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Is there any good courses that cover the more technical aspects of backend development? Here are some examples, not even limited to this, but I want to hear more than the basics and also some security things to look out for in like a yt video or something, potentially includes, CORS, Cookies, JWT, server side sessions, server side rendering, websockets, server side events, html patterns (e.g the backend returning html components to be place into the browser). Status Codes, GET and POST, GRPC, file transfers.

Boot.dev covers a lot of this. They have a Typescript and a Go path that you can choose between. They do take a computer science basics approach to their backend courses, which has pros and cons. This means that there’s a significant number of courses, and a lot of them rely on learnings from previous ones. If you have any coding experience, you can probably skip all the Python and C courses and jump right into the meat of it. It’s also a go at your own pace monthly subscription course. Again, pros and cons. As an experienced frontend dev, I got through the Typescript course in about 2 months that’s spending a good amount of time each week on it. There is also an active Discord community that you can reach out to with questions if the my butt assistance bot isn’t able to answer them, but it’s pretty good.

Attorney Cindy Cohn talks to Jon Stewart about her new book, “Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance,” and her work as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is the world’s biggest and oldest digital rights organization. She recounts the fight against sweeping government surveillance after ⁹⁄₁₁, her reservations about internet regulations backfiring if placed in the wrong hands, and why the solution to these problems is a combination of comprehensive privacy law, revised business models of giant tech companies who make money off of user data, and more platform choices for individuals. “A world where there are five big media companies that decide everything that we see and how we see it… the answer isn’t to try to take a dictator and make them a better dictator. The answer is to get rid of the dictators and make them less important.”

She mentions Mastodon and Jon doesn’t understand how reddit is curating his experience. It’s a good piece because they’re such opposites, but both have great intentions.

Btw idk why I have anxiety the entire time… (no, not anxiety about the plot… like just random anxiety) but besides that….

Great experience (ish… I rather own a movie theater and have it all by myself so I don’t have so much anxiety)

BIG SCREEN

My favorite sequence was when:

::: spoiler SPOILERS Rocky risks his life to save Grace

I like the sequence of like the darkness and then a flash of light to show whats going on… that was so cool

I love the moments of silence…

So much different from just watching it on a 15.6 inch screen + headphones at home… (and also I’d have to wait for home release…) :::

(Put any spoilers in tags pls)

I actually keep a list on my Letterboxd of every movie I know I’ve seen in theaters. I go pretty frequently cause I just love the environment plus it’s the only thing to do that’s entertaining and gets me out of the house.

Oh, I’m gonna get weird on you here, check it out:

As a very young boy back in the 70s, I remember being taken to a local theater by my brother, sister and their friends, and this theater was showing old movies or pre-movie reels, so my first cinema memory was what I now think was black-and-white Flash Gordon!

When the Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges version of King Kong was still in big city theaters, another theater in my town screened… check it out… Godzilla Vs Mechanikong! And I was taken to see that one.

My very first proper movie in a large city experience, was to go to two separate theaters that day, the first was to see the star-studded war film A Bridge Too Far in the afternoon. Then the other, later one in the evening, was… drum roll, please… Star Wars. Which involved standing in line, waiting for three hours, or so.

@nw snac, GoToSocial and @hollo are all well maintained and work well with Phanpy

Yet another critical vulnerability in systemd, this time involving snapd. Ubuntu folk are affected.

“A serious security issue has been discovered in Ubuntu, and it is gaining attention in the cybersecurity community. The vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-3888 and mainly affects Ubuntu Desktop systems from version 24.04 onwards. This flaw is dangerous because it allows an attacker with limited access to gain full root privileges. Root access means complete control over the entire system.”

Ah, well, yet another mark against using snap then. My bad. Thanks for letting me know. :)

And that’s why you use at least very basic owner/group and mod permission validation on internal files

Right now, I have it set up so that the initiator for the connection does a peerConnection.restartIce(); if the peerConnection.iceConnectionState is failed or disconnected when peerConnection.oniceconnectionstatechange is triggered. This triggers a peerConnection.onnegotiationneeded event where I handle sending a new offer as the start of renegotiation which is then followed up by the initial renegotiation steps.

The problem is that after all of this, the remote streams for both peers are frozen where they were when the webRTC failure happened. Does anyone know how to handle this so that the remote streams continue playing after recovery? If possible, I would like to do this without setting up new peer connections as it would be simpler.

@geniodiabolico I haven't looked at Starling in detail yet, but as I understand it it's intended as a standalone server. Connecting it to your existing blog, regardless of what it runs on, would most likely take some nontrivial programming work. 🫤

Almost two weeks ago, someone on GNOME’s Discourse forum asked whether the missing Google Drive support in GNOME 50 was a bug or a deliberate decision.

GNOME developer Emmanuele Bassi replied, confirming that Drive was no longer supported.

He went on saying that libgdata, the library that coordinates communication between GNOME apps and Google’s APIs, has gone without a maintainer for nearly four years. Furthermore, GVFS dropped its libgdata dependency about ten months ago, and GNOME Online Accounts now checks for that before offering the Files toggle under its Google provider settings at all.

I appreciate that the author suggests that Google take on maintenance of the Drive integration. I’d rather volunteers work on supporting open platforms and protocols, which seems to be what they’re doing.

Which reminds me: I need to get a Syncthing server set up.

Oh damn. I was at a shitty startup once which uses macs/windows with google everything and additional external services. Worked through thunderbird and drive also through KDE’s KIO.

While I wouldnt want to maintain these things (similar to exchange support in thunderbird or DRM support in Firefox) they are extremely important for harm reduction.

Excited for the official KDE Distro. I am a big fan of Fedora Kinoite but will probably give KDE a show once it is out of beta.

Kinoite kind of is KDE Linux but better. Ostree relies on grub which is a bit annoying (NixOS uses systemd-boot but limine would be nice too) and they support more things like kernel modules.

Oh but Kinoite will switch to bootc some day, which currently is worse and looks like it will ever be. Container people vs git people. Flatpak still uses ostree just fine.