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How I started. Commodore 64 programming, learning unix, doing network programming, finding IRC, creating #curl and then even more curl.

On the #Sourcegraph #podcast: youtube.com/watch?v=ZLtqHFxEDm…


Sourcegraph Podcast S3 E07: Daniel Stenberg, Founder & Lead Developer of cURL

In this episode, we are honored to have Daniel Stenberg, the founder and lead developer of cURL, as our guest. cURL is a ubiquitous data transfer utility tha...
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#podcast #curl #sourcegraph

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Today I'm proud to announce the release of Homebrew 4.0.0.

The most significant change since 3.6.0 enables significantly faster Homebrew-maintained tap updates by migrating from Git-cloned taps to JSON downloads. In short, this means `brew update` and auto-updates will be much faster.

Also, if you read to the end you get to see me in a stupid beer outfit the other maintainers made me wear.

Check it out:
brew.sh/2023/02/16/homebrew-4.…


4.0.0

Today, I’d like to announce Homebrew 4.0.0. The most significant change since 3.6.0 enables significantly faster Homebrew-maintained tap updates by migrating from Git-cloned taps to JSON downloads.
MikeMcQuaid

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Be careful what you feed into other people's AI tools.

"According to internal Slack messages that were leaked to Insider, an Amazon lawyer told workers that they had “already seen instances” of text generated by ChatGPT that “closely” resembled internal company data.

This issue seems to have come to a head recently because Amazon staffers and other tech workers throughout the industry have begun using ChatGPT as a “coding assistant” of sorts to help them write or improve strings of code, the report notes."

Source: schneier.com/blog/archives/202…

Seems akin to uploading internal emails or documents to Virustotal, which happens all the time.

ChatGPT Is Ingesting Corporate Secrets - Schneier on Security

www.schneier.com
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I managed to find a copy of the DeluxePaint II Enhanced (IBM/DOS) manual and had it shipped from the UK to the US at some cost. It came in the mail today. I scanned it and uploaded the PDF to archive.org, since there doesn't seem to be a scan of it anywhere that I could find on the internet (until now, you're welcome). You can download it here: archive.org/details/deluxepain…
Enjoy!
#DeluxePaint #DOS #PixelArt

DeluxePaint II Enhanced Manual For IBM : Tom Casey, Nic Lavroff, Jack Falk, R.J. Berg, Diane Flynn, Tom DeBry, Keith McCurdy, Tomoya Ikeda, Avril Harrison, Greg Johnson, Nancy Fong, Robert Berg, David Luoto, Hal Jordy III, Evelyn Spire : Free Download, Bo

The official manual for DeluxePaint II Enhanced for IBM/DOS from Electronic Arts.
Internet Archive
#pixelart #dos #deluxepaint

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Garbage article from MOU (makeuseof.com).

Too many media outlets dogpile on existing narratives, and opt for "think pieces" instead of actual reporting of facts.

Here's the FACTS about Mastodon:

1. In Sept 2022, only ~11,000 accounts were registered on Mastodon
2. In January 2023, ~180,000 accounts were registered
3. This week, ~120,000 accounts were registered

But let's also consider the matter of "active users"...

makeuseof.com/why-people-leavi…

@fediversenews

Why Are So Many People Leaving Mastodon? Mastodon has experienced a drop in user numbers. But why the sudden loss of users?

Why Are So Many People Leaving Mastodon?

John Awa-abuon (MUO)
@Fediverse News
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in reply to Chris Trottier

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Chris Trottier

What is an "active" user, specifically "monthly active user" (a.k.a., MAUs).

It's anyone who a service can perceive as interacting with an account.

Sign-ups make a user "active". Logins likewise make a user "active".

No website ever has a 100% retention in activity after sign-ups.

Between Oct-Dec 2022, ~4 million people signed up for Mastodon. It was an exceptional moment.

How many accounts RETAINED their activity?

~2.7 million accounts

the-federation.info/platform/2…

@fediversenews

Mastodon active users chart
@Fediverse News
in reply to Chris Trottier

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Chris Trottier

Here's the chart that really matters.

Average Mastodon posts per month are going up.

