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After a few hours of mixing, editing, rendering and writing subtitles, I've finally published the last of my talks from DebConf25 (@debian)

"The Security of Debian - An introduction to advanced users - DebConf25 " is a good starting point for those curious about how distributions handle security vulnerabilities and how that's organized outside of the distros.

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The Security of Debian - An introduction to advanced users - DebConf25

How Debian handles security vulnerabilities (CVEs) for its packages.Learn how security vulnerabilities are tracked and fixed, together with some tips on how ...
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If you wanted to monitor a website but specify a different IP address than the one in DNS and have it only affect that one test, how would you do that with your monitoring tool? It should use the correct hostname for SNI and the HTTP Host header. Can you?

I can do that easily with my stack, but I can't picture doing this with Nagios and other common tools. Not to my recollection anyway

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Nikolai Gogol’s Classic Story, “The Nose,” Animated With the Astonishing Pinscreen Technique (1963)

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Nikolai Gogol's Classic Story, "The Nose," Animated With the Astonishing Pinscreen Technique (1963)

A mild-looking barber slices into his morning loaf of bread to find a human nose embedded within. You might imagine this image opening the next David Lynch movie, but it actually sets up a more lighthearted, much older, and much more Russian story:
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Hey, you know that little nut at the end of a M.2 socket that you screw the card into?

Turns out it’s Quite Important Actually
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Joel Michael (@jpm@aus.social)

@decryption lol I was reading the M.2 specification a couple of weeks ago, and it turns out that nut is doing triple duty - not only does it hold the card in place at the correct mechanical position in the socket, but it also provides an extra electr…
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Vomit sound, do not listen to the attached file if you are affected by such sounds

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NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2025.3.2 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version.

This is a patch release to fix a security issue.

Full info and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3-…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #NewVersion #Release #Update #Download #FOSS #Free

Close up angled photo of NVDA notification area icon with individual pixels visible

NV Access | NVDA 2025.3.2 Released

www.nvaccess.org
#Accessibility #foss #free #release #screenreader #nvdasr #update #nvda #download #newversion

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“The New York state legislature is working on Senate Bill S5708, which would make it illegal for manufacturers to charge subscription fees for features already installed on vehicles at the time of purchase. If signed into law, a situation like BMW's infamous heated seat subscription would be subject to a fine of up to $250 for each sale.”

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New York Wants To Make Annoying Car Subscriptions A Thing Of The Past

Most drivers don't want subscription-based options in their cars.
Justin Hughes (Jalopnik)

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US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, 2021.

All the pixels, each spending most of its time fundraising, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51…

#photography

The northern side of the US Capitol building at night, with its prominent dome illuminated. Reflections are visible in the pool at foreground.

US Capitol, Washington, DC

2 June 2021 The Western face of the US Capitol, perhaps the most "classic" and iconic view of the building. Note the temporary fencing and scaffolding, lingering remnants of the January 6th 2021 attack by insurrectionists. Rodenstock 90mm/5.
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Matt Blaze

Captured with the Phase One IQ4-150 digital back, Rodenstock 90mm/5.6 HR-Digaron lens (@ f/6.3) and about 10mm of vertical shift to maintain geometry.

Almost five years ago, a group of insurrectionist losers sacked this building in an attempt to overthrow the US Government and prevent the transfer of power to a newly elected president. They got frighteningly close to succeeding.

This photo was made about six months later; some of the physical damage from the attack remains visible here.

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James Scholes

@fastfinge I don't think I'm assuming most of those things.

I'm assuming that you're happy copying one or more executables to another machine, each of which comes with its own Python environment even if they use the same underlying Python version. I'm assuming that because you said you were.

At which point, for many use cases it seems objectively better to use a tool that is also a single executable, doesn't require you to manage Python at all or even install it, and can update both itself and your tools. If you don't want to change the PATH and wouldn't have done so for your other executables, don't. That's up to you.

I was assuming internet access, true. Mostly because I think the tool that started this thread requires it.

Anyway, figured I'd mention it for people who weren't aware. Python has a reputation for being historically annoying to manage which isn't as much the case anymore. It doesn't even need to be installed in the first place to use uv and uvx. @jaybird110127

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

Yup, I love uv. It just feels like huge overkill for anything but the machine I actually develop on. And I think uv needs you to modify the path, in order to do everything it does, but I could be wrong. Also, don't modern Python packagers do some tree-shaking so they're not including the complete Python environment in every single build? I know that NVDA's environment, to my sorrow, doesn't include multiprocess, for example, because NVDA doesn't use it. So if I want it in my addons, I have to include it myself, even though it's a Python builtin.

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I forgive the meet and assist lady for Delta Airlines at the Atlanta airport for almost making me miss my flight to see my sister and her kids for thanksgiving because she actively refused to walk me from the gate to the place where the other meet-and-assists were, until I sat in a wheelchair.

I don't know what went wrong in her life to make her such a miserable human being but I hope whatever it is gets better for her.

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Delta Chat (39c3)

No, we don't plan to add more support for OAuth2 until providers stop the practice of requiring client registration: support.delta.chat/t/outlook-n…

We supported OAuth2 for Gmail in the past. First they required us to justify the need to get full IMAP access and then they updated the requirements and revoked our client ID: github.com/deltachat/deltachat…

Not going to repeat this mistake again.


remove gmail's oauth2

oauth2 for gmail stopped working, at least partially. we decided that we do not want to spend additional development resources and extra money for that (we would need a yearly "CASA Tier 2/3 sth. s...
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Children engaging in scientific reasoning, as recorded roughly 2500 years ago in a Daoist (not Confucian!) text:

Confucius was heading east when he came across two little boys arguing, and asked what was going on.

One boy said: "I think that at sunrise, the sun is nearer to us, and at noon, it is further away."

The other boy said: "I think it is farthest at sunrise and nearest at noon."

The first boy said: "At sunrise it is as big as an umbrella, and at noon it's more like the lid of a jar. Doesn't that show when it is near and when it is far?"

The other boy said: "At sunrise it is chilly, and at noon water warms to the touch. Doesn't that mean it's near when it's warm and far when it's cool?"

Confucius had no idea who was right. The little boys laughed at him: "We thought you were supposed to be smart, loser!"

Source text: ctext.org/liezi/tang-wen#n3747…

Translation note: I'm getting "loser" from how they boldly address him with the inferior-thou pronoun, which is what Confucius would use to address *his* students.

#classicalchinese #translation #localization

#translation #localization #classicalchinese

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It’s Sunday, and once again, time for another Sonic Synergy to invade the airwaves and earholes of those who dare to tune in tonight at 6 PM eastern on HKC Radio.
Tonight, we have a special guest, none other than our drum student Pax.
We have no idea what’s gonna go on tonight, so it’s as much of an adventure for us.
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Jellybean Johnson, the Time Musician, Dead at 69

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I was reading about him yesterday following some conversation that started with Jane Jackson song Black Cat.
(learned about this just now)


Jellybean Johnson, the Time Musician, Dead at 69

Jellybean Johnson — one of the pioneers of the Minneapolis Sound, the Time drummer, and multi-instrumentalist/producer — died on Nov. 21 at age 69.
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