well, with "only" 400 maintainers answering the survey, I think it tells more about who answered the survey than how the maintainer distribution is really like...
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)
Co si pamatuju, Lipo uměl vždycky trolit. Jinak pirátsky moc nepůsobil a spousta lidí to ani nevěděla. O tom že by mohl přestoupit se spekulovalo už dřív.
@jackc obavám se, že všichni piráti, kteří byli včera na té velmi nepovedené tiskovce, v politice skončili. Překvapilo mě, jak se tam Richterová úplně zbytečně znemožnila 😕
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
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)
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)
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! The Marriage Equality Bill has received royal endorsement and was published in the Royal Gazette, officially making #Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia to officially recognize same-sex marriage! It takes 120 days for laws to process here. In case you didn't know, I live in Thailand, my wife is Thai, and in 120 days we will be able to legally marry in Thailand, along with millions of other queer people who have waited SO LONG for this day. Love wins!! #LGBTQ
@Tamasg Oh thanks, but I do not have the COVID. I grabbed one of the free tests because of a WG chair in another room tested positive and I want to be able to be certain I am not also infected.
Marcellus Williams was sent to Missouri’s death row in 2001 for a murder he swore he did not commit.
Forensic testing of the knife used to murder Felicia Anne Gayle Picus revealed male DNA that did not belong to Williams, but he is scheduled to be executed tonight at 6 PM CST.
On the eve of Williams’s scheduled execution in 2017, then-Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens intervened, issuing an executive order that triggered a rarely used provision of Missouri law, empaneling a board to review the evidence, including DNA, that jurors never heard about at trial.
Gov. Mike Parson dissolved the panel before it could report its findings. interc.pt/48XNNmb
The day after Gov. Parson dissolved the panel, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey asked the state's Supreme Court to set an execution date for Williams.
The Midwest Innocence Project sued to block the governor from disbanding the board, saying his order violated state statute. interc.pt/48XNNmb
While the MO Supreme Court considered the dispute between AG Bailey and the Midwest Innocence Project, St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell asked the Missouri Circuit Court to consider evidence of Williams’s innocence and vacate his conviction.
“This never-before-considered evidence, when paired with the relative paucity of other, credible evidence supporting guilt … casts inexorable doubt on Mr. Williams’s conviction and sentence,” the motion read. interc.pt/42g2izG
Before Williams' first trial in 2001, the handle of the butcher's knife used in the murder had been analyzed for fingerprints, but none had been found; blood on the blade matched Picus.
In August, St. Louis County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Keith Larner testified in court that back then, he had concluded that there was no additional forensic testing that needed to be done on the murder weapon, so he repeatedly handled the weapon without using gloves. interc.pt/4g7TWkf
A new round of analysis confirmed that Williams’s genetic material was not on the knife, but it could not exclude either Larner or his investigator as the source of the unknown DNA.
Whatever DNA might have existed connecting the perpetrator to Picus’s murder was irretrievably lost — thanks to the prosecution’s handling of the evidence. interc.pt/4g7TWkf
According to St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell, the state’s willful mishandling of the evidence before trial had violated Williams’s rights, meaning his conviction and death sentence must be overturned. interc.pt/4g7TWkf
Bell’s office struck a deal with Williams on August 21. The prosecutor would concede constitutional error and take the death penalty off the table if Williams agreed to enter a so-called Alford plea that let Williams acknowledge a strong case against him while maintaining his innocence; the plea would let him avoid the death penalty by accepting a life sentence. interc.pt/4g7TWkf
But AG Bailey’s office ran to the Missouri Supreme Court, arguing that the judge didn’t have the power to agree to such a deal and that Williams should face execution. The court sided with Bailey, ordering the judge to hold a hearing on Bell’s motion to vacate the conviction as originally planned. interc.pt/4g7TWkf
Since being appointed to his post in 2023, Bailey has spent a considerable amount of time attempting to thwart state courts from exonerating the wrongly convicted — or even from considering their claims. interc.pt/4e0GPzY
On Sept. 12, the St. Louis County Circuit Court judge upheld Williams's murder conviction, ruling that the prosecutor who contaminated the evidence by handling it without wearing gloves had not acted in “bad faith,” but instead was merely following his normal procedure.
The ruling dismantled Williams’s latest attempt to prove his innocence and paved the way for his execution tonight. interc.pt/3ZkM3lt
Both the Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. Parson have refused to grant a stay of the execution, and now it's up to the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether to allow Williams's execution by lethal injection tonight to proceed or not.
Make sure to follow Jordan Smith as she covers the latest developments as they happen tonight.
Someone shared a comic I liked, but I noticed that somewhere in the chain, the artists name had been removed, so that stopped me. Reverse image searching proved surprisingly frustrating and involved diving into the cesspit of LinkedIn, but I eventually identified the artist as Irina Blok, but I can't link to the original image because its in Instagram jail, so here's her site.
That was a pain in the ass. Please don't trim credits. It's an asshole move.
