XMPP Interop Testing: Two New Features for Clearer Testing
We’ve just released version 1.7.1 of all of our test runners. This release adds two improvements to make interop testing
both stricter and easier to set up!
Some tests can’t be executed if the server lacks required features. Previously, these “impossible” tests were skipped,
which could make a run look fully successful when it wasn’t. Now you can configure the suite to treat impossible t … ⌘ Read more
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(#altkl2a) Here is just a small list of things™ that I'm aware will break, some quite badly, others in minor ways:
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@prologic@twtxt.net I know we won’t ever convince each other of the other’s favorite addressing scheme. :-D But I wanna address (haha) your concerns:
I don’t see any difference between the two schemes regarding link rot and migration. If the URL changes, both approaches are equally terrible as the feed URL is part of the hashed value and reference of some sort in the location-based scheme. It doesn’t matter.
The same is true for duplication and forks. Even today, the “cannonical URL” has to be chosen to build the hash. That’s exactly the same with location-based addressing. Why would a mirror only duplicate stuff with location- but not content-based addressing? I really fail to see that. Also, who is using mirrors or relays anyway? I don’t know of any such software to be honest.
If there is a spam feed, I just unfollow it. Done. Not a concern for me at all. Not the slightest bit. And the byte verification is THE source of all broken threads when the conversation start is edited. Yes, this can be viewed as a feature, but how many times was it actually a feature and not more behaving as an anti-feature in terms of user experience?
I don’t get your argument. If the feed in question is offline, one can simply look in local caches and see if there is a message at that particular time, just like looking up a hash. Where’s the difference? Except that the lookup key is longer or compound or whatever depending on the cache format.
Even a new hashing algorithm requires work on clients etc. It’s not that you get some backwards-compatibility for free. It just cannot be backwards-compatible in my opinion, no matter which approach we take. That’s why I believe some magic time for the switch causes the least amount of trouble. You leave the old world untouched and working.
If these are general concerns, I’m completely with you. But I don’t think that they only apply to location-based addressing. That’s how I interpreted your message. I could be wrong. Happy to read your explanations. :-)
ProcessOne: Why Europe’s ‘Chat Control’ Proposal Will Cripple European Communication Industry While Failing to Protect Children
On October 14th, the European Concil will vote on a regulation that … ⌘ Read more
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This aggressive auto-logout on my bank’s website …
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I do my timetracking in a little Python script, locally. Every now and then, I push the data to our actual service. Problem solved – but it’s a completely unpopular approach, they all want to use the web site. I don’t get it. Then, of course, when it’s down, shit hits the fan. (Luckily, our timetracking software is neither developed nor run by us anymore. It’s a silly cloud service, but the upside is that I’m not responsible anymore. 🤷)
Some of our oldschool devs tried to roll out local timetracking once, about 15 years ago. I don’t remember anymore why they failed …
This is developed inhouse, I’m just so glad that we’re not a software engineering company. Oh wait. How embarrassing.
Oh to be anonymous on the internet. That must be nice. 😅
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went to vote. got told i can't vote because i'm not registered. handed a form to fill out that i later learn is not in english.
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Anyone that the Pigs don’t like sure is the perfect candidate. Without fail.
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update on tux racer: ofc it doesn't run on modern linux LMFAOOOOOOO i'm installing red hat in a VM right now
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz UPDATE: getting it to run natively through a VM and other means all failed! so i did the cursed thing and tried the windows installer in wine…..
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Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored
Article URL: https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-06-04-enzyme-ml-fails/index.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174965
Points: 500
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10 Horror Films That Failed to Launch Their Franchise
Horror, more than any other cinematic genre, is obsessed with franchise building, owing to the low-cost, high-reward potential. But movie making is big business, and financiers and studios are not afraid to pull the plug if they don’t see a big payday ahead, no matter the project. These movies were set up for sequels and […]
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Adobe Caves When Challenged by Lunduke
After filing multiple fraudulent YouTube copyright claims, in order to silence a critical journalist, Adobe failed to follow through with legal action when challenged. ⌘ Read more
10 Bizarre Consumer Products Pulled Within Days of Release
Some products fail slowly. Others detonate on impact. This list is for the latter—the bizarre, ill-conceived, or prematurely hyped products that barely made it out of the gate before getting yanked from shelves, recalled in embarrassment, or mocked into oblivion. Whether due to dangerous design flaws, baffling branding choices, or just plain public confusion, these […]
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The Exit
This happened during the morning drive.
