Moin!
Neues Jahr, erster #Chaostreff, 19:00 heute in der #Machbar. Beste Medizin gegen Post-Congress-Depression nach dem #39C3.
Einige Infos:
* Es wird etwas kühler (18C) werden, weil nur 3/4 Wärmepumpen arbeiten. Zieht 1 Schicht mehr an.
* Congress-Items müssen noch final ins Lager eingeräumt werden.
* Wir wollen dieses Jahr ein Geekend im Mai machen. Hier brauchen wir Teams für Programm, PL, Party, Ihr kennt den Drill :)
* Es gibt Kartoffelsuppe! 🥔
#XMPP Community
The #XSF Communication Team announces a new initiative to help evolving the XMPP ecosystem. Join the cross-network workshop series!
xmpp.org/2026/01/chat-of-the-f…
#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #xeps #standards #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging
The XSF Communication Team is launching the ‘Chat of the Future Initiative’ to support the XMPP ecosystem through collaborative discussions, development, and improved public communication. This new initiative invites participants from all …xmpp.org
#Russia has just officially closed the criminal investigation of the #Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 their air defense downed over #Grozny in December 2024. Prosecutor’s General office simply states:
It has been established that the aircraft departed at 06:55 (Moscow time) from Baku airport to Grozny airport. Due to weather conditions (cloudiness), after two unsuccessful attempts, the crew was unable to land at Grozny airport, made a decision to proceed to another airport, and during the approach to landing at Aktau airport at approximately 9:28 (Moscow time) collided with the ground, resulting in the destruction of the aircraft and fire, as a result of which 38 people died and 29 received injuries of varying severity.
The fact that the aircraft has been hit by two surface-to-air rockets fired from Russian “Pantsir-S1” system on the ground is not even mentioned and instead they push some bullshit about “weather conditions”, which undoubtedly will be received as an insult by Azerbaijan - which it is.
I don't understand how the UK government (and indeed many firms) can continue to maintain a presence on Elon Musk's deepfake porn site (formerly known as Twitter), rather than jumping ship to the likes of Mastodon and Bluesky.
Their continued association with X/Twitter isn't just a bad look, it's an endorsement of a site that behaves in a disgusting, degrading way, and has been churning out sexualised images of real-life women and young girls.
Is it just to avoid the wrath of Elon Musk?
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According to Newsnight, the UK government say they can't block X—despite the deepfake CSAM—because people could evade such a ban using VPNs.
But the #OnlineSafetyAct is working just fine even though people can use VPNs to avoid having to upload photos of their passport (etc.) to some shady unregulated age verification company.
The UK government's internet policies are totally rational and coherent. Nothing to see here. Please don't ask us any more annoying critical questions.
Imagine that it's 1925 and I am a clever, experienced mechanical engineer. I look around at the "tech" world of the time and notice some disturbing things:
- the rising power of literally fascist CEOs like Henry Ford
- What began as an inefficient, quirky novelty toy for rich people, the automobile, has become "normal" and started to dominate public space
- rising levels of fossil pollution
- the rising monopoly power of Oil companies
- dangerous levels of stock-market speculation
- brutal exploitation of people and environmental destruction in mining and rubber producing (mostly colonial) regions
- the use of debt to get less wealthy consumers to buy cars
- scores of innocent pedestrians injured or killed by automobiles
- urban planning that increasingly favors more expensive cars over other users of the streets
- declining sense of importance of shared forms of transportation like trolleys and trains
As an engineer, I look at all those rising issues and then I say:
"What we need is an Open Source Model-T Ford with some slightly better safety features."
In retrospect, that would seem like a pretty inadequate response.
#Degoogled Maps? Yes, it's possible. 📍🗺️
The Big Tech does not need to track your every step 👉use a Google Maps alternative instead.
Find out which open source maps we'd recommend: tuta.com/blog/google-maps-alte…
With a number of community driven, open source mapping projects, picking a Google Maps app alternative that comes with without ads or tracking has never been easier.Tuta
You can commission me ✌️
This is the kind of thing I do.
