This focus on player ingenuity and cunning lead me down a very perilous, though extremely enjoyable road. At the end of this road is a revelation, one that changed how I created traps, how I build encounters and how I even write adventures. This road is, in my opinion, the most fun that a DM can have in a given session and also the most fun that players will encounter, done right.
This revelation is one that is so simple that I wonder why I didn't innately gravitate too it. What is cruelest about the real world is that it does not provide solutions for the problems it presents you. Many times, the world simply graces you with a problem, and you have to find your way out. It is much less like math, and much more like philosophy.
Its the basic foundation of credibility, really. Its how a story rises, falls, or fails. If the world provides all the answers and all the solutions, then we have no real faith in the hero's ability to solve the problems ahead of them. Instead, they will stumble into solution after solution until they are rewarded for the comical ineptitude and rewarded greatly at the end of the story.
With that in mind, I started to create problems for my characters with no way out. I started with traps, because they are the most obvious. Traps, at least the ones adventurers are likely to run in to have a single purpose: Kill the intruders. Maiming, trapping, discomforting or otherwise simply slowing them down means very little to the overall picture. I have a hard time not making a trap exceedingly dangerous or completely story altering if it goes off. Additionally, most traps are in places that people would not be wandering back and forth. Instead, they are in long abandoned dungeons, ancient crypts and guarded catacombs. With that in mind, they also have no off switches, and the majority of the time its a single shot test.
One of my favorite examples is that I had a troupe of characters adventuring in an underwater castle that was serving as a prison for a long-ago hero. Within this prison there was a room, with a 100″ long shaft with an open one-way gate to the Iron Marches at the bottom. This room, long ago, had been purged of water. It was a simple, empty room with a single door. When the players opened the door, they were swept into the room via the water from the rest of the castle and lake and rushed towards the gate. Thankfully, one of the players cast web at the bottom of the pit, but it didn't stop the flow of water. I don't remember exactly how they did it, but they came up with a way out that stopped the flow of water, and then created a water-filled compression chamber to allow them to explore the rest of the castle. I hadn't created a way out, simply a problem for the characters to solve.
I say all of this to prepare the stage for the latest adventure and pain that I put my characters through, a typical Jonathon Problem in D&D.
The Players, through the Obsidian Vault, choose to take on a mission to rescue a nearby Magistrates daughter. The Daughter was believed to have been captured by nearby goblins, as they were always the nearby scapegoat for pretty much any of the ills of the town. As it happens, though, it is the truth. The players end up following some captured goblins back to their town, and its an Island on a lake. and the Lake is ringed with these strange floating pylons. Around these pylons are the bones of many beings, all Humanoid. One of these, though, is located on the island. Through some clever scouting, the players are able to discover that the goblins had a prison for the 12 captives: A pit ringed by a large, shoddy fence. The captive goblins earlier had convinced one member of the party, a large dragonborn, that he should try and fight the goblin boss for control of the tribe. Strangely, the dragonborn consented. Early in the morning of the next day, they made their way over to the Island and are greeted buy three leaders. One is a necromancer, and there are skeletons following him. Another is a priest, with the symbol of Ariannas branded into his chest, and the third is the enormous Goblin Boss. Through some strange goblin customs, Morn, the Dragonborn, challenged the boss to a fight. While they are fighting, the thief, Carric, sneaks off to go and rescue the daughter, who they passed in the pit earlier. He notices that there are zombies walking around, and makes his way rather clumsily, with the rescued girl, out of the town. Some of the goblins notice the girl is missing, and after the combat between Morn and the Goblin Boss crawls to a stand still, notify the boss. He is terrified, as is both the necromancer and the priest. through their broken and terrible speech, they are able to communicate why they are so terrified.
Tomorrow, they must sacrifice the 12 captives to each of the pylons. If they do not, a terrible thing, defeated in battle and trapped by Ariannas, will fall upon the world. The players question him but, unable to really speak their language, he calls in the Priest, who uses a little magic, a little bit of smoke and some drugs to induce a dream-trance and show the players what is happening.
The dream shows generations of sacrifices on this spot, years and years of rituals from different cultures that show up here and realize the great problem. Each performs the bloody spectacle at long intervals, but when the intervals are missed, a pylon breaks and the lake expands. Three intervals are missed throughout the ages, and the time period between the intervals shrink as each pylon breaks. Eventually the dram reaches down into the lake, impossibly deep and filled with terrifying creatures, and reveals a single, massive eye at the bottom. Then, the dream washes away the mud to reveal this Frog-Lizard-creature of singular size, though with no perspective it was hard to gague how big exactly, wound tightly with twelve bands of black and blue energy. As they watch, three of the bands dissolve, and the creature squirms slightly.