There is an exit to our street from a nearby highway eastbound, but there is none westbound. I told wife that it would be so great to have one. The I told her my plan.
Maybe I would start by requesting it to the city. Gather signatures, create a Change.org petition. Should that fail, I would initiate protests. First it would be just me, then I would enlist others, create a movement.
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Pascal’s Law
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Pascal’s Law
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My foster fail (the orange boy), who had been flagged by the rescue as needing to be an only cat ⌘ Read more
Digital Dams That Don’t Hold: Why Internet Censorship Fails as Technical Policy
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10 Fictional Species Designed for Battle
War is generally not something to aspire to. It’s a desperate measure to resolve one’s differences when all other options fail. Fighting forgoes people’s evolutionary intelligence and reduces them to their baser instincts. Such barbarism leaves both sides licking their wounds, coping with the pain and death that their actions have wrought. Granted, combat is […]
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Apple fined for €500 million by EC, Facebook for €200 million
The European Commission has levied fines against both Apple and Facebook for violating the Digital Markets Act. Apple has to pay a €500 million fine, and Facebook a €200 million fine. Apple is breaking EU law by not allowing application developers to inform users of other offers outside the App Store. The Commission found that Apple fails to comply with this obligation. Due to a number of restrictions imposed … ⌘ Read more
Windows Recall failed the moose test, and nobody will ever forget it
Ars Technica took a look at how the current version of Windows Recall works, including the improvements Microsoft made since the initial security nightmare of a rollout, and concludes: Recall continues to demand an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned. However secure and private it is—and, again, the version people will actually get is much better than the version that caused … ⌘ Read more
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hey everyone i've spent my whole day trying to set up soju + gamja in docker and now i am down a rabbit hole of building caddy with layer4 support and trying to get TLS for my IRC server and NOTHING IS WORKING
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz oh and the logs say “failed to write msg: use of closed network connection” WHAT DOES THAT MEAN
CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
Article URL: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3963190/cve-program-faces-swift-end-after-dhs-fails-to-renew-contract-leaving-security-flaw-tracking-in-limbo.html
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@prologic@twtxt.net, from IRC:
- Saving preferences is failing. Specifically trying to save “Open Links” on the same window. For sure it isn’t happening. Check errors on browser’s console.
- Search results pagination is broken. Search for “twtxt.net” and see it. Also, picking oldest/newest makes no difference on that search query.
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This weekend (as some of you may now) I accidently nuke this Pod's entire data volume 🤦♂️ What a disastrous incident 🤣 I decided instead of trying to restore from a 4-month old backup (we'll get into why I hadn't been taking backups consistently later), that we'd start a fresh! 😅 Spring clean! 🧼 -- Anyway... One of the things I realised was I was missing a very critical Safety Controls in my own ways of working... I've now rectified this...
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This is an example of what I believe every SRE should master and whatever Post Incident Review (PIR) should focus on. Where did the system fail. What are the missing or incomplete Safety Controls.
(#zzyjqvq) This is an example of what I believe every SRE should master and whatever Post Incident Review (PIR) should focus on. Where did t …
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my biggest fear of starting to work with servers professionally is realizing that no one uses servers anymore and having to do some cloud bullshit instead
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Using full-blown Cloud services is good for old people like me who don’t want to do on-call duty when a disk fails. 😂 I like sleep! 😂
Jokes aside, I like IaaS as a middle ground. There are IaaS hosters who allow you to spin up VMs as you wish and connect them in a network as you wish. You get direct access to all those Linux boxes and to a layer 2 network, so you can do all the fun networking stuff like BGP, VRRP, IPSec/Wireguard, whatever. And you never have to worry about failing disks, server racks getting full, cable management, all that. 😅
I’m confident that we will always need people who do bare-bones or “low-level” stuff instead of just click some Cloud service. I guess that smaller companies don’t use Cloud services very often (because it’s way too expensive for them).
