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collinfunk commented on FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections   docs.fcc.gov/public/attac... · Posted by u/impish9208
afavour · 4 days ago
My theory is age. I get very few calls. Neither does my wife. My mother in law is called multiple times a day. I assume there’s some basic demographic data available out there and they’re targeting retirees because they know (statistically speaking) they’re an easy hit.
collinfunk · 4 days ago
FWIW, I am in my 20s and receive many phone calls. But maybe your theory is correct and I am an outlier.
collinfunk commented on U.S. fires statistics chief after soft jobs report   politico.com/news/2025/08... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
msgodel · a month ago
I voted for Trump and am not a fan of this. He's been doing a ton of terrible stuff the past few weeks. Very disappointing. Definitely liked the first few months he was in office.
collinfunk · a month ago
The guy who went through with the fake electors scheme does bad things, who could have guess it?
collinfunk commented on Stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque   undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... · Posted by u/gslin
collinfunk · a month ago
Yes, that part of Gnulib has caused some problems previously. It is mostly used to implement <stdio_ext.h> functions on non-glibc systems. However, it is also needed for some buggy implementations of ftello, fseeko, and fflush.

P.S. Hi Florian :)

collinfunk · a month ago
And now updated for this change.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=69a0...

collinfunk commented on Stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque   undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... · Posted by u/gslin
fweimer · a month ago
In gnulib, there is code that patches FILE internals for various platforms to modify behavior of <stdio.h> functions, or implement new functionality.

https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/lib/s...

Yes, it's not a good idea to do this. There are more questionable pieces in gnulib, like closing stdin/stdout/stderr (because fflush and fsync is deemed too slow, and regular close reports some errors on NFS on some systems that would otherwise go unreported).

collinfunk · a month ago
Yes, that part of Gnulib has caused some problems previously. It is mostly used to implement <stdio_ext.h> functions on non-glibc systems. However, it is also needed for some buggy implementations of ftello, fseeko, and fflush.

P.S. Hi Florian :)

collinfunk commented on Why Are ADHD Rates So Much Higher in the U.S.?   gizmodo.com/why-are-adhd-... · Posted by u/rntn
Pulcinella · 4 months ago
In comparison to other places in the world (especially Asia), there is somewhat lower stigma regarding ADHD in the U.S.

I would add the UK to the stigma list as well. The UK government and NHS are pretty rabidly ADHD-denialist and make it incredibly difficult to get a diagnosis.

collinfunk · 4 months ago
> I would add the UK to the stigma list as well. The UK government and NHS are pretty rabidly ADHD-denialist and make it incredibly difficult to get a diagnosis.

Don't you also have to wait years on a wait list for an evaluation? I feel like I remember hearing that a few years ago.

collinfunk commented on I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)   code.mendhak.com/gpl-v2-a... · Posted by u/ekiauhce
craniumslows · 4 months ago
The FSF offices have moved again if you weren't aware. The new address is

Free Software Foundation 31 Milk Street, # 960789 Boston, MA 02196 USA

https://www.fsf.org/about/contact/mailing

collinfunk · 4 months ago
In Gnulib we distribute and use the license with just a link to <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/> [1]. I would just use that.

Many GNU projects use a rule that will fail 'make distcheck' when it sees an address in the sources [2].

[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=bf31... [2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=086c...

collinfunk commented on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise   openwall.com/lists/oss-se... · Posted by u/rkta
Phenylacetyl · a year ago
Apparently, many.

It looks like gettext may be containing a part of their attack infrastructure.

https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/pull/37199#pullrequestrev...

https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/pull/37356/files#diff-e16...

https://github.com/MonicaLiu0311

collinfunk · a year ago
Are you referencing the '-unsafe' suffix in the second link? That is not something to worry about.

This is from Gnulib, which is used by Gettext and other GNU projects. Using 'setlocale (0, NULL)' is not thread-safe on all platforms. Gnulib has modules to work around this, but not all projects want the extra locking. Hence the name '-unsafe'. :)

See: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2024-02/msg001...

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