Users ‘reeling,’ feeling ‘sick’ and ‘frustrated’ after Facebook and Instagram accounts deleted without cause or recourse ctvnews.ca/canada/article/user…
Many Canadians say they’re “reeling,” and feel “sick” and “frustrated” after the Meta-owned social media platforms Facebook and Instagram have seemingly deleted their accounts without cause or recourse to appeal.
Même s'il reste moins d'enseignants à trouver en pleine période de la rentrée, il y a encore néanmoins près de 5000 postes vacants, notamment d'employés de soutien et de professionnels, dans le réseau de l'éducation.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Made a remix of a track by Caroline Romano a few days ago. Really proud of how this turned out. Interesting use of AI here, I not only used it to get the lead vocal stem, I also tried using Suno to get an electric guitar that followed the chords and general vibe of the song. Worked way better than I was expecting, and much better use than just having it make a song for you without any of your own input.
The slides from my last talk (of 3) from #OSSummit can be found below. Adding the W3C’s New ARRM To Improve Your Project’s A11y — Accessible Roles and Responsibilities Mapping
Adding the W3C’s New ARRM To Improve Your Project’s A11y Accessible Roles and Responsibilities Mapping Mike Gifford, Open Source Summit Europe 2025, August 27, 2025 4:20-5:00pm CEST G109 (Level 1) Adding the W3C’s New ARRM To Improve Your Project’s A…
The Security Developer-in-Residence role at the Python Software Foundation is funded by Alpha-Omega. Thanks to Alpha-Omega for sponsoring security in the Python ecosystem.
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"I am not here to make a careful comprehensive argument, because people have already done that. I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response."
"But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
The curl project is happy to introduce official and blessed curl builds for Windows for download on the curl web site. This means we have a set of recommended curl packages that we advice users on Windows to download.
It's been a week and a half since @marieverdeil and I started our EXTRA residency around permacomputing at @imal, so I thought it would be a good time to share some of the things we have been researching so far ✨
We are looking at batteries as means of energy storage, for now from all angles - we looked into their chemical compositions, how they're produced, recycled, reused, as well as the discourse around batteries as *the* solution to a sustainable future.
By the end of our one-month residency we will talk about our process and do a two-day workshop titled 'And what if we cooked with batteries?' at @imal's event The Cookery (save the date, it's 18-21 of September)
Below are two images from the first couple of days of the residency!
The world's first energy storage equipped induction electric range. We are accepting reservations for the 2025 edition of Charlie ranges. Your reservation deposit is fully refundable at any time.
@feld wow very fancy, thanks for the reference I guess good thing we included the “DIY” aspect in the description of our workshop - our cooking devices will not be nearly as sophisticated!
The interesting thing that "Charlie" enables is for people to be able to install that oven/range to replace gas where they wouldn't normally have the required electrical hookup, whether just a wiring issue or maybe their mains panel is too small to add another 30A and be allowed by code anyway
So if you could build a battery+inverter combo device that let you do this for a normal oven/range that would be pretty awesome
French magazine ▶️ Compétence Photo ◀️ , No. 108 (Sept/Oct. 2025) apparently contains a short article about the G'MIC plug-in in its section “Practical • The best free plug-ins for Photoshop.” It's always nice to get a visible mention in a magazine, to reach people who may not be familiar with free software! I haven't read it, but I'll try to find it! 🤩
@hub I admit I've never read this magazine before, so I can't tell if the content is good or not. I'm curious anyway to discover what they wrote about G'MIC. I just hope this won't be a negative article 😋
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
This whole Cracker Barrel saga is stupid, but also can corporations please stop destroying their branding by making all their logos completely soulless? It's the Firefox-ification of corporate America
I've avoided making any kind of deep investment into "smart home" junk, but I will say that the number one thing I care about being able to control is the thermostat.
All these smart home devices with wifi and cloud control capabilities end up being abandoned after a few years which is ridiculous. Most don't have a local API.
