Random thought of the day: the UK's emergency number is 999, and the word 'emergency' is 9 letters long. So when you dial 999, you are saying 'emergency emergency emergency'.
You know things are bad when you're trying to reset your iPad, can't use a phone number you don't have, forget your trusted phone number, and there's no option to get a recovery email. You have to admit, #apple is secure for sure. So secure that even if you're the right person, you can't get into your Apple account at all because of these layers.
Now that I've somewhat figured out Visual Intelligence on iOS, it's quite a nice feature to have. I need to work on prompting for better descriptions, but not bad for what it is by any means.
@LeonianUniverse It can do a few things, although I'm not totally sure what's changed in 26 as I only just updated a few days ago and didn't have a ton of time to play around until this weekend. You're able to take a picture or screenshot of something, and then either ask ChatGPT about it or use Google to find similar items. It can also do things like read text aloud, add events you see in public to your calendar, and a few other things like that.
GmsCompatLib is a core component of the GrapheneOS sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer.
This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and and will be obsoleted by the next OS release including the changes in the base package.
Pixel Camera recently added a hard dependency on Google Play services. It still works on GrapheneOS, but started requiring sandboxed Google Play services.
GmsCompatLib version 100 for GrapheneOS 2025102300 or later restores support for Pixel Camera without Play services:
GmsCompatLib version 100 released:
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_packages_apps_GmsCompat/releases/tag/lib-100
See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.
The fact that hotels have started hiring escape room designers to hide their light switches seems related to the fact that UI designers turned scrollbars into the world's shittiest video games/hand-eye coordination tests.
add shim implementation of GmsFontProvider to prevent crashes of apps depending on Play services when it's missing or disabled (restores support for using Pixel Camera without Play services with recent Pixel Camera versions depending on it for this)
extend shim for background service starts to address edge cases where a foreground service is required
fix NoOpPrewarmService chain crash in Pixel Camera caused by lack of privileged OS integration
A full list of changes from the previous release (GrapheneOS version 2025102300) is available through the Git commit log between the releases.
GmsCompatLib is a core component of the GrapheneOS sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer.
This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and and will be obsoleted by the next OS release including the changes in the base package.
While we greatly appreciate businesses seeing value in our work, selling devices with GrapheneOS preinstalled or being a business in the privacy/security space, recognising our users buying services/products, and so donating to us. GrapheneOS has no official direct affiliations.
Unless mentioned by the project account no team members make any recommendations on behalf of the project for any app/product/service, any that may be linked, are personal recommendations or just to make users aware they exist for them to decide for themselves.
Unless mentioned by the project account no team members make any recommendations on behalf of the project for any app/product/service, any that may be linked, are personal recommendations or just to make users aware they exist for them to decide for âŠ
This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release. Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features.
Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS reposito...
fix signing the GmsCompatLib package with a dedicated cross-device key, which was added in the last release but wasn't being replaced by a release key and blocked moving the last release past Alpha
kernel (6.12): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision
All of the Android 16 security patches from the current November 2025, December 2025 and January 2026 Android Security Bulletins are included in the 2025102301 security preview release. List of additional fixed CVEs:
2025100901 provides at least the full 2025-11-01 patch level and the Android 2025-11-05 patch level (Pixel Update Bulletin could have fixes we don't get early) but will remain marked as providing 2025-10-05.
For detailed information on security preview releases, see our post about it.
I have completed my email migration to Stalwart and I only hit one bug where an account somehow got messed up from imapsync and lost its INBOX and Stalwart couldn't deliver messages in the queue because of that and nothing would let me create the INBOX manually, so I had to delete and resync
Otherwise: it works. Thunderbird handles autoconfig nicely, iOS doesn't (expected). Contacts and calendars and sieve working.
Spam filtering seems to be working so far but it does feel more opaque overall because I'm used to having my fingers in every service that comprises a modern mail setup. But that leads to lack of tight integration which was also frustrating
curious to hear how it goes if something goes wrong. One big benefit of postfix and dovecot that they are pretty fine with things going wrong and recovering from that. Partly because everything is mapped to the filesystem and you can do easy tooling around it. Mess up some filtering subsystem? Postfix will queue it and you can inspect the failure via cli. Fix the issue and the queues clear out.
@hpk yes it holds stuff in an internal queue if there are issues with delivery which is nice
I am not a fan of RocksDB because I have been able to get it into a state where the software using it doesn't want to start up because of some unclean shutdown issue and I don't know how to fix it. Haven't seen a way to fix it... so I don't trust that. I'm using Postgres right now for the main storage which is fine but a bit unnecessary, i could just be using ZFS and I'll probably switch to that. Filesystem storage is good enough for me when they aren't actually leveraging the database properly anyway.
