Today I learned that rubber bands dry out over time and can break. I have no idea who might ever care about this, but it looked weird enough to surprise me when I saw it. So if there's someone who didn’t know, you're welcome! You now know one more useless fact.
This is also true about elastic bands in clothes by the way. A lot more rare I think, but I've seen in happen, particularly but not exclusively with socks.
Perhaps I'll take some heat for being enthusiastic about a proprietary thing that's only implemented by one vendor so far, but I now think that Cloudflare Workers (workers.cloudflare.com/) is fundamentally the right way to develop, operate, and pay for web application backends on the public Internet.
As for vendor lock-in, they've open-sourced a large part of their runtime environment in workerd (github.com/cloudflare/workerd), and I'm sure there are multiple other companies that can implement competing but compatible services.
Meta sta affrontando accuse di aver scaricato oltre 81,7 terabyte di libri piratati per addestrare i suoi modelli di intelligenza artificiale, secondo documenti giudiziari appena desecretati. Queste rivelazioni sono emerse in una causa per violazione del copyright intentata da autori, tra cui Sarah Silverman, Richard Kadrey e Christopher Golden, che sostengono che Meta ha utilizzato le loro opere senza autorizzazione per sviluppare le sue tecnologie di intelligenza artificiale.
Dva roky nedávno uplynuly ode dne, kdy Petr Pavel v prezidentských volbách přesvědčivě porazil Andreje Babiše. Nabízí se tedy otázka, zda je jako hlava státu dobrý. Ta je složitá a na celou diplomovou práci. Položme ji tedy jednodušeji.
Call with a universal credit agent a couple of days ago. 'So can you upload a CV?' 'Yes sure, I can do that.' 'How will you do that, can you use a computer?' 'Yep, no problem.' 'How do you do that, do you use bra-lay?' 'What?' 'Bra-lay.' 'Oh, you mean Braille?...' 'Yes, yes. Braille. That's it.' 'Well, I can read braille but I will use a screen-reader.' 'Oh, you use a screen-reader?'
Yep, that's how my call went. I've heard of some weirdness in my time but 'Bra-lay' for Braille, that, is a special kind of special right there.
Delta Chat is since some years gaining usage by people forced to flee. Several of our contributors themselves migrated and others fear they might soon have to. Our technical designs and social approaches rest on a #RightToExit on virtually all levels. No walled gardens. No presidents.
It's true that #deltachat is a money-poor project compared to mainstream messengers ... But the question at hand in 2025 is: which messaging system will persevere when corporate platforms get corrupted and break?
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- exactly why I always flash a de-googled rom or alternative OS onto any mobile device I use. You gain better battery life and as close as possible to an ad free experience as well. Calyx, Graphene, crDroid, /e/, iode, Lineage, Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish, Mobian, Droidian, Postmarket, etc - all can work towards this.
The functionality provided by Google's new Android System SafetyCore app available through the Play Store is covered here:
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/10/5-new-protections-on-google-messages.
A few days ago, a notification appeared that this application had been installed on my cell phone. As a result of this warning, I'm going to uninstall it.
You can uninstall it but it will reinstall itself. Pretty sure this is being done under the banner of scanning for CSAM, similar to something Apple was involved with a few years ago. I don’t have many Android devices to worry about and none connected to a cellular network.
I came across this two days ago. It was installed on my system and the security scan feature reported that it was installed and scanned. It showed up when I unlocked my phone. It was installed in the background and the name is quite misleading. Thanks for this valuable information Tuta team, love you. 👍🏻
Nothing new. In the closed Source World you have to trust your Key to Companies. Only Open Source and with Math, you have the Right to check and proof. I do not trust, Google, Microsoft, Apple.. without Math or open Source... Compilers and or Hardware. I know we have no Choice cause sublayer complexity. However i would love to have Democracy and self sustainable informed individual Humans, Computers or Neural Networks. Like Perfect Markets or Internet, Worlds or Individuals...