Here's a comparison:

* Sept 2022: ~460M posts
* Dec 2022: ~573M posts
* Feb 2023 (so far): ~678M posts

This is a dramatic upswing in posts, and indicates that activity on Mastodon is continuing to increase.

The chart tells the story. The jump is dramatic.

mastodon.fediverse.observer/st…

@fediversenews

Average Mastodon Posts Per Month

Fediverse Observer checks all servers in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home using a map or list.

Mastodon Servers Status. Find a Mastodon server to sign up for, find one close to you!
mastodon.fediverse.observer
@Fediverse News
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Oui, nous sommes blacklistés par Google Safe Browsing sous prétexte que notre site incite "les internautes à fournir des informations personnelles ou à télécharger des logiciels".

Et dans les faits c'est vrai, oui, nous incitons nos membres à adopter des solutions plus vertueuses.

Mais non, notre site n'est pas malveillant et n'a pas été piraté.

A chacun et chacune de voir en qui iel a confiance sur ce thème, Google ou nous.

#diffamation #entrave #censure #pratiquedéloyales

Il est écrit sur fond rouge vif: "Ce site est trompeur Firefox a bloqué cette page, car elle pourrait vous amener à réaliser des actions dangereuses comme installer un logiciel ou révéler des informations personnelles telles que vos mots de passe ou votre numéro de carte bancaire. Avis émis par Google Safe Browsing."
#diffamation #entrave #censure #pratiquedéloyales
in reply to Alsace Réseau Neutre

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Alsace Réseau Neutre

Cela fait bientôt un an que nous constatons le blocages de centaines d'instances yunohost ou d'instances du Fediverse.

Chaque fois, les indications sont flous rendant complexe toute démarche pour se faire délister.

L'enfer des listes noires du mail est en train de s’étendre au web et d’empêcher tous les petites structures et personnes physiques d'auto-héberger leurs contenus. Ces situations que ce soit pour le mail ou le web ne sont pas acceptables.

forum.yunohost.org/t/google-fl…


Google flags my sites as dangerous (Deceptive site ahead)

EDIT by YunoHost Teams: if your yunohost instance has been flagged as dangereous by Google safebrowsing: we need more info on this topic. Please, give us the maximum of information. You can wrote a private message to @Dev if you prefer.
YunoHost Forum
in reply to Alsace Réseau Neutre

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YunoHost

Ping @Mozilla : le problème n'est pas limité à Google/Chrome mais aussi à #Firefox qui se base sur cette super techno de "Safe Browsing" qui flag les serveurs auto-hébergé sans aucune transparence sur le pourquoi exact (et pas que ceux avec #YunoHost) ... Ce serait cool si vous pouviez vous aussi faire pression de votre côté pour arrêter cet enfumage et garder un web libre et ouvert
#firefox #yunohost @Mozilla francophone – Commu

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Probably most appropriate for Canadian people, but Camp Bowen is back in person! Come learn more about what's in store for this year's camps. cobd.ca/2023/02/18/joint-conne…

Joint Connection and Blind/DeafBlind Seniors National Roundtable for Thursday, February 23rd, 2023

Hello, and happy mid February! We're excited to announce our next Joint connection all ages, and Seniors Round table will take place on Thursday, February 23rd 2023 from 10AM Pacific, 1PM Eastern, until 11AM Pacific, 2PM Eastern.
Brandon Bracey (The Canadian Organization of the Blind and DeafBlind)

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Wanted: Senior Accessibility Engineer at ServiceNow in San Diego CA careers.servicenow.com/careers… #a11y #jobs

Senior Accessibility Engineer in San Diego, California | ServiceNow Careers

ServiceNow Careers is hiring a Senior Accessibility Engineer in San Diego, California. Review all of the job details and apply today!
Senior Accessibility Engineer in San Diego, California | ServiceNow Careers
#a11y #jobs

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The Iconfactory's @gedeonm was welcomed by Double Tap, a podcast about #accessibility and the blind community, to talk about Twitterrific's removal from the App Store.

