It seems to me that the mainstream software industry is no longer attractive to our best and brightest young technologists. This is sad. dragonscave.space/@TheQuinbox/…
"It might help if I had any idea what I want to be when I grow up, but I don't. Probably not a programmer, the thought of working on microservices and bloated web stuff all day does not appeal to me. But...what else? <shrug>"
Quin (@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space)
@jscholes Everything you've just described is exactly what I'm feeling. I'm in networking 1, and while the other students are being told what an IP address is, I'm probing all the subnets on the school's wi-fi network with nmap.The Dragon's Cave
a few days ago there was a heated argument about whether developers should study the humanities.
well, i'd just like if most developers can just learn how to write concisely and clearly in any format. how about that
Absolutely agree, and if quoting the greats helps with it, here's E. W. Dijkstra, one of the most hardcore programmer-mathematicians ever:
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.
Y ahora el Gobierno facilitado por Macron lleva a la Asamblea Nacional dicha derogación. Hilarante.
Well now.
Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL
memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-p…
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Apparently some fiddlery went on with the CPU, but even if Rustls is "only as fast as" the traditional solutions, I feel like it''s a hell of a lot safer from a security POV.
openssl-library.org/news/vulne… (about 10-20 a year) vs ... 2 for Rustls. Now 2 a year. 2 as in forever
Now granted Rustls has less legacy technical debt and baggage and is written in a memory safe language... Which I guess is sort of the point, it's more secure. So if it's as performant...
Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL
ISRG has been investing heavily in the Rustls TLS library over the past few years. Our goal is to create a library that is both memory safe and a leader in performance.www.memorysafety.org
Ich glaube es wird #Zeit den #Uhrenumstellungsfilter wieder zu aktivieren.
#CEST / #CET / #DST
#Sommerzeit #Winterzeit #Normalzeit
#Zeitumstellung ist nicht, #Uhrenumstellung schon.
You matched my filter
Aber gute Idee, die Uhren woanders hin (um)zustellen, obwohl.. eigentlich steht die eine Uhr gut da im Küchenregal.
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 15 updated, 10 removed and 2 added apps:
* Rate Your Pics: allows you to rate your pictures very quickly 🛡️
* Ease The Waiting: a mix between a calendar and a clock that makes you wait faster
Thanks to Aholic Gino for walking through older apps (see: gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/… – still a lot to do there), 10 apps which were no longer working were removed.
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
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).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
The BT Speak Users’ Manual is Now Available!!
Blazie Technologies is happy to announce the publication of a comprehensive manual for the BT Speak. The manual goes beyond what we provide in our Getting Started guide and offers the following sections.
• Introduction, including describing the contents of the packaging for new users who are unboxing their BT Speak for the first time
• Physical description and orientation
• How to power on, shut down, putting the device to sleep and waking up the device
• Battery considerations
• How to navigate menus and use shortcut keys for Quick navigation
• Adjusting speech, including how to switch to other voices and text to speech engines
• Getting help, including how to obtain context-sensitive help and accessing the text and audio versions of the Getting Started guides
• How to connect to Wi-Fi
• How to install new software updates
• Accessing the Settings menu
• Introducing the editor, including how to find and manipulate text
• File management, including how to create and open files and subdirectories
• Using applications, including the radio tuner, phonebook, agenda calendar and BT Learn for free Braille coaching, tests and games
• An introduction to desktop mode
• An introduction to using the Mozilla Thunderbird email program
• An introduction to Web browsing using Chromium and Firefox
• Concludes with an extensive list of commands
This is the first version of the users’ manual. We will be continually adding and modifying this document as new features are added, with newer versions of the manual being released on a regular basis. We welcome feedback from our users regarding how the manual can be improved. If you have feedback for us, please submit comments and suggestions via email to support@blazie.net.
Where to Download the Manual
You can find the manual on our Web site by pointing your Web browser to www.blazietech.com. You’ll find it from several locations, including the front page, from the Guides and Media page, from the BT Speak Pro product page and from the Documentation page.
For convenience, here are the direct download links.
Accessible PDF version:
blazietech.com/_files/ugd/4d64…
Microsoft Word version (also compatible with LibreOffice Writer)
download-files.wixmp.com/raw/2…
We hope that this first edition of the manual will assist you in learning more about how to use your BT Speak and that it will help you to become a more effective and productive user.
I always just default to the plain text view, but at least one mass mail fulfillment house (Constant Contact), while they do send their stuff as multipart mime, the text version has no line breaks. Just a solid wall of text.
Makes it easy to ignore them.
**No appreciation for the poor poor million dollar companies here. Shame.**
všechny tyhle firmy
Microsoft
Amazon
RedHat
Apple
Oracle
Google
nechceš vidět ceník❗
And that house isn't expensive compared to some.
£5000000 and beyond.
