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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 16 updated and 1 added apps:

* Paranoid's Pal - Privacy Lock: lets you quickly lock your device and safeguard your data

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


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. 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
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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#IzzyOnDroid adopted the Contributor Covenant (see contributor-covenant.org/). So while in the past we suggested you to add our badge or shield to your Readmes when your app became available at the #IzzyOnDroid repo, now it's time for us to adopt a shield. The first of our repositories already have it in their Readmes, the others will follow soon, so you can easily find it: codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/.prof…

#codeOfConduct #contributorCovenant


.profile/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md at master

.profile - Profile page for IzzyOnDroid
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UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare data breach affects over 100 million people in America techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/unit…

UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare hack affects over 100 million, the largest-ever US healthcare data breach | TechCrunch

UnitedHealth, the largest U.S. health insurance provider, blamed a Russia-based ransomware gang for the huge data breach of U.S. medical data.
Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)

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Ustup, Jamesi Bonde, přicházejí Clever a Smart 😎😎

Pracovat na těchhle španělských kultovkách je radost.

První díl je venku, druhý v tisku, třetí rozpracovaný, čtvrtý podepsaný.

Těšte se na hybridní hantecíček, zpotvořenou němčinu, slovní hříčky vázané na obraz (dík, komikse ❤️) a originální citoslovce od mého manžela, protože já nikdy nevím, co to dělá za zvuk, když někdo třeba maluje barvou zeď. @stepan ví, že "šmrdli šmrdli". 🤷‍♀️

@Štěpán Škorpil

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A long two days of coding, but I've finally got a good method of sending #Grafana and #Cloudflare alerts to #XMPP set up: github.com/deuill/webhook-gate…

A number of similar projects exist, but none that could set up multiple pipelines/gateways. Hopefully this is useful to someone; blog-post covering the setup here, including deployment on the Google Cloud Run free tier, is coming soon!


GitHub - deuill/webhook-gateway: A service for transporting WebHooks from Grafana, Cloudflare Notifications, etc. to XMPP, IRC, etc.

A service for transporting WebHooks from Grafana, Cloudflare Notifications, etc. to XMPP, IRC, etc. - deuill/webhook-gateway
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#xmpp #cloudflare #grafana
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The Intercept

In two years, AIPAC has become one of the largest outside spenders in congressional elections. We’ve chronicled its power through coverage of individual races, but never before has AIPAC’s massive outflow of money been analyzed in sum. interc.pt/3A8nTAH

How Does AIPAC Shape Washington? We Tracked Every Dollar.

The Intercept followed AIPAC’s money trail to reveal how its political spending impacts the balance of power in Congress.
Akela Lacy (The Intercept)
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The Intercept

Ahead of 2024 and amid growing public outrage over Israel’s war on Gaza, AIPAC made a bold pronouncement: Through its United Democracy Project arm and AIPAC PAC, it would spend $100 million on elections, about one-sixth of what outside groups spent on the 2020 presidential election. interc.pt/3A8nTAH

How Does AIPAC Shape Washington? We Tracked Every Dollar.

The Intercept followed AIPAC’s money trail to reveal how its political spending impacts the balance of power in Congress.
Akela Lacy (The Intercept)

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We fight for our rights to vote. Ballot Marking Devices (BMDs) help blind people vote privately and independently. However, our surveys show that one-third of all poll workers do not know how to operate BMDs and that some blind and low-vision voters are not familiar with BMD accessibility features. So, to solve this problem, we have produced videos that demonstrate how to use BMDs. You can watch the videos at nfb.org/vote

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I wish there were more indie GNOME apps (including for example Shortwave, Pika backup, Authenticator, and Monophony) available in the main #Fedora RPM repositories, because waiting 30 minutes for flatpak to download 1 gigabyte of runtimes' delta updates (out of multiple GBs) on a slow Internet connection in rural or under-developed areas (or on mobile data connections), for a 10 megabytes app, is absolutely not fun.
Screenshot of "flatpak update" needing to download 1 gigabyte of dependencies delta updates for a 10 megabytes application update
#fedora

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TIL you can link directly to text content in a web page without using an ID attribute

#WebDevelopment

alfy.blog/2024/10/19/linking-d…


Smarter than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content

Discover how text fragments revolutionize web navigation. Learn to link directly to specific text on any web page, surpassing traditional 'Ctrl+F' searches.
Ahmad Alfy's Blog
#webdevelopment
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In 2021, Spotify launched Wellness week, where we get off work for most of the company as a time to recharge, reset. (hrblog.spotify.com/2021/11/01/…) and has continued yearly since, which makes me super glad to work at a place where mental health gets recognition to this level. Next week is no work for me (and many of my colleagues) so I'll be able to get a break from most things code-related. I will not wrap myself up in some random hobby project! Need to relax.

