I’m online at https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social if anyone wants to join 👌

good morning to you all! what are you all doing today?

So I looked up how to do it. It did not work. I Git cloned https://github.com/dgoulet/torsocks and followed the build instructions. I tried using it and got Looking up check.torproject.org1676676356 PERROR torsocks[16470]: socks5 libc connect: Connection refused (in socks5_connect() at socks5.c:202)

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 02/13 to 02/17 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/17/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

My kids joined me on the long walk I had with the dog this afternoon, just before the storm came. I walked - they took their bikes. Was nice to spend this time with them today and not walk the round alone :)
Now it’s time to just wind down and relax for the rest of the evening.
Will probably spend some time on my computer today.

seems like my browser gets an earlier version of the chat when I refresh, weird. I had to close Lynx and reopen just to see my own messages

Francesinha translates to Little French Girl by the way… #food #francesinha #sandwich href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23portugal”>#portugal** ⌘ Read more

i’m not an intellectual, i’m just a guy who likes to f**k

@prologic@twtxt.net That is a good point. I do not mind either way, but I have to admit I do not know enough about it to tell if one solution is better then the other. But I think it’s important to make it so that it brings others onboard as well as you say.
I would definitely use it - since that would remove the need to set up other things to communicate with others, so It would be a most welcomed feature to have.

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no The reason I was thinking about a separate binary / project / service is to bring along our Twtxt friends like @movq@www.uninformativ.de and @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org and anyone else that self-hosted their Twtxt feed on their own. But this of course has added complexities like spinning up yanrd along with whatever this thing will be called configuring the two and connecting them. Fortunately however yarnd already does this with the feeds service and defaults to using feeds.twtxt.net – So we would so something similar there too. Further thoughts? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net a separate binay would work too, maybe yarnd could just start it. if its a separate project - then it could possibly be useful for others as well? Im not sure, Im just thinking - the easier it is to set up and run - the better it is for everyone. Im sure it can be easy to set up and use either way.

@prologic@twtxt.net that would be very nice, and remove the need to have more services running. I think it would attract more people to run this to use that, sunce yarnd is very easy to set up and run.

[47°09′05″S, 126°43′04″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

** Accessibility and the product person **
This post is a slightly modified version of a talk I presented to the product practice at my work. It presents a few ways that product designers and managers can help to move accessibility forward. It is a little bit different than what I normally share, here, but, I thought it may be interesting to some folks.

[![Picture of a slide with the title “Why though?” It also includes a quote from Kat Holmes’ book Mismatch. The quote reads: “There are many challeng … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net doing fine, the dily grind. But look forward to the weekend, going to a indoor trampoline park with my kids, and weather is going to be nice (not rain) as well, so Ill try and get on a hike with them as well, have a fire, cook some food and just enjoy being out in the forest :)

2022 Transparency Report
Looking back over a year’s worth of developer-first content moderation and, new in this report, making our data more accessible to researchers. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′50″S, 126°43′29″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

I switched to a dumb phone for 30 days. ⌘ Read more

I switched to a dumb phone for 30 days. ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: JMP is 6! Leaving beta this year! And FOSSY 🙂️
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one … ⌘ Read more

❤️ 🎶: We have to meet again by THE ADE

BSD Week begins at The Lunduke Journal of Technology!
Listen now (13 min) | An entire week devoted to everything BSD – both old and new! ⌘ Read more

Omniknot
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got up at 7 this morning, 14 hours later I finally get to sit down. time to chill before sleep :)

Git security vulnerabilities announced
Git users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version, especially if they use `git apply` or `git clone` against untrusted patches or repositories. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Copilot now has a better AI model and new capabilities
We’re launching new improvements to GitHub Copilot to make it more powerful and more responsive for developers. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Copilot for Business is now available
GitHub Copilot is the world’s first at-scale AI developer tool and we’re now offering it to every developer, team, organization, and enterprise. ⌘ Read more

is foot fetish common because feet lay next to genitals in the somatosensory cortex?