The Players wake up and immediately have disagreements on how to solve this problem. The Sacrifice is required tomorrow, and there is no time to find new sacrifices. One of the players, then another, offered themselves up for sacrifice to stave off the release. Another pair of players disagreed, stating that even if they sacrifice themselves, they would all be complicit in the sacrifice of at least 10 innocent people. The discussion moved to the sticking point after some time.
Was there, in the design of the prison, a tipping point. Will the monster be loosed after some critical mass of pylons are destroyed or will he be released only when the final pylon is shattered. They argue thought the night until the bard, Rummy, calls upon the gods themselves in desperation for assistance in an ancient orcish ritual. They are greeted by a phantom who offers to answer what questions they can.
They players learn here that all sacrifices are equal, and that the Goblins have been mislead. They also learn that 12 may be to many sacrifices, but three is too few. And, finally, another clue clicks into place. The Undead. The Accursed are the cause and creation of undead, and their is a powerful Priest here of Ariannas. Something must be wrong. With the battle to resume between Morn and the Boss the next morning, they decided to intervene and assure Morn won, no matter what. Then, they would pit the Worshipers of Ariannas against the Cultists of the Accursed, and use the cultists to fuel the prison, at least for another 5 years.
Thankfully, mostly due to the help of the other members of the party, Morn is able to defeat the Boss. his life essence powering the Pylon they were near in a visible display of power. As the fight proceeded, a pair of other characters convinced, mentally, the priest of Ariannas that he should sacrifice the blasphemous worshipers of the accursed. Needing little encouragement, but still afraid of the Boss, he watched the fight intently until the boss was slain, and at that moment, he unleashed his followers on the Cultists. The party convinced the goblins not to use the prisoners, and instead to sacrifice the cultists. It worked, and the prison was empowered for 5 more years.
Sometimes, like here, I wasn't needed for the majority of the thinking and planning, but I was there to focus their thoughts. While last session I allowed them to brainstorm and kinda of wander about willy nilly looking for solutions, this session was a lot more organized because I jumped in. I don't often like doing that, but I really felt that they were stuck, and creating more problems for themselves than I had originally intended.
What was really fun for me, though, was reacting to their prodding, their questions. While I had initially put the necromancer there as just another bad guy, Rummys player quickly picked up on the paradox there. With both accursed and Paltonarchs openly worshiped, something had to be keeping them at bay. Deducing that it was the leader, deciding to make sure the leader dies and killing the Accursed cultists was 100% the players ideas. I would never have thought of that, and it makes a much cooler story now, than if I had created it on my own.
I look forward to the next time I can set my players to a task and see what they come up with!
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plotutils
Set of free software utilities and libraries for generating 2D plots
Not to be confused with Gnuplot.
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gnu.org/software/plotutils
GNU plotutils is a set of free software command-line tools and software libraries for generating 2D plot graphics based on data sets. It is used in projects such as PSPP and UMLgraph, and in many areas of academic research,[1][2][3] and is included in many Linux distributions such as Debian.[4] Windows and Mac OS X versions are also available. The library provides bindings for the C and C++ languages. Its stand-alone command-line tools can generate graphs and perform numerical calculation of spline curves and systems of ordinary differential equations. Plotutils is a GNU package and is distributed under a free software licence, the GPL.
Several utilities were inspired by Unix plotting utilities. A graph utility and various plot filters were present in the first releases of Unix from Bell Laboratories. By the time of Version 7 Unix, graph, plot, spline, and several device-dependent versions of libplot were a standard Unix features. The first display device supported by the package was a Tektronix 611 storage scope. By the early 1980s, numerous other devices were supported.
In 1989, the first GNU versions of graph, plot, tek2plot, spline and their respective documentation were written. Richard Stallman further directed development of the programs and documentation. The distribution, as it stood in 1991, was distributed under the name GNU graphics.
In 1995, the package was significantly expanded by writing a device-independent, standalone version of libplot, and by rewriting graph from scratch, turning it into a real-time filter.
Features[edit]
Stand alone tools[edit]
GNU graph, which plots 2-D datasets or data streams in real time.
GNU plot, which translates GNU Metafile format to any of the other formats.
GNU tek2plot, for translating Tektronix 4010 data to any of the above formats.
GNU pic2plot, for translating the pic language to any of the above formats.
GNU plotfont, for displaying character maps of the fonts that are available in the above formats.
GNU spline, which does spline interpolation of data.
GNU ode, which numerically integrates a system consisting of one or more ordinary differential equations.
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"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time. The plot and its twist ending are well known; the ending is generally considered an example of comic irony. The story was allegedly written at Pete's Tavern on Irving Place in New York City.

