One of the most prominent nazis in America boasting that his fellow travelers are in JD Vance's social circles. He's absolutely correct.
Vance’s veep nomination makes it obvious that what was once called the “alt-right” has taken over the Republican party.
This group of reactionaries is far more intelligent and far more extreme than any previous Republican influx group like the Tea Party.
We're in dangerous times.
If you're mad about Google killing short links all over the Internet, and are saying things like "let's scrape it all before it goes down", I suggest checking out wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php…. Some chaotic good people are well ahead of you in terms of planning, and have a VM image you can run to lend some compute and bandwidth to the effort. It's like SETI of old, but for praxis against internet vandals like Google.
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Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.developers.googleblog.com
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S’pore orders social media sites to block 95 accounts, in first such use of foreign interference law
The accounts are linked to Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, who was convicted of fraud in the US.Ng Wei Kai
Pressemitteilung: Abschiebung aus Chemnitz trotz Gerichtsbeschluss: Man fühle sich nicht daran gebunden
Ein Marokkaner wurde aus Chemnitz abgeschoben, obwohl das Verwaltungsgericht dies untersagt hatte. Nach Angaben seiner Anwältin haben sich die Verantwortlichen der Stadt Chemnitz und der Landesdire…Sächsischer Flüchtlingsrat
🔐 C++ Must Become Safer — Andrew Lilley Brinker — Software Supply Chain Security
｢ If a cheap-to-maintain legacy system is faced with the proposition of an expensive rewrite, it may instead be eliminated. The externalities of this kind of change are difficult to consider in advance and in general ｣
alilleybrinker.com/blog/cpp-mu…
#C #CPP #Rust #MemorySafety #Infosec
C++ Must Become Safer — Andrew Lilley Brinker — Software Supply Chain Security
I work on software supply chain security at MITRE, including serving as amember of the OmniBOR Working Group, where I lead development of the Rustimplementation, and as the project manager for Hipcheck, a tool forautomated supply chain risk assessmen…www.alilleybrinker.com
Už jsem vám tady psala, že náš dům je trošku zvláštní, že?
Tak občas vypadá, jako něco extra. 😁😁
Taky má obrovskou půdu, dělenou přepážkami na dvě poloviny. Jedna půlka je v pohodě, na druhé se necítíte moc dobře. 😁😁 Je tmavší. Dcery národa se tam bojí a nechce se jim tam chodit věšet prádlo. Nepřispěl k tomu ani nález starého zrcadla, otočeného ke zdi. 😁😁😁
Taky se občas bojíte rádi?👻
Přátelé #fediverse, rád bych vám připomněl, že se bude konat 2. sraz uživatelů Mastodon v Karlových Varech!
🗓️ Datum: 15. srpna
⏰ Čas: 17:00
📍 Místo: Národní dům, Karlovy Vary
Připojte se k nám na příjemné setkání s ostatními nadšenci! Budeme sdílet zkušenosti a diskutovat o všem, co se týká Mastodonu. Těšíme se na vás!
@mastopivo
srazy.arch-linux.cz/invite/HJI…
#MastodonSraz #KarlovyVary #mastopivo
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Musím se pochlubit, koupil jsem na kolo od Garminu nové pedály
. Už se těším, až dorazí. Sice to byl ranec za dva pedály, ale občas si člověk musí dělat radost 
.Taky moc děkuji za cenné rady @pavelkout.
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Je pátek, víkend klope na dveře, slunce žblunce a bude pálit, tak se dobře schovejte.
A keep smajlík!
Reply to Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content by Vincent Schmalbach
Selectivity is long overdue. Marginalia, Stract, and Teclis feel like a breath of fresh air for broad short-tail queries because they downrank or skip pages full of ads, trackers, scripts, and even SEO. However, Google’s selectivity can’t penalise such criteria as that would conflict with its ad business.
Google has a bias against new sites. This makes sense, given their spam potential. I disagree with your argument that a bias against new sites is a pivot away from Experience, Expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (EEAT): it takes time for a website to become an authority and earn trust. If delayed indexing of new sites is wrong, then the problem lies with EEAT. I argue that EEAT is a good framework for an answer-focused engine, but a bad framework for a discovery- or surfing-focused engine like Marginalia or Wiby, respectively.
Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #Google #SearchEngines
Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content - Vincent Schmalbach
Picture this: It’s ten years ago, and you’ve just launched a new WordPress blog. Within hours, sometimes even minutes, your content is indexed by Google.Vincent Schmalbach
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In-Process is out! Featuring all the news on NVDA 2024.3 Beta 4, the add-on update notification feature in NVDA 2024.3, thanks to Intopia (& all our corporate sponsors) and a look at jumping between paragraphs! Check it out here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #ThankYou #Intopia #Navigation #Beta #Prerelease #FOSS #Software #blog
In-Process 19th July 2024
We’re getting closer to the release of NVDA 2024.3 with a new beta out this week. The table of contents in recent editions of the blog has been popular so far, so let’s start with that: 2024.3 Beta…NV Access
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"Today, the time has come to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener."
No, you absolute shitheads, it's not just "the time." There's no immutable reason here other than your own disgraceful attention span.
If you create a link-shortening service, you owe it to the Internet not to just turn it off after a mere decade; even more so if you purport to have a mission "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."
mastodon.cloud/@corbet@social.…
Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:developers.googleblog.com/en/g…
A quick search on lore.kernel.org:
lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%…
...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.
Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.developers.googleblog.com
"Well it's your fault for relying on..." ..on what, on one of the largest, richest companies ever to exist?
On the company that publishes that it is "Committed to significantly improving the lives of as many people as possible"?
