PSA: With macOS 15 Sequoia (released in September 2024), Apple has started shipping openrsync (created by Kristaps Dzonsons, from OpenBSD) as an alternative to the original rsync (“tridge”, from the Samba project).
When you run “rsync”, a wrapper will inspect your command and dispatch to either /usr/libexec/rsync/rsync.samba or rsync.openrsync: github.com/apple-oss-distribut…
If you need one version over the other, select them explicitly — and probably rsync.samba will disappear eventually…
The SFFBookClub is our informal fediverse science fiction and fantasy book club. Everyone reading this is welcome to participate. We vote on a book, read said book, and then discuss and review on the #SFFBookClub hashtag over the course of the month. Feel free to jump in if one of these books catches your eye even if you haven't joined before. Wiki link with past books: sffbookclub.eatgod.org
If you have suggestions for books to consider for future months, comments, or complaints please reply below or send me a DM. As always, feel free to argue for your favorite book in the comments. Longer book descriptions are in the reply toot below.
This year’s best sci-fi outings are full of questions about how we might live differently with one another, on our troubled planet or in the farthest reaches of space.
Day 2 sharing teaser #HistoryPix for "Inventing the Renaissance" (out in one month!). Often in Florence one sees buildings like this, where one section is rough stone standing out amid stucco neighbors. It's actually a remnant of the old Guelph-Ghibelline feuds that so long rocked Medieval Italy 1/?
These are actually the bottom nubs of Medieval stone towers. The town of San Gimigniano is famous for having several still intact. Wealthy families built these as mini-fortresses within the city, where they could defend against riots, enemy families (think Montagues and Capulets) and invasion 2/?
Signs of wealth and prestige, these all-stone buildings were also fireproof, leading to a terrible but effective tactic: take your family, treasures & goods up into your tower then set fire to enemies' homes and let the city burn around you while you sit safe above. This was VERY BAD for cities 3/?
After many disasters, Florence's solution was to BAN private buildings over a certain height, forcing everyone who had a tower to knock the top off down to regulation height, leaving these recognizable stone nubs all around the city. This round one is the oldest (now a restaurant). 4/?
My favorite tower stub is this one, in Via dei Cerchi. I lived on the top floor for a year as a grad student, up 111 steps! I had calves of steel by spring, but the views from the top looked like someone had put a poster of Florence on the wall except it was a window! 5/?
Only city buildings were allowed to exceed the mandated height, which is why Florence's skyline is now all special buildings: monastery bell towers, the cathedral & baptistery, Orsanmichele the city's granary (tall to keep grain away from water & mice), the seat of government, and one special guy 6/?
The tower on the right here is part of Bargello, the prison & police fortress, but it didn't start that way. It was built by a private family, who sold it to the city when the law banning towers was passed, and the city incorporated it into their prison fort. 7/?
The city jail had to be a fortress in case someone from a powerful family was arrested and the family sent goons to break them out (those guys who bite their thumbs in the opening scene of Romeo & Juliet would *totally* have stormed the jail to bust Romeo out!). 8/?
In this photo you can see how the brick battlements are a later addition, added to the tower as part of its transformation from private fortress to public. 9/?
What did Florence look like back when it had all its towers? Its long-time ally across the mountains Bologna is famous for still having two intact towers, but in the Middle Ages Bologna was known as the City of 100 Towers because so many families built them. The reconstructions look... 10/?
...absolutely incredible. Here's what Medieval Bologna would have looked like when all its towers were intact. Florence didn't have so many but did have dozens, so the richest part of the city center would have looked much like this. Much to the despair of the city fire brigade! 11/?
p.p.s. A lot of people asking how they can crosspost from Mastodon to Pixelfed. The answer is this:
You do not need to crosspost from Mastodon to Pixelfed. Your posts on Mastodon are already visible to people on Pixelfed, because Mastodon and Pixelfed are both part of the same social network.
(The same in reverse, posts on Pixelfed are visible to people on Mastodon.)
Some of the accounts you see on here are Mastodon, some are Pixelfed, some are other types, but you can follow all of them.
@rommix0 lol my favorite passage from it: "One former senior member of the Alexa team said while LLMs were very sophisticated, they came with risks, such as producing answers that were “completely invented some of the time”. “At the scale that Amazon operates, that could happen large numbers of times per day,” they said, damaging its brand and reputation." Hopefully they'll keep the classic API around for a long time before pushing that big red button for everyone to switch to that new model.
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Fixes for a critical rsync vulnerability (CVE-2024-12084) have been released for Stable/Bookworm, Testing and Unstable. Oldstable/Bullseye is not affected. Fixes for other lower severity CVEs have also been released in the same update and can all be tracked at security-tracker.debian.org/tr…. The fixed Stable version is 3.2.7-1+deb12u1 and the fixed Testing/Unstable version is 3.3.0+ds1-3
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Hello fellow people of #Mastodon. My name is Nick and I'm 25 years old. I'm currently looking for a full-time job and have been since the beginning of this year. I have years of experience with Microsoft Excel and data aggrigation, as well as other Microsoft products though I'm also willing to use other programs. I also have some experience with accounting and I'm willing to learn quickbooks through on the job training if necessary. My resume is available here for reference: 1drv.ms/w/s!AlLCVRViUqvZhp1TBf… I'm looking for a full-time position because I feel I am ready for it and I do have to start paying my student loans in 6 months so please, if you're able #Boost so I can #GetFediHired. If you're looking for someone who's willing to work hard and do quality work, I'm your guy. #Employment, #Jobs, #Blind
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Are you on LinkedIn? I know LinkedIn has its issues but it's still an excellent resource. Also, is your resume on job sites like Careerbuilder, Monster, etc.
