☁️ Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independence

"The Cloud Act grants US authorities access to cloud data hosted by US companies. It does not matter if that data is located in the US, Europe, or anywhere else."

theregister.com/2025/04/30/mic…

#microsoft #europe #cloud

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 17 updated and 2 added apps:

* Quotes.app: a minimalistic quotes app 🛡️
* CLauncher: an Olauncher Fork where apps are invisible by default 🛡️

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

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

As it is the start of the month I shall do some shameless promoting of ourblind.com/ for all the #blind, #deafblind, #lowvision, and #visuallyimpaired people around. @main @mastoblind

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Retour vers le passé pour plus de sécurité.

Les écrans tactiles dans les voitures sont une mauvaise idée, rendez-nous les boutons et les molettes slate.fr/tech-internet/ecrans-…
#voiture #ecrantactile #securiteroutiere

Remember #Movuary, when I and @FreakyFwoof posted a track made with Ableton Move for every day in February?
Well, this is both of our birth months. I, in particular, don't have lots to celebrate, so instead, I've decided to give away all the Ableton bundles from that project, except one, because I accidentally deleted it.
So, for anyone who has Avleton Note or Ableton Move, you can play these just as they were created, modify them, study them, make them more interesting...
For those with Ableton Live, you can import them, but they may not come out sounding exactly the same, because Live converts it to it's own format, and there are differences in the libraries.
Anyway, have fun...
borris.me/audio/movuary2025/Ab…

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May Goal: 25/$600 CAD
I'm disabled & queer, living in extreme poverty. I'm in URGENT need of food, hygiene, medication, clothing, etc. Disability benefits aren't enough for survival or comfort.
Donate: ko-fi.com/qpthepurplesnep
Wish List: amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/2H98Z…
💕💸
#HelpSky
#MutualAid #Help #DisabilityCrowdfund

I’m proud to be joining @Mastodon’s Board of Directors to guide and support this important platform.

I believe that #Mastodon and the #Fediverse represent some of the most important advancements in social networking design and technology. They have the potential to reverse the harms wrought by the monolithic social media platforms of yesterday.

But even more than that, Mastodon and the Fediverse can be so much more than what we are against. We have so much potential. I believe in all of our power to build and change the world. We start by building and convening in healthier online communities because our strength together is far more than the sum of our differences. I believe in building technologies that help bring out the best in humanity; I believe in the amazing things we can do and be when we work together.

I love Mastodon. I love what we are and what we will be. Now let’s build a better world together 💞

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/…

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Trump’s HHS just released an anonymous report filled with despicable lies and disinformation about the evidence-based healthcare that trans youth and their families need.

We aren’t fooled by MAGA’s attempt to rebrand and promote conversion therapy, a dangerous and discredited practice. aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/the…

If you have managed to delete your C:\inetpub folder following the recent #Windows security #patch for #cve202521204 then you can re-create it using the following PowerShell script:

github.com/mmotti/Reset-inetpu…

This script recreates this empty folder with the correct TrustedInstaller and SYSTEM privilages.

It does nothing to prevent the creation of HardLinks to this folder of course.

You could remove the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege (via secpol.msc for example) from a user account to prohibit creation of SymLinks but you would need to check in a test envoiroment to see what effects might have that have and what might break 🤔🤷‍♂️

Today In Labor History May 1, 1886: The first nationwide General Strike for the 8-hour day occurred in Milwaukee and other U.S. cities. In Chicago, police killed four demonstrators and wounded over 200. This led to the mass meeting a Haymarket Square, where an unknown assailant threw a bomb, killing several cops. The authorities responded by rounding up all the city’s leading anarchists, and a kangaroo court which wrongfully convicted 8 of them, including Albert Parsons, husband of Lucy Parsons, who would go on to cofound the IWW, along with Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood, Eugene Debs, and others. Worldwide protests against the convictions and executions followed. To honor the wrongfully executed anarchists, and their struggle for the 8-hour day, May first has ever since been celebrated as International Workers Day in nearly every country in the world, except the U.S.

