Maybe the real reason Big Tech turned on us is that their original plan was to monetize our search history by advertising things we were looking for, but we were all looking for things nobody wants to sell, like "better working conditions" and "social justice" and "affordable housing."
What I love is how Zohran Mamdani's father Mahmood found out about Marx.
"Soon after, he learned about Karl Marx's work from an FBI visit." -wikipedia
FBI guy said, “Do you like Marx?”
I said, “I haven’t met him.”
Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”
“Wow, what happened?”
“No, no, he died long ago.”
I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?”
“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.”
I said, “Sounds amazing.”
After a Con MP crossed the aisle yesterday... Another Con MP (who was rumoured to cross the aisle) has resigned. And that's after we've heard of talks of threats made to them from PP's team.
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(I really do hope they're not actually getting threatened... I want our politics to be better, damn it)
Me in math class 5 years ago: "dude, why am I learning logarithms, when will this ever be applicable in the real world"
Me recently: BASE_DURATION * log2 (1 + height / (BASE_DURATION * M_PI)) + BASE_DURATION
(Don't ask why this equation "works" or why a specific number or constant is there. Part of the process was just me combining constants and praying it works)
I'm on the night train from Kolari to Helsinki, returning from a work gig. This is the longest distance direct train trip in Finland, covering most of the country. It lasts around 11+ hours with around 900km distance.
I've always wanted to take one of these trains, as most of the train is sleeper cabins. Check out mine!
Recently saw someone boost this critique of incrementally replacing C/C++ code in an existing codebase with Rust to improve security:
mstdn.jp/@landley/115504884945…
I guess his point is that bridging between languages can add more scope for bugs and vulnerabilities than the original C or C++ code. But some projects are in fact bringing in Rust in this incremental way. I wonder how such efforts are going in practice. One success story I know of is GNOME's librsvg, which is now completely in Rust.
Rust has honestly never made sense to me. If you want hardened C, there are projects like https://github.com/pizlonator/fil-c and if you want to write a new "apt-ng" in a new language and migrate users over to it at some point, have at.mstdn.jp
@janvhs For librsvg, not really. The C API has been stable for many years, and it doesn't expose much. You get a handle to a loaded SVG, and you can render it and query one or two things from it.
It was interesting to write a somewhat more idiomatic Rust API and then reimplement the C API on top of that. I wrote about it in viruta.org/a-rust-api-for-libr… and viruta.org/exposing-c-and-rust… - the code has evolved further from that, but the principle still stands.
Hacked Stalwart into letting me match wildcard domains and alter the spam scores
blog.feld.me/posts/2025/11/sta…
There currently is no out of the box feature for Stalwart for you to match wildcard / subdomains of aMakefile.feld
We have several gentiles on the site.
Let me say what I tell people, and this has nothing to do with you, as I don't know what you said that was deleted, but because get asked this a lot.
When a non-Jew wants to join Babka, so often this seems to be because they think we're a place that is safe for other forms of bigotry, such as Islamophobia, and that's just not the case. We're against bigotry and if something is Islamophobic, we encourage folks to report it and we'll take administrative action.
This has happened more than once, and for people who want to join us because they are "Pro-Israel" (whatever the heck that means), it doesn't end well.
It's also challenging for gentiles who join because they can come in and feel like there are conversations that find confusing, or they feel need their perspective, not realizing that Jews coming together to be around other Jews aren't looking for the Christian perspective on topics.
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Connecting anyone who is blind, has low vision, or has a print disability to Jewish life.JBI Library
Hey screen-reader users: would you mind telling me how terrible an experience it is for you when someone uses fancy quotes like this:
❝ quoted text here ❞
@miki That would depend very much on which elements you're interested in (web, media, tooling, enterprisey stuff, etc.) and how you measure it.
We have kit in more or less everywhere, for better or for worse.
While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_E…
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 6 updated and 1 added apps:
* WG Tunnel: a WireGuard & AmneziaWG VPN client with auto-tunneling, lockdown & proxy 🛡️
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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
Interesting how Facebook & co declare queries to android.intent.action.MAIN to bypass restrictions on the QUERY_ALL_PACKAGE permission.
It allows them to get the list of all the apps installed on your system.
Source, interesting blog post on the subject: peabee.substack.com/p/everyone…
Out of curiosity, I've verified with a recent Facebook APK
Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your phone without your permission.peabee (Pea Bee)
What fascinates me even more is how some self-declared infosec people are claiming this is totally fine to install these apps on their system because they are sandboxed.
We have shifted from if you need it, at least run it sandboxed to it's sandboxed so it can't do any harm.
And these people often end up saying that any critic against the GAFAM is purely ideological, without any root. Even if every 3 months they are caught bypassing yet another thing in place to spy even more on the users. (3 months ago was the localmess)
Journal: Providers
Web browsers provide you with great features for free. Why would you choose to use tools that stop you taking advantage of that?
If you think auto-carrot is a disaster, try Siri (as hands free)
So many trillions of dollars and they can't fucking make some that understand me. And I avoided the Franglais
Хозяйке на заметку
Допустим, вы поддерживаете мастодон со своими патчами. Мастодон релизится как: от мастер ветки ответвляются stable-N и туда приходят мелкие фиксы, а в мастер идут новые фичи новой версии. И вот выходит следующая мажорная версия, и вам надо как-то собрать свое добро и перетащить на новую ветку, но при этом приходящие фиксы вы мержили а не ребейзили!
git rebase --interactive --onto=v4.5.0 v4.4.0 mml --rebase-merges=no-merge-cousins
Последний флаг заставит гит воспроизвести всю ветвистость, накидать лейблов и джампов. Когда откроется редактор, все секции кроме последней удаляем нахрен, и в последней секции выкидываем мержи руками. Всё что останется—ваши коммиты. Сохраняем, выходим из редактора, и идём чинить конфликты
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