"Can #curl avoid to be in a future funnily named exploit that shakes the world?"
I blogged this eleven years ago and the story remains almost identical today...
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2014/12/15…
During this year we've seen heartbleed and shellshock strike (and a few more big flaws that I'll skip for now).daniel.haxx.se
RE: fosstodon.org/@arcanechat/1157…
#ArcaneChat doesn't have delivery receipts, only read receipts, the only automatic responses the app does in your behalf is to handle invite links, for that to be abused you first have to share your invite link with a malicious contact, you can get in contact with random/public entity via their invite link and be safe, as long as it is not you the one sharing your invite link!
In #Signal / #WhatsApp as soon as you contact someone or they guess your number you are vulnerable
"Tool allows stealthy tracking of #Signal and #WhatsApp users through delivery receipts"cyberinsider.com/tool-allows-s…
Another privacy vulnerability caused by the dependency on phone numbers.
In #ArcaneChat (and other #chatmail clients like #DeltaChat) you don't need a phone number (or any private data at all!) to register, so such attacks are simply impossible, keep your family safe, join arcanechat.me
Tool allows stealthy tracking of Signal and WhatsApp users through delivery receipts
A new tool named Device Activity Tracker exposes a privacy flaw in WhatsApp and Signal that lets attackers covertly monitor user activity.Alex Lekander (CyberInsider)
ArcaneChat reshared this.
On this day **fifteen years ago**, we shipped #curl 7.21.3 that introduced both --resolve and --xattr.
curl.se/docs/manpage.html#--re…
There are some confusing bits in the interface if all devrooms start sending mails at the same time (which is happening now). I can see the mail in the outbox, someone might have missed pressing send. I'll poke them.
In general, some devrooms edit rejection mails (which is a good thing), which may also cause them to be sent a bit later than in the interface shows.
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Hoy acabo de hacer una cosa que odio, y que siempre me pone nervioso, pero ha salido bien y ya tengo respuesta; así que el problema está solucionado. A veces estas cosas son como echarse al agua fría, hay que tirarse de golpe.
#curl 8.18.0-rc2 is here. Take it for a spin and let us know!
We are going backwards due to increased RAM prices: 4 GB RAM default in mobile phones and 8 GB default in laptops. SSD prices are likely to go out of control as Samsung halts production. Don’t even ask about gaming console. Thank you sam altman and tech bros for ruining everything that is fun 😏
tweaktown.com/news/109337/sams…
Samsung is reportedly planning on ending SATA SSD production says leaker, which will put even more pressure on SATA and NVMe SSD pricing in 2026.Anthony Garreffa (TweakTown)
I am in disbelief that the only argument I'm seeing mobilized against age verification laws (and their accompanying social media bans) is “It sucks for privacy!”, and not “why the fuck are we okay imposing a digital jail on every single child?”
Digital privacy matters and it's an important reason why these laws must be repealed at all costs, but let's also please humanize the issue here: social media bans for minors are just another massive chapter in the conservative's playbook to deprive any social class that's not ‘adult white males’ of their bodily and existential autonomy.
That same playbook has chapters we're already familiar with, including staples such as “let's force gay kids back into the closet”, “trans kids shouldn’t be able to decide anything for themselves”, “women shouldn't have a bank account”, and “abortion should be illegal”.
@Vonskinnback Yes, but it is also support networks for a lot of people.
I definitely think we need to change a lot with social media, especially the mainstream ones (but Mastodon is not free of flaws either). And companies definitely won't make those changes themselves, because the abuse gives extra income as upset people disengage less quickly.
I'm not saying I know the answer to fixing it all, but age verification seems like a sledgehammer approach that will do more harm than good.
#Dgar Now listening to:
John Mastodon (ft. Andre Louis [@Onj])
~ Dgar
Check out this amazing archive of free to use music by @FreakyFwoof here:
Really fun stuff.
Which hemisphere of the world do you call home? North or South?
#Poll #Hemispheres #Globe #Boost
Other options added for fun.
Police At Rob Reiner's Home; 2 Dead Bodies Reported
deadline.com/2025/12/rob-reine…
WTAF
Two unnamed people were found in the Brentwood home belonging to prolific actor-director Rob Reiner.Dominic Patten (Deadline)
RE: social.coop/@luis_in_brief/115…
I’ve never thought about it this way, but it’s almost certain that my nonchalant default position about “does LLM training violate a social contract about credit in open source” is related to the baseline fact that I’ve devoted my entire life to open source and appear in (to a rounding error) zero CREDITS or AUTHORS files. My contributions have been stripped, but it wasn’t by AI.
@yoasif@mastodon.social @mcepl@en.osm.town both Matej and I have spent the overwhelming majority of our adult lives supporting open source in non-credited non-coding roles.Luis Villa (social.coop)
For the love of god, can someone from the Signal team reach out so they don't end up making a fucking app image of all things?
Like I know you are serious about security, talk to us.
Today's environmental GOOD NEWS!
The hole in the ozone layer closed on December 1
The ozone layer is a layer of the atmosphere that protects us from UV light. Years ago, it was noticed that chlorofluorocarbons in aerosol sprays were aiding in the depletion of the ozone layer, and a hole was detected in this protective layer. After years of regulation and work, the hole is closed.
eldiario24.com/en/ozone-hole-c…
The ozone hole closed on December 1, and although experts warn it will reopen soon, emerging data offers real hope for long-term healing of Earth’s atmosphere.David A. (El Diario 24)
Downvoting everyone who says gochujang doesn’t belong in a cookie. You know what doesn’t belong in a cookie? American levels of sugar in cookies.
I really love toolbox. Very reliable:
`Error: can only create exec sessions on running containers: container state improper`
Kirche will genau so wenig wie alle anderen öffentlichen Organisationen eine Verantwortung für die gesellschaftlichen Folgen ihres digitalen Handelns erkennen.
Auch die Kirchen haben ihren Auftrag in Reichweite auf kommerziellen Plattformen umgedeutet.
Wer auf die Verantwortung des Einzelnen gegenüber Gott abstellt, müsste m.E. ein erklärter Gegner algorithmisch kuratierter Medien sein.
@GRN
Bezügl der Verantwortung sehe ich das auch so.
Allerdings lehne ich Algorithmen nicht generell ab.
Man könnte ja auch sinnvolle bauen und die Arbeitsweise transparent machen. 🙂
Und das ist für mich der Punkt. Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, dass sich Kirchen, angesichts der nachgewiesenen problematischen Wirkung der jetzigen gängigen Systeme auf die Gesellschaft, entsprechend eingebracht hätten. Es sind meistens nur wenige kirchliche Einzelinitativen, die praktisch zeigen, dass es auch anders geht.
Wäre eine der Möglichkeiten der #digitaleKirche nicht, sich z.B. der Initiative #SaveSocial anzuschließen und dies auch in den Gemeinden zu thematisieren?
Rust coreutils v0.5.0, passes 87% of the gnu coreutils test.
It‘s an achievement for the project. Congrats. It does pose questions why Ubuntu thinks it good enough for everyone, though.
*reading on*: 566 tests are passing…
What? The complete gnu coreutils has only 650 tests? For 79 commands?🤪
github.com/uutils/coreutils/re…
📦 Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: We are excited to announce the release of Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 — a significant milestone featuring comprehensive platform improvements, and robust testing infrastruc...GitHub
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