Last weekend @lbky and I tagged a new python-varlink release 32.0.0 at Boiling the Ocean. The main highlights are:
* Dropping python2 support
* Raised the minimum Python version to 3.9
* varlink.Server() now supports setting a custom JSON encoder
* Various project modernisation's (PEP517 support, ruff linting, pytest, etc.)

github.com/varlink/python/rele…

#boilingtheocean #python

Release 32.0.0 · varlink/python

version 32.0.0

^GitHub

Mastodon, Matrix, ActivityPub, XMPP, ATProto. whatever your flavor of decentralization is, there’s room for you.

Submit your proposal to the Decentralized Communication devroom at FOSDEM before the end of this week!

fosdem.org/submit

#FOSDEM #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Still free tonight? Join me for my talk "Access Denied: Being left out by Design" 🎙️

In response to d*sign week's central question, 'For who(m) is the making?', this talk illustrates how design and development choices can unintentionally hinder access. Providing an introduction to the fundamentals of accessibility, attendees can discover how small adjustments have a significant impact.

📍Kulturverein zur Schießhalle (Linz, AT)
🗓️ Monday, November 24th 2025
🕕 6–8 pm
🔗dsignweek.servus.at

If I dedicated an article to my current thinking of LLM AI, I hope I'd write something as coherent as this:

blog.kagi.com/llms

Ich werde immer wieder gefragt, was so die häufigsten digitalen Barrieren sind. Und weil da jetzt so viele Gutachten vorliegen, konnte ich die einfach mal zählen: barrieren-gutachten.de/blog/to…

In circa der Hälfte der manuell getesteten Bundes-Seiten ist die Bedienung mit Tastatur nicht möglich, noch öfter reicht der Kontrast nicht aus. Und in 77% der Fälle haben Entwickler*innen qualitativ schlechten Code produziert und Komponenten nicht wie vorgesehen entwickelt.

After a few hours of mixing, editing, rendering and writing subtitles, I've finally published the last of my talks from DebConf25 (@debian)

"The Security of Debian - An introduction to advanced users - DebConf25 " is a good starting point for those curious about how distributions handle security vulnerabilities and how that's organized outside of the distros.

youtu.be/WwHdQM5Z0jc

The Security of Debian - An introduction to advanced users - DebConf25

How Debian handles security vulnerabilities (CVEs) for its packages.Learn how security vulnerabilities are tracked and fixed, together with some tips on how ...

^YouTube

If you wanted to monitor a website but specify a different IP address than the one in DNS and have it only affect that one test, how would you do that with your monitoring tool? It should use the correct hostname for SNI and the HTTP Host header. Can you?

I can do that easily with my stack, but I can't picture doing this with Nagios and other common tools. Not to my recollection anyway

Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Informando a los ciudadanos sobre aquellas materias o asuntos que tengan derecho a conocer, y facilitando el ejercicio de sus derechos y el cumplimiento de sus obligaciones.

Y vosotros, ¿qué tal?

neviem... dám si kávu a čaj zapracujem na ramenách a pôjdem do práce, možno stretnem niekoho zaujímavého ...neviem

#dobréRáno

Nikolai Gogol’s Classic Story, “The Nose,” Animated With the Astonishing Pinscreen Technique (1963)

openculture.com/2014/09/animat…

Nikolai Gogol's Classic Story, "The Nose," Animated With the Astonishing Pinscreen Technique (1963)

A mild-looking barber slices into his morning loaf of bread to find a human nose embedded within. You might imagine this image opening the next David Lynch movie, but it actually sets up a more lighthearted, much older, and much more Russian story:

^{Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)}

I’m starting an Amazon store that sells a single product called “Nothing, like literally nothing” for 25¢ so Prime people can qualify for overnight shipping.

I’m going to be a millionaire by Saturday.