Some of you may of course think what, only 20,000 commits after almost thirty years in the project, what kind of slacker is that guy? But yes, today I merged my 20,000th commit into the curl repository - out of a total of 37,604 commits (53%).
Some good news in a time of darkness: the European wildcat, Felis sylvestris, is making a comeback! This thoughtful-looking example was photographed in a mountainous region of the Czech republic.
The European wildcat's extreme elusiveness may have helped it avoid hunters in places where a larger native cat, the lynx, has been killed off. There may be about 140,000 European wildcats spread across more than two dozen countries. But they are very hard to find!
Wildlife photographer Andrea Giovanni, who made a video of one, writes:
"I'd never even thought of taking photos of wildcats, for a simple reason: I thought it was impossible, or at least, extremely difficult. It's considered 'the ghost of the forests' because it's very, very elusive, and it's hard to predict where it can be spotted. Other animals tend to follow the same trails through the forest. The wildcat goes wherever she wants to."
One reason the European wildcat is coming back is increased legal protections. But another is that villages in Italy and other regions are becoming depopulated! Some are very worried about declining human populations. But it does make room for other species. That gives me some hope for the future.
I got this picture, taken by Vladimír Čech Jr in the Doupov mountains, from a very nice article on the European wildcat:
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In the curl project we have a long tradition of offering multiple optional backends for specific protocols. In this spirit we have added experimental support for a number of different HTTP/3 + QUIC backends over time.
oh, at first I was surprised, that it would be a mistake. But OpenSSL would be supported indirectly by new support in libnghttp3, right? At least libngtcp2 has direct support for OpenSSL 3, I assume OpenSSL will be still supported for QUIC connections, but by different code, right?
yes, but it doesn't state clearly since OpenSSL 3.5 ngtcp2 does not need extra OpenSSL-QUIC implementation, because normal OpenSSL backend is supported in ngtcp2 itself. At least I didn't understand it from the article. If I didn't know it from experiment with unbound, I would read it like OpenSSL linked curl cannot support QUIC. That is wrong, but not simple to understand IMO.
@Bri FYI: BNT has a few times identified FastSM as using the most CPU, at one point using 10% for a few seconds. No idea what's happening, but just thought you should know.
Pues esto es de una noche que estaba situado en portable con mi antena miniwhip de fabricación rusa artesanal, y así se recibía La Voz de Corea. En lugares donde no se puede colocar una antena grande y hay poco ruido, el rendimiento es espectacular. 📻 #SWL #shortwave #ondacorta
My complex has Google Fiber now. I just had someone over to set it up, so this is my first post from there. I thought I knew how to configure a router (you know, figure out its IP address and point a browser to it), but, no, not this one. It wants me to use Google Home from my phone. If I point a browser to its IP address, then it will serve me a page telling me to use Google Home from my phone.
Hi all! Ifinally got through a bit over 2 days of posts here because I wasn't able to be online much due to lots of things, mainly that I was in stress paralysis. Why you ask? Well, I had to take stock of my work situation: Would it get better if I had yet another talk with my supervisor, subjecting myself to her tirades then her agreeing to listen to me only to go back to the same old pattern a few days later? Should I talk to my boss's supervisor again, not feeling any sense of trust that she'd help me and ensure my boss stop the negative behavior? Should I go above my boss's supervisor to the vice provost, who is aware of my boss's eratic moods and negative behavior? Should I just suck it up and just keep my head down and do my job and enjoy the students, the main part of my job? After doing a lot of soul searching, hang wringing and feeling totally ill I ended up going to our human resources director, expressing my concerns and outlining everything that has been going on almost since I started this job just short of 3 years ago. I finally realized that no matter what was done things would not get better given the way the department works and the personality of my boss and the admin in the office. So I made the difficult decision to resign. I gave 2 weeks notice which is the minimum I could give, sticking to the policy. It was a very hard decision because I really love my actual job. But I can't handle my boss any more. So I'll have to adjust to this new reality and figure things out. I'll continue looking for a new job but who knows about that. In the meantime I'll have to restructure life so I don't become a total slug. That won't be good for me. So there you have it!
I'm sorry that it came to that, since I don't think that it was exactly what you wanted right now. It sounds like you made the decision that you needed to make, though. And sometimes life nudges us in various ways. Hopefully you'll end up in a better place, however that looks for you.
missing stop closure after consonant clusters causing abrupt transitions. Yes yes. I know of that bug too. It showed up in Hungarian and other languages. Getting fixed. Bugs bugs bugs. All the bugs. That one is on indexing and pause frames in the new driver. Back to Python we go.
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Have the world's biggest headache, but must power through. Nearly all bugs are solved that crept upon me after I changed that frontend DLL. C++ still sucks, and I'm only using it because I still haven't been bothered to check out other byte-compiled (machine code, not at runtime) languages. I learned it in high school like many coders, barely used it in college only on summer breaks, never used it during employment, and yet I use it for the small link-space. So yeah. That's our relationship. It's complicated. Is all this coding making me like C++ any better? No, not really. Sure, no strict indent-checking and function definitions are easier to write than Java. It's all I'm giving C++.
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Ahahaha y'all wanna know why some people hear whispering and others don't? With the latest NV Speech? I know who might. @@radiorobbe who reported it first. The Root Cause: "Dot" vs. "Comma" NVDA Sets the Locale: When you set NVDA's interface language to Spanish, Hungarian, German, Polish, etc., NVDA configures the Python process's global locale (via setlocale) to match that region. In the US/English locale, the decimal separator is a dot (e.g., 0.5, 60.0). In many European/South American locales (the "supported languages" you noticed), the decimal separator is a comma (e.g., 0,5, 60,0). The DLL Inherits the Locale: The nvspFrontend.dll is loaded into the same process space. The standard C++ string parsing functions (like atof, strtod, or std::stringstream) often respect this global locale setting. So, all the YAML files become invalidly parsed because they use a period. Ha. Wow. What a bug.
So we're going to refine nasality a bit, to actually let you specify durations rather than just having it as an "always" or "not" type toggle. Sorry y'all. allowAfterNasals will be turned into a bit more for the YAML so you can specify durations for nasalities
The weirdest part of self-hosting isn't the control, it's the silence. I logged into my dashboard tonight via the tunnel. No banner ads. No "suggested content" algorithms designed to doomscroll me. No tracking pixels firing off to a data broker in Utah, lol. Just my tools, sitting there, waiting. We really forgot what the internet feels like when it isn't trying to extract value from us every single second. It’s quiet here. I like it. #digital #minimalism #selfhosted #SmallWeb #AdFree
Feeling sad again, nothing's compiling, I broke my frontend, oh no, and not even GPT is fixing it, and I don't have pro mode anymore, and I'm just so out of options I could cry from frustration over all of it. Ugh. Stupid C++ and its cast types. I hate cast-typed languages Hate them.
Question for people relying on alt text: When one posts contains multiple images, should each alt text be written independently, or does it make more sense for one text to refer back to previous ones? Like, when the first describes shape and colour of a flower, should the second copy that description and add to it (independent alt texts), or refer back, like "the same flower [from a different angle, showing xyz]"?
So, uh right now the calculateTimes function needs to be refined to handle special cases for English vowels and diphthongs. I'm also working on that for the Frontend. Support diphthong normalization in pack files. It's not added yet but next update for sure
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