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Thank you Crowdstrike for helping to illustrate that Open Source is not the problem.

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in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I am still getting to know the open source ecosystem, open source thinking and open source working. So for a better understanding, how does this issue reflect positive on open source?
in reply to GroeneBij

@GroeneBij I don't think it does. But lately it seems we've seen people talk about FOSS sustainability and as if these events were somehow limited to underfunded open source projects. Crowdstrike helps show the challenges go beyond that.


We are pleased to be one of the many projects supported by the EU's NGI programmes, with NLnet's contribution.

Open, decentralized solutions are essential for user freedom on the Internet and for the resilience of our services. What would happen if one of these centralized services were blocked tomorrow?

The NGI programmes are a strength, let's hope they continue: pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI

#EU #FOSS #NGI #NLnet



Notice from the Admiralty

We are aware that some battlemech pilots engage in so-called "dance-offs" in their spare time. We have allowed this as harmless fun.

However, after seeing the viral clip of Jaeger-845D and Jaeger-922H do the tango we must make a public statement:

Woof!

#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic




I've had my computer switched off for four weeks, and now dropbox won't sync properly. Stuck on uploading and downloading the same amount of files as it was last night. This is a problem.
in reply to Callum Stoneman

@CallumStoneman I've had GPO and powershell fixes going out for a while to former colleagues and tech friends. easy to fix for one, a bit of a pain at scale. I guess the number of virtualised hosts that have been hit will be easier to adjust than physical ones


Not exactly a pleasant read but certainly an interesting one. I'd never heard of Tassy.
[The Royal Fistula – Party like 1660](partylike1660.com/the-royal-fi…)


Today at 1600 CEST I'm going to be talking about gobject-introspection at the mini-GUADEC; the talk will also be broadcast at GUADEC in Denver tomorrow, at 13:45 MDT:

events.gnome.org/event/209/con…

Thanks to Igalia for allowing me to participate!

#gnome #guadec #guadec2024 #igalia

in reply to Emmanuele Bassi

If you are in Denver, make sure to attend the presentations from my colleagues as well!

- "Developing WebKitGTK Made Easy", by Patrick Griffis
- "Calendaring in the modern desktop", by Georges Stavracas
- "Making WebKitGTK accessible again", by Georges Stavracas
- "The Newest JavaScript Technologies in GNOME", with Philip Chimento

#gnome #guadec #guadec2024 #igalia



Mal by som si pokupovať nejaké veci ale vôbec sa mi nechce.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

No niečo som teda nakúpil... plus sa mi páčili jedny tesnisky ale nemali moje tak jedine na objednanie. Mám to z krku ty vole.



Walk into office space. Connect headphones to laptop. Walk out of office space. Pursue coffee. walk into office space. Check left pocket. No headphones. Check right pocket. Still no headphones. Scratch head. Check head, in case they were left dangling. Up laptop volume due to lack of headphones. Find headphones in laptop. Realise that coffee should be drunk immediately after pursuit.
#WelcomeToFriday



One of the most prominent nazis in America boasting that his fellow travelers are in JD Vance's social circles. He's absolutely correct.

Vance’s veep nomination makes it obvious that what was once called the “alt-right” has taken over the Republican party.

This group of reactionaries is far more intelligent and far more extreme than any previous Republican influx group like the Tea Party.

We're in dangerous times.



If you're mad about Google killing short links all over the Internet, and are saying things like "let's scrape it all before it goes down", I suggest checking out wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php…. Some chaotic good people are well ahead of you in terms of planning, and have a VM image you can run to lend some compute and bandwidth to the effort. It's like SETI of old, but for praxis against internet vandals like Google.

(context: developers.googleblog.com/en/g…)

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So does @Tutanota have any pledges to not jam AI garbage into their products? Asking for a disgruntled #Protonmail user.


Dear sighted girl on the 2 train: thanks for explaining that my guide dog is trying to lay down! I was worried there was a black hole in the floor sucking her inexorably down against her will. Super relieved it's just her usual post-vacation behavior — before you intervened, i wasn’t sure whether to call the MTA, the dog trainer or NASA

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Very interesting article on The Straits Times regarding anti-Chinese disinformation campaigns in Singapore by anticommunist fraudster Guo Wengui: straitstimes.com/singapore/s-p…


Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Viernes. Echándole un vistazo a los planes de calidad.



