Heavy #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 19 updated and 4 added apps:

* Compose Stopwatch: Materialized You stop watch 🛡️
* Cavity: Wine cellar manager 🛡️
* Dahdidahdit: Morse code trainer for ham radio enthusiasts
* Clock: timer, stopwatch, sliding clock, and one-time and recurring alarms 🛡️

3 out of these 4 are #reproducibleBuilds 🥳

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:

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Canadian Ken Westerfeld during his World Champion of Freestyle days. Back then, the scene was in the park behind the Ontario Legislature buildings, and top athletes like Ken were happy to throw with whomever showed up. How very weird.

That attitude made an indelible mark on my soul. Thanks, Ken, wherever you are!

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Re Telegram - two main issues are apparently at play. One is child porn, the other is concerns about ransomware/extortion groups. The big concern is rightly about the first one.

With the later, groups targeting France (and the UK) have been dumping victim data on Telegram groups, with Telegram directly hosting the data and then failing to remove it.

Telegram is not an encrypted platform - the groups are plain text.

Telegram has <50 staff and 1 billion monthly active users.

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With regards to Elon’s claim today that a majority of Mastodon content is child porn - this isn’t true.

Some Fediverse servers are unsavoury - as an instance admin, you can chose to defederate them or not cache media content. You would only encounter this if a user interacted with it.

After approaching two years of being a Mastodon admin to a server with tens of thousands of users, I’ve only ever seen one post which was concerning - I removed the server and reported it to relevant authorities.

With Trump waffling on whether he’ll show up, I’m confident that Debate Day, September 10, is going to be a big one for the Mastodon for Harris fundraiser. Either way we’ll be showing our support for #Harris and reminding Trump that her supporters are more numerous and enthusiastic than his. But no need to wait that long to make this point. You can donate right now at secure.actblue.com/donate/mast….

We've just become aware of a resource written for those who are #Blind and seeking employment. The person who told us about it says: "you can either read it directly on the webpage, or there is an accessible word document and I believe and accessible PDF. The author is blind, so he certainly did his best to make sure the book was accessible as possible to anyone who wanted to use it." Find it here:
respectability.org/people-with…
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A lire dans blog.cryptographyengineering.c… : e2ee "is only available for one-on-one conversations, and never for group chats with more than two people in them. " , fermez le ban.

I haven't even finished my coffee yet but I've already come across a bunch of bad takes on the telegram thing today.

I've already boosted this, but I'm begging everyone to read this post by @evacide before forming a strong opinion on this:

hachyderm.io/@evacide/11302452…

Join us at the #LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024! Even better: give a talk there 😊 The call for papers is still open: events.documentfoundation.org/… #foss #OpenSource

NIST has been working on a "Digital Identity Guidelines" document for a while, with the second draft being prepared for its final review:

nist.gov/news-events/news/2024…

It looks like they want to include facial recognition as one of the options, but they insist that any solutions will need to take privacy into account.

I'm glad they're considering that, but I don't see any mention of relatively simple methods for fooling these systems, as discussed in this article (among others):

vice.com/en/article/hackers-fo…

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see also "We Broke Into A Bunch Of Android Phones With A 3D-Printed Head" which can be read in full if you disable javascript:

forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste…

Allowing police officers to submit LLM-written reports reveals a remarkable misunderstanding of what LLMs do, a profound indifference to the notion of integrity in the communications of law enforcement with the justice system, or both.

Given how readily subject to suggestion human witnesses—including police officers—are known to be, this is a disaster.

Yes, police reports aren't always the most accurate, but introducing an additional layer of non-accountability is bad.

apnews.com/article/ai-writes-p…

I really enjoyed @yatil new article on WCAG levels. When the WCAG Guidelines were being created members tried to correlate the different levels (A, AA, AAA) based on how difficult they'd be to implement. It would be helpful if the standards within each level designation were checked again. The standards could be regrouped based on their current level of difficulty. Please check out the full article for more information. #accessibility yatil.net/blog/wcags-a-and-aa-…

This year is the 30th anniversary of W3C. On Wednesday 25 September, at W3C@30, we will explore the impact of W3C standards on the world, imagine the possibilities for the next 30 years and celebrate our community with talks and a gala at our annual #w3cTPAC conference in Anaheim, CA.

