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Mike Masnick explains Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not). “Right now, the story that matters most is how the dismantling of American institutions threatens everything else we cover.” kottke.org/25/03/blogging-for-…

Blogging for Democracy

This is a great post from Mike Masnick about why Techdirt is writing more or less full-time about the Trump regime’s attack
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Reminder: our BT Speak anniversary celebration will be online tonight at 7:00 PM Eastern time.
Topic: BT Speak: First Anniversary Celebration!!!
Learn about the new features of the BT Speak anniversary update, hear from the team at Blazie Technologies and ask your burning questions!!

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Better dark mode. A global switch for threading and sorting! Monthly updates are ready for manual installs from the Thunderbird website. We show you how to make the change (and why some Linux users will need to wait) and all the features in 136.0

#Thunderbird

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/03/t…


Thunderbird Release Channel Update - The Thunderbird Blog

Do you want new features in Thunderbird sooner? Learn how to switch from annual to monthly updates with the Release channel.
Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
#thunderbird

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Someone proposed that LEGO make a set for the Stonewall National Monument in New York. It seems really well-designed to me, and LEGO's policy is that if a proposal gets over 10,000 votes, they'll actually consider it and respond. It's sitting around 9,500 votes right now. You can vote for it at the link below.

ideas.lego.com/s/p:ade8101b3af…

#LEGO #pride #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtquia #lgbtqplus #toys #queer #Stonewall #StonewallInn #queerHistory #queerNYC

screenshot of a proposed LEGO build for Stonewall National Monument, NY. The proposal was made on Jan 20, 2025. The sample build shows the facades of a 3-story tan building and a 2-story building (white on top, red brick on bottom) with a park in front. There are minifigs in the park. There are pride flags on the shorter building and window boxes on the taller one. The street sign on the light post says Christopher Street. In the red brick wall are two arched doorways framing a large picture window that says "The Stonewall Inn." There's a rainbow crosswalk between the Stonewall Inn and the park, and a bike lane.

Stonewall National Monument (U.S.A.)

“How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race?”(A brave Drag Queen)1) WHAT ...
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#lgbt #queer #LGBTQ #pride #lego #queerhistory #toys #lgbtquia #lgbtqplus #stonewall #StonewallInn #queernyc

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There is probably no better time to listen to #CanadaLand's A Weird Way to Win the Trade War with Trump

canadaland.com/podcast/1100-a-…

@pluralistic leads the way in striking back at the one industry that is currently "bringing home the bacon".


#1100 A Weird Way to Win the Trade War with Trump

Hitting America where it hurts: right in the dongle.
Canadaland
#canadaland @Cory Doctorow

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brought you 11 updated (7 RB) and 1 added apps:

* Delta: Hotspot manager using Shizuku API

2 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

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 #magisk #izzyondroid

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Uber Now Lets You Hail Robotaxis in Austin. Plus, Other Cities Where You Can Catch a Ride With Waymo cnet.com/roadshow/news/uber-no…

Uber Now Lets You Hail Robotaxis in Austin. Plus, Other Cities Where You Can Catch a Ride With Waymo

An Uber partnership should make hailing a self-driving car easier. Here's how you can summon a ride in a growing number of cities.
Abrar Al-Heeti (CNET)

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From Vision Loss to Innovation: Sakshi’s Journey boldblindbeauty.com/from-visio…

Bold Blind Beauty | Demystifying Blindness Through Storytelling | From Vision Loss to Innovation: Sakshi’s Journey

Sakshi Srivastava, CEO of SensAble, shares her journey from being sighted to legally blind and her passion for assistive technology. After struggling with mobility, her husband developed Vizion 1, …
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JAWS turns 30 this year!

We are kicking off a year-long celebration marking 30 years of JAWS®, the world’s leading screen reader! Since 1995, JAWS has empowered people who are blind or have low vision with greater independence in work, education, and daily life.