On a company that is so synonymous with the internet that it's a verb and it has its own TLD?
Google - About Google, Our Culture & Company News
Stay up to date with Google company news and products. Discover stories about our culture, philosophy, and how Google technology is impacting others.about.google
But yes, actually.
Google has shown over and over and over again that it simply cannot be trusted to build things that it will maintain.
There's a whole site devoted to things they've scrapped.
It's not just that Google gets rid of services. It's the collateral damage.
Example: The Google Domains shutdown has resulted in folks losing control of their domains to spammers and phishers.
Killing your products -- reasonable. Killing other people's work -- despicable.
Killed by Google
Killed by Google is the open source list of dead Google products, services, and devices. It serves as a tribute and memorial of beloved services and products killed by Google.Killed by Google
What are some applications designed from the ground-up to be non-visual first? I am aware of emacspeak and speechd-el on the emacs side of things, and I’m aware of edbrowse (ed(1) on steroids with textual browser capabilities to browse the web with a line-based editor).
Ideally applications that feel more like well-crafted computing environments that people can spend long periods of time in.
Jsem odvápňoval vnitřní střeva Geberitu - napouštěcí ventil.
A experimentálně jsem ověřil, že ten plast vodu 100˚C nevydrží 🤦
Na štěstí zrovna Geberit má ty náhradní díly i po 15 letech pořád stejný a dostupný, tak už jenom díky tomu se to tenkrát vyplatilo.
Ale zlobim se na sebe, taková blbost tyvole!
I once ran my own personal URL shortener but eventually killed it because it wasn't that useful, but I kept the links working, and in fact they still work _to this day_ because I converted them from a dynamic PHP web application to a little list of nginx URL redirects.
Google have comparatively infinite budget and can't figure out how to be a respectful web citizen.
social.kernel.org/objects/3912…
Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:developers.googleblog.com/en/g…
A quick search on lore.kernel.org:
lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%…
...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.
Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.developers.googleblog.com
Proton Mail is now AI bullshit. Pass it on.
pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/18/pro…
Please boost.
Proton Mail goes AI, security-focused userbase goes ‘what on earth’
If an organization runs a survey in 2024 on whether it should get into AI, then they’ve already bodged an LLM into the system and they’re seeing if they can get away with it. Proton Mail is a priva…Pivot to AI
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“If an organization runs a survey in 2024 on whether it should get into AI, then they’ve already bodged an LLM into the system and they’re seeing if they can get away with it”
@mattl sweats in Fedora AI/LLM survey.
My new narrated audio fiction project An Invisible Sun launches on August 1st!
Go to invisiblesunpod.com to hear the teaser, subscribe on your fav pod app, and get more information!
But if you can't wait, members of my Patreon can hear the episodes early and ad-free! patreon.com/wkeithtims
I hope you'll listen!
#audiodrama #audiofiction #fiction #podcast #fictionpodcast #sff #specfic #writingcommunity #writing #indie
You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon. All links count as 23 characters towards your posts's maximum size, no matter how long the link really is.
By avoiding link shorteners, you are also protecting people's privacy and reducing the risk of link rot.
(There is a bug on the official iPhone/iPad app that means links are counted as their true length instead of 23, which is yet another reason to switch to a third party app such as Ice Cubes or Mona or Ivory.)
p.s. People asking "Why 23 characters?", it's because a long time ago on Twitter links were counted as 23 characters by Twitter replacing all posted links with their own link shorteners (which meant Twitter could track what people clicked). These shorteners were always 23 characters long.
Mastodon provided a more privacy-friendly alternative to this by leaving the links intact without a shortener, but still only counted them as 23 characters.
p.p.s. Google announced today that they are shutting down their link shortener service goo.gl. From 2025, goo.gl shortened links will no longer work:
developers.googleblog.com/en/g…
This is why link shorteners cause link rot, because eventually link shortener services close down, even ones run by megacorporations, and all their links break.
Your link will survive a lot longer if you avoid using shorteners. You don't need shorteners on Mastodon, all links count as 23 characters anyway.
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Congratulations to our newest NVDA Certified Expert, Victor-Daniel Dima!
If you'd like to become an NVDA Certified Expert, you can sit the exam for FREE here: certification.nvaccess.org/
(There is a cost to receive the certificate, with all money helping keep NVDA free for all!)
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Certification #Qualification #Study #AmStudying #Exam #Leadership #Technology
Home Landline Phones Are Still Around, Here's Why You Might Need One
Yes, mobile phones are convenient, but going old-school has its advantages, even in 2024.Ian Sherr (CNET)
The Biden/Harris administration has released a tool — a first-of-its-kind software in partnership with the Department of Energy and HHS — that connects families to solar energy through the HHS' Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
Those enrolled in the program can see significant electricity bill savings, aligned with the National Community Solar Partnership goal of 20% in average household savings — the equivalent of $370 yearly per household.
"The EU’s #NGI programme has supported free, open source software for years. But now a silent death seems to be looming: An internal document suggests that financing may soon end. Developers are surprised and call for the programme’s survival."
netzpolitik.org/2024/next-gene…
Next Generation Internet: EU apparently set to end open source programme
The EU’s Next Generation Internet programme has supported free, open source software for years. But now a silent death seems to be looming: An internal document suggests that financing may soon end.netzpolitik.org
GHA/macos: improve, fix gcc/llvm, add new test matrix by vszakats · Pull Request #14097 · curl/curl
This PR began as an attempt to drop GCC support, after repeated reports on fallouts when trying to use it on macOS. Then it transformed into a 3-week project turning up the issues causing the fallo...GitHub
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