficial APIs built out of unstoppable scrapers running on headless machines in some data-center. Every time some tech company erected a 10-foot enshittifying fence, someone would show up with an 11-foot disenshittifying ladder.

Those 11-foot ladders represented the power of interoperability, the inescapable bounty of the Turing-complete, universal von Neumann machine, which, by definition, is capable of running every valid program. Specifically, they represented the power of adversarial interoperability – when someone modifies a technology against its manufacturer's wishes. Adversarial interoperability is the origin story of today's tech giants, from Microsoft to Apple to Google:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability

But adversarial interop has been in steady decline for the past quarter-century. These big companies moved fast and broke things, but no one is returning the favor. If you ask the companies what changed, they'll just smirk and say that they're better at security than the incumbents they disrupted. The reason no one's hacked up a third-party iOS App Store is that Apple's security team is just so fucking 1337 that no one can break their shit.

I think this is nonsense. I think that what's really going on is that we've made it possible for companies to design their technologies in such a way that any attempt at adversarial interop is illegal.

"Anticircumvention" laws like Section 1201 of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act make bypassing any kind of digital lock (AKA "Digital Rights Management" or "DRM") very illegal. Under DMCA, just talking about how to remove a digital lock can land you in prison for 5 years. I tell the story of this law's passage in "Understood: Who Broke the Internet," my new podcast series for the CBC:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/08/who-broke-the-internet/#bruce-lehman

For a quarter century, tech companies have aggressively lobbied and litigated to expand the scope of anticircumvention laws. At the same time, companies have come up with a million ways to wrap their products in digital locks that are a crime to break.

Digital locks let Chamberlain, a garage-door opener monopolist block all third-party garage-door apps. Then, Chamberlain stuck ads in its app, so you have to watch an ad to open your garage-door:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/09/lead-me-not-into-temptation/#chamberlain

Digital locks let John Deere block third-party repair of its tractors:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/08/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors/

And they let Apple block third-party repair of iPhones:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/22/apples-cement-overshoes/

These companies built 11-foot ladders to get over their competitors' 10-foot walls, and then they kicked the ladder away. Once they were secure atop their walls, they committed enshittifying sins their fallen adversaries could only dream of.

I've been campaigning to abolish anticircumvention laws for the past quarter-century, and I've noticed a curious pattern. Whenever these companies stand to lose their legal protections, they freak out and spend vast fortunes to keep those protections intact. That's weird, because it strongly implies that their locks don't work. A lock that works works, whether or not it's illegal to break that lock. The reason Signal encryption works is that it's working encryption. The legal status of breaking Signal's encryption has nothing to do with whether it works. If Signal's encryption was full of technical flaws but it was illegal to point those flaws out, you'd be crazy to trust Signal.

Signal does get involved in legal fights, of course, but the fights it gets into are ones that require Signal to introduce defects in its encryption – not fights over whether it is legal to disclose flaws in Signal or exploit them:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/05/theyre-still-trying-to-ban-cryptography/

But tech companies that rely on digital locks manifestly act like their locks don't work and they know it. When the tech and content giants bullied the W3C into building DRM into 2 billion users' browsers, they categorically rejected any proposal to limit their ability to destroy the lives of people who broke that DRM, even if it was only to add accessibility or privacy to video:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-director-ceo-team-and-membership

The thing is, if the lock works, you don't need the legal right to destroy the lives of people who find its flaws, because it works.

Do digital locks work? Can they work? I think the answer to both questions is a resounding no. The design theory of a digital lock is that I can provide you with an encrypted file that your computer has the keys to. Your computer will access those keys to decrypt or sign a file, but only under the circumstances that I have specified. Like, you can install an app when it comes from my app store, but not when it comes from a third party. Or you can play back a video in one kind of browser window, but not in another one. For this to work, your computer has to hide a cryptographic key from you, inside a device you own and control. As I pointed out more than a decade ago, this is a fool's errand:

https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computing/

After all, you or I might not have the knowledge and resources to uncover the keys' hiding place, but someone does. Maybe that someone is a person looking to go into business selling your customers the disenshittifying plugin that unfucks the thing you deliberately broke. Maybe it's a hacker-tinkerer, pursuing an intellectual challenge. Maybe it's a bored grad student with a free weekend, an electron-tunneling microscope, and a seminar full of undergrads looking for a project.

