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The Genius of Brian Wilson (RIP) and How He Turned “Good Vibrations” Into the Beach Boys’ Pocket Symphony

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The Genius of Brian Wilson (RIP) and How He Turned “Good Vibrations” Into the Beach Boys’ Pocket Symphony

This week, Brian Wilson became the last of the Wilson brothers to shuffle off this mortal coil. Dennis, the first of the Wilsons to go, died young in 1983 — but not before offering this memorable assessment of the family musical project: 'Brian Wilso…
Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)

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Host Richard (@richlitt) chats with Federico Mena Quintero (@federicomena) about GIMP (gimp.org/), GNOME’s (gnome.org/) history, Rust, and the social, tech, and economic forces shaping open source development.

Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/273

Maintainer Month 2025 with Federico Mena Quintero on GNOME

Host Richard chats with Federico about GIMP, GNOME’s history, Rust, and the social, tech, and economic forces shaping open source development.
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@Federico Mena Quintero @Richard Littauer

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🎉 FLEXIREADS BLOG POST 🎉

New feature alert!

We've made it even easier to add events in Fantastical by forwarding them directly from your email. 🤯

Find out how on the Flexireads blog!

flexibits.com/blog/2025/06/fea…


Feature Spotlight: Forward emails to Fantastical

Fantastical and Cardhop: enjoyable calendar and contacts apps for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro. Fantastical is also available on Windows.
Flexibits
in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation

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Frisk

Ultimately I think it will be a bad look for entire Matrix ecosystem for its biggest server to basically commercialize the offering similar to how other commercial products do it.

There is a difference in how matrix.org is structured, being a non-profit and for example how commercial solution such as Discord is structured, but creatures don't really care about such difference, the point will be that both will have some kind of "better" offering for paid users and that kinda sucks.

I'm sticking to my opinion which I've already expressed in the past that instead of pouring more and more money into maintaining a single huge Matrix server (and the costs will continue to rise, maintaining a huge platform for social interactions is only getting worse the more it scales) it would be simply more efficient to focus on better UX and ecosystem experience to distribute the userbase across many public servers.

This move in a way may make some creatures decide to change servers, but that will be at the cost of Matrix reputation and is not a specific goal with which those premium accounts are created.

Matrix continues to be a massive undertaking, and while I see the value in matrix.org server, I worry that the funds going into its maintenance could be better utilized by Matrix foundation by focusing in other areas that would favor further decentralization of the network.

in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation

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crispycat

it is absolutely ridiculous to be doing this instead of offloading to reputable community-run servers. matrix.org is *not* a good onboarding experience; in fact it is very slow as evidenced in last week's presentation of Aurora, is the source of a huge amount of abuse even proportional to its active users, and is terrible for privacy/security/anonymity given it sits behind #Cloudflare/#NSA's MITM and requires a google captcha to sign up (along with email)
#cloudflare
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Last week, I gave a talk on web browser security research at a student-organized conference. I tried to make the talk reasonably beginner-friendly, so the slides (linked here) could hopefully be useful to someone as a learning resource. docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Intro to Browser Security Research

How to Find Vulnerabilities in Web Browsers (An Introduction to Web Browser Security Research) Ivan Fratrić, Google Project Zero 2025
Google Docs

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Anybody knows what I should do to enable push notifications on #monal? My ejabberd shows as compliant with XEP-0357: Push Notifications on compliance.conversations.im/ but the messages don't reach the phone when the app is closed

#xmpp #jabber

Please :boost_ok: for reach

Server overview · XMPP Compliance Tester

Pick and choose your Jabber server from a list of compatible servers or check if your current server supports all required features.
compliance.conversations.im
#xmpp #Jabber #monal

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curlmin

Remove unnecessary headers, cookies, and query parameters from a #curl command while ensuring the response remains the same.

github.com/noperator/curlmin


GitHub - noperator/curlmin: Remove unnecessary headers, cookies, and query parameters from a curl command while ensuring the response remains the same.

Remove unnecessary headers, cookies, and query parameters from a curl command while ensuring the response remains the same. - noperator/curlmin
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#curl

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A link in @simon's recent blog anniversary post led me to this post: simonwillison.net/2022/Jun/5/p… which contains this gem about using an LLM:

> It’s a programming activity that actually feels a lot more like spellcasting. It’s almost impossible to reason about: I imagine even the creators of GPT-3 could not explain to you why certain prompts produce great results while others do not.

I think that's no less true of today's LLMs.


