The whole EU age verification app thing is so exhausting. Yes, the tech specs are public, yes, the wallet app is opensource, yes, it could be done in a worse way.
Yet, it is still the newest attempt to answer the question: "can we tech hard enough to avoid having parents talking to their kids?"
And the answer is still no, you can't.
Had this hilarious dream last night where somehow I was at some family gathering thing and my oldest brother [not good person] was like "doesn't anyone want to know what I'm doing now to support myself?" and I'm like "ok, sure, what's your job now"
So he starts explaining what he's doing and something about operating a table and I'm like "isn't that just waterboarding? you're waterboarding people?" and he's like "yeah, but it's to protect a company"
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Já to přinesl nahoru ukázat paní a hezky jsme si společně odplivli
A pak už ty noviny nikdo nikdy neviděl...
@Milan Hubáček
"Trump is trying to normalize the militarization of our country. This is where it starts, not where it will end. Trump is dropping the pretense of abiding by the rule of law. ...
This manner of operation makes it clear that it’s not about democracy and the American people; it’s about Trump and protecting Trump."
~ Joyce Vance
joycevance.substack.com/p/only…
Armed National Guardsmen have been deployed in the District of Columbia to keep American citizens in line.Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
"There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention. ...
Donald Trump wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents, and score political points. If this were happening in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is: a dangerous power grab.”
"They would rather send the military against Americans than stand with Ukraine against Putin. They would rather attack disabled people and marginalized communities than confront real problems facing Americans that require difficult solutions. When you go on offense against Trump and MAGA, they quickly play the role of victim and show what sociopaths they are."
~ Ben Meiselas
btw this IRC client is a full on discord clone
github.com/ObsidianIRC/Obsidia…
Modern IRC Client for the web and maybe more. Contribute to ObsidianIRC/ObsidianIRC development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
chown -R myname:myname /*
Done by a clueless tech author (username: myname) who'd just been given a new workstation and thought to tidy up all those files with random-looking owner and group names.
(Actually that wasn't on Linux it was on SCO Open Desktop, and I think the flag might have been -r on that, but it's the same principle. Luckily they'd only have the machine for a couple of hours so a complete wipe and reinstall fixed it.)
(PS: no, it wasn't me!)
My bosses at one job once assigned the guy who'd never used Unix to 'clean up’ their Sun workstations. I offered to do it, because I actually KNEW Linux, but they said I should focus on my assigned work & let him get on with it.
About 30 minutes later, Cleanup Guy called me over, very puzzled, because everything had suddenly stopped working.
It seemed he'd found a directory called ‘/tmp’ that obviously wasn't needed for anything, so he’d deleted it to save space …
Latest news and updates about Thunderbird for mobile. Stay informed about upcoming app updates, new features, and improvements for Android, F-Droid and iOS.The Thunderbird Blog
Will it hurt if you work out too much?
Yes.
Will it hurt if you work out too little?
Yes.
Will it hurt if you work out the right amount?
Also, Yes.
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Pavlov always had lovely soft hair. Shiny, and full of body.
This was because he conditioned it.
If you feel that #FDroid downloads are slow, just press ❎ to cancel the download then press Install/Update again so it picks up some other mirror.
There's no unified "F-Droid server" but several and a dozen or more mirrors.
Each time you try again it will use a different one. Hopefully the next one will have better bandwidth.
/PS: We've seen the reports, we will look into it.
PC question for the blind. How do you guys update your BIOS, since we obviously can't access it with a screenreader or similar software? I was recommended to update it in order to fix an issue. I got told it was quite out of date, which can surely be the case. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
@mastoblind
#PC #BIOS #Windows #Blind
Great presentation today at #OSSummit Europe today by @zendis
So encouraging to see #Germany's leadership on deploying #OpenSource #SoverignDigital #government
Looking at how to manage both the technology but also the change. Amazing to see France & Holland also collaborating on this project!
What's the difference between compliance and conformance?Hidde's blog
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Google wants to make sideloading safer on Android by verifiying the identities of developers who distribute apps outside the Play Store.Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)
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Under-reported detail: If you don't pay a fee to Google, they limit how many people can install your apps and how many apps you are allowed to have.
Source: developer.android.com/develope…
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Google asks what we think of their plans to block Android app installs outside of Google Play (unless the developers let Google verify their identity and pay a fee).
Want to tell them your opinion, just submit this form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Use this form to submit questions or feedback about the new Android developer verification requirements announced in August 2025. You can learn more about the requirements in the Android developer verification guide. Sign up for early access here.Google Docs
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And for developers who who will not go that road (I guess most of the FOSS devs who have their apps explicitly NOT on PlayStore), there's this library: github.com/woheller69/FreeDroi… to let the folks using their apps know (and hopefully raise more noise).
(I haven't seen it in action yet, but the idea seems sound)
I hope the @EUCommission will take action against Google's abuse of power there, though I wonder if they'd do so in time…
Contribute to woheller69/FreeDroidWarn development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Google announced a program that is proving to be unpopular among Android app development experts. I have questions.CommonsWare: Android App Development Books
Neither Google nor Apple can provide a 100% guarantee that a user won't get malware or have their information stolen even if they only download apps from the official App Store or Google Play Store.
While these official stores have a robust review process, malware scanning to filter out malicious apps, threats still exist. Bad actors constantly evolve their methods, and sometimes malicious apps can slip through the cracks. 1/3
Let's abandon productivity in favour of fruitfulness.
Productivity values quantity.
Fruitfulness values quality.
Productivity is unrelenting.
Fruitfulness is seasonal.
Productivity tries to get as much as possible out of the worker for as little as possible in return.
Fruitfulness views the promotion of the worker's wellbeing as a natural part of the process.
Let it also be noted that the Bible has a lot of good things to say about fruitfulness, but tends to mention productivity only in the context of oppression.
#productivity #fruitfulness
YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators
arstechnica.com/google/2025/08…
Google says this isn't technically "GenAI," but it is altering videos without warning.
Google says this isn’t technically “GenAI,” but it is altering videos without warning.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test - They Clicked, They Paid, They FailedGuardio Research Team (Guardio)
🚀 Key Verification is here!
Tuta protects all your data with quantum-safe encryption. To increase security even further, you can now verify keys in Tuta Mail & Tuta Calendar. 🔒
Make sure, no one snoops in on your conversation...
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Hi there, is Tutanota planning to follow the path of other mail clients and implement Autocrypt? Seems like most major clients are planning on releasing support for it soon (K9, Thunderbird, Mailpi...BuZZ-dEE (GitHub)
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Tomorrow at #OSSummit, Alberto García will present "Dirlock: A New Rust Tool to Manage Encrypted Filesystems" at 11:00 CEST in the Auditorium (level 0).
Dirlock aims to provide a flexible way to encrypt files, suitable for both user accounts and arbitrary directories, with full PAM integration, support for hardware-backed mechanisms, and a D-Bus API for easy management.
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in reply to Paride Dan • • •I have a ~1.3TB dataset being synced. Minimum file size is 5GB, fwiw.
My database size (index-v2 directory) is 104M. The old one was 42M. That is a pretty big difference and I could see that scaling badly....
I manually stopped the Syncthing process and ran a vacuum on the database files which dropped it to 90M. Not a huge win, but it's something.
Reading through the original porting thread now...
forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthin…
Syncthing on SQLite -- help test!
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