Yesterday I arrived from Cyprus back to Slovakia. I was there with my wife on a holyday. I feel littlebit tired because of 2-hour time difference. Now I am browsing all recordings and here is one from the airport: audiopub.site/listen/47ffd775-…
A reminder that your meetings and other events may be an hour early or an hour late, given the clock was moved an hour back in some parts of the world.
Zatímco v Česku máme už odvoleno, v Nizozemsku to ve středu propukne. Přestože v tomto případě volit nemůžu, proces voleb mě fascinuje tím, jak moc se liší od toho českého.
I Nizozemsko brzy čekají volby do poslanecké sněmovny. Na každém rohu je vidět obrázek červené tužky coby nástroje, kterým voliči určí další směřování země. Ačkoli se voleb nemůžu účastnit jako volič, jejich organizace mě zajímá.
If you, like me, only discovered today that yt-dlp exists, you might find it confusing. It's a powerful video downloader and converter, but it has a LOT of command line options. Oh, and there's no GUI. I found this page to be a great way to find commands for what I wanted to do and get started more easily: ostechnix.com/yt-dlp-tutorial/
This comprehensive yt-dlp tutorial lists the most common yt-dlp commands for downloading videos and audio from YouTube and various other websites on Linux.
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Welcome to the twice annual International Zone of Time Zone Shenanigans, where the US and Europe disagree on whether daylight savings is in effect, and nobody knows what time their transatlantic meetings are.
Kdo by si býval pomyslel, že budeme žít v roce 2026 pod fašistickou vládou? Je to ostuda. To samé se chystá v postmacronově Francii a v Německu. Nejhorší to je v USA.
When I was around 13, my Dad bought a pet snake. It had some sort of birth defect where it was missing one of its eyes. Cue me going around school obliviously bragging about "my Dad's one-eyed snake" not knowing why all the other kids and staff were laughing so hard.
U.S. to photograph Canadian travellers when they enter and exit at all land borders, airports cbc.ca/news/business/u-s-photo… CBC by Sophia Harris - Just in case you needed another reason to avoid travelling to the United States #USA - now all #canadians will be included with other international travellers in having their photographs taken for #biometric scanning. You have right to refuse until December 26th after that the new rule stands. #privacy #authoritariannation #cdnpol #uspoli
As someone who traveller from Canada with an EU passport for over a decade, I'd say "welcome to the party".
I remember Canadians being in denial when I was telling them I was treated like a criminal at the border and that I was over reacting. (I didn't go willingly to the US back then either)
@stephanie yeah but when I was saying "I don't go to the US because I get treated like a criminal being fingprinted and mugshot" I was told by Canadians I was overreacting because it didn't happen to them. So allow me a bit of schadenfreude.
I think it should all start by pushing the cowards in our Government to apply reciprocity... But Europe hasn't even done it. They should have by 2004 started fingerprinting any US passport holder entering Schengen. I'm sure Americans would have been outraged. And impose the same passport requirements. (it's another story that had it been in 2025 I have been put on ICE, in orange jumpsuit)
Tarmageddon is a great example of why RUSTSEC tracks unmaintained crates/libraries and why such unmaintained projects are very much security-relevant: edera.dev/stories/tarmageddon
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the very idea of Open Source was always a radical left leaning ideological stance.
You're GIVING AWAY labor to the tune of millions of dollars because of some notion that we'd all be better off together if we didn't have to re-write the same dang components over and over again.
Of course members of the Open Source community are going to get political. We always have been.
Explaining why I push back so hard on the question: "Why do you want millions of people on the Fediverse?"
If I ask people "Are there racists on Twitter?" People will say "Yes, lots!"
If I ask, "Does the owner of Twitter have the power to define moderation rules that allow racism but ban criticism of they choose to do so?" People say yes.
If I ask people, "Do the owners of Twitter have the possibility to algorithmically control what people see, and what gets amplified / shadow-banned?" People will also say yes.
If I ask, "Do you believe that the Fediverse offers an alternative to centrally controlled, algorithmically defined, social media?" People agree.
If I ask, "Do you think Black people that don't want to be on Twitter, deserve access to a better form of social media than what is available on Twitter?" People agree.