Sächsische Behörden: Grundkurs Rechtsstaat nicht bestanden saechsischer-fluechtlingsrat.d…


🔐 C++ Must Become Safer — Andrew Lilley Brinker — Software Supply Chain Security

「 If a cheap-to-maintain legacy system is faced with the proposition of an expensive rewrite, it may instead be eliminated. The externalities of this kind of change are difficult to consider in advance and in general 」

alilleybrinker.com/blog/cpp-mu…

#C #CPP #Rust #MemorySafety #Infosec



Krásné dobré ráno mastodoníci! 🙋‍♀️🐕🐈
Už jsem vám tady psala, že náš dům je trošku zvláštní, že?
Tak občas vypadá, jako něco extra. 😁😁
Taky má obrovskou půdu, dělenou přepážkami na dvě poloviny. Jedna půlka je v pohodě, na druhé se necítíte moc dobře. 😁😁 Je tmavší. Dcery národa se tam bojí a nechce se jim tam chodit věšet prádlo. Nepřispěl k tomu ani nález starého zrcadla, otočeného ke zdi. 😁😁😁
Taky se občas bojíte rádi?👻


Přátelé #fediverse, rád bych vám připomněl, že se bude konat 2. sraz uživatelů Mastodon v Karlových Varech!
🗓️ Datum: 15. srpna
⏰ Čas: 17:00
📍 Místo: Národní dům, Karlovy Vary

Připojte se k nám na příjemné setkání s ostatními nadšenci! Budeme sdílet zkušenosti a diskutovat o všem, co se týká Mastodonu. Těšíme se na vás!
@mastopivo
srazy.arch-linux.cz/invite/HJI…
#MastodonSraz #KarlovyVary #mastopivo



Krásné páteční #dobréRáno přátelé #fediverse. Hned po ránu jdeme na dentální hygienu, ale samozřejmě bude i páteční #cyklovýlet.
Musím se pochlubit, koupil jsem na kolo od Garminu nové pedály :flan_hearts:. Už se těším, až dorazí. Sice to byl ranec za dva pedály, ale občas si člověk musí dělat radost :-).
Taky moc děkuji za cenné rady @pavelkout.


I don’t know why, but I keep coming back to this tune created by Suno #AI with just a simple “Hello, world!" prompt. It just sounds so, like, what, Scorpions or something like that? youtube.com/shorts/bT70gx1FiHk :)
#AI

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Reply to Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content by Vincent Schmalbach

Selectivity is long overdue. Marginalia, Stract, and Teclis feel like a breath of fresh air for broad short-tail queries because they downrank or skip pages full of ads, trackers, scripts, and even SEO. However, Google’s selectivity can’t penalise such criteria as that would conflict with its ad business.

Google has a bias against new sites. This makes sense, given their spam potential. I disagree with your argument that a bias against new sites is a pivot away from Experience, Expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (EEAT): it takes time for a website to become an authority and earn trust. If delayed indexing of new sites is wrong, then the problem lies with EEAT. I argue that EEAT is a good framework for an answer-focused engine, but a bad framework for a discovery- or surfing-focused engine like Marginalia or Wiby, respectively.


Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #Google #SearchEngines

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In-Process is out! Featuring all the news on NVDA 2024.3 Beta 4, the add-on update notification feature in NVDA 2024.3, thanks to Intopia (& all our corporate sponsors) and a look at jumping between paragraphs! Check it out here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #ThankYou #Intopia #Navigation #Beta #Prerelease #FOSS #Software #blog



An #Uber driver refused to transport me from the Cosmopolitan Hotel to the airport on my way home from the #DisabilityIn conference because I am blind! I have already reported the discrimination with Uber. I am also reporting the incident to the Las Vegas Police Department and I will also be contacting the NV Attorney General's Office. Does anyone have any other ideas on how I can call additional attention to this incidet so we reduce the likelihood of it's being repeated? #accessibility #blind

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i’ve thought about it carefully and at length and i have concluded that i would be uniquely suited to a life of luxury and extravagance


"Today, the time has come to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener."

