Parsing integers in C. Aka "bye bye atoi".
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/11/13…
Parsing integers in C
In the standard libc API set there are multiple functions provided that do ASCII numbers to integer conversions. They are handy and easy to use, but also error-prone and quite lenient in what they accept and silently just swallow.daniel.haxx.se
@siracusa The thought “You two should be in a podcast episode together” popped into my head and I had to write this to get it out. I know it’d be interesting talk, and I have no idea which directions it would go in.
Just leaving that thought here, kthxbye
Drag the puzzle piece into the correct spot. Next, solve this calculus problem.
Great! Now turn on your webcam and do a quadruple backflip.
Fantastic! Now perform a Super Mario World 0 exit speedrun in under 45 seconds.
Only 1 more to go! Please locate the holy fucking grail and display it in front of your webcam to finish signing up!
News from Serbia / novosti iz Srbije :
Trump-tower to replace the building bombed by NATO , a.k.a. a “national monument” - army headquarters of a country that fell apart in series of violent conflicts …
symbolism upon symbolism of globalized capitalism, local corruption, greed, rampant but fake nationalism, disregard for laws or regulations, failure of urbanism & “democracy” within (patriarchal) oligarchy…
pescanik.net/vapaj-za-odbranu-…
&
theguardian.com/world/2025/nov…
Thousands protest Jared Kushner-linked development on site of bombed-out Belgrade building
Many in Serbia see the site – a former army headquarters damaged in a 1999 Nato bombing campaign – as a tribute to those who diedGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Android will let ‘experienced users’ sideload unverified apps as Google makes case for verification
In August, Google announced that it will require developer verification to install Android apps, including through sideloading. That’s continuing, but Google is working on a solution for “experienced users.”Abner Li (9to5Google)
Palantir kriegt in BaWü freie Bahn. Vertrag zuerst, Recht später, Kontrolle irgendwann. Demokratie als Abo-Modell: 25 Millionen, fünf Jahre Laufzeit, keine Kündigung. Datenschutz? Wird gerade ausgeschrieben. Willkommen im Überwachungsstaat as a Service.
heise.de/news/Baden-Wuerttembe…
#palantir #bw #polizei #rechtsstaat #bullshit #datenschutz #dsgvo
/kuk
Trotz Überrumpelung: Baden-Württemberg stimmt für Palantir
In Baden-Württemberg hat der Landtag Änderungen am Polizeigesetz beschlossen, um die Nutzung von Palantir rechtlich abzusichern.Marie-Claire Koch (heise online)
GOOD NEWS!
There are only five more Thursdays left in 2025 after this one. Get ready for the all new Thursday lineup in 2026. It'll be like 2025, but even more Thursday.
Nestáva sa často, že by som bol kritickejší než tu Ivan, ktorý tento ďalší pokus (koľký už?) o špicľovací zákon rozobral na šróbiky.
Pre mňa je tam ešte jeden červený vykričník navyše (ktorý v článku možno iba tušiť):
Ak už raz budú mať možnosť takto špicľovať, bars aj pod "vznešenou", a možno spočiatku aj úprimnou (byť naivnou), snahou bojovať proti CSAM, čo im, !technicky!, zabráni začať hľadať čokoľvek iné? Protištátne reči, zakázané názory, protiústavné pohlavie...
Na Slovensku o tom už vieme svoje.
abravito.cz/novinky-it/umela-i…
Chat Control 2.0: EÚ sa chce stať veľkým bratom
EÚ pripravuje Chat Control: AI má čítať správy pred zašifrovaním. Ochrana detí či zásah do súkromia a základných práv občanov?www.abravito.cz
Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech
Digital Accessibility Ethics is a practical guide with an urgent goal: to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities.Routledge & CRC Press
When is that bubble gonna burst anyway?
In the span of 5 years we got:
Cryptocurrency
Blockchain
NFTs
Metaverse
AI
All technologies that came up by promising great revolutions and people empowerment and what they do was just boosting criminal activities, environmental catastrophes, and money laundering
Some bubbles take longer to burst than others, and some are simply more in plain sight than others. The 2008 financial crisis was because of a scheme that had been going on for years and years — but mainly bankers and investors knew about it. However, even though it was a slow burner, the scheme was ultimately founded on hopes, wishes and fairy dust.
What makes a bubble is not how long it takes to burst, but its foundations. The focus should be on the consequences of it bursting.
Located in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, China,
it is one of only about 200 identified craters worldwide
and is very young in geological years.
Based on measurements of nearby soil erosion,
it likely formed during the early-to-mid Holocene
—our current geological epoch, which began at the end of the last ice age about 11,700 years ago.
With a diameter of 900 meters, it is the largest known impact crater from this era
—far exceeding Russia's 300-meter Macha crater, previously the largest known Holocene impact structure
phys.org/news/2025-11-earth-la…
Earth's largest modern crater discovered in Southern China
A newly discovered, remarkably well-preserved impact crater is shedding fresh light on how extraterrestrial bodies collide with Earth.American Institute of Physics (Phys.org)
The AI fuelled emptiness we’re experiencing is affecting everyone, alongside the realization that even “good” companies don’t step it up and stand for what should be normal
More of this please.
