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Age verification is creating an information desert.
The Online Safety Act sets every UK user to child as default.
Teenagers? Blocked. Adults? Content denied unless we do age checks with unregulated companies.
It's not just porn! News on Gaza and Ukraine is being scrubbed from view, threatening #freedomofexpression as well as #privacy ⛔
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#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #palestine #gaza #ukraine #reddit #ageverification #ageassurance #censorship #ukpolitics #ukpol
“If visibility of r/IsraelCrimes is being restricted under the Online Safety Act, it’s only because the state fears accountability,” moderators say.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
An easy way to create voices for any TTS engine. Contribute to lower-elements/Voice-Creator-Studio development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Kopia is a Cross-platform open source backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included for backups and restore.
Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included. - kopia/kopiaGitHub
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🚨 Microsoft’s Recall is capturing your screen 🚨
Don't let this AI-powered tool fool you as "convenient" 👉 It's invading your PRIVACY.
Turn it off now: tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-m…
Microsoft now activates 'Recall', a Copilot AI feature that's making your private emails & messaging obsolete by saving screenshots of these every few seconds.Tuta
Making libcurl work in webassembly
jeroen.github.io/notes/webasse…
We explain how to make libcurl based applications work in webassembly without changes by tunneling all traffic over a websocket proxy.ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Notes from Jeroen
Silliness to start your day in a good way 📽️ including a shrimp band and rave-ioli because... why not?
(Amedeo Capelli, an Italian #artist who does handcrafted wooden automata that merge playfulness, #craftsmanship & kinetic charm)
My relative sent a large sum of CZK via SWIFT transfer to Revolut to pay for an electric car from Germany. Three days passed, but the payment hadn't arrived. She contacted support, who told her that they don't accept CZK payments and that the payment would be returned to the original account in ten days. She needs to pay for the car ASAP. Upon hearing this, she almost had a panic attack.
Later, we found out that it was an AI bot hallucinating.
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Уикипедия и информация за Габровския регион
След като миналата година овършяхме близките осем села, сега се вдигнахме да отидем и в малко по-далечните от нас. Целта беше да направим поне по една гео-тагната снимка и да я добавим в общомедия, за да се вижда за селото. Другата цел беше да видим дали има неща, които можеше да бъдат опреснени. Така се случи, че научихме за двама човека допринесли супер много за България, но са забравени.
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#wikipedia #gabrovo #osm
След като миналата година овършяхме близките осем села, сега се вдигнахме да отидем и в малко по-далечните от нас. Целта беше да направим поне по една гео…Богомил "Бого" Шопов (Блога на Бого)
mno môj zmysel pre humor je poněkud obmedzený to je pravda 
aktuality.sk/clanok/LvpR3ka/ak…
Zakladateľovi psychoanalýzy pripisujú výrok, ktorý s časom nestráca na aktuálnosti. Podľa tohto hneď zistíte, s kým máte česť.Aktuality.sk
So…who hates those Google log-in pop-ups that are seemingly everywhere now? Wanna make them go away?
1. Get uBlock Origin (which you should have already been using):
2. Open the plugin and click the settings button.
3. Click on the “my filters” tab and paste this into the input:
||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p
That’s it! Worked flawlessly for me.
(Updated URL. Thx @IceWolf
and @emz!)
#Google #Privacy #Security #PopUps #InfoSec #BadGoogle
uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. - gorhill/uBlockGitHub
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This change makes it possible to Append a DSN specification behind the MAIL and RCPT mail addresses in the smtp protocol. Currently, curl checks if these addresses start with a '<' or en...GitHub
Fuck me. This was hard to read for all the wrong reasons.
abc.net.au/news/2025-07-30/ame…
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Lauren Day (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Output nothing with #curl --out-null
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/30…
Downloading data from a remote URL is probably the single most common operation people do with curl. Often, users then add various additional options to the command line to extract information from that transfer but may also decide that the actually …daniel.haxx.se
Contribute to icing/blog development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Adding HTTP/3 Proxy CONNECT & MASQUE (CONNECT-UDP) Support to #cURL
Yes, #GUADEC2025 is over. We want to thanks all the in person and remote attendees, the volunteers, the staff and all those made this edition possible! 👏
The initial report is:
- 450 espresso coffee
- ~5kg of sweet pastries
- ~5kg of savory pastries
Looking forward to see you again next year!
P.S. photo album will be published as soon as possible on Flickr
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What a great edition @gnome !