You can read my complete bio of Lucy Parsons here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/…

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #haymarket #bombing #policebrutality #police #prison #execution #deathpenalty #GeneralStrike #IWW #lucyparsons #motherjones #EightHourDay #mayday

A few days ago, I sat down to explore the cost of garbage generation, and found surprising results - at least, surprising to me. I live tooted my discoveries, as I usually do, but halfway through I figured: this is worth a blog post.

So I present to you: The cost of poison

I have more to say and share, and this is kind of a followup to A season of iocaine anyway, but in old Hobbit tradition, this little byrding wanted to give you all a little present of his own making today.

Configuring #WirePlumber on embedded Linux systems can be somewhat confusing. Georgios Kiagiadakis takes a moment to demystify this process for a particular use case: collabora.com/news-and-blog/bl…

#OpenSource @pipewire

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🗓️ The Embedded Recipes 2025 schedule is now live!

⭐ I’m excited to be among the speakers this year, giving a talk titled “PipeWire and Bluetooth: the road to LE Audio.” I’ll be sharing some background on Bluetooth audio, diving into the new LE Audio standard, and discussing developments in PipeWire’s Bluetooth integration — the leading Bluetooth audio implementation on Linux!

🔗 embedded-recipes.org/2025/sche…

#er2025 #Linux #PipeWire #BlueZ #Bluetooth #LEAudio #BLE #OpenSource #TechTalk

So this is the original "singing and farting gorillas" video. Please ensure all open beverages are beyond arm's reach before playing.

youtube.com/watch?v=6yB51vdkZA…

#gorillas #singing #flatulence

@osuosl has been around for 22 years. They kindly host our gitlab for 6 months now, and provide important services for more than 150 other free and open source software communities such as @alpinelinux, @chimera , @debian, @fdroidorg, @gentoo, @gnome, @LineageOS, #ReplicantOS, @torproject. Now their future is in jeopardy 😢

We usually don't ask this, but please boost for reach, this is important infrastructure for so many FLOSS projects! :boostRequest:

osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

#osuosl

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Starting today – the Month of #LibreOffice, May 2025! Join our community and learn new things: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource

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How to play all the notes on the ALTO/TREBLE RECORDER | with audio description! youtube.com/watch?v=vHJ4J49bll…

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Coming up today, at 15UTC, it's The Global Voice's 16th birthday party! 16 years of broadcasting and you're invited for 4 hours of music and chat and virtual birthday cake! Even play a song or 2 yourself if you like. Live Chat with Us theglobalvoice.info/chatroom.h… find the link to Zoom with us here: theglobalvoice.info/gallery.ph… and Listen at theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio #birthday #party 🎂🎉🥳🎁🍬1️⃣6️⃣ ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒👥📺🗣️🗣💬💁

From May 03 at 05:00 UTC+1 until May 04 at 06:00 UTC+1, there will be a live stream of sounds from daybreak in various locations around the world to celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day. This is the 12th annual Reveil stream.
My stream from central North Carolina should be included in there right at sunrise local time on Saturday morning if all goes well.

To listen starting from 05:00 UTC+1 on Saturday, May 03, go to soundtent.org/reveil

This page is just a countdown at the time of posting.

More details can be found here:
soundtent.org/soundcamp_listen…

#audio #stream #nature #FieldRecording

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The official conference part of Debian MiniDebConf Hamburg 2025 will start the day after tomorrow, the schedule is available now from hamburg2025.mini.debconf.org/s… . It will be preceded by a traditional Cheese and Wine Party tomorrow, on Friday May 2nd 2025. #debian #debconf #MiniDebConfHamburg
in reply to Purism

@Purism subway surfers Honestly, I really like what Purism is trying to do with privacy-focused hardware, but I have to agree with others here — $1999 feels way out of reach for most people. If they could bring the price closer to what the Librem 5 was (even with slightly lower margins), I think more folks would actually give it a try. Right now it just feels like a niche product only a few can afford, which kind of defeats the point of spreading privacy-respecting devices.

Guardas prisionais com ligações a grupos neo-nazis envolvidos não só em ataques violentos como ao tráfico de droga e coisinhas fofas do tipo, que continuam a trabalhar como guardas prisionais? Temos.

Portugal é mesmo um país especial.

publico.pt/2025/04/30/sociedad…