As we knew it was going to happen, like clockwork, they're now saying they're going to prioritize denaturalizing citizens. We knew that was what they were working towards and that they are not going to stop there. Being quiet and seeing how far they will go is not an option.

thehill.com/policy/national-se…

Retain Your Control and Customize Everything with Modular Software from Purism!

The Librem 5 & Liberty Phone aren’t just modular in hardware—they’re modular in software. From keyboards to the entire OS, YOU decide what runs on your device.

Learn more at Purism: puri.sm/posts/retain-your-cont…

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 8 updated and 1 added apps:

* ZXTune - Chiptunes player: lets you play music from ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari, Commodore and more 🛡️

An update to Lanis had to be rolled back, as some proprietary components sneaked in. They were already identified and the issue fixed upstream, so it's not "stalled forever".

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:

So you think that Big Tech monitoring your every move isn’t a problem?

But what if you show up at the hotel at 9pm and the hotelier can ask a credit bureau how much you can afford to pay for the room? What if they can find out that you’re in chemotherapy, so you don’t have the stamina to shop around for a cheaper room? What if they can tell that you have a 5AM flight and need to get to bed right now? What if they charge you more because they can see that your kids are exhausted and cranky and the hotel infers that you’ll pay more to get the kids tucked into bed? What if they charge you more because there’s a wildfire and there are plenty of other people who want the room?

pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/pri…

#cookies #surveillance #bigtech #tracking

in reply to John A Rooke

We have been doing this for hundreds of years without big tech monitoring. We just invert the scheme and call it "discounts", and that somehow makes it more socially acceptable.

Student and retiree discounts aren't what they seem. They're just a really poor way to stereotype people and charge you more if the establishment believes you can bear it. You're a single mom with 3 kids who just had her house burned down? Well, you're neither a student nor a retiree, and they're allowed to know your situation, so no discount for you I guess.

Just to give you an idea of how much software GCC 14's default of -Werror=implicit-function-declaration breaks, here are two pkgsrc bulk build results:

GCC 13.3.0: 24835/28450
GCC 14.3.0: 2589/28450

reports.pkgci.org/SmartOS/upst…

reports.pkgci.org/SmartOS/upst…

I also had to fix up a bunch of things before the build would even start.

This could take a while. And then the fun starts all over again with GCC 15's changes...

#pkgsrc #c

#c #pkgsrc
in reply to Jonathan Perkin

One of the more insidious fallouts from GCC 14 changes are in configure scripts.

For example, today I've been debugging why tcl's floating point support was broken.

Turns out its configure script test for whether the system is big endian was now failing due to exit() not being declared, and the compile test failure was being interpreted as amd64 suddenly becoming big endian.

I get it, you don't like Rust becoming popular, but breaking existing software in weird and wonderful ways is NOT OK.

Interview with Lola Odelola @lolaodelola

"Lola Odelola is a force to be reckoned with. Which is why TetraLogical are delighted to sponsor her work on the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG)"

#ARIA #AT #a11y #WebStandards

tetralogical.com/blog/2025/07/…

Un reportaje sobre Tuta nota en la prensa nacional... a ver si se extiende la información y más gente se escapa de su dependencia de Google.

elpais.com/eps/2025-07-02/tuta…

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zive.cz/clanky/dns4eu-adres-dn…
Je to super, jsem rád. Ale že data sbírat nebudou, tak tomu se mi věřit nechce.
in reply to Robin Bedrunka 🐞

není nic “jednoduššího” než si postavit vlastní s full resolver primo od nameserveru. Jedu tak uz delší dobu a docela to funguje. Pihole plus unbound. Ale zase je pravda ze ja bral pihole primárně jako vlastni dns, pac si tady interně nechávám běžet služby který chci mít pod hostname a ne pod ip. Vlastně takové hezké gui pro dnsmasq 😁

When will #landlords and #speculators answer for their role in the #housing and #affordability crisis? cultmtl.com/2025/06/when-will-…

#gougegougegouge
#polMTL #MTLpoli
#montreal
#assnat #polQC #QCpoli
#cdnpoli #polcan

🔁 Bachelor's thesis survey! Please boost! 🔁

As many of you already know, I'm a cognitive science student currently working on my bachelor's thesis about the relationship between internet users' identities and their online personas.

Specifically, I want to see how that relationship might be different for cis and trans individuals, as well as for entities with non-human identities.

