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🇩🇪Geleaktes Protokoll zur #Chatkontrolle netzpolitik.org/2024/interne-d… +++ Kritik nur von 6 Ländern – keine Sperrminorität! +++ Unentschieden waren noch BEL, CZE, FIN, ITA, NLD, PRT, SWE +++ EU-Juristen bestätigen Grundrechtsverletzung +++ Nur noch 5 Tage bis zur nächsten Beratung... +++

Hilf mit das digitale #Briefgeheimnis und sichere #Verschlüsselung zu verteidigen: patrick-breyer.de/hilf-jetzt-m…

Grafik: @frebelt - danke!

in reply to Patrick Breyer

🇬🇧Leak on latest #ChatControl attempt (in German): netzpolitik.org/2024/interne-d… +++ Only AUT, DEU, EST, LUX, POL, SVN were critical – no blocking minority! +++ BEL, CZE, FIN, ITA, NLD, PRT, SWE undecided +++ EU legal experts confirm violation of our fundamental rights +++ Only 5 days to next discussion +++

Help pressure our governments into defending our #privacy of correspondence and secure #encryption now: patrick-breyer.de/en/take-acti…

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Would you believe it that I bought this mooncake cos it looks pretty? Yes I am sure you would believe it.

Ps: it's actually quite nice. White lotus filling and something else...lychee?



One of the key features of @matrix is interoperability.

It’s no wonder you can spot a @mhoye working from his #MNTReform from the #matrixconf!

All the cool kids are here 😎



Back when Windows 10 was first released and for several years after, Microsoft provided a tool allowing you to show and hide updates if there were updates that were causing problems, called wushowhide. This tool is hard to find and the platform it is built on is now deprecated, so I wrote this simple Windows program to hide any unwanted Windows updates. Simply run it, wait for it to list all your available updates, and type the numbers of the updates to hide, seperated by spaces.
Note: Due to how the Windows update API works, this program requires administrative privileges to run.
Download: quinbox.xyz/files/uphide.exe
in reply to Quin

thanks a lot for this. There's a broken driver from HP here unable to update since months.


I just got an email from GitHub about a new issue for my password generator.

"Hey there!

We have detected a security vulnerability in your repository. Please contact us at https://github-scanner[.]com to get more information on how to fix this issue.

Best regards,
Github Security Team"

Uh huh. A security vulnerability for a password generator. Maybe, but I'm skeptical.

However, the issue no longer exists. Looks like GitHub took it down as spam.

I'm curious about that URL though.

1/n



#BBCNews live page on the aftermath of the #pager and walkie talkie attacks in #Lebanon bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwyl9048gx…
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in reply to Kriszta Satori

V #BBC Shaimaa Khalil:
The Japanese firm which apparently makes the walkie-talkies says production on that model stopped 10 years ago.

Icom describes the IC-V82 as a handheld radio which was exported to the Middle East from 2004 to 2014 and has not been shipped since then. The manufacturing of the batteries has also stopped, it says.

The company says it isn't possible to confirm whether the IC-V82s that exploded in yesterday's attacks were shipped directly from Icom, or via a distributor.

#bbc
in reply to Kriszta Satori

V #BBCNews Tom Bateman:
Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that the US was "still gathering the information" about the exploding pagers.

But behind the scenes, there will be another scramble in Washington to help protect Israel, this time from a potential response from Hezbollah.

Nevertheless, there is again a barely concealed sense of exasperation at the chance the attacks could amount to a significant miscalculation.



Annnnd the air quality monitoring array has been deployed at #MatrixConf! Can you guess which room the BarCamp is starting in? 😂

Tomorrow will be the real test of the venue's ventilation, as we're expecting about 4x the attendees that we have today.

We take the #HealthAndSafety of our community seriously and are requiring masks indoors this year. The data we collect will help us calibrate our approach with this venue when we return!

