#TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse - techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok… "This was never about addressing privacy, propaganda, or national security. " #ellison
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…
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I have 2-3 packages with at least different 2 couriers out for delivery today which means a minimum of 2 trucks driving to my door and it's so fucking dumb that instead of legally mandating Canada Post be used for the last mile instead the Liberals want to kill Canada Post and end door-to-door delivery.
Hear hear! Five different delivery trucks ply my street on a daily basis, each delivering one or two packages, and I thinking the town could mandate that they all stick all those packages in one truck only. The post office truck is a good one to carry it all. But Oh. My. God. the shock if you propose such a thing.
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.
Mildly curious, what do people use for mastodon on windows at this point? Asking this because my client of choice, enafore, seems to crash or refuse to load when quotes come on my home timeline (or that's what I assume breaks it), and semaphore doesn't play sounds when new notifications come in, an enafore feature I got a bit attached to lol. I really like the pinafore/semaphore/enafore line, but the tradeoff of either random breakage or lack of sounds is admittedly bothering me.
Grocery delivery service Instacart will refund $60 million to settle FTC claims that it misled customers with false advertising and unlawfully enrolled them in paid subscriptions.
The Thunderbird team is off to rest and recharge, and come back strong on January 5! Until then:
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Okay, I'm loving this gitlab CLI. I'm so glad that I know about it now. Of course, I need to figure out how to do things with it, but, for instance, I can just go into my at-spi2-core directory from the console and type glab mr update 220 --draft
Otherwise, I'd need to open gitlab.gnome.org in a browser, click the button to sign in, type in my username and password, get my phone out for the two-factor authentication, then find the control on the web page to do what I want.
Endlich! Das war ein Krampf über mehrere Tage, bis das endlich geklappt hat. Angeblich hätte ich immer noch irgendwelche Aktivitäten gehabt (die ich nicht hatte). Jetzt hat es geklappt, nachdem ich wiederholt den Antrag gestellt hatte. Und gleichzeitig habe ich drei Dutzend Bestätigungsmails ins Postfach gespült bekommen, dass Zahlungen im Einzugsverfahren storniert worden wären, die ich irgendwann als junger Mann mal stattgegeben hatte. Ein Rückblick in meine Konsum-Historie .... #Paypal
Last long thread on the #firefox topic. After this I’ll try to move on and head into the holidays with my family. Also dialing the snark down a bit, since that doesn't help besides venting frustration. 1/x
some of you might have noticed arcanechat.me was down for a few minutes, that was because I was migrating to the new more powerful server as announced some days ago!
besides having a faster more powerful server, now every user have 2GB of temporary storage! useful if you receive a lot of media!
🎁 this is my Christmas gift for the #ArcaneChat users, if you feel like showing back your love, you can support my work here: arcanechat.me/#contribute 💜
Quick PSA : yes, #Mozilla has been disappointing, but so far, they’re the only organization preventing Google to have a full control over web standards. Blink/WebKit-based browsers (Chromium, Vivaldi…) do NOT help at all in that regard.
So please use #Firefox or a #Gecko-based alternative (#ZenBrowser, #LibreWolf…). Ride the nightly release train and report bugs if you can. #Servo is getting ready, but for the next ~5 years, Gecko is our only suitable option.
Not just that but Tolkien also said: "Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.". Sound familiar ?
Seems like a great idea ... but I wonder how many companies will decide to dedicate a development team to maintain the patches ... or more likely, add it as a work item for an already overloaded team
Here's to me rebuilding curl in Debian without LDAP support because that uses Elder Ciphers Not Meant For Current OpenSSL Releases and subsequently breaking.... the ruby libvirt bindings.
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"But that’s just the Economics 101 reason not to do this. The other one is this: I’m pretty sure people actually hate this? You have the data, you know."
Oh yeah, they do, but their goal isn't making features people don't hate. Their goal is making profitable features which people hate, but not to the extend they would leave the service. And because they have data, they have learned that the threshold is really high for most people. So we have a market with a handful of dominant services which are hated by their users, but it isn't going to change until people stop complaining about it and actually start leaving them.
I take your point. People apparently don't hate this enough to leave right now. But the thing about losing goodwill is that things happen gradually, and then suddenly. I think that a good business leader should be sensitive to this. The fact that the data doesn't show enough outflow to worry about _today_ doesn't mean you're not going to see something much worse in the future.
