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rust@mas.to ("Rust tips") wrote:

The next release of #RustLang will start warning about "mismatched lifetime syntaxes".

You can already automatically fix many of these cases by applying an auto-fix for the `elided_lifetimes_in_paths` warning:

RUSTFLAGS="-Welided_lifetimes_in_paths" cargo fix --all --all-targets

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fabio@manganiello.social ("Fabio Manganiello") wrote:

The EU is making a very bad mistake here.

The EU is developing an app for age verification that can be used by many other applications as a legal way of ensuring that a user is at least 18 before accessing some protected content.

The problem is here:

The current release provides only basic functionality, with several key features to be introduced in future versions, including:

• App and device verification based on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation
• Additional issuance methods beyond the currently implemented eID based method.

What does it mean that it relies on the Google Play Integrity API?

Put simply, that:

• Any Android device not certified by Google will not be able to run the app. Do you use /e/OS (which is a European fork of Android btw), GrapheneOS, LineageOS or any other open-source fork of Android? Sorry, no age verification for you, which will mean that you’ll probably be locked out of many applications in the future. We often forget it, but, even though developed by Google, the core of Android (AOSP) is open-source and anyone can fork it. Google lately is already trying to attack that core hard enough to turn Android into a fully closed-source operating system exclusively controlled by them. The EU is just doing them a favour apparently.
• The Google Play Integrity API relies on keys and certificates exclusively owned by Google. Which means that if you use alternative privacy-aware frameworks to the Google Play Services (like microG) you won’t be able to do age verification. Google is already trying hard to force all vendors that install Android on their devices to get a certification from them only if they also pre-install Google apps and the Google Play Services (see the Android Certified program). The EU in the past opposed such plans because they clearly violate all the possible antitrust rules on the face of the earth. But, by piggybacking on mandatory Google Play Services for age verification, it seems that it’s just doing a U-turn and doing Google another favour.

In other words, EU representatives have (rightfully) talked a lot over the past years about digital sovereignty, technological independence from American tech giants and supporting open-source.

And then, when tasked to build an institutional app for age verification, what do they do?

Well, they entirely delegate the process to an American tech company that they pledged to decouple us from, and they play in their interests by putting another nail in the AOSP’s coffin.

Luckily the age verification app is still in alpha state and it’ll still take time to be deployed, and it’s also open-source.

So please, if you have a Github account, add a reaction or a comment to the issue opened by @SylvieLorxu on the project of the app to boost its visibility.

And if you have contacts with a EU representative don’t hesitate to write to them and express these implementation concerns.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Me: puts “do not disturb” sign on hotel room door, because I don’t want to be, you know, disturbed, during my Zoom meeting.

Hotel: What is this sign on the door? Probably left there by mistake! We better call the room to find out for sure.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
samuteki@ohay.ooo ("Sam") wrote:

Flint finally has clean drinking water.
https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/flint-finishes-lead-pipe-replacement-historic-milestone

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
icm@mastodon.sdf.org ("ICM") wrote:

We're expanding our gallery space in August to set up a Thinking Machines: Connection Machine with an event to celebrate the 40th anniversary. Join as a BOOTSTRAP member to attend the preview and get a behind the scene peek at the CM2's HOST, a Symbolics 3670 LISP machine, as we restore and recover its *LISP (StarLISP) programming system.

https://icm.museum

https://toobnix.org/w/57vV3XjbcdEjNVqYGTzZJ4

#ai #HPC #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

Today in Labor History July 28, 1917: The Silent Parade took place in New York City, in protest against murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans. Organizers set up the parade to protest the East Saint Louis race riots (May-July 1917), when whites murdered up to 200 African Americans, and caused 6,000 black residents to become homeless. While Woodrow Wilson was entering World War I to “make the world safe for democracy,” black Americans were asking when he’d do the same for them.

The Silent March was organized by a coalition of groups, led by the new NAACP. Up to 15,000 participated. Organizers wanted president Wilson to enact anti-lynching legislation. He refused. Wilson appointed numerous racists to his cabinet and was an outspoken defender of segregation on “scientific” grounds. He was also fond of telling racist jokes. As an academic, prior to his political career, he was an apologist for slavery. And he used his authority to actively prevent admitting African Americans into Princeton as students or faculty. Ironically, one of the primary organizers of the Silent March, W.E.B. DuBois, had been an enthusiastic supporter of the Woodrow Wilson presidential candidacy, calling him a “liberal Southerner,” who would deal fairly with Negros.

The East Saint Louis racist pogrom occurred during one of the largest migrations of black workers from the South to the North. Between 1910 and 1920, half a million African Americans migrated north to Chicago, Saint Louis, Detroit, Philadelphia, and other cities. In 1919, there were 38 different racist riots in the U.S., all directed against the black community. The massacre in East Saint Louis began in response to a strike by white employees of the Aluminum Ore Company, after the bosses hired black replacement workers, a common practice of the bosses to divide the working class and weaken unions. Additionally, many of the unions were overtly racist and excluded black workers, including the Aluminum Ore union. To make matters worse, employment agents were going to the South and recruiting African Americans under false pretenses, offering them stable jobs and housing when, in reality, they were being recruited to work as scabs. So, it is likely that many, if not most, of the workers didn’t even know they were being hired as scabs. Regardless, they wouldn’t have been allowed to join the union, either.

