Dead & Co are playing for free in SF this weekend, so now is as good a time as any to revisit the contributions of Deadheads to the early development of the internet: https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250618-how-the-grateful-dead-shaped-social-media
🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/EFF/status/1951387504101433691#m
[2025/08/01 21:00]
Rampant emoji use suggests crypto-stealing NPM package was written by AI - Kodane code was either machine-generated or done by a teenager An NPM package packed with... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/emoji_use_ai_malware/
So I'm thinking of adding support for %time{} in #curl's -w function.
One reason for doing this is for users who use -w for logging and want to include the time of the event (post-transfer) in a convenient way.
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/18119
Feel free to share your opinion!
Fujifilm is raising camera prices by up to $800 https://www.theverge.com/cameras/717685/fujifilm-camera-price-hikes-tariffs-x100vi #news #Cameras #Gadgets #News
💸 eBay impulse control challenges 💸
Look, look at these. They're beautiful, they work, they could be mine! Yet like with all vintage window shopping that occurs on eBay when I'm in-between tasks or relaxing, I just have to remind myself that there are already plenty of unfinished projects in my purview, and to just finish something equally fun from the FIFO queue.
oooh but it's so difficult! 💝🎁
#vintage #vintagecomputing #laptop #gridcase #omnibook #eBayFinds #dopamineImpulseControl #want
This morning we have concluded that POSIX clearly states that a command line short option that takes an argument should be possible to use with and without a blank: "-f foo" as as well as "-ffoo"
Important IRC chatter conveyed to you.
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap12.html
This calm and lovely night, #curl got its 271st command line option merged and we call this baby --parallel-max-host
Enjoy!
Privacy for me but not for thee: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/senators-homes-travel-info-remove-internet-1235397818/
This dual-screen, Raspberry Pi-powered cyberdeck has a 3D printed body, three custom circuit boards, a mechanical keyboard and two 9 inch touchscreen displays that can rotate for portrait or vertical orientation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cigAxzQGeLg #Cyberdeck #RaspberryPi #DualScreen
Did y'all know Dropbox had a password manager?
Dropbox is pulling the plug on its password manager
Cisco has donated the AGNTCY project to the Linux Foundation.
https://news.itsfoss.com/agntcy-project-joins-linux-foundation/
At EFF we spend a lot of time thinking about the tech used by police and authorities to spy on you while you’re going about your everyday life, like cell-site simulators (CSS). Rayhunter is an open source tool we’ve created that we hope empowers everyone to help search out CSS around the world. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying
🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/EFF/status/1951005615821824048#m
[2025/07/31 19:42]
This cranky guy sounds too much like me 😂
Report from @OpenForumEurope @FraunhoferISI and European University Institute looks at how to scale up the German Sovereign Tech Agency to meet the EU's open source funding needs
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/EU-Sovereign-Tech-Fund-Gains-Traction?utm_source=mlm
#GitHub #OpenSource #funding #SovereignTechFund #FOSS
images of the Forum Hotel in Krakow, Poland, designed by Janusz Ingarden, completed in 1989
#architecute #art #arts #design #brutalist #brutalism #artlover #artlovers #geometry #designer #designers #designing #artlover #artlovers #europe #travel #travels #travelers #traveling #poland
Made in China? Not Anymore As US-Bound Phone Shipments From India Surge https://www.pcmag.com/news/made-in-china-not-anymore-as-us-bound-phone-shipments-from-india-surge #news
How to opt out of facial recognition at the airport - And why TSA face scans that are optional on paper can feel mandatory in practice. - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/29/airport-facial-recognition-scan-opt-out/