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Instead of the usual #39C3 recommendations, here are my favorite underrated talks according to media.ccc.de (sorted by least viewed):

• What Makes Bike-Sharing Work? (media.ccc.de/v/39c3-what-makes…)

• Celestial navigation with very little math (media.ccc.de/v/39c3-celestial-…)

• Von Groschen und SpurLos - GNU Taler auch auf eurem Event! (media.ccc.de/v/39c3-von-grosch…)

• Don’t look up: There are sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites (media.ccc.de/v/39c3-don-t-look…)


Celestial navigation with very little math

Learn how to find your position using a sextant and a custom slide rule, almost no math required! Since the dawn of time people have ask...
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Daniel Gultsch

@wolf480pl Yes. This would have been my second question that I didn’t get to ask because the herald didn’t see me at the mic 😞

Maybe send Nadia an email. (Or maybe more appropriately their research group: satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/)

🛰️ SATCOM Security

Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.
satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu
@Wolf480pl

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🇨🇭🔐 Nový mobil Punkt MC03 nabízí bezpečný systém AphyOS, VPN a IP68

infoek.cz/novy-mobil-punkt-mc0…

🇨🇭🔐 The new Punkt MC03 mobile offers a secure AphyOS system, VPN and IP68

infoek-cz.translate.goog/novy-…

#PunktMC03 #Punkt #Switzerland #AphyOS #Tech

Nový mobil Punkt MC03 nabízí bezpečný systém AphyOS, VPN a IP68 | Infoek.cz

Švýcarská společnost Punkt nějakou dobu nabízela chytrý mobil s modelovým označením MC02. Jeho hardwarový výkon neoslnil, ale nabízel operační systém s důra ...
Adolf Pupík (Infoek.cz)
#tech #switzerland #punktmc03 #punkt #aphyos

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In response to the articles circulated recently about people who are switching to Linux as their desktop operating system, I note that my first desktop Linux experience was in 1998. I investigated hardware compatibility, bought a new laptop, and a friend installed Linux on it for me. (The installation process wasn't accessible with a screen reader in those days.) I used Emacspeak to provide a spoken interface to the operating system. Unfortunately, my braille display wasn't supported - eventually fixed in the mid 2000s. Graphical X11 applications were not accessible either, but that, too, was rectified in the mid 2000s. In the late 90s, I didn't need GUI tools anyway. The modern JavaScript-intensive Web has changed that situation fundamentally.

Non-visual access to Linux continues to improve, albeit slowly and with highly constrained development resources. Although I've had (and continue to have) other operating systems, I still consider Linux my primary desktop computing environment.
#Linux #ScreenReaders #accessibility

#Accessibility #linux #screenreaders

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Want to develop your own chat app that works via Bluetooth, Tor, and pigeons? Or do you want to extend Briar to work via LoRa, Wi-Fi Aware, I2P, WhatsApp, whatever? Or Android is constantly suspending your app in the background?

I've written down some pointers to Briar's source code and research with pieces to start with. Inspired by an amazing #39c3, because sharing is caring.

nico.dorfbrunnen.eu/posts/2026…

#briar #tor #mesh #lora #i2p #p4p #p2p #offgrid

Sharing is caring: pointers to Briar's implementations

Sharing links to Briar's implementations of Tor, Bluetooth, memory-card support, and more.
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#briar #Tor #p2p #p4p #i2p #mesh #39c3 #lora #offgrid
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Ⓥ Gregory Trolliet Ⓐ🔻 🇵🇸

@jernej__s
Or just post the full text.

I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it.

I’m posting this from a library Wi-Fi on a burner laptop because I am technically under a massive NDA. I don’t care anymore. I put in my two weeks yesterday and honestly, I hope they sue me. I’ve been sitting on this for about eight months, just watching the code getting pushed to production, and I can’t sleep at night knowing I helped build this machine.

You guys always suspect the algorithms are rigged against you, but the reality is actually so much more depressing than the conspiracy theories. I’m a backend engineer. I sit in the weekly sprint planning meetings where Product Managers (PMs) discuss how to squeeze another 0.4% margin out of "human assets" (that’s literally what they call drivers in the database schemas). They talk about these people like they are resource nodes in a video game, not fathers and mothers trying to pay rent.