Racism by unions and white workers was not inevitable in those days, and it was certainly counterproductive to the aims of working people of all backgrounds and identities. Consider that in 1920, in rural Mingo County, West Virginia, when the coal bosses brought in African American workers as scabs, the UMWA encouraged them to join the union and the strike, and achieved solidarity between white, native-born workers, African Americans from the South, and Italian immigrants. This is portrayed in John Sayles film, Matewan. And by 1916, thanks largely to the superb organizing of Ben Fletcher, all but two of Philadelphia’s docks were controlled by the IWW, uniting a workforce that was 33% Irish, 33% Polish & Lithuanian, and 33% African American. Fletcher also traveled up and down the east coast organizing dockers across race. At that time, roughly 10% of the IWW’s 1 million members were African American.

Read my biography of Fletcher here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/05/13/ben-fletcher-and-the-iww-dockers/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #africanamerican #racism #lynching #protest #riots #naacp #union #strike #scab #IWW #benfletcher #webdubois #BlackMastadon

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Tealfuleyes@mastodon.art ("Tealful Eyes") wrote:

Bandcamp Friday is this week(August 1st) if y'all have some favourite musicians you want to give a little extra support to.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
alghaff@mastodon.online ("Al Ghaff") wrote:

The #OnlineSafetyAct has well and truly kicked off in the UK.

Just a few minutes after the Online Safety Act went into effect, there was a surge in #vpn downloads.

Today, the governing #Labour Party is reportedly exploring banning VPNs 🤦🏻‍♂️

Here are the countries that currently the use of VPNs are either fully or partially restricted:

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
krosylight@fosstodon.org ("Kagami is they/them 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I'm playing a game in the office because I got a webcompat report there

Produce more web games so that I can play while working, thank you

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

One batch of the lilies that live around our house decided the end of July was their time to shine, and this photo my wife grabbed this morning seems to prove that out.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

It's always the people you most expect

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maga-superintendent-put-bibles-schools-132537249.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

“Make the logo as big as my ego”— Ancient client proverb

#website #webdesign

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
luc@chaos.social ("Luc") wrote:

EU age verifier app was released today on github, saying it'll include remote attestation

Is it just me who finds this terrifying?

No more open operating systems for your phone if you want to be able to use it for age verification. For now, it sounds like this will be for porn, but social media (hello Mastodon) recently got a "recommendation" from our government to not be allowed below a certain age

Will we need a Google or Apple attested device to get around on the internet in a few years?

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Here, as elsewhere, infrastructure is heroic.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The scale of these wind farms is beyond what we're equipped to process in day-to-day human experience. They conquer the landscape in ways we can't fully comprehend even when they're in front of us. In a sense, they're abstract sculptures of themselves, mostly visible in fleeting glances from interstate highways or airplane windows.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

This was captured near the Tesla substation (no relation to the car company) near Altamont Pass with a DSLR and a 400mm lens, compressing the turbines in a way that made them resemble a histogram.

There's a *lot* of power being generated in those hills. There was an audible hum in the air and vibrations could be felt in the ground. In some spots, the camera rebooted from induced currents.

Infrastructure like this is easy to ignore, but has an accidental beauty that I think is worth examining.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Wind Turbines, near Tracy, CA, 2010.

All the pixels, none of the wattage, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4491948497

#photography

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
frankel@mastodon.top ("Nicolas Fränkel 🇺🇦🇬🇪") wrote:

Evolution of #HTTP

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Evolution%5Fof%5FHTTP

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sherold@mastodon.online ("Sebastian Herold") wrote:

One day.

#DavidLynch #Meme

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
spencerbeswick@kolektiva.social ("Spencer Beswick") wrote:

Ursula Le Guin: “A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.”

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

My absolute favorite, though, was an email sent to the grad coordinator when I was at Penn, addressed to Prof. Levine Hall. It went on, effusively and at length, about how inspiring Prof. Hall's research had been to this student, and how honored he'd be to study under his supervision.

Levine Hall was the name of our building.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Protip: Spamming every faculty email address on earth is not how you apply to PhD programs.

But if you *do* spam every faculty email you can find with a faux-personal appeal, you should probably change the salutation line to something other than "Dear PROFESSORNAME:"

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Technically speaking they should be NonCrustables, but we as a nation aren't ready to have that conversation yet

RE: https://www.threads.com/@sepinwall/post/DMqDol8Rmg%5F

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

The world is on fire, and that may mean you may be hesitant to celebrate your own victories and achievements, or to tell people about them. If this is you, then please know that all the rest of us need to hear about these victories and achievements to remind us that people still do have victories and achievements, even now, and especially now. Go ahead and share your happiness and good news. And congratulations!

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I would say "what an unbelievably shitty human we have for a president" but the fact is it's entirely believable, he's always been a shitty human

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-gaza-aid-thank-you-rcna221443

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Someone recently quote a song lyric to me that made me doubt that I been singing the song correctly for the last 40 years but then I went and checked and it turned out they misquoted the song, and I was so irrationally angry with them for making them doubt myself AND the song lyrics that I may just never speak to them again

RE: https://www.threads.com/@joshgondelman/post/DMqAhF9sFZJ

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Derecho season in Minnesota.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/28/its-derecho-time/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mNxI30asDs

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mercedesallen ("Mercedes Allen") wrote:

Always, every time.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
eejayes@glasgow.social wrote:

#Trump

Stephen Flynn, the Scottish National Party MP for Aberdeen South, said he couldn’t meet with Trump today because he was busy washing his hair.

Ya’ll. This is Stephen Flynn. 😂👏🏻

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

It is time for Israel to fall. If the US would stop supporting their crimes against humanity, it would.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/28/israel-is-not-a-lawful-state/