Google's Gemini lets strangers send messages from your locked Android phone

Gemini, Google's AI assistant, is supposed to make life easier for Android smartphone owners. But right now it may also be making life easier for anyone anyone who happens to pick up your phone...

Read more in my article on the Bitdefender blog : bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hot…

Did you know that CSS is Turing-complete?

Someone has taken it to the next level: A full 8086 DOS emulator, in pure #CSS

css-dos.ahmedamer.co.uk/

"An 8086 CPU, chipset, 640 KB RAM, floppy, keyboard and VGA screen in one .css file.

It’s a morbidly obese 300+ MB of spec-compliant CSS, abused beyond recognition; some of the most delightfully painful and wasteful code ever cursed to exist.

It boots Microsoft Windows 1.0 and its namesake MS-DOS, and runs real ’80s software.

Yes, it runs DOOM*"

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Working on a brand new post for my series "a newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost" - showing people how to set up their own #GoToSocial microblogging instance.

Sorry it's been taking a while: I started over when I realized most people use subdomains... and I'm doing a thorough step-by-step explainer that any newbie could follow - I hope 😅

The whole series is available here:

🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbie…

#SelfHosting #MySoCalledSudoLife #blog

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Installed #yunohost yesterday on my Proxmox home server to fiddle around and was about to deploy #GoToSocial. But this "Danger" Box in the docs, saying the domain will be taken forever by this instance of GTS scares me. Or is this the case for every #ActivityPub Server anyway?

I thought, only the full handle like "@user@social.domain.net" can be problematic when being refused because of caching and generated keys. Any experience with that? docs.gotosocial.org/en/v0.22.0…

#selfhosting


Working on a brand new post for my series "a newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost" - showing people how to set up their own #GoToSocial microblogging instance.

Sorry it's been taking a while: I started over when I realized most people use subdomains... and I'm doing a thorough step-by-step explainer that any newbie could follow - I hope 😅

The whole series is available here:

🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbie…

#SelfHosting #MySoCalledSudoLife #blog


"Hay toda una generación que no ha visto a España ganar un mudial"

Porque antes era lo más normal del mundo, ¿no? Vamos, yo recuerdo cada fin de semana cuando estaba Clemente y era en plan "joer España, deja de ganar mundiales que ya aburre". Pero eso los jóvenes no lo han vivido.

I'm happy to finally see X11 go down into the retro niche where it belongs

github.com/isene/frame

Hi @BorrisInABox I just tried to tune into FX Radio and it comes up, however I am not hearing any sounds. I just wanted to let you know about this. Is this something on my end, or is there something else going on? Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to any input you may have. Thanks.

🌿 A small Finnish daycare experiment found that changing a play yard's biodiversity can change children's microbial exposure and immune-regulation markers.

Researchers added forest floor, sod, plants, and peat blocks to parts of four urban daycare yards. After 28 days, 3- to 5-year-old children showed changes in skin and gut microbiota, along with shifts in IL-10, IL-17A, TGF-β1, and regulatory T-cell measures.

A later placebo-controlled study found similar immune-related changes after children played with microbially diverse soil. The evidence is promising, but it does not yet prove that dirt prevents allergies or autoimmune disease. Nor does it show that recycled-rubber playgrounds are poisoning children.

Primary studies:
doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba2578
doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.…

#Science #ChildHealth #Biodiversity

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Add your fess: b3ta.com/addfess

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Google is now buying access to source code repositories to train their LLMs. This puts the value of the code they previously stole from the open-source community into a whole new perspective.

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All of this except the last sentence. Yes a hundred times over. Last part is just unnecessarily petty.


Yes folks, your Siri will let you dictate your emails and/or text messages, but that doesn't mean that you don't review it, nor does it give you the liberty of not using punctuation. I think this is called adulting? And just because you put a disclaimer that your material was dictated and to excuse any issues? Nope, sorry. Make an effort, otherwise I will make fun of you.

New article, although this one is a controversial one based on the situation of GNOME Calendar and Linux Mint. I present to you: How far would hostile distributions go to hurt application developers?

tesk.page/2026/07/18/how-far-w…

#FOSS #OpenSource #OSS #FreeSoftware #Linux

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Seen in Singapore (posting things about Singapore that are interesting to me)

#Singapore #TootSea

Still taking beta testers for those looking for a quiet Bluesky/Mastodon client. iOS/iPadOS and web app.

thewallflower.app/about

Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 will be included in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of limits from July 20 and via usage credits for Pro and Team Standard users (Claude/@claudeai)

x.com/claudeai/status/20783024…
techmeme.com/260717/p30#a26071…

This has to be one of the more quirky speech synthesizer bugs I’ve personally encountered in a while. After my message, I’m going to paste a line that VoiceOver read using Eloquence from a ticket app. For me where it should be saying eight Eloquence is saying cool. I am running a beta of iOS 27 and I don’t know if this happens in other versions. Again, it only happens when you read the whole line.

