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Matthew Brown is a geeky #writer from Kent (#UK). I #blog lots. I develop with #PHP for the fun of it (and professionally). I also think I am funny - puns abound […]

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Huh, someone offering to bribe me to post their project to #hackernews.

What do we reckon - should I ignore it or try to see who they're working for in order to expose them?

(Obviously I'm not going to take their cash.)
January 19, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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Monday
January 19, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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I loved this too much. ❤️ 😆😆😆
January 18, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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This is the last nap for these goofballs on my window hammock. They move into their new apartment with their mom and dad tonight 😢

Once they’re out, I have to start the “de-gnocchification” of my house, which is mainly repairing or replacing and repainting […]

[Original post on infosec.exchange]
January 18, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Things seen on this afternoon's stroll - Johnny Mathie's path outside Auchterarder

#strathearn #Perthshire #scotland #photos #oppofindx9pro
January 18, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Bok's feet are so dangerous they have to be fitted under armed escort by a professional "Gargoyle Cobbler"

#bokpropaganda
January 16, 2026 at 5:42 PM
January 17, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Imagine I said something funny
January 17, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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#thefarside #farside #comic https://www.thefarside.com/2026/01/14/3

“Excuse me, but the others sent me up here to ask you to please not roll around so much.”
January 17, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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I rode passenger today on an ICE patrol in my neighborhood in Minneapolis.

Our ride was mostly uneventful, the neighborhood we patrolled has been a target but just not this afternoon.
It took me a while to follow everything that is going on, and I felt rather incompetent even as a passenger […]
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hachyderm.io
January 13, 2026 at 11:10 PM
I recently learned of a TV series called "New Amsterdam" made by Fox, which ran for one short season and sounded rather good. I looked for it on Netflix, but there (for us in the UK) "New Amsterdam" is a drama about a hospital.
January 17, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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If you are going out, please ensure that a trusted friend knows where you are going and can raise the alarm if something happens. Avoid places that may be targeted for raids such as Chow Kit, Bukit Bintang and clubbing areas. Stay safe and please take care of each other.
January 16, 2026 at 11:06 AM
TIL that old folks have their own secret federated social network. It is powered by the postal service whereby they send each other newspaper clippings, books, missionary news letters, essays, and other material. My dad was friends with a central node in this network. Tom sent me dad a steady […]
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mastodon.social
January 14, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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Let's make #2026 the year of...
#activitypub #fediverse #socialweb
January 14, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Why do #wordpress themes all look the same?
January 13, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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#BirdsinFlight is the #BirdoftheDay theme from Rob, and I managed some Belted Kingfisher shots that came out ok. #Birds #EastCoastKin #Photography #Nature @Wildlife
January 12, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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*pops up for air briefly between amazing beaches and forests and research discussions and constant yelling about satellites and hanging out with friends*

Sending peace!

(Wish me luck on an extremely long first Skytrain/bus commute I've done in over a decade tomorrow morning!)

#profsamlecturetour
January 12, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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You got it easy kid
January 7, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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To all the open source developers who put hours and hours of their lives into a project they built, put it out into the world, and now it sits with approximately zero users.
January 9, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Mastodon / Fediverse is the only social network that doesn't flood me with rage when I open it, so I'm just gonna hang out here for a while.
January 10, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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Two years ago we dropped the years from all copyright mentions in the #curl project: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/01/08/copyright-without-years/
Copyright without years
Like so many other software projects the curl project has copyright mentions at the top of almost every file in the source code repository. Like Copyright (C) 1998 - 2022, Daniel Stenberg ... Over the years we have used a combination of scripts and manual edits to update the ending year in that copyright line to match the year of the latest update of that file. As soon as we started a new year and someone updated a file, the copyright range needed update. Scripts and tools made it less uncomfortable, but it was always somewhat of a pain to remember and fix. ## In 2023 this changed When the year was again bumped and the first changes of the year were done to curl, we should then consequentially start updating years again to make ranges end with 2023. Only this time someone asked me _why?_ and it made me decide that _what the heck, let’s completely rip them out instead!_ Doing it at the beginning of the year is also a very good moment. ## Do we need the years? The Berne Convention states that copyright “must be automatic; it is prohibited to require formal registration”. The often-used copyright lines are not necessary to protect our rights. According to the Wikipedia page mentioned above, the Berne Convention has been ratified by 181 states out of 195 countries in the world. They can still serve a purpose as they are informational and make the ownership question quite clear. The year ranges add questionable value though. I have tried to find resources that argue **for** the importance of the copyright years to be stated and present, but I have not found any credible sources. Possibly because I haven’t figured out where to look. ## Not alone It turns out quite a few projects run by many different organizations or even huge companies have already dropped the years from their source code header copyright statements. Presumably at least some of those giant corporations have had their legal departments give a green light to the idea before they went ahead and published source code that way to the world. ## Low risk We own the copyrights no matter if the years are stated or not. The exact years the files were created or edited can still easily be figured out since we use version control, should anyone ever actually care about it. And we give away curl for free, under an extremely liberal license. I don’t think we risk much by doing this move. ## January 3, 2023 On this day I merged commit 2bc1d775f510, which updated 1856 files and removed copyright years from almost everywhere in the source code repository. I decided to leave them in the main license file. Partly because this is a file that lots of companies include in their products and I have had some use of seeing the year ranges in there in the past! ## Bliss Now we can forget about copyright years in the project. It’s a relief!
daniel.haxx.se
January 8, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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January 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM