There's a really disturbing #Paypal #phishing scam happening right now. Obviously this reads like a typical phishing attempt (bad grammar, a malformed phone number to call, etc), but the official Paypal email wasn't spoofed. It came from PayPal's email infrastructure.
Examining the headers shows that SPF, DKIM, and DMARC all pass. If you have a Paypal account, please exercise caution. Don't click links in these emails. Forward them to phishing@paypal.com.
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Ah yeah every proprietary camera vendor push HEIF.
Every image library: "sorry".
Should governments build more public housing?
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Today in 1995, 30 years ago: in the United States, Microsoft launches the Windows 95 operating system.
Cool cool, Sam Altman met a UK government minister and tried to get the UK gov to buy every citizen a ChatGPT license, at a cost to taxpayers of £2bn a year.
We’re a country with food poverty and food bank usage is high. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
Exclusive: Deal that could have cost £2bn was floated at meeting between technology secretary Peter Kyle and Sam AltmanEleni Courea (The Guardian)
Have you ever run a sanity check on server? Perhaps had a service that’s hung?
Maybe you’ve had a housekeeping script, or wondered if a particular platform supports something natively?
Well, next time you look in the mirror, you’ve got a low-down, dirty bigot looking back at you and you should be ashamed at the incredibly insensitive language you’re using.
According to the new Inclusive Language Guide they’ve endorsed, most of the language that IT people use to discuss services, software, and projects is downright disgusting.
Check out some of the condemnations:
Instead of “black hat” and “white hat”, you must say “malicious hacker” and “approved hacker”. Ironically hacker itself is a co-opted word whose originally meaning has been subverted.
You can’t say “housekeeping” because…people shouldn’t keep house? Strange, because “housekeeper” is hardly a gendered term. Instead you must say “cleanup” or “maintenance” or “logistics”.
“Sanity Check”? How dare you, you ableist.
You can’t say “normal” or “abnormal” because…reasons? Instead you say “typical” or “atypical”.
“Dummy”? You might as well be spitting on people in wheelchairs.
“Hung” is labeled “violent Language that practices a degree of aggression”.
You’d be forgiven for thinking this was an Onion article, but it’s something the Linux Foundation actually believes in.
If everyone took these suggestions seriously, they would quickly turn into euphemism treadmills. Today we can’t say “normal” – tomorrow they’d be horrified someone says “typical” and would be suggesting a new term.
But really, who would take these ideas seriously?
“Avoid using idioms and jargons,” is another key recommendation. I’m not sure how someone has a conversation about information technology without using information technology jargon. Can we no longer use terms like “CPU”, “network”, and “compiler”?
Suggestions
The list seems to have a lot of room for improvement, in my opinion. Here are some terms they missed:
Horsepower: deeply inconsiderate to horses (and those who identify as equines), since they did not consent to their strength being commodified for mechanical comparisons.
Primary/Secondary: these terms practically scream hierarchy, if not patriarchy.
Firewall: may be alarming to those with a history of house fires or fear of walls. I suggest using “Boundary of Warmth.”
Bug: derogatory toward insects, portraying them as inherently problematic when they’re just trying to live their best lives.
Thread: offensive to knitters, as it trivializes the noble art of textile creation for mere CPU scheduling.
Deadlock: insensitive to those dealing with jammed doors or locksmith trauma. And the violence!
Fork: can cause distress to spoons and knives by implying cutlery hierarchy.
Cloud: could upset people who live in perpetually sunny climates and feel cloud-excluded.
Ping: might offend submariners who still have flashbacks from Cold War sonar drills.
Mouse: unfairly stigmatizes rodents, who do not deserve to be synonymous with point-and-click servitude.
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Win32 program allowing you to hide unwanted Windows updates. - trypsynth/uphideGitHub
I like the intent of "leave the world better than you found it". But let's face it: many other people will be changing the world during your lifetime, and you can't take responsibility for all that.
So my suggested replacement is "Leave the world better for your having been in it.".
The official music video for "Hangman" by Taylor Acorn from her upcoming album 'Poster Child' out October 24 - Pre-order now at https://ffm.to/ta_posterchild...YouTube
Sunday.
Spent most of yesterday clearing the front of our house from the partially-completed garden project with the father-in-law.
