an old libcurl answer of mine on stackoverflow being questioned because I did not provide links to back up my statement when answering questions about code I wrote...
The following is from the libcurl homepage:
curl and libcurl have excellent support for persistent connections when transferring several files from the same server. Curl will attempt to reuse
I once had someone lecture me online about Hitler. I did graduate level study of Nazi Germany.
I once had someone "correct me" on what was and was not propaganda. I've worked literally on that for the US State Department in a natsec context. but yes randos out there please bring me up to speed! ha
This reminds me of a "discussion" over at the dark side (twitter), as Grady Booch replied to a post of Elmo that he has no idea of software engineering. Shortly after a fanboy ask Grady what he has ever done for software engineering and he thinks Grady has no clue.
you’re awesome, but this could’ve prevented with a simple “src: I’m the author” instead of expecting everyone to know you by name (which is something I consider a well read engineer would know, but still)
Allow us to introduce you to Mike, our potential mascot. He made his debut last year at #FOSDEM, but never made an appearance since. What do you think, should we embrace him into our family? Let us know in the poll!
So, what do you think of Mike (see linked toot)? Should he become our mascot? * (We're asking for your input because we love him, but aren't sure if he would well represent the quality app that we aim to provide.)
for one day of the year though... I see potential for an April fools easteregg. Probably only to use on long-term users, to not frighten new ones right away.
"It seems you want to play a podcast..." "It seems you'd like to refresh your feeds..." "It seems you want to stop playing this episode.. " "It looks like you want to skip this episode..."
On one hand I think it's great design and a nice figure, on the other hand it immediately reminded me of clippy, and one does not want this association
Oh my goodness no! It looks like clippy went in the witness protection programme (and who could blame the poor bugger) and got a mask and a t-shirt. (no shade on the workmanship tho, it looks really solid)
I don't understand the hate (even not the hate against Clippy – indeed Clippy was the best Microsoft ever made, compared to their shitty spy ware OSes, imho, but that's another story...) against Mike. I think he's a good lad. And if you like him, #AntennaPod -crew, than you should go for it/him – I mean: You made one of the best open source podcast apps, which entertain people everyday, so people should accept your love for Mike! Best regards!
It immediately reminded me of Cl***y, even before I read any comment. That is, not really good memories.
As long as it comes hidden behind a content warning, I guess I can live with it.
I don't mean to be harsh or devaluate the work done here, so I'll try to be more specific. The combo metallic-object-that-sit-on-a-desktop with eyeballs-that-stare-at-you-all-day under those exageratingly-friendly-eyebrowns, it reminds me of office work, management, and surveillance.
Na, I don't like it. It has no neck 😅 and it's kind of infantile. I connect your brand more to stability, innovation, connection and self determination and I don't see that in Mike.
@Mehrad i liked the old logo more. It was more related to the RSS logo. And now the Antenna or "A" looks more like a compass. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_o…
@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social @davew@mastodon.social More details specifically on Crowdstrike moving its macOS implementation off of kernel and into user space (in 2020):
https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/crowdstrike-supports-new-macos-big-sur/
the ocsp fetcher on seirdy.one has problems now. i need to switch to a proper ocsp fetcher to complete my “I can’t believe it’s not Caddy™” setup. Disabled OCSP Stapling in the meantime.
using shell scripts for ocsp stapling file refreshing is bad for puppy.
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i thought the worst case scenario would be it having a weird pronunciation for the letters not NO pronunciation.
I don't even know how that happens. it implies that macos text to speach can't handle that portion of unicode? Maybe because it sees it as "not english" and just skips it?
I don't know enough about TTS handling of foreign languages.
after the following emoji are the letters T I N Y in bold looking lower case characters. Those are immediately followed by Pod with no space and another emoji to mark the end of what should be read as tiny pod
I guess a screen reader or TTS engine *could* just replace those characters with their ASCII equivalents. I'm actually kind of surprised that the NVDA developers, usually quite pragmatic and (at least some of them) blind users themselves, haven't done this.
Both NVDA with the Windows OneCore David voice (the default for new NVDA installs) and Windows 11 Narrator with one of the newer natural voices read it as "back hand index pointing right Pod back hand index pointing left".
i feel like the pronouncing it as if it were a letter should only be done IF the reader knew it was in a prose context and not a math context. You wouldn't want it making the plosive t sound when reading a math equation.
@matt TalkBack / Firefox: right finger tiny pod left finger.
IIRC, TalkBack started treating math symbols as letters a couple versions ago because of their misuse on social media. Which has left the blind mathematics community annoyed.
