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If you want to see a horror show of an API design, here you go. Newznab will return HTTP 200 responses for errors. You have to parse the XML to figure out if there was an error or not.
Analýza: Snaha některých evropských politiků zničit poslední výspu digitálního soukromí nebere konce. Klíčové hlasování v Radě EU se očekává 14. října, Česko je proti – a v menšině.
Temer ctyri dekady jsem zil a vubec nechapal, proc je vytezovani faktur tak velky byznys. Proste firmy si mezi sebou posilaji faktury, ty si pridas do ucetnictvi, zaplatis ... vsecko v cajku.
Pochopil jsem, az s prichodem na americky trh.
Borci poslou fakturu:
Invoice To: Martin Pay $3700
92.7% faktur je potreba doresit. Kam poslat penize. Ze maji fakturovat na Unreleased Ltd. Za co jsou to penize. Jestli je to zaplacene.
Open AI re-enabled Chat GPT 4O for paid users after complaints that GPT 5 wasn’t warm andfriendly enough.
Is caring that much about a computer program which is completely incapable of experiencing emotions or friendship emulating these things weird to anyone else? Or is my neurodiversity just showing? People also have AI significant others and spouses, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
Four more accounts to #Fediblock. JimmyTruth@c.im, JimmyTruth@aus.social, J@gardenstate.social, and JimmyTruth@ohai.social. Thanks to @admin for getting these taken care of as well. I can't even imagine how bloody stressful this is for you guys. There is no way you should have to basically be dealing with this child's antics.
And for those who are interested, this Jimmy dude has way too much time on his hands. Here are all of his accounts, well the ones I got anyway. I would suggest reporting these to your Mastodon admin. This guy's a nut! R@cr8r.gg, J@hear-me.social, Jimmy@mastodon.art, J@podvibes.co, Jimmy@wehavecookies.social, JimmyTruth@mstdn.party, JimmyTruth@mstdn.plus, Jimmytruth@mastodon.world, J@archaeo.social, JimmyTruth@ohai.social, J@privacysafe.social, Jimmy@liberdon.com, j@gofer.social, JimmyTruth@techhub.social, J@masto.social, JimmyTruth@mas.to, j@clttr.it, J@metalverse.social, J@convo.casa, Jimmy@theres.life, R@rettiwtkcuf.social, J@galacticsocial.network, J@toot.kiwi, J@social.boger.dev, J@mastodon.enitin.xyz, J@karibu.social, R@mastodon.de, R@goingdark.social, Ramonsalazar@rassilni.com, Ramonsalazar@mastodon.bida, Ramonsalazar@masto.nu, R@jmm.kr, R@social.veraciousnetwork.com, R@silicon.moe, R@bookstodon.com, R@expressional.social, Ramon@cyberplace.social.im, J@breeze.town, Ramon@social.cologne, J@ruhr.social, ramonsalazar@muenchen.social, Raymond@troet.cafe, J@salmon-skin-roll-official, top R@kanoa.de, JimmyTruth@mastodon.uno, R@jmm.kr, R@toot.fan, J@undefined.social, J@moris.social, Jimmy@mastodon.cc, J@dizl.de, J@tty0.social, J@weird.autos, J@strangeminds.social, J@equestria.social, J@illegal-in-nepal.org, J@friends.ravergram.club, Raymond@berlin.social. I'll, add to this toot if I find any more accounts of his.
Today, we celebrate the close of the June 2025 Outreachy Internship round!
Congratulations to our interns on their amazing contributions and growth.
We sincerely thank and appreciate our mentors + community coordinators for their support and collaboration.
This isn’t the end, it’s the start of many more contributions to the open source ecosystem. Together, we continue to build a more inclusive tech future. 💙
Ehrlich: wenn ein paar Leute im Beitrittsgebiet, das weniger Menschen als NRW umfasst, nun nach 35 Jahren beginnen, mit der deutschen Fahne (immerhin ein Symbol demokratischen Engagements von Hambacher Fest über Paulskirche bis Weimar und Herrenchiemsee) und der Hymne zu „fremdeln“, dann ist das ungefähr so bedeutsam wie der sprichwörtliche Sack Reis, der in Peking umfällt. Hat Ramelow, den ich menschlich eigentlich bislang durchaus schätze, einen solch populistischen Kram nötig?
🔐 Tuta Mail introduces key verification to strengthen end-to-end encryption and defend against MITM attacks 👥 Users can now verify contacts’ public keys via QR code or manual comparison. If skipped, Tuta defaults to TOFU (Trust On First Use) for seamless encryption 🧩
Hey everybody, I've been playing the alpha of a creature collecting roguelite with accessibility for blind and other disabilities, there's also a demo on steam. The dev is trying to fund more development of the game so that it doesn't have to released with anything missing as the planned release date was September. If you like indie devs, roguelikes, and accessibility in games, please consider backing!
1/ A new EU plan could expand access to personal data for US immigration and law enforcement.
This proposal document (see article) was released without a press announcement or much mention at all, yet it contains alarming plans.
Under the US's Visa Waiver Program (VWP), countries whose citizens can travel to the US without a visa already have to let US agencies search their police databases to see whether travellers have been involved in terrorism or serious crime.
According to Google, #Conversations_im is now also collecting users’ email addresses.
Pretty much the exact same thing that happened to Quicksy about a month ago¹ is now also happening to Conversations.
