@osma@tinyrabbit I agree with your conclusion, but contractual obligation is different legal basis for processing than legitimate interest. Legitimate interest applies when you can show the reason of your processing outweighs the breach of privacy of the data subject. For example to combat fraud and protect other users. Pure business interest (which would be the case for advertising) never does, so the case for legitimate interest in advertising is nigh impossible to make.
absolute chaos on a new unmoderated listserv this week as tens of people used the ‘thumbs up’ feature in outlook, which apparently now sends an email, causing an unstoppable torrent
I guess the takeaway from the xz backdoor situation is:
If you’re an open-source project maintainer, and somebody starts getting on your case for not doing enough free work for them, you reply “big Jia Tan energy there” and then block them forever.
@beetle_b@mike@zarfeblong Conversely, putting free software out there puts you at the mercy of the whims of random strangers. Sometimes positively, sometimes negatively. The former generally outnumber the latter, in my experience, but the latter have much more impact on the energy and willingness to continue.
What does a PIN Number and a PDF Format have in common? They both suffer from RAS Syndrome, also known as Redundant Acronym Syndrome. It’s when an acronym is followed by a word that is also part of the acronym, and there’s quite a couple of them.
@fredbrooker@stephaniewalter nobody, but everyone does want to add either 'number' or (in my country) 'code', so it would probably have been better to choose a name and acronym that doesn't include either of those.
@fredbrooker@stephaniewalter In my language we say pincode (it's even in the dictionary), probably for the same reason a lot of people say pin number: acronyms tend to become words themselves, losing their direct connection to the original expanded words. Sometimes it then feels more natural to have a disambiguating signifier, in this case number of code, even if it is, strictly speaking, superfluous. I consider it a form of language evolution.
Interestingly, the .af NIC just suspended inet.af, too. It used to host Go modules. This suggests queer.af maybe wasn't specifically targeted for being LGBTQ+ friendly, but for being unrelated to Afghanistan.
@filippo@flameeyes I may be misunderstanding the threat model here, but I'd say that email is better in the sense that you have more freedom to choose your domain and associated TLD, and therefore more control over what policies you wish to be subject to (well, except those of ICANN).
I once had a user who refused to let us install a new version of our app on their machine, saying “I don’t want a new version, I want you to fix the version I have”.
@bert_hubert@airspeedswift i once heard a sysadmin say they didn't want to even report a bug because the vendor would tell them to update to a newer version
It says that HP's Bug Bounty program found such attacks are possible, but there are no details about who reported the bug that made such attacks possible. I remain skeptical about the accuracy.
Any help from experts in the form of pointers to attacks or analysis about whether printer cartridges are a viable infection vector would be much appreciated.
@dangoodin@mmasnick@Popehat@Pwnallthethings My apologies. I did not intend for my response to be read as criticism on your post or your choice of words, I'm just mad at HP and their CEO for the linked quote.
If, and a big IF, I were to do a @talkpython episode on “Working Full Time on Open Source” where the focus is truly doing open source for your own project full time (not say working for RedHat but they put you on OpenStack full time) type of episode, who should I invite? #python
Can someone convince NS to start a Mastodon presence? I want to pester them about showing the orientation of the trainsets in their app.
(Their shortest trainsets have first class on one end only and the narrow white bar over the windows is really hard to spot when the train approaches.)
@partim while you're at it, get them to also fix the browser back button in their web version, back from trip details should go to search results, not all the way back to the first page (like the in-page back button does)
People go to Stack Overflow because the docs and error messages are garbage. TLDR exists because the docs and error messages are garbage. People ask ChatGPT for help because the docs and error messages are garbage. We are going to lose a generation of competence and turn programming into call-and-response glyph-engine supplicancy because we let a personality cult that formed around the PDP-11 in the 1970s convince us that it was pure and good that docs and error messages are garbage.
@b0rk From that list, I only use the shell prompt one so far, but the other ones sound great! (as do many suggestions in this thread). My addition: I have a few aliases for git commands, mainly to find the branch point of the current branch, and to show the branch tree in the terminal.