Today is Microsoft's January 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 159 flaws, including eight zero-day vulnerabilities, with three actively exploited in attacks.
Mexico City is currently blessed with beautiful snow capped Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl. Snow occurred in Tenochtitlan, and there's even a record of a proper blizzard. #cdmx #nieve #tenochtitlan
Fixes for a critical rsync vulnerability (CVE-2024-12084) have been released for Stable/Bookworm, Testing and Unstable. Oldstable/Bullseye is not affected. Fixes for other lower severity CVEs have also been released in the same update and can all be tracked at security-tracker.debian.org/tr…. The fixed Stable version is 3.2.7-1+deb12u1 and the fixed Testing/Unstable version is 3.3.0+ds1-3
Debian should publish a micronews article about this soon.
Návštěvníci Krušných hor měli v pondělí dopoledne jedinečnou příležitost pozorovat nádherný a vzácný halový jev, který se objevil u Božího Daru a Klínovce.
Shorter Jack Smith: I had no legal means to DQ Donald Trump and here's stuff I successfully fought to release in October, which you ignored when it could have made a political difference. People who missed October: Why did Jack Smith wait!! www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/14/t...
@ppatel I don't think it would have made any difference, unfortunately. A fairly large chunk of the US populace have drunk the koolaid some time ago and the only way they will get cured of it is when the "kool" becomes "cool", then "cold", then "freezing". :)
Nova Launcher is a powerful, customizable, and versatile home screen replacement. Nova brings advanced features to enhance your home screens, but still
With #pixelfed gaining popularity and people experimenting with it, the project could probably benefit from a PHP developer to implement the native export/import function. As it is, it's rather funny that you can import an Instagram account archive, but you can't transfer a Pixelfed account to another server. I would have done that for mine to shift out of the rather overloaded pixelfed.social instance to another one.. github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/i…
A user wants to import/export data between (pixelfed) instances Included data: User profile Uploaded images Image descriptions Image likes Comments on images Followers / Following Open questions ab...
Surprise! I will be streaming some Python programming over at <twitch.tv/glyph_official/> in a little over 30 minutes. We are all gonna take a couple hours to STOP getting mad and depressed at recent events and START getting mad and depressed about cross-platform GUI #python development
Huh, since I've literally never been afforded the luxury of paying a capital gains tax and thanks to CBC's "like I'm a five-year-old" explanation, I realize I had some misconceptions about how it all works.
Before, when I thought it was an actual tax on investment earnings, 66% seemed fantastic. Now I'm wondering why it's not 100% and why the Liberals made the first quarter million exempt from the increase.
@hub Right, according to this CBC explanation, it's not even a tax just taxable income. If they were in any way interested in making how it works more clear, you'd think they'd flip it around and call it 34% free money.
Just to clarify: the tax change make that any capital gain over 250K is taxes at 66% (ie the tax is calculated on 66% of it instead of 100%) while the first 250K are still taxed at 50%.
You employment income is taxed at 100%.
Just to show you were conservative stands.
Capital gains a real-estate sales, stock and other financial instrument, and few other things.
I want to say upfront the vast majority of the code here was written using prompts to ChatGPT. I wanted to see how the AI tool worked for a simple coding project and jump start my own use of Python…
The kitty I'm getting has been fed raw food, though his breeder made her own. However, I will not be continuing that. He will be getting hib-quality cat food.
From NLS: That All May eRead: Navigating Books and Articles with NLS Braille eReaders; Tuesday, January 28, 7:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/84…
Ok, they must have completely removed it in 24H2. I was checking against 23H2, and a number of articles on the web were providing this advice. I apologize for not being completely on the cutting edge of the research I was complaining wasn't done. LOL.
Nah, no worries. I believe it was Microsoft's intent to have removed it in the 24 H2 release and this seems to have been accomplished. You can, of course, grab the needed files to preserve them but I don't think it's worth the trouble.
I know this is just a point in your demonstration of how the arguments for and against home-schooling cancel out, but thanks for calling out the problem of learning disabilities and neurodivergence. I think the same applies to other disabilities as well.
For example, I'm legally blind. My parents never home-schooled us, but I did attend a private religious school with my siblings from 8th grade through senior year, because my parents and teachers judged that I no longer needed the full special education program at the public school I previously attended, just one lesson a week from an orientation and mobility teacher. I think they might have been wrong. I still had more to learn about independent living skills especially.
Also, have you played "Bee" by Emily Short? inthewalls.itch.io/bee Like I said, I was never home-schooled, so I can't personally judge its authenticity.
To engage with your main point: It seems to me that living in a tech hub also functions as a way of opting out from interacting with "normal" people. That's one reason I decided to move back from a tech hub (Seattle area; I used to work at Microsoft). Now, I spend most of my time in my apartment (I work at home), so I can easily get into a bubble anyway when most of my conversations are online.
Attackers are exploiting a new authentication bypass zero-day vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy to hijack Fortinet firewalls and breach enterprise networks.
Pixelfed right now! 😅
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