Spotify Wellness Week

In March 2020, just like the millions of businesses around the world, we closed all of Spotify’s offices overnight due to the spread of COVID-19, and asked all of our band members to work from home.
HR Blog
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Bluesky has raised a $15m series A

This just in time for the weekend, so we’ll be treated to endless tirades about the satanic rites of venture capital

and why the One True Way of building a pure and decent social platform is a grumpy dude paid a terrible wage to ignore user feedback

bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2…


Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky

Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video.
Bluesky

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Sicherheitsforscher, die im gesellschaftlichen Interesse Schwachstellen finden und melden, sollen sich nicht mehr strafbar machen. Das fordert das Justizministerium in einem Gesetzentwurf, den wir veröffentlichen. @Lilith und der @CCC begrüßen den ersten Schritt – und fordern weitere Änderungen. netzpolitik.org/2024/hacker-pa…

Hacker-Paragrafen: Wir veröffentlichen den Gesetzentwurf zum Computerstrafrecht

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@CCC @Lilith Wittmann

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This letter written by Charles Babbage in 1840 is fascinating ...

... since it appears to be his earliest ever attempt to describe computational recursion in plain language

He *had* to use plain language -- the very concepts he was struggling to enunciate didn't yet have names

As Bruce Sterling puts it, this passage is “a breathless, painful description of the unique ability of software to operate on itself”

Item #12 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompson/a…

A letter handwritten by Charles Babbage, in a neat script. It reads, in part: "“Those who are acquainted with the loom are aware that by means of cards having certain holes punched in them it is possible to weave with the SAME loom ANY design however complicated. The design is translated into cards and these direct the motions of the threads. By similar means the motions of the Calculating Engine are directed. Any formula however complicated is translated into cards and these being placed in the Engine it works out that particular formula and gives its numerical value”. “In one respect however it advances beyond the cards of Jacard. For in the case of the development of functions it backs the cards more or less so as to repeat the operation according to any assigned laws thus enabling a small number of cards to supply the place of a great many and rendering it unnecessary to effect the algebraic redevelopment of a function in order to make the cards the LAWS of that development only being communicated by the cards”.

Linkfest #25: The "Third Thumb", Prairie Strips, and Science Proves People Love Spoilers

Hello folks! It’s time for my latest “Linkfest” — i.e. "the opposite of doomscrolling”, in which I ceaselessly roam the Internet’s Plutonian shores to find...
The Linkfest
#12

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I've donated to #SuperSwingDistricts, a strategy for donating to local candidates in important races that are also likely to "turn out" many voters who wouldn't have voted for the federal candidate otherwise. Thanks @glyph for building and sharing this 💜

Please take a look, this strategy seems compelling to me:

#uspol superswingdistricts.org/

Super Swing Districts

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#uspol #superswingdistricts @Glyph

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@mush42 @ZBennoui I found a TTS library that's interesting. Can this be light and efficient so it can be added to Sonata a longside Piper and the upcoming OptiSpeech? github.com/myshell-ai/MeloTTS

GitHub - myshell-ai/MeloTTS: High-quality multi-lingual text-to-speech library by MyShell.ai. Support English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

High-quality multi-lingual text-to-speech library by MyShell.ai. Support English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. - myshell-ai/MeloTTS
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@Musharraf @Zach Bennoui

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If only there was a different browser with arm64 builds 😁

From: @benschwarz
front-end.social/@benschwarz/1…

benschwarz (@benschwarz@front-end.social)

⭐ At the moment Google Chrome isn't available on arm64 architecture. Automations that use Chrome have to run on hotter, more power hungry and expensive CPUs 🔥 If you want to see Chrome running on more efficient hardware, star this issue: https://iss…
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I think the tide is starting to turn in GNOME and free desktop accessibility for blind people. Check out this positive message on the Orca mailing list, from a former vocal critic of free desktop accessibility: freelists.org/post/orca/Thanks…

Note: This has nothing to do with the work I did earlier this year prototyping a new Wayland-native accessibility stack. So I'm not being self-congratulatory.

