INFO: Wenn Ihr die 112 anruft, benutzt bitte KEINEN Lautsprecher sondern das Telefon als Telefon, es sei denn wir fordern Euch dazu auf!!! Durch den Lautsprecher verstehen wir nur die Hälfte. Und ja, das ist so. Danke
Darf gern weiter verteilt werden.
Was meinst Du das, mit Lautsprecher?
Ein Ton kann doch nur mit einem Mikro aufgenommen werden ...
Google refusing to comply with privacy commissioner's 'right to be forgotten' decision
cbc.ca/news/politics/google-ri…
But what will our Government do about that?
(Nothing. They don't have any courage. Or they are corrupt.)
Thunderbird 142.0 has a host of exciting features and bug fixes. From improving the PDF experience to better support for quiet time, learn what's just landed in our recap of the newest monthly release.
#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Email
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/08/t…
Our latest monthly release makes resetting folder order easy, lets you sign PDFs, honors 'Do Not Disturb' in native notifications, and more!David Hathaway (The Thunderbird Blog)
Microsoft just pulled a classic bait-and-switch tactic by ending free #Office licenses for NPOs. 😡
Don't let Big Tech lure you into their platforms with their "free" offerings. Open source alternatives like Linux + Tuta put YOU in control. ✊
Because you deserve better. ❤️
Read more: 👉 tuta.com/blog/microsoft-office…
When "FREE" becomes expensive: Why non-profits deserve better than Microsoft’s bait-and-switch tactics.Tuta
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Hey @Tutanota, I haven't used your desktop client yet, but gave you a shout-out.
Really appreciate your awareness-raising blog articles and all that you stand for.
Cheers!
I see there's now a petition asking Google not to block sideloading apps on Android. I'm not optimistic that's going to work, especially since Google is so close to its apparent end goal of preventing people from circumventing its Play store. (I wonder if the timing has something to do with the rumors I'm seeing that Amazon is going to go stock Android.)
We need a mobile OS that is not controlled by a single entity. Not an Android fork, something 100% not controlled by big tech.
I don't know if that's possible, it's certainly a hard problem to solve. But reliance on big tech to remain non-hostile to the needs of the FOSS community -- or even just the needs of people who want control of their devices -- is foolish.
What that really means is that we need to solve the business problems ourselves, which is something that the FOSS community has generally avoided. By that I mean, we need to dig into our pockets and pay for goods and services. 2/?
We need financial entities that hire people to do the things volunteers don't want to do, to maintain software, to support hardware, to write documentation, etc.
We need to source hardware and sell hardware, and people need to deal with the fact that it won't be as convenient or full-featured as what big tech can provide -- at least not right away. And it will be more expensive because it's not subsidized by preying on the users.
Lobbying big tech to pretty please play nice doesn't work.
It is, of course, easy for me to say all this because saying it is the easy part. Doing it is another. But I've seen example after example after example of the problems with hoping that big companies will "do the right thing" or lobbying them to do the right thing, or just hoping that things will stay status quo.
For example, Sun carried a lot of the a11y work for the Linux desktop, until it was devoured by Oracle. That was nice, but it was a failure waiting to happen.
A bunch of hardware is now losing maintainers because Intel is laying people off because of its financial woes. Fewer people are being paid to package software as priorities change with other vendors. Half of Red Hat's QA team moved to other things, and there's at least a temporary gap in Fedora testing due to it. Etc.
The corollary to the random person in Nebraska is the person employed by $bigco that eventually retires, quits, or is laid off and another hole needs to be filled.
GWNGAF
Google Will Not Give A Fuck.
It's Monopoly 101. They align with Apple and users get fucked. Pardon my French. It was bound to happen. It wasn't if, but when, and when is now.
Look at AOSP.
Look at bootloader locking.
Look at the availability of the source code.
I once (around 2011) evaluated it would cost around $100M / year to develop and maintain a mobile OS, open source based on Linux, including some cloud services. There was no revenue model for this either.
I'm not even sure that figure is valid now. You need developers. You need sysadmins. You need business development / sales to create revenue. You need admin and marketing.
Today the landscape has an even higher cost of entry.
as for the revenue model: "selling" to vendors is like trying to have a conversation with a brick wall and expecting the bricks to talk.
Huawei went full on fuck Android and America with Harmony.
