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Tamas G

wonder if it will create a slippery slope argument around it, E. usually ISPs detect piracy through torrent seeding, so by that logic, any of it that doesn't directly re-upload the content is not "real" pirating of material, something rights holders would never agree with. Ironically though, they're the ones asking to unseal the court records of ISP infringers based on who has seeded it, so it may require they up their game or tactic for detecting and flagging systems.
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Signal has long said it'd "rather shut down or leave a market" than add a backdoor or weaken its encryption.

Apple also had this option when it was ordered by the UK government to build an iCloud backdoor. Apple could have said — without violating secrecy laws — why it was leaving the UK, rather than weaken the security of all of its UK customers.

Instead, Apple capitulated to the demand to keep operating, and prioritized its profits over its customers' security.

techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/appl…


Apple pulls iCloud end-to-end encryption feature for UK users after government demanded backdoor | TechCrunch

In an unprecedented step, Apple caved to a reported U.K. government’s demand to prevent users from using end-to-end encryption in iCloud.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
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Noah

While only semi-related to your post, I just read up on the "Sentry Mode" on this thing which sent me down a rabbit hole of security nightmares. The ways in which these vehicles violate privacy, not just of the owners, but of random people just walking by them is both astounding and horrifying.

Also sentry mode drains the battery quickly and only works if the battery is over 20%, which I'm definitely not sharing for reasons related to this post. Definitely not.

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Today's victory over enshittification:

I mainly bought my new Google TV Streamer device to listen to audio-only content. So imagine my disappointment when it only worked for 10 minutes. Video worked fine, as did Spotify somehow. Auto-shutdown was set to an hour, and the ambient mode app was disabled. Audio playback just stopped and turned off the receiver and TV entirely, and I exchanged enough connections to know the streamer was the initiator.

The fix, apparently, is to enable developer mode, go into the developer mode settings, check the option to keep the screen awake, then audio-only content like Antennapod works. I guess audio-only apps don't keep the screen alive which, in turn, sends CEC to kill everything else. Hoping auto-shutdown takes over when I stop streaming so this isn't too wasteful.

What an absolute crock. I shouldn't need to be an Android developer to figure this shit out.

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"Previously best known for guest appearances on a handful of TV shows (Difficult People, Elementary) and some shows on and off-Broadway, Tramell Tillman has been a revelation on Severance. As Seth Milchick, he represents many of the show’s most important themes without feeling like a walking billboard for them. He brings humanity and life to a character who seems like he’s constantly hiding an aspect of himself from everyone else."

polygon.com/tv/520841/severanc…


Severance’s best-kept secret is finally getting his due in season 2

Tramell Tillman’s incredible performance as Seth Milchick is crucial to Severance’s balancing of its disparate tones, and to its central mystery.
Pete Volk (Polygon)
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Jason Lefkowitz FINAL (2).DOCX

"One thing I wanted to understand was, what is the town of Kier like? I presume that Milchick grew up in Kier — is it racially diverse? And if it’s not, is race a thing? I remember asking Ben [Stiller, the director and executive producer] — I said, 'There’s nothing in the script that suggests that he is specifically Black, but you specifically wanted a Black actor to play this role.' So my question was: 'Milchick is Black. Does he know that he’s Black?'"

nytimes.com/2025/02/15/arts/te…


Tramell Tillman of ‘Severance’ Gives Himself a Performance Review

His character, the smiling menace Mr. Milchick, has more responsibility in Season 2. He also has more of the spotlight.
Sarah Bahr (The New York Times)
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Have a very early look at Keypad, one of the many games you'll find in Brain Station. In this game, I have to enter words using a telephone keypad. To add complexity, the keypad uses q, W, E as 1, 2, and 3. A, S, and D as 4, 5, and 6, and so on. There is no bottom row, with star 0 and pound because who needs that. Some features are still missing, but not bad for 90 minutes of work.

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#MastoAdmin folks who weren't around the #Fediverse and #Mastodon back in 2018 may not know (or those who were, may have forgotten) how unpopular trending tags were when the project leader forced it despite extensive criticism about creating abuse vectors and clawing back promises of creating an algorithm-free network.

