GOLD SF is open for submissions! GOLD SF is an imprint of Goldsmiths Press aimed at publishing new voices in intersectional feminist #ScienceFiction.

Please look here for more information about the imprint, and a link to download proposal guidelines as well as more details of what we're currently looking for. We are open for submissions until mid-February.

gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/su…

Here is the official call for the Wuxia & Xianxia special issue of Strange Horizons.

I'm so delighted to be guest editing it with Joyce and Mia.

I'm specifically looking for fiction, poetry, and translations of fiction/poetry from Chinese, so please do pass this submission call along to writers & translators who might be working on something that fits.

#submissions #sff @sffbipoc @sffshorts

strangehorizons.com/non-fictio…

Wuxia & Xianxia Special Submissions Call!

Welcome, fellow walkers of the jianghu.

^{Strange Horizons}

Absolutely remarkable how many issues there are in cars: samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs-th…

Imagine if Sam Curry and friends had been malicious actors: I think this year there's going to be some kind of large-scale attack / ransom that'll actually exploit these kinds of vulnerabilities.

Toot That! – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

Toot That! – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Toot That! for Firefox. Publish the current tab URL to the Fediverse (Mastodon)

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Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.

If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.

I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.

One thing I wanted to do for years was to experiment with Conversations acting as a push provider for apps that don’t maintain their own TCP connection (Tusky.app, Ltt.rs, …).

@unifiedpush’s recent post on the @fdroidorg blog¹ renewed my interested in this topic and I've just merged code that make Conversations a UnifiedPush Distributor.

I’m already receiving my @Tusky notifications via #XMPP 🥳

¹: f-droid.org/en/2022/12/18/unif…

GitHub - iNPUTmice/lttrs-android: No-frills, easy to use, easy to maintain Email client for Android based on the JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP).

No-frills, easy to use, easy to maintain Email client for Android based on the JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP). - GitHub - iNPUTmice/lttrs-android: No-frills, easy to use, easy to maintain E...

^GitHub

Competition Bureau gets temporary stay of Tribunal decision on Rogers-Shaw merger

cbc.ca/news/business/shaw-roge…

I predicted that the Govt would rubberstamp the merger. This is the Competition Bureau disagreeing with the tribunal that did rubberstamp.

It's trivial to determine the real IP of a Mastodon server behind Cloudflare. All it takes is one well-crafted request:

gist.github.com/cutiful/4f36da…

I wonder how many instance admins using Cloudflare know about this? My hunch is most do not, because the primary justification I see for using Cloudflare here is DDoS protection.

Cloudflare won't help if the attacker knows your origin IP, and you can't hide that with Cloudflare alone, due to the nature of ActivityPub.

#MastoAdmin #InfoSec

Detecting the real IP of a Cloudflare'd Mastodon instance

Detecting the real IP of a Cloudflare'd Mastodon instance - mastodon-ip.md

^Gist

Hej #gamedev! Help needed💛

I'm making a #indiegame where you play as a #dinosaur to find out about your past, as well as take care of a baby #Daspletosarus. It's called Zid Journey!

It's a sequel to cozy #pointandclick #adventuregame Zniw Adventure and features charming cartoony artstyle.

I enjoy #paleontology (both exctinct and extant😉) so the game is full of age- and place- accurate #prehistoric creatures.

Any good places can promote my game? Are there any sites that can write about it?

@toiletshorts and I are running intro games for @storium !

#Storium is a play-by-post collaborative writing platform which includes game mechanics to support the direction of the story or the character's decision-making process.

We realised that getting onboard is a learning curve, so we want to show you how it works!

See the games we play or host:
storium.com/user/toiletshorts
storium.com/user/tarlia

If you want to try it out, I'll invite to our Discord server.

#writer #roleplaying #pbp #rpg

Not to be "that guy", but where are these "record profits" that grocery stores are apparently making?

Because I'm looking at the data for myself, and I'm not seeing that.

For example, here's the 1 year chart for Target ($TGT).

Now that we made it all through the holidays, we're happy to do some releases again!

First up is our #RPKI relying party software Routinator. 🚀 Version 0.12.1 fixes a small number of bugs. Most importantly, the #TLS-enabled servers for both HTTP and RTR now also accept private keys formatted as PKCS#1 RSA keys rather than only accepting PKCS#8 keys. #RoutingSecurity #rustlang

github.com/NLnetLabs/routinato…

Release 0.12.1 ‘Plan uw reis in de app’ · NLnetLabs/routinator

Bug Fixes Actually use the extra-tals-dir config file option. (#821) Allow private keys prefixed both with BEGIN PRIVATE KEY and BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY in the files referred to by http-tls-key and ...

^GitHub

The Llamabomb Problem

Increasingly frequently these days I try to take pictures of the sheep and some part of the llama ends up in the shot.

Apparently scientists are trying to find out if wild penguins have self-awareness using the mirror test, with ambiguous results.

It's a tricky test, and honestly I'm almost more interested in the anecdotal data.

hakaimagazine.com/news/penguin…

Penguins May Have Passed the Mirror Test | Hakai Magazine

Wild Adélie penguins respond to their own reflection, suggesting self-awareness.

^{Hakai Magazine}