in reply to 〽️ɪɢᴜᴇʟ 🔜 GodotFest

@bitbraindev The script gets all release tags, then for each release it iterates over all source code files at that time and pipes them trough the pmccabe tool and counts the sizes of the different buckets and generates a CSV file with all that. In a final step gnuplot converts the data into a graph.

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Homebrew is planning to enable Apple's SecTrust use in #curl. Nice to see them bringing this to their users!

#homebrew

github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-c…

The most thought provoking article I have read this week:

A Norwegian bus company wants to know if their buses could be abused by China in the case of war.

So they drive two buses deep into a limestone mine to isolate them from the internet and forensically investigate how they work.

In the mine, investigators discover a Chinese kill switch which could destroy all Chinese buses.

In Denmark, that is 57 percent of the bus fleet.

Source (Danish):

zetland.dk/historie/svNwC3c5-a…

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The World Bank’s latest data shows a quiet global triumph: 93% of people aged 15 to 24 can now read and write, up from 87% in 2000. In many regions, including East Asia, Latin America, and Central Europe, youth literacy has reached or neared universal levels, marking one of the most successful, least reported stories in development. data.worldbank.org/indicator/S…
#ShareGoodNewsToo

It has occurred to me that, if Unix didn't provide sbrk, you could implement it in terms of exec.

1. Create a file.
2. Copy your current core image into it.
3. Save the stack contents as part of the data area.
4. Adjust the data size up.
5. Adjust the entry point to resume at a stack restore routine.
6. exec the file.

(Ignoring close-on-exec files for the moment)

Konečně se můžu pochlubit s něčím, na čem ve volných chvílích dělám už od 2024.

"Blaničtí roboti" jsou první český mecha komiks. (Aspoň myslím.) Něco mezi Gundam a Rychlými šípy.

youtube.com/watch?v=w5ZBQgdha2…

Píšu to já, Petr Šrédl kreslí.

Teď jde o to, jestli to bude bavit taky někoho jinýho. První díl je k přečtení online zdarma, panel po panelu. Prosím čtěte a komentujte — a pokud možno sdílejte!

blanictiroboti.cz/

#comics #czech

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Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Basando mi conducta en el respeto de los derechos fundamentales y libertades públicas, evitando toda actuación que pueda producir discriminación alguna por razón de nacimiento, origen racial o étnico, género, sexo, orientación e identidad sexual, expresión de género, características sexuales, religión o convicciones, opinión, discapacidad, edad o cualquier otra condición o circunstancia personal o social.

Y vosotros, ¿qué tal?

Lately I've been seeing a lot of lacking alt text on audio posts on mastodon. Guys, audio alt text is just as important as image alt text. Just as we preach at people posting images that "a diagram" or "a funny meme" isn't helpful, "a piece of music" or "strange noises" aren't helpful audio alt texts. Describe the audio, not just the basic outline of what it is. We can't yell at image posters to do something we're not even doing ourselves. Just as image alt texts help more than blind people, audio alt texts help more than deaf people. Please try.

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Wanna know something extremely creepy?

A friend of mine was recently traveling in europe.

She got back to the US this week, and sees a LinkedIn invite from someone who she doesn’t know (not unusual) but lives in the area she just visited (more unusual).

Further investigation revealed it was the border control guy who checked her passport at the airport.

NO. NO NO NO. Not at all. Do not.

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It’s a common belief that many people are pretending to be sick or disabled to gain social or financial advantages, but the truth is that most people are actually trying to appear healthier and more capable than they truly are, as society expects.

The surprising twist is that people aren’t faking illness or disability; they’re faking wellness and functioning.

in reply to The She-Wolf of Hackers.Town

Those aren't exclusive, you can fake both in different contexts and situations.

Plenty of blind people (this is the community I'm part of) will claim to be much less independent than they are when applying for government support, while doing the exact opposite when applying for a job. This is nothing unusual in the disabled community.

Development on External Data Checker had been paused for quite some time after one of the maintainers became inactive on GitHub, and I suspect that Endless no longer uses it extensively, internally.

Over the past 8-9 months, I’ve tried to revive some of it by adding some new features, fixing some old bugs, and merging people's PRs that went stale for years. It currently means I'm effectively "maintaining" / "helping" (whatever) yet another thing but hopefully it invites some more contributions.

In the latest iteration of things, we should soon (TM) get support for updating git submodules in it (maybe even runtimes).

github.com/flathub-infra/flatp…

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You can convert videos with better file names using converter presets.
To access the preset dialog, go to the convert menu and press period (.). In the dialog, there will be a list of presets with names like [default] and [last used].
To create a new preset, for example for YouTube, select an existing one such as [default], then right click it and select duplicate, then you can select the duplicated preset and press f2 to rename it.
After that, click the load button and you'll be editing the preset. The most important thing for YouTube is to make sure the destination is File name pattern: %title%.

I like how the accordionist plays an obvious wrong note at 7:26, but they were about two-thirds of the way through the song at that point, and studio time and recording tape were expensive, so they decided to just keep going. That kind of "happy little accident" would never be allowed in today's highly-edited music. youtube.com/watch?v=NgR5wF_NMB…
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This dumb password rule is from European Union Intellectual Property Office.

- The password must be between 8 and 30 characters, containing at least a digit [0-9], a lower case letter [a-z], an upper case letter [A-Z] and one of [!@#$%&*,.] characters

dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/eu…

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

just putting a quick feeler out...are you a product person who's interested in helping out with some open source stuff? Specifically, foss designed to help artists/creatives/etc? I'm not doing a full call for folks rn but I'm wondering if I've got moots or other folks this might reach who are like 👀

Boosts Welcome™️

#IndieWeb #FOSS #ProductManagement #product

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in reply to Jamie Teh

maybe it's a security program thing to like attention. My Android phone regularly gives me notifications saying that permissions were removed from 5 apps which hadn't been used recently (the number varies) - that seems useful, except for the fact there is NO way to find out what apps those actually were. Was it that app I downloaded three months ago and never got to looking at? It was it the app which notifies me of nearby asteroid strikes everyday but for which the notification gives enough detail so I never actually need to open the app but I really want to keep getting notifications? No idea!
in reply to Quentin

@Quentin That one at least seems like it provides potentially actionable info (aside from not telling you which apps). "Hey, we removed some permissions from some apps. If you're still using them, you might want to revert that. [We'll leave figuring out which apps as an exercise to the reader.]" In contrast, the Defender one is like... "we did what we normally do continually in the background and didn't find anything. Nope, still didn't find anything. Still nothing. Yup, you got it, still nothing." But one person did reply saying they find them useful, so it seems some people do like the reassurance, which at least makes me feel like they're not completely pointless.
in reply to Jamie Teh

It does confirm that Defender is still running, though yes, nothing actionable. Although I feel mine is worse because mine MAY require some action from me - if it's disabled my app which warns of nearby packs of marauding drop bears and I don't know - maybe I just didn't get any notifications lately because there simply haven't been any drop bear attacks in my area? Or maybe my neighbour just got eaten, and I don't know because my phone disabled the alert I specifically setup the app to give me?

Either way, questionable UI