If you are in the US and have an Amazon Ring camera, disconnect it. The camera may be being used by ICE, by way of its participation in a Flock AI surveillance network.
Or sure, smash if it feels better.
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Flock has built a nationwide surveillance network of AI-powered cameras and given many more federal agencies access.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
Bitlocker is a Microsoft product that encrypts your laptop hard drive etc. Apparently, Microsoft exfiltrates a recovery key for your Bitlocker encryption and stores it in their cloud, they give it out to law enforcement at request. And of course, they give it out to whoever compromises their system and steals that info. Bitlocker is completely worthless trash. Do not rely on it for information security.
Google has announced that its Chrome web browser will soon no longer support macOS 12 Monterey, with a July 2026 update requiring macOS 13 Ventura or newer.Oliver Haslam (AppleInsider)
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I've been A/B testing my podcast and video workflows in ChatGPT vs Gemini, and man, when Gemini has a good Mac app, I may totally move over.
Also testing Claude vs ChatGPT for Shortcuts with APIs, and Claude beats
ChatGPT too...
Now I have to rework my Home Screen cause there are too many white BG apps
#Catima 2.41.6 is out!
Catima is a simple app for store discount cards, event tickets and more.
This release fixes a regression introduced in 2.41.5 causing the manual barcode selection screen to only show empty squares and makes URLs in card IDs clickable in the "more info" pop up.
Coming soon to an app store near you!
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#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay
Auto-detect URLs in card ID and make the clickable in card ID details pop-up Fix barcode selector activity showing white squares instead of barcodesGitHub
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A techbro desperate for cash is detained for 13 hours after leaving a non-functioning, vibe-coded anti-fraud device in a Swiss hotel lobby during the Davos conf
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After leaving a prototype unattended at the World Economic Forum, Sebastian Heyneman was held by Swiss authorities for 13 hours.Rya Jetha (The San Francisco Standard)
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Ever driven the same car or used the same camera or power drill for 8-10 years and thought: "I wish all these buttons and levers were suddenly in different places and did different things"?
Yeah. Me neither.
This is a toot about operating systems.
"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, is magic."
Bekam der Ex-CDU-MdB Axel Fischer Bestechungsgeld aus Aserbaidschan? Das musste das Münchner Oberlandesgericht klären - und hat nun ein Urteil gesprochen.Legal Tribune Online
#TwinCities Workers #Strike Against #ICE. Two Hundred Cities Follow.
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As two hundred and fifteen cities prepare to walk out today in solidarity with #Minneapolis, the whole world is watching.
As two hundred and fifteen cities prepare to walk out today in solidarity with Minneapolis, the whole world is watching.Pablo Manríquez (Migrant Insider)
Anyone know how often Friendica fetches RSS feeds ? Is this frequency configurable ?
I'm seeing some big delays.
Thanks.
It automatically adjusts depending on how often the source posts articles. Presumably the idea is to avoid sending frequent requests to small servers that rarely publish. This does mean that if an account only publishes once a month or so, it'll probably take a day or so before you see the article.
It used to be configurable on a per-feed basis, but looking now I think that setting went away. It can still be configured in the database I believe.
The way Friendica does RSS polling is pretty broken. You're supposed to make conditional requests so that the feed only needs to be built when it genuinely has something new, and you're supposed to respect the retry time. That way you can request much more frequently without overloading the server. But implementing that would require database schema changes.
Ah, I see, many thanks.
I just found adjustPollFrequency() in the source which adjusts the feed "rating" based on the number of recent posts.
The feed I was looking at has a rating of 8 (polling once a day) but other feeds I have lower ratings (more frequently polled). Thats consistent with what I see.
Thanks again.
TIL if you revert a commit which starts with the text "Revert" git will rename the commit to "Reapply" instead of "Revert Revert"
Please don't ask me how I learned this.
someone might also find it helpful to know there are some other magic things like "!fixup" or "!squash"
Super useful if you're working across multiple branches and are rebasing them a lot!
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I previously framed the resistance against copyright as a tragedy in three parts, from anti-copyright to free software and copyleft to free culture and the so-called creative commons. But this fourth act is tragicomic. AI as Détournement.
AI is the recuperation of the anti-copyright critique.“Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it.” Lautréamont, 1870
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Never use a cheap designer
WORK, it says work
It’s not a real song.
I just made it up.
#Dgar Now listening to:
Making It Up
~ Dgar
my 2TB Samsung didn't really have any issues until I hit about a petabyte of writes
Data Units Read: 3,231,094,901 [1.65 PB]
Data Units Written: 2,113,621,732 [1.08 PB]
I don't know if it sucks, I just know there were no bangers that make me want to hear a specific track again. I can't even name a single track from it right now.
It was definitely TOOL. But that's just not enough.
Raspberry Pi has released the Raspberry Pi Flash Drive, a USB 3.0 Type-A flash storage device intended for file transfer, backups, and operating system use across Raspberry Pi boards and other computers.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Microsoft sure is saying the quiet part out loud.
Amplify this, Satya. 🖕
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2026 will mark the end of DSL and traditional home phone service across the United States. In a significant step toward modernizing its telecommunications infrastructure, AT&T has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) las…Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
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in reply to Amy • • •@amy Oh that's easy just drop github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro… from your fork and maintain Android 5-compatible forks of the official Google libraries which dropped Android 5 support for all eternity!
Or run an older version: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro… 😛
Revert "Reapply "Temporarily re-add Android 5 support (#2925)"" by TheLastProject · Pull Request #2989 · CatimaLoyalty/Android
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