"Why would corporations come to the Fediverse they couldn't possibly monetise it" they said.
And in a later breath they would also say the best way to deal with a scraper is to block it rather than fix the protocol.
These companies sell you as the product.
Fedi's model makes it extremely attractive to do so, and we all know laws are for the poor. So what if they get a fine? A fine is just a fee if there's no other penalty. It's a cost of doing business.
People are gonna be sitting there praying for GDPR to save them, praying for blocklists to save them, praying to false gods when the reality is everyone with a shred of fucking sense in this space has been screaming this is a major fucking problem and the Fediverse's model is very much one which is friendly to companies like Meta and Automatic.
Maybe they'll get a GDPR fine. But given the way Fedi works, they've got a strong defense.
Syndication of all posts to local servers? Like literally just copying them?
Brilliant fucking idea lads. Truly the work of geniuses. Truly a platform which will respect your privacy.
People will get upset for me saying this part but the only way, the ONLY way, to ensure privacy on Fedi, is to put an end to syndication of post content. It should be a URI with access control. It should not ever be fucking content. Content should just not be fucking syndicated EVER.
"But the load on servers"
You know what? A fediverse database has unbounded growth due to its model, and will grow with the number of instances. The average growth is n * m, where m is the average number of messages per server over a chosen interval, and n is the number of instances. For 1000 instances with 100 messages a day average (this is averaging out huge instances like m.s), that's 100k of messages PER DAY.
It's utter madness!
For something like threads they can become too big to block and they can definitely use other methods at their disposal to get your data. Like literally buying instances quietly or just setting up ones and astroturfing.
I don't know why people thought Meta or Automattic WOULDN'T want to come to Fedi. Wishful thinking? Or maybe just... more people don't know how Fedi works.
Wait, isn't this conflating the instance admins with the people on that instance? If my instance admin shut down my instance, I'd be bummed that my old posts wouldn't be available any more. Ideally I'd be able to move my posts to another instance, but that's not really a part of fedi's features in general, even if some tools have workarounds for it. I should get to pick whether to keep my old posts, not my instance admin.
user-initiated post migration is something that certain instances support (some of the *keys), and I look forward to seeing it on more instances. data exports also exist but data imports don’t seem common.
to se dozvíme, já v tom vidím možnost pro #Piraty se oklepat a uvidíme jak to dopadne ve sněmovních volbách. Bohužel to vidím, tak že bude vláda #ANOZmaru 🫣
Monthly releases are coming, but right now, they're for testing only! Get the latest update on the Thunderbird Planning mailing list: thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…
I am always astonished that frequent updates are supposed to describe a good software product. For ME, good software should be SO good and hardened that I do NOT need frequent updates, but only in extremely exceptional cases! Further developments, on the other hand, do not need to be handed over to ME on a monthly basis. 🧐 And yes I know there are LTS versions. In my eyes this should be the normal update cycle and there could even be a "VeryLTS" additionally. 😎
@CafeJunkie We think having the monthly and LTS versions are a good balance for all the kinds of users we have, from ones want the newest features right away to ones who want something stable and long term. This approach also works with the size of our team, since those very LTS versions need more people to maintain them!
![Screenshot of a Node.js console session.
me: define an array called arr, [1,2,3]
node: ok. [ 1, 2, 3 ]
me: what's the type of arr
node: 'object'
me (thinking): whut
me: define an object called foo. foo = {"one": "I", "two": "II"}
node: ok. { one: 'I', two: 'II' }
me: what's the type of foo.
node: 'object'
me: what's the length of arr
node: 3
me: show me arr as a string
node: '1,2,3'
me: assign 'barney' to the "fred"th place in arr
node: ok. 'barney'
me: uhhhh. what's in arr now
node: [ 1, 2, 3, fred: 'barney' ]
me: and what's the length of arr now?
node: 3
me: and what's arr look like as a string now?
node: '1,2,3'
me: ok what's really in arr
node: [ [ '0', 1 ], [ '1', 2 ], [ '2', 3 ], [ 'fred', 'barney' ] ]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/593219 "Screenshot of a Node.js console session.
me: define an array called arr, [1,2,3]
node: ok. [ 1, 2, 3 ]
me: what's the type of arr
node: 'object'
me (thinking): whut
me: define an object called foo. foo = {\"one\": \"I\", \"two\": \"II\"}
node: ok. { one: 'I', two: 'II' }
me: what's the type of foo.
node: 'object'
me: what's the length of arr
node: 3
me: show me arr as a string
node: '1,2,3'
me: assign 'barney' to the \"fred\"th place in arr
node: ok. 'barney'
me: uhhhh. what's in arr now
node: [ 1, 2, 3, fred: 'barney' ]
me: and what's the length of arr now?
node: 3
me: and what's arr look like as a string now?
node: '1,2,3'
me: ok what's really in arr
node: [ [ '0', 1 ], [ '1', 2 ], [ '2', 3 ], [ 'fred', 'barney' ] ]")
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