Dozens of 6 foot concrete posts, hundreds of bricks and tonnes of soil had to be moved from the front to the back of the house to make ready for the builders to start demolishing our chimney in a few weeks. We did have a wheelbarrow but it was still intensive labour. I had a nice chat with Mr Radox afterward. I still have loads of sweeping, mopping, and vacuuming to do.
Before the building work starts, the plumber's back on Thursday to do some radiator installation, and then we're away the weekend immediately after for the wife's work.
But it does mean we need to completely empty our kitchen and half our bedroom over the coming days.
suddenly Life's ridiculously busy.
Today is Ukraine’s Independence Day. 🇺🇦
We celebrate a nation and its people, and their choice of freedom.
Those who are bravely resisting Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression.
We stand by them for as long as it takes for a just and lasting peace.
Slava Ukraini.
📺 Jak sledovat videokanály na VHSky.cz a dalších PeerTube instancích?
Máme videa a máme jich spoustu! 🎞️
Jak je ale pohodlně sledovat? 👉 Podívej se na nové video od @schmaker
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Wenn Meister Petz ein Ast auf den Kopf fällt, dann hat er Bärau
(wenn er in den Schritt fällt, dann ists ein Kugel-Schrei-Bär)
Core postmarketOS contributor Clayton is crowdfunding a new laptop for @postmarketOS development. He's raised over 50%, let's get it all the way! This is an excellent way to support the advancement of Mobile Linux. @craftyguy @linmob #linux #mobilelinux #postmarketos
Something is coming soon 😉
Enjoy your weekend ❤️
Musk punta al Vibe Coding con Macrohard. Agenti AI per scrivere codice e competere con Microsoft
Elon Musk ha annunciato la creazione di una nuova azienda dal nome provocatorio Macrohard, destinata a diventare una concorrente diretta di Microsoft. Secondo Musk, il nome è ironico, ma il progetto in sé è piuttosto serio.
L’obiettivo principale di Macrohard è sviluppare software basato sull’intelligenza artificiale. L’azienda sarà collegata a un altro dei suoi progetti, xAI , per il quale è già stato creato il chatbot Grok. Musk ha spiegato che, poiché Microsoft e aziende simili non producono hardware fisico, le loro attività possono, in linea di principio, essere modellate dall’intelligenza artificiale.
xAI ha recentemente depositato una domanda di registrazione del marchio Macrohard presso l’Ufficio Brevetti e Marchi degli Stati Uniti.
Il mese scorso, Musk ha parlato di piani per creare una “società di intelligenza artificiale multi-agent” in cui centinaia di agenti intelligenti specializzati programmerebbero, genererebbero e analizzerebbero immagini e video. Questi stessi agenti fungerebbero anche da utenti virtuali, testando i prodotti fino al raggiungimento di risultati ottimali.
Nel suo stile abituale, Musk ha definito il progetto una “macro sfida e un compito arduo con una forte concorrenza” e ha invitato gli abbonati a indovinarne il nome.
A quanto pare, si aspetta che Macrohard sia in grado di creare soluzioni software di alta qualità, paragonabili ai prodotti per ufficio di Microsoft, che a sua volta sta investendo attivamente nell’intelligenza artificiale generativa . Inoltre, Musk ha precedentemente menzionato la sua intenzione di utilizzare l’intelligenza artificiale per sviluppare videogiochi.
Per sviluppare il nuovo progetto, xAI utilizzerà il supercomputer Colossus di Memphis, la cui capacità sta gradualmente aumentando. Musk ha sottolineato che l’azienda prevede di acquistare milioni di processori grafici Nvidia di livello enterprise, mentre OpenAI, Meta e altri attori si contendono la leadership nell’intelligenza artificiale.
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Bueno, llevo unas 3 semanas desde que volví de vacaciones estudiando matemáticas (casi) todos los días, por puro interés. Estoy recordando muchas cosas y fortaleciendo principios que no había aprendido bien la primera vez, además de añadir cosas nuevas. En este tiempo, he podido aprender, y hacer ejercicios, sobre lo siguiente:
Análisis:
Límite de una secuencia: convergencia a un límite y divergencia al infinito (+ o -).
Secuencias oscilatorias (-1^n).
Límite de la suma de una secuencia, y alguna sorpresa curiosa.
