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the perfect browser in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it's about the ladybird browser. i edited my comment to add details.

the perfect browser in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

with mandatory male pronouns for users in the documentation.

(and no politics allowed!)

notethis issue was resolved eventually by another dev; ~~afaik~~ the lead dev ~~stopped commenting on it after he~~ closed a PR and said people who wanted to remove the docs' implied assumption of users' maleness were "advertising personal politics".

edit: ok, i went and checked, here are the details:

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PSA: Sync for Lemmy users: please do not create reports about PMs (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
23 comments fedilink
 

The latest version of Sync for Lemmy (released March 2024) has a bug where attempts to report Private Messages create reports for random comments instead - it creates a report for whatever comment has the same database ID as the private message you're trying to report (which on most instances will be a very old comment, since there are many more comments than private messages).

So: if you're using Sync for Lemmy, unless/until there is a new release of it, please refrain from reporting PMs while using it, to avoid filling instance admins' report queues with spurious reports.

There has been a bit of PM spam lately; please do report PM spam using other clients, so that admins can ban those accounts asap.

If you're interested in trying other Lemmy apps which hopefully get updates more frequently, there is a list of them here: https://join-lemmy.org/apps/

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2024 Linux and free software timeline [LWN.net] (lwn.net)
[Climate Solutions] Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here’s how. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

shoutout to the person who reported this post. reason? "dangerous misinformation can lead to heat stroke and death"

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Microsoft has pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AI (www.wheresyoured.at)
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Microsoft has pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AI (www.wheresyoured.at)
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"The Epstein Files: Phase 1” just dropped (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
 

~~https://xcancel.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1895211719255040092~~ edit: that tweet is now deleted, but the screenshot is real. archive here

No new bombshells in Justice Department’s release of Jeffrey Epstein files [AP]

Release of 'Epstein Files' sparks MAGA anger and disappointment [MSNBC]

TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

https://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/english.ogg (from back when many english speakers were still insistent that the i in Linux should be pronounced "eye")

Bluesky Deletes AI Protest Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes, Calls It 'Non-Consensual Explicit Material' (Update: After this article was published, Bluesky restored the post) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm confused as to why this 404media story neglected to link to the post in question.

to get from this article to the post that it is about, i had to type in the bsky username from the screenshot and scroll through the timeline. to save others the effort:

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3liwlwvvq6k2s is the post which was removed.

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lj3yrzc6is2p is the thread about it being removed and later restored.

[Half True; see linked comment] BRASSICAS in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

this meme has some truth in it, in that these six vegetables are all brassica oleracea. but, the factoid in the center of the meme is misleading: brassica oleracea can be many things but (despite brassicaceae being "the mustard and cabbage family") brassica oleracea is not typically called "wild mustard plant".

edit: toned down my refutation; i guess maybe it is sometimes 👀 but i think not really

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Wacky 90s fads [SMBC] (lemmy.ml)
 

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fads

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Kash Patel's remarks after being sworn in as Director of the FBI (lemmy.ml)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeejiOZABi0

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The Shape of a Mars Mission (idlewords.com)
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two OpenSSH vulnerabilities fixed: one allowed MITM against clients which had enabled VerifyHostKeyDNS, the other allowed pre-auth DoS (blog.qualys.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26304038

from the OpenSSH 9.9p2 release announcement:


This release fixes two security bugs.

Security
========

* Fix CVE-2025-26465 - ssh(1) in OpenSSH versions 6.8p1 to 9.9p1
  (inclusive) contained a logic error that allowed an on-path
  attacker (a.k.a MITM) to impersonate any server when the
  VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. This option is off by default.

* Fix CVE-2025-26466 - sshd(8) in OpenSSH versions 9.5p1 to 9.9p1
  (inclusive) is vulnerable to a memory/CPU denial-of-service related
  to the handling of SSH2_MSG_PING packets. This condition may be
  mitigated using the existing PerSourcePenalties feature.

Both vulnerabilities were discovered and demonstrated to be exploitable
by the Qualys Security Advisory team. We thank them for their detailed
review of OpenSSH.
Am I allowed to use gentoo if im not 40+ or dating? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Roll_Safe_meme.jpg, which wikipedia explains is "an Internet meme in which British filmmaker and actor Kayode Ewumi, while portraying the character Reece Simpson (also known as Roll Safe) in his own web series Hood Documentary, is seen tapping his finger on his head. The images are used, often with joking caption, to mock poor decision-making and failures in critical thinking."

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it's how the basic linear algebra subprograms are implemented (lemmy.ml)
 

References:

Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A uprising in the Roman empire does not count as Britain invading Croatia and Slovenia just because an army originating in the Roman province of Britannia landed in the region which, 16 centuries later, is controlled by these two countries.

You can find an epub of the book on Library Genesis. It is organized by current nation states but is (obviously) referring to historical invasions of their present-day territory.

For Croatia, it does mention events in the fourth century, but also the 19th (when they built a base on the island of Vis) and 20th (when they reoccupied it). Slovenia it admits they "have come perilously close to not invading at all" but points out that (in addition to that fourth-century Roman campaign) the UK did occupy an area including the present-day Slovenian town of Sežana from 1945 to 1947.

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BBC: "Leaders set for Munich Security Conference as world order in danger of crumbling" (www.bbc.com)
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"Building a Safer Matrix" - an update from The Matrix.org Foundation about "Trust & Safety", content moderation, and their evolving anti-abuse efforts (matrix.org)
Antechinus sounds like a villain from a Fritz Lang movie in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

🥛🤝🦆

Elon Musk demands firing of ‘disgusting and cruel’ WSJ reporter who uncovered DOGE employee’s racist tweets in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

While USAID definitely funds/funded many ridiculous things (such as this) they also provide much-needed food and medicine to a lot of people - for cynical politically-motivated soft-power reasons, but still. It seems very likely that abruptly cutting off those programs will cause some people to die. I really hope someone (the PRC seems likely) will step in and replace some of those programs!

Why do people faint at the sight of plain-text code? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

i don't usually cross-post my comments but I think this one from a cross-post of this meme in programmerhumor is worth sharing here:

The statement in this meme is false. There are many programming languages which can be written by humans but which are intended primarily to be generated by other programs (such as compilers for higher-level languages).

The distinction can sometimes be missed even by people who are successfully writing code in these languages; this comment from Jeffrey Friedl (author of the book Mastering Regular Expressions) stuck with me:

I’ve written full-fledged applications in PostScript – it can be done – but it’s important to remember that PostScript has been designed for machine-generated scripts. A human does not normally code in PostScript directly, but rather, they write a program in another language that produces PostScript to do what they want. (I realized this after having written said applications :-)) —Jeffrey

(there is a lot of fascinating history in that thread on his blog...)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lays out battle plan against 'shockingly dim' Trump White House in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Am I still missing something? This is posted on the instance of .world, wtf are we talking about .ml and politics for? If your instance filters your comments on other instances than that’s concerning and something I didn’t know.

Yes, something you're missing is that it was your (our) instance which removed the word from your comment. I believe the slur filters are effectively a combination of the configured filters on the writer's instance, the reader's instance, and the community's instance.

If you view this thread from other other users' instances (via the fediverse icon link on their comments in the web view), you will see that the word which was removed from your comment is not removed from comments by users on some other instances (despite that it is also removed from their comments when viewed from our instance). HTH.

(imo false positives from the slur filter are annoying, but so are the people casually using slurs who are prevented from doing so by it; it's a tradeoff i don't feel strongly about. although i do think it would be much better if the writer-side version of it could notify users of the impending bowdlerization prior to posting.)

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