We often saw statistic that there are few software companies in the EU as an example of lack of innovation.
But 48% of maintainers of open source projects live in Europe, compared to 38% in North America and 8% in Asia. And the number is growing.
explore.tidelift.com/2024-surv…
My talk titled "CVEMITRECVSSNVDCNAOSS WTF" was very well received at the #NSSS conference with week. So well that I will re-do it live-streamed on Twitch on September 30. (recorded for YouTube as well)
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/09/25…
Two big wins for Honduras this month. Our Supreme Court has ruled that darling techbro project ZEDES (special economic zones exempt from local laws and taxes) are unconstitutional.
The National Energy Company won a court ruling against a foreign, private managing company overseeing our electric grid (as assigned through the right wing nationalist party) for failing to reduce energy losses. Already, our current government had managed to free the National Energy Company from privatization and this further ensures the stability of that service for Hondurans. We have been paying lower energy bills since the Libre Party took over and their plan is too keep the company as a nationalized asset, thwarting all attempts from the past government to privatize it.
Hoy tengo noticias de Administración Electrónica pero no las voy a poner porque son un poco deprimentes. Todo el tema va en plan de IA, uso de la nube, etc.
Me temo que nuestros gestores desconocen o hacen caso omiso de la ley de Goodhart: cuando una métrica se convierte en objetivo, deja de ser una métrica útil.
Factores de la digitalización como uso de la AI o de la nube se toman como objetivos, y dejan de ser métricas útiles si alguna vez lo fueron. El uso de la nube puede indicar el progreso en un proceso de digitalización, pero no es o no debe ser un fin en si mismo.
Me recuerda a fallos de la planificación central por basarse en el número o magnitud de operaciones realizadas (superficie irrigada, litros de agua empleados) en lugar de la función-objetivo que realmente se quiere maximizar.
denikn.cz/1533751/jsem-priprav…
On this day, nine years ago, I launched my sub-project "everything curl". A free book about #curl.
Today it contains 114.000 words in 1,056 separate sections.
Thank you for this example 🙏
On this day, exactly twenty-three years ago, #curl was shipped bundled with macOS for the first time. It has been included in their install ever since.
That day, Mac OS X 10.1 was released, featuring curl 7.7.2
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Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Hoy tenemos dos alertas de la AEMET. Y sí, por supuesto, #ChoveEnSantiago.
#DoctorWho
I really want to port Cairo's internals to Rust.
It is going to take a fuckload of refactoring to make it unit-testable, anyway.
However, I don't yet know if it is worth it.
Is there an alternative to Cairo for projects that really use it to draw 2D stuff? Including librsvg? People tell me that Skia is not it, but I am eyeing tiny-skia as a Rust alternative for librsvg.
@swick Oh, I mean, I wish them the best. It's very cool work.
But if you are an existing user of Cairo...
* Can you port your (certainly underfunded) app away from Cairo?
* Can you even use a GPU renderer without massive rearchitecting?
* Do you use pango/cairo for text? Can you switch to the lower-level layers, or something else?
fyi to linux users, the unofficial signal desktop flatpak doesnt use the freedesktop Secrets API no matter what you do and leaves your keys completely unencrypted
you can just dump ~/.var/apps/org.signal.Signal and read everything stored
if you're concerned, you should probably use the native package
Huh? Not everybody wants their blog to be social media, let alone part of this particular social network. Blogs are older than social networks.
Hell, not everyone wants comments.
yes, i consider Atom a better fit than full AP or even full OStatus. I even added some classic ActivityStreams 1.0 metadata to them but I’m not enabling interactive features on the site that don’t have to do with reading and sending a network-neutral WebMention for me to approve.
I’m even thinking about disabling the Fedi-Webmention bridge tbh.
Fedi isn’t just a set of protocols; it’s also a group of people using the platform and I don’t want my home located in the middle of Time’s Square.
Low-volume Webmentions for interesting backlinks, WebSub and Atom for subscription, and Microformats/semantic markup for machine friendliness are more than enough to interoperate with any network; it’s on them to parse my posts (e.g. to generate a link preview).
What do I gain by enabling AP integration (with replies hopefully disabled) that I don’t have with links?
I’ve noticed that a lot of AP devs want to put AP in everything, despite few people actually being interested in putting everything they do online into one big social network. Not everybody wants social media all the time and everywhere.
CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company's faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)
cyberscoop.com/crowdstrike-exe…
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Frustrated, the woman walked up to the examiner and said, "I've answered this question in every way possible—wall, cliff, old man, and young man—yet I've failed all four times. How is this possible? What am I supposed to hit?"
The examiner smiled and replied, "The brakes!"
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats… #aws
Observation by a friend, which resonates with me: Regarding generative AI, I have never before seen a technology that has so polarized all the tech-intelligent people I know around *three* poles:
• "This is a useless gimmick and will pass like any other fad.”
• "This is pure evil and nobody should use it, ever.”
• "This is amazing and we can bend it towards great good.”
There’s room for nuance, but that space feels pretty lonely sometimes.
I’m at #Innotrans all day. I’ll sporadically post in this thread.
First impression: CRRC (Chinese manufacturer) has the main advert at Messe Süd
Cairo status: narrowed the bug down to a single 160-line function, so I'm comparing the executions of a case that works, and the case that crashes.
Time to extract some of this function's code and add some tests!
dx = p2->x - p1->x;
We have integer overflow; that difference is larger than 2^31 bits and the int32_t cannot represent it.
Roku unveils the $100 Roku Ultra, which is 30% faster than its other streaming players and has Wi-Fi 6, HDMI 2.1, Dolby Atmos, the Voice Remote Pro, and more (Chris Welch/The Verge)
theverge.com/2024/9/24/2425248…
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