Microsoft reportedly gave the FBI BitLocker recovery keys to unlock encrypted laptops in a Guam fraud probe. 🔐

I’m genuinely stunned. 🤯 Encryption should protect users — not defer to cloud-stored keys that can be handed over on demand. ⚠️

This raises deep concerns about trust, what “secure by default” means. 🧩

🔗 techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/micr…

#TechNews #Microsoft #FBI #Privacy #Encryption #BitLocker #Cybersecurity #DataSecurity #DigitalRights #BigTech #UserControl #Cloud #Security #Surveillance

Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch

The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.

^{Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)}

Codeberg and Forgejo will have a stand (K5) at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels. Come by and chat with Codeberg and Forgejo contributors.

There'll also be Codeberg and Forgejo stickers. If your Codeberg or Forgejo hosted project has stickers and you're looking for a way to distribute them: Get in touch and we can organise it!

#fosdem #fosdem2026 #codeberg #forgejo

RE: fwoof.space/@FastSM/1159431049…

What a cool thing to add, should really cut down on verbosity in some long threads!

"Ist diese Küste genormt?"

"Nein, aber sie ist..."

"Sag. Es. Nicht."

"... strandardisiert"

<Handgemenge>

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 8 updated and 1 added apps:

* Bluetooth QR & Barcode to PC: sending QR/Barcodes to a Bluetooth Device (e.g PC) without any Software (emulating a BT keyboard) 🛡️

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Hoy he conseguido terminar la prueba de completud de los reales (si una secuencia es Cauchy en R, converge en R) y me ha costado un huevo y parte del otro.

No sé si habría sido más fácil con Dedekind cuts, pero el tema de la diagonalización de la secuencia límite no me acababa de entrar.

TFW your mouse battery runs out: "did my machine freeze again?"

At least it's not Apple's junk : I can use it while charging.

Someone submitted an article about #accessibility to Hacker News. That article is about #screenReaders.

Naturally, the third comment is written by a non-screen-reader user and says that the article written by a screen reader user about screen readers is completely wrong.

Would you believe that their "experience is the opposite"? They even have the numbers to prove how wrong the author is! Their solution works at 14,000 words per minute!

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

A new Rust-SDK- and Kotlin-based SchildiChat for the Desktop, registration tokens and moderation integration in continuwuity, and Matrix at FOSDEM - this and more happened This Week in Matrix!

matrix.org/blog/2026/01/23/thi…

This Week in Matrix 2026-01-23

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Thib (matrix.org)}

it's @countrymetalhead's fault, lol, this time he shared the following on facebook, and as he said at the start, the stupid abounds. yup, all the stupid is apparently in this post. Here's what he shared. Keep in mind...these are all TRUE...

Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets.
I asked for a half dozen nuggets.
'We don't have half dozen nuggets,' said the teenager at the counter.
'You don't?' I replied.
'We only have six, nine, or twelve,' was the reply.
'So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?'
'That's right.'
So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets
(Unbelievable but sadly true...)
(must have been the same one I asked for sweetener and she said they didn't have any, only Splenda and sugar.)

2- I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those 'dividers' that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed.
After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the 'divider', looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it. Not finding the bar code, she said to me, 'Do you know how much this is?'
I said to her 'I've changed my mind; I don't think I'll buy that today.'
She said 'OK,' and I paid her for the things and left.
She had no clue to what had just happened.

3- A woman at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly.
When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM 'thingy.'
(keep shuddering!!)

4- I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car.
'Do you need some help?' I asked. She replied, 'I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?'
'Hmmm, I don't know. Do you have an alarm, too?' I asked.
'No, just this remote thingy,' she answered, handing it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, 'Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk....'
PLEASE just lay down before you hurt yourself !!!

5- Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, 'I'm almost out of typing paper.
What do I do?' 'Just use paper from the photocopier', the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five 'blank' copies… Brunette, by the way!!

6- A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid had eaten ants. The dispatcher tells
her to give the kid some Benadryl and he should be fine, the mother says, 'I just gave him some ant killer......'
Dispatcher: 'Rush him in to emergency!'**

Life is tough.
It's even tougher if you're stupid!!!!
Someone had to remind me, so I'm reminding you too. Don't laugh.....it is all true...

