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On Trans Issues, Wikipedia is a Bulwark Against Disinformation

In the wake of the anti-trans legislation by the Trump Administration, Wikipedia stands as a reliable source for information on trans topics.

^Assigned

@Ernesto Wong García estaba pensando en hacer algo así para los hashtags, a ver... ¿qué te parece?

Se va a poder hacer clic en cada elemento (por ej. "linux" aquí) y abrir la corresponde pantalla con todos los post que contienen el hashtag seleccionado.

@RaccoonForFriendica

Last night I finished a book I read for a reason that did not give me particularly high expectations: the author is a friend of my wife. I knew knew that she (the author) liked Babylon 5, so at least she had good taste.

To my surprise, I found myself really enjoying it. There are a couple of places where the writing is clunky but the characters were interesting and the story was engaging. I’m very much looking forward to the sequel (due this year).

If you enjoy low-stakes science fiction mysteries, I can thoroughly recommend Artificial Selection by Marianne Pickles. I will try to avoid spoilers, but if you hate people putting machine learning in totally inappropriate places, there is a two-page rant about 3/4 of the way through that you’ll enjoy (I did!).

Books - Marianne Pickles

Learn about Marianne Pickles's work-in-progress novel, a science fiction mystery set in a future when the climate crisis is history.

^{Marianne Pickles}

Interested to take a little tour through how #deltachat apps and the #rustlang core library are wired together?

@treefit and @WofWca provide a deep-dive into the history of apps migrating from a C-Foreign-Function-Interface to a #Rust based JSON-RPC mechanism, with entertaining horror stories like how an iOS release some years ago could delete profiles without the user intending it 😬

The post also highlights a few areas where folks interested to help could start ... delta.chat/en/2025-02-11-why-j…

Delta Chat: From C- to JSON-based APIs of the Rust

Foremost this is a quite technical post. Read our other blog posts if you want something more targeted at end users. If you have not yet looked at the Delta Chat source code, you might not know tha...

^delta.chat

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ghod I legit cannot imagine embarrassing myself like this. like it or lump it, proficiency in both official languages is table stakes in this game.

lapresse.ca/actualites/politiq…

Débat du PLC en français | Pas d’interprète pour la candidate Ruby Dhalla

Le Parti libéral du Canada (PLC) n’a pas l’intention de fournir les services d’un interprète à la candidate Ruby Dhalla lors du débat en français.

^{La Presse}

So I finally turned a recent popular post here into a proper story.

Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’

Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today’s story explores, the DOGE teen is a former denizen of ‘The Com,’ an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration.

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/te…

Il Garante della #privacy ha sanzionato E.ON per trattamento illecito dei #dati personali. In un caso "è stato dimostrato che l’azienda non verificava la legittimità della provenienza dei dati usati per le sue campagne pubblicitarie".

ilpost.it/2025/01/31/garante-p…

Il Garante della privacy ha multato di 890mila euro l’azienda energetica E.ON per trattamento illecito dei dati personali dei clienti

^{Il Post}

Iteration is the cornerstone of good design, but sometimes things go out of hand :) I'm really happy we finally rolled out the new gnome.org

I'm now convinced using the GHC* framework will enable us to focus on updating the content rather than the framework/infrastructure. Thank you everyone involved in making this happen!

* gitlab, HTML, CSS.

GNOME

An easy and elegant way to use your computer

^{www.gnome.org}

✨ My first technical blogpost is out now. ✨

If you ever wanted to learn a bit about how
#deltachat works internally and why we have two ways to communicate with our #rust core, then this is the introduction to read

delta.chat/en/2025-02-11-why-j…

#jsonrpc #cffi #c #rust #deltachat_desktop #deltachat_core

Delta Chat: From C- to JSON-based APIs of the Rust

Foremost this is a quite technical post. Read our other blog posts if you want something more targeted at end users. If you have not yet looked at the Delta Chat source code, you might not know tha...