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
No influyendo en la agilización o resolución de trámite o procedimiento administrativo sin justa causa y, en ningún caso, cuando ello comporte un privilegio en mi beneficio por el cargo público del que soy titular o mi entorno familiar y social inmediato o cuando suponga un menoscabo de los intereses de terceros.
Y vosotros, ¿qué tal?
GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
We’re upgrading GPT-5 while making it easier to customize ChatGPT. Starting to roll out today to everyone, beginning with paid users.openai.com
Libervia CLI Tip 15:
When publishing a blog or other pubsub based feature, the item ID is often used in the URL when it is rendered for the web (e.g.; Libervia or Movim use something like `https://…/blog/<user>/<item_id>`).
It is then important to have a user-friendly item ID (e.g.; `title-of-my-publication-abc123`), which is usually done by the software from the title.
If you want to change it, you can use `li pubsub rename`.
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Thanks for a new @snikket_im@fosstodon.org server release to the team!
snikket.org/blog/snikket-serve…
Snikket Server - November 2025 release
A new release announcement for the self-hostable Snikket messaging server softwareSnikket Chat
Hey, did you know that you can join Matrix chatrooms using Movim and #matridge (a Slidge XMPP - Matrix bridge) ? 😮
You can then access your Matrix rooms (and soon Matrix servers 😚) and integrate them seamlessly in your Movim interface ✨
…and it seems that Movim is much faster than Element at accessing and displaying the content of Matrix chat rooms 🚀 Fun 😸
Checkout the Slidge project slidge.im/ !
slidge.im — Gateways from XMPP to Other Networks
Slidge is a chat gateway library for XMPP built in Python, and a set of gateways for other networks.slidge.im
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I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person
I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my j...McSweeney's Internet Tendency
You know like how they tell you that washing dishes with a dishwasher will save a lot of water but they don't mention that the heat and abrasion of the dishwasher causes anything plastic to start shedding a ton of microplastics into foods that contact them. And everything that isn't plastic is expensive. So you should already have a sink of soapy water anyway ...
Oh maybe that's why it looked different
Amazon Ring’s upcoming face recognition tool has the potential to violate the privacy rights of millions of people and could result in Amazon breaking state biometric privacy laws.
eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lega…
The Legal Case Against Ring’s Face Recognition Feature
Many biometric privacy laws across the country are clear: Companies need your affirmative consent before running face recognition on you.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Noticed my old Dell Latitude E7240 was running a bit slow. Also noticed 71 microsoft edge (msedge.exe) processes running.
Yep, that'd do it.
Never have I ever read an article about Trump and Epstein that treats survivors of their sexual abuse and violence with more indifference. Crawley presents claims by Trump's team as fact and then brushes aside the revelations in the email dump as nothing significant, as though the girls they talk about trafficking are nothing to report. There was a lot in these files and they reveal more about how closely tied these two abusers were. Garbage reporting. Shame on you #CBC and #MikeCrawley
The #CBC and #Crawley used AI to analyze the files. AI to synthesize and assess emails from a pedophile to find anything "significant".
Who thought AI was up to the task of screening through such sensitive material? No wonder it's clear there is no compassion or humanity in this report. I am furious.
Anyone know how the new-ish Steam OS accessibility beta is going? Is it still beta or has it made it to stable yet? Is it actually using Orca underneath so you can use desktop mode?
I wonder what it would take to add TTS/screen reader controller shims to Proton, if they aren't there already? Can't imagine screen reader controller shims are, but TTS/SAPI? I assume there's some sort of bridge layer between the Linux and Windows API surfaces, but is that layer extensible so users could just, I don't know, install a ProtonPack(TM) or similar, add necessary TTS/screen reader API bridges to whatever it exposes to games, and have accessible games on an accessible Steam OS?
This post brought to you by the Steam Machine, and by me wanting to purge Windows 11 from my Steam Deck. That said, I haven't really looked at the specs yet, but if it's as solid as the Deck then I'm tempted.
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"'Funaná is music of liberation. Fierce music. Anti-colonial music,' says Marcus Veiga aka Portugal-born, Angolan and Cape Verdean artist Scúru Fitchádu. 'What I like about funaná is that it comes from the people,'"
The Radical Rhythms of Funaná:
daily.bandcamp.com/lists/funan…
The Radical Rhythms of Funaná
Once banned by colonizers, its rhythms now drive dance floors around the world.April Clare Welsh (Bandcamp)
“the fake charity, the Photoshop predator, and other times AI got it wrong - Ask a Manager”
askamanager.org/2025/11/the-fa…
the fake charity, the Photoshop predator, and other times AI got it wrong - Ask a Manager
We recently talked about times AI got it really wrong, and here are 20 of the most ridiculous stories you shared. 1.Ask a Manager
>see dream
>dream ends
>wake up
Repeat three times (so far)
As an American, treacle is not really common in our desserts and most people don't even know what it is. It's a strange word though, it has some unpleasant quality to it but it's hard to pin down.
Without knowing what it is, try to use it in a sentence:
"That gas station sushi gave me a treacle of diarrhea."
Feels right, doesn't it?
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