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Came across this Hacker News comment by @rain which succinctly describes one reason #Rust's approach to ownership and borrowing is valuable: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
> Which popular GC languages have mutexes owning the state they guard, such that it is structurally impossible to access that inner state without holding the lock? To do that you must have single ownership.
Posting for the benefit of anyone else who, like me, is sometimes swayed by the backlash against Rust.
5 years ago I created this list of #accessibility axioms that I wrote to understand some basic principles of digital accessibility github.com/accessibility/Axiom…
How do folks think they hold up? What would you add or remove?
Accessibility axioms: Basic truths about building an inclusive digital world. - accessibility/AxiomsGitHub
In 2018 I shared how to block Facebook in a Windows hosts file so you could do it sneakily when attending a family event.
1️⃣ Win+R
2️⃣ notepad then Ctrl+Shift+Enter
3️⃣ Yes
4️⃣ Ctrl+O
5️⃣ C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
6️⃣ 127.0.0.1 facebook.com
7️⃣ Ctrl+S
Adapt as necessary.
To do it thoroughly, wouldn't the line need to be:
127.0.0.1 facebook.com www.facebook.com
Last time I checked, the www variant was the canonical one for Facebook.
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Short passwords are an open door for hackers. 🕵️ 🔓
🔑 Longer = Stronger.
How long is yours?
🔒 Learn more & secure your accounts today: tuta.com/blog/minimum-password…
Why password length matters for online security & best practices to protect your online accounts.Tuta
🆕 blog! “Review: Roamless Travel eSIM”
★★★★★
I've got a bunch of travel coming up to exotic locations. Previously, I've bought a local SIM card when I've landed - but they're often expensive, fiddly to fit, and queuing in an airport isn't much fun. I've also bought pre-paid SIMs which have a fixed amount of data or only last a specific amount of time.
But the big…
👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/01/revie…
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#eSIM #mobile #phones #review #roaming
Regularly restarting your iPhone clears temporary files, refreshes system processes, and enhances security — and you can automate it all with the Shortcuts app.Andrew Orr (AppleInsider)
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Po dlouhe dobe jsem otevrel XCode, stahnul SDKcka pro iOS a bohuzel zjistil, ze se ve vyvoji pro iPhony moc nezmenilo. I ve svete Swiftu a SwiftUI resim stejne bizarni problemy jako za dob drevniho mobilniho vyvoje. Ten ekosystem se z pohledu DX vubec nikam neposunul.
Ale ja se nedam! Unreleased v nativni podobe uz brzy na vasich iPhonech!
#music #art #ios #development
A humorous series of anecdotes from one doctor's experience in obstetrics and gynecology wards over the holidays.bookwyrm.social
Is deploying #IPv6 one of your New Year's resolutions for 2025? Get started with our free, open webinars. You will learn:
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🗓️ Intro to IPv6: Tuesday, 14 January at 09:00 UTC
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My second week of the year in books was largely taken up with the I, Starship series. One of those Human mind put into a spaceship ideas. Been done before, but it was diverting enough.
I also read the second of the Jo Callaghan detective novels this week and the newest of Peter Cawdron's First Contact novels.
Auf seinem Jahreskongress hat der Chaos Computer Club (CCC) schwerwiegende Sicherheitslücken in der elektronischen Patientenakte (ePA) aufgedeckt.www.bvkj.de
Just over three weeks remain until the 27th #XMPP Summit takes place in Brussels. If you’re planning to attend but haven’t registered yet, please make sure to add your name to the wiki by the end of this week: wiki.xmpp.org/web/Conferences/…
If you’re an XMPP developer or spec author and weren’t planning to attend, I’d strongly encourage you to reconsider
For those who can’t make it to Brussels but will be in Berlin on Wednesday, February 12th, we’ll be discussing the Summit at that week’s XMPP Meetup
Previously, the secretariat of IETF admitted that it is not possible to run SMTP over IPv6 anymore: mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/…
Now Digicert follows up shutting down IPv6 support for CRL and OCSP because it is apparently not possible to run HTTP over IPv6 anymore. 🤬
docs.digicert.com/en/whats-new…
GrapheneOS version 2025010700 released:
grapheneos.org/releases#202501…
See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.
Forum discussion thread:
discuss.grapheneos.org/d/18831…
#GrapheneOS #privacy #security
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I know everyone is desensitized to this now, after so many years of this bullshit, but can I just say how fucking insane it is that Americans voted in an actual felon for President and before he’s even sworn in is literally threatening invasion of NA…Mastodon
@VE3RWJ Quote-posting definitely does not need to exist at all, under any circumstances.
If you do so, you can equally be shit-posted about by others. That's what quote posting basically is. Even if you potentially say something nice, the original poster will never ever know you did so. No threading, so it might as well be a statement made behind your back that nobody knows about. If you wouldn't like people potentially saying bad things about you, don't potentially say bad things about them. That's all there is to it. Not even a question here. Just simple fact. Quoting is beyond bad, especially given current implementation.
