@WeirdWriter wrote this blistering counterblast to #LLM infiltration into our communities and how it undermines our confidence in our ability to create and do what we love. As well as the joy and care in community rebellion when it can seem hopeless.
sightlessscribbles.com/the-colβ¦
Writers also need support, they'd like to eat and pay rent sometime this month. Especially as the market appears to be hostile to true writing that doesn't enforce the status quo.
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It's that time of year again! π π π
Wait, no not that, we mean: β β β
Yes, it's time for a new Gadgetbridge release! π
Version 0.88.0 supports even more gadgets than before, is more stable than ever, handles and displays your data better, and fixes several mild annoyances.
And it does all this while keeping your health data fully private, outside the reach of vendors and big tech. πͺ
Get it now at Codeberg, F-Droid or IzzyOnDroid. π¦
Read more here: gadgetbridge.org/blog/release-β¦
A free and open source Android application for bluetooth devices.gadgetbridge.org
Organizing meetings across timezones takes so much time. Here is a way I am hoping to make it a bit easier.
mgifford.github.io/timezone-heβ¦
It's another open source web app hosted on GitHub.
Shoutout to the legendary Tuta community π
Thank you all for taking the time to partake in our yearly survey!
Your feedback and opinions help us build stronger, more secure and user-focused Tuta Products. πͺβ€οΈ
π‘π Check out the highlights of our User Survey 2025: tuta.com/blog/tuta-survey-2025
Check out the feedback from this yearβs user survey and learn what weβll focus on in 2026.Tuta
Yesterday was the third anniversary of Raspberry Pi announcing that they'd hired an ex-cop (specifically a Technical Surveillance Officer) as their "Maker-in-residence", and then pissing off a huge segment of their target market by acting completely oblivious as to why that might be a problem.
I missed my calendar reminder about it, so instead you can celebrate the third anniversary of Buzzfeed writing an article about it:
buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisβ¦
βI think what weβre looking at is a dogpile thatβs being organized somewhere,β a Raspberry Pi cofounder told BuzzFeed News.Chris Stokel-Walker (BuzzFeed)
Ich bemerke in der Teamrunde, dass eine Paketstation fΓΌr Rollstuhlfahrer*innen doof ist, weil man an obere FΓ€cher nicht rankommt.
Einwand: "Es gibt auch RollstΓΌhle mit Lift-Funktion"
Ich: "Joah, das ist keine Barrierefreiheit. Dann brauchen wir auch keine Treppen. Es gibt zusammenklappbare Leitern, die kΓΆnnen alle mitschleppen."
Seufz. Das ist manchmal echt frustrierend.
Π ΠΌΠΎΠΆΠ½Π° ΠΌΠ΅Π΄ΡΡ Π±ΡΠ΄ΡΡΡ ΠΏΡΡΠ°ΡΡ ΠΏΡΠ° Π½Π°Π²ΡΠ½Ρ, ΡΠΎΠ΅ ΡΡΠΎ Π½Π°ΡΠ°ΠΌΡΡΡ Π°Π΄Π±ΡΠ»ΠΎΡΡ?!
Π Π½Π΅ ΠΏΡΠ° ΠΏΡΡΠ΄ΡΠΌΠΊΡ, ΡΡΡΠΊΡ, Π°Π½Π°Π»ΡΠ· ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡΠ°Ρ (ΠΏΡΡΠ΄ΡΠΌΠΊΡ), Ρ Π΄ΡΠΌΠΊΡ Ρ Π³Π°Π»Π°Π²Π΅ Π΄ΡΠΊΡΠ°ΡΠ°ΡΠ°Ρ.
ΠΠ°Π²ΠΎΡΡΠ° ΠΏΡΡΠ°ΡΡ Π½Π°Π²ΡΠ½Ρ ΡΠΊΠΎΠΉ Π½ΡΠΌΠ°?!
Our national railway is a global embarrassment. Canada is a transportation backwater.
