This is *the* best way for governments to be "sovereign" in the face of big tech dominance. Well done, Germany and STF.
theregister.com/2024/10/01/fre…
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund throws cash at FreeBSD and Samba
Unix-like to work on infrastructure, SMB reimplementation on 'key milestones'Liam Proven (The Register)
Sperrminorität im EU-Rat: Niederlande bekräftigen Nein zu Chatkontrolle
Die Niederlande wollen den Kompromiss der EU-Ratspräsidentschaft zur Messenger-Überwachung nun doch nicht unterstützen.
I just tested this (with Claude 3.5 Sonnet) and it does indeed work.
I gave it a diff between two commits, asking to describe what changes were made, and it did it perfectly.
"Da erklärte die AfD die Grünen zum angeblichen Hauptfeind unserer Gesellschaft und alle machten mit. Man kann mich gerne korrigieren, aber noch nie in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik haben die Grünen den Bundeskanzler gestellt. Aber es wird immer so getan, als wenn sie seit 30 Jahren an der Macht wären und niemand sonst. Der Tonfall etwa aus CDU und CSU gegenüber den Grünen unterscheidet sich nicht von dem der AfD. Das unterhöhlt die Demokratie, das ist zersetzend, weil sich die Parteien so koalitionsunfähig machen."
Sehr treffen formuliert von Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk.
Dieser Feldzug gegen andere Parteiein, die fest auf dem Boden der Demokratie stehen, ist ein Irsinn, der die Union kein Stück voran bringen wird!
Aah, new instance, new #Introduction post I guess.
I was on another instance that's closing down, so I've done the migration thing and decided to end up here.
As this server has the word 'hear' in the domain, and I'm a #Musician, it somehow seems fitting I do so.
I'm a #London-based musician that plays piano/keys, and finger-drumming also on keys.
I make #youtube videos on various things that interest me, make the #StroongeCast podcast with my wife, have two ridiculously amazing children and read voraciously. Being stereotypically British, I do like me a good cup of tea as well.
What genre I play is up for debate. Genres though, yes quite a few.
Jazz, Funk, Soul, R&B, Reggae, Pop occasionally, Drum and Bass recently.
This is too long already, so I'll just end by saying links to projects in bio for the interested.
Thanks for your time, and feel free to say hi.
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I’ve published my article on the Impact Hero SDK (as used by at least 16 browser extensions) and the refoorest extension. The company behind these is the France-based Colibri Hero, also known as allcolibri: palant.info/2024/10/01/lies-da…
Trust me, the article title is justified. I couldn’t believe it when I saw how everything they claim turns out to be a lie. Their line of business is commonly called “affiliate fraud,” so they carefully avoid this topic and instead make the impression of being supported by altruistic companies that genuinely care for our planet.
They promise to plant trees if people use their extensions but their numbers are all fake. The numbers displayed by the extension don’t add up to the numbers shown on their web page. Maybe they should have implemented access control if they didn’t want anybody to figure that out. And the numbers on the web page – well, these have been increasing at a constant rate of 20 trees per hour for the past four years, completely ignoring what their extension users did or didn’t.
Do they actually donate any money? Probably, I don’t know. They don’t disclose their finances, and if they did these would probably turn out fake as well. Should anyone trust them? No, not from what I saw. Should these extensions be nuked from orbit (or at least from the add-on stores)? Yes, absolutely.
There is more “fun” stuff going on here, so feel free to read the article.
Na automobilový průmysl je kladeno nespočet požadavků, které navyšují cenu a komplexitu, každopádně co domácí spotřebiče?
Existuje nějaká legislativa nutící výrobce poskytovat API pro čtení/nastavení zařízení jako pračka, bojler/kotel, myčka, lednička, topení, a další "komponenty" domácnosti na standartizovaném rozhraní?
IMHO integrace otevřené komunikace je relativně (k ceně spotřebiče) levná položka otevírající dveře kompletní automatizaci a lepší ekologii domácnosti.
