How a UK treaty could spell the end of the .io domain: theverge.com/2024/10/8/2426544…
Tons of people listening to the radio traffic now in Florida... Feeds still running.
A few days ago I read this piece by @davidgerard about Eric Schmidt, formerly of Google, calling for burning all fossil fuels and letting climate change run without restraint for the sake of "AI" - pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/06/eri…
On the first reading, I missed how Schmidt apparently has a new military contracting venture called "Istari".
Yet another person who managed to read Tolkien's legendarium and completely misunderstand everything in it.
Shots fired at office of man who owns Old Montreal buildings that were sites of fatal fires
I hear you loud and clear Nobel Prize, you don't want to be left off of the AI hype train.
Next will be a Nobel peace prize for "AI safety."
Don't they supposedly wait for decades before seeing the impact, like new drugs that were created or something like that, before awarding Nobel Prizes?
Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.
reshared this
well done to everyone involved in making usb so complicated that now the only way to understand what it's doing is to put diagnostic screens on charging cables
just a really solid set of decisions all the way down
Someone is DDOSing the internet archive, so we've been down for hours. According to their twitter, they're doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.
Meanwhile, we literally rescued 400,000 dissertations from being pulped.
I like our side.
as I have mentioned elsewhere I have worked fiercely on reducing memory calls and memory copies in curl code over the last few years, and I have come to realize that strncpy is often a marker for questionable code decisions, so I have worked on removing those questionable code paths.
As I have reduced the amount already before, the remaining few uses were not hard to just fix with better conditions and improved logic
yeah I have a fondness for K&R C but looking back many of its standard lib functions were a Bad Idea that at best only made sense for some brief "Garden of Eden" period in the world's software ecosystem
before any user could be a determined (and well-resourced) adversary or a mind bogglingly careless idiot. haha
while I understand that C was always ever meant as a relatively light abstraction, I still don't understand why native string handling was never incorporated. Dealing with strings is relevant in _so_ many use cases, that not having a sane and safe abstraction for it is just asking for trouble.
I think that's one of the first things Borland improved on in their derivates of Pascal.
When your #curl command line is rejected by the server but your browser still works, it might be because of TLS fingerprinting.
I blogged about this two years ago: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/09/02…
“Let us come back to this topic in a few years and see where it went.”
It is exactly a few years 😀
So where has the topic gone?
@GottaLaff
Announcing the Cartoonists for Kamala fund raiser! Many cartoonists have donated original art of their work (not just a print!) for the auction where all the funds will go directly to the Harris-Walz campaign.
Here's a link to get you started. More art will be added over the next couple of days as this kicks into gear.
Telling that Postmedia (owned by the Chatham hedge fund) bought Saltwire (former owners of the Halifax Chronicle Herald) this past July.
Their muzzling of political debate continues.
Just a little #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today, with 17 updated and 1 added apps:
* MultiLocale: add (otherwise unsupported) languages to your device's locale
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
Some of my favorite `curl` tricks:
vpetersson.com/2018/10/03/trou…
Super handy for debugging HTTPS. Thanks @bagder.
#chiptune #vgm @cordova5029 @FreakyFwoof @arfy @musicalman
X reinstated in Brazil after Musk pays fines, agrees to follow local laws
X blocked accounts and paid $5 million in fines to get back online in Brazil.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
@matt
Fucking infuriated to recent see a tech writer call Safari a Chrome based browser
Next he’ll be telling me Queen and David Bowie ripped off Vanilla Ice…
The article linked in my last boost (baldurbjarnason.com/2024/lisko… by @baldur) has buried in it the following unequivocal statement:
":And none of us should be using React."
I think those of us who agree with this message (I think I do) could do a better job of communicating it to those who aren't following the web development discourse. As far as my non-developer business partner knows, for example, React is still an uncontroversial industry standard.
Matt Campbell
in reply to Joe Cooper 💾 • • •Matt Campbell
in reply to Matt Campbell • • •