Neurodivergent programmer. University drop out. He/him.
Trans rights are human rights.
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Love nature and animals. Have a dog named Yuri.
Quests: DeltaChat, FLOSS, Linux, Emacs, Electronics, Programming
Have problems with authority, bullies, nazis, sociopaths and assholes in general.
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Tomorrow our ten day #DIFF gathering in Freiburg in the black forest starts. Around 40 people from various projects, contexts and countries are joining ... And would you believe it? There is no date/clock scheduling to speak of, no hour slots etc
On Friday the 13th we might do live streaming sessions with talks and demos but the focus generally is on in-person hanging out and work, in a relaxed manner. Its still possible to join if you are of the spontaneous kind https://delta.chat/en/2025-05-12-diff-invitation
Hey remember that ship Greta Thunberg is on, trying to get aid into Gaza despite Israel constantly bombing them?
It has a live tracker. The more eyes on it the safer they'll be:
https://freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/
Headline: #Amazon annihilates #Alexa #privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading
Snippet: starting March 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing:
Source: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/#telescreen
I never really understood symlinks pointing to other symlinks that in turn points to binaries.
For example when I use `which` on Debian:
$ which which
/usr/bin/which
$ file `which which`
/usr/bin/which: symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/which
$ file /etc/alternatives/which
/etc/alternatives/which: symbolic link to /usr/bin/which.debianutils
$ file /usr/bin/which.debianutils
/usr/bin/which.debianutils: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
Why not just put that script as /usr/bin/which?
This week has been a lot about #curl for me for various reasons. There were discussions about gemini in a DeltaChat group and someone linked the article @bagder wrote https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/05/28/the-gemini-protocol-seen-by-this-http-client-person/
I'm also playing around with Linux From Scratch so I had to learn about how to build curl myself and the dependencies needed.
Also decided to read about the CVE on hackerone that was reported lately https://hackerone.com/reports/3168039
And to round things off check what's new in version 8.14.1 https://www.twitch.tv/curlhacker
There is again a pull-request submitted to the curl project to bring support for the Gemini protocol. It seems like a worthwhile effort that I support, even if it is also a lot of work involved and it might take some time before it reaches the state in which it can be merged. A previous … Continue reading The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person →
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