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Because #BotsInSpace is shutting down (😢) I'm looking for a new home for my bots.

I have an RSS feed which posts to BlueSky…
And I have Bridgy which converts BSky to Fediverse…

So… Welcome @openbenches.org !

(This is an experiment. Feedback welcome. I might try self-hosting. Not sure yet. I don't know how to move followers across.)

in reply to Terence Eden

Hmmm. About 1,000 followers have moved over to the new account - @colours

I can see my messages being sent. But they don't seem to be received. Not entirely sure what's going on and am half a bottle of Malbec into the evening, so probably shouldn't be futzing around with code.

One for the morning, I fear!

in reply to Terence Eden

OK. What is going on here?

A bunch of people can see the posts sent out by @colours - but lots of people can't.

As far as I can see, Mastodon.social isn't sending me back an HTTP response when I send to a shared inbox. But other Mastodon-based servers happily accept it.

Here are the headers
gist.github.com/edent/1f41d1b2…

Any help #ActivityPub friends?



Please, keep your political posts under a CW. I am just. Asking nicely. Please some compassion towards other humans. Thank you. Lots love. 💖

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strcpy can cause a buffer overflow

user finds strcpy in #curl code

user files a CRITICAL security report against #curl for using strcpy in source code. Proof? Well he did grep the code and it shows that it does indeed use strcpy...

Never a dull moment.

#curl
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for educational purposes: hackerone.com/reports/2823554

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Today's poignant Pratchett quote.

"What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter." ~ Terry Pratchett

#GNUTerryPratchett

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uspol, message to americans

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uspol, message to americans

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I am not hopeful. I am quite sad.

Elon Musk essentially bought the election when he bought Twitter.

Journalists could have left Twitter, and had it go the way of MySpace. Instead, they continued to legitimize it, thereby giving it life.

For the next four years, decentralized social media will be needed – if only as an alternative to the faux-progressive media that seek to control the public square.

The world is becoming more and more authoritarian, and we need an antidote.



uspol, migration guide

Want to leave the US?
Here's how you can move to germany, even if you have no official credentials (like a university degree) or job that can get you a sponsored visa.
Germany is not perfect. We have our own fascism issues, but we didn't just elect someone who openly paraphrases hitler as supreme leader.

Step 1: Start studying for german B1 language level. Duolingo can get you there, I also heard good things about babbel and other apps.
Step 2: Find an apprenticeship. Apprenticeships in Germany are weird compared to the rest of the world. It's a mostly full time job with a bad wage that is supposed to train you how to do a job. Finding one, if you have B1 language skills, entitles you to a work permit for the duration of it, completing one entitles you to a settlement permit.
I did an apprenticeship in IT, but there's many options. Healthcare is one of the options with the best chances of getting hired and it pays pretty well compared to others. If you don't mind waking up early, bakeries often receive not a single application for their apprenticeship postings.
I would recommend you to not go into the major cities, as their immigration offices are overworked and rent is too high to pay from an apprentice wage.
Step 3: Finish the apprenticeship and apply for a settlement permit
Step 4: Congrats, you can now live in germany as long as you want and work in any industry
Step 5: After 3-5 years (depending on how well you do at work or how good your language skills are) you can apply for citizenship. If you get that, you can live and work in any EU country.

in reply to DysphoricUnicorn🪿

uspol, migration guide
This website has a lot of resources on different ways to get to stay in germany, and I have personally found it very helpful to help someone acquire a work permit here: make-it-in-germany.com/en/


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I don't really have words to describe how hopeless I'm feeling about this country right now.
in reply to Chris 🌱

Just a note of support from Australia. We’re speechless.


in reply to Jan

@Jann tak z pozície mojej národnosti sme my tiež.. aspoň bude "sranda" a bude sa ťažko dať odhadnúť čo sa bude diať.
@Jan


Vyzera to tak, ze p. Sutaj aj Estok odbavil kritiku PS klasickym "ad hominem".

Nuz, co asi tak mozno cakat od cloveka, ktory ma najvacsiu prax ako "falosny diskuter" na internetovych forach a soc. sietach.

(A ako som uz pisal nedavno ale aj davnejsie: k lepsim zajtrajskom sa nedopracujeme ani klamstvami ani podvodmi.)

via @dennikN

zpravobot.news/@dennikN/113431…

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Hackers, #Infosec specialists and #privacy advocates are going to be very important in the months to come. Please read the EFF's surveillance self-defense guide ssd.eff.org/ and reduce as much as possible the information that companies like Google or Amazon collect about you. Fedi admins and moderators, help us keeping the people away from the online agressors. If possible, make sure the services you use are based in Europe. All hands on deck
in reply to Bernie the Wordsmith

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@berniethewordsmith in US and around the world.

In @donestech we recommend some apps in @fdroid

drip. menstrual cycle and fertility tracking. What makes drip special: Your data, your choice. Everything stays on your device.
f-droid.org/id/packages/com.dr…

in reply to ona [she/they]

2/2

Bluemoon Open source, privacy friendly menstruation tracking app. Your period, your data!
f-droid.org/es/packages/ch.nil…

Periodical Menstrual/period calendar. This application calculates the days of fertility according to Knaus-Ogino. The data can be backed up on a memory card, if present.
f-droid.org/en/packages/de.arn…

@berniethewordsmith @donestech @fdroid




uspol

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in reply to Ľuboš Moščovič

@ticho Dobrá správa je, že už sa nemusíme hádať o nejakých suvéčkach, recyklovaní alebo bicykloch. Polovici obyvateľov najmocnejsej krajiny sveta je to úplne jedno (resp je to pre nich hoax), klimatická politika aj medzinárodne úplne stratí na dynamike, takže zostáva len zabávať sa a užívať si, než všetko zhorí 😟


Let me introduce you to my new friend #curl 8.11.0

One vulnerability fixed, five changes, 266 bugfixes.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11/06…

#curl


If you’ve got vaccines that you or your family were going to get soon, move that date up
social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/1…


Why. I just don't really get it. Why is it like this of all results? I didn't go into today thinking he could possibly win like this. I can't even have the consolation that the majority rejected him this time, because they didn't
in reply to Chris 🌱

I wish I knew. So many people swayed by made up fears they should be able to see through.