The story was initially published in The New York Sunday World under the title "Gifts of the Magi" on December 10, 1905. It was first published in book form in the O. Henry anthology The Four Million in April 1906.

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On Christmas Eve, Della Young discovers that she has only $1.87 (equivalent to about $62 in 2022) to buy a present for her husband Jim. She visits the nearby shop of a hairdresser, Madame Sofronie, who buys Della's long hair for $20 (about $ in ). Della then uses the money to buy a platinum pocket watch chain for Jim. When Jim comes home from work that evening, Della admits to him that she sold her hair to buy him the chain. Jim gives Della her present – a set of ornamental combs, which she will be unable to use until her hair grows back out. Della gives Jim the watch chain, and he tells her that he sold the watch to buy the combs. While the gifts that Jim and Della gave each other cannot be used, they know how far they went to show each other their love and how invaluable their love truly is. The story ends with the narrator comparing these sacrificial gifts of love with those of the biblical Magi.

Adaptations

Films
 The Sacrifice (1909)
  Love's Surprises Are Futile (1916)
 The Gift of the Magi (1917)
 Ustedes los ricos ("You, the Rich Ones") (1948) includes the tale as a small sub-plot
 As a segment of O. Henry's Full House (1952)
 The Gift of the Magi (1958)
 The Gift of Love (1978)
 Dary magów (Poland, 1972)
 Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978)
 I'll not be a gangster, love (/, USSR, 1978),
 Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999)
 The Gift of the Magi (2004)
 Raincoat (2004)
 For the First Time (2010)
 Love, a French movie, based some of its scenes on this story.
 Darovete na vlahvite (2013) directed by Ivan Abadjiev.
 The Gift of the Magi (2014) The Greek film directed by Ismene Daskarolis places it in the economic crisis of contemporary Greece.
 Prem Puran (2019)

Other media
 In 1955, in The Honeymooners episode 13 of season 1, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" involves Ralph looking for the perfect present for Alice for Christmas. Without money, he pawns his prized bowling ball to buy her an expensive gift, only to find out in the end that she bought him a custom bowling ball bag.
In the 1978 Christmas special Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, Ernie and Bert do an adaptation of "The Gift of the Magi". Ernie gives up his Rubber Duckie to buy Bert a cigar box to put his paperclip collection in, and Bert gives up his paperclip collection to get Ernie a soap dish to put his Rubber Duckie in. In the end, Mr. Hooper happily gives them back their items, realizing how much it hurt to sacrifice their possessions to please each other.
 Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, which is a twist on "The Gift of the Magi", is a children's storybook by Russell Hoban which was first published in 1971. In 1977, Muppet creator Jim Henson produced a one-hour television adaptation of the story, filmed in Toronto for HBO in the United States and CBC in Canada. The special premiered on HBO on December 17, 1978. The special later aired on ABC in 1980 and on Nickelodeon in the 1990s. The special features several original songs written by songwriter Paul Williams.
 An off-Broadway musical version entitled The Gifts of the Magi premiered at Lamb's Theatre in New York City in 1984. Written by Mark St. Germain and Randy Courts, the play is regularly produced in schools and regional theaters.
 Radio drama series Adventures in Odyssey features a comedic adaptation of this story in its episode "Gifts for Madge & Guy" (1987).
 The opening sketch of the December 10, 1988 episode of Season 14 of Saturday Night Live reimagines "The Gift of the Magi" as Donald and Ivana Trump (played by Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks) selling their yacht Princess and estate Mar-a-Lago, each in order to pay for a gift intended to adorn the other.
 In 1992, in Rugrats episode 27 "The Santa Experience", Phil doesn't know what to get Lil, so Angelica convinces him to give up his precious Reptar doll to get Lil crayons for her coloring book, and then convinces Lil to give up the coloring book to get a space helmet for Phil's Reptar doll even though Angelica was now in possession of it. The twins both believe the sacrifice is the greatest gift of all, leaving Angelica in bitter Christmas spirits until she returns the original gifts.
 In 1993, an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 had TV's Frank selling his hair and buying Dr. Forrester a watch fob. However, Dr. Forrester did not sell his watch to buy Frank a comb, merely thanking Frank for the watch fob for his still-owned watch.
In 1998, Indian singer Pankaj Udhas released his album Stolen Moments. The visualization of the song Ahista is a modern adaptation of The Gift of the Magi.
The title of the 1999 Christmas episode of The Simpsons, Grift of the Magi, is a reference to the story.
 A parody appears in the 1999 Futurama episode "Xmas Story", in which Zoidberg gives Amy Wong a set of combs, only for her to reveal that she sold her hair to a wigmaker in order to buy a set of combs for Hermes Conrad, who then reveals that he sold his hair to a wigmaker in order to buy a set of combs for Zoidberg. Zoidberg then reveals that he has purchased Amy and Hermes' hair to wear on his own head.
 In the 1999 Disney Christmas Video Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse do an adaptation of The Gift of the Magi.  Mickey trades his harmonica to buy Minnie a chain for her watch and Minnie trades her watch to get Mickey a case for his harmonica.
 The beginning moments of the 2002 special It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie feature gags based on the story. For example, while Rizzo the Rat sells his collection of rare cheese to buy Gonzo a dish for his mold collection, Gonzo reveals he sold his mold collection to buy Rizzo a cheese slicer.
 In 2004, during the intro of Season 1, Episode 7 of The L Word ("L'Ennui"), Marina Ferrer's lover, Francesca Wolff, synopsizes the story while she seduces the prima ballerina of the opera for which she is the costume designer.
 The 2009 Christmas episode of Robot Chicken features a parody of "The Gift of the Magi", where Jim refuses to sell his watch for expensive brushes and buys Della lingerie instead, much to her displeasure.
 In the 2009 Christmas special of Phineas and Ferb, "Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation", Candace sells her necklace that she was planning on trading for earrings, in order to buy her boyfriend Jeremy a new guitar, while Jeremy trades his old guitar which he was planning on trading for a new one, in order to buy Candace the earrings she wanted. This twists the story so that each party ends up with the gift they wanted anyway.
 In 2018, an episode of Puppy Dog Pals entitled "Bingo and Rolly's Birthday" had each of the two dog characters trading their prized possessions (a stick collection and a Captain Dog action figure) to obtain gifts for each other (a box for the stick collection, and a spring to repair the launcher on the action figure).
 A parody appears in the 2019 Family Guy episode "Bri, Robot", in which Peter Griffin gets a job as a masseur, using the money he earns to buy Lois Griffin a comb for her beautiful hair, only for her to reveal that she sold her beautiful hair in order to buy him a bottle of massage oil.
 In Glee season 2, episode 10, Mr. Shue talks about the tale with their students of the choir.
 In 2019 composer Eric Whitacre composed and conducted a one act chamber opera of The Gift of the Magi for five soloists, piano, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.
 In Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star by Brandon Mull, Errol Fisk references the tale while conversing with Kendra about his livelihood.