**RT by @mind_booster: Happy I ❤️ Free Software Day everyone! Let’s start by saying thank you to #freesoftware contributors out there who work for #softwarefreedom ❤️ #ilovefs

Don’t let this day pass without saying thank you! https://sharepic.fsfe.org/#ilovefs**
Happy I ❤️ Free Software Day everyone! Let’s start by saying thank you to #freesoftware contributors out there who work for #softwarefreedom ❤️ [#ilovefs](https:/ … ⌘ Read more

Nice, the number of GoBlog users is growing! 🤓 The next step is a growing number of GoBlog developers. It would be great to have more people giving advice on how to improve the code. 😅 Any senior Go devs out there? ⌘ Read more

Yout amicus: fighting for developers’ right to innovate
Our mission to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration requires us, from time to time, to fight against legal developments that would needlessly impair developers’ right to innovate. That’s why GitHub has filed an amicus brief in the appeal of Yout LLC v. Recording Industry of America, Inc. ⌘ Read more

The impending first era of AI
There’s an article in WSJ about the imminent ‘AI Boom’ and how a couple of companies, the ones that have already been both enabling and controlling our existence, to a large extent, are bound to become even more powerful. It’s interesting to ‘see’ the interplay if you’ve been working in computing technology for the past decade or so. Christopher Mims, the author of the WSJ article, posits that the computing requirements of large language models, latent text-to-image diffus … ⌘ Read more

I needed something to help with a morning schedule for two kiddos. It highlights the current 5-minute block as it goes. I think this was my first time reaching for JavaScript for a personal project. https://sidequest.club/stages.html

@bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org hehe, we have never brushed his teeth to be honest, but he gets high quality food, without grain / potatoes, pure dried meat pellets, and raw frozen meat that we defrost and mix in. he also chews a lot of bone as well.

[47°09′02″S, 126°43′17″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I do not have a picture of the sunset here, but it was really nice here too :)
thanks for sharing, always nice to see :)

[47°09′03″S, 126°43′23″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to thunderstorm

**RT by @mind_booster: “We need disruption to end the destruction.
No more excuses.
No more greenwashing.
No more bottomless greed of the fossil fuel industry and its enablers.”

Not our words.
It’s the latest of many strong statements by António Guterres, head of the United Nations.

Time for a 🧵…**
“We need disruption to end the destruction.

No more excuses.

No more greenwashing.

No more bottomless greed of the fossil fuel industry and its enablers.”

Not our words.

It’s the latest of many strong statem … ⌘ Read more

**It starts! From now to thursday, join us at MiniDebConf Portugal 2023!

#MiniDCpt**
It starts! From now to thursday, join us at MiniDebConf Portugal 2023!

#MiniDCpt

nitter.net/mind_booster/status/1612142890385391618#m

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** Accessibility updates **
I’m feeling pretty chuffed! Last week I wrote about my intention to make this website more accessible. My motivations were many-fold, but, primarily, mostly shame. I’ve worked as an accessibility specialist in the past, and now spend a bunch of my days at work looking for ways to make public infrastructure online more accessible. It seemed fitting to at least make sure the little bit I contribute to the web here is also accessible.

I thought it was going t … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net do you have an example somewhere? want to tinker a bit and use libcurl for it

today we went and played some football together and went to the park.
later Ill take the dog to the dogpark, some bigger dogs are going there later today, so that’ll be fun for Nanook. other then that we’ll have nachos tonight, and saturday candy plus a movie :) going to be a nice day!

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 02/06 to 02/10 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/10/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

How I archive my favorite TV show to get rid of Amazon Prime
I’m a fan of the German TV series “Notruf Hafenkante”, which is shown on the public broadcaster ZDF and is also available on their website. New episodes are released weekly, and older episodes are also made available on a regular basis. After a few months, however, they are no longer available for free. At the moment I have to buy an extra subscription for a Prime Video Channel to be able to watch all the old episodes. But that makes me dependent on Amazon, and I d … ⌘ Read more

