#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 6 updated and 1 added apps:

* PageKeeper: a bookmark manager

At the Magisk Modules repo (apt.izzysoft.de/magisk), 1 module was updated.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzySoftRepo

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, GitLab, Codeberg).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Earlier this week I made a snarky toot about paying open source maintainers. The snarkyness perhaps covered up the underlying message, which is something I strongly believe in.

Criticizing open source maintainers for figuring out a way to get paid for their — however imperfect the tactic — is wrong.

If we're serious about open source sustainability, we need to be okay with — no, more than that, we need to *celebrate* — any tactic a maintainer uses to get paid.

jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/payin…

Paying people to work on open source is good actually - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

If you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.

^jacobian.org

#Mixxx 2.4 Open-Source and Free DJ Software Released with Major Changes, Here's What's New 9to5linux.com/mixxx-2-4-open-s…

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

Mixxx 2.4.0 Released -- New Major Version

We are proud to announce #Mixxx 2.4, a new major version of our free open source DJ software, available right now from mixxx.org/download/ . It's been two years since the last release due to the large number of great new features and important changes under the hood.

Full release announcement: mixxx.org/news/2024-02-16-mixx…

Mixxx - Download the Best Free DJ Mixing Software App

Download the most advanced FREE DJ software available, featuring iTunes integration, MIDI controller support, internet broadcasting, and integrated music library.

^{Mixxx DJ Software}

Ready to Live Stream some Thunderbird code in a few minutes.

Come watch me fail at JavaScript

youtube.com/live/mZk1mvAFeUk?s…

Thunderbird Live Coding #26

Join me during one of my usual mornings spent coding Thunderbird.Help me fix bugs, take a look under the hood, yell at me for not being smart, and learn how ...

^YouTube

Čeští vojáci pomohli FBI zničit botnet, skrze který Rusko v kyberprostoru útočilo na Západ

lupa.cz/aktuality/cesti-vojaci…

@lupa

Čeští vojáci pomohli FBI zničit botnet, skrze který Rusko v kyberprostoru útočilo na Západ

Svět IT, dění na trhu, bezpečnost na internetu, připojení k internetu, mobilní internet, online média a reklama, cloudové služby.

^{Jan Sedlák (Internet Info, s.r.o.)}

K úmrtí #AlexeiNavalny:

O několik hodin později se vytvořia nepřetržitá dronta Moskvanů pokládající květiny k památníku obětem politických represí naproti Lubjance, kde kdysi sídlila nechvalně proslulá ruská špionážní služba KGB.

#FckRussia #FckPutin

Pandoc, extensible swiss tool for markup document conversion, has a major new release 3.0

pandoc.org/releases.html#pando…

Discussions: discu.eu/q/pandoc.org/releases…

#linux #release #unix

Aleksei Navalny, Putin Critic, Dies in Prison.

Trump, the GOP speaker and the rest of the MAGA quislings can all celebrate.

nytimes.com/2024/02/16/world/e…

Aleksei Navalny, Putin Critic, Dies in Prison, Russian Authorities Say

The opposition leader, who was poisoned in 2020, had spent months in isolation.

^{Andrew E. Kramer (The New York Times)}

Huh. TIL about "python -m asyncio", which starts an asyncio capable REPL. (Which is something I have been wanting and missing since the first time I had to touch async code in python).

(Tab completion is somehow not yet working in there though?)

In my defense, it wasn't all that well documented (well, at all) until about 1 year back): github.com/python/cpython/pull…

Added asyncio REPL example to docs. by carltongibson · Pull Request #101243 · python/cpython

The ability to run python -m asyncio for a REPL with a concurrent context was previously only mentioned in the What's new in Python 3.8 section. Adding it to the asyncio introduction makes it more ...

^GitHub

Last day to apply for travel grant to attend #PyConUS

- Speakers and tutorial presenters are prioritized, but you still need to apply on time.
- There's a separate fund for #PyLadies. Tick the "PyLadies Grant" checkbox in the application form
- Limit of 1500 USD for domestic travel, and 2000 USD for international travel
- Include just the hotel+flight cost in the application, not the conference registration fee.

Read the FAQ to learn more!

us.pycon.org/2024/attend/faq/

This year will be the 20th anniversary of @leonardr's #Python screen-scraping tool Beautiful Soup.

harihareswara.net/posts/2024/c…

Please contact me if you'd like to contribute to the celebration by any of:

* contributing to a "how Beautiful Soup was important to my life or career" anthology
* helping edit and publish that anthology
* funding printing the book
* throwing or speaking at a party on or around May 19th, 2024
* helping upgrade Leonard's PyCon travel so it's not just economy/coach

"It all makes sense now" 😂

#funny #Disney #meme

We're happy to announce the results of our first #grants cycle!