#PHPledge #PublicHealthPledge #AQI #COVID #OpenSource #FOSS




If you meet the prick owning 2-FMZ-865, tell them not to park on bus stops, especially not (1) when leaving your car there unattended and (2) when it's a terminus stop, where buses have to park for extended periods of time.


People are organising spontaneously around their topics of interest in typical Barcamp fashion.

And of course, the schedule is built using a Matrix widget @HarHarLinks has developed!



‘Trials of the Jedi’: The High Republic’s Final Novel Sets June 17, 2025 Release Date starwarsnewsnet.com/2024/09/tr…





These results are not surprising considering how much pro-death penalty, pro-policing, war on drugs propaganda is pumped out for Singaporean consumption—over years, over decades.

cna.asia/4goAujz



Today is a special day. It's the birthday of @brian_hartgen, my husband, my dearest love and my best friend. Happy birthday, darling. always know how very much loved and appreciated you are. x





Barcamp is starting at #matrixConf, with Yan introducing the concept and people sharing their interests for the day



The @servo booth at Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit is ready. We'll be showing Servo running on different platforms like Raspberry Pi 5, Android phone and Open Harmony board.
in reply to Manuel Rego

Later today I'll give a quick update of what happened in the project since the last member summit one year ago. Slides are available at servo.org/slides/2024-09-19-lf… and there's also a new Servo video at YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=Hz6m1lH7rq…


Der #Fingerabdruck #Sensor des Smartphones scheint nicht für die mit Händen arbeitende Bevölkerung geeignet zu sein...

Oder funktioniert das Ding bei Euch?

#Biometrie



@seanferrick Hi Sean, hope this reaches you! I just wanted to leave a huge thank you to you and your team at Trek Culture. The Ups And Downs you publish on the YouTube channel help me as a blind viewer of Star Trek immensely. I only recently got back into Trek at all, watching all through Discovery after season 5 had been fully published, and then moving on to Strange new Worlds, Picard, Prodigy, and finally Lower Decks. I had struggled with the Kelvin movies a lot and for many years couldn’t bring myself to watching the newer Star Trek stuff. But now that I’m back in, I also discovered the Trek Culture channel. And the way I watched Lower Decks was: I would watch an episode, then switch to YT and watch your Ups and downs for it. In my region, Lower Decks isn’t audio described for blind users, so I used your episodes as a substitute for that, telling me everything I missed during the watch of the episode. Thank you so much for doing these! They helped tremendously!
in reply to Marcus Herrmann

@marcus @seanferrick They totally do. Sean, who does the bulk of these Ups and Downs, verbalises the items perfectly, and citation observations, too. Take the Lower Decks episodes pertaining to the collectors. That list of items that Sean describes in the Ups and Downs for that episode, is brilliant! Sean, if you are indeed reading this, I’d love to come on your podcast and talk about this with you and Tom. :-)


We’re still setting things up at the venue, but #matrixconf has plenty of room for casual conversations. So pleased with the venue!


Gooooood morning, #MatrixConf! Can't wait to see you all in person over the next few days.

And if you can't make it, worry not -- we'll be live streaming the talks starting tomorrow! Visit our website later today for more info on that.



That’s precisely the kind of vibe we were going for the BarCamp day at the first-ever #matrixconf. Sweet and cozy!

Come to the bright side, we have… bretzels!

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Neznáte někdo nějakou aplikaci "rodičovského dohledu" pro android, kde by šlo filtrovat jak příchozí tak odchozí hovory? Potřeboval bych udělat seznam povolených čísel, na která by se dalo vola, nebo ze kterých by se dalo přijímat hovory.

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at 08:00 UTC today I will do a live-streamed release presentation of this #trurl release. On Twitch: twitch.tv/curlhacker

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NV Access are very pleased that RACQ Magazine interviewed us for an article on NVDA, "Revolutionising accessibility through a global community". RACQ noted: "A Brisbane-based not-for-profit organisation is behind a global movement breaking down barriers for blind people."

