Respecting maintainer time should be in security policies. Even better: you don't even have to mention the elephant in the room!

https://sethmlarson.dev/respecting-maintainer-time-should-be-in-security-policies

#opensource #oss #security

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/

Waterfox 6.6.9 is out: Security fixes, certificate reliability improvements on Linux, and faster JPEG-XL decoding 🌊
https://www.waterfox.com/releases/6.6.9/

NEW VIDEO - Why Rust Is Causing Tension in the Linux Kernel.

#FreeBSD #Linux #Rust #opensource #garyhtech

https://youtu.be/-XLuGB0wZ1M?si=R3JBRFIYxUgunsMR via @YouTube

와 "니들 월급 난 일년이면 다 벌어"라니 너무 멋진 말이다

Hey folks 25 mins till my talk starts! It’s free and online, and I’ll make sure we have some fun today! 🖤

www.deque.com/axe-con/sess...
https://www.deque.com/axe-con/sessions/accessibility-in-the-end-of-deterministic-design-again/

✨ Meet Promise.try()

A new static method that wraps any callback in a Promise - handling both sync and async execution uniformly.

Unlike Promise.resolve(), it catches synchronous errors and provides cleaner syntax for unified error handling.

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This is the script of my national radio report yesterday on the worsening mess around age verification for social media. As always, there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented this report live on air.

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Well, the technical term for the situation regarding social media age restrictions is "utter train wreck." Indeed as more countries and U.S. states work to enact attempts at social media age restrictions (that now apparently includes California by the way) pretty much all of the problems that critics of this entire concept predicted have been coming true, but politicians on a bipartisan basis just keep plowing on pushing this stuff, as if they're living on some another planet and can't see what's happening here on Earth.

Some of the laws are in litigation, some are already in force, but everywhere you look it's an escalating mess. It's important to note that by and large, I think it's fair to say that most persons pushing for these age restrictions have laudable motives and are frustrated by bad social media content that their kids may interact with. This is completely understandable. But pushing concepts that do not actually solve this problem -- and in fact can make the situation even worse, is not good policy to say the least. It can result in terrible privacy problems for everyone -- including adults and children -- and potentially drives children to disreputable sites on the Net that are of far more concern than the mainstream social media sites.

Australia has been considered to be the big test case with their under 16 years old ban, and most independent observers are saying it's not going well there. Many parents are helping their children evade the ban (it may be as high as 1 in 3 parents or more) because they feel the ban is too restrictive and cutting their children off from useful and educational content -- because indeed not EVERYTHING on social media is bad. In some ways a universal ban for social media use is like banning children from entering libraries because there are SOME books in there that could be inappropriate for them.

And of course by saying "you can't do this" the bans turn social media into a "forbidden fruit" that makes them even more attractive to kids, many of whom are far more Internet skilled than the adults around them. So, kids are using VPNs to bypass the ban, they're using AI and other methods to fool various systems that are supposed to verify ages based on video selfies. They're using the accounts of their parents (as I mentioned, often with their parents approval), or the accounts of older siblings or friends.

We've discussed before the major risks associated with the provision of government credentials for ID purposes that may be required for some of these age verification systems at various times. Remember, adult users have to be verified as well to prove that they aren't children! And we know there have already been major breaches of security of some of these systems, despite assurances that their specific designs only held the IDs for a brief time.

In fact, the social media site Discord is currently embroiled in a major controversy involving their age verification plans, age verification tests, which third parties were involved in all this, how secure the ID data was and is, and more complicating factors -- the bottom line is that many of their users are absolutely livid over Discord's apparent behavior in this regard, especially since there had reportedly previously been a breach that exposed many Discord users' government ID information!

Most observers feel that all of this is a harbinger of worse situations to come. And then of course there are all the concerns about how various governments could use age verification ID data for tracking exactly how individuals use the broader Internet, by expanding age verification requirements beyond social media, creating a vast Internet surveillance regime such as is present in China.

We all want to protect the children, but so far, age verification does not appear to be the right tool for that job, and instead may be dragging us in a direction that may actually do more harm.

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So it looks like Trump raped a child. Will he suffer any reduction in support from his base for it?

macos vs windows 🥴

At last: Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss and Bubbles…v2!

https://charm.land/blog/v2/

What if... you had one Fedi account on a generic headless #ActivityPub server that simply hosts and federates your data... and had C2S UIs for microblogging, long form writing, media editing and sharing, link aggregation, games, fitness tracking, and so on, that all used that same Fedi account. Technically, it's a similar concept as ATProto (but no relay and app view) and Solid Pods (but no RDF).

It seems possible... if we can improve the AP C2S API/protocol sufficiently.

