Cadair @[email protected]

Hubble back in service after gyro scare—NASA still studying reboost options https://arstechnica.com/?p=1989867

Lol.

NASA just transmitted a software update 12 billion miles to Voyager 2, a feat that’s a marvel of spaceflight engineering and a testament to human achievement. It arrived with the following release notes:

“Bug fixes.”

I'm sorry, did you forget the last 200 years of technological progress advancing productivity yet leading us to work even longer hours? If we want to work less, we need unions, not tech.

New #ForgeFed #blog post! 🌟
💼 Projects & Grant Chains 🐍

The new stuff: Ability to collect components (Git, issues, PRs, etc.) under Projects

https://forgefed.org/blog/projects-and-ocap-chains/

Where to comment: Right here on the Fediverse :)

--Pere

*They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

How the first gen ipod was reverse engineered to run #Rockbox:

1. Someone figured out that when loading a particular HTML page (for viewing on the device), the device would reboot. It crashed. A buffer overflow in the HTML viewer!

2. The device remembered what it did before the crash, so it would reload the HTML page again after boot. Unless you connected to it over USB and removed the HTML file it would stick in this cycle.

(continues...)

New @lickability blog post from yours truly: Designing Mastodon’s reply safety features

http://lickability.com/blog/designing-mastodons-reply-safety-features/

You got coding problems, I feel bad for you, son.
I got 98 problems ‘cuz I’m off by one.

It is hard for us to identify our biases…why we demand more, scrutinize more, communicate less to one group over another. A good place to start is to be honest about the material harm this causes.

I am utterly burnt out from discussing these issues over a number of years but we are here talking about them some more.

An open letter to the PSF❤️

https://pythonafrica.blogspot.com/2023/12/an-open-letter-to-python-software_5.html

Massive story coming from this one later - thank you for Senator Wyden for blowing this up. Apple, follow through with public disclosure so this doesn't get lost.

Part of the US (and other) governments spy worldwide using push notifications. That popup telling you your friend messaged on that super secure encrypted messaging app? Yeahhhhh.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/

An Open Letter to The PSF from Python Communities in Ghana, Namibia, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

https://pythonafrica.blogspot.com/2023/12/an-open-letter-to-python-software_5.html

Germany-based email provider Tuta says Microsoft Outlook is blocking all emails from tutanota.com.

https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-falsely-marks-tutanota-emails-as-junk

Last month, we attended the CSA Matter Member Meeting in Geneva to represent Home Assistant, our community, and the Open Home vision.
Read more about our visit: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/12/04/nabu-casa-at-the-matter-member-meeting/

Attention #FoD shoppers! Get your orders in at PodShop.biz by December 8 to make sure your orders arrive in time to be wrapped in paper and honor! #GreatestGen

By remaining to use a chromium browser, you're assisting in fucking up the web. I get it, it was nice and shiny. But it's time to come back to Firefox, folks.
https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/12/chromes-next-weapon-in-the-war-on-ad-blockers-slower-extension-updates/

#Firefox #chrome #floss #adblock #freedom

The bottom of this bag of coffee has better UX than a lot of apps out there.

Picard sanity tip: If there are four lights, say there are four lights.