Think outside the box at work! Stop scheduling meetings to start and stop at the top or bottom of the hour. Schedule a call for 1:22 PM, and set it to end at 2:07. People will appreciate your innovative thinking.
Holy shit. TIL that Janet Jackson is the only Grammy-winning artist with a CVE.
CVE-2022-38392 indicates that playing Rhythm Nation near certain hard drives will cause a crash, because the song contains a resonate frequency with a 5400RPM spinning disk of a certain diameter and construction.
Neat.
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Are you interested in testing your USB cables? Then I have a blog post for you:
blog.literarily-starved.com/20…
Be aware: You might discover that your cable is fooling your PC
Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist
Your USB cables may lie to your PC. Let me show you how to catch those.Literarily Starved
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As it came up in a few conversations during "FOSDEM week", here's a link to the OpenSSF blog post about why the idea of "attestation for open source projects" is, in my opinion, and others, a bad idea:
openssf.org/blog/2026/01/21/pr…
Yes, FOSS foundations and projects need ways of getting funding, that is very important, but thinking that "attestation is how we will get that money!" might not be such a good idea given the risks involved, and the past experience for those that have attempted it.
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@privacybrowser on privacy browser 3.19.3 fdroid android. when i use share url from another browser or from other app, it overrides my existing tab. ex. pbrower open tab is ddg.com. i am reading stoutner.com/ on fennec. when i click share button on fennec and choose pbrowser. ddg.com url is replaced with stouter.com is there anyway to change this behaviour
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@jpellis2008 You should try making something in the addon yourself if you like. Always cool to hear what people are doing with it.
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People keep updating this and I'm here for that
I read a great anti-AI screed today (not linking to avoid a pile-on on the author). I found it to be an almost perfect distillation of the typical anti-GenAI arguments I read. The basic form is:
1. *Lists various ethical problems with LLMs*
2. Therefore a consumer boycott is the only solution
3. Fuck you, you're a monster, etc if you don't agree with me
(BTW I suspect this is the reason so many tech bros are terrified of a superintelligent AI and what it would do to us. We've embued AI with our values, and it's clear what we do to beings we consider "lesser." The entire premise of The Matrix could easily be construed as a parable about factory farming.)
So overall: I love seeing passionate people defending what they believe in. But all the scolding and moralizing in the world is, frankly, unlikely to achieve their aims other than getting high-fives from the already-converted and maybe making the rest of us feel a bit guilty. Or honestly just chasing us off of public platforms like Mastodon and onto less vicious private alternatives like Discord.
If you want advocacy (any kind of advocacy) to work, you have to go where the non-believers are.
This is why the movement to leave X is so self-destructive in that respect. If you want your voice to be heard, don't post to an audience of people who think the same way you do, they're already convinced. Missionaries don't preach on Saint Peter's square because there's no point, they go where they aren't wanted or liked, where nobody thinks like they do.
That's a good point, yes. My worry is that Bluesky/Mastodon and X/LinkedIn are bifurcating into separate echo chambers on this topic. Thats part of the reason I'm posting here even though it pokes the bear!
And to end on a hopeful note, what does work? Regulation! Class-action lawsuits! Antitrust! All that stuff is great, and I support it. For example this lawsuit would give some recompense for OSS authors like me whose work was stolen without attribution and without honoring copyleft licenses: githubcopilotlitigation.com/
GitHub Copilot litigation · Joseph Saveri Law Firm & Matthew Butterick
GitHub Copilot litigationgithubcopilotlitigation.com
The thing that I don't see regulation and all that other great stuff solving is the cognitive effects of AI, which, so short a time after it taking off, have already been demonstrated by studies. People use Chat GPT and that has a negative effect on their problem-solving skills. Also the environmental impact.