Thank you to our sponsors @igalia and mesur.io. Organizations and individuals can sponsor the event (your sponsorship may be tax deductible if you pay US taxes)

See more:
w3.org/2024/09/TPAC/w3c-30.htm…

Ridicule.

"La Ville de Beauharnois lui a envoyé deux avis de nuisances en juillet. Elle y indique avoir constaté lors d’inspections que « différents arbustes ne sont pas entretenus et poussent de manière désordonnée » sur son terrain."

"De son côté, M. Brossoit fait part de son incompréhension face à ces inspections, alors que de l’herbe à poux foisonne jusque sur la bordure du trottoir sur le terrain d’une résidence voisine."

#Québec #RébellionFruitière

lapresse.ca/actualites/environ…

"Trudeau says Canada will slap big tariffs on Chinese EVs "

In other news Governing for the lobbies. The Govt already killed the Canadian made Zenn car a decade and a half ago.

And nothing in sight to force the lobbies to produce smaller and cheaper EV.

(putting aside that EV are not the golden hammer of climate action)

cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-h…

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in reply to Hubert Figuière

This is more complex than governing for the lobbies. This is not only to entertain the local economy (feeding the local workers rather than these at the other end of the planet), but also to prevent dependence, dumping, takeovers.

But I hope that there will be incentives for local <25k$ cars; while a good portion of people could use active or collective transportation most of the time, we do need cars, sometimes, and we'd better use energy-efficient ones that don't suffocate our closed, non-infinite atmosphere.

#Telegram and #Durov are once again in the media, so I translated my May piece about the service to English:

Telegram is neither "secure" nor "encrypted"
rys.io/en/171.html

Calling Telegram "secure" or "encrypted" is misleading, and is journalistic malpractice.

Telegram itself seems to mislead about it on purpose.

Telegram's encryption protocol is suspicious and transmits cleartext device identifiers with every message.

They have been called out for it many times, and refuse to change.

Heya everyone, I thought I posted this here last night, but apparently I didn't..

I regret to inform you that the Screen Shot Off The Record plugin that we linked to briefly was found to have a key logger and was sending screen shots to unwanted parties.

So if you have this plugin installed, you will want to remove it immediately.

You can see our official post about this at pidgin.im/posts/2024-08-malici…

We are planning a more indepth post in the near future.

I really like the idea of, instead of collaborating on a document via (for example) Google's servers and Google Docs, being able to have collaborators' computers talk to each other directly and share edits that way.

I really hope that "local-first" gains at least the sort of steam the FOSS movement has — as I've seen people comment, FOSS doesn't help if your computation is happening on someone else's computer.

wired.com/story/the-cloud-is-a…

#LocalFirst #Cloud #CloudComputing #FOSS #Libre

in reply to Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)

Local first has some really gnarly problems that you pretty much need centralized servers to fix, one way or another. Direct connectivity between people isn't possible any more. THe fact that most people are on devices that heavily restrict background app activity to make the batteries actually last, the IPV4 shortage, lack of IPV6 adoption and CG NATS don't help either.

Isaac Hayes III posted on Sunday that ♦️Donald Trump and his campaign have been served in their #federal #lawsuit alleging 134 instances of #copyright #infringement.

Just like anyone else, ⚠️political campaigns are not allowed to use music for their own gain without permission or buying a license.

Since Trump has continued to violate the copyright of the Hayes estate, 🔸an emergency federal hearing was granted on September 3.

By choosing to disrespect the rights and work of others, Donald Trump is now forced to show up in federal civil court as the defendant in a case that could cost him millions of dollars.

politicususa.com/2024/08/25/tr…

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Guess what Ableton Live 12 uses... @bagder

I guess that by copyright year, it must be an olf libcurl version

Curl
curl.haxx.se/libcurl/

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Unfortunately, your New Features video is completely inaccessible to blind users since all I hear is music. There's no audio description or verbal narrative of any kind. Admittedly, you do have the transcript which is certainly accessible and it does help but at that point I'd rather just read the page containing more details about the new features.
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