People are strange.
I just agreed to speak at a big festival. They invited me by contacting my publicist. I told him I'd do it.
They then sent him (not me) an email with an attached PDF, and asked him to forward it to me, and to instruct me to check page two of the PDF for a link to a Microsoft Form to complete my RSVP.
Surely there is a better way.
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So @sovtechfund published the report on their experiment with Fellowships program.
And I love it. I love it because the results are so frigging good and align with the model of open source maintainers I keep pushing forward.
And it gives me a bit of hope. At least we have some support for the model of the problem. And possible solutions.
Let's make it better for everyone!
Thanks you @soverin
Eloquence is the Android version of the popular ETI-Eloquence voice synthesizer.play.google.com
I know that all words are made up, but why do some words sound more made up than is acceptable? Take "lanyard" for example. What the fuck is a lanyard? Why not go all the way and call it a bippityboop? Lan-bloody-yard.
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hmmm.... the UK is expected to announce tomorrow that it has rejoined the Erasmus student exchange scheme.
the Q. will be how much the UK will be contributing to the scheme to have closed the deal - anyone thinking that the UK has beaten the EU down much from their original request has not been following the various negotiations with the EU since Brexit.
But no doubt Keir Starmer will trumpet this as part of reset that Britain has 'won'!
So, the cost of rejoining the Erasmus scheme is £570m for 2027; almost double the scheme contribution when we were members of the EU.
While its good to see the scheme back for university students, its difficult to see how this can be anything other than (another) aspect of the costs of Brexit.
What we once had is now nearly twice as expensive after five years. Keir Starmer may say its a win for the 'reset', but once again we're worse of than we were!
#Brexit #Erasmus #universities
h/t FT
Weird thing about the kids in this part of the world is that when they're upset or whining, they have a unique thing they do to add emphasis to whatever they're saying.
Some people stamp their foot. Some drop their lip. These kids? They add a very emphatic vowel to the end of the sentence. The more upset, the harder they cough that vowel out, and the longer the micropause between the word and the vowel.
"It's not fair'a!"
"They won't let me play with my toys'a!"
"She said I smell like a dog'a!"
I'm sure the @Vivaldi folks are sick of hearing this feedback, but I'll say it anyway (sorry): the only thing that holds me back from adopting and enthusiastically recommending Vivaldi is that it's not 100% open source.
With Mozilla chasing the AI dragon, now would be a really great time for Vivaldi to take the plunge and go fully FOSS. I don't know that it gains much, if anything, by being just mostly FOSS.
People involved in the open-source community often ask us why Vivaldi browser isn’t fully open-source. In this post, we’ll explore and explain our position.Julien Picalausa (Vivaldi Technologies)
@thibaultmol I'm quite familiar with that post.
But it's been four years since it was published. They've had four years to assess whether being closed is accomplishing their goals, and a lot has changed with Mozilla in that time as well.
If I were at Vivaldi, I'd be arguing that the benefit of going fully open and welcoming Firefox users who are unhappy outweighs the benefits of being closed. Yes, people could fork the UI bits - but I've seen some pretty snazzy Firefox forks since that post that have really done wonders with the UI. I don't think the value of preventing forks is as high as they seem to believe. (Of course they don't have to provide their branding/trademarks in any source.)
Especially since AIUI Vivaldi has already struck a stance that is less AI-happy than Mozilla, I think they have an opportunity to win over some hearts and minds, as it were. They could also become the default browser and ship with distributions like Fedora and Debian, which won't ship it now as closed-source...
But, that's just, like, my opinion.
Apparently Amazon's entire DMCA/copyright division is now bot-run, without a single human to correct any bungling.
It's almost as if they get a cut off every copyright violation, and want to keep it that way.
For anyone using Parallels Desktop on Mac OS:
What's the secret for disabling all these annoying and unnecessary shortcut keys, like command+q=alt+f4, command+b=CTRL+B, etc? I found them in a nice list in preferences > keyboard > Windows 11, I think, but every single one of these checkboxes is permanently checked, and can't be unchecked. I want all these stupid things to get out of my life.