We all know the rationale of shoving AI on people. I just thing 2 massive buttons around every email is stupd
Yesterday I had to share a public link to a file on #Nextcloud. As they removed this from the context menu, it became a huge pain in the back. #Windows #Accessibility
Just tried building a rust project using cargo and it started pulling and building 385 dependency packages without any confirmation prompt. This is insane and super not secure. How are rust devs ok with this?
EDIT: to make it clear, my problem is that it didn't stop for confirmation. This is not ok. I thought NPM was bad but this is insane.
Yet another npm account has been compromised with malicious code. Sadly, it isn't the first time. So far I've never heard of a similar attack against crates.io . But is that because crates.
I don't see how you could meaningfully consent to this though?
You either just blanket accept "yes, do your thing, trust all these 400 external packages" or you are back to reviewing them one-by-one. Am I missing something?
Dear Fediverse, I recently acquired a second-hand #guitar that I had "love at first sight" for as soon as I saw it online. It really is lovely to play, but I know very little about it, though, except that it's from a now defunct brand called #Dreambow. I can't find any other name or serial. Do you know what model it might be, and/or year? It definitely is a single cut, but it's not a Les Paul replica as you can see in the picture. Please help me boost this until it reaches someone who knows 😅
I am due my first baby in March. My parents are getting a puppy in February. We have both independently mentioned naming my child/the dog the same name. Most people think its stupid and one should change, but I find it hilarious and want to revel in the chaos that will ensue.
Just a quick note to explain why I'm transliterating Hebrew instead of just typing it: Eloquence, which is a speech synthesizer used by a lot of blind people who use screen readers, really freaks out with Hebrew, to the point where it just announces characters. So it's a lot easier for screen reader users to read if I just transliterate it. #Chanukah #Mazeldon #Accessibility #A11Y
As a friend of the guy who contributed to it, I can tell you that reading by character is not freaking out, it's the best Eloquence can do. Earlier it was just silent. Just saying 😊
Here is the price evolution of the Kingston FURY 64GB KIT DDR5 6000MHz CL36 Beast EXPO that I have in my new PC: September - 5400 CZK (€221) Mid November (what I paid) - 7000 CZK (€287) End of November - 12890 CZK (€528) Now - 16390 CZK (€672)
What to say... #AI is changing the world, but not in the way that people had envisaged.
Unfortunately, this also affects the price of SSDs, although not as much. In September, I upgraded my wife's laptop and bought a WD Red SA500 1TB (M.2 SATA) for 1715 CZK (€71). Today, the same SSD costs 2499 CZK (€103).
I don't think you could have bought this one for 2999 ever. Are you sure you're not comparing against a 32GB stick/kit? It seems like exactly a factor of two from what heureka says about a CL30. I'd have upgraded from 32GB to 128GB of RAM earlier this year if the prices were ever this low even if I didn't need it pameti.heureka.cz/kingston-fur…
@the_art_of_giving_up You're right. I took the info from this article: lupa.cz/aktuality/ceny-operacn… They probably made a mistake because when looking at price history the minimal price on Sep 21 was 5400 CZK. I'm going to fix the original post.
Got a few minutes to brush up on your typing? @Marconius and i made an accessible typing game with speed stats that plays right in your browser. Touch typing takes practice: just roll with it and then share it with the tech instructors and students in your life marconius.com/fun/rollWithIt
Nice! :) I also saw Audio Invaders up there. You might be interested in Aliens, which is similar in idea but quite different in interaction model. It was originally written by Geoff Shang for Eureka A4 and I ported it to the web. files.jantrid.net/aliens/
@jcsteh Thanks for sharing that. The constant beeping is pretty overwhelming for me, and I'm not having any luck with pitch matching. I could see that concept working a bit better with smoother noises and really playing with the stereo field and volume for falling aliens. Still, it's fun seeing other versions of accessible games out there!
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Definitely freedom to mess around without restrictions that Google impose just ‘cause they can. Not being tracked whilst doing that for no purpose other than money is an equal first place for me.
The most important thing about a #deGoogle phone is that the system and applications work without constant logging into Google/Apple and without built-in telemetry, and that permissions (especially network, location, microphone, camera) are only granted when they are really needed.