🔹132 attendees the first day
🔹all the "blank" badges finished the 2nd morning❗️
🔹over 200 unique attendees
🔹many newcomers
🔹4 printed newspaper articles
🔹10 online newspaper articles
🔹32 participants for a tour in Bergamo Città Alta
🔹uncountable participants for Brescia's Castle, restaurants and bars
🔜 looking forward to GUADEC 2026!
💬 Zdá se, že matrix.org zavádí premium tarify pro svůj veřejný server.
🔒 Free plán: max. 1 MB přílohy, žádné veřejné místnosti
🚀 Premium plán: až 100 MB přílohy, rychlejší pozvánky, tvorba veřejných místností
Více info: matrix.org/homeserver/pricing/
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsmatrix.org
Většinu péče o blízké v Česku zajišťují neformální pečující.
Doma, bez volna, bez podpory, bez uznání.
Péče je krásná. Ale taky vyčerpávající.
A složenky poslání nezaplatí.
📌 Ulož, sdílej, mluvme o to.
My jsme KRUH
Hlas péče, spolupráce a důstojnosti.
My jsme KRUH - síť lidí, kteří věří, že péče nesmí být privilegium, ale právo.
👉 Sdílej.
Ať nikdo nezůstane stranou jen proto, že je “ten slabší”.
#pecujici #neformalnipece #neformalnipecujici#kruhpecuje#hnutikruh#kruh
Tsunami 10 years later: Is the world better prepared for disaster?
cbsnews.com/news/tsunami-10-ye…
The Indian Ocean tsunami came without warning in 2004; now a mix of technology and outreach has helped make the world saferMichael Casey (CBS News)
Yet another example of a 'Smart device' company deciding that - No. You Don't actually Own The Thing.
"Smart home device maker Futurehome is forcing its customers’ hands by suddenly requiring a subscription for basic functionality of its products.
“You lose access to controlling devices, configuring; automations, modes, shortcuts, and energy services,” a company FAQ page says." - ArsTechnica
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
The connected devices now only work manually without a subscription.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
So, does this "goo.gl" problem actually mean all the goo.gl stuff, or is it just third-party URLs getting cut? Gmaps is still creating maps.app.goo.gl links.
mastodon.social/@jpmens/114937…
(For the record I think URL shorteners are very dumb and very bad, but regardless here we are so.)
Update: @denschub points out that Google Apps are getting a pass: mastodon.schub.social/@denschu…
@mhoye@mastodon.social > Note that goo.gl links generated via Google apps (such as Maps sharing) will continue to function. is explicitly stated [in their announcement](https://developers.googleblog.Mastodon
I'd overlooked that, thank you.
Seems like a genuinely petty move, honestly. I wonder what the actual reason for doing it is.
Is Decarbonization Dead? — The Ezra Klein Show
Fascinating discussion about the impacts of the "Big Beautiful Bill" & it's impact on renewable energy.
The generative AI that stole the book you wrote, the picture you shared, the post you're writing, and the music you composed, without your consent, just to train, is not--and will not--make its way to The Kuloran Players creative assets. You will not see generative AI sfx, AI writing, AI music nor AI voice acting in Kirandur (our MMO in development) or any of our other productions. See our complete AI statement in this blog post: kpguild.games/posts/on-ai-and-…
On AI and Kirandur Hello, friends. This is Sir Howard, The CritterPup, creator of Kirandur, speaking on behalf of the Kuloran Players. Kirandur has been a passion project of mine for years now. I've pThe Kuloran Players
Xbox is the first video game maker to introduce new tags designed to make it easier for people with disabilities to know if games are accessible, but many others in the industry are set to follow suit.Shaun Heasley (Disability Scoop)
streaming movies on Netflix uses more energy than ChatGPT queries
> One hour of Netflix watching equals the energy required for between 300 and 3000 ChatGPT prompts.
epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-…
This Gradient Updates issue explores how much energy ChatGPT uses per query, revealing it’s 10x less than common estimates.Josh You (Epoch AI)
@hj additional discussion here
andymasley.substack.com/p/indi…
And a plea to think seriously about climate change without getting distractedAndy Masley (The Weird Turn Pro)
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Please never ever do this: ergaster.org/posts/2025/07/28-…
When working on my homelab, I regularly need to pass credentials to my tools. A naive approach is to just store the token in clear text, but there's a better alternative.ergaster.org
Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Meta may have seeded porn to minors while hiding piracy for AI training.