An app update I submitted ~48 hours ago passed review without any issues. A subsequent update just now, which contained very minor bug fixes, was rejected because I failed to declare that I’m collecting email addresses.
Someone or something at Google started to hallucinate that #Quicksy is collecting the user's email address and would not approve the app update until we declared that in our data policy.
The sign up process in Quicksy hasn't changed in 7 years. I don't even know where the user would enter their email address and I'm not aware of an API that collects this automatically.
One of the main reason I do not publish my apps on the Play Store is to avoid Google's unproductive process, and to not have anything to do with their obscure reviews.
that sucks. Whatever LLM (or worse, human) they're using to do this obviously needs to be trained a thing or two about the difference between email addresses and JIDs 🙄
I admitted to collecting email addresses because it is the fastest way to get the release out, and now I’m appealing the decision. Let’s see where this is going. Spoiler: very likely nowhere. Google doesn’t make mistakes.
Are you certain that they actually mistook XMPP addresses for e-mail addresses? Perhaps they're just referring to those e-mail addresses collected by some XMPP servers when signing up or something similar?
my best guess is that it is both automated analysis and click workers. Some automated tool probably flags any input form of type email address and then a screenshot or something is shown to some poor $1/day worker in some poor country with the prompt 'can the user enter an email address here' and they can't and don't want to understand the context.
(sometimes the rejection takes too long for it to just be 'AI')
Google rejected my appeal and included this helpful screenshot to demonstrate that Conversations is collecting email addresses.
Extending this logic means that any app with a free form text field is technically collecting users social security numbers. Because the user could potentially enter that.
the indentations that your keyboard makes while you are slamming your face into it must be hurting. I'm sorry you have to go through this - again. I've got mad respect for your patience over the years. Not sure if I could bring that, to be honest.
I submitted a version that does that. Speaking from experience these shenanigans rarely work and always create more work (make change, bump version, upload, wait for feedback). But let's wait and see.
Yeah, of course they'll just type @hotmail.com and reject it again.
This kind of thing would have been easier if XMPP didn't have that no-SRV fallback behavior, if SRV records were always required, so you could tell by the existence of SRV records whether a domain was a valid XMPP domain without connecting to the fallback address.
I really don't think you should have to, but if you split it into "username" and "XMPP server" would that help, or do you think it would annoy / confuse users too much?
when the field is empty, the placeholder (text in the background) shows `username@example.com`. The field also validates what appears like e-mail addresses. I think that this might have confused them.
When entering a domain that does not exist, Conversations shows "server not found" immediately. When entering a domain that does exist, but is not associated with an XMPP server, Conversations freezes for some time. Maybe that timeout should be reduced?
I would suggest filling the compliance paperwork stating that your app collects XMPP addresses (as stated in the field label), which may look like e-mail addresses but are actually not, unless an identical e-mail address exists.
I think you should mention in the appeal that you don't collect jabber id because it's only stored locally on the device and used to authenticate with origin xmpp server, so the app doesn't collect anything.
right, that's the ones we know are curl. The ones saying curl in the user-agent. We can't know how many additional ones there are without the user-agent set
Berlin, 29 August 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.1, the first minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, is now available at https://www.libreoffice.
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I've been dabbling a bit more with AI-driven development and have a basic windows RSS reader joining my Sports Scores and Image Description Toolkit apps.RSS Quick, A Basic RSS Reader for Windows 1.0 Available theideaplace.net/rss-quick-a-b…
I’ve been dabbling further with AI-driven development and have another app for exploration. This time it is a basic RSS Reader for Windows I’m calling RSS Quick. Get the full details an…
@menelion I use VS code, a GitHub Copilot subscription, and then various frameworks. My sports score and image description tool kit apps were python. RSS quick is a C sharp WPF application because I find the accessibility better for graphical apps. I also, as I think I have been in my blog post, want to be transparent that I am using AI for a sizable part of my development. I have the ideas and the understanding of what I want to happen and am using AI to help me deliver it more rapidly.
Absolutely with you in this. I'm a developer myself, so I'm, so to say, more nitty-gritty into details and write large parts of the code myself, but I extensively use Claude Code now.
Default handshake timeout is hardcoded (10 seconds) and doesn't respect --connect-timeout parameter. In some cases 10 seconds can be not enough or too long to "establish a connection"...
Co by pro Česko znamenalo, kdyby odešlo ze Severoatlantické aliance? Pražská lídryně Stačilo! Jana Maláčová ve Studiu N odmítá odpovědět. Hnutí přitom prosazuje referendum o vystoupení z NATO i EU. Celý rozhovor najdete na herohero.co/studion
Tak jsem ten díl poslechl cestou z práce. Uff to je síla. S tou paní to jde z kopce. Jen výkruty a mlžení.
Člověk chce pochopit o co jim jde a jak na věc nahlíží. Ale nedozví se nic. Respektive dozvíme se jen zvláštní pravidlo: Když je něco rozbité, tak to zrušíme.
“Canada’s Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon has said he will put less emphasis on AI regulation, amid a global shift in which governments are focusing on AI adoption and away from safety and governance.” theglobeandmail.com/canada/art…
If we haven't figured out how to get humans to adopt the technologies and behaviours that will slow and stop climate change, then we haven't solved the problems of climate change (We've just done the easy bits of figuring out the physical science and tech of it)
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Kernighan and Ritchie: Let's use `\` as an escape in strings in the C language.
Microsoft developers: Let's use `\` as an path separator in DOS, to think different™.
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