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"Accepteriez-vous 1 maison avec 1 porte secrète sans connaître celle-ci ? Sans savoir qui en possède la clé ? Non ! Idem en informatique !"

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Easy XMPP, small improvements can make a difference

The easy XMPP initiative tries to identify all the small UX glitches and fix them. That's a great first step in the right direction. For user discovery I would love to see mobile clients to check my address book, auto add contacts with a XMPP address and automatically check contacts email addresses for XMPP capabilities. This would be a easy, privacy respecting way to auto-populate the contact list.
https://xmpp.org/2017/08/easy-xmpp-the-challenges/
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"Facebook users should pay attention: When you tag a friend in a photo, that’s feeding a massive facial recognition dataset"

slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2

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Tiens, en parlant de GAFAM à l'école…

Les profs qui imposent ces merdes forcent les élèves à signer les CGU. C'est pas l'user qui lit et accepte les CGU en connaissance de cause, c'est qu'on l'oblige à accepter les CGU des services imposées sans avoir le temps de les lire, pour pouvoir suivre le cours/TP/whatever… C'est l'une des formes les plus dégueu de faire gagner des users à des services qui ont un oligopole

L'argument « CGU éducation », c'est gros bullsht

Dans le sup, c'est pas mieux!

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Une instruction machine pour un CPU moderne fait entre 1 et 15 octets.
Ces instructions sont documentées par les fabricants (Intel, AMD...).

Mais il existe des tas d'instructions non documentées.

Avec 15 octets, cela fait beaucoup de possibilités, mais ces chercheurs ont créé un logiciel pour toutes les recenser.
ET IL Y EN A.

Cela ouvre de nouvelles potentielles failles de sécurité pour le futur...

blog.koehntopp.info/index.php/

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Remember how systemd starting as root if the username starts with a digit isn't a bug? Turns out they're technically right. It's not a bug.

It's a bug worthy of a CVE. CVE-2017-1000082, which had to be requested by third parties. Like, I suspect, every systemd CVE ever.

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2

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Tim Berners-Lee approves controversial Web #DRM, but @W3C member organizations have two weeks to appeal -- https://u.fsf.org/293
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DRM is a huge threat agains your security and freedom. Now it seems like it'll become a webstandard from W3C. Madness! defectivebydesign.org/blog/tim

Want to know why it's terrible? Listen or read this: corydoctorow.miraheze.org/wiki

Want to help me spread knowledge? Help me with the wiki: corydoctorow.miraheze.org/

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Is there anyone on here who is bothered by my swearing? You can generally tell if I am coding and what sort of coding I am doing by how often I swear.

If I am not swearing I am not coding, if I am swearing a little bit than it is probably embedded c, if every other word is fuck than javascript.

I have very different coding styles and methods when I do c than when I do javascript.

C is planned out and careful, javascript is hitting the keyboard with my hands until it works.

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I am looking for a drawing of me as a comic book character and I am willing to pay. Anyone taking commissions?

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if your software accepts --help but not -h

I hate you

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Coucou Mastodon,

J'aurais besoin d'un coup d'main pour trouver un stage/CDD sur Nantes, Tours ou Rennes en Informatique. Un stage de 2 ou 3 mois de Juillet à Septembre.

Je suis en BAC+4, j'ai l'habitude d'utiliser Linux et de coder en bash, C, C++, Python et je m'amuse avec d'autres langages (Go, Haskell, JS, ... ).

Je suis joingnable ici, ou sur mon email ache@ache.one.

RT (vraiment) appréciés 💗 Merci !

PS: J'aime la philosophie du logiciel libre.

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Why Do American Headlines Have Each Word Capitalised?

Does Somebody Know Why? I Find This Quite Annoying.