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Someone has finally been done in modern times for *checks notes* "Handling a Salmon under Suspicious Circumstances"

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1740…



BBC is doing extraordinary coverage of the #outtage

The ticker is followed by special live reporting worldwide bbc.com/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et…

#Crowdstrike #Azure

in reply to Sebastian Lasse

Extraordinary in the sense of unusual, maybe.
The sheer horror with which the reporter mentioned having to use a pen is just sad, not extraordinary.


Reports suggest that Sky News has also been affected, leaving many to beg Microsoft to not fix the outage.

NBN users in Australia have yet to notice the outage, thinking it is just the NBN running at normal speed.

chaser.com.au/general-news/bre…



❌Un fallo de Microsoft provoca una caída internacional de servicios de transportes, bancos y emergencias

💻Una interrupción del servicio vinculada a la firma de ciberseguridad Crowdstrike y Windows ha paralizado la actividad de decenas de miles de empresas públicas y privadas poniendo de relieve la dependencia del oligopolio tecnológico
elsaltodiario.com/tecnologia/f…

in reply to El Salto Diario

Relacionada:
La entrega de las administraciones públicas a Microsoft: 793 millones en contratos para licencias y servicios
elsaltodiario.com/tecnologia/a…


We are pleased to be one of the many projects supported by the EU's NGI programmes, with NLnet's contribution.

Open, decentralized solutions are essential for user freedom on the Internet and for the resilience of our services. What would happen if one of these centralized services were blocked tomorrow?

The NGI programmes are a strength, let's hope they continue: pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI

#EU #FOSS #NGI #NLnet



Not exactly a pleasant read but certainly an interesting one. I'd never heard of Tassy.
[The Royal Fistula – Party like 1660](partylike1660.com/the-royal-fi…)


Today at 1600 CEST I'm going to be talking about gobject-introspection at the mini-GUADEC; the talk will also be broadcast at GUADEC in Denver tomorrow, at 13:45 MDT:

events.gnome.org/event/209/con…

Thanks to Igalia for allowing me to participate!

#gnome #guadec #guadec2024 #igalia

in reply to Emmanuele Bassi

If you are in Denver, make sure to attend the presentations from my colleagues as well!

- "Developing WebKitGTK Made Easy", by Patrick Griffis
- "Calendaring in the modern desktop", by Georges Stavracas
- "Making WebKitGTK accessible again", by Georges Stavracas
- "The Newest JavaScript Technologies in GNOME", with Philip Chimento

#gnome #guadec #guadec2024 #igalia



One of the most prominent nazis in America boasting that his fellow travelers are in JD Vance's social circles. He's absolutely correct.

Vance’s veep nomination makes it obvious that what was once called the “alt-right” has taken over the Republican party.

This group of reactionaries is far more intelligent and far more extreme than any previous Republican influx group like the Tea Party.

We're in dangerous times.



If you're mad about Google killing short links all over the Internet, and are saying things like "let's scrape it all before it goes down", I suggest checking out wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php…. Some chaotic good people are well ahead of you in terms of planning, and have a VM image you can run to lend some compute and bandwidth to the effort. It's like SETI of old, but for praxis against internet vandals like Google.

(context: developers.googleblog.com/en/g…)

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Very interesting article on The Straits Times regarding anti-Chinese disinformation campaigns in Singapore by anticommunist fraudster Guo Wengui: straitstimes.com/singapore/s-p…


Sächsische Behörden: Grundkurs Rechtsstaat nicht bestanden saechsischer-fluechtlingsrat.d…


🔐 C++ Must Become Safer — Andrew Lilley Brinker — Software Supply Chain Security

「 If a cheap-to-maintain legacy system is faced with the proposition of an expensive rewrite, it may instead be eliminated. The externalities of this kind of change are difficult to consider in advance and in general 」

alilleybrinker.com/blog/cpp-mu…

#C #CPP #Rust #MemorySafety #Infosec



Krásné dobré ráno mastodoníci! 🙋‍♀️🐕🐈
Už jsem vám tady psala, že náš dům je trošku zvláštní, že?
Tak občas vypadá, jako něco extra. 😁😁
Taky má obrovskou půdu, dělenou přepážkami na dvě poloviny. Jedna půlka je v pohodě, na druhé se necítíte moc dobře. 😁😁 Je tmavší. Dcery národa se tam bojí a nechce se jim tam chodit věšet prádlo. Nepřispěl k tomu ani nález starého zrcadla, otočeného ke zdi. 😁😁😁
Taky se občas bojíte rádi?👻