See also
 List of Christmas-themed literature

References

External links

 "The Gift of the Magi" by O Henry

 O'Henry's "The Gift of the Magi":Common Core Exemplar from NEH's EDSITEment
 "The Gift of the Magi" study guide, teacher resources, themes, quotes

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Christmas short stories
American short stories
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Short stories adapted into films
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No Plans To Levy Charges On UPI Payments: Finance Ministry
Suppose you wake up in the morning and you read in your newspaper that from now onwards, you have to pay an additional fee for making payments via digital platforms, such as PayTM, PhonePe, Google Pay, etc. In that case, what will be your reaction? Probably, you may decide to switch to a regular cash-based framework. Well, this nightmare is about to come true as the RBI has recently published a discussion paper through which it sought suggestions from stakeholders on the provisions to levy charges on UPI payments.
However, the Finance Ministry, on Sunday, clarified its stand on the said proposal of RBI, citing digital payment services as a service of "digital public good". The ministry said it is not considering any proposal to levy charges on users for using digital payment platforms.
The Finance Ministry gave its clarification against the recent proposal of the RBI in which the central bank proposed to levy charges in payment systems, including Unified Payment Interface (UPI), National Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT), and Immediate Payment Services (IMPS).
According to officials aware of the deliberations, charges on digital payments can facilitate service providers to recover their operational costs. The RBI circular included deliberation on the proposed transfer fee of as low as one paisa or two per transaction. However, the ministry responded that the government would find alternative solutions to recover the operational costs.
Finance Ministry Response To Charges On UPI Payments
"UPI is a digital public good with immense convenience for the public and productivity gains for the economy. There is no consideration in Govt to levy any charges for UPI services. The concerns of the service providers for cost recovery have to be met through other means", the ministry tweeted late on Sunday.
In the same thread, the ministry added, "The Govt had provided financial support for Digital Payment ecosystem last year and has announced the same this year as well to encourage further adoption of Digital Payments and promotion of payment platforms that are economical and user-friendly".
With the second tweet, the ministry also clarified that the government is eager to normalize the digital economy in India's financial system. This is why the government is providing all sorts of relief measures to digital service providers.
UPI is a digital public good with immense convenience for the public & productivity gains for the economy. There is no consideration in Govt to levy any charges for UPI services. The concerns of the service providers for cost recovery have to be met through other means. (1/2)
— Ministry of Finance (@FinMinIndia) August 21, 2022
What RBI Proposed About Charges On Digital Payments?
On August 17, the RBI issued a discussion paper on prospects of levying charges in digital payment systems. Through the circular, the RBI stated that charges on UPI payments should be reasonable and competitively determined for users.
Reserve Bank of India releases Discussion Paper on Charges in Payment Systemshttps://t.co/G7B32AF3xK
— ReserveBankOfIndia (@RBI) August 17, 2022
The press release highlighted, "To ensure this balance, it was considered useful to carry out a comprehensive review of the various charges levied in the payment systems by highlighting different dimensions and seeking stakeholder feedback".
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eBay was my first love with ecommerce. I'd frequently browse around, see what's for sale and try find something in my local stores that might I might be able to make a small profit off.
It's become a powerhouse for selling products with millions of buyers using the platform. The cool thing is you can search through eBay on any niche or product type you want.
A big mistake people do is just do a search and look at the search results to find products that are appearing often. But this is definitely not the best way to do it.
Buying a product and simply browsing is two different things so I make sure to check the 'sold listings' button so I can see the products that have actually sold.
For example, if I search fidget spinner, I'll get the below results.
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Fake images: How an Oxford firm's technology is helping to verify images online
9 mins | By Karen David
| IT | Comms | Media | Culture | Entertainment | Publishing | AI | Feb 20th 2020
The ease with which anyone can manipulate a digital photo or video is driving an escalation in the presence of fake images across the internet. Yet technology to verify images could have unintended consequences, especially when it comes to data privacy. Oxford-based Serelay is a player in the emerging field of controlled image capture, and is part of a movement led by Adobe to build a system of trust in image verification.
Serelay's platform, which enables rapid verification and assures user anonymity, is attracting attention from global media outlets and human rights organisations.
