Peter Krefting

10K curl downloads per year The Linux Foundation, the organization that we want to love but that so often makes that a hard bargain, has created something they call “Insights” where they gather lots of metrics on Open Source project. I held back so I never blogged and taunted OpenSSF for their scorecard attempts that were always lame and misguided. This Insights thing looks like their next attempt to “grade” and “rate” Open Source. It is so flawed and full of questionable details that I decided there is no point in me listing them all in a blog post – it would just be too long and boring. Instead I will just focus on a single metric. The one that made me laugh out load when I saw it. ## Package downloads They claim curl was downloaded 10,467 times the last year. (source) Number of curl downloads the last 365 days according to Linux Foundation What does “a download” mean? They refer to statistics from ecosyste.ms, which is an awesome site and service, but it has absolutely no idea about curl downloads. How often is curl “downloaded”? curl release tarballs are downloaded from curl.se at a rate of roughly 250,000 / month. curl images are currently pulled from docker at a rate of around 400,000 – 700,000 / day. curl is pulled from quay.com at roughly the same rate. curl’s git repository is cloned roughly 32,000 times / day curl is installed from Linux and BSD distributions at an unknown rate. curl, in the form of libcurl, is bundled in countless applications, games, devices, cars, TVs, printers and services, and we cannot even guess how often it is downloaded as such an embedded component. curl is installed by default on every Windows and macOS system since many years back. But no, 10,467 they say.

10K #curl downloads per year

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/03/09/10k-curl-downloads-per-year/

I keep getting offers from randos offering to setup various crypto currency things to sponsor me or curl.

I will NEVER agree to have my name associated with any crypto currency
efforts/scams. There's no room for debate. A hard no.

BankID-appen med nye krav: Nå må du bekrefte identiteten din Mange appbrukere av BankID vil få beskjed om at de må gjennomføre en ID-kontroll for å fortsette å bruke appen.

Jeg er skeptisk til å sende inn kopi av passet mitt som skal lagres i en hackbar database.

#Norsktut #BankID
https://www.tv2.no/nyheter/bankid-appen-med-nye-krav-na-ma-du-bekrefte-identiteten-din/18640017/

gitlab has like three functions I ever want to use, "repo", "merge request" and "issue". Why they are hidden among three dozen useless features I'd never use under multiple levels of headings in a sidebar is beyond me.

#gitlab is such a UX/UI shitshow. I was looking where the fuck they hid the issue tracker when re-designing their clusterfuck of an UI this time around. Turns out, issues are now "work items" because clearly the term "issue", used by every single git hosting platform ever, was just too obvious […]

A TFC3 boot screen that is supposed to be white on solid blue, showing a strange pattern of parallel vertical lines, with siren horizontal added for good measure

Looks like the #LumaFix64 and #RetroScaler2x do NOT like each other. That's not how it is supposed to look like. No matter how much I adjusted the pots.

Tried in both my working C64s, same result.

#Commmodore #Commodore64

Folkeavrøysting om islandsk EU-medlemskap Den islandske regjeringa har bedt Alltinget godkjenne ei folkeavrøysting om Island skal gjenoppta søknaden om EU-medlemskap.

Heia Island! Og så Norge inn i #EU etterpå, så blir det prefekt!

https://www.nrk.no/urix/folkeavroysting-om-islandsk-eu-medlemskap-1.17796755

[ST:SA S1E5 Come, Let's Away spoilers]

I watched this week's episode last night, and was a bit taken aback by the explicit opening... That's a first.

Looks like they are continuing the arc with the main adversary, probably setting up for a big finish later?

#StarTrek #StarFleetAcademy […]

Industry rumours say "Windows 12 will not treat AI as an add-on feature, but will anchor it as a fundamental part of the system. Copilot is evolving from an optional assistant to a central control instance. OS-wide integration will replace selective AI functions." ooh, and "Transparent glass […]

Epstein Trump badge for the US armed forces

Day 4

we had a discord server?

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Slots machine vs vibe colding.

Isn't it crazy that Israel have the technology to kill Khamenei on any random weekend, yet when it comes to 'taking out Hamas leaders they were "forced to bomb children?

Shirt manufacturers: a shirt without a breast pocket is only half-finished. Do better.

Sure Donald, sure...

The entity running the white house has really been busy this weekend deflecting attention from the Trump-Epstein™ files, starting a new Trump-Epstein™ Iran war.

#AgentOrange #TangerineShitgibbon #PresidentBawbag

"The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous." - George Orwell

They were wondering how to spend all that extra hundreds of billions of dollars they allocated to the military-industrial complex. Now they know.

Screenshot of Visit Japan where I entered the address and name of the hotel we are staying on, in Japanese. This gave me an error message saying that I need to use alphanumeric characters only…

Interesting…

#FAIL #VisitJapan

Looks like there is nothing Premium about #WWE Premium Live Events any longer, as there is a break for ads (with the #Netflix "We'll be right back" graphic).

#EliminationChamber #PLE

I'm going with Storm - Lullaby, wlth Jonas Lovv - Yayaya as a strong second.

#MGP #NRK #Eurovision #ESC

A rare moment where you root for regime change in all three countries involved

[ST:SA S1E5 spoilers]

I loved seeing an adult Jake Sisko, though, even if we never got to learn what really happened.

The winner of the FIFA Peace Prize is bombing another country, without stopping the Ukrainian war in 24 hours as promised.

Any #typewriter buffs around here? My daughter inherited an old #Remington Monarch (not sure of what vintage, 1950s or later probably). Where do one get hold of replacement ribbons for these? I see references to Gr1 and Gr51, but can't really tell which is which, or if there are others.

[ST:SA S1E5 spoilers]

This episode went a bit back and forth. A very character-driver episode for SAM, but it had some moments where I wanted to just not watch, only to be followed by something I just couldn't take my eyes from.

Looking forward to next week's episode!

#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy

Here we go again.

"The fact that the poc code does not work, we cannot reproduce, the bullet point list in the end and the mixed case in the title, all seem to indicate that this was hallucinated.

I would suggest you make a strong attempt to convince us this was not just wasting our time with […]