Vodafone Germany is killing the open internet – one peering connection at a time
Link: coffee.link/vodafone-germany-i…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The telecom giant claims its exit from public internet exchanges will give customers "lower latencies." The evidence suggests they're in for a nightmare.Phil Kunz (coffee.link)
I've been encouraging people to use DDG because it seems less sucky than others, but now they have tons of AI BS.
I set up SearXNG, and that works wonderfully, but now DDG blocks use of their results from SearXNG unless you sign in or do other manual steps.
Everything sucks. Maybe I should go get tacos.
I was thinking about the benefit of compiling Erlang/Elixir C NIFs with Fil-C, but that won't really help much. It has security benefits but not reliability benefits.
Fil-C programs are supposed to crash if you do something really bad, and this will take out the BEAM ...
Steps to replicate log in into a Wayland session (KDE, GNOME, etc) set the keyboard layout to allow accents (ã, ó, ê,...GitLab
SanDisk stuffed 1 TB of storage into the smallest Type-C thumb drive ever
https://newatlas.com/consumer-tech/sandisk-1tb-storage-smallest-type-c-thumb-drive/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology (UK Edition) @technology-uk-edition-FlipboardUK
SanDisk's just released the tiniest 1-TB Type-C drive on the market today. It's like a stubby little dongle that you'd usually use as a wireless receiver for a mouse, and despite its diminutive size, it actually boasts pretty decent performance.Abhimanyu Ghoshal (New Atlas)
There's currently an issue that prevents Fedora Atomic OSTree distros from upgrading.
A comment in the forum links to an issue, where the *preview* title for the link was changed to "Making sure you're not a bot!" from the issue tracker… and the issue itself is also due to Anubis running on the server for the updates sending the interstitial "Making sure you're not a bot!" page instead of actual data.
Forum: discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…
Issue: pagure.io/releng/issue/13069
Every time I run sudo rpm-ostree upgrade I get the error: error: While pulling fedora/43/x86_64/updates/kinoite: Corrupted commit object; checksum expected='10ed48669028567c29acfda34e70290581e1c8d4f4538d79bea36c03710a4cf6' actual='160e1991dc7aceede2…Fedora Discussion
This is definitely unintended and temporary.
It's sad that everyone has to put up "Making sure you're not a bot!" pages across the Internet (especially when it comes to FOSS). But they have to, to prevent scrapers from hitting sites so hard.
It's kind of funny that it's "Making sure you're not a bot!" at multiple levels here. So the unintended title switch in the comment is actually appropriate in this case.
the admins of the GNOME infrastructure managed to fix this pretty early: gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructur…
Unfortunately, old links cannot be updated automatically because Discourse caches them (to avoid a denial of service)
From topic https://discourse.gnome.org/t/make-sure-youre-not-a-bot-link-annotations-are-not-helpful/27617/ Refer following discourse post screenshot for reference.GitLab
C.IM is an independent, EU-hosted Mastodon server for open-minded, English-speaking users across the fediverse.Mastodon hosted on c.im
Bauern dürfen Saisonkräfte künftig 90 Tage ohne Sozialversicherung beschäftigen. Und der Agrardiesel für Trecker wird wieder stärker subventioniert.Jost Maurin (taz)
Nochmal zu meiner gestrigen Kritik am #39c3-Talk „Digitale Inklusion: Wie wir digitale Barrierefreiheit für alle erreichen können“, die bei einigen sehr übel aufgestoßen ist und Leute meinen, ich hätte mich dazu „wie die Axt im Walde“ verhalten: Der Talk ist wirklich unterirdisch schlecht - dare I say - „scheiße“. Und das sag ich jetzt nicht nur so, sondern ich habs etwas ausführlicher und konstruktiver für euch ausgearbeitet:
[US] Supreme court considering taking up case challenging legality of same-sex marriage
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n…
That was on everyone bingo card.
Court could revisit issue in case brought by county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couplesCarter Sherman (The Guardian)
Tesla October registrations data keeps coming in:
Sweden -89%
Denmark -86%
Belgium -69 %
Finland -68%
Austria -65%
Switzerland -60%
Portugal -59%
Germany -54%
Norway -50%
the Netherlands -48%
UK -47%
Italy -47%
Spain -31%
China -10% (production)
NY State -71%
France +2%
#deltachat is a private messaging app. It'd be easy enough to offer various public groups to boost onboarding, and let everyone play. But one would land in a large group that isn't very private, with lots of needs for moderation tooling, troll handling and other social-media issues. Not our current cup of tea.
We are grateful for the many folks here onboarding their families, projects or friends, founding special-interest chats, setting up #chatmail relays etc. This is wonderful, cheers!
