Damn.
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I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunset times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made nigh-undiscoverable, but the underlying cause is th…Rob’s Posts
Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users
Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system Keeping with its rich history of updates that break Windows in unexpected ways, Microsoft has warned that two recent patches for Windows 11 24H2 are triggering blue screen crashes.…
#theregister #IT
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: Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating systemBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
For those who are interested in free-threaded Python (peps.python.org/pep-0703/), a few of us working on it, and more importantly porting libraries to work with it, have set up a new Discord server, for folks to ask questions a bit more interactively. (Lurking is also welcome! It's amazing how much you learn by osmosis.)
CPython’s global interpreter lock (“GIL”) prevents multiple threads from executing Python code at the same time. The GIL is an obstacle to using multi-core CPUs from Python efficiently.Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)
Before you plug in your new Timex/Sinclair 1000, please take a moment to think about this exciting new adventure. We want to assure you that:
1. You will enjoy computing.
2. You will find it easy as well as enjoyable.
3. You shouldn’t be afraid of the computer. You are smarter than it is. So is your parakeet, for that matter.
4. You will make mistakes as you learn. The computer will not laugh at you.
5. Your mistakes will not do any harm to the computer. You can’t break it by pushing the “wrong” button.
6. You are about to take a giant step into the future. Everyone will soon be using computers in every part of their daily lives, and you will have a head start.
-- Steve Vickers, Timex/Sinclair 1000 Instruction Manual (aka the US ZX81 manual)
1/2 - TrueFans now allows you to export your podcast activity in the W3C ActivityStreams 2.0 format.
We use the AS2.0 structure - Actor, Verb, Object format. e.g Sam (Actor), Plays (Verb), Podnews Weekly (Object). plus attributes Listen Time, Percent Completed, Value Paid.
We enable users to auto publish their activity to X, ActivityPub, BlueSky, Threads and Linkedin.
We allow Creators to do the same.
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While we are waiting for the recordings from #fossnorth to show up, you can browse the slides from my talk "What comes after world domination?" that I did Monday morning.
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What these slides don't show, is how my laptop died in the middle of my presentation so I had to reboot to get back into the game and continue... maybe not my greatest moment.
What comes after world domination with Daniel Stenberg, April 2025 - Download as a PDF or view online for freeSlideShare
On April 12, 2025 the top story on the Palo Alto (California) online news site was "Silicon Valley Crosswalk Buttons Apparently Hacked to Imitate Musk, Zuckerberg Voices" It told the story, covered by other media too, of how someone hacked into audi…Law Office of Lainey Feingold
Focus styles and programmatic focus
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:focus, :focus-visible and the JavaScript .focus() methodfullystacked.net
When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines
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By examining the limits of reasonable user behavior and embracing imperfection for users who go beyond it, we can continue to provide service that meets the expectations of users without sacrificing scalability of the system.Jaz (Jaz’s Blog)
Inside the legal, political, and personal battle for press freedom in America.Alex Segura Lozano (FOREIGN PRESS)
#RECALL - Some acetaminophen, melatonin tablets are being recalled in Canada.
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Health Canada has issued alerts for one lot of Laboratoire Riva Inc.’s acetaminophen caplet and six lots of Life Brand’s Timed Release Melatonin pills.Saba Aziz (Global News)
The W3C “Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI” draft doc continues to get updates, which is good.
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So far the 3 issues I filed (disambiguate ‘AI’, replace overlays section, discuss sustainability) have no action — but it is early and those were recent.