For more Trance: https://RazNitzan.lnk.to/RNMSpotifySubscribe to our Youtube Channel: @RazNitzanMusic Download or Stream: https://RazNitzan.lnk.to/TheLastTim...
Real talk, if you suffer from panic attacks and you're old enough to wield the demon blade the best way to stop a panic attack real quick is to fell an innocent man. You only need like three wicked blows.
There's such a thing as too much anti-fraud protection.
I tried six times to order a replacement part from Braun's website. Each time I'd get a confirmation of the order, followed immediately by a notification that it had been canceled.
I finally get on customer support and they dig into it and come back and tell me that my IP address is too far from my address.
Ummm. Okay, so maybe it's Apple's private relay. But no. I turn that off and it still does the same thing. Also, curiously. Apple Pay fails as well as soon as I enter my address.
My shipping address is a couple miles away from my house in the same town. Most IP locators think my IPV4 address is an about 20 miles away in another town. My IPv6 is listed as being in Oregon, another state.
But seriously. Who expects IP location to be accurate enough to protect against fraud? That's nuts. Is this some European concept of how IP addresses work?
it's probably the best they can do since you're not ordering from a mobile device. Another gross anti-fraud: when you use a credit card they can get your physical location from your cell phone company đ„Ž
I mean, is there an Android version of Dolphin? Before you start, please ensure you're reading this email on the device you want to use for the trial. We recommend a Windows PC, laptop or tablet.
I think the Reddit crowd is misinterpreting his statement about Trump having a more secure border because they keep saying he's anti-immigration and how Obama deported more people etc etc. He's not saying he's anti immigration or wants Trump style deportations. He just said Trump did better at the border itself.
"Illegal labor is exploiting the undocumented and bad for Americans" has been a consistent view of his. That's not ani immigrant.
Today's iPhone discovery: on iPhones with an action button (I'm not sure about older models), you can check the ring/silent status. Make sure no audio--not even VO speech--is playing. Give it a couple seconds. Now press either volume button. The volume doesn't change, but you get haptic and speech feedback about which mode you're in. I can once again check the status quickly and easily, almost as good as touching the physical mute switch.
I wrote some words for ~ this week in security ~ about the security and privacy risks with AI browsers, like Perplexity's Comet and OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas, and why they should really come with enormous warning labels: "â ïž Use at your own risk! â ïž"
Even with that, doesn't necessarily mitigate the security concerns, but I think in the long-term this stuff isn't going anywhere and we'll have to figure it out eventually
Sound is a crucial part of what makes Disney parks feel magical⊠and it all starts inside the closely-guarded rooms of Walt Disney Imagineering. In this episode, Imagineers John Dennis and Greg Lhotka break down how they use music and audio to bring attractions to life, from speaker systems hidden in rock work, to the intricate timing of a Frozen water ride. Then, they reveal the surprising story of how one of Disneyâs most iconic songs got a brand new verse, more than half a century after its debut. Watch Dallas' trip to Walt Disney Imagineering on â Youtubeâ . If you know what this week's mystery sound is, tell us at â â â â â â â mystery.20k.orgâ â â â â â â . Support the show and get ad-free episodes at â â â â â 20k.org/plusâ â â â â . Follow Dallas on â â â â â â â Instagramâ â â â â â â , â â â â â â â TikTokâ â â â â â â , and â â â â â â â LinkedInâ â â â â â â . Join our community on â â â â â â â Redditâ â â â â â â and follow us on â â â â â â â Facebookâ â â â â â â . Explore incredible speakers, soundbars and more at â sonos.comâ . Visit â â quince.com/20kâ â for free shipping on your order & 365 day returns. Find a therapist who takes your insurance at â â â growtherapy.com/20kâ â â . Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial at â â â shopify.com/20kâ â â . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 20k.org/episodes/disney-imaginâŠ
"More than ÂŁ100m was spent last year by local authorities and the government on failed efforts to block support for children and young people with special educational needs in England...
The enormous cost in legal fees and staff resources came after councils won just 136 out of more than 10,000 tribunals in 2022-23, a success rate of 1.2%..."
Cool Microsoft Word tip for anyone who doesn't know. If you need to insert random text in a word document, open a blank doc. Type =rand(10,5) the numbers are for number of paragraphs, and number of lines per paragraph. Here is a Microsoft article on the feature: support.microsoft.com/en-gb/ofâŠ
Can anyone help? I'm having a strange situation where every time I arrow through a file in Word line by line, I always skip over pages. For example, if I get to the end of page 1, then press down-arrow, I find myself on page 5. Any ideas? I could seriously use some help here.
