Spent a moment this morning reading some old Beautiful Soup bug reports and freshly appreciated my spouse. Example:

bugs.launchpad.net/beautifulso…

Leonard gives a calm and thorough explanation of why and how the issue emerges from another library, and how the reporter can pragmatically mitigate.

I'm just feeling mushy right now about the man I'm lucky enough to have married. 💞

Hello, Mastodon family! It's been a long time coming, but Xubuntu has officially left X behind!

x.com/Xubuntu/status/188675427…

If you're still using X, consider sharing our update to spread awareness. We'll continue to bring you the best of #Xfce and #Linux... all in one place.

(edit: because everything is confusing and nothing makes sense... we're leaving X, formerly known as Twitter, not X11. Wayland is still very much in the future!)

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Tomorrow at 9:00 CET I release #curl 8.12.0 live-streamed. What could possibly go wrong?

github.com/curl/curl/discussio…

#curl
in reply to Jonas Bernoulli

Please consider supporting my work! magit.vc/donate/

For the most part I only gain new maintainers when I add such a request to an announcement. During the quite phases I lose sponsors and while a few new sponsors join during the off-season, it's always fewer than those that stop.

This is what I think about whenever infosec wonks on here start telling people they should use matrix or xmpp+omemo or whatnot instead of signal

To be fair, I understand the arguments and to a large extent I agree with the critiques. However, I think anyone making these recommendations is vastly underestimating the capacity or appetite for most people to deal with the user experiences presented by these alternatives.

User experience is the ultimate force multiplier. For anything that requires network effects to function (ie most anything involving communication), if it doesn't *just work* then you've lost 90% of your audience.

xkcd.com/2501/

#matrix #xmpp #infosec #cybersecurity #signal #ux #design #ui #encryption #privacy #crypto

in reply to serious business

FWIW I have got my very non-technical mother (and other non-technical family users) to use Conversations by @daniel without much trouble.
Nowadays if people do not care about their phone number being their identifier, quicksy.im is what I recommend.

Tuta Desktop: Tu búnker digital para correos y calendarios ultraprotegidos

¿Cansado de elegir entre seguridad y comodidad en tu correo electrónico? Con los clientes de escritorio de Tuta para Linux, Windows y macOS, esa disyuntiva desaparece. @Tutanota

acortar.link/02oWS1

@Tuta

🚨 Security Alert: The new Outlook shares your password with Microsoft. And in 2029 you'll be forced to switch.

Why not switch now - but to a better alternative⁉️

➡️ tuta.com/blog/outlook-business…

Ruský prezident Putin svým dekretem přikázal obnovit hudební soutěž Intervize, která se konala v časech Leonida Brežněva. Konat by se měla ještě letos, aby tak nahradila mezi Rusy nesmírně populární hudební soutěž Eurovize. irozhlas.cz/kultura/hudba/rusk…
in reply to Sean Randall

#bookstodon
"what is magic if not a way to transform the world through the power of our thoughts? What are books if not spells? What are stories if not the most powerful and mysterious force known to man?"
Not since King of Morning, Queen of Day by Ian McDonald and Angelica by Arthur Phillips has a fantastic mystery had this sort of impact. I was very pleased to see that Dan's managed to do it again, in terms of writing a book without any actual narration, and I was even happier that the table of contents didn't give it away. Whoops? I've spoilered that for you now. I love this chalkboard-style of writing, the idea that this whole work is a huge tapestry of interconnectedness. I enjoyed every page, and I think the ending just clicks so well that, even if it's predictable, it's so hard not to cheer along and want things to fall out.

Brilliant book, best read of the year so far.

[Sean Randall’s review of Dreambound](goodreads.com/review/show/7295…)

GarminDB - Download and parse data from Garmin Connect or a Garmin watch, FitBit CSV, and MS Health github.com/tcgoetz/GarminDB

For those encountering random video playback application crash heisenbugs on the open source #AMDgpu #Mesa drivers on #Linux (thankfully, with #Wayland this no longer crashes the entire system), with the suspicious "CS has been rejected" error, here is the bug I reported upstream: gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/me…

The theory is that the DRM's implementation of AMD's Unified Video Decoder does not properly keep track of #Flatpak process IDs. A patch is underway.

#opensource #AMD #Radeon #GStreamer

Apple’s line of rhetoric here which agitates the supposed safety of children and blankets the entirety of porn and sexual contents with the term “hardcore porn” is exactly the kind of language you’d expect to hear from the mouths of conservative politicians and far-right extremists when they try to justify the eradication and persecution of marginalized groups online.

This encompasses a wide range of marginalized communities, from LGBT people, to sex workers themselves, who seldom live in anything other than deeply precarious conditions throughout their lives.

9to5mac.com/2025/02/03/apple-f….

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New post: “Which VoiceOver?”
adrianroselli.com/2025/02/whic…

Just because something behaves a certain way in VoiceOver doesn’t mean it behaves that way in VoiceOver.

#a11y #accessibility

reshared this

Update: The addition of leading silence detection and removal logic to NVDA's speech has been delayed to V2025.2.
github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/…
@NVAccess

„Die Polizisten gingen nah an mich ran, die Hunde sprangen mich an und bissen mich in den Oberarm“, schildert Krug die Situation. Sie sei geschockt gewesen und zurückgewichen. Wenige Sekunden später habe ein anderer Polizist seinen Hund gegen sie gehetzt – das ist die Szene, die man auf dem Video sieht.
Hundetrainer Martin Rütter nannte den Umgang des Polizisten mit dem Polizeihund „kompletten Wahnsinn“. taz.de/!6063531/

Great turnout today at the State of Open Con in London.

More discussion of procurement, regulation and the role of government.

stateofopencon.com

#SOOCon #StateOfOpen #SOOCon25 #FOSS #London #Drupal #CHAOSS

Musk se dostal k citlivým datům stamilionů Američanů. Tají ale, jak s nimi naloží
🔓
denikn.cz/1644057/musk-se-dost…

Opened new #email account at @Tutanota
No ads, no tracking, #encryption enabled by default, no bullshit. Highly recommended!
#degoogle #privacy
tuta.com/

‘Down there,’ he said, ‘are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.’

#Books
#TerryPratchett

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