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https://w3c.github.io/ai-accessibility/. Contribute to w3c/ai-accessibility development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Zoom is down, preventing people from connecting to video calls, signing in, or even accessing the company’s website.Emma Roth (The Verge)
First-Ever National Elder Fraud Coordination Center Brings Together Private and Public Sectors to Seek Justice for Victims WASHINGTON, April 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, AARP, Amazon, Google,...MediaRoom
Sources: the Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS' free Direct File tax program, after IRS staff were told in mid-March to stop working on it (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)
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The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program. That's the electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free.Fatima Hussein (AP News)
This roundup looks at the finest software-defined radio tools for Linux including apps that let you listen to DAB and DAB+ broadcasts.Steve Emms (LinuxLinks)
Anchor Positioning and the Popover API for a JS-Free Site Menu
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A blog about CSS, front-end development, the web, and beyond.CSS { In Real Life } | Anchor Positioning and the Popover API for a JS-Free Site Menu
Yesterday, the P’urhépecha municipality of Cherán, Michoacán, celebrated 14 years of autonomy. It began on April 15, 2011, when a group of women blocked cartel-linked illegal loggers from removing trees from the community. This act sparked a mass uprising that saw the community reclaim its territory, establishing barricades, 179 permanent bonfires, a form of autonomous government rooted in P’urhépecha forms of communal organization, and expelling the cartels, police, and political parties.
If you want to know more about Cherán, might I suggest "The Bonfires of Autonomy," a piece I wrote for the anthology edited by @cbmilstein, "Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy:" akpress.org/deciding-for-ourse…
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#Mexico #Michoacán #Indigenous #autonomy
www.akpress.orgThis anthology explores this “sense of freedom in the air,” as one piece puts it, by looking at contemporary examples of autonomous, directly democratic spaces and the real-world dilemmas they experience, all the while underscoring the egalitarian…
The Rust team at Mainmatter has grown, but we need to grow it further!
We're looking for freelancers to help us migrate a database from C to Rust.
It's an incremental rewrite: a module at a time, interfacing with the existing C code.
European hours, full remote, 4 days a week.
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 15 updated and 2 added apps:
+ AstraCrypt: hide and encrypt your files with modern security standards 🛡️
+ Mint: a lightweight Misskey Android client (in early development state) 🛡️
3 apps have been removed as they were reported broken:
- Kuroba
- Tappic
- moVirt
1 app moved to a new packageId 1 month ago, so the old one was removed today:
* Dharmik
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
Whistleblower reveals evidence on how Elon Musk's DOGE team extracted 10 GB of sensitive data about American citizens from a government agency, and then deleted accounts and logs to cover their tracks.
Then, when the whistleblower tried to report the data breach, he received a threatening letter containing pictures taken from a drone watching him walking his dog.
Die Bahn-App „#DBNavigator” ist voll mit #Trackern, die uns überwachen. #Digitalcourage klagt dagegen. Denn wir wollen Bahn fahren – nicht Daten liefern.
Gemeinsam haben wir Ende April die Bahn dazu aufgefordert, die Mängel zu entfernen. Dafür hatten wir der #DB eine Frist von zwei Monaten eingeräumt. Doch die Bahn hat in ihrer Antwort klargemacht, dass sie nicht vorhat, etwas Wesentliches zu ändern. Am 20. Oktober 2022 haben wir deshalb unsere Klage eingereicht. Die Bahn hat mittlerweile ihre Klageerwiderung eingereicht, auf die wir geantwortet haben. Der nächste Schritt bei unserer Klage wird die Verhandlung sein, ein Termin wurde noch nicht bekannt gegeben.
Hier unsere ganze Klageschrift lesen.
Die Bahn-App „DB Navigator” ist voll mit Trackern, die uns überwachen. Digitalcourage klagt dagegen. Denn wir wollen Bahn fahren – nicht Daten lieferndigitalcourage.de
The trajectory of E2E-encryption is about de-platforming: There shall be no central machines that can control the edges/peers, and the social groups and virtual centers they freely form.