« #Italian gov’s possible adoption of #Starlink satellite comms system would b politicl & economic error, domestic & #EU legislators have warned, as gov doubled down on decision & #Musk revelled in the debate
If deal→signed, #Italy→1st EU country 2 formally engage w/ Musk’s #SpaceX. But would raise ?? abt its alignment w/ #European strategic priorities, including setup of EU’s #IRIS2 constellation, while potentially costing Italy jobs, sovereignty, & strategic autonomy»
euractiv.com/section/politics/…
Musk hinted that others will follow Italy's lead in working with his satellite communication service.Alessia Peretti (EURACTIV)
It is clearly a commutative agreement in which something is given in exchange to something else. The real question is what the Italian government is expecting to receive in return (lower tariffs one exports, maybe?).
If the deal were signed it would be a brave political move, anticipating any other EU country (including other non-aligned ones like Hungary and Slovakia), and a risky one too (hope they know what they are doing and trust the people they're negotiating with).
One may object about the use of public expenditure (especially because Italy is bound to participate in IRIS too so paying twice for similar services) but every government takes such decisions on how to allocate funds.
Meta’s policy changes around hate speech have sharply changed the content that’s banned or allowed when it’s based on gender, sexual orientation, and the coronavirus.Richard Lawler (The Verge)
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Discover the inspiring journey of a woman with multiple disabilities as she navigates her passion for accessibility and technology, fueled by faith and resilience.RareBird15 (Life of a Rare Bird)
At Slack, customer love is our first priority and accessibility is a core tenet of customer trust. We have our own Slack Accessibility Standards that product teams follow to guarantee their features are compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidel…nstormann (Slack Engineering)
Did you catch Part One of my “Best of 2024” series? Well, buckle up, because today I’m serving up another round of ten wildly popular AskBob articles! These gems were carefully curated with assistance from a network of quantum robots, secret nodes on…Bob Rankin (Ask Bob Rankin)
If you're an Apple user and I spoof your phone number in a call to the legitimate Apple Customer Support line (800-275-2273), I can force Apple to send you a system level "Apple Account Confirmation" prompt to all of your signed-in devices.
This approach is commonly used by a prolific voice phishing group to convince targets they really are in a support call with an Apple representative.
Today's deep dive into this weird world was made possible in part by a series of live phishing videos, tutorials and other secrets shared by an insider that show in unprecedented detail how these voice phishing scams can be so convincing.
Please share this story widely, because I learned a ton reporting this and frankly the various methods used by these groups to dox and target people are really slick.
From the story: "Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the internal operations of a prolific voice phishing gang show the group routinely abuses legitimate services at Apple and Google to force a variety of outbound communications to their users, including emails, automated phone calls and system-level messages sent to all signed-in devices."
krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/a-…
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Confirmed. ChatGPT is actively indexing the Fediverse, even small servers like mine who have not explicitly consented to their indexing.
So while people on Mastodon got angry about Mastodon having built-in discovery features, ChatGPT just went ahead and slurped up all your posts.
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Also, are you sure you don't have "search" on?
Search is different than scraping, data from search is "injected" into your current conversation only, and only when you enquire about a specific subject. It doesn't go into Chat GPT's training corpus.
I just asked the raw GPT-4o model (with no search), and it can't answer the question correctly, so this seems to be the case.
In February 2024, I was in a car crash. My nerves from my spine to my hand were damaged.
#OpenSource and #Embroidery helped me imagine a more resilient future:
sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/ja…
I wanted to give back to the #FreeSoftware community, and the Conservancy staff and contractors who supported me. So I made an embroidery of Conservancy's logo for our fundraiser.
The top donor to Conservancy's fundraiser (from Monday, Jan 6 until AOE Wednesday, Jan 8) will receive my embroidery.
Please donate today:
If you can only afford to give a little, we appreciate any support you can give!
If the top donor doesn't want the embroidery, a random donor to Conservancy's fundraiser will receive the embroidery. The random donor will be picked from anyone who donated from the start of Conservancy's fundraiser in November until AOE Wednesday, January 8.
If my journey inspires you, please donate to Conservancy's fundraiser:
I spent most of 2024 recovering from a spine injury after a car accident. I’d love to share my new insight into free software accessibility, and how both free software and embroidery helped me build resiliency.Software Freedom Conservancy
I love this so much, this is literally the physical form of a workaround that's grown to meet enterprise demands.
This is literally, physically, what developers mean when they talk about "tech debt".
I love this article by @sphakos about their thoughts about software freedom and recovering from injury. I find it really moving:
"Why do we decide an object is beyond repair, and must be replaced by something expensive and new? Why do companies put out products that easily break physically, or will become obsolete or insecure due to a lack of software updates?"
sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/ja…
They also created an incredible cross stitch work that will go to an SFC donor!
I spent most of 2024 recovering from a spine injury after a car accident. I’d love to share my new insight into free software accessibility, and how both free software and embroidery helped me build resiliency.Software Freedom Conservancy
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in reply to Matt Campbell • • •Yes, 100% agreed! I was writing some C# recently and found myself missing “shared XOR mutable” so much. Even when you have a garbage collector, thread safety is so hard, and Rust’s ownership model removes a whole class of potential bugs.
I often miss my garbage collector but I’d have a hard time giving up Rust for concurrent programming at this point.
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