The modern condition is mostly trying to do things on your own that people have historically achieved with a large support network and wondering why you're tired all the time.
Rust is is not a "silver bullet" that can solve all security problems, but it sure helps out a lot and will cut out huge swatches of Linux kernel vulnerabilities as it gets used more widely in our codebase.
That being said, we just assigned our first CVE for some Rust code in the kernel: lore.kernel.org/all/2025121614… where the offending issue just causes a crash, not the ability to take advantage of the memory corruption, a much better thing overall.
Note the other 159 kernel CVEs issued today for fixes in the C portion of the codebase, so as always, everyone should be upgrading to newer kernels to remain secure overall.
And that will limit your search results to only pages crawled before 2023. Really helps cut down on the amount of slop you stumble across. Feel free to tweak date ranges to your edification.
G dura, perché originariamente era "GNU Network Object Model Environment", e "GNU" si pronuncia con la G dura; ma nessuno si fa troppe storie se lo pronunci come la parola "gnome" in inglese (quindi con la g muta). Decisamente da evitare "gi-nome" or "ge-nome".
Crumbs from #sotm CZ: Curious how #OSM changed over time? Check this page by @tom_k: kasparkovi.net/osm/#&layers= You can select a date (back to 2006) in the drop-down menu and see what OSM looked like. The Czech Republic only.
The progress is unbelievable. The village I'm currently focusing on didn't have a single building in OSM 5 years ago. Now I'm adding "details" like garden sheds.
Máme pro vás článek o tom, jak se můžete přímo odsud z #Fediverse zapojit do diskuse na našem fóru. Pokud vás zajímá #Fedora a chtěli byste občas poradit méně zkušeným uživatelům, dejte účtům fóra follow.👇
English isn't my wife's first language, but she's lived in UK 20+ yrs. This morning, at a carol concert, I learned she has been singing that "Christ, Arse Saver" is born during 'Silent Night' the whole time. "Because he saves our arses, yes?"
Oy. I really don't want to have to find or code a solution to handle connections better than Wireguard does. Stateless sucks sometimes. And its keepalive mechanism leaves a fair bit to be desired as well. Without knowing at all, I would at least imagine that Tailscale handles this better. I just am not too thrilled about having my infrastructure rely on a 3rd party that can simply take out my entire network with a fat finger or stroke of a pen. Of course, anyone with more power than I can do this. But by self-hosting Wireguard, I can easily move my operations to some other provider. Hmm. Lots of food for thought and deliberation.
Yeah, Tailscale is pretty good about this. I moved all my VPN-related stuff to it, mostly because I'm not doing anything mission critical, and deployment is just stupid simple. Even stupider and simpler than PiVPN.
There's always Headscale, but maybe that would negate some of the advantage.
The exception is the wireless SSID/VLAN I stuck on my parents' network, called "YouAreNowCanadian" which tunnels your traffic through a Montreal VPS when you connect to it. No particularly good reason to do it, I just wanted to see Ubiquiti's Wireguard implementation in action.
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All jazz albums would be improved immeasurably by the removal of everything except the drums. Just listen to the drums. The rest of it is masturbatory, self-indulgent, shapeless, maddening guff. All you need are the drums.
Join us in celebrating Denny Pérez's new role as Executor for LATAM at Black Python Devs! Denny's passion for growing support across Central and South America makes her the perfect fit for us to expand our growth. ¡Felicidades, Denny! ✊🏾💻🎉 #BlackPythonDevs #LATAMtech
Well good news for a Tuesday, yesterday the Tactile Engineering devs approved my pull request for adding flip logic and command to Cadence's NVDA driver, yay to that. Honestly it's the most pleasant to use on NVDA, which is a bit ironic but not unsurprising. We're told panning on multiline displays is an iOS issue overall and Apple's aware of this as such. That's a bit disappointing on their part so I'm watching the iOS updates like a hawk for when they might add a fix because the only woorkaround for now is to pan by having "lines" in your rotor and setting these as Braille commands, then moving down line by line to pan the display forward. Kind of annoying but it works. On JAWS, we're still sorting out panning quirks with the Tactile Engineering people (it oddly will have panning buttons work over USB, but not Bluetooth.) Really no other platform has a perfect bug-free generic HID Braille display driver, which is really a shame. NVDA's out of the box is really good, but it didn't support full Cadence keys until I installed their own driver, which will get rolled into NVDA 2026.1
One of us on staff has a quote that I use often when I'm in the field. Apple moves at the speed of… Apple. .1 releases generally tend to illuminate much. Whole numbers usually do better. It has been this way since the dawn of iOS time. Look how long it took to get a calculator in there.
