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On the one hand, yes, of course.
On the other hand, There is a reason why this obscene LLM scam succeeds, a reason beyond the marketing of the extractive capitalist scumbags who are sponsoring it.
There is a reason why innocents turn to a chatbot to answer their questions.
You know what it is?
#curl 8.14.0 is here with new stuff, bugfixes and two security advisories.
Live-streamed presentation at 08:00 UTC today.
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/05/28…
Welcome to another curl release. Release presentation At 8:00 UTC (10:00 CEST), I do a live-streamed release presentation over at Twitch where I talk about all that is new in this release.daniel.haxx.se
After every release there's this great sense of bliss and aaaaaah mixed with the anxiety that someone soon reports a horrible regression.
...but then I've only done this 267 times. It might get better over time.
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Almost exactly a year ago, I found a subreddit called r/TimeTravel. The first post was someone asking a very simple question: How can I go back to the past and change things? I thought this was a troll subreddit, to be honest. So, I wrote a troll comment, which I'll paste below. But I'm writing this post a year later because I just got a private message from someone, asking if my time travel trick really worked. This is not even close to the first message I've received in response to this comment. Someone even bought the laptop I referenced.
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Look for a used IBM Thinkpad 700. Install the earliest beta build of Windows 95 (March 1993, when it was still just codenamed Chicago). Open two instances of the date/time settings. Change one of them to 11:11 AM on April 1, 1948. Change the other to 11:11 AM on January 4, 1984. Press okay on both as quickly as possible.
Then, disconnect the laptop from the power source (although you might want to bring the charger with you, to return to other timelines). Go back into date/time settings and change the date and time to whenever you want to travel.
If you don't disconnect the laptop from the power source, it will try and transport as much of the connecting wall as it can, which usually leads to some truly fucked up shit. DO NOT FORGET TO UNPLUG YOUR THINKPAD.
Every time you reboot you have to redo the simultaneous date setting. If you're going back before electricity, for goodness sake bring a solar charger.
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Finished reading Exterminate Regenerate this morning and I think I’ll recommend it, especially if you came to Doctor Who during after the Classic series. The historical context is really well laid out and there are great anecdotes in there. The tales about Modern Who are a little bit more sparse (admittedly due to modern secrecy standards), but John Higgs weaves an engaging story through Modern Who, too.
Microplastics are ‘silently spreading from soil to salad to humans’ A review from Murdoch University has stressed that agricultural soils now hold around 23 times more microplastics than oceans.Scimex
Trump ‘Seriously Considering’ Lifting All Biden-Era Restrictions on Ukraine’s War Effort, Sources Say
here's something of interest for you:
google chrome direct urls for the recovery downloads
different channels it seembs are present.
extracted from the json
I hope someone finds this of use.
"channel": "LTC",
"desc": "",
"file": "chromeos_16093.105.0_reven_recovery_ltc-channel_mp-v7.bin",
"filesize": 8248193536,
"hwidmatch": "^REVEN($|-.*)",
"manufacturer": "Google ChromeOS Flex",
"md5": "c71599eecb3b1bfa0a5a98c6dfb54677",
"model": "ChromeOS Flex",
"name": "ChromeOS Flex",
"photourl": "",
"sha1": "ec07c3271f61bd576ccd1546a290fb37684987f3",
"sku": "",
"url": "dl.google.com/dl/edgedl/chrome…",
"version": "16093.105.0",
"zipfilesize": 1231301075,
"chrome_version": "132.0.6834.223",
"hwids":
[] }
Read this.
Seriously. Quit scrolling, shut the hell up, and read this.
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Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Hiro Arikawa's The Passengers on the Hankyu Line (translated by Allison Markin Powell) is coming to the VPL soon. There are 10 holds on 13 copies.
Just sayin'.
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THE PASSENGERS ON THE HANKYU LINE — Arikawa, Hiro — Welcome aboard the Hankyu train! Come along on a heartwarming, funny, and a perfectly cosy voyage with the charming and relatable passengers--including one dashing dachsund--whose lives intersect …Vancouver Public Library
Attached: 1 image HR3609 To rescind each Medal of Honor awarded for acts at Wounded Knee Creek on December 29, 1890, and for other purposes. 📢 Introduced in House https://congress.Mastodon
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Keen observers of the panel we did this evening called "The Cyber Resilience Act and Open Source: What Maintainers Really Need to Know" can spot that both @foosel and @icing got questions snuck in and answered 😀
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Many open source maintainers are concerned about their obligations under the EU Cyber Resilience Act. This webinar, organized by the Eclipse Foundation’s Ope...YouTube
Thanks ! Somehow I missed your complete post with the correct faq name.
Seems to me like just another one bloat law that will not be used except for very big companies, but stress every small one (and thus will probable kill innovation or opensource stuff).
Much Ado About Nothing...
I just gave to support #Peertube, the free and open alternative to Youtube
If they raise 15.000€, they will offer "Peertube Premium" to all users. I laughed 
All my videos are available on Peertube: indymotion.fr/c/oneploumshow
Test it, join it, support it!
