⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

"Brussels is set to charge Apple over allegedly stifling competition on its mobile app store, the first time EU regulators have used new digital rules to target a Big Tech group"

Let's hope the fines are big enough to trigger a change.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/apple-set-to-be-first-big-tech-group-to-face-charges-under-eu-digital-law/

modern programming is like,

"if you're using bongo.rs to parse http headers, you will need to also install bepis to get buffered read support. but please note that bepis switched to using sasquatch for parallel tokenization as of version 0.0.67, so you will need the bongo-sasquatch extension crate as well."

old-time programming is like,

"i made a typo in this function in 1993. theo de raadt got so angry he punched a wall when he saw it. for ABI compatibility reasons, we shan't fix the typo."

Before I sell it on eBay/vinted does anyone UK-based want a black 44/45/46mm sport Apple Watch band, £15 shipped (M/L)

BREAKING: (Preliminary) noyb win: Meta stops using EU/EEA data for "Meta AI" after 11 complaints by noyb and mounting criticism by other EU/EEA data protection authorities! 😀🥂

https://noyb.eu/en/preliminary-noyb-win-meta-stops-ai-plans-eu

FT: Apple set to be first Big Tech group to face charges under EU digital law. "An announcement over the charges against Apple was expected in the coming weeks, said two people with knowledge of the case.
These people said regulators have only made preliminary findings, and Apple could still take actions to correct its practices, which could then lead regulators to reassess any final decision." https://archive.is/2024.06.14-153146/https://www.ft.com/content/31a996d5-b472-4357-953e-ace078494604

I haven't seen anybody mentioning it or even noticing it, like it's just the water we swim in now, but this month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the release of what would become a seminal, and is arguably the single most important, piece of social software ever created.

Written by Douglas McIlroy and James Hunt and released with the 5th Edition of Unix this month in 1974: diff and merge.

https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V5/usr/source/s1/diff1.c

Look's like the Internet browser of the #Nokia #Communicator9110i is not quite up to it.

But well...

Let's see.

Somebody sent me this blog my way today so I had a dig into it for a few hours. https://medium.com/@amitassaraf/the-story-of-extensiontotal-how-we-hacked-the-vscode-marketplace-5c6e66a0e9d7

Yes, Amit is right. Visual Studio Marketplace is a clusterfuck.

✅ anybody can verify themselves using just a domain name
✅ anybody can set any display name
✅ extensions allow RCE, no sandboxing or limits at all
✅ full access to developer + build
✅ anybody can link any GitHub repo, even if it has nothing to do with the extension
✅ I’ve already found malware - backdoors, beacons etc etc

The amazing thing about the whole Microsoft Recall debacle is that presumably not one of the mighty 7-figured salaries Industry Leading brains thought that what they were proposing was a shit idea.

Just realized the Mastodon account for @FrameworkPuter when I first came on board has 17k followers. Not bad.

Our first post, November 18th, 2022. I honestly wasn't sure how popular it would be - boy was I pleasantly surprised!

First post: https://fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomputer/109366891835800997

Believe it or not, there is still plenty of interesting and exciting work to talk about that doesn't involve LLMs.

Cryptographers contributing to the IETF is working to standardize FROST, a two-round threshold signature algorithm based on Schnorr proofs, which is backwards compatible with Ed25519.

This means it will soon be possible to generate Ed25519 signatures from, for example, 4-of-7 shares held by independent parties. And the verifier doesn't need to do anything different; it's just an Ed25519 signature to them.

That's cool as fuck.

There's little-to-no hype about it.