If you read anything today, read this from @pluralistic - "You Should be Using an RSS Reader".

Cause you really should. Really.

Speaking of which, anyone knows of a tool somewhere that can analyze sites that don't have RSS feeds in search for changes and puts those changes on a RSS feed of its own?

'Cause that'd be really useful, you know?

pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/kee…

Wealthy tech guys are working so hard to relegitimize eugenics with a tech rebrand.

theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

#tech

Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss

Group promoting ‘dangerous’ scientific racism ideology teamed up with rightwing extremist, recordings reveal

^{Jason Wilson (The Guardian)}

We asked and you answered! Here's Tuta's updated list of best WhatsApp alternatives in 2024 👏

Which one is your favorite? 🤔 Do comment below - or check out our detailed review first!

👉 tuta.com/blog/best-whatsapp-al…

#WhatsAppalternatives #Messenger #Privacy #Encryption

Hmm, where's that poll @Seirdy made about TLS again..?

theregister.com/2024/10/15/app…

Sysadmins rage over Apple’s ‘nightmarish’ SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts

Max validity down from 398 days to proposed 45 by 2027

^{Jessica Lyons (The Register)}

Welcome to the RB family, IconRequest 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/de.ka…

With this app you can share the data for adding the icons missing in your icon pack.

Thanks to Bastian for helping us establishing #reproducibleBuilds for this app here at #IzzyOnDroid

„IconRequest“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Retrieve app icons from your installed applications

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Microsoft can't cloud

Microsoft, the company that lost the cryptographic keys that protected their cloud customers from attackers (and that was found out only using extended logging at extra cost)
wiz.io/blog/storm-0558-comprom…

now lost important log files.

archive.is/UZGyh

People go to the cloud, despite the fact that cloud is more expensive than on-premises by a factor of 5, because cloud promises to get operations right so that companies can outsource that and focus on dev.

Microsoft is NOT an operations company at all.

It can't cloud.

Compromised Microsoft Key: More Impactful Than We Thought

Our investigation of the security incident disclosed by Microsoft and CISA and attributed to Chinese threat actor Storm-0558, found that this incident seems to have a broader scope than originally assumed.

^{Shir Tamari (Wiz.io)}

Fuck Microsoft and Fuck Nadella.

As expected, the 24H2 update installed 'Recall', it can't be uninstalled.

To disable the Microcoft spyware, run this as admin

C:\Windows\System32>Dism /Online /Disable-Feature /Featurename:Recall

Can't vouch that all the people you share your screen, code, IP, private details, will disable theirs. consider NOT sharing anything ever again.

I remember some people expressing how annoyed they were with people reimplementing standard command line tools in Rust. But here is the reality of such reimplementations: hachyderm.io/@cliffle/11332081…

It isn’t just the memory safety. The reimplementations typically turn out much simpler, partly because of a more high-level language and partly because of usable dependency management.

If you have 20 times less code to maintain, you can do a lot more with it. Adding “nice to haves” like output coloring in C requires considerable effort, improving usability of these tools in Rust on the other hand is a no-brainer. That’s e.g. why duf and dust can present the output better than df and du.

And there are performance wins at almost zero cost. That’s partly due to relying on well-optimized libraries instead of own reimplementations (yes, dependency management again). But taking advantage of multi-threading and modern CPU features seems much easier in Rust as well.

Alright I'm organizing 6 weekly meetings with some very unwilling participants, so I need 6 loaf cake recipes to win them over... any recommendations? 🍰🍰🍰

Flavours so far:
- orange
- white chocolate raspberry
- pumpkin spice
- rozemary olive oil
- ???
- ???

#fediverse #cake #reccomendation

UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer’s unexpected behavior

Or maybe "I learned something"

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/10/17…

Digitale Erpressung durch App-Zwang: Immer mehr Dienste zwingen uns zur Nutzung von Apps – und das auf Kosten unserer Daten und Wahlfreiheit. Ob Online-Banking, Bonusprogramme oder Rabatte, ohne App geht oft nichts mehr. Datenschutz bleibt dabei auf der Strecke, während die Abhängigkeit von wenigen Großkonzernen wächst. Es ist höchste Zeit, Alternativen zu fordern und die digitale Selbstbestimmung zu bewahren! #AppZwang #Datenschutz #DigitaleFreiheit

kuketz-blog.de/kommentar-digit…

Kommentar – Digitale Erpressung: Der unaufhaltsame Vormarsch des App-Zwangs

Der App-Zwang nimmt Nutzern die Wahlfreiheit, zwingt zur Nutzung von Apple- und Google-Diensten und macht Datenschutz ohne technisches Know-how fast unmöglich.

^{www.kuketz-blog.de}

FINALLY! Open-source LIVE CAPTIONS for your Linux desktop that run locally! No internet connection, no spyware!

github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions

FUTO is a company that grants young developers means to build awesome tools like this one. Tools that help digital sovereignty.

futo.org/projects/

All I need now is a model that will translate all the Russians in #CounterStrike for me :D

#Accessibility #HearingAid #Deaf #FUTO #FreeSoftware #FairSoftware #MachineLearning

Do you live in one of the countries in red?

If so, your government is pushing for the EU Chat Control law which mandates mass surveillance via fully automated real-time surveillance of messaging and chats

See:
patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/cha…

Accrescent recently surpassed 1,000 stars on GitHub 🥳! Thank you to everyone for your continued support!

If you'd like to help us grow, check out accrescent.app/faq#contributin…. There are lots of ways to contribute even if you can't code!

github.com/accrescent/accresce…

#security #privacy #appstore #accrescent #android

Accrescent Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to frequently asked questions about Accrescent.

^Accrescent

Monal 6.4.5 (Build 982, PR #1258) released.

To see the complete list of bugfixes and improvements, check our releases page: github.com/monal-im/Monal/rele…

Appstore install links:
apps.apple.com/app/id317711500 (iOS)
apps.apple.com/app/id163707850… (macOS)

#Monal #ios #macos #xmpp #im #chat #messaging

‎Monal - XMPP Chatting

‎There has never been a better time to get into XMPP, a free public chat network no one controls or owns. Monal is a fast and user friendly way to use XMPP. Just download the app, login or register and you are ready to chat in minutes.

^{App Store}

"You should be using an RSS reader" - yessss

for example the @delta bot at feedsb@mailchat.pl: i.delta.chat/#024C525D627CBF5A…

And then send "/sub pluralistic.net/feed" to it as the first command! You will not regret it.

---> @pluralistic