You're on a ship hurtling through space and your crew's best engineers report that critical sub-systems - from water filtration, through to HVAC and food pods - are all failing. Evidence of sabotage. What do you do?

World's governments:

"Governments failed to reach a consensus [...] Many were forced to leave the talks early to catch flights, and negotiations were suspended at 8.30am when fewer than half of the countries were present"

theguardian.com/environment/20…

#biodiversity

Cop16 ends in disarray and indecision despite biodiversity breakthroughs

Conservation summit agrees to global levy on drugs from nature’s genetics, but developing nations furious at unmet funding promises

^{Patrick Greenfield (The Guardian)}

The concern here is that old search engines can give you links and you can go into them to verify the content. AI taking over our search engines hides the sources of information, forcing us to blindly trust the AI and wherever it got its information from.

#AI

Preventing enshittificatiom with the "Ulysses pact" from @pluralistic pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…

We consider our efforts aligned: #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc implement "right to exit" on all levels of our decentralized messaging project.

- deploy your own servers permission free and interoperable with all e-mail servers ("federation mast")
- all apps and libraries and server components are 100% Foss
- interactive chat-shared web-apps can be used in other messengers

#righttoexit

While porting 'Space Travel' to the PDP-7, Ken Thompson developed an operating system that became the foundation of Unix. It played a crucial role in the development of Unix.

Happy 53rd birthday, Unix! 🥳

#unix #opensource

🔓 Odemykám → Respekt: Ticho na konci každé písně

Kapela The Cure hraje největší koncerty své kariéry a nikdy nebyla více v oblibě. Nyní po 16 letech přichází i s novým albem

respekt.cz/tydenik/2024/45/tic…

Ticho na konci každé písně

Kapela The Cure hraje největší koncerty své kariéry a nikdy nebyla více v oblibě. Nyní po 16 letech přichází i s novým albem

^{Pavel Turek (Týdeník Respekt)}

Grass is pretty amazing.

I was out at the farm, doing the regular fall chores and prepping beds for garlic, when my glasses lens fell out. The screw is, of course, gone. But I need my glasses to drive. Enter a natural material that's abundant, strong, flexible and able to hold a knot.

It got me home. Thanks, grass.
#grass #nature #AnyLandingYouWalkAwayFrom

Welcome to the RB family, Soul Searching 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.g…

Soul Searching is an offline music application for Android 8 and above. It's a rework of the native mobile application Sweet Music using Jetpack Compose.

This was quite a journey fighting compression algorithms (Fedora using zlib-ng instead of zlib), but thanks to joint efforts and hard work of the author (thanks entername74!), it was finally made RB

Btw: 313 apps / 26% now 😉

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid

„Soul Searching“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

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Has anyone here done any work on CSS parsers?

I am thinking of using github.com/keithamus/csslex as a base and going from there to learn more about CSS internals, but I admit I am Afraid of Doing Code Crimes and would like encouragment ha ha

GitHub - keithamus/csslex: A very small and very fast spec compliant css lexer

A very small and very fast spec compliant css lexer - keithamus/csslex

^GitHub

Si quieren saber la línea que va desde el #Yunque de #Mexico hasta #vox en #España, @julieofthespirits lo explica muy bien aquí:

transsafety.network/posts/god-…

For God, Fatherland and the Faith: CitizenGo, HazteOír and the Yunque

A deep dive into the murky background of a global far right anti-gender network

^{transsafety.network}

Shall the historic anglophones ALSO sue the province of Québec AND the city of Montréal, etc. to translate ALL its websites and provincial and municipal documents into English?

Supreme Court sued over its refusal to translate decisions before 1970 into French: montreal.citynews.ca/2024/11/0…

#cdnpoli #polcan #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #polMTL #MTLpoli

Supreme Court sued over its refusal to translate decisions before 1970 into French

MONTREAL — A Quebec civil rights group is suing the office of the registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada because of the high court’s refusal to translate its historic decisions into French.

^{CityNews Montreal}

To pull a Bezos: to sell oneself out to someone only to be kicked in the teeth by them.

Couldn’t have happened to a smarter person. Like literally, almost anyone paying attention with a modicum of intelligence would have known acquiescence would earn them nothing but scorn.

h/t @amberwavesofflame

#fec #WashingtonPost #trump #bezos #USpol

Montreal metro shut down for nearly 20 hours

montreal.citynews.ca/2024/11/0…

But Valérie Plante want to spend MILLIONS on Franco Fascism.

Montreal metro shut down for nearly 20 hours

It was a difficult day for Montreal metro users on Nov. 1 with service only being restored in the early morning of Nov. 2.There were multiple delays including the green line being at a standstill for 20-hours.

^{Erin Seize (CityNews Montreal)}

Stone-built Snake Bridge on the Macclesfield Canal in England.

The ‘Snake Bridge’ or 'Roving Bridge' is a bridge over a canal constructed to allow a horse towing a boat to cross the canal when the towpath changes sides, without having to be unhitched from the boat.

#archaeohistories

Trump Media Outsourced Jobs to #Mexico Even as #Trump Pushes “America First”
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On the campaign trail, #DonaldTrump threatened businesses that send jobs south of the border, while his own company that runs the Truth Social platform outsourced coding jobs to workers in Mexico, outraging some staff members.

#News #TrumpMedia #Trump #Government #Business #Tariffs #Politics #Election #ELection2024 #TruthSocial

propublica.org/article/donald-…

Trump Media Outsourced Jobs to Mexico Despite Trump’s “America First” Push

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump threatened businesses that send jobs south of the border, while his own company that runs the Truth Social platform outsourced coding jobs to workers in Mexico, outraging some staff members.

^ProPublica

Twitch are updating their rules & decided that LGBTQ+ is a "Sensitive social issue" & needs to be hidden behind a content warning.

Obviously this is bad for LGBTQ+ streamers & a slippery slope, so please if you're a twitch user, vote on this feedback petition:

twitch.uservoice.com/forums/93…

There's a lot more I could have written about this but... look we've all seen this a million times before, we know how it works, how bad actors abuse it to mass report and bully and where it all goes.

Hey folks, thanks to @bagder and @kees , I managed to compute the "Source code age" from the GLPI project, which I'm working on, and it's really fun because we can see a lot of nice information on it!

To sum it up: the code is very dynamic, and compared to Curl (which you can see here: mastodon.social/@bagder/113399… ) , we can definitely see that it doesn't endorse backwards compatibility: there are a lot of refactorings of big parts of the codebase! 🎉

(I'm running this on Symfony too, stay tuned)

daniel:// stenberg://

2024-10-30 23:49:34

#curl source code age, take 4

Thirty six years almost to the day after the release of the Morris Worm, OKTA announces they've just patched a bug where you can just log in with no password if your username is too long.

Could we please, before the Morris Worm turns forty years old, make a habit of, god help us all maybe even a standard practice of, sanitizing our inputs.

trust.okta.com/security-adviso…

Forum21 Europe

^{Okta, Inc.}

Encryption backdoors must never be allowed. To prove that Tuta Mail and Tuta Calendar are free from any backdoor, the entire client code is published as open source. Let's fight against mass surveillance! ✊

tuta.com/blog/why-a-backdoor-i…

#privacy #encryption #surveillance #backdoors