foss-north 2025
I attended foss-north, a free / open source conference covering both
software and hardware from the technical perspective, at Chalmers
Conference Center in Gothenburg on April 14 & 15. A great conference.
Lots of interesting talks:
https://foss-north.se/2025/speakers-and-talks.html
My own presentation was “Forking QEMU to emulate and secure the
Tillitis TKey”. Recording is here:
Starscope Scam ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Day of the Midwife https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/05/midwives.html #programming #project #devjournal
Fuzzing with Grammars
Not sure if it’s good netiquette to mention them, but the book is apparently co-authored by @vrthra.
AI won’t steal your job, but you need to learn to work with it
You may be flummoxed by the bot you’re currently being asked to use, but soon your latest co-worker may be an AI agent. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: 0M — Remixed Classrooms https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/04/30m-free-education.html #3#0#million #books #diversity #education
AI won’t steal your job, but you need to learn to work with it
You may be flummoxed by the bot you’re currently being asked to use, but soon your latest co-worker may be an AI agent. ⌘ Read more
This electric ute is shaping as the anti-Tesla for EV buyers
The US start-up hopes its small and affordable ute it will become the Ford Model T of electric vehicles. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Pilogy, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/03/pilogy-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 04/28 to 05/02 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/02/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
Donald Trump is proving disastrous for big tech
Three months in, and the bosses of America’s most valuable firms have little to show for all their toadying. ⌘ Read more
So, the “AI” bots have reached my website. Looks like they’re just slowly crawling everything at the moment – no DDoS-like attack yet. I wonder if that has something to do with my website being 100% static HTML. There are no GET parameters they can tweak and, at the end of the day, there’s not that much data on my server anyway … And maybe they have no idea what stagit is, so it doesn’t trigger “standard behavior”, like “this is a Gitea instance, let’s crawl this like crazy!”?
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Second Chances https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/01/second-chances.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Someone at YouTube needs glasses
Article URL: https://jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43846487
Points: 514
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How businesses are using agentic automation to thrive
The next generation of AI technology, agentic automation, is enabling organisations to deliver enterprise efficiencies that improve customer care, provide faster service and significantly cut costs. ⌘ Read more
Pretend friends, real risks. Harming kids is now part of big tech’s business model
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg said famously “move fast and break things”. But now it’s children and families who are being broken by the relentless thirst for big tech profit. ⌘ Read more
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Finally I propose that we increase the Twt Hash length from
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7 to 12 and use the first 12 characters of the base32 encoded blake2b hash. This will solve two problems, the fact that all hashes today either end in q or a (oops) 😅 And increasing the Twt Hash size will ensure that we never run into the chance of collision for ions to come. Chances of a 50% collision with 64 bits / 12 characters is roughly ~12.44B Twts. That ought to be enough! -- I also propose that we modify all our clients and make this change from the 1st July 2025, which will be Yarn.social's 5th birthday and 5 years since I started this whole project and endeavour! 😱 #Twtxt #Update
We have 4 clients but this should be 6 I believe with tt2 from @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org and Twtxtory from @javivf@adn.org.es?
Nobody writes emails by hand using RFC 5322 anymore, nor do we manually send them through telnet and SMTP commands. The days of crafting emails in raw format and dialing into servers are long gone. Modern email clients and services handle it all seamlessly in the background, making email easier than ever to send and receive—without needing to understand the protocols or formats behind it! #Email #SMTP #RFC #Automation
On my blog: Developer Diary, Workers’ Memorial Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/28/workers-memorial.html #programming #project #devjournal
Computers in school (updated)
IntroductionA much shorter version of this post was initially published on
2022-05-23 (Pungenday, the 70 day of Discord in the YOLD 3188) in my
gemlog at:
gemini://gem.hack.org/log/computers-in-school.gmi
The text has been edited after speaking with some old school mates and
trying to remember more. I also added a few photos.
When I started upper secondary school as a sixteen year-old in 1988 my
school had what I think were IBM PC/XT computers, one classroom of
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