I know it's hard to find a silver lining these days, but the sheer stupidity of the US administration is inadvertently destroying the finances of the Russian regime. I think we can all agree that's a good thing.
similarly they are having "green" policies like no one has seen in the last decades. Tariff that increase the price of gas guzzlers... price of oil. etc.
Y’all, we are in a timeline where the #AARP is telling old people to buy burner phones before going through border checks. What the actual fuck are we doing, America? In other news, someone in DC just told me that the security fences have gone back up around the White House,so buckle up, they’re about to do something even worse than we’ve seen.
The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU).
Majority of Canadians agree that Danielle Smith has betrayed Canada by engaging with Americans who want to annex Canada... cultmtl.com/2025/04/majority-o…
Servo’s Technical Steering Committee is looking for feedback regarding our policy for contributions made with generative AI. The current policy, adopted in June 2024, is documented in the Servo boo...
@hub tbqh I'm split between "go hide under a rock and never show your face in civilized lands again" and "Canadians are really coming around to Making Canada Great Again, you just play up your connections to Trump a bit more" 🤣
Servo’s Technical Steering Committee is looking for feedback regarding our policy for contributions made with generative AI. The current policy, adopted in June 2024, is documented in the Servo boo...
MDN’s AI Help can’t critically examine training data’s gaps, biases, and unrelated topics. It’s a useful demonstration of LLMs’ uncorrectable lucid lies.
i did not even know that then again i don't even look at anything related to ladybird or servo this kind of just flooded onto my timeline through boosts
I think the more worrying part is that ladybird is also allowing AI into their project. but it's more like "AI kinda sucks and writes bad code but if it helps you without ruining the project than sure" than an outright approval that servo is trying to do.
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Vidim v tom velky meme potencial, jestli se to uchyti, ukaze cas.
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Servo is considering:
- allowing some AI tools for non-code contributions
- allowing maintainers to use GitHub Copilot for some code contributions over the next 12 months
These changes are planned to take effect in June 2025, bu…
State of the Thunder: Volume 2 is out! In addition to the roadmap, we're talking about bug backlogs and ideas to clear them, cooperation between MZLA and the Thunderbird Council, address book databases, and Thunderbird on the command line:
In our second State of the Thunder, we expand on the purpose of these meetings and go back to our roadmap. From there, we talk about bugs and stability, disc...
@ratcatcher Not at the moment. Our comms team is really small, but we'll get this feedback back to the team to see if it could be an option in the future!
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The Chaos Computer Club, Europe‘s largest community of #hackers, has released a declaration on what is incompatible with the club’s values: “Those who aim to destroy coexistence in society and work toward an alternative society with principles based on chauvinism and nationalism are working against the moral principles that unite us as a club.
The CCC declares representing racism and fascism (…) to be incompatible with a membership in our ranks.”
With the growing movement to boycott US goods, more people are choosing European alternatives. Let’s take a look at the best European products you can use.
I just dumped my US anti virus and gone for a German one instead...its seems very efficient and less intrusive as the US app. plus a different nonUS browser. I'd dump Google if it didn't mean getting rid of a long standing email address linked to so many accounts?
@Stepland there are details that I dislike and regret having done, but they are actually all quite minor. I'm generally happy with most of what we have done and how it was done.
@icing @catsalad Haha, that's an excellent point. I would defer to either of you on what "basic" even means.
I think something that's often underappreciated is how complex modern HTTP is. I think if I had TLS libraries and only needed to implement HTTP/1.0, three days would not be enough, especially if I was doing it in C, since I don't work with it regularly. (I would probably need three days just to debug my segfaulting code.)
There's a lot of plumbing involved in making stuff work
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On that note - if a company is basing a commercial product heavy on open source project(s), what's the best way to give back? Money or co-maintainers/contributions.
(Of course this is different between projects, but somehow generalized like your slide for the most common case)
@troed I think the generalized answer would be: "in the way the project wants it". Slightly larger/mature ones might think accepting sponsorships/money is the better take, while smaller ones in many cases rather prefer code/helping-hands.
depending on the message you want to send, you should add "*: One is very close to None". Also, are you sure that active OSS projects outnumber abandoned ones?
