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Interessante ragionamento di @quinta che mette in correlazione il fatto che, se Usa decide che sei un #terrorista, ti congelano l'account #Google.
Se succede, la verifica di integrità della tua app statale #IO su #Android non può essere validata (in quanto legata agli integrity service di Google e del tuo account)
Non succede... Ma se succede?
@jhv Wait seriously no one's said Rocky Horror Picture Show yet? Because I'm totally going with that!
@MichaelTBacon Rock on, dude. ;)
@lw @rakoo Thank you for the question. Bringing up concrete examples will likely give me the opportunity to clarify things better. I'll take two specific examples, one from a while ago and one from recent days.
A user asked for information about Xlibre, stating they would install it because they didn't want to switch to Wayland. I allowed the exchange (which was civil and polite) to progress naturally until the person received several insights regarding the development team's political views. The user took note, understood, and opted for other solutions since they weren't fully aware of the situation and, upon learning this, didn't share Xlibre's team vision. In my view, this was a community success: members informing another member about something they didn't know, reasoning together, and finding an ethically valid solution - meaning that, as they didn't share that vision, they opted to change their OS and X platform. The person was grateful.
The mere fact that Xlibre was brought up sparked a lot of controversy about my lack of moderation, how I hadn't nipped the discussion in the bud, and references to the "nazi bar" because people were discussing "nazi projects" - even though the outcome was a clear and conscious realization.
In recent days, I praised NetBSD for various reasons, and I was asked what NetBSD's stance on AI was. I replied - matching their official stance - that they consider AI-generated code to be tainted and therefore do not accept it. A few people, including a couple of prominent figures, started asking me privately if I would now exclude FreeBSD from the community and from my setups because it doesn't entirely reject AI by policy. I replied that I am observing the situation with keen interest, but for the moment, things remain as they are. I prefer not to go into detail, but it wasn't pleasant.
There is also another story from recent days, which I mentioned in another comment on this post, but it isn't directly tied to BSD Cafe.
The goal of BSD Cafe is to foster a serene environment where we can share the passions we have in common. Intolerant people are shown the door and are not welcome. Blocking and defederating at the first sign of dangerous behavior is right and healthy.
However, turning aggressive simply because a sensitive topic comes up is, in my opinion, wrong, just like in the first example I mentioned here.
My goal with my post was simply to try and calm things down a bit, encouraging people to be active in tangibly supporting their views. Evidently, it turned into something else, and I'm sorry about that.
> A user asked for information about Xlibre, stating they would install it because they didn't want to switch to Wayland. I allowed the exchange (which was civil and polite)
Ahahah, I participated in this conversation and posted a link to my small note about how to install XLibre to FreeBSD :drgn_blush_giggle:
I thought that someone may feel a butthurt, since there are dissidents, who didn't follow something looking like the USSR's Party's general line, still exists. And fediblock not so successfull in pursuing these "dissidents" as KGB. But I definitely didn't expected such outcome…
@fiore consider how linux handles DMA https://lwn.net/Articles/774411/
In a nutshell, the problem is that multiple parts of the kernel think they have responsibility for the same chunk of memory, but they do not coordinate their activities; as might be guessed, mayhem can sometimes ensue.
nobody ever fucking tries to fix this kind of shit. it's just actively half-assed all the time because somewhere, somehow, some fucking corporation might whine about """latency""" if linux were to ever take a hard stance about the ownership of a pinned page and request that users follow a clear set of regulations that achieve unambiguous semantic guarantees.
He noted that dirty is not really a binary state.
no, instead we get to wait on a mutex forever until someone thinks they can be soooooo smart and work around someone else employing the last resort for scheduling conflicts: the binary semaphore, invented by dijkstra who couldn't understand a control flow graph beyond a single vertex. navel gazing himself into a turing award
@fiore and if anyone ever finally catches on that asynchronous queues let you avoid having to wait on someone else to finish using the bathroom at the same as you really have to pee, like oh my god so bad right now,
....the async notification will only ever be propagated to the same fucking device driver asshole who only knows how to claim ownership of a page and can never be assed to explain how or how long they plan to use it for: https://docs.kernel.org/core-api/pin_user_pages.html
Device drivers can pin pages via
get_user_pages*(), and register for mmu notifier callbacks for the memory range.
if i read that mention of the MMU right then that notification is even from the fucking cpu hardware! someone actually got intel to give enough of a shit about the DMA page pinning tug of war between user space and linus torvalds long enough to fabricate silicon over it!
so of course, linux will make absolutely sure to learn nothing about the problem, which remains unsolved:
Then, upon receiving a notifier “invalidate range” callback , stop the device from using the range, and unpin the pages. There may be other possible schemes, such as for example explicitly synchronizing against pending IO, that accomplish approximately the same thing.
THE FUCKING USER APPLICATIONS NEVER GET A CALLBACK. THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTUALLY WRITING CODE TO SOLVE FUCKING PROBLEMS!
Would you recommend the equal sign = to a friend?
@catsalad What about ≑
L’Hôpital de la Loire se prend 500.000€ d’amende suite à une violation de données. Leur SI était en mousse.
https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/cnil/id/CNILTEXT000054790100
Tous les administrateurs systèmes et DPO seraient bien à même de lire cette sanction. Les manquements dedans sont chroniques à tous les SI du moment.
As I understand Calibre and this thread, the thought is to keep the existing code base for now. Which means the UI will be QT. But you need a browser engine for epub.
Servo is not really there yet as a browser engine, but my gut says it's probably good enough for epub.
Tauri could do this, but it's really meant to be a js/rust GUI framework, which includes/builds on webkit.
Webkit is fine, but is the existing Calibre engine that is considered heavy.
@astraluma @xgranade @mcc the conversation we’re having is that the calibre codebase may not be worth salvaging
And since a browser engine is needed anyway (for epub), it may as well all be built on tauri
If you gotta market, do it well.
Wile E Coyote doing a Reddit AMA about Coyote vs ACME is disturbingly wholesome. https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1w58qjb/hi_reddit_im_wile_e_coyote_im_taking_on_acme_ama/
When asked "Another coyote just went viral in SoCal for being the first known coyote to capture a roadrunner. How does that make you feel?" he said:
Ratatouille mentioned; gotta listen to that Heems track that puts a big dumb smile on my face again
HEEMS
@touk he’ll yeah
Too lazy to read the whole Meta settlement? Perhaps you need my esteemed colleague David Greene to read it for you and explain why it's good for Meta and bad for just about everyone else: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/metas-17-billion-settlement-bad-deal-teens-and-all-social-media-users
@evacide I had this exact train of thoughts - by losing this they won the thing they lobbied for all over the world.
Cyber incidents hit millions of patients, disrupt hospital systems
A series of newly disclosed cyber incidents is affecting healthcare organizations across the U.S., exposing millions of patient records while also disrupting systems used to deliver care....
https://itnerd.blog/2026/09/02/cyber-incidents-hit-millions-of-patients-disrupt-hospital-systems/
1Password must be trying to hard to get featured on MacStories
You may not love what you do for a living, but you can love the way you do it - with kindness, compassion, strange cosmic energy, and old weird magic.
UNTHINKABLE MASS CASUALTY EVENT AS AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED MILLION AMERICANS DIE OF EMBARRASSMENT
@jameshowell
You say "die of embarassment" but it's too late for that. I'm just laughing at this. Embarrassment left the stable and galloped far away during Trump's first term.
We're sharing an interview we had with @AberdeenLocal1312 and a member of @CrimethInc about the US applying a terrorism designation to the anticapitalist & antifascist, Italian tech collective #AutisticiInventati (host of #NoBlogs)
I see the spam registrations have given up on copy-pasting bios and are going for surrealism now
@misty strangely poetic and beautiful. I suspect that's actually Hunter S Thompson reaching out from the other side.
Messico, ucciso il musicista Jonathan Meléndez dei Camilo Séptimo. Strage in casa - America Latina - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/americalatina/2026/09/02/messico-ucciso-il-musicista-jonathan-melendez-dei-camilo-septimo.-strage-in-casa_5becd8d5-8ecc-4ed9-9a9e-fe504243d542.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su ESTERI @esteri-AgenziaAnsa
Where is the link to the zine?
Right now it's on the article page for the server called paranoia on our website. Not it's own page yet. Sabot.media
A guided entry point into Howard Rheingold's work on #socialmedia literacies, peeragogy, connected# learning, #attention, infotention, co-learning, and participatory p#edagogy. https://rheingold.com/learning/
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