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John Oliver does it again.

"Look, at some point you’re going to have to draw a line. So I’d argue, why not draw it right here? And when they come to you with stupid, ridiculous demands, picking fights that you know you could win in court, instead of rolling over, why not stand up and use four key words they don’t tend to teach you in business school? Not, ‘OK, you’re the boss.’ Not, ‘Whatever you say goes.’ But instead, the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away. And that is, ‘Fuck you. Make me.’”
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Jimmy Kimmel & the FCC: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses ABC’s move to pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air, what it has to do with Brendan Carr and the FCC, what it means for free speech in the Unit...
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I need the communities help. Please consider up voting this item. Simply thumbs up the description of this Github request: github.com/microsoft/vscode/is…. The more the better here.

Add Dynamic HTML Chat View to Replace Accessible View for Screen Reader Users

Type: Feature Request Add Dynamic HTML Chat View to Replace Accessible View for Screen Reader Users Subtitle Eliminate the static Accessible View in favor of an integrated, scrollable, copyable cha...
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 20 updated and 1 added apps:

* Stashly: helps you store, organize, and secure your files and notes 🛡️

RB status currently: 715 apps (54.4%)

2 apps have been removed:

- Nozzle: succeeded by Voyager
- SimpleNote: too many non-free components/anti-features, and our issues on those never replied to

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


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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Že jsou nová #auta tragická z pohledu #soukromí je všeobecně známo. Při hlubším průzkumu se pak začnou objevovat kontury ledovce... @autickariczsk

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It’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and Security

All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed
Mozilla Foundation
#auta #soukromí @Autíčkáři CZ/SK
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Štěpán Škorpil

Ještě mi nepřijde úplně fajn že si firmy každý měsíc mění podmínky používání. Co když nesouhlasíš se změnou podmínek u aplikace k autu? Neměl bys mít možnost auto vrátit když ti nepřiměřeně změní podmínky používání přidružené aplikace? Nebo u jiných "chytrých" spotřebičů. Zmení ti podmínky softu u pračky? Televize? 🤷 To by koukali.

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Are you working on Free & Open Source technologies that benefit other people too? Consider to apply for funding in our open calls.

  • You can ask for between 5k - 50k euro
  • Anyone can apply: individuals, SMEs, institutions, collectives, etc.
  • There is little administrative overhead: no reporting-the project is the proof of work. And the application form is simple & straightforward.
    The next deadline for the rolling open call is October 1
    nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250801-ca…
    #FOSS #NGI #NGI0 #fossfunding

NLnet; Apply for funding before October 1st 2025

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#foss #ngi0 #ngi #fossfunding

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saultpoli, ontpoli, conservatives

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Every piece of jewelry you see is a piece of my soul and the indomitable spirit of Ukraine💙💛
My art is not just a hobby, it is my passion, my way of creating light in these difficult times. I put my heart into every bead, creating jewelry that carry warmth and beauty💖

More my work here:
etsy.com/shop/NadiiaJewelryArt

I would be very grateful for sharing and ordering, your support is very important!🫂❤️
#madeinUkraine #handmadejewelry #SupportUkraine #StandWithUkraine #Ukrainianart #etsygifts

#StandWithUkraine #supportUkraine #madeinukraine #handmadejewelry #ukrainianart #etsygifts

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Announcing the Accessibility Highlighter

A browser extension to highlight accessibility problems on the page, giving a visual indication of what the problems are

Get an immediate view of how accessible your web page is by simply clicking a button. The Accessibility Highlighter shows a visual indication of the parts of the page that have issues.

For users who are non-visual or have severe visual impairments, the extension also logs the elements-in-error to the console.

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Accessibility Highlighter - Chrome Web Store

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The wannabe king is now directing his regime to prosecute his political opponents.

Trump thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we have NO KINGS and we won’t back down to chaos, cruelty, and corruption. Join us for the next nationwide day of defiance: nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivi… #NoKings

Hillary Rodham Clinton on Bluesky: “Imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tapes. That's what this is.”