Edit: Figured it out, I think. I changed the keyboard profile from "Windows" to "Generic". That seems to have done it.
Možná jste to nevěděli, ale reader mode ve Firefoxu umí číst články. Jakože nahlas. Přečte text jako audio. Ale zní to prehistoricky a čeština je to vtipná. Kdyby zrovna do tohodle vrazili AI a vylepšili to, neuráželo by mně to.
Myslím, že jsou věci, které jsou AI a jsou pro lidi užitečné, ale je otázka, jestli to jsou zrovna ty, které si produkťáci vycucali z prstu, a jestli jich je tolik, kolik se nám snaží aktuální trh naznačit.
#ai #firefox #mozilla #readermode #tts
#NS Fanshop: "Trademark Rights:
The products in the NS Fan Shop are licensed products and may not be resold."
They should probably learn something about the principle of "exhaustion of rights," for instance here: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten…
Waterfox: No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-r…
Mozilla's pivot to AI first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be.Alex Kontos (Waterfox)
LibreWolf is another option. It is a custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom with all bad bits (like LLM/AI, No trackers/telemetry, enhanced privacy etc) removed.
* Repo codeberg.org/librewolf
* Home page librewolf.net
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom. Please report issues to https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues.Codeberg.org
Silly idea that has probably been done before:
In the United States, amateur radio operators can apply for special event 1x1 callsigns, which are good for 15 days. They start with K, N or W, with a number (0-9) and a letter (A-Z, excluding X).
So, I dare someone to do a personal special event, called Naps on the Air, reserving the call N4P, using FT8 in fully automated mode, and working as many stations as possible while sleeping... or not.
#Wedos (tedy dnes Vedos 🤦 - pitomý rebranding) jde úplně do kopru.
Už 9 měsíců mám u jednoho webu připravený upgrade na aktuální #Drupal 11. Ten už tu s námi je rok a 4 měsíce. Ale nasadit ho nemůžu.
Vedos totiž nabízel max PHP 8.2. Verze 8.3 kterou potřebuju vyšla už před dvěma roky, a než ji nasadili přechází do režimu security maintenance.
OK, nasadili i PHP 8.4 - tak web upravuju a testuju, aby fungoval i na PHP 8.4.
Jenže teď jsem zjistil, že mají jen MariaDB 10.4. Ta dostala poslední update v květnu 2024, už není supportovaná a i Drupal vyžaduje minimálně 10.6.
Co je to za hosting, kde nelze nasadit aktuální verzi CMS? A podpora mlčí. Na opakovanou otázku, jaký mají plán upgradu, a kdy se ho dočkáme, odpoví: Ano máme outdated verze, nevíme.
Wedos si pamatuju jako progresivní firmu pyšnící se serverama v oleji, aktuálními verzemi, super supportem a skvělou cenou. Dnes? 👎️
Asi to prostě naházím na nějaké levné VPS v Dockeru a bude pokoj.
Tak můžeš to zkusit u nás na @rosti. Kromě toho, že se snažíme držet nabízené technologie aktuální, tak máme i Docker compose hosting, kam si můžeš strčit prakticky cokoli.
Dostałem linka phishingowego od... Instagrama (naprawdę!) 🤔
Nawet z ciekawości sprawdziłem, gdzie on prowadzi.
Typowa próba przejęcia konta.
Jak to możliwe, że platforma rozsyła phishing do swoich użytkowników?
Czytaj dalej 🧵 ↓
Ja kiedyś dostałem na bardzo podobnej zasadzie maila z Githuba, tam (jeśli dobrze pamiętam) wykorzystany został mechanizm powiadamiania mailem o issues, w których użytkownik jest wspomniany. W ten sposób w mailu można zawrzeć dosłownie wszystko, bo treść issue staje się częścią maila. Tam zabawa była dość prosta, chodziło o odebranie nagrody od Githuba za kontrybucje do open source, coś w stylu phishingowej wersji hacktoberfest. Oczywiście odebranie wymagało potwierdzenia autentyczności konta, "w celu ochrony przed robotami", potwierdzenie miało postać "depozytu" w kryptowalutach.