Section 339) Row 5) Seat 8) Open ticket button

in reply to kellylford
@JonathanMosen It happens with Vocalizer Samantha on iOS 27 too, so it is not an Eloquence issue but an iOS issue. My guess is that 8) (eight right parenthesis) is some kind of emoji representation for the word cool just like :) (colon right parenthesis) means a smiley face. I have seen 8) spoken as cool a few times before as well. (In fact it is spoken that way now in this post although when I pressed space it was spoken as eight).
For those who haven't checked it out or maybe came in early when it was a bit too bear bones, the audio-only social network app called Ramblio is really becoming a thing. Custom audiences, hangouts, your own bespoke communities, all the rest. Yes its blind-focused and that sure comes with its issues but I often point out that these apps are the community that use them, so its on us to make it better.

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Vanadium version 151.0.7922.29.0 released:

github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium…

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Forum discussion thread:

discuss.grapheneos.org/d/40463…

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security #browser

I'm trying to talk myself out of saving up and either getting a 512 gig SD card for my Stream 3, or getting another 256. I know the Stream 3 came with a free 64 gig card. But since I'm sort of designating that player as my Fantasy/LitRPG player it needs to have more space. I can't use the 64 gig card for the BT Speak because I can't take the micro USB out of the SD card reader. The 128 SD card is for the BTSpeak and the 256 is for the SensePlayer. I know I could put that one in the Stream as well. But when I do that I get inaccurate reading times when I look at book times. Same as if I put the stream card in the SensePlayer.

Add these alias to your shell startup and you can find your public IPv4 or IPv6 without visiting any 3rd party web site from your Linux, macOS or Unix machine:
```
alias what_is_my_ip='dig +short txt ch whoami.cloudflare @1.0.0.1'
alias what_is_my_ip_v4='what_is_my_ip'
alias what_is_my_ip_v6='dig -6 TXT +short o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com'
```
Run it as:
```
what_is_my_ip
what_is_my_ip_v4
what_is_my_ip_v6
```

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If I wasn’t all the way upstairs and the water was all the way downstairs, I’d go get more right now, but I’m comfortable. Plus I probably don’t need to be drinking all of that water anyways when I’m trying to sleep. I’d like to at least get a few hours of decent sleep lol.

His ex-wife Ashley shared a
three-minute voicemail with the AP from last winter
where he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat.

In that message,
sent around the time he joined ICE,
he called her “disgusting”
and said that she and other women and girls in her “bloodline” should die.
“And all of you should have your
f—king throats cut,”
Brouillette’s voicemail said.
“Yeah, you should.
Am I threatening that I’m gonna do that? Nope. Nope.
But do I think that you should have your f—king throats cuts? Or should have had them cut? Yep.”

Brouillette reached out to Ashley and his daughter Madison after the shooting,
telling them it was justified and that Durán Guerrero tried to run him over with a car.
In those calls, he told his ex-wife to lie for him and to cover for his “character.”
Based on his history, that was a lost cause.
newrepublic.com/post/213197/ic…

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The ex wife of the killer ICE agent in MAINE says he threatened her with a gun, threw their 13yo daughter threw a glass table, and played NPR a recording of him saying she should have her throat cut.

ICE gave him a badge and a gun.

Abolish ICE.

www.npr.org/2026/07/17/n...

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Tomorrow is Friday, a special day we once spent together as a family after Friday prayers. ❤️
Now, there are no schools, no work, and often not enough food.
Please share our story. Your support or even a simple share could help us provide a meal for our children. Every act of kindness means the world to us. 🙏💔
chuffed.org/project/189777-hel…
#palestine #ceasefire #FreePalestine
@palestine@a.gup.pe
@palestine@tagpush.app
@palestine@fedibird.com
@fkftsh
@palestine@lemmy.ml
@elcumi
@gvenema
@mynameistillian
#genocide
@BlackAzizAnansi
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RT: @SaulStaniforth .@ZackPolanski: "If we'd frozen rents in 2022 we would have saved the average UK renter £2,400 every single year & saved the govt £2bn every single year.. rent controls are a win win for everyone"

My wife is on the phone with #UnitedHealthcare because a surgery she had scheduled for Tuesday next week was denied by the insurance company. The woman who is speaking to her has informed her that there is a nursing support call that is free of charge if my wife needs to discuss the emotions of getting this claim denied and to plan future care. It is such bollocks. USians generally hate our healthcare plans and these companies. Imagine facing surgery and being told that they won't pay for it, but they will pay for a nurse to call you and console you about their decision. Absolutely horrific.

Oh, and I pay over $3,000 per year for this level of health insurance for my family.

#USHealthcare
#PrivateInsurance
#MedicalCare
#medicine
#surgery
#healthcare
#insurance