#Transportation #Railway #Rail #VIARail #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli
cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/via-β¦
RE: mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11β¦
people are not making the connection that this is Palantir bullshit. remember when Trump gave them free reign of ICE during their first coup? remember how Biden bent over and did nothing about it?
itβs one thing to announce this bullshit. itβs another to not to, immediately, make the connections.
which, reminds me: start mentioning Palantir, Thiel and his βliberalβ poniboi every time yβall mention ICE.
Trump regime wants to force ALL visitors to the U.S. to install government-controlled spyware on their phones, and submit detailed personal data -- even DNA, apparently -- to the authorities.Dan Gillmor (Mastodon)
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This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:
* @marcprux caught on video
* Schedule your #39C3 #CCC visit
* Switching relays in #ArcaneChat #DeltaChat
* #Thunderbird drops #MaterialDesign3 π€―
+ 8 new apps
& 156 updates
- 1 app archived
Click play: f-droid.org/2025/12/11/twif.htβ¦
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 11 Dec 2025, Week 50 F-Droid core We had great reach with our βF-Droid and Googleβs Developer Registration Dec...f-droid.org
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Yup. Millions of people with no basic background or formal understanding of terrorism studies being duped by the ultra-sophisticated tentacled Hamas propaganda machine that mainstream media and global outlets lack resources and integrity to discern and expose. Including terrorist journalists.
Gaza journalist deaths linked to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, study finds | The Jerusalem Post
jpost.com/middle-east/article-β¦
#Hamas #terrorists #Gaza #propaganda #media #journalism #Israel #Oct7 #press
βThe issue of Hamasβs propaganda is a high priority, and it uses a lot of media outlets abroad to talk about it,β said Shlomo Mofaz.The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
#Molly app has a socks5 option but only #Orbot "VPN" mode will work. What if #Arti from @torproject could bind with Molly on socks5 via #Termux?
would be nice to have #systemd like @postmarketOS
*Termux @termux
pkg update (possible to plug in keyboard and display to #android #mobile app)
then proot-distro login --isolated debian
su - user because Arti will complain eventhough phone is not really rooted, change etc/resolv.conf to cloudflare, add dependencies needed for #rust rustup and cargo on #debian #trixie, chmod g-w ~/.config
* #Oniux --> E0560
* Arti --> Linux Scaffolding Log_Connections
* apkeep #EFF eff.org/pages/apkeep --> shared storage path, package manager chokepoint won't install
* network monitoring like Nyx with #tokio-console
In a way, like passwordless root in QubesOS. Some good customizations can be made in Dom0, though, unlike GrapheneOS.
#UbuntuTouch #Brax #Mobian #deGoogle #Tor #Linux #AOSP #GuardianProject #Calyx #Phone #Development
To track state-sponsored malware and combat the stalkerware of abusive partners, you need tools. Safe, reliable, and fast tools. Thatβs why EFFβs Threat Lab is proud to announce our very own tool to download Android APK files, apkeep.Electronic Frontier Foundation
#arti does work on Termux natively without the need for proot. Its not packaged as it is still under active development and we would want to provide such security critical package only when we believe we can do so without any anti-effects.
github.com/termux/termux-packa⦠for Arti on Termux (not recommended for use, only considered a proof of concept)
I am probably getting old, but the idea to cram in lots of events in Brussels the entire week before FOSDEM is not getting my thumbs up. Or well, you can have them but I won't be there.
A regular FOSDEM already wears me out on its own. Being at the European Open Source Awards on the Thursday before FOSDEM is stretching it but I will do it.
Adding *more* events to my agenda that week would probably kill me.
Did I mention I'm old? Leave me alone.
@zipkid In many cases it's just the least-bad option if you want to hold an event and get maximum attendance... the side-events are things that, in all likelihood, just aren't going to attract as many people if they had to travel for that one event.
It is exhausting, no doubt. I mostly got off the travel train in 2018... I do miss seeing people in person sometimes, but I do not miss the flights, hotels, etc. Major kudos to confs that do a good job putting up streaming sessions and videos shortly after the event. FOSDEM in particular is excellent about this.
source: have planned post/pre-FOSDEM events in the past.