You can share that post to help me, if you want 🙏
#art
Global pandemics aren’t new.
What covid is doing is just plaguerism.
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I did a lot of thinking about the npm supply chain attacks over my break. I wrote up my thoughts, along with some proposed solutions, in my latest post:
humanwhocodes.com/blog/2026/01…
Why doesn't npm detect compromised packages the way credit card companies detect fraud?Human Who Codes
This list is intended for discussion of hardware and software versions of the DECtalk text to speech system originally developed by Dennis Klatt and sold by Digital Equipment Corporation.groups.io
Hi, I'm Mary (they/them)! I'm an interdisciplinary Environmental Science undergrad and webmaster who wants to work as a science communicator.
Science, writing, and community are my passions. I want to make scientific information accessible to non-scientific folks.
I'm not sure what I'll post about yet. Perhaps some natural photography, highlights on environmental projects/products/groups, and comments on the world around me.
This is my second instance.
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Draußen sind es immer noch -6 Grad. Da wünschte ich mir schon sehr einen Kamin, vor dem man es sich gemütlich machen kann. Schon komisch, was alles als Lebenstraum durchgeht.
Ob das jemals realistisch ist, steht wohl in den Sternen. Bisher habe ich jedenfalls noch nichts gefunden, das eine ähnlich tiefe Entspannung und Zufriedenheit in mir auslöst. #FediBeichte
#curl 8.18.0 with Daniel Stenberg
Daniel talks about the six(!) new security advisories, the changes and the most important bugfixes from the curl 8.18.0 release.YouTube
RE: social.heise.de/@macandi/11585…
Schade, dass Castro nicht Teil des Testfelds war. Den finde ich nämlich mit am übersichtlichsten. Und er bietet nämlich das Springen zwischen Kapiteln.
heise+ | Podcatcher: 10 Podcast-Apps für Apple-Geräte im Test Ob News, True Crime oder Comedy – Podcasts begleiten uns überall. Wir haben uns die wichtigen Clients für iPhone, iPad und Apple Watch angesehen. https://www.heise.Mac & i (Heise Medien on Mastodon)
to je pravda ale vraj sú tie procesy/technológia zdokumentované a ready na presťahovanie, lenže okupácia.. ja nevím. Nie je to logický sled udalostí ale očakávaný. Vyhodia tie továrne do vzduchu?
Čo ja viem to je moja konšpirácia.
edit: osobne neverím že medvedík pu sa o to za svoj život nepokúsi alebo jeho priami nasledovník. Otázka nie je či ale kedy.
One coworker -- who I'll call Xavier -- does everything through LLMs. He's the kind of developer that managers who have never been programmers adore: 3000 lines of code per day.
I just realized that Xavier cannot read code, even code that he submits for review. He "understands" code by running it against test files and seeing whether results are reasonable. He can only say what the code does, not what causes it to behave in a way.
But that has several problems. An obvious first issue is that if a problem doesn't show up in the test file, then it will never be fixed. A less obvious issue is that his code is brittle and it generalizes very poorly.
Because Xavier doesn't read code, he has a very tough time imagining "What might go wrong?" And because he relies on the LLM, he misses very broad solutions, like using well-established libraries that solve dozens of problems at once.
Programmers who dive deep are still very, very useful.
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De QR code van onze Colruyt Xtra kaart die ik in #catima had werkte niet meer aan de kassa.
En inderdaad, als ik ze vergelijk met de code in de xtra app dan is ze verschillend.
No problemo dacht ik, even opnieuw instellen.
Maar de content die ik scan van de xtra app QR code is dezelfde als ik in catima had, en als ik met een andere tool een QR code genereer met wat ik scan ziet die er ook anders uit, dus het ligt niet aan catima.
enige verschil: origineel 15% error, copy 7%
WTF?
