This iconic photograph captures the massive ash cloud from the catastrophic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.....
The photo was taken on May 18, 1980, by Richard Lasher, a Boeing employee who was on his way to ride his dirt bike near Spirit Lake. As the ash cloud rapidly approached, Lasher was forced to abandon his red Ford Pinto and escape on his motorcycle.
The eruption was a lateral blast, considered the most disastrous volcanic eruption in U.S. history.
This is important to me. The Freedom Pass should be available to pensioners on all modes of transport in the UK.
I signed the petition:
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?Philip Clayton (Change.org)
Lamo. This shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible.
Normal links are too trustworthy. Make them creepy.
RE: mastodon.social/@bagder/115893…
This is should be a wider discussion in the security industry. Sustainability!
It’s important to realize that for (small) open source projects, even reports of real security issues with real impact are significant workloads.
They need to be reviewed, understood, fixes designed.
And those fixes may have further effects like compatibility breakage or redesigns.
If done correctly this is a lot of work, work that those developers usually do unpaid. If they have the time.
Bug bounties may increase the amount of code review and hopefully increase the security of a project due to the amount of eyes on it, but they need to be in sync with the needed resources for the project to review and act on those reports.
What if a bug bounty program paid both the finder and the open source project for fixing an issue?
It's about sustainability too. #curl is a small project. We cannot spend multiple hours every day arguing with people who want money for having found what is perhaps a bug - but often is not even that.It drains us. It drowns us.
Onward and upward!
Text to Speech engine for English and many other languages. Compact size with clear but artificial pronunciation. Available as a command-line…SourceForge
99% of smart home crap just feels like
why is it connected to the internet? so it can get updates
why does it need updates? because it's connected to the internet
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A nice long list of the "trusted" partners #Dropbox shares your personal data with. 🤨
❌ Amazon
❌ OpenAI
.... & many more.
In today's guide we take a look at how secure and private the cloud storage platform actually is: tuta.com/blog/is-dropbox-secur…
Dropbox is a popular cloud storage provider used by millions, but this doesn’t mean it’s the safest or best cloud storage for privacy.Tuta
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no, a nice long list of partners they **may** share your data with and it would be poor form to not list them. Dropbox is not sharing my files with Zoom, Zendesk, or Stripe for example.
Where is your easy-to-read list of trusted partners? I see PayPal and Google mentioned in your privacy statement but I'm betting there are more.
Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.
You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.
Reject this future. 
Keep your hardware local.
Run #Linux. 
Own your data.
The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.
#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich
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Hey #GitLab – it's sad you stopped sending me notification mails 2 weeks ago (but understandable, as our mail server had a hickup then).
It's sadder you didn't pick up even 2 weeks after the issue was solved, and not even when I changed my email address in your setup.
But it's plainly incomprehensible that, not having a paid subscription, I can't even find a way to reach out to you and inform you or ask your help with this.
Can you please fix that?
@linarphy Thanks! Your wish was granted! 🥳
For those falling into the same trap: it's not enough to change your email in the "profile" section of settings. You also need to do that under "Notifications", in the "Global notification email" drop-down.
Not that intuitive I'd say: if (in profile) you replaced exactly that address, you probably want the new one being used INSTEAD – and not just have it "verified"…
First notification email just arrived 🙌 Still: support? 🤔
I will ask here because I feel like there might be enough literary nerds around. I need to read a good amount for an exam I need to do to get into university for the English subject.
I am looking for 1 book from before 1900 and one after (fiction, non fantasy) that will pass their "literary enough" sniff test, that preferably isn't written by a cishet white man. I was thinking Frankenstein at first—but I am guessing they categorize it as "fantasy" or a book with a movie—since she isn't on the definitely pre-approved list and I can't imagine missing her (which is strange because Douglas Adams, George Orwell, J.R.R Tolkien are, but I digress).
Virginia Woolf is so I think I'll read one of her books for post 1900, give me a suggestion for one to read (haven't read her at all).
But that leaves one pre-1900 novel, so feel free to suggest one for either.
Hear me out. Cat Café x Coworking. Like a classic coworking space but with cats laying around.
I have my own homegrown cat for day use, but I would be willing to go to your in prem meeting if I could at least pet some support cats during your whatever slides.
Give me the money, YC here I come.
Interview: "Datenschutz schützt die Schwächeren gegenüber mächtigen Akteuren"
Datenschutz steht politisch unter Druck. Warum er für Freiheit, Demokratie und nachhaltige Innovation notwendig ist, erklärt Prof. Tobias Keber im Gespräch.
heise.de/hintergrund/Interview…
#Datenschutz #DSGVO #EU #Grundrechte #Journal #Netzpolitik #Wirtschaft #news
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“When you advertise on Mozilla’s Firefox and MDN Web Docs, you’ll connect with over 210 million selective, discerning, brand-loyal users. Because they trust us, they’ll trust you.”
