After a Con MP crossed the aisle yesterday... Another Con MP (who was rumoured to cross the aisle) has resigned. And that's after we've heard of talks of threats made to them from PP's team.
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(I really do hope they're not actually getting threatened... I want our politics to be better, damn it)
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Me in math class 5 years ago: "dude, why am I learning logarithms, when will this ever be applicable in the real world"
Me recently: BASE_DURATION * log2 (1 + height / (BASE_DURATION * M_PI)) + BASE_DURATION
(Don't ask why this equation "works" or why a specific number or constant is there. Part of the process was just me combining constants and praying it works)
I'm on the night train from Kolari to Helsinki, returning from a work gig. This is the longest distance direct train trip in Finland, covering most of the country. It lasts around 11+ hours with around 900km distance.
I've always wanted to take one of these trains, as most of the train is sleeper cabins. Check out mine!
Recently saw someone boost this critique of incrementally replacing C/C++ code in an existing codebase with Rust to improve security:
mstdn.jp/@landley/115504884945…
I guess his point is that bridging between languages can add more scope for bugs and vulnerabilities than the original C or C++ code. But some projects are in fact bringing in Rust in this incremental way. I wonder how such efforts are going in practice. One success story I know of is GNOME's librsvg, which is now completely in Rust.
Rust has honestly never made sense to me. If you want hardened C, there are projects like https://github.com/pizlonator/fil-c and if you want to write a new "apt-ng" in a new language and migrate users over to it at some point, have at.mstdn.jp
I remember a grand total of three bugs in the C-Rust layer in the time it was being ported, and none of them made into production releases. All were caught and fixed pretty fast.
One thing I did appreciate, at intermediate stages of the port, is that Rust forced consistency in the C code it touched, in terms of memory/resource management. The C code got cleaner around the interface points, and then it disappeared.
Hacked Stalwart into letting me match wildcard domains and alter the spam scores
blog.feld.me/posts/2025/11/sta…
There currently is no out of the box feature for Stalwart for you to match wildcard / subdomains of aMakefile.feld
Connecting anyone who is blind, has low vision, or has a print disability to Jewish life.JBI Library
Hey screen-reader users: would you mind telling me how terrible an experience it is for you when someone uses fancy quotes like this:
❝ quoted text here ❞
@miki That would depend very much on which elements you're interested in (web, media, tooling, enterprisey stuff, etc.) and how you measure it.
We have kit in more or less everywhere, for better or for worse.
While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_E…
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 6 updated and 1 added apps:
* WG Tunnel: a WireGuard & AmneziaWG VPN client with auto-tunneling, lockdown & proxy 🛡️
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Interesting how Facebook & co declare queries to android.intent.action.MAIN to bypass restrictions on the QUERY_ALL_PACKAGE permission.
It allows them to get the list of all the apps installed on your system.
Source, interesting blog post on the subject: peabee.substack.com/p/everyone…
Out of curiosity, I've verified with a recent Facebook APK
Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your phone without your permission.peabee (Pea Bee)
the fascinating bit isn't that this works or even that apps are doing that. The fascinating part is that people don't care.
It's well know and widely reported that Facebook tracks what porn an individual user watches in incognito mode through a VPN.
As a society we are just completely privacy agnostic.
What fascinates me even more is how some self-declared infosec people are claiming this is totally fine to install these apps on their system because they are sandboxed.
We have shifted from if you need it, at least run it sandboxed to it's sandboxed so it can't do any harm.
And these people often end up saying that any critic against the GAFAM is purely ideological, without any root. Even if every 3 months they are caught bypassing yet another thing in place to spy even more on the users. (3 months ago was the localmess)
Journal: Providers
Web browsers provide you with great features for free. Why would you choose to use tools that stop you taking advantage of that?
If you think auto-carrot is a disaster, try Siri (as hands free)
So many trillions of dollars and they can't fucking make some that understand me. And I avoided the Franglais
Хозяйке на заметку
Допустим, вы поддерживаете мастодон со своими патчами. Мастодон релизится как: от мастер ветки ответвляются stable-N и туда приходят мелкие фиксы, а в мастер идут новые фичи новой версии. И вот выходит следующая мажорная версия, и вам надо как-то собрать свое добро и перетащить на новую ветку, но при этом приходящие фиксы вы мержили а не ребейзили!
git rebase --interactive --onto=v4.5.0 v4.4.0 mml --rebase-merges=no-merge-cousins
Последний флаг заставит гит воспроизвести всю ветвистость, накидать лейблов и джампов. Когда откроется редактор, все секции кроме последней удаляем нахрен, и в последней секции выкидываем мержи руками. Всё что останется—ваши коммиты. Сохраняем, выходим из редактора, и идём чинить конфликты
Mastodon's new server software (v4.5.0) brings a breakthrough for smaller servers:
No matter which server you are on, all replies to all discussion threads are automatically fetched as soon as you browse a discussion. It doesn't matter which server you are on or which server they are on, you will all see the same complete discussion. (Unless a user or server is banned of course.)
If you've previously held back, this is a great time to try smaller servers:
➡️ fedi.garden
Love this quote by Hillary Ronen "What is the problem you're trying to solve? And why is AI the best way to solve this problem?"
I love her critique of government policymaking. Thanks to #themaybe for another interesting episode of #ComputerSaysMaybe
Just your occasional reminder that companies Do. Not. Need. To. Grow.
They can stay small, do good business, and make good profits, and any investors can be secure in the knowledge that their money is safe and that they will be paid out dividends every year.
Many really good businesses have failed or become toxic swamps because leadership embraced the "must grow" mindset, and started gambling.
In general, I appreciate the many inspiring interactions we have here om Mastodon. But recently I have received at least 10 replies, that are all variations of the sentence "Trump should be killed".
I fully understand the resentment against a criminal person who is tearing a country apart, but I am a firm believer that the answer to his crimes is not more crimes, but instead more justice.
Trump must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Win the midterms decisively. Then impeach him.
@menelion
"it's far better to make him sing"
yeah, that's good.
plenty of people expecially in the West.
the Epstein files, the Panama papers, WikiLeaks would be footnotes in comparison!
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in reply to Stéphanie • • •Good news though... I absolutely cannot see how PP can win his leadership review this winter. And he'll be stuck being a MP in the middle of nowhere 😂
#cdnpoli
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