I anticpate retirement to be semi-employment, with some steady clients. Maintaining their systems, patching, upgrading etc. I see myself on retainer, and working on stuff as it comes up. Should be fun.
Is it ok for people on the ActivityPub network to speak negatively about other distributed social networks?
#EvanPoll #poll
[ ] Yes
[ ] Yes, but...
[ ] No, but...
[ ] No
@feld @SlicerDicer I don't know if you've been in a grow room (doo dee do) but they're hot (and humid). If you're not in a place where it's legal to grow, IR is Often used (from the air) to find homes with Super Hot Spots.
The fun part Slicer is that it would seem they're STUPID easy to steal. (?!?)
Aside: When I was in Uni, every year they'd put sodium bulbs in the lamp posts over three or four bridges, and about two weeks after the quarter started, they would all disappear. A-MA-Zing.
On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.
Over the decades, I’ve been humbled and grateful for the love you’ve shown, not only to me, but to the ideals of Star Trek itself: diversity, unity, and the belief that together, humanity can boldly go where none have gone before. Thank you for your unwavering support and for keeping this dream alive all these years. Live long and prosper, always.
The French government fall was caused by a horseshoe vote: The left and the extreme-right voted against confidence. The left because they are the biggest parliamentary group, the extreme-right because the PM wasn't fascist enough (this include some "Republicans").
* Network Switch: enables you to toggle between 4G and 5G network modes 🛡️ * Screenlite Web Kiosk: a simple Android kiosk browser app that displays web content in full-screen mode 🛡️
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).
#deltachat is being used in virtually all world regions where one or more other messengers fail to work. We recently released a major milestone (V2 security hardening releases) that prepared the ground for chat profiles to have multiple #chatmail relays at once ... failure or blocking of a single relay would not disrupt chatting anymore. But multi transport also helps with the "centralization problem in decentralized systems" ... delta.chat/en/2025-06-04-surge… (Funding is looking good currently btw!)
Beginning June we witnessed a sudden surge of Delta Chat usage especially in the US and Cuba. We don’t know the social dynamics behind it but it probably helps that Delta Chat apps resiliently work...
For Goodbye Stranger there is an edited version that is often played on radio and found on "best of" that is shorter as they edited out a few bar of electric piano soloing (in the bridge).
It's not even like the wanted to erase words like in "Creep" (Radiohead song)
Today we are mourning our sweetest prince Jake the Bird.
His only job in life was to be loved by everyone and his loving personality made every bird and human fall for him instantly.
In all, he gave Fiona, Freddie, Beemo, Bonnie, A. and me nearly nine years of sweet companionchirp.
All that while living with a chronic illness, that while manageable, could at times be extremely annoying. Not once did he let that impact the affection for his flock.
On September 8 2025, around 13:00 UTC, someone compromised Josh Junon’s npm account (qix) and started publishing backdoored versions of his package.
Someone noticed and let Josh know:
Josh confirme...
I have been pushing for #Inkscape to remove/decommission it's Twitter account. But I didn't want to do it unilaterally, bossing people about, but through reasoned policy that can be applied to other captured banana-pants social media platforms.
So I've drafted a policy, which I'm interested in having more people look at as it's going to be one of those gnarly things that's important to get right:
Until now, if you lost or broke your phone, your Signal message history was gone, a real challenge for everyone whose most important conversations happen in Signal. So, with careful design & development, we’re rolling out opt-in secure backups.
Secure backups will let you save an archive of your Signal messages remotely in privacy-preserving form, refreshed daily.
Now available in the latest Android beta release, rolling out to iOS & Desktop soon
In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal.
Indeed, it's a dire situation, and I think the world will be worse but for the vain aspirations of a small man. It's an unfortunate but common refrain these days.
Apologies, about the previous post, my subtle ironies are sometimes too subtle. 😅
Just because you add some ARIA and call something “accessible” doesn’t actually mean it is.
Looking at a self-described “Accessible, high-perf” infinite scroll (it really just starts over) that is janky as fuck, doesn’t take keyboard focus (in Safari), uses scroll snap to awful effect, and lets the scrollbar thumb become a liar.
would that our local police were as committed to arresting asshole pickup truck drivers as the Prince George RCMP was to arresting this guy driving a toy Barbie jeep
I didn't look into it yet but I heard that the replacement for the Dept of Labor after Trump fired the last one for "fake jobs numbers" released their report and it was the same numbers essentially
When I heard this I started uncontrollably laughing. He couldn't even find a patsy to give him fake numbers?!
To me, the worst part of what is being called the "largest supply chain attack in history" is the fact that there are over "2.6 billion weekly downloads of those NPM packages"
What the actual fuck?! [says a guy who used to curate SQL queries because the results took too long to deliver over 9600bd]
are you sitting down? The Debian repository for Helm had 7TB of downloads per month. For a 20mb package. github.com/helm/helm/issues/31… That's what happens in CI pipelines when everyone starts from scratch on each run...
I maintain the Debian package/repo for Helm here https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/#from-apt-debianubuntu . The bandwidth has gotten to be enough that it's no longer feasible to host it myself (~7...
