The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 for reference purposes - microsoft/MS-DOSGitHub
"Listen," one guard said, "I know we have only just met-"
"No," the other guard said, "we've worked together for years!"
"-but you can trust me when I say-"
"I can't, you have the curse that's opposite from mine!"
"I don't care for you at all."
"Well, I... oh... I love you too."
#TootFic #SmallStories #Microfiction
Dear lazyverse, I've just read blog.prosody.im/great-invitatiโฆ and prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_invโฆ and I don't understand one thing: can this be used to generate an invite for an user that already exists and has been using the account for a while, but needs to reconfigure an xmpp client on a new phone?
of course they don't know their password, but I would have to reset it from prosodyctl anyway.
#xmpp
Adding a new device via invitation is not currently a thing. Password resets links (which work almost the same as invitations) are.
Generate a password reset link with this command:
'prosodyctl mod_invites example.com --reset username'
I haven't extensively tested it with clients or invite UIs beyond Snikket, though. Feedback welcome ๐
At work we recently started experimenting with generative AI for assistance with programming. We have a new Visual Studio Code plugin which we can ask questions in English, and it spits back code.qntm.org
@Natanox @mral @trechnex youtube.com/watch?v=9GQoHIBDogโฆ
He was clearly trying to express something profound about the experience, and Jeff Bezos is just like "Imma let you finish, but here's a fountain of champagne" and a bunch of other people in the background are cheering and spraying champagne.
Oldest living person to ever go to space, William Shatner, tries to explain the majesty of space while Jeff Bezos shakes up a bottle of champagne. Shatner cl...YouTube
Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:
theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_โฆ
1/
Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do thatThomas Claburn (The Register)
I accidentally found a security issue while benchmarking postgres changes.
If you run debian testing, unstable or some other more "bleeding edge" distribution, I strongly recommend upgrading ASAP.
Ricevo, e credo che sia utile per un po' di vittime di #trenord qui sul fediverso
prealpina.it/pages/lombardia-tโฆ
โLa norma nel prevedere la necessitร di richiesta dellโabbonato reindirizza la misura compensativa del disagio a chi effettivamente lo ha subito, diversamente da quanto accadeva con il vecchio bonus.โ
che credo voglia dire, piรน o meno โsperiamo che la maggior parte dei pendolari si dimentichino di chiederlo e/o non vengano a sapere di doverlo chiedereโ
se ho ben capito le istruzioni su come fare la richiesta sono giร su regione.lombardia.it/wps/portaโฆ
@LaVi ๐๏ธ๐๐ @Fabio mi pareva tempo fa di aver trovato su uno dei siti istituzionali (trenord o regione) che i treni soppressi contino uguali ai treni con piรน di 30 minuti di ritardo, ma adesso non ho il link sottomano (e non so se le nuove regole siano cambiate).
Comunque c'รจ il fatto che quei dati non dicono che i treni in ritardo sono ovviamente soprattutto in ora di punta (anche per ragioni ragionevoli, tutto sommato), e che quindi impattano molte piรน persone rispetto ai treni in orario alle 10 di mattina o alle 8 di sera.
1/ Itโs a big day for the Radicle community :space_invader: We're excited to announce the rollout of our first release candidate for Radicle 1.0 โ our most significant update to date :tada:
Start collaborating today
๐ radicle.xyz
Hereโs an overview of whatโs new ๐งต
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
โ Brian W. Kernighan
Vernor Vinge, author of many influential hard science fiction works, died March 20 at the age of 79. Vinge sold his first science-fiction story in 1964, "Apartness", which appeared in the June 1965 issue of New Worlds.Mike Glyer (File 770)
Lots of people sharing their love of A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, but don't miss Rainbows End.
It's perhaps a less successful story but remains, after almost two decades, the best description of what augmented reality games and ARGs might do to the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbowsโฆ
@cstross Rainbows End is the one that lives in my head more than the rest of his books (though they all have their places in there).
Every time autocorrect fucks up again, I find myself wishing for the kind of interfaces described in Rainbows End.
@cstross NOOO. That's fucking *horrifying*.
I do like the idea of searchable marginalia, but not at that cost.
Mastodon Just Let Me Save The Original GIF And Not The h.264 encoded MP4 You Made From It Challenge 2024 - Impossible Difficulty
:( big sadge
#scaleway offers #riscv metal instances now. And they support @alpinelinux !
It appears to be relatively vanilla alpine edge with a custom kernel.
