Sonos CEO Resigns Following Mobile App Flop
https://www.pcmag.com/news/sonos-ceo-resigns-following-mobile-app-flop?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Welcome to the RB family, sNotz 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.s…

sNotz is a privacy-friendly, secure, and completely offline application to create, customize, and manage simple notes on your android device.

Thanks to @sunilpaulmathew for making this possible

Oh no, RB status says no apps found now: 404 apps (32.5%), we're working on it 🤞

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid

„sNotz“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

An open-source and completely offline application to manage simple notes

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Apparently Meta is afraid of Pixelfed. Clearly, @dansup is doing something right. Can't imagine a bigger compliment.

"CONFIRMED: Facebook has *banned* anyone from linking to Pixelfed. #metablockingpixelfed"

bsky link: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:n2okv…

h/t @ajsadauskas (see bsky screenshot in reply below)

Maybe tech media should pick this up. Seems like a good story!

Statt mehr Milei oder Musk könnte Deutschland ja auch mal mehr Lina Khan wagen.

Monopole zerschlagen und Wettbewerb fördern – das müsste doch eigentlich ein Kernthema für eine liberale Partei wie die #FDP sein.

youtube.com/watch?v=enHn9R_T2R…

#BTW25

FTC Chair Lina Khan’s Exit Interview: What’s Next for Antitrust Enforcement? | WSJ

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan sat down with WSJ’s Damian Paletta on the final days of her post as FTC chair to reflect on a historically aggressiv...

^YouTube

Das hier dürft ihr gerne mal rumreichen: eine entfristete Stelle in meiner IT-Abteilung.

Die Besonderheit: wir suchen eine(n) Windows-Admin, der/die offen genug ist, sich mit uns auf eine Reise hin zu einer „open source company“ zu machen. Sprich Stück für Stück Windows-Dienste in Richtung Linux zu migrieren.

Da sollte sich doch hier eine Zielgruppe finden?

karriereportal-stellen.berlin.…

1. The Linux kernel
2. git
3. guitar pedals

theregister.com/2025/01/13/lin…

Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer

‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7

^{Simon Sharwood (The Register)}

#Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 6 Weeks—Forget Chrome And #Android

Long story short is that Google has made updates to its advertising ecosystem essentially _permitting_ the fingerprinting of devices for use in targeted advertising. In their words they are going to be “less prescriptive with partners in how they target and measure ads.”

Doesn’t mean fingerprinting wasn’t happening before, just that Google is giving the green signal to the rest of the ecosystem to do so… and will likely use this to maybe replace third-party cookies.

Use an adblocker. Seriously.

#privacy #ads #privacymatters #useadblockers

forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/20…

Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 6 Weeks—Forget Chrome And Android

Say hello to 2025—the way you're tracked has suddenly changed. Here's what you need to know.

^{Zak Doffman (Forbes)}

Vamos a ver, es cierto que la imputación del fiscal general huele a prevaricación y lawfare que tira para atrás, pero no puede ser. No en esta España radical y rotundamente democrática, ¿no?

De esa premisa parte @gerardotc en su último Tecetipo. La conclusión es que, si no está prevaricando, lo que ocurre es que el Tribunal Supremo ha dado con "un agujero negro nunca antes detectado en el cual la línea espaciotemporal no funciona como pensábamos hasta hoy".
ctxt.es/es/20250101/Firmas/483…

¿Qué prevaricación?

La línea espacio-tiempo debe de haberse girado. De lo contrario sería imposible que el Tribunal Supremo pudiera mantener imputado a un tipo por desvelar un secreto cuando ese secreto ya había sido desvelado

^{ctxt.es | Contexto y Acción}

📢 Mickaël Rémond and Jérôme Sautret from ProcessOne will be attending the upcoming XMPP Summit to collaborate on XMPP specifications and participate in discussions shaping the future of real-time messaging.

The gathering takes place in Brussels on 30th & 31st January 2025.

If you're an XMPP Software Foundation member planning to attend, we'd love to see you there! Let's connect and exchange ideas. 💬

Details: wiki.xmpp.org/web/Conferences/…

#XMPP #Messaging #TechSummit #ProcessOne

New hardcore #PDF rendering performance benchmark for #Poppler:
"Jesus Christ it's a #Lyon (map), get in the car!"

That map takes 26 seconds to render with Poppler on #Linux, but only 6 seconds with PDFjs, or 15 seconds with XPDF: gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler…

I've profiled the issue on the various Poppler rendering backends, and there are some hypotheses about the slowness. If anyone can help fix this, that would be fantastic.