Media outlets in particular are often fighting tough battles to assess whether the images they are publishing are real, or have been manipulated in some way.
Images shot using the Serelay platform are rapidly analysed and given star ratings on the veracity of their content, where and when they were shot.
The speed at which Serelay can do this means that an image sent by a reporter's mobile phone to a news editor can be verified and scored before it reaches the recipient. The sender installs the Serelay app on their phone, then uses it to capture the image and transmit it, either through the app or as an email attachment.
Such fast verification solves the problem of news outlets having to go through a laborious process of checks and cross-checks, which can take hours if not days.
Serelay founder and chief executive Roy Azoulay explains: "Sometimes you can look for inconsistencies in the file structure, but if a file comes off Facebook, for example, it will have been compressed," says Serelay founder Roy Azoulay.
Questions in manual checks commonly asked are 'Does the weather match that area on that day?' or ' Does the photographer's social media account match the location?' For big stories, media outlets will perform forensic detection on images,"but that might be applied," explains Azoulay, "when the New York Times, for example, knew eight days ahead it would publish a photo and can bring in an analyst to do that."
Roy Azoulay, Founder & chief executive, Serelay. Pic supplied
While controlled capture can address the technicalities of verifying images, there are wider implications if the technology is used in isolation.
Sam Gregory is programme director for Witness, a global charity which helps people to use technology to protect and defend human rights by submitting photographic or video evidence. He welcomes controlled capture but advocates caution, saying:
"Controlled capture at source is clearly going to be part of the solution to deal with how we understand where images come from and whether they are manipulated."
When it comes to teasing out misinformation, "We look through the lens of how people share information, whether it's out of context, or shared in a way that confuses or deceives people, but we also need to know how to make sure these types of tools don't have unintended consequences."
Sam Gregory, programme director, Witness. Pic: Witness
Gregory points to the need to make sure the safety of people who are asked to use platforms or capture images in a certain way is not compromised because of the data the platforms collect, or how they might be used by governments. He is familiar with Serelay and impressed by its approach on this issue.
"Serelay have really tried to think about who controls the data, they've been grappling with this and have made it a central part of working out a solution," he says.
The platform has taken Serelay three years to develop, with Google Digital News Initiative and the European Space Agency among its supporters. Azoulay describes how Serelay embedded ethics into the platform from day one, especially when it comes to data and privacy. No user data is required to download and use the app, there's no login, password nor request for name or email.
"We think we shouldn't need to attribute checks related to content to a named individual. If a news outlet wants to publish your image they might want your name, but that's not a requirement of our system," says Azoulay.
Serelay doesn't save any photos or videos on its servers either. "With other solutions, as soon as you capture the photo, the entire input stream from your phone gets diverted to their servers. Once it's there, if they're asked to verify that photo eight months down the line, they can make a comparison," Azoulay explains, adding:
"We don't do that because we prefer not to have any photos or videos saved on our servers, and for our users, who tend to be in the media domain, it's in their best interest if we don't have them."
Video analysis from a march in London, Dec 2019. Pic: Serelay
The day when anyone can check an online image, whether it's on Facebook, a website or Instagram is far off, as Azoulay points out: "We can't do that and no one else can. If anything it will get more difficult. Identifying manipulated content is a technically demanding and rapidly evolving challenge, so we're working together to build better detection tools."
Azoulay says he became involved when he realised how sophisticated fake photos and videos are becoming: "Today they often pass the 'Extended Turing' test, which means that neither machines nor humans can differentiate between something in the image, whether it's a real person, fabricated or created from scratch," he says.
He points to Facebook's Deepfake Detection Challenge, the multi-million dollar competition designed to spur the creation of new tools to better detect when images have been altered using AI. According to Azoulay, the "best performing team now has around 75 per cent success rate, and it is not an open dataset."
Gregory feels that right now there's a lot of hype around deep fakes, which are costly to produce effectively, and that the real problems lie in images being used out of context or just generally misused: "The vast majority of misinformation we see is mis-contextualised. Serelay can help with that because if you can show, for example, an image was created in another time and place than [is claimed in the story it's attached to] that's good."
Pic: Witness
Azoulay believes that a solution lies in not trying to verify all images on the internet, but to build a system whereby viewers know which images they can trust:
"Think about the blue checkmarks on Twitter. Only a small percentage of the Twitter population has these but you know to look for them. If I'm reading a tweet from Elon Musk, I know it's him and not someone trying to sell me bitcoin."
He sees something similar working for photos and videos. "If I take a shot of my son's birthday party and I edit it, that's OK. But if I'm photographing something of objective value, I should be able to capture that in a way that is inherently verifiable. The platforms I upload it on should quickly verify my image and tag it as such.
"Even verifying a small subset of photos and videos will, if it's the right subset, add a huge amount of hygiene to the system."
The Guardian news outlet is currently trialling the Serelay platform for user generated content (UGC). The site's community journalism team is specifying Serelay's Idem app as the preferred method of capture. Idem, free to download, contains an embedded link to The Guardian, so photos and videos sent through it are analysed during transmission and arrive at the editorial desk already verified.
"Taking the technology and seeing how we can adapt it in the real world is a challenge, and we are lucky to be able to work with The Guardian," says Azoulay.
With more than 95 million images uploaded to Instagram daily, and around 2.2 billion users on Facebook alone, the available universe for fake images is colossal. So while Serelay seems to have cracked the technological challenge of rapidly verifying images through controlled capture, there is work to be done at an international level if the practice is going to have an impact globally.
Imaging technology giant Adobe is working with the New York Times and Twitter on a programme that could become a catalyst for just that. Its Content Authenticity Initiative is bringing industry players together to change the way metadata on images is recorded. Both Azoulay and Gregory attended the programme's Kick Off Summit at Adobe's San Jose HQ in January 2020.
"The idea is ambitious. They are saying we should be able to record changes we make to a file into the file's metadata," says Azoulay. How metadata is currently recorded on image files is a decades-old system, based on the exif format, designed by Japanese camera manufacturers. "Unless you're a photography enthusiast it tells you everything you don't care about – focal length, shutter speed, and so on," he adds.
Gregory is supportive of the Adobe initiative, while stressing the need to consider the whole story: "Adobe is really starting to think about how we're going from capture to editing and distribution." He agrees that most images have some modification which is not malicious:
"The big challenge is that it's not enough to say whether the originals are manipulated, but whether they are maliciously manipulated through impact and intention."
He also warns on safety issues around creating a platform that becomes the default, as this "might backfire on people in high-risk areas who have to make decisions about sharing information, as it could compromise their safety and that of their communities." He points out that an image confirmed taken at a certain time or place could compromise every person in it.
Azoulay sees Adobe's track record in writing standards and successfully getting them adopted as a major factor in making this "the first serious attempt to supersede XF".
"Most photos we see have been edited in some way, even if it's just lightening or cropping. Once you have a way to understand how media items have changed during their life, it gives so many more possibilities," he says.
Beyond the applications for controlled capture in the media, any organisation which handles images could use it to collect new datasets. Azoulay cites Airbnb, which has more than six million listings and 150 million users. "Often, they send professional photographers to take photos and will do some legitimate editing to improve aesthetics. But now they don't have a way to link changes made to photos to metrics such as review satisfactions, or customers' perceptions of how accurate the listings were." With Airbnb listings averaging from 10 to 30 photos each, Azoulay sees this as "a huge black hole in their database."
There's little doubt that more scrutiny from the wider public in how we share and view images could go a long way towards cracking the fake image problem. Gregory refers to the advice Witness gives on what to look out for when using an app, urging people to ask questions like whether they trust the developer and where it's downloaded from, is data and metadata stored and how, and is the media is encrypted. While this is potentially life-saving advice for people in areas of conflict, it's also a valuable checklist for anyone sharing images online.
What's wrong with the picture? How Serelay checks an image
This flooded playground is attracting unusual wildlife. Pic: Serelay
In a few seconds Serelay analyses an image and makes assessments in three categories, and these often incorporate some level of discretion. The platform generates a score in each of the categories and a detailed report.
Serelay detects where additions have been made. Pic: Serelay
Content – Has any pixel changed and what is the nature of the image? Is the photo a real, 3D image or a photo of a photo? The lossless nature of jpegs means that any additions to pixels will create changes elsewhere in the image, so noise in one part of the image could indicate or confirm manipulation in another part.
