A good definition for "legacy code" is any code that you're afraid to change or update because no one at your company knows how it works anymore and there's no automated test coverage to tell you if your changes break it.
AI is only capable of generating instant legacy code. At scale.
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Despite the phone telling us rain will be coming, the mother-in-law looks at the sky, says she can't see any clouds, and decides to hang out laundry.
Next, a delivery person has clearly just come through a thunderstorm. This is obvious by the fact that they told us they came through a thunderstorm, with supplementary evidence including the fact they're dripping on the doorstep.
finally, she hears thunder in the distance. She decides it was probably something else.
I cannot fathom the sort of mindset this lady has some days. How many clear signs do you need that your nice, clean laundry will almost certainly be drenched shortly?
I took it in before my next work meeting.
A few minutes later, we had a torrential downpour. It's all but stopped, now, but there was enough to cause a re-wash if I hadn't.
Meta hires far-right influencer to help end 'Woke AI'
mashable.com/article/meta-ai-h…
Starbuck has built his reputation by going after companies and individuals embracing inclusivity.Chase DiBenedetto (Mashable)
Do my critically important, value-driven work supporting critical infrastructure and critical service delivery for which I receive an ungodly salary from a five year old laptop bogged down with bloat from IT so badly that it lags when scrolling web pages.
Do my fucking around building stupid shit nobody will ever use and playing stupid games on one of the fastest consumer-oriented desktop specs available.
I'll always find this funny.
Kyberpunková swingers party přináší čtyři delší povídky a v nich očekávatelný děj, jaký si kterýkoli čtenář série s doktorem Koskem nejspíš umí dobře představit.marek (Audiolibrix s.r.o.)
After over 20 years of only buying HP printers (because they work well in Linux) I finally got fed up by their anti-customer policies, their hard push against third parties, their heavily-overpriced, privacy violating ink cartridges and the planned obsolescence.
While not perfect, most certainly a lot better, so I ordered a Brother MFC-J5740DW. Reviews are pretty good, it does duplex, scan to cifs and works with Linux. Looking forward to it, shall write a small "review" in some days..
I have a different brother laser printer here and it generally does pretty well for a few years by now. 👍
(Like, I think the highest praise for a piece of tech you can give is: "Yeah it works, I don't think about it" :D)
@Bubu Yeah, I've read pretty good things about them, I am looking forward to it!
And it has two paper trays, that's a nice upgrade from the current one.
@Bubu
> Yeah it works, I don't think about it
Same here. Bought one of the cheaper brother laser printers (black & white only, with a flatbed scanner), and it works perfect since … years.
JEWS, PLEASE READ THIS
NON-JEWS, PLEASE READ THIS!
Harvard experts warn Diaspora Jews are suffering from ‘traumatic invalidation’ after Oct. 7
"They call it traumatic invalidation, a condition first studied a decade ago for victims of other traumas such as sexual assault who are told it's their fault or they should get over it. For Jews, the same label should apply, the authors found, because it involves what they describe as a stunning mix of silence, denial, blame, gaslighting, whataboutism, and exclusion, such as documenting many cases of Jews being told their grief does not matter because of what's happening in Gaza"
youtube.com/watch?v=JX4dFaIEEw…
Transcript here:
thecjn.ca/news/harvard-experts…
#Podcast #Antisemitism #MentalHealth #Jews #Abuse
The two therapists' worrying study was published in an academic publication in May 2025.North Star (The Canadian Jewish News)
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Ik zat vanochtend net een halve poging te doen om dochterlief naar Linux te helpen. Haar leptop is stuk dus dit is een mooi moment voor verandering.
Maar eigenlijk weet ik niks van Linux. Net zo min als de dochter heb ik veel zin in systeembeheren.
Ik zou wel tips willen welke tweedehands laptop geschikt zou zijn voor een verse Linux-installatie waar een eh, normaal mens ook mee kan werken.
Ik draai al jaren Ubuntu op mijn desktop, en mijn ervaring is dat de hoeveelheid systeembeheren ongeveer net zo veel is als bij Windows. Met als voordeel bij Ubuntu dat iemand het al voor je heeft uitgezocht en je een paar commando's in de commandline plakt die het in orde maken.