First off, the "Priority Delivery" is a total scam. It was pitched to us as a "psychological value add." Like I said in the title, when you pay that extra $2.99, it changes a boolean flag in the order JSON, but the dispatch logic literally ignores it. It does nothing to speed you up.

We actually ran an A/B test last year where we didn't speed up the priority orders, we just purposefully delayed non-priority orders by 5 to 10 minutes to make the Priority ones "feel" faster by comparison. Management loved the results. We generated millions in pure profit just by making the standard service worse, not by making the premium service better.

But the thing that actually makes me sick—and the main reason I’m quitting—is the "Desperation Score." We have a hidden metric for drivers that tracks how desperate they are for cash based on their acceptance behavior.

If a driver usually logs on at 10 PM and accepts every garbage $3 order instantly without hesitation, the algo tags them as "High Desperation." Once they are tagged, the system then deliberately stops showing them high-paying orders. The logic is: "Why pay this guy $15 for a run when we know he’s desperate enough to do it for $6?" We save the good tips for the "casual" drivers to hook them in and gamify their experience, while the full-timers get grinded into dust.

Then there is the "Benefit Fee." You’ve probably seen that $1.50 "Regulatory Response Fee" or "Driver Benefits Fee" that appeared on your bill after the recent labor laws passed. The wording is designed to make you feel like you're helping the worker.

In reality, that money goes straight to a corporate slush fund used to lobby against driver unions. We have a specific internal cost center for "Policy Defense," and that fee feeds directly into it. You are literally paying for the high-end lawyers that are fighting to keep your delivery guy homeless.

And regarding tips, we're essentially doing Tip Theft 2.0. We don't "steal" them legally anymore because we got sued for that. Instead, we use predictive modeling to dynamically lower the base pay.

If the algo predicts you are a "high tipper" and you’ll likely drop $10, it offers the driver a measly $2 base pay. If you tip $0, it offers them $8 base pay just to get the food moved. The result is that your generosity isn't rewarding the driver; it’s subsidizing us. You’re paying their wage so we don't have to.

I'm drunk and I'm angry. Ask me anything before this gets taken down.

@Jernej Simončič �
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njsg

@pietervdvn @faket Actually, when I had to deal with that limit, I found it was often barring me from writing short posts or adding just a couple hashtags, not really walls of text. Situations where if the limit was just twice the hardcoded default, I'd not have had that problem.

It's also annoying that it forces posts to be *that much* short, and doesn't allow longer posts just because. But, to me, it kept being a problem for short posts.

Also, it ends up being not really relevant as a way to condition the medium, given that Mastodon would always be only one platform in the fediverse and that other nodes could allow longer posts regardless of Mastodon's own limit. So one wonders why do this at all. To try to make Mastodon itself feel similar to TSNFKAT?

@Pietervdvn @Ⓥ Gregory Trolliet Ⓐ🔻 🇵🇸

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« Hey if you herald on stage at the #39c3 with angy paws and a skirt I'll buy you a drink. »
🐱 « Eugh, fine. »

(and that's how I came back home with a skirt, tight highs and arm warmers and I love it)

( 📸 Kübi ) ( 📺 media.ccc.de/v/39c3-building-a… )
#furry #fursuit #fursuitfriday #femboyfriday

Building a NOC from scratch

Learn from our mistakes during the first iteration of Network Operations for Europe's largest furry convention, Eurofurence. Dieses Jahr ...
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#furry #fursuitfriday #fursuit #39c3 #femboyfriday

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🚨new paper published! 🚨

„Many weak and few strong links“ seems to be a common pattern in many ecological networks. 1st author Franziska Koch shows that this pattern can enable stabilising effects of network structure, using competitive hierarchies as a case study. We argue that skewed link strength distributions should hence receive more attention, especially in studies based on #RandomMatrixTheory.

link.springer.com/article/10.1…

#TheoreticalEcology
#EcologicalModelling
#EcologicalNetworks


Many weak and few strong links: the importance of link strength distributions for stabilising patterns in competition networks - Theoretical Ecology

Ecological networks tend to contain many weak and only a few strong links. Furthermore, link strengths are often patterned within a network in ways that enhance system stability considerably, increasing the ability of the system to return to equilibr…
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#randommatrixtheory #TheoreticalEcology #EcologicalModelling #EcologicalNetworks

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I'd like you to know some numbers.

