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All these smug Linux users really missed the point of how close y'all were to something much worse than this with the whole xz thing.

Your licence choice isn't going to save you from fundamentally dysfunctional approaches to tech.



UPDATE

:solidarity: 102% in DE! citizens-initiative.europa.eu/…

🇪🇺 Es gibt eine EU-Petition für eine europ. Vermögenssteuer, initiiert u.a. von Marlene Engelhorn und Thomas Piketty.

💸 Die Steuer wollen sehr viele Menschen, deswegen kann die Petition erfolgreich sein.

🔢 Österreich 20%, da fehlen noch 10.000.

👏 Belgien: 66%, Dänemark 88%

(Frankreich: 200% 😮 )

In vielen Staaten fehlt noch viel.

✍️ Schickt sie in alle Länder - und zeichnet mit!

tax-the-rich.eu/

#TaxTheRich

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in reply to Anne Roth

Hinweis: Es ist nicht etwa eine ordinäre Petition. Es ist eine förmliche "Europäische Bürgerinitiative" - ein Instrument, das in der EU eigens vorgesehen ist, um die EU-Kommission zu Vorlage und Einbringen eines entsprechenden Gesetzentwurfs zu zwingen. - Ich habe das natürlich schon unterschrieben!


"das Bundesverkehrsministerium plant eine massive Verschärfung der Regelungen für Fahrradanhänger. Demnach dürfen Fahrradanhänger zukünftig maximal 50 kg Gesamtmasse aufweisen, ansonsten brauchen sie ein eigenes Auflaufbremssystem. Zur Einschätzung: Bei einem Eigengewicht von 15 kg blieben nur 35 kg an Zuladung übrig, was man locker mit zwei älteren Kindern überschreiten würde. Von größeren Hunden, Gartentransporte usw. wollen wir gar nicht erst anfangen."

cargobikeforum.de/forum/index.…

in reply to Katja Diehl

Ich habe mal ein wenig gegoogelt. 50 kg wären 10 kg mehr als bisher für Fahrradanhänger ohne Bremsen empfohlen sind. Auch wäre das mehr, als die meisten Hersteller für ihre Fahrräder und e-Bike (40 oder 45 kg) ungebremst empfehlen.
in reply to Katja Diehl

Unabhängig vom Gewicht gibt es eine Max.Geschw. von 25 km/h, die gerade mit Kindern wegen Stößen nicht überschritten werden sollte.

survivalmesserguide.de/wie-sch…

Darüber hinaus empfiehlt der ADFC schon maximal 45 kg Zugladung.

adfc.de/artikel/lastenanhaenge…

Auch das zulässige Gesamtgewicht eines Fahrrades (oftmals um die 120 kg) setzt da Grenzen.

Dass ausgerechnet das Verkehrsministerium eine Begrenzung zur Sicherheit fordert und nicht etwa sichere Wege ist allerdings fragwürdig.



I set aria-live on a span so I can have NVDA tell me when something happens. Even when the message is the same, though, NVDA speaks it. I'm using aria-live="polite". Is there a way to set it so I only hear the announcement if the text in the span has changed?
in reply to Marco Zehe

@Marco Atomic didn't, but updating the text only if the new message is different from what's already there did.



in reply to Pavel Kout

@pavelkout Ta trasa měla 94 km, tak jsem ještě ten zbytek dorazil :-) Jen jsem zase blbec zapnul cyklistika uvnitř, naštestí jsem tam zapnul i trasu do navigace :-)


Starting now: on the #curl changelog page where it lists all changes ever done to all #curl releases ever done, it now also conveniently links to the "known vulnerabilities" for each released version.

curl.se/changes.html

#curl


Welcome martinevsky as #curl commit author 1287: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1423…
#curl



Well, I think we know the subject for Monday's Oxide and Friends! Any thoughts on who @ahl and I should ask to have on as a guest?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Someone who did a much better job of writing a plausible tech thriller was Daniel Suarez with his novel Daemon. (The sequel brings in some less plausible sci-fi elements IMO.) He didn't predict the CrowdStrike disaster, but he did try to warn about the dangers of the Windows monoculture in the 2000s. In recent years, I thought that novel was too dated. But now, maybe not. I'm sure he'd be happy to come on and say "I told you so."
in reply to Matt Campbell

If you can only read one chapter from Daemon to see what I mean about the author warning about the Windows monoculture, check out the chapter titled "The Red Queen Hypothesis". I think that's chapter 31.


