A few years ago, I gave my mother a WiFi picture frame for Christmas, from this company: pix-star.com/
This evening, I was visiting my parents for my niece's birthday, and when someone mentioned the picture frame, I got to thinking about how far a photo goes when my mother sends it from her phone or tablet, to the associated cloud service, and then it gets downloaded to the picture frame, especially when she's sitting in the same room as the frame. 1/?
Jagmeet Singh says NDP will back Liberals in non-confidence vote
cbc.ca/news/politics/singh-non…
So no fall election for now.
📣 New Webinar Recording + Tech Note Alert!
We just published the webinar recording that walks through learning and using R with screen readers—and it's bilingual (English & Turkish)! with subtitles in English.
📹 Webinar video featuring @lizhare
and Alican Cagri Gokcek: vimeo.com/1008631708
📝 Also, don't miss the detailed technical note on our blog with the resources you need to get started. By Liz: ropensci.org/blog/2024/09/05/s…
“New Zealand’s Long-term Insights Briefings may not make the headlines, but they should. They’re a little unusual, internationally. Every three years, public service departments are mandated to think long-term—about the trends, risks, and opportunities that could shape our lives over the next 10, 20, even 50 years.”
— Victoria Mulligan
recent discussion about some older C libraries has me realizing that some of those are going to be Roman road-style infrastructure, probably used for literal centuries and setting design choices that may well be used for millennia if our civilization lasts that long.
This is of course horrifying.
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Glass Antenna Turns windows into 5G Base Stations
Link: spectrum.ieee.org/5g-antenna-t…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
German army wants to help with floods.
Polish Prime Minister: if you see German troops, don’t panic.
Ich bin mit meinem Startup gescheitert, Qualitatsjournalismus gut zu finanzieren und besser zugänglich zu machen.
Das Paywall-Problem (nur 13% der Deutschen haben ein Digital-Abo von Verlagsinhalten) wird zu einem Demokratie-Problem.
🇦🇹 🇨🇿 🇵🇱 🇷🇴 🇸🇰 Europe is by your side in this difficult moment.
Today, President von der Leyen is in 🇵🇱 Wrocław to visit the areas recently affected by heavy floods and rains in Central Europe.
She also discussed the response with the leaders of Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Austria.
Through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, the EU is working to provide emergency equipment.
When the time comes, we will be ready to help rebuild.
This is #EUSolidarity.
#EU
Hello everyone @Friendica Support !
I filed this issue on github and it has been pretty ignored. Of course I don't expect it to be taken into consideration, but I would like to know if I'm the only one who perceives this feature as a problem. I would also be curious to know if in your opinion the issue is easily solvable, or if it requires an unjustifiable effort?
For those who do not have a GitHub account, I report the text of the Issue here:
Good evening everyone.Introduction
Like most software in the Fediverse, Friendica accounts can also be "followed" through their RSS feed.
In this way, it is possible to use the string https://INSTANCENAME/feed/USERNAME/
For example, the account of the Friendica group "School" is
poliverso.org/feed/scuola/Is the feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Unfortunately, however, the feed of the Fediverse accounts publishes only the contents of that account and not, for example, those reshared.
This choice, although understandable for normal accounts, is much less understandable for Groups (the former Forums), since these groups do not publish (if not rarely) their own contents.
Describe the feature you'd like
The developers Lemmy have brilliantly solved the problem with their "Communities" (the Lemmy version of Activitypub groups) and today it is possible to follow the feed of the Lemmy communities through the string
https://ISTANZA/feeds/c/NOMEUTENTE.xml?sort=NewAnd in fact the feed of the "Fediverso" community is perfectly queryable by a feed reader
feddit.it/feeds/c/fediverso.xm…Even Lemmy displays a feed that presents all the posts published in the local communities (https://ISTANZA/feeds/local.xml?sort=New) and even all those of the federated "timeline" (ISTANZA/feeds/all.xml?sort=New).
I therefore wonder if it is not possible to make it so that at least the "Group" type accounts can display a feed that also includes shared content.
Describe alternatives you've considered
I can't think of any valid alternatives.
I tried in vain to follow a Friendica Group with a Lemmy account (basically I signed up to the "group" which obviously in Lemmy is seen as a "Community"): basically I wanted to use Lemmy to make him export the RSS feed...
Unfortunately, however, there are still problems that do not allow the contents of Friendica to be correctly synchronized in the community view of Lemmy.
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Tor insists its #network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin
Kind of boils down to opsec fail here. Using outdated software, which in this case didn’t properly secure Tor connections.
Timing attacks are still viable (especially with hostile nodes), but this reads as an #opsec fail to me.
Remember: a major part of anonymity is maintaining great opsec.
Obligatory: Tor is not “just for criminals,” despite one getting caught in this case (glad he did tbh). Regular people use Tor everyday.
#cybersecurity #security #privacy
theregister.com/2024/09/19/tor…
Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armorIain Thomson (The Register)
“It was May 8th 2020 for the third time, and Ryan had already caused two traffic accidents.”
Ryan "Quicksave" Romano is an eccentric adventurer with a strange power: he can create a save-point in time and redo his life whenever he dies. Arriving in New Rome, the glitzy capital of sin of a rebuilding Europe, he finds the city torn between mega-corporations, sponsored heroes, superpowered criminals, and true monsters. It's a time of chaos, where potions can grant the power to rule the world and dangers lurk everywhere.
Ryan only sees different routes; and from Hero to Villain, he has to try them all. Only then will he achieve his perfect ending... no matter how many loops it takes.
Couldn't make it to the #matrixConf but you don't want to miss out on the talks? We've got your back!
