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Ian Craggs
@icraggs.modelbasedtesting.co.uk
Eclipse Paho lead & C maintainer. OASIS open #MQTT-SN chair. Eclipse Sparkplug.

Blog: https://modelbasedtesting.co.uk/
Github: https://github.com/icraggs
Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@icraggs
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Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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curl 8.17.0
Download curl from curl.se. ## Release presentation As per tradition, there will be a live-streamed release presentation on twitch at 09:00 UTC (10:00 CET) on the release day. Available on YouTube after the fact. ## Numbers the 271st release 11 changes 56 days (total: 10,092) 448 bugfixes (total: 12,537) 699 commits (total: 36,725) 2 new public libcurl function (total: 100) 0 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 308) 1 new curl command line option (total: 273) 69 contributors, 35 new (total: 3,534) 22 authors, 5 new (total: 1,415) 1 security fixes (total: 170) ## Security CVE-2025-10966: missing SFTP host verification with wolfSSH. curl’s code for managing SSH connections when SFTP was done using the wolfSSH powered backend was flawed and missed host verification mechanisms. ## Changes We drop support for several things this time around: * drop Heimdal support * drop the winbuild build system * drop support for Kerberos FTP * drop support for wolfSSH And then we did some other smaller changes: * up the minimum libssh2 requirement to 1.9.0 * add a notifications API to the multi interface * expand to use 6 characters per size in the progress meter * support Apple SecTrust – use the native CA store * add `--knownhosts` to the command line tool * wcurl: import v2025.11.04 * write-out: make `%header{}` able to output _all_ occurrences of a header ## Bugfixes We set a new project record this time with no less than 448 documented bugfixes since the previous release. The release presentation mentioned above discusses some of the perhaps most significant ones. ## Coming next There a small set of pull-requests waiting to get merged, but other than that our future is not set and we greatly appreciate your feedback, submitted issues and provided pull-requests to guide us. If this release happens to include an annoying regression, there might be a patch release already next week. If we are lucky and it doesn’t, then we aim for a 8.18.0 release in the early January 2026.
daniel.haxx.se
November 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Having illustrated the problem of X ignoring its legal duties, I want to build an effective coalition for intervention. If you are or know people on X receiving racist abuse, rape threats, I would welcome receipts of one rejected attempt to report to the platform an indefensible case
Thanks for this kind note. I hope to do something useful with this by Nov/Dec (new Ofcom powers, new EHRC chair). I'd like more women + ethnic minorities to go through (futile) process of reporting shocking stuff (eg rape threats, p-word, n-word) & share receipts with me of one egregious example
October 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.
October 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*
I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Never forget
Mariupol, mass graves, everything east of the pond is new
September 24, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Been bad for a long time now (e.g. Redcar Borough Council), really recommend reading Kevin Beaumont on this: doublepulsar.com/the-elephant...
The Elephant in The Biz: outsourcing of critical IT and cybersecurity functions risks UK economic…
Recently, there’s been three major UK ransomware and/or extortion incidents at three big UK companies — Co-op Group, Marks and Spencer and…
doublepulsar.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Writing The Universe - a joy to make is on BBC Radio 4 at 9am this morning

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
September 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Today sees the launch of My Family Legacy (www.myfamilylegacy.org.uk) a new campaign to raise awareness of South Asian service in the world wars and preserve the stories of those who fought for Britain. [Thread]
September 10, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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And as always, the rich will continue to have these choices and freedoms while those too poor to travel will be forced to “breed for the oligarchs.”
September 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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So Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives, who have repeatedly pledged to fight for "free speech" and a free press have just banned me and Byline Times from attending their conference.

Has never happened before under any previous leader

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
Kemi Badenoch's 'Free Speech' Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference
The ban on covering the party's annual gathering came despite Badenoch's repeated commitment to "fight" for free speech and a free press
bylinetimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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What if a conference felt less like lectures… and more like a community?
That’s Open Community Experience!

On 21–23 April 2026, #OCX26 returns, bringing together over 600 developers, researchers, policymakers, and innovators.

🎥 Watch the video to learn more: hubs.la/Q03F_39R0
September 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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I’m on my way to GopherCon UK!

If you want to chat about Go and security, catch me and @roland.zone there, exceptionally in the same physical space!
August 13, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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British music producer James Holden and Polish clarinet virtuoso Wacław Zimpel built The Universe Will Take Care of You in four spontaneous London studio days, capturing the act of playing without thinking.

Interview — James Holden + Wacław Zimpel Surrender to the Sound:

@jamesholden.bsky.social
James Holden and Wacław Zimpel Surrender to the Sound
The British music producer and Polish clarinet virtuoso built 'The Universe Will Take Care of You' in four spontaneous London studio days, capturing the act of playing without thinking.
www.thetonearm.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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📢 Attention #EclipseFdn committers! Take a few minutes to complete our committer satisfaction survey to help us better serve our community: www.surveymonkey.com/r/EF_Committ... #CommunityIsKey #opensource
July 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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🎉 Eclipse 4diac turns 18!
On July 23, 2007, we presented 4diac for the first time at INDIN. A lot has happened since then — see how far we’ve come:
👉 eclipse.dev/4diac/news/2...
#4diac #IEC61499 #opensource #automation @eclipse.org
Celebrating 18 Years of Eclipse 4diac | The Eclipse Foundation
Today marks the 18th anniversary of Eclipse 4diac. On **July 23rd, 2007**, we presented 4diac for the very first time at a workshop at the *IEEE International …
eclipse.dev
July 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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I will never not understand how a minority of people have decided that wind farms - significantly prettier than pylons, coal power plants, nuclear power plants, and almost certainly fusion power plants - are ugly. In terms of energy generation, what else are you hoping for that is better?
On holiday, I notice that there are wind turbines on the shore of Lake Garda, which very much makes me think that residents with a view of some incredibly mid Cotswold or other can put a sock in it.
July 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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🔍 What are your top development challenges in embedded, IoT, or edge solutions?

Share your input in the 2025 Embedded, IoT & Edge Developer Survey, supported by Eclipse IoT, Sparkplug, Oniro, @OpenHW Foundation and ThreadX.

Participate now 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/RYDFH5Z
July 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Never forget the russian atrocities committed against the people of Mariupol — a beautiful city turned into a graveyard.
July 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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I teach a "Foundations of HCI" class covering the history of Human-Computer Interaction going back to Vannevar Bush's Atlantic article in 1945 & explaining how U.S. gov funding for science catalyzed this field. Here's a public lecture I gave summarizing: www.hcde.washington.edu/news/article...
Foundations & Futures of HCI: a teach-in with Professor Kate Starbird
As part of HCDE’s 2025 graduation events, Professor Kate Starbird delivered a special teach-in exploring the foundations and future of human-computer interaction. Starbird traced how the technologies ...
www.hcde.washington.edu
July 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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my Exeter gig is selling a little slowly - tickets here

exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/robin...
Robin Ince - Exeter Phoenix
The Universe and the Neurodiverse is a journey from the outermost planets to our innermost thoughts.
exeterphoenix.org.uk
May 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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This is outstanding on the vapid scientifically illiterate dreams of the tech overlord class

arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible
Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.
arstechnica.com
May 11, 2025 at 5:29 AM