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.
No Kings
#nokings

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New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important
404media.co/were-suing-ice-for…

We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract

404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.
Joseph Cox (404 Media)

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There's a lot going on in Firefox and Thunderbird land this week! First, we're taking part in Mozilla Support's Ask-A Fox event this week! (community.mozilla.org/en/campa…) Check out how you can get involved and help fellow Thunderbird users on desktop and Android!

Second, we're hosting a live streamed AMA Thursday at 19:00 UTC and want your questions! Please share any questions for our team here: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8482945…

#Firefox #AMA #Thunderbird #AskAFox


Mozilla - Ask a Fox event - Mozilla Community Portal

The Mozilla Support platform (a.k.a. SUMO) receives over 20 million visits each month. It’s the go-to place for Firefox users to
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#firefox #thunderbird #ama #askafox

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Disney didn’t lose $7 billion in a day.

this started with some site in Pakistan speculating about #Disney losses (± 3.9B) due to the #JimmyKimmel #BoycottDisney campaign.

then seems some CENTRIST election grifter group ―that won’t leave the substack nazi bar―doubled that pakistani speculation to 7B.

finally, a propagandi using newsie.social to legitimize their slop, made this meme.

tis the season ―1 year before midterm elections― for marketing predators to test their manipulation tactics

bullshit posted by an account at newsie social called ProgressivePower
#Disney #jimmykimmel #boycottdisney

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Testing GNU Taler at #Datenspuren was fun. And by fun I mean mostly unspectacular. It just worked. I scanned a QR code. I got some Kolle Mate.

I think some sort of GNU Taler integration into #Conversations_im would be pretty cool.

If you would like to integrate Taler into Conversations there are currently funding opportunities available¹ from @nlnet and both the Taler developer as well as myself are happy to help with scoping.

¹: nlnet.nl/taler/

#XMPP #Jabber #GnuTaler #Taler #NGI

NLnet; NGI TALER

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#xmpp #Jabber #ngi #datenspuren #conversations_im #gnutaler #taler @NLnet

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@bagder Interesting. Was AI slop difficult to spot back in 2023?

hackerone.com/reports/2298307

#Curl #HackerOne #slop


curl disclosed on HackerOne: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in...

## Summary: Hello security team, Hope you are doing well :) I would like to report a potential security vulnerability in the WebSocket handling code of the curl library. The issue is related to...
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#curl #hackerone #Slop @daniel:// stenberg://

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Devansh Varshney added histogram chart support to #LibreOffice, and is working on Basic IDE improvements: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #OpenSource
Photo of Devansh

Community Member Monday: Devansh Varshney - The Document Foundation Blog

Today we’re talking to Devansh Varshney, who added histogram chart support to LibreOffice and is working on improvements to the Basic IDE… Tell us a bit about yourself! I am from Mathura in India, one of the historical cities where the first image of…
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#opensource #libreoffice

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LibreOffice

@freyaanduin OK – good to know you're using the latest version! You can report issues or enhancement requests to our community here: bugs.documentfoundation.org – Please bear in mind that we're a volunteer-driven project with limited resources, so we can't guarantee an immediate fix. But if you give the developers there your specific requests, and someone has time, they can work on it...

Bugzilla Main Page

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Anyone using Otter for Funkwhale?

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.g…

Is it still working? Looks like the project was abandoned 4..5 years ago – but certainly, Funkwhale moved on. Should Otter no longer work, we'd rather remove it from IzzyOnDroid, to avoid disappointments.

#serviceToot :boost_love:

„Otter for Funkwhale“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Music player for Funkwhale
IzzyOnDroid Repo Browser
#serviceToot

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Reminding the businesses that CRA compliance is not a problem with #curl

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/09/22…


CRA compliant curl

As the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is getting closer and companies wanting to sell digital services in goods within the EU need to step up, tighten their procedures, improve their documentation and get control over their dependencies I feel it could b…
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#curl

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Let's be clear here: The law is NOT to blame for cookie banners.

The blame lies with companies that would rather inconvenience you with a banner than respect your privacy by not collecting (and selling) your data..

politico.eu/article/europe-coo…?


Europe’s cookie law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it.