340.
That's the number of brand new billionaires we made in 2025. Roughly one a day and more than any other year.

9 million.
That's the number of people who died of hunger in 2025. Over 24,000 every single day for an entire year.

40 billion.
That's the number of dollars it would cost to end world hunger. Not to alleviate it. Not to lessen it. To eradicate it.

11.
That's the percentage tax we would have needed to impose on ONLY new wealth on ONLY billionaires in ONLY 2025 in order to eradicate world hunger. Eleven percent. That's all. Compared to the vast coffers of wealth they've already accumulated that's a rounding error.

Eat the rich. Tax them now.

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als es um die chatkontrolle ging, konnte nicht genug getrommelt werden. Hier geht es um viel mehr. An fehlenden Accounts kann es nicht liegen, dass die 30000 immer noch nicht voll sind. Mitzeichnung ist auch ohne deutschen Wohnsitz möglich. Keine Führung eigener Register zur Erfassung von trans* und nichtbinärer Personen epetitionen.bundestag.de/petit…

Petitionen: Verwendung von Cookies nicht aktiviert

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2025 had ups and downs, but I loved my 2025 at #IzzyOnDroid.

Our team has grown with several new members and we launched izzyondroid.org/, our new web home!

We even got our first grant ever (thanks, @nlnet!), allowing us to bring download statistics to IzzyOnDroid and integrate it directly into #NeoStore (and soon #Droidify), improve the #ReproducibleBuild system and more.

I'm grateful to the team for giving me a space where I feel able to make a difference ❤️

Here is to 2026! 🎉


IzzyOnDroid

Your trusted source for Android apps
izzyondroid.org
#neostore #Droidify #izzyondroid #reproduciblebuild @NLnet

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the AI slop in security reports have developed slightly over time. Less mind-numbingly stupid reports now, but instead almost *everyone* writes their reports with AI so they still get overly long and complicated to plow through. And every follow-up question is another minor essay discussing pros and cons with bullet points and references to multiple specifications.

Exhausting nonetheless.

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We should talk about the availability of basic medicine without doctor’s prescription. Basic painkillers, nose sprays, typical medicine for seasonal viral infections.

This is not available in Austria without prescription and I’ve had enough of this paternalistic bullshit attitude.

I don’t believe doctors want to clog up their waiting rooms with very simple cases of flu/covid infections.

I think one reason we still have this is without it doctors visits would be just about the paperwork.

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Winter blue tardis

This really is bs. I'm glad ours aren't like that. I can't live without painkillers and a nose spray some days... Like, that's basic stuff, why should you be forced to go to a doctor for it? Or interact with one at all? if their goal is to give people more reasons to go to the doctor, maybe they did it. Most stuff here doesn't require a prescription unless it's something very specific, antibiotic, or stuff that helps some mental conditions.

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I’ve just created a new Django starter pack on FediDevs 👀

It collects non-human accounts only: Django projects, conferences, podcasts, news, and community initiatives.
No personal accounts, just things you may want to follow once and forget.

👉 fedidevs.com/s/Nzk4/

If you know other Django-related project accounts on the Fediverse, please reply and suggest them.
Happy to keep improving this together 💚

Please reboot 🙏

#Django #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenSource #FediDevs

CC @fedidevs

#opensource #fediverse #Mastodon #django #fedidevs @Fedidevs
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Nicoco

@denkbeteiligung it's against WhatsApp ToS so I cannot guarantee anything. We're niche enough that they don't care IMHO, as long as you don't spam/scam people. It pretends to be the WhatsApp web client. I had my account locked for 48 hours once in 4 years of use, while experimenting with group creation which I guess made me look like a spammer; it has not occurred since. We have not had such locked account reports from users. Experimenting while developing is the "dangerous" part. :-)
@Rapha Mack

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Imagine that the government has decided that, to stimulate the economy, every adult citizen MUST go on a TV reality/game show.

What type of show would you choose?

