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I sell Libreboot, and Libreboot accessories. Shipping worldwide:

minifree.org/

These computers come with Libreboot pre-installed, which is a Free Software project that replaces proprietary BIOS/UEFI. It offers greater security and customisation than what most people are used to, and faster boot speeds.

I'm the founder of Libreboot, and its lead developer. Sales fund the project.

Your choice of Debian Linux, other Linux distro or a BSD. A warranty is also provided on every order.

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Stop the Chat Control – Protect our Civil Rights! (Stoppt die Chatkontrolle – Grundrechte gelten auch im Netz!)

Sign the Petition: chng.it/W76BwjvJ8Y via @ukchange

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Liam Proven mastodon (AP)

Just fucking use HTML

justfuckingusehtml.com/

<- the language of the Web is HTML. Not Javascript. The best website is one with no JS at all. Let's make this a movement.

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Æ. mastodon (AP)
really unnecessary "AI" shilling there
Liam Proven mastodon (AP)
@aesthr I don't think it's shilling. I think it's contempt. But... :shrug:
@Æ.
Liam Proven mastodon (AP)

The small web is beautiful

benhoyt.com/writings/the-small…


Aral Balkan mastodon (AP)

Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.

GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.

Cookie notices are *malicious compliance* by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.

If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re using third-party cookies to track people – i.e., if you’re sharing their data with others – then *you must have their consent to do so*. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesn’t mandate a cookie notice.

How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasn’t malicious compliance?

You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your site’s settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that “feature”.

Boom!

No cookie notice necessary.

What’s that?

But that would destroy your business because your business is founded on the fundamental mechanic of violating people’s privacy?

Good.

Your business doesn’t deserve to exist.

Because the real bullshit here isn’t EU legislation that protects the human right to privacy, it’s the toxic Silicon Valley/Big Tech business model of farming people for data that violates everyone’s privacy and opens the door to technofascism.

infosec.exchange/@codinghorror…


Look, EU, it is difficult to take you seriously when you forced all this cookie notification bullshit on us. That feature a) should not exist and b) if it did, should be a BROWSER feature not "every website in the entire world now has to bother everyone forever about this stupid thing" blog.codinghorror.com/breaking…

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@mathew @mkj @praerien some do, some don't. Some don't because they're oblivious, some intentionally.

You can check in Chrome: load a page in Incognito window, then press F12 to open developer tools, then go to Application > Cookies, and see if there's _ga, _fbp, or any of the other usual suspects.

@mathew @mkj @praerien
I made a script that tracks Latvian websites that have the "load cookies first then ask for permission" problem: https://sīkdatnes.lv

For problematic sites, I send an informal email explaining the problem and asking to fix it. In case of no action, I send a formal, signed complaint. And then in case of no action, I report them to our country's DPA.

In quite a few cases the informal email is enough, and the issue gets acknowledged and fixed.

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Phangurl Di 🖖 mastodon (AP)
That time that Lady Gaga, an Oompah Loompa, a creepy guy dressed as Uncle Fester, the Geico caveman, David Hasselhoff, Chekhov, Uhura and Captain Kirk all met in front of the Addams Family house to pick Dodgeball teams.
#StarTrek
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Bennie mastodon (AP)

We have some guests coming over, so we're finally upgrading the TV.

I found this handy guide. Sharing it in case others are interested.

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There's a typo in the second paragraph. It's missing a "p".

Gabriella Dodero mastodon (AP)

L'assassinio di Giacomo Matteotti.
Resoconto scritto dall'amico ed avvocato Giuseppe Modigliani delle drammatiche ore della morte del deputato socialista, e del processo che ne seguì. Si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:

liberliber.it/autori/autori-m/…

@cultura

#UnoLibri #libri #letteratura #public_domain #cosediscuola #cultura

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BrianKrebs mastodon (AP)

You know that old adage about the folly of removing a fence if you have no idea why it's there in the first place....

nytimes.com/2025/08/24/us/new-…

fs.blog/chestertons-fence/

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Mark Bryant mastodon (AP)
The adage I was provided as a kid was to leave the gate the way you found it. It was either open or closed for a reason. But yeah, 100% on the fence adage too.
Mark T. Tomczak mastodon (AP)

My favorite Chesterton story is still the hippos eating all the crops when the Italians showed up and thought they could teach the Zambian people how to do European-style agriculture. ;)

ted.com/talks/ernesto_sirolli_…


A funny way to promote RSS.

