So what we're learning is that Briar is useless in Iran, and so is Signal. Always designed to work in unrealistic environments. *sigh*
Estamos a 13°, entonces yo adentro de casa con ropa térmica y gorro enfrente de la compu 🥶
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can you imagine the kind of cultural and technological engineering effort it took to make it so installing an unknowable surveillance device in your home is easier than being able to use the abundant internet coursing through reality that you already own to simply be able to ... have your own camera
Let’s be honest, Ring was already some technocratic, dystopian BS, but if you needed a reason to finally, finally kill it with fire, here’s your reason: Ring is partnering with Flock to help ICE spy on you and your neighbors for the government 👀#Technology #InfoSec
techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amaz…Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."Amanda Silberling (TechCrunch)
having a camera you can look at from your phone should be easy. being able to find information by searching for it should be easy. it's an engineering project to keep it hard enough that you have to accept constant surveillance as the price to pay to make use of the accumulated skill that we have literally lying around in the gutter on the street
i currently really need an IP camera so i researched my options for "IP camera with a firmware that i can guarantee doesn't spy on me"
wanna know what the current meta is, apparently? (according to some of the people who've spent the most time doing this exact thing)
you... you buy a camera devkit on aliexpress and flash a linux distro on it. the second part i expected (not to say this should be the norm). but the first took me by surprise; you'd think some vendor makes devices that are good enough at least for firmware modding.
nope. we are in a hell of our own making. i guess if you aren't an embedded engineer with years of experience you don't deserve to have a trustworthy ip camera or something
this is exactly correct. i've had the misfortune to do some camera wrangling. this is very much a case of "please consider if you really need it, and if you do, here's [2-3x my normal hourly rate]".
only in this line of work have i seen a large corporate customer not be given a complete schematic for a devboard (a very basic one, p much just MIPI, I2C, and a few sidebands connected) except as a blurry image in microsoft teams screenshare with a pinky promise that you won't screenshot it (because the terms of the NDA with $sensor_vendor prohibit even acknowledging that the sensor has pins)
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dnes jsem na Meshcore první den a jsem překvapený, jak živo kolem Brna je. Když si vezmu nářky kolegů, jak těžké je zprávy procpat MT...
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Here's mine.
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Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:
Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:
1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.
Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.
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Welcome tommy as #curl commit author 1434: github.com/curl/curl/pull/2027…
bugfix: `SA_SIGINFO` should not be set when it is using `sa_handler` by Tommy-LXDAO · Pull Request #20278 · curl/curl
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904875/functions/sigaction.html SA_SIGINFO should not be set when it is using sa_handler. If we set sa_handler as SIG_IGN and sa_flags with SA_SIGINFO.The s...GitHub
Current mood: Leslie Lamport once defined a distributed system as one in which the failure of a computer you didn't know existed can prevent you from getting anything done.
Welcome Arnav-Purushotam-CUBoulder as #curl commit author 1433: github.com/curl/curl/pull/2030…
docs: update configure examples by Arnav-Purushotam-CUBoulder · Pull Request #20301 · curl/curl
Autotools ./configure requires selecting a TLS backend explicitly (or using --without-ssl). Several docs/examples still show ./configure without any TLS backend flag, which fails on current sources...GitHub
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 16 updated and 3 added apps, plus 1 added from the weekend:
* Quick UPI: QR code generator via Quick Settings Tile 🛡️
* Oksigenia SOS: safety and distress alerts with fall and inactivity detection 🛡️
* RepoStore: turns GitHub releases into a clean, Play Store-style experience 🛡️
* advanced text encryption utility designed for zero-trust environments 🛡️
RB status: 806 apps (62.2%)
Enjoy your #free #apps at the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
I think it’s really stupid that in order for you to type the period on a touchscreen keyboard, you have to click the numbers at the bottom just to get to it. In address bars, and email address fields, it’s right there next to the spacebar. Why can’t it be like that in all textfields? This is why I prefer texting on my laptop. I think there should be an extra row of preferred and most used punctuation symbols. That would make typing a whole lot more convenient.
am I the only person on FreeBSD 15 who is experiencing OpenVPN correctly installing routes, and then after some undetermined period of time they just disappear? The VPN is still up, all the routes are gone. Zero explanation.
"I can't believe Mozilla would ask for our input" says the people who have been begging for this
What the shit? Listening to Spotify while being in a Discord voice channel (alone) made it buffer, or as I found out, auto stop every few seconds. I only have one question: why? Apparently this is a feature? Who wants that kind of piss as feature. Leave my music alone.
Edit: this. Not quite a feature, but still ridiculous af: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/a…
Edit: this. Not quite a feature, but still ridiculous af: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/a…
Spotify Auto Pause
Oh no! Spotify keeps pausing while you're listening, but why?! If you are transmitting with your mic in voice chat for 30 seconds while Spotify is playing, Spotify will stop playing, and you'll get...Discord
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Funny enough if you screen share your entire screen, not just Spotify, this will not occur, and I have never had this happen when not sharing your audio.
Welcome to Discord, the app that gives you all the bloat. Such nonsense features that nobody ever cares about.
Ugh. I'm so frustrated I could cry. Windows 11 you are so genuinely terrible.
@techsinger I don't count on anything with microsoft anymore. I used to think that while they had issues they were good at coming back and fixing them, now I don't believe that.
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Unknown parent • • •@kirby as has been discussed elsewhere, it didn't work in 2022 and it's not working now
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Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats: (@Mehrad@fosstodon.org)
Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats: (Fosstodon)feld
Unknown parent • • •@CapitalB any solution absolutely needs to work without DNS within an isolated network (internally, Iran has functional networking).
I've heard whispers of progress in this direction but have nothing concrete to share