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Ridgeline is using Matrix to defend privacy, autonomy, and security of individuals and organisations.

Learn more about how at The Matrix Conference in Berlin this week!

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Joe from Ridgeline International, LLC, one of our partners, is presenting at The Matrix.org Foundation Conference in Berlin tomorrow.

Discover how secure communications can shield your data from ubiquitous technical surveillance threats.


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En fait, avec du bicarbonate de soude, ça contient bien un conservateur.
Bon, ici il y a beaucoup de lierre au jardin, donc les épluchures vont au compost.


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Linus Torvalds yesterday at the #ossummit in Vienna explaining that sometimes #boring is good.

And he is absolutely right: if you are want to have some excitement in IT, you should look for it not during deployment and releases but elsewhere. 👍

> Releases are not exciting and they're not supposed to be.

> They are uh timely and they are hopefully very timely.

> But exciting is not, I think, the goal.

#boringIsGood #software #oss #linux



🚀 New IGUANA update is here! 🚀

✨ Re-added query templates for easier querying with placeholders. 🆕 Now supports SPARQL Query Results in XML, CSV, and TSV formats, in addition to JSON. 🔓 License switch to dual MIT & Apache 2.0 for more flexibility!

#Benchmarking #IGUANA #SPARQL #RDF #OpenSource

github.com/dice-group/IGUANA/r…



Apple has released new versions of macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS, each featuring significant updates. Highlights include iPhone mirroring on macOS Sequoia, customizable Home Screens on iPadOS, sleep apnea detection on watchOS, enhanced subtitle functionality on tvOS, and new gesture controls on visionOS alternativeto.net/news/2024/9/…


I'm very torn on #uv. On one hand, I don't get why it is all in Rust (as opposed to just the dependency solver) -- it makes it a lot more difficult for the #Python #packaging community at large to fork and contribute to it.

However, uv finally convinced my team to migrate from Poetry and adopt PEP621-formatted pyproject.toml files, which is a huge win for me!



Did you ever have to look for the right software? With so many providers out there, making the right choice can be a daunting task.

We are here to help! The new page on our website dives deep into the ultimate comparison between OpenProject and Smenso. 🎯

Whether you are curious about features, pricing, or just want to see how we stack up, we’ve got you covered. Take a look and decide for yourself.

🔗 openproject.org/project-manage…

#openproject #opensource #projectmanagement #softwarechoice



The Art of Coarse Sex: Or How to Love Better and Die With a Beautiful Smile on Your Face by Michael Frederick Green, 1983

An addition to the classic Art of Coarse. . . series. The mysteries of sexual attraction and holiday romances, the dismal failure of outdoor sex, and sex for the flagging middle-aged are all fearlessly discussed.

archive.org/details/artofcoars…

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#sex
#humour

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The internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here, and can we go back?

When it comes to our experience of the internet, “the times, they are a-changin’”, as Bob Dylan would say. You can’t quite recall how, but the internet certainly feels different these days.

To some, it is “less fun and less informative” than it used to be. To others, online searches are made up of “cookie cutter” pages that drown out useful information and are saturated with scams, spam and content generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

Your social media feeds are full of eye-catching, provocative, hyper-targeted, or anger-inducing content, from bizarre AI-generated imagery to robot-like comments. You’re lucky if your video feeds are not solely made up of exhortations to “subscribe”.

How did we get here? And can we claw our way back?



If you want to know why student fees are so expensive (and universities want to put them up further) a key (under-recognised) reason is the systemic under-funding of research.

The university system has made research a key indicator of quality, a retention method for key staff & is central to many institutions' self-identity.

But years of under-funding have embedded a massive cross subsidy from student fees (mainly non-UK fees). Its never been a sustainable model!

#universities #students




Have we passed the solar tipping point where renewable solar energy has reached a momentum of deployment that will see prices drop further (and swiftly) and fossil fuels become increasingly a niche power source?

This piece from Nature Communications last year suggest we have (with some caveats around financing the transition & supply chain choke point), but with strategic policies in place it looks like solar may be the future....

#RenewableEnergy #Climate #solar

nature.com/articles/s41467-023…

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There is an increasing number of studies and articles like this appearing. This series from the Economist got my attention in June.

economist.com/leaders/2024/06/…

They are basically saying its game over. The main point being that Solar is unlike any energy source ever seen in that each year it gets better and cheaper with no end in sight. And now with storage going the same way we might just be able to save ourselves from ourselves.

This is most surprising in that The Economist is known for being a hard nosed capitalist outlet.

#solar




Cobwebs in the sunlight.
(Can you spot the two #cobwebs in the first picture? Close-up in photo 2)
I love this picture ☺️
#nature #trees #September #sun


#OTD in 1870.

The first performance of Alexander Pushkin's play Boris Godunov (1825) is given at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg by members of the Alexandrinsky Theatre.

It was written in 1825, published in 1831, but not approved for performance by the censor until 1866. It consists of 25 scenes and is mainly written in blank verse.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Go…

Boris Godunov at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/5089

#books #literature #theatre



If you use Qt from #Python (from any of its bindings like #PyQt or PySide or QtPy), read this excellent guide from @czaki on writing robust tests.

@czaki has repeatedly cleaned up the test suite for @napari, which often failed randomly in CI, and this post distills many of his learnings. I’ve found it super useful for my understanding of wtf was going on in our CI! 😂
fosstodon.org/@czaki/113146457…



Hola Fedivers, han obert la traducció en Català de l'app de missatgeria SimpleX Chat. L'utilitze amb la família i va força bé, a banda de complir estrictes mesures per a resguardar la nostra privacitat. Molt recomanable!
Podeu col·laborar amb la traducció al següent enllaç o també podeu donar-li un impuls :boost_anim_sleeping: :
hosted.weblate.org/projects/si…

Web del projecte: simplex.chat/

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I'm kind of getting this, but different, but only on my local, not in prod. Ugh.

github.com/cannatag/ldap3/issu…

Instead of "unsupported hash type MD4" I get "undefined symbol: md4_init" probably because I should upgrade something that is making assumptions.

Maybe some part of prod is running an older openssl and here I am on a fresh install.

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I’ve had tons of these issues while developing pam_tacplus - as a developer you have the choice of using libraries, which is desirable, or relying on a local implementation. If you use libraries, these tend to deprecate algorithms and this is exactly what happened to MD4, it’s likely simply no longer compiled into OpenSSL. It’s likely that a library such as ldap3 would have a local copy of the algorithm but as of 2024 it’s likely offered as a compile-time option whether to use local copy or OpenSSL, so your choices are basically reduced to recompiling one or another from source…
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@kravietz 🦇 Local had both pycryptodome and an old pycrypto. Prod is an image built from scratch and doesn't suffer from such leftovers.

ldap3 does the right thing and loads the MD4 module if available, otherwise recovers and doesn't try to use MD4. But the old pycrypto implements MD4 and also assumes openssl will have md4 symbols.