Join us at CSUN 2025 to look back at JAWS’ evolution and learn what innovations are coming next, including:
- JAWS for Kiosk
- PictureSmart AI
- JAWS Inspect

Read the full announcement: vispero.com/vispero-announces-…

#JAWS

Vispero Announces Year-Long Celebration for JAWS 30th Anniversary

Vispero® Announces Year-Long Celebration for JAWS’ 30th Anniversary, Beginning at CSUN 2025 Three Decades of Empowering Independence Through Accessible Technology FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Clearwater, Florida – March 4, 2025) – Vispero® is pleased to an…
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In case you don't know, I run an independent UK hosting company called Brightbox. We offer virtual servers, load balancers, SQL services, object storage, container registry and more. All entirely UK owned and operated. No bullshit.

If you give us a try, do let me know how you get on. I'm happy to help!

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@brightbox

#cloud #hosting #uk

UK Cloud Server Hosting & Cloud Hosting Providers - Brightbox

Brightbox provides simple and flexible UK owned and operated cloud hosting designed for 100% uptime. Get started now with £50 free credit.
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Just a little friendly reminder that server admins do not earn anything from hosting these platforms, instead it costs us a lot of money to keep things running 💸

We do rely on help from the community in the form of donations. If you can and want, please think about supporting us or your own server admins❤️

paypal.me/stuxOS
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Most if not all the work I do (online) I give away for free! Personally I dislike advertisements so I won't apply those either.
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TIL about the perils of "Bicycle Face", a nineteenth century malady made up to steer women away from those infernal dandyhorse velocipedes.

vox.com/2014/7/8/5880931/the-1…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicyclin…


“Bicycle face”: a 19th-century health problem made up to scare women away from biking

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it.
Joseph Stromberg (Vox)

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Last week we had our first! Thunderbird + Rust office hours with our back-end developer @brendan and Sr. DevRel Engineer @linuxflower giving us a great introduction to the past, present, and future of oxidization in Thunderbird. Watch the recording on our @tilvids channel and find out how to get involved!

#Thunderbird #Rust #Development

tilvids.com/w/magVwZoX9W3L9DNb…

#thunderbird #development #rust @TILvids @Heather @Brendan Abolivier
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Jan Dytrych🇨🇿🇺🇦

@archos to je jak bazukou na komára 😀 Na to stačí laskakit.cz/laskakit-meteo-min… + senzor a krabičku.

LaskaKit Meteo Mini | LaskaKit

Vývojová deska založená na populárním Wi-Fi modulu ESP32-C3-MINI (od verze 3.5) s čipem ESP32-C3, který je široce podporován jak výrobcem, tak i komunitou bastlířů a speciálně navržena pro použití jako WiFi meteorologická stanice.
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@Archos

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Forschungsprojekt – loopSHIFTED

Wusstest du, dass wir auch in der Forschung aktiv sind?🔎

Unser aktuelles Projekt nennt sich loopSHIFTED.

Bei dem Projekt geht es darum unser modulares Konzept auf bereits bestehende Geräte im Markt zu übertragen und aufzuzeigen, wo noch mehr Reparierbarkeit möglich ist! 💡🔧

Mehr erfährst du in unserem Blogbeitrag: shift.eco/loopshifted/

#shift #shifthappens #shiftphone #loopshifted #engineering #techrevolution #innovation #unikassel


Forschungsprojekt - loopSHIFTED - SHIFT -

Beitrag von modularisierten Smartphone-Gebrauchtgeräten mit herstellerübergreifenden Reparaturoptionen zu Kreislaufwirtschaft
Leon von Zepelin (SHIFT GmbH)
#engineering #shifthappens #shiftphone #shift #innovation #loopshifted #techrevolution #unikassel

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BlueZ boasts multiple benefits compared to its proprietary alternative, including flexibility and community support. Get the breakdown here: collabora.com/news-and-blog/bl…

#opensource


Implementing Bluetooth on embedded Linux: Open source BlueZ vs proprietary stacks

Open source BlueZ offers a host of benefits over its proprietary counterparts, making it a worthwhile investment.
Collabora | Open Source Consulting
#opensource

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In the last few months, many people have called on the EU to start supporting open alternatives to US-owned social media sites. The thing is: The EU has been doing that for some time already. It has financed, among others, ActivityPub, Mastodon and PeerTube. For @netzpolitik_feed, we spoke to Michiel Leenaars, who professionally gives out buckets of EU cash to open source projects.

