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badrihippo

@badrihippo@fosstodon.org

Co-editor of the 'Snipette' online publication. Also codes when he gets a break from #writing. He/him.

#xmpp #python #perl #xubuntu #linux #programming

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badrihippo, to random
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Just set up a publisher for my blog and it's so convenient! One line to have everything up, and thanks to .ssh/config there's no need to set up secret environment variables and stuff.

Thanks @dthompson :blobfoxghost:

Monal, to iOS German
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Our iOS app got banned from the Chinese appstore because it is able to influence public opinion or is "Capable of Social Mobilization".

See our blog post for details: https://monal-im.org/post/00010-ios-banned/

badrihippo,
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@Monal I'm getting a 404. And I couldn't find it on your "blog" page either? 😕

badrihippo,
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@lps ah, now it's come for me too!

That was weird 🌏

@Monal

badrihippo, to random
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Can we all fund the original maintainer of xz, if we're able to afford it, because even if they're not able to work on it as well as they'll like, I think they more than deserve it

brunomiguel, to random
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the xz repo on github was disabled by the platform

badrihippo,
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@brunomiguel I mean it makes sense but also that's scarily unilateral 😳

Are there mirrors?

(Edit: context for those who don't know, a long-standing backdoor has recently been discovered in that overworked-volunteer-maintained package)

badrihippo,
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@brunomiguel okay, so looks like we still have this:

https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=summary

danmcd, to random
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Hello security-minded folks. If xz/liblzma is part of your ecosystem, especially your Linux ecosystem, please read this:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

Helluva catch, IMHO.

badrihippo,
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@danmcd good lord. What is that final file doing though? I can see a lot of greps and tests followed by a scary-looking xz command, a bunch of suspicious sed's, and some file copies and removals 👀

badrihippo, to javascript
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Is there a good frontend library for out there? Something like Semaphore but on top of which I can add my own UI ✏️

If there is, I can use it to make a Fedi client for :fedi:

badrihippo, to GNOME
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Is there a way to make automatically change the theme, both for ordinary and "legacy" apps, along with the toggle?

My theme has two variants for dark and light, but I have to manually go and change it in GNOME Tweaks every time I want to switch, making the Shell's "dark mode" toggle somewhat redundant

badrihippo,
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@ymstnt magic! I didn't want to switch on a schedule, just manually depending on my mood (or rather whether I'm indoors or outdoors). But somehow installing this extension also made GNOME's ordinary dark mode setting toggle themes the way I wanted it to! 🎩

When I remove the extension the theme switch doesn't work any more, so it is actually doing something, not just activating a hidden setting 🔧

18+ sushubh, to random
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Last six calls I have recieved have all been spam. One was from my bank to sell me insurance. It comes regularly from the same number so it's blocked.

badrihippo,
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@sushubh for a second I read the last two as "Potential Friend" and I was thinking wow, what kind of app are you using 😅

badrihippo, (edited ) to markdown
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Should be added as a standard format for clients in addition to plaintext and HTML?

badrihippo, to random
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Just wrote my longest commit message ever.

https://git.disroot.org/badrihippo/convo/commit/18d8fbdd69e17fa0e84924ef334c2f54222fa417

I guess a fun fact about me is that the reason I don't blog much about code is it's all there as an intermittent diary in the commit messages 🤪

badrihippo, to random
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Goal: make 'git.disroot.org' replace 'github.com' as the first suggestion in my browser address bar when I start typing in 'git' :git: :disroot:

wezm, to random
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I gave in and got a cat printers… does a pretty decent job.

badrihippo,
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@wezm huh? What's that? I need one!

badrihippo,
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@Caprica oh yeah I want to know about the paper availability too 👀 🐱

@wezm

badrihippo,
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@Caprica ooh that's nice 🙂

badrihippo,
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@wezm not delivering to India :blobcatsad: but thanks; I guess I'll hunt around a bit

LALegault, to random
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Socials that are now limiting political speech include: X, Threads, Facebook, Tiktok, and Mastodon.

badrihippo,
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@LALegault well, and a bunch of random servers I'm guessing; there's bound to be all types of instances including highly politicised ones 😉

@ButterflyOfFire

LateNightLinux, to Podcast
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Canonical struggles to get to grips with malicious Snaps, a KDE theme wipes a whole machine, Mozilla looks foolish, Redis isn’t open source now, Ubuntu 14.04 gets 12 years of paid support, Meta joins the Fediverse, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-274/

badrihippo,
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@LateNightLinux that started out sounding like a summary of what's wrong with the world today 😅

glyph, to random
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It seems silly but mastodon’s retreat from the language of “toots” and now even “boosts” ( they’re “reblogs” in the official app now ) is exactly the same dumb-as-rocks discarding of a recognizable brand that Xitter is doing

badrihippo,
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@glyph reblogs? What?? But they're not even blogs!!

ailurux, to random
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working on a dark theme for tangara. i added a gradient for a test and, that's it. that's the theme. i wish my camera could do it justice but it looks so slick irl.

badrihippo,
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@ailurux oooooooooo

badrihippo, to RaspberryPi
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Should I put a into an ?

badrihippo,
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@tubbdoose yay! I'm not sure what exactly to make out of it though; let me know if you have ideas 🧶 :raspberrypi:

evanprodromou, to random

So, I’ve had two good pieces of news for the ActivityPub book from O’Reilly Media. The first one is that I finished the 6th of 7 chapters this week (on using and creating ActivityPub extensions). It was a gruelling chapter that I had to reorganise a couple of times to clarify, but I’m so happy that it’s in the can.

The second big piece of news is that the first two chapters of the ActivityPub book are up for early access review on O’Reilly Media’s Learning Platform. This is a big deal for me — people have started reading and interacting with the book in the real world. Mind blown!

If you are interested in ActivityPub, and you have access to the O’Reilly Media Learning Platform, I would take it as a big favour if you would read what’s available now (Introduction, ActivityPub API) and give me your feedback.

Two more chapters should be available soon — Activity Stream 2.0, and the federation protocol — I’ll post here when I’ve got more news.

Thanks to everyone who’s been helpful or supportive in this process. I’m looking forward to the full availability of this book in the coming months.

https://evanp.me/2024/03/07/early-access-to-oreilly-media-activitypub-book/

badrihippo,
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@thisismissem I prefer and am happy to pay for the print books, but unfortunately that would mean waiting till the book is complete. I wonder if O'Reilly (or anyone else) has a scheme where I can preorder just this specific print book, and get access to the online version until that comes?

(O'Reilly does have an option to register the book you got from another publisher to get access to it online on their platform, but I'm not sure if there's an equivalent for upcoming books)

@evanprodromou

queue, to random
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As Best Buy removes physical media of shows and movies, I feel the need to post this XKCD comic, number 488.

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/best-buy-ending-dvd-blu-ray-disc-sales-1235754919/

badrihippo,
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@queue the "you'll be a criminal either way" is a good point! I didn't think of it before (or thought of it and forgot)

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