I am now almost entirely nocturnal. It seems like at this point, my sleep schedule has deteriorated into going to bed at 5:00 AM and waking up at 2:00 PM. I'm just getting more and more obscure over here, aren't I?
Accessibility, The Origin of Innovation: In this article, I will discuss the details of 10 innovations throughout history that were only possible through unlocking the power of accessibility and including the voices of people with disabilities. In the #disability community, it is a deeply believed and often repeated fact that improving #accessibility leads to innovations that improve the world for everyone. Necessity is the mother of invention is, after all, a proverb so frequently quoted that it has become a cliché. And yet, people with disabilities still find ourselves left out of research and design, and all too often we don’t get a seat at the product development table. This leaves our inventions overlooked, unrecognized, and sometimes unrealized. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/12/16/origins-of-accessibility.html#a11y#InclusiveDesign#pwd#blind
you may find this article from Bobbie Hickey in the Irish Times this week of interest. Touches on some of the same points. irishtimes.com/health/your-wel…
@DavidRedmond thanks! There are some more offline examples in this article that I didn’t include because I was focused on the story of digital. I’m glad more blind folks are writing similar articles.
the real WordPress lock in is the stupendous numbers of plugins, themes and developers for both. "why don't you move to X" fails to answer "I use *this* fuckin plugin"
the control point is wordpress.org
ClassicPress has its *own* extension repo (with beer and hookers) but it would need full wordpress.org compat to be a substitute
the many many many alternate CMSes and static site generators almost never address "this fuckin plugin i actually use"
not to mention "I have ten years of posts and comments and known URLs here"
tech evangelists are delighted to dive into people's mentions with suggestions that don't address anything the system is being used for. this is about any software whatsoever. because tech evangelists in general are odious idiots.
i've had tech evangelist morons hear "wordpress" and claim "oh comments are a wrong thing to want" and wtf
Hey, we will soon finish the schedule and you will get your e-mail. My apologies for the delay. Thanks for offering help. Eventhough it wouldn't be fair to include speakers into the talks decision, we will be very glad if you could help us in the devroom on Sunday 1st Feb.
In a grand total of 6 mins I: - signed up for a Tidal account. - made a temporary card on my banking app with £0 on it to qualify for the subscription. - verified my student status. - downloaded the Tidal app. - transferred all of my Spotify playlists, albums, and songs to Tidal. - replaced the Spotify widget with the Tidal widget on my phone.
Then it took another 7 minutes to do the following: - cancel Spotify.
I totally agree with you, but honestly, name something better first. Especially in terms of accessibility. Yes WhatsApp sucks, but Signal's Desktop sucks even more, not to mention they don't have a web app.
Generally I agree, but look at the recent accessibility issues on IOS + correct me if I'm wrong, only secret chats or whatever they're named are e2e encrypted.
Spoke to a former colleague recently. Their employer monitors employee AI use and wants to see number go up.
Since the obligatory AI nannying, multiple product teams have fallen apart and they’ve stopped delivering new features of value while users are leaving.
A whole layer of middle management are destroying good products to make a Potemkin village of fake automation to justify their bosses buying crap enterprise software. It’s as if the entire industry had their heads kicked in by a donkey.
Long post about Autism and masking - Why Autistic people are not like icebergs
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Why Autistic people are not like icebergs
This year has been long and difficult. There is a myriad of sociological and emotional reasons why, but you do not have time for that rabbit hole. Instead, I wanted to address the ‘Iceberg’ model of autism, and why I struggle with it.