How to use the GPT-3 language model

I ran a Twitter poll the other day asking if people had tried GPT-3 and why or why not. The winning option, by quite a long way, was “No, I …
Simon Willison’s Weblog
@Simon Willison

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@libreoffice

nice export to epub - but need to be able to put in metadata and validate - especially now with the accessibility act from EU. a lot of schema fields to fill out like kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs/m…
and Daisy / Arc doesn't really cut it in making sense of it - nor provide the right code and validation. would you, please?

Schema.org Accessibility Metadata

Guidelines for using schema.org accessibility metadata in publications
kb.daisy.org
@LibreOffice

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Politicians around the world want to #backdoor #encryption. But #Signalgate 2.0 shows the danger would be HUGE.

We're saying #NoToBackdoors 💪

Read Hanna's opinion: Signalgate 2.0 proves it - there’s no such thing as a “Backdoor for the Good Guys Only”
👉 tuta.com/blog/opinion-signalga…

Image of a broken lock with the headline: Signalgate 2.0 What a "Backdoor for the good guys" truly means

Signalgate 2.0 proves it - there’s no such thing as a “Backdoor for the Good Guys Only” | Tuta

Sensitives data fell into the hands of criminals because US officials were using a non-encryption version of the popular chat app Signal.
Tuta
#encryption #backdoor #signalgate #notobackdoors

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“Montreal: A Metro Stuck in the Past” newsletters.feedbinusercontent…

I think the issue with accessibility is really the lack of funds at the provincial level. The STM has a programme to improve accessibility, but it has to be put on hold as the CAQ aren’t interested in funding transit.

But I agree, I wish we could bring the system forward in time.

/cc @reecemartintransit

Montreal: A Metro Stuck in the Past

newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com
@Reece Martin
in reply to Jean-Francois Mezei

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Heliomass

@jfmezei I think it would be good for someone to do a full and proper analysis on the impact the REM had on transit development in Greater Montreal. I’m still on the fence about the whole thing as I feel transit planning is so broken in North America, this model was literally the only way we could have gotten a new railway of this scope. Was it worth the negative impacts? Not sure yet, but they need to inject money into the Metro before it collapses.
@Jean-Francois Mezei
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Akce pumpa na půl ukončena.

Ve středu jsem byl u našich a všechno ve studni rozebral. Potřeboval jsem koupit nový sací koš a zjistit, jestli mají v Sigmě skladem i těsnění se zpětnou klapkou pod přírubu.

Jenže mezitím šla máma ven a táta to samozřejmě „rychle vyčistil a smontoval zpět“. Takže jsem neviděl, jak vypadá to velké těsnění. 🤦

Dneska tedy opět celá demontáž potrubí ve studni, nový sací koš nasazen – a jak jinak, teče to pod přírubou. Přesně tam, kde jsem to těsnění chtěl koupit. 😅

Takže zítra repete…

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Lasst euch von Google, YouTube & Co. nicht einreden, Werbeblocker seien illegal. Das stimmt nicht. Adblocker sind kein Rechtsbruch, sondern eine bittere Notwendigkeit im heutigen Internet – als Selbstschutz vor Überwachung, Manipulation und aufdringlicher Kommerzialisierung. Dass Konzerne sie dämonisieren, zeigt nur, wie sehr sie auf Kosten der Nutzer profitieren wollen und wie kaputt ihr datengetriebenes Geschäftsmodell ist.

Werbeblocker: kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke…
YouTube werbefrei: kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke…


Empfehlungsecke

Die Empfehlungsecke beinhaltet aktuelle Empfehlungen zu Messengern, Browser-Add-ons und weiteren Themen • IT-Sicherheit & Datenschutz aus Karlsruhe
www.kuketz-blog.de
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So today it is Friday the 13th and apparently I should have stayed in my bed.

Just spent way too much time troubleshooting why the curl requests I got from Firefox by using "copy request to cUrl" did not work. Turns out it is a Firefox bug. For unknown reason it adds a caret "^" before each parameter separator in the query string in the curl request, breaking everything. 😞

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

#firefox #curl #development #bug #fridaythe13th

1970351 - Copy as cURL (POSIX) adds ^ in front of query params separator (^&)

ASSIGNED (hmanilla) in DevTools - Netmonitor. Last updated 2025-06-12.
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#firefox #development #bug #curl #fridaythe13th

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Apologies to Matt, I had meant to share this back when it dropped and it slipped my mind.

