yeroc @yeroc@qoto.org

I finally wrote the blogpost I planned to write for so many months. My thoughts on the future of Java on non-cloud systems. It has 2 parts:
1) the imho better system
2) the pragmatic approach

https://johanvos.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/java-everywhere/

In the world today, we must change hearts and minds, but most people are so preoccupied with being right that they have lost the ability to connect, understand, and communicate.

This is *the most malicious, brutal* malicious compliance I've seen in quite some time, possibly ever, and I am HERE FOR IT. Thank you, @jwz

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html

#privacy #security #infosec #Android #screensaver

You can back up all your Kindle books using this script - https://federatedfandom.net/@villainousfriend/114009999021828439

A lot easier than manually downloading them all.

After that, install the Calibre eBook Manager https://calibre-ebook.com/

Install the noDRM plugin for Calibre https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools

Give the plugin your Kindle's serial number.

Import your Kindle books into Calibre.

Done.

You now have a DRM-free copy of all your purchased eBooks.

You can copy them to your eReader, convert to ePub, save on a backup disk, etc.

The end of End-to-End? https://statusq.org/archives/2025/02/16/13063/

Also, Pro Tip for Mac users: Spotlight is good at doing conversions. As someone who lives next to the country that most eschews international measurement standards, it can be quite useful (even if I can do rough conversions in my head at this point). Try typing these, for example:

-25°C
40” as mm
32 fl. oz. in mL

Clever attack against Signal and others, locate any user by revealing their closest CloudFlare datacentre. https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117

Disappointing response from Signal, which is unusual.
“Signal has never attempted to fully replicate the set of network-layer anonymity features that projects like Wireguard, Tor,…”

This isn’t a classic network layer attack: it doesn’t require a privileged network vantage point to carry out. Whilst it’s a CloudFlare feature that’s being abused, it’s Signal that chooses to use it in this way.

Feels like CloudFlare could make this header configurable so you could still benefit from caching without leaking information?

<< “Do something.” He gave me three rules: make it simple, immediate and collaborative.
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That’s how, a week later, I found myself in Victoria Park in Ashford, Kent, fishing old carrier bags out of the river. In subsequent sessions, our band of volunteers put up bat-boxes, created new paths, renovated the dried-out pond and surveyed for amphibians.
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Psychologists call the mental boost from volunteering the “helper’s high” [1]. And boy, did I get high. >>

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jan/13/i-was-in-despair-about-the-environmental-crisis-then-i-volunteered-to-clean-up-my-local-park

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30424992/
#EcosystemCollapse #GlobalWarming

Bambu's firmware shenanigans are making me rethink ever recommending one again.

They have to backtrack on it, or lose the goodwill of the 3DP community that is "open source but willing to give on value sometimes", which is not an insignificant sector.