The issue with using an iceberg is that if you put on some cold weather diving gear or hop in a submersible, you can go and see the bits under the water pretty easily (with obvious dangers, safety considerations etc.) To me, it seems that this analogy is inviting people to book a weekend diving trip with a group, ready to explore, take underwater selfies, and then tell people that they really need to go do it to get a real understanding of autistic people.
As an autistic person, I would love it were it that easy. A quick David Attenborough documentary away from truly understanding myself and explaining it to others. Beautiful, simple. Thank goodness autism is an iceberg.
However, that is not true. Let’s talk about masking. You may have heard of masking. Simple right:
• You ask me how I am • I say I am ok (We all know I am not really ) • You say “Are you sure you’re ok? You can talk to me” • I say “Actually I am a bit stressed”
And you have got past the mask, peeked behind the curtain, dived the iceberg. Convenient, ‘deep’ even. Well done you. Only that is not how masking goes (well not for me). Let’s try this again.
• You ask me how I am • I say I am ok (First mask) • You say “Are you sure you’re ok? You can talk to me” • I feel the need to give you something more, so create a mask with some vulnerability showing and say “Actually I am a bit stressed” • You feel great • I feel like I now have 2 masks and I have to remember which one you have seen so I can be consistent
In reality, I have let you see what you need to see to allow me to continue and you to go away or leave me alone, whilst I try and read from you what I think you need to see and projecting it back at you. You see an iceberg under water and feel like you have made a deep connection, whilst I now have another iceberg I have to maintain for a person.
Now multiply the iceberg by the amount of people I interact with. That’s a lot of icebergs, and they are all different. In reality, the icebergs are all masks. So, you ask, where is the true me, unmasked? Well, I am the ocean, full of deep trenches, hidden mountains and sunken ships. Even I do not understand it, have not explored it, and am frightened by all the things lurking in it. I have therapy sometimes, which is like having freediving lessons.
I am not trying to say I have greater hidden depths than others. I am saying that my reality is far less structured than people think, and far less understood. Even when you think you have seen past the mask, understand it is not a single mask. Everything I do is masked to some extent, except when I am alone, and even then I do it to myself to get by. As an adult diagnosed late in my 30’s I have been moulded to conform from birth, copying, mirroring, tweaking, acting, and have built so many personas and characters that I do not really know who the core me in this 'Russian doll of masks' is.
I am not aiming for sympathy, pity, or a clap for my bravery. I just would like people to know that what you see is what I think you need to see. If you need a true answer, you need to see me in person, where I feel safe, having built up a relationship of trust, and even then, I won’t really know how far past all the masks you have seen.
Ve Fedoře mi nefunguje vypalování CD/DVD, jen přes roota. Přidat se do skupiny cdrom nepomohlo, wodis hlásí, že se nemůže dostat k zařízení. Neměla jsem ještě čas to debugovat, ale zeptám se rovnou - kam byste to nahlásili jako bug? Asi rovnou na distro jako takový? Uvítala bych, kdyby stačilo nainstalovat brasero/k3b, připojit externí mechaniku a rovnou vypalovat, ne že budu pracně řešit a lovit z paměti jak vlastně fungujou mechaniky na Linuxu.
Určitě do bugzilla.redhat.com. Akorát nevím, na jakou komponentu a kdo by se tomu mohl věnovat. Už to ani sám nevyzkouším. Poslední mechanika odešla z domu se starým počítačem před měsícem a zapisovatelné médium jsem v ruce neměl tak 10 let. :/
Nedávno jsem tu dělal pořádek a našel vypalovačku do USB a jedno RWčko. Tak jsem chtěl obojí zkusit s Brasero z Flatpaku, že bych dětem ukázal, jak se fungovalo v dřevních dobách. Končilo to na nějaké chybě, takže ta zkušenost byla velmi podobná jako tenkrát. Myslel jsem ale, že problém je někde u mě.
@bycx Ono to je tím, že už to lidi skoro vůbec nemají a nepoužívají a tyhle věci se potichu rozbíjejí. A pro distribuci už je to tak okrajová technologie, že se jí nevyplatí mít na to test casy a systematicky to testovat. Jediné řešení je někdo aktivní v komunitě, komu na tom pořád záleží a kdo to bude dál testovat a hlásit relevantním vývojářům problémy.
