The World Health Organization has designated NB.1.8.1 as a SARS-CoV-2 variant under monitoring.

FYI The NB.1.8.1 variant is a member of the #Omicron family... prevention.com/health/health-c… #COVID19 #COVIDISNOTOVER #WEARAMASK #GETVACCINATED #WHO #VUM #NB181 #cdnpoli #polcan

What to Know About the Latest COVID-19 Variant, NB.1.8.1, Spreading Across the Globe

NB.1.81. is the latest COVID-19 variant spreading in the U.S. and Europe. Infectious disease doctors explain NB1.8.1 symptoms, treatment, and prevention.

^{Korin Miller (Prevention)}

on the topic of chromophobia, I love this little book by David Batchelor with the same title press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/b…

> The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse—a fear of corruption or contamination through color—lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge color…

one way to understand the chromophobic impulse is to look at it through binaries of prestige. if you had to associate subdued, pale, or black-white colours with one, and saturated, vibrant, strong colours with the other, between, say, Europe and Asia, which is the subdued one, which is the colourful? what about Black people and white folk?

for each binary you can think of, which one is "colourful"?
- adults vs. children
- straight vs. queer
- masculine vs. feminine
- civilised vs. indigenous
- high-class vs. lowbrow
- citizens vs. immigrants
- residents vs. wandering folk
- …

in basically every single case, the world of strong colours is relegated to whoever is despised in society. the pleasure of colour is too immediate, too sensorial and hedonistic for the sophisticated colonisers. adult civilised life is to be made of white walls, marble statues, beige appliances and pale wooden furniture; those are tasteful; the tasteless enjoyment of colours is relegated to exoticised adventures, a trip to Morocco or to your wive's embrace of silky lingeries, or to the movies to watch children's animation… before you return to the tame, controlled normalcy of desaturated palettes.

(source for the restored Ancient Greek statue below: buntegoetter.liebieghaus.de )

Who says you can’t have #privacy and #security in an OS? Meet PureOS — the #Linux OS that respects you.

No ads
No trackers No #surveillance
No terms of service traps

PureOS supports Purism’s Librem 5 & Liberty Phone.

More Info: puri.sm/posts/what-is-pureos-a…

our friends over at @rpgp just published a monster milestone, humbly tagged 0.16 😍 with

- streaming decryption and encryption

- post-quantum-cryptography

- API streamlining.

#rPGP is a full Rust implementation of #openpgp which counts among the fastest and most compliant implementations today, and includes security audits. Note: #deltachat uses a restricted subset of OpenPGP, and follows best practices (eg using the same ed25519 keys implementation as #signal) github.com/rpgp/rpgp/

GitHub - rpgp/rpgp: OpenPGP implemented in pure Rust, permissively licensed

OpenPGP implemented in pure Rust, permissively licensed - rpgp/rpgp

^GitHub

💬 Matrix na Oscloudu je tu pro každého!

✅ Stačí jeden účet na Oscloud – žádné další registrace.
👉 V dashboardu najdeš novou aplikaci **Element**, stačí kliknout.

🔐 Přihlášení je jednoduché – klikni na **„Pokračovat s Oscloud Login“**
a jsi okamžitě v chatu!

📢 A máme i oficiální místnost Oscloud:
#oscloudcz:mxchat.cz

Ještě nikdy nebylo jednodušší začít používat Matrix. Fakt.

#Oscloud #matrix #OpenSource #Element #MXChat

Facing an...unusual...review for my PhD dissertation, I re-created their strangest argument nearly word for word and in the same order with my first one-sentence prompt to Copilot.

Head exploding.

How to build #curl against Apple's LibreSSL:

github.com/jeroen/apple-libres…

GitHub - jeroen/apple-libressl-sdk: Missing sdk files to link to LibreSSL and nghttp2 on MacOS

Missing sdk files to link to LibreSSL and nghttp2 on MacOS - GitHub - jeroen/apple-libressl-sdk: Missing sdk files to link to LibreSSL and nghttp2 on MacOS

^GitHub

If you use curl, the yearly curl user survey is up now and @bagder wants to hear what you think about it!

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/05/19…

It takes a few minutes but it's worth spending that time, on the one hand because the responses really are taken to heart to set and adjust the project priorities, and on the other hand because people have put a lot of work into that project and it's worth telling them you've benefited from that work!

The curl user survey 2025 is up

Yes! curl user survey 2025 The time has come for you to once again do your curl community duty. Run over and fill in the curl user survey and tell us about how you use curl etc.

^{daniel.haxx.se}

Have you switched to any of these more private #EuropeanAlternatives? If so, which ones?

Out of the loop on #ChooseEU?

Find out more here 👉 tuta.com/blog/boycott-us-choos…

Thank you
@ubuntu for being a Gold sponsor of #GUADEC2025! 🌟

Ubuntu comes with everything you need to run your organization, school, home or enterprise.

Visit their website to know more: ubuntu.com

#sponsor #foss #linux

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Ubuntu is the modern, open source operating system on Linux for the enterprise server, desktop, cloud, and IoT.

^Ubuntu

Just looked at a very nice #reverb by #SonicAcademy called #Vela. It has some pretty unique features, I'm not so sure it can emulate classic reverbs adequately though (at least according to their quiz I got a 78% in favor of the Bricasti M7, Lexicon 480L, VSS3 and Strymon Big Sky).

Not a go to reverb for me, but the price is more than reasonable and it sounds great. You can also check it out at sonicacademy.com/products/vela #audio

VELA: The Ultimate Reverb VST Plugin | Sonic Academy

Discover the power of VELA - Our world class Reverb VST Plugin - by Sonic Academy ✔️ Transform your music with VELA's realistic reverb ⭐ Try it now on Sonic Academy!

^{Sonic Academy}

Google's helpful AI thinks Microsoft still offers access to their FTP server.

They don't. It doesn't even respond to ping.

891 persons have already responded to the #curl survey 2025. If you have not, please consider donating a few minutes of your time and help us out!

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/05/19…

The curl user survey 2025 is up

Yes! curl user survey 2025 The time has come for you to once again do your curl community duty. Run over and fill in the curl user survey and tell us about how you use curl etc.

^{daniel.haxx.se}