So that leaves you with two options if you want to go down the route of local-only control: Zigbee and Z-Wave
Zigbee products are cheaper, but they're 2.4ghz and wifi-adjacent. See lots of complaints about it and its reliability.
Z-Wave products are much more expensive, but it's 900mhz and many devices automatically act as repeaters. Range is good, people say it's rock solid for years.
It appears that both Z-Wave and Zigbee dongles expose themselves as serial interfaces, so it should be pretty straightforward working with either one.
HomeAssistant is going hard into Z-Wave though -- they just released a new bridge for it
> USB 3.0 ports (the ones with blue on the inside) are known to cause significant noise and radio interference to any 2.4 GHz wireless devices. This includes Zigbee and Thread. If you do not use the extension cable, it may not work at all, and if it does, it could be flaky at best with intermittent problems (issues with pairing, device dropouts, unreachable devices, timeout errors, etc).
i've got a handful of zigbee sensors and lights. also handful of headaches when the neighbor cranks the 2.4ghz wifi on directional (apparently her son decided a yagi-like antenna is good for an omni setup).
thermostat is kryptonite for me too. i wrote a bridge to the carrier service api on the control system to do it. this is not what we should have to do, but here we are.
@mr64bit @jae they exist. they're not pretty. but they should do the job and not annoy you, gather metrics about your "presence", record your voice... have an ugly bright screen that shines in your eyes if you walk by at night...
not everything needs a color touch screen to be useful...
I saw a Honeywell engineer talking online about people making their own thermostats that will probably kill them or destroy their homes. He said you want it to fail-on if it gets too cold and fail-closed if it stays on so you don't cook yourself / freeze your AC or worse -- flood your home with gas if the igniter failed but it stupidly keeps attempting to run instead of locking out.
@jae @mr64bit I think that's the wrong approach. About 10 years ago I had this awesome device that you plug into an outlet and it had one purpose: listen for the smoke detector and carbon monoxide detectors and send you alerts if they go off.
The company went out of business and they shut down their services, but this is what I would build again. The frequencies emitted by these monitors are tightly regulated so all you need is a microphone and to filter for those two frequencies and you're good to go. Hear it? Send a push notification somewhere or publish to MQTT
ah so a watch the watcher type story. essentially the co2/smoke detector is dumb (for lack of better terms). then the sensor monitors. i like this approach better.
it's possible to reproduce i'm fairly certain. but i lost my license to use soldering iron in a freak accident involving broken police scanners and too much caffeine
@jae I don't have any z-wave stuff, but I'll keep that in mind, thanks.
I wanted something with at least RH and ideally CO2 measurement too. I was interested in making something myself anyways, so I definitely didn't do an exhaustive search.
@mr64bit @jae oh yeah I've been quite interested in the idea of having the CO2 monitor also on the thermostat as just turning on the fan when it gets too high could help with ventilation
From the awesome explanation and examples in @SaraSoueidan’s CSS scroll-spy post — sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-scro… — I learned what that kind of thing is called and how it works (ideally and accessibly) and was able today to build a production Alpine version to solve an open ticket for the project I’m working on. 👏
Premier Doug Ford is urging the federal government to follow the City of Ottawa’s lead and bring federal public servants back to the office five days a week.
It’s no longer a hypothetical: Anthropic has discovered a hacker using its AI chatbot to plan and execute a large-scale data extortion campaign that targeted 17 organizations last month. pcmag.com/news/anthropic-warns…
The slides from my first talk from earlier today at #OSSummit can be found below. Building a SolarPunk Web: Open Source for a Sustainable Digital Future
Building a SolarPunk Web Open Source for a Sustainable Digital Future Mike Gifford, Open Source Summit Europe 2025 August 27, 2025 2:10-2:50pm CEST D202 (Elicium Level 2) Building a Solarpunk Web: Open Source for a Sustainable Digital Future - Mike G…
Next time feel free to use the illustrations from storyseedlibrary.org/ , they're there specifically to be used as the representation of Solarpunk without AI
@AEMarling well, it is hard to be less efficient than it is now.