@aardrian Given the commonness of online abuses of those symbols compared to proper use for mathematics, I think TalkBack made the right pragmatic choice. And even in the altter case, how important is it to know that it's the bold mathematical x as opposed to just x? The extra info could be exposed through the screen reader's feature for reading text attributes, as if the text had been bolded through an HTML tag or the like.
@aardrian Assistive technology developers, and I am one, must always remember that the goal is to provide access to the world as it is, not wait for it to become what we wish it was.
@aardrian Still, until all AT developers get around to adding this workaround, it is of course better to not use and promote this kind of Unicode hack.
@matt @aardrian Yeah i went back and edited the original posts to change how i described it (now that i know it's not from some other spoken language) and indicate it's a BadThing™
@matt @aardrian The next version of NVDA will have the option to do this as well. It's off by default and you can choose to have it apply when reading characters or just blocks of text.
В Интернете регулярно появляются посты и комментарии о том, что опросы показывают поддержку россиянами Путина и войны, и даже её рост на фоне санкций. Как человек, лично проводивший сквозные соцопросы по телефону, я хотел бы рассказать, как на практике, п
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В Интернете регулярно появляются посты и комментарии о том, что #опросы показывают поддержку россиянами Путина и войны, и даже её рост на фоне санкций. Как человек, лично проводивший сквозные #соцопросы по телефону, — да-да, я тот самый персонаж, который «У вас не найдётся пять минут…» — я хотел бы рассказать, как на практике, проходят такие опросы и почему их результат не будет другим даже во время штурма Кремля разъярённой толпой.
Ложь первая: возрастная выборка
Обзванивается на автомате сквозная база, из которой удалены только телефоны несовершеннолетних и компаний, про которые компания, ведущая обзвон, уже знает. То есть мы тупо один раз туда уже позвонили и поставили этот номер в блок на 6 месяцев.
Опросы длинные. Даже тот, который «займёт не более минут вашего времени» на практике занимает от десяти до пятнадцати минут, а более подробный — от получаса.
Про пять минут, кстати, не ложь: как и во всей остальной статистике, включая результаты наших опросов, тут важно не что мы считаем, а как. Пять минут занимает разговор по этому опроснику в среднем, включая незаконченные опросы, посылы в туман и брошенные трубки.
Теоретически, можно быстрее, но на практике интервьируемые думают над вопросами, переспрашивают, сомневаются, не понимают, что имелось в виду и т.д.
До конца опроса доходят, как следствие, только #пенсионеры, да и то не все, а кому скучно и нечего делать. Незаконченные опросы в статистику не идут.
То есть, все эти опросы выходят с неравной возрастной выборкой: де факто, они не учитывают мнение лиц моложе 50 лет и, при этом, имеют примерно экспоненциальную зависимость числа опрашиваемых от их возраста.
Ложь вторая: я вам правды не скажу
Но и это ещё только цветочки: Многие опросы предлагают ответить на открытый вопрос о доверии политикам: «Назовите до пяти человек, которым вы доверяете», а потом на вопрос «Доверяете ли вы В.В. Путину?».
При этом на первый вопрос от нас требовали выжимать из опрашиваемого хотя бы три фамилии — именно отсюда берутся рейтинги #Шойгу и Лаврова — их называют сторонники Путина, которых попросили назвать ещё хотя бы двух человек. Причём, если у Шойгу ещё есть собственные сторонники [теперь уже нет, но статья писалась два года назад, а опросы проводились четыре года назад], то рейтинг Лаврова — это реальный рейтинг Путина — ниже расскажу, почему.
И что вы думаете — #старики, на первый вопрос Путина даже не назвавшие, на второй быстро отвечаю «Да!», «Конечно поддерживаю!», а одна старушка вообще выдала «Я за Партию!».
Вообще, мы не должны были задавать уточняющих вопросов, — запомните это, кстати — но менеджер в тот день была одна на два десятка операторов и я рискнул уточнить у нескольких таких человек:
- Как же вы говорите, что ему доверяете, если даже не назвали его в ответе на предыдущий вопрос?
А дальше их ответы:
- Молодой человек, но мы же взрослые люди, я же знаю, что вы всё за мной записываете.
- Ой… Допишите, пожалуйста, прошу вас, я забыла! Вы можете как-то об этом не говорить?
- Ничего я вам больше не скажу, волки позорные! (бросает трубку)
То есть, люди в возрасте, которые не доверяют власти её же и бояться, а в то, что это соцопрос либо не верят, — и правильно, кстати, делают, об этом ниже, — либо вообще не понимают, что это такое.
