new #wcurl
github.com/curl/wcurl/releases…
Allow -o and -O to be used without whitespaces (e.g.: -oNAME). Fix capitalization of the name of copyright owner sergiodj. Use the standard copyright header in manpage. Create a github workflow for...GitHub
Africa has never received Foreign Aid, a Fallacy of soft power. – Muwado – Africa's Storytelling Platform https://muwado.com/africa-has-never-received-foreign-aid-a-fallacy-of-soft-power/?v=2a0617accf8bmograph.social
Today, we’re announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, our most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model generally available on the market.www.anthropic.com
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brought you 16 updated (15 RB), 2 added and 5 removed apps:
+ URLCheck: analyze/share URLs before opening them 🛡️
+ Iconify (Foss): customize Android UI (rebranded from non-Foss)
- Monerujo (see previous toot)
- Howl: no longer maintained, author requested removal
- CameraRollX: same
- vTunnel: source gone 2y ago
- Compagnon HIIT: no updates since 2018 & source gone
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Andor Season 2 (April 22, Disney+): First teaser trailer!!
I sooooo can't wait (and as a bonus, two Star Wars ships never seen in live action!)
"The final season will unfold over 12 episodes broken down into four chapters of three episodes each. The first chapter will premiere April 22, with subsequent chapters debuting each week."
youtube.com/watch?v=AE4wxt70aU…
The critically acclaimed series returns.Watch the new trailer for season 2 of Andor, streaming April 22 on Disney+.YouTube
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youtube.com/watch?v=tCjAKZwjs1…
Międzynarodowy Festiwal Muzyki Gitarowej w Trzęsaczuartist:Stepan Raktitle:"Tanec okolo lípy"(premiere performance)04.06.2010YouTube
(Tee reads: “underline your f*cking links, you sociopaths”. The “f*cking links” part is underlined.)Webbed Briefs
Okay mastodonians 🐘
it's time for the opposite of doomscrolling
my latest "Linkfest" newsletter just dropped 📬
crammed full of gems pulled from the inky mineshafts of the internet
Free to read and subscribe to, right here: buttondown.com/clivethompson/a…
This issue includes:
👉 tactile graphics from 1900
📇 "alexinomia"
☁️ fog harvesting
💖 dataviz on how romance is vanishing from movies
🎲 a to-do app controlled by dice
📱 WikiTok
🎒 solar backpacks
🐟 66 million year old fish vomit
and SO MUCH MORE
Hello folks! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, a collection of the finest nuggets of science, culture and technology that...The Linkfest
Here are some of our main takeaways from the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2025:💡 👨💻
— Open and collaborative innovation solves the dilemma of #competitiveness and #sovereignty
— Now is the time to invest in open source #maintenance and #security
— Building sustainable open source ecosystems remains challenging but necessary
— Open source is being increasingly regulated in Europe, and the new challenge is #implementation and #compliance
Read more in our new blog: 👇 🔗
openforumeurope.org/the-eu-ope…
A new version of MapComplete is out. v0.50 has a few nice updates:
- A quickswitcher on the index page with your recently visited themes
- Housenumbers in the basestyle (thanks @protomaps )
- Map labels on the basestyle are translated (thanks @protomaps )
- AED-theme: cleanup of the icons, more filters (thanks @midgard )
- Update to the NSI
- Update to the (quite new) scouting groups theme
- Many, many bug fixes and small UI improvements
Test it on mapcomplete.org
MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.mapcomplete.org
Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer with an intimate style, dies at 88
https://apnews.com/article/roberta-flack-dies-61ad9755cc7b4f37b29884adc49c9340?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Entertainment @entertainment-AssociatedPress
Roberta Flack has died at 88. The Grammy-winning singer and pianist was known for her intimate vocal and musical style on “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and other hits.Hillel Italie (AP News)
Flaw found in stalkerware apps, exposing millions of people. Here's how to find out if your phone is being spied upon.
bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hot…
A serious security vulnerability has been found in popular stalkerware apps, exposing the sensitive personal information and communications of millions of people.Hot for Security
HEAD’S UP: Do not allow browser notifications at dodgy sites!
My daughter was on my computer, using Microsoft Edge, was visiting one of her fansites, and she allowed a dodgy pop-up notification.
This resulted in Edge sending pop-up notifications to the notification bar that kept saying my computer had a virus. No matter how many times I clicked it to go away, the pop-up would keep appearing. And each time I clicked on it, it would take me to a dodgy site urging me to download “anti-virus software”.
So I did an anti-virus scan to see if there was a virus. No viruses detected. Turns out, after additional troubleshooting, I discovered there was not virus. It was just a browser notification. By turning off that notification, the pop-up finally went away.
I had a long talk with my daughter about not clicking everything she sees, and I think this is a lesson everyone should learn.
Attached image is that annoying pop-up. And by the way, Microsoft, allowing browser notifications to appear in the system notification bar is beyond stupid!
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“All billionaires must submit a list of five things they did for society in the last week or their wealth shall be confiscated”
(Don't know who to credit)
A researcher has recovered the oldest known machine-readable version of Unix yet, an early Unix version 2 release from 1972.Paul Thurrott (Thurrott.com)
There are some serious reasons why you still need to be on Meta platforms: it's your last link to family members, or your support system, or you live in a small town.
I wrote about how to stay on while limiting Meta's ability to surveil you or use your information against you.
tl;dr Boring users, who don't generate clicks or behavioral data, are unprofitable users.
buttondown.com/practicaltips/a…
(This post is structured like one of those recipes where you might not care about the preamble because you came here to make the damn thing. The operational...Practical Tips
Apple today announced that its clinical-grade, over-the-counter Hearing Aid feature for AirPods Pro 2 is now available in the United Kingdom. ...Tim Hardwick (MacRumors.com)
As Facebook Abandons Fact-Checking, It’s Also Offering Bonuses for Viral Content
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Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed.
propublica.org/article/faceboo…
#News #Facebook #Meta #Zuckerberg #Tech #Technology
WCAG is supposed to give us a reasonably objective way of saying whether or not the sites we are building/auditing are "accessible" (to a particular baseline...YouTube
The Signs platform is creating a validated dataset for sign language learners and developers of ASL-based AI applications.Michael Boone (NVIDIA Blog)
reshared this
I think it builds on stable (or beta, at least), so there's no reason to use nightly. Also, use the minimal profile to skip installing the docs. It probably won't make a difference (because...GitHub
In QR codes, the following characters can be stored more compactly:
• Digits: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
• Uppercase letters: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
• Space
• Symbols: $ % * + - . / :
That’s why uppercase URLs produce smaller QR codes than lowercase URLs.
Details: “Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower-case letters?” by @Edent
shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-a…
Canadian snowbirds cancel Florida trips over Trump's threats
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/snowbords-canada-florida-trump-tariff-51-state-1.7464896?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Canada @canada-cbcnews
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in reply to D • • •social norms seems to think that not wearing a face mask during a pandemic of an aerial pathogen is ok. Because "it's not our culture".
So let me tell you about social norms...
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That's right. Ticketed.
ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/re…
Residents upset after getting tickets for parking cars diagonally after Montreal snowstorms
Stephane Giroux (CTVNews)somecanuckchick
in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •There is no grey area here. There is no angle parking.
This really started to become a problem around 2017... it's almost like Projet Montréal people encourage this shite.
I remember visiting friends on the plateau and bringing a shovel to dig our own parking spot... WTAF IS THE PROBLEM?!?
I've seen this angle parking BS from a lot of university students from out-of-province, or family visiting from the USA. It's ridiculous.