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The Atlantic - Four government IT employees say Elon Musk's incursion into the US government may be worse than anyone realizes: “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history." theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified

Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
Charlie Warzel (The Atlantic)

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🔍 Digital-Thesen-Check These 2: Wie stehen die Parteien zu #OpenSource in der Verwaltung?

Nur Grüne, Volt, Linke & BSW befürworten aktiv Open-Source-Förderung. SPD, CDU/CSU & FDP schweigen dazu in ihren Wahlprogrammen.

Details in unserem Digital-Thesen-Check zur Bundestagswahl: 👉 d-64.org/digital-thesen-check-…

#Digitalpolitik#BTW25 #PublicMoneyPulicCode

Digital-Thesen-Check These 2: Public Money, Public Code Für alle Institutionen und Einrichtungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland werden bei der Beschaffung von Software verbindlich Open-Source-Software (OSS), offene Schnittstellen und Datenformate vorgeschrieben. Dafür soll die Förderung solcher Software, bspw. durch Finanzierung, ausgebaut werden.

Der Digital-Thesen-Check 2025 zur Bundestagswahl | D64 – Zentrum für digitalen Fortschritt

D64 analysiert Parteien zur Bundestagswahl 2025: Digitalpolitik, Überwachung, Sicherheit & Teilhabe im Digital-Thesen-Check.
Johann Lensing (D64 - Zentrum für Digitalen Fortschritt e.V.)
#opensource #digitalpolitik #publicmoneypuliccode

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#odemčeno Z USA se stává nepřátelská teokracie. Naivita američanů vede k procesu podobnému tomu v Československu v únoru 1948.
USA je nyní stejně nebezpečný nepřítel, jako Rusko.
denikn.cz/1647146/spojencum-us…

Spojencům USA se svět obrací naruby

Komentář Edwarda Lucase: Americká vrtkavost je pouze jeden z problémů. Pak je tu evropská hamižnost.
Edward Lucas (Deník N)
#odemceno

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While we are all enthusiastically busy decentralizing, federating, and "freeing our feeds", @tante asks the necessary question "should it be built in the first place". An insightful post that gets you thinking about the tradeoffs between 'if' and 'how'. tante.cc/2025/02/07/the-open-s…

The Open Source Torment Nexus

One of the most popular memes when it comes to talking about the tech sector is Alex Blechman’s tweet about the Torment Nexus: One can interpret the tweet in a bunch of ways.
tante (Smashing Frames)
@tante

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#Slidstvo is an investigative journalism organization from #Ukraine, founded by absolutely fearless folks, one of whom I have the honor of calling a friend.

They just got 80% of their budget slashed due to US oligarchs – the kind they tend to investigate – shuttering #USAID:
slidstvo.info/english-stories/…

Investigative journalism is hard and dangerous enough by itself. They are doing it in a war-torn country, under falling bombs and rockets. And now their limited budget just got even more limited.


Slidstvo.Info calls for donations after losing 80% of U.S. grant funding

The suspension of U.S. funding has significantly impacted Slidstvo.Info, as nearly 80% of our operations in recent years relied on U.S. government grants,” said Anna Babinets, founder and director of Slidstvo.Info.
Кулакевич Наталі (Слідство.Інфо)
#Ukraine #USAID #slidstvo

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Star link killing the ozone layer.

First generation (Gen1) Starlink satellites are being retired to make way for newer models. "More than 500 of the 4700 Gen1 Starlinks have now reentered,"

When Starlinks reenter, they disintegrate before hitting the ground, adding metallic vapors to the atmosphere.

In February 2023, NASA flew a WB-57 aircraft 60,000 feet over Alaska to collect aerosols. 10% of the particles contained aluminum and other metals from the "burn-up" of satellites.

What we're observing is a giant uncontrolled experiment in atmospheric chemistry. The demise of just one Gen1 Starlink satellite produces about 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of aluminum oxide, a compound that eats away at the ozone layer. A new study finds these oxides have increased 8-fold between 2016 and 2022, and the recent surge is increasing the pollution even more.

spaceweather.com/archive.php?v…

Spaceweather.com Time Machine

spaceweather.com

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AI is taking over. From scraping your social media data, to lurking in your mailbox. 🫣 But why is AI taking over social media? We take a look in our latest article.

👉 tuta.com/blog/ai-take-over-soc….

