If you buy a Mac with Sequoia on their closed arm SOC you're contributing to the enshittification of general purpose computing and will get the feudalized computing experience webserfs crave.
hackaday.com/2024/11/01/apple-…
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Twitch are updating their rules & decided that LGBTQ+ is a "Sensitive social issue" & needs to be hidden behind a content warning.

Obviously this is bad for LGBTQ+ streamers & a slippery slope, so please if you're a twitch user, vote on this feedback petition:

twitch.uservoice.com/forums/93…

There's a lot more I could have written about this but... look we've all seen this a million times before, we know how it works, how bad actors abuse it to mass report and bully and where it all goes.

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Hey folks, thanks to @bagder and @kees , I managed to compute the "Source code age" from the GLPI project, which I'm working on, and it's really fun because we can see a lot of nice information on it!

To sum it up: the code is very dynamic, and compared to Curl (which you can see here: mastodon.social/@bagder/113399… ) , we can definitely see that it doesn't endorse backwards compatibility: there are a lot of refactorings of big parts of the codebase! 🎉

(I'm running this on Symfony too, stay tuned)

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Welcome Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen as #curl commit author 1313: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1547…
#curl

Táta půjde na operaci s kolenem a na dobu, co bude marodit, mi půjčil pracovní nebeskou Felicii, abych jí udržovala v provozu 💙 Jízda tichá, nic nebouchá, světla svítí, stěrače stírají, bez posilovače řízení, vepředu i vzadu švihadla, přidaný denní svícení a dálkový centrální zamykání... prostě stará dobrá klasika bez zbytečný elektroniky 😀👌🏻

Thirty six years almost to the day after the release of the Morris Worm, OKTA announces they've just patched a bug where you can just log in with no password if your username is too long.

Could we please, before the Morris Worm turns forty years old, make a habit of, god help us all maybe even a standard practice of, sanitizing our inputs.

trust.okta.com/security-adviso…

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Encryption backdoors must never be allowed. To prove that Tuta Mail and Tuta Calendar are free from any backdoor, the entire client code is published as open source. Let's fight against mass surveillance! ✊

tuta.com/blog/why-a-backdoor-i…

#privacy #encryption #surveillance #backdoors

Fake videos from Russian propagandists aim to raise tensions ahead of Election Day - NPR apple.news/Ab1jgHqgtQ8Gni_R994…

Die #Musik von #Silentlive hörte ich vor einigen Jahren in einem kleinen #Café in #Wałbrzych - ich versuchte der Kellnerin verständlich zu machen, dass ich die CD gern einfach sofort kaufen würde. Nach einigem hin und her verkaufte sie mir ihr eigenes Exemplar. Eine schöne Erinnerung.

silentlive.pl/
#Music #FromTheEast #Poland #FediMusic

In my 20 years of podcasting, I’ve tried many services for recording podcast interviews. I’ve found nothing better than Cleanfeed, because it’s reliable and flexible. While there are services that record locally and then upload, all of them glitch out at one time or another, because there is a lot of complexity in getting that right. It’s heartbreaking to lose a good interview because your double-ender service had a bad hair day. It happens far too much.
Cleanfeed is also good for broadcasting and other live events. During the lockdowns, many broadcasters were using Cleanfeed to send entire shows, including high quality stereo music streams, back to radio stations.
I did an explanation and demonstration of Cleanfeed in The Blind Podmaker podcast which is still relatively current.
I say all this because Cleanfeed has just come out with a very nice update for iPhones using USB-C. You can now use a USB-C audio device including audio interfaces, come into Cleanfeed through safari for iOS, and Cleanfeed will recognise the audio device. This is going to be a big deal for people who want to participate in high quality podcasts or live broadcasts while on the go. If a radio station has a broadcaster in the field for some reason, coming in through Cleanfeed and a USB-C audio device is going to sound way better than a FaceTime call.
Best of all, Cleanfeed’s developers care deeply about #accessibility. They’ve responded positively to many of my suggestions and those of others in the blind podcasting community.
You can find Cleanfeed at cleanfeed.net.

I had a talk called "Unbreakable Linux for Entire Family" today. It had nothing to do with Oracle #Linux, it was about concepts and approaches around #Fedora #Silverblue to make a truly free ChromeOS-like system for friends and family.
I was happy to have a full room of people. It's good to see #OpenAlt bouncing back in terms of attendance.