Ged chats about what happened, how it affects our fellow Twitter developers like @tapbots, and much more. Check it out. #a11y podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…


‎Double Tap: Twitterrific Developer Tells All About Decision To Pull The App on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Double Tap, Ep Twitterrific Developer Tells All About Decision To Pull The App - Feb 16, 2023
Apple Podcasts
#a11y #Accessibility @Ged Maheux @Tapbots

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Solidarity with Florida college students, who are organizing statewide walkouts after their universities surrendered protected health information of trans students to DeSantis. This is a horrific abuse of power. insider.com/ron-desantis-trans…

Ron DeSantis requests trans college students' information

DeSantis told all public universities to hand over the medical data about all trans students. Students are calling it a breach of trans rights.
Annalise Mabe (Insider)

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David Oreck (yes, the vacuum guy) has just died, at age 99. This article talks about his life. I had no idea he crewed a B-29 in World War II, or ran an animal shelter. He sounds like a great person, at least according to this one article. nola.com/news/business/david-o…

David Oreck, founder of vacuum company and World War II aviator, dead at 99

David Oreck, the New Orleans entrepreneur who after serving on a B-29 bomber during World War II founded the vacuum cleaner company that bore his name, died Wednesday at his
NOLA.com

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#StreetComplete's AR measuring functionality is, for licensing reasons, now a separate app (github.com/streetcomplete/Stre…).

This means though that this functionality is now available with Streetcomplete installed from F-Droid, if you also install the #StreetMeasure app (FOSS, except it needs to include google's proprietary AR bindings lib) as well as the "Google Play Services for AR" app (proprietary but surprisingly not dependent on actual play services being available on the device).

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GitHub - streetcomplete/StreetMeasure: Measure distances with AR

Measure distances with AR. Contribute to streetcomplete/StreetMeasure development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#streetcomplete #streetmeasure

IzzyOnDroid ✅ reshared this.

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Bubu

It also means that you can use it as a standlaone AR measuring app, which is a nice bonus :).

And thanks to Android's intent/activity system the user-experience is about the same, regardless if the functionality is in a separate apk or not.

Great solution overall as now anyone can easily use it, if they want to (and are willing to use non-free software for that functionality).

(Previously you needed to install SC from google play and not from f-droid to access this function)

2/2

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For those of you using adbsync (codeberg.org/izzy/adbsync): I've just published v0.1.2 with some minor feature enhancements. Most important: when syncing media files, adbsync can now trigger Android's media scanner so your album browser, media player etc. immediately notice the changed/new/removed files.

Enjoy :awesome:

#Android #Linux #sync


adbsync

Synchronize your Android device with your Linux machine using rsync and adbfs
Codeberg.org
#android #linux #sync

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To zas bude konspirací 😀
ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/svet/356…

Američané ukončili pátrání po dvou sestřelených objektech, trosky nenašli

Spojené státy ukončily pátrání po troskách dvou létajících objektů sestřelených tento měsíc nad Aljaškou a nad Huronským jezerem, oznámil Pentagon. Trosky z těchto dvou objektů se podle něj nenašly.
ČT24 - Nejdůvěryhodnější zpravodajský web v ČR - Česká televize
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Adam

This makes me so proud. When I was a kid, a glimpse of the #SydneyMardiGras on the evening news meant knowing that queer people existed and I wasn’t alone. I hope these images travel the globe and deliver that message to those who need it most. They deserve to know that they aren’t alone and that a whole community is waiting to welcome them with open arms and hearts. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #SydneyWorldPride
A photo of the Sydney Opera House taken from the Cahill Expressway. Projected on its sails are the colours of the Progress Pride Flag.
#sydneyworldpride #sydneymardigras
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The Market for Lemons — super important article about the failure of modern web development infrequently.org/2023/02/the-m… "the JS-industrial-complex pulled an Exxon" #javascript #webdev #fail

The Market for Lemons

New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks.
Alex Russell
#webdev #javascript #fail

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Spoločnosť Google údajne vypláca spoločnosti Apple časť príjmov z vyhľadávania v prehliadači Chrome ako súčasť tajnej dohody o zákaze konkurencie - MacRumors

macrumors.com/2023/02/17/googl…


Google Allegedly Pays Apple Portion of Chrome Search Revenue as Part of Secretive Non-Compete Deal

Google allegedly pays Apple a portion of all search revenue from Chrome for iOS in what appears to be a non-compete deal, The Register reports. ...
Hartley Charlton (MacRumors.com)

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I should probably do a write-up of this.

