There was a question posed on the #curl IRC channel whether there's ever going to be a need to raise addressing or offsets from 64-bit to something larger, such as 128-bit.

I argue there is no need to do this. 64-bit can already address a very large amount of data. For example, many operating systems and filesystems have a limit of 2**64 for file sizes. But it is difficult to wrap your head around this; how much data can such a file really hold?

Some estimates (*) say that there's going to be around 181 ZB (zettabytes) of data in the world by the end of 2025.

This is only 9812 files if each file holds 2**64 bytes.

*) rivery.io/blog/big-data-statis…

#curl

AI and Accessibility: the Good, the Bad, and the Bollocks!
A refreshing talk, where @tink cuts through the clickbait, to bring you the good, the bad, and the bollocks of AI and accessibility. With examples of discriminative AI (text, image recognition) and generative AI (alt text generation, voice reproduction, etc) she explains how AI has and will continue to improve accessibility.
youtube.com/watch?v=Ij-GLix2QU…

Ha! Great news from #MikroTik #RouterOS changelog. Looks like somebody finally tried to use #DHCPv6 Relay and figured out it was completely useless for DHCP-PD.

7.18
*) dhcpv6-relay - added option to create routes for bindings passing through relay;
7.18.1
*) dhcpv6-relay - clear saved routes on DHCP release;

mikrotik.com/download/changelo…

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The ChatGPT app for macOS has been updated with the ability to write code directly into Xcode, which means it competes with Apple's Swift Assist and GitHub Copilot.
appleinsider.com/articles/25/0…

Notre extension Chrome/Firefox vous alerte désormais lorsque vous visitez l'un des... 3 000 médias générés par IA que nous avons identifiés, ainsi que 27 000 domaines potentiellement malveillants & les 2 000 cyberarnaques black-listées par l'AMF :

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France has its own spy satellites and will keep providing Ukraine with intelligence needed for deep strikes into Russia.

Trump can write the US out of everything, but as military experts said the other night, other countries will take over, while the US becomes irrelevant.

kyivindependent.com/france-pro…

Your regular reminder that BYOD and home access is killing your enterprise security, due to infostealers. microsoft.com/en-us/security/b…
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Well, this is REALLY stupid and ignorant af: the B-29 was named after the pilot’s mom and is on permanent display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles Airport in Chantilly, Virginia. Are they gonna cover up her name on the nose of the bird, too? The stupid fuckers, in their fear of DEI, are actively trying to remove history.
oregonlive.com/nation/2025/03/…

Headline: "‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Duo John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein to Write Monopoly Movie"

Is that a gaming downgrade. Is it a punishment?

hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m…

Their D&D movie wasn't bad tbf.

in reply to Heiko

@treefit ... I have, however, enjoyed the "Stateless OpenPGP (SOP)" CLI standard - and even implemented a subset of it (see crates.io/crates/rsop), based on the excellent @rpgp OpenPGP library

There are many SOP implementations, all with the same CLI. Anyone who would like to play with encryption and digital signatures might enjoy a look at SOP.

A few SOPs even implement the new OpenPGP RFC 9580, which introduces modern encryption using AEAD mechanisms, and surely more will follow.

Me encontré esta chulada. Seguro el doc @neurologo lo aprecia.

Star Trek: Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
youtube.com/watch?v=MqlDg7kLW-…

#youtube
#startrek

in reply to Eitan

In most of the projects I work on, we actually leave the background color as-is specifically to allow for user customization. But it isn't super useful because we often have to change the text color, and then that might not be compatible with whatever background color the user chooses. I am hoping to see more features like contrast-color() land in browsers so we can define text color that will work for any user preference :)
w3.org/TR/css-color-5/#contras…

De-google-ify Internet

Amazing campaign by the French not-for-profit association Framasoft.

The De-google-ify Internet project offers 26 ethical and alternative online tools that may be used by everyone.

They build open source alternatives to many Google services like Youtube, Agenda, Docs, Forms, Maps etc, as well other services to replace Doodle, Facebook Event, Github, Zoom, Slack and much more!

Check their beautiful website, watch the videos to know more about their work and follow them here in Mastodon:

@Framasoft

degooglisons-internet.org/

#europe #opensource #europeanalternatives #EUtech #boycott #degoogle #google

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A wearable called the SuperBrain 1 from 7Sense wants to give the blind and visually impaired a remote sense of touch with haptics. Learn all about what it's like and what it can do in this Epic Ally podcast interview. Let me know in the comments what you think about this device!

buff.ly/H75l6f5

Well I wonder if this new multi-region PaaS is any good: bunny.net/blog/introducing-mag… No persistent storage or databases yet, and the talk of an "AI provisioning engine" is perhaps a cause for concern. But maybe worth a try for some toy apps.