No, you absolute shitheads, it's not just "the time." There's no immutable reason here other than your own disgraceful attention span.

If you create a link-shortening service, you owe it to the Internet not to just turn it off after a mere decade; even more so if you purport to have a mission "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."

mastodon.cloud/@corbet@social.…


Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:

developers.googleblog.com/en/g…

A quick search on lore.kernel.org:

lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%…

...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.


in reply to Nep (Travis) Smith

"Well it's your fault for relying on..." ..on what, on one of the largest, richest companies ever to exist?

On the company that publishes that it is "Committed to significantly improving the lives of as many people as possible"?

On a company that is so synonymous with the internet that it's a verb and it has its own TLD?

about.google/

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in reply to Nep (Travis) Smith

But yes, actually.

Google has shown over and over and over again that it simply cannot be trusted to build things that it will maintain.

There's a whole site devoted to things they've scrapped.

killedbygoogle.com/

It's not just that Google gets rid of services. It's the collateral damage.

Example: The Google Domains shutdown has resulted in folks losing control of their domains to spammers and phishers.

Killing your products -- reasonable. Killing other people's work -- despicable.



What are some applications designed from the ground-up to be non-visual first? I am aware of emacspeak and speechd-el on the emacs side of things, and I’m aware of edbrowse (ed(1) on steroids with textual browser capabilities to browse the web with a line-based editor).

Ideally applications that feel more like well-crafted computing environments that people can spend long periods of time in.

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in reply to Mira 🤞🇧🇬🇭🇺

I have absolutely no idea. I can call a friend so to speak, to send here the installer information, but I dk if it's worth it, or if it even works anymore
in reply to the esoteric programmer

Looks like it works, but it's not even worth it, because the website isn't in English, soo sucks.


Jsem odvápňoval vnitřní střeva Geberitu - napouštěcí ventil.

A experimentálně jsem ověřil, že ten plast vodu 100˚C nevydrží 🤦

Na štěstí zrovna Geberit má ty náhradní díly i po 15 letech pořád stejný a dostupný, tak už jenom díky tomu se to tenkrát vyplatilo.

Ale zlobim se na sebe, taková blbost tyvole!

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I once ran my own personal URL shortener but eventually killed it because it wasn't that useful, but I kept the links working, and in fact they still work _to this day_ because I converted them from a dynamic PHP web application to a little list of nginx URL redirects.

Google have comparatively infinite budget and can't figure out how to be a respectful web citizen.
social.kernel.org/objects/3912…


Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:

developers.googleblog.com/en/g…

A quick search on lore.kernel.org:

lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%…

...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.




this is not the browser you're looking for.



Google would never kill their URL shortener. Would they?


Proton Mail is now AI bullshit. Pass it on.

pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/18/pro…

Please boost.

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in reply to Dr. Matt Lee

“If an organization runs a survey in 2024 on whether it should get into AI, then they’ve already bodged an LLM into the system and they’re seeing if they can get away with it”


@mattl sweats in Fedora AI/LLM survey.

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There has been a misunderstanding over what link shorteners shortened. In turns out to have been their lifetime, not their length.


My main instance is down, and I am unsure if it will return, so I cannot transfer my followers, so boosts would be helpful! I am a Blind Romance writer, #Accessibility advocate, and more! I do a lot of digital community work and love reading audiobooks. I still do penpals, the snail mail way! I detest #AI but love eating international candy! #Introduction #Introductions
in reply to Robert Kingett updates

Welcome! Can’t wait to learn more about your work. Make sure you save your private key. You can use it to log into any other Nostr app. Some of the web ones require a chrome extension for authentication. Once you log in - all of your follow and fillers will be available.


My new narrated audio fiction project An Invisible Sun launches on August 1st!

Go to invisiblesunpod.com to hear the teaser, subscribe on your fav pod app, and get more information!

But if you can't wait, members of my Patreon can hear the episodes early and ad-free! patreon.com/wkeithtims

I hope you'll listen!

#audiodrama #audiofiction #fiction #podcast #fictionpodcast #sff #specfic #writingcommunity #writing #indie