I prepared a short survey to collect the data I'll need for the thesis and I would greatly appreciate it if you take the time to answer it and share it around, both on fedi and elsewhere! It is meant for individuals of all gender identities and ages and shouldn't take more than 15 minutes to complete.

Thank you for your time :)

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Я продолжаю - и пока не собираюсь бросать - заниматься переводами Mastodon на русский язык.

Чтобы переводы были лучше, можно подарить мне справочную литературу, например:

* "Справочник по правописанию и литературной правке" Розенталя;
* "Трудные случаи русской пунктуации" - Пахомов, Свинцов, Филатов;
* ещё что-нибудь, что посчитаете полезным.

Если я утвердила неудачный перевод, не стесняйтесь тегать меня в Crowdin:
ru.crowdin.com/project/mastodo…

in reply to jan Anja

Ничего не обещаю, но если будет время, попробую. Опыт локализации есть и очень большой, но, повторюсь, вот эти платформы… И кстати, пока вам не подарили Розенталя, можете смело спрашивать у меня, не потому что я супермен, а потому что одна голова хорошо, а две лучше. Можете прям сюда в приват, ну или могу Telegram/WhatsApp свой скинуть, если так удобнее.
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion только сейчас подумала, что надо бы написать пост про то, чем я пользуюсь для переводов. Онлайн-инструментов мне в принципе хватает, но с печатными справочниками было бы гораздо лучше.
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion ещё вопросы

1) Я вижу, что где-то в переводах союз "или" по кальке английского используется как соединительный, например:

"Никакие данные с этого сервера не будут обрабатываться, храниться или обмениваться..."

"...взаимодействия, такие как продвижение или добавление в избранное"

Как я понимаю, надо заменять "или" на правильные союзы ("и", "ни.. ни" и другие).

in reply to jan Anja

@menelion

2) Можно ли смешивать как однородные члены инфинитив совершенного и несовершенного вида? Я не нашла правила, которое это запрещает, но точно не знаю. Пример:

"Он сможет упоминать вас и подписаться на вас, но вы этого не увидите."

Microsoft layoffs, emotional thoughts on game accessibility, stop killing games petition

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ICEBlock, an app for people to report and be warned when ICE raids are occurring in a 5 mile radius, is now the top social networking app in the iOS App Store.

We are all living in a Black Mirror episode.
engadget.com/social-media/iceb…

Microsoft is laying off 4% of its workforce (9,000 employees) which is separate from the 6,000 laid off in May, 300 in June and 2,000 laid off in January as low performers.

Today’s layoffs are to reduce layers of management.

The company beat estimates with $26B in profits and $70B in revenue during its last financial quarter.

cnbc.com/2025/07/02/microsoft-…

in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

@federicomena @ebassi There was this amazing GTK feature I used to use where you could open a context menu, and press some magic key or something and the shortcut would change live!

I loved this, maybe this is what you're referring to? I no longer think it works though, but kudos to whoever invented that brilliant idea, I wish it was back.

"ICEBlock - An app that allows for reporting sightings of of the US agency ICE - climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it"

engadget.com/social-media/iceb…

in reply to Emilion

@emilion @hub feel free to read GrapheneOS' viewpoint about the ICEblock app and its claims to privacy: grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…
in reply to Stephan Paternotte

@S_Paternotte @hub Thanks for sharing! Interesting that the app developers are misleading about Apple's and Android's privacy.
"ICEBlock app is very clearly misleading people about privacy and their safety. Apple has a list of which accounts/devices have installed the app. They will provide it to the US government if they receive a court order. "

Below, I added some hype music to mastodon.social/@alatiera/1147…

With that, I believe we could get a huge GNOME fundraiser drive going, by selling tickets to a philanthropic wrestling match between @alatiera and probonopd. Per tradition, the match could take place in an abandoned warehouse in San Francisco, kitted up as for a rave. KDE devs welcome.

I bet Jordan would smack Xorg down so hard that xeyes pops out, and we would never hear from X11 again as Wayland reigns supreme.

#Linux #Wayland #GNOME

Lots happening in the #LibreOffice project! Last month we had an update to the software, plus new merchandise, tutorials, docs, a lookback at StarOffice, and more: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource

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Well, I've noticed a new feature today - that is that yesterday I did notice it, but did have the idea there was some external reason - that while editing a document, if the computer goes in screen lock and possibly suspend, the next time opening the document which had been saved, but not closed, is no longer on the spot where I was editing, but on the top of the document.......

This is just utterly annoying!
And obvously shouldn't happen, but the cursor still remain where it was!