[orca] Thanks so much for Orca - orca - FreeLists

[orca] Thanks so much for Orca, orca at FreeLists
www.freelists.org

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Sorry for being the party pooper, but my dream, 30 years ago, when I first experienced The Web with the NCSA Mosaic browser on a SUN SPARCStation LX, was definitely not that I will spend a lot of time clicking away nasty pop-ups, cookie banners and filtering 1000s of trackers. But maybe that’s just me … w3c.social/@w3c/11335733218686…

World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)

At W3C@30, Jun Murai spoke about "One internet and the web" "So what started from the original idea, like a dream, 60 years ago, now turned out to be a reality. And, this is a space we are working for.
w3c.social

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Having to tap the "don't support the Factorio devs sign" again but no one will listen because no one really cares.

resetera.com/threads/the-direc…


The director of Factorio (shown during Nintendo Direct) has a history of sexism, homophobia and racism...

In early summer of 2021, we had a thread regarding this situation. While it was discussed in the gaming community for a bit, it faded away fairly quickly. During today's Nintendo Direct, I hadn't...
ZeoVGM (ResetEra)

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The GNOME Foundation Board is seeking input on what people would like to see from GUADEC in the future. We'd love to hear your thoughts.

discourse.gnome.org/t/feedback…


Feedback wanted: what do you want from GUADEC?

The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors is planning to revisit our future events strategy, particularly the question of where GUADEC should be held. We would like to hear input from the community before we discuss it ourselves.
GNOME Discourse

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This article provides tips for content authors on how to create accessible posts. This includes writing using plain language, incorporating alternative text for images, providing clear instructions for forms, using labels for buttons or links, and providing a clear title for each webpage. wcag.com/resource/wcag-quick-t… #accessibility

WCAG Quick Tips for Content Writers | WCAG

Writing in plain language, providing clear instructions and page titles and other important guidance and tips for content writers.
Mitesh Gudhka (WCAG)
#Accessibility

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I wonder if any Linux-capable system-on-module that can be purchased in small quantities has power management competitive with modern smartphones. The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, the SOM used in the BT Speak Pro (blazietech.com/bt-speak-pro), definitely doesn't. Deane Blazie said as much on the BT Speak support forum. So they have to use a big battery (8200 mAh, compare with typical smartphones) for decent battery life. Used more efficiently, that big battery could allow impressive battery life.

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Gmail, Outlook, they all offer an “Unsend” feature – but did you know that this only delays sending your email?

Do you use the “Unsend” feature or do you dislike the forced delay? Let us know in the comments!

Find out more about the “Unsend” feature 👉tuta.com/blog/how-to-unsend-em…

#Email #Emailtips #Unsend #Emailundo

Did you know that your email is never actually unsent?

How to unsend an email – the ultimate guide. | Tuta

Clicked send only to realize a mistake? Learn how to unsend an email in Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, Yahoo, and from your iPhone.
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#email #emailtips #unsend #emailundo

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Welcome Kazuho Oku as #curl commit author 1310: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1539…

[ngtcp2] set max window size to 10x of initial (128KB), as the quiche backend does by kazuho · Pull Request #15392 · curl/curl

QUIC backends use flow control windows initially set to 128KB. In #14880, the maximum size used by the quiche backend was increased to 1280KB, but that of the ngtcp2 backend remained at 128KB. With...
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It seems to me that programming discourse has been dominated for several years by calls for intentional mediocrity, either voluntary or enforced. We're supposed to use languages, or language subsets, that are approachable to the average programmer. What happened to beating the averages (paulgraham.com/avg.html) and "succinctness is power" (paulgraham.com/power.html)? To using every available tool to make hard problems solvable and keep increasing our effectiveness without artificial limits?

Beating the Averages

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idlestate's SDF liason acct

This, slightly further down in the comments, along with the idea of Kernighan's Lever, gets to the problem with that sort of flexing:

"This implies that programmers exist in isolation. Most of the code I read was not written by me. If the subset of the language that I stick to is a completely disjoint subset to the one a collaborator sticks to, we can’t review each others’ code. If I jump into a new project and it’s using a distinct subset of the language to the one 1/2

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@torvalds on the removal of some [russian] entries from the MAINTAINERS file:

lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3Dwh…

"'It's entirely clear why the change was done, it's not getting reverted [...]

[…] the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing.

If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. […]

[…] I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be *supporting* Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too."

Re: [PATCH] Revert "MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements." - Linus Torvalds

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@Linus Torvalds
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