#curl 8.18.0 has been released. This release fixes 2 medium and 4 low level vulnerabilities:
- CVE-2025-13034: No QUIC certificate pinning with GnuTLS curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-13034.ht…
- CVE-2025-14017: broken TLS options for threaded LDAPS curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-14017.ht…
- CVE-2025-14524: bearer token leak on cross-protocol redirect curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-14524.ht…
- CVE-2025-14819: OpenSSL partial chain store policy bypass curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-14819.ht…
- CVE-2025-15079: libssh global knownhost override curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15079.ht…
- CVE-2025-15224: libssh key passphrase bypass without agent set curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15224.ht…
I discovered the last 2 vulnerabilities.
Download curl 8.18.0 from curl.se/download.html
#vulnerabilityresearch #vulnerability #cybersecurity #infosec
I was quite surprised that I had to explain what I intend to use my mail address for. Hopefully, you can approve it soon.
Nos dice @santoral que hoy está de santo una forma de consumir drogas.
Santoral: Santo principal del día 7 de enero:
- San Raimundo de Peñafort
Otros santos:
- San Alderico
- Beato Ambrosio Fernández
- San Canuto Lavard
- San Ciro
- San Crispino Obispo
- San José Tuân
- San Luciano Mártir
- Beata María Teresa Haze
- Beato Mateo Guimerá
- San Polieuto
- San Tilón
- San Valentín obispo de Retia
- San Valentiniano
#dobréRáno přátelé #fediverse ☀️
Včera první jízda na Zwiftu přes Apple TV. Ať si o Applu myslí kdo chce co chce, ale propojení zařízení mají fakt zvládnuté skvěle.
První zapnutí Apple TV?
Chceš nastavit pomocí iPhonu — prostě ho přiložíš a nic dalšího neřešíš.
Pak už jen nainstalovat Zwift, přihlášení řešené přes iPhone, hesla pohodlně z Bitwardenu, žádné ťukání na dálkovém ovladači.
Apple TV jsem chtěl hlavně kvůli aplikaci Zwift pro chytrý trenažér.
Na Android TV Zwift není. Zrcadlení z Androidu do TV sice jde, ale obraz se seká nebo úplně zamrzne.
Zkoušel jsem i USB-C → HDMI kabel, jenže ten telefon vysaje hned baterku.Fairphone to ještě jakž takž zvládne — dvě hodiny dá.S Pixelem bych byl rád za hodinu.
Výsledek?
Za pět minut od zapnutí jsem seděl na kole. 🚴♂️
#zwift
#curl 8.18.0 has been released
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/07…
Download curl from curl.se! Release presentation On January 7 2026, at 10:00 CET (09:00 UTC), there is a live-streamed release presentation of curl 8.18.0 done on twitch. The YouTube recording will be made available afterwards.daniel.haxx.se
Periodic reminder to boost the posts you like to keep the Fediverse alive.
WE are the algorithm here 
This is in relation to that warning I received this morning. To make a long story short, it seems that some people have been offended by some of my posts, and rather than just blocking me or unfollowing me and moving on, they reported me. At no time did I personally insult anyone, promote violence or illegal activities, threaten anyone, etc. I respect the administrators for letting me know about this, and said that I wouldn't post such things in the future. They have every right to do what they did, or even to ban me, since it is their instance and I agreed to follow their rules. I must make that very clear.
However, I am seeking a less restrictive environment. I honestly didn't think I needed one, since most of my posts are about animals, science, technology, etc. But if I can't share an opinion, even a strongly-worded one, without receiving a warning just because some people were offended, this is probably not a great match for me. It's worth noting that I constantly see posts (from other instances) full of obscenities, negative opinions about politicians, the rich, corporations and their heads, users of various operating systems, etc.
Anyway, I would prefer to stay on Mastodon because it's fully accessible, and I would like an instance with a large number of characters (this one is 16,000). If it helps, I am not a gamer, programmer, activist, don't follow politics, etc. I certainly don't want to join a place full of hate, but I do want to join one where I am free to be myself. For now, enjoy the completely wholesome posts with no more personal opinions about anything except opera, though I'll probably limit those too, in case I don't like a given singer.
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Vuelta a la jornada. Primer día laboral del año. A ver como sale.
Bubu
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