  • A game of brains ( like The Chase or Jeopardy) (74%, 23 votes)
  • A game of personality (like Housewives or Traitors (0%, 0 votes)
  • A game of strength (like Survivor) (3%, 1 vote)
  • A game of chance (like Deal Or No Deal) (22%, 7 votes)
31 voters. Poll end: 1 week ago

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We tortured these shellfish to check that they're aware of physical harm and yep -- they are. So weird, every living thing we check we can find some kind of electrical or chemical response to damage. What are the odds?

earth.com/news/crustaceans-cra…


Immediate ban on boiling crabs and lobsters alive is called for after disturbing study

Recent studies hint that crabs, lobsters, and other crustaceans experience pain and discomfort in ways we hadn't fully understood before.
Eric Ralls (Earth.com)

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Oh yeah, totally forgot. It's been about a year and a week with Android now. Over all I'm really satisfied, Google has improved talkback a lot. The one and only annoying thing is typing, that's really a disaster and I'm glad I have vision left so I can turn off TB to type sometimes, or being able to attach a bluetooth keyboard. Otherwise though, I love being able to install apks and get updates right from the source like GitHub, Zoom, as well the camera zoom from the pixel 9 pro as well as the ability to Zoom anywhere with the accessibility button in the 3 button nav bar, which also features my best friend the back button, is great, not having to triple tap and swipe around laggy and weird like on IOS. Well, that's all. There are tons of other things I forgot for sure but I really enjoy what this is and would recommend. At some point, probably when I get a new phone whenever that is, I'll root or even gravin OS this thing, gonna be fun. Oh yeah and we have NVGT games, that's fun too.
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JamminJerry

while moving over the keyboard might be a little slow, it really isn't that slow for me. the saying a letter twice, I don't see that at all. it says it when I have my finger on the letter, and then says it again when I lift my finger to let me know it typed that letter. you have one step down from the phone I have. I have the pixel 9 pro xl. what synth are you using on your android? some synths are faster at responding like vocalizer, eloquence, and ESpeak if you can actually understand that one. the google tts to me is a bit slower at responding to things, so I don't use it most of the time. I use the eloquence one, or vocalizer most of the time. sometimes I use the DecTalk one that I have to manually install as it isn't on the playstore.
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Jonathan

@JamminJerry Hmm, right now it's actually quite ok now that I know why it always repeats the letter. It's annoying though, like sometimes I'll just instantly click a letter because I still see the keys, so I don't want it to repeat itself twice, also sometimes it would even go on for longer, and yeah there is a very noticeable delay when swiping around the keyboard to find a letter. I tried the mode where you have to double tap a letter and that one also kinda works, though it's way slower of course. Idk it just doesn't feel that polished. It's not impossible but I think I'd get frustrated if I had no vision and had to navigate around that. But as I said, I love it as a low vision person.
@JamminJerry

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Web Accessibility in 2026: Five Predictions Shaped by How the Web Is Changing blog.usablenet.com/web-accessi…

Web Accessibility in 2026: Five Predictions Shaped by How the Web Is Changing

Five predictions for web accessibility in 2026, shaped by AI-driven development, dynamic rendering, and how modern websites are built and maintained.
Jason Taylor, Chief Innovation Strategist (UsableNet Inc.)

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If you use an AI-generated image for your article/post, this indicates to me you might have also used AI-generated text.

If you use AI-generated text for your article/post then:

1- I have no idea if you verified the veracity of any claimed facts.

2- I have no idea what your own voice is.

3- I have no idea if this truly expresses your own views, and if you even cared to read it.

4- I have no idea what your intention is with this, other than exploiting my attention and clicks with the least amount of efforts on your part.

5- This shows me you have no respect at all for the labour that was stolen to build these tools, exploiting millions of artists and writers to make billions of dollars without any compensation to them whatsoever.

Why would I want to engage with any content like that?

• I don't want to communicate with a machine (I can do that by myself).

• I don't want to participate in this disgusting exploitation of artists and writers.

• And I want to communicate with another human, of course.

If your intention isn't to communicate with another human, then stop deceiving them making them think they are :no_ai:

#NoAI #StopTheSlop

#noAI #stoptheslop
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