Stephen M. Cameron<p>Was flipping through the X11 Xlib reference manual for no real good reason, as one does, and came across this, a peculiar font called "ent" with a single glyph, of the star ship Enterprise. Googling around, I can't really find any reference to this. Does any remnant of this exist on modern linux systems?</p>
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Steve Herman<p>Shortwave listeners noting China already taking over some frequencies used by VOA and RFA as USAGM has silenced its own transmitters. Especially critical with thousands of casualties in the Myanmar M7.7 quake where survivors would normally be receiving vital info from our Burmese language services.</p>
James House-Lantto (He/Him)<p><a href="https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/secure-encryption-and-online-anonymity-are-now-at-risk-in-switzerland-heres-what-you-need-to-know" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-</span><span class="invisible">security/secure-encryption-and-online-anonymity-are-now-at-risk-in-switzerland-heres-what-you-need-to-know</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Switzerland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Switzerland</span></a> is proposing amendments to its surveillance law, expanding monitoring and data collection to include VPNs, messaging apps, and social networks. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NymVPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NymVPN</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Threema" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Threema</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Proton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Proton</span></a> are opposing these changes, arguing that less anonymity online will lead to more data theft and attacks. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Security</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VPN</span></a></p>
virtualsue<p>I've started doing easy sewing projects because I wanted to get into a useful hobby. This is a tablet case for <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Stmuk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Stmuk</span></a></span> - he bought a Chinese android tablet "Alldocube". We didn't like the button + elastic so I'm replacing it with some velcro.</p>
Jolene (kitten) 🍓 🌟<p>ublock origin and youtube are at a forever ad blocking war and it's kinda funny that billions of dollars can't challenge the sheer power of autism and hating ads</p>
Open Rights Group<p>404 🆘 </p><p>Blogs, forums and fedi instances are facing burdensome duties and penalties imposed by the UK <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a>.</p><p>Despite being small and safely moderated, the Act sweeps them up into the same regime as platforms like Facebook and X. This is overkill, resulting in many shutting down or blocking UK users.</p><p>With the duties going live on 17 March, urgent action is required to exempt small sites.</p><p>Act NOW to <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/SaveOurSites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOurSites</span></a>🌐 ⬇️</p><p><a href="https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">action.openrightsgroup.org/sav</span><span class="invisible">e-our-sites-write-your-mp</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p>
john spurling<p>UNIX includes a command to deal with your cat walking on your keyboard. When your cat is coming, you just type "cat" and press enter, and your cat's input won't mess anything up.</p>
rob pike<p>We have been public about not using Go as the bootstrap language. We started with a compiler in C for a number of reasons, mostly for ease of bootstrapping but also to avoid making a compiler-optimized language instead of a general purpose one. Once the language was designed, we ported the code to Go for ease of maintenance and development.</p><p>Well here is a variant of that pattern: the TypeScript compiler is also being ported to Go: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNlq-EVld70" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=pNlq-EVld7</span><span class="invisible">0</span></a></p><p>The video is worth watching for the reasons why. Turns out a general purpose language is indeed a good compiler language.</p>
Matt Baggott<p>A few great 1967 pics of Owsley Stanley (birthday boy yesterday) taken by Ron Rakow over on Instagram. (Can someone jailbreak these from Instagram? Also anyone know what building they are at? From the garage and buildings across the street, it looks to me like 158 Alpine Terrace, San Francisco or the building next door.) <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DFBbfJZRPdQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">instagram.com/p/DFBbfJZRPdQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Noelle :verified:<p>Omgggg!! I just discovered that Project Gutenberg has an automated feed on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> where they post new books they add!</p><p>Go follow them: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_new" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gutenberg_new</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a></p>
Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺<p>PSA: With macOS 15 Sequoia (released in September 2024), Apple has started shipping openrsync (created by Kristaps Dzonsons, from OpenBSD) as an alternative to the original rsync (“tridge”, from the Samba project).</p><p>When you run “rsync”, a wrapper will inspect your command and dispatch to either /usr/libexec/rsync/rsync.samba or rsync.openrsync: <a href="https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/rsync/blob/main/rsync.wrapper.c" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/apple-oss-distribut</span><span class="invisible">ions/rsync/blob/main/rsync.wrapper.c</span></a> </p><p>If you need one version over the other, select them explicitly — and probably rsync.samba will disappear eventually…</p>
virtualsue<p>Wandering about in Trier DE</p>
virtualsue<p>Landesmuseum in Trier and the Igel column.</p>
stmuk<p>Dealing with my social media addiction by using multiple systems at once within openvibe 😔</p>
Matt Blaze<p>There were three AT&T radiotelephone sites in the continental US, each with its own transmit and receive antenna farms: Ocean Gate, NJ (shown here, serving the North Atlantic), Miami (serving the Caribbean and the Gulf), and Point Reyes, CA (serving the Pacific).</p><p>All the sites have by now been razed, either for redevelopment or as nature preserves. The antennas are mostly gone now.</p>
Street Art Utopia<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oslo.town/@jhamre" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jhamre</span></a></span> Love it! Totoro should have its own blog post!</p>
stacksmashing<p>Who needs those anyway😂</p>
threelonmusketeers<p>Weather, according to NASASpaceflight. Could potentially slip to Wednesday if Tuesday weather is poor.</p>
paulrickards<p>Oh Norton Utilities, I know it seems inconceivable that the clock is set to 2024 but I assure you it's correct. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VintageMac</span></a></p>
John Kennedy<p>When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation. 🧵</p>
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