#Ai #AiTakeover #DataProtection

Image of social media platforms all connected to "AI"

Why AI is taking over social media (and how to opt-out) | Tuta

From AI-generated posts to large language models collecting your profile’s data - artificial intelligence is in every facet of social media. But why is this happening, and can you opt-out?
Tuta
#AI #DataProtection #aitakeover

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#XMPP Events

Report from XMPP Summit and #FOSDEM

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:00 CET
#xHain hack+makespace, Grünberger Str. 16, 10243 #Berlin

mov.im/community/pubsub.movim.…

#jabber #chat #interoperability
#opensource #decentralization #standard

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Explore • What's on in Jabber? Report from XMPP Summit and FOSDEM

What's on in Jabber? Report from XMPP Summit and FOSDEM Conversations, Dino and Ejabberd…
mov.im
#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #fosdem #chat #interoperability #decentralization #Berlin #xhain #standard
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was just going to post about how the new p*xelfed app makes the login experience considerably worse for people on not-the-main-instance

the onboarding flow in apps meant for decentralised services is going to be hard but this isn't the fix, especially when the main server is falling over and failing to generate image previews.

instead of (gratuitously) comparing himself against mastodon yet again, how about we look at email apps instead which have probably solved the multi-provider problem?

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Borris

@fireborn Yep. Whatever is on the line input is passed through to the output jack, unless you are using the resample function, which... yeah, I do that a lot. Haven't done that while on the go yet, though, so I'll figure that one out when I get to that point, I guess. Braille display?
@aaron

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Proxmox, provider of powerful, yet easy-to-use Open Source server software based on Debian is the newest Platinum Sponsor of #DebConf25 bits.debian.org/2025/02/proxmo… #debian

Proxmox Platinum Sponsor of DebConf25

We are pleased to announce that Proxmox has committed to sponsor DebConf25 as a Platinum Sponsor. Proxmox develops powerful, yet easy-to-use Open Source server software.
Debian Project
#debian #debconf25

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This 24-outlet beast won’t break a sweat tackling your power needs, now $22 9to5toys.com/2025/02/06/trond-…

This 24-outlet beast won’t break a sweat tackling your power needs, now $22

TROND 24-Outlet Surge Protector Buy for $22 (Reg. $26) Clip the on-page 15% off coupon. What we love If you’re constantly pushing the limits of what your surge protector can handle, this beast is here to save the day.
Simon Walsh (9to5Toys)

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In-Process is out, featuring:
- The NV Access 2025 Roadmap
- Thanks to our sponsors
- Corporate support with Benevity
- our new VPAT & Multiple key press timeout.

Read it all here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-7…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Support #CorporateGiving #VPAT #Blog #News #Newsletter

#Accessibility #blog #screenreader #nvdasr #News #newsletter #support #nvda #vpat #corporategiving
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Two more #curl hackerone reports disclosed: hackerone.com/reports/2954286 and hackerone.com/reports/2917232

curl disclosed on HackerOne: CVE-2025-0167: netrc and default...

## Summary: The fix for CVE-2024-11053 seems to be incomplete.The information leak problem could be reproduced again if use netrc in step1. ## Affected version all ## Steps To Reproduce: 1....
HackerOne
#curl

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Comune in provincia di Padova ai confini con la provincia di Venezia. Stesse zone dove il figlio di Donald è andato a sparare. Gente che gira armata e che macella in casa gli animali abbattuti.

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Macellazione clandestina di volatili e bracconaggio: sequestrato un garage

L'operazione è stata messa a segno dai carabinieri forestali a Piove di Sacco e Campagna Lupia nel veneziano e ha portato alla denuncia di 4 persone. Recuperati anche...
C.A. (PadovaOggi)

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Hello, I'm new to Mastadon and looking to meet people interested in medieval Silk Road history, especially of women and non-western historical fiction.

To sort of give you an idea of the weird stuff I'm into, here's a post I did about stories written in the Medieval Silk Road that feature women and are available in English:

mariamalmasriauthor.wordpress.…

On this, anyone else into weird and obscure histories?

#intro #history #historicalFiction #silkroad #womenshistory #books


Stories About Women from the Medieval Silk Road and Available in English

The Silk Road had men and women of all walks of life. It also was one of history’s most literate eras and places, prior to the modern age. One of the reasons that we know that is from the sto…
Women Along the Silk Road
#books #history #intro #HistoricalFiction #womenshistory #silkroad

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