“You’re ABC fake news, I don’t take questions from ABC fake news,” Trump said as a reporter shouted a question at him. “After what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States—I don’t take questions from ABC fake news.” trib.al/L8ObEpd
Donald Trump refused to take a question from an ABC reporter in his meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei.The New Republic
On this day 12 years ago, Dexter, our family dog, died. A schnoodle weighing about 25 pounds, he wasn't my favorite dog we had over the years, to say the least.
He was 13, and by then, had quite a lot of issues.
Back then, I was spending about half my time in North Carolina and the other half in New York (I hadn't yet moved here).
I left for NYC probably about a month prior, figuring this would be the last time I would see him, and I was right.
He didn't do that much for me. I was a lot more sad for Mom when he passed than I was about the actual dog, but I will most definitely not have that kind of reaction when Watson, current silly little family dog, makes his way across the Rainbow Bridge, whenever that happens. He's almost 13 now.
The Raine family alleges ChatGPT "actively helped" their 16-year-old son take his own life.Nadine Yousif (BBC News)
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Tell the Government of Canada (Industry Canada) how you REALLY feel about their AI strategy.
ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/…
Open until Oct 31.
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed AI strategy.ised-isde.canada.ca
In partnership with IBM, Microsoft is releasing the source code to MS-DOS 4.00 under the MIT license. Learn more.Jeff Wilcox (Microsoft Open Source Blog)
The silence from software projects about @frameworkcomputer supporting #fascism is speaking volumes.
Does @jorge of #bluefin, the @bazzite_gg #bazzite team, @fedora #fedora or @ubuntu #ubuntu have anything to say about this?
It's not going away. Framework is actively promoting you as part of their big #nazi embracing tent.
You on board? Is the free hardware worth supporting fascists?
So far @ariadne of @alpinelinux #alpine has demonstrated their ethics & willingness to protect the community.
There's no need to resist the :3
Succumb, become one of us!
Microsoft wants 2025 to be the "year of the Windows 11 PC refresh." They want up to 400 million perfectly good computers running Windows 10 to become e-waste. Why? So Microsoft can have their cake ($140-$200 for a Windows 11 license) and eat it (your data) too
It's time to switch sides, and break away from this cycle of endless upgrades. Our new guide walks you through installing a Linux-based operating system—keeping your computer secure long after Microsoft walks away
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Follow this guide to replace Microsoft Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, or 11 with a modern Linux operating system on a desktop or laptop PC. Linux isn't...iFixit
I went into areweguiyet to find egui, and I found this article:
boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/20…
This guy tested a million frameworks, on Windows, testing Windows Narrator, and foreign input methods.
Although they say Slint works with Windows Narrator, so I have some doubts...
I did this in 2020 and then again in 2021, but I’m in the mood to look around again. Let’s look through Are We GUI Yet? and see what’s up these days.www.boringcactus.com
I'm excited to share what I've been working on with @erikjee: RustNL's #rustlang Maintainers Fund!
Many people and companies contribute to Rust, but there are fewer and fewer paid positions for general maintenance (reviews,cleanups,etc). We need to fix that.
General maintenance is one of the most fundamental jobs in an open source project, but is one of the hardest to get paid for. Adding new features gets you promoted; keeping the lights on does not.
But everything depends on it. Code needs reviews, cleanups, docs. New contributors need mentors, etc.
A significant number of Rust maintainers who got paid for that have lost or quit their job recently. Due to RTO policies, a shift in responsibilities, budget cuts, and/or burnout. This is already quite noticable in the Rust project: longer review queues and more technical debt. This is a problem.
Through RustNL, the non-profit foundation behind the largest Rust conference (RustWeek) and the Rust Project's All Hands, we are setting up a fund to provide stable jobs for Rust maintainers. We want to employ six full-time maintainers in 2026.
Additionally, we'll provide internships and mentorship, to help retain promising new contributors. Not only do we need to make sure the current generation of maintainers doesn't burn out, we need to work on the next generation of maintainers too.
What we need now is companies who rely on Rust to step up and contribute financially. Having your business rely on the work of unpaid volunteers is not sustainable in the long term. It's a risk.
And if your company contributes to Rust, keeping the project well-maintained will accelerate your work.
Over the last few months, we have spoken to the Rust Foundation and several big companies about our plans. The input we've received and the positive reactions so far makes us believe we can make this happen. Today, we are publishing our plans for a wider audience, in search for the required funding.
If your company is interested in funding Rust maintainers, please reach out to me or @erikjee!
You can find our sponsors prospectus here: rustnl.org/resources/Rust-Main…
Let me know if you want to talk! 💛
(Message me through Mastodon, Rust Zulip, or email: mara@rustnl.org)
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well I guess that's a lie because I tried to build Eclipse against JDK17 and it says
[ERROR] ========================: Type org.eclipse.tycho.core.maven.TargetPlatformWorkspaceReader not present: org/eclipse/tycho/core/maven/TargetPlatformWorkspaceReader has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 65.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 61.0
About to go to bed, so avoiding to look it up, but if anyone here knows:
Why did Classic MacOS have so many typedefs that were variations of Str255? Like ConstStr255Param ?
Was that just a workaround to deal with Pascal generating different code for these under the hood?
digging through old emails in a database, wtf was this???