This is both terrifying and fascinating: (UPDATE, this is from personal observation & post-emergency news reporting featuring WhatsApp screenshots from government people)
They’re not just loud—they unleash a jagged mechanical howl, a pitch that swings between jet engine and chainsaw, cutting through walls and windows. It’s a sound that never settles, a rising and falling whine that forces itself into your head until you can’t think. Noise pollution at its most aggressive.
Then there’s the exhaust. Two-stroke engines that spit out more pollution in an hour than a car does all day. All so someone can clear leaves a little faster.
The only reason they’re still legal is because politicians chose the landscaping lobby over the public. That’s it.
"tgeczy merged commit 3ebf816 into main " - well, there we go, folks. Vibe coding for lunch done. I added two new features to my CLI tool: A feature that does custom URLs, so you can type in a radio station URL not listed in that Radio-browser database, and the ability to import an M3u8 playlist. I debated on splittinng out functions. Making it better, since the new helpers for custom URL and playlist handling are perfect to do it with. But then I thought to myself, "Why not just make more spaghetti code and lengthen the strands of pasta instead!" So that is what I did. Yep yep. It's an 85 KB file now, 2317 lines of code. Woah what a dump of Python! Ahahahaha I love it. Also not, but at least function blocks are denoted well with comments so you know what's going where. That will make a job of a later split way easier. github.com/tgeczy/radio-browse…
A Cli package for the public Radio browser API, built to be lightweight , accessible and easy to use from the ground up. - GitHub - tgeczy/radio-browser-whiptail-cli: A Cli package for the public ...
How many people are going to search a repo they want to grab from Git now for a branch with the name "codex" in it, either stale or opened, just to know if the author of that repo used Vibe coding? Makes you wonder. Hmm.
If you want an idea of scale of trojan attempt - 'color' alone had 32m downloads in a week, the combined attempt was pushing a billion due to upstream dependencies.
Hunt tip: look for registry.npmjs.org in proxy logs, package names are in the URLs.
FreeBSD jails have an annoying quirk where if you don't specify jail_list in /etc/rc.conf it doesn't show you the jail names as they're starting.
This is not a solvable problem without a fairly large overhaul of how the jails are started. When no jails_list is provided, it assumes "_ALL" as the default value and this makes the jail(8) command parse all the jail config files and start them all up.
Then after startup, it prints all their names.
And then after printing their names, it writes their pidfiles.
This also means that if the startup crashes part way through it leaves jails running with no pid files which means the next time you try to start the jails you'll get errors about jails already running.
France’s parliament voted to topple the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou on Monday after the PM surprised even his own allies by calling a confidence vote to resolve a months-long deadlock over his austerity budget.
@archos A oni je pucujou od osmi od rana? Vsak se proste strci stoly na kraj, prinesou plenty a zalepi urna. Staci treba ukoncit vyuku ve 12 a zachranis detem 4 miliony hodin vyuky.
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![["STOP DOING MATH" meme format - plain text on light blue background]
STOP DOING ALPHA CHANNELS
• Pixels were not meant to be transparent
• YEARS OF DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for anything beyond OPAQUE RGB PIXELS
• Wanted to make part of your texture invisible anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "[bright magenta pixel]"
• "Yes please give me this specific color in INVISIBLE. Please give me 150 % intensity on the red channel" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Premultiplied
LOOK at what Graphics Programmers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the CRTs & LCDs we built for them
(This REAL Transparency, done by REAL Graphics Programmers)
[Three images demonstrating transparency, but with their transparent parts rendered as opaque in different ways:]
[Wikipedia's sample PNG image "PNG_transparency_demonstration", with the transparent background shown as the usual light gray checkerboard pattern]
[the OpenEXR sample image "PrismLenses", with the transparent background shown as solid black]
[a texture of a bouquet of flowers, with the transparent background replaced with opaque colors "bleeding out" from the opaque pixels]
[all images are subtitled with progressively longer strings of red question marks]
""Emission with no occlusion cannot be represented in straight alpha""
They have played us for relative fools](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/702277 "[\"STOP DOING MATH\" meme format - plain text on light blue background]
STOP DOING ALPHA CHANNELS
• Pixels were not meant to be transparent
• YEARS OF DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for anything beyond OPAQUE RGB PIXELS
• Wanted to make part of your texture invisible anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called \"[bright magenta pixel]\"
• \"Yes please give me this specific color in INVISIBLE. Please give me 150 % intensity on the red channel\" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Premultiplied
LOOK at what Graphics Programmers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the CRTs & LCDs we built for them
(This REAL Transparency, done by REAL Graphics Programmers)
[Three images demonstrating transparency, but with their transparent parts rendered as opaque in different ways:]
[Wikipedia's sample PNG image \"PNG_transparency_demonstration\", with the transparent background shown as the usual light gray checkerboard pattern]
[the OpenEXR sample image \"PrismLenses\", with the transparent background shown as solid black]
[a texture of a bouquet of flowers, with the transparent background replaced with opaque colors \"bleeding out\" from the opaque pixels]
[all images are subtitled with progressively longer strings of red question marks]
\"\"Emission with no occlusion cannot be represented in straight alpha\"\"
They have played us for relative fools")
feld
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