Hey all y'all need to stop using "guys" in mixed company.
- My trans girlfriend is not a guy.
- My cis girlfriend is not a guy.
- I'm not a guy (or a girl, but that's not relevant here).
Misgendering is misgendering—even if "everyone's doing it".
Patriarchy shouldn't be the default.
#FuckThePatriarchy #Feminist #LGBTQ+ #Rant
I chatted with Philippe Ombredanne about Package URLs, or PURLs. He created them, so he knows a thing or two.
We do complain about CPE quite a bit :)
But it's a really hard problem. It feels like a package identifier should be easy, but it's way harder than you think it is. There's nobody better than Philippe to drop some knowledge.
opensourcesecurity.io/2025/202…
I’m joined by Philippe Ombredanne, creator of the Package URL (PURL), to discuss the surprisingly complex and messy problem of simply identifying open source software packages.Josh Bressers (Open Source Security)
I won't need to compile mongodb anymore if I use this
FerretDB/FerretDB: A truly Open Source MongoDB alternative
github.com/FerretDB/FerretDB
A truly Open Source MongoDB alternative. Contribute to FerretDB/FerretDB development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
@p it's this thing
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Download Product Overview Software implementation of the IEEE 754-2008 Decimal Floating-Point Arithmetic specification, aimIntel
IETF just setup a new mailing list "Web-bot-auth": mailman3.ietf.org/mailman3/lis…
"Currently, wide practice is for Web sites to identify non-browser clients using IP addresses, the User-Agent header field, and/or reverse DNS. All of these techniques have limitations and deficiencies, and at the same time the need for stronger identity for bots is becoming stronger, as non-browser traffic on the Web grows in volume and importance."
tldr send lawyers, crackers, assassins, and dynamite probably in that order.
1. We would appreciate it you didn't defecate on the Internet.
2. Ah, you automated web defecating machine broke. So sad.
3. The dead do not enshittify the web.
4. Nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
I'm not enough of a cryptography nerd to evaluate the signed-HTTP-request proposal this is fronting for, but most "bot" usage that I'm aware of is sites making "API"s available over HTTP, of which I'm aware of many -- precisely none of which use User-Agent or reverse DNS to validate anything. IP block is sometimes used, but only as an extra sanity check on top of other authenticators.
The current ID at least mentions OAuth, but... solution looking for a problem?
One of the many, many clear signs of entrenched societal sexism. Masculinity is seen as normative by both men and women.
(The test was designed to look for masculine overcompensation, so there wasn’t a clear “more feminine” path, but women did not seek to compensate when told their answers were “masculine”)
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I can't get over this sentence no matter how often I read it. "Women showed no effects when told they were masculine; however, men given feedback suggesting they were feminine expressed more support for war, homophobic attitudes, and interest in pur…Mastodon
A one-day conference that celebrates the art, craft, science but foremost the joy of software developmentjoyofcoding.org
[Edit] The issue has been resolved with the latest app updates. getmona.app
[Original] PSA: Mona and Spring are currently crashing on launch with the iOS/iPadOS 26 beta 2. I’m aware of the problem and will begin investigating shortly. Appreciate your patience while I work on a fix.
Mona is a highly customizable Mastodon app with VoiceOver optimization and native design. Available now on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.App Store
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#FOSS #FLOSS #Accessibility #NonProfit #NotForProfit #GoodCause #Donate #Donation
NV Access creates NVDA, the free open source Screen Reader that enables blind people to gain freedom, education & employment.GitHub
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TRUMP OFFICIALS PLAN TO STRIP PROTECTIONS FROM NEARLY 59 MILLION ACRES OF NATIONAL FORESTS
AG Secretary Brooke Rollins said the admin would begin the process of rolling back protections for millions of roadless acres in the National Forest Systen. This would include about 30% of the land in the federal system, encompassing 92% of Alaska's #TongassNationalForest, one of the last remaining intact temperate rainforests in the world.
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Allowing logging and roadbuilding on now protected lands in the Tongass National Forest is a deeply unpopular action that poses grave harm to the forestEarthjustice
I only recently learned that a Wisconsin Governor Phillip said "state forestry is not a good business proposition" and in 1915 the WI Supreme Court declared Wisconsin's State Forest Reserves unconstitutional
Voters passed a referendum in 1924 to amend the state constitution to apply state funds to be for acquisition, development and preservation of forest resources.
Maybe we can convince the public we should have a constitutional amendment protecting this ?
Just someone trying to explain why you need their product.
Having seen the trends over the years, no one need FTTR, not even businesses. The reason is that gige is fine for 99.99% of needs. Most places don't have enough internet bandwidth where you could even use more than gige speeds (and there's not 2.5gbps and 5gbps) to do anything.
Yes, if you're doing >1gbps, fiber is significantly less power, but again, existing wire plant can likely do 5gbps over copper and still be fine for the rooms that need it.
> geeknews.chat/users/theregiste…
Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t Also points to important markets among the 300 million people who will soon work as delivery riders or influencers Huawei’s chairman Xu Zhijun – aka…Geek News Central Mastodon Chat
Disabled people have fought for decades to get remote work accommodations.
They allow us to remain in the workforce longer.
They help us do our jobs while also taking care of our health.