Four projects were selected by our panel of advisors, and $2400 was disbursed by IFTF to support these projects. We had a range of proposals and the final slate shows great diversity - interpreters, accessibility, history, and sprouting new communities!

We are delighted with the results of this program - thank you all for participating!

Blog post with more details here: blog.iftechfoundation.org/2024…

#InteractiveFiction #IF

Announcing IFTF Grant Recipients

The recipients of the first IFTF Grant cycle have been selected, awarding funds to a handful of projects representing the different areas of the IF community.

^{IFTF Blog}

Hi, I am happy to announce Cambalache's Gtk4 port has a beta release!

Version 0.17.2 features minors improvements and a brand new UI ported to Gtk 4!

Available in flathub beta
```
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub-beta flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-…
flatpak install flathub-beta ar.xjuan.Cambalache
```
Read more about it at blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/2024/02/…
@GTK @gnome

UPDATE 2024-02-23: Admins of FR Wikipedia have followed up and permanently banned the accounts of the people mentioned below who shared the poll and expressed their worries about its purpose, including those with a clean record. Meanwhile, the most virulently aggressive and transphobic reply-guy in all of their conversations got 3 days suspension despite being sanctioned before. Utter bullshit.

So, let us drag the french admins of wikipedia into the dirt, shall we? I have gathered stuff from the last couple days of the ongoing events, and taken time to translate them so that english-speaking people can realize the depth of the nonsense going on over there. Because that community is the way it is, it's very obtuse and flowery french that's used in their discussions, peppered with acronyms that contract french expressions or wikipedia slang, and so translators could be somewhat unreliable.

The context here is that very clearly biased poll which questions I dutifully translated for you. The central crux was trying to standardize the way we trans people are discussed, especially with respect to mentions of our deadname. Please appreciate the irony of mostly cis people asking mostly cis people if it's okay to deadname us and how exactly they should do it.

The poll wasn't really advertised, until a couple of posts here and there shared it and called for us and our allies to come and express our opinion, in the most tame and neutral tones possible.

The original criterion for votes to be accepted was 50 contributions on general pages (which excludes niche technical contributions). On top of being a vast amount of contributions, it was discussed:

• to maybe exclude accounts for which those last 50 were too far in the past: "For the record, tallying the last 50 contributions of all accounts (and only those from 2024), I created a list of eligible accounts for the poll. [...] One flagrant example is Nicky, whose last contribution is from 2007, and then one in 2024... yeah right [condescending]. Not sure my methodology is more exhaustive than that of Lebrouillard, but it exists."
• to raise it to 500: "Hello, I am making a dedicated section. Clearly, there is ongoing brigading. Therefore, please raise the threshold for acceptable ballots to 500 contributions." (which is ludicrous, that's more than one a day for more than a whole year)

Following this poll being suddenly widely talked about, and the opinions tipping, french editors opened a note on the admin bulletin, accusing trans contributors of being activists and biased: "Diversity of opinion in activist communities? Hilarious"

Administrators of french wikipedia have also gone out of their way to identify the wikipedia accounts of some of the people whose posts I linked above, calling for indefinite bans, bans over a defined period, as well as blanket bans on all pages related to the topic of being trans. In that particular link, the administrators consider the use of "transphobia" in a content warning, as a form of slander and harassment organized outside of the platform: "JohnNewton8(sysop): [...] Sinkra's message could moreover be interpreted as libelous (accusation of transphobia) [...] / Jules: I believe the use of "trigger warning: transphobia" on Sinkra's post to not be targeting individual contributors but warning Sinkra's audience which may be sensitive to some of the comments being shared on the poll."

The worst part about that last bit? Complains from the admins that they have to deal with similar "brigading" and "biased activist editing" by an organisation called "Les Sans Pages" (LSP, "Those without a Page"), which is dedicated to helping reduce the abysmal gender bias in biographical wikipedia pages. "It is not the first time that accounts, including old accounts, drag our principles into the mud. Regularly, activists from LSP create controversy [...]"

This is beyond horrendous behaviour from the french wikipedia editors, with the full support of their administrators, who are willing to enforce guidelines and the code of conduct against those calling for a biased poll to happen under somewhat fair circumstances. Shame on the admins, who should be removed from their position, and clearly let the mask slip. Shame on the editors, whose bias and bigotry they hide under the guide of encyclopedic guidelines and neutrality, while shifting the blame on us for trying to be heard.

(thanks however to @belore for gathering most of the links on here)

Normal #cat activities
#Cats.