I was a guest over on @thelinuxcast show to talk Wayland youtube.com/watch?v=5aUEKJn04s…


The State of Wayland in 2025 - With @BrodieRobertson

The boys are back! This time we're talking about the state of Wayland in 2025. Also we talk about how the transition is going. All with a very special guest!...
YouTube
@thelinuxcast

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@Tutanota Hi! I have a calendar event that I created back in December, which repeats every week. Now that we've switched to summer time, I noticed that the event's time shifted by 1 hour (from 11:00 to 12:00). I'm not sure if this is intended behavior because I personally find it confusing. People normally don't move appointments when we switch from winter to summer time and vice versa. I'm reporting this just in case.
@Tuta

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This is the 100 year anniversary of humans having an idea of what the heck the sun and all the stars actually are. If you had asked a leading astronomer in 1925 what the sun was, they would say that it's basically the same as Earth, but very hot.

In Cecilia Payne's doctoral thesis she was the first to say, from spectral data, that the sun was overwhelmingly made of hydrogen and helium.

It was later described as "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_…


British-born American astronomer

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

reshared this

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Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden Speaks Out on Her Firing by President Trump - I Love Libraries ilovelibraries.org/article/for…

Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden Speaks Out on Her Firing by President Trump - I Love Libraries

Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden sat down with Robert Costa on CBS Sunday Morning this weekend to discuss a variety of subjects, most notably her May 8 firing by President Trump.
Phil Morehart (I Love Libraries)

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Je tu verze 1.5.0 skriptu pro Zprávobot.news:

• vylepšení zpracování obsahu
• vylepšení manipulace s URL
• pokročilá logika ořezávání
• lepší správa RSS
• opravy zmiňovaných domén
• optimalizace výkonu
• vylepšené mapování znaků
• zlepšení čitelnosti skriptu

Verze 1.5.0 je robustnější a efektivnější než předchozí 1.4.0.

github.com/DanielSnor/Zpravobo…

#zpravobot #release #update


Release v1.5.0 – Children's Day 2025 version – Jun 1, 2025 · DanielSnor/Zpravobot.news

We are excited to release version 1.5.0 of the IFTTT webhook filter script, featuring significant enhancements in content processing, URL handling, and configuration flexibility. This update introd...
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#release #update #zpravobot
in reply to Daniel Šnor

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Daniel Šnor

Nová verze skriptu Zprávobot.news - 1.5.1:

• Úplné odstranění zpracování RSS-as-Twitter
• Zjednodušená detekce citací Bluesky
• Nová detekce příspěvků s odpovědí
• Vylepšená kontrola komerčního obsahu
• Přidána kontrola příspěvků s odpovědí
• Opravena funkce contentHack()
• Zjednodušení funkce createDomainFixPatterns()
• Menší velikost kódu: -1647 znaků (-51 řádků)

v1.5.1 zjednodušuje, optimalizuje a zefektivňuje stávající kód.

github.com/DanielSnor/Zpravobo…

#zpravobot #release #update


Release v1.5.1 - June's Friday the 13th version - Jun 13th, 2025 · DanielSnor/Zpravobot.news

Main changes Features removed Complete removal of RSS-as-Twitter processing Simplified Bluesky quote detection Added features New reply post detection Improvements Enhanced commercial content ...
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#release #update #zpravobot

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Great day yesterday at #Devconf . Many in-depth discussions after my talk at the @fsfe booth, most of the time together with @llas .

@sofiaritz and @Tobias had a full #FreeYourAndroid workshop, showing people how to flash their phones and the rest of the time had a busy time at the #FSFE booth as well.

Big thank you to all who attended my talk, and to those who joined us at the booth.

Two people behind a desk full of flyers, stickers, and books and a screen showing a video. In the background some plants.
Room with people on chairs. One person in the front, behind him a slide with CD and DVD covers of GNU/Linux distributions.
#fsfe #devconf #freeyourandroid @Free Software Foundation Europe @Tobias @Sofía Aritz @Lucas Lasota
in reply to Archos

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Vojtěch Dubský

@ozzelot Ono to i trochu zapadá. Prostě na Pixelech zavedou Fuchsii a vedle toho budou vyvíjet Android. a ve chvíli, kdy ostatní výrobci naskočej na Fuchsii protože to pro ně bude snadnější v rámci kompatibility s Google ekosystémem, tak Google nechá Android pomalu umřít. V lepším případě ho předá nějaké nadaci. Ale v tu chvíli budou mít jakékoli alternativní ROM problém a to hlavně ty linuxové, protože Fuchsia nemá linuxový kernel...
@Ozzelot
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