– Mozilla
🤣
… "dumbfucks"? 🙊 💨
Oh, sorry, confused that with the other alliance. Not web browser, something something "social" web and zuck…
Threema von Comitis Capital GmbH übernommen
borncity.com/blog/2026/01/13/c…
Zum 12. Januar 2026 wurde bekannt, dass der Schweizer Anbieter eines Instant-Messengers, Threema, durch die Investmentfirma Comitis Capital GmbH übernommen…Günter Born (Borns IT- und Windows-Blog)
you can get in contact with me in Delta Chat: arcanechat.me/#contact
there is also an anonymous Forum/social network inside Delta Chat I can invite you to
besides that, you can actually have a LOT of fun alone in Delta Chat! you have a "Saved Messages" chat that you can use for saved notes across as many devices as you want, it also has in-chat mini-apps like notepads, to-do lists, shopping lists, time-tracking, etc. that you can send in Saved Messages, they will sync across devices
"Ich meine Söder ist ja nicht nur körperlich behindert, auch manchmal geistig [...]. Aber wir lassen ihn leben, er ist ja immer mal wieder witzig."
- Emil Sänze, Co-Landeschef der AfD BW
Mehr Menschenverachtung passt kaum in zwei Sätze. Und was, wenn Söder nicht "immer mal wieder witzig" wäre?
„Totalverweigerer“ ist kein Begriff aus dem Sozialrecht. Mit diesem Ausdruck kann keine sachliche Diskussion geführt werden. Er drückt Menschen einen abwertenden Stempel auf und schürt negative Emotionen.
Sanktionen betreffen Menschen, die etwa „zumutbare“ Arbeit ohne „anerkannten“ Grund ablehnen. Betroffene können nicht mehr frei über ihr Leben entscheiden weil sie arm sind.
Es droht der Ausschluss aus der Gesellschaft, der Verlust der Wohnung, Rechtlosigkeit…
Ohne Not! 🤯
AWS verspricht jetzt »Souveränität« mit einem »europäischen« Cloud-Angebot – Standort Deutschland, großes Vertrauens-Theater.
Nur: Souveränität ist keine Postleitzahl. Wenn der Anbieter Amazon heißt, bleibt es dasselbe Märchen mit neuem Umschlag: Der Cloud Act, FISA etc. gilt trotzdem. US-Recht schlägt Geografie. Das Gerede von »Souveränität« ist kein Konzept, sondern Marketing.
heise.de/news/AWS-verspricht-S…
Amazons neues Europa-AWS geht an den Start und wirbt um Vertrauen mit Standort in Deutschland. Wie souverän kann das sein?Falk Steiner (heise online)
What I would change if I got to use a time machine?
I would join the meetings where they decided SIGPIPE was a good idea and talk them out of it.
Funny coincidence, I played with those two earlier today:
$ ( strace echo "1234") | /bin/true
and
$ ( strace echo "1234") | :
With props to the git test suite which actually spells it
… ((do something .. | :) …
Meanwhile, we have now added 4 lines of code for every line of code still remaining in #curl
This means that on average, every single line of production code has been touched four times. Written once, then updated three more times. And yeah, some lines of course many more times than average, and some less so.
is there some script or tool to generate that from any git repository?
I really like all the different random metrics you post btw :)
@littlefox my script for counting this is not a stand-alone one, but is the combination of three (or four). So a little complicated:
1. count the number of lines of code
2. count the number of added lines
3. make a plot based on plot 2 / plot 1
4: graph the results with gnuplot
1: github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…
2: github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…
3: github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…
4: github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…
Scripts for generating project statistics and for plotting them as graphs. - curl/statsGitHub
Ministerstvo zemědělství po volbách začalo překvapivě tvrdit, že nemá klíčový dokument zavazující ho vymáhat po Agrofertu sedm miliard už vyplacených dotací. Listinou přitom vymáhání podkládal předchozí ministr Marek Výborný.Lukáš Valášek (Seznam Zprávy)
[matrix] Tokyo 🇯🇵 pop-up meeting
Sat 17 Jan 2026 @19:00 JST
In Tokyo Ginza East
Follow the Room: #matrix-popup-tokyo:pwl.social for details.
Hi there, Global Digital People in 🇯🇵
It is an experiment and we will make it happen!
The "Matrix Stammtisch", now available with its pop-up version.
We're looking forward to seeing you soon. No registration needed. Just pop by.
@acccgn @stereo #agileparty @agile
Tiny self-hosted note collaberation app. Contribute to trypsynth/qn development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Ich musste mir Luft machen und weil es ein längerer Text wurde, steht er im Blog:
andijah.eu/index.php/2026/01/1…
Es geht um das Fediverse-typische Herrklären und technische-Überlegenheit-raushängen-lassen und um einen Kommentar, der mein inneres Fass zum Überlaufen brachte.
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If you’re in the (WC)AG WG, consider to +1 this Call for Consensus on publishing WCAG-EM 2.0, a great update to a classic spec by @SteveFaulkner, @hdv and @JeroenHulscher.
Food on the table while giving away code
I wrote this five years ago, but still explains decently how I (try to) also eat, while giving away everything I write.
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/01/15…
I founded the curl project early 1998 but had already then been working on the code since November 1996. The source code was always open, free and available to the world.daniel.haxx.se
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in reply to Tamas G • • •The digraph rr sounds too weak, kind like a weak aspired h. Same for r at beginning of words.
R after a vowel, e.g. ar, ir, etc. doesn't sound like r at all, but close to a t.
In diphtongs like ai, ei, ui, etc. the second vowel (which is a semivowel) is near to inaudible.
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