I'm very glad to see farmers win the right to repair their tractors. It's a win for consumers against bogus #IP objections from manufacturers.
bbc.com/news/business-64206913
#RightToRepair, #RightToTinker
The grassroots movement has grown among consumers around the world as repair costs soar.By Monica Miller (BBC News)
In 2020 Cybercrime magazine wrote that “If it were measured as a country, then cybercrime — which is predicted to inflict damages totaling $6 trillion USD gl...YouTube
Accessible Android for the blind and visually impairedplay.google.com
Ich hab das im DLF-Interview auch als Beispiel gebracht: deutschlandfunkkultur.de/meta-…
Das Festhalten an Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc. ist wie das Festhalten am Verbrennermotor. Wir kommen alle gemeinsam weiter, wenn wir uns von gated communities verabschieden und auf offene Netzwerke setzen, wo ein Austausch möglich ist, ohne dass wir unsere gesamte Kommunikation und Außenwirkung an die AGB von US-Konzernen und die US-Gesetzgebung ketten.
Die Chatkontrolle ist eine Bedrohung für unsere Freiheit und unsere Grundrechte. Wir sollten uns nicht stillschweigend damit abfinden, dass unser Austausch von Informationen und Meinungen überwacht wird und das unsere Bilder und Clouddaten um die Welt wandern.
Wir müssen uns dagegen wehren und für unsere Freiheit kämpfen. Informiere dich und kämpfe gegen die Einschränkung deiner Freiheit. Nein zur #Chatkontrolle. Nein zur verdachtslosen Massenüberwachung!
patrick-breyer.de/beitraege/ch…
Inhalt der Seite: Die Abschaffung des Digitalen Briefgeheimnisses Chatkontrolle 2.0 auf jedem Smartphone droht Der aktuelle Entwurf Protestieren Die Verhandlungen Zeitschiene und Termine Die Akteure Was hat das Ganze mit dir…Patrick Breyer
Marie Curie Became the First Woman to Win a Nobel Prize, the First Person to Win Twice, and the Only Person in History to Win in Two Different Sciences
openculture.com/2019/06/marie-…
For most of scientific history, women who made contributions to various fields have been sidelined or ignored in favor of male colleagues, who reaped fame, professional recognition, and cash rewards that come with prestigious prizes like the Nobel.Josh Jones (Openculture.com)
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I couldn’t attend #axecon this year but am more than happy to help donate to NV Access in support of their event and this wonderful organization. Join me if you can!
About NV Access NV Access believe that every blind and vision impaired person deserves the right to freely & easily access a computer. There are over 285 million blind & vision impaired peo…NV Access
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March 21: "Foundations First: Improving C’s Viability in Introductory Programming Courses with the Debugging C Compiler" - a live talk, evidently viewable over Zoom
If you ever teach people C or learn C, this might interest you
If you are annoyed by the topics appearing on a part of the screen in the chat list when you tap the group’s name, with your screen reader sometimes struggling to focus the topic you need to tap properly ending up in a different topic or chat then yo…Kareen Kiwan (Erişilebilir Android)
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of a new version of the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin for #Openfire, our cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the #XMPP protocol! This plugin can help you moderate your chat rooms, especially when your service is part of a larger network of federated XMPP domains.
Read more about this release in our blog post!
discourse.igniterealtime.org/t…
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of a new version of the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin for Openfire, our cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol! This plugin can help you moderate your chat rooms,…Ignite Realtime Community Forums
A group of librarians argue the Internet Archive is a library, saying that the four major publishers' lawsuit threatens the development of digital collections (Inside Higher Ed)
insidehighered.com/views/2023/…
techmeme.com/230318/p8#a230318…
From Inside Higher Ed. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
...zazpívat před celou třídou píseň o míru. Rozklepou se mi kolena. Pomalu se šourám k tabuli. Nesmím to zvorat...
"Ať mír dál zůstává s touto krajinou...," spustím.
"No to snad nemyslíš vážně?" rozkřikne se učitelka. "Vrať se do lavice..."
Skloním hlavu a jdu si sednout. Proč se rozlobila? Přece jsem nezpívala falešně...
Ve 2.C mi některé věci ještě moc nedocházely. Ale s touto zkušeností přišel první tísnivý pocit nesvobody.
#MartaKubisova #modlitbapromartu #czechart #digitalart #kresba
#AndroidAppRain again at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 14 updated and 2 new apps:
* Command Click: allow you change shellscript to Gui App
* Rain: show the weather in your city
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo 
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
Adebar 2.4.1 has just been released – a maintenance release with a bunch of minor fixes and cleanups:
Expect it to "emerge" soon, gen, too
(for those who don't know: #Adebar is a tool utilizing Bash & ADB to create a documentation of your Android device, plus scripts for Backup/restore, and also pulling some configs & data for documentation, archiving etc. Runs on Linux, Mac, Cygwin…)
#Adebar now is also available from the official ebuild repository at Gentoo 🥳 "Raise, knight Adebar!" – or rather: "emerge adebar"
Credits to: @DanielPielmeier 🤩
Oh, btw: Adebar is also available on Arch via AUR 😃
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A talented coder in the Los Angeles area labors away late into the night, unaware that his coding handiwork --- in the open source Inkscape program -- lights up the lives of children in Kenya. techlitafrica.org/software @joncruz
@inkscape @BrideOfLinux @volkswagenchick @clive @Npars01 @sanjaysharma
@mairin @mgifford @grwster
@jancborchardt
@pikurasa
@michelamarie
@scrwd @Aradayn #Inkscape
The greatest philanthropists do not give money.