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Shuili is a cool new app for easily generating alt-text descriptions for any images. @FreakyFwoof
blog.viditb.com/introducing-shβ¦
Most images online never get an alt-text description. Shiuli aims to change that by making it easy to generate alt-text for images.Vidit Bhargava (Pixel Posts)
The holly jolly season is here! π To share the festive spirit, weβre giving away two of our own 3D-printed candle arches. Want to win one? Then go ahead & donβt miss it!
How to enter:
β’ Follow us here on Mastodon
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Thatβs it β nothing more!
β° Participation is open until Dec 17, 3:00 PM (CET)
ToP: hetzner.com/legal/giveaway
Good luck, fingers crossed! π€
Find answers to your legal questions regarding the Hetzner Online GmbH.www.hetzner.com
It's funny how you'll find reoccurring ratios all throughout nature.
Take 1 in 10 for example.
Only 1 in 10 people know what it actually means to decimate.
But it's also true that 1 in 10 people will get this joke about binary and the other person won't.
Spooky.
LibreOffice 26.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2026 ( Check the Release Plan ). LibreOffice 26.2 Beta1 is the second pre-release since development of version 26.2 started at the beginning of June, 2025.x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
After a years-long battle, the European Commissionβs βChat Controlβ plan, which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption-breaking measures, at last codifies agreement on a position within the Council of the EU, representing EU States.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Hello from the team at AppleVis, We are very excited to share that today, we announced the nominees for our 2025 AppleVis Golden Apple Awards; highlighting this year's best of the best in accessible apps.www.applevis.com
"Base Score: 9.8 (Critical)"
A critical buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the `curl_msprintf()` function in cURL's internal printf implementation. The function writes formatted output to a user-provided buffer without...HackerOne
My AI just found a security flaw in curl!
"The code is written in C, which can allow buffer overflows. Therefore curl is riddled with critical buffer overflows
Base rating: 11 (Hypercritical)
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Do I get my money now?
Details: Version: 0.2 Size: 11.4 MB Operating System: Windows Download: charm.zip Description CHARM is a Customizable, Helpful Audio Resource Monitor. It turns your CPU load, RAM activity and disk aI Am Talon!
I see news posts daily about Trump's health. Honestly, i don't make time to speculate or think about that much.
It's like the old Soviet joke about the news i'll care about in that respect will be on the front page.
For anyone unfamiliar:
A man goes to a newspaper stand every day, buys a copy of Pravda, glances at the front cover, curses, and throws it away.
After a few weeks of this the seller just has to ask what's going on: "why do you always look at the cover but never inside?"
"I'm looking for an obituary."
"An obituary? But those are in the back!"
"Oh no, the obituary I'm looking for will be on the front page."
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in reply to Tuta • • •I think I would stop using tuta if they ever decided to put AI into their ecosystem in any sort of way.
That was the specific reason I chose them over Proton or Gmail, so I'm glad to see that it has only been requested by 3 per cent of the survey takers.
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in reply to Tuta • • •Meta Wish
in reply to Tuta • • •love love hearing the results of the survey! And it looks like the team is great at selecting and knowing what is possible to accomplish - recently updated to a paid account for the calendar and trying to convince my spouse to switch from gmail to tuta so we can have a shared calendar! My parents tried the free version but spam basically ran my mom off her account π
A note on the web app, for me personally I use the android app most, then the web because I do most of my desktop work while I'm at my work computer, and I can't download any apps onto it, so I'm thankful I can still access it from the web! My personal laptop is an Ubuntu, and I found it confusing to download the app there, and find the layout similar enough to the web that I don't really feel drawn to using it.
Excited to see all the updates and improvements, especially to the Tuta Calendar Widget!
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in reply to Tuta • • •Serious Inbox search is a killer feature missing in Tuta. The current requirement to fully offline the inbox to make it searchable is something I find very difficult.
Any research done on zero-knowledge search, or on maintaining an encrypted search index that's updated by the client with incoming mail?
Client API is another thing I'd love to see.
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