Our #deltachat R&D around #chatmail relays and #webxdc apps all aim to realize such a "zero-platforms" fully E2E-encrypted interaction model. However, this is *not* just about cryptographic cleverness. Rather it is about usable anti-authoritarian designs, as explicitly stated in January delta.chat/en/2025-01-23-webxd…
How can we evolve and deploy web apps without allowing developers or operators to become a “billionaire in the middle”? There are many ways to try to address this challenge and some involve the tec...delta.chat
I really wish Delta Chat had built in voice all feature atleast.
Signal stopped working in the middle east even with a VPN and while texting works on Delta Chat even without it for the most part, the voice calling feature is equally as important if you ask me.
Please let me know if there's a way to do this or please consider developing this in the app.
As I announced earlier today @RezzaBuh and I are going on an #evtrip. Goal: pick up an Audi Q4 e-tron 35 I've purchased in Bavaria. We're staying in an B&B near the border over night. We use an EV on the way there, too. The only charging stop is in 311km. Once we get there, the car should have 19% of battery left.
(if you don't want to follow this thread, just mute #evtrip)
We arrived at the supercharger in Pilsen with 24% of battery left. We were speeding 130km/h where we could and the average consumption was still 17.4 kWh/100km. Now we need to charge it for 10 minutes to reach Rozvadov, but we'll probably stay a bit longer to have extra energy for tomorrow.
The downside is that the supercharger in Pilsen is on a hotel parking lot 7km off the highway with no services around, just the hotel.
#evtrip
Now the drill is:
1) go to the insurance company to get temporary insurance (€89, done),
2) go to the transport authority to re-register the car and get transport plates,
3) go back to the insurance place to get the plates physically done.
4) go back to the authority to stamp the plates.
Fortunately the insurance company is just next door.
#evtrip
Arrived to Ionity Beroun, another 170 km, the battery down from 80 to 20%, let's get back to 80% and continue. The biggest problem at the moment are several traffic jams along the way.
Ioinity started charging 105 kW which is close to the car maximum. Also the biggest price: 21 CZK (€0.8)/kWh if you don't have a plan. This ride will be more expensive than with gasoline. #evtrip
A strong Europe rolls on at high speed.
Efficient EU train services offer clean and smart alternatives to travel.
This is why we want to bridge gaps in the EU's rail network with a new high-speed rail plan.
Tomorrow, we'll kick-start new discussions with stakeholders to improve infrastructure, passenger services, and the rail industry.
We're also working on single digital booking and ticketing rules to make travelling easier.
Ready to hop on?
More: europa.eu/!nvqbGc
#EU
European Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, will host an Implementation dialogue concerning high-speed rail in Europe on 15 April in Brussels.Mobility and Transport
Emmanuele Bassi explains how portals tie everything together in modern Linux app development at #LAS2025. #gnome #kde #opensource #linux
Program: buff.ly/7MmXKp3
A RIPE Meeting is a five-day event where Internet Service Providers (ISPs), network operators and other interested parties from all over the world gather.ripe90.ripe.net
#Conversations_im has the ability to fetch outage status information from an independent server and display that in case the regular #XMPP server can not be reached.
This is powered by XEP-0455 (xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0455.h…).
TLDR: Server gives client a URL to a JSON file during normal connects, client will hold on to that URL and fetch the JSON file in case server is unreachable.
This document defines an XMPP protocol extension that enables server administrators to communicate issues with the server to all users in a semantic manner.Mathieu Pasquet
Vandaag bezetten we het Gravensteen om de blijvende inactiviteit rond klimaat aan te klagen.
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#XR #ExtinctionRebellion #Gent #Klimaat #Gravensteen
Anonymous France leaked 18 GB with the following statement:
In defense of Ukraine Anonymous has released 10TB of leaked data on all businesses operating in Russia, all Kremlin assets in the West, pro-Russian officials, Donald Trump, and more.
mediafire.com/file/9prdor8m7a1…
P.S. this leaks marks a significant qualitative difference to #Wikileaks which has over the last decade not only leaked anything harming #Russia but even actually amplified Russian fakes, such as the MH17 conspiracies
MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.MediaFire
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