But anyway, I think consumer boycots are a way forward but I'm totally against the scolding. Encouraging a boycot is fine,
This is a much more persuasive argument than most of what I read. 🙂 I do worry a lot about the "downleveling" of my brain the more I use these tools. Although I've started to accept it as akin to Google, in that I don't remember trivia anymore. I definitely think using these things as a "therapist" or "boyfriend" is lunacy though.
saying you're evil and part of the problem if you don't abandon all evil big tech is just self-righteous, holier than thou barrier-building. And we need to work together. Look hard enough at anyone and you will see their double standards, inconsistencies and downright compromise of principles for the sake of avoiding risk or retaining comfort in a difficult life. Is that ideal? No. Is it to be accepted placidly and with resignation? No. But condemnation isn't the answer.
We had a very calm weekend. The system seemed really relaxed, nothing bad happened, and all our members spent time together with their close people. Probably the calmest and most positive things have seemed this year. - Kylie
@tardis Absolutely, we do this too. When we can gain these very positive moments, we always try to hold on to them, or at least the impact of them, for as long as we can. If anything to draw comfort and energy from them. - Kylie
Yep. That's the way me thinks, to live sometimes, to hold onto the nice things. :)
Part of me wants to make the native VLAN, that is, the VLAN that provides access to devices who don't talk 802.1Q VLAN-speak, one that has Internet-only access, and if any devices want access to the local network, they have to speak to a certain VLAN. Of course, that means that anything requiring local access would need to be 802.1Q compatible to speak VLAN, and be properly configured. The other part of me says that my local network is simply not that big of a security target, and I'd just be creating extra headaches for myself. But the geek in me still insists, LOL. So the decision is not yet decided.
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GrapheneOS version 2026012800 released:
grapheneos.org/releases#202601…
See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.
Forum discussion thread:
discuss.grapheneos.org/d/31269…
#GrapheneOS #privacy #security
GrapheneOS version 2026012800 released - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum
GrapheneOS discussion forumGrapheneOS Discussion Forum
@bogpunk It's not experimental anymore since 2026011000. We added it to the top of the release notes afterwards to clarify it:
grapheneos.org/releases#202601…
GrapheneOS releases
Official releases of GrapheneOS, a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.GrapheneOS
RE: tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115962588…
when I wrote my critiques of the centralization of the internet, it wasn't because I hated that internet, I love the internet! Same now, I don't hate AI, there is actually a lot I love about it.
What I don't love is centralization, proprietary software, bad dev practices and exploitation.
I love conversational interfaces, and I am a big proponent of automation. The trouble is when these tools are not sold as productivity software to empower people who are doing work, with skill and effort, but as ways to create value without skill and effort.
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takto sa to robí do psej matere... a to som na rajóne sám dnes 😎
@Jann povedzme že quattro stagioni stojí okolo 15€ bez nápoja ale vieš minúť s predjedlom/hlavným/dezertom a 2 - 3 nápoje aj 100€...
To by si měli nějak sjednotit, aby bylo jasné, co se tím myslí. Já bych od obědového menu čekal salát, jídlo, aspoň vodu a kávu. Ale přijde mi k ničemu, když recenzent A pod tím vidí, přeženu, samotné hranolky, zatímco recenzent B pětichodové menu se spárovaným vínem.
(To je samozřejmě kritika těch recenzí, zejména teda asi Googlu, ne tebe ani restaurace.)
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The graph I did not dare to put into the blog post.
I would go with celestial bodies. I bet when they landed on that comet, curl was part of it.
I was so excited about the new feature the Polish government added to our government app recently, the ability to sign documents using a "qualified digital signature", *for free*.
For the non-Europeans in the audience, a qualified signature is the European equivalent of DocuSign, except far less intuitive, far more expensive, and, by extension, not accepted anywhere near as widely. By regulation, it's the only kind that has the same power as a classic paper signature.
This feature requires an electronic ID card, and as my old ID was soon to expire, I recently got one of these anyway.
I tried doing this with two different providers, and it turns out that both of them just return a very helpful "Server error, without even an explanation of what's wrong."
As they say, disappointed but entirely not surprised.
