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There is a #curl core team and it is now documented clearly: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1311…

GOVERNANCE: document the core team by bagder · Pull Request #13118 · curl/curl

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS…
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Next week we run the #curl distro discussion! If you work on #curl for a distro, we want you there!

github.com/curl/curl/wiki/curl…

curl distro discussion 2024

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP...
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OBS Studio 30.1 Released with AV1 Support for VA-API, #PipeWire Camera Source, and Much More 9to5linux.com/obs-studio-30-1-…

@pipewire #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Screenshot of OBS Studio 30.1 showing the new PipeWire Camera source.

OBS Studio 30.1 Released with AV1 Support for VA-API, PipeWire Camera Source - 9to5Linux

OBS Studio 30.1 open-source screencasting and streaming app is now available for download with PipeWire Camera source and AV1 VA-API support.
Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
#FreeSoftware #linux #opensource #pipewire @PipeWire Project
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La empresa de la que fue comisionista la pareja de Ayuso, según la exclusiva de @eldiarioes, es FCS Select Products, una firma de bebidas que acabó siendo la que más vendió materiales de emergencia en 2020, como sabemos por nuestra investigación:
eldiario.es/politica/pareja-ay…

➡️ civio.es/quien-cobra-la-obra/2…


La pareja de Ayuso cobró dos millones de euros en comisiones por contratos de mascarillas

El fraude fiscal por el que está acusado Alberto González Amador tuvo su origen en comisiones de dos millones de euros que la pareja de la presidenta de Madrid cobró por mediar en la compraventa de material sanitario durante los peores meses de la pa…
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Stala se mi v práci taková nemilá věc. Včera mi zničehonic přestalo fungovat spojení počítače s dokovací stanici.
Notebook Lenovo Thinkpad, dokovací stanice DELL. Dosud vše fungovalo 4 měsíce dobře.
Vyzkoušena i jiná dokovací stanice.
Nejdřív přestal zobrazovat jeden monitor, po odpojení a připojení už oba externí. Nefunguje ani LAN. Jen USB a napájení.

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Goed om te weten voor mensen in #Gent:
Je kan gratis van de stad hellende vlakken aanvragen om een winkel of horecazaak toegankelijker te maken
go.stad.gent/hellendvlakhandel… #toegankelijk #accessibility
OPROEP: Gentse handelaars die hun winkel of horecazaak toegankelijker willen maken, kunnen zich aanmelden voor een gratis hellend vlak! 👌🦼 Een hellend vlak kan een hulpmiddel zijn om obstakels zoals trappen en drempels te overwinnen. Met deze eenvoudige ingreep maak je de wereld voor rolstoelgebruikers, maar ook voor mensen met een rollator of ouders met een buggy, opnieuw een stuk groter. Als je pand voldoet aan alle criteria kan je een vlak aanvragen en dit zolang de voorraad strekt. Het is een volledig gratis en heffingvrije actie. Belangrijk: een hellend vlak is een eerste stap. Om je zaak écht goed en duurzaam toegankelijk te maken, zijn er vaak structurele ingrepen nodig. Voor zo’n renovatie kan je gebruik maken van de subsidie voor verfraaiing van handelspanden. 👉 Alle voorwaarden en je aanvraag indienen voor een hellend vlak kan via go.stad.gent/hellendvlakhandelaars

Hellende vlakken: hoe aanvragen en verkrijgen

Lees onder welke voorwaarden Gentse handelaars een hellend vlak kunnen krijgen om hun zaak toegankelijk te maken voor rolstoelgebruikers.
Stad Gent
#Accessibility #gent #toegankelijk
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Hoy en temas de digitalización, tenemos noticias sobre el reglamento de datos (técnicamente, REGLAMENTO (UE) 2023/2854 DEL PARLAMENTO EUROPEO Y DEL CONSEJO de 13 de diciembre de 2023 sobre normas armonizadas para un acceso justo a los datos y su utilización, y por el que se modifican el Reglamento (UE) 2017/2394 y la Directiva (UE) 2020/1828 (Reglamento de Datos).

La idea es poner en manos del usuario decidir quien puede acceder a los datos de productos y servicios conectados, acabando con situaciones en los que el proveedor original pueda mantener la exclusiva sobre su mantenimiento y reparación, y permitiendo la creación de servicios innovadores a partir de esos datos, incluso acopiando los de distintas fuentes. Más info en administracionelectronica.gob.…

PAe - General - Error

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Seems like #Cheogram went the route of just pretending they upload the contact list to satisfy Google Play requirements.¹

I get why they are doing this. I've contemplated doing this myself but I’m absolutely not convinced that pretending your app is worse than it is is the right strategy here. Especially because the overwhelming majority of our users are not following us on social media and thus don’t have the context for why we would do this.