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 12:10 PM, feld <feld@redacted> wrote:
> Will I get to see Arnold's butt? It's been so long I can't remember!
>
Wonder if the SGX that was storing the username <> phone number link died hahaha
RT: dragonscave.space/users/meneli…
Calling all #Signal experts. I'm getting this: "Something went wrong with your username, it’s no longer assigned to your account. You can try and set it again or choose a new one." Tried setting from the phone and from the laptop (iOS and Windows respectively), no dice. What should I do now? @signalapp
@pertho @jae you read a lie, it has nothing to do with GnuPG. It uses a Rust implementation of PGP called rpgp which has been audited multiple times
github.com/rpgp/rpgp/blob/main…
OpenPGP implemented in pure Rust, permissively licensed - rpgp/rpgpGitHub
@pertho openpgp.org/software/deltachat…
not sure how crusty or black you could make it. but the shxt just works. feld and i use it daily for over a year at this point.
@jae @pertho the thing that blows peoples minds is how FAST it is as a messenger. They just assume it's gotta be slow because it's email underneath and there will be greylisting and other anti-spam nonsense that will make it frustrating to use.
But this is more like how email worked before anyone did spam filtering at all: fast, direct. Messages delivered via modern internet in less than 1 second usually.
@pertho @jae I would recommend forgetting email exists here at all, install the app, click create account, write a username and bio if you want, and then you're done
you don't even need to know the email address or password involved. Your identity is your PGP key, not your email address, and soon the email addresses being used will begin rotating across a whole network of servers, you'll have multiple paths that you can be reached at, etc etc. And they'll be disposable identities.
how? if the servers involved can only send encrypted mails, we can allow accounts to be created on demand. Spammers can't use them because they won't have any victims to spam unless they can acquire not just the active email addresses of user accounts, but also their public keys... which they won't be able to do
@pertho @jae people you want to chat with on there will have to share their invite link as a URL or QR code (safe to do over insecure comms). Then you'll be able to add them as a contact.
it's so easy to setup, give it a shot. I have an account linked in my bio here if you want to test.
also you can have multiple accounts/identities unlike Signal. This gives you some flexibility for further controlling your opsec
@pertho @jae FINALLY someone who thinks this is cool. Most people are like "but I want to use my own crappy mail server stack / Gmail AND I want to keep using my email address I use for everything else"
ok cool cool nice opsec bud, nobody will ever figure out your identity if they get your hands on addresses used in a conversation 
Literally me. 11 successful installations of Linux in my area so far, with zero complaints, and I will be doing a 12th soon.
#linux #operatingsystem #foss #opensource
Re: last boost (aus.social/@MattHatton/1153703…), it may be hyperbolic, but we all know there's a kernel of truth. Now, what are we software developers going to do about this fucked up situation? I don't know, except sometime I want to ship a whole non-trivial desktop app written entirely in Rust, and hope that I don't fuck up its startup time.
We sent people to the moon using little more than an abacus connected to a double-a battery.Now I need more computing power than was produced in the entire last 40 years to open one fucking page of text.
We have strayed so far from God's light.
Attempting to open a video project on the day job laptop.
I will see you in three to six business days.
The computer is showing the desktop. There are no other applications running.
The computer is using 8Gb of RAM.
We sent people to the moon using little more than an abacus connected to a double-a battery.
Now I need more computing power than was produced in the entire last 40 years to open one fucking page of text.
We have strayed so far from God's light.
Use your blinkers.Links 'n StuffAging Wheels' video on my Figaro:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE2dKZ492TAMy old turn signal video:https://youtu.be/O1lZ9n2...YouTube
"The mics are fine, it's my DSP that's broken"
Me describing my autism related central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) to other nerds.
If only Europe (and Canada) would legalise "jail breaking" devices. And put up some other provision in favour of consumers.
None of that industry it "protects" is Eropean (or Canadian)
I mean what are the US gonna do? Put tarriffs???
(not my idea)
please! I beg of you, do it. Fuck American Companies over until they agree to stop being fascist bootlickers.
Hell, I'll write to your politicians!
!MESSAGE Missing requirement: Apache Directory Studio LDAP Browser Core 2.0.0.v20210717-M17 (org.apache.directory.studio.ldapbrowser.core 2.0.0.v20210717-M17) requires 'osgi.bundle; org.apache.directory.api.dsmlv2.parser 2.1.0' but it could not be found
okay but that's not helping
ahh ok now I'm getting somewhere...
Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: Apache Directory LDAP API DSML Engine 2.1.0 (org.apache.directory.api.dsmlv2.engine 2.1.0)
Missing requirement: Apache ServiceMix :: Bundles :: dom4j 2.1.3.1 (org.apache.servicemix.bundles.dom4j 2.1.3.1) requires 'java.package;
javax.xml.stream [1.0.0,2.0.0)' but it could not be found
Cannot satisfy dependency:
From: Apache Directory LDAP API DSML Engine 2.1.0 (org.apache.directory.api.dsmlv2.engine 2.1.0)
To: java.package; org.dom4j 2.1.3
looks like javax.xml.stream is not available in the classpath in openjdk21 as it was moved to some module or something, idk, this is java shit i never mess with
if I build Eclipse with an older version of Java it should work...
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