SCOOP: A hacker stole subscriber information from the pro-conservative and Christian cell phone carrier Patriot Mobile.

Stolen data, which we verified, includes full names, email addresses, home zip codes, and account PINs.

Patriot Mobile says its mission is "to passionately defend our God-given Constitutional rights and freedoms while glorifying God.”

If only they were so passionate about protecting customer data...

techcrunch.com/2024/05/21/cons…

Is it just me, or has Microsoft gone completely crazy? They are implementing spyware that takes screenshots every second and forcing AI integration. Why would anyone willingly purchase this? Anyone with experience in computer or information security knows that it is a bad idea, even if it is locally done. Just don't do it. Yet, here we are, and they are doubling down on this idea. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0… #privacy #security
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I tell you, those who abuse their spouse or kids are absolutely going to love this feature, apart from bad actors. 99.9% of people don't even know this is turned on by default, and everything they do is captured and viewed by bad actors or abusers. Microsoft is not just a monopoly, but they don't like family values or privacy or safety. They are going to put innocent people's lives in danger. ABUSE is written all over this crap.

Wow, people really don't like iTerm2 adding an optional AI integration which requires you to enter your OpenAI key to use, calling it "no longer fit for purpose", etc.

Someone pointed out that this feature is optional and not only has to be enabled, but it requires you to enter a key to use. That user was, apparently, reported on gitlab and is now blocked.

gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/i…

It reminds me a bit of how some people don't like "algorithms", as in x.com/danluu/status/9834663303….

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We need to federate verbs, not just nouns.

We need to federate verbs, not just nouns.

We need to federate verbs, not just nouns.

We need to federate verbs, not just nouns.

We need to federate verbs, not just nouns.

We need to federate verbs, not just nouns.

Mutualist support and mutualist self-defence are the future.

The @matrix team have shown us that this is possible, that it works better than anyone realizes.

We need to federate verbs, not just nouns.

mastodon.social/@polotek@socia…

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Be My Eyes Launches its Award-Winning App on Windows with Immediate Availability
Be My AI, the world’s first AI visual assistant for people who are blind or have low vision, is now available on any Windows 10/11 PC through the Microsoft
Store, for free.

bemyeyes.com/blog/be-my-eyes-d…

We're proud to share that @blackpythondevs have joined the GNOME Foundation nonprofit umbrella. This new partnership will benefit both of our communities and we're thrilled to have them onboard!
Learn more:
foundation.gnome.org/2024/05/2…

#GNOME #opensource #BlackPythonDevs

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You can learn more about @blackpythondevs and how they describe their community and members in this recent blog post: blackpythondevs.com/2024-05-22…

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If this lands on your feed, tell me about different features that are just missing in Matrix.

It can be anything, but please don't include memes like "unable to decrypt message" or other things that are already in the works, or maybe has already been merged (e.g media captions). Also, no, I won't "just use XMPP".

Some examples include better forwarded messages, rich profiles, or a live location sharing, just to name a few.

(I am writing something about this, boosts appreciated!)

#matrix #tech

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Si tu utilises #Slack et qui te ne souhaites pas que l'intégralité de tes conversations (MP inclus) et celles de tes amis/contacts soient lues et exploitées (depuis quelques jours, pour entraîner des « IA »), on peut t'aider à quitter Slack pour le remplacer par @matrix. Tu es le, la bienvenue sur notre salon d'accueil : on fera ce qu'on peut pour t'aider, avec bienveillance ✊

matrix.to/#/#bienvenue:matrix.…

eigenmagic.net/@NewtonMark/112…

#QuitterSlack

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re: CanPay privacy
The phone number they give for the fake opt-out is bullshit. The privacy policy says that calling the number will give you a menu to request that affiliates don’t use your data, but you just get a notice that they’re online-only. You have to email them (the email address on the privacy policy is different from the email the phone call gives you) or send a letter in the mail.

This is quite rare - the C root-servers are out of sync with the rest of the world by 3 days. Since that time there have been no changes in the root zone, except for DNSSEC signature updates. It appears all C instances (operated by #cogent) are serving an outdated zone. For now this has no operational impact, but that might change #DNSSEC - UPDATE, c-root received an update and now only lags behind by 1 day now. UPDATE2: fixed.
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#PPOD: This stunning photo was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard the ESA's Mars Express spacecraft. Phobos is the larger and closer of Mars's two moons, the other being Deimos. One hypothesis of their origin involves the possible capture of primitive asteroids. Unfortunately, Phobos is being pulled apart and closer by Mars's tidal forces and gravity. Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/ @andrealuck CC BY (flickr.com/photos/192271236@N0…)

#mars #phobos #space #science #scicomm

no fakt, to by sme fakt nevedeli keby... radšej keby povedal alebo editor vybral nadpis... čo sa vôbec rozčuľujem

dennikn.sk/4005131/sefredaktor…

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Das könnte interessant für alle sein, die im Bundestag arbeiten oder über das Geschehen dort berichten: Ich habe eine (inoffizielle) API gebastelt, mit der sich die stets aktuelle Tagesordnung als iCal-Feed abonnieren lässt. bloggenswertes.de/bundestags-t…

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 8 updated and 1 added apps:

* Password Monitor: ensure your password safety by scanning for potential breaches

Notification Recovery got rid of its proprietary dependency (GMS), some other apps of their signing blobs.

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

Eigentlich sollte Deutschland bis Ende des Jahres Solaranlagen mit einer Leistung von 88 Gigawatt gebaut haben. So will es das Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz. Das Ziel wurde bereits jetzt - Mitte Mai - erreicht.

📝 ndr.de/nachrichten/ndrdata/Deu…

#Solarausbau #ErneuerbareEnergien #NDR

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Apple ships drivers for very high speed Mellanox network cards in macOS & iOS now!

We connected an iPad (and a MacBook) to a 25GBit/s ConnectX-4 network card!

10322 MBit/s throughput on an iPad, 20476 MBit/s throughput on a MacBook.

Blog post (with speed test video):
kittenlabs.de/blog/2024/05/17/…

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Today I re-found this song a Bulgarian friend showed me about 24 years ago. She just got two CDs from then relatively new group Wickeda, and was really excited about them. I managed to find one of the albums on a private tracker around 2013, but it didn't have this song: youtube.com/watch?v=SCYUxq1j2T…

Also, Eugenia, if you're reading this, hi!

Today is official launch for NGI #Mobifree, an initiative to develop ethical mobile software - and #microG is part of it.

Together with projects like @e_mydata and @delta, we aim to tackle the issues that come from Big Tech companies dominating the industry, with support from researchers from @waag and others and funding from @EC_NGI

And if you are a developer that wants to contribute to this goal, there is funding for you as well via nlnet.nl/mobifree/, thanks to our friends at @NGIZero

New app added to the Accessible Android apps directory: Lookout – Assisted vision Accessible with no TalkBack actions accessibleandroid.com/app/look… #Android #App #Accessibility