This is what I'm sending to people who question the need for a new purchase in the Terminology update.
I like the idea of grandfathering some features, but I also realize for a niche app like Terminology to exist, its small user base has to be willing to support it.
Growth will not fund it, and I'm not willing to resort to after-market revenue-generating methods (e.g., ads, location selling) – so I have to ask users for money. It's that simple.
Drop what you're doing and read this incredible story, which recounts how a reporter for The Atlantic was inadvertently included in a private Signal discussion group that appears to have included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Sec. of State Marco Rubio and other administration officials discussing plans for an upcoming U.S. military assault on Yemen.
The reporter, Jeff Goldberg, said he was convinced it was all an elaborate hoax as they laid out the pros and cons of specific attack options, and discussed targets over the course of a week. That is, until they shared on the Signal chat exactly where and when the targets in Yemen would be hit, and then those targets got hit exactly when they'd said.
"The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen."
"I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.
"According to the lengthy Hegseth text, the first detonations in Yemen would be felt two hours hence, at 1:45 p.m. eastern time. So I waited in my car in a supermarket parking lot. If this Signal chat was real, I reasoned, Houthi targets would soon be bombed. At about 1:55, I checked X and searched Yemen. Explosions were then being heard across Sanaa, the capital city."
"I went back to the Signal channel. At 1:48, “Michael Waltz” had provided the group an update. Again, I won’t quote from this text, except to note that he described the operation as an “amazing job.” A few minutes later, “John Ratcliffe” wrote, “A good start.” Not long after, Waltz responded with three emoji: a fist, an American flag, and fire. Others soon joined in, including “MAR,” who wrote, “Good Job Pete and your team!!,” and “Susie Wiles,” who texted, “Kudos to all – most particularly those in theater and CENTCOM! Really great. God bless.” “Steve Witkoff” responded with five emoji: two hands-praying, a flexed bicep, and two American flags."
"I have never seen a breach quite like this. It is not uncommon for national-security officials to communicate on Signal. But the app is used primarily for meeting planning and other logistical matters—not for detailed and highly confidential discussions of a pending military action. And, of course, I’ve never heard of an instance in which a journalist has been invited to such a discussion."
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
What nobody is talking about yet is how badly this will damage our already frayed relations with our major allies, who will be rightfully horrified of sharing any sensitive intelligence with a bunch of bumbling nitwits sending thumbs-up emojis.
Of course, the White House claims no classified data was shared. What else would they say?
Calling Goldberg's coverage of this monumental and unprecedented OPSEC fail by a US presidential administration "sensationalist" is beyond the pale. Given the volume of sensitive information shared with him unsolicited via Signal, Mr. Goldberg's reporting demonstrated that he exercised remarkable restraint in not publishing a great deal of what he was given.
Whether it's sending Com kids in to monkey with taxpayer databases, setting up Starlink antennas on top of the White House complex for "faster Wi-Fi," or granting TS/SCI clearances to anyone without a thorough background check, this administration’s overall approach to security measures is to go around them, or just pretend they don’t exist for a good reason.
The administration is really hoping they can just sweep this one under the rug. That can't be allowed to happen, because this is not going to be an isolated event.
From the NYT:
"Two of the Trump administration’s top intelligence officials denied that classified information was shared in an encrypted group chat in which details of an attack on Yemen were discussed in the presence of a journalist who had been mistakenly added to the conversation."
"The Senate Intelligence Committee is holding a previously scheduled briefing on global threats with Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence; John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director; and the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel. Pressed repeatedly about the security breach, Ms. Gabbard and Mr. Ratcliffe both denied that classified material had been shared in the chat. Mr. Patel declined to say if the F.B.I. had begun an investigation."
"The White House also sought to downplay the serious nature of the extraordinary security breach, as bipartisan criticism of the incident grew on Tuesday and leading Democrats called for the resignation of the national security adviser, Michael Waltz, who set up the group chat, and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who reportedly shared classified war plans in it."
Here are the latest developments:
Defending Waltz: President Trump defended Mr. Waltz, saying in an interview with NBC News that the national security adviser had “learned a lesson” and suggested a staff member was to blame for including a journalist in the secret group chat.
Bipartisan criticism: The vice chairman of the intelligence committee, Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, denounced what he called “sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior” by the country’s top intelligence officials. Representative Don Bacon, Republican of Nebraska and a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, told reporters that the White House should “be honest and own up” to what happened.
"Damage control: The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said no classified material was sent to the group chat, and she attacked the journalist who revealed it, Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, as “sensationalist.” Her statement came a day after Mr. Hegseth suggested the leak was a “hoax” even as the White House confirmed that messages he sent to it appeared to be authentic."
iOS Game. If you like Braille and a challenge then you will like the game Brailliance! Its like a Braille Wordle. Each word is made up of so many total dots and so many letters; like 5 letters with 13 dots. So for this word, the dots from each letter will add up to be a total of 13 dots. And of coarse its totally accessible with Voiceover. So give it a try. Here is the link to it in the app store... apps.apple.com/us/app/braillia… #ios #game #Braille #Blind #Accessible #Brailliance
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"Pete Hegseth is by far the least qualified of any individual to hold a military leadership position in our country's history. He is an embarrassment to our service men and women," - Aure
The Trump regime Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
After the US has sent a military plane to Greenland with bullet proof cars for driving around Usha Vance, Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen says:
“This is an unacceptable level of pressure from the US, and we will push back. […] The Americans cannot claim, this is a private visit, and no one can read this independently of the statements from them, on their desire to annex another country. […] The future of Greenland is defined by the people of Greenland and no one else.”
