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"Who cares that participating in society requires a smartphone? There are so many options, and they're so cheap now."

"If you don't like Apple's locked down system, just buy an Android phone."

"If you don't like what Google is doing to Android, just fork the OS; it's open source!"

"It doesn't matter that banking and payment apps require a verified device. No real users have custom ROMs; just zealots and hackers."

"No, you can't just install whatever you want on your own device. What if someone gets tricked into disabling the four layers of protection and installing spyware? We have to protect them."

"Oh wow, I have to buy an expensive approved device that spies on me and doesn't let me run the software I want, in order to pay my rent? Who could have seen this coming?"

Do you understand why we get upset when people don't take our concerns seriously?

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 12 updated and 1 added apps:

* Gaai: control the Nexxtender Home and Nexxtender Mobile charger without requiring the Android Nexxtmove app 🛡️

RB Status: 719 apps (55.1%)

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

6 old apps with close to no downloads this year have been removed:

* WalkingSynth: no update since 2017, warning on install with Android 10+

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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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IzzyOnDroid ✅

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* GerberPCB
* GitPoint: no updates since 2019, but comes with GMS+Firebase
* Bitcoin Timechain Widgets
* GreenHub: no updates since 2019 (but comes with Crashlytics & Co), entire project seemingly dormant since 2023
* AudioServe: no longer maintained; removed on suggestion by the dev

Sometimes we have to say GoodBye to apps, to keep the quality of our repo up and useful for you. We don't do so lightly, but if checks say they are due, we should do…

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Prof. Sam Lawler

Second one done. The camera operator for this interview was one of the journalists who came to film the SpaceX guys picking up the Crew Dragon Trunk debris near Ituna last year! mastodon.social/@sundogplanets…

Had a nice chat about how freaking weird that was, and now he's helping get the word out to the general public so that we can test SpaceX's claims of "full demiseability" (which have already failed twice, in Saskatchewan, in 2024, that I personally know of)

Prof. Sam Lawler

2024-07-11 14:42:09

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This is the best way possible to (maybe?) end this epic thread!

Here is the story of the Saskatchewan SpaceX debris fall, written by me, published by Scientific American: scientificamerican.com/article…

Many of you got to see this story unfold in real-time toots, but this is the whole thing, plus some extra science context. Extra special thank you to @NicoleCRust and @laurahelmuth for encouraging me to pitch the story to SciAm! I am so excited to publish in a magazine I read all the time as a kid.



When Space Junk Fell on My Neighbor’s Farm, the Law Had Few Answers for Us

A Saskatchewan farmer’s near miss with potentially lethal debris falling from orbit highlights the skyrocketing risks and murky politics of space junk
Scientific American

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Drew Scott Daniels

thank you for the article. 🙂

Is it fine? It might produce safe food, but what are the other effects? Is “spray drift” a bigger or smaller problem with roundup-ready? I know GMO leakage was a problem. GMO’s may be safe to eat, but do they become next year’s weed? Or weeds for neighbouring fields? How much do they mix with non-GMO crops?

I’m ill informed so I appreciate the information, and I want to know more. I learn a lot about farming by following @sarahtaber

@Sarah Taber

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Another 1300+ cases of COVID-19 THIS PAST WEEK and 1000+ THE WEEK BEFORE THAT in Québec... and, yet, Québec has aligned itself w/ Alberta to gouge people, if they want the COVID-19 vaccine! Health Canada has made the vaccines available to each province and territory for free... but the CAQ wants to line its pockets, eh. #CAQASTROPHE #scumbags #COVIDISNOTOVER #cdnpoli #polcan #polQC #QCpoli
COVID-19 cases in Québec, 14 au 20 septembre 2025...
COVID-19 cases in Québec, 21 au 27 septembre 2025...
#CovidIsNotOver #cdnpoli #polqc #caqastrophe #qcpoli #polcan #scumbags

