From the Slint email list:

Dear all.

I am very sad to inform everyone that our friend Didier died last week.

Early 2015, I asked on the slackware list if brltty could be added in the
installer ; Didier answered promptly that he could do it on
slint. Afterwards, he worked hard so that slint became as accessible as
possible for visually impaired people.

You all know that all these years, he tried and succeeded to answer as
quickly as possible to our issues and questions.

He will be irreplaceable.

@Friendica Support

There is a fork of Mastodon available, called "Glitch Edition", that has some special features implemented. My new instance at social.defocn42.net is running this fork.

I came upon an interesting error when trying to connect to the instance. Adding the user "m1rk0@social.defcon42.net" failed because of an unknown network. Then i tried it the other way around from the Mastodon instance and could follow myself on Friendica. The connection is now mutual and the Mastodon instance is recognized as "glitchsoc".

Are there known issues with glitchsoc and Friendica? It's weird, that the connection can be established only from one side and is working normally afterwards.

Looks like the UK does not have our back:

"Keir Starmer rejected his Canadian counterpart’s call for mid-sized countries to band together in the face of unpredictable global powers — and insisted his “common sense” British approach will do just fine."

Like I said, we'll find out who our friends are.
politico.eu/article/keir-starm…

Starmer to Carney: No new world order please, we’re British

U.K. leader says he’s ‘a British pragmatist applying common sense’ after Canadian counterpart called for mid-sized countries to team up in the era of Trump.

^{Dan Bloom (POLITICO)}

#CSS `@custom-media` available behind a flag in Firefox Nightly

Lovely syntax, just lovely.
nerdy.dev/custom-media

Ich hätte ja gern ein erwachsenes, partnerschaftliches Verhältnis in meinem Betrieb.

Aber ich kriege es nicht hin.

Es vergeht kein Tag, an dem ich nicht gesagt bekomme, dass ich ja die Chefin bin.

#selforganized #NewWork

The tech industry is weird at the moment.
So, I'm looking for a frontend focused position.
EM or Staff engineer. Remote or Berlin area.

#mastohire #FediHire

I didn’t realise just how US centric all of package management was until I made these tables 😅

The Dependency Layer in Digital Sovereignty: nesbitt.io/2026/01/28/the-depe…

The Dependency Layer in Digital Sovereignty

Where package management fits in the digital sovereignty discussion.

^{Andrew Nesbitt}

Ich brauche eine Empfehlung für einen Rechtsanwalt für NRW-Schulrecht.
Lage oder Örtlichkeit ist ist egal, wenn es telefonische Beratung gibt.

Ich bitte um persönliche Erfahrungswerte, gerne auch per DN.

Danke!

#FediEltern

It was interesting to read up on the AI assisted code review at lesswrong.com/posts/7aJwgbMEiK…

For context: I'm personally responsible for at least 29 curl CVEs. Out of the recent 6 CVEs mentioned in the blog post I found two. This gives me some perspective, I think.

I do not utilise AI tools in my vulnerability research. I am also fiercely critical of harmful proliferation of AI. This is due to the unsustainable way it is currently pushed, and use of as marketing ploy and gimmick rather than producing measurable benefit to users. This leads to negative impacts on economy, education & learning, not to mention impacts to nature due to wasteful use of energy.

This doesn't mean I am against AI. I have written by own AI tooling (fully local RAG with support for arbitrary number of models running on local nodes, implemented in python). I found the usefulness of such tool to be limited at best. It is somewhat useful in mass analysis of large document bases, but the level of analysis is superficial at best. These AI models are after all just language models, and do not have any true understanding or intelligence.

And here is the gist of it: The current tools are not intelligent. Understanding this limitation is the key of successful deployment and utilisation of AI tools. The tools can be useful in certain tasks, but they do not replace true intelligence.

The AI tooling AISLE are developing certainly is one of the better uses of AI, and definitely surpasses all my personal dabbling around it. It is clear that the tool does find vulnerabilities. The key question is how much hallucinations and false positives it produces: If the tool generates thousands of FPs and the true findings are hidden among them this limits the value and usefulness of the tool (of course it doesn't entirely negate it, many tools produce false positives). In short: The quality of the findings is key, and poor signal-to-noise ratio is highly undesirable.