I'm happy to announce the release of diesel-async 0.5.

It introduces support for the SQLite backend via a new SyncWrapperConnection type and it provides support for the new diesel Instrumentation interface. Checkout the full release block for more details:

blog.weiznich.de/blog/diesel-a…

#rust #rustlang




Fucking people. I hate when people insist on seeing my computer screen. I'm obsessive about having people not see *anything* on my laptop. Ever. God sighties. Why does everyone either 1, insist on helping me set up shit on my computer which I can do myself, or 2, want to do random shit on it? Use your own computers, you fucks
in reply to Kaliah

Haha, I feel the same way. I wish I could just take it off.


GUADEC Track 2 talks will start in a few minutes. Watch the livestream here: youtube.com/live/vMf3cOtcPtI?f…
#GUADEC2024


#FluffyChat v1.21.2 has been released 🚀 and is right now available in all AppStore (except F-Droid). This release brings several 🐞 bug fixes and a 🚨 security fix.

Rooms without a known last message are no longer jumping around in the room list and the last message in the room list now also decrypts when keys are coming afterwards.

Also a (security related) bug, where the app tried to load images from arbitrary urls, has been fixed.

#matrix #update



I once managed to crash loop Chrome Beta on every platform with a bad change. Had I toggled the server side feature that triggered the crash 2 weeks later it would have immediately affected all of stable.

Looking at the news today... I'm glad I got lucky that time, and I feel for our crowdstrike peers.



The GUADEC welcome and opening starts in 10 mins in Track 1. Watch the livestream here: youtube.com/live/jS7NzYqxH3o?f…
#GUADEC2024


The allegory of the cave is bogus. Who would sit in a cave watching shadows and flickering lights? Of course everybody would climb out. This is silly.

Anyway, I wonder what's new on YouTube




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A five-year-old bug which terribly affects NVDA's ability to interact with Windows 10/11's language switcher via ALT+SHIFT or Windows+Space. I get the point about bug priorities, but doesn't something as pestering and duplicable as this one deserve to be fixed more quickly? After many years of tolerating this and with more multilingual passages that I should handle daily, I'm seriously about to throw in the towel and switch to JAWS. Please check the last 3 comments: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
@NVAccess
in reply to Amir

I'll see if I can get some movement on this one - in fact I actually can't repro it myself, so it appears it may not affect EVERYONE, you can definitely reproduce it without any add-ons running, correct? There looks like some good info in the issue itself which should help.
in reply to NV Access

Thanks! Sure, it can also be duplicated with no add-ons enabled, too.
in reply to Amir

tbh but everything than switching to jaws. NVDA is open source and just so amazing, but yes if I look at the issues which are open for ages I have to wonder sometimes.
in reply to Jonathan

@jonathan859 Compared to other projects which either don't have a public issue tracker, or automatically close issues after say six months as stale - so yes it looks like there are a lot of issues, but maybe that is just a more accurate indication than for some other projects :)
in reply to Jonathan

@jonathan859 Honestly it's not that JAWS is perfect - it also has its own issues. However, basic stuff like ALT+SHIFT to alter languages there works flawlessly, MS Office support is better with more hotkeys to access various areas, and it doesn't suffer from NVDA's verbosity for going into and out of nested HTML elements. JAWS also handles language support more gracefully so, unlike NVDA, if you enable TTS language-switching for a profile, it won't apply it to other voice profiles. And with JAWS, unlike NVDA, if you press ALT+SHIFT to alter the typing language, the TTS language will also be altered.
in reply to Amir

@jonathan859 Amir, quite a bit to unpack there - so firstly if you could make sure there are issues for all of those - I did want to ask about hotkeys in Microsoft Office - what hotkeys are missing with NVDA? One of the most common comparisons we get with Jaws is "Office support is better" but no-one can ever expan on exactly what is missing?
in reply to NV Access

Fair enough, and I do get your point. Hopefully I should be able to write about it in detail in a few days. I'll share it with you.