Límite de una función: definición por delta-épsilon. Criterio secuencial del límite (usando dos secuencias).
Continuidad: definición por delta-épsilon. Continuidades evitables e inevitables.
Leyes de los límites: suma, resta, producto, cociente, potencia con exponente natural...
Definición de derivada en el punto a: límite de la función (f(x+h)-f(x))/h cuando x=a y h tiende a 0. Interpretación geométrica: secante entre dos puntos se convierte en tangente al acercarse indefinidamente a ser el mismo punto. La definición emana directamente de la definición de pendiente de una recta entre dos puntos.
Formación de derivadas desde la definición sobre el punto a: lineales (ax+b), cuadráticas (x^2), etc.
Reglas de derivación: polinomios, productos, cocientes. Prueba de la regla del producto (u'v+v'u).
Regla de la cadena: he visto la prueba pero todavía no la acabo de entender y quiero ser capaz de reproducirla.
Siguiente: derivadas de funciones trigonométricas.
Álgebra lineal:
Definiciones básicas: espacio vectorial, lapso vectorial, matriz.
Interpretación de la matriz como una serie de transformaciones lineales sobre vectores.
Producto matriz-vector.
Independencia lineal.
Obtención del rango de una matrix. Espacio de columnas. Espacio nulo. Nulidad. Interpretaciones geométricas.
Eliminación gausiana. Forma escalonada por filas y reducida. Matrices en forma triangular superior e inferior. Determinante. Interpretación, reversibilidad, factor del área: matrices como rotaciones, reflejos, cortes... Cálculo recursivo sobre matrices cuadradas de dimensión superior a 2.
Autovectores y autovalores.
No me limito a aprender los conceptos, sino que también estoy haciendo ejercicios y práctica para mejorar la agilidad y asegurarme de que he comprendido las cosas bien. La verdad es que me gustan las matemáticas, cosa que ya sabía, pero por motivos varios había tenido unas relaciones algo difíciles con estas dos partes (me gusta más la lógica, conjuntos, álgebra abstracta etc). Y ahora resulta que le estoy empezando a coger el gusto a todo esto.
Lo he estado aprendiendo, en buena medida, gracias a un LLM. Y por mucho que no os guste, en mi caso concreto no es sólo una buena estrategia sino casi la única viable, teniendo en cuenta que soy ciego y mi acceso a libros de texto de matemáticas es prácticamente nulo, e ídem para los PDFs. Sí, el LLM comete errores de vez en cuando. Siempre tengo que duplicar todas las operaciones que hace y asegurarme de que son correctas (lo cual por otra parte es un buen hábito) y en algún caso me dio una orientación errónea indicando que había puesto un signo mal cuando estaba bien, o poniendo mal el sentido de la rotación de una matriz. Pero esta es la única forma en que podría haber aprendido esto al margen de contratar a un tutor, que tampoco es infalible, para lo cual tendría poblemas en comunicarme y leer sus materiales, etc.
Teniendo en cuenta que sé lo que quiero aprender, estoy motivado, entiendo las limitaciones de la herramienta y necesito un canal absolutamente textual, un LLM es la pieza que, hasta ahora, mejor encaja para esta necesidad.
LibreTorrent from @fdroidorg is looking very nice now with its new Material Theme.
Goes hand in hand with the new magnet URI support in #Conversations_im
The last time I logged into the Bad Place before I deleted my account, there were a ton of people quote posting something I had said about giving food to homeless people.
They were like ‘wow people like this are evil’
I was like???
I think I understand a bit more about this mindset after I read this: apnews.com/article/conservativ…
no já jezdím v dlouhém pořád, sice to je jen tenké merino nahoře a tenká bavlna dole (hledám něco trochu lepší řešení ale teď to stačilo).
Kamarád mě takhle viděl v 35° a byl dost zmatený ale když jsme se pak spolu bavili s dalšími kamarády co přešli Alpy a další výšlapy a ti měli dorezane nohy a spálené ruce, tak ti to chápali.