Either way, I think there is a future for AI tools and they definitely will be helpful in vulnerability research.

I personally will keep exercising my wetware for this work, however.

#cybersecurity #infosec #vulnerabilityresearch #thoughtoftheday

Based on this deranged slop flood out of @mozilla : stateof.mozilla.org/

1) I'm happier about my decision to stop using Firefox.
2) I'm going to stop using @thunderbird .

Which is a shame, because Thunderbird is still the best mail client, and Firefox brought us hope in the IE days.

Thanks for making everything worse @mozilla .

#mozilla #firefox #thunderbird #slop

Ktoré potraviny riedia krv a chránia pred trombózou?

▪️Kelp - Prírodné antikoagulanty. Môže znižovať viskozitu krvi.

▪️Cesnak - Obsahuje fytoncídy. Nielenže znižuje viskozitu krvi, ale pomáha aj neutralizovať širokú škálu toxínov. Podporuje kardiovaskulárne zdravie.

▪️Kurkuma - Riedi a čistí krv.

▪️Olivový olej - Vďaka svojim antioxidačným vlastnostiam znižuje aktivitu krvných doštičiek.

▪️Harmanček - Potláča aktivitu krvných doštičiek a zabraňuje zrážaniu krvi.

▪️Horčica - Omega 3 a vitamín B6 znižujú viskozitu krvi, čistia obehový systém a posilňujú cievy.

▪️Mastné ryby - vďaka Omega 3 zlepšujú medzibunkový metabolizmus, čím zabraňujú trombóze.

▪️Zázvor - normalizuje krvný obeh. Znižuje krvný tlak a podporuje normálny prietok krvi. Obsahuje salicylát, prírodný analóg aspirínu.

#zdravie

Read a book review on my timeline that didn't mention the title or author.

Went to reply in confusion because the book sounded interesting, and realised the details were in the content warning and I have those completely disabled in my client.

Please don't use content warnings like email subject lines.

France is rolling out Visio, a homegrown secure videoconferencing platform, to all government employees by 2027.

The move aims to replace American tools like Teams, Zoom and Webex that currently fragment public administration communications and create security vulnerabilities.

The platform already has 40,000 regular users and is being deployed to 200,000 agents. Major institutions like CNRS are switching over this quarter, with CNRS replacing Zoom for its 34,000 staff and 120,000 affiliated researchers by late March.

Visio runs on French sovereign cloud infrastructure certified by ANSSI, uses AI transcription technology from French startup Pyannote, and will add real-time subtitling from French AI lab Kyutai by summer 2026. Beyond security and digital sovereignty, the switch generates real savings of about 1 million euros per year for every 100,000 users leaving paid license solutions.

Minister David Amiel frames this as essential to protecting sensitive government data and scientific exchanges from exposure to non-European actors while supporting French tech companies.

numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/es… #France #Greenland #MAGA #DonaldTrump #tarrifs #France #Google #MicrosofTeams

lemmus.org/post/19676136

#Greenland #Minneapolis #ICE

Another reason why I wish more appliances still had physical buttons and knobs, aside from the obvious tactile one, is that it's an easy way for you to have a personal default setting.

My countertop dishwasher for example has only touch buttons. They are a pain to trigger, especially with wet hands, and it always starts at the energy- and water-saving programme, so helpfully named "1", which takes about 2 hours. Whereas I prefer the short programme, which takes only 30 minutes, since it's the only programme that doesn't include a drying cycle, and it usually cleans well-enough. I usually prefer to just open the door afterwards, pull the rack out on top of it, and let it air-dry while its contents are still hot. It's programme 3 though, so I'll have to press that programme-select button twice. every... single... time...

Whereas if the programme-select was just a physical knob, I could just leave it on programme 3. I also like to always have it start with a 5-minute steam, which could also just be a physical switch, instead of a non-tactile area I have to press every time. Hell, make it a knob that sets the duration of the steam session.

Even better; instead of mildly different predefined programmes, give me a whole bunch of knobs for pre-wash temperature and duration, main programme temperature and duration, rinse cycle. Put a nice, user-replaceable, LED above each of them that indicates which cycle it's currently in, and one shared countdown timer display, and I'm a happy camper.

#FiXatoRants #appliances #accessibility #a11y #kitchenAppliances #kitchen #DearDesigner #knobhead