#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 15 updated and 1 added apps:

* Compass Navigator: a compass app with auto declination adjustments using the device's builtin GPS 🛡️

RB status: 728 apps (57.1%)

3 #Magisk modules were updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

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

Very thankful for the handful of people we have in this community who report not just the spammers, but the trolls, the sealion-ers, the harassers, the bullies.

We're not omnipresent and we can't possibly know everything that's going on across the fediverse; we rely on member reports to find and take action on bad behaviour, not just on mastodon.art, but on other instances.

Part of hosting and building a safe community is having clear, strong boundaries and enforcing those boundaries -

#FediHelp needed: the final phase of our metadata reorganization is now in progress. During our cleanup, we a.o. found a bunch of no longer maintained apps which we think might be considered "niche" – but are not sure which of those are really still useful, and thus should be kept.

So if you use one of them and still find it useful – or recently tried one of them and it didn't even work, can you please check codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every… and leave a comment? Thanks!

#IzzyOnDroid #serviceToot

in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅

if i'm allowed: the version of medito you host is years older than the current google play version and also doesn't load anything.

apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/a…

in reply to 💯% BꞮG DΣMӨП ΣПΣЯGY™ 𖤐

@jahtnamas of course you are allowed – and thanks for the hint! The version we ship is the latest release available in their repo. Unfortunately, it seems they've stopped providing newer releases there. So maybe you could ask them to provide releases with APKs again? They'd be picked up again by our updater automatically. Should they say "No", we'll have to remove the app of course. Thanks!

We are joined by @zersiax again to give us an update on the state of accessibility in Linux and whether things have improved since we last spoke.

linuxafterdark.net/linux-after…

#linux #podcast #opensource #a11y #accessibility

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so, my current de-stressing activity is learning English round hand from period copy-books. the lines in copy-books that aren't just practice letter-forms are horrifically boring, extremely cringe moral mottoes, and I'm running out of stuff to practice writing

current texts include the long-term nuclear waste warning message, old copypasta like "then who was phone", city names, scientific names, this alphabetic poem from an 1806 manual

any ideas for one-liners or very short texts? or, I guess, anything you want put in fancy script, albeit by a beginner

#calligraphy

Explanation Of New Approach On Security Patches


Our security preview releases provide early access to Android Security Bulletin patches prior to the official disclosure. Our current security preview releases provide the current revision of the November 2025 and December 2025 patches for the Android Open Source Project. We recommend enabling this.

The only difference between our regular releases and security preview releases are the future Android Security Bulletin patches being applied with any conflicts resolved. The downside of security preview releases is we cannot provide the sources for the patches until the official disclosure date.

The delay for being able to publish the sources is why we're now going through the significant effort of building 2 variants of each release. Our most recent 3 releases have both a regular and security preview variant:

2025092500 and 20250925012025092700 and 20250927012025100300 and 2025100301

You can enable security preview releases via Settings > System > System update > Receive security preview releases.

Our plan is to keep it off-by-default with a new page added to the Setup Wizard which will have it toggled on as a recommendation. We'll prompt users on existing installs to choose.

We're maintaining the upcoming Android security patches in a private repository where we've resolved the conflicts. Each of our security preview releases is tagged in this private repository. Our plan is to publish what we used once the embargo ends, so it will still be open source, but delayed.

The new security update Android is using provides around 3 months of early access to OEMs with permission to make binary-only releases from the beginning. As far as we know, GrapheneOS is the first to take advantage of this and ship the patches early. Even the stock Pixel OS isn't doing this yet.

During the initial month, many patches are added or changed. By around the end of the month, the patches are finalized with nothing else being added or changed. Our 2025092500 release was made on the day the December 2025 patches were finalized, but we plan to ship the March 2026 patches earlier.

Previously, Android had monthly security patches with a 1 month embargo not permitting early releases. For GrapheneOS users enabling security preview releases, you'll get patches significantly earlier than before. We'd greatly prefer 3 day embargoes over 3 month embargoes but it's not our decision.

Security preview releases currently increment the build date and build number of the regular release by 1. You can upgrade from 2025100300 to 2025100301 but not vice versa. For now, you can switch back to regular releases without reinstalling such as 2025092701 to 2025100300, but this may change.

in reply to KindnessInfinity

Not good. So due to Google's NDA we have the choice between installing (temporarily) closed source software or being 3 months late on security updates.

Not being allowed to release source code has the same feeling as a third party doing a code audit and giving a security certificate that essentially says "trust me bro".

Its necessary to move towards a fully community driven open source OS for mobile phones.

Is autistic self-identification valid?

I just completed a quantitative research paper comparing autism traits in medically diagnosed autistic people with the same traits in self-identifying autistic people and I can definitively say with more stats behind it than I care to ever think about again, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE!

#autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #autism

autisticculturepodcast.com/p/i…

in reply to Justin Macleod

My best relationships in all aspects from work to friendship to romantic have always been during a time when I wasn't trying to impress people. Granted, my unwillingness to impress people did not come from some amazing life hack or conpidence boost, sometimes I just had enough energy to maintain, so their was neither reason, nor resources I could use to try. All that to say, if you're about to do something you hope will impress someone, just... don't.