Grootste issue zal de software zijn -- als je Windows-only programma's gebruikt dan is het wel echt pielen geblazen. Maar Firefox (en dus ook alles wat via een browser kan) gaat prima.
Question: Are there freely available #GeoJSON files out there for the boundaries of the provinces/states of various Central European nations?
I need them individually, i.e. one for "Bavaria" one for "Tyrol", and so forth.
Canada needs a real environmentalist party not just "conservatives who recycle" with a green label.
A new version of MapComplete is out on mapcomplete.org
It has:
- a brand new theme was created by @RLin about infrastructure. If you like power lines, pipelines, street cabinets, then this map will be for you: mapcomplete.org/infrastructure
- More support for offline use (and even more is in the pipeline)
- various bugfixes
MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.mapcomplete.org
1 October @oscl examines open source and data as the foundation for Digital Sovereignty. A great opportunity to engage with the open source community in Luxembourg!
Register here: conference.opensource.lu/
View the agenda here: conference.opensource.lu/agend…
Goodbye Stranger.
RIP
RIP Rick Davis
Supertramp remain one of my favourite bands.
bbc.com/news/articles/cp98zg2k…
He was behind some of the band's best-known hits including Bloody Well Right and Goodbye Stranger.Ian Youngs (BBC News)
I haven't really gotten into their whole catalog, but "Breakfast in America" is one of my favorites. "Goodbye Stranger" is a 10/10 song, and "Bloody Well Right" off "Crime of the Century" is a favorite of mine as well.
I loved singing along to that one as a kid, cause singing "bloody well right" felt like cursing, but didn't get me in trouble.
LibreOffice Certified Developers LibreOffice Certified Developers are individuals who have proven their ability to master LibreOffice code: to develop new features; provide L3 Support to enterprise users; research and develop solutions to new or unkn…www.documentfoundation.org
Watch the official music video for Boulevard Of Broken Dreams by Green Day from the album American Idiot.🔔 Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com...YouTube
Berlin, 8 September 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.2.6, the sixth maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.2 family, available for download at www.libreoffice.org/download [1]. LibreOffice 25.2.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Changes in September temperatures in the #Arctic by decade. The largest warming is co-located with areas of melting sea ice, such as the along the Eurasian coast.
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds.f17050d7
ERA5 is the fifth generation ECMWF reanalysis for the global climate and weather for the past 8 decades. Data is available from 1940 onwards. ERA5 replaces the ERA-Interim reanalysis.doi.org
The other day me and @gregkh shot down a draft proposal to add a new role in the CVE ecosystem (SADP: "supplier ADP") that would append data to CVEs with details about dependencies and how they are or are not vulnerable to each particular CVE.
Imagine the amount of dependencies that use curl or the Linux kernel etc. These sweet innocent proposal makers thought in the terms of 5-10 dependencies per CVE. Not tens or hundreds of thousands which is far from unthinkable.
For your next coffee break listen : @bagder Keynote from #OpenSourceSummit hosted by The Linux Foundation is now available!
Listen to his key note now : youtube.com/watch?v=YEBBPj7pIK…
What will you gain from the keynote speech :
🔹insight into the growing challenges for Open Source maintainers, including lack of funding, questions of sustainability and AI race
🔹how can these challenges can be tackled while developing Open Source solutions
Don't miss out! Join us at the next Open Source Summit in Amsterdam, Netherland (August 25-29); or Seoul, South Korea (November 4-5). Join us at the premier ...YouTube
Gästinlägg av Oskar Edbro på Kryptera.se! Inlägget handlar om en ny CVE-tagg. Läs mer här:
Hi everyone,
The NVDA 2025.3 Release Candidate is now available for testing. We encourage all users to download this RC and provide feedback. Unless any critical bugs are found, this will be identical to the final 2025.3 release.
This release includes improvements to Remote Access, SAPI5 voices, braille and the Add-on Store.
Full details and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3r…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Update #NewVersion #PreRelease #FOSS #Update #News #Accessibility
For number lovers: during the past 31 days, the #IzzyOnDroid repo saw almost 800,000 APK downloads – which roughly corresponds to 18 APKs/minute, or 1 APK every 3 seconds. And that's only from our main server, not counting the mirrors (coming soon™).
