There's a parliamentary petition for an independent review of the Cass report into gender medical services for young people. It's a highly problematic document commissioned by the previous government and shaped by anti-trans viewpoints.
If you're a Brit, you can sign it, whether you live in the UK or not. Please do.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700217
Maybe we should stop calling them *Notifications* and instead refer to *Interruptions*.
"Working on some stuff so I've turned off interruptions for a while."
"Right on."
🎉 New episode of Changelog News!
This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I've reviewed the 50 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each month!
✨ https://changelog.com/news/125 #news #podcast
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#queer #lgbtqia
EDIT: This is not my own text, I found it online, but I do not know who created it.
EDIT 2: This has gotten more retoots than I expected. For those of you who think this text is wrong, you do you. Let's agree to disagree. I am not going to discuss this with you.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED BUT REPULSIVE", "WRONG BUT WROMANTIC", "FREQUENTLY MISUNDERSTOOD", "NOBODY BOTHERS WITH THIS BIT", "SHOULDN'T REALLY BUT WE WON'T JUDGE", "REQUIRED IN ORDER TO WORK AROUND EVERYONE ELSE'S BUGS", "YOU DO YOU", and "OBVIOUSLY ABSURD BUT VERY COMMON FOR SOME REASON" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
I used to find tech stuff confusing and intimidating. Now, thanks to Mastodon, I still find it confusing and intimidating, but I also realize it’s SUPER boring, too. Thanks, Mastodon!
Kurt Mackey is back for a deep dive into what it takes to build the developer cloud. Kurt joins Adam to discuss the alliance between companies and cloud, something Kurt refers to as the "Rebel Alliance," cloud complexity vs usability, Fly's future with Postgres and why they've waited, thoughts on Neon and Supabase (Kur...
Gerhard is back for Kaizen 17! We discuss our CPU.fm changes in-depth, detail new Zulip / Neon integrations & put our Pipedream to the test. Oh, and a Gerhard surprise (of course)!
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Important reminder, if you own a domain name and don't use it for sending email.
There is nothing to stop scammers from sending email claiming to be coming from your domain. And the older it gets, the more valuable it is for spoofing. It could eventually damage your domain's reputation and maybe get it blacklisted, unless you take the steps to notify email servers that any email received claiming to come from your domain should be trashed.
Just add these two TXT records to the DNS for your domain:
TXT v=spf1 -all
TXT v=DMARC1; p=reject;
The first says there is not a single SMTP server on earth authorized to send email on behalf of your domain. The second says that any email that says otherwise should be trashed.
If you do use your domain for sending email, be sure to add 3 records:
SPF record to indicate which SMTP server(s) are allowed to send your email.
DKIM records to add a digital signature to emails, allowing the receiving server to verify the sender and ensure message integrity.
DMARC record that tells the receiving email server how to handle email that fails either check.
You cannot stop scammers from sending email claiming to be from your domain, any more than you can prevent people from using your home address as a return address on a mailed letter. But, you can protect both your domain and intended scam victims by adding appropriate DNS records.
UPDATE: The spf and the dmarc records need to be appropriately named. The spf record should be named "@", and the dmarc record name should be "_dmarc".
Here's what I have for one domain.
One difference that I have is that I'm requesting that email providers email me a weekly aggregated report when they encounter a spoof. gmail and Microsoft send them, but most providers won't, but since most email goes to Gmail, it's enlightening when they come.
#cybersecurity #email #DomainSpoofing #EmailSecurity #phishing
True story: my mum worked for the MoD. She was in the kitchen at Sandhurst once and Prince Andrew walked in. Everyone was surprised, no one reacted. He said. 'hm, let's try that again shall we?', then he left the kitchen and walked back in, just to make them all bow properly.
Prick.
Every time you use #ChatGPT, half a litre of #water goes to waste
#GenerativeAI already uses as much energy as a small country and is predicted to rival that of Japan within a year. Such searches use 10 times the energy of a normal web search. “We’re wasting a lot of water with these systems, and very few people realise that it’s a major problem. That’s why I think personally the No.1 priority for the sector should be #sustainability. Not the #AI race.”
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/every-time-you-use-chatgpt-half-a-cup-of-water-goes-to-waste-20241128-p5kubq.html
Whenever I write a TIL (Today I Learnt) post, it’s because if I don’t, it’ll also be that Today I Forgot (TIF). I’ll still forget, but at least it’s written down somewhere I’ll never look.
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i just stumbled upon this picture online and it instantly took me back to high school, when i used to hide the earphone cable under my hoodie and my hair, clip this very radio to my jeans and listen to the radio in class
"hey hazel how do you know when you need to rest??" dont worry babes, my body has a really cool way of just shutting me the fuck down for two days whenever it wants, so thats usually when i schedule the rest time
golang.org/x/crypto security updateGo 1.24 draft release notesBlog: What's missing from Golang Generics? by Nick TobeyLightning RoundBlog: Weak Pointers in Go: Why They Matter Now by Phuong LeOrchestrion: Compile-time auto-instrumentation for GoBuilding a distributed log using S3 (under 150 lines...
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And yes of course it is literally the paper that gives us this incredible FIGURE 1, which you have CERTAINLY seen if you have ever heard ANYONE talk about ANY "decentralized" or "distributed" system ever
CENTRALIZED DECENTRALIZED DISTRIBUTED
You know this image. You could never forget this image
Today was "upgrade my personal fleet of Alpine Linux systems to the latest (3.21) release" day 🥳
I upgraded 5 systems in about 30min! It was boring! 🎉
Upgrading to newer releases was always an annoying experience for me on other distros, but the #alpinelinux folks have done an incredible job making this Just Work twice per year, every year. I have a few silly system configs that always seem to survive release upgrades without needing changes, it's really amazing.
@alpinelinux@fosstodon.org crushed it!
The book that @sarna.dev and I co-authored on writing engineering blog posts is now published. And it’s flanked by the best imaginable “bookends”: a foreword by @bcantrill.bsky.social and an afterword by @scott.hanselman.com! Details and Amazon/Manning links at bit.ly/3AVPWn9.
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Anytime you're looking to criminalize homelessness, I think you should be required to put a pricetag on it #OnPoli
Source: https://homelesshub.ca/sites/default/files/attachments/costofhomelessness_paper21092012.pdf
I am deeply alarmed for the trans and gender expansive community in the UK. What the fuck: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/united-kingdom-bans-puberty-blockers-indefinitely-its-a-death-sentence/
(Yes also alarmed about what's happening in the US, esp in Florida right now, and what the next four years may bring.)
#UKPol #USPol #Trans #LGBTQ
Exploiting mansplaining as tradecraft during WW II:
“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.”
From Elyse Graham's “Book and Dagger”, describing a training school for the SOE.
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As far as manifestos go, this is pretty short and concise.
I think killing people is wrong, especially if it's premeditated, carefully planned, and carried out with cold detachment. There are no heroes in this story as far as I'm concerned; just one killer encountering a killer of a different stripe.
Still, news organizations suppressing this manifesto is a dereliction of duty. So, here you go.
In this episode, CRob talks to Michael Winser, Technical Strategist for Alpha-Omega, an associated project of the OpenSSF that with open source software project maintainers to systematically find new, as-yet-undiscovered vulnerabilities in open so...
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