Corporate America is so toxic and such a scarring ever lasting experience that even places that try to do better and have a transparent, open, and collaborative approach are seeing as leadership against developers, with deep trust issues, and an ingrained instinctual approach of trying to read between the lines, even when nothing is hidden.
It's sad...so sad.

Cue the "you're a Director so you must make millions so go die in a fire" kind of replies

Every day I’m trying to do something that scares me.

Usually it involves making a phone call. 📞😱

Federal government moving ahead with Dayforce system to replace Phoenix

ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/fede…

I don't think I have anything nice to say. (yes Phoenix was a disaster)

Federal government moving ahead with new pay system to replace Phoenix

The days of the troubled Phoenix pay system appear to be numbered, as the federal government moves forward with implementing the new Dayforce system for human resources and payroll tasks.

^{Josh Pringle (CTVNews)}

Kleiner Service-Toot für alle die den Browser #Vivaldi unter Android nutzen: Laut einer Freundin ist dort offenbar kürzlich die Option verschwunden, mit der sich ein dunkles Theme für alle Websites erzwingen ließ. Die Einstellung ist aber noch in den Experimenten zu finden.

In die Adresszeile vivaldi:flags eingeben, und dort "Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents" auf enabled setzen. Browser neu starten, und schon ists wieder überall duster. 😀

We could say:

"look at these trillion dollar companies. That much money and they still fuck up, so how can some competition rise"

And we could also say

"Is this because they are trillion dollar companies that they fuck up like that? like they DGAF?"

I think it's the latter.

Well! I've definitely seen my share of "idiosyncratic" C styles omitting braces and exploiting corner cases in 30+ years of having to read other peoples' C code, but this is a new one.

I had not thought about what would happen if you left the braces off a switch. Because, of course, doing so would be utterly unhinged.

I give you: the world's most obtuse version of "if (x == A || x == b)", indistinguishable from an editing mistake.

I don't know why some people seem to take it as a given that you can't educate or persuade people, but I think it's a problem.

"Surely you can't expect [supposed type of person] to understand [idea]."

Well, not if nobody tells them.

I know we are tired of dealing with willful, malicious ignorance, but don't deny the reality that some people are able to learn new things & change their beliefs or behavior.

How do I know? That's me. That's my parents. That's my ex-evangelical friends.

Remember to nominate your heroes for the European Open Source Awards 2026. Do it here:

europeanopensource.academy/ope…

Unfortunately, the Chinese version of the Everything #curl book that launched five years ago is no longer available for purchase on Amazon.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/10/29…

Everything curl in Chinese

The other day we celebrated everything curl turning 5 years old, and not too long after that I got myself this printed copy of the Chinese translation in my hands! This version of the book is available for sale on Amazon and the translation was done …

^{daniel.haxx.se}

If you’re wondering the AWS and Azure outage impacts on the Fediverse - basically zero.

I’ve checked the Mastodon queues my end, no noticeable queue or failure rate for either incident.

There’s been a series of big world events over the last few years and the setup has been remarkably resilient too.

I used the LINE messenger for the very first time the other day. Downloaded from the official source, my goal was simple: a single, private chat with one person, which LINE claims is protected by End-to-End Encryption (E2EE).

Our "conversation" was minimal – mostly just test messages. One single contact.

A few days later, I log in to find my account has been temporarily (for how long? =)) blocked.

This raises a cognitive dissonance for me:

Promise vs. Reality: We're told E2EE means no one, not even the company, can read our chats. If that's true, on what basis was I blocked? I have to assume it's related to something in the chat, because I literally did nothing else in the app. But if it is E2EE, how could they know? Does this mean E2EE is just a marketing buzzword and monitoring is happening anyway? I'd genuinely like to know what the real factors are.

Absolute Opacity: This is the real issue. I received zero explanation. No email, no warning, not even a vague hint at which policy I "violated." And look, I'll be the first to admit I didn't read the 100-page Terms of Service – who does? But that's not the point. Even if I did technically violate some obscure rule, the core problem is the total lack of transparency. I was left with no idea, not even a guess, as to what happened. This opaque, black-box process is the real problem.

