social.gl-como.it
If someone comes into a dev mailing list and says "my AI told me … I don’t understand it, but you sure do" that means that many people will either ignore it completely or read a wall-of-text that isn’t known to actually be useful.
Please read your search results yourself, and if you find something useful, summarize it and only ask about the stuff that you actually need to know to move forward.
Please respect the time of people in mailing lists. Don’t drop generated walls of text.
Europe's Self Inflicted Cloud Crisis
berthub.eu/articles/posts/our-…
<- Bert Hubert nails one of the big problems in contemporary IT management
The short version For decades, governments and organizations could run services based on servers we actually owned.Bert Hubert's writings
Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends
@mart_brooks *Wags reproving finger*
I really wish the BSDs could resolve their differences, and more of the people focused on things like Plan 9 instead, but there's room at the table.
🗓️ Linux Day è domani! 25 ottobre 2025 - 25° edizione in Italia 🎉
Incontra la community più vicina:
linuxday.it/2025/
Grazie a tutte le città attive! Arona, Avellino, Bari, Benevento, Bergamo, Biella, Bologna, Bolzano, Brescia, Cairate, Casarano, Casorate Sempione, Cesate, Cosenza, Crotone, Este, Fabriano (parte 1 ..)
#LinuxDay #LinuxDay2025 #SoftwareFreedomDay2025 #SoftwareLibero #Italy
A #Torino, farò una presentazione di #LINEAGEOS, #FDROID, #XMPP durante la #LINUX DAY TORINO 2025
Https://linuxdaytorino.org/2025/#schedule
Orario 14.00
Dove: arsenale della Pace, Torino
Prima di tutto, vi invito a venire e partecipare numerosi
Puoi, questa presentazione è l'occasione di offrire un'alternativa a #Google, e aumentare la #Privacy
Pertanto, vi invito a divulgarlo presso i vostri colleghi, amici e famiglia torinese che volete convertire a #LINEAGE OS, F-DROID e XMPP
La presentazione spiegherà come installare LINEAGE OS, F-DROID e XMPP.
Dei QR code gratis per #MONOCLES da GOOGLE PLAY saranno distribuiti.
Sperò di esser stato esaustivo e vi aspetto, voi, i vostri amici, colleghi e famiglie, sabato 25 ottobre 2025, a Torino, alle 14.00, Arsenale della Pace, per la LINUX DAY TORINO 2025, nella AULA MISC.
#jabber #dino #monoclesim #gajim #movim #siskin #monal
"The villain is a gay Muslim terrorist who looks like Prince doing a terrible Doctor Strangelove impression with a monkey scurrying around his shoulders. He's aided by an army of lesbians led by Colonel Honey Hump."
My latest newsletter is about my fav weird movies:
buttondown.com/charliejane/arc…
Hi! Thanks for reading my newsletter. My new book Lessons in Magic and Disaster has been out for a couple of months. It’s about a trans woman who teaches her...Happy Dancing
Struggling with vibe coding? You just need to get better at prompting. Here is a six video series "course" to teach you how to write the most effective AI prompts and get the most out of vibe coding!
(Do you ever wonder what it would be like if there were some special language for giving commands to computers... a kind of prompting language so they would do *exactly* what you wanted? Maybe someone should invent that.)
"The manufacturer had the power to remotely disable devices and used it against me for blocking their data collection."
codetiger.github.io/blog/the-d…
...and people wonder why I resist having that kind of stuff in my home...
Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it. The Beginning: A Curious Experiment It all started innocently enough.Harishankar (Small World)
Talented fellow to pull it apart and then put it back together!
That morsel of advice, to never use the same WiFi for IoT devices and your actual computers is something most people ignore. It's a major effort to setup, and the priority slides down the list unless something out of the ordinary nudges them.
No no no no no and no.
None of this is trivial to 99% of humanity. PLEEEEEEEASE see this from the perspective of regular humans!
@ewen setting up an extra SSID is mostly easy for people who know what an SSID is without looking it up. Which is a fairly small slice of humanity.
