My thoughts are with everyone battling or affected by the bushfires and power outages on this 43°C day. I’m very thankful my air conditioning is still working and I’m relatively comfortable. If you’re the praying type, please pray for my daughter’s safe return from Sydney tomorrow. The fires are still active, and she may need to find an alternative route home to Melbourne.
#Bushfires #Australia #Heatwave #Community #StaySafe #Prayers #Melbourne #Sydney
AccessiWeather update and dev musings:
I just added a small improvement to accessiweather: being able to import/export settings to copy them from machine to machine. However, if I can convince the Toga/BeeWare team that portable apps can indeed exist on macOS as well as Windows, maybe they can implement something to allow it. Briefcase is the real issue, though it certainly has its issues though overall it makes it easy to build and package the app with a few commands, though the config method they have for all platforms to save user settings saves it where each platform usually does, E.G. %appdata% on Windows. With my WX implementation, my make.py script had to do a bunch more shit. If I did that over again, I'd probably try to switch to Nuitka instead of the abandoned pyinstaller.
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taking a close look at early unix would likely reveal a high density of this kind of thing, in terms of vulnerabilities per 1000 lines of code
sigma-star.at/blog/2025/12/uni…
This blog post shows how to fix a buffer overflow in the su progam of UNIX v4sigma star gmbh
Abolishing ICE is now the conservative position. The moderate position is shipping them all, including every single leader, to The Hague.
I leave the more aggressive position as an exercise for the reader.
Today has been a very strange day. Definitely had some #Thursday components, such as both of my ears completely becoming useless at different points, a fantastic headache, a couple of technical things that went wrong, and the ill-advised (by me) working on an experimental project that might crash and burn, but I won't know about that for a while.
Currently, both my ears are, for all intents, nonfunctional, so I am once again thankful for the existence of braille displays.
RE: infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/11…
Let me reiterate: ChatGPT Health is a dangerous product and a terrible idea. Keep it away from everyone you care about.
Don't, uhDon't use this. Don't let your family or friends use it. If you see it in your neighborhood, bang pots and pans, whistle, and scare it off.
help.openai.com/en/articles/20…
we'll never know how much better this is than doctors until a lot of people use it and their anecdotes becomes data
but I still wouldn't bet on doctors whose brains generally shut off the moment they graduate from med school
As I suspected it probably would be, my bug bounty submission of using an AI email summarizer was closed as being 'infeasible' and an 'acceptable risk' with AI.
But still - I think it's an interesting finding, so I have written it up thus: mike-sheward.medium.com/recrui…
TL;DR = I discovered how you can use Google Workspace's Google Gemini Email Summarizer to make a phishing attack seem more convincing, because it summarizes hidden content.
Yo dawg, I herd you like Amiga mouse pointers? Well, here’s all of them!
more than 2000 ASCII art diagrams extracted from the source code for Chromium, Linux, Tensorflow, and LLVM 😍
I thought this might sound interesting to you :D.
But definitely not a good day for traveling tomorrow...
hey wanna hear something surreal?
when i called 911 [on 9th of December] to report "a stalker being actively in my home right now", the cop on the phone spent like a minute trying to figure out if my ethnicity was "white - british" or "white - other"
lord only knows what they wanted that data for
Daughter just came home to tell me the teachers at school tried to confiscate her vape but they couldn't because it's actually a kazoo.
"I made a kazoo noise at them and I could see them dying on the inside so I made a sad kazoo noise instead. I don't think it helped."
The grin on her face.
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Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them.
It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.
disconnect.blog/elon-musks-x-m…
#tech #socialmedia #elonmusk #x #grok #twitter #everythingapp #deepfake
Regulators need to stop cowering before the richest man in the worldParis Marx (Disconnect)
the SHIVAA strawberry picking robot that works in open fields, not some custom designed greenhouse/warehouse
people said it can't exist
Why is Grok still allowed on the app store after generating thousands of CSAM images?
Does Tim Cook just not want smoke from Elon? Many apps have been removed for far less.
With xAI's Grok generating endless semi-nude images of women and girls without their contest, it follows a years-long legacy of rampant abuse on the platform.
404media.co/grok-ai-sexual-abu…
With xAI's Grok generating endless semi-nude images of women and girls without their consent, it follows a years-long legacy of rampant abuse on the platform.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
@Em0nM4stodon Yesterday I left the X app for Android a single star review in the Play Store which read "This app contains an AI tool that can generate child pornography."
Today I got an email from Google to say that they removed my review because it "contains obscene, profane or offensive language. Or your review appears to harass, bully or attack others."
I've been elected to FESCo! 🎉
[1]Thanks to everyone who voted for me. Feel free to reach out if you want to have a chat.
If you did not vote for me, feel free to reach out as well if you feel confortable sharing why.
Now back to the work to make Fedora and all the Atomic variants awesome!
[1] communityblog.fedoraproject.or…
The Fedora Linux 43 (F43) election cycle has concluded. In this election round, there was only one election, for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo). Congratulations to the winning candidates.Justin Wheeler (Fedora Project)
I dont understand others anti-triggering thing. If you have triggers, make filters. I made filters for the posts that ask for money.
I dont know your triggers. I cant remember your triggers. If I filtered for every trigger, then I would have nothing to say.
Please, if you have triggers, add a filter to your account.
I have published the 2025 Financial Report.
Like so many other software projects the curl project has copyright mentions at the top of almost every file in the source code repository. Like Copyright (C) 1998 - 2022, Daniel Stenberg ...daniel.haxx.se
Well that’s a nice self pay-it-forward Happy New Year. Having one less thing to do at the start of the year sounds great to me.
That said, it opens up a whole game of trying to find the oldest curl version in active deployment. Finding ©️2014 in your car infotainment system is like finding the exp2014 aspirin in the office’s medical bag.
Reasons are, as so often, historical. Computer software form and best practice does in many ways originate in the US during the 1970s and 80s - right the time US copyright switched from requiring a full notice of (c) symbol, year and author to not doing so. So it comes mostly by continued practice. Mostly as US law is still case law for most parts, which means that having a classic notice may give a better standing. Then again, the year itself may only once the item gets past any of the thresholds - which are quite long by now.
So for all practical reasons, it would have been sufficient to only note the year each file was created first - removing the need for yearly updates. This gives a minimum duration of 50 (Berne) or 70 (EU/US) years after your death. That's as of now something like 2076. Sure, libcurl may be still in use by then - if we still use computers and not clay tablets again - I would think any possible dispute has been solved already :)
On a side note, the EU still recommends the use of a copyright notice: europa.eu/youreurope/business/…
Learn more about EU copyright rules. See how you can obtain copyright protection and protect your work for 70 years after your death in Europe.Your Europe
The auto industry Doug "deal" Ford want to protect is the one that close factories when they see fit. Look at Stellantis closures in 2025, following Anus Tangerinus TACO.
This is not an industry.
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(Doug) Ford warns Carney not to cut tariffs on Chinese EVs as PM looks to repair ties with Beijing
cbc.ca/news/politics/ford-carn…
Elbows up.
As I said the tariff is not to protect Canada. It's to protect a US industry that don't give a fuck about Canada.
Edit: Added in the headline that it is the drug dealer, not the car manufacturer.
btw I expect the PM to do absolutely nothing to open that market. NOTHING.
Also hat tip to CBC for writing headlines ambiguously. It read like it was Ford the automobile lobby while it was in fact Ford, the drug dealer.
I think this is the best one I've seen in a long time.
Automatic translation:
AGRIBUSINESS = AGRIBUSEMENT
Agribusement?!? It's not even a word lol
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