Chat module owner and Thunderbird Council member @clokep has joined the Spec Core team at @matrix! Hear him talk about his new role and the history of Matrix in Thunderbird in this week's Matrix Live!

matrix.org/blog/2024/02/23/thi…

While it's true that asynchrony is a complexity multiplier in software [1], it's also true that trying to do too much synchronously has its own problems. In this case, I have code that runs a callback while holding a lock, and the callback is (indirectly) trying to acquire the same lock (which isn't a reentrant lock), leading, of course, to deadlock. Probably time to add a queue.

[1]: as @raph wrote here: raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06…

Black Celebration 22. února 2024 v Praze. Jestli něco definovalo kult depešáctví na sklonku socialismu v Československu, byla to tahle skladba (a deska). Na stupnici dokonalosti od nuly do stovky dávám 150 procent. 🖤 #DepecheMode

youtu.be/5mBdoSLJ-FI?si=i1Sqib…

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid yesterday with 14 updated, today with 13 updated and 1 added apps:

* Notifications Recovery: review notifications at any time

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:

⚪ Artist: #LiliaLitkovskaya
in City: #Kyiv #Ukraine 🇺🇦 2021 - Title: "The Arms" (Park Bench installation) - (📷 by UrbanArtAndCo) -#Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Photography #Urbanart #Installation #Ukrainewar #StandWithUkraine 💕

Wyrobiłem sobie nowy dowód po 10 latach. No to dziś po południu rundka logowania do różnych serwisów finansowych, gdzie mam dane i które mi ostatnio przypominają o aktualizacji.

No i jakie to zupełnie odmienne podejścia.

W większości serwisów po prostu podaję nowe dane, zatwierdzam tak jak przelew (w aplikacji lub SMS) i załatwione.

W jednym z banków musiałem zadzwonić na infolinię i dwukrotnie się weryfikować.

W innym muszę wybrać się do oddziału (dziękuję, i tak już nie mam tam żadnej lokaty).

Ale rekord pobił Goldman Sachs. Otóż zażądali wideoweryfikacji. Wysyłają na SMS link do strony (pięć razy sprawdzałem, czy na pewno nie scam), gdzie muszę wejść telefonem, wskanować dowód, a następnie wykonać parę zadań na wideo (przechylić głowę, zamrugać itd.).

A swoją drogą, tylko jeden serwis zasugerował datę wygaśnięcia dokumentu, bo przecież dowód jest wydawany zwykle na 10 lat i jeśli podam datę wydania, to mam już datę wygaśnięcia. W innych musiałem wklepywać ręcznie

Imagine a world where you work three or four days a week. In your free time, you play sports, spend time with loved ones, garden, and engage with local politics.

Overnight shipping, advertising, and private jets no longer exist, but health care, education, and clean electricity are free and available to all.

“The Growing Popularity of Degrowth”

See -- grist.org/looking-forward/the-…

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Degrowth

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#FOSDEM: While efficient video playback has long been possible in the embedded #Linux world, desktop applications have been lagging behind. Here's a look at the state of video offloading on the Linux desktop, by Robert Mader: youtube.com/watch?v=SMCMZwAiw2… #GStreamer #GTK #Chromium

To offer proper privacy protection it means to default to complete privacy protection and put all the power into the hands of the product owner, this also means to be able to verify that the code does not infringe upon the privacy rights of the user by releasing all the source code.
puri.sm/posts/purism-different…
#PureOS #Librem5 #Purism

Congrats to #NASA for the successful landing of #Odysseus! 🌑🚀

Do you know what else is out of this world? Our upcoming post-quantum #encryption solution for protecting your #emails. ⚛️

You can learn more about this quantum leap👇
tuta.com/blog/post-quantum-cry…

In 2019 I co-ran a #PyCon Hatchery event, The Art of Python, harihareswara.net/texts/on-the… , featuring several monologues, plays, & other performances about the experiences of making technology.

It went great. It was going to run again in 2020, but COVID derailed that.

pycon.blogspot.com/2024/01/pyc… This year, #PyConUS #PyCon2024 #PyConUS2024 is requesting your Hatchery event proposals!

I'd love:

another performance night (HOWTO guide: harihareswara.net/texts/on-the… )

a photo booth, for professional headshots

in reply to Sumana Harihareswara

#PyCon Hatchery proposals are still open. Per the conversation in

social.coop/@brainwane/1119764…

I'd love a "What Y'all Don't Realize Is...." track of talks like:

"I'm an expert in [thing that's not computing] and here's what I think you all should learn from how we do it, illustrated by wild stories from my own personal experience"

Aviation, outdoors recreation, medicine, improv comedy, disability activism, archery, chemistry, songwriting, manufacturing, archaeology, high-rise window cleaning...

Pokud máte na Linuxu už několoikrát dohraný Darkest Dungeon, na Steamu je za 4.99€ v 80% slevě Vambrace: Cold Soul.
Hru jsem testoval na EndeavourOS a Ubuntu. Nepotřebuje žásný super počítač a dokáže zabavit na hodně hodin, jen se nechce odradit pomalejším startem.
A jaké máte vy nejoblíbenější hry na Linuxu vy?
Za mě Darkest Dungeon, Childern of Morta, Xcom2 (teď je také ve slevě), Enter Gundeon, Portal....

"For years, the antivirus software company harvested information from users’ web browsers without their consent." #infosec #privacy

Its clients have included Home Depot, Google, Microsoft, Pepsi, and McKinsey.

theverge.com/2024/2/22/2408013…

The Federal Trade Commission has hit Avast with a $16.5 million fine over allegations that it told customers it would protect their security and privacy but then gave data about their browsing to a subsidiary called Jumpshot.

ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog…

The issue came to light in Dec. 2019, when Mozilla removed four Firefox extensions made by Avast and its subsidiary AVG after receiving reports the extensions were harvesting user data and browsing histories.

From the FTC's presser:

"Avast rebranded Jumpshot as an analytics company, which advertised that its “[m]ore than 100 million online consumers worldwide” would give Jumpshot’s clients “unique insights to make better business decisions.”

"Jumpshot further claimed to give its clients the ability to “see where your audience is going before and after they visit your site or your competitors’ sites, and even track those who visit a specific URL.” Of course, Jumpshot’s source of that massive amount of data about people’s browsing information – some of it highly personal in nature – that it sold to advertising companies, data brokers, individual brands, search engine optimizing outfits, and others looking for detailed information about consumers’ browsing histories was Avast, the company that pitched its products as a solution to intrusive online surveillance."

"According to the complaint, Jumpshot provided its clients with “extraordinary detail regarding how consumers navigated the Internet, including each webpage visited, precise timestamp, the type of device and browser, and the city, state, and country.” What’s more, most of the data included a unique and persistent device identifier, which allowed Jumpshot and its clients to trace individuals across multiple domains over time. The FTC says that included in the information Jumpshot sold was data about consumers’ visits to sites about religious matters, political candidates, health concerns like breast cancer, jobs at secure military facilities, student loan application information, dating interests, and sites of an adult nature. The complaint puts it this way: “The vast majority of consumers would not know that the Avast Software would surveil their every move on the Internet or that their browsing information might be sold to more than 100 third parties and stored indefinitely, in granular, re-identifiable form.”

zdnet.com/article/mozilla-remo…

A bunch of XMPP developers and I (@dino, @Monal, #Conversations_im) will have a booth at the Chemnitzer Linux Tage (March 16th & 17th 2024).

Come talk to us about #XMPP and collect some merch.

chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2024/…

@clt_news