Looks like my next read. THe attached audiobook sample contains ... a lot of swearing.
"What would happen if you crossed the high fantasy of Wheel of Time with the irreverent comedy of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?"
Meet Your Maker is a comedic, epic fantasy series that asks the questions: What is fiction? What is reality? And does it make a difference, when everyone and everything is trying to kill you? Bruce created this world. Now he has to survive it.
Buy Meet Your Maker: An Epic Fantasy LitRPG: 1 by McClain, Johnathan, McDuffee, Seth (ISBN: 9781039455405) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
I am very happy to announce that Rabbit Waves is out!
The idea for this project came after @neauoire & I were discussing the disappearance of certain traditional seasteading skills and maritime communication knowledge. We believe these skills are valuable when electronics misbehave, but they're also just generally fun to learn and to use.
All of the art is drawn by hand :>! We will add more content as we go!
* MockTraffic: a random DNS, HTTPS internet traffic noise generator 🛡️ * Fossify Launcher: a customizable homescreen app to complete your green Fossify collection 🛡️
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
#today on the sands of Talacre beach N.E. Wales, our elderly whippet Meg came alive again in the October sunshine, the clean sea air, and the freedom of the wide open space - like she used to be before old-age lethargy set in. We rarely see this Meg now. Another trip to the seaside soon, methinks. #whippet #NorthWales #wales #cymru #beach #seaside #doglovers
Harris shouts out crypto in her “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men”, one crypto exec leaves prison as another enters, and Stand With Crypto bets on the favorites.
Two weeks ago, I posted a video showing off the insanely capable Audio Overview tool in NotebookLM, Google’s experimental AI service. Today, the online giant added two interesting new features to Audio Overview that make it even more compelling.
I also retired my tier-1 blocklist. It’s the least-used blocklist I have, and I’m managing several; it’s not worth the effort. Every new severity level demands more instances to carefully consider.
Without willingness to spend that effort, its existence encourages me to treat it like a dumping ground for other entries that don’t qualify for other lists instead of evaluating entries’ severity properly.
I will maintain it in private to shine a light on the latter phenomenon, but I won’t share it.
Before you protest, know that I’m maintaining six other blocklists:
In this episode of MacChat, Chris and Marty dive into exciting Mac-related adventures, sharing insights on using Parallels to run Windows 11 on a Mac Mini, optimizing storage with CleanMyMac X, and exploring the benefits of ChatGPT for translating do…
Who, what, when, where, and why is aria-activedescendant. Or: two focus outlines in a trenchcoat approach you in a dark alley and offer you a combobox.
I'm sending this to all my web colleagues, right away. :D Too bad I can't go outside, climb up to the roof and just shout it ("Aria-activedescendant is not focus! Aria-activedescendant is not focus!") loudly for half an hour, but I don't know if any neighbors would then think I've lost my sanity so I better not. Grateful for you exploring this topic.
Einladung zur Erstellung von dokumentarischen Beiträgen wie Videos, Podcasts oder Texte über Braille-Schrift, Fotos, Grafiken oder Zeichnungen mit Braille zur Feier von „200 Jahre Brailleschrift im Jahr 2025“. offsight.de/viewtopic.php?f=24…
„Disability History Project“ Aufruf zum Einreichen von Objekten, die politisches Engagement von Menschen mit Behinderungen und ihren Kampf um Selbstbestimmung dokumentieren. science.orf.at/stories/3227176…
With the 2024 marathon approaching, I'm seeking prize sponsors. If your company/organization offers products or services for the blind and you're interested in sponsoring, let's connect. This is a fantastic opportunity for advertising, as the marathon consistently attracts very large crowds. Feel free to fill out this form, and let's chat about how you can help me take this year's marathon to the next level. forms.gle/MnuauzyMD8zH1NLo7
Please complete this form if you are interested in sponsoring Liam's 2024 marathon. The contribution of a prize for distribution during the event is highly encouraged. For reference, visit https://lerven.
Apple Pay has started to offer Klarna installment plans for online purchases, while a future update will bring PayPal balances to the Apple Wallet. appleinsider.com/articles/24/1…
From LinkedIn, Chrisopher Penn reminds us that "AI detectors" are confidently spewing the same bullshit as the generators, and likewise cannot be trusted at all.
In this lecture, Lawrence Lessig will discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on the 2024 American election, and the implications that this will have for democracy in the future.
If you read anything today, read this from @pluralistic - "You Should be Using an RSS Reader".
Cause you really should. Really.
Speaking of which, anyone knows of a tool somewhere that can analyze sites that don't have RSS feeds in search for changes and puts those changes on a RSS feed of its own?
New contribution experience report, about fixing a bug in @thunderbird . Spoiler: it went surprisingly well, they have made some serious effort to ease first contributions since last time I tried (and failed). Go #Thunderbird! ⚡ antonin.delpeuch.eu/posts/cont…
We're so glad you had an overall good experience, and you've given us some constructive advice on where the contributor experience could be smoother. And thank you, of course, for submitting a patch! Warm and fuzzy (or maybe feathery) feelings all around :)
There are lots of messaging apps similar to WhatsApp. Here's a review of the best secure alternatives: Signal, Threema, Telegram, Element, Wire, SimpleX, Session, and more.
ok but I will continue with WhatsApp. 100% of my customers are on WhatsApp; I would not survive without WhatsApp. On the other hand, 0% of my negotiations are conducted by email.