Read the full article on RACQ:

racq.com.au/road%20ahead/2024/…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #News #Impact #Community #RACQ

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Tři postřehy z povodní

Letošní velké povodně se naší rodině vyhnuly. Přesto jsem jejich průběh sledoval, protože v zasažených oblastech jsem měl vzdálenější rodinu, kolegy, známé. Jak už to u takových tragických událostí bývá, vyvolaly celou řadu diskusí: o schopnosti krajiny zadržovat vodu, budování přehrad, polderů atd. Mě ale pohledem ajťáka zaujaly tři věci.

#opendata #OpenStreetMap #povodně #povodne2024 #sociálníSítě

blog.eischmann.cz/2024/09/18/t…

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Some thoughts on how curiosity can make us fall for schemes and give passive support to projects we'd otherwise wouldn't.

Today I received an email newsletter from #Urbit. I'm a subscriber, because many many years ago, I became very curious about the technical aspects around it. This was roughly during Bitcoin's early days, when the fascination with projects that defeated Zooko's triangle overcame the concern with consequences that had not, as of yet, become manifest. I also was not aware to what extent urbit's designer was not only a fascist, but someone who had wilfully embedded feudal logic into the protocol. After acquiring a couple of free planets (I think they were called spaceships back then), I fiddled some with it, and became disappointed with the extremely weak typing system and the fact all the "down to principles of computing" sale was a scam, in the sense that anything practical can't run on Urbit other than by calling non-Urbit code (jets). The prospect of having a system that slowly freezes into perfection is a good one, but without proofs it is all arbitrary. Likewise, the choice of language made it very hard for me to program with it: by chance or not, Hoon and NOK are almost custom-designed to be tough for blind programmers. After a while I lost interest and the promise of a system that lasts forever didn't take long to break, so my credentials became useless.

Now in this newsletter I got offered a free planet, and yes, a big part of me said, "try it, take it." Curiosity and perhaps the fear of missing out on something good prodded at me, and I did open the website.

But this time I stopped myself in time. I may agree that computing as it exists is a bad model, and that we need something that individuals can understand, that is deterministic, legible, and hardens into an optimum system. But Urbit isn't that. Urbit will never be that. It's a fascist political project wrapped in a technical vision that, while having a couple of good ideas, is ill-conceived in its means and ends. I don't really want to touch that again.

in reply to modulux

In what way(s) are those particular languages bad for blind programmers?
in reply to James Scholes

It uses a lot of sigils, relies on indentation and so on. I'll give you an example. This is a hoon fragment that decrements a variable:

|= m=@
=/ n=@ 0
=/ loop
|%
++ recur
?: =(+(n) m)
n
recur(n +(n))
--
recur:loop


I've written code in a ton of languages and never found myself saying "absolutely fuck that" to the extent Hoon makes me say it.



buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Ya queda menos.



To už je zase ráno🐈🐈??? Přestaň fotit a dej nám nažrat🐺🐺!!! #dobréRáno 🤗


why am I looking at Mamiya 7 ?

(I have been wanting one for 20 years)




so I just started listening to A People's History of Computing, which I'm sure will be a good book, but which opens with some very irritating paragraphs
in reply to noarn chornsky

and thats because the world we live in is one in which the problem of centralization of software into corporate "platforms" precisely mirrors the risks of of timeshared systems
in reply to noarn chornsky

when you use a tool that is on your personal computer and doesn't have to connect to the internet to use, or doesn't have to connect to some central server to use, it is MUCH harder for corporations to abuse you


the very best end of the universe scenario is doubtless vacuum decay, as it won't leave time for anybody to even perceive it before it's already happened
in reply to ᔅᑕᕐᐗᓪ

I find it really amusing that the energy threshold needed to cause catastrophic vacuum decay to be reached by a single higgs boson particle was calculated to be roughly 16 joules. that's the same energy as like, you get from eating two tic tacs. that's so funny to me, that you could destroy the universe with 4 calories, if only you could impart it all into one particle.
youtu.be/uwtU3XmBSpE
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