THREAD: Hello friends. So depending on your exposure to African news, you may or may not recognize the girl in the photo.

But with the Iran Hormuz deadlock, and global powers looking elsewhere for trade corridors, it is timely to know about her. Especially if you are American. Her story may (should!) become very relevant in the near future.

Her name is Ciham Ali Abdu and she is an American citizen.

She hasn't been seen or heard from since 2012.

I'll keynote Bsides Vilnius on June 4

https://bsidesvilnius.lt/

@aral Even though the judge overseeing the #Filton6 trial said nothing was to be reported upon about the trial, I copied the powerful closing statements of the defendants - which doubtless you have seen - to every single British MP.

One MP, who I have had a fairly good relationship with, replied back in confidence saying that I need to be careful as I have committed 'Contempt of Court' by telling our members of parliament what is going on inside our courts

Yeek!

All my love, Geri xxx

@olm_e@tchafia.be students in the class led by @s0hw@hci.social and @andresmh@hci.social at hci.princeton.edu have worked on something like this which was previewed at the last #FediForum and will launch in the summer...

enjoying how my overnight backscroll went from a professor complaining that Canvas was having allegedly “scheduled maintenance” at a very inconsiderate time to an announcement that Canvas private data is being held for ransom

I kinda want to add a progress bar, but feels like indicatif would be a bit of an overkill. But if I don't use it, I will eventually end up reimplementing half of it, so... might aswell get ahead of that and eat the dependency.

If you believe that #Reform is a solution to, well, anything, I have a splinter from the true cross I'd like to sell you.
I hope you won't think this presumptuous of me, but have you ever considered attending a course that teaches rudimentary reasoning skills, you gullible fucking lack-wit?

*How many "bugs" can some finite chunk of code possibly have? Will it ever run out of bugs? Can models just invent new forms of bugs to patch indefinitely?

Last week in #FDroid (LWIF) is live so we'll make this short:

* #Conversations_IM #XMPP is already out of beta and changed files storage location, read now!
* #BitcoinWallet update for #Android 9 or later
* #HomeAssistant is back on track
* #OSMAnd major features
* how to help us to ease app inclusion
+ 46 new apps
& 256 updates
- 1 archived app

Better late than more late: https://f-droid.org/2026/04/30/twif.html

New breach: Zara was named as a ShinyHunters victim last month, after which data containing 197k unique email addresses was published. Impacted data included customer support records, product SKUs and order IDs. 60% were already in @haveibeenpwned. More: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Zara

@sortius @jpm tastes so good, I had one today

Unspeakable #climateviolence wreaked on the poor by the wealthy - we must take #climateaction seriously. #UKPolitics have shrinking global meaning but still matter - overnights aren't great, but holding on for today's counts #thinkglobalactlocal @thegreenparty
https://aje.news/x96elx

@bontchev
I always laugh at the "admin" privilege under Windows... which is not an admin account since it won't let you stop some services or touch some files.

Reminder today on his 100 birthday, that young Attenborough was an absolute sort

On my way to Vienna ❤️🚅

In Italy, those who are born with a caul become "Benandanti" or "Good Walkers", and get to fight evil sorcerers in their dreams.

However, their counterparts in northeastern Germany have a far less happy fate.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #vampire
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Unh%C3%AEr_or_Unhuer

Mitschnitt des gemeinsam von HELIOS und HemaFAIR veranstalteten Webinars rund um "Open Science Theory and Practise". Themen sind unter anderem:

• The foundations and principles of Open Science
• Practical tools and infrastructures supporting open research
• Open access, research data management, and FAIR practices
• The role of European initiatives such as OpenAIRE in promoting open scholarship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfecuUM0iLY

"Cognitive tests", of which I have had a few lately, test two things:

Motor function - "Can you press against my hand?"
Consciousness - "Do you know where you are?"

One does not really fail them as much as simply pass away.

Excellent post on the correct SI unit for (HTTP or not) request rate: https://entropicthoughts.com/si-units-for-request-rate

The world needs more blog posts like this.

@malte I'm using `rhit` from Dystroy. The stock amd64 binary doesn't come with SHA sum, so you may want to use their repo or download and inspect somewhere safe first.