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Today is **fifteen years** since I posted about the "null-prefix domino" - common problems in TLS server certificate verification functions in many projects, including #curl

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2009/10/19…

null-prefix domino | daniel.haxx.se

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#curl
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Oyes, ¿recordáis cuando medio internet daba la matraca sobre como "estar sentado es el nuevo fumar" y como nos vendían los "standing decks" como la gran revolución en el mundo de la salud laboral y casi una obligación si no querías morir de un infarto en tu silla de trabajo?

Pues acaba de salir un estudio al respecto y adivinad qué: no solo no reducen la mortalidad sino que aumentan el riesgo de varices y trombosis venosa profunda.

👉 academic.oup.com/ije/article/5…


Device-measured stationary behaviour and cardiovascular and orthostatic circulatory disease incidence

AbstractBackground. Previous studies have indicated that standing may be beneficially associated with surrogate metabolic markers, whereas more time spent
Ahmadi, Matthew N (Oxford University Press)
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Eine Gruppe junger Leute am Nebentisch.

Es gibt die Frage in die Runde, ob den anderen bei #Instagram heute auch #Werbung über ein Produkt angeboten wurde, über das sie gestern sprachen.

Bestätigung von anderen und für einen Moment macht sich #Unbehagen breit...dann Kichern und Lachen ... man zeigt sich gegenseitig die Smartwatches, es fallen Wörter wie Apple, Garmin und WhatsApp.

Das Leben geht weiter.

#selbstbestimmtDigital

#Instagram #werbung #selbstbestimmtdigital #unbehagen
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V 89% prípadov som v práci prvý, a z 29% aj pred manažérom. To sa nechválim... :02_hyper:
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Good morning from Germany in the Central European timezone! :-) Yesterday, I spent an afternoon at a thermal spa, spending time with a friend and having some very good relaxing time and fantastic conversations. He is 26, and one example why I get along best with younger and mostly queer people.

I was so relaxed, that I fell asleep at around 8 and, with only one brief bathroom break, slept for over nine hours, which is rare for me. Must say I feel very well rested this morning.

in reply to Marco Zehe

lordjeff
lordjeff
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what exactly is a thermal spa? I don't think I've been to 1 or seen 1
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lordjeff
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I imagine it being a place where you are wrapped in hot towels hehe

What are some examples of things you used to think but changed your mind on?

In my case, in public transport and urbanism:

* I used to support some tech I now think is a dead-end (large-diameter TBMs, active tilt)

* I used to think local community empowerment and consensus were a good way to run cities

* I thought Japan did both clearly better than Europe

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Alon
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@modulux On tilting trains, I wrote more than a sentence: pedestrianobservations.com/202…

Tilting Trains and Technological Dead-Ends

The history of tilting trains is on my mind, because it’s easy to take a technological advance and declare it a solution to a problem without first producing it at scale. I know that 10 years…
Pedestrian Observations
@modulux
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modulux
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thanks, that was interesting reading. A bit surprised because living in Spain I'm familiar with TALGO and thought that was the sort of tilting you meant.

Šofér autobusu zlatý ty vole, čakal pokým si kúpim lístok, ibaže idem električkou. Ale aj tak... 😄 zakýval som mu.
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Oh look, a setup video for your shiny new AOL Optimized PC. Wow ... I never even knew there was such a thing back in the day but here's the video nevertheless: youtube.com/watch?v=GLZqC3Mbj5…

AOL Optimized PC Instructional Video

This is an instructional video that came with the AOL Optimized PC, in both English and Spanish.
YouTube

Loving this new era of indie blogs splitting off from their corpo bastards and forming their own coops:

404media.co/
aftermath.site/
defector.com/

Even more listed at the end of Hearing Things’ about page:
hearingthings.co/about/


About

Hearing Things is a new home for independent music journalism.
Andy Cush (Hearing Things)

Google's Extension-Killing Manifest V3 Rollout Is Stepping Up, and It's Time to Jump Ship lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Google's Extension-Killing Manifest V3 Rollout Is Stepping Up, and It's Time to Jump Ship

Why stick with Chrome when there are so many other options?
Gavin Phillips (MakeUseOf)

Je nás o čašníka menej a moja kolegyňa si zlomila nohu cca 3 týždne tu nebude (podľa mňa nepríde dlhšie). Z mojej zmeny som vlastne na rajóne "sám" a miesto aby sme traja sme dvaja a ten druhý je buď externý alebo z druhej zmeny, to je presne to čo po sezóne chceš.

ach už je ráno... #dobréRáno
#dobrerano

Speaking of #MyAdoredDaughter this morning... I don't know if I ever posted this photo.