i love everything pico.sh i wish i had more of a use for their services but the paste service is SUPER handy omg i finally had a reason to use it (to send a friend my unfinished failed marvel API bash program lol) and it’s epic. i love SSH i love TUI apps they are the best
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Apple’s long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found
In 1994, a single Macintosh Performa model, the 550, came from the factory with a dedicated, hidden recovery partition that contained a System 7 system folder and a small application that would be set as bootable if the main operating system failed to boot. This application would then run, allowing you to recover your Mac using the system folder inside the recovery partition. This feature was app … ⌘ Read more
10 Expensive Infrastructure “Solutions” That Were Total Fails
Infrastructure projects are meant to improve lives, reduce congestion, and modernize cities, but sometimes, they backfire spectacularly. Whether due to poor planning, unintended consequences, or outright corruption, these projects exacerbated the very problems they were designed to fix. From flood barriers that made flooding worse to highways that increased traffic, here are 10 times infrastructure […]
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Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.9.1
This is mostly a bugfix release over version 1.9.0.
The main fix is the rust JID implementation that would behave incorrectly when
hashed if the JID contained non-ascii characters. This is an important issue as
using a non-ascii JID was mostly broken, and interacting with one failed in
interesting ways.
- The previously mentioned JID hash issue
- Various edge cases in the roster code
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Hey human, you had one job: Treats. And you failed! 😼 ⌘ Read more
Do ethical tea labels stack up? We went to Sri Lanka to see firsthand
An ABC investigation in Sri Lanka has found popular certification schemes are failing to live up to their ethical promises. ⌘ Read more
Why a Chinese gadget maker beat Apple on electric vehicles
While the US tech giant has burned over $16 billion in its failed attempt to make an electric car, this Chinese phone maker is pumping out thousands of vehicles. ⌘ Read more
To me it appeared that the failed attempts to ban NPD in the past actually helped them gain more supporters.
What makes AfD stronger for sure is just going “lol nah we’re not even going to try”:
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/afd-verbot-antrag-100.html
If they don’t try, then it means that “it can’t be that bad, it’s just a normal party”, right? 😡
Why Upstart from Ubuntu failed
Upstart was an event-based replacement for the traditional System V init (sysvinit) system on Ubuntu, introduced to bring a modern and more flexible way of handling system startup and service management. It emerged in the mid-2000s, during a period when sysvinit’s age and limitations were becoming more apparent, especially with regard to concurrency and dependency handling. Upstart was developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, with the aim of reducing boot time … ⌘ Read more
El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed experiment
Article URL: https://ticotimes.net/2025/02/02/el-salvador-abandons-bitcoin-as-legal-tender-after-failed-experiment
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42925210
Points: 511
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Yeah nice try assholes 🤣 #failed #phissing #sms href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23attack”>#attack**
Yeah nice try assholes 🤣 
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New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs
Article URL: https://predictors.fail/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42856023
Points: 502
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PEP 773: A Python Installation Manager for Windows
Installation of the python.org Python distribution on Windows is complex. There are three main approaches with roughly equivalent levels of user experience, and yet all of these suffer from different limitations, including failing to satisfy modern usage scenarios. This PEP proposes a design for a single Windows install workflow tool that satisfies all the needs of the existing installers for the platform, while avoiding most of their limitations, and provides the core team with the … ⌘ Read more
Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 2 2025: 18 PRs, 6 Issues
This weekly report aims to provide a big picture view of Monero development activity, increase community support for existing devs and, hopefully, encourage new contributions.
Opened (12)
monero-project/monero:
Anti-Conservative openSUSE Linux Spends December Begging for Board Candidates, Finds None
Back in early December, openSUSE delayed their elections after failing to find Board Member candidates. ⌘ Read more
10 Catastrophic Translation Fails in History
Translation seems like an easy task these days, with the help of technology such as Google at our fingertips, but it isn’t always so simple. Simple translation when trying to greet someone from another country is one thing, but interpreting major documents or treaties is another. Translators and interpreters are professionals with years of experience, […]
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Hmm one of my Hypervisor nodes has failed and I’ve had to rain its VMs and take it offline. Damn 😢
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Court fines fruit grower after picker dies in fall from moving trailer
A 70-year-old Afghan national died after falling from a moving trailer on his second shift at Cutri Fruit in 2022. The company pleaded guilty to failing to mitigate safety risks. ⌘ Read more