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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
LibreOffice is the free power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for
Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for
all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress,
Draw, Math …
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…
I’m still contemplating switching to tuta, or just hosting my own email so that’s why proton is still there. It’s pretty messy but I know where things are. (Ignore the loss)
I love the better BLU phones. Unfortunately, I have trouble finding anything as a phone operating system that will run on them other than Android. and I can't afford a freephone. I could totally de-Google my life if I could only de-Google my phone.
"#spores of S. sclerotiorum contain one set of 16 #chromosomes divided across two nuclei, rather than each nucleus containing a complete set... #chromosome composition varies among nuclei, suggesting the division of chromosomes between nuclei is in an irregular manner... to produce the next generation, they need to reform a diploid cell with the full suite... Presumably, this requires the fusion of nuclei"
Challenging the long-standing assumption that a cell’s nucleus contains a complete set of chromosomes, recent research reveals that some fungi nuclei only contain half.
mě to příjde vtipný jako nadsázka, ale konec toho celého mě znejišťuje, jestli to opravdu nadsázka je. Za mě je to tak "blbý" že to musí být nadsázka. Jenom bych na konci čekal, že to celý nějak "hodí do koše", to mi tam chybí, protože pak ve mě zůstává osten pochybnosti, jestli oni to nakonec nemyslí vážně.
Letos jsem se rozhodl volby pojmout jinak. Budu samozřejmě vybírat pouze v demokratickém spektru, ale nikoli podle slibů, nýbrž podle toho, jak mě kdo zaujme. Je mi prakticky fuk, kdo tam bude, jen když z nás neudělá Maďarsko, nebo Slovensko. Víc už od politiky skutečně nečekám.
At least with fixed ALPR cameras, and even certain police departments that heavily use the tech on their vehicles, it's at least theoretically possible to plan travel to avoid constant state surveillance.
This partnership would make surveillance all but ubiquitous, impossible to avoid, and would mark the largest assault on unencumbered freedom of movement that I can imagine.
Recently, the meta rayban glasses have kind of been hitting me from all directions, and not gonna lie, I'm starting to consider buying them, since I rely a lot on identifying colours on displays of household appliances, reading documents on paper, recognizing frequencies/channel numbers on radios and so on. Could anyone who owns them please enlighten me if they work for the things I described? And mainly if the AI functions are supported outside of the US (since I'm from Czechia)? I remember reading about this limitation a few months ago, but maybe I'm imagining things. I'd be very glad for any answers, and if you could boost this post, that would really help me out a bunch. Thanks!
I have had my share of adventures with URL parsers and their differences in the past. The current state of my research on the topic of (failed) URL interoperability remains available in this GitHub document.
@multisn8 WHATWG has their own spec since a long time, and it is "a living spec" meaning that what parsed fine yday might not parse tomorrow. People in IETF think the issue is so infected they won't go near it so there is little hope for a new URL spec anytime soon.
"Please do not use Google AI to find out our specials. Please go on our Facebook page or our website," the restaurant wrote in a weary Facebook post. "Google AI is not accurate and is telling people specials that do not exist which is causing angry customers yelling at our employees."
"We cannot control what Google posts or says," the post added, "and we will not honor the Google AI specials."
To defend against Russian tanks, Finland and Poland consider restoring wetlands
Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring significant environmental benefits.
Hello curl community, I'd like to discuss the possibility of adding openHiTLS as a new cryptographic backend for curl. About openHiTLS openHiTLS is an open-source cryptographic library that provide...
@cpu agreed. They don't seem to have a single test in CI. The API docs is... lacking. Only 400 commits since November 2024 and many of the commits are under-specified ("fix: fix some issue" is a verbatim commit message from two days ago). I'm not impressed after a casual look.
BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop?
At least in your example in the video, the guy apologised.... after 3 submissions :/
"Well, I admit that I combined artificial intelligence to conduct curl's code audit, which also made me realise the hallucination of AI and its seriousness. I realised that relying entirely on AI to write code audit tools seems to be completely impossible. I'm very sorry for wasting everyone's time. Here I express my deep apology. And no longer use the tool and rely on any artificial intelligence. All reports will be made by myself to ensure accuracy."
I've just published a blog post listing exciting new features in Debian 13, focusing on practical changes that can improve your workflow for better performance and productivity.
This is also useful for users of other distributions, as most of the features come from projects also packaged outside of Debian.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker spoke at a news conference Monday afternoon, addressing reports President Trump is planning to send the military to Chicago. Here is the full text of his remarks.
> While transitioning to an IPv6-only communication, many devices settled on a dual-stack setup. IPv4 and IPv6 are available to these hosts for new connections. Happy Eyeballs (HE) describes a mechanism to prefer IPv6 for such hosts while ensuring a fast fallback to IPv4 when IPv6 fails.
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