[47°09′41″S, 126°43′33″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

R to @mind_booster: Sobre o do PS, escrevi na semana passada sobre ele aqui:
https://tilde.pt/~marado/blog/o-voto-eletronico-e-a-memoria-selectiva.html
Sobre o do PS, escrevi na semana passada sobre ele aqui:

tilde.pt/~marado/blog/o-voto… ⌘ Read more

R to @mind_booster: O projecto propriamente dito pode ser encontrado aqui:
https://www.parlamento.pt/ActividadeParlamentar/Paginas/DetalheIniciativa.aspx?BID=152447
O projecto propriamente dito pode ser encontrado aqui:

parlamento.pt/ActividadeParl… ⌘ Read more

R to @mind_booster: Sobre o projecto do PSD:
https://rr.sapo.pt/noticia/politica/2023/02/10/psd-quer-alterar-lei-eleitoral-e-um-projeto-piloto-de-voto-eletronico/319576/
Sobre o projecto do PSD:

rr.sapo.pt/noticia/politica/…

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@prologic@twtxt.net I get the worry of privacy. But I think there is some value in the data being collected. Do I think that Russ is up there scheming new ways to discover what packages you use in internal projects for targeting ads?? Probably not.

Go has always been driven by usage data. Look at modules. There was need for having repeatable builds so various package tool chains were made and evolved into what we have today. Generics took time and seeing pain points where they would provide value. They weren’t done just so it could be checked off on a box of features. Some languages seem to do that to the extreme.

Whenever changes are made to the language there are extensive searches across public modules for where the change might cause issues or could be improved with the change. The fs embed and strings.Cut come to mind.

I think its good that the language maintainers are using what metrics they have to guide where to focus time and energy. Some of the other languages could use it. So time and effort isn’t wasted in maintaining something that has little impact.

The economics of the “spying” are to improve the product and ecosystem. Is it “spying” when a municipality uses water usage metrics in neighborhoods to forecast need of new water projects? Or is it to discover your shower habits for nefarious reasons?

@prologic@twtxt.net I get the worry of privacy. But I think there is some value in the data being collected. Do I think that Russ is up there scheming new ways to discover what packages you use in internal projects for targeting ads?? Probably not.

Go has always been driven by usage data. Look at modules. There was need for having repeatable builds so various package tool chains were made and evolved into what we have today. Generics took time and seeing pain points where they would provide value. They weren’t done just so it could be checked off on a box of features. Some languages seem to do that to the extreme.

Whenever changes are made to the language there are extensive searches across public modules for where the change might cause issues or could be improved with the change. The fs embed and strings.Cut come to mind.

I think its good that the language maintainers are using what metrics they have to guide where to focus time and energy. Some of the other languages could use it. So time and effort isn’t wasted in maintaining something that has little impact.

The economics of the “spying” are to improve the product and ecosystem. Is it “spying” when a municipality uses water usage metrics in neighborhoods to forecast need of new water projects? Or is it to discover your shower habits for nefarious reasons?

Only Serifs
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Isode: Cobalt 1.3 Release Features
Cobalt 1.3 depends on M-Vault 19.0 or subsequent versions

• M-Vault Bootstrap.   Enables operation in conjunction with M-Vault 19.0 to support headless bootstrap.
  
• Managing users in M-Vault groups, such as Directory Server Administrators  and Messaging Configuration Read/Write.  This enables Cobalt to control user and operator rights to access M-Vault.
  
• AD/LDAP passthrough support
  
  • Allow users (per domain) to support mand … ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Elixir, 7 steps to start your journey
Read this post in Spanish.

Let’s talk about Elixir!

Elixir is a functional programming language created by José Valim to build concurrent and scalable systems. It is defined as:

“a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications”.

https://elixir-lang.org/

Its first version was released in 2012. Since then, n … ⌘ Read more

The inside story of how Microsoft Office was ported to the first MacOS X
Listen now (27 min) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast - Feb 8, 2023 ⌘ Read more

Any good ideas on how to maintain ~/go/pkg/mod and to remove old garbage?

Release Radar, Festive Edition · December 2022 – January 2023
Welcome to our special edition of the Release Radar 🎄. Between Christmas festivities, end of the year parties, Chinese New Year, or simply enjoying some time off, almost everyone has been celebrating – us too! Now we’re taking a moment to celebrate these awesome open source projects that shipped major version releases during December and […] ⌘ Read more

How to invest (from $0 to $1m) ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: 🇬🇧 Users in the UK will no longer be able to share or see images of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats.
Under a new #OnlineSafetyBill amendment, online platforms will have to proactively remove such content.
Read more from @OpenRightsGroup: https://edri.org/our-work/the-uk-will-treat-online-images-of-immigrants-crossing-the-channel-as-a-criminal-offence/
🇬🇧 Users in the UK will no longer be able to share or see images of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats.

