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In which @bagder is wrong about something, maybe.

"Wider code is harder to read."

Seems obvious it is highly subjective. Period.

I personally find excessive line breaking very difficult to read.

Being a DEC bunny I grew up on 80 chars. I always preferred my VT100 on 132w.

I found reading the blog post hard.

Breaking words is probably even worse (inset) 😂

I guess you can get used to anything.

But is there any evidence to support this dogma?

tldr; No. /1

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/07…

to date to have been the direct result of us using C instead of a mem- ory-safe language alternative. This is however a much lower number

Writing C for curl

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.
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@daniel:// stenberg://

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🫥 @aardrian explains the reasoning behind the only one <main> per page rule.

#HTML #WebStandards #a11y #ARIA

adrianroselli.com/2025/04/main…


Mainlining Mains

Sometimes you run into a main landmark where you don’t expect one. Like Main Street USA in Hong Kong Disney. So you grab a snack in a diner that serves no hot dogs.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #html #aria #webstandards @Adrian Roselli, pH0

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Framework has stopped selling versions of its base laptop model in the US because of tariffs. Says that if it kept selling them in the US it would lose money. Framework is the only company that makes reliably upgradeable, repairable laptops

404media.co/framework-stops-se…


Framework Stops Selling Some of Its Laptops in the U.S. Due to Tariffs

The manufacturer says it would now have to sell its laptops at a loss.
Matthew Gault (404 Media)

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Bug #284804 AX: VoiceOver no longer announces change to aria-expanded value
bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?i…

This bug appears to come and go. Get fixed, then regress, then get fixed. It’s still unassigned after 4 months.

I just tested in VoiceOver / macOS 15.4 / Safari 18.4 and it works. For me. For now.

284804 – AX: VoiceOver no longer announces change to aria-expanded value

WebKit Bugzilla
#284804

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Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism. “We will call these arrests what they are: abductions by ICE cowards in plainclothes and facemasks.” lithub.com/silence-is-collabor…

Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism

We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We wi…
Literary Hub

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Should the 'row' role really be necessary for parents of 'gridcell' and other cell role elements?

#ARIA #WebStandards #a11y #Nerdvana

github.com/w3c/aria/issues/240…


Should the 'row' role really be necessary for parents of 'gridcell' and other cell role elements? · Issue #2402 · w3c/aria

Discussed in #2128 Originally posted by turjmner8 February 22, 2024 In general, would it be possible to remove the requirement for role 'gridcell' elements to be contained within role 'row' element...
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#a11y #aria #webstandards #nerdvana

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Ah, Shopify! Where would Breitbart be without you?

Now the CEO of Shopify demands that every developer there uses “AI” to enable swastika merchants to make even more moolah.

(Hi to my “friends” who work there!)

🔗 adactio.com/notes/21833


April 7th, 2025, 5:16pm

Ah, Shopify! Where would Breitbart be without you? Now the CEO of Shopify demands that every developer there uses “AI” to enable swastika merchants to make even more moolah. (Hi to my “friends” who work there!)
adactio.com

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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.

aarp.org/travel/travel-tips/se…


6 Ways to Secure Your Phone as You Reenter the Country

In some instances, government agents can search your digital devices legally after an international trip. Here's what you can do.
Edward C. Baig (AARP)
#aarp

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Global warming has accelerated. Earth’s climate is heating up faster today than it was 20 or 30 years ago.

That’s not doomism. It is reality.

If we do not end capitalism, capitalism will end us.

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism

Line graph shows the two-year running mean global surface temperature anomaly from 1942 through 2025 as compared to the 1850 to 1900 pre-industrial baseline. It bounces up and down a bit but is mostly steady from the 1940s until about 1980, when the upward trend begins. The temperature anomaly increases significantly for the next 30+ years, until going up even more sharply within just the last decade.
#climatechange #science #environment #capitalism #climate
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Nicole Parsons

Six billionaire families and their allies funded Project 2025 to get climate action ended.

Bradley, Coors, Koch, Scaife, Seid, and Uihlein

desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage…

desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-…

Yes, the moneyed are willing to risk global recession & wars to keep frying the planet.


Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU - DeSmog

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).
Sam Bright (DeSmog)

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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…

#cdnpoli #polcan #elxn45


Majority of Canadians agree that Danielle Smith has betrayed Canada

A majority of Canadians agree that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is betraying her country by engaging with Americans who want to annex Canada.
Matthew Renfrew (Cult MTL)
#cdnpoli #polcan #elxn45

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Whelp. Bye Servo.

floss.social/@servo/1142969778…

Servo

2025-04-07 13:44:36

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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, but we want your feedback. More details:

github.com/servo/servo/discuss…

screenshot of “AI Policy Update Proposal” issue (servo/servo#36379)

AI Policy Update Proposal · servo servo · Discussion #36379

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...
GitHub

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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, but we want your feedback. More details:

github.com/servo/servo/discuss…

screenshot of “AI Policy Update Proposal” issue (servo/servo#36379)

AI Policy Update Proposal · servo servo · Discussion #36379

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...
GitHub
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Sensitive content

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L'équipe de @thunderbird travaille sur une suite de services incluant un service d'e-mails (avec webmail), sous licence libre blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/t…

L'inscription en liste d'attente pour la beta : thundermail.com/. Hâte de tester ça :ablobattention:

#foss #thunderbird


Thundermail and Thunderbird Pro Services - The Thunderbird Blog

Announcing a new Thunderbird email service called Thundermail as part of the Thunderbird Pro suite of additional services.
Ryan Sipes (The Thunderbird Blog)
#foss #thunderbird @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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Legal fight between UK govt and Apple about encryption backdoor must be made public
From: @Tutanota
mastodon.social/@Tutanota/1142…

Tuta

2025-04-07 13:32:27

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🚨 #BREAKING: Legal fight between UK vs Apple about #encryption #backdoor must be made public.

We at Tuta would never build a backdoor - and our #opensource code is proof of that.

👉 bbc.com/news/articles/cvgn1lz3…

👉 Background: tuta.com/blog/uk-demands-apple…

They, along with news organisations - including the BBC - made legal representations for the case to be heard in public. "This is bigger than the UK and Apple," said Jim Killock, executive director of Open [Rights Group. 'The Court's judgment will have implications for the privacy and security of millions of | [people around the world. ‘The Open Rights Group campaigned alongside Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship against the proposal to hold the hearing in secret. Big Brother Watch interim director Rebecca Vincent says the judgement is "effectively chipping away at the pervasive climate of secrecy surrounding the Investigatory Powers Tribunal's consideration of the Apple case". "The Home Office's order to break encryption represents a massive attack on the privacy rights of millions of British Apple users, which is a matter of significant public interest and must not be considered behind closed doors," she adds. Apple declined to comment.
UK flag vs Apple logo

Apple-UK data privacy row should not be secret, court rules

The UK government sought to keep details of its row with Apple over requested access to its encrypted cloud storage tool private.
Tom Singleton & Liv McMahon (BBC News)

@Tuta

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🚨 #BREAKING: Legal fight between UK vs Apple about #encryption #backdoor must be made public.

We at Tuta would never build a backdoor - and our #opensource code is proof of that.

👉 bbc.com/news/articles/cvgn1lz3…

👉 Background: tuta.com/blog/uk-demands-apple…

They, along with news organisations - including the BBC - made legal representations for the case to be heard in public. "This is bigger than the UK and Apple," said Jim Killock, executive director of Open [Rights Group. 'The Court's judgment will have implications for the privacy and security of millions of | [people around the world. ‘The Open Rights Group campaigned alongside Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship against the proposal to hold the hearing in secret. Big Brother Watch interim director Rebecca Vincent says the judgement is "effectively chipping away at the pervasive climate of secrecy surrounding the Investigatory Powers Tribunal's consideration of the Apple case". "The Home Office's order to break encryption represents a massive attack on the privacy rights of millions of British Apple users, which is a matter of significant public interest and must not be considered behind closed doors," she adds. Apple declined to comment.
UK flag vs Apple logo

Apple-UK data privacy row should not be secret, court rules

The UK government sought to keep details of its row with Apple over requested access to its encrypted cloud storage tool private.
Tom Singleton & Liv McMahon (BBC News)
#opensource #encryption #breaking #backdoor

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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.”

ccc.de/en/club/unvereinbarkeit…

CCC | Incompatibility of membership

Der Chaos Computer Club ist eine galaktische Gemeinschaft von Lebewesen für Informationsfreiheit und Technikfolgenabschätzung.
ccc.de
#hackers

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What are your favorite #European tech tools?

Why choose European?

✅ Increased Privacy
✅ Better Data protection

Check out our in-depth guide for more European products 👉 tuta.com/blog/boycott-us-choos…

#ChooseEu #EuropeanTech #EU #Tech

a list of European Alternative Apps
a link to the blog post

Boycott US? New tariffs make people choose European products. Are we seeing a trend? | Tuta

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.
Tuta
#EU #tech #european #chooseeu #europeantech

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 7. April, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist türkis und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

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bbb.metalab.at
#blind #inklusion #make
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