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Postman is logging all your secrets and environment variables

I was originally investigating this report that Postman is not HIPAA compliant. I found that Postman is not just wholly unsuitable for anyone testing a healthcare application — it has virtually zero…
a data scientist (Medium)

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Ever wondered about what MZLA is, how it relates to Thunderbird, and how it works with (but is different from) Mozilla and the Mozilla Corporation? Curious about how we work with the Thunderbird Council, our community governance? Want to know more about our future plans, including the mobile apps, Thundermail, and Thunderbird Pro? Check out the newest Community Office Hours with Director Ryan Sipes answering these questions and more.

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/05/v…


VIDEO: Talking MZLA with Ryan Sipes

Confused about MZLA, Thunderbird, and Mozilla? Director Ryan Sipes is our guest to explain this as he talks about our past and future.
Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)

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Curious about MZLA, how it relates to Thunderbird and how it works with (but differs from) Mozilla and the Mozilla Corporation? Want to know more about future plans, including Thundermail, and Thunderbird Pro? Watch the newest Community Office Hours with Director Ryan Sipes.

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/05/v…


VIDEO: Talking MZLA with Ryan Sipes

Confused about MZLA, Thunderbird, and Mozilla? Director Ryan Sipes is our guest to explain this as he talks about our past and future.
Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)

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Jak na soukromí v mobilním telefonu

V tomto blogpostu jsem si pro vás připravil praktické tipy na to, jak lépe chránit své soukromí na mobilním telefonu: od operačního systému, přes prohlížeč až po VPN.

#Android #DNS #GrapheneOS #ios #mobil #openSource #soukromí #tracker #VPN

blog.eischmann.cz/2025/05/20/j…
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Jak na soukromí v mobilním telefonu

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#android #opensource #ios #VPN #dns #grapheneos #soukromí #tracker #Mobil

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Jiří Eischmann

Nevím, jestli i dnes. Je to pět let stará zkušenost: blog.eischmann.cz/2020/11/12/s…
Od té doby si dávám pozor, jakou klávesnici používám.

Softwarové klávesnice na Androidu

Softwarové klávesnice v mobilu jsou něco, co jsem doteď vůbec neřešil. Používal jsem to, co bylo na daném telefonu jako výchozí. Nicméně když si uvědomíte, že přes ně jde vše, co na mobilu napíšete, rozhodně stojí za trochu pozornosti.
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Enjoy writing fiction in Markdown, and prefer keeping ownership of your files in the filesystem, but still want beautiful ePub3 ebooks and paperback output? Your uncle Matt feels the same way!

I created a configuration and example project for pandoc, the fab #FOSS markup converter, to produce beautiful novels from your folders full of Markdown files. Lots of booky, novel-y, typographical/layout niceness. I'll be using this with #emacs. 💜

Read all about it here: github.com/mattgemmell/pandoc-…


GitHub - mattgemmell/pandoc-novel: Novel export configuration for pandoc (Markdown to ePub and PDF)

Novel export configuration for pandoc (Markdown to ePub and PDF) - mattgemmell/pandoc-novel
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#foss #emacs

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I literally just made a bootable live cd for nixos to boot into a browser on a whim for a test. I had 0 knowledge of this 10 minutes ago and 5 of those minutes was writing the iso to the usb stick. Nix surprises me again. And you can make any type of image you want... digitalocean, ec2, hyperv, vmware, etc. Its nuts:
github.com/nix-community/nixos…

#nixos


GitHub - nix-community/nixos-generators: Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]

Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus] - nix-community/nixos-generators
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well that answers that, Andy's got his next title sorted.

[Sadly, you will never be able to read Andy Weir's 'The Last Algorithm,' one of multiple non-existent books recommended by the Chicago Sun-Times in major AI snafu | Popverse](thepopverse.com/literary-recom…)


Sadly, you will never be able to read Andy Weir's 'The Last Algorithm,' one of multiple non-existent books recommended by the Chicago Sun-Times in major AI snafu

The Sun-Times has just offered the best argument against using generative AI in journalism, publishing a recommended summer reading list filled with books that aren't actually real.
Graeme McMillan (Popverse)

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Wait a minute! I see the home sub for JAWS has jumped in price to $674? What the fuck! I purchased my sub in June. Am I going to be billed almost $700 to renew? If so, bye-bye JAWS! I was willing to pay the $104, but damn near $700? No way! | JAWS Home Subscription – Freedom Scientific eStore store.freedomscientific.com/pr… store.freedomscientific.com/co…

JAWS Home Subscription

The JAWS Home Subscription offers a flexible and cost-effective way to access the world’s most powerful screen reader — with the convenience of annual, two-year, or three-year plans.
Freedom Scientific eStore

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Hey Jamers 🙂

Over the past few weeks, the team has been hard at work improving stability, fixing bugs, and rolling out some exciting new features, both in the core and across all platforms.