Muok.: Täytyy julkisesti myöntää haukkuneeni väärää puuta. Tässä viestissä mollasin aiemmin J. Rinta-Joupin Autoturvaa siitä että ei saada korvauspäätöstä. Oon nyt soitellut puheluita sinne ja tänne ja paljastui ettei korjaamo ole koskaan ollut heihin yhteydessä. Toki puhelimessa sanoi että tuskin tästä korvataan mitään joten sinänsä turha sijoitus, mutta ainakin tuli vastaus. Eli homma on jäänyt jonnekin paikallisen VW-marmoritiskin prosessin syövereihin.
Ahoj vespolek, prosím, nemáte někdo relevantní info, zda je vyřešena podpora MediaTek Wi-Fi 6E RZ616 (2×2) s Bluetooth 5.3 v poslední verzi Fedora 43, nebo se ještě řeší ovladače? Díky.
Jinak dívám se, že doma v počítači mám MT7927, což je podobný čip používající stejný ovladač, tak se můžu mrknout, jak funguje. Hardware to rozpozná, wifi sítě najde a připojí se to k nim, ale jedu primárně na LAN, takže problémy se stabilitou jsem nezaznamenal.
🇬🇧 UK & 🇦🇺 Australia have the worst anti-encryption laws among democratic countries. 🇨🇦 Canada risks joining them with Bill C-2. 🇺🇸 US still relies on secret orders under FISA & CLOUD Act. 🇨🇭 Switzerland is no longer the privacy paradise it was claimed to be.
#Encryption is under attack worldwide. Our new global overview shows why Europe remains the best place for encrypted services.
Yes, you are right, our apologies. We did this analysis only for countries for which we know the political situation very well. If you could let us know insights about more democratic countries, we'll be happy to include these!
This both real and a decent metaphor, so it is time for me to re-tell a story.
Ever heard of The Ping Of Death?
There was a couple of years there - years, hand to god - where you could throw a single malformed or too-large packet across the network at any IP you could see, and if you malformed it just right for its OS, you could crash the machine. You could kill a Windows machine with one line in cmd.exe.
Because the Ping Of Death was an RCE. If you sent _just the right_ kind of malformed or too large packet - and you cleaned up after yourself - you suddenly had a system where you could basically ask any computer you could see to do whatever you wanted, and it would do that for you and then quietly go on its way.
I was temping for Global Affairs Canada in the late 90s, then called DFAIT; I got to hang with some old-school-then, semi-retired CSIS sigint guys.
I'm sure the situation has improved - I don't think winsock.dll or Wolverine have ever had a proper pentest teardown, even for historical amusement's sake - but I have to assume, given that we live in a world where there are no specialized chips anymore, and everything from the boutique brand-namiest NICs to the dodgiest junk you'd find in a Shenzhenese dumpster is a general-purpose CPU running some tiny OS of questinably determinate provenance, that... well, you have to wonder.
Because you don't have a "network interface card", you have an ARM cpu, maybe even a whole-ass ARM SOC, handling ethernet frames on one side and talking PCI on the other.
You don't even have SD cards, because "memory cards" don't exist. That terabyte of storage the size of your thumbnail you bought? That's an ARM CPU managing the wear levels on its crap-ass flash backing storage while pretending to be a hard drive on the other side.
You don't know how many computers are in your computer.
Random question UK people: is it just me, or does this player simply not allow you to press play? NVDA with latest Edge or Firefox: globalplayer.com/live/lbc/uk/
Might be different here, but the website (when OCRed) seems covered by the signin popup. It seems like the player is not supposed to be visible unless you sign in, it's probably an accessibility bug that it is.
This happens sometimes, screen readers (for good technical reasons) don't really understand the concept of something being visually covered by another object.
You can sometimes do extremely fun stuff because of this, like reading the personal data of some random customer that somebody didn't properly remove from their contract template. Or chitchat between the editors of your textbook.
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Perhaps I am getting old and this truly is the only path forward to maintain an independent browser.
I continue to feel that this is a terrible idea that has likely irrevocable jeopardized the future of firefox and, by extension, the open web.