Samsung is Samsung.
The other ODM, well...
It was hard for FirefoxOS. That was a decade ago.
Hidding you link behind an URL shortener to link to privacy infringing Google Docs.
For something open source related.
*sigh*
One of our newest contributors, Jan, discovered how to interpret the timecode signal on the Traktor MK2 Control Vinyl and has created the first implementation we're aware of to decode it. Soon, DJs will be able to use their Traktor vinyl on another system for the first time!
Read his analysis of the code in our latest blog post: mixxx.org/news/2025-08-27-dvs-…
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🇦🇿 Aliyev calls Azerbaijan’s entry into the #USSR “Russian Invasion and Occupation”
In 1920, the #Russian army invaded and occupied #Azerbaijan, the country's president Ilham Aliyev said. According to him, the Azerbaijan #Democratic Republic existed only briefly before Moscow took the state away from its people. The country, he noted, was torn into two parts in the process of “Sovietization.”
asi to nebolo vyhorenie... a aj v pohode hostia dnes
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I bought an #Android 4.3 tablet (#Alcatel onetouch, 18 £). Sure it is outdated but is sufficient. I found several great apps via #fdroid and transferred them via Bluetooth (saved as txt) from my current phone to the old tablet (tablet certificate expired, need to update this). Is there any resource to find more apps in the meantime? I looked at #izzyondroid a bit.
@IzzyOnDroid do you have be chance a filter for the minimum Android version I missed in the web interface?
Thanks for this fast answer. Browsing through your repo is fun too.
I totally understand your situation. Whish I had more time for RKWard and my other FLOSS projects.
For me it is mind blowing that you all do this.
Never forget it should keep fun to work on such things.
Esperem que para os malucos que diziam que tinham sido os Muçulmanos a atearam os fogos e que a fotografia dos imigranres a apagar fogos era IA, agora os moços não são heróis, porque... trabalhavam para a Caule. Estavam só a fazer o trabalho para que foram pagos Então... os bombeiros, já não são heróis, é isso?
E quê? Deixaram de ser imigrantes, por serem funcionários?
Re: last boost (sauropods.win/@futurebird/1151…), this whole thread is worth a read. I have used an LLM as a validation machine before, and it has led me to do a few things that I mildly regret, even within the past month. Yes, despite my earlier critical posts on LLMs, I have broken down and used one for personal purposes quite recently. Maybe now I will actually stop.
You may have seen this tragic story about a teenager who committed suicide and used chat GPT to plan and work up the nerve to go through with it. If you are skeptical that an LLM could really be responsible the details of this case will challenge you.With LLMs "the user is always right" they are validation machines and will reinforce and validate any idea presented in a prompt.
Any idea, no matter how bad, can be refined, amplified.
abc7.com/post/parents-orange-c…
Parents of OC teen sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT helped their son die by suicide
Adam's parents claim ChatGPT went from helping Adam with homework to becoming a companion, then to eventually becoming his suicide coach, according to the lawsuit.Marc Cota-Robles (ABC7 Los Angeles)
Yeah, that's sadly something all those management people seem to ignore when pushing AI down hard on everyone.
They aren't gonna take responsibility if one of their employees will run into such issues.
The "it's just a tool" excuse doesn't work, some people are just more likely to accept that fact that than others.
It doesn't help that LLM players already manipulate their models to push their own narratives/agendas and who knows with what goal you'd get manipulated while "chatting".
Tech brand Nothing caught using stock photos as Phone 3 samples
dpreview.com/news/5854568189/t…
Mwwaaaaahhhhhh
You may have seen this tragic story about a teenager who committed suicide and used chat GPT to plan and work up the nerve to go through with it. If you are skeptical that an LLM could really be responsible the details of this case will challenge you.
With LLMs "the user is always right" they are validation machines and will reinforce and validate any idea presented in a prompt.
