Interesting job, keeping old technology running.
IEEE Spectrum: What It Takes To Let People Play With the Past spectrum.ieee.org/vintage-tech #vintagecomputing #computers #technology
Libi Rose keeps obsolete technologies running at the Media Archaeology LabStephen Cass (IEEE Spectrum)
MySQL 9.1 introduces key updates, including enhanced trigger handling, optimized EXPLAIN output, OpenID Connect support, and more.LinuxToday
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online! What a week! 🚀
#170 Portal Updates
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/…
Ok, as promised here's Wordpress, very lightly modified to use SQLite as a backing store instead of MySQL.
You don't need to stand up a database, run a big machine or really much of anything, this is perfectly happy on the smallest VM you can find.
Contribute to mhoye/pressonward development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
A new version of the popular Rufus utility once again bypasses the strict hardware compatibility requirements for Windows 11 upgrades. Your move, Microsoft.Ed Bott (ZDNET)
In this article, you will learn how to install curl (and libcurl) on a Linux system and how to use curl in your daily computing work with practical examples.Linux TLDR
Let's look at some great Linux distros that feel just like you never left Windows.LinuxToday
You know I love you, @thunderbird, but I was certain I had a big, ugly smudge on my monitor for a second there. 
Enterprises use block storage such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) for mission-critical workloads because it provides high performance, low latency, and reliable data access needed for demanding applications like databases, ERP systems, an…Amazon Web Services
@SuspiciousDuck Nooo... Od kdy Mastodon aktivně nabízí další účty ke sledování?
(Nepamatuju si, že jsme to za poslední roky kdy viděl...)
Wow! I'm making #Bandwagon -- an open source, community-focused alternative to #Bandcamp that anyone can self-host.
As of this morning, there are 99 #Musicians and #Bands who have set up #Fediverse profiles on bandwagon.fm -- and half of those already indexable on search engines.
So I'm humbled by the number of people who are giving it a go. There's obviously lots of people out there looking for something new.
I promise to do my best to give y'all the tools you deserve.
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Really? It runs on a Rasberry Pi??Thats awesome. You made my day!
If you’re self-hosting, lots of things are changing rapidly with Bandwagon, so we should connect somewhere (email, Mastodon, GitHub) so I can make sure I don’t break your site.
Thank you very much for the offer. At the moment there are a few missing things, such as embeddable tracks or possibly some sort of payment processor support, so I'm holding off on hosting it in production for now, but I'm definitely keeping an eye on how things will end up. Even without Fedi support, there is nothing out there which is as simple to set up and use as Bandwagon, so that's a plus as well.
I also really like the way Emissary works, it's quite inspiring and refreshing to see high quality software being contributed back to the open source community.
Matrix 1.12, performance improvements for sliding sync, the birth of gomuks web. That and much more happened This Week in Matrix!
matrix.org/blog/2024/10/18/thi…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
On this day (or near it) in 2015, I joined the Mozilla project by starting work as a full-time employee of Mozilla Corporation. I’m two hardware refreshes in (I was bad for doing them on time, leaving my 2017 refresh until 2018 and my 2020 refresh until 2022! (though, admittedly, the 2020 refresh was actually pushed to the end of 2021 by a policy change in early 2020 moving from 2-year to 3-year refreshes)) and facing a third in February. Organizationally, I’m three CEOs and sixty reorgs in.
I’m still working on Data, same as last year. And I’m still trying to move Firefox Desktop to use solely Glean for its data collection system. Some of my predictions from last year’s moziversary post came true: I continued working on client code in Firefox Desktop, I hardly blogged at all, we continue to support collections in all of Legacy Telemetry’s systems (though we’ve excitingly just removed some big APIs), Glean has continued to gain ground in Firefox Desktop (we’re up to 4134 metrics at time of writing), and “FOG Migration” has continued to not happen (I suppose it was one missed prediction that top-down guidance would change — it hasn’t, but interpretations of it sure have), and I’m publishing this moziversary blog post a little ahead of my moziversary instead of after it.
My biggest missed prediction was “We will quietly stop talking about AI so much, in the same way most firms have stopped talking about Web3 this year”. Mozilla, both Corporation and Foundation, seem unable to stop talking about AI (a phrase here meaning “large generative models built on extractive data mining which use chatbot UI”). Which, I mean, fair: it’s consuming basically all the oxygen and money in the industry at the moment. We have to have a position on it, and it’s appropriating “Open” language that Mozilla has a vested interest in protecting (though you’d be excused for forgetting that given how little we’ve tried to work with the FSF and assorted other orgs trying to shepherd the ideas and values of Open Source in the recent past). But we’ve for some reason been building products around these chatbots without interrogating whether that’s a good thing.
And you’d think with all our worry about what a definition of Open Source might mean, we’d make certain to only release products that are Open Source. But no.
I understand why we’re diving into products and trying to release innovative things in product shape… but Mozilla is famously terrible at building products. We’re okay at building services (I’m a fan of both Monitor and Relay). But where we seem to truly excel is in building platforms and infrastructure.
We build Firefox, the only independent browser, a train that runs on the rails of the Web. We build Common Voice, a community and platform for getting underserved languages (where which languages are used is determined by the community) the support they need. We built Rust, a memory-safe systems language that is now succeeding without Mozilla’s help. We built Hubs, a platform for bringing people together in virtual space with nothing but a web browser.
We’re just so much better at platforms and infrastructure. Why we don’t lean more into that, I don’t know.
Well, I _do_ know. Or I can guess. Our golden goose might be cooked.
How can Mozilla make money if our search deal becomes illegal? Maintaining a browser is expensive. Hosting services is expensive. Keeping the tech giants on their toes and compelling them to be better is expensive. We need money, and we’ve learned that there is no world where donations will be enough to fund even just the necessary work let alone any innovations we might try.
How do you monetize a platform? How do you monetize infrastructure?
Governments do it through taxation and funding. But Mozilla Corporation isn’t a government agency. It’s a conventional Silicon Valley private capital corporation (its relationship to Mozilla Foundation is unconventional, true, but I argue that’s irrelevant to how MoCo organizes itself these days). And the only process by which Silicon Valley seems to understand how to extract money to pay off their venture capitalists is products and consumers.
Now, Mozilla Corporation doesn’t have venture capital. You can read in the State of Mozilla that we operate at a profit each and every year with net assets valued at over a billion USD. But the environment in which MoCo operates — the place from which we hire our C-Suite, the place where the people writing the checks live — is saturated in venture capital and the ways of thinking it encourages.
This means Mozilla Corporation acts like its Bay Area peers, even though it’s special. Even though it doesn’t have to.
This means it does layoffs even when it doesn’t need to. Even when there’s no shareholders or fund managers to impress.
This means it increasingly speaks in terms of products and customers instead of projects and users.
This means it quickly loses sight of anything specifically Mozilla-ish about Mozilla (like the community that underpins specific systems crucial to us continuing to exist (support and l10n for two examples) as well as the general systems of word-of-mouth and keeping Mozilla and Firefox relevant enough that tech press keep writing about us and grandpas keep installing us) because it doesn’t fit the patterns of thought that developed while directing leveraged capital.
(( Which I don’t like, if my tone isn’t coming across clearly enough for you to have guessed. ))
Okay, that’s more than enough editorial for a Moziversary post. Let’s get to the predictions for the next year:
Let’s see how it goes! Til next time.
:chutten
chuttenblog.wordpress.com/2024…
#anniversary #mozilla #thisWouldBeThePotteryOrCopperAnniversaryIfThisWasAMarriage #work #yearOfGleanOnTheDesktop
At the end of my post for my seven-year moziversary, I made some predictions about what was to be and now has been the next year of work. And I got them pretty spot-on: Predictions for the next yea…chuttenblog
Many people have asked or speculated on why our report was published anonymously. Richard Stallman's political program speaks out in defense of sexual violence, harassment, and even coercion.Mastodon
A lot of comedians are really smart. Not just quick witted. Smart as in, they read things, they know things, and they understand things. They keep the mask up though, because it's not as entertaining to know things.🤷🏿♂️
Sometimes they let the mask slip though. Here's Roy Wood jr, temporarily letting it slip that he knows things about hurricanes.
¿Andan buscando #novelas juveniles que #leer o regalar? @raxxie hizo esta #lista con 10 #recomendaciones de lo más variado:
open.substack.com/pub/albertoy…
#literatura #escritoras #literaturajuvenil #escritores #libros #librosrecomendados #listas #LiteraturaMexicana #LIJ #RaquelCastro #AlbertoyRaquel
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When Netanyahu is done with his genocide of Palestinians and is done with sacrificing the Israeli hostages the world will still have on its hands an entire population of genocidal men and women who enjoy seeing others suffer.
All of this was preventable were it not for the US and Germany.
Big news from NBC today archive.is/rd35w
Edit: Cut down in its prime, replaced with an archive link
Was wondering if pocketbase.io could possibly be improved upon, then I found pocketpages.dev.
This might just be my new goto tech stack. Kinda hard to argue with a single-file backend, and by the time you outgrow it you can likely afford to transition away.
Open Source backend in 1 file with realtime database, authentication, file storage and admin dashboardpocketbase.io
Daniel's weekly report October 18, 2024
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libssh2, Undefined behavior, hackerone, commit count, rock-solid curl
This piece on reading the Baby-Sitters Club books as a middle-aged man is pretty decent.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I’m a similar age to the author, so as I read it I absolutely recognised that feeling of repulsion I’d have as a kid at the very notion of accessing any ‘girl’ content. Wonder-Woman, She-Ra, Supergirl, ‘girly’ pop music, books about girl things; I’d actively have nothing to do with them.