The world's first RISC-V servers available in the cloud. Taste the new open processor architecture now. Will you take the risk?labs.scaleway.com
โScale melds incredibly creative and thought-through hard science fiction with the kind of social-political angle Eganโs increasingly been foregrounding in his work, and youโd do well to pick it up.โ
locusmag.com/2024/02/the-year-โฆ
2023 wound up being a strange reading year for me. I started the year with a big move: from Chicago back to beautiful Buffalo, NY. While itโs wonderful to be back east and closer to the mountains, โฆLocus Online
Wrote an article about turning a ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Gen laptop into a programmable USB device by enabling the xDCI controller ๐ฏ
Now I can emulate USB devices from the laptop without any external hardware, including via Raw Gadget or even Facedancer ๐
The overall process included fiddling with Linux kernel drivers, xHCI, DWC3, ACPI, BIOS/UEFI, Boot Guard, TPM, NVRAM, PCH, PMC, PSF, IOSF, and P2SB, and making a custom USB cable ๐ฑ
xairy.io/articles/thinkpad-xdcโฆ
Enabling and using xDCI controller on ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th GenAndrey Konovalov
Purtroppo a rimetterci รจ anche la reputazione dell'Agcom.
dday.it/redazione/48554/piracyโฆ
Sabato 24 febbraio 2024 la piattaforma PiracyShield ha ordinato ai provider italiani di escludere un IP dalla navigazione, una delle tantissime segnalazioni. Ma si trattava di un IP di Cloudflare: in un colpo "bannati" decine di siti leciti.Gianfranco Giardina (DDay.it)
I received an intriguing notification in the Microsoft Outlook 365 web interface: "This message can't be saved because it no longer exists. It can only be discarded. Make sure you copy the contents of the message before you discard if you want to use them later. " I have some ontological questions.www.kmjn.org
On my blog: Why pandas feels clunky when coming from R
sumsar.net/blog/pandas-feels-cโฆ
Five years ago I started a new role and I suddenly found myself, a staunch R fan, having to code in Python on a daily basis. Working with data, most of my Python work involved using pandas, the โฆRasmus Bรฅรฅth's Blog
"One price of free speech is eternal humility, recognizing that none of us is immune to becoming a tool of censorship if we fail to recognize its manipulative tactics."
โTools for Thinking About Censorshipโ
Since Reddit has now sold out to AI, a reminder if you're into #Linux / #LinuxGaming that Lemmy exists and it's open source.
I'm a mod here too: lemmy.ml/c/linux_gaming@lemmy.โฆ
This youtube video does something I literally had no idea was possible with the subtitle system. Watch it without subtitles to get an idea for what the base video looks like, then watch it with the subtitles on.
youtube.com/watch?v=ZYlaUrj2Zkโฆ
Oshi no Ko OP / Opening Theme "Idol (ใขใคใใซ)" by YOASOBITV Anime "ๆจใใฎๅญ" Opening ThemeLyrics by @yaco77 , @ichimonji4kanime , https://www.youtube.com/@JakeUHDv...YouTube
Very proud that the IEEE has published my article โWhy Bloat Is Still Softwareโs Biggest Vulnerability - A 2024 plea for lean softwareโ:
ร strano che non abbia ancora registrato puntarella it.
[EDIT]Ah, capitoโฆ รจ GIร registrato.
Qualys has disclosed a vulnerability in the GNU C Library that can be exploited by a local attacker for root access. It was introduced in the 2.37 release, and also backported to 2.36.lwn.net
Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin #uBO will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).
The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .
#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!
EFF (@eff) on Googleโs Manifest V3:
โ ๏ธโ eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chroโฆ
โ ๏ธโ eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googโฆ
Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)
๐ฉโ developer.chrome.com/blog/resuโฆ
EDIT for clarification: MV3 in Chrome will still allow some ad blocking extensions, but will severely limit their blocking ability and even restricts pre-set filters to 50 MAX.
Like FLoC and Privacy Sandbox before it, Google Chromeโs Manifest V3 is another example of the inherent conflict of interest that comes from Google controlling both the dominant web browser and one of the largest internet advertising networks.Electronic Frontier Foundation

Desktop
๐ฅโ mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/Android Play Store
๐ฅโ play.google.com/store/apps/detโฆiOS App Store
๐ฅโ apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-โฆ

Desktop
๐ฅโ torproject.org/download/Android Play Store
๐ฅโ play.google.com/store/apps/detโฆFdroid Repo
๐ฅโ support.torproject.org/tormobiโฆ
iOS App Store(try OnionBrowser)
๐ฅโ onionbrowser.com/
#Firefox #Mozilla #TorBrowser #Tor #Browser #Privacy
Firefox is more than a browser. Learn more about Firefox products that handle your data with respect and are built for privacy anywhere you go online.Mozilla