This situation is deeply concerning. What if I lived in a country like Japan, where LINE is the default, essential messenger? I'd just be cut off from my digital life without cause or appeal. And if this happens on LINE, what stops WhatsApp from doing the same? (And let's not even talk about Telegram, which is 100% cringe and a lost cause for privacy anyway).

My takeaway: To be honest, I went into this as an experiment, and this incident 100% confirmed my expectations.

This isn't just a LINE problem. We see it constantly from Big Tech like Meta and Google. They ban users, often with no explanation, because they have the full legal right to do so. We all agreed to this when we blindly clicked "accept" on their Terms of Service.

This is exactly why my advice is this: you must factor in this risk with all commercial messengers. When you use any private, centralized platform, you have to accept the fact that you can be denied service at any time, for any reason, and they don't even have to tell you why. That is the price of admission we all paid.

The promise of a "private chat" apparently doesn't include the guarantee of access to the platform itself.

#privacy #E2EE #LINE #messengers #transparency #BigTech #Meta #Google #ban #DigitalRights #PlatformRisk #ToS #experiment #FuckTelegram

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 13 updated and 1 added apps:

* Opening Hours Manager: allows you to manage the opening hours of your favorite stores locally 🛡️

RB status: 741 apps (57.5%)

4 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

And be prepared for a full load of Fossify updates tomorrow 🙈 (already confirmed RB)

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Tak jsem o těchhle dvou expertech přeložila už šest sešitů.
Napsaných v šedesátých a sedmdesátých letech, ale moji španělští kamarádi je hltali ještě v devadesátkách a od dětí okolo osmi let mívám pozitivní ohlasy i dneska.

Nevím, nakolik bych si Clevera a Smarta užívala jako čtenářka, ale na překlad je to velká zábava. Slovní hříčky s vizuálním doprovodem, parodie a dobové narážky, rýmovačky spojené s dějem. Pointy nesmí zaostávat za šílenou kadencí jednotlivých gagů, takže záleží na každé slabice, lexikální volbě i pořadí slov, aby to čtenáři aspoň trochu cvrnklo do koutku tam, kde absurdní humor třeba přechází do trapnosti.

Hrát se tu dá i s idiolekty: venkovanům, z nichž si Ibáñez rád utahuje, dávám do pusy prvky hanáčtiny. V prvním díle jsem se u záporáků Übermenschů hodně bavila germanismy, v pátém mám zase mafii, tak jsem trochu hrábla do italštiny. To mimochodem šlo mnohem víc ztuha, čeština má víc přirozených způsobů, jak v textu parodizovat němčinu než italštinu (pokud už italštinu úspěšně parodizujeme, tak většinou intonací, což se v textu dělá blbě).

Jsou to každopádně takové jazykové hlavolamy, ke kterým se s radostí uchyluju ve volných chvílích. Tak snad to ještě někdo ocení, třeba aspoň ty děti. 😊 Čtvrtý díl Kdopak by se býka bál vyšel nedávno v nakladatelství Crew.

Am I deciding literally two days before November that maybe it's time to do Novel Month again? Maybe? Because I have literally hundreds of other more important things to do, and you know I'm going to avoid doing critically important things in a timely manner by any means necessary.

Also, still hilarious that creative people hate AI so much that promoting it literally killed NaNoWriMo instantly and people just kept on doing the thing under another name.

"ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien."

Every person involved in this decision needs to be hit over the head with a copy of Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us" until they come to their senses.

404media.co/ice-and-cbp-agents…

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship

Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

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*kijkt naar de exit poll*

Zucht. Echt, mensen? Okay dan, jullie hebben erom gevraagd...

Hang Youth - Waarom stemmen jullie steeds op de VVD?

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WAAROM STEMMEN JULLIE STEEDS OP DE VVD

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