¹: blog.jmp.chat/b/march-newslett…

#cheogram

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Protinádorová vakcína pro psy téměř zdvojnásobuje dobu jejich přežití

Nejen lidi, ale i psy ohrožují nádory. Možnosti léčby psích pacientů ale zdaleka nejsou tak široké jako u těch lidských. Nová protinádorová vakcína by mohla situaci zlepšit.

stoplusjednicka.cz/protinadoro…


Protinádorová vakcína pro psy téměř zdvojnásobuje dobu jejich přežití | 100+1 zahraniční zajímavost

www.stoplusjednicka.cz

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New guidebooks, for our shiny new #LibreOffice 24.2 release! Get the most out of Writer and Calc: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource
Book covers

LibreOffice 24.2 Shines Again! Writer 24.2 and Calc 24.2 Guides Published - The Document Foundation Blog

The LibreOffice Community Documentation Team is happy to announce the immediate release of the latest Writer and Calc guides for the new LibreOffice 24.2 office suite. The two books are updates of the respective LibreOffice 7.
Olivier Hallot (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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So, I don't think biomedical researchers realize how much is at stake with the upcoming election. Take a look at some snippets from Project2025, the blueprint for the next Trump Administration and then be afraid. Then get organized. The plan is to end biomedical research as we know it. Ignoring it and putting our heads in the sand is not an option.
Funding for scientific research should not be controlled by a small group of highly paid and unaccountable insiders at the NIH, many of whom stay in power for decades. The NIH monopoly on directing research should be broken. Term limits should be imposed on top career leaders at the NIH, and Congress should consider block granting NIH’s grants budget to states to fund their own scientific research. Nothing in this system would prevent several states from partnering to co-fund large research projects that require greater resources or impact larger regions. Likewise, the establishment of funding for scientific research at the state level does not preclude more modest federal funding through the National Institutes of Health: The two models are not mutually exclusive.
Cap indirect costs at universities. Currently, the federal government pays a portion of the overhead expenses associated with university-based research. Known as “indirect costs,” these reimbursements cross-subsidize leftist agendas and the research of billion-dollar organizations such as Google and the Ford Foundation. Universities also use this influx of cash to pay for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts. To correct course,
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#KDE Plasma 6.0.2 Is Out Now to Improve Night Color, Discover, Plasma #Wayland, and More 9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-0-2…

@kde #Linux #OpenSource

Screenshot of the KDE neon distribution with the KDE Plasma 6.0.2 desktop environment showing the About This System page in System Settings.

KDE Plasma 6.0.2 Improves Night Color, Discover, Plasma Wayland, and More - 9to5Linux

KDE Plasma 6.0.2 is now available as a bugfix update to the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment addressing more bugs and crashes.
Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
#linux #opensource #KDE #Wayland @KDE

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Neflákáme, natáčíme Jadrnou vědu. Kateřina Rohlenová přiletěla z MIT rovnou do Prahy za námi. Jinak tedy šéfuje Laboratoř buněčného metabolismu na Biotechnologickém ústavu AV ČR a zkoumá komunikaci mezi nádorovými buňkami a jejich okolím. Jo a taky jsme pro ni vymysleli termín "Syndrom opilého vrátného", tak až to bude v publikacích, je to dílo Jaromír Šrámek! Co to znamená a jak to souvisí s nádory se dozvíte, až to sestříháme. Předplatitelé dřív na Talk TV, ostatní na YouTube.

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WebTunnel

Tor has a new pluggable transport called WebTunnel.

Pluggable Transports


Okay, let's talk about bridges and PTs first.

Your ISP can (try to) prevent you from connecting to Tor by blocking connections to publicly listed Tor nodes and/or by profiling Tor traffic (through DPI) and blocking it. You can get around this using bridges (unlisted Tor entry nodes) and pluggable transports (PTs) which disguise your traffic through one of two techniques:

  1. making it look like another protocol
  2. making it look like nothing in particular

The idea with 1 is to make your traffic look like something your ISP allows (like HTTPS). The idea with 2 is to make it hard to identify and block the traffic.

The main PT used in Tor today is obfs4 lyrebird, which is in category 2. This is useful if your ISP generally allows most traffic and only blocks things they can identify as problems (i.e., denylist model).

The others are in category 1: meek, which uses HTTPS for domain fronting (something I discussed in my previous blog post); Snowflake, which uses WebRTC (and a little bit of domain fronting); and now a new PT: WebTunnel, which also uses HTTPS but in a different way than meek. These are useful if your ISP only allows certain protocols and blocks everything else (i.e., allowlist model).

Probing Resistance


An important capability for pluggable transports is that they are resistant to probing.

Let me explain.

Suppose you connect to some service your ISP doesn't know about. They wonder what that service is and whether they should allow you to access it in the future. They try to answer this question by connecting to it and seeing what happens. (This is called “active probing” and is a technique known to be used in some places.) Oh look, that service responded like a Tor node! So they block it.

We don't want that to happen, so pluggable transports need to be resistant to detection by active probing. WebTunnel achieves probing resistance by running alongside an existing webpage. When you set up a WebTunnel bridge, you must be serving a website over HTTPS already. You create a secret path and use only that path for relaying Tor traffic but serve your regular website on other paths.