But it's worse than that -- I don't think putting IoT devices on their own SSID *but the same underlying network* makes much sense. You'd probably like IoT networks to look more like guest networks, with strictly controlled access to other devices. Which needs (at a minimum) VLANs and an extra set of firewall policies, all of which depend on so many things that there's no way to produce any sort of useful cookbook for people with moderate amounts of technical skill.
And then you'll discover that there's no good way to actually configure new IoT devices without moving a phone onto the IoT network. And some features will just silently fail to work if you don't have direct IP access to the IoT device from a phone. And useful things like mDNS won't work at all unless you go to heroic lengths.
I'm perfectly capable of setting up an IoT network at home. I even have most of the config for it rolled out. But I've never moved a single device into the IoT network, because it's just going to make everything extra-painful in practice.
Exquisite description of the drama required to isolate IoT from anything important. Right down to the "Oh crap I'm six steps into configuring a device over the Thread network but I forgot to change my phone to the IoT network first. Urgh. Start over."
I have actually implemented those firewall rules to restrict what IoT devices can see. And in the back of my mind I'm thinking "What if I missed something?"
And then there's the maintenance in case something stops working.
The average person will go to Office Depot and buy a box that says "Fast Internet". Even if there was a wifi/router that would setup your separate IoT network by default and manage all those firewall rules, people would still choose a product that is cheaper or has pretty flashing LEDs.
And governments let this go on. There is zero effort from my govt to regulate for products that protect consumers. The govt has a website telling us to "be alert for scammers" and other malarkey, with absolutely tools that might actually help avoid the average person from having their digital life stolen, let alone just being spied on by corporations.
@Laberpferd @ewen @laird ...or they just have their own cellular interface...
The 'Internet of things' (IoT), being the future paradise that awaits us when all of our device [...]LWN.net
Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than
<- please can someone do an updated version, comparing Oberon to bits of Linux/BSD?
Anche quest'anno il GL-Como partecipa al Linux Day!
L'appuntamento annuale organizzato da ILS è nato nel 2001 per promuovere le idee del software libero e dell'open source, con un occhio di riguardo verso Linux. L'evento è costituito da una rete di eventi decentralizzati in tutta Italia organizzati autonomamente da gruppi volontari e appassionati.
In questa edizione il GL-Como si unisce a ILS Casorate Sempione, sabato 25 ottobre presso la biblioteca comunale Alda Merini .
Il programma è in via di finalizzazione, vi invitiamo a seguire il sito di ILS Casorate Sempione per aggiornamenti!
Meshtastic iOS app breaks EU law with sending lots of telemetry (logs, usage) to DataDog in US wthout user consent and without any kind of notification of the app doing so.
I reported this as issue and it got immediately closed without any explanation: github.com/meshtastic/Meshtast…
Apple iOS, iPadOS & macOS Clients For Meshtastic. Contribute to meshtastic/Meshtastic-Apple development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Mr Rogers was a republican.
He was a white christian cis het man.
He prayed and read the Bible every day.
He created a children's TV show with taxpayer money in which he promoted his "christian views" to a secular audience through secular media.
He studied other religions and other cultures to improve on his reach and connection. He never preached or quoted scripture--yet, we all got the message he intended for us.
He appealed to President Nixon and Congress to continue to fund the creation of PBS with a persuasive speech that is one of the most studied for public speaking and PR. A gentle but powerful speaker.
While white people were pouring concrete into public pools rather than share with black neighrbors, Fred Rogers broadcast himself sharing a quiet conversation in a pool with African-American music and co-worker, Francios Clemmons. The softest act of defiance against White Supremacy.
He was the most demanded speaker on college campuses--he did not have to con his way onto campus to speak and nazis and counter-protesters did not follow his appearances---You know, despite the fact that he was a white christian man promoting christian values to the general public.
Every generation since the 1968 has been positively impacted by Mr Rogers.
Even children in the past 20 years are benefiting from his legacy at PBS --his methods and messages are STILL used in children's programming around the world.
No one had to mandate mourning his death because we all actually felt a genuine loss when he passed away. Even grown adults, who had not watched his show for 10 years by the time he passed, felt a piece of genuine goodness leave the planet.
We did not have to be Christian with Mr Rogers for him to do so much for us.
He never asked us to be Christian with him.
He only asked us to be his neighbor.
So...