Head to 2024.matrix.org/watch and watch the talks in real time, starting at 10:00 CEST tomorrow
is there a good guide for setting up the microservices needed to use the "rooms" on the wider network? synapse single threaded i can't join most of the channels on, say, matrix.org; it's just too slow.
The guides made my eyes glaze over, and i'm a systems architecture person. send help 
Si escriben en #español y viven en #EstadosUnidos o #Canadá, esta convocatoria les puede interesar.
¡Anímense!
Primer #PremioInternacional de #LiteraturaEnEspañol en Estados Unidos y Canadá, de #LiteralMagazine: literalmagazine.com/primer-pre…
#literatura #escritoras #escritores #libros #cuento #novela #poesía #concursos #ConcursosLiterarios #PremiosLiterarios #castellano #literaverso #USA #writers #LiteraryAwards #LiteraryContests #WritingContests #WritersOfMastodon
A project analyzing human language usage by scraping the web is shutting down because "generative AI has polluted the data." It's going to become much harder to analyze human use of language with the rise of AI-generated stuff being everywhere.
Today, our job is simple - to inspire to to try a Thunderbird Add-on to boost your productivity! If you don't know where to get started, our community (including here on Mastodon!) gave us some great ideas. 💡
Is your company using a quantum-safe email provider in 2024?
Not yet? Upgrade now! 🔐
Here’s how Tuta Mail can help your business 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-companies-be…
As a reminder, a malicious Tuta server can read the end-to-end encrypted e-mails and shared calendars exchanged on the platform as there is no way to verify the recipient's public key. This issue has been brought up to the Tuta team 6 years ago...
github.com/tutao/tutanota/issu…
So, maybe less "we're the most secure e-mail provider in the world" and more concrete security 🙃
LibreOffice reshared this.
"We require that you credit claudeai.wiki for this image. Please add a direct and clickable hyperlink to claudeai.wiki/ either beneath the image or in the footer of the page. This must be completed within the next five business days."
Getting chased by a stupid AI company for a (claimed) royalty free image on my blog that I obtained from pixabay.
I replaced it immediately. It was not important, Now using another royalty free image...
Puvodni nekolikadenni zastavka se smrskla na dve hodiny na protazeni, ale i to nam stacilo na objev Polskeho Hubacka. Nase srdicko zaplesalo a jestli to ma i terasu na strese, tak je to uplna pecka.
A pytle s piskem nebyly potreba!
Povodnova turistika zdarne ukoncena, hipsterske bistro navstiveno a pokracujeme smer Lodz.
“The Vance campaign provided the Wall Street Journal with a police report to prove their claims about cat-eating Haitians in Springfield. The WSJ spoke to the woman who filed it, who said she later found her cat alive and well in her basement. She also apologized to her Haitian neighbors.”
Truly incredible.
🇩🇪Geleaktes Protokoll zur #Chatkontrolle netzpolitik.org/2024/interne-d… +++ Kritik nur von 6 Ländern – keine Sperrminorität! +++ Unentschieden waren noch BEL, CZE, FIN, ITA, NLD, PRT, SWE +++ EU-Juristen bestätigen Grundrechtsverletzung +++ Nur noch 5 Tage bis zur nächsten Beratung... +++
Hilf mit das digitale #Briefgeheimnis und sichere #Verschlüsselung zu verteidigen: patrick-breyer.de/hilf-jetzt-m…
Grafik: @frebelt - danke!
🇬🇧Leak on latest #ChatControl attempt (in German): netzpolitik.org/2024/interne-d… +++ Only AUT, DEU, EST, LUX, POL, SVN were critical – no blocking minority! +++ BEL, CZE, FIN, ITA, NLD, PRT, SWE undecided +++ EU legal experts confirm violation of our fundamental rights +++ Only 5 days to next discussion +++
Help pressure our governments into defending our #privacy of correspondence and secure #encryption now: patrick-breyer.de/en/take-acti…
PipeWire 1.0.8 is out! Some more bugs were fixed. More details here:
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in reply to Matt Campbell • • •I thought I remembered Pix-Star being based in France. And, sure enough, mail.mypixstar.com points to an OVH server in France.
As it happens, we're in the US. I'm aware, of course, that much more often, including with products I've developed, the situation is the reverse, that is, a non-US user sending their data to the US. To be clear, I have nothing against France. But even my mom agrees, it seems crazy that the data is going that far away. 3/?
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in reply to Matt Campbell • • •We used to send files across local networks, without them going out to a possibly distant Internet service and back, all the time. But try using SMB on a phone or tablet. Especially if you happen to be away from home when sending the photo.
I don't know what the solution is. 4/4
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in reply to Matt Campbell • • •@glyph I bought a few of their APs for my home, running the management software on my server. I hadn't realised at the time that they seem to be trying to deprecate this setup in favour of running the management software on Unifi hardware instead.
It'd probably be a lot more pleasant if I had a Unifi Console device like their router, but self-hosting feels like an afterthought now.
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in reply to Matt Campbell • • •The way it should work is that I can transfer a file from one computer of mine to another over the internet. Except if the devices are on the same network, it's routed locally instead. And if the transfer is still a bit slow I should be able to just connect the devices with a USB C to C cable and have it automatically start transferring data over that.
I'm not sure what the best technical approach to achieving that is, but it's not fundamentally that difficult.
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in reply to Matt Campbell • • •True. I more mean Microsoft, Google, and Apple in particular. The ideal solution for this should be a standard that's also integrated in Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android so it all just works out-of-the-box and intuitively with the devices people are using.
Otherwise, I guess email is still the best you can get for a universal standard that people are familiar with.
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