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Maybe something a bit in the opposite direction: private relays. As far as I can tell, it's not possible to set up a relay that requires invite/password/some other auth to sign up.
I'd like to onboard my employer with our own relay for employees, but not for others.
It hasn’t received much attention, but the government and official opposition - ie. the Liberals and Conservatives - have been quietly working to pass legislation that undermine the privacy rights of Canadians, effectively exempting themselves from t…Michael Geist
> it will head to the Senate, who perhaps will give the privacy provisions the attention they deserve.
I will be cynical. They will probably pass it as is, because if they have to send it back to the House, the House might miss their paid vacation.
(it was part of why the other contentious bill passed in the Senate... as justified by a Senator)
Aber ist uns eigentlich bewusst, was hier gerade passiert ist?
Der Dienstleister, der das für #SH umgesetzt hat, hat sich gerade ein weltweit einmaliges Wissen erarbeitet. 40.000 Postfächer migrieren? Das ist kein Projekt, das ist eine Doktorarbeit in Sachen digitaler Unabhängigkeit.
Was glauben Sie, ist dieses Wissen wert? Und warum reden wir nicht darüber, wie wir diese Expertise in ganz Europa skalieren?
Das ist die wahre stille Revolution.
heise.de/news/Schleswig-Holste…
Die Landesverwaltung Schleswig-Holsteins hat den Umstieg ihres Mailsystems von Microsoft Exchange und Outlook auf Open-Source-Lösungen vollzogen.Stefan Krempl (heise online)
alors dans le même genre tu as aussi #mapcomplete mapcomplete.org/ qui permet de voir, modifier ou ajouter facilement un type de données en particulier.
Ils ont aussi une app mobile : app.mapcomplete.org/
Et aussi un compte ici : @MapComplete
MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.mapcomplete.org
Bitte Rehpost 🦌💌
Ich bin überglücklich, euch diese Veranstaltung ankündigen zu können, die sich speziell an #armutsbetroffene richtet:
Einladung zur Onlineveranstaltung
Rechtsextremismus und Armut
Rechtsextremismus wendet sich gegen Armutsbetroffene!
Rechtsextremismus verachtet sogenannte Sozialschmarotzer. Menschen werden nicht als Individuen betrachtet, sondern nur nach ihrem Nutzen für die "Volksgemeinschaft".
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Collecting OpenStreetMap-compliant accessibility data in public transportplay.google.com
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So Google is building a massive AI data centre on Christmas Island, a tiny remote Australian territory with 1,692 people, and it’s exactly the kind of dystopian tech imperialism you’d expect.
They’re militarising a small island community in the name of cloud computing, partnering with the Australian Defence Department to monitor Chinese submarines and enable AI powered warfare systems. The island becomes a pawn in great power conflicts while Google extracts strategic value.
Meanwhile, locals are promised vague economic benefits while their homeland gets turned into a surveillance node with subsea cables linking to US Marine bases. Classic extractive colonialism dressed up as innovation.
The energy demands alone, powered by a local mining company, naturally, are staggering. Big Tech continues doubling our electricity costs for AI toys while communities bear the burden.
Christmas Island is known for red crab migrations, not military infrastructure. But when you’re a trillion dollar corporation, even the most remote ecosystems are just real estate for your empire.
#googleisevil #bigtech #militarisation #digitalcolonialism #aiethics #christmasisland #defendtheislands #environment #aibubble
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Remember kids: "Passive income" is a term used to describe wealth handed out to people by society, through our economic system, without doing any work.
Many people receiving a "passive income" are intergenerationally wealthy, as opposed to the working class and long-term unemployed people who receive social welfare payments.
Because of this, they're referred to as passive income /earners/ not passive income /recipients/. Conversely, we have social welfare /recipients/ not social welfare /earners/.
As a society, we've decided that Joe Heir and Jane Heiress deserve their wealth, even if they've never done a full day's work in their lives. And there are no income tests for this wealth, so they get these handouts even if they don't need them.
Conversely, we've collectively decided that welfare recipients are bludgers. Welfare payments are also vigorously means tested. The burden of proof is entirely on you to claim and prove you deserve these payments.
The one exception to this social welfare rule is when handouts go to the rich, whether that's in the form of subsidies or tax breaks.
Because there's one law for the rich, and another for the poor.
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Very sad news: OpenTopomap is being retired, basically.
opentopomap.org/about#survival
Many thanks to the people who gave their time over 14 years so that we could use this wonderful gift.
#OSM
#OpenStreetmap
#OpenTopomap
Supplement:
In his message the main developer (?) of Openstreetmap mentions that there may be a successor.
If you think you are able to: Get in touch with him and ask if and how you can help.
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