Location – Are the signals from the device consistent with its location, ie, is the cell tower reading consistent with the GPS? There might be several GPS readings if the content was streamed, which could affect location accuracy and Serelay is able to analyse convergence patterns and detect whether the location is real or possibly created by mock location software.
Time – Does the hour and the day match the image? Visual checks on time are carried out for users of the dashboard-based platform.
The original playground shot. Pic: Serelay
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19 Reasons Why Kids From The 60s And 70s Are Lucky To Be Alive.
All of us have an older person in our lives that likes to start sentences with the phrase, "Back in my day..." Most of the time, they're referring to some idealized memory of the way the world used to be when they were young. However, if this post is any indication, "back in my day" refers to a world that was a lot more dangerous than it is now -- especially for little kids.
Below are 20 solid reasons why kids (and now grown-ups) from the sixties and seventies probably shouldn't be alive today, from dangerous toys to faulty cars to peculiar dietary choices, these are all reasons why baby boomers and some Gen X-ers are lucky to be not only alive, but also here with all of their limbs intact. Check them out below, especially if you're of that generation. #13 is truly disturbing to think about.
Back in the day, toys were a lot more dangerous than they are now -- and had a lot more risks associated with playing with them. We're talking hot plates, noxious odors and sharp metal objects -- how did anyone make it out alive?
No Seatbelts
People didn't really buckle up back in the day, and children often rode in the front seat or on each other's laps. We're glad that things have gotten slightly safer on the roads.
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Front Seat Driving
As we mentioned above, the lack of seat belts meant you could sit wherever you wanted -- and that meant that often, babies would sit with their parents in the front seat.
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No Helmets
Kids popped wheelies and raced each other without helmets, making this hazardous oversight similar to the seatbelt thing. We'd love to see some stats on head injuries from back then.
Chemical Trucks
Back in the '60s and '70s, kids would often run behind these chemical/pesticide trucks when they passed by. Lungs be damned, apparently.
Unsafe Playgrounds
Anyone remember swinging so hard that one part of the swing set would come off the ground? Or what about the burns we suffered sliding down scorching metal slides during the summer, not to mention the spiky, rusting metal all over the place.
Kids Going Solo
If you let yourself into the house after school, you were a latch key kid. By today's standards, this seems pretty dangerous -- then again, most who did it seemed to turn out okay.
12-Year-Old Babysitters
If you were at least 12 and able to dial 9-1-1, then you got some pretty sweet babysitting gigs. Considering the fact that today's babysitters often have certification, the idea of a 12-year-old doing the job seems pretty wild.
Ridiculous Diets
Believe it or not, there was a time when processed food was considered the best, and very few people were "eating clean."
There was no escaping the haze of cigarette smoke back in the day, because you could smoke literally everywhere: Planes, cars, restaurants, and even libraries.
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Explosive Cars
The Ford Pinto was popular in the 70s, and they got even more famous when people learned that they often exploded. They were discontinued in 1980, but only after many had risked their lives by driving one.
Summer In General
The three months between the school year were the most dangerous times growing up. We would leave the house for hours at a time, run around without shoes, and come home with more scrapes and bruises than we could count. It was nice to not be monitored all the time, but one has to wonder if it was safe.
Thomas Rousing
House Paints
Many household objects, including baby cribs, were covered with bright colored lead-base paints -- the exact paints that were proven to be hazardous later on.
No Childproof Lids
It was once easy for kids to get into bottles, including pills, detergents, and household cleaners. Back then, it was much easier for kids to get inside and ingest them.
Mel-and-Jym
Uncomfortable Clothes
These weren't exactly dangerous, but they deserve a mention because clothing back then was totally uncomfortable -- enough to kind of feel dangerous.
50s.tumblr
There wasn't such a frenzy to drink bottled water back then, so who knows what we slurped down along with our H2O.
Life Flicks
Weird Food Choices
Who didn't have a backyard tea party, complete with mud pies and other weird backyard "food" choices? It's a wonder we didn't get sick more often.
"Kid" Guns
BB Guns were pretty popular back in the when, but it's hard to imagine most parents giving their kids this present today.
MGM/UA Entertainment Co.
Solo Car Sits
Finally, it used to be pretty common to leave your child alone in the car while you ran into the grocery store. Most parents wouldn't do this today -- do you think the world is more dangerous, or have people just gotten more careful?
nhtsa.gov
Next, hilarious advertisements for men's clothing from the 70s.


