I'm Daniel Stenberg, maintainer and lead developer in the curl project. I stream curl related stuff. Release presentations, curl development and related topics.Twitch
I have previously blogged about the relatively new trend of AI slop in vulnerability reports submitted to curl and how it hurts and exhausts us. This trend does not seem to slow down.daniel.haxx.se
My gut feeling says you need a new #curl release. So here is curl 8.15.0 just for you.
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/16…
Welcome to another curl release. A shorter cycle this time so we did not have time to merge many changes: there is just one logged. See below. This is the 269th release featuring 269 command line options.daniel.haxx.se
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EU age verifier app was released today on github, saying it'll include remote attestation
Is it just me who finds this terrifying?
No more open operating systems for your phone if you want to be able to use it for age verification. For now, it sounds like this will be for porn, but social media (hello Mastodon) recently got a "recommendation" from our government to not be allowed below a certain age
Will we need a Google or Apple attested device to get around on the internet in a few years?
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That's terrifying but also... annoyingly stupid? The Netherlands released such an app without Play Integrity years ago called Yivi (formerly IRMA).
Regardless of thoughts on the verification, we have an existing government app showing that Google Play Integrity integration is not needed.
Wrote a tiny bit about that here: github.com/eu-digital-identity…
In the README, the following is listed: App and device verification based on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation I would like to strongly urge to abandon this plan. Requiring a depe...TheLastProject (GitHub)
@SylvieLorxu A bit off topic question.
Estonia has a kind of national solution for digital signature.
It is a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiDoc
It is widely adopted and accepted in the country.
I wonder what is the most common digital signature app in the Netherlands? My curiosity is closely related to the EU digital wallet initiative.
Thanks for any info.
Unfortunately our train hit a truck at a grade crossing this morning.
We’re fine, just delayed, but the truck driver is not.
denver7.com/news/local-news/at…
At least one person was injured after an Amtrak passenger train collided with a semi at a railroad crossing in Gilpin County Monday.Robert Garrison (Denver 7 Colorado News (KMGH))
On the last day of our 3.5-week train trip around the country, @Aubrie and I were interviewed about what it’s like to ride Amtrak as disabled people.
This sounds like an impressive project. Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process eieio.games/blog/a-million-rea…
The post says this game is running on a single $80/month DigitalOcean VM. I bet it could run on a Raspberry Pi or similar single-board computer. If I'm calculating correctly, the full game board takes about half a GB of RAM.
How one million chessboards workseieio.games
Join @manuq and @cassidy this Thursday at 1800 UTC (11 AM PDT) as we share a bit behind the scenes of Threadbare, our collaboratively-built open source game made in Godot Engine!
It's currently pre-alpha, but Threadbare is a story-driven game where players don’t just explore a world—they co-create it.
We hope to see you there!
#godot #GodotEngine #OpenSource #gameDev
Join Manuel and Cassidy as they share a bit behind the scenes of Threadbare, a collaboratively-built open source game made in Godot Engine. It's currently pr...YouTube
From the Disability Visibility Project:
"Immigrant Rights Are Disability Rights"
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"… a true commitment to justice for disabled people must recognize that many undocumented immigrants are themselves disabled and deserving of basic rights, not total erasure from the disability rights discourse."
#USPol #Disability #DisabilityRights #Ableism #Immigration #HumanRights
Immigrant Rights Are Disability Rights Joe Stramondo In 2019, a White disability rights leader with a national reputation, Bruce Darling, had a spectacular fall from grace because of commen…Disability Visibility Project
: Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by botsThomas Claburn (The Register)
PureOS Crimson Milestone Nears Completion
The PureOS team has made major progress toward delivering ready-to-flash Crimson images for the Librem 5.
May’s work focused on resolving core bootstrapping issues that prevented automatic image builds—particularly for arm64 builds from amd64 hosts.
Learn more at Purism: puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-d…
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
Made words about this AI phenomenon
Just got the following email from Orbit Research regarding the Orbit Player:
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Well, Sameer finally got what he wanted: the end of an actually fast, actually secure counterpoint to Android.
CrOS can't make Android look like shit if CrOS also sucks:
theverge.com/news/706558/googl…
A merger of Android and ChromeOS has been rumored for months, desired for a decade, and now Android head Sameer Samat says it’s on the way.Dominic Preston (The Verge)
From creating games that instantly adapt to different devices to making styluses feel just like drawing on paper, here’s a wrap-up of the latest.chromeos.dev
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 20 updated and 1 added apps:
* DHBW Horb Student App: study life app for students at DHBW Stuttgart Campus Horb 🛡️
And it seems we make a spot landing at the 1st anniversary of our public RB GoLive on August 1st. Current RB status: 648 apps (49.8%) – just 0.2% missing for the 50% mark! 🥳
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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"Ottawa rushes to build its own AI translator as government use of free tools soars
Demand for official translation services is falling despite a rise in content creation. As public servants turn to free online tools, the government is racing to build its own AI translator.
