Suspension of Inbound Parcels from China and Hong Kongabout.usps.com
Greenland’s parliament the Inatsisartut today passed a new law making it illegal for foreign entities to donate to political parties or politicians in Greenland. The law was passed with 22 to 0 votes.
That’s how much the people of Greenland want a hostile takeover from Trump and his cronies.
And in case you are wondering: X is NOT a popular medium in Greenland, so Musk will not be able to tamper with the public narrative
Source (in Danish): dr.dk/nyheder/politik/groenlan…
Anonyme og udenlandske donationer til partier og politikere er med ny lov gjort forbudt i Grønland.DR
I have been so frustrated lately with how so many things are adding complexity in the name of security. I am a firm believer in security but lately it’s been sending me on a rampage. The Int…accessaces.com
We are pleased to announce that Infomaniak has committed to sponsor DebConf25 as a Platinum Sponsor. Infomaniak is Switzerland’s leading developer of Web technologies. With operations all over Europe and based exclusively in Switzerland, the company.Debian Project
A group of developers at Hugging Face say that they've built an 'open' version of OpenAI's deep research tool.Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
Microsoft is currently developing an update to its killer PowerToys collection of Windows apps that can extract audio from a video file, allowing you to sample music or lines of dialogue from videos.Mark Hachman (PCWorld)
Late report of #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today, with 8 updated and 1 added app:
* Hypatia is the FOSS malware scanner formerly provided by DivestOS. This is a hopefully maintained fork of it.
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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
We were asked to add your fork to the IzzyOnDroid repo, and gladly complied – so it will show up here with the next sync around 7 pm UTC. At IzzyOnDroid we support Reproducible Builds (see: Reprodu...GitHub
I got this idea from nix-community github org*** btw
* I don't like centralized things generally (thats why I'm in fediverse lol) but It will be better to combine efforts to improve sustainibility in long term.
** Idk the difference but you got me i guess
*** github.com/nix-community @IzzyOnDroid
A project incubator that works in parallel of the @NixOS org - Nix community projectsGitHub
The launch of a new flagship smartphone is always met with excitement and high expectations. For tech enthusiasts, it represents the pinnacle of innovation,Amir Soleimani (Accessible Android)
With TWO HOURS TO GO left on Spritely's supporter drive I am gonna give a LIVE THREAD about why you should support @spritely and why I am SO PROUD OF THE WORK WE ARE DOING HERE! spritely.institute/donate/
Let's gooooooo!!!! 🧵
All software should be able to be social, peer-to-peer, secure over the network. This becomes clearer when you see that it's hard to convince people to use Libreoffice once Google Docs exists.
Secure collaboration is important.
It shouldn't be that writing secure, peer-to-peer applications is an exceptional thing.
Secure, peer-to-peer tech should be the DEFAULT THING you get when you write software, not the domain of experts.
Too ambitious? No! This requires some rethinking about how we write software!
If you remember when Django and Rails hit the scene, they were *revolutionary*. Not only did they make writing Web 2.0 applications *easy*, they made it so that you *learned how to think* like a Web 2.0 developer.
Spritely's work is akin to that, but for secure, collaborative, decentralized tech!
There's a lot more I could say, there's a lot more I have said in other places. I believe Spritely is the future. I know it's a lot to take in. ActivityPub was a lot to take in, once upon a time.
If you want to dive in, it's all there. All out there to read. We've got tons of information these days. Yes, I know it's a lot to absorb.
If you don't want to dive in, it's a leap of faith. Let me help you make it.
The future becomes the present when it hits peoples' hands. They start to assume of course, it was an inevitability.
Once Mastodon became a success, the popular response to ActivityPub switched from "I don't believe that could work" to "ActivityPub is obvious, anyone could have done it".
HN reply-guys always gonna armchair philosophize, act like they know everything once it's in front of their faces.
Well let me tell YOU what I think.
ActivityPub has been a big success. The fediverse as it exists has been a big success. I'm proud of that work.
But personally, I think retrospectively, it'll be a footnote in history compared to what we're doing now.
Yes, I really do believe the jump is that large.
The world is becoming far, far more dangerous of a place to be.
If human rights are going to survive, we're going to need better ways to not only communicate, but to collaborate. To do. To act.
We need stronger foundations than we have today. Stronger by a *long shot*.
I worry about the future of activism if it needs to happen on ATProto, on the fediverse, as they exist today.
*Especially* on ATProto, a system whose primary design point is "publicly index all content"; hardly safe for the current political environment. But the fediverse isn't much better.
But this also misses the point.
"Social", as perceived in "social networks", misses a lot of what "social" means to me. A lot of what I thought and assumed "social" meant when we were standardizing ActivityPub, anyway.