TL;DR: Yes, it does client-side scanning for nudity, but it only notifies the user. It does not (according to Google) notify anyone else. This is unlike the Apple thing, which scanned for CSAM in particular and then sent anything it identified to the government.
Of course Google might be lying, but that's always the risk of a closed OS. This changes nothing.
Quoting a Mastodon post by GrapheneOS: "The app doesn't provide client-side scanning used to report things to Google or anyone else. It provides on-device machine learning models usable by applications to classify content as being spam, scams, malware, etc. This allows apps to check content locally without sharing it with a service and mark it with warnings for users."
The functionality provided by Google's new Android System SafetyCore app available through the Play Store is covered here:
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/10/5-new-protections-on-google-messages.
I dont have this installed on my system so far. I will still be on the look out Im currently carrier locked but desperately want to switch to GrapheneOS. Its user uninstallable for now but we should have the package name saved so if it does become a system it can be nulled of via adb
You remember #Apple scanning all images on your #mobile device?
If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn't appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same - scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so "to protect your #privacy".
You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.
Removed it, but I wonder how long before it's integrated in the OS.
And what is the logic behind this? They are going to catch a few pedophiles stupid enough to keep pictures in their phones, while those who actually abuse children to make that content will continue doing what they do. As far as I can see this is just something that politicians and use and say "we did something".
And when privacy is eroded, so will be the other freedoms.
“This morning, we won a court order blocking Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, from accessing Americans’ private data. Musk and his DOGE employees must destroy all records they've obtained.“ - NY Attorney General Letitia James
Gosh, I am so impressed by the production work Billy Eilish and her brother are putting out. So many cool ideas in the way they mix stuff... Lunch for my ears! :)
The macOS linker has a cool feature. The -r option lets you combine multiple object files into another object file. That object file can then be wrapped in a static library. This means, if you use the right visibility settings at compile time, that you can create a static library that doesn't pollute the global symbol namespace with internal stuff, but only exposes the symbols you actually want to export. Now I want to see if there's a way to do this on Windows.
you should build your next project in G. you should check out raccoon. have you tried nub? it fixes a lot of the problems in chunt and it's faster than elyfant. did you see the spatula announcement? it looks like frothy's syntax with toddler's type system. at work we use zabar's on the front end and conspiracy on the backend. trying to get them to switch to herodotus. have you done the xyyz tutorial? have you read the bart book? have you tried lisp?
Mastodon users aren’t like people on other social media. It’s the only place where a retired librarian will be like “here’s a link to my moss collection and oh, by the way, here’s the website of a local artisan who makes knives sharp enough to cut any nazi throat.”
Warning: I went back and fourth multiple times on if this #fedidreams should have a content warning for male chauvinism. It didn't feel that way in the dream, but it could absolutely be interpreted as obvious chauvinism on the part of my subconscious. It also contains mentions of heterosexual relationships, and objectification of women. Also, I don't know anything about the person mentioned, other than that they have a YouTube channel, sound female, and my dream borrowed their voice.
With that out of the way, last night I fell asleep with YouTube playing. Autoplay had somehow gotten me into the weirdly specific video genre of slightly adorkable women reminiscing about flash games they played as kids. That lead to me dreaming that I was attending FlashCon, the world's leading convention for fans of Macromedia flash! However, I was the only guy there. Random women kept approaching me and saying things like "Wow, you're a guy and your interested in flash!" and being the kind of vaguely flirty where you're not sure if they're intentionally flirting, or that's just how they are, or you're just misreading things. Anyway, then the YouTuber Dream Jelly (I think it was her video I fell asleep to) ran up to me, grabbed my arm, and was like "You have to attend my talk!" She dragged me into her session room, and sat me down in the front row. Then she proceeded to give a lengthy and detailed talk about her work on GFC, the GNU Flash Compiler. It was rather awkward, as for the entire talk, I was the only person in the room.