👀 Wondering what’s new under the hood?

Check out Dev Update #13 and see what’s been happening:
jami.net/de/dev-update-13/

Image illustrating Jami's Development Update #13. In the foreground, a motorcycle taxi driver wearing a high-visibility vest looks at his phone, surrounded by other riders and pedestrians on a busy street. The Jami logo with the text 'a GNU package' appears in the top right. A 'Dev update' badge and the text 'Dev update #13' are overlaid on the image.

Dev update #13

Welcome to this new Jami development update! Over the past few weeks, we've focused on stability, maintenance, and some key feature improvements across both the core and platform-specific components. Let’s dive into what’s new.
jami (Jami)
#13

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Lmao.

After firing 700 employees for AI, Swedish company admits their mistake and plans to rehire humans. What went wrong with OpenAI + Klarna parnership? Despite initial optimism, the company has now acknowledged that the shift to AI has negatively impacted service quality and faced major public backlash for using AI finance.yahoo.com/news/firing-… The CEO want human workers back and looking for humans to replace those AI tools powered by shity OpenAI.

Yahoo is part of the Yahoo family of brands.

finance.yahoo.com
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Who says you can’t have #privacy and #security in an OS?

Meet PureOS — the #Linux OS that respects you.

No ads
No trackers
No #surveillance
No terms of service traps

PureOS supports Purism’s Librem 5 & Liberty Phone.

More Info: puri.sm/posts/what-is-pureos-a…

What Is PureOS? A Beginner’s Guide for iOS, Android, and Windows Users – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC
#linux #privacy #security #surveillance

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Microsoft has disabled the ICC Chief prosecutors email account.

But let’s keep all dependencies on US IT alive. What could possibly go wrong?
techzine.eu/news/privacy-compl…


Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost - Techzine Global

The International Criminal Court has been paralyzed by sanctions. Microsoft cooperates with the US government and therefore poses a risk.
Erik van Klinken (Techzine)

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I'm SO glad I don't maintain any huge projects used by thousands of people on github

github.blog/changelog/2025-05-…


Creating issues with Copilot on github.com is in public preview - The GitHub Blog

Say goodbye to manual, repetitive issue creation. With Copilot, creating issues for bugs, tasks, and feature requests on GitHub is now faster and easier—all without sacrificing quality. What’s new Natural…
The GitHub Blog

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Kids, you would hate it.
You would feel so alone, you'd never find your 'tribe', you'd feel like you would have to conform with what everyone else would be doing and there would be little outlet for you to complain about that.

I was a kid without Internet, the problem isn't the Internet, it's the Nazi Peados who control it. The Tech Bros, the Governments, those wankers.

#Internet

Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds
#Internet

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Every six months, we release a new major update to #LibreOffice. And our community is working on LibreOffice 25.8, which is due in August. Help to test the first Alpha development snapshot: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #OpenSource
LibreOffice 25.8 banner, with "Help us to test Alpha 1"

LibreOffice 25.8 Alpha1 is available for testing - LibreOffice QA Blog

LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.8 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 25.8 started at the beginning of December, 2024.
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#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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@bazcook We're absolutely puzzled too. Never seen that before or other reports from users on macOS, I'm afraid. Searching around, we can only find reports of "Operation not permitted" in the terminal or when building .dmg images, not opening. The only other idea we have is to try a different mirror server from download.documentfoundation.or…

Mirror List

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Oh hey, Firefox just announced it's closing down. That's a shame.

hackread.com/firefox-tests-ai-…

#Firefox #AI


Firefox Tests AI-Powered Perplexity Search Engine Directly in Browser

Mozilla Firefox tests AI-powered Perplexity Search Engine in its address bar for version 139, signalling a potential shift in search partnerships.
Deeba Ahmed (Hack Read)
#firefox #AI

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Windows 11 is getting more AI shortcuts, but is Microsoft in danger of cluttering up the OS with AI creep?
https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/windows-11-is-getting-more-ai-shortcuts-but-is-microsoft-in-danger-of-cluttering-up-the-os-with-ai-creep?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Windows 11 is getting more AI shortcuts, but is Microsoft in danger of cluttering up the OS with AI creep?

