The entire notion that emoticons should be limited to what a committee approves (which is then mangled by corporate PR even further) is ridiculous. Just retvrn to images.
This. But more work is needed. I tried a bunch of Discord alternatives like Matrix but very few have a fun experience with things custom emoji images that really make a chat server feel like a home.
There are clients on Matrix that support custom emojii, such as Sable and Commet.
Neither are absolutely perfect, but I know people who daily-drive one of the other (or both, which is where I'm at depending on the device).
For the most part, now that Matrix is merging those Matrix 2.0 specs finally, and the 2.0 features are already out in the wild with excellent results, it has a really good base, and as expected we've started to see clients build more into the average-consumer space to pose as alternatives to both niche and mainstream audiences such as Discord, Whatsapp, etc - Which it just wasn't/isn't able to do on Matrix 1.x (legacy).
Did they give a reason why it was declined? Was it some bureaucratic "form not filled in correct" thing, or are they actually against the concept of it?
To elaborate: it should be plain obvious that not every Emoji proposal can be accepted even though all of them are correctly filed, as there would be too many Emojis there then. So there has to be some threshold, and that threshold is mostly stipulated by vendors' willingness to process new Emoji characters for designing fonts and updating softwares in time.
That list only includes suggestions that were seriously considered and voted on.
Since it's a vote, there is no single official 'reason' for rejection. If I had to guess: it would be confusing to anyone who didn't grow up with American TV shows.
They were grandfathered in, not voted on. Or rather there was a vote that resulted in adopting the character sets developed by Japanese telecoms en masse.
Weirdly this is in line with Unicode in general. Widespread (and not even widespread) historic use in say print results in characters getting included.
what's the connection to american TV shows? i'm only aware of the tinfoil hat through cultural osmosis i guess, something about shielding from radio waves
it's a popular image/byword/archetype for conspiracy theorists, idk if it's a common enough symbol to justify emoji inclusion. the submitted proposals probably have analyses of that though :p
Generally Unicode is for encoding all existing encodings/writing.
So you generally can’t add something because it would be cool or fun or useful, but only because it is currently in use and cannot be encoded by Unicode.
That's not at all the case. Unicode began as a standard for making things like string(':)') in to a single character.
Consider all of the languages it supports. Consider: ﷽ (which isn't an emoji, but the point stands) which is an entire sentence. It was already in use in certain places and unicode decided they wanted to support it, so now they do. Previously, one would have to type out the entire sentence in the original characters, but now it is a single unicode, just like u+263a () used to be alt+1 (). The emoji was already in use long before unicode existed, and in seeing it in common use, they decided to support it.
They implied it used a GCP account. It would require to give Google personal information, a phone number, and automatic payment permission. And Google not disable your account because your spouse uploaded images for your child's doctor.
What's with the odd name? Apple already has a 15 year-old product called Thunderbolt. Mozilla already has a similarly-named but totally-different product called Thunderbird.
Not sure about the US but in France there’s absolutely no way this would be confused with Apple Thunderbolt. No one talks about it, and I don’t even know it it’s even a thing anymore since USB-C.
As for Thunderbird, it’s not the same name? Idk what to say
My first thought was "why would Mozilla support a proposal to expose Thunderbolt to the Web after rejecting similar proposals for USB and Bluetooth?"
So yeah, especially in light of the lightning bolt logo and "thunderbolt.io" domain name, I think it's confusing enough that I'm honestly surprised there's no "Thunderbolt is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation used under license" notice on the site.
It's a reasonable shortcut for what this project provides: training code, inference code and a ChatGPT-style web interface for chatting with the model.
Is there a recommended (best practice) way to nmap scan your network for vulnerable machines, just to be safe?
From Red Hat's statement:
> Red Hat rates these issues with a severity impact of Important. While all versions of RHEL are affected, it is important to note that affected packages are not vulnerable in their default configuration.
Basically, Red Hat machines aren't vulnerable unless "the cups-browsed service has manually been enabled or started."
And if the target is running CUPS on that port it will reach out to `myserver:PORT` and POST some data. The downside is you need to have a server running that can accept inbound requests to see if it connects back.
A fair point, although nmap does list results as "closed", "open" or "open/filtered".
Which can be ambiguous if the port is open or firewalled.
However, if the nmap reports that port is "closed," it most likely is:
Starting Nmap 7.92 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-09-26 20:02 EDT
Nmap scan report for [host] (localip)
Host is up (0.00084s latency).
PORT STATE SERVICE
631/udp closed ipp
I'd add that GP specifically requested an nmap command.
All that said, you're absolutely correct and if nmap returns something like this:
Starting Nmap 7.92 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-09-26 20:04 EDT
Nmap scan report for [host] (localip)
Host is up (0.00058s latency).
PORT STATE SERVICE
631/udp open|filtered ipp
then further poking could be required, as you suggest.
I would point out that cups-browsed isn't really necessary unless you desire to have printers automatically added without any user interaction. Which is poor opsec in any situation.
If we're talking about a corporate environment, adding printers can be automated without cups-browsed, and at home or in the wild (cafes, public wifi, etc.) that's an unacceptable (at least from my perspective) risk and printers (if needed in such an unsecured environment) should be explicitly added by the user, with manual checks to ensure it's the correct device.
As such, rather than checking to see if cups-browsed is running unsecured, simply check to see if it's installed:
Emoji proposals and status: https://unicode.org/emoji/emoji-proposals-status.html