#ArtFelt will be on the air tonight! It all starts at 8PM Eastern on Mixcloud – mixcloud.com/live/artfeltlive – or ACB Media 4 – acbmedia.org/4

Hello, everyone! I recently returned from our trip to visit friends, Derek and Robin, where we traveled in both South and North Carolina! There is so much to tell, including the sharing of recordings made along the way. Of course, music and live performing will be strewn throughout the telling of the trip and whatever else comes along. See you there!

I wanted to see if I could make a promo with AI that would be good enough to pass inspection by yours truely, and the short answer. I couldn't. I used chat gpt, index tts for the speech, mainly because its the new toy, but used eleven labs for the music, also because that part is another new toy. I still had to generate multiple beds before I was ok with the result, and nothing mixed well without more plugins than should be permitted by law.
in reply to Derek Lane

Also I'd love to boost this but I won't boost audio without a description, in the same way I don't boost images without description. If we want parity, we need to be the ones that push for it the hardest. If sighted people should be held accountable for adding alt-text to images, so should we for audio, so that our deaf followers, and people that just want a summary of what we're posting, also benefit.
These are just my opinions and may not reflect those of anyone else... Or something.

Our ol’ buddy @jmd2000 had a birthday this week, so his old wooden barn is temporarily closed. Therefore, @Derek and Robin are doing another “Just Because Show” on HKC Radio tonight at 8pm eastern. Join them for a long-awaited music addition that’s been months in the making! You won’t wanna miss it!

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Hi there.

I'm a big ol' Docker idiot.

I need to add a private key to a docker environment, specifically referencing this projects:
github.com/mattmelling/asl-zel…

I guess I need Docker Basics 101, since I don't really have much experience with it.

I have built the thing based on it's included docker file. Now I need to add this private key before launching it with docker run.

The README expects one knows how to actually use docker, which I suppose is fair. So, do I run a minimal something so I can shell into it and create files before running the complete environment, or what?

in reply to Patrick Perdue

Mount the local keyfile as a volume inside the container by adding something like this to the `docker run` command:

-v local\path\to\private.key:/container/path/to/private.key:ro

Then tell the project where to find the in-container keyfile as the GitHub page indicates.

(Note: I'm assuming you're on Windows with the backslashes there, but change to forward slashes in the host path if not.)

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Ich teste momentan ja :gnome: #Gnome unter #Fedora auf meinem Arbeitsgerät, während ich eigentlich seit Jahren privat und vorher beruflich #KDE #Plasma gewohnt bin.

Weiß noch nicht ob ich dabie bleibe. Ich muss mich ehct bei sehr vielen DIngen umgewöhnen und einiges umbiegen bzw. nach meinen Bedürfnissen konfigurieren. Aber eigentlich will ich den Desktop ja nicht zu stark verbiegen...
An anderen Stellen vermisse ich Features.

Nein, ist natürlich nicht alles blöd: Gnome ist wirklich schick und fühlt sich wie aus einem Guss an, außerdem gibt es auch wirklich tolle #GnomeCircle Apps.

Gibt es tolle Exklusiv-Features oder Workflows, die ich mir mal anschauen sollte? 👀

in reply to Madeleine Morris

I'm making a sofrito. Just with an onion and two tomatoes, finely chopped, and some salt.

The trick is to let the onions cook slowly. In Spanish, this is called ‘pochar’ - to poach in oil. It gives the onions a complexity of flavour, and then once they’re translucent, in go the finely chopped vine tomatoes (I peeled these, because they’re delicious but the skin is a little tough) again, simmering slowly, to bring out that magical change that happens to slow cooked tomatoes. #cooking

in reply to Madeleine Morris

One of the things I love most about a lot of Spanish #cooking is that, often, there aren’t a lot of ingredients. The object is to let the few that are there shine. Which is why we’re so picky about ingredients down here. Good olive oil, good tomatoes, good onions, good clams and a nice manzanilla to steam the clams in with some garlic.

The complexity of flavour tends, I think, to come from the method of cooking, rather than seasonings.

I've officially finished the email<=>XMPP gateway grant 🎉. Lot of stuff done. The gateway is working but there are still things to do, notably finishing the e2ee encryption which is complex.

I'll most probably blog about it (and the previous A/V one) next week.

nlnet.nl/project/EmailXMPPgate…

#XMPP #Libervia #nlnet #ngi0 #email #gateway

Mastodon feels like the future the 1980s promised us. "Oh look, a post from my friend at hacker.space, and what a funny comment from some guy on gaysex.cloud, perhaps I should follow them, they seem witty."

It feels like you could turn a corner and wind up in a tearoom filled with furries discussing existentialism. Across the street are anarchists arguing loudly with socialists about how best to stick it to the capitalists.

Just down the way is a photographer who only takes pictures of bees.

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