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@Zvonimir Stanecic @André Polykanine @miki Here in slovakia web based interface for correspondence mailbox and related services like filling in forms is accessible. There is a 3rd party mobile app for signing that is also accessible. QT app for signing in and checking the EID card is technically accessible but it's not that nice to use. Fortunately there is so called mobile identity what allows generating ordinary pass keys for logging into state services. And I can store that pass key in a traditional password vault like bitwarden. On linux signing online forms and related agenda is nightmare. For signing documents I can use various 3rd party tools and it works.
A third medal.
I figured I should give you a proper look. I'm honored.
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/02/02…
A third medal
In January 2025 I received the European Open Source Achievement Award. The physical manifestation of that prize was a trophy made of translucent acrylic (or something similar). The blog post I above has a short video where I show it off.daniel.haxx.se
I'm getting a slightly weird result with #Fedra. My impression is there's a slight lag on focus changes, maybe 50--100ms or so, just enough to be noticeable. Anyone knows what's going on? I could also be wrong, it's borderline enough I'm not certain.
Right, it's on tabbing that I notice it. It's not awful or anything, just a tiny bit more latency than I'm used to when tabbing from button to button. Just curious if it's an issue with the gui toolkit or possibly just me making it up.
Yeah, I think it gets just a tiny wee bit more lag than I'm used to. But it's not really unbearable or anything. Given it's hard to measure it might be completely in my head.
I would recommend getting Gesture Timing and trying it. github.com/tspivey/gesturetimi…
GitHub - tspivey/gestureTiming
Contribute to tspivey/gestureTiming development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Huh, and how does this work? I tried shift-nvda-f12 but I don't seem to get any report, and the log doesn't say anything (maybe I need to increase log level)?
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Wow! #MapToPoster really does generate some great city posters.
github.com/originalankur/mapto…
GitHub - originalankur/maptoposter: Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code.
Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code. - originalankur/maptoposterGitHub
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Wow, so flashing Graphene OS on the Pixel 6 Pro was actually quite easy, just plugged the device in and followed the guide at grapheneos.org/install/web. By now I'll just update this thread with any new discoverysI make, and yes I do plan to write a detailed blog post about that as soon as I can and know more, I really can't wait to explore this honestly.
#GrapheneOS
#GrapheneOS
GrapheneOS web installer
Web-based installer for GrapheneOS, a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.GrapheneOS
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Yup. That was my experience too. Followed the clear and simple directions, and GrapheneOS did exactly what it said on the tin.
Thanks for sharing this, it's interesting to hear the feedback of someone with visual impairment. I'm active in the community of GrapheneOS and will keep an eye on this. Accessibility is an area that needs work in both the upstream Android Open Source Project and in GrapheneOS.
We are cooking @fedora 44, and we could use some help testing it before it is ready for prime time!
From February 11 to 13 we will have the Fedora @gnome@floss.social 50 Desktop Test Days!
Check fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Da… to find out how you can participate. #fedora #gnome
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Si me dieran un euro por cada persona que se queja de las redes sociales en un podcast y que no esta en el fedi tendría mínimo un sueldo.
Buying a google pixel and installing grapheneOS on it is a much better move for your privacy and mental health than buying any of these crappy e-reader phones or some flip phone that only works over unencrypted communication channels. The rise of 'dumb phones' has lead to an influx of poorly build, insecure phones built by people with no business developing complex tech products. What I find 90% of the time is that people buy these products, realize they actually do rely on features like maps, good cameras, banking apps and all the other smart conveinences of the modern world. Ultimately they end up throwing the device away or in a junk drawer and it just becomes another e-waste waste product. If you want to actually break free from your phone addiction use a product that gices you thr conveinence you want but doesn't try to guide your towards addiction every day. A stock grapheneOS phone is basically a dumb smart phone and thats how it should be.
#FOSDEM was absolutely WILD! 😻
🤯🤯🤯 Got a hand-made #XMPP developers post card with a personal mention!
🤯🤯 Got a "Thanks Ge0rG, keep up the good work!" while walking the food mile!
