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We have a lot of people versed in self-help and so on here on Mastodon. So, here's the scenario: Let's say I have five projects to do, plenty of time to do them, and each has about the same importance. Two of these are large projects, the other three are smaller ones. What's the best way of prioritizing these assignments so I don't freeze up? Do I get the smaller ones out of the way first?

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In this newly disclosed #curl security report it is painfully obvious how the user's "clever" idea of using an AI to write the report made the report into a impenetrable wall of text instead of simply stating the problem in a few coherent paragraphs.

hackerone.com/reports/3324901


curl disclosed on HackerOne: libcurl: Host-Only Cookies Leak to...

libcurl canonicalizes numeric IPv4 hostnames during URL parsing and redirect handling (example: 127.000.000.001 to 127.0.0.1). When a host-only cookie (no Domain= attribute) is set, it is stored in...
HackerOne
#curl

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@bnjbvr is an active member of the Rewrite in Rust task force, and he wants you to know how you can make your Matrix app go voom 🦀

Don't miss his talk at the Matrix Conference in October 15-18!

conference.matrix.org

A portrait of speaker Benjamin Bouvier, next to the title of his talk "Speedrunning Matrix clients with the Rust SDK"

The Matrix Conference

Come along to see the latest and greatest progress in the Matrix world! From huge government deployments to the latest innovations, hang out with your peers to share the best learning, insights, projects and tips!
conference.matrix.org
@Benjamin Bouvier 🥐

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Tady je odpověď na to, jak tihle zmetci můžou sami se sebou žít. Ten hajzl sám sebe přesvědčil, že vlastně dělá dobré skutky… 48 procent RPSN je pro ně málo. Ať shoří v pekle společné s “finanční inkluzí”, což je jenom jiný název pro lichvu a zneužívání sociálního postavení jejich klientů v nouzi.

archiv.hn.cz/c1-67775300-strop…

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Strop na úroky z úvěrů? Ze Slovenska jsme kvůli tomu museli odejít, v Česku uvidíme, říká šéf IPF, mateřské firmy Provident Financial

V čele finanční skupiny International Personal Finance (IPF), která aktuálně v devíti zemích poskytuje spotřebitelům úvěry s vysokým úrokem, stojí Gerard Ryan už třináct let.
Jitka Vlková (Economia, a.s.)
in reply to Ondřej Surý

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Ondřej Caletka

já nedávno zjistil, že v Nizozemsku neexistuje žádná opravdová kreditní karta. Důvodem je zastropování úvěrů na 15 % p. a. Navíc tu každá instituce půjčující peníze musí povinně ukazovat varování, že "půjčování peněz stojí peníze."

Zřejmě moc dobře vědí, že povolit lidem půjčovat si peníze na velký úrok se státu nevyplatí.

Let op! Geld lenen kost geld

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Ahoj, narodil jsem se v Karlových Varech, jen už tam docela dlouho nežiju...

Karlovy Vary jsou ale moje srdeční záležitost a často je s mojí ženou navštěvujeme...

Největší srdcovka je ovšem Grand Hotel Pupp, kde jsem se vyučil kuchařem...

Mám rád knihy, filmy a dobrou muziku. Baví mě sledovat fotbal a rád opečovávám naší zahrádku...

V roce 2018 jsem onemocněl. Trpím středně těžkou hemiparézou, jsem částečně ochrnutý na celou levou polovinu těla...

...a na pravou polovinu mozku

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Attention: To any users of the IBMTTS community dictionaries, the repository URL has changed, by virtue of the repo owner changing username. The new link is
github.com/eigencrow/IBMTTSDic…
GitHub appears to be maintaining a redirect for now if you attempt to visit the original link, but I do not know how long this redirect will last. If you use any scripts, update their URLs. Otherwise, simply make note of the URL for when you wish to retrieve updates or contribute fixes. Note that version 25.09 was released two days ago as per our release policy.

GitHub - eigencrow/IBMTTSDictionaries: A large, community-driven pronunciation dictionary for the IBMTTS speech synthesizer in American English

A large, community-driven pronunciation dictionary for the IBMTTS speech synthesizer in American English - eigencrow/IBMTTSDictionaries
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Built for privacy with families in mind. Family sharing, no ads, and no AI.

Best family calendar app for Android | Desktop | iPhone. | Tuta

A family calendar must allow you and your loved ones to share agendas and stay in the loop. In this guide, we look at the best calendar app for families to use from any device in 2025.
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Также церковь обвиняет писателя в «эсхатологичности», разрушении общественных устоев, пропаганде алкоголизма, сквернословии и «кощунственном представлении о Боге». Тексты Ерофеева, по их мнению, не содержат положительных героев, надежды или «нравственного идеала».
in reply to kωlöboς

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André Polykanine

ахахаха! Надежды не содержит 99,9% так называемой классической русской литературы, как и «нравственного идеала». Это или про мудаков, или для мудаков, или написано мудаком, или любая комбинация из этих трёх (простите мой франсэ).