The point is that hiding secrets in devices that belong to your adversaries is very bad security practice. No matter how good a bank safe is, the bank keeps it in its vault – not in the bank-robber's basement workshop.

For a hiding-secrets-in-your-adversaries'-device plan to work, the manufacturer has to make zero mistakes. The adversary – a competitor, a tinkerer, a grad student – only has to find one mistake and exploit it. This is a bedrock of security theory: attackers have an inescapable advantage.

So I think that DRM doesn't work. I think DRM is a legal construct, not a technical one. I think DRM is a kind of magic Saran Wrap that manufacturers can wrap around their products, and, in so doing, make it a literal jailable offense to use those products in otherwise legal ways that their shareholders don't like. As Jay Freeman put it, using DRM creates a new law called "Felony Contempt of Business Model." It's a law that has never been passed by any legislature, but is nevertheless enforceable.

In the 25 years I've been fighting anticircumvention laws, I've spoken to many government officials from all over the world about the opportunity that repealing their anticircumvention laws represents. After all, Apple makes $100b/year by gouging app makers for 30 cents on ever dollar. Allow your domestic tech sector to sell the tools to jailbreak iPhones and install third party app stores, and you can convert Apple's $100b/year to a $100m/year business for one of your own companies, and the other $999,900,000,000 will be returned to the world's iPhone owners as a consumer surplus.

But every time I pitched this, I got the same answer: "The US Trade Representative forced us to pass this law, and threatened us with tariffs if we didn't pass it." Happy Liberation Day, people – every country in the world is now liberated from the only reason to keep this stupid-ass law on their books:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham

In light of the Trump tariffs, I've been making the global rounds again, making the case for an anticircumvention repeal:

https://www.ft.com/content/b882f3a7-f8c9-4247-9662-3494eb37c30b

One of the questions I've been getting repeatedly from policy wonks, activists and officials is, "Is it even possible to jailbreak modern devices?" They want to know if companies like Apple, Tesla, Google, Microsoft, and John Deere have created unbreakable digital locks. Obviously, this is an important question, because if these locks are impregnable, then getting rid of the law won't deliver the promised benefits.

It's true that there aren't as many jailbreaks as we used to see. When a big project like Nextcloud – which is staffed up with extremely accomplished and skilled engineers – gets screwed over by Google's app store, they issue a press-release, not a patch:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/nextcloud-accuses-google-of-big-tech-gatekeeping-over-android-app-permissions/

Perhaps that's because the tech staff at Nextcloud are no match for Google, not even with the attacker's advantage on their side.

But I don't think so. Here's why: we do still get jailbreaks and mods, but these almost exclusively come from anonymous tinkerers and hobbyists:

https://consumerrights.wiki/Mazda_DMCA_takedown_of_Open_Source_Home_Assistant_App

Or from pissed off teenagers:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378541/the-og-app-instagram-clone-pulled-from-app-store

These hacks are incredibly ambitious! How ambitious? How about a class break for every version of iOS as well as an unpatchable hardware attack on 8 years' worth of Apple bootloaders?

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/25/mafia-logic/#sosumi

Now, maybe it's the case at all the world's best hackers are posting free code under pseudonyms. Maybe all the code wizards working for venture backed tech companies that stand to make millions through clever reverse engineering are just not as mad skilled as teenagers who want an ad-free Insta and that's why they've never replicated the feat.