Co jak co, ale scam dość kreatywny.
The effect of putting the #postmarketOS wiki behind #Anubis 😞
I really hope whatever entities are doing this will run out of money soon...
Uh-oh (for you). Just came across an old post and have there-fore realised it is your BIRTHDAY coming up soon! Please can everyone remember it's Tays birthday at the end of this month and see who can send the most unhinged psychotic birthday card. I realise as I type this I mean like an alligator in a tutu on a skateboard juggling, not like a crazed photo of her front door while she's sleeping. Get the vibe right, peeps. X
beige.party/@TheBreadmonkey/11…
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING IT IS THE BIRTHDAY OF THE GREAT, POWERFUL, INCOMPARABLE, INSCRUTABLE, IRREPRESSIBLE UNASSAILABLE, EMPRESARIO.....beige.party
Ja, natürlich ist das maximal negativ. Der junge Mann hat keinen Bock und wird gedrängt und wenn ich heute in Ämter gehe, erlebe ich diese Lustlosigkeit eben oft. (Ausnahmen bestätigen die Regel)
Ich schreib das aber auch, weil ich maximal gerne meiner Berufung nachgehe und diese ohne jeden Zwang gewählt habe.
Happy to share, that my #FOSDEM talk for 2026 has been accepted!
Join me on Saturday, 31st January 2026 in Brussels (Belgium) to hear the latest mainline kernel status for Fairphones! Lots of things to talk about!
fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…
There's also so many more exciting talks scheduled for the FOSS on Mobile devroom, so you probably want to see them all!
When you‘re low on RAM, I recommend using a recent #curl for your internet transfers.
It can shuffle gigabytes back and forth using a few MB of your memory (mostly used by openssl).
If you develop an application, you can use #libcurl to gain its benefits.
Need to shape your traffic? For example bc you run a streaming service? #libcurl does that for you for all HTTP versions.
Today, twenty-nine awesome years ago, httpget 0.2 shipped. Unfortunately, both the source and the changelog for this release have been lost in time (like tears in rain).
httpget was the precursor to what later would become #curl
The internet, and the web, was different in 1996.
Historic versions of httpget source code. Contribute to curl/httpget development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Five years ago I started getting these emails about #curl from NASA. Months later we learned this probably was related to them using curl in the Mars Helicopter mission.
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/12/17…
Not everyone understands how open source is made. I received the following email from NASA a while ago. Subject: Curl Country of Origin and NDAA Compliance Hello, my name is [deleted] and I am a Supply Chain Risk Management Analyst at NASA.daniel.haxx.se
You weren't tempted to ask "Before I spend time responding, first tell me what amount of NASA's $22.6 billion budget has been donated to the curl project to keep it going?"
planetary.org/space-policy/nas…
Analysis, summary, and final outcome of NASA's budget for fiscal year 2020.The Planetary Society
Wer glaubt, er zeigt den einzig richtigen Weg, denkt immer autoritär.
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5yo has a firm grasp of Christmas lore.
"Christmas is special because it's when Jesus was burnt. No, bought. No, born!"
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@miki It does feel that way, yes. "This one recorded the on location audio for the scene where the Dursleys go to the zoo. This guy recorded his gardener snake in the back yard. This lady over here supervised them. These people over there assisted them, by hanging the microphones."
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for everyone involved getting credit, but there are hundreds of names here for not even 9 hours of audio, which is just insane.
New release v2.33.0 of DeltaTouch, an inofficial Delta Chat client 🎉
It's mostly a maintenance release, bringing some bugfixes and preparing for future greatness 
If you're interested in the details, check out the changelog: codeberg.org/lk108/deltatouch/…
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •The number of times I've asked for something like a key that needs to go into a DNS record and received a screenshot in a word document in response is ludicrous. This is the sort of stuff that's error prone when manually transcribed (especially in the case where I receive a 6MB *photograph* of the web page.)
If only there was a way to select, copy and paste text information directly into an email...
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in reply to Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏 • • •joshbuddy
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •