VirusTotal doesn’t like it https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ede115f31fb3fcc3c27bad1b6da5cfee30bd692c3fc04ca1e8f0e8f43787b66f

Either it’s because it’s using the same technique as malware, or because it’s malware.

Sums up LLMs and most AI tools nowadays.

Please stop nagging people to use your shiny new slop generator.

The first and only thing I ask when a company does this is: how can I ask a question to a human representative?

Pull the plug on datacenters that depend on polluting energy sources.

It doesn’t end on the last installation screen. Then it takes lots of time and digging to scrub bloatware, and to change many settings to make Windows less invasive since the defaults are bad.

There’s a standard API for offline webapps: ServiceWorker https://dev.to/taiwofamaks/build-an-offline-first-web-app-with-service-workers-2ml7

I wonder why it’s not used more. Maybe not intuitive enough, or maybe JS framework don’t support this.

The original presentation is german speaking. There’s human-produced english translation in a separate audio channel, thanks to volunteers aka angels.

Use the video settings, ie gear icon, to select the language.

Meet hot exoplanets in your neighbourhood.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is making 400 million PCs obsolete by ending Win10 and setting arbitrary requirements for Win11. This is causing perfectly fine hardware (and RAM) to end-up as e-waste, so that it can be replace by new, more expensive Win11 compatible hardware.

Now is a good time to buy second-hand hardware and abandon Windows.

https://manpages.debian.org/testing/manpages-dev/fsopen.2.en.html

And here’s an example of creating a mount object of an NFS server share and setting a Smack security module label. However, instead of attaching it to a mount point, the program uses the mount object directly to open a file from the NFS share.

That’s neat. But that’s not enough to access a partition as a normal user. fsopen returns -1 (Operation not permitted).

I have to wonder, is software efficiency even a consideration these days?

Sometimes I wonder if people come up with the most inefficient application on purpose just to come up with a bandwidth heavy use case for some new communication tech (5G wireless, or 1Gb fiber, or…)

Using 10 year old hardware with 10 year old drivers on 10 year old OS require no further work.

The hardware doesn’t change, but the OS do.

The announcement is thoughful. It explicitely tells user the tool won’t reveive maintenance so they know to look for alternatives right know.

Silently abandonning a project could cause an accumulation of issues, unmerged MRs over time until peole realize the maintainers aren’t coming back.

Cloudflare drafted the Content Signals Policy which complement licenses.

The Content-Signal directive works by signaling your preference of either allowing (yes) or disallowing (no) certain categories of AI actions

It references existing EU law, ie the DSA. It’s good to set clear policy and terms of use scrappers can parse. It’s new so I suspect most don’t honor this yet. But once they get caught, the website could argue this violate term of use.

# ANY RESTRICTIONS
# EXPRESSED VIA CONTENT
# SIGNALS ARE EXPRESS
# RESERVATIONS OF RIGHTS
# UNDER ARTICLE 4 OF THE
# EUROPEAN UNION DIRECTIVE
# 2019/790 ON COPYRIGHT AND
# RELATED RIGHTS IN THE
# DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET.

IANAL, consult with a law profesionnal for advice on how to enforce this legally.

Après moi, le déluge

The extension remains live and featured as of this writing.

The Chrome Web Store should be avoided for security. Google keeps failing at moderaring their store, at the same time kneecaping legitimate adblockers with manifest v3 in the name of security, and failing to remove actual malicious extension after both manual review and dislosure of its behaviour by outsiders.

Running Chrome without any extension isn’t ideal either, it would leave people without protection from malvertising and tracking. So better avoid Chrome altogether, use Firefox or Zen Browser or Tor Browser.

In 10-20 years Microsoft may finally reach a point Windows finally gets a package manager with a well-defined package format, auto update, atomic transactions, just a few decades after Linux.

An infinite loop canot be ruled out in the last case, so a compiler couldn’t optimize this away without potentially changing the program behavior.

The compiler will optimize it anyway. /s