This is ... my daughter? This is how she looks like, exactly - a beautiful, young person with long legs, and wonderful hair. And she keeps telling me "OMG, we look so alike, we could be twins..."

#Trans #Enby #NonBinary #TransJoy #EnbyJoy #NonBinaryJoy #Selfie

...

... but no, this is not a photo of her, this is a selfie of me reflected in a window. When I saw myself reflected in that window, I had to take a selfie and send it to her and she was absolutely amazed at how similar we look now, really, like twins, everything, the form, hair, posture, arms, legs, ... only her face is slightly different (and way younger, obviously 🥰

Window-Selfie of me, a non-binary person, on a sunny day. You can't really identify me clearly, but I am a slim, tall person with slim arms (they were always very "feminine"). I wear a spaghetti-string-strap black top and what looks like some black pair of pants. Since you can't make out the face very clearly, this could in fact 100% be my daughter.
#trans #nonbinary #transjoy #enby #selfie #myadoreddaughter #enbyjoy #nonbinaryjoy
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<officially> imdat celeste [witchzard]
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@Marco TBH, she resembles my wife more than her mother (my wife isn't her mom), but she looks more or less exactly like me. So the photo above could really be me or her, if I didn't tell you who that person is on the photo and you'd see us next to each other, you couldn't tell who that was.

But, and that's the fun part, whenever she is visiting us and we three, her, my wife and me, go out for a walk, people are 100% sure she is our daughter, because she has nearly nothing from her biological mom, but some really interesting similarities with my wife.

In my own case, I have half-half, i.e. about half of me resembles my father, and half my biological mother (as far as I can remember, and I have one single photo of her).

@Marco Zehe
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Marco Zehe
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Oh I understand! Sorry for my premature assumption that your wife was your daughter’s biological mother. :-) Then, it is even more interesting that you three look so alike.

Co se dá dělat, @fabia_man evidentně zklamal, protože mě z práce neodvolali, tak si jdu zkontrolovat, jestli mám všech 7 kol a hurá na Tewkesbury. Krásnou odpočinkovou sobotu a žádný strach, já to za vás dneska vytrhnu.
@Robin Bedrunka 🐞

Ahoj chtěl bych vás informovat, že po nedávném restartu bohužel server kde je mamutovo.cz pixelfed nenajel a momentálně není dostupný. Pracuji na vyřešení problému, aby byl co nejdříve opět online.
Omlouváme se za způsobené nepříjemnosti a děkuji za vaši trpělivost. Jakmile bude server opět dostupný, budu vás informovat.
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Archos
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@ronny Ahoj, web jel už dpoledne, byl výpadek serveru. Jinak vhsky jsem zatím vypnul, nemá cenu platit něco co dobře nefunguje. Jinak ostatní služby samozřejmě fungují.
@ronny
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ronny
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a nemohl bys to zapnout na par hodin, ze bych si jen zazalohoval posledni verzi subscribci? Protoze koukam, ze posledni zaloha je par mesicu stara :-/ budu to muset nejak zautomatizovat..

Lets try that again. If you haven't tried it yet, the Google Notebook LLM is quite interesting. It can take any notes, documents, manuals, etc., and create an AI-generated podcast-style output. For example, I ran last month's AppleVis Newsletter for September through this service. It's pretty long to listen to, but I was amazed by what it produced. :)

The National Federation of the Blind of Massachusetts is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic year. Please spread the word widely!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

National Federation of the Blind of Massachusetts Scholarship Application

The National Federation of the Blind of Massachusetts is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic year. Up to four scholarships will be awarded: one in the amount of $3,000.00, 2 in the amount of $1,500.
Google Docs

My wife is a battery vendor at the local children's playground.
She sells C-cells by the seesaw.

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I’ve always lived on the west coast so when east coast friends told me years ago that Market Street in most cities is named for slave markets I’d be like “what?! but every town has one!” and they’d say “yep”

Anyway, this sign is 100’ from Louisville’s Market St

Slave cells historic marker in Louisville

Three photos around SF Chinatown in Kodak Tri-X

(Leica M3, 50mm Summilux, dev in Xtol stock @ 7:45, scanned on Nikon Coolscan 8000ED)

#BelieveInFilm #Photography #FilmPhotography #BlackandWhite #Kodak #Leica #SanFrancisco #BayArea #California #Chinatown #Chinese

a scan of a 35mm black and white film photo of New Woey Loey Goey restaurant in SF Chinatown
a scan of a 35mm black and white film photo of a theater in SF Chinatown with Chinese characters
a scan of a 35mm black and white film photo of instant noodles for sale in SF Chinatown
#photography #sanfrancisco #california #filmphotography #BlackAndWhite #leica #believeinfilm #Chinese #bayarea #kodak #Chinatown
in reply to Adrianna Tan

Federico Mena Quintero
Federico Mena Quintero
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that's exactly the emulsion/developer I used to use 20 years ago so this... grain... is giving me major nostalgia. Love your photos!

