for fuck's sake, UK.gov. How can you simultaneously be so alert and want to fix things, through agencies like the CMA, and also so boneheadedly stupid as to do things like demand encryption backdoors like it's 1999 and you didn't read any of the briefing material, and do an "AI consultation" which you don't even wait to finish before announcing all sorts of AI bullshit? Please have a coherent tech policy! A good one! Please! You really could! social.openrightsgroup.org/@op…
🚨 Encryption is under attack 🚨
🔴 The UK government has demanded that Apple build a backdoor to retrieve content that any user has uploaded to the cloud.
ProPublica has identified three lawyers with elite establishment credentials who’ve joined the DOGE effort. Two of their names haven’t been previously reported as working for the Elon Musk-led initiative.
Much attention has been paid to the young Silicon Valley engineers working for Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, but the group has also hired high-powered legal talent.
President Trump, in an executive order, cuts off all aid to the Republic of South Africa and will assist in resettling white South African farmers and their families as refugees. apnews.com/article/trump-south…
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order formalizing his announcement earlier this week that he’ll freeze assistance to South Africa for a law aiming to address some of the wrongs of South Africa’s racist apartheid era.
If you want to make sure to buy your photographic gear and supplies from Canada, I have been maintaining a list. It's not exhaustive, but it should get your started.
I had an absolute blast filming my first-ever video with Pianote! 🎉 They threw a challenge my way—I had to learn a song on the spot and create my own arrangement. No spoilers, but let’s just say it was a ride! 🎹🔥
For all my blind and visually impaired friends, we made sure to include audio description of any text that appears on screen, so everyone can fully experience the video. