Hey friends! It’s nearly time for #FOSDEM, the annual free and open source event in Brussels. This weekend, the Mastodon team will be based in building H.
We’ll be raising funds for the project with some of our merch - beautiful limited edition winter mugs, pins, and t-shirts. We’ll also have fun stickers to share for free, so you can show your support for Mastodon everywhere!
(just so you know: we’re a bit short on larger t-shirt sizes, so come early if you want to buy one of those)
Just finished listening to the flourish systems change podcast episode with Dan Hill. Much of the discussion was on #DarkMatter in urban design. Happy that he mentioned the work of @darkmatterlabs.org.
flourish-book.com/flourishsyst…
What does Dark Matter mean for Digital?
Sarah Ichioka speaks with Professor Dan Hill, a global leader working at the intersection of design, technology, and urban innovation.Shireen Marican (Flourish)
make #curl --url support a file with URLs?
curl.se/mail/archive-2025-01/0…
With my new PR, you can write "curl --url @file" and curl will download all the URLs in the provided file as if -O was used for each one of them. It can also get the list from stdin if you do "--url @-" in style with how other curl options work.
Google has confirmed a critical security threat for millions of Android 8, 9 and 10 users that could permanently kibosh your smartphone with a single malicious messageDavey Winder (Forbes)
If you ever had doubts whether technology is political:
github.com/orgs/community/disc…
(Short recap: Github CoPilot stops working if you have gender-related words in your code, anything related to sex and so on).
As some people already mentioned here or here, Copilot purposely stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from Github, such as gender or sex. I am labelling this as a bug because ...GitHub
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tl;dr: Microsoft and other email security scanners will visit the links in email you transmit, and run the JavaScript in those links, including calls that lead to POSTs going out. This used to be unacceptable, since POSTs have side effects.Bert Hubert's writings
As the #BambuLab users are slowly waking up to what blog.bambulab.com/firmware-upd… means, it's a good time to remind everyone that the writing has been on the wall from day one.
It's not a "told you so", mind. It's a "this will continue and get worse". #Bambu will continue to tighten the ratchet.
#Prusa is far from perfect, but they deliver reliable #3dprinting based on open source software at an acceptable cost.
And if you missed it: they allow you to maintain warranty with custom firmware again.
Launching first for X Series printers, with P and A Series updates planned for future releaseBambu Kidd (Bambu Lab Blog)
A propos of nothing, is there a way to verify since when #BambuLab has been blocking @internetarchive ?
It appears to apply to all of *.bambulab.com
Try it for yourself: web.archive.org/web/2025000000…
I have never seen this in my life.
I can think of very few things that are less trustworthy than blocking @internetarchive
Anyway, archive.is exists, so I did a thing:
* archive.is/NAIsu
* archive.is/fjmTe
I randomly stumbled across the answer why #BambuLab #3dprinting is blocking #internetarchive:
Someone on #Reddit complained about #BambuLab changing their warranty after they bought something and refusing service based on the new "terms". They used @internetarchive to prove that the change was made.
So obviously #Bambu did the right thing.. and blocked the #Internet #Archive...
It's not #enshittification if you do it from the start? :p
Vorsicht mit dem neuen @accrescent App-Store:
Das ist ein neuer alternativer Android-App-Store, der von sich behauptet, auf Privacy und Security fokussiert zu sein. Er wird auch über den @GrapheneOS Appstore angeboten.
Bei genauerem Hinsehen finden sich allerdings Apps, die Werbe- und Analysetracking enthalten, wie ich nach kurzer Prüfung feststellte.
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This is the first in a new series of monthly emails about what YOU can do to help out in the #curl project:
hey, on the topic of the curl mailing list: is it available via a public-inbox archive somewhere? I had a quick peek but didn't immediately see a link anywhere.
edit: just to be clear, this is only an inquiry, not a feature request
We have just confirmed that #curl up 2025 will take place in Prague over the weekend May 3-4.
Mark it in your calendars. Plan for it. We have started to add details to the wiki page of this year's event:
Mit der Spionage-App mSpy überwachen Menschen heimlich die Handys ihrer Partner:innen. Das ist illegal. Jetzt gibt ein Leak Einblick in die Kommunikation mit Kund:innen. Die zeigt, wie skrupellos die Täter:innen ihre engsten Bezugspersonen ins Visier nehmen – auch in Deutschland. #mSpyLeak
Der gute @lacrosse hat gestern bei @kuketzblog einen sehr umfassenden Artikel zur #ePA geschrieben, der viel sehr genau trifft.
kuketz-blog.de/hoffnung-als-st…
Es gibt darin einen wichtigen Aspekt, der oftmals nicht ganz so klar ist, aber daher will ich das noch mal kurz erklären, warum die Wurzel des Problems mit digitalen Großprojekten in Deutschland oftmals politisch ist. Ganz besonders bei der #ePA.
Ein Thread am Morgen. 🧵
Die ePA-Sicherheit wird trotz hoher Bedrohungen unzureichend adressiert. Politisch gewollte Komplexität und PR dominieren über echte Problemlösungen.www.kuketz-blog.de
Herzlichen Dank, liebe @bkastl, für diese superverständliche Erläuterung eines der politischen Grundfehler bei der #ePA. Ich bin ja auch schon lange unterwegs, um zu erläutern, wie sich politische Entscheidungsfindung ändern muss, um digital sauber umsetzbare und grundrechtlich haltbare Beschlüsse zu fassen
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Der gute @lacrosse@social.tchncs.de hat gestern bei @kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de einen sehr umfassenden Artikel zur #ePA geschrieben, der viel sehr genau trifft. https://www.kuketz-blog.Mastodon
Top #curl sponsors as of now. Friends!
(yeps, it is the exact same list of names I have showed for quite some time...)
Twenty-six years ago on this day when we shipped #curl 5.5.1, the changelog was easier to gather than what they usually are today: curl.se/ch/5.5.1.html
Two bugfixes listed.
Podobno jest boom na podrabiane dyplomy ukończenia wyższych uczelni. Młode pokolenie dochodzi do wniosku, że po co męczyć się kilka lat, skoro dyplom da się kupić, wygląda jak prawdziwy.
A pracodawca nie jest w stanie zadzwonić do uczelni i sprawdzić, czy dana osoba ją ukończyła, bo RODO...
Rozwiązanie byłoby proste: powszechna baza informacji o absolwentach uczelni wyższych, najlepiej z publikowanymi w otwartym dostępie pracami licencjackimi i magisterskimi. Żeby można było sprawdzić, co pan absolwent czy pani absolwentka rzeczywiście robili i czy pracy nie napisał im Chat GPT, albo Google. Ale przypuszczam, że wyszłoby przy tej okazji tyle szkieletów w szafie, że klasa polityczna na to nigdy nie pozwoli.
EDIT:
szczegóły (paywall)
wyborcza.biz/biznes/7,147743,3…
streszczenie (bez paywalla) finanse.wp.pl/chcial-kupic-w-i…
Czy można u państwa zrobić dyplom SGH? - zapytał w sieci dziennikarz "Gazety Wyborczej". Okazuje się, że w sieci bez pr…oprac. AS (WP Finanse)
Wystarczyły by podpisy cyfrowe na PDFach dyplomów (my w Polsce już mamy do tego infrastrukturę, wiele elektronicznych dokumentów urzędowych jest teraz autentykowanych w ten sposób).
Alternatywą jest jakiś QR kod i appka do weryfikacji, à la eDowód.
Scholz zu Holocaust-Gedenktag: "Müssen die Erinnerung hochhalten"
Kanzler Scholz mahnt, das Erinnern der jungen Generation an den Holocaust zu fördern. Zusammen mit anderen Spitzenpolitikern reist er wegen des 80. Jahrestags der Auschwitz-Befreiung nach Polen.
➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/a…
#Holocaust #Shoah #Auschwitz #Konzentrationslager
Kanzler Scholz mahnt, das Erinnern der jungen Generation an den Holocaust zu fördern. Er und andere Spitzenpolitiker reisen heute wegen des 80. Jahrestags der Befreiung des NS-Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz nach Polen.tagesschau.de
This project is aimed at developing and maintaining the NVDA IBMTTS driver. IBMTTS is a synthesizer similar to Eloquence. Please send your ideas and contributions here! - davidacm/NVDA-IBMTTS-DriverGitHub
![Fire Lord Ozai lies on the ground, defeated with Aang, The Last Airbender, stands before him.
Ozai: [my knees] Wh- What did you do to me?
Aang: [30th birthday] I took away your bending.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/631807 "Fire Lord Ozai lies on the ground, defeated with Aang, The Last Airbender, stands before him.
Ozai: [my knees] Wh- What did you do to me?
Aang: [30th birthday] I took away your bending.")
Liberux NEXX (crowdfunding): a Linux-powered phone that you've been waiting for with an 8-core CPU, 32GB RAM, 2TB storage, and zero data tracking.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Nobody should have to move to another country to be themselves. However, I’ve spoken to multiple people who feel they need to move away from theBen Werdmuller (Werd I/O)
What's new with Google Accessibility? Find out straight from Google From Talkback to live transcribe, workspace, and wallet!
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Welcome back to another episode of What's New in Google Accessibility, a series where we share the latest product and feature updates that help make Google m...YouTube
View Edward Lex Potter's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.Edward Lex Potter (www.firstcremation.com)
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The Eagles are headed back to the Super Bowl for the second time in three years after dashing past the Commanders in the NFC title game., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
"On Thursday, Republican U.S. Rep. Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma introduced a House Resolution to condemn [Bishop Mariann] Budde’s sermon. … Twenty Republicans co-sponsored the resolution."
~ Brian Kaylor
#Trump #Republicans #BishopBudde #ReligiousFreedom #ReligiousLiberty #WhiteChristianNationalism
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wordandway.org/2025/01/25/afte…
Amid the vitriol against Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde from Trump and other Republicans this week, a few proposals stick out since they attempt to empower the federal government to decide which religious beliefs should be allowed or not.Jeremy Fuzy (Word&Way)
"A Public Religion Research Institute study from the Fall revealed the strong connection between the role of patriarchy, attitudes on child-rearing, and religiosity that directly predict one’s support for both Trump and violent authoritarianism. We are all now hijacked by powerful men like Donald Trump, whose parental figures were mostly vindictive, cruel, or absent."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #Republicans #patriarchy #misogyny #abuse #violence #masculinity
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thelefthook.substack.com/p/who…
In recent weeks, notable conservatives have revealed their perversions and damaged personalities as they refer to Trump as America's daddy who has returned to punish and correct a disobedient nation.THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
The state of Michigan will now require each public high school in the state to offer at least one computer science course to its students.news.slashdot.org
💗 Resin heart centers
💗 Satin and Delica glass beads
💗 Ridged dentalium
Vnokeckv (Ah-no-gitch-guh) is Mvskoke for love/affection
Vnokeckv Flat Beadwork and Dentalium Earrings - cvkvlv.com/products/vnokeckv-l…
#Dentalium #Beadwork #CkvlvBeadwork #Native #Indigenous #Mvskoke
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daniel:// stenberg://
in reply to Greg K-H • • •baloo
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •@bagder some thinkpad require 135w or even 200w power bricks. I’m not sure about the 135, but the 200w I have predates (2021 model) the usb-c of standard that would allow that amount of power.
I think they now made the switch to usb-c