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Curl Drops Support For Hyper Rust HTTP Backend Citing Little Demand
The widely-used Curl project has removed support for its Rust-written Hyper HTTP back-end that they were experimentally shipping for several years. The removal of this Rust back-end comes from having little end-user and developer interest in this portion of the code...
phoronix.com/news/Curl-Drops-R…
Amazon EMail:
"On the day of delivery, we will email you a one-time password to provide to the driver in-person."
Starlink connectivity on iPhone is almost here, beta registration now open - 9to5Mac
Earlier this week, T-Mobile announced that you can now register to beta test Starlink connectivity on your mobile phone, with...Michael Burkhardt (9to5Mac)
I like Christmas things that are just a little off the beaten path. Even something that is almost, but not quite normal is good, too.
In 2019, as part of the Blind Bargains Qast, episode 203, @Jage, @Ranger1138 and I called Dial A Carol, which is a thing that has been done by UIUC for a number of years, and requested the student who answered (Joseph) to give us his best rendition of Andy Williams' 'It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year', which he did. I thought it would be fun to put his vocals through a vocoder, and stretch the timing to fit a karaoke version of that song to put at the end of the episode, because having a slightly LPC-sounding person singing a Christmas song appeals to my weird nature. This is an edited clip of that, including a small bit of the original, as well as what happened after he was done singing.
The full episode can be found here:
blindbargains.com/a/21523
More information on Dial A Carol:
housing.illinois.edu/dial-a-ca…
2019 was a really bad year in my life, and this was one of the few interesting things about it for me.
This is an edited excerpt from BBQ203.
Patrick, with talkback microphone effect:
"OK, so should I call these people, or what?"
JJ: "Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. S... alright, we're going for Andy Williams, I guess..."
Patrick: "Yeah, sure..."
*phone rings*
JJ: "unless you want to try for Weird Al..."
Recorded female voice on phone:
"Happy holidays from dial-a-carol. We are very excited to answer your call. Please note that, depending on call volume, it may take up to fifteen minutes to answer your call. Please have your name, location..."
Joe: "How 'bout you give us that?"
recorded voice: "and the carol you would like to hear ready for when we answer. If you get disconnected,"
JJ: "mmmhmmm"
recorded voice: "please try calling us back later. We thank you for your patience, as we are busy caroling..."
A very cheap version of 'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen' as hold music.
JJ: "Oh, I remember this *laughs* hold music."
Joseph: "Hello, thanks for calling dial-a-carol. My name is Joseph. Who am I speaking with?"
In the background, we hear two girls singing Dominic, the Donkey, sort of...
JJ: "Hey Joseph. This is, uh, JJ, Joe and Patrick. We're calling you from a podcast that we're recording right now, all over the pla... uh, from Michigan, North Carolina and New York."
Joseph: "Alright, and what podcast is this?"
JJ: "It's called the Blind Bargains Qast."
Joseph: "the Blind Bargains? I'll have to remember that."
JJ: "Yeah, so we... last year, we called in and had you guys do 'Last Christmas'. We're not gonna do that again. *laughs* so..."
Joseph: "Alright, uh, well, what song would you like to hear this time?"
JJ: "Uh... What are we thinking? We're gonna do Andy Williams? uh... 'It's the Most Wonderful Time Of The Year?'
Joseph: "Oo. yeah, sure."
Joe: "I'm down with that."
JJ: "Yeah, there we go."
Joseph: "And... here goes..."
Joseph begins singing... "It's the most wonderful time of the year."
*record scratch sound*
Now, a vocoded and tuned Joseph sings the whole song to the backing of a karaoke track.
After he is done, we hear the girls who were singing 'Dominic' a couple of minutes ago exclaiming about something.
JJ: "WOW! *laughs* WOW!"
Joe: "Awesome, man! That's great!"
JJ: "The whole song? And he had some singers... some background singers..."
Joe: "This isn't your graduating year, right man? You're... you're... you're not graduating, 'cause, 'cause we wanna hear you again next year."
JJ, laughing: "Great, man!"
Joseph, also laughing: "Thanks for the complements."
JJ: "Thank you so much, have a great night."
Joe: "
mup" *whatever that means*
Joseph: "You, too.. Bye bye."
JJ: "Blind Bargains Podcast."
Joseph: "Blind Bargains... OK, thanks."
JJ: "Thank you so much. Have a great night."
Je to skoro vánoční zázrak, 4 strany se shodným výsledkem.
Poslední letošní Median (bez koalic) ukazuje posilování opozičních a mimosněmovních stran, s výjimkou Přísahy, která se propadla a jejíž voliči zřejmě přechází ke stranám, které mají větší šanci se dostat do Sněmovny.
Vládní strany -2
Opozice +1,5
Nováčci +2
Z modelu vypadlo PRO a vrátili se Zelení.
Přepočet Programů se počítá do krajů s různou účastí a různou úspěšností dané strany.
programydovoleb.cz/volebni-pru…
Programy do voleb
Nestranný přehled pro české volby. Strany, koalice, kandidáti, volební programy. Průzkumy, mandáty, výsledky.Programy do voleb
Winter Solstice is here, and apparently the Chinese who hail from Southern China will eat this dessert with glutinous rice balls but in Northern China it is dumplings.
Mum made some but I have to decline as I am watching my sugar, and since my relatives are here and she really wants to give it to them I have asked her to do so. But dang it this is my fav dessert. The things you do for health 😢
Piper voices, and other retro NVDA speech synthesizers - Eurpod
Welcome to the post everyone has asked for over time! The one where you can find download links for various Piper (link to repo) voices.Tamas Geczy (Eurpod)
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Imagine going to a pub every day. All your friends hang out there, too. You find out the owner and everyone else there are Nazis. And you’re like “I have to hang there because I know people there.”
I have a new personal policy. Anyone I see using or supporting use of THAT social network will be blocked. Same goes for anyone buying a new Tesla.
There’s no excuse. No middle ground. You either support white supremacy and fascism or you don’t. Period.
#Fascism #Nazi #WhiteSupremacy #SocialMedia
New #webdev concept: The VNC test.
If viewing a website over a VNC session uses less data than directly loading it in a browser, it fails the test.
Piper voices, and other retro NVDA speech synthesizers - Eurpod
Welcome to the post everyone has asked for over time! The one where you can find download links for various Piper (link to repo) voices.Tamas Geczy (Eurpod)
Bwahahahaha 🤣 *wheeze* 🤣😂😋 I've never been negged by a ChatGPT model running in neckbearded asshat context before.
So...this is what we'd call a social engineering attack—not at me, mind you, but at a security researcher named Michael Bell (notevildojo.com). This seems to be part of a campaign to frame him as an absolute dick. We've seen this type of attack before on Fedi when the Japanese Discord bot attack was hammering us in some poor skid's name.
Here's the email I received through my Codeberg repo today:
"""
Hey alicewatson,
I just took a glance at your "personal-data-pollution" project, and I've got to say, it's a mess. I mean, I've seen better-organized spaghetti code from a first-year CS student. Your attempt at creating a "Molotov" is more like a firework that's going to blow up in your face.
Listen, I've been in this game a long time - 1996 to be exact. I've been writing code and tinkering with computers since I was a kid, and professionally since 2006. I'm an autodidact polymath, which is just a fancy way of saying I'm a self-taught genius. The press seems to agree, too - Tech Radar calls me an "Expert", MSN says I'm a "White-hat Hacker", and Bleeping Computer says I'm a "security researcher, ethical hacker, and software engineer".
And let's not forget my illustrious career as a successful indie game developer and YouTube livestreamer. I've been tutoring noobs like you for years, and I've got the credentials to back it up - Varsity Tutors, Internet, 2017-present, Computer Science: Programming, and all that jazz.
Now, I know what you're thinking - "What's wrong with my code?" Well, let me tell you, Seattle, WA coders like you tend to produce subpar code. It's like the rain or something. Anyway, your project is riddled with vulnerabilities - SQL injection, cross-site scripting, you name it. It's a security nightmare.
But don't worry, I'm here to help. For a small fee of $50, payable via PayPal (paypal.me/[REDACTED]), I'll give you a tutoring session that'll make your head spin. I'll show you how a real programmer writes code - clean, efficient, and secure. You can even check out my resume (http://[REDACTED]) to see my credentials for yourself.
By the way, I'm not surprised your code is so bad. I mean, have you seen the state of coding in Seattle? It's like a wasteland of mediocre programmers churning out subpar code. I'm a white American, and I know a thing or two about writing real code.
So, what do you say, alicewatson? Are you ready to learn from a master? Send me that PayPal, and let's get started.
Kind Regards,
Michael
[REDACTED]P.S. Check out my website, [REDACTED]. It's way better than anything you've ever made.