Or maybe it's because teenagers and anonymous hackers are just about the only people willing to risk a $500,000 fine and 5-year prison sentence. In other words, maybe the thing that protects DRM is law, not code. After all, when Polish security researchers revealed the existence of secret digital locks that the train manufacturer Newag used to rip off train operators for millions of euros, Newag dragged them into court:

https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250407-01.en.html

Tech companies are the most self-mythologizing industry on the planet, beating out even the pharma sector in boasting about their prowess and good corporate citizenship. They swear that they've made a functional digital lock…but they sure act like the only thing those locks do is let them sue people who reveal their workings.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/14/pregnable/#checkm8

[biosynth123]

Innovative Solutions in the Production of Bilastine Intermediates and APIs

The pharmaceutical industry constantly evolves, with companies developing more advanced and efficient ways to produce key drugs. Bilastine, a popular antihistamine used to treat allergies, has seen a rise in demand in recent years. The production of its active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and intermediates plays a crucial role in meeting this demand. Bilastine intermediates manufacturers in India have emerged as a key part of the global supply chain, contributing to the production of high-quality Bilastine products.

The Bilastine API specification sets strict guidelines that manufacturers must follow to ensure consistency, safety, and efficacy in the final product. These specifications detail the necessary quality standards for the Bilastine API, including purity, identification, and performance characteristics. Adhering to these specifications is essential for maintaining the integrity of the drug and its therapeutic effects.

India, with its robust pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, has become a leading player in the production of Bilastine intermediates. Many manufacturers in India specialize in the production of chemical intermediates, which are essential for the synthesis of the active ingredient. These intermediates are used in the final stages of Bilastine synthesis, making their quality critical to the success of the drug.

Conclusion

The increasing demand for Bilastine has spurred innovations in the production of its intermediates and APIs. As global pharmaceutical companies look to expand their supply chains, the role of Bio-synth and other industry leaders in providing high-quality intermediates and APIs cannot be overstated. With continued advancements in manufacturing processes, the industry is poised to meet the growing global demand for Bilastine and similar pharmaceutical products.

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The 100% Good Twine SugarCube Guide!

The 100% Good Twine SugarCube Guide is a coding guide for the SugarCube format of Twine. It is meant as an alternative to the SugarCube documentation, with further explanations, interactive examples, and organised by difficulty. The goal of this guide is to make the learning curve for new SugarCube user less steep, and provide a comprehensive and wide look over the format.

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The Guide is compartmentalised in (currently) four categories:

THE BASICS or the absolute basics to start with SugarCube. No need for extra knowledge. Just the base needed to make something.

THE BASICS + adding interactivity, and creating a fully rounded IF game May require a bit of CSS knowledge (formatting rules)

INTERMEDIATE MODE adding more customisation and complex code Will probably require some CSS knowledge, and maybe some JavaScript

ADVANCE USE the most complex macros and APIs Will surely require some JavaScript/jQuery knowledge

Note: The Advanced Use includes all the APIs, macros, and methods not covered by the previous categories. This includes code requiring very advance knowledge of JavaScript/jQuery to be used properly.

Each category explains many aspects of the format, tailored to a specific level of the user. More simpler explanations and examples are available in earlier chapters, compared to the later ones.

If something is unclear, you found a mistake, you would like more examples in the guide, or would like a feature covered, let me know!

The Guide currently covers all macros (as of SugarCube v.2.37.3), all functions and methods, and APIs. It touches upon the use of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, when relevant. It also discusses aspects of accessibility.

The Guides also provides a list of further resources, for the different coding languages.

The Guide is available in a downloadable form for offline view:

HTML file that can be opened in Twine

.tw file that can be opened in Twine

source code, separating the chapters, .js and .css files

GITHUB REPO | RAISE AN ISSUE | TWINE RESOURCES TWEEGO | TEMPLATES | CSCRIPT 2 SG GUIDE

Twine® is an “an open-source tool for telling interactive, non-linear stories” originally created by Chris Klimas maintained in several different repositories (Twinery.org). Twine is also a registered trademark of the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation.

SugarCube is a free (gratis and libre) coding format for Twine/Twee created and maintained by TME.

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As of this release (v2.0.0), it is up to date with the version 2.37.3. If you are looking for the guide covering SugarCube 2.36.1, you can find it on my GitHub.

Note: the Guide is now complete. There won't be further substantial updates.