Let's popularize videos shared by the people, for the people!support.joinpeertube.org
Re: last boost (mastodon.bsd.cafe/@nuintari/11…), I know that nostalgia, or saying things were better in the good old days, is dangerous. But when I read something like this, it's hard not to feel that software really has gotten much worse in some ways.
I went to U when the access network, before that was even a term we ever used, was X-Terminals on 10base2, connecting to UNIX and OpenVMS servers. Performance was amazing, even when the VAX 25 mhz big iron was under load. Logins to the Digital UNIX server with 90 students trying and failing to learn about linked lists in C, and performance was snappy as hell. X fucking worked, and it worked well.years later..... (decades later, I'm old, get off my lawn)
I was contracted to assist with a <redacted> deployment of a VDI, to replace the need for two workstations on each desk. Yes, I know this really narrows it down who this was.
40gbit core, 40 or 10gigE to the access layer, and 1 gbe to each workstation.
Performance was ASS, because it was all Windows RDP.
The project was scrapped, because modern VDI is shit. We had working VDI in the 1990s with X, and we threw it away.
Fuck Wayland. Wayland is yet another example of, "but this is modern, so it must be better!"
Nothing modern cares about efficiency.
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 6 updated and 1 added apps:
* Pokey: Nostr "Pull Notifications" on Android 🛡️
1 #Magisk module was updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk (StevenBlock)
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
During the 2025 ATIA Conference, Kursat Ceylan from WeWalk Limited showed us the WeWalk Smart Can. Check it out here: Click here to learn more about the WeWalk Smart Cane.Assistive Technology at Easter Seals Crossroads
PureOS Crimson Progress Update Since July 2024, we’ve built a strong foundation—now climbing the stack! Recent Updates:
• Faster USB charging
• Speedier storage access
First alpha release coming soon.
Learn More Here: puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-d…
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
The Game Accessibility Guidelines have been put together by game studios, specialists and academics. While they are not an official set of standards or documents, they are a collection of tips and techniques to help developers make games more inclusive.
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Starting with Android 15, Samsung no longer provides a native option in system settings to disable “Direct Share” — the feature that shows frequently usedSalih Kunduz (Accessible Android)
Hey @MapComplete
Would it be possible to add a new symbol like the one in the picture, for water rescue organisations like #dlrg ?
mapcomplete.org/disaster_respo…
DLRG has an eagle as a logo. Could mapped to its wikidata tag.
But I could also understand to have a generic symbol for emergency=water_rescue or lifeguard objects.
This map contains elements meant for disaster preparedness and responsemapcomplete.org
WhatsApp for iPad is finally here, as Meta has just launched the long-awaited tablet version of its popular messaging service.Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)
You can get this high-performance mini PC with triple 4K display support at a bargain today on Amazon.Gabriela Vatu (PCWorld)
This No-Fray, Fast Charging Apple Watch Cable is On Sale
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I chatted with @bagder about #Curl and the recent #AI happenings
It's always fun talking to Daniel, and I think there's a lot of good ideas in this one, especially on how to approach AI fueled contributions that aren't slop. And even suggestions on how to deal with slop contributions :)
opensourcesecurity.io/2025/202…
Daniel Stenberg, the maintainer of Curl, discusses the increase in AI security reports that are wasting the time of maintainers. We discuss Curl’s new policy of banning the bad actors while establishing some pretty sane AI usage guidelines.Josh Bressers (Open Source Security)
GeePawHill
in reply to GeePawHill • • •I've worked with -- talked to -- computers for 45 years, nearly every single day.
No computer has ever told me I was ugly, stupid, fat, lazy, worthless, wrong-colored, wrong-gendered, wrong-preferenced, wrong-aged, or wrong-nationed.
No computer has ever told me it was too tired.
No computer has ever told me to shut up.
No computer has ever told me I deserve to feel this bad.
People talk to LLMs -- *trust* them -- because LLMs don't directly hate or hurt them.
GeePawHill
in reply to GeePawHill • • •In a world so bereft of love, anyone -- even a neo-nazi -- or anything -- even a bullshit-spewing LLM -- that offers even mere neutrality has an overwhelmingly powerful allure.
And, as I have said, that's not on the exploiters, as much as I despise them.
They're taking advantage of the situation, unspeakable advantage of it, don't mistake me: they are sociopathic scum.
But, by and large, *we're* the ones creating the cold barren loveless ground on which the innocent dupes stand.
GeePawHill
in reply to GeePawHill • • •You wanna break this LLM thing?
Work on your kindness. Work on making it more rich. Work on increasing its reach.
That's why I come before you day after day, being silly, confessing embarrassing shit, talking about my health, giving out my parting shots most nights.
I'm working on my kindness.
Join me. Maybe we can create a world where innocents aren't so alone they'll prefer Eliza 3.0 to actual human contact.