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!
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Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
The Matrix.org Foundation reshared this.
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…
A bit more than four years ago I started the xi-editor project. Now I have placed it on the back burner (though there is still some activity from the open source community). The original goal was to deliver a very high quality editing experience.Raph Levien’s blog
Performance fixes in Synapse, a public release for Circles, and recovery keys in Element X. That, and more happened this week in Matrix!
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Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
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
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"Black Celebration" is a song from the 1986 album Black CelebrationYouTube
#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 
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
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
Ha, že by konečně rozumná, funkční a trošku slušně vypadající appka pro Android a Mastodon? ♥️
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
Excerpts from a Q&A with bestselling degrowth author Kohei Saito.Grist
While efficient video playback has long been possible in the embedded Linux world, desktop applications have been lagging behind other platforms. In the last...YouTube
Vzniknout mohou také pěstitelské kluby, které pro své členy mohou měsíčně produkovat 25 kilogramů konopí.Barbora Součková (iROZHLAS.cz)
Daniel's weekly report February 23, 2024
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vacation, CVE, 18k, audit, lftp, c-ares, distro meeting, curl up, podcasts
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
We fixed XSS vulnerability within two days after notification.Tutanota
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…
Quantum-resistant or post-quantum cryptography is our best bet against attacks from upcoming quantum computers to increase security and privacy.Tutanota
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
We are pleased to announce the return of the Hatchery program in PyCon US 2024. What is the Hatchery program? This program offers the pathwa...pycon.blogspot.com
#PyCon Hatchery proposals are still open. Per the conversation in
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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...
Performed by Trail of Bits. They found things to fix but nothing critical and no security flaws.
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#Matovič "chcel pomôcť" #Korčok-ovi, ale dopadlo to ako vždy, preto ho oberá o dôležité rozhodujúce percentá.
#PrezidenskeVolby2024 #slovensko
The Curl project has previously had problems with CVEs issued for things that are not security issues.lwn.net
Prišla mi exekúcia z Telekomu SK na 300€. Teraz som sa vrátil z Telekomu, ja sa volám Roman B. a dotyčný s telefónnym číslom na ktoré mne prišla exekúcia sa volá tak isto ibaže Ladislav B. Nie je moja.
Ja vládzem, síl dosť ale hnev sa vo mne kopí a z časti bezmocnosť.
Even knowing that it's impractical for any real use-case I have, I really want a Supermicro SC101F.
Like look at it! Adorable!
We used to use a pair of these for running the RIPE Meeting network (now we upgraded to a slightly bigger E300).
It is particularly handy if you want to bring your server in the cabin luggage before the truck with the rest of the stuff arrives.
BTW I'd just like to point out that, overwhelmingly, 68% of respondents said they did not want people to describe themselves during a virtual meeting or webinar.
In other words: I was right, the haters were wrong, NEENER NEENER NEENER!
It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time…Six Colors
The idea for this article came when I was trying to figure out how to get to the homepage of a website. During my research, I navigated several pages deep,Raghavendra Satish Peri (DigitalA11Y)
As a screen reader user, I always dread finding a date picker that is not accessible on the website where I need to fill out forms. Whether it is used toRaghavendra Satish Peri (DigitalA11Y)
"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.
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Avast, the cybersecurity software company, is facing a $16.5 million fine from the FTC after its privacy extensions and antivirus software harvested and sold user data.Emma Roth (The Verge)
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.
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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.”
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The four extensions, two from Avast and two from AVG, are still available on the Chrome Web Store.Catalin Cimpanu (ZDNET)
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/…
The Chemnitzer Linux-Tage are an event across the subjects linux and open source for everybody. It brings together linux users, experts, and companies.chemnitzer.linux-tage.de
Pane Bože, kde budu ted shánět své oblíbené ruské výrobky!
Třeba, třeba... Teď si teda narychlo nemůžu na žádný vzpomenout, ale jsou jich mraky!😂😂😂
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