How Big Tech Exploits Apps to Circumvent Privacy Laws

Despite GDPR, CCPA, and CPRA, Big Tech continues to bypass data protection laws through a powerful loophole: mobile apps.

Android, iOS, and Windows apps operate as closed surveillance ecosystems, where Terms of Service and permissions legally transform your smartphone into a data extraction tool.

Read more at Purism: puri.sm/posts/how-big-tech-exp…

Anyone experienced with doing really long and repetitive json with Json-GLib that can tell me if there's something obvious I'm missing about how to make this less unpleasant to work with? This seems like a fucking slog

github.com/elementary/maps/pul…

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 14 updated and 3 added apps:

* YA Habit Tracker: a simple and effective tool to help you build and maintain positive habits 🛡️
* Imagepipe: removes exif data and modifies images to reduce size before sharing 🛡️
* Lyrics: shows lyrics from the Genius.com-API 🛡️

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

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in reply to Debian

Do you think inviting Jeremy Bicha (offenderradar.com/offender-det…) to be a presenter at the conference was really a good decision on the project's part? What message does this send about Debian's values, and what does it say to the victims of sexual abuse?

My favorite DOS spreadsheet was As-Easy-As. It's probably still my most-favorite spreadsheet ever. 🤓

I recently interviewed As-Easy-As coauthor Paris Karahalios about how the spreadsheet got started (analyzing Chernobyl data!) and growing TRIUS Inc.

It's a long interview, but a super interesting one with loads of detail! 👍

coachingbuttons.com/2025/07/14…

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Do I keep this stopwatch running or reset and stop it.

It's been going since July 2023 and has survived a phone transfer (intact, surprisingly).

This has definitely got to be a world record. It definitely isn't where Apple got to testing. It is broken, the milliseconds flash (not actually counting) and the seconds only update every 20 seconds or so. I did report to Apple but they never got back to me.

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“In a time when so many people are careless, and so many people lack moral courage, it’s up to us to double down on care and courage. And that’s a hell of a lot easier, and a hell of a lot more powerful, if we do it together” — Andrew Kassoy, co-founder of #BCorp

youtube.com/watch?v=AFPSEp_yc3…

Well, that was weird.

I have a microphone up in the room, which is connected to a DBX 286S dynamics processor, which is set up as a compander.

A couple of rooms away, a paper shredder was turned on.

The ratio of the gate, when I am speaking nowhere near the microphone, has an odd modulation effect, so naturally, I had to record it before the paper shredder got turned off.

I just released version 4.0.0 of my #Digalog #watchface for #garmin.
⌚️ Almost all Garmin watches are now supported
📊 Complications are added around the dial on newer models that supports it
🔥 Several burn in protection measures implemented on amoled devices
🌈 Better configuration defaults on 2 and 8 color displays
🖼️ Slightly improved notification and alarm icons
💬 Added spanish translaiton
⚙️ Many internal reworks like adding strict types, build optimizations etc.

apps.garmin.com/cs-CZ/apps/630…

I'm impressed by the neoliberal circular logic here.

The U.S. DoD "had" to move off its own computers to the cloud to save money. But the only way the cloud was cheaper was if Microsoft employed people in China at much lower wages to maintain it. So they "had" to invent American "digital escorts."

Basically, the cloud is only cheaper for the U.S. military if it is completely and totally compromised by its most powerful geopolitical adversary... 🤔

propublica.org/article/microso…

Ah, just ordered like $150 of meats, snacks, and other items from magyardeli.com/ - for Hungarians such as myself, this place is a nice haven of products shipped out of Florida, rather than Hungary directly. I had purchased some products from the european-products.net store, which appears to have a larger selection, but they ship direct from Hungary, which means shipping can take as long as 2 weeks. Super excited though to get this new set of stuff, including some yummy smoked sausage!

The Orbit Player starts shipping July 21!
Order now first batch quantity are limited.
You can place your order online here:
orbitresearch.com/product/orbi…
Or call us at 888-606-7248 to order by phone.
#A11y #BrailleForAll #Inclusion #OrbitReaderQ20 #OrbitReaderQ40 #OrbitSpeak #OrbitSpeakPlus #OrbitPlayer

A while ago, I posted about “views”, a new definition we've been working on at AGWG, the group that makes WCAG.

Good news, we resolved on using a specific definition (draft). Updated my post to explain: hidde.blog/views/#heading-5

thanks to all who chimed in, and specifically the efforts of co-chair
@alastc to make this happen

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This is the real future of AI: ordering mid chicken at Bojangles through an AI-powered assistant.

"This is how a new technology takes over, what it feels like right before it becomes ubiquitous. One day you wake up and the cameras are everywhere"

404media.co/the-real-future-of…

Cornell is hiring iOS and android developers to work on the Merlin app:

cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/…

It's world emoji day. Did you know we had emojis in the 1980s and 1990s? We did. They were invented in 1982. In this blog post, we look at how emojis worked without graphics, where we used them before the Internet, and how they proliferated. #retrocomputing dfarq.homeip.net/emoticons-in-…

🔗“Women, non-binary, intersex and trans folk are in tech, have always been in tech, and will (hopefully) always be in tech. There **is** a problem, in that these underrepresented groups are often discriminated against and overlooked. The solution? Men in tech can lead the change in how men represent themselves and their gender as a whole in the industry.“
@whitep4nth3r whitep4nth3r.com/blog/why-wome…

#MapComplete can now be downloaded as #Android #app from the official #Fdroid-repositoried!

Download via f-droid.org/packages/org.mapco…

This is a packaged version of the webversion, so features will remain the same between visiting the website and the app. Using the app has the advantage that all assets are already on your device, requiring less network.

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@lostmonkey @fexplorer
Sweet, thanks a lot, I am very grateful!
So far, everything works well, I could login to OSM, make changes and upload them, including uploading a picture. If I run into any issues, I'll let you know.

(And the app is a big improvent compared to using MapComplete in my mobile browser, which was very slow on my phone.)

Hey @oxidecomputer, here's a possible question for your FAQ Friday series: Why only sell a full rack, and do you have any plans to go smaller? Even a single Oxide sled has a _lot_ of processing power, RAM, and storage.

Prompted by a boost (by @jmc, incidentally an Oxide employee IIUC) of a post about Broadcom consolidating onto fewer VMware private cloud providers: eigenmagic.net/@daedalus/11486… I don't use VMware cloud stuff, but it just got me thinking about this question again.

🚨 Keynote Announcement 🚨 - We are excited to announce our first keynote for the 20th FrOSCon presented by Daniel Stenberg

AI slop attacks on the curl project

Full abstract here programm.froscon.org/froscon20…

Further information at froscon.org

@bagder #floss #opensourcde #ai #aidriven #aislop

I guested the Day Two DevOps Podcast a while back, now the episode is up: packetpushers.net/podcasts/day…

I contributed to #OpenStreetMap! But I didn't know that Cyclofix was going to ask me questions, so now I have to go back and test the pump and such, even though my bike is perfectly fine 😂 mapcomplete.org/cyclofix
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#OpenStreetMap for #Portland is so extremely outdated that I discovered there used to be a restaurant called Daruma Sushi that closed in 2019 in the same space that is currently hosting Feral. Orange & Blossom was missing entirely. I tried to update both, but since #OrganicMaps didn’t let me log in, I’m not sure if my updates will sit in a queue somewhere…

In any case, #OSM is far from being a reliable #GoogleMaps replacement, unless you somehow already know exactly where you’re going 🙃