A couple weeks ago I gave a talk at @djangocon about the finances of the Django Software Foundation. I wanted to give folks a high-level understanding of our current financial situation, and then imagine a world where we had a substantially-larger budget.
Here's a written version of this talk, with annotated slides, and expanded notes:
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jerf.org/iri/post/2024/not_abo… Alternative title: "Engineers are not fans of technologies."
I stopped being a fan of Python many years ago. Of course, these days I risk being a fan of Rust.
Anyway, on this instance I have 1000 characters. On my new instance I have 12000. Feel free to follow over there if you wish, I don't know what I'll talk about yet or if I'm simply wasting time, but it's a thing.
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Did you miss the #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid a little? Well, get your capes out, I'm back from my vacation. So today, 19 updated and 7 added apps:
* QuickMDCapture: quickly create notes in Markdown format 🛡️
* Mock my GPS UnifiedNlp Backend: mock the GPS and Network location providers
* Mock Silently: mock the GPS and Network location providers
* IrisChat: IRC client 🛡️
* Grit: ToDo List and Habit Tracker 🛡️
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Právě jsme aktualizoval novou verzi Phanpy! 📢 Verze 2024.10.08
💬 Máte návrhy nebo jste našli chyby v překladu? Lokalizace ještě není kompletní, takže uvítáme jakékoliv návrhy na zlepšení a pomoc s překladem.
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#Phanpy #Mastodon #Update #Localization #OpenSource
If you are using one of the *oma instances (Akkoma, Pleroma, etc): you can easily handle this spam wave without playing defederation whack-a-mole by doing the following:
- Enable
RejectNewlyCreatedAccountNotesPolicyand set the limit to at least one hour. Note that this is not without tradeoffs: users who migrate to new accounts will not be able to reach your instance until their account is old enough, and will often wonder what’s going on. - Enable
HellthreadPolicyto limit the maximum number of mentions in a post before it stops notifying mentioned users, or before it’s rejected outright. Temporarily decrease the limit during a spam wave if you need to. - Enable
KeywordPolicyand add strings commonly found in spam posts, such as domain names (followed by a slash, to reduce false positives from real users simply mentioning the domain without linking it), hashtags, and uncommon words. Look up the “Scunthorpe Problem” if you’re unfamiliar.
When the dust settles, depending on available spoons, I might go through the instances that haven’t cleaned up spam after multiple days. Those are likely abandoned and extra-vulnerable to future attacks and block evaders. On *oma, these defederations will not sever connections and are reversible.
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obligatory “Fedi needs a middleware like a WAF for filtering remote messages”.
cattle-grid looks like a good start, though it does tend to trigger false positives when scanning for auth-fetch block evaders.
Malé upozornění: Možná budete muset zkontrolovat nastavení oznámení emailem v sekci předvolby, protože jsem měl po aktualizaci všechna oznámení automaticky zapnutá. 🔔
Doporučuji to zkontrolovat, pokud nechcete být zahlceni notifikacemi. 📬
byla aktualizována na verzi 4.3Jsou i novinky webového rozhraní 👍🏻
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…
Could Toronto-Montreal route be Canada's first high-speed rail?
dailyhive.com/montreal/toronto…
It lacks of ambition. I guess that the values.
Max 200kph? FFS this is not the 1960s.
When TGV opened in 1981, the cruise speed on the Paris Lyon was 260kph. Paris Lille was 300kph when I commuted on it 20 years ago.
I guess lots of gloss on the report.
@samloonie th railroad were not interested in it. That's why VIA was created and remained a band-aid by still using the same badly maintained trackage on why the heavy freight has priority.
This is the root cause of the poor service. That and the lack of courage and ambition from politicians to do anything about it.
American Water shuts down online services after #cyberattack
American Water is the largest water and wastewater treatment utility in the US…
OT systems not affected - so appears this only affects their IT systems. Suspected nation state activity (Russia).
(I encourage everyone sharing this with their friends because cyber attacks absolutely can have direct “real world” consequences.)
For very good reasons, the .io TLD is going away.
Once this treaty is signed, the British Indian Ocean Territory will cease to exist. Various international bodies will update their records. In particular, the International Standard for Organization (ISO) will remove country code “IO” from its specification. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which creates and delegates top-level domains, uses this specification to determine which top-level country domains should exist. Once IO is removed, the IANA will refuse to allow any new registrations with a .io domain. It will also automatically begin the process of retiring existing ones. (There is no official count of the number of extant .io domains.)
every.to/p/the-disappearance-o…
(H/t @mwl )
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I don't think this is actually going to happen.
There's so much stuff relying on .io at this point that I won't be surprised if major DNS providers just sidestep ICAN and take matters into their own hands.
ICAN isn't omniscient and omnipotent, if the majority of the world decides that they shouldn't be in charge of DNS any more and that we'd rather use a different set of root servers, their power basically goes away.
#Mastodon 4.3 is out! 🎉 We've made notifications easier to manage and improved the look and feel of the whole app across the board. And that's just the tip of the iceberg! See what you can expect once your server upgrades:
You might have noticed already: since a few weeks, #MapComplete has a totally new search experience.
If you search something, the matching locations are shown on the map. If it matches the name of a layer or a filter, you can also opt to show only this layer or to enable this filter. For examplr, on mapcomplete.org/food, one could search for 'sushi' to only see sushi restaurants and then for 'open now'. Or search with an emoji, such as 🍕🍟🥙 or 🍙
- AI-generated images are used to convey whatever partisan message suits the moment regardless of truth
- for all the fear of deepfake-driven disinformation, proves fakes don't even need to be realistic
404media.co/hurricane-helene-a…
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First, instead of each rights-holder blocking one sport at a time, this year all the major broadcasters teamed up and won a "multisports" order that requires listed ISPs to block sites that carry unlicensed streams of NHL, NBA, and soccer games. They've already gotten 3 updates, adding MLB and UFC into 2026.
#TekSavvy is included in this order. Our info page with the latest order is here: teksavvy.com/policies/internet…
Read the original decision here: canlii.ca/t/k5spw
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Second, now that site blocking orders are so well established to protect copyright, Indigo Books relied on them as a precedent to protect trademarks. They got an order requiring named ISPs to block access to the websites of the "Indigo Kills Kids" campaign. Since this order aims to block a website, it uses DNS blocking (like GoldTV), rather than the "dynamic" blocking orders used for streams.
#TekSavvy is not currently included in this order. Read the decision here: canlii.ca/t/k73h2
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Today's challenge -- working out why GObject Introspection bitfield objects return zero when the value is bigger than MAX_UINT32. The value is correct in the .gir file, just not in the fwupd python bindings.
@ebassi @pwithnall (or anyone else) does this ring any bells please? I've opened gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gobject… with some more data.
Prime day is on, but I'm not sure if I have the time nor energy to browse it. On the lookout for a 20 TB back-up desktop drive though, need to push my NAS and other back-up drive to it and want at least 20 TB. I know they exist.
King 5: "Poulsbo woman calls authorities after finding over 100 raccoons outside her home demanding food
The woman told deputies she started feeding raccoons around her house about 35 years ago without any problems. Six weeks ago the population of raccoons "exploded.""
😂 😬
king5.com/article/life/animals…
Včerajší lov na polárnu žiaru bol úspešný. Dokonca sa mi pravdepodobne podarilo zachytiť meteor (na prvej foto) 😍
#PolárnaŽiara #meteor #auroraborealis #aurora #slovensko #slovakia
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