And shared on the fediverse, thanks to #friendica that let you follow rss feed...

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🤖 Uomo ed IA: interazioni pericolose

Il Post ha raccolto in un articolo i principali casi balzati alla cronaca negli ultimi mesi relativi ad interazioni con l'intelligenza artificiale che sono finite molto male.
La finta empatia di questi chatbot ha indotto molte persone a fidarsi utilizzandoli come se fossero uno psicologo o un confidente. E non è andata affatto bene...

ilpost.it/2025/08/22/interazio…

@aitech

#IntelligenzaArtificiale #IA

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Martin Seeger mastodon (AP)

Why are such scams working?

yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/1…

It is easy to blame the AI summary for it and I think Google shares a lot of the blame that goes around.

But I would like to put the focus on a different aspect: Companies are enabling scams like this by refusing to publish hotline numbers.

Customer service is expensive and companies like Google are successful even though they are completely unwilling to communicate with their customers.

For Google, Amazon and others the only acceptable way to reach them is through completely automated systems.

This is seen by the industry as a blueprint for success and therefore you now see others emulating that. They see: you can get away with being completely shielded from the customer.

Of course this leaves a gap and that is accepted by the companies. But the moment it creates a sufficient pain on the customer side, they are desperate to talk to someone. And this is the moment scammers jump in.

So as summary: Hostility towards customer service is an enabler for scammer.

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Raffaele Veg mastodon (AP)
Le riviste le cedo per pubblicazione solo a veri appassionati che continueranno a custodirle con cura :
- Linux&C
- H/C
- HackerJournal
- Inter.net (poi opensource) *non disponibile*
- Linux magazine
- MC (anni 80, molto rari)
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rrdtool and Trixie

Posted on August 17, 2025
Tags: madeof:bits
TL;DL: if you’re using rrdtool on a 32 bit architecture like armhf make an XML dump of your RRD files just before upgrading to Debian Trixie.

I am an old person at heart, so the sensor data from my home monitoring system1 doesn’t go to one of those newfangled javascript-heavy data visualization platforms, but into good old RRD files, using rrdtool to generate various graphs.

This happens on the home server, which is an armhf single board computer2, hosting a few containers3.

So, yesterday I started upgrading one of the containers to Trixie, and luckily I started from the one with the RRD, because when I rebooted into the fresh system and checked the relevant service I found it stopped on ERROR: '<file>' is too small (should be <size> bytes).

Some searxing later, I’ve4 found this was caused by the 64-bit time_t transition, which changed the format of the files, and that (somewhat unexpectedly) there was no way to fix it on the machine itself.

What needed to be doneinstead was to export the data on an XML dump before the upgrade, and then import it back afterwards.

Easy enough, right? If you know about it, which is why I’m blogging this, so that other people will know in advance :)

Anyway, luckily I still had the other containers on bookworm, so I copied the files over there, did the upgrade, and my home monitoring system is happily running as before.


  1. of course one has a self-built home monitoring system, right?↩︎
  2. an A20-OLinuXino-MICRO, if anybody wants to know.↩︎
  3. mostly for ease of migrating things between different hardware, rather than insulation, since everything comes from Debian packages anyway.↩︎
  4. and by I I really mean Diego, as I was still into denial / distractions mode.↩︎

blog.trueelena.org/blog/2025/0…

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Can you name ONE (one only please) SF/F book, written this century (2001+), that has absolutely blown your mind? Not just something you liked, or that was good, I'm looking for the absolute best books written this century.

Thank you for your suggestions. Please vote here - aus.social/@skribe/11507058647…

#Books #SF #Fantasy #21Century

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Matthew Dockrey mastodon (AP)
To fill out fantasy a bit more, The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie. (But I'm an absolute sucker for magic systems that honor conservation of energy.)
@attoparsec it scored well, but not enough to make the final seven.


Daniel Keys Moran mastodon (AP)

Ok, we've all been sick of memes for a decade or more.

But this one is built different.

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"This paper presents implementations that match and, where possible, exceed current quantum factorisation records using a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, an abacus, and a dog.