(1/7)

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…


Popular or trending hashtags · Issue #271 · mastodon/mastodon

I think it would be cool to be able to see some of the most popular hashtags of the last 24 hours. It could fit nicely at the top of the "public" panel.
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#fediverse #Mastodon #mastoadmin
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fish sandwitch on the way from this place called, Bubba's 33. It exists here! Read about it:
Texas Roadhouse is ‘excited’ about growing its Bubba’s 33 concept
nrn.com/regional-chains/texas-…

Texas Roadhouse is ‘excited’ about growing its Bubba’s 33 concept

Texas Roadhouse plans to open ‘about five’ new Bubba’s 33 locations this year and three Jaggers locations.
Alicia Kelso (www.nrn.com)

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Don't EVER tell me public pressure doesn't work

Yet another reversal:

" #Trump administration reinstates funds for lawyers representing 26,000 children in immigration court, days after halting it with little explanation.

👉🏼The decision came after supporters flooded Congress members with letters of support👈🏼, but advocates still worry the program may eventually lose funding..."

latimes.com/california/story/2…


Funding restored to lawyers representing 26,000 children in immigration court

Trump administration reverses itself on a program providing lawyers for 4,000 migrant children in immigration court.
Rachel Uranga (Los Angeles Times)
#Trump

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Recently, I shared about the devastating, life-sapping experience of losing custody of my 6-yr-old, who I haven't seen in >3 years. Being erased from her life is a great tragedy for me and for an innocent kid being deprived of a loving, present dad. Racism constantly creates generational trauma.

I've found a lawyer I trust to help reunite us. I’ll need $3k for the retainer and quite a bit more to go the distance. THANK YOU for your support!

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ChatGPT's weekly user base has exceeded the entire US population
https://www.androidauthority.com/openai-400-million-users-3528849/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

ChatGPT's weekly user base has exceeded the entire US population - Android Authority

ChatGPT has crossed 400 million weekly users, marking a 33% increase in just three months despite rising AI competition.
Rushil Agrawal (Android Authority)

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Just posted on Six Colors: New visionOS beta adds Apple Intelligence, Spatial Gallery, iOS apps

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New visionOS beta adds Apple Intelligence, Spatial Gallery, iOS apps

During its first year of existence, the Vision Pro kept getting better, adding spatial personas, an extended Mac Virtual Display, and a raft of quality-of-life updates with visionOS 2.0. I’m …
Six Colors

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With the Amazon Appstore shutting down, it's becoming even more important to invest in sustainable alternative stores you can trust.

See how you can invest in Accrescent's future! A little help goes a long way:

accrescent.app/faq#contributin…

More information on the Amazon Appstore discontinuation on Android:

amazon.com/appstoreonandroidFA…

#privacy #security #appstore #accrescent #android


Accrescent Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to frequently asked questions about Accrescent.
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#android #privacy #security #AppStore #accrescent
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Accrescent

@eskuero We appreciate you mentioning this. Unfortunately, we don't currently have the capacity to develop and maintain official documentation for how to run Accrescent independently. It would also be very difficult for a third party to keep up with running Accrescent right now since the backend is constantly changing and often requires manual intervention to update which requires special knowledge of how Accrescent works.

We may consider supporting documentation once Accrescent is more stable.

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Light

Why can't certificates and keys be hashed and included in the third-party URL?
Why can't Accrescent have a feature to restrict third-party repo app installs via a corporate management thingy?
After all, you'd probably want to allow orgs to restrict the installation of certain app that are in the main Accrescent repo, right? Or am I misunderstanding how corporate security features work?
@eskuero
@Eskuero
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Accrescent

@light @eskuero It would be complex to allow adding pinned certificates since that wouldn't be using the standard Android network security configuration. But the TLS certificate pinning concern is currently obsolete since Accrescent doesn't have TLS certificate pinning since version 0.19.0.

Accrescent could have a management feature like that. However, that doesn't resolve some of the other issues with third-party repositories not listed on the website. For example, unattended updates aren't guaranteed if the store doesn't enforce a sufficiently high minimum target SDK. It's also not Accrescent's goal to be a generic app installer for any source, but instead an independent app store.

That section of the website is outdated and should be updated to reflect the above.

@Eskuero @Light

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Apple withdrawing ADP from its UK iCloud service was inevitable, and is a serious wake up call for the UK government.