The trouble is volume. Even if it is done locally, and is much more energy efficient the trend is to get agents to act with it 1000x more than how we currently use Google.
It is going to accelerate use so back to jevons paradox.
The LibreOffice Conference will start in a week from today with the Community Meeting, at the Faculty of Informatics of ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University) in Pázmány Péter stny. 1/C, 1117 Budapest.
Reminder that as of June 10, Microsoft's stated cloud data sovereignty policy is that they give precedence to US government requests over sovereign countries' laws.
If you have a PayPal account, it doesn't hurt changing passwords now (though PayPal requires 2FA anyway).
A threat actor, "Chucky_BF" claims to sell almost 16 million email addresses and plaintext passwords to PayPal accounts worldwide. But is the data from a recent hack?
Done that. And learned idiots at PayPal restrict password length to only 20 characters. Who the fuck limits the upper limit to such a low value? What kind of shit backend are they running if it can't handle more than 20 characters?
i think i'm still the only person to note that the authors of the 95/5 paper are *cryptocurrency grifters* who want to sell you their Web3 solution to this "problem"
i believe it warrants wider discussion when this paper is brought up
MIT’s Project NANDA has a new paper: “The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025.” This got a writeup in Fortune a few days ago about how 95% of generative AI projects in business just fail. Th…
Ein Besuch in der bunten Stadt am Harz lohnt sich!
Als Herberge kann ich aus eigener Erfahrung empfehlen: Hotel „Zur Tanne“.
zur-tanne-wernigerode.de/ Sehr schönes Ambiente, unaufdringliche, angenehme Athmosphäre und ein sehr gutes und schönes Frühstück mit vielen kleinen Überraschungen.
Herzlich Willkommen im Hotel Zur Tanne Die Tanne ist eines der ältesten Hotels in Wernigerode. »Alles prima, die Mischung aus rustikaler und moderner Einrichtung in den geräumigen Zimmern ist großartig.
The UbuCon India UbuCon India is the first-ever UbuCon by the India LoCo dedicated to the Ubuntu ecosystem and the broader Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community in India.
One week ago, we announced LibreOffice 25.8, our brand new major release. It’s packed with new features, and has many improvements to compatibility and performance too.
@lkundrak Yes, it says exactly that about Linux in the blog post 😊
Regarding OpenOffice, it's not only unmaintained but has years-old, unfixed security issues now: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_O… – Yet Apache keeps calling it the "leading open source office suite".
I download it as Appimage because it's a hassle to have to install a hundred DEB or RPM files every time it updates. Why can't it be just one DEB/one RPM?(For some reason, I've never figured out how to make the Libreoffice Flatpak show the correct theme.)
@jpmens yes, it counts the lines in the "raw" curl.1 - it's a bit of a blunt thing to do, but we have roughly the same approach to it through the times so it is a decent way to plot the growth
Hmm, actually not sure if lengthy man page is a good thing on its own. Manuals can be extensive and complete but they can also be repetitive, redundant or clobbered.
Maybe the ratio of lines/number of curl options would be a more revealing indicator? When options go up the man page should also go up. If options stay the same but man page grows/shrinks it's getting more/less extensive.
Maybe a graph with absolute numbers of lines and options as well as the ratio combined?
@jimfuller @icing wondering if the attacker went into the trouble of actually using these versions, or just spoofing the user agent with valid versions. Logged HTTP and TLS versions may help spotting impossible combinations.
I actually don't have more insights myself, but no one has said anything about these being exceptions, special or attacks. Just showing the curl use on these sites a random day.
Inspired by the BBC Tech report from @tdp_org, I looked at Wikipedia.
Yesterday, Wikipedia received over 45 million requests made with curl, from 113 distinct curl releases.
Of these, 32 million use the default UA (e.g. curl CLI). The other 13 million embed libcurl with a longer UA string containing curl (e.g. GuzzleHttp/PHP, PycURL, UnityPlayer)
I guess good thing we included the “DIY” aspect in the description of our workshop - our cooking devices will not be nearly as sophisticated!
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