If PSPC Translate works for staff in the department of about 19,000 people, the tool will be used more widely. It’s the first “lighthouse project” under the federal government’s artificial intelligence strategy, meant to help the public service learn how to build and implement new AI tools and create something that can be scaled across government."
@hub I expect some errors happen from time to time already, and they blame the lawyers and translators, everyone gets sued a bit, and it all takes forever and costs a lot to fix.
Sounds like it will get worse.
Legally fleecing entities via unverified AI produced content is going to be a good business.
Attached: 1 image S2238 A bill to prevent the theft of catalytic converters and other precious metal car parts, and for other purposes. 📢 Introduced in Senate https://congress.Mastodon
In his film Best of Luck With the Wall, director Josh Begley takes us on a journey across the entire US/Mexico border. It’kottke.org
#RechercheIdee:
Es wäre bestimmt interessant zu erfahren, ob und wie sich #katholische #evangelische und #Frei Kirchen, Werke, Initiative etc. für #SaveSocial engagieren @news_katholisch@libori.social
savesocial.eu/
#SocialMedia #selbstbestimmtDigital #FediKirche #digitaleKirche
Soziale Netzwerke als demokratische Kraft retten Wer wir sind Nina George, Schriftstellerin, Ehrenpräsidentin European Writers’ Council (EWC) Foto: Heike Blenck Rocko Schamoni, Schriftsteller,...Save Social
Belarusian language support for RHVoice What goes in: Dasha, Lyudmila, Michal, and their respective Russian pairs, many thanks to @tseykovets Note: Ryhor has also a russian pair, but it will be pu...GitHub
Dítě popojíždí s odstrojeným kolem v kempu. „To je nějaký lehký...“
Foto je ilustrační, tady tu brašničku ještě měl.
@archos Pokaždé, když jsem v Rakousku, tak na mne padne laciné vlastenectví. Rakousko-uherské.
Posílám radši další hory.
Important note: This app is only available in IndiaAccessible Android
*unhinged laughing* a study where everyone involved assumed AI would improve developer productivity actually ended up showing a huge net productivity loss. I am going to be pasting this graph in SO many chats
Paper: metr.org/Early_2025_AI_Experie…
Seven different people texted or otherwise messaged me about this study which claims to measure “the impact of early-2025 AI on experienced open-source developer productivity.Cat Hicks (Fight for the Human)
@matt @grimalkina there’s always critique, and it’s important to read the paper and understand what it actually says and the strength of the findings yes.
It stands up well enough to be hilarious. And well enough to counter claims vendors make that have much much worse data and analysis behind them.
> “We are entering a world where we will learn to coexist with AI, not as its masters, but as its collaborators.” – Mark Zuckerberg
@trenner is spot on 🎯 "[They're] framing the conversation in a very specific way. Rather than “is this the future you want?”, the question is instead “how will you adapt to this inevitable future?”. Note also the threatening tone present, a healthy psychological undercurrent encouraging you to go with the flow. [...]"
tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevit…
Have you ever argued with someone who is seriously good at debating? I have. It sucks. You’re constantly thrown off-balance, responding to a point you didn’t expect to.My place to put things
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Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
I just saw a good sugestion on how you might be able to deal with it: midwest.social/comment/1870588…
> Add a submission fee that gets refunded as part of the bounty payout, or if the reviewer otherwise judges the submission as obviously legitimate.
> Donate all fee proceeds to charity, if you want to counter the any incentive to deny submissions for financial gain.
Sagt mal @Golemde: Einen Artkel mit dem Titel "Curl-Entwickler erwägt Ende der Bug-Bounty-Prämien" mit einem AI Slop Bild zu illustrieren ist aber schon auch etwas schräges Messaging, oder?
(Link: golem.de/news/wegen-ki-schrott… )
What little luxury does being retired give you the most pleasure?
For me it is the ability to have a long bath in the middle of the day.
By the way, this is NOT me.
30 years for me before I can think about moving those Sunday even pre-work baths to anytime I'm now retired baths. :(
it feels like a long time.
We are launching Mailx, an open source, audited email aliasing and forwarding service built and operated by the IVPN Team.
Mailx is in closed beta, first available free to IVPN Pro customers with at least one year of remaining time on their account, with new invite rounds to follow.
Blog post with details: ivpn.net/blog/mailx-beta-audit…
In short Today we are launching Mailx, an email aliasing and forwarding service built and operated by the IVPN Team.IVPN
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