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There was a time in the history of Western music when notation was in its infancy, and the system with which we are currently familiar looked and functioned very differently than it does now.Medievalists.net
Federated social networking existed before anyone used "mastodon" and will exist after most folks move on.
Early versions of mastodon worked directly with the older network. Most of the older network has migrated to be compatible with mastodon.
It's chill. Don't get hung up on lionizing one dude.
Even by Amazon standards, this is extraordinarily sleazy: from Mar 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing:
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/alt…
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Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
Update: it wasn't the ECB blocking gnome-calculator, it was an HTTP library regression breaking the connection to the ECB. Text in [] is incorrect, retained due to RTs etc.
[The ECB have remotely bricked gnome-calculator]
In the latest episode of "Why the 21st Century is impossibly stupid", GNOME calculator contacts the ECB on startup to get currency rates. It just hangs on startup if this fails, the whole calculator not just the currency stuff. [The ECB has blocked GNOME calculator].
To fix this, you can do "dconf write /org/gnome/calculator/refresh-interval 0", whatever tf dconf is, because when I tried it told me dbus-launch is missing, wtf that is, because it doesn't have a package. Turns out it's in "dbus-x11". I dunno why X11, because I use wayland, but I'm past caring at this point. I installed it and it worked.
Now I can calculate how much postage I need to pay for this parcel.
[A bloody OS-shipped desktop calculator, DDoSing a central bank, and blocking on connection failure].
Wow, okay, thanks for posting this. This was affecting me but I hadn't dug into what the issue was, that's kind of wild.
There are some other workarounds posted in Debian bug #1052551, some of which don't require installing software.
The first thing I noticed was that the pain was gone. The tall, thin, hooded figure let me bask in that for a moment.
IT IS TIME
"Oh," I said, looking down at the frail vessel I had inhabited all my life. "Right."
COME
"Do you remember," I asked as we walked, "everyone you come for?"
YES
"Fondly?"
I DO NOT JUDGE. AS A RULE, I SPEND LITTLE TIME WITH PEOPLE AS THEY LIVE
"No, but you spend some time with them after, like now."
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This post refutes the claim that researchers found a "backdoor" in ESP32 Bluetooth chips. What the researchers highlight (vendor-specific HCI commands to read & write controller memory) is a common design pattern found in other Bluetooth chips from o…Xeno Kovah (Dark Mentor LLC)
I once again did my release work late at night and announced immediately, just so nobody would notice. So:
a convenient lump of my free reads. Image suggested by @jggimi
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Discworld Rules, & LOTR is brain-rot for technologists
contraptions.venkateshrao.com/…
This post is an extended argument that as a lens for thinking about the world, The Lord of the Rings, is a work that you should “not set aside lightly, but throw across the room with great force,” and that in place of Middle Earth, you should install Terry Pratchett’s Discworld.
Essential FOSS tools to make macOS suck less
theregister.com/2025/03/07/fos…
Moved from Windows or Linux? Smooth some of the rough edges
<- by me on @theregister
Just learned of this website for European alternatives to well-known services such as Gmail. Really awesome to see that!
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.European Alternatives
After relaunching GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT in 2019, the site grew to a readership of more than 20 million a month, … Continue reading "The End Of Independent Publishing And Giant Freakin Robot"Joshua Tyler (GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT)
Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices
> The undocumented commands allow spoofing of trusted devices, unauthorized data access, pivoting to other devices on the network, and potentially establishing long-term persistence.
The lanky mouse asks the smaller one what they're going to do today.
"Nothing. To want a diseased world is a sickness. Today, we heal ourselves. Do you understand, Pinky?"
"Narf."
The Brain nods. "You do."
The soft, introspective hush falls over Pinky. Pinky *and* the Brain.
A #debian cry for help: I need to update the packaging for #vcsh to modern standards before the freeze hits. It's trivially easy in theory, but I just lack the spoons.
I keep being laughably busy with really meaningful work, but I can't make the time to sit down a few hours and read.
Three major projects will conclude soon, but then it's likely too late.
Any help or co-maintainers appreciated.
Retoots OK; being vulnerable in public is Good Actually(TM).
di Andrea Di Vita “Isaac era autenticamente orgoglioso e felice dei suoi traguardi. Dopo la [...]Carmilla on line
This is the color of infinite hotness.
This is the color something gets in the limit where its temperature approaches infinity. Of course you’d instantly be fried by gamma rays of arbitrarily high frequency, but this would be its spectrum in the visible range.
This is also the color of a typical neutron star. They’re so hot they look the same!
It’s also the color of the very early Universe!
This was worked out by David Madore, and you can find the details at my blog article, including a discussion of whether this is exactly the right color:
johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2…
Luckily, the alternative someone suggested is so close I can't tell the difference.
