Missed the #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid? There were plenty of updates while I was on vacation. Today it's 1 removed, 12 updated and 2 added apps:

- removed: GeoCaching4Locus added Ads as 5th AntiFeature so it's gone now
+ Dhizuku: share DeviceOwner permissions to other application
+ CryptoTracker: Track cryptocurrency prices in real-time

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:

Who controls the tech stack❓

When choosing a secure solution for your data, this one of the most important questions❗

Here's why: ➡️ tuta.com/blog/what-is-a-tech-s…

#security #technology #opensource #foss

CONCERT OP DE #STUDENTENBEZETTING - zaterdagavond, 19u30!

Waarom mag #Isreal meedoen met het #Eurovisie-songfestival, ondanks tientallen jaren van #oorlogsmisdaden, #kolonialisme en de #genocide in #gaza

Het excuus van de organisatie is dat Eurovisie een "apolitiek muziekgebeuren" is en "geen wedstrijd tussen overheden". Maar deze "niet-politieke"-natuur hinderde om Rusland te verbannen in 2022 bij de inval van Oekraine.

Op deze hypocrisie aan te vechten, sluiten we aan bij de oproep van @queers.for.palestine en organiseren we onze eigen #muziekwedstrijd!

Iedereen is welkom op zaterdag 11 mei om 19u30 in het UFO-gebouw (Sint-Pietersnieuwsstraat in Gent)

PRAKTISCHE INFORMATIE

Dit is een concert van verschillende #Palestijnse artiesten.

We begrijpen dat er een hoge drempel is om naar de #bezetting to komen, we proberen echter om zo verwelkomend mogelijk te zijn. Daarom wat richtlijnen en dingen die je moet weten als je komt:

Dit evenement (en de bezetting) verwelkomt iedereen die:
- Respectvol is naar anderen
- die een einde wil aan de bezetting van de Palestijnse gebieden en een einde wil aan het gebruik van #fossiele #brandstoffen.

Het maakt ons dus niet uit welke huidskleur je hebt, uit welk land je komt, wat je sexuele orientatie is of welke religie je volgt. Moslims, Joden, atheisten, ... Iedereen is welkom.

Verder is dit ook een #safeSpace . Er zijn stewards om te assisteren bij pratkische zaken en zorg-personen die je kunnen helpen indien je je onveilig voelt of werd lastiggevallen. Er is een stille zone voor zij die even willen ontprikkelen.

De locatie is volledig toegankelijk voor rolstoelgebruikers, inclusief toiletten.

Daarnaast is er eten en niet-alcoholisch drinken voor een vrij bijdrage. Je mag ook je eigen eten en niet-alcoholisch drinken meenemen.

Let wel op: naar het concert komen betekent dat je even deel uit maakt van onze actie. We verwachten dat je dan onze actieconsensus volgt: respectvol zijn naar iedereen, het gebouw niet beschadigen en geen alcohol of drugs meenemen/gebruiken in de bezetting.

De bezetting is een daad van #BurgerlijkeOngehoorzaamheid. Dit is illegaal en er kan dus (in theorie) een politieinterventie zijn. Op dit ogenblik hebben we echter geen enkele reden om te vermoeden dat dit snel gaat gebeuren - er is zelfs nog geen politie ter plaatse geweest. De kans op arrestatie of juridische gevolgen is dus praktisch nul.

#gent #UGent #UniversityGhent #UniversiteitGent #studentProtest #StopGenocide #ceaseFireNow

LibreOffice 24.2 (with new "year.month" version scheme) is our latest major release – but we're still maintaining the older 7.6 branch for a while longer. And today we're releasing #LibreOffice 7.6.7, a minor update: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource

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Since a (very subjective) third of curl's non-trivial issues seem FTP related, I am adding 'ftp' to the things you can enable tracing for.

Why FTP troubles after all these years? It's a protocol with many sharp edges and servers migrating to TLS and then TLSv1.3 show slightly different behaviour.