The European Commission wants to take a bite out of privacy rules that force websites to run cookie banners.
Ellen O'Regan (POLITICO)
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Kim Crayton ~ Her/She

“AI” hallucinations become inevitable when systems reward confident guesses over humble uncertainty.

A mirror to how patriarchal power structures warp leadership into performance, not truth-seeking.

When ‘AI” can't say "I don't know," mistakes get amplified.

When men can't say "I was wrong," harm gets multiplied.

So here’s the challenge:

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Kim Crayton ~ Her/She

If we’re serious about dismantling the myth of white supremacy and destroying white male mediocrity, we must cultivate cultures that honor humility, accountability, and collective inquiry.

Not feigned decisiveness and coerced compliance.

We need systems that are okay with saying "I don’t know" and stepping back.

We need leaders who listen, seek clarity, and elevate others' voices rather than hoard attention.

This is the anti-supremacist framework we must build.

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@Mer__edith about Signal and potential Chat Control in the EU:
“We would continue to operate as long as we could. Similar to how we do in Iran, similar to how we’ve done in response to being blocked in Russia, working with our community to set up proxies so that people who are within these regions have access to Signal. ”
Think about that! They might be forced to do in the EU what they did in Russia and Iran. english.elpais.com/technology/…

Signal president Meredith Whittaker: ‘In technology, it’s way too easy for marketing to replace substance. That’s what’s happened with Telegram’

The app best known for respecting privacy looks to grow, despite anti-privacy efforts
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@Meredith Whittaker
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So I guess we're doing this now! It was surprisingly not hard to find this type of video in my language. The numbers 0-100 spoken (mostly) in fairly standard Catalan by all different people, supposedly each one of the age of the number they say. I say mostly because some of them are clearly not native (e.g. 32 and 41) and end up essentially saying it in Spanish.

youtube.com/watch?v=J74HeJWM2k…


De 0-100 anys (from 0-100 years in Catalan)

Filmed in Barcelona, we found 100 people -from baby to 100 year old- to say their age in the camera. And since Barcelona is the capital of Catalunya, we aske...
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To jsem netušil, že mi kamarád tak podrobně luxuje stravu. Ten detail na konci není chyba v záznamu...ano, vyválel jsem se 🤦
#cyklistika
Mimochodem, jak jsme před časem s @mireeek zmiňovali #strava, má někdo zájem se tam (s)družit?
#strava #cyklistika @Miroslav Vrhel 👷

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 22. September, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist türkis und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
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#blind #inklusion #make

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There'll be #LibreOffice-focused talks at the Open Source Conference 2025 in Luxembourg, on October 1: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
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LibreOffice-focused talks at the Open Source Conference 2025 Luxembourg - The Document Foundation Blog

The Open Source Conference 2025 will take place the 1st of October 2025 in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, following a very successful first edition in 2024 in combination with the LibreOffice Conference.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice
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Eugene

I recheck this and yes — pip reinstall some packages, when it need another versions, which don't match with versions from NetBSD repo. But most of the packages just reused — pip writes that "requirement already satisfied" (see the screenshot №1).

And it writes one compliant — at the end of installation, about possible system break after it was running from root user (on the screenshot №2)

P.S. As I see pip downloads only: slidgram, pyrofork, slidge, slidge-style-parser, pyaes, pymedia-pyrofork, PySocks, tgcrypto-pyrofork, python-magic, slixmpp, thumbhash, aiodns, pyasn1, pyasn1_modules, pycares.

Output of "pip install slidgram" where it writes that "Requirement already satisfied" for dependencies, installed via NetBSD binary packages.
Output of "pip install slidgram" where it complains about possible system break after running from root.
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Hackers (1995) is a film I somehow never saw until now—wild, considering I lived through the real events it riffs on. Only 30 years later did I finally sit down to watch it.

This is a film I should’ve been more familiar with, seeing how it really cuts close to home. And I know some of you might find it unlikely that Hackers has real-world connections, but I’m telling you the truth.