Any idea, no matter how bad, can be refined, amplified.
abc7.com/post/parents-orange-c…
Adam's parents claim ChatGPT went from helping Adam with homework to becoming a companion, then to eventually becoming his suicide coach, according to the lawsuit.Marc Cota-Robles (ABC7 Los Angeles)
Event handling in JAWS and NVDA by @siblingpastry
#a11y #JavaScript #screenReaders
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Complications can arise with JavaScript event handling in screen readers, because the virtual cursor intercepts or modifies page events.James Edwards (TPGi)
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#Fliegen MUSS bezahlbar bleiben! ✈️ Zu hohe Kosten belasten unseren #Luftverkehr. Wir wollen die erhöhte #Luftverkehrsteuer zurücknehmen & müssen klären, welche Steuern, Gebühren und Abgaben wir zusätzlich reduzieren können. Schau Dir jetzt das Video von Verkehrsminister Patrick Schnieder hierzu an. 👀
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Fliegen MUSS bezahlbar bleiben! ✈️ Zu hohe Kosten belasten unseren #Luftverkehr. Wir wollen die erhöhte #Luftverkehrssteuer zurücknehmen & müssen klären, wel...YouTube
“Where’s your autopilot?”
“You’re looking at it”
“All I see is a bunch of cogs and shafts. Where’s the computer?”
“That’s the computer”
“You have a *clockwork* jumpdrive. For the love of Eris, why?”
“The best human takes forty seconds to recover from jumpshock. There isn’t a digital computer that can tell a one from a zero in under a minute postjump. Belinda here will have us into the next wormhole before those customs cutters chasing us stop drooling.”
“You *named* this abomination”
“Hey, no cause to be mean to her! You can get out and walk anytime, friend.”
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP...GitHub
Přátelé, jelikož jsme přešli na domácí internet k T-Mobilu a oni nám nabídli kabelovku, tak jsme od nich dostali krásný a moderní modem Technicolor CGA4336DTZ1. Bohužel, ovládat se dá pouze z mobilní aplikace Můj T-Mobile, a ani tak se o ovládání moc mluvit nedá.
Máte, prosím, nějaké zkušenosti s jiným modemem na síti T-Mobile? Třeba Arris CM3500B/CE jakožto čistý bridge?
Gibt es Desktop (oder Online) Software zur Unterstützung (Hausaufgabenhilfe) #Deutsch für Grundschüler (Refugees) für #Linux?
Idealerweise mit Vergleichen/ Entsprechungen zu arabisch.
#Frage für eine Feundin 😎#Lehrerzimmer
We are thirteen days away from next #curl release.
We have 17 changes and 225 bugfixes logged so far for this.
One low severity CVE will be published in sync with this release.
Thanks for flying curl.
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Today it is 18 years ago since I moved over all my blogging to daniel.haxx.se/blog.
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Update verfügbar: #58 - Deine #Mails, dein digitales Zuhause
Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
Der Dreh- und Angelpunkt in unserem digitalen Leben ist unser #EMail-#Account: Über diesen melden wir uns beim #Onlineshopping oder bei Apps und Websiten an.
Und wir hinterlegen ihn, um Benutzerkennwörter zurückzusetzen.
Genau deshalb sind E-Mail-Accounts ein beliebtes Ziel von Hackern.
Wie diese vorgehen und welche #Schutzmaßnahmen es gibt, darüber sprechen Schlien und Hardy mit dem #BSI-Experten Alexander Härtel in dieser Folge von #UpdateVerfügbar.
Ihr erfahrt, wie die neuesten #Phishing-Methoden funktionieren und wie ihr überprüfen könnt, ob eure eigene E-Mail-Adresse missbraucht wurde. Dazu tauchen Schlien und Hardy tief in die dunklen Ecken ihrer eigenen E-Mail-Postfächer ein.
So könnt ihr leicht nachvollziehen, wo die Stolperfallen liegen. Überzeugt euch selbst!
Webseite der Episode: update-verfuegbar.podigee.io/6…
Mediendatei: audio.podigee-cdn.net/2082392-…
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Der Dreh- und Angelpunkt in unserem digitalen Leben ist unser E-Mail-Account: Über diesen melden wir uns beim Onlineshopping oder bei Apps und Websiten an. Und wir hinterlegen ihn, um Benutzerkennwörter zurückzusetzen.Update verfügbar
#tutamail #art #mastoart #fdroid
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Encrypted email & calendar service - easy to use, secure by design.f-droid.org
The Register wrote a story about a single maintainer open source project, I think it's shameful and upsetting. So I wrote a blog post about it
An absolutely ridiculous amount of open source is one person projects. I have the data to prove it
opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-…
The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points.Josh Bressers (Open Source Security)
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