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Spreadshirt responded to my email about their AI tool for designers. There must have been a few of us who threatened to leave. Hilariously :upside_down_tears: , their response is to add an opt-out tool for designers.

Because, and the fuckers didn't even allude to this in the original announcement, the 'AI design tool' will also scrape the designs you have uploaded on their platform. Of course it will.

So now people have a chance to opt out TWO WEEKS AFTER the AI shite is in place. Lolzers.

I've deleted all my stuff. I don't care, I've only made a few shirts for myself or the Merry Mushmen here and there, this isn't part of my livelihood... What would I do if I counted on t-shirt sales for a living? Would I even have a choice?

#spreadshirt #fuckai

Screenshot from an email (black text on a white page): "The AI tool will go live on 15 October, the opt-out function will be available from 31 October. There will therefore be a short transition period during which the AI tool will already be live, but you will not yet have the option to opt out. If you still want to prevent your designs from being modified by AI, you will need to take them offline for this period from the Spreadshirt Marketplace."
#fuckai #spreadshirt

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I just bought 20 envelopes and stamps, and I'm packing them with 5x #Conversations_im, 5x #OMEMO, and 5x #XMPP stickers each.

Send me an email if you want one. Put 'Stickers' in the subject so I can filter. While supplies last, obviously. (Though I'm more limited on the stamps than the stickers.)

Edit: I’m out of envelopes.

#xmpp #omemo #conversations_im
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This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in English:
fwf.ac.at/en/news/detail/joint…
fccn.pt/en/atualidade/fct-assi…
and one more, NWO from 🇳🇱 considers joining:
nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-endorses-jo…
Why is this BIG? 1/4
#openscience #openaccess


FCT assina declaração de intenções para colaborar no fortalecimento do Open Research Europe (ORE) • FCCN

A FCT compromete-se a financiar colaborativamente a Open Research Europe - plataforma de publicação em acesso aberto sem fins lucrativos.   
Raquel Alfredo (FCCN)
#openscience #openaccess
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I should prepare a personal bulletin board somewhere to announce professional and some personal stuff.
The first would be "UK callers, unless I have you in my contact list, I'll not take your calls and will block you."
I currently get 2-3 calls per week from random UK numbers with (probably) classic tech support scam. I stopped taking them like a year ago, but the attempts intensified recently for some reason. I wonder what list I ended up on for it to be so intense.

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NÚKIB vydal sérii varování před čínskými technologiemi. Oficiální dokument - varování má 9 stran a související metodika 26. Řeší různé technologie a území včetně Hongkongu a Macaa.
- Tady je obecný článek: portal.nukib.gov.cz/informacni…
- Kamery: portal.nukib.gov.cz/informacni…
- #Auta: portal.nukib.gov.cz/informacni…
- #FVE střídače: portal.nukib.gov.cz/informacni…
# kybez
#auta #fve

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Having ongoing discussions about URL parsing differences as a basis for a #curl security vulnerability report made me check when I wrote my "my URL isn't your URL" blog post.

*Nine years ago*. And we have not made a single move towards a solution in all this time.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/05/11…


My URL isn’t your URL

When I started the precursor to the curl project, httpget, back in 1996, I wrote my first URL parser. Back then, the universal address was still called URL: Uniform Resource Locators. That spec was published by the IETF in 1994.
daniel.haxx.se
#curl

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Digital Extremes violate the #cURL license?

github.com/curl/curl/discussio…

If they do, that's a shame but there's not a lot I can do. Anyone who can verify this claim? (probably by scanning the binaries for known names or similar)


Digital Extremes violate the cURL license · curl curl · Discussion #18474

Hi, I just want to let you know (and have there be a record) of the fact that Digital Extremes, a Canadian video-game-developer-turned-GaaS-developer, are using cURL (statically linked alongside Op...
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#curl

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Just for the heck of it, I decided to try #AI to fix an addon to run in the latest #NVDA alpha. I knew exactly what was wrong with it: it was importing a module included for #Python 3.11, and new alphas of NVDA are built with Python 3.13. I gave chat GPT the addon file, with this instruction: "In the latest alphas of NVDA, NVDA is now built with Python 3.13. That means this addon won't work. Please fix it." The simple solution would be to go get the right precompiled module from pip. But I didn't know if it would even be able to figure out what a .nvda-addon file was or how to fix it. Turns out it did. It spent six minutes, unpacked the addon, did things to the python code, then gave me back a new .nvda-addon file. But instead of just getting the right version of the module, it...rewrote the entire addon to not use that module. And its rewrite included some new features, while removing some existing ones. I'm kind of both impressed that it was able to handle the entire task on its own, and baffled that it did it in the hardest possible way. It even updated the manifest file correctly. It also left commented out sections of code, and created some Python files it never wound up using for anything. You could kind of see it doing something, forgetting what it was doing, then going to do the same thing a different way, but not deleting the half-completed evidence of the first attempt it abandoned for some reason. If more and more people use AI, code is going to get really, really weird and organic, y'all.
#AI #python #nvda
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