The early days of Covid showed just how easily companies could make these accommodations happen, yet they were ripped away in favour of “back to normal”
The human rights tribunal of BC just found in favour of an immunocompromised employee! They ruled employers MUST accommodate remote work.
This is huge and precedent setting!
hcamag.com/ca/specialization/e…
Measles outbreaks raise issue of accommodation similar to COVID-19Emile Shen (HRD Canada)
From They Thought They Were Free, a book about interviews conducted with German men shortly after the fall of Nazi Germany:
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked — if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ‘43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ‘33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose."
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Democrats Melt Down Over David Hogg [...]
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In short, the Democratic party isn't here for anywone but themselves.
Republicans run roughshod over Democrats consumed by petty personal dramaTessa Stuart (Rolling Stone)
Tired of navigating through endless menus? In this feature demo, we show how the new Search Menus feature on BT Speak helps you find exactly what you need—fa...YouTube
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Book coach travel to 100's of UK towns, cities and airports with National Express coaches.National Express Coaches
Another news item today, as seen a long time ago in “Halting State” by @cstross. After an attack on a server used by the police in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a federal state in Germany, all special “patrol” mobile phones run via this server as well as the server itself have been shut down. Apparently, attackers were able to gain access to the server and the phones in a way that survives reboots.
heise.de/news/Polizei-Handys-s…
Ein Angriff auf die Diensthandys der Polizei in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern könnte größere Folgen haben als angenommen. Derzeit sind die Handys nicht im Einsatz.dpa (heise online)
Buongiorno amici del Fediverso! Hello Fedi friends!
I hope you had a nice weekend.
I'm currently doing the sound mix of the Italian voice-over of my Fedi promo video.
I used to hate listening to recordings of my voice, but after endless hours of rewatching the English version and the French one, I'm now totally ok with that 😅
Routine reminder that on Friday I published the French VO of the Fedi video. It's here: news.elenarossini.com/fedivers…
Italian version coming shortly 🇮🇹
Découvrez un tout nouvel univers des réseaux sociaux, où la vie privée est respectée, les utilisateurs détiennent le pouvoir et les GAFAM n'ont pas leur mot à dire.Elena Rossini
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As I start to explore the ZFS filesystem in more detail on FreeBSD, this post on snapshot basics is very helpful:
klarasystems.com/articles/basi…
Master ZFS snapshot management—learn to create, use, and delete snapshots to protect your data and optimize backups.Dru Lavigne (Klara Systems)
#AudioMo day23:
Did you know that there is hidden morse code all throughout Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells' album?
Somehow, probably during the two-track mix-down stage of the album, the CW from a powerful, very low frequency transmitter about 37 miles north of the studio in which this album was recorded found it's way to tape. It's centered at 16 kHz, and so low in the mix that you can't actually hear it... at least, not without some help.
This is a very short, not particularly comprehensive demo using two different methods -- a pair of stock Reaper plugins and an SDR package to mostly isolate this morse transmission, which is heard throughout the entire album.
References:
Hidden Morse Code in Tubular Bells madpsy.uk/link-between-the-sou…
The Hidden Signal Inside A Platinum Selling Album - Tubular Bells youtube.com/watch?v=o3UJAfuvni…
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I want to do the same but for anyone who needs help with CSS or HTML for their Open Source project? maybe a website or a documentation website?
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Please help me to share
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 11 updated and 1 added apps:
* TTS Util: a Text-to-speech utility app for synthesising text into audible speech 🛡️
8 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk
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
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Iran cyberattacks against US biz more likely following air strikes
Plus 'low-level' hacktivist attempts The US Department of Homeland Security has warned American businesses to guard their networks against Iranian government-sponsored cyberattacks along with "low-level" digital intrusions by pro-Iran hacktivists.…
#theregister #IT
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: Plus 'low-level' hacktivist attemptsJessica Lyons (The Register)
We’ve got a quick update for you! Marty is joined by Desiree Renee to share some exciting news — Desiree is officially joining the Unmute crew! 🎉 Desiree is the host of Learning Blind Tech with Desiree Renee, already featured on the ACB Community fee…pgnpt (Unmute)
iOS 26 adds a new Recovery Assistant feature to iPhones, and it can help return the device to a working state if and when necessary. Recovery...Joe Rossignol (MacRumors.com)
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The second beta of iOS 26 includes a new ringtone that's an alternative to the classic "Reflection" ringtone that Apple uses as a default...Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)
I don't think getting consistency with SVG's filters is going to be a problem. None of the implementations for em and ex are consistent. Percent is broken in a couple too, including Inkscape.
@federicomena Let me know if you want the SVG test file.
#inkscape #svg #w3c #firefox #browser #standards #vector
Hmm. The only test with that in librsvg seems to be gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg…
I'm not even sure the reference image is correct.
Yeah, send me your test SVG?
A library to render SVG images to Cairo surfaces. GNOME uses this to render SVG icons. Outside of GNOME, other desktop environments use it for similar purposes. Wikimedia...GitLab
This talk presents new work on high performance vector path and text rendering, to make it not only fast but easier to integrate with other code. Multiple mo...YouTube
Ob der ausreicht?
Es heißt, man soll für die Vögel einen Bürzel stehen lassen 😃
#Heckenschnitt #Natur #Garten #Vögel
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