Given a URL for a zip file, it will list the contents, selectively downloading only the parts required to do so.

If a filename is specified in addition to the URL, that file will be extracted to stdout, again, only downloading the parts required to do so.

Files within a zip within a zip are supported (using whatever.zip:name to specify the inner file) so long as the inner zip is not compressed.

Glob-like syntax is supported for specifying what to extract.

Responses from the server are streamed for speed and efficiency.

gist.github.com/ryancdotorg/fc…


Partial/streaming zip downloader

Partial/streaming zip downloader. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Gist

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Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication

theverge.com/2023/2/17/2360507…


Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication

Only Twitter Blue subscribers will get the privilege of using the least secure form of two-factor authentication. If you don’t start paying for Twitter Blue, Twitter will simply turn off your SMS 2FA after March 20th.
Sean Hollister (The Verge)

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Proč někdo používá nezabezpečenou službu? Vždyť End-to-End šifrování zvládá hned několik konkurenčních služeb.

root.cz/clanky/ctou-ruske-urad…


Čtou ruské úřady zprávy na Telegramu? Kouzelné API neexistuje, tvrdí tvůrci

Velkou debatu rozpoutalo nedávné oznámení, že ruské úřady mohou nahlížet do soukromé komunikace v síti Telegram. Tvrdí to alespoň opoziční politička, kterou na základě soukromých zpráv vyslýchala FSB.
Petr Krčmář (Internet Info, s.r.o.)

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Das dritte Kapitel von meiner Wattpad-Geschichte ist fertig 🥳

Es hat so lange gedauert, weil ich an dem Bild dazu so lange gearbeitet habe. Ich bin mit den Posen und den Schatten immer noch unzufrieden, aber trotzdem bin ich stolz, ein so komplexes Bild fertig gezeichnet zu haben.

Das gibt mir etwas Selbstvertrauen, doch wieder mehr an meinem Traum, einen Manga zu zeichnen, zu arbeiten, anstatt Geschichten zu schreiben.

#manga #mangaart #mangagirl #lightnovel

wattpad.com/1316776751-hana-ch…

Schwarz-Weiß-Zeichnung im Manga-Stil. Ein Schulmädchen liegt verletzt am Boden. Ein anderes Schulmädchen beugt sich über sie und fragt auf Japanisch, ob alles okay ist. Im Hintergrund sieht man Meteoriten in die Stadt einschlagen.

Hana-chan can see the others - Kapitel 3 - Der Anschlag - Wattpad

Read Kapitel 3 - Der Anschlag from the story Hana-chan can see the others by KrilleFear (Krille-chan) with 0 reads. aliens, anime, japan. Verehrte Zuschauer, w...
www.wattpad.com
#mangagirl #manga #mangaart #lightnovel

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I like #Lenovo for how easily accessible #service manuals their laptops have. 👌🪛 💻

Funny is, the laptop I am fixing now has the usual warning for powering off the device and disconnecting the power cord and battery. Or here literally to remove the battery pack. But actually you have to disassamble half of the machine to disconnect the battery. And then the rest of the machine to remove the battery. There is even no option to disable battery in bios. 😀 ⚡🔋

Screenshot from service manual: Danger! Before removing any unit remove the battery pack.
Another screenshot from service manual: To remove battery pack you have to first remove hard disk, pci express slot cover, wifi module, optical drive, keyboard, optical drive board, usb board, main board...
#Lenovo #service

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👑 Ptákem roku 2023 je polák velký. Udělením titulu polákovi velkému chceme upozornit na neutěšený stav naší rybniční krajiny a na to, že polák v České republice stále patří mezi lovné druhy, a to i přesto, že je celosvětově ohrožený.

birdlife.cz/ptak-roku-2023-pol…

Pták roku 2023: polák velký • Česká společnost ornitologická

Polák velký je ptákem roku 2023. Udělením titulu chtějí ornitologové upozornit mimo jiné na to, že tento ohrožený druh se v Česku stále loví.
Věra Sychrová (Česká ornitologická společnost)
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