Signal has the option to be anonymous now, you no longer need to give out a phone number to connect with people, just a username you can set to anything
you could be recommending #DeltaChat that is an #e2ee #email client with an UI that looks like #WhatsApp, you could even provide it to your users as a chatting #decentralized solution using your email server, which fits with your business, but instead you prefer to recommend centralized phone-number based apps like #Signal 😭
Thanks for this good article but there is a broken link : With its true incognito mode - that differs a lot from Google’s incognito mode that was used for “privacy washing” @lascapi
Microsoft, the company that lost the cryptographic keys that protected their cloud customers from attackers (and that was found out only using extended logging at extra cost) wiz.io/blog/storm-0558-comprom…
People go to the cloud, despite the fact that cloud is more expensive than on-premises by a factor of 5, because cloud promises to get operations right so that companies can outsource that and focus on dev.
Our investigation of the security incident disclosed by Microsoft and CISA and attributed to Chinese threat actor Storm-0558, found that this incident seems to have a broader scope than originally assumed.
When I took my car to the service I noticed, that the service wasn't in #OpenStreetMap. Well, it is now. And whole little street got updated with fresh data... 😊 I like how easy it is...
What information did you use to render the roof of the building across the screet from the car repair service? I know you can give a building attributes such as "roof: gabled". But some buildings are rendered much more detailed in 3D models.
In OSM, the whole building on the right is one building area, so I gave it attribute building:parts=yes and created several separate areas of type building part. Each part has own building:color, building:levels, building:min-level, roof:shape, roof:color, roof:levels attribute.
I remember some people expressing how annoyed they were with people reimplementing standard command line tools in Rust. But here is the reality of such reimplementations: hachyderm.io/@cliffle/11332081…
It isn’t just the memory safety. The reimplementations typically turn out much simpler, partly because of a more high-level language and partly because of usable dependency management.
If you have 20 times less code to maintain, you can do a lot more with it. Adding “nice to haves” like output coloring in C requires considerable effort, improving usability of these tools in Rust on the other hand is a no-brainer. That’s e.g. why duf and dust can present the output better than df and du.
And there are performance wins at almost zero cost. That’s partly due to relying on well-optimized libraries instead of own reimplementations (yes, dependency management again). But taking advantage of multi-threading and modern CPU features seems much easier in Rust as well.
There's a handy command line tool, fdupes, for scanning a filesystem for duplicate files and optionally removing them. It's about 6kloc of C.
That seemed like kind of a fun little toy problem for this evening, so I wrote a little work-alike in Rust.
Alright I'm organizing 6 weekly meetings with some very unwilling participants, so I need 6 loaf cake recipes to win them over... any recommendations? 🍰🍰🍰
Flavours so far: - orange - white chocolate raspberry - pumpkin spice - rozemary olive oil - ??? - ???
#ECJ: The Directive on the legal protection of computer programs does not allow the holder to prohibit the marketing by a third party of software which merely changes variables transferred temporarily to a game console’s RAM @Sony #PlayStation 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_…
about the note on changing "void *" to "struct XXX *" I second your opinion that it would not break the ABI, but I'm also no expert on the C standard. But I believe that change could definitely be made during a major version bump. I'm also interested in the kind of changes that caused uproar.
Updated in 2023-05. A control-flow graph (CFG) is a graph representation of all paths that might be traversed through a program during its execution. Control-flow integrity (CFI) refers to security po
The key bit is github.com/openssl/openssl/iss… onwards. It's the same sort of thing as how casting through void* is fine, but accessing via void* isn't a way to absolve aliasing sins.
We started seeing a complaint from LLVM17 sanitizer via some application nominally using OpenSSL: crypto/lhash/lhash.c:299:12: runtime error: call to function err_string_data_hash through pointer t...
![Despite all of this, the sometimes decent CoinDesk crypto media outlet has come out with a truly embarrassing endorsement-that-claims-not-to-be-an-endorsement of Donald Trump. (“If CoinDesk were in the business of endorsing political candidates and if crypto were the only issue that mattered, it's pretty clear whom we would back to become the next U.S. president.... [E]ven though we don't endorse candidates, we do endorse Trump's crypto platform, such as is [sic].”) Although they claim to be “troubled” by his racism and “increasingly authoritarian rhetoric” — which they describe as “the antithesis of a crypto movement focused on decentralizing authority and empowering individuals” — the opinion piece by CoinDesk’s editor-in-chief, published on behalf of CoinDesk as a whole, is full of “neverthelesses” and “even thoughs” and “howevers” as he recommends Trump anyway. The whole thing boils down to “sure, Trump is a shameless racist who’s been increasingly threatening to do things like round up immigrants and deploy the military against his political enemies, and his statements on crypto kind of seem like empty pandering, but on the other hand, Harris has been... vague.”](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/600221 "Despite all of this, the sometimes decent CoinDesk crypto media outlet has come out with a truly embarrassing endorsement-that-claims-not-to-be-an-endorsement of Donald Trump. (“If CoinDesk were in the business of endorsing political candidates and if crypto were the only issue that mattered, it's pretty clear whom we would back to become the next U.S. president.... [E]ven though we don't endorse candidates, we do endorse Trump's crypto platform, such as is [sic].”) Although they claim to be “troubled” by his racism and “increasingly authoritarian rhetoric” — which they describe as “the antithesis of a crypto movement focused on decentralizing authority and empowering individuals” — the opinion piece by CoinDesk’s editor-in-chief, published on behalf of CoinDesk as a whole, is full of “neverthelesses” and “even thoughs” and “howevers” as he recommends Trump anyway. The whole thing boils down to “sure, Trump is a shameless racist who’s been increasingly threatening to do things like round up immigrants and deploy the military against his political enemies, and his statements on crypto kind of seem like empty pandering, but on the other hand, Harris has been... vague.”")
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