So far, so good! 👍🏿
But then when I say, "Are you aware that at peak, 1 in 5 Twitter users was Black, and 1 in 5 Black people in the US was a monthly active Twitter user?" Fewer people know that stat.
There were ~300,000 Black trans Twitter users that used the service monthly. Almost none of them are on the Fediverse.
Black people deserve safety. Black people deserve access to more choice in social media.
Decentralized social media is not zero sum. Adding Black people and making the Fediverse safer for them, does not need to take away from your experience.
Your instance doesn't need to go from 100 people to a million people to accommodate the influx of new users.
That's the logical explanation of why we should make the Fediverse safer for everyone. But... why push back so hard?
One of the problems with the world in general, and the US in particular, is that we often prioritize white *feelings* over Black *safety*. I am not gentle about pointing this out. Tiptoeing around this phenomenon is tiring for Black people, and I won't do it.
Black people are not safe on Twitter or Mastodon. The difference is that we as a community of people of all backgrounds, have agency to improve Mastodon.
We can make Mastodon safer without breaking the experience for existing users.
“Hi! Your OS here! See that red badge demanding your attention?”
"What is it?”
"It's sports news! Isn't that great?”
"I don't give a shit about sports. How do I turn it off?”
"If you're not interested in sports, you can customize the alerts to show something you ARE interested in.”
"I'm interested in an OS that does what I tell it. One that works for me. That doesn't track me or try to ‘maximize engagement’ or sell me crap or nag me about using AI or whatever. Got anything for that?”
For a few years I've been aware of this website that purports to be able to unlock shopping cart wheels using the speaker on your phone, but i finally had an excuse to try and and i remembered in the moment.
A woman was outside the grocery store struggling to move her shopping car that was stuck because two of the wheels were locked
I remembered the website! So I put my phone near the wheels and played the sound. The wheels unlocked like magic. She was very happy. So cool.
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Governments are very well aware that UBI would save money and make everyone happier. The *only* reason nobody has implemented it is because employers would have to stop taking the piss out of their staff and the resulting adjustment period would be tumultuous to say the least.
Whenever you see one of these terms, or derived ones, stop and think: Does the writer actually know what they mean and use them in their literal meaning, or just to spice up the text or headline? And if the latter, how much else of their text might then just be made up? Sure, the initial use might be ironic, but quotes from the text might spread as factual.
(Edit: I will continue editing this list for a while according to my thoughts and your comments and suggestions.)
equation exponential industrial strength metric military grade quantum leap state of the art tactical theory weapons-grade zero-tolerance
More? Must be lots of these in Economical Sciences, Psychology, Medicine, etc.
I work in a physics-heavy company, and whenever management use the term "quantum leap" everyone rolls their eyes. You want us to make a change so small that it's impossible to measure? Err, ok I guess.
These were my answers. I’m sure they’re career-limiting, and who knows if they’ll change any outcome of anything, but sufficiently advanced spite is indistinguishable from imagining Sisyphus happy.
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025
Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed AI strategy.
@archos je to snad raději ani nechci komentovat. Ale víc nestihnu. Rodina s tchánem budou vařit až odpoledne a to já už budu zase na cestě do Londýna. Prakticky žiju na čínských nudlích a kofeinu.
#golang is undoubtedly my favorite programming language. It's fast, elegant, while it has a KISS approach with a very minimalistic syntax and lots of other things that should be the standard in 2025. As a scripting language, when less power is enough, Lua is definitely great for when all you want to do is design, rather than worry about low level things.
Then #Odin came along, still very young and very basic when it comes to available libraries and tools, but the language keeps many things that are great about Go, adds manual memory management so it's great as a systems language, as well as makes C interop more seamless.
Without these languages existing today, coding would be very bleak indeed, having to put up with a lot of things that should not be a requirement if you want to just write code. Just to mention a few: bloated build systems, declarations, header files, needlessly complex syntax, spending hours on writing wrappers and documentation, and setting up cross-compiler toolchains.
