AudioRelay: Stream audio between your devices
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I spent part of today learning about Django-Unicorn as an alternative to Phoenix LiveView. Sadly Unicorn doesn't support push events- they just abstract away the AJAX calls and re-rendering.
Django Reactor does support events, but then you have to use async all over the place, and even then the components don't get state pushed to them, they send a message to the client which then makes an AJAX request for a state update.
Finally joined @Tutanota!
Another major step in de-Googling my life!
My week: lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel…
award, 8.16.0, all headers, major incident, keynote, EuroBSDCon
I love that on fedi I will frequently come across posts which say things like, "I'm switching my LobNar configuration from Dexxxxus to Qzzzzp, because while I appreciate the LBND support, Drippz doesn't play well with *screeching sound repeated seven times at precise intervals* and my ¿~™€€÷¿ port is 33759904.5 so I can't install 🍒🍒🍒 without voiding my warranty."
And I'll look at it and wonder idly what the fuck they're talking about, but I don't have to care, so I let it flow over me like the lifeblood of the universe, while secretly harboring the suspicion that no one, not even the poster themselves, knows what the fuck they're talking about.
Having been a professional computer toucher myself at one point, I appreciate cant and shop talk. That's part of the reason why I find fedi jargon so fascinating, because even though I vaguely know what some of it is talking about, it's all still mostly Greek to me, which is awesome.
I was #awarded Developer of the year yesterday (in Sweden).
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/09/13…
Developer of the year
Developers Day is a recent annual Swedish gala organized by the Stockholm-based company Developers Bay. This is its third year running.daniel.haxx.se
should've installed the LTSC version, it comes with none of the bloatware.
I can share a link to a certain legit website with a good guide (used it personally).
Dozens of things you can do to clean up a fresh install of Windows 11 24H2 and Edge
If you start using Windows 11 this year, you’ll want to know how to clean it up.Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
ChatGPT added MCP support on Wednesday.
ChatGPT leaked private Gmail data to attackers by Friday. 🤦♂️
Because #promptinjection is not a problem these "PhD level" AI assistants have solved.
Look at that calendar invite. That text is all it took for taking over someone's #ChatGPT connected data. Allowing the attacker to use the same #MCP enabled tools that are supposed to make AI useful at work.
It really is as stupid as @davidgerard keeps telling in Pivot to AI.
Gosh, why doesn't he just shut up and take care of his failing businesses? :)
Ah, last but not least, the congratulatory email ended with words “God bless you!”
That really gave it away! LOL
Re: last boost (cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog…), I wonder if Windows is also becoming less popular with blind kids. My immediate reaction was that they're an exception, because Windows still has the best screen readers. But my sample size of younger generations of blind people is too small for me to be sure.
Without checking, name the band behind Tubthumping, Enough is Enough, Mouthful of Shit etc.
Please reboost for sample size.
- Chumbawumba (64%, 314 votes)
- Chumbawamba (35%, 170 votes)
RIP pthread_cancel() in curl. It was an interesting adventure.
#curl
eissing.org/icing/posts/rip_pt…
RIP pthread_cancel
I posted about adding pthread_cancel use in curl about three weeks ago, we released this in curl 8.16.0 and it blew up right in our faces. Now, with #18540 we are ripping it out again.icing's blog
I think it's reasonable to declare that pthread_cancel() is effectively broken for any nontrivial use on contemporary OSes and it is unlikely to be fixed any time soon.
(I suspect it would actually be easier to cajole libc maintainers into adding an async friendly version of GAI() than to make GAI() cancellation safe.)
If you want a cancellable thing from which you can make blocking calls, the only near-universal option is subprocesses. Unfortunately there are reasons why in some ecosystems it is impolite for a library to start a subprocess.
I did not know or follow Charlie Kirk until I heard of his death recently, but man. All these people claiming the world would be a better place without him/such persons are not a single bit better than what they claim him to be. Crying around about how he hated people, or encouraged to it? WTF? Do you realise you're supporting that this guy got shot, murdered in front of his family? The world is broken. RIP and god bless.
Oh and before anyone thinks this is any sort of political statement, since he was also connected to Trump. I really don't like everything Trump does, firing disabled people from federal jobs, for example.
But honestly, hearing close family members say how it might've been better if the shot back then had hit him too, and even laughing at it...
I seriously have to wonder what's going on these days.
cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog…
Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)
Kids nowadays get Chromebooks at college, MacBooks for uni, use Android or iOS on their phones and game on PlayStation 5 and Switch. Windows is this legacy thing forced on them by old people in business.Cyberplace
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There's a famous computer joke that goes along the lines of "we needed 4K of RAM to send people to the Moon, and now we need <e.g. 4GB to keep a grocery shopping list>".
I think it is a fine illustration of the Jevons paradox in computing, and one of the "computing Murphy laws", known as the Parkinson's Law of Data - "Data expands to fill the space available for storage". I also think it's quite intriguing to highlight observations of a similar phenomenon related to compilers, especially in the context of #permacomputing
Yesterday I read a book on a minimalist compiler written in the 00's, having a remarkable footprint of merely 424 KB of RAM.
And then I thought about Turbo Pascal for CP/M that ran with 64KB of RAM. And then various compilers that worked on micros with 16KB or less.
And then I read about things like the ALGO compiler, an ALGOL clone, for a first generation/vacuum tube computer Bendix G-15 (yes, the one Usagi Electric has): 2160 words of 29 bit RAM, no more than 370 op/s.
The word “Allah” is rooted in the Aramaic “Alaha,” and linguistically similar to the Hebrew “Eloah.”
The word “God” is rooted in the early Germanic/Indo-European “gudan.”
In world political news that went under the radar over the past few days: the government of #Nepal has been overthrown by youths following a governmental move to block social media, and accusations of corruption.
A new PM was elected over #Discord, and has been accepted by the military. They aim to hold elections within 6 months.
I repeat:
THEY ELECTED A NEW GOVERNMENT
OVER
DISCORD.
And no second ammendment was needed to rise up against against tyranny.
gizmodo.com/nepal-currently-be…
Nepal Currently Being Run Via Discord After Gen Z Uprising
They went from banning social media to being run by it.AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
Apple Watch Series 11's Increased 24-Hour Battery Life Has a Catch
Apple's claim that the Apple Watch Series 11 offers 24 hours of battery life has drawn scrutiny as closer examination of Apple's own testing...Hartley Charlton (MacRumors.com)
> Police investigators in Russia’s Kaliningrad region on Monday discovered the decapitated body of the CEO of a local fertilizer company.
> The chief executive, Alexei Sinitsyn, is believed to have died by suicide, according to a law enforcement source cited by the Vedomosti business newspaper.
Weird suicide bro
Things Charlie Kirk, dead Nazi, publicly stood for:
1. A few gun violence deaths
2. Making children watch public executions
3. Delighting in the deaths of one's political opponents
Things MAGA wants us to feel bad about:
1. Charlie Kirk died from gun violence
2. His children watched his public execution
3. We are delighted that he is dead
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