^delta.chat

🗺️ As many people are angry with #Google & asking for alternatives to #GoogleMaps, here are some Free & #OpenSource options:

📱 App
- osmand.net/
- organicmaps.app
🌐 Web
- mapcarta.com
- openstreetmap.org

Not Open Source:
🌐&📱
en.mapy.cz
wego.here.com
mapquest.com
🌐
lokjo.com
📱
komoot.com
magicearth.com

#FCKGoogle #Alternative #Apps #App #Web #Software #News #Tech #Maps #Map #Technology #it

Mapy.cz

Nejpoužívanější mapový portál v ČR s celou řadou tématických map - základní, turistickou, cyklistickou, dopravní a plno dalších. Nabízí možnost reálného leteckého, panoramatického nebo 3D pohledu.

^Mapy.cz

@notjustbikes This afternoon in parliament, this research tweedekamer.nl/downloads/docum… “Crashes involving heavier vehicles; Empirical relationship between vehicle weight, drivetrain and crash frequency and severity”

"In collisions between passenger cars/delivery vehicles and vulnerable road users (i.e., cyclists and pedestrians) (…) as crash opponents, the severity for the crash opponent was on average higher (…)”

Summary on page 6 and 7 is already translated into English.

Anyone remembers the year where we eradicated a flu strain by... wearing masks? Wasn't that fun?

« Cette semaine, tous les patients sont positifs, ils sont faibles, ils sont fatigués et il y a beaucoup d’hospitalisation à cause de la grippe. »

lapresse.ca/actualites/sante/2…

Québec | Une des pires saisons de grippe depuis 10 ans

La grippe frappe fort cette saison au Québec. Les cas d’influenza semblent avoir atteint un sommet inégalé depuis les 10 dernières années dans la province. Une tendance qui augmente la pression sur les urgences déjà au maximum de leurs capacités.

^{La Presse}

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the SEGA Pico Keyboard

hackaday.com/2025/02/10/keebin…

Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The SEGA Pico Keyboard

It’s been a minute since I featured a tiny keyboard, and that’s okay. But if you want to get your feet wet in the DIY keyboarding community, making a little macro pad like [Arnov Sharma…

^Hackaday

Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies

The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.

By Jason Koebler

404media.co/email/38ceb17c-6aa…

Apparently Google is just shitty.

No duress signal or anything here. Just trying to fit in by being shitty. 🤦‍♂️

Librsvg 2.59.90 is out! This is the first beta before the GNOME 48 release.

There is now basic support for the dominant-baseline property for text elements, and tons of build fixes for various platforms.

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg…

2.59.90 - development · GNOME / librsvg · GitLab

Version 2.59.90 librsvg crate version 2.60.0-beta.0 librsvg-rebind crate version 0.1.0

^GitLab

Oi, amigues!

Today I'll be spending all day available to chat and guide folks interested in getting started or helping with translations for @scientific_python project websites.

This is a great opportunity to contribute to projects such as NumPy, SciPy, pandas, NetworkX, Xarray and Zarr - and meet other folks working on them.

Drop by if you are interested! On the Scientific Python discord: discord.com/invite/vur45CbwMz

No-one:

Absolutely no-one:

French pharmacies:

"disabling cert checks: we have not learned much"

I put my ramblings into a blog post

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/02/11…

disabling cert checks: we have not learned much

And by that I mean the global "we" as in the world of developers. In the beginning there was SSL When I first learned about SSL and how to use it in the mid to late 1990s, it took me a while to realize and understand the critical importance of having…

^{daniel.haxx.se}

Running a `zpool scrub` on my mirrored NVMe SSDs. The image on the left is without heatsinks and the right is with heatsinks. Both graphs show a 50 minute time window.

Before installing heatsinks it took 15-20 minutes to scrub, and since, it's only 6 minutes. Perhaps the drives were thermal throttling?

Either way, €20 well-spent I'd say.

#zfs

I would just like to say that these signs in the DFW airport bathrooms are peak social engineering, and I do hope Dan Patrick enjoys all the phone calls from people upset about the government photographing their hairy bits.

#egv #texas #fightback #transrightsarehumanrights #socialengineering #trollingtheGOP