For example, suppose I run example.com and my secret path is /mysecretpath. If you visit example.com/mysecretpath, I have my webserver reverse-proxy your request to the WebTunnel service. If you visit another path (example.com/someotherpath), you get an actual webpage. As we discussed before, the path in an HTTPS request is encrypted, so your ISP should not be able to tell which path you're visiting (and thus should not be able to learn the secret path). The best they can do is connect to the same domain you connected to, and if they do that, they find an actual website! Nothing suspicious about that.

Takeaways


WebTunnel seems cool. If you want to use it, you can request WebTunnel bridges from bridges.torproject.org. (Unless your ISP heavily restricts your traffic to an allowlist of protocols, you might be better off using lyrebird (obfs4), though.)

If you have a website and bandwidth to spare, considering running a WebTunnel bridge.

(And if you can't run a WebTunnel bridge but still want to help, consider installing the Snowflake browser extension, which turns your browser into a Snowflake bridge.)


Hiding in plain sight: Introducing WebTunnel | Tor Project

We're celebrating the World Day Against Cyber Censorship by officially announcing WebTunnel, a new type of Tor bridge designed to assist users in heavily censored regions to connect to the Tor network.
blog.torproject.org

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DebConf25 to be held in Brest, France. Hope to see you all there for the most amazing wine and CHEESE party ever!!! Some Debian Development may also occur at said event. :) lists.debian.org/debconf-annou… #debconf #debian #debconf24 #debconf25 #debianfrance #debiankorea micronews.debian.org/2024/1710… #debian

DebConf25 to be held in Brest, France. Hope to see you all there for the most amazing wine and CHEESE party ever!!! Some Debian Development may also occur at said event. :) lists.debian.org/debconf-announce/2024/03/msg00000.html #debconf #debian

DebConf25 to be held in Brest, France. Hope to see you all there for the most amazing wine and CHEESE party ever!!! Some Debian Development may also occur at said event. :) https://lists.debian.org/debconf-announce/2024/03/msg00000.
micronews.debian.org
#debian #debconf24 #debiankorea #debianfrance #debconf25 #debconf

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Using neural nets trained on other people’s work to create (and often profit from) new work in their style without compensation is problematic. I don’t think that doing the same for upscaling algorithms is.

Upscalers can reduce the hardware requirements for games, support remastering old media, etc. which isn’t really the same as laundering someone else’s creativity and profiting from it at their expense. Upscalers feel more like bicycles for the mind than crude replacements for them.

I haven’t thought through this fully, and I’m open to being proven wrong.

Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE).


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My personal IndieWeb site. I write about and develop software to promote user autonomy. Topics include accessibility, security, privacy, and software freedom.
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Sean

Setting aside issues of DRM keys — which seem to be the only metaphorical leg holding up the DRM stool — the core question is whether the resultant product would result in losses to the copyright holder as a result of market substitute. That ultimately depends on whether the copyright owner is otherwise benefiting from the work, which is something that an app dev has no way to parse.

To borrow, the problem is with the people & their choices not the algorithms they use

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1.5°C heating passed in 2023
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It's not the distant future, it's now.
Our government is prioritising commercial interests over a duty of care to our children. 
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If you're in #Melbourne, sign up to act on your concern, here: ausrebellion.earth/p/xrvic-reb…
If you're not in Melbourne, but you want to come down, billets abound so get in touch. 
First action tomorrow.
Most Thursday -Saturday 
#climatechange #climatecrisis #auspol #australia #protest #nvda

Rebel for Life Daily Planner - Extinction Rebellion Australia

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#Climatecrisis #climatechange #australia #nvda #auspol #protest #melbourne
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NV Access

We make the NVDA screen reader which reads the PC for blind users. While we support the environment, #NVDA is almost universally known as the screen reader. I only worked out "Non-Violent Direct Action" when puzzling why someone tagged us in a previous post like this. Can I please convince you to trend #DirectAction instead? If we keep hashtags related to their topic, your followers can find info on protests while those looking for screen reader info can find that info. Good luck today
#nvda #directaction

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“We were struck by the fact that in Mexico there are [currently] no media cooperatives" — former Notimex reporter Adriana Urrea on launching the news outlet, AMEXI. buff.ly/3wR3KNv

Mexican journalists launch a new outlet from the ashes of the country’s shuttered state news agency

Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, had said last year that there no need for a state news agency since he conducts daily press briefings.
Nieman Lab

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According to the federal government, the cop who killed Ayotzinapa student Yanqui Kothan Gómez Peralta last Thursday "escaped" while being transferred yesterday. According to the Guerrero state government, he was never in custody.

Either way, a couple hundred students from Ayotzinapa protested at the State Prosecutor's Office demanding justice for Yanqui. At least 11 vehicles were set on fire. Later the protest moved to the state capitol building, which was the recipient of rocks and fireworks.

desinformemonos.org/confirman-…

#Mexico #Guerrero #Ayotzinapa


Confirman fuga de policía que asesinó a normalista y estudiantes responden con protestas en Chilpancingo

Desinformémonos
#méxico #ayotzinapa #guerrero
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