"I’d like to point out that the overwhelming majority of Black male voters are going to do exactly what I do: vote for Harris. Harris will receive between 85 and 90 percent of the Black male vote. I acknowledge that the difference between 85 percent and 90 percent could be the difference in Harris winning or losing a critical state or two, but I simply refuse to engage in a conversation that paints Black male support as the “problem” for Harris in this election. +
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Ra'il IK
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"The “problem” in this country is how the majority of white people vote. The force holding this country back is the majority of white people. The people who have turned against democracy are the majority of white people. The global force destroying the environment of this earth is the majority of white people. +
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Ra'il IK
Ra'il IK
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"If you are in the white liberal minority and you want to freak out about something, freak out about your cousins and grandmothers and colleagues who are about to cast a ballot for an unhinged authoritarian. Go deal with the white people in your life instead of placing the burden on Black folks to save this country from the majority of white folks yet again."

— Black Men Will Vote for Harris—White Men Are the Problem.
thenation.com/article/politics…


Black Men Will Vote for Harris—White Men Are the Problem | The Nation

Why is the media talking so much about the fraction of Black men who might go MAGA when more than 60 percent of white men will vote for Trump?
The Nation

All National Anthems are country music.

Dog has been crying shooting with pain. Breathing heavily. That dog is normaly silent. Guess who is not in a hurry to go to the vet in a few hours.

NEVER FORGET TRUMP UNIVERSITY $25,000,000.00 FRAUD SETTLEMENT To the victims of his fraudulent 'university' VOTE

From the NDIS portal:
"The document with the file name xxx - Your xxx receipt [#xxxx-xxxx].pdf cannot be uploaded. Please upload a document with the file name which contains the following characters only a-z A-Z 0-9 # + , @ ^ . _ & -.']"
What the actual Zarq. Why should you care about the file name? You asked for a name for the file in a separate text box, so the file name on my local file system is literally irrelevant. Incompetence seriously annoys me.
#XXXX
in reply to Jamie Teh

victor tsaran
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Wow! Those kinds of artificial constraints do not make any sense. It reminds me of password format terrorism imposed by many institutions...
in reply to victor tsaran

Jamie Teh
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@vick21 Yeah, or real name constraints, or invalid email address constraints, or broken street address matching, or arbitrary business name constraints, or... so many other things.
@victor tsaran

When you’re queer, you’re so far out of the gender binary that instead of His & Hers you have, Poop & Anxiety socks

#LGBTQ #Socks

A photo of 2 pairs of socks. One says Coffee Makes Me Poop The other says Anxiety is my Influencer
#LGBTQ #socks
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Did you know the government is directly asking you if you want them to regulate SUV so they kill less people, especially children?

"We seek to address the many U.S. variants and other models built upon uniquely American platforms.
This includes essentially the entire pickup truck and large SUV segments."

Take control back from car makers and pro-SUV by giving your feedback here⬇️ (and don't hesitate to retoot, thank you!).

regulations.gov/document/NHTSA…

#car #suv #regulation #carculture #regulation #pedestrian #children #walkability

Drawing in black and white showing at the top a classic car with a low hood and at the bottom an SUV with high hood and vertical front. Both drawings show measurement lines and numbers underlying the difference of angle therefore of impact for both types of hood.

Regulations.gov

www.regulations.gov
#Children #carculture #car #regulation #suv #pedestrian #walkability

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"We are the greatest employer, and we don't give a single fuck of what you think"