In #FreeBSD you can modularize your config with separate files in /etc/rc.conf.d/ except... for networking? The ifconfig / dhclient settings don't work unless they're in the regular /etc/rc.conf
I need to file a bug about this I guess
Have you tried this file:
/etc/rc.conf.d/dhclient
I'm guessing based on this:
[23:41 gw01 dvl /etc] % sudo grep -r background * | grep dhclient
grep: motd: No such file or directory
defaults/rc.conf:background_dhclient="NO" # Start dhcp client in the background.
defaults/rc.conf:#background_dhclient_em0="YES" # Start dhcp client on em0 in the background.
rc.d/dhclient: background_dhclient=$(get_if_var $ifn background_dhclient_IF $background_dhclient)
rc.d/dhclient: if checkyesno background_dhclient; then
bottom of /etc/rc.d/netif:
# Load the old "network" config file also for compatibility.
# This is needed for mfsBSD at least.
load_rc_config network
load_rc_config $name
the "legacy" network config is deprecated, you're supposed to put your ifconfig settings in /etc/rc.conf.d/netif. This works. But not with dhclient. Because /etc/rc.d/dhclient only has:
load_rc_config $name
load_rc_config network
it's missing:
load_rc_config netif
this is key.
So in conclusion, there is a change that needs to be made upstream. I'll submit the patch.
You can put dhclient-specific config settings into /etc/rc.d/dhclient if you want, but you can't put any of the ifconfig_* settings in there. You can, however, put all of your network settings right now into /etc/rc.conf.d/network
That's what's going on. Confusion about boundaries, which files are loaded for what purpose, and where these settings should really go.
Today: /etc/rc.conf.d/network is fine for all ifconfig and dhclient related settings
Future: /etc/rc.conf.d/netif is where they really should be
Is this relevant?
[23:42 gw01 dvl /etc] % grep jail rc.d/dhclient
# KEYWORD: nojailvnet nostart
Also, try adding +x to the top of that script. see what you get in the console.
@dvl reviews.freebsd.org/D52175
This explains the situation and has a fix included so dhclient will read /etc/rc.conf.d/netif as one would expect
proof the Omada SDN controller is working on FreeBSD
Need to make some improvements to the way it runs before I try adopting an AP and making this permanent though
blahaj goes to the waffle house at 3am youtube.com/watch?v=X1beEuBV7M…
wtf this video is amazing
Blahaj has an unforeseeable snack emergency in the middle of the night but the only thing open is Våffelhus. And we all know what happens at Våffelhus at 3 a...YouTube
I used macs exclusively from around 2007 to now. Before, I had a decade of Linux on my desktop. In all that time, I continued to use Linux, just not as UI machine. I tried Linux a few times in there. But now I could not stand the idea to buy a new Mac. Because of that, I bought a #beelink SER9 that I am now trying as a daily after work driver. Gnome has gone a long way. It's really nice. And they fixed the font rendering.
This will hopefully be a thread of all things I discover along the way.
Over a week on #Gnome and #Debian now. And I must say that I love it. Never thought that I would say this. Has it still its quirks? Yes. But way less than I thought. And Gnome + their UI framework makes the apps look so georgous now. Really impressed by the quality of all those apps. OpenSource does not need to look ugly. Seems like #libadwaita makes it really straightforward to build beautiful apps.
A big thank you to all amazing open-source contributors to that ecosystem.
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I tried to switch an internal tool from WebDAV to S3 via minio and it just exploded with weird errors. Feels like every time I try to use S3 I have to chase the weirdest bugs.
Yet somehow the thing everyone believes is dated and broken -- WebDAV -- just keeps working fine
Took long enough
The Fed is starting to worry about the housing market now | Fortune archive.is/2025.08.23-205006/f…
“National security” was the excuse used to lock up 100K+ Japanese Americans in concentration camps
“National security” was the excuse used to ban Jewish refugees escaping Nazi Germany
“National security” was the excuse used to illegally invade Iraq & Afghanistan
So as you see the Trump regime claim “National security” to lock up Latino Americans in concentration camps, know that this is the oldest fascist trick in the book.
Don’t fall for it. Reject it. Uphold justice & due process of law.
A look at the collapse of narrative podcasts, facing high production costs and limited ad revenue, despite overall podcast listenership reaching all-time highs (Eric Benson/Rolling Stone)
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Podcasts like 'Serial,' 'The Shrink Next Door,' and 'Over My Dead Body' were once a booming industry. But times — and budgets — have changed.Eric Benson (Rolling Stone)
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