Don't worry, Fediverse; I know you folks, and I'm not going to leave out what few details I remember about GFC from the talk. Note that I know nothing about flash or compiler design, so I doubt any of this is even a thing. The talk started with an overview of the Flash Virtual Machine, FlashVM. Apparently this is the key part of the Macromedia Flash plugin that allowed cross-platform, cross-browser execution of flash. But Dream Jelly wanted to compile to native microcode, so she had to reverse engineer Flash VM, and write an opcode interpreter. As a bonus, that apparently allowed her to run all existing flash code natively. Then there was apparently something that I only noted in my dream journal as "a long boring section on binary hashtree optimization and string handling". Well, those are sure some words my subconscious knows! The talk ended with boasting about how GFC was a nine-pass compiler. Apparently, somehow that means it is the most efficient compiler written, and code written in ActionScript and compiled by GFC will always run faster than hand-written assembly, or assembly generated by any other compiler of any other programming language.
After that awkward morning, it was finally time for lunch. But before I could get food, someone cornered me to talk about MicroMedia, her operating system that was being written entirely in ActionScript with the GNU Flash Compiler. She asked me if I wanted to be a committer to the MicroMedia codebase. I agreed, mostly so I could leave the conversation and get something to eat. But she told me that the only way I could commit to her codebase was if I was her boyfriend. I was just kind of like, "Yeah, sure, that's fine, whatever. Email me." Then she hugged me and ran off, and I realized with horror that I was apparently dating some random woman I met at FlashCon and working on her pet project that I didn't care about.
Then, as usually happens in my long dreams, the fire alarm in the conference centre went off, but it was actually my alarm in real life, and I woke up.
What on earth was that, brain! All the weird awkwardness of an NSFW dream, but with absolutely no payoff, just obscure technical nonsense. I don't think I want to know what this dream says about me.
I swear the MAME developers sometimes find the goofiest things to emulate. Take this one from a few years back. Talking Wrinkles, a talking hand puppet plushy dog from 1986. This one is of special interest to me as I received one for Christmas in 1987 when I was nine years old. IIRC the product packaging said it can say 1,000 things. I had tons of fun with it at the time. Now I mostly find it annoying. Emulation isn't perfect, but here's around 6 and a half minutes of me playing with the thing in various ways. At one point I emulate putting the toy bone it comes with (it has a magnet at one end) in his mouth and letting him chew on it for a while. Then twice I put it in, then take it away too soon, which he doesn't like. During the last part when he is snoring, I have deleted about thirty seconds of silence before he finally says "Bye," and powers off. In particular, notice the extremely electronic-sounding speech and doggy noises. It has 32K of ROM and, surprisingly, a cartridge slot, though no cartridges are known to have ever been released for it. The speech is not LPC, it sounds more like Digitalker to me.
Here's a Youtube video about this talking dog, where the guy talks about it for a while, then plays with it, gets more and more annoyed with it, finally rips its batteries out, then takes it apart to show us what's inside. youtube.com/watch?v=b4ovn4aT9b…
This is the ONLY electronic toy I still have from my childhood. I got this from a babysitter in 1987 when I was four years old. This toy has spent 1997 throu...
Another subtle #curl bug we had in 8.12.0: on an x32 target (so 64-bit kernel, 32-bit user space) we use eventfd and wrote data to it. sizeof(pointer) - which then fails on x32 but works for everything else with 64 bit pointers because for some inexplicable reason eventfd fails if given less than 8 bytes...
I did this I updated my system and got curl 8.12.0, that caused a segfault in kodi when it tried to do https requests somewhere. Rebuild kodi for testing against curl 8.12.0 but that did not change...
I'm telling you someone literally DM'd me to inform me about my grammar on my post talking about how the mansplaining on this platform was "off the roof."
The problem is that I should have said "off the charts" or "through the roof."
Someone saw my post about mansplaining, and then made the decision that the best thing to do is spend the time to construct a direct message kindly informing me about the grammatical issues with that post.
I did a static analysis on the DeepSeek Android app
tl;dr it does aggressive device fingerprinting, root detection, has anti-tampering mechanisms, bundles native code and has dynamic code loading and execution facilities
none of which should be necessary for an app like this
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