Detail lovers can head over to stats.izzyondroid.org/ and dig in 😉
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danke ich schau mal.
Wir suchen gleich die Acrylbilder aus, was in der Ausstellung zu sehen sein wird.
Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.bbb.metalab.at
Remember this fun URL from three years ago?
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/09/08…
The other day I sent out this tweet As it took off, got an amazing attention and I received many different comments and replies, I felt a need to elaborate a little. To add some meat to this.daniel.haxx.se
I’ve gotta be real with you, @Tutanota: I love your work and your company, but you need to add Web Key Directory compatibility.
At this point, PGP/WKD support for a privacy-focused email provider has to be as fundamental as supporting TLS. Proton does not own PGP.
I simply cannot in good conscience recommend Tuta over Proton to people generally speaking, knowing that Proton users benefit from E2EE when they email me on my self-hosted email servers, as well as when they email plenty of other providers (Posteo, Mailbox.org). And that is a shame, because trust me I would love to be able to point anywhere other than Proton when I’m asked this.
Keep your superior encryption for intra-Tuta emails, absolutely. Give it a different UI indicator so people know the difference, I don’t care. At the end of the day, not at least silently supporting in the background the only decentralized email encryption method we have is antithetical to what email is all about: interoperability.
People have been asking you about PGP for 8+ years, I know Autocrypt used to be on your roadmap and now it seemingly no longer is.
There is a clear winner now, and it’s WKD.
Smartphone Sensors Unlocked: Turn Your Phone into a Physics Lab
hackaday.com/2025/09/07/smartp…
These days, most of us have a smartphone. They are so commonplace that we rarely stop to consider how amazing they truly are. The open-source project Phyphox has provided easy access to your phone’…Hackaday
Flights booked for #MatrixConf 2025! 🎉 Can't wait to see everyone in Strasbourg this October.
Tickets are still on sale, but space is limited so don't delay: conference.matrix.org/
Come along to see the latest and greatest progress in the Matrix world! From huge government deployments to the latest innovations, hang out with your peers to share the best learning, insights, projects and tips!conference.matrix.org
My keynote from Open Source Summit Europe 2025 is now up. 13 pretty packed minutes.
youtu.be/YEBBPj7pIKo?si=DBxSCF…
Don't miss out! Join us at the next Open Source Summit in Amsterdam, Netherland (August 25-29); or Seoul, South Korea (November 4-5). Join us at the premier ...YouTube
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prestávam chodiť skôr do práce lebo to už bývalo skoro o hodinu #dobréRáno a začínali sa objavovať názory že som magor.. čo ale nerozporujem
edit: no a mám hodinu k dobru ráno samozrejme
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Creo que ya estamos todos de vuelta.
48 hours to #curl release
At **4** open issues: github.com/curl/curl/issues
Working on a way to have #curl -w able to output the contents of all headers with a set name even from a redirect-"chain":
github.com/curl/curl/pull/1849…
By appending :all:[separator] to the header name. The [separator] string is output between each header value if there are more than one to output. Test 764 verifies Idea-by: kapsiR on github Ref: #...GitHub
Contact with Europeans in the 19th century first provided the Yapese at Palau with iron tools, that made the cutting and shaping of the stones much easier. Not much later, the Yapese made deals with Europeans to use their ships to transport the stones back to Yap. These arrangements enabled the manufacture of much larger and heavier rai stones, up to 4 meters in diameter, as well of a larger number of them. However, these "modern" stones were less valuable than more ancient ones.
Even stone money suffers from inflation.
Anyone know anything about these Mokerlink switches? I'm seeing products I can't find from other vendors. Nobody's really making small 8-10 port 10gbit gear
MokerLink Store - MokerLink 8 Port 10Gbps SFP+ Managed Switch mokerlink.com/index.php?route=…
That paired with this would be perfect for me
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4 x 2.5G Ethernet Ports, compliant IEEE802.3bz (2.5G) standard, support 10/100/1000M/2.5G adaptive. 2 x 10G SFP Port(compatible 1G/2.5G Module, not include SFP Module). 45Gbps backplane bandwidth, Port 1-4 support IEEE 802.www.mokerlink.com
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