#eu #europeanunion #opensource #activitypub #mastodon

netzpolitik.org/2025/open-sour…


Open source funding on the brink: „Delivering what’s needed to make Europe sovereign“

The EU is paying a fortune for broken commercial software, criticizes Michiel Leenaars of the Dutch NLnet Foundation in an interview with netzpolitik.org. Together with his team, he supports open-source, free solutions — funded by the EU.
netzpolitik.org
#opensource #activitypub #Mastodon #EU #EuropeanUnion @netzpolitik.org

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woo... @postmarketOS is looking for a new name. if you have a branding mindset, and especially if you've built a loved brand before, considering submitting a suggestion:

postmarketos.org/blog/2025/03/…

branding an environment is hard. their big-hitter competition ("Android" and "iOS") both have awful names and mostly-awful branding — it would be nice if pmos could leapfrog


postmarketOS in 2025-02: MSM89x7 Audio, Modern Xiaomis in Community, New Name Foreshadowing

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
postmarketOS
@postmarketOS (old account)

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🔐 If Privacy is outlawed...

Here's how you can stop them: 👉 t.co/8z8lI9eRDo

#PrivacyMatters #Encryption #CyberSecurity #TurnOnPrivacy #PGP

A quote from Phil Zimmermann, creator of PGP: If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. We must stop them now! | Tuta

An amendment to the “Narcotrafic” law is moving to the French National Assembly. Remind your legislators that a backdoor for the good guys only is not possible.
Tuta
#encryption #cybersecurity #pgp #privacymatters #turnonprivacy
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Søren Ladegaard

It's a funny thing this whole idea of a backdoor.

I live in Denmark which consistently ranks in the top-3 when it comes to countries with the least corruption and the highest trust i authorities. The general trust between citizens is also very high.

I have been working as a police officer for almost 25 years.

Most people don't find it disturbing that the police - with a court order ofcourse - can listen in on the phone lines.

But when it comes to the internet some people want 100% encryption and privacy. I can see why ofcourse.

I also oppose to "big tech", "surveillance economy", "attention economy" etc.

But I personally wouldn't mind if the police - again with a valid court order - could ask Tuta, Proton etc. to decrypt a specific number of emails for the police to use in an investigation.

The consequences of the police being completely unable to "listen in" on criminal activity worries me. I know of investigations that use data from "Sky ECC" and "EncroChat"-phones that had the encryption broken by the French police. The contents of some of the messages are absolutely terrifying.

But then again, maybe my view is different from people who live in countries that eg. is run by a dictator?

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Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/…

Subscribe info: d.umn.edu/itss/training/online…

Featuring @mgifford, @yatil, @aardrian, @LFLegal, @matuzo, @eric, @laura, @tempertemper, @a11yMel, @dequesystems, @pxlnv, @vitalyf, @smashingmag, @rachelandrew, @Kilian, @OddBird, @tabatkins, @mia

#Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign

Web Design References: Webdev Newsletter

Web Design References: News and info about web design and development. The site advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics.
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#a11y #Accessibility #webdesign @Laura Kalbag @Adrian Roselli, pH0 @Mike Gifford, CPWA @Rachel Andrew @so tab today @Kilian Valkhof @Pixel Envy @Smashing Magazine @Manuel Matuzović @Mia (web luddite) @Lainey Feingold @Melanie @Deque Systems @Vitaly Friedman 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @Martin Underhill @Eric @Eric Eggert @OddBird

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Welcome Samuel Dionne-Riel as #curl commit author 1349: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1643…

libssh2: Print user with verbose flag by samueldr · Pull Request #16430 · curl/curl

Hi! 👋 A small quality-of-life improvement, I think. Do tell if I'm missing something here, and there were any reason not to print out the conn->user value that ends-up used for the connectio...
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#curl

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Last night, in #ThePlaylist chat, @KaraLG84 mentioned a video where Adam Young of Owl City broke down how he made Fireflies and how interesting it is.

And she was right, it really is.

youtu.be/0BuGBH6b5Ko


Track-by-Track Break Down of "Fireflies" with Adam Young of Owl City

Adam Young of Owl City breaks down the RIAA certified diamond single "Fireflies" and dissects his song track-by-track discussing the writing, production, and...
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#theplaylist @Kara Goldfinch
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