If you find that the general public is rejecting your brand of Christianity, it might because you are a horrible fucking person with a 2000 yr old book of shitty excuses that no one is buying into.
It might be because you are a filthy grifter looking to capitalize off end-times hysteria and seniors with end-of-life anxieties.
It might be cause you are a disgusting bigot trying to reap superiority while evading moral accountability.
It probably has nothing to do at all with you actually "being a christian".
Cause we all fucking loved Mr Rogers.
-- Patchie Dee
You don't have to update your PATH just to run an app from anywhere. Let an alias do it for you!
Here's 3 ways that I use the ALIAS command on FreeDOS:
Anyway I usually use batch files to run big programs from their own directory. Probably uses more disk space than just lines in c:\bin\myalias would. DOS tech debt? Naaa!😉
OTOH can WordPerfect or whatever find their support files when they're not in the CWD?
@goosey At least for As-Easy-As and Word 5.5, yes, they can find their other files even when you run it from another directory. Probably gets the directory from argv[0] -- that's how I'd do it.
But as always, check! 😉
ChatGPT is bullshit
archive.is/TkZQK#selection-913…
<- A professional assessment: this is a paper from _Ethics and Information Technology_
Just four hours to go in the Kickstarter to pre-order the audiobook, ebook and hardcover for my next book, ENSHITTIFICATION!
If anybody needs to make a slide for a talk where they are talking about bug hunting / bug squashing, this may be useful
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
(yes, today I have been preparing slides for a talk, why do you ask?)
Se a qualcuno serve una slide per un talk in cui devono parlare di caccia ai bug, questo può essere utile
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
(sì, oggi stavo preparando le slide per un talk, perché?)
"Are you pondering what I’m pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but why would a federated social network care about our anniversary?”
"Pinky and the Brain" debuted on 9 september 1995.
Hackers Hijack npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads in Supply Chain Attackwww.bleepingcomputer.com
I sell Libreboot, and Libreboot accessories. Shipping worldwide:
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.
Stop the Chat Control – Protect our Civil Rights! (Stoppt die Chatkontrolle – Grundrechte gelten auch im Netz!)
Sign the Petition: chng.it/W76BwjvJ8Y via @ukchange
Just fucking use HTML
<- 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.
Stop reinventing the wheel. The web was doing just fine before your bloated frameworks crawled out of the sewer.Just fucking use HTML
The small web is beautiful
benhoyt.com/writings/the-small…
A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.benhoyt.com
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…Breaking the Web’s Cookie Jar
The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here’s how it works: * Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network.Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror)
@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.
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.
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/…
#UnoLibri #libri #letteratura #public_domain #cosediscuola #cultura
Questo opuscolo fu pubblicato – anonimo – per la prima volta in Svizzera nel luglio del 1944, nella ricorrenza dei vent'anni dall'assassinio di Giacomo Matteotti, poi ripubblicato nel marzo del 1945 dalle Edizioni dell'Avanti, che qui riproduciamo, i…Liber Liber
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-…
A core component of making great decisions is understanding previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse.Shane (Shane Parrish | Farnam Street)
holy crap no, don't remove the fallback option leaving only the tech-based option depending on satellites controlled by *checks notes* the government that went on a slash and burn reduction of **everything**, notably including things that might compete with the businesses of a drug-using major political donor involved in space-related industries.
Not sure if standard maritime navigation systems are still based primarily on GPS vs Galileo or BeiDou, but I'm sure there are plenty of older and smaller boats that use electronics based on only one system.
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_…
When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is naïve.www.ted.com
A funny way to promote RSS.
And shared on the fediverse, thanks to #friendica that let you follow rss feed...
Outside of Christmas Day, I don't often get to use 6+ hobs and both ovens simultaneously, but I appreciate the ability to do so when I need them.Dan Q
🤖 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…
Suicidi, avvelenamenti, suggerimenti di buttarsi nel vuoto: negli ultimi mesi vari casi di cronaca hanno mostrato i pericoli di chiedere consiglio alle AIIl Post
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.
A real estate developer searched Google for a cruise ship company's customer service number, reports the Washington Post, calling the number in Google's AI Overview.yro.slashdot.org