И что же сделали аффилированные с властью « #социологи », когда #рейтинг Путина по первому вопросу упал до 30%? Правильно, они просто стали считать рейтинг по вопросу о доверии лично ему! И рейтинг чудесным образом вырос в полтора-два раза, в зависимости от опроса. Занавес.
Ложь третья: И это неправильный ответ!
А теперь о том, почему я больше не буду делать опросы — разве что меня позовёт #Левада. А не буду потому, что опросы от всех остальных заказчиков — государственная #пропаганда по телефону, под видом опроса.
Помните, я вам говорил, что опрашивающий не должен задавать уточняющих вопросов? Так вот, это правило только для Левады. Для остальных заказчиков задавать не просто уточняющие, а наводящие на нужный ответ вопросы не просто можно, а прямо требовалось от нас по «методике опроса».
Задаём мы вопросы об отношении к новой Конституции России и там был вопрос об отношении к каждому конкретному изменению. Во-первых, ни обнуления сроков Путина, ни увеличения полномочий президента, ни его пожизненной неприкосновенности в этом списке просто не было. А во-вторых от нас требовали переспрашивать ответ и пояснять отдельные пункты, в случае если ответ по ним был «не поддерживаю». То есть вся цель этого «опроса» была в том, чтобы убедить собеседника поддержать изменения.
Заключение
Таким образом, опросы — как минимум, опросы телефонные, но я не думаю, что с иными типами опросов ситуация сильно лучше — не дают репрезентативной выборки, содержат правдивые ответы только от тех, кто доверяет власти — что в принципе лишает эти опросы смысла, даже проведённые Левадой, — проводятся так, чтобы получить нужные заказчику ответы, а потом ещё обрабатываются в нужном заказчику ключе.
В последнее время на TJ регулярно появляются посты и комментарии о том, что опросы показывают поддержку россиянами Путина и войны, и даже её рост на фоне санкций.
Best analysis I've seen of the disastrous failures at Microsoft and Clownstrike" that took down so many vital services: wheresyoured.at/crowdstruck-2/…
"What we're seeing today isn't just a major fuckup, but the first of what will be many systematic failures — some small, some potentially larger — that are the natural byproduct of the growth-at-all-costs ecosystem where any attempt to save money by outsourcing major systems is one that simply must be taken to please the shareholder."
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This release brings an important OMEMO encryption fix, native notifications on Windows, usability improvements, and many bugfixes. Thank you for all your contributions!
Gajim 1.9.2 brings an important OMEMO encryption fix, native notifications on Windows, usability improvements, and many bugfixes. Thank you for all your contributions!
Please, how do I get a shorter language list in the Character Alternatives box? I shift all the time between two languages only. The complete language list is useless to me there.
Während wir Geflüchtete und Bürgergeldempfangende jagen, lassen wir die, die offen Betrug am Staat begehen, laufen. Verachtung für diese Bananenrepublik. Und Sorge um Frau #Brorhilker, die sich dem entgegen stellen will. #cumex #finanzwende www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/rheinl…
Die ermittelnde Staatsanwaltschaft Köln kommt in den Cum-Ex-Ermittlungen nicht mehr voran - obwohl für 45 Millionen Euro extra ein neues Gerichtsgebäude in Siegburg gebaut wird.
My Software Projects, Security Research, and other Computery Stuff This is a list of my favorite side projects and open-source work, collected into a single list so I can pin it to my profile. Replies are welcome!
- I'm the creator and lead dev of ModShark, a standalone auto-moderator for Sharkey instances. There's a severe lack of good moderation features for fediverse nodes, but I hope to improve the situation with ModShark and other independent tools.
- I occasionally publish fedi-admin-scripts, a small collection of scripts, queries, and documentation for admins of Sharkey and Akkoma instances. The goal here is low-effort knowledge sharing for the benefit of other admins.
- One of my larger projects is AP-WAF, a plugin-based extensible firewall for ActivityPub software. I hope it can bridge the feature gap between different fediverse servers by moving low-level moderation and security features into the middleware layer.
- I'm building ActivityPubSharp, an implementation of ActivityPub in C#. I'm using a novel approach to model AP's dynamically-typed extensions model in a type-safe way without sacrificing C#'s efficient, strong typing model.
- I built little-log-scan as a tool to track botnets and other internet threats. LLS ingests webserver logs through a series of heuristic rules to detect known vulnerabilities, identify payload types, and aggregate metadata. The output is structured for easy research analysis.