#Animal #Animals #CuteAnimal #CuteAnimals #FunnyAnimal #FunnyAnimals #Meme #Memes

There's currently an incident involving some kind of Japanese skids who call themselves the "Kuroneko" organization.

They seem to be attempting to commit DDoS attacks on Misskey servers, constantly creating new accounts on compromised instances and spamming advertisements for their hacking services.

Admins who are federating with these compromised servers, while they might not get compromised themselves, may be affected by the sheer amount of traffic volume from their spam.

Admins are advised to #fediblock or temporarily stop sending requests to affected servers for now, if they don't want to get secondhand DoS'd

IMO I never expected them to be Japanese out of all things, kinda funny. They also host VOICEROID and VOICEVOX TTS bots on their Discord apparently. Kinda a weird flex I guess.

But yeah, probably just a bunch of skids.
#fediblock#fediadmin#fedadmins#mastodadmin#misskeyadmin

Tady je nějaká omáčka k útoku, kterej dneska proběhl na některých fediversových serverech.

Tagněte kdyžtak ještě i ostatní adminy s otevřenejma instancema, nemám úplně všechny v hlavě. Bylo by dobrý, aby se o tom vědělo.

fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9pr6th….

CC: @archos@mastodon.arch-linux.cz@xChaos@f.cz@nolog@witter.cz

Thanks for sauce: @thegibson@hackers.town gibson@hackers.town

Cappy Ishihara

2024-02-15 19:37:56

There's currently an incident involving some kind of Japanese skids who call themselves the "Kuroneko" organization.

They seem to be attempting to commit DDoS attacks on Misskey servers, constantly creating new accounts on compromised instances and spamming advertisements for their hacking services.

Admins who are federating with these compromised servers, while they might not get compromised themselves, may be affected by the sheer amount of traffic volume from their spam.

Admins are advised to #fediblock or temporarily stop sending requests to affected servers for now, if they don't want to get secondhand DoS'd

IMO I never expected them to be Japanese out of all things, kinda funny. They also host VOICEROID and VOICEVOX TTS bots on their Discord apparently. Kinda a weird flex I guess.

But yeah, probably just a bunch of skids.
#fediblock#fediadmin#fedadmins#mastodadmin#misskeyadmin

I wanted to work it out once and for all

framerate-independent lerp smoothing 🐱

Again.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…

Forgejo forks its own path forward 🚀

Forgejo started as a soft fork of Gitea. Over time, it developed its own identity, adopted both development and governance practices - to ensure the stability, quality, and openness of the project - that made it more challenging to remain a soft fork. In early 2024, a decision was made to become a hard fork, and for Forgejo to forge its own path going forward. This post explains the consequences this decision will have.

forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-fo…

Forgejo forks its own path forward

^forgejo.org

Nintendo Needs an Accessibility Shift with Switch 2 - Access-Ability

Text: access-ability.uk/2024/02/16/n…

Video: youtube.com/watch?v=DJ0x5kD8fo…

Penpot Fest is back!🎉

Mark your calendars because the 2nd edition of this fantastic Design Event is coming your way!

📍Barcelona, 5-7th June

We can't wait to share all the details with you, but for now, make sure you save the date and get ready for an incredible experience!

penpotfest.org

What is your preferred method of #2factorauthentication ? 🔑📱

Tuta offers full support for #U2F & #TOTP to keep your account secure! 🔒

👉 tuta.com/blog/posts/why-u2f-is…

Why U2F is important: How it works and why you need it.

FIDO U2F is important to secure your authentication process. It protects your account from malicious take-over, including phishing. Make sure you never lose access to your online identity!

^Tutanota

• U2F Security Keys (34%, 125 votes)
• TOTP Authenticator Apps (57%, 207 votes)
• Email Verification Codes (2%, 10 votes)
• SMS Verification Codes (5%, 18 votes)

We've signed an open letter alongside @noybeu and 26 other NOGs, notifying the Data Protection Authorities in the EU of the critical EDPB decision ahead.

In Nov '23, Meta adopted “Pay or Okay”. Users have been forced to either pay a ‘privacy fee’ (€ 251.88 per year) or agree to be tracked. The Dutch, Norwegian and Hamburg data protection authorities have requested a binding EDPB opinion on this matter.

[EN] noyb.eu/en/28-ngos-urge-eu-dpa…

[RO] apti.ro/platesti-sau-acord-pra…

28 NGOs urge EU DPAs to reject “Pay or Okay” on Meta

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) will soon issue what is likely to be its most significant opinion to date

^noyb.eu

Purism Differentiator Series, Part 5: Privacy!

To offer proper privacy protection it means to default to complete privacy protection and put all the power into the hands of the product owner.

You are in control of your device & OS.

Read Article: puri.sm/posts/purism-different…