#Okular #GNOMEPapers #Evince #Sysprof #profiling

🐍 Prossimo evento

🎉 Python Happy GNU Year 2025
📅 2025-01-23
⏰ 18:00
🧑‍🏫 "Python come primo linguaggio di programmazione"
🔐 "Cifrari fantastici e come violarli"
📍 Università D'Annunzio, v. Pindaro, Pescara

✅ Iscrizione richiesta 👇
meetup.com/pythonpescara/event…

#Python #Pescara

Python Happy GNU Year 2025 🎉

**🗓️ Python Pescara 2025/1 meeting** **🇮🇹 Italiano** ⏲️ Ecco il programma: Ci incontreremo per un paio di talk e networking alle 18:00 presso la sede

^Meetup

Tired of trading privacy for convenience? 🗓️ Ditch Google Calendar and discover the best private calendars that are #FREE. 📅✨

👉 tuta.com/blog/private-calendar…

Your opinion matters! Are we missing a private calendar? Let us know in the comments.

#PrivacyFirst #EncryptedCalendar

The biggest achievement of the #NS app this year so far: it finally shows correct pictures of newly refurbished VIRM trains. 🥳

The picture was ready on the web server for a long time but now finally the API is providing the correct link:
vt.ns-mlab.nl/v1/images/virmm2…

'Dad Baffled When 6-Year-Old Daughter Turns Off AI Function on High Tech Doll and Plays With It Like Regular Toy'

futurism.com/dad-daughter-ai-t…

Psychiatrist: '"I think because it takes away control from the child," she wrote. "Play is how children work through emotions, impulses and conflicts [as] well as try out new behaviors. I would think [it] would be super irritating to have the toy shape and control your play — like a totally dominating playmate!"'

#AI #technology

Dad Baffled When 6-Year-Old Daughter Turns Off AI Function on High Tech Doll and Plays With It Like Regular Toy

A dad and "AI evangelist" couldn't understand why his daughter didn't like the AI function of a toy he bought for her.

^{Frank Landymore (Futurism)}

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is leaving following a botched app revamp that upset customers and stymied growth; board member Tom Conrad is named interim CEO (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
techmeme.com/250113/p13#a25011…

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence Leaving After Failed App Revamp Led to Customer Revolt

Sonos Inc. Chief Executive Officer Patrick Spence is leaving after eight years in the job, a move that follows a botched app revamp that upset customers and stymied growth.

^{Mark Gurman (Bloomberg)}

Element, the Matrix client:

"Let's have pin be right next to the edit button. And have both actions be transient and very tiny. You need to edit all the time, but hardly ever do pin, so let's make it so people constantly pin incorrect messages accidentally, instead of letting them easily correct a message."

(There are lots of other UI "papercuts" in the Element client, but this is one I'm constantly hitting.)

(Edit: Bug filed: github.com/element-hq/element-… )

Too easy to accidentally pin a message when trying to edit a message · Issue #28974 · element-hq/element-web

Steps to reproduce Thanks for Matrix; I love the concept, but I do hit a lot of little frustrating "papercut" issues in Element every day, including accidentally pinning instead of editing. In Elem...

^GitHub

Results from the survey about Writer templates

design.blog.documentfoundation…

Results from a survey about Writer templates - LibreOffice Design Team

By Ndidi Folasade Ogboi LibreOffice Writer has long been a trusted tool for users worldwide, offering an open-source solution for documents.

^{Heiko Tietze (LibreOffice Design Team)}

Officieel: Apache maakt een kruis over X.

Omdat we niks meer te zoeken hebben op een plek waar de waarheid overstemd wordt door propaganda, desinformatie, leugens en haatspraak, zeggen we op 20 januari “So long, Elon!”.

apache.be/2025/01/13/apache-ma…

Apache maakt een kruis over X

Onder Elon Musk is de opvolger van Twitter een oorlogsgebied geworden met de waarheid als slachtoffer.

^apache.be

Hey Mastodon, het is tijd voor een #eXit.

Volt zit sinds kort op Mastodon en onze aanwezigheid zal hier alleen maar toenemen. Twitter was ooit een plek voor ideeën en inzichten, maar X is een politiek wapen dat onze democratie ondermijnt. Daarom zijn wij van X vertrokken. Samen bouwen we aan platforms die versterken in plaats van verdelen.

Maak jij vandaag ook jouw #eXit? Lees hier ons volledige statement: voltnederland.org/nieuws/vertr…

Unberechtigte Zugriffe auf personenbezogene Daten durch Mitarbeitende in Behörden, Praxen/Krankenhäusern, Versicherungen/Banken und Digitalisierungsdienstleistern sind ein Riesenproblem.

netzpolitik.org/2023/tausende-…

rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2023…

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Tausende Landesangestellte mit Berechtigung: Zugriffe auf Meldedaten werden kaum kontrolliert

Nach einem Datenskandal um eine Magdeburger Klinik-Mitarbeiterin wollte die Linkspartei wissen: Wer hat in Sachsen-Anhalt eigentlich dienstlichen Zugriff auf das Melderegister und wie wird das überprüft? Das Ergebnis ist erschreckend.

^{netzpolitik.org}

Today Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new, European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control. #MastodonNonProfit

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/…