Přátelé #fediverse, rád bych vám připomněl, že se bude konat 2. sraz uživatelů Mastodon v Karlových Varech!
🗓️ Datum: 15. srpna
⏰ Čas: 17:00
📍 Místo: Národní dům, Karlovy Vary

Připojte se k nám na příjemné setkání s ostatními nadšenci! Budeme sdílet zkušenosti a diskutovat o všem, co se týká Mastodonu. Těšíme se na vás!
@mastopivo
srazy.arch-linux.cz/invite/HJI…
#MastodonSraz #KarlovyVary #mastopivo

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I don’t know why, but I keep coming back to this tune created by Suno #AI with just a simple “Hello, world!" prompt. It just sounds so, like, what, Scorpions or something like that? youtube.com/shorts/bT70gx1FiHk :)
#AI

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Krásné #dobréRáno
Je pátek, víkend klope na dveře, slunce žblunce a bude pálit, tak se dobře schovejte.
A keep smajlík!


Reply to Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content by Vincent Schmalbach

Selectivity is long overdue. Marginalia, Stract, and Teclis feel like a breath of fresh air for broad short-tail queries because they downrank or skip pages full of ads, trackers, scripts, and even SEO. However, Google’s selectivity can’t penalise such criteria as that would conflict with its ad business.

Google has a bias against new sites. This makes sense, given their spam potential. I disagree with your argument that a bias against new sites is a pivot away from Experience, Expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (EEAT): it takes time for a website to become an authority and earn trust. If delayed indexing of new sites is wrong, then the problem lies with EEAT. I argue that EEAT is a good framework for an answer-focused engine, but a bad framework for a discovery- or surfing-focused engine like Marginalia or Wiby, respectively.


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

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In-Process is out! Featuring all the news on NVDA 2024.3 Beta 4, the add-on update notification feature in NVDA 2024.3, thanks to Intopia (& all our corporate sponsors) and a look at jumping between paragraphs! Check it out here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #ThankYou #Intopia #Navigation #Beta #Prerelease #FOSS #Software #blog



"Today, the time has come to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener."

No, you absolute shitheads, it's not just "the time." There's no immutable reason here other than your own disgraceful attention span.

If you create a link-shortening service, you owe it to the Internet not to just turn it off after a mere decade; even more so if you purport to have a mission "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."

mastodon.cloud/@corbet@social.…


Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:

developers.googleblog.com/en/g…

A quick search on lore.kernel.org:

lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%…

...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.


in reply to Nep (Travis) Smith

"Well it's your fault for relying on..." ..on what, on one of the largest, richest companies ever to exist?

On the company that publishes that it is "Committed to significantly improving the lives of as many people as possible"?

On a company that is so synonymous with the internet that it's a verb and it has its own TLD?

about.google/

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in reply to Nep (Travis) Smith

But yes, actually.

Google has shown over and over and over again that it simply cannot be trusted to build things that it will maintain.

There's a whole site devoted to things they've scrapped.

killedbygoogle.com/

It's not just that Google gets rid of services. It's the collateral damage.

Example: The Google Domains shutdown has resulted in folks losing control of their domains to spammers and phishers.

Killing your products -- reasonable. Killing other people's work -- despicable.



I once ran my own personal URL shortener but eventually killed it because it wasn't that useful, but I kept the links working, and in fact they still work _to this day_ because I converted them from a dynamic PHP web application to a little list of nginx URL redirects.

Google have comparatively infinite budget and can't figure out how to be a respectful web citizen.
social.kernel.org/objects/3912…


Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:

developers.googleblog.com/en/g…

A quick search on lore.kernel.org:

lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%…

...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.




this is not the browser you're looking for.



Proton Mail is now AI bullshit. Pass it on.

pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/18/pro…

Please boost.

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in reply to Dr. Matt Lee 🎃

“If an organization runs a survey in 2024 on whether it should get into AI, then they’ve already bodged an LLM into the system and they’re seeing if they can get away with it”


@mattl sweats in Fedora AI/LLM survey.

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My new narrated audio fiction project An Invisible Sun launches on August 1st!