The whole thing about free long distance was real. Back then we called it blue boxing. And in 1988, a young university student released what wasn’t exactly a virus but came to be known as the Morris Worm. It shut down a big chunk of the early internet. So while the movie exaggerates with a 12-year-old wunderkind, the inspiration was there.

Several characters were analogues to real people. Joey was based on a guy known as Fry Guy. And I’m pretty sure Nikon, the Black hacker in the movie, was based on John Threat—who in the 80s and 90s went by the handle Corrupt. I actually know John—great guy.

And yes, a lot of cybercrime investigations were really handled by the Secret Service. People forget their original purview was financial crime. Protecting the president came later.

So I’m shocked it took me until yesterday to actually see this movie. I remember it being a big deal—it touched youth culture and fashion. But let me tell you, hackers didn’t dress like that. Not before the movie came out. We were computer science nerds in labs. Nobody thought hacking or phreaking was cool.

Then overnight, with the movie’s leopard prints, fur, and pink neon side holsters, suddenly computer nerds were “the coolest kids in school.” Angelina Jolie helped with that one—plenty of girls suddenly wanted to get into computer science.

The plot is simple. A bunch of teenagers access file systems remotely, one stumbles onto something bigger, and suddenly they’re caught in a cyber-security conspiracy. The tagline nailed it: “Their only crime was curiosity.”

But the bad guy? Come on. A multimillion-dollar corporation hires as its CSO a dude who insists on being called “The Plague”? And the Secret Service wants to work with him instead of arrest him? No CSO walks into a boardroom with a skateboard and demands everyone call him by his hacker handle. That is the most unbelievable part of the movie.

Well, that and the hacking itself. Real hacking is just terminals and text. In Hackers, it’s skyscraper file systems and sci-fi UIs. Fun to look at, but nothing like reality. Same with the VR headset The Plague uses. VR existed in the 90s, but it sucked. Cool as an idea, but nobody was actually doing anything with it.

Same goes for the laptops. In 1995, laptops didn’t have the horsepower or fast built-in modems for serious hacking—if they had modems at all. They were impractical bricks.

What the movie did predict, though, were translucent machines. Those became all the rage later with Apple’s iMacs. In the 90s, our machines were beige or sometimes black—never cool, never translucent. So that influence stuck.

Other details are hilarious in retrospect. At the end, all the kids run to phone booths to hack. Why? Anonymity? Not really—now people can see you standing in a booth, typing furiously.

I used to mess with phone booths as a kid, routing calls around the world just because I could. That was phreaking. And one of the characters even goes by “Phreak”—spelled with a PH—which is a nod to that world. But almost never did I bring a laptop into a phone booth, not with them being so heavy and lacking battery power.

I realize I’m not treating this as just a movie. Hard to do, because this was my life. I’ve been in the tech industry for decades, and watching this is like a cop watching Bad Boys or a doctor watching House. It’s a story first, accuracy second. They wanted hacking to look cool.

My life wasn’t that cool. I didn’t have Angelina Jolie hanging off my arm. No woman has ever been impressed with my technical skills. Trivia skills once got me laid—technical skills, never.

I can’t believe I waited 30 years to finally watch this film. I watched it with my kid. She liked it. Then she asked me if that’s really what the 90s were like. I had to tell her no. Sorry to disappoint you, kid. But yeah—what a trip.

@movies

Cover art for the 1995 film Hackers. The five main characters, including Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie, are shown leaning toward the camera with a swirling digital tunnel background in neon pink and purple. Circuit patterns and glowing text float around them, emphasizing the film’s cyber theme. At the bottom, bold white letters read Hackers with the tagline “Their crime is curiosity.”
@movies
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Just thinking about how the money Canada spent on just one pipeline (TMX) could have bought every single Canadian an e-bike AND had billions left over.

Just let that sink in

Every adult and child, a free e-bike, and billions left over.

Instead we bought a pipeline.

Next we're gonna generationally invest in what? Solar? Micro-electric mobility? Battery tech? Agriculture? Health care? Kickstarting green industry?

Probably not. We're probably going to bankrupt the country for fossil fuel interests.

cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-ge…

#CDNPoli #fossilFuels

#cdnpoli #fossilfuels
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