Why is this important? Because when you code, your brain is in problem solving mode. You focus on the design, the mechanics. While you do that, other parts of your brain have to deal with creating build XMLs, focusing on the syntax (how best would it be to implement this based on what you have). If you use a language which is not constrained, the cognitive load increases and you could spend more time working on something even if it's not obvious why.
Now the question is, am I a better Go programmer because of Odin? My answer is yes. I get everything I wanted from C in a very simple and elegant way. For constrained, very low level things where memory management is crucial, Odin works perfectly. If this is less important, Go is great. I don't need anything else except scripting, for even faster design, e.g. when writing a game specifically. That's my current stance in 2025, but I'm very curious to see if this will ever change. Because I think I found the best approach that works for me.
On Tuesday 10:00 CET I will do a live-stream and record a completely egocentric and very important video showing off and comparing at least six awards that I have received. Two being gold medals.
I'm Daniel Stenberg, maintainer and lead developer in the curl project. I stream curl related stuff. Release presentations, curl development and related topics.
I'm looking for a non-amazon reader for e-books. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Open to all suggestions but ideally something that doesn't tie me into a particular platform and lets me read indie-published as well as mainstream published books.
I'm an author so have no issue paying for ebooks through online bookshops. While I am trying to avoid giving money to amazon, I am very happy to keep paying authors and publishers!
@Tutanota@mastodon.social Hallo. Ich habe momentan den Premium-Tarif, den es offiziell nicht mehr gibt, da kann ich insgesamt nur eine einzige Signatur für alle Adressen verwenden und auch nur eine einzige eigene Domain hinzufügen. Da ich inzwischen mehrere Domains habe, reicht mir dieser Tarif nicht mehr aus. Bevor ich jedoch zu einem anderen Anbieter wechsle, informiere ich mich HIER über einen größeren Tarif von euch, da es auf eurer Website leider viel zu wenige Informationen gibt. Euer Forum in Reddit einzurichten ist auch eine sehr fragwürdige Entscheidung in Bezug auf Big Tech, Datenschutz und Privatsphäre.
Wenn ich Revolutionary buche, kann ich dann jeder E-Mail-Adresse, Aliase und Domain jeweils eine eigene Signatur hinzufügen? Wenn ich auf Tarif Upgrade gehe, zeigt es mir lediglich eine jährliche Vertragslaufzeit an. Wenn ich ohne Anmeldung auf die Seite gehe, kann ich auch monatliche Vertragslaufzeit auswählen. Warum nicht als Bestandskunde?
Hey there! Thanks for reaching out. If you switch to Revolutionary, you can have a custom signature but for now it's still not possible to add separate signatures for each email address. When checking the upgrade plans have you gone to Settings > Plan. From there you can change your payment interval to monthly, and then click to change plan. It will then let you choose monthly or yearly. Apologies for this confusion, we have let our team know of this.
Over the last few days I put some effort into getting SayTheSpire under active development again. After digging myself head-deep into the source code I finally managed to get basic Downfall support running again. You'll have to run the Downfall official beta version though, as the official release doesn't support controller andkeyboard input when selecting the starting room. Anyway, for the time being, all new releases by me can be found here: files.toni-barth.online/d/cfae…
@patricus What is wrong with it? I'm using it regularly here and it works quite ok-ish. Not all of it works for sure, but we can play just fine so far.
@patricus Don't think so, it has been under development for quite a few years by now. Maybe Java 17 if we're lucky, but more like Java 11 if I had to guess. Anyway, at the time of writing this my favourite language is Rust. Its just the language I spent the most time with recently, and its so easy to write complex applications that need to utilize multiple CPU cores. Kinda opens the door to some really cool stuff.
one reason the Bootstrap design framework is so good is because it was built with the most basic accessibility from the get go. as far as i remember (when it was called Twitter Bootstrap), it was meant to work for nerds with poor vision ―most specifically asthigmatism― looking into tiny screens.
i have bad asthigmatism and only crisp white backgrounds make it easier for me to read screens. please make a ui theme option with white background
Fixes #19228
The current code checks if a line starts with . which doesn't match the RFC spec. Per RFC 2449, the CAPA response terminator is a line containing only a single dot (plus CRLF).
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