The recording of the talk (in Czech) is already available online:
youtube.com/live/7Xhs8zP8xwI?t…

in reply to Mrs McCrimmon

Also this made me miss Kieran Hodgson's bad #DoctorWho impressions - which were actually completely on point.

youtube.com/watch?v=OedNVdX2U2…

Falls der (Fach-)Arzttermin nur über #Doctolib vereinbart werden kann, geht anschließend wie folgt vor: Fordert zunächst eine Datenauskunft gemäß Art. 15 DSGVO an und veranlasst danach die Löschung eurer Daten gemäß Art. 17 DSGVO. Jedes Mal. Wirklich jedes Mal. Geht ganz einfach über Datenanfragen! 👇

datenanfragen.de/

For many years I've believed that Facebook and Instagram were secretly downloading phone photos in the background. Because when you go to post a photo, it gets sent far too quickly to have done a download at the same time.

Yesterday I found this video from an Instagram founder, and damned if I wasn't right.

It doesn't appear to be all photos, just the most recent one (ones?). It's not clear from the video if it happens when you launch the app, or when you hit compose. They're doing it on the assumption you're about to post some recent photos. They claim it's okay because if you don't post it, they delete it.

That's classic Meta self-serving bullshit. The "Yeah, it's wrong, but it's okay because we're Meta and we're smart" excuse they always use.

It is not okay to upload my photos without my explicit consent. It's not okay to chew up my bandwidth when I may be deliberately trying to keep it low. IANL, but that first, frankly, sounds like class action material.

It doesn't matter that they claim to delete it. They just introduced a privacy risk. That could have been a nude of my spouse. That could have been a photo of my kid I was sending to my doctor. That could have been a photo of a contract I'm not allowed to share. All to save a few seconds they can brag about.

When Apple allowed you to selectively make photos available to app, I turned the feature on for Meta apps. This makes posting photos a pain, because Meta doesn't uses Apple's UI for choosing which photos they can see and selecting them at the same time. It's a multistep process and it isn't obvious how to do it. Ironically, it means that I rarely post to Instagram anymore. A fact that just reinforces my belief that Meta really wants full photo access and deliberately isn't fixing the issue.

Auch das ist #DisabledAlltag : In Werkstätten für einen mickrigen Stundenlohn schufften, ohne Arbeitnehmer*innen-Rechte, während andere sich eine goldene Nase verdienen. Inklusion? Fehlanzeige!

Das Team von andererseits hat gemeinsam mit der Süddeutschen Zeitung zu Behindertenwerkstätten recherchiert.

Unbedingt lesen!

andererseits.org/werkstaetten/

#WfMmB #WfbM #Inklusion #UNBRK #IhrBeutetUnsAus

Ugh, the #chrome #extension ecosystem is exactly as bad as I'd expect.

And the fact extension is still up claiming not to collect any data even if it has been called out in one of the biggest security newsletters shows how much Google care about this (not much). The only thing they care about is pretending to ship AI features to detect malicious extensions. Because that's how you get promoted.

I mean is it even possible to report a suspicious or bad extension? I don't see anywhere

Great research by @WPalant and @c0m4r

And @campuscodi for putting the spotlight on it.

Oh, neat! A new open source app for Fuji cameras.

github.com/petabyt/fudge

Currently Android and WiFi only, just supporting transfers so far. Bluetooth is planned, as is location support. Desktop and iOS versions are listed on the roadmap.

#Fuji #camera #OpenSource #FOSS #Android

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US folks: If you've not voted early, and don't yet have plans to vote, please make plans over the weekend! If early voting is still available in your area, take some time out of your day and get it done.

For those who have already voted via mail or in-person early voting, here are resources to check the status of your ballot: vote.org/ballot-tracker-tools/

I dream of someday giving a conference talk titled "A Majestic Minilith", drawing its title from DHH's "majestic monolith" (signalvnoise.com/svn3/the-maje…) plus the Minilith from Arthur C. Clarke's _2061_. In this talk, I would show a full-stack web app written in Rust (or maybe some other AOT-compiled language), where the whole thing is a single binary, and show via live demo with audience participation that it can handle a decent number of concurrent users on a low-power home router.

Hier gibt es meinen ausführlichen Bericht zur Antwort der🚦auf meine schriftliche Frage zum Ausmaß der Förderung von #Blockchain ⛓️ durch den Bund u ob die Reg. überhaupt mal guckt, was aus den letzten 215 mio € #Fördergeld für Gedöns seit 2017 geworden ist: mdb.anke.domscheit-berg.de/202…

PICs: Screenshots aus dem verlinkten Text, u.a. ein #tl;dr u eine Gegenüberstellung von #hypetech Förderung u #Opensource Förderung