I don’t think I’m unusual in that. Perhaps these days, but not then.
Boys weren’t exposed to emotionally intelligent characters in the books marketed to us. I won’t let my son be a victim of the same social tabooRussell Marks (The Guardian)
📱 Vyšla nová verze upravené Instagram klienta Honista v10.0. Přináší mnoho zajímavých funkcí a odstraňuje reklamy.
ℹ️ Vychází z oficiálního Instagramu: v347.3.0.41.103
🔗 Článek o aplikaci Honista: infoek.cz/honista-je-instagram…
🔗 Stáhnout instalační APK Honista v10 z OSCloudu: oscloud.cz/s/GTef33KKpJmE24p
For all the email writing pros - comment your best email greeting 🥰
And if you can't decide on the email greeting - we can help!
Read our QUICK GUIDE to starting an email 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-start-an-…
#email #emailwriting #tuta #emailtips #encrypted
How to start an email (formal & informal), and the dos and don'ts of email greetings.Tuta
Summarizing the state of the last few months of #accessibility work, slowly but surely getting a full stack with no vision support across all layers from CLI shell to window management to cooperative clients to uncooperative clients.
arcan-fe.com/2024/10/18/access…
Our reference desktop environment, Durden, rarely gets covered here these days. This is mostly due to the major features are since long in place and that part of the project is biding its time with…Arcan
ahh, interesting, so you want to make your own platform for which accesskit builds an adaptor? I wonder, would that help the current situation with chromium and similar? whoe, you have that much support for esoteric devices like those? linux doesn't have them even now, not as advanced as your thing, awesome! Also, I know the name sounded familiar from somewhere, now I found it, this popped up in my articles list when I was researching something about wayland. Reading some of your building clients with arcan articles, especially the part where you apparently have to clone arcan and build your apps into its source tree somewhere to make them found by the thing, I came to the conclusion that you're using wayland in some very, very weird ways, dk if that's awesome or not. Anyway, this is the article I read back then, but as I had no context, I dismissed it because it sounded weird
arcan-fe.com/2017/12/24/crash-…
A commonly held misbelief about one of the possibly negative consequences with migrating from X11 to Wayland is that the system as a whole will become more brittle due to the merger of the display …Arcan
📏 LA PARADOJA DE LA MEDIDA PRECISA 📏
🪵 Encima de una mesa tenemos dos palos de diferente longitud. Los vamos a medir con un instrumento que cada vez que lo usamos comete un error de medida aleatorio, de una cierta magnitud que llamaremos Sigma. El instrumento se equivocará más o se equivocará menos aleatoriamente cada vez que lo usemos (con un error diferente en cada caso), pero el error en la medición siempre será en torno a Sigma unidades. Eso sí, el instrumento está INSESGADO, es decir, el error es aleatorio pero centrado en el valor real; no tiene una desviación sistemática que ocurra siempre.
❗ Podría parecer que la mejor estrategia es medir cada palo individualmente… pero no. Gracias a una investigación desarrollada por Harold Hotelling en 1944 sabemos que hay una manera más eficiente de medir los dos palos sin tener que darle más vueltas de la cuenta y consiguiendo mayor nivel de precisión.
💡 El error de medida aparece en muchos instrumentos de todo tipo que utilizamos en nuestro día a día.
🧑💻 Código de la simulación: github.com/picanum/misc/tree/m…
#estadistica #divulgacion #matematicas
Repositorio para subir código que no tenga cabida en otras temáticas - picanum/miscGitHub
This is Nathan. Nathan is trying to make money by offering overpriced domain names which are otherwise free for registration.
Don't be like Nathan. Get a real job.
🚩Red flags in supply chain security
- "There is a significant amount of unaccounted for mass”
- Hezbollah noticed the battery was draining faster than
expected
- Salesperson who conveyed the offer made a very inexpensive proposition for the pagers, and kept bringing the price down until he was pulled in
reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PA…
An invisible detonator and wafer-thin plastic explosives turned batteries into bombsSimon Scarr (Reuters)
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
in reply to R. L. Dane • • •Oh noooooo. If you report this on bugzilla.mozilla.org and shoot me the bug number, I do my best to bump this to the team!
(And trust me, this typist just got her first pair of bifocals. We get the challenges that come with experienced eyes!)
R. L. Dane
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •I hadn't really thought of it in terms of a *bug*, but you know, it *is* awfully hard to see.
I don't have time right now to grab the nightly and go through the proper bug reporting procedure, but if I get a chance to tomorrow, I'll let you know.
Thanks again! :)