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"[We are a]n age old Digital Marketing Agency operating over 10 years in the global market having its main office at AZ, USA. We exist for such a long only because we follow ethical business practices"
Yes, sure. VERY ethical, right? You'd never place tracking pixels into your mails for example, would you?
"Do you want me to send…" – Are you kidding? No, of course. I want you to stop that 🤦♂️
Apple announces WWDC 2025 for June 9-13, which will be an "entirely online" event free for developers, with an in-person special event at Apple Park on June 9 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
I have always been satisfied with Framadate and derivatives for quick and accessible event planning when it comes to finding a date that fits everyone. Well, the Austrian government has a tool of its own which is as accessible and it also offers the ability to book appointments, similar to solutions like Calendly or Fantastical. It's called Termino and like all things run by European governments should, it's got its own accessibility statement. Apart from the table where the number of participants voted for a given date choice being tricky to read due to wrong header cells' association, it lives up to the promise of compliance. I have reported that issue and received a response that they will look into it. Some texts, including the email messages, are also in German. I hope they can smooth that one out but otherwise it's there for everyone to use. termino.gv.at/ #Accessibility #Blind
Unfortunatley, after clicking "CREATE MEETING POLL", I get an "Error message" heading and screen reader alert that says: "Sorry, this service is not available in your country."
So, I guess Stephen Harper kept Pierre Poilievre from speaking freely when he had a security clearance for a decade as a Harper government™ cabinet minister?
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This release updates to Rustls 0.23.25 and increases the project minimum supported rust version (MSRV) from 1.71 to 1.74 to avoid a Rust compiler bug provoked by the ECH support in Rustls.
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This PR updates the rustls-ffi vTLS backend to use the ✨ literally brand-new ✨ rustls-ffi 0.15 release.
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Please, go get yourself a decent mic if you spend any time on Zoom/Teams/etc calls at work. It's not just for the rest of us — it's for your own impact and career. npr.org/2025/03/24/nx-s1-53344…
@DavidGoldfield This is excelent. So often people sound like they're talking from their bathroom or something. And it's become so acceptable now on the radio to use cheap mikes or speakerphones. From my hearing-loss perspective, I have to sometimes just give up on a webinar because I have no way of understanding.
Man, Joplin is so good. The issue is just remembering to use it! I'm just so used to opening notepad and writing random notes and saving them to a textfile somewhere and then losing the textfile.
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The reason they stopped doing this the last time is because people who thought they were Cis found out they weren't as Cis as they thought they were. And everyone else found out about it too, at the same time they did. Note also, it's only the Women they test, Trans Men are once again completely forgotten about.
Do you see the bigotry in all this, do you see it?
Sebastian Coe, president of World Athletics, says the governing body feels the mandatory tests for athletes are "a really important way of providing confidence".
Help. I am searching for a library allowing to draw chords graphs like those. I'd like it to work similarly to Mermaid or PlantUML, a tool that creates beautiful diagrams from text files. Preferably something that works through command line, accept a text file as input and deliver a PDF or image file.
Is there a way to say "I just think curl is cool, but if there are people who have actually done something for curl, and there isn't enough spots, they should have a preference"?
I would like to wish those who honor and celebrate it a blessed and happy feast of the Annunciation, where we celebrate the incarnation of God becoming man for all of us. ewtn.com/catholicism/library/f…
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I think my biggest issue with Zig is that documentation is basically non-existent or sorely lacking. I'm so used to Rust where the std is immaculately documented, and where commonly used libraries follow its example.
The official Rust book walks you through everything you need to know to understand to write real programs in Rust and when to use the different tools the language provides. Zig doesn't have much in the way of that. There's Ziglings, but these bite-sized examples don't give you a good concept of what a full program looks like or the footguns you can run into.
The lack of documentation combined with tooling that is woefully uninformative means that if you hit a roadblock, you can be stuck on it for a long time.
@zeenix I'd be interested in seeing how they arrived at that conclusion - perhaps we have different things in mind when we talk about tooling.
IMO Rust is the gold standard of programming language tooling. I prefer using it not just because of the memory safety or the performance, but because of the tooling.
@zeenix Rust has great developer tooling but all kinds of build related problems if you leave the common path and want other people than yourself be able to build your software easily. Mostly cargo (but if you don't use cargo you're on your own anyway), but also various issues related to rustc. Not going to re-iterate all those, I wrote often enough about that and you're probably also aware of various issues just for GNOME, which targets exactly 1 platform 🙂
For Zig people claim* it's so much easier in that regard and that people even use the Zig toolchain to easily get a recent C toolchain.
* I say claim because I never tried it myself. The language doesn't have anything interesting to me that would convince me to spend some time on actually learning it.
@slomo @zeenix That's fair, and Zig Build is definitely pretty neat in that regard. I think the dependency management story still needs some work though.
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