質問箱とかマシュマロではなくて自分がおかしなことやってしまってるときに静かに指摘してもらうための箱が欲しい

At last: Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss and Bubbles…v2!

https://charm.land/blog/v2/

日曜日、小田原の曽我梅林に行ってました。上から見ると特にわかるけど一帯が梅林でした。ここまで広い梅林もなかなか無いんじゃないでしょうかね。
(1枚目・手前から中央あたりの白いのは全部梅、2枚目は中央部拡大)

RE: https://misskey.io/notes/aj4bqugjt7bk01ox

I Pitched a Roller Coaster to Disneyland at Age 10 in 1978

Link: https://wordglyph.xyz/one-piece-at-a-time
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136604

IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/business/irs-meta-corporate-taxes.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136537

Swift concurrency is so nuanced it finally got its own dedicated website. An essential bookmark for every Swift developer navigating async/await, actors, and data races.

🔗: https://fuckingapproachableswiftconcurrency.com/en/ by Pedro Piñera Buendía (@pedroPedro Piñera)

#Swift #Concurrency #iOSDev

重い…

mstdn.jp重くない？

RE: https://g0v.social/@diversitas/116124443302328472

最後還是一晚寫完了跟前幾期電子報差不多長度的內容

我寫的興趣是…寫作！

Here I Am!: https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/02/24/here-i-am/

Firefox 148.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060047/ #LWN #Linux #Firefox

mstdn.jp重くない？

RP) 솔직히 이제는... 어떻게 화를 내야 할지도 모르겠어........

これきょうけっこう聞いてた
とてもよかった

小站上有很多鯊魚的表情符號應該不是因為 Baby shark 嘟嘟嘟嘟嘟讓人很想發嘟吧（？？？）

ヒルデガルトの曲がよすぎて聴きまくってしまった。原稿おわりっぴしないとーー。

Anonymous 4は古楽専門の合唱グループ。音が直線的に空間へ伸びていく。

A solar eclipse seen… FROM SPACE?!

Yup. And it's an annular one, too, making it extra cool.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/solar-eclipse-seen-from-space

And oh yeah by the way a small galaxy may be ramming through the Milky Way too so I wrote about that because why not.

My latest newsletter, in which I talk about #MAiD and #addiction epidemics to try to make the point that new, better ideas rarely have a chance in government, and that’s literally killing us. This one’s maybe my most depressing piece to date, but it feels important to discuss. https://www.everyonescreative.net/p/the-biggest-problem-in-government #CanPoli #politics #onpoli #creativity

横になりますか
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New: this app warns you if someone is wearing smart glasses nearby.

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. A 404 Media reader made this app after we showed men filming people w/o their consent, and DHS officials were wearing the glasses https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/

If you think posting art on your socials is the magic ticket to getting clients, think again! Read what really works in this honest breakdown of social media for illustrators. 👉 https://www.hireillo.com/blog/social-media-for-illustrators-the-truth/

Art by @beach

Schedule changes will take effect for all San Francisco Bay Ferry routes beginning Monday, March 9. These changes focus on improving system reliability, responding to rider feedback, and improving connections for morning UCSF transbay commuters. https://alamedapost.com/news/sf-bay-ferry-schedule-changes-start-march-9/

#alameda #PublicTransit #SfBayFerry

아니 이렇게 돌직구로 던지는 사람 처음봐 ㅋㄱㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ ◇ 박성태> 그러니까 대권에 나중에라도 안 나가세요? ◆ 정원오> 전혀 생각이 없습니다. ◇ 박성태> 지금은 아니고 전혀 생각이 없나요? 알겠습니다. 왜냐하면 서울시장은 늘 대선주자감이 하는 자리였기 때문에 여쭤보는 거고요. ◆ 정원오> 그래서 시민들이 불행한 겁니다. n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl...

정원오 "성장 정체에 빠진 서울시, 글로벌 G2로 만들...

New on Instagram: 今は無きWeb広告研究会サイトマネジメント委員会な方々とのOPUS no.1での2次会で白州の飲み比べ笑。まぁ結果はわかってたけど。 https://instagr.am/p/DVJVkR9D99_/

프랑스 관광명소 루브르박물관에 찰스 3세 영국 국왕의 동생 앤드루 마운트배튼 윈저가 미국 성착취범 제프리 엡스타인 관련 의혹으로 경찰 조사를 받고 귀가하던 중 찍힌 사진이 15분간 내걸렸다. 송고2026-02-24 04:00 www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2026...

루브르에 15분간 걸린 '앤드루 체포 후 귀가' 사진 ...

it looks like you’re writing an email. would you like help?

i can help? okay! *walks across your keyboard*

see, am helping! now it is longer

블루스카이 v1.117 업데이트 - Bandcamp 임베드 지원으로 게시물 내에서 음악을 재생할 수 있습니다 - 스타터 팩을 목록으로 변환할 수 있는 기능을 추가했습니다 - 뮤트한 단어가 만료되었을 때 “갱신” 버튼으로 기간을 조정할 수 있습니다 - 수많은 버그 수정 및 성능을 개선했습니다 caribouband.bandcamp.com/album/butter...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/post/3mfkhetnvdk2p

Butterfly, by Daphni

Copilot can whine all it wants. 🤭

#copilot #ai #privacy

Is #RANCID still alive in production environments?

We’re considering integration with #NetXMS and trying to estimate real-world usage.

#networking #netops #opensource #NMS

Do you use it?

If you beat up the firefox team long enough you actually get the required controls.