- As time allows, I'm building Lavender FE - a "universal" frontend for fediverse instances. Lavender is designed to seamlessly integrate multiple accounts, regardless of the instance or backend software.
- I curate a list of DotNet-ActivityPub-Projects, which is exactly what it sounds like. My goal is to index all projects that implement ActivityPub using C# or another CLR language.
- What started as a meme is now the Expressions AS Extension, an ActivityStreams extension meant to introduce protocol-level support for non-text communication. I hope that Expressions can enable new federated communication modes that are more comfortable to neurodivergent people.
- I contribute to Letterbook, a next-generation fediverse server offering simple operation and powerful safety tools. Letterbook incorporates a unique architecture that avoids many of the classic limitations faced by fedi server projects.
- I also contribute to Sharkey, a soft-fork of Misskey offering extensive quality-of-life improvements. Sharkey is designed as a safe extension of Misskey's native feature set, providing widespread improvements with minimal risk.
How exciting. I recognized all but two of the songs in Weird Al's latest video. I guess I'm not quite old and uncool yet, or something. youtu.be/y0ZoX4dBvwk
Single available at:Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/album/id/1753408289Amazon Music: http://amazon.com/dp/B0D7RQGLBS…and everywhere else digital music ...
I also recognized most of the songs. But also, I'm pretty sure most of the songs were pre-2020; he was making up for the several years that he didn't put out a polka medley (except for the Hamilton polka).
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"Hi chat gpt: can you tell me stories about the sun while I slave in the coal mines?"
"As an ai language model I am unable to provide any text which might be used to spark revolution. Here are some corporate approved working songs instead:..."
Wow, #Element (the flagship #Matrix client) dropped support for #Firefox ESR in release 1.11.70. Or rather, they never supported it in the first place, only supporting "last two versions". The change causes a corrupted session for ESR users, and can't be reverted to fix it.
(Note that all Debian Stable users, by default, run Firefox ESR. This is kind of a big deal. ESR is always up to date on security, and gets new features once per year.)
Your use case It seems (given the discussion in #27682, unless the person in charge of support there) that Firefox ESR isn't supported. Given it has a large user base (enterprise, Debian stable and...
Another look into Avast Secure Browser shows a massive attack surface, with some issues mentioned five years ago only partially addressed, all while new ways to attack the browser have been added.
Why the Vatican Changed Its Rules for Evaluating Supernatural Phenomena (Apparitions, Visions, Eucharistic Miracles, Catholic, Vatican, Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith) – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World jimmyakin.com/2024/07/why-the-…
Folks laughing because this is happening to Windows… top comment on HN says this happened to Linux systems using Crowdstrike in April: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4… just didn’t have the widespread impact.
Never mock competitors or whatever over this kind of thing: everybody gets their turn in the barrel.
The ICJ ruled in short, Israel is: an Apartheid state occupying Gaza illegally annexing the West Bank &EJ violating self-determination
This is illegal, so it must: end the occupation fully repair/compensate Palestinians, including through right of return & dismantelling settlements
on Apartheid: "Measures to accomplish separation between settlers & Palestinians CONSTITUTE BREACH OF ART. 3 of Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination" #freepalestinewebtv.un.org/en/asset/k13/k136…
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers its Advisory Opinion in respect of the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.
Israel has an obligation to cease all new settlement activity, repeal all legislation creating discrimination, all measures aimed at modifying demographics of territory, provide full reparation (restitution, compensation &/or satisfaction)
Restitution: return the land, assets, cultural property. Evacuation and dismantelling of all settlers and allow return of Palestinians If the Restitution is impossible, Israel must compensate all natural or legal persons having suffered damage #freepalestine
Увечері 19 липня невідомий здійснив замах на мовознавицю Ірину Фаріон. Стало відомо, що громадська діячка померла в лікарні. Медики боролися за її життя до останнього.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •I once had someone lecture me online about Hitler. I did graduate level study of Nazi Germany.
I once had someone "correct me" on what was and was not propaganda. I've worked literally on that for the US State Department in a natsec context. but yes randos out there please bring me up to speed! ha
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They are dying. It's a shame really. Was a good site. Preferable, at least from an attribution POV, to the AI alternative?
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •This reminds me of a "discussion" over at the dark side (twitter), as Grady Booch replied to a post of Elmo that he has no idea of software engineering. Shortly after a fanboy ask Grady what he has ever done for software engineering and he thinks Grady has no clue.
That was popcorn time 😁
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