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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 9 updated and 3 added apps:

* Work Tracker: helps you keep a record of your work hours
* zCalc: simple and beautiful calculator
* locus: Share your location end-to-end encrypted on decentralized servers using Nostr

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo

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It's been a while since I've taken a photo! This is the Zizkov Tower in Prague, Czech Republic. It's said to be the second ugliest building in the world (second only to the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in Baltimore). However, living in the area around it, you can't help but love it. It's a symbol that watches over you when you come home from a pub, and sits on the horizon when you're out with your family. Plus, it'll look amazing in 700 years! #photography #prague
Zizkov Tower sitting on the horizon.
#Prague #photography

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Microsoft has released the Windows 11 22H2 'Moment 3' update, bringing many new and long-awaited features to the operating system.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/micr…


Microsoft announces Windows 11 ‘Moment 3’ update, here's the new features

Microsoft has released the Windows 11 22H2 'Moment 3' update, bringing many new and long-awaited features to the operating system.
Mayank Parmar (BleepingComputer)

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🦀 I wrote a proposal for an #[export] attribute in #rustlang to allow for *dynamic* linking between Rust crates, without losing memory safety at the linker boundary.

This will make other ABI work aimed at Rust FFI directly usable between Rust crates as well.

github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull…


RFC: `#[export]` (dynamically linked crates) by m-ou-se · Pull Request #3435 · rust-lang/rfcs

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It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a big tech company humbled this badly by a startup. Sundar keeps shipping interviews and op-eds to the press about the dangers of AI instead of product to compete with OpenAI.

The company is cooked.
techmeme.com/230523/p14#a23052…


Building AI responsibly matters more than competition, one company cannot fulfill AI's potential alone, and global cooperation, especially US-EU, will be key

By Sundar Pichai / Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Amazon-owned online pharmacy PillPack.com has confirmed a data breach. PillPack said it was due to credential stuffing, where passwords from other breaches are used to break into accounts on other sites — in this case, PillPack.

Here's the kicker.

"The unauthorized person logged into 19,032 accounts in total, and 3,614 of those accounts contained prescription information."

How did Amazon not notice that hackers broke into 19,000 accounts — especially since it allegedly offers MFA?

a portion of the data breach notice by PillPack, which says: "The unauthorized person logged into 19,032 accounts in total, and 3,614 of those accounts contained prescription information."
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Matt Campbell

I find it annoying that we're having to add randomness in more places for security reasons. Another example is DoS-resistant hash tables. It takes us further away from the comfortingly simple idea that computers are deterministic machines that we can fully understand and control. And of course, it's another bit of increasing complexity that keeps the hardware upgrade treadmill going.
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Matt Campbell

I'm aware that the "cranky old curmudgeon" side of me is dominating this morning. I have to remind myself to be eternally optimistic, to keep looking forward to more exciting things we can do with technology, especially assistive technology, rather than looking back to a simpler past. Regardless of whether such an attitude is grounded in reality, it's better for productivity.

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Das #Grundgesetz feiert heute seinen 74. Geburtstag, wir gratulieren recht herzlich!
Statt Blumen verschenken wir in diesem Jahr aber lieber einen gemeinsamen Ausblick auf das nächste Jahr: Wie wäre es, dem Grundgesetz mit einem weiteren Grundrecht frischen Schwung zu verschaffen?
Ein Grundrecht auf analoges Leben böte sich da an, meint Heribert Prantl in seinem Newsletter für die Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Das Grundgesetz verteidigt die freie Entfaltung der Persönlichkeit und stellt alle Menschen vor dem Gesetz gleich. Da würde das dem Grundgesetz doch gut zu Gesicht stehen: Menschen auch davor zu schützen, aus dem öffentlichen Leben ausgegrenzt und benachteiligt zu werden, weil Sie kein Smartphone nutzen oder nicht für jeden Quatsch eine zwielichtige App installieren wollen.

Braucht es noch einen Beleg für den Bedarf eines solchen Grundrechtes?

Voilà: bigbrotherawards.de/2023/deuts…

Ein Stapel von Grundgesetzen liegt auf einer Tischfläche, die nur tiefenunscharf zu erkennen ist. Im Vordergrund sind stilisierte Luftschlangen, Sterne und Dreieecke über das Bild verteilt.

Deutsche Post DHL Group | BigBrotherAwards

Die Deutsche Post DHL Group erhält den BigBrotherAward 2023 in der Kategorie Verbraucherschutz für praktizierten Digitalzwang. Sie will die Kund.innen durch
bigbrotherawards.de
#grundgesetz
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Gerhard Hallstein

@Michael Vogel Der Feed ist gerade mit 23 Stunden Verspätung bei mir eingetroffen. Da hakte wohl wieder was.

In diesem Zusammenhang möchte ich Dich fragen: Wenn ich die Blog-Feed-URL squeet.me/feed/gerhardsgedanke… abonniere und neue Einträge öffne, werden sie in Gerhard Hallstein geöffnet oder in Gerhards Gedankenbuch? Konnte ich mich verständlich ausdrücken?

@Michael 🇺🇦
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Michael 🇺🇦

Bezüglich der Verzögerung: Das System versucht vorherzusagen, wie häufig es einen Feed abfragen muss. D.h. je aktiver ein Feed ist, desto häufiger wird er abgefragt. Das heißt aber auch, dass ein Feed, der nur alle paar Tage neue Beiträge hat, auch in der Regel nur einmal pro Tag abgefragt wird. Dies wird gemacht, weil es ansonsten das System zu stark belasten würde, wenn es für alle Feeds alle paar Minuten eine Anfrage starten würde.