New AI actions are coming to desktop folders
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Linux distribution package managers are so great, that every application and language builds its own package manager to sidestep them.

github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/…


feat(pack): add built-in plugin manager `vim.pack` by echasnovski · Pull Request #34009 · neovim/neovim

This PR adds a minimal built-in plugin manager vim.pack. This is a first step towards resolving #20893. A general design is a minimized (496 LOC for core functionality when PR is opened) and rework...
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🤔🤔 Firefox Tests AI-Powered Perplexity Search Engine Directly in Browser hackread.com/firefox-tests-ai-…

Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell ‘hyper personalized’ ads techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perp…

<why would anyone trust this?


Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch

Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.
Julie Bort (TechCrunch)
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erebion

The other large issue, for me personally, is lacking interop with the other open decentralised protocol XMPP.

I run Bifrost, but it seems abandoned and buggy and I will probably have to switch it off soon, as it does not work well.

There was Parsee, which was hosted on a git that's no longer in existence, but still listed on matrix.org as alpha. That looked promising.

To win me back as a fan, personally:

- it must be more performant
- it must be interoperable with XMPP

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#GitLab's newly introduced on-by-default nearly unnoticeable "Read More" hyperlink on bug report descriptions, subtly cutting off any contents longer than the browser window's viewport height—even when you're just following the mandatory template!—has got to be the dumbest anti-feature design of the year.

It's barely been a few days and I've already had someone tell me that I didn't provide the required information, yet it was all there in the description I wrote with the form! 🤦

Screenshot of a ticket filed on GitLab where a subtle "Read more" link in the middle of a horizontal ruler cuts off your bug report's description if it's taller than the browser window's viewport height
#gitlab

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🚨Only until May 27 🚨

Meta users in the EU - Object now, or Meta will use your data to train Meta AI.

Here's how: 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-…

#MetaAI #Meta

A digital graphic warning users about Meta AI’s data usage. The background features a smartphone screen displaying Meta AI within the WhatsApp interface, with the text “Ask Meta AI anything.” A prominent red circle in the top right corner contains an EU flag and warning icon, with bold white text: "Meta to use your data for AI. OPT OUT NOW!" Below the phone screen is a screenshot of a retweet of WhatsApp's tweet "Meta AI through WhatsApp is launching in the EU and UK, what will your first question be?" with the user retweeting , "how do I turn off meta ai?".

How to turn off Meta AI? You can’t, but... | Tuta

Noticed an AI assistant is now in your WhatsApp? Meta’s AI feature is now being rolled out in the EU and you can’t turn it off – but you can stop the AI invasion by opting for privacy-focused alternatives.
Tuta
#meta #MetaAI

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Hi Cakers,
We are looking for people to join an early alpha group for the TweeseCake rewrite. Your feedback on our progress so far would be super appreciated.
Please Note: This is very early days and will be nowhere near the completed product. We are specifically seeking feedback on the current state of the Mastodon and Feeds services using the GUI (visible interface) only at this stage.
If you are interested in providing feedback on these specific features in their current, incomplete form, please complete the following form and we will put a group together in a couple of weeks:
forms.gle/tHhi2HexSnAsaFB88

TweeseCake Alpha application

Thank you for your interest in becoming a tester for TweeseCake! We’re looking for users who can test features, report bugs, and help us refine the user experience. The most commonly selected contact platform will be used for team chat.
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JAWS for Windows is greedy.
The last time I went looking at the home annual license, it was $95/year in the US and Canada. For everything you get, that's a pretty compelling price. Most Americans can probably afford $95/year for a screen reader.
Now, it's $674/year. That's seven times more expensive for new customers, and an awful lot of money to charge individuals for a license that specifically cannot be used professionally.
The one-time payment is $1548, which includes two additional yearly upgrades. I don't know how much upgrades cost after the SMA is over, but I'm sure it isn't $674 for every major version. So the yearly subscription isn't just hilariously expensive now; it's a waste of money. It effectively has no logical reason for existing, and if one of you unfortunate souls actually wants to pay for JAWS after this, you'd be better off paying the full price and then upgrading when possible. I can't begin to understand how anyone justified such a massive price increase.
EDIT: I was quickly informed there is still a home annual license available for $104.50. However, it's not advertised and you have to call them in order to find out it exists. This is basically what Aira did a couple of years ago, but worse. This post is not misinformation; it's accurate information based on what they list on their site. They didn't want businesses buying home licenses, so instead of dealing with the problem, they passed it onto their users. store.freedomscientific.com/pr…

JAWS Home Annual

This product is available in the US only. US College Students and faculty may qualify for Free Home Access: check your email address.
Freedom Scientific eStore
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