Iâve seen this before. Of course I donât remember the exact way to solve it. Itâs in your View tab on the ribbon. I think you want to set it to single page view. You might have it set to something like side-by-side right now.
Found it. It is on the View tab but itâs not the setting I mentioned. On the View tab go to the zoom group. There is a button in there to Zoom the document so multiple pages fit on the screen. Thatâs not what you want. Choose the single page option.
"Amazon sold cloud-computing services to two Israeli weapons manufacturers whose munitions helped devastate Gaza, according to internal company materials obtained by The Intercept.
Amazon Web Services has furnished the Israeli government â including its military and intelligence agencies â with a suite of state-of-the-art data processing and storage services since 2021 as part of its controversial Project Nimbus deal. Last year, The Intercept revealed a provision in that contract requiring Amazon and Google, the other Nimbus vendor, to sell cloud services to Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israeli Aerospace Industries, two leading Israeli weapons firms.
New internal financial data and emails between Amazon personnel and their Israeli corporate and governmental clients show that Amazon has consistently provided software to both Rafael and IAI in 2024 and 2025 â periods during which Israelâs military was using their products to indiscriminately kill civilians and destroy civil infrastructure. Rafael purchased artificial intelligence technologies made available through Amazon Web Services, including the state-of-the-art large language model Claude, developed by AI startup Anthropic.
The materials reviewed by The Intercept also indicate Amazon sold cloud-computing services to Israelâs nuclear program and offices administering the West Bank, where Israeli military occupation, population displacement, and settlement construction is widely considered illegal under international law."
Hoy hasta los huevos de cierto problema de accesibilidad, voy a la web del defensor del pueblo planteĂĄndome presentar una queja. Y descubro que tienen una overlay de accesibilidad. Enseguida se me quitaron las ganas de todo.
Perdona, hay algĂșn overlay de accesibilidad que sirva? Todo lo que he visto tira de js o sucedĂĄneos (lĂłgico por una parte) pero siempre me echa para atrĂĄs usarlos. Prefiero hacer antes las cosas bien, pero claro muchas veces hay prisa y el cliente siempre lo quiere para ya đ€
En general, no. Soy un usuario ciego, no un experto en accesibilidad, pero mi experiencia con overlays es mala y salvo error u omisiĂłn, lo que me dicen los expertos es que ninguno vale.
Si me permites le hago impulso a tu pregunta a ver que te dicen otros.
Sobre el Ășltimo impulso (ver hiilo). Me preguntan por aquĂ si hay algĂșn overlay de accesibilidad que funcione bien. Mi respuesta es que no, pero lanzo la pregunta a quienes saben mĂĄs.
đš Warnings over Perplexityâs Comet Browser đš
AI browsers are the new hype but it doesn't mean they are safe to use đđŒ
Security researchers from LayerX Security have revealed that the AI browser is vulnerable to CometJacking attacks, allowing hackers to hijack sessions and access user data.
Perplexity's CEO admitted on a podcast that Comet browser exists to track everything you do online - "that was the key reason to build Comet." They want $2,4...
I read through your blog post and I couldn't agree more, Comet is a danger to privacy.
When I got to the end and clicked on the link for your secure browser list, I received a page error. Is it something on my end or does the link have a typo?
When it comes to most secure browsers Firefox and its LibreWolf fork is the best alternative to Chrome on our list - and, no, incognito mode doesn't cut it.
privacy is becoming a lot harder, the big tech companies are pushing and over hyping their products becoming not only a privacy and safety issue but also a surveillance tool.
yes, people sometimes complain that they have to type `apt` commands on debian linux but have you tried correctly setting up the weird dishwasher in my apartment? (and also to get a replacement geschirrkorb for it, argh)
Does anyone know of an easy to set up bot that'll play a configurable sound/perhaps speak a message on TeamTalk when a PayPal donation comes in? Failing that, I've got flexible routing and could send a sound from somewhere else to TT locally. Most of our supporters do their thing between streams, but I'd like to get something going because last time someone topped us up while we were live, I didn't notice. It accidentally took a month to thank the person. Oops!
I cleaned up today and found a floppy disk. Popped it in a convenient Quadra and it had a screenshot from more than thirty years ago (1995!) with a DOpus window open showing a list of files in one of my pics folders.
Spain completes its 'most ambitious space project' with the launch of the satellite SpainSat NG II
The SpainSat NG II satellite successfully took off from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. With it, Spain completes its SPAINSAT NG secure communications programme and reinforces its role as a technological and strategic reference in space.
LeonianSpookyVerseđ
in reply to Rich W. Beardsley • • •Zach Bennoui
in reply to LeonianSpookyVerseđ • • •