Pennsylvania was called by NBC as well. All I will say is margins this time around were not as tight as in 2020, at least where it mattered. And ultimately while calling a winner now is premature before all votes are counted, it also becomes less possible to do the more these margins in states like Wisconsin end up getting called, too. Sorry America, but we may have just failed ourselves, now time to learn from those failures, we're the "pick yourself up by the bootstraps" type country. #USPol
in reply to Tamas G

I'm also not saying miracles don't happen. They can. Presumably there's a chance for this to go to a 269-269 split, depending on Wisconsin, Nevada, and other tighter swing states of what's left, and then the house splits it. I see this as about as slim as looking through the light from above a trapdoor that's 50 feet up, but it's there. I see both sides in this, I get why people are jumping to conclusions but also why there's validity to the path for a victory to be on a brighter history. #USPol


Usa, europa bajona, desahogo

Os leo a algunas a tope con Europa y, bueno, si hablamos como Unión Europea justo ahora más que nunca están con unas políticas migratorias de mierda, por ejemplo. Por no hablar de la vergüenza que han dado con el tema de Israel.

Que sí, que comparado con USA vamos a ser un bastión de lo que sea, pero...

En fin, dejo de desahogarme, perdonad 😒

in reply to sara gil casanova

Toda la razón. No hay mucho de lo que alegrarse. Que la Comisión prácticamente anteayer se empezó a subir con exportar los campos de detención de inmigrantes a fuera de la UE para que no molesten.


Kompilator 097 - 28 år av curl med Daniel Stenberg

@bagder var en av Kompilators första gäster och gör ett återbesök för att berätta vad som har hänt under de 5 år som har hunnit förflyta.

Bartek berättar om hur han reclaimade curl.se-domänen från domain squatters.

Dessutom: lyssnarfrågor!

kompilator.se/97



Apropos of nothing at all, did you know that it is relatively easy for Americans to move to the Netherlands under the DAFT (Dutch American Friendship Treaty)? Check out my immigration lawyer's website:

franssenadvocaten.nl/english/a…



Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Otro día con mucho más calor del normal para la época. Sé que no es una buena señal, pero subjetivamente ayuda a llevar el día.



God, Android development really is just awful.
in reply to mcc

This last issue is because Android Studio— necessary for Android development— is not a Google product. Rather it's "JetBrains"' IDE for "JetBrain's" version of Oracle's programming language. Injected into this like a kind of parasite are two separate programs that make Android work; one of the two, AGP, is developed by Google, and the other, Gradle, seems to be developed by the community. Gradle and AGP are at eternal war with each other. AGP doesn't know how weird their name sounds to me
in reply to mcc

the android toolchain is something alright.

I love (/s) constantly having to ask google to fix nondeterministic output produced by their toolchain (or building workarounds in cases that's possible) to make reproducible builds for android work.

half the time it's bugs deep in some compiler code I have no idea how to even find, the other half is me having to explain to them what their own code is doing so they can apply my proposed fix.



I think I really, truly need to figure out where to go from here. I don't feel safe, and I don't know if there's anywhere I would feel safe.
in reply to Chris 🌱

honestly this. I know I probably will never truly understand how you or others are feeling, but I still look at this and I'm a mess myself even though I personally for my own health have not much to worry about yet.

And I know it's not true in the long term, but yeah....

I wished people weren't like this and sadly I have to say "us people", because white folks are constantly messing this up and making it an issue for everybody else.



It will do you no good to pay close attention to the vote count tonight (or tomorrow).

It *will* do a lot of harm to publicly voice despair and expectation of an Orange Shitbag win.

Read a book. Watch a movie. Go to sleep. Read the news 2 days from now. And in the meantime, keep your negativity to yourself.

People have enough to worry about as it is, without being taken on a pointless roller coaster ride of premature election results coverage and ill-informed speculation.

#USPolitics



How are we so stupid? This hateful? This evil?





stop doomscrolling for a second and look at this cutie. he doesn’t even know what an election is.


BTW if you are a U.S. voter, and you try to vote today, and you are denied because of problems with your registration, be aware you may cast a provisional ballot. They put it in an envelope and count it later.

- HOW DO I DO THIS?

Ask the poll workers.

- WHAT IF THEY WON'T HELP?
- HOW DO I KNOW IF I'M ELIGIBLE?
- HOW DO I FOLLOW UP AFTERWARD?

I made an effort to research this and the only answer I can find is "call the Democrats". The Democratic Party runs a national hotline at 833-336-8683.



Love this! mstdn.social/@mattmay/11343169…


Cnn reporting that younger voters don't know how to sign their name...

That's quite a failing of the school system...

wtf.





Pulled the 20D out of the closet. Charged the battery, still works.

A few things. Holy shit the screen is small. And I can't even read it without glasses anymore.

And it was still configured including with the date that was only 10 minutes ahead.

Bought it more than 20 years ago.