Fossil-Energie-Lobbyisten bezahlten offenbar Geld an einen Verein für exklusiven Zugang als „Ehrengäste“ zu nicht öffentlichen Hinterzimmertreffen mit Verkehrsminister Wissing.

Und wir dachten, Klimaaktivisten bräuchten Trecker und Misthaufen, um Gehör zu finden. Dabei braucht es einfach nur genug KOHLE fürs "visiting with Wissing".

Es ist wirklich eine Schande, wie unser aller Lebensgrundlage von sogenannten Verantwortungsträgern verhökert wird.

zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deu…



Events like this are why tech needs crisis researchers who are obsessed not with "productivity" or whatever the hot little project metric of the day is but with the human behaviors and cultures that help people navigate, coordinate, create immediate community under stress, and all the things that we do when large systems in our lives break down. And I am not making that comparison lightly at all (having family deeply and inextricably involved in traumatic natural disaster crisis work)


As I understand the BSOD today became more popular than ever, truly becoming mainstream and reported about all over the news. Of course, in systemd we are ahead of the curve, as usual, and if you too want to experience your very own BSOD we have your back. Enjoy:

freedesktop.org/software/syste…

Finally no need to feel left out again, just because you use Linux! 💖💘💝



Sooo. I am sitting in an ICE train in Germany. Train is - of course - delayed.
Train manager comes on and does an announcement about the upcoming delays.
Then he mentiones that the train is very full because a lot of air passengers have been rebooked onto the train by Lufthansa due to "a hacker attack against multiple airlines".

There has been no hacker attack, the airlines are just experiencing the consequences of their actions, specifically their vendor choice (crowdstrike) and their process choices (staggered rollouts? pish pash, damn the torpedoes and full steam ahead).

But now I am hearing passengers discussing why their kids online game does not work, which is certainly related to the hacker attack...

I am starting to understand so much about the dark ages...

🤦‍♂️

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in reply to BrianKrebs

This is fitting. The top topic on Xitter right now is of course the global Crowdstrike/Windows clusterfuck. But the AI summary of the discussion is hilarious, b/c it summarizes a bunch of sarcastic posts and makes it sound like a positive (or at least can-do) story.


Too funny: In 2010 McAffe caused a global IT meltdown due to a faulty update. CTO at this time was George Kurtz. Now he is CEO of #crowdstrike

zdnet.com/article/defective-mc…

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@popey Great newsletter! I really like Alacritty, but with my low vision I absolutely NEED font ligatures:
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt

Everyone's disability is different. I am constantly struggling to make fonts large enough that I can actually discern / read them while fitting enough on the screen to do the thing I need.

Trying to visually disambiguate a 1-2 pixel wide line among a SEA of swimming characters is an INCREDIBLE struggle for me.

In addition to being blind in one eye and low vision in the other, I have astigmus, so my eye literally jumps around uncontrollably.

This is why accessibility is SO challenging.

in reply to Feoh

Yeah, I wasn't denying that it's a legitimate problem.


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Woke up this morning like wow a major sociological event for the folks I do research with 😭 I want to go to there (the messaging chains where people are sending each other takes) 😭
in reply to Cat Hicks

Assuming you're talking about the CrowdStrike disaster, we're posting a lot of takes here on Mastodon. Did you have specific other places in mind?
in reply to Matt Campbell

I'm sorry, that reply was perhaps a bit unkind. I'm sure you know there are lots of takes being posted here. But I'm still curious what other places you might have had in mind.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt ahh I'm somewhat joking but as a psychologist it's super compelling and interesting to see how people share emotions about this kind of thing and process it collectively, and I was thinking about private message chains (like people texting each other) which of course is a thing I can't (and shouldn't) access but just a very rich source of information about how people think and communicate in an event like this :)

in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

Cannot wait for the first tech media galaxy-brained piece that finds a way to blame this on "hackers", somehow.

Because obviously: computer go bad? Hackers!

in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

This kind of failure is *systemic*, but of course it will get blamed on some lowly techie somewhere whose name is on the commit message.

> It was all Steve.
> We have now fired Steve, thus solving the problem once and for all.
> Bonuses to all management for a job well done!