For computer screens and cell phones this color is approximately #98b5ff.
Perhaps we should call it "baby blue" - for the early universe.
Two things I learned this week about #MSVC / #VisualStudio:
1. If vcvars64.bat is not behaving itself for some reason, you can set VSCMD_DEBUG=1 and it will print more diagnostics. 2 and 3 print more still: 3 is an "OMG redirect to a file and sort through it later" level of verbosity.
2. If you do this, the script stops for a noticeable time just after printing "Sending telemetry". One of the reasons it's so slow is that it's phoning home! You can set VSCMD_SKIP_SENDTELEMETRY=1 to turn that off, improving speed as well as privacy.
This is commented in one of the sub-scripts VsDevCmd.bat with the command
REM Send Telemetry if user's VS is opted-in
but, of course, I have no memory of seeing any opt-in box to tick.
today, i have IP-blocked the entirety of alibaba cloud’s IPv4 range (47.80.0.0/13, 47.74.0.0/15, 47.76.0.0/14). And you could ask - domi, what the hell, that’s kinda sorta a lot of addresses?
fucking watch this: that’s sakamoto Mk5, my Ryzen 9 7950X3D server. Never before have I seen forgejo taking this much CPU.
They’ve generated 9GB of access logs (!) and 230GB of generated tarballs (!!!) before I got to my laptop, investigated and ip-banned them. I’m positive that most forgejo deployments in existence wouldn’t survive this.
If you needed another reason to fuck generative AI today - here’s one
I've seen Alibaba too, had their IP range redirected to an infinite maze of garbage for a while.
They usually hit me with about 300 requests / sec from a few thousand IP addresses, with varying user agents, and happily ignore robots.txt, and don't care about 429 (with a Retry-After header) either. They just come and blast.
They seem to be very keen on ingesting garbage, though, and have made about 2 million requests against my system just yesterday.
Easily the most aggressive crawler I've seen, even worse than OpenAI, Claude, Google and Facebook combined.
E comunque gli skiantos sono degli zii fuori di testa ❤️❤️❤️
#Skiantos #arci #arcibellezza #live #livemusic
The Mastodon accounts of some projects that preserve, modernize, and reimagine classic operating systems and system software environments:
9Front (Plan 9)
@9front@mastodon.sdf.org (unofficial)
@9front@brands.town (unofficial)
FreeDOS (MS-DOS)
@freedosproject
Haiku (BeOS)
@haiku
Medley Interlisp (Interlisp-D)
@interlisp
Inside a combustion chamber, temperature fluctuations can cause sound waves that also disrupt the flow, in turn. This is called a thermoacoustic instability. In this video, researchers explore this process by watching how flames move down a tube. The flame fronts begin in an even curve that flattens out and then develops waves like those on a vibrating pool. Those waves grow bigger and bigger until the flame goes completely turbulent. Visually, it’s mesmerizing. Mathematically, it’s a lovely example of parametric resonance, where the flame’s instability is fed by system’s natural harmonics. (Video and image credit: J. Delfin et al.; research credit: J. Delfin et al. 1, 2)
#2024gofm #combustion #combustionInstability #flame #flowVisualization #fluidDynamics #instability #parametricResonance #physics #resonance #science #thermoacousticInstability #turbulence
Type-safe C-killer Delphi hits 30, but a replacement has risen
theregister.com/2025/02/19/del…
The FOSS world has replicated most of it in Lazarus
<- by me on @theregister
@gbschenkel
This...
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mango…
... And this?
github.com/benjamimgois/goverl…
...?
I am sorry but I've never heard of them before. What is an overlay? It doesn't explain.
GOverlay is an opensource project that aims to create a Graphical UI to help manage Linux overlays. - benjamimgois/goverlayGitHub
Dev'essere in collaborazione con il ministero della coerenza.
EDIT/disclaimer: la foto non è mia, unica altra corrispondenza che ho trovato è un post su reddit.com/r/italia. Per quanto ne so potrebbe benissimo essere un buontempone che ha pensato bene di stampare un foglio e appiccicarlo su un pallet a caso.
Che non arrivino le bufale anche qui 😅✌️
Today, February 12, is loyal beagle Gromit's birthday. Happy birthday, Gromit! (The Wrong Trousers, 1993)
#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #Gromit #TheWrongTrousers #WallaceAndGromit #StopMotion #Claymation
@dacig
It's important to remember we're going about 30km/s along with the Earth in order to stay in orbit (or else we would already be falling into the Sun).
To hit the Sun, you have to go all the way to zero, or 30 km/s ΔV. To escape you need to increase to 30√2 km/s -- or about 13km/s extra. Less than half as much!
One should always follow XKCDs advice about listening devices, just in case.
XKCD Alt-text "Sure you could just ask, but this also takes care of the host-gift thing"