🤯 Met an IRC contact from 25 years ago, @olbohlen ("Apparently I'm the only operator of #OpenFire on #Solaris") and connected him to @guusdk who brought stickers and hugs!
🤯 Accidentally met an IRC contact from 20 years ago
🤯 Accidentally met an #FDroid member iRL
🤯 Met @sven (#fail0verflow) after 20 years
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and you ran away before I could hand you a bunch of the DI.DAY flyers! 😱 It was a pleasure meeting you and thanks for your talk! We really need to unite our efforts!
Also wanted to ask you what specific messenger "N" stood for in your slides 😉
(P.S.: I've omitted from OP all the people I *intended* to meet, only recounted the unexpected things that happened!)
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N is random. I don't want to mention their names if I can. It's a subset of Signal [yes, not d-cetealized] , Deltachat, briar and more
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This year for #FOSDEM I gave a demonstration of wolfSSL cryptographic benchmarks on the wolfDemo board I designed.
Question for next year, should I demo it on an Amiga instead? 🙂
What the headline claimed: "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload".
What the article said: Microsoft might, like, remove a few buttons and possibly rename their Recall spyware but then again they might not and either way AI is here to stay because other operating systems have it.
@jakobrosin Would you count this? I used the copilot website to design internal spaces for a game I play. There is the possibility, within that game to create floors, walls, lighting and ceilings. Not knowing anything about interior design, colour coordination and lighting, I turned to copilot. I found the responses enlightening and they elevated my creation. Not saying this offsets negatives, but I regard it as my biggest AI success. @jscholes
@JustinMac84 Shure. I am not saying that the entirety of Copolot is useless, its just most of its implementation is in areas where ti does not make any sense. @jscholes
Logic Pro 12 will not work offline!
Apple will not give me a 11.2.2 version of Logic Pro that I had before. It's obvious that they want to move to subscription model, but I don't want to. So Apple blames the victim, saying "you should have had a backup"? A reputable company would give me the previous version. No warning about this before udate.
This is not cool, Apple. Too busy swanning around the White House, Tim? Let's have some support.
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My friend is running 12 on a 2017 machine so that's pre-Silicon and he doesn't seem to have problems. Is very odd
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If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
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“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!
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Hi Folks,
I am looking for screen reader users to test a site taking approximately one hour. This is a paid gig - $50 via a gift card. Please ping me for more details.
Please boost for reach.
Thanks!
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Hi, happy to help out. I have access to Mac OS as well as iOS, and have used VoiceOver for over 15 years.
This is my first post using #Fedra. I've got to say, in recent months, #blind #developers have been hitting it out of the park. I think at least some of this is down to use of #AI, which I feel can be extremely empowering if used wisely.
@TheQuinbox Apparently Claude Code's system prompt is like 16K tokens. That's insane! I also struggle with how much detail to go into. I feel like too much yields odd results, but I don't have much experience with Claude, since I've mostly been using Gemini-CLI, which in one go, managed to convert Echo TTS on Apple Silicon using MPS rather than Cuda.
So the thing about Claude is that you have to treat it like a very intelligent 6-year-old who knows how to code. Never make it search for stuff, give it exact line numbers even if you can, searching wastes tons of tokens. What really throws Claude off is too many disjointed thoughts in one prompt, like if I drop one sentence about a future feature I want to add in the middle of the prompt, Claude will think that is a very important detail and try to design for that feature, even when it doesn't make any sense. It's also far from perfect, the experience with Claude is I "/superpowers:brainstorm fix #301", and it will either produce something that's incredible and fixes it on the first try, or make me cringe and wish I just did it myself.
There's a new infestation on the block. Automatic meeting summariser AI-s. They join virtual meetings on Zoom or Teams on behalf of people, unannounced.
So, as an organiser, you may see something called "Firefly" or "read.ai" join. They proceed to spam the chat with "helpful" snippets of the meeting. Then, they will send everyone, who was invited to the meeting emails with "helpful" summaries, which are hidden behind a link, for you to klick and get sucked into their marketing database.