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Collected quotes and snippets from people publicly sneezing off or belittling what curl is, explaining how easy it would be to make a replacement in no time with no effort or generally not being very helpful. These are statements made seriously.
well, it doesn't mention on which planet the 3 days are counted. I'm fairly certain there is a planet in our universe with days long enough for curl to be written in a fraction of one.
I think a lot of people like this have no idea that the way you implement http isn't by typing `import "http";` ... They forget that all the gazillion libraries they import to write their little project are actually written by someone at some point, and that making those libraries and those tools so simple that you forget they are even there is what the real art of programming is about.
THis is lengthy, but let's fact-check the business incompetence, blatent innumeracy and the false pretences behind the Trump's tariffs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_…. Even ChatGPT got a mention! :)
It is a somewhat common question to me: how do we write C in curl to make it safe and secure for billions of installations? Some precautions we take and decisions we make. There is no silver bullet, just guidelines.
@daniel:// stenberg:// Nice and sensible rules. I particularly like the focus on readable code. I think a lot of mistakes (in any language) comes from trying to be too clever, or weird tricks to "optimize" the code.
@harald I think I did a lot of that in my younger years as well. Coming back to and making sense of your own code 10-20 years later can be a humbling experience.
"Curl is one of the very few projects I managed to contribute to with a very simple PR.
At the time, I was a bit lost with their custom testing framework, but was very impressed by the ease of contributing to one of the most successful open-source project out there."
@0xDEADBEEF they're not. We've talked about it briefly, but the amount of extra work that will bring is not insignificant so it has not happened yet at least.
That is a lot of good advice in an easy-to-read, compact form. I will definitely recommend it to my students, too. Thank you a lot – also for curl, on this occasion! 🙂
sscanf() can indeed have some weird and surprising behavior!
For instance, a while back, a fuzzer timed out on a sscanf("%d", ...), while looking for a space, and I ended up writing a workaround: github.com/lpereira/lwan/blob/…
(More important parts of the code aren't using this function anymore.)
Мне часто задают такой вопрос: как мы пишем на C код для curl, чтобы он был безопасным и надёжным в миллиардах установок? Мы предпринимаем определённые меры и пр...
Před deseti lety začal cestujícím sloužit nový úsek metra V.A Otevřen byl na Velikonoce dne 6. dubna 2015. Síť metra se tak rozrostla na 61 stanic a délku 65,4 km. Jízdní doba z Depa Hostivař do Nemocnice Motol je přibližně 31 minut, délka 17,13 km a počet stanic na lince A je 17. Zpočátku jezdil v novém úseku pouze každý druhý vlak, jinak se končilo na Dejvické. Později bylo posunuto pásmování do nové stanice Petřiny a pak zcela zrušeno. Od té doby se zatím metro nerozšířilo.
Photos of the Hands Off! Protests. The momentum of the resistance builds as millions of people turned out nationwide and around the world to protest the Trump regime with their frustration, enthusiasm, and creativity. kottke.org/25/04/photos-of-the…
The Oklahoman - US Senator Markwayne Mullin suggests shooting reporters would be one way to cut down on the frequency of “fake news” stories. oklahoman.com/story/news/2025/…
On this date, Charles Kincaid, a newspaper correspondent, fatally shot former Congressman William Taulbee of Kentucky. The two men had a volatile history which began in 1887 when Kincaid wrote a story implicating Taulbee in an extramarital affair.
Dcera herečky Dády Patrasové a saxofonisty Felixe Slováčka vystudovala pražskou konzervatoř. Hrála v muzikálech, diváci ji znali třeba i ze seriálu Ordinace v růžové zahradě.
Houston oil companies are trimming jobs to weather the storm. It remains unclear how far prices will fall, but they’re already battening down the hatches.
the US administration is ignoring Russia's shadow fleet of oil tankers & possibly even looking to relax sanctions depending on the day. and nothing has come yet of possible restrictions on Iranian output
meanwhile Trump's tariffs have crushed the demand forecast for oil *and* sent the price of steel pipe into the stratosphere
oil industry profitability really facing pressure from all sides
was going through some old old mastodon favorites that I accumulated since late 2023, and I came across this gem. Today I learned: TIL a classical work described as "Ode to Internet - V.90 56k dialup modem handshake for orchestra" was composited from a July 27, 1996 performance with the Monteverdi Choir and L’Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner at Avery Fisher Hall.
Composed from the Feb 1998 committee network protocol recommendation by the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector / ...
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