Does anyone use Micro.blog? I'm still in my apparently endless consideration of WordPress alternatives.
I will continue to do this until I finally learn how/dedicate full time to write my own site from scratch.
Might be more of an "if" than a "when," but the desire is very strong.
Second the #ssg suggestion. There are some #Indieweb examples using #ActivityPub integrations within static pages. So transgressive!
Perhaps the last human-generated song I'll ever write.
"AGI: Artificial God Incarnate"
(recorded live at the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas)
Mein Domain-Registrar wohnt in der Prinzessinnenstraße, und mau, ich will da auch wohnen 🥺👉👈
(oder vielleicht auch nicht, wer weiß, wie die Umgebung dort so ist. Wenn das insgesamt sehr aristokratisch angehaucht ist, ist's wahrscheinlich doch nichts für mich)
- Yes (36%, 4 votes)
- No (63%, 7 votes)
A lot of the problems with #ActivityPub could be solved if we could all just collectively agree that it isn't a protocol but more like saying "I communicate in JSON."
So we're not communicating in AP, we're communicating the Mastodon API.
But there is a dedicated commitment to conflate them and in the protocol itself conflates them, which stifles the ability to work in this space.
The lack of a formal extension/handshake mechanism further makes it difficult to even get value from using it.
What would an alternative look like? A thought experiment.
* Formalize the protocol in OpenAPI. Not all of it, just the behavior and shape of the inbox and outbox.
* Formalize and render as testable all of the behavior with side effects.
* Remove basically all of the other fields from the Actor object.
* Type is always a list and starts from the Base Type then applies essentially mixins, which can be extensions
* Type is always strongly specified
* Collections have precisely defined navigation
Gajim 1.9.5 has been released 🎉
This release comes with many improvements for Gajim’s Microsoft Store version. 👔
Translations are now available for all distributions again. 🌐
Thank you for all your contributions! 
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Mine did allow you to disable enhancements easily, and that didn't seem to help.
Not sure how deeply you looked into this, I think I was one of the first users affected due to being on insiders for reasons too complicated to explain, so I tried tracing that leak before I knew what driver it was coming from. There was a tool from the Windows Driver developer Kit that let you see unpaged memory allocations by tag, and the tag responsible for the leak was related to the Windows Event Tracing subsystem.
Jail time for Montana man who smuggled and cloned an endangered 300-pound sheep
He takes his hobbies seriously.
arstechnica.com/science/2024/1…
T-Mobile reaches $31.5 million settlement with FCC over past data breaches
Apparently, T-mobile is now mandated to implement better cybersecurity controls, such as properly segmenting networks and using phishing resistant #MFA.
This settlement covers the breaches in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Will we get a 2024 special? 💀
Jimmy Carter turns 100 today. He is proof that decency and goodness can exist in public service.
Did you know that Jimmy Carter heroically saved Canada from a nuclear meltdown when he was a naval officer?
It's true!
The world’s first nuclear reactor meltdown occurred in the Ottawa Valley — and a young U.S. naval officer was brought in to contain the disaster — 72 years ago.
Leading a team of two dozen men, 28-year old Lieutenant Carter had himself lowered into the damaged reactor.
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Etel Adnan:
It was Beirut, all over again,
because the sea rose on its feet
and unleashed a litany
of words,
it is Beirut, all over again,
because poets die
rather than surrender,
because they speak of hope,
and do not wear
their words like a necklace
of pearls,
because poets refuse to die,
and carry hope on their
backs, and go from door
to door, like bees do
from flower to flower,
to leave messages of defiance
in the
people’s hearts.
📢 The GStreamer Conference 2024 schedule is now up!
gstreamer.freedesktop.org/conf…
See you next week in Montréal!
PS: don't forget to register
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in reply to Matt Campbell • • •trading one success (decentralization) for many failures (no dependency management, no version control, no immutability guarantees, no API promises, rampant squatting)
Not saying decentralization isn't important (maybe one day maven central goes away!) but the guarantees it provides eliminate a shitload of problems that rust/go seem to be A-OK with having
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