Notices by daniel:// stenberg:// (bagder@mastodon.social)

"My car has a failure" in my #inbox

https://daniel.haxx.se/email/2025-06-24.html

We got this question about adding support for the NETRC environment variable to #curl - because it currently does not support it.

Curious about the prevalence of this environment variable in existing tools I decided to, yeah, Google it...

On June 27 2025, I will be in Rotterdam at Joy of Coding and talk: "Accidental world domination for fun"

Come say hello.

https://joyofcoding.org/index.html

The foundations never save us.

No more embargoed security issues for libxml2: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/913

"Nah, surely someone else will sponsor the project. We certainly don't want to. We never did. It's still here and works well after decades, which proves us right."

/ almost every company

@eris @cobratbq I don't think that's a concept that would work on us... but I've never had a reason to figure that out.

@cobratbq none - that's never requested

"The Cyber Resilience Act and Open Source: What Maintainers Really Need to Know"

I'll be there.

Live-streams today, starts 16:00 UTC

https://maintainermonth.github.com/schedule/2025-05-27-CRA

the single best resource for Open Source CRA info is this repo: https://github.com/orcwg/cra-hub

the #QUIC RFC was published four years ago:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/27/quic-is-rfc-9000/

Reminder: this is how I make #curl releases:

https://youtu.be/7UQgcSWkSYw?si=9dTFLaEw0TFub2d1

"Open Source for Cybersecurity : Securing and Maintaining Europe's Open Source Dependencies"

One of those webinar panel things on June 3 and I will be there and you know, be me and talk Open Source and security.

Free to attend, but you need to register.

https://europeanopensource.academy/events/open-source-cybersecurity-securing-and-maintaining-europes-open-source-dependencies

5,000 game titles has been released so far *this year* on Steam - that use #curl

Almost 30%.

My week: https://lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel/2025-June/000115.html

Network framework, panel, patch release, GitHub, can't measure, flow chart, switch 2, fish, OSS CNA, pause

"download time is reduced by ~13%" (for #curl)

... by adding some odd #OpenSSL functions we didn't know existed.

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/17548

A year ago I explained how #curl came to get the colon-slash-slash logo

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/05/21/a-history-of-a-logo-with-a-colon-and-two-slashes/

891 persons have already responded to the #curl survey 2025. If you have not, please consider donating a few minutes of your time and help us out!

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/05/19/the-curl-user-survey-2025-is-up/

at 1082 responses now and I'm closing the survey tonight my time, less than six hours left to leave your opinions:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/05/19/the-curl-user-survey-2025-is-up/

at 1,001 responses now!