IanTwenty

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[–] IanTwenty@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

First time I've heard of that, this video seems to back it up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L2ef1CP-yw

Depending on the fan 50cm or more from the window is about right for max flow

[–] IanTwenty@piefed.social 6 points 6 days ago

A shame one of the alternatives mentioned in the article is down but available via wayback machine. They wrote their own reply after being linked to:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250905155850/https://belkadan.com/blog/2023/11/GitMounter/

A few days ago Julia Evans posted this:

has anyone made a read-only FUSE filesystem for a git repository where every commit is a folder and the folder contains all the files in that commit?

the idea is that you could just run cd COMMIT_ID and poke around instead of checking out the commit

and maybe the branches could be symbolic links to the commit folders?

And I did in fact do something very like that, back when I was playing with FUSE! But I never put it up anywhere cause it had an annoying build process, and didn’t seem to add much, and—

Well, in any case, Evans asked to see it, so here it is, cleaned up to be a plain old SwiftPM package. It should work on macOS and on Linux as long as you have FUSE (macFUSE or libfuse-dev), libgit2, pkg-config, and Swift installed; on Linux you’ll have to create the mount directory first. (If you run the command and it fails it’ll tell you what path it tried to use.)

% swift run mount-git /path/to/checkout

By the way, if you don’t know who Julia Evans is, they make blog posts and zines exploring all sorts of software in a way accessible to newbies and veterans alike, all with a lovely sense of discovery and enjoyment. This follow-up post to the original prompt really underscores their approach:

guys this is such a fun idea I cannot believe people are in the replies trying to explain to me why they think it is impractical

the whole point of computers is to do impractical things and see what happens

You should definitely follow them and/or subscribe to their newsfeed. :-)

[–] IanTwenty@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

There is also 24 hour cool-off period on installing APKs I didn't see mentioned:

https://dev.to/alanwest/how-to-handle-androids-new-24-hour-sideloading-delay-in-your-apk-distribution-16i4

Combine that with a new capatcha that requires Google Play:

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement-3664806/

...and it's clear which way things are headed.

[–] IanTwenty@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Same experience as quoted - I used to use it. Once you have it 'trained' it's good to know the bad stuff is not getting through but it's a pain to maintain and for every new site you visit it takes experimentation to get the right setup.

You really want to share the pain of setup with other privacy people which is how ublock works with its lists I think.

[–] IanTwenty@piefed.social 22 points 1 week ago

Grateful the SFC has got users' backs!

[–] IanTwenty@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

404 Media seem to be doing a great job, support independent media!

 

Author of this issue from April 2025 says:

Since the repository wasn't updated in about 5 years, I suppose that the extension is no longer open source, correct? But since I still see new releases on the Chrome/Firefox stores, can we just have this GitHub repository [archived] then?

The tracking protection list is regularly updated so it's possible new releases on stores are a result of building the code with the newer list I suppose. Does anyone know for sure? There have been no comments on that issue.

 

As facial recognition spreads across police forces and retail stores, UK biometrics commissioners are warning that national oversight is lagging far behind the technology’s rapid expansion.

Last year, the Home Office admitted facial recognition cameras were more likely to incorrectly identify black and Asian people than their white counterparts, and women more than men, and there have been conflicting studies on their overall accuracy.

[–] IanTwenty@piefed.social 13 points 3 weeks ago

...[the group] has claimed responsibility for similar DDoS attacks on the likes of eBay's Japan and US divisions, as well as BlueSky in just the past month alone.

Why the group is targeting London-based Canonical remains unclear and no reason was given via its Telegram channel. It is presumably because Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distros.

[–] IanTwenty@piefed.social 27 points 1 month ago

This is the meat of the headline:

For example, the Anthropic-claimed 181 Firefox exploits ran with the browser sandbox turned off and the FreeBSD exploit transcript "shows substantial human guidance, not autonomy." 

Additionally, the "'thousands of severe vulnerabilities' extrapolates from 198 manually reviewed reports. The Linux kernel bug was found by Opus 4.6, the public model, not Mythos," Devansh said.

Another researcher, Davi Ottenheimer, pointed out that the security section (Section 3, pages 47-53) of Anthropic's 244-page documentation "contains no count of zero-days at all. With no CVE list, no CVSS distribution, no severity bucket, no disclosure timeline, no vendor-confirmed-novel table, no false-positive rate."

Ottenheimer likens it to "the ending of the Wizard of Oz, a sorry disappointment about a model weaponizing two bugs that a different model found, in software the vendor had already patched, in a test environment with the browser sandbox and defense-in-depth mitigations stripped out."

[–] IanTwenty@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago

He's talking about a physical object, something you have on your desk that you can pick up and prove your identity to the person on the other end of the video call.

Reminds me of the 'totems' in Inception, except they were to prove to yourself you were not in a dream.

 

Consumer tastes are out of sync with what can be grown seasonally and in a low-carbon way, and expectations need to readjusted. Across our national diet, we only grow 62% of what we consume. We import 83% of the dreadfully low amount of fruit we consume. Rebuilding a regional horticulture sector could be the real growth the Treasury wants. When Rachel Reeves promised “securonomics” in the Mais lecture hosted at Bayes Business School in 2024, I thought it might herald food growth. So far, not.

[–] IanTwenty@piefed.social 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

From the github if you were wondering:

Free, open-source, self-hosted wardrobe organizer. Catalog clothes, build outfits, PWA. Docker one-liner deploy.

[–] IanTwenty@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago

I think all these measures are designed to slow the flow, spread the storage of the rain across more places so it can cope with the larger downfall in the short-term, buying time for it all to flow away once it has passed.

There are similar ideas in UK with reintroduction of beavers who transform land into spongey floodplains that can tolerate much more rainfall before spilling over.

[–] IanTwenty@piefed.social 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Canenter, Canentrance, Can'entree?

 

Blocking AI-Generated Content

The Widelands Development Team is drafting a resolution to reject AI-generated content contributions (code, graphics, music, and others) to the Widelands source code and repositories.

We hold that AI-generated content generally stands on dubious ethical and legal grounds, as it violates the copyright of creators whose work was scraped for the AI's training data set without their permission and without due attribution. Also, we find that it is frequently of low overall quality and/or is overly generic and fails to embrace requirements specific to Widelands.

Pull requests that have been generated by AI may in the future be closed without review.

Widelands is created by people, for people.

The change does not impact add-on uploads, which are each add-on author’s own responsibility, although such add-ons may be moderated more critically by the add-on server maintainers.
Translations are also not in the scope of this policy, and every language team can define its own policy with regard to machine translation.

The policy is still open to discussion here until Tuesday, February 24th, 2026.

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European Alternatives for Music Streaming (choosingeurope.substack.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by IanTwenty@piefed.social to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
 

Deezer (France 🇫🇷) Qobuz (France 🇫🇷) SoundCloud (Germany 🇩🇪) IDAGIO (Germany 🇩🇪)

 

Does such an app exist?

 
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