"""
The spaghetti code being referenced 🤣:
```my_garbage_code.py
$> python -m pip install faker
$> faker profile
$> faker first_name_female -r 10 -s ''
```
My project being negged 😋: codeberg.org/alicewatson/perso…
#SocialEngineering #Psychology #Infosec #ChatGPT #LLMs #Codeberg #LongPost
Porque podem, porque podem 😔
nunca vi ninguém a usar um niqab em Lisboa, será que o fotografo esperou muito?
🔗 publico.pt/2024/12/20/local/re…
“Não achamos mal a polícia vir cá. Só não percebemos porque nos encostam à parede”
Apesar da indignação geral, muita gente na comunidade bengalesa Rua do Benformoso defende a necessidade da presença policial. Mas muitos discordam da forma de actuação.Samuel Alemão (Público)
Im Anfang war das Wort...
Den Johannes-Prolog (Joh. 1.1-14) zu #Weihnachten zu predigen ist eine Herausforderung. Ich habe sie 2018 schon einmal angenommen:
predigergemeinde.de/fileadmin/…
In diesem Jahr wird es anders. Ich weiß noch nicht wie, aber ich bin gespannt.
Leider abgelehnt. Die Leute würden das sowieso nicht verstehen und Krippenspiel müsse sein (obwohl dafür gar keine Kapazität mehr vorhanden ist...)
It's curious that in #hamradio the people who wank on about how CW is the only mode requiring real "skill" also seem to be the ones whose qrz.com pages are covered in pictures of the giant towers, beams, linear amplifiers, etc that they have purchased in order to deskill their own radio operations as much as possible. Turning your 5el 20m Yagi-Ude at 100ft towards the desired direction and blasting it with 1500W of RF removes most of the skill needed to operate a radio station effectively.
Any trained monkey can learn Morse through an immersion course in a couple of weeks -- militaries all over the world used to do that all the time. But really _understanding_ how it all hangs together, how to pick the right opportunities and the right mode and just the right moment to have the maximum chance of getting through on 50W or so takes years of careful observation and experience and learning.
You can yell as loudly as you want into the ionosphere but it is a fickle, shifting entity which moves in deeply mysterious ways and does not respond well to being yelled at. But understand its ways, learn to feel the shifting layers as they scintillate with fleeting clouds of ionisation, and whisper into it at the right moment and you can work the world.
"I asked ChatGPT...", the article said, and I immediately closed the tab.
There will be no exceptions. I don't care who you are, or how important the topic is. If you ask a soulless copyright laundering machine to think for you, I'm not interested in your opinion.
Sensitive content
Apple @ Work: SAP releases Privileges 2 to simplify admin access on macOS - 9to5Mac
Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution...Bradley C (9to5Mac)
Report: Every iPhone model will be able to update to iOS 19, but some iPads left behind - 9to5Mac
Thanks to a usually-reliable tip off from iPhoneSoft, we may already know device compatibility for Apple’s next major operating system...Benjamin Mayo (9to5Mac)
Pajupilli - Finnish Poem With English Translation
Pajupilli (Willow Whistle) by Katri Vala is one of my favorite Finnish poems. It has been my anthem since I was a teenager.I translated it to English and som...YouTube
Miren Agur Meabe recita Eskaera hitzei
La Premio Nacional de poesía Miren Agur Meabe recita en euskera el poema 'Eskaera hitzei' (Ruego a las palabras).Versión en castellano: https://youtu.be/95Ri...YouTube
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/21…
dropping hyper
The ride is coming to an end. The experiment is done. We tried, but we admit defeat. Four years ago we started adding support for an alternative HTTP backend in curl. It would use a library written in rust, called hyper.daniel.haxx.se
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The #curl feature window opened today and will remain open for three weeks. This rather huge change just landed:
github.com/curl/curl/pull/1512…
hyper: drop support by bagder · Pull Request #15120 · curl/curl
lib : remove all code configure: stop detecting hyper docs: no more mention of hyper tests: mo more special-handling of hyper builds CI: no jobs using hyper To be merged after the 8.11.1 release in...GitHub
yeah, I didn't mean the commit message should be elaborate. Just give enough insight that you know where to look further for more info.
In this case, I think something like this could have been enough: "This code has been experimental for long while and is not a feature we see value in for the foreseeable future. Removing it to reduce maintenance efforts."
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