Under a new [#Onl … ⌘ Read more

I expect Philly to blow out the 49ers.

Dino: Dino 0.4 Release
Dino is a secure and open-source messaging application.
It uses the XMPP (Jabber) protocol for decentralized communication.
We aim to provide an intuitive and enjoyable user interface.

The 0.4 release adds support for message reactions and replies. We also switched from GTK3 to GTK4 and make use of libadwaita now.

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Reactions give you a quick and light-weight way to respond to a message with an emoji.
They … ⌘ Read more

sadly wifi does not work. have to check that later.

decided to boot it again. turns out I typed the wrong encryption password yesterday, and instead of saying that it printed that error. booted fine now :)

In reply to: Oatmeal - week notes

The worst kind of blogging is blogging about blogging, so, I’ll keep this blogging about blogging short!

I’ve made some minor updates to the design of the website that have improved it’s usability a wee bit, and are a step in the right direction toward upping my accessibility game. The major remaining accessibility issues are around color contrast and some structura … ⌘ Read more

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“I am Batman.” ⌘ Read more

Trying to find the perfect engine for my CHAINSWORD!#engine #nitro #nitroengine href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23integza”>#integza** ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: Anniversary: Charles Dickens Books to Download #PublicDomain♥

https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/anniversary-charles-dickens-books-to-download-publicdomain-%e2%99%a5/**
Anniversary: Charles Dickens Books to Download #PublicDomain ♥

paulasimoesblog.wordpress.co…

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I bought a 256GB usb a couple of weeks ago, I now want a OS on it with persistent storage.
I only have 1 drive on my newest laptop at the moment, so I do not want to dualboot and such, so a os on the usb stick is a nice option.
Tonight I’m testing NomadBSD - https://nomadbsd.org/index.html
Will flash it in a couple of minutes, hope it boots fine with my hardware.

How to mitigate OWASP vulnerabilities while staying in the flow
Explore how GitHub Advanced Security can help address several of the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities ⌘ Read more

[47°09′50″S, 126°43′59″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

** week notes **
It got a wee bit cold here in Maine this weekend. It was thankfully uneventful for us. We hung around inside and watched it get real cold outside. Our home faired pretty well, too. Honestly pleasantly surprised about that!

We picked this weekend to go all in on potty training — pantsless days, treats, rousing bouts of encouragement sung, and a lot of spot cleaning. Fueled by hubris, I thought we had this potty trainin … ⌘ Read more

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“I’m on a boat.” ⌘ Read more

It’s Easier To Fool People Than To Convince Them That They’ve Been Fooled mastodon.cloud

[47°09′42″S, 126°43′38″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to thunderstorm

@prologic@twtxt.net going to be a huge radio telescope. qorking on various scifi assets.

[47°09′09″S, 126°43′07″W] Working impossible due to thunderstorm

[47°09′48″S, 126°43′34″W] Working impossible due to blizzard

also, our dog does not sleep long on weekends, but today I refused to get up early once he started to get riled up I walked over to his crate, told him to sleep, sniffed my hand and he then stopped and got back to sleep, did that two times, and got up at 10 instead of 8. felt great!

At least I started on something today. Been months and months since I did anything. I started on a asset I want to use in a short I want to make some day.
Not done yet at all, but blocking things out just so I get a feel for it.

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Yet another AI application
AI is currently finding its way more and more into various software. There is ChatGPT, which sometimes feels like an all-knowing human, DeepL uses artificial intelligence not only for its translator, but also for its new tool that improves written text, or Bunny.net provides an API to generate images “on the edge”. ⌘ Read more

Ludum Dare 52 staff picks 🕹
We’ve got ten top games from the latest Ludum Dare game jam plus source code for you to check out. Pun intended. ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: Places to Go
This is a love letter to many places, among them:

• Triple Step Studios,
  
• Smyrna, and Cobb County public libraries and parks,
  
• Sopo Bicycle Co-op and the Austin Yellow Bike Project,
  
• and AtlantaCritical Mass.
  