Go to invisiblesunpod.com to hear the teaser, subscribe on your fav pod app, and get more information!

But if you can't wait, members of my Patreon can hear the episodes early and ad-free! patreon.com/wkeithtims

I hope you'll listen!

#audiodrama #audiofiction #fiction #podcast #fictionpodcast #sff #specfic #writingcommunity #writing #indie



It's just about time for the #GUADEC2024 pre-registration party! If you're in Denver, make sure to stop by Tivoli Brewing Co. to grab your badge and meet up with #GUADEC attendees!
events.gnome.org/event/209/pag…


Congratulations to our newest NVDA Certified Expert, Victor-Daniel Dima!

If you'd like to become an NVDA Certified Expert, you can sit the exam for FREE here: certification.nvaccess.org/

(There is a cost to receive the certificate, with all money helping keep NVDA free for all!)

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Certification #Qualification #Study #AmStudying #Exam #Leadership #Technology



Home Landline Phones Are Still Around, Here's Why You Might Need One cnet.com/tech/mobile/heres-why…
in reply to David Goldfield

I fought tooth and nail against getting rid of my landline, but once I got my current high speed internet and the landline only worked when there was electricity, I saw no point. Enter the Blind Shell and my $8 a month Tello plan. I have physical buttons for making calls, kept my old land line phone number, and my bill is much lower; paying around $70 a month for 800 MB internet speeds and couldn't be happier. I still miss the old reliable land line, but it doesn't seem to exist in that form any more, at least not in my area.


Lots of yours truly in rotation on ACB Media 2, with no nasty compression artifacts now. All instrumental things. stream.acbradio.org:8000/mains…


The Biden/Harris administration has released a tool — a first-of-its-kind software in partnership with the Department of Energy and HHS — that connects families to solar energy through the HHS' Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.

Those enrolled in the program can see significant electricity bill savings, aligned with the National Community Solar Partnership goal of 20% in average household savings — the equivalent of $370 yearly per household.

#Solar
energy.gov/communitysolar/clea…



"The EU’s #NGI programme has supported free, open source software for years. But now a silent death seems to be looming: An internal document suggests that financing may soon end. Developers are surprised and call for the programme’s survival."

netzpolitik.org/2024/next-gene…

#softwarefreedom



#curl macOS gcc / llvm build compatibility (and more) final patch landed, with write-up: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1409…
#curl


Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of decentralized blockchain Ethereum, has issued a warning to his fellow tech leaders against choosing a candidate purely based on whether they claim to be “pro-crypto.”

While he didn’t name any candidate specifically, his warning comes just one day after prominent venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz announced their support for Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

“In a blog post, Buterin said it’s more important to scrutinize a candidate’s broader policies to ensure they support cryptocurrency’s underlying goals, including internationalism and protection for private communications,” reports @Techcrunch. Here’s more.

flip.it/u1UPFX

#Crypto #SiliconValley #Ethereum #Trump #2024Election

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'Doctor Who: Disney Deal, Ncuti Gatwa & Russell T Davies In Spotlight deadline.com/2024/07/doctor-wh…


Oh nice! Firefox translation will now* translate all relevant HTML attributes, e.g. title, aria-label, aria-description and more : bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

Thanks @gregtatum !

* this landed a few hours ago, will be in next @FirefoxNightly and hopefully should be available for all in Firefox 130

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Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:

developers.googleblog.com/en/g…

A quick search on lore.kernel.org:

lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%…

...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.

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Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

Link: github.com/veggiedefender/open…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…



CQ Blind Hams is "the" source for #amateur radio content for #blind people in the English-speaking world. That's why I think it would be great if you could subscribe to the channel. They could monetize the thing with 1000 or more followers, which they then want to use to finance radio equipment for blind #Hams. I think it's a cool thing, I support it. Range boosts welcome. youtube.com/@cqblindhams?si=JZ…
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

as someone who uses curl nearly daily, I love your commitment to creating the best possible tool and encouraging others.


With many people getting COVID from the summer surge, a reminder that the CDC's isolation guidelines are inadequate.

CDC shortened their isolation guidelines, not because of a change in the science, but in response to political pressure to keep people working even if they are sick.

Science shows most people are infectious for 10+ days; it's best to isolate until you test negative on multiple tests. If you can't stay home the whole time, wear an N95 mask to stop the virus spreading to others.