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• Post #2105204

  Large parts of my timeline are now debating whether resisting the introduction of the "birthdate" column in the user database is part of a fascist takeover and should be resisted. It is a distraction from the fascist takeover. The walls will come up somewhere else. If it's not maintained by someone trusted by the government (i.e. an entrenched corporation), it *is* just a database column. Debating it wastes a lot of energy we would need elsewhere: there is a lot of p...

• Post #2079971

  We're restarting #HillHacks this year! Since we don't have the momentum of a yearly event yet (but want to get there again) this might be a bit smaller than previous editions, but this is still an excellent opportunity to meet people in Northwestern India. This is an "unconference", where the talk schedule is decided mostly by the participants who are there. If you have an interesting project and would like to present it, a digital rights topic you want to tal...

• Post #1854998

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• Post #1854997

  Doing a small prerelease of my tarball validation tool: https://psi5.com/~geier/tmp/git-treeof-0.0.20260411.tar.gz The basic idea is that you can feed it a tar file, and it tells you What Would Git Do™, i.e. it is equivalent to git init tar -x git add -A git commit -m 'irrelevant' git rev-parse HEAD^{tree}" but it does not require a local filesystem, git installation or anything -- it's an isolated program that allocates 64 MB of RAM (that...

• Post #1854996

  Spending the rest of my "lunch" break on improving society somewhat.

• Post #1854995

  Time to order the good biryani and kebap for the fourth time in a week, I guess.

• Post #1854994

  Running my tar parser on all the tar files in the Debian archive, to find cases I haven't handled yet. It's not done yet, but so far I've collected 2 num_read == sizeof s->buffer 3 symlink_size < LEN_LINK_TARGET 3243 unexpected character in octal 780 unhandled file type 17 unused tar header has data 8 value_len < sizeof s->filename Basically, I've plastered a bunch of checks all over the code that are lik...

• Post #1854993

  I should add a public graph "Inbox size" to my personal homepage.

• Post #1854992

  The rain is so loud I can't hear the CPU fans anymore.

• Post #1854991

  Oh cool, updating the work laptop broke SCIM. What does one use these days for - Japanese text input - ideally, Anthy tables - needs to work with QT, GTK and XIM ?

• Post #1854988

  Warm hier, aber waren Sie schon mal in meinem Serverraum?

• Post #1854987

  I should put the TalosII into a colo facility. 100Gbps is probably too expensive, but it would be cool to see if it can keep up.

• Post #1047342

  What I wrote elsewhere about the California age verification law: If this is meant as a security system, having it default to "fail-open" is insufficient. The Unix APIs don't have age information. The systemd project has graciously decided that they are willing participants in this, and have accepted a patch to add a dbus API, and subsequently refused to revert that commit. So, dbus API it is. If I start "env -u DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS firefox", do...