I believe Johnson lived in a £9000000 home.
MOST EXCELLENT NEWS: The judge dismissed the case against John. He will be freed today.
Please do consider supporting freefunder.com/donate/save-the…. It's been over a year since his last paycheck, and legal representation isn't free. Thanks.
Yay! Squee!
Aira ASL: On-Demand Interpreting for the Deaf Community - Aira
Aira is expanding its accessibility offerings with a separate app, Aira ASL, to offer on-demand interpreting to the Deaf Community. Learn more here.Hannah Griffin (Aira)
Tune into ACB Radio on 10/24 at 3 PM ET for the Vispero Presentation: Manage Bookmarks and Lists in Google Chrome with JAWS. We’ll show you how to bookmark a site, manage and access bookmarks, plus add an article to a reading list. Request an invitation at community@acb.org
The Accessibility Operations Guidebook by @viscousplatypus is finally out!
Spoiler alert: I, along with many other accessibility practitioners, are quoted in and contributed to it. But don't read it for those quotes; read it because Devon is exceptionally skilled in this space and has put so much care into this book!
I've only gotten sneak peeks into this book, but I already know it will be one of the best accessibility books I'll get to read. Check it out!
The Accessibility Operations Guidebook by Devon Persing
The accessibility field has a burnout problem. People get into this work to make accessible products and services.Payhip
Expanding Access: Introducing Aira ASL 🌱
We are excited to announce a new initiative at Aira to support the Deaf Community with on-demand ASL interpreting services. Recognizing a gap in access to interpreters in public spaces like retail stores, airports, and banks, we've developed a separate app, Aira ASL, to offer immediate and reliable interpreting without the need for advance scheduling.
By contracting with ASL service providers and using our technology platform, Aira ASL will make interpreting services seamless and easy to access, just as our existing app benefits the blind and low-vision community. This initiative aims to remove barriers and improve communication access when and where it’s needed most.
Read the full announcement and FAQ: aira.io/aira-asl-on-demand-int…
Aira ASL: On-Demand Interpreting for the Deaf Community - Aira
Aira is expanding its accessibility offerings with a separate app, Aira ASL, to offer on-demand interpreting to the Deaf Community. Learn more here.Hannah Griffin (Aira)
No, The Chinese Have Not Broken Modern Encryption Systems with a Quantum Computer
The headline is pretty scary: “China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.”
No, ... schneier.com/blog/archives/202…
Proof-of-concept exploit code is now public for a vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Registry client that could be used to take control of a Windows domain by downgrading the security of the authentication process.
rustls outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL.
Security and performance: pick two!
memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-p…
Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL
ISRG has been investing heavily in the Rustls TLS library over the past few years. Our goal is to create a library that is both memory safe and a leader in performance.www.memorysafety.org
If you're a business IT person donating old hardware, pretty please with a cherry on top remove the BIOS passwords first xxx
It's Lyriel Day for me!
My cohost Christel Tansø and I get to interview Jessica and Oliver Thierjung today on Sonic Onslaught, part of a packed metal show whose larger theme is friendship.
2 pm EDT!
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel by another protocol
That’s repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
’Cause as sure as I’m a poet, the sucker’s gonna hang!
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In the realm of servers, where things always break,
The sysadmin's life is a high-stakes mistake.
The code's looking fine, the network’s all clear,
Then suddenly… “What’s this? The disks disappear?!”
The users are clueless, they send in a shout:
“My password won’t work, can you help me out?”
They’ve tried "password123" for the hundredth time,
And blame the poor sysadmin for some server crime.
With logs on the left, and a console on the right,
They dig through the errors all day and all night.
They’ll reboot, they’ll patch, they’ll restart the thing,
And wonder why tech’s such a circus ring.
The boss comes around, “It’s running too slow!”
As if by sheer magic, it should always just go.
But deep down inside, the admin just knows,
That IT is chaos wrapped in neat rows.
Yet despite all the crashes, the bugs, and the pain,
They’ll fix it all up, then do it again.
For the sysadmin’s mantra, forever they’ll sing:
“Have you tried turning off, then on everything?”
“Free HTML obfuscator [sic]: protect your HTML code by encoding it”
I hope you run out of hot water one minute into your shower.
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I suppose it makes sense for HTML snippets containing email addresses or phone numbers. I still hate those but I kind of get it. Kind of.
plenty of fast scrapers are more than capable of doing some simple inline JS but this does clear out low-hanging fruit. It’s like changing your SSH port number: it isn’t a robust security measure but it cleans up your logs by filtering out skiddies, which is something.
Amazon-backed Anthropic debuts AI agents that can do complex tasks, racing against OpenAI, Microsoft and Google
Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI startup founded by former OpenAI research executives, announced AI agents that can use a computer to complete complex tasks.Hayden Field (CNBC)
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