Yet another example why techies might want to consider unionizing. :blobcateyesblush:



Meanwhile, over on reddit

Junior dev: "I f*cked up bad, I'm so fired"

Senior dev: " Kid, I have 3 production outages named after me."

Crowdstrike: "Hold my beer...."

**

"I once took down 10% of the traffic signals in Melbourne and years later was involved in a failure of half of Australia's air traffic control system. Good times."



Today we finally bought a Bluetooth keyboard! Those of you who like classical traditional keyboards, don't be afraid of #Logitech K380/K380S round keys, they are quite convenient.
in reply to André Polykanine

That is one of my favorite things abut that keyboard and other Logitech keyboards with round keys. I love the feel of them.


All this outage stuff made me think of is: "Great work ruining the Fridays of many Sysadmins who are now running like chickens trying to redeploy a working image again."
and "How can a security update get released on a Friday, why would anyone deploy on a Friday anyway?"
Oh, of course, hackers will have a field day knowing it's so easy to take down multiple industries in the Western world by a broken update push. "Let's start stealing signing keys," they're thinking.
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in reply to Tristan

@tristan from what I've read and this csagent.sys driver causing it, the worse fallout might actually be for Microsoft, as people with less technical knowledge will just blame it as a Microsoft security update issue with the ambiguity of most not having heard of Crowdstrike. (I remember them from years ago as they investigated the Russian hacking stuff.) I've even heard some people ask why we have a huge reliance on Windows, which isn't invalid entirely but shifts blame away from CS
in reply to Tamas G

I've been seeing the same. Lots of individuals saying "Well my computer doesn't seem to be effected," which is a valid statement to make but also indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of what's going on. No individuals are going to be using CS on their personal computers. It also doesn't help that an Azure outage coincided with the Crowdstrike rollout, and a lot of external contractors at Microsoft that could fix it were unable to do so in a timely manner because of Crowdstrike.


ICJ ruling just came out:

11-4, Israeli occupation of Palestine is unlawful.
11-4, Israel is obliged to bring to an end its unlawful presence in Palestine as quickly as possible.
14-1, Israel is obliged to cease immediately all new settlement activities.
14-1, Israel must make reparations to Palestinians.
12-3, all states are under the obligation not to recognise as legal the unlawful occupation of Palestine.
12-3, international organisations including the UN are obliged not to recognise as legal the unlawful occupation.
12-3, the UN and the GA and SC should consider the modalities to bring occupation to an end.

In the court ruling, the court finds, inter alia, that all signatories to GCIV (4th Gevena Convention) must refrain from aiding Israel to continue the unlawful occupation, must carry out whatever actions are compatible with the UN Charter and international law to help bringing occupation to an end, and must clearly distinguish between Israeli territory and the illegally occupied Palestinian territory.

It's an advisory opinion but it is a huge huge win for Palestine, and could have very relevant implications in using domestic courts to curb collaboration with occupation in other states.

#Palestine #Israel #ICJ #InternationalLaw

in reply to modulux

And the same consequence applies to the UN itself:

280. The duty of non-recognition specified above also applies to international organizations, including the United Nations, in view of the serious breaches of obligations erga omnes under international law. As noted above, the General Assembly has already called, in some of its resolutions, on international organizations and specialized agencies not “to recognize, or co-operate with or assist in any manner in, any measures undertaken by Israel to exploit the resources of the occupied territories or to effect any changes in the demographic composition or geographic character or institutional structure of those territories” (resolution 32/161 (1977)). In view of the character and importance of the obligations erga omnes involved in the illegal presence of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the obligation not to recognize as legal the situation arising from the unlawful presence of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the obligation to distinguish in their dealings with Israel between the territory of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory apply also to the United Nations.

in reply to modulux

And then the operative clauses which I quoted at the start, so here's the end of my thread. Congratulations if you got here. sorry for boring you all. I think this is tremendously important though.

The ruling is very closely reasoned. I only gave you the conclusions, but there's lots of factual content hidden in it as well, so if you can handle legal text, I recommend you to take a look at it at some point. It for example points out the number of people affected by the discriminatory residence policies and so on.

If I were a sighted user, I'd probably give you a kitten picture now or something. :)

Sorry to fill your timelines this afternoon.



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