When she was very young, my daughter looked me straight in the eye, right out of the blue, and said to me with the utter earnestness only a 3-year-old can summon:

“Be brave! Be safe! Be purple!”

I’ve been hanging on to that advice a lot lately.

I am curious...

I know I have a lot of followers who are blind, but I'd like to see how many of you are out there that this post will reach!

Including some additional demographics for interest's sake.

Please respond and boost if you don't mind!

• I am blind. (Legally or otherwise, if sight is not useful, choose this) (4%, 1 vote)
• I cannot see very well and glasses don't help, so I don't wear them. (0%, 0 votes)
• I wear glasses/contacts all the time, and they help me see a little better, but still not great. (4%, 1 vote)
• I wear glasses/contacts all the time, and I can see just fine. (48%, 12 votes)
• I occasionally wear glasses/contacts for some situations. (12%, 3 votes)
• I don't wear glasses and I see just fine. (32%, 8 votes)
• Other/Feel free to reply! (0%, 0 votes)

🎞️ More Perfect Union

Sharing video footage of Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, general strike picket line today 1/

Following the invasion of 3000 ICE officers,
everyday Minnesotans are pouring into #rapid #response networks and scouring their neighborhoods
—even in 20-degree weather before the sun has come up.

“I’m being tailed by a car I think is ICE,
I can make out two masked individuals through the tinted windshield,” someone says.

The call goes quiet for a few seconds.
“I’m being pulled over.”

Dispatch chimes in:
“Stay unmuted,
turn down your volume so they don’t hear the call,
everyone else please stay on mute.”

We hear banging,
then something shatters.

“ICE just smashed their window,”
our driver explains calmly,
decelerating ahead of a red light.

We are shocked,
but this is a regular occurrence.

Everyone on the call keeps their cool.

We have heard stories from rapid responders about ICE tailing them,
boxing them in,
smashing their car windows,
pepper-spraying them,
holding them at gun point,
shooting out their tires,
detaining them.

Some responders have been taken to the regional ICE headquarters,
the #Whipple building.

Others have been driven to the other side of the city
and thrown out of the vehicle, ❄️alone in the cold.

Their cars have been left running in the road.

The responders tell us all these stories in passing,
quickly returning focus to the work that is to be done.

Of course, ICE has done worse than this, too.

ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed #Renee #Good as she was trying to drive away.

A week later, as ICE agents were pursuing someone,
they shot live ammunition at a house with a family in it, hitting #Julio #Sosa-#Celis in the leg.

But when you ask patrollers what they want people to know about what’s happening in their city, they barely mention the broken windows and bruises.

They describe the feeling of connection and solidarity filling the streets.

They make ❤️hearts with their hands from car to car, they blow kisses.

They make dinners for one another,
they drop off groceries for undocumented families that have been locked inside their homes for weeks.

They tell us about how, when a skirmish broke out on a busy road,
an entire café full of people stood up as one,
dropping what they were doing to run towards the sound.

We hear again and again about their deep love for the community in the Twin Cities and for their neighbors.

Every day, people who never imagined themselves fighting ICE are participating in bold combative actions
crimethinc.com/2026/01/21/from…

From Rapid Response to Revolutionary Social Change

Participants in the rapid response networks in the Twin Cities describe their experiences and reflect on how these neworks could contribute to revolutionary social change.

^CrimethInc.

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.

futurism.com/future-society/am…

404media.co/ice-secret-service…

ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras

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.

forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste…

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!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

Release 2.41.6 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

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 barcodes

^GitHub

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

sfstandard.com/2026/01/22/tech…

‘I’m very stupid’: SF tech founder jailed in Davos for bomb-lookalike device 

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)}

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."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories

#TwinCities Workers #Strike Against #ICE. Two Hundred Cities Follow.

migrantinsider.com/p/twin-citi…

As two hundred and fifteen cities prepare to walk out today in solidarity with #Minneapolis, the whole world is watching.

Twin Cities Workers Strike Against ICE. Two Hundred Cities Follow.

As two hundred and fifteen cities prepare to walk out today in solidarity with Minneapolis, the whole world is watching.

^{Pablo Manríquez (Migrant Insider)}

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.