We hope that this work will inspire future efforts to match any further quantum factorisation records, should they arise."

Note that this is three attempts to match current quantum computing records, not a single attempt utilizing all three tools.

(The IACR is a legit cryptology organization. Been around for years and years.)

eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf

(h/t @cstross )

so, #sysadmin sorts: chill your quantum computing worries

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Tim Chase mastodon (AP)

We just got Post Quantum SSH

openssh.com/pq.html

do we need to worry about post-VIC20 SSH?

😆

@cstross

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Liam Proven mastodon (AP)

The Man Who Beat IBM

every.to/feeds/b0e329f3048258e…

Compaq’s Rod Canion broke Big Blue’s hold on the PC market — & changed computing forever

<- very few computing histories make me LOL. This did. Superb!

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Stevan mastodon (AP)
That brought back memories.
Jeremy McGee mastodon (AP)
@garius do you still publish marvelous pieces like this?

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MrGrumpyMonkey mastodon (AP)
I'm usually blue, but in this case, I'm totally down with greens idea. :sickmeme: :KEKW:
Pxl Phile mastodon (AP)
clear Calvin and Hobbes vibes, that kid

Freexian :debian: mastodon (AP)

@cjwatson from #Freexian gave a great talk at #DebConf25:
“Using Debusine to pre-test your unstable uploads”
debconf25.debconf.org/talks/29…

Learn what Debusine is, why we built it, and how you can use the features we have built to do QA work in Debian right now, including dput-ng integration, and scaling into clouds. Understand how Debusine runs builds & reverse-dependency tests before your package hits the archive — ideal for safer uploads and smoother transitions to Testing.

Watch the recording:
meetings-archive.debian.net/pu…

#Debusine #Debian

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Compound Interest mastodon (AP)
From sunburn to swimming pools, the sun triggers chemical reactions all around us. The latest edition of #PeriodicGraphics in C&EN shines a light on some of the molecular transformations driven by the sun's rays: cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry…
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Eniko Fox mastodon (AP)
Bold move by Valve to put out a public statement to the tune of "nah Mastercard is fucking lying, actually," bravo gamedeveloper.com/business/val…
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Ed mastodon (AP)

shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/im-ne…

Eh.
Allora non sono l'unico a fare fatica con 'sta cosa.

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Matthew Malthouse mastodon (AP)

20 years ago and still…

#politics #FreeSpeech #internet #tech

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Till Kamppeter mastodon (AP)

Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed!

As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fellows of the Linux Foundation for this.

Up to now I was working at Canonical, hired back in 2006 just to run OpenPrinting and also to maintain printing-related Ubuntu packages.

... 🧵

Please boost.

#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired

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could the Linux Foundation sponsor your work?
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Till Kamppeter mastodon (AP)

@agateau Thanks for the hint, but the Linux Foundation does not sponsor directly. I am working together with them to get help for getting directly sponsored and also to turn OpenPrinting into a legal organization, so that we can receive sponsoring.

#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation

Hope this works out, so that you can continue the important work you are doing.
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goss mastodon (AP)
Canonical stupid corporate decision.

Smila Blomma mastodon (AP)
Time for that Out Of Office
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Rolery mastodon (AP)
posso inserire questa immagine come allegato alla mia risposta automatica durante le ferie?
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Enrico Zini mastodon (AP)

scienzainrete.it/articolo/cond…

La storia era ben spiegata in questo fumetto editions-delcourt.fr/bd/series… da cui è stato tratto un film: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Algu…

Tutto questo per dare un'idea degli effetti di un'industria agroalimentare talmente accentrata da diventare un potere economico fuori controllo.

#bretagna #agricoltura #inchiesta #economia #ambiente

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Liam Proven mastodon (AP)

Arch Linux users told to purge Firefox forks after AUR malware scare

theregister.com/2025/07/22/arc…

The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weakness

<- by me on @theregister

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Terrybot :pratchett: mastodon (AP)

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

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Oblomov mastodon (AP)
interesting. Ursula K Le Guin had a similar complaint about the skin color of her characters, and rather than complying with her request for more fidelity, publishers just stopped putting human figures in the covers of her books.
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Kendra Albert mastodon (AP)
Who better than @mmasnick to cover a litigious company Streisanding themselves? techdirt.com/2025/07/09/litigi…
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Free book about programming

elementsofprogramming.com/

It looks like a c++ tutorial for mathematician....