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1358…

#LivingBlindfully Coming up on Living Blindfully episode 281, contemptuous behaviour from Sonos, following sports events when at the venue, and Canadas federal Parliament hears testimony on shabby airline treatment - livingblindfully.com/lbpreview…

A new update for Windows 11's best File Explorer alternative adds a revolutionary Windows search tool and personalized keyboard shortcuts for easy retrieval of files and folders

windowscentral.com/software-ap…

#OpenSource für 23 Schulen, 15.000 Schüler*innen, 900 Lehrkräfte

#Flensburg stattet seine Schulen mit #Nextcloud aus und verbindet alles mit dem zentralen Identitätsmanagement von #Univention: univention.de/referenz/stadt-f…

Check out all the development and #QA activity in the #LibreOffice project last month! New features, improvements, bug fixes and more: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #OpenSource

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Apple apologizes for iPad ad

“Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it’s incredibly important to us to design products that empower creatives all over the world,” said Tor Myhren, the company’s VP of marketing communications. “Our goal is to always celebrate the myriad of ways users express themselves and bring their ideas to life through iPad. We missed the mark with this video, and we’re sorry.”


Interestingly, Google used the same language to conclude its apology for its generative AI’s historical depictions of race. It explained its intention with flowery language and then said “But it’s missing the mark here”.

I wonder if we’ll be seeing more of this type of response to corporate tone-deafness (a generous term) going forward. Big “I’m sorry you feel that way (but this isn’t indicative of any problems with me)” vibes.

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in reply to Seirdy

bangs head on wall

The problem isn’t that people didn’t like something you did. the problem you need to address is why they didn’t like it.

Corporate apologies like this prove that they observed people unhappy about something. It reads like an apology to investors for making people unhappy, not an apology to the people who got angry. It would be ten times better to say nothing at all.

Why do PR departments keep doing this? Do they think statements like these work better than actual apologies?

It has been a long time coming, but I've made it official:

"Daniel no longer answers questions on stackoverflow. Use a dedicated public curl forum for accurate and timely answers about anything #curl. "

(yes, speaking about myself in 3rd person)

stackoverflow.com/users/93747/…

#curl
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Great action 👍🏻. My hope is that we get more specialized pages/blogs, instead of those central places that sooner or later get way too much power. Especially if that power is based on contributions by the community. For this reason, I decided to revamp my blog (linux-audit.com/), specialize, and still allow #AI to crawl it. After all, if it continues to exist, I rather want it to use knowledge of higher quality.
#AI

New Sonos app breaks accessibility for visually impaired users, here’s what this advocate recommends

9to5mac.com/2024/05/09/new-son…

I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-s…

This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)

in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler

This video by @skrishna includes a lot of really detailed spaceflight context (both law and spacecraft design, as well as SpaceX's operating practices) which is really helpful for understanding the whole debris-fall situation I described in my SciAm article above.

If you liked my article, give this a watch!

youtu.be/Ndqzl6zUw4Q

in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler

Interesting. I guess all the negative press from SpaceX dumping large pieces of garbage on Saskatchewan did actually make a difference? spacenews.com/spacex-to-move-d…

Of course, they still plan to dump large pieces of garbage upon reentry (plus huge amounts of atmospheric pollution on both launch and reentry), but now the garbage pieces will go directly into the ocean, far away from annoying astronomers who have lots of journalist contacts.

Sigh.

TAG Introduces Language Detection Feature For Closed Captions And Subtitles Quality Assurance tvnewscheck.com/tech/article/t…

Twitter stupidity -- well, Bsky stupidity

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The Fediverse is deliberately spread out on thousands of independent servers running many types of software, which connect together to form a single social network.

But why is it like this? Why go to all this trouble? Wouldn't a single large server be easier?

Here is a complete list of reasons why it is very important for a social network to be spread out on many independent servers:

➡️ fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse…

(If I'm missing a reason, let me know in the replies!)

#FediTips #Fediverse