Zu Deiner Frage: Wo möchtest Du den Feed abonnieren? In einem externen Feed-Reader oder möchtest Du den Feed von Friendica aus abonnieren? Und was meinst Du mit "neue Einträge öffnen"?

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Gerhard Hallstein

@Michael Vogel Das erste hattest Du mir seinerzeit schonmal erklärt, ich hatte die Erklärung allerdings auch nicht mehr im Hinterkopf.

Ich möchte den Feed Gerhards Gedankenbuch in Gerhard Hallstein abonnieren (beide Instanzen in meinem Friendica-Account). Wenn er in Gerhard Hallstein geöffnet wird, soll der Link den entsprechenden Artikel in Gerhards Gedankenbuch öffnen, nicht aber in Gerhard Hallstein.

@Michael 🇺🇦

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I acquired (with help) a killer audio cassette digitizing rig, and then IMMEDIATELY had to spend over 2 months digitizing 90+ cassettes from the 1999 Game Developers Conference (via a slow-and-steady workflow that got the job done without being too disruptive to any other work I was doing).

So, here we are, it's done. Go enjoy 70+ hours of presentations about all aspects of game making and producing, in 1999.

archive.org/details/1999_Game_…

1999 Game Developers Conference Audio : Various : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual conference for video game developers. The event includes an expo, networking events, and awards shows like...
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Tusky

Transmisogyny

To avoid any possible doubt about this, when Tusky suggests hashtags **it is using your instance's "search" feature** to get the first 10 hashtags that start with whatever you have typed so far.

So those hashtags **are** suggested by that instance.

github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/blob… is the relevant code if you or anyone else needs to verify this.

You can also go to mstdn.ca/, search for "transrightsare" (without logging in) and see the same results.


Tusky/ComposeViewModel.kt at develop · tuskyapp/Tusky

An Android client for the microblogging server Mastodon - Tusky/ComposeViewModel.kt at develop · tuskyapp/Tusky
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Ever heard the term "scratching your own itch"? It means: doing something out of motivation to solve a personal problem. Rafael Lima came across a limitation in #LibreOffice, and helped our community to fix it! Learn more : blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #opensource #qa
Photo of Rafael Lima

Success story: Fixing a limitation in LibreOffice Calc - The Document Foundation Blog

Ever heard the term “scratching your own itch”? Wiktionary describes it as “doing something out of motivation to solve a personal problem”.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#opensource #libreoffice #qa

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#Chatkontrolle: Spanien plädiert für EU-Verbot von Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung
heise.de/news/Chatkontrolle-Sp…

Chatkontrolle: Spanien plädiert für EU-Verbot von Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung

Die EU-Staaten diskutieren über die Pläne zur sogenannten Chatkontrolle. Ein geleaktes Dokument macht jetzt deutlich, wie extrem die Positionen teilweise sind.
Martin Holland (heise online)
#Chatkontrolle

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Are you still using the official Mastodon app? You don't have to!

There are loads of brilliant third party apps which work with your existing Mastodon account.

Unlike Twitter, Facebook etc, Mastodon uses open standards, which means third party apps can do everything the official apps do and more.

There are links to third party apps on the official Mastodon site, just scroll down past the official ones:

➡️ joinmastodon.org/apps

Click on Android, iOS etc to narrow down the app selection.


Get an app for Mastodon

Browse official and third-party apps for the decentralized social network Mastodon
joinmastodon.org
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Here’s how I used AI to clone a 60 Minutes correspondent’s voice to trick a colleague into handing over Sharyn's passport number. I cloned Sharyn’s voice then manipulated the caller ID to show Sharyn’s name on the caller ID with a spoofing tool.
The hack took 5 minutes total for me to steal the sensitive information.

So, how do we protect ourselves, our loved ones, and our organizations?
1. Make sure the people around you know that caller ID is easily faked (spoofed) and that voices can also be easily impersonated.
2. If they receive a dire call from “you”, verify it’s really you with another method of communication (text, DM, FT, call, etc) before taking an action (like sending money). Kind of like human MFA.

Some suggest setting up a secret “verification word” with their folks ones so that if someone impersonates & demands money/access etc you can ask for the verification word to see if it’s a real crisis. This won’t work for all people but could work for some. If it’s a match, use it.

In general, I recommend keeping advice simple: if premise of call is dire use a 2nd method of communication to confirm a person is in trouble before taking action (like wiring money or sensitive data). Rapid text, email, DM, have others message repeatedly — before wiring money.

Bottom line is:
Scammers use urgency & fear to convince victims to take actions (like sending money, data, etc).
If premise of a call, text, email, or DM is too dire (or too good to be true), that’s a likely scam.
Use a 2nd method of communication to check it’s real before taking action!

cbsnews.com/news/how-digital-t…

Ethical hacker scams 60 Minutes staffer to show how easy digital theft is

Anybody can be hacked, even those who are tech-savvy. An ethical hacker targeted a 60 Minutes employee to show how easy it is to scam people.
Aliza Chasan (CBS News)

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Oh wow, Stalker and Solaris are just on Youtube for free, officially uploaded by Mosfilm, the original production company. They've got a bunch of other Soviet films up there too.

youtube.com/watch?v=Q3hBLv-HLE…
youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ZhQPaw4r…


Stalker | FULL MOVIE | Directed by Andrey Tarkovsky

Based on the novel "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The Zone that arose on Earth for unknown reasons attracts attention with inexplicable ph...
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