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@IzzyOnDroid Wow, das ist heftig.
Siehst Du das genauso düster?
heise.de/news/F-Droid-Neue-Ent…

F-Droid: Neue Entwickler-Regeln könnten Aus für alternative App-Stores bedeuten

Die Macher des alternativen App-Stores F-Droid sagen, dass die neuen Regeln zur Entwicklerüberprüfung Google zum Gatekeeper für alle Android-Apps machen würde. 
Andreas Floemer (heise online)
@IzzyOnDroid ✅

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This is something I’ve seen black folks especially highlight is a belief in a “right to comfort” that upholds white supremacy. That people—especially white people—will only act as long as they don’t experience discomfort. I’ve seen folks unironically say that they think it’s unreasonable for allyship to mean giving up anything. If your allyship only exists within the bounds of your comfort, it is functionally worthless. Growth and change happen outside the comfort zone
todon.nl/@salad_bar_breath/115…

Princess Rayne (@salad_bar_breath@todon.nl)

Sometimes I swear to fuck all if most of you had two buttons and one killed a million people and the other one killed a fascist but you had to perceive the fascist dying, you would pick the former. ...
Todon.nl

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Czech analysts expose 286 TikTok accounts pushing pro-Russian agenda before parliamentary vote

Anonymous accounts on TikTok are generating 5 to 9 mn views weekly by boosting parties that want the Czech Republic to leave NATO and the EU
euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/29…


Czech analysts expose about 300 TikTok accounts pushing pro-Russian agenda before parliamentary vote - Euromaidan Press

Anonymous accounts on TikTok are generating 5 to 9 million views weekly by boosting parties that want the Czech Republic to leave NATO and the EU
Maria Tril (Euromaidan Press)

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I am pretty sure every one here know about vibe coding where novices writing apps by creating a simple AI prompt. Guess what? Microsoft wants to introduce a similar thing for its Office apps. Anybody can be accountant or write tax or legal advice advice using vibe working 😒 theverge.com/news/787076/micro…

Me thinks it is just another step to replace and fire human workers from office. That is all. Vibe working my ass.


Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Microsoft is launching new AI tools in its Office apps. A new Agent Mode comes to Word and Excel, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat.
Tom Warren (The Verge)
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Tusky

That is a Mastodon bug: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
They send invalid media urls in the delete response, making it impossible for us to reuse them.
someone sent them a fix, Masto Team ignores it 🤷‍♂️

Media url from deleted status different from original status

Steps to reproduce the problem Make an api call to get one of your own statuses that has media attached, e.g. GET https://mastodon.social/api/v1/statuses/{id} Notice that the url of the media (in a...
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FediVerseExplorer

Eine Frage an podcastende Mitlesende

Sensitive content

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es gibt hier diesen Tresor, aber niemand weiß mehr die Kombination. Gibt es in Hamburg oder zum 39c3 in Hamburg Lockpicker:innen, die sich gegen einen Anteil am Inhalt (keine Ahnung was drin ist, vielleicht nichts) oder eine Gebühr oder eine Spende daran versuchen würden? Ich hab auch noch zwei andere mit physischem Schloß aber ohne Schlüssel, Berechtigung kann ich nachweisen.
ein alter Tresor mit Zahlenschloss

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iOS Hackers, crackers and jailbreakers. I have a client with an iPhone 5c that they only use as an iPod. They do not have a mobile plan. They do not want to buy a new device, and do not want a mobile plan. Is there a way to bypass mobile activation on iOS 10.3.4? It says sim card required. I tried a few of my own just to activate it, but it appears to be carrier locked. Help would be greatly appreciated.
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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

@menelion When you are providing a paid service, these are all covered by the legal agreements for the service (or payment). You don’t need to collect any of this for someone to browse your web site and decide if they want to buy it. And if you are asking me for consent to this kind of data harvesting before we have a business agreement then I know that you can’t be trusted with the kind of data that you would need if we complete the sale, so I am bouncing immediately before you even get a chance to pitch your product.
@André Polykanine