They give caring and code.
One world.
Tools for Teaching Effective Digital Skills - Self-Efficacy, Troubleshooting, Internet Skills - Offline and Secure Tools for EducatorsTechLit Africa
I'd suggest that many of us can give both!
@philshapiro @joncruz @inkscape @BrideOfLinux @volkswagenchick @clive @Npars01 @sanjaysharma @mairin @grwster @jancborchardt @pikurasa @michelamarie @scrwd @Aradayn
And as perfect icing on the cake, just stumbled on this—a study of ChatGPT’s political alignment and it is… California left-libertarian: arxiv.org/abs/2301.01768
see also mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/3/148
Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) disrupts how humans interact with technology. Recently, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art dialogue model that can converse with its human counterparts with unprecedented capabilities.arXiv.org
8/ish: Evenings this week: re-reading Excession, a story about overly confident, near-infinitely resourced beings making bad decisions as a result of group chats.
Days this week: reading about SVB, a story about overly confident, near-infinitely resourced beings making bad decisions as a result of group chats.
From The Onion: "ChatGPT Starting To Think Journalist Could One Day Be Capable Of Independent Thought"
theonion.com/chatgpt-starting-…
SAN FRANCISCO—In response to the reporter exhibiting some potential signs of awareness, ChatGPT started to think Friday that the journalist inputting prompts could one day be capable of independent thought.Sirhan Sirhan (The Onion)
TL;DR: Description list support is generally good (with Safari being the outlier), even if you may not like how it is supported.Adrian Roselli
#keyoxide is holding its Community Call in less than 2 hours at 15:00 UTC!
Open to all, join via #jitsi: meet.jit.si/moderated/7fe17e2a…
⚽ Any Liverpool fans on here?
LFC Online, one of the biggest Liverpool FC news sites, has joined the Fediverse. You can follow them at:
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Their website is at lfcclick.com
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Latest Liverpool FC news, views, transfer rumours, LFC videos, previews, match reports and features from LFC ClickLFC Click
@dcz And I don't have a Google account, nor any Google stuff on my devices (for years I run as Google-free as I can).
But that said, first thing I'd do is take a look at the size. Just had it recently with another app: size at Play was twice the original. Usually those plagiators add some trackers & ad modules. Also compare permissions, which give a clue on the same line (changes being made) @AAMfP
The EU Commission is planning what Apple stopped after a huge backslash: Turning your own device into a surveillance machine via client-side scanning.
Stop #ChatControl now! 💪
Check here how you can join the fight for #privacy: tutanota.com/blog/posts/csam-a…
And don't forget: Use #encryption. 🔒
CVE-2023-21036 / acropalypse is absolutely bonkers.
Apparently for 5+ years the cropping / editing tools for screenshots on Google Pixel phones was only overwriting the start of the screenshot PNG file, but not truncating.
All screenshots shared for the past 5+ years might have data recoverable from them. Demo available at acropalypse.app/
Google still hasn't communicated anything on this.
(h/t ItsSimonTime on Musk's site)
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I had a full day off on Thursday this past week! I lounged about at home and binge-watched the Chinese donghua Cinderella Chef on Netflix (it’s very cute) and read a bit and went to the gym and basically only did things I wanted to do and it was very…Kirsten Han (We, The Citizens)
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in reply to petersuber • • •Excellent background from @doctorow.
doctorow.medium.com/john-deere…
"#Deere abuses copyright law to force farmers to pay for official repairs — even when the farmer does the repair. That’s possible thanks to a practice called VIN locking, in which engine parts come with #DRM that prevents the tractor from recognizing them until they pay hundreds of dollars for a John Deere technician to come to their farm and type an unlock code into the tractor’s console."
Plus: The win is not as good as it looks.
John Deere’s repair fake-out - Cory Doctorow - Medium
Cory Doctorow (Medium)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. In rural America, right-to-repair laws are the leading edge of a pushback against growing corporate power.
theconversation.com/in-rural-a…
"Under the agreement, John #Deere promises to give farmers and independent repair shops access to manuals, diagnostics and parts. But there’s a catch – the agreement isn’t legally binding, and, as part of the deal, the influential #FarmBureau promised not to support any federal or state #RightToRepair legislation."
#patents
In rural America, right-to-repair laws are the leading edge of a pushback against growing corporate power
The Conversationpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. Turns out that John #Deere has been using open code under the #GPL w/o living up to the license. The Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy) is calling on it to comply — which would greatly enhance #farmers' #RightToRepair.
sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/ma…
"We…publicly call on John Deere to immediately resolve all of its outstanding GPL violations…by providing complete source code…that the GPL & other copyleft licenses require, to the farmers & others who are entitled to it."
#OpenSource
John Deere's ongoing GPL violations: What's next
Software Freedom Conservancy