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Marco d'Itri :debian: mastodon (AP)

@bortzmeyer is reporting in bortzmeyer.org/menaces-de-clou… that Cloud Innovation, the Chinese company that has paralyzed #AFRINIC with legal actions, is threatening people who share links to this article: medium.com/@emmanuelvitus/afri… .

I expect that the Streisand effect will manifest...

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Marco d'Itri :debian: mastodon (AP)

@joebeone too has received a threatening letter from Cloud Innovation, and his counsel's reply is instructive and fun:

techpolicy.social/@joebeone/11…


Fabio friendica

Some work in progress in Confy

You know, Confy: the Gnome-based, mobile-friendly Conferences schedule viewer

Some days ago I posted a screenshot about an experiment I was doing with #confy , which atm is on hold.
I'm still looking about the best way to draw a calendar view which can be zoomed in and out fast.

This is using Gtk.Snapshot to draw boxes and Pango.Layout to draw text.
It's still not fast enough with large conferences (mostly because I want to keep the text the same size and just change the boxes...)

Meanwhile I made some other things: some are papercuts, some are to try to have cleaner code, and some are quite big changes:

Actions get enabled/disable correctly per context

"search" action is disabled until an event is opened, and "copy" action is enabled only while a details page is shown.
Small change but prevents some errors.

Update recent list when deleting custom event from menu

Custom event in the "open" window can be removed. Now the entry is also removed from the recent events list.

Navigation sidebar has been updated

Now items does not get out of order after opening an Event with one already opened. Previously, items not needed (eg. 'Traks' where the Event has no tracks) were removed and re-added, which caused them to appear out of order.
Now the items are hidden and shown as needed, thus they do not change order anymore. Plus they are now defined in sidebar widget template. More clear and nice.

Navigation between pages has been revisited.

Originally, every talk details page opened was simply pushed on the stack. This caused some trouble as details page can link to other details pages via overlapping talks, which where pushed on the stack too. But overlapping talks are 'circular' as if Talk A overlaps with Talk B, also Talk B overlaps with Talk A, which can lead to very long stack to navigate back, e.g.:

List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Talk C -> Talk A -> Talk C 

In latest revisions, clicking on an overlapping talk was simply updating the page in place, losing navigation (and a nice transition between pages):
List -> Talk A
  user clicks on overlapping Talk B
List -> Talk B

Now, we are back to pushing pages on the stack, but if an event has ben already pushed to the stack, we pop back to that page:
List -> Talk A
  user clicks on overlapping Talk B
List -> Talk A -> Talk B
  user clicks on overlapping Talk C
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Talk C
  user clicks on overlapping Talk A
List -> Talk A

From my esaustive user testing (me while developing) looks like this could be a nice solution. The animation on page push/pop helps the user to keep track on where is going. At least, it helps me. Get used to it. :)

This is also relevant for the new Search page navigation.

Search can be toggled

Search action now is toggleable (is this a word?), the "search" button in the headerbar is now a togglebutton. One click opens the search, another click closes the search (as does ctrl-f).
When search is opened, the search page is pushed on the stack. Closing the search pop the page (and popping the page closes the search).

From the search page, talk details pages follow the same logic as before, but in a separate 'group'. That is, if the search page is opened from a detail page, and from the search page the same talk is clicked, we don't pop back to the already pushed page (which closes the search) but a new detail page is pushed on the stack:

List -> Talk A -> Talk B
  user clicks the "search" button
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Search
  user clicks talk C
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Search -> Talk C
  user clicks overlapping talk A
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Search -> Talk C -> Talk A
  user clicks the "search" button
List -> Talk A -> Talk B

I hope this make sense and it's usable :)

( btw: the search entry still get focused when the search page pops in. I'm quite proud I managed to keep that :) )

Updated Preference dialog

The design has been moved to template, with a simple custom widget to set caches duration.
Option to clear the recent opened events list has been added.

Everything is in git if anyone want to test it, maybe on some mobile devices, maybe during one of the upcoming conferences...

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