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...

stackoverflow.com/a/28714247/9…

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(but yeah, I have stopped answering questions over there)

Endpoint Security extensions and DriverKit were ambitious projects, but they sure are looking good in retrospect mstdn.ca/@michaelgemar/1128193…
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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. :sobbing:

using shell scripts for ocsp stapling file refreshing is bad for puppy.

Neat! "Pencils Made From Recycled Coffee Grounds Are Functional and Smell Great" mossandfog.com/pencils-made-fr… #coffee #pencils #recycle

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I just stumbled across a truly cool design hack that leverages unicode to bold characters where no bolding is possible.

When i went to bookmark thetinypod.com/ the title inserted into the form was bolded.

I wrote the code that put the title in that form. There's NO way formatting should - or can - come through.

Then it got weirder.

🧐 Mini Investigation Time

🧵 1/?

in reply to Adrian Roselli, pH0

@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.

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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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."

Gajim 1.9.2 has been released 🚀

This release brings an important OMEMO encryption fix, native notifications on Windows, usability improvements, and many bugfixes. Thank you for all your contributions!

#xmpp #gajim #chat

gajim.org/post/2024-07-19-gaji…

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Our native language projects translate #LibreOffice into 100 languages, making the software usable for billions around the globe! Learn what they did in 2023: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #freesoftware

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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
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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.

#OpenSourceSoftware #FediDevs #FediDev #Introduction

ATU686 – Laura Metcalf Tribute eastersealstech.com/2024/07/19…

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.)

They're managing the issue somewhat badly: github.com/element-hq/element-…

The best we've gotten so far, from a dev caught in the middle:

« Element devs follow the policy set out by people that manage them, they get an input but they do not control the policy. »

Nothing from their employer, whoever that is.

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.