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Objevil jsem teď pro zakládání eventů v rámci #fediverse službu gath.io. Vypadá to hodně zajímavě. Funguje to tak, že to pro event vytvoří account (s náhodě vygenerovaným handlem), kde je popis eventu. Pokud mu z Mastodonu dáte follow, tak vám přes DM pošle anketu, jestli se zúčastníte, nebo ne. A taky vám to přes DM posílá notifikace o updatech apod. V rámci Friendicy (příp. jinýho softu, kterej podporuje Event activity) by se to mělo chovat jako klasickej event (podobně jako na FB).

Gathio

An easier, quicker, and much less privacy-invading way to make and share events
gath.io
#fediverse

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Seriously looking like France will bring in a wealth tax. Background: politico.eu/article/gabriel-zu… (86% popular support!)

Bloomberg on current politics: bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

It seems painfully obvious that we gotta do something about the the current ludicrous level of inequality. Dunno if this is it, but glad they’re trying.


New rock-star economist Gabriel Zucman’s wealth tax transfixes France

The 38-year-old has a recipe to save the EU’s second-biggest economy from a debt crisis — but will the government dare act on it?
Giorgio Leali (POLITICO)

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Hello Mastodon!
We wanted to announce that we are on signal if you want to find us there.
We also have whatsapp but we aren't going to give out our number to just anyone.
We have stopped using telegram, because we'd rather not feed Elon Musk's AI.
If you want our signal username, DM us.
Just putting this out here so that people can find us outside of mastodon, if they wish.
-- Altheda/Lillianna
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Winter blue tardis

Wait, really? Telegram is sending our chats to this dude? Disgusting! I use iMessages and whatsApp, but can't figure out Signal for the love of universe, I also use Xmpp, when it works, we're strongly hoping for element client fixes, so it becomes useable, but that's super slow. Time to figure out Signal, maybe? What upset me was that they use a QR code if you want to link to a computer, and not everyone has access to a working screen, so, meh to them for that. I don't know how they are more secure vs Apple, but that's just me, Signal is a company too, after all. Pretty sure whatsApp feeds my messages to its Meta AI, but it's a speculation, and I won't be surprised if it is actual truth, knowing Meta's reputation and all that...
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Andrew Hodgson

I used to work for large retailers who operated like this. The software would go in and would never get changed in 10 plus years unless there was a funded project to upgrade/change it etc. Aside from the security/support concerns, this ended up with a lot of unofficial staff workarounds that compounded over time which could have been fixed with an update or in some cases was provided in a later version of the software. I see this paradigm as a bit of a panacea.

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Let's start a war! Tabs or spaces?

For the record, the correct answer IMO is tabs. They're a single byte, can be changed to view the reading preferences of any sighted user, and were literally built for indents. But many disagree with me, I know.

  • Tabs, obviously (50%, 4 votes)
  • Spaces, you wackjob (37%, 3 votes)
  • I do not care, let me see the results (12%, 1 vote)
8 voters. Poll end: 1 week ago

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Day Garwood

@jscholes I see absolutely no conveniences whatsoever for speech users. Braille users, I could definitely make a case for. Especially multiline displays. But for me, it's nothing but confusing and inconvenient. More so for reading than writing. I assumed that was because of using speech rather than braille, but clearly everyone else finds it much more convenient than I do, which makes me think I must be reading code very wrongly.
@James Scholes

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#DisabledSocial #fediblock Concerning the harasser JimmyTruth:

1. We can block the IP address of him to stop him from signing up here, but we cannot stop him from chosing any server and signing up there. Mods in other servers need to do that.
2. We have a script running to suspend ASAP. This relies on assistance from other servers to update the shared spreadsheet.

Mastodon's coding doesn't have reliable antispam measures that fit this sceneraio. Other servers don't have better spam measures.

#FediBlock #DisabledSocial
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