Wow 🍿
Lawsuit: Meta may have seeded porn to minors while hiding piracy for AI training.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
> The porn site operator explained to the court that BitTorrent's protocol establishes a "tit-for-tat" mechanism that "rewards users who distribute the most desired content." It alleged that Meta took advantage of this system by "often" pirating adult videos that are "often within the most infringed files on BitTorrent websites" on "the very same day the motion pictures are released."
Well that's not true at all; that's not part of the protocol. That's how some private trackers work, though.
> including potentially distributing the videos to minors for free without age checks in states that now require them.
Who cares? The laws weren't on the books back then. You don't get to retroactively enforce laws like that, and this information has no value.
Another sewer quality tech "journalism"
Searched for a picture of Heidelberg city hall.
Got this AI-generated result:
🎉 Here are some faces you will see in 3 days at FediCon!
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🌐 FediCon
📍 Vancouver (Canada)
🗓️ August 1-2
ℹ️ fedicon.ca
🎟️ lu.ma/p4bbb941
#FediCon #FediCon2025 #Fediverse
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I want to defend Wayland here and explain a crucial piece that I think people are missing...
The splitting of protocols in Wayland and compositor reimplementation were to allow for new form factors. It had to sacrifice the guarantee of all desktop app functionality being present to achieve that.
The idea (as I see it) was never to have 500 desktop compositors all trying to reimplement the same thing with slight differences. Iinstead, it was for 500 different interfaces for different platforms that are compatible with the same apps (e.g. desktop, laptop, phone, car screens, AR/VR, watch). Different form factors have totally different ways of dealing with interface, but share enough common features where it makes sense to have 1 base protocol and many other ones for device/form specific features.
Problem is, while in 2008-2016 we had a ton of new experimental UIs coming out on a semi-regular basis (that was the peak of the whole convergent phone/tablet craze, smartwatches started, fancy car UI, touch tables, early AR/VR) things have quieted down. The purpose of Wayland's insane modularity hasn't been visible to most people given it's almost always complained about in a desktop contest vs X11. But X11 was literally only designed for a desktop form factor and has been refined for that 1 purpose for decades!
As an example of different form factors, Wayland lets IVI (in-vehicle infotainment) systems work way better than Xorg could have. Desktop window layouting on that platform would inherently produce massive amounts of unnecessary complexity, and the ability to direct scanout saves on power/expensive compute. Automotive Grade Linux and COVESA maintain reference interfaces for cars so companies can iterate a ton faster. Wayland gives the app compatibility and they can make the system UI work with more flexibility and ease than an X11 window manager.
Take Linux Mobile too, the compositor can reliably enforce window layout and boundaries and composition. While this could technically be done with an X window manager and compositor, doing it with Wayland guarantees reliability as the app simply doesn't have a choice or room for error. Some things like drag and drop of toolbars doesn't make much sense on mobile given how small the screens are.
There's some interfaces where X11 is basically impossible to use. In AR/VR (where i am making a Wayland compositor) the concept of a screen simply does not exist. How is an app supposed to position itself when the very concept of 3D is not part of the protocol? In Wayland I don't have to implement the protocols that don''t work (e.g. layer shell) and therefore any apps that don't need it will be compatible..
Wayland has allowed for insane levels of flexibility, things that no other display server architecture can do reasonably. Total flexibility between app and screen, direct scanout without hacks, AR/VR support, etc.
Here's some fun and useful stuff that's been done with Wayland, stuff that X11 could never reasonably do:
Now, could Wayland devs maybe have distributed features across protocols better? Worked with app toolkit devs to ensure the protocols they made actually fit what the apps and compositors needed? Stopped bikeshedding (though imo many cases of "bikeshedding" are simply accounting for other form factors)? Absolutely!
My point here is simple: there was a reason for making it this modular, for not having a standard implementation. It wasn't just devs trying to impose some ideology, it wasn't some corporate takeover. It's good reasons that people using X11 on their desktop/laptop don't encounter. If we made something that wasn't universal, most apps wouldn't be compatible with it and therefore everything but the desktop form factor would lack apps.
A wayland compositor to explore 3D windowing. Contribute to evil0sheep/motorcar development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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I want one but I don’t plan on buying anything from the US for at least the next 56 months (unless something amazing happens during the Mid-terms).
Failing that, I would love a FairPhone, but they don’t retail to Australia.
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