Internet CEO Matt Internet says that the Internet is not good enough for building the Internet with: reuters.com/technology/amazon-… #AWS #RTO
#aws #rto

lol weed union slipped a rickroll into the #Oregon voter’s pamphlet
Argument in Favor Never before have we had an opportunity to extend the freedom to unionize to cannabis workers at the ballot! Going forward, Oregon's cannabis workers need these freedoms to unionize and be protected when they do so. To help elevate their voices and concerns when it comes to issues like worker safety, wages, and holding employers accountable. Give Measure 119 a YES vote! You have read the accounts of unsafe working conditions and the lack of voice that cannabis workers have in their workplaces. Up to now, ambiguities in federal labor law have made it difficult for employees to exercise their freedom to unionize. Never again should we allow that to be the case. Going forward, Measure 119 will enshrine the freedom of cannabis workers to unionize in the state licensing process. To get a license for cannabis retail or processing from the OLCC would require a labor peace agreement if Measure 119 passes. Let workers decide for themselves if they want to exercise their freedom to unionize! You have the power to help make this a reality with a YES vote. Down the road, let's look back and know that we did the right thing. (Now read the first word of each sentence to hear what Measure 119 will never do.)
#Oregon
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🕐Z #NowPlaying At the top of the hour why not jazz up your day with a new edition of Smooth and Easy with Kelly Sapergia. an hour of Smooth #Jazz, #Chillout and #EasyListening music. theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio 🤎🎷🐝🎧🌬️🎵
#jazz #nowplaying #tgvradio #easylistening #chillout

I really don't understand why a security clearance isn't required for every MP in Canada.

The door said 1311. I hope that's OK.
-- A note from my delivery driver for a recent order


I don't live at 1311. So no, it's not OK.

I love having the world's information organized
Google AI overview: "The main difference between a sauce and a dressing is their purpose: sauces add flavor and texture to dishes, while dressings are used to protect wounds"

Sexual

Sensitive content

35 years ago today
Special box on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle, October 18, 1989, reading This special edition of The Chronicle was produced despite a complete power outage at the newspaper's headquarters at 5th and Mission streets. The earthquake brought the newspaper's computer and main printing facility to a halt. The papers were printed at the Chronicle's Army Street printing plant and at its East Bay facility in Union City. The news accounts were placed on Macintosh computer disks using an emergency generator. "The Chronicle of October 18, 1989 is a newspaper produced with a heavy heart," said Executive Editor William German. "The fact that it was produced at all was a mighty feat. This awful blow wiped out the tools of modern journalism. No magic of computers, no push-button presses, not even lights to see by. "All that was left to us was the energy and the wit of our dedicated staff," he said.

You know what would be really cool? If there were audio-only virtual bike ride tours of places. Like you could, say, go on a 1 hour ride on a stationary bike, and listen to something along with it that was as though you are riding a bike through a specific location and they describe the scene to you, or talk about its history, and you hear the environment moving passed, and it didn't have video so you wouldn't be told to "look at this" or something like that. Or if it did have video, it'd be designed in a way where looking at it would be optional.

Alt space to call up an app any time? Great. Who needs the system menu anyway? Seems like idiocy to me but what do I know? #ChatGPT
#chatgpt

Look, if Trump wins, everything's gonna be fine. Not much is going to really change for you in your day to day life let's be honest. I mean, as long as you're white, pretty much nothing will change.

As long as you're white and male. Because let's face it, women aren't getting their bodily autonomy back under a Trump presidency. But as long as you're white and male, things should be fine.

As long as you're white, male, and cisgender I mean. God help you if you're trans. Trump has promised to make your existence illegal and probably will on day one. But that's it. As long as you're white, cisgender and male, it'll be just fine.

As long as you're straight too. Trump is definitely going to try to outlaw gay marriage again, and according to Project 2025, wants to try to get sodomy laws back on the books. But that's it. As long as you're a white, cisgender, straight man, nothing is going to change.

And also Christian. Again, that Project 2025 stuff comes back here. Muslim bans, atheism bans, not to mention a whole slew of antisemitic nonsense. But that's all. As long as you're a white, straight, cisgender Christian man, you'll be fine.

Uh, and by Christian I mean specifically evangelical Christian, obviously. You better not have any heretical ideas about God like this crap about loving thy neighbor and feeding the hungry and clothing the homeless. That's the sort of idea that'll get you in trouble in Trump's America. But as long as you're a white, straight, cisgender, evangelical Christian man, you'll be fine.

Oh, and this really goes without saying but don't be a dirty fuckin liberal, obviously. Trump has said he considers liberals the "enemy within", and that they're a bigger threat than China and North Korea. He said he wants to "fix" liberals using the "National Guard or maybe the military". So, you know, that's not good. But as long as you're a white, heterosexual, cisgender, evangelical Christian Republican man, everything will be juuuuuust fine don't you worry.

Also it wouldn't hurt to be rich.

From my Newsletter:

Know the Differences Between Web Services and APIs

telerik.com/blogs/know-differe…

Know the Differences Between Web Services and APIs

Wondering what the difference is between Web Services and APIs? Learn when to use each to build robust, scalable and efficient applications.
Dennis Martinez (Telerik)
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