This year I finally made the switch to #Linux on my laptop. Your message reminded me that the journey isn't over just yet. Only a #degoogled phone will bring me there.
For me the most important thing is: Verified Boot with bootloader re-locking. Without it, there's no verifiable chain of trust from hardware to operating system.
Apart from the obvious, avoiding monopoly, people privacy and keeping the internet an open place, I think what's the most important on a de-googled phone is to be able to maintain the level of security we deserve. We shouldn't have to give-up hardware security and regular security update to avoid google services. Google made sure we were dependent enough to make it hard. So big thanks for every alternative company for providing alternative safe solutions !
I would love to run Tuta apps natively in #SailfishOS which can be run in Volla phone! I really would love to see amazing European companies like #Tuta, #Jolla and #Volla doing more co-operation ❤️
trust is the most important. Having my most important information means I must trust the device the in charge of it. Since I cannot make the manufacturers accountable for potential misuse of the information then I should be in control of how my information is used.
My main reason to have a de-googled phone is the control to choose what I have on my phone and what I don't. I spend a reasonable amount of my day on my phone, and I should decide what competes for my attention and what doesn't.
It's an easy answer for me. It needs a bootloader that can be opened, to facilitate the installation of alternative operating systems like Volla OS and Ubuntu Touch.
Privacy. Truly owning my data without corporations snooping on me. Finally, decentralisation of the Internet - we’ve already given too much control to select few entities.
Control and knowledge about what apps are doing, for me. I would like to have an extensive list of customizable permissions (which actually work!), and some kind of way to know which apps are phoning home with which data, and the ability to filter out traffic if it's unwanted. Essentially control for those who know what they want from a phone ig (not that I'm an expert) 😁
( not in priority / any particular order ) 1. Hardware camera and mic disable switch. 2. Tactile camera on / off switch. 2. Removable battery. 3. Assembled sans slave labour, in a democratic open country. 4. Extensive .apk support ( including old versions ). 5. Fully customizable keyboard. ( as on screenshot ) 6. Firewall, vpn and app internet access control. 7. Fine control over all app permissions ( including system processes ).
The fact that I don't share with anyone my contacts and thus I'm not part of some grid and the fact that I don't get advertising / targeted advertising.
Dor me most imporant on a degoogled Phone is a strict privacy and data sovereignty Policy with a Phone, that allows me to get access to all the unfortunately deeply needed apps for daily life. E.g. and most important access to the propriarity banking 2FA and egovernance apps. @volla
I like the idea of having FOSS applications supporting my daily life and family.
"FOSS is so powerful that I just compiled my morning coffee from source. It took 3 hours and 47 dependency conflicts, but now it respects my freedom AND my caffeine addiction" 😋
since on my Fairphone with unofficial LineageOS does not work with banking apps thanks to Google SafetyNet, it would be nice to have a degoogled phone that actually works with banking apps without rooting
similar convenience and reliability with regards to access to apps and ease of administration would be key to me.
Stepping away from exploitive companies and business models is much easier, when their selling proposition (in this case: convenience and reliability) stops being unique.
For me the most important thing is that I am the real owner of my phone. No service should monitor my installed apps and check if they are safe. I want to take the risks but also the possibilities.
Bonus round: Ability to run the app for my bank so I can deposit checks via my phone while living in pandemic isolation. (I realize this is a somewhat niche concern.)
A way of running a few apps that depend on Google services in a very locked down sandbox so privacy is maintained even if they are trying to do naughty things @Tutanota @volla
As someone who's done embroidery I also feel like I need to add that this looks like black plastic fridge magnets glued to canvas, and not even remotely like embroidery.
i hope everyone is doing well. i'm not sure the following is a "pleasant read" but
personally i am not comfortable using tools that involve using long shell script files that require elevated privileges if i have not familiarized myself fully with the ins and outs of what that script actually does.
in terms of conceptualization, my expectation is that this might be something that could be remedied.
but let me state that i would expect there is a signifcant legacy
this post is about dependencies.
(this is a post i wrote to clear up some headspace for myself the moment)
@jpmens I once wanted to have an image with a painting with a certain morse code on it. It took me more than 8 attempts before it got the one I wanted there, and when I asked it to adjust something else it messed it up again. Never again.
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