Dear comra … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 01/30 to 02/03 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/03/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

**R to @mind_booster: Mas… há mais. Depois do preâmbulo com a justificação para a recomendação que o Grupo Parlamentar faz ao Governo (o tal em que diz que a experiência desastrosa de Évora foi um sucesso, e que portanto há que ir mais longe), vem a recomendação propriamente dita.

A qualidade…:**
Mas… há mais. Depois do preâmbulo com a justificação para a recomendação que o Grupo Parlamentar faz ao Governo (o tal em que diz que a experiência desastrosa de Évora foi um sucesso, e que portanto há que ir ma … ⌘ Read more

[47°09′19″S, 126°43′12″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

R to @mind_booster:
nitter.net/mind_booster/status/1387125706874933248#m ⌘ Read more

R to @mind_booster:
nitter.net/mind_booster/status/1479632291609595911#m ⌘ Read more

R to @mind_booster:
nitter.net/mind_booster/status/1509960044825264130#m ⌘ Read more

Europe’s chance to be a leader in the age of AI
Below are my prepared remarks delivered at the EU Open Source Policy Summit in Brussels on Feb 3rd. ⌘ Read more

Size Comparisons
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Gajim: Gajim 1.7.0
Gajim 1.7.0 is mostly a bug fixing release. Due to fundamental changes in the build system, we decided to jump from 1.6.x to 1.7 directly. Thank you for all your contributions!

Gajim’s build system had significant changes, which makes it necessary for package maintainers to change some things, as documented in the readme file.

• Account creation: Don’t allow to add account twice
  
• File previews: Y … ⌘ Read more

[47°09′51″S, 126°43′59″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

Enabling branch deployments through IssueOps with GitHub Actions
What if developers want to leverage branch deployments but don’t have a full ChatOps stack integrated with their repositories? We wanted to set out to find a way for all developers to be able to take advantage of branch deployments with ease, right from their GitHub repository, and so the branch-deploy Action was born! ⌘ Read more

Isode: Icon-5066 3.0 – New Capabilities
We are thrilled to announce the latest update to our STANAG 5066 server, Icon-5066. With this new release, we’ve incorporated a host of exciting features and enhancements, designed to not only add new functionality to your deployment but also increase the performance of your HF Radio Network.

The below is a list of the changes, and updates that can be found within Icon-5066 v3.0.

This major new feature enables management of ALE conf … ⌘ Read more

I am still trying it, but I have to say—so far—nostr is a royal, and absolute, mess. As expected crypto bros everywhere, but also porn, all scams you can imagine, and more.

Time Domain Audio Compression at 3.2 bits per Sample
Audio formats typically fall into one of three categories: “lossless”,
“complicated” or “bad”. After developing a
simple image format
last year, I tried to come up with an audio format that fits neither of these
categories.

In other words: a format that is lossy, simple and quite ok.
Naturally, it’s called QOA — the Quite OK Audio Format.

![Comparison of Audio Codecs](/content/assets/qoa-comparison-char … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: One of the world’s biggest polluters, #Shell, just announced obscene annual profit of $40bn. Shell accounts for close to 1.6% of the global 1.5°C carbon budget. We must prioritize people and planet over profit and #ActInTime. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/02/shell-profits-2022-surging-oil-prices-gas-ukraine
One of the world’s biggest polluters, #Shell, just announced obscene annual profit of $40bn. Shell accounts for close to 1. … ⌘ Read more

Announcing the launch of the All In for Maintainers DEI Resource Hub
The DEI Resource Hub is a vetted collection of resources, tools, and best practices designed to help open source maintainers create and maintain inclusive and diverse open source communities. ⌘ Read more

Business pushing for recession. They all over hired during the pandemic to meet higher traffic levels and now those levels are dropping back to normal. absolutely bad resource planning all around.

Business pushing for recession. They all over hired during the pandemic to meet higher traffic levels and now those levels are dropping back to normal. absolutely bad resource planning all around.

What’s with all these tech companies going through massive layoffs. The latest one is Intel, but instead they’re cutting salaries to avoid laying off.