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Q: React-input-mask inability to paste correct phone My input has following code
<InputMask
                        id='phone'
                        name='phone'
                        type='tel'
                        value={this.state.phone}
                        mask='+63(\999) 999-99-99'
                        maskChar='X'
                        onChange={(e: SyntheticEvent<HTMLInputElement>): void => {
                            this.setState({
                                phone: e.currentTarget.value.replace(/[^\d.+]/g, ''),
                            });
                        }}
                        onBlur={this.validateInput}
                        onPaste={(e) => this.handlePaste(e)}
                        className='form-control'
                        placeholder='Your Phone'
                    />

here +639 digits that can not be deleted. But when I try to paste phone number I get incorrect phone.
For example i paste +639055943784
and get +63(963) 963-90-55 which is not desired result.
My paste handler is
    handlePaste = (e) => {
    this.setState({phone: e.clipboardData.getData("Text")})
}

A: Try that one
handlePaste = (e) => {
  const number = e.clipboardData.getData("Text");
  const formattedNumber = number.replace(/639+/i, '')
  this.setState({phone: formattedNumber})
}

There also could be edge cases when pasted value will contain another 639s, but I think you can fetch it independently

A: I created a package that exposes an input component that displays a masked value according to the mask it receives.
The mask will change keeping the cursor at the correct position (even if you change part of the value in the middle of the input, paste some characters, or delete a part of it, and even if the mask changes).
I created a live demo for your use case, using the mask +63(9XX) XXX-XX-XX and defining custom mask rules that uses X as the user provided characters (instead of 9, because you want a digit 9 static in the mask) and associated it with a regex that only accepts a digit/number:
https://codesandbox.io/s/react-phone-mask-70fwc?file=/src/index.js:123-141
import React from "react";
import { MaskedInput } from "react-hook-mask";

const mask = "+63(9XX) XXX-XX-XX";
const maskGenerator = {
  rules: new Map([["X", /\d/]]),
  generateMask: () => mask
};

const PhoneMaskedInput = () => {
  const [value, setValue] = React.useState("");

  return (

Phone Number:

      <MaskedInput
        maskGenerator={maskGenerator}
        value={value}
        onChange={setValue}
      />

Value: {value ? "+639" + value : undefined}

  );
};

You can see a demo with several examples at:
https://lucasbasquerotto.github.io/react-masked-input
To install the package: npm i react-hook-mask
This component wraps a default input, but the package also expose hooks to make you able to use it with any kind of component as well as the option to use dynamic masks and dynamic rules (as in the example above).
You can see more information about the package at:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-hook-mask

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Welcome to Eapii
================

Eapii tries to make interfacing instruments easy. It does rely on any particular
communication format but rather defines a general framework to make easy to
write drivers with a minimum of code by automating most common operation,
such as conversion, unit handling and input validation.
Eapii is tested on Python 2.7 and 3.3+.

.. toctree::
    :hidden:

    Getting Started <get_started/index>
    Writing a driver <driver_dev/index>
    Architecture Reference <arch_ref/index>
    FAQs <faqs/index>
    API Reference <api_ref/index>

- :doc:`get_started/index`

    How to set up Eapii and tweak it to your need.

- :doc:`driver_dev/index`

    This section describes how to proceed to write a driver not already
    implemented in Eapii. If you do so don't hesitate to contribute it.

- :doc:`arch_ref/index`

   More references on Eapii internals to hack it even further.

- :doc:`faqs/index`

    Some questions that might have occurred to others too.

- :doc:`api_ref/index`

    When all else fails, consult the API docs to find the answer you need.
    The API docs also include convenient links to the most definitive Eapii
    documentation: the source.

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DoorDash, the food delivery startup, announced on Wednesday (Aug. 8) that it has launched DashPass, a new subscription service that helps users save money by giving them unlimited access to restaurants in their area.
With the service, which costs $9.99 a month, users get free delivery on orders of $15 or more. The company said in a blog post that DashPass membership pays for itself with just three orders each month. What's more, customers can cancel the service whenever they want.
"For just $9.99 per month, you can receive unlimited $0 delivery fees from family favorites like Wendy's, The Cheesecake Factory, California Pizza Kitchen, White Castle and many more — just look for the DashPass checkmark," DoorDash said in the blog post.
The new service comes amid big expansion at the delivery food startup. Earlier this year, DoorDash received a $535 million investment from SoftBank, Sequoia Capital and Singapore-based sovereign wealth fund GIC, bringing the food delivery company a $1.4 billion valuation. DoorDash plans to use the funding to expand into additional cities this year.
The funding will also enable DoorDash to boost its market share, said CEO Tony Xu at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado, according to Fortune. The company currently serves around 1,200 cities in Canada and the United States, and plans to add as many as 600 cities in 2018.
Added Xu, "We have long ways ahead in terms of serving the millions of restaurants out there." The funding will also help DoorDash fend off its rivals, which include Grubhub (which bought Yelp's Eat24), Postmates, Uber Eats, Square-owned Caviar and Amazon.
In addition, DoorDash is partnering up with Walmart to give businesses an option over Instacart. The DoorDash alternative will allow the business to maintain its direct, face-to-face relationship with the consumer while serving as the back-end network that firms can tap to get their goods delivered. The pilot will roll out in Atlanta, and DoorDash hopes to become the omnichannel key for physical retailers that want to add a delivery button to their list of services offered. Lots of firms want delivery, but not every firm has the desire or resource base to build its own network.