While the UK government may have had good intentions, trying to undermine E2EE has backfired catastrophically.

No way Apple would capitulate and sabotage the privacy of its service globally.

As 70 years of geopolitical stability fractures, the UK is weakening the nation’s cyber defences through its flawed obsession with blanket surveillance.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli…


Government has made UK user data ‘less secure’ with Apple row – experts

Cybersecurity experts say the tech giant’s decision would leave UK users more at risk of having their data accessed.
Martyn Landi (The Independent)

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New iOS #SwiftUI Videos #a11y technique and documentation waiting for review in the App Store.

Docs: github.com/cvs-health/ios-swif…

Good videos example showing VoiceOver reads a .accessibilityLabel for the video container and a .accessibilityHint to double-tap to play and show controls.

ios-swiftui-accessibility-techniques/iOSswiftUIa11yTechniques/Documentation/Videos.md at main · cvs-health/ios-swiftui-accessibility-techniques

Demonstrates iOS SwiftUI Accessibility programming techniques using live good and bad examples that can be tested with VoiceOver and other AT. Includes documentation for developers explaining how t...
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#a11y #swiftui

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For my latest piece at Curb Cuts, I wrote about this week’s new iPhone 16e.

Please read and share!

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Apple’s Newest Budget Phone Brings Accessibility in more ways than one

Apple this week announced the iPhone 16e . The company put out a press release on it , but it also posted a video to YouTube . I chose to indulge in the latter medium for entertainment value.
Steven Aquino (Curb Cuts)

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Stress test my new Fediverse server. Boost this post unnecessarily.

Edit:
Let's add some links to websites it hosts!

julietmerida.comke8urj.net
Edit 2: Y'all are gonna need to try harder.

Edit 3: Still holding up pretty well, even with how hard y'all are trying! This is a little Beelink mini PC I got for $12 when Amazon sent me the wrong item and wanted me to pay to send it back, hosted on a home fiber connection. The jump in processor power really cut Sharkey's response times and lets my reverse proxy Traefik keep up way better. I think it was HTTPS on a 12+ year old Intel desktop chip that was really doing it in.

htop output for Julie's fedi server. It's showing all 8 cores not doing much and only about 2GB of RAM used.

Juliet Merida - Forest Princess and/or Woodland Elf

julietmerida.com

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Jiří Eischmann

@JamesHeather já jsem zatím zkoušel Revolut, KB, Air Bank a Fio a všechny fungují. Jen jsem narazil na problém, že při ověření přihlášení z nové aplikace přes QR kód, to QR kód z druhého telefonu nebralo. Nevím proč, tomu jsem ještě nepřišel na kloub.
@archos používá GOS už dlouho, ten bude mít ohledně bankovních aplikací jistě víc zkušeností.
@Archos @JamesHeather
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Peter Vágner

@JamesHeather @Jiří Eischmann George slovenskej sporiteľne kontroluje, či bol inštalovaný z Google play, tipujem, že v českej sporiteľni to bude podobné.
Môj postup je stiahnuť cez aurora store, rozbaliť do /data/local/tmp a inštalovať nejako takto cez terminál priamo na zariadení:
export instid=`pm install-create -i com.android.vending|sed "s|Success: created install session||g;s|\[||g;s|\]||g"`
for f in `echo -n $@`;do
export size=`wc -c $f|cut -f 1 -d \  `
export spname=`echo $f||sed "s|.apk||g"`
cat $f|pm install-write -S $size $instid $spname -
done
pm install-commit $instid
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Jiří Eischmann

@trilobyte yes, it's primarily privacy and security hardening. It seems to be more thoroughly de-Googled than LineageOS. Yet everything (except for Google Pay) just works without installing anything from Google.
You can find a good comparison here:
eylenburg.github.io/android_co…

Comparison of Android-based Operating Systems

eylenburg.github.io
@Lukáš Kotek
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Lukáš Kotek

Thanks for the comparison, it is interesting Android Auto is supported. To add some context: Currently I am running Xperia 10 IV, but its support ends in half a year. It is possible to "officially" build own AOSP for it (because of Sony Open Devices), but I am not quite happy about the idea of maintaining it. Anyway, I will need to deal with the situation and I don't like the idea of creating more e-waste with buying new phone, so buying something older could be the way...
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