Notices by EVERYTHING'S COMPUTER (be@floss.social)

Today’s Hajj pilgrimage is limited to Mecca and Medina. It used to include Palestine, too.

"Physically, Palestine’s historic central role in the Hajj route may have been uprooted... But these attempts of isolation have only ingrained Palestine more strongly within the hearts of the pilgrims, whether or not they are of the Palestinian diaspora. And that is how Palestine will continue to play a central role in the Hajj this year."

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/todays-hajj-pilgrimage-is-limited-to-mecca-and-medina-it-used-to-include-palestine-too/

A telltale sign of an overhyped fad that won't last long is that its proponents loudly proclaim its inevitability.

This applies to settler colonies as well as technologies.

@skinnylatte @v_claire Private real estate agents are involved in selling public housing? 🤨

@skinnylatte "only 15 floors"

"not a high rise"

@ifixcoinops

@lightweight There's this, from 2016: https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/

Has WhatsApp removed or altered the cryptographic protocol they use since then? I don't think anyone can answer that outside of WhatsApp.

@lightweight I completely agree. I never recommend WhatsApp.

Even if the Signal Protocol is still working the same as they implemented it in 2016, there are so many other privacy concerns with a proprietary client that make the E2EE nearly irrelevant. E2EE is only as secure as the ends.

Considering what's going on now in the federal bureaucracy, there's no way the IRS would have the capacity to deal with mass refusal to pay taxes. Not that they did before anyway.

The dismantling and disarray of the federal bureaucracy of course has many immediate, detrimental effects on enormous numbers of people. It also creates novel openings for political possibility. Be creative.

@mwk @whitequark I can't imagine why LLVM started.

My new project: building LED props

I just made the initial commit for the firmware

https://codeberg.org/Be.ing/spectral

Don't mind me, just repeatedly force pushing my branches until the commits are perfect

@skinnylatte @Adventurer My neighborhood food coop also did union busting, so... 😩

Going back to C++ after writing Rust and getting confused why function inputs that are changed aren't marked as mut.

Kinda amazing how much easier code is to read in a const-by-default language.

There was a brief time years ago when I attempted to do independent contracting building Wordpress websites. Today I am grateful that I never got very invested in that.

@dan @ricci @nullagent @irene I suspect this guy would have a strong legal case against the university, but why bother if he could just get a job and tell 'em to hell with your degree.

Good documentation doesn't presume expertise in the domain, but teaches the reader

https://docs.rs/palette/latest/palette/

How software gets color wrong

"Most software around us today are decent at accurately displaying colors. Processing of colors is another story unfortunately, and is often done badly... The solution is simple at a high level: instead of relying on what color space a file or display uses, color operations should be done with the use case in mind, to either model human perception or the physical behavior of light."

https://bottosson.github.io/posts/colorwrong/