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LibreOffice 7.4.6 is now available – it's the penultimate release in the 7.4 series, before we focus on LibreOffice 7.5 and beyond: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

Release of LibreOffice 7.4.6 Community - The Document Foundation Blog

Berlin, March 9, 2023 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 7.4.6 Community, the sixth minor release of the LibreOffice 7.4 family. The new release is immediately available from https://www.libreoffice.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)

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An overview of biases against women in the workplace, illustrated with examples from Mad Men, by @koalie koalie.blog/2023/03/09/bias-ag…

Bias against women in the workplace

We are near the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, and despite decades of a rich world history of advocating for equal rights for women, it saddens me that so many among us are still not…
koalie’s contemplations in markup
@Coralie Mercier

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Fascinating story: politico.com/news/2023/03/07/p…

At first the police just wanted two hours of footage from this guy's doorbell Ring cam.

"It was just the beginning.

They asked for more footage, now from the entire day’s worth of records. And a week later, Larkin received a notice from Ring itself: The company had received a warrant, signed by a local judge. The notice informed him it was obligated to send footage from more than 20 cameras — whether or not Larkin was willing to share it himself."


The privacy loophole in your doorbell

Police were investigating his neighbor. A judge gave officers access to all his security-camera footage, including inside his home.
POLITICO

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Major win for encryption.

European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiórowski said the indiscriminate scanning of private communications proposed by EU’s CSAM regulation “will always be illegal under the Charter of Fundamental Rights (and probably under several national constitutional laws as well),” euractiv.com/section/law-enfor…


EU watchdog: Online child abuse draft law creates ‘illusion of legality'

Luca Bertuzzi (EURACTIV)

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Have you seen that lovely new #keyoxide app developed by @Berker yet? Available on @fdroidorg and the other app stores, have a look here mobile.keyoxide.org for the download links!

If you need help setting up your own Keyoxide profile, today's blog post might be a good place to start: blog.keyoxide.org/create-openp…

Blog — How to create an online identity, part 1: using OpenPGP

blog.keyoxide.org
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#AppCinderella: I've just checked "Photo EXIF Toolkit" (2017; apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/a…). On Android 10 it simply crashes (reproducibly) when trying to open an image (while in background trying to access maps.googleapis.com). Can someone confirm this on other Android versions? Functionality (as advertised) sounds pretty useful, but if it doesn't work the description does not help 🙈

„Photo EXIF Toolkit“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

view or modify Exif data
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#appcinderella
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@shroob I did a quick check and did not see any similar apps in the repos of F-Droid or mine – but I know several apps including the features (e.g. Aves, which I use myself). Maybe I'll send the APK through a security scan as well to see if there are some issues or not before I draw a final conclusion (unless some more reports come in saying "drop it, here are the alternatives". I like small tools concentrating on specific tasks 😉 But source gone and trackers in is no good combination indeed.
@shroob

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 18 updated and 2 added apps:

* swob: communicate with online services using SMS messaging
* Paperless Mobile: an (almost) fully fledged mobile Paperless client

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo

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por si no lo han leído, un pequeño texto de #CienciaFicción para iniciar la mañana. Es un artículo ficticio sobre una imagen cerebral digitalizada en el año 2031

qntm.org/mmacevedo

#lecturas

Lena

You can now buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories. Incidentally, that collection, published in November 2022, is the first appearance of "Lena" in print, which makes it eligible for the 2023 Hugo Awa…
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#cienciaficcion #lecturas

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Remember the Microsoft Office macro hardening changes for internet documents? I just got it on my corp laptop as it's in O365 semi-annual channel now.

THANK YOU to those at MS who got this over the line, they know who they are. Single biggest change in cybersecurity industry in a decade, IMHO. Yes, attackers have and will evolve - but they should be.

This one cost lots of people political capital, but it was absolutely the right thing to do.

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Just saw this video shared by a friend on that other site, it appears someone is working on adding screen reader support to the first Diablo. We live in some very exciting times indeed. youtube.com/watch?v=SdSjSZzhNB…

DevilutionX with screen reader support for visually impaired

Very first attempt at adding screen reader support to DevilutionX so that visually impaired and blind users can enjoy Diablo.Voice being used is Orca Linux.
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CRTC finally says what prior chair Ian Scott wouldn’t: competition for Internet services in Canada isn’t working. Launches review and imposes immediate 10% cut in some wholesale rates.

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RT @CRTCeng
We are launching a review of our approach to Internet competition and lower some wholesale rates effective immediately.

ow.ly/l9ao50Nc0gH
twitter.com/CRTCeng/status/163…

CRTC launches review of approach to Internet services competition and lowers some wholesale rates effective...

Today, the CRTC is launching a consultation on the Internet services market to increase competition, create more choice and lower prices.
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (Government of Canada)

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Help migrate a community from Discord to something else

ariadne.space/2023/03/08/help-…

Help migrate a community from Discord to something else

During the height of the pandemic, I set up a community using Discord. Since then, it has evolved into being one of the most active (yet tight-knit) technical communities on Discord: members ranging from all around the world and from all sorts of tec…
ariadne.space
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The Matrix.org Foundation

yes. github.com/matrix-org/synapse/… is the obvious one; also extending servers to block CS API conns from IPs described in a given MSC2313 style blocklist too. Another nice extension would be to let room admins block a user’s IP or CIDR without exposing what their IP actually is (ignoring that you could figure it out by correlating with other known IPs). eg “block alice’s /32” or “block alice’s /24” or even “block alice’s AS” without revealing her IP

Client IP-based channel bans as per IRC. (SYN-62) · Issue #1216 · matrix-org/synapse

It could be nice (but not vital) to say "please do not let any clients connect to this room from this IP mask". We'd obviously have to trust all participating HSes to uphold this, whi...
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Government Rejection of Key Senate Bill C-11 Amendment Reveals Its True Intent: Retain Power to Regulate User Content
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Government Rejection of Key Senate Bill C-11 Amendment Reveals Its True Intent: Retain Power to Regulate User Content - Michael Geist

For more than a year, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has clung to the Bill C-11 mantra of “platforms in, users out”.
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"The disconnect is designed to prevent any software — even with root or kernel privileges in macOS, and even the software on the T2 chip or other firmware — from engaging the microphone when the lid is closed"

Hardware microphone disconnect support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/…

Hardware microphone disconnect

Supported Mac computers and iPad devices have a hardware disconnect that helps ensure that the microphone is disabled whenever the lid is closed.
Apple Support
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