A society doesn't just send postcards to each other. It *does things* together.
All this research, all the work the Spritely Institute, it may seem like it's been low level, a bunch of computer science nerdery, the kinda stuff you'd expect out of a bunch of SICP-hugging catgirls.
Well, okay, it is. But it's not ONLY that.
And it's that way for a purpose.
If I need to thirst-post with copies of SICP for the sake of the Spritely fundraiser to appeal to a certain type to donate I WILL DO IT
"Christine have you no sense of shame"
I do not here is me holding a copy of Paradigms of Aritificial Intelligence Programming please please donate to the Spritely Institute spritely.institute/donate/
"Christine this is really too much"
I appeal to you one final time, one last attempt to thirstpost to a Very Particular Kind of Person into donating to the Spritely Institute
Here is me holding an ORIGINAL COPY of Guy L. Steele's dissertation, RABBIT: A Compiler for SCHEME
Please donate to the Spritely Institute spritely.institute/donate/
I used to agree with you on this, but I changed my mind.
Peer-to-peer basically requires that your users have reliable access to power and reliable internet connectivity. Most people use mobile devices, which don't satisfy any of these criteria.
Even if everybody was using Graphene OS and wasn't subject to Apple's and Google's draconian power saving policies, you can't escape the physical realities here.
I think this is the real reason why people don't use torrents any more. You can't do that on mobile, and it's not because of the APp Stores.
Somewhat-centralized / federated solutions, operated by large non-profits, seem like a much more reasonable model, Signal and Wikimedia being shining examples here.
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A maintainer tracked down an AI company that said the spam was a mistake. But reports suggest the problem is more widespread and growing.Loraine Lawson (The New Stack)
@davidbisset This didn’t make it over here for some reason, but I wanted to share that I often have nightmares that look like this.
Aaaaand there we have it.
Google’s new AI policy removes promises not work on weapons or surveillance - The Washington Post
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For macOS Sequoia 15.3 Intro This guide discusses the many ways you can change verbosity options in macOS VoiceOver, and how they work.applevis.com
The NRSC’s AM Improvement Working Group published a study examining the effects of RF noise on AM radio reception in cars.Nick Langan (Radio World)
Be wary when adding additional context only for #screenReader users. An example:
Say you're working on an e-commerce site, and some products have two prices to show how great a sale discount is. The before and after is made visually apparent via some aspect of text formatting, and you want to make it explicit for screen reader users too.
The first step is to ask if this is necessary. If a user encounters two consecutive prices and one is lower than the other, they may intuitively understand what's going on without any explicit signposting, and can verify how much they're gonna pay during the checkout process. Only your users can provide this verdict.
If it's determined that some additional context is helpful, you could format it as something like: "Was $14.99, now $8.99" (optionally swapping the prices). It's short and punchy in braille and speech, perfectly descriptive of the situation at hand, and mirrors how it may be spoken out loud on an ad.
Resist the temptation to go further than this. You do not need to say "original price: $14.99, current sale price: $8.99". This is much longer and more verbose, while adding nothing. It also implies that you think screen reader users need to be told what a price is and explained the concept of a sale, even though you're not doing so for other audiences.
You also don't need to spell out the word "dollars", format the price in words, repeat the product name, and so on. If you find yourself with screen-reader-only text like: "The current price of 500 Grams of Premium Oolong Tea was fourteen dollars and ninety-nine cents, and is now on sale for eight dollars and ninety-nine cents", it has gone way too far.
In short: Set out to identify the problems that actually need solving, and only solve those problems.
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A Grubhub security breach has exposed personal data for both customers and drivers, says the company, after an “incident” involving...Ben Lovejoy (9to5Mac)
Another ringing endorsement of cryptocurrency:
El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment
ticotimes.net/2025/02/02/el-sa…
Understand the implications of Bitcoin's downfall in El Salvador. Learn about the failed economic bet and its impact on the country's financial stability.AFP (The Tico Times | Costa Rica News | Travel | Real Estate)
The makers of Twitterrific just launched a new iPhone app for social and web feeds. Tapestry brings together Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and more.Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)
Apple announced the new invites app which is available on the App Store now
apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/int…
Apple today introduced Apple Invites, a new app for iPhone that allows users to create custom invitations to gather friends and family.Apple
🎉 Tapestry by Iconfactory is here! Your favorite blogs, social media, and more in a unified and chronological timeline with no algorithms and no tracking! Try it for FREE from the App Store: apps.apple.com/app/tapestry-by…
Tapestry weaves your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline.App Store
Carbon dating puts Saskatchewan first nation settlement site as 10,800 years old.
For settlers needing a reference point, this is as old as the oldest parts of Stonehenge, and five thousand years older than the pyramids. #archaeology
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