From a recent meeting, I received no less than 5 emails from 5 different services.
Personally I just kick them out as an organiser, just as I would do with a physical meeting, when a random bloke nobody knows about would barge in and sit in the corner. If they would harass everyone after the meeting in the parking lot in their cars with "Tell me your credit card number and I tell you 10 super cool things of the last meeting", I would cut their owners out of my comms completely. In fact, I am not really shure why we find it acceptable in virtual spaces right now.
So, as an organiser, you may see something called "Firefly" or "read.ai" join. They proceed to spam the chat with "helpful" snippets of the meeting. Then, they will send everyone, who was invited to the meeting emails with "helpful" summaries, which are hidden behind a link, for you to klick and get sucked into their marketing database.
From a recent meeting, I received no less than 5 emails from 5 different services.
Personally I just kick them out as an organiser, just as I would do with a physical meeting, when a random bloke nobody knows about would barge in and sit in the corner. If they would harass everyone after the meeting in the parking lot in their cars with "Tell me your credit card number and I tell you 10 super cool things of the last meeting", I would cut their owners out of my comms completely. In fact, I am not really shure why we find it acceptable in virtual spaces right now.
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I know someone who had one of those connected and they could not for the life of them figure out how to stop it from happening. Sounds like unsubscribing from amazon prime.
New? That's been around for 2 years or so, and ya I kick them too if their owner is not around especially.
I missed this but Gentoo Linux allows you to bootstrap the rustc compiler using a regular C++ compiler via mrustc. You should be able to build the entire Rust toolchain from source without having to rely on a rustc binary distribution if you wish so.
Wow… Google fined a whopping $68 MILLION DOLLARS for eavesdropping on people’s spoken conversations. That’ll teach them! It’s going to take Google a whole hour and a half to make that money back. I guess they won’t be pulling shit like this anymore after feeling that sort of pain. We really showed ‘em this time, eh?
Correction: it’s not even a fine; it’s a settlement with no admission of wrongdoing. So even worse.
mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/…
Julian Oliver (@JulianOliver@mastodon.social)
As we guessed, it seems that despite Google saying they were not making recordings of people's voices and mining them for advertisers, they were doing exactly that.Julian Oliver (Mastodon)
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Thread for Day 2 of @fosdem / #FOSDEM 2026 sketch notes!
Will be posted in chunks of a few talks at a time today...
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Then an extremely fun #FOSDEM talk by @rottytooth about Esoteric Languages 😀
Tried my best to capture it in sketches:
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Closing out #FOSDEM with a *great* keynote by @bagder on "Open Source Security in Spite of AI". Insightful!!
6 more weeks of winter said the Groundhog.
I just love feeling trapped. It's so great.
Results of the Global Digital Accessibility Salary Survey 2 (by WebAIM and GAAD Foundation)
webaim.org/projects/salary2/
#a11y #accessibility #industry #salary #survey
webaim.org/projects/salary2/
#a11y #accessibility #industry #salary #survey
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I heard @leo mention curl dropping the bug bounty on TWIT 1068.
thats where i heard of it. Started on h1 about a week ago, even though its closed i am still reading the manual. The tool gets better with every page.
GoDaddy DNS really is a steaming pile of manure.
1. You can manage DNS records in cPanel, but the nameservers listed there don't work.
2. You can switch to the default GoDaddy nameservers, but they don't contain the cPanel records.
3. The only 'solutions' are to:
a. Copy all the records manually from cPanel to GoDaddy
b. Setup your 'own' nameservers, which resolve to the cPanel IP
Active dis-recommend if anyone is looking for hosting (I can't change this one, the client likes them).
It used to be like that even 14 years ago when I left them. If you need a reliable hosting, I can suggest you one even with a referral link )or without=.
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in reply to vuji • • •That’s not behavior I have ever seen. If you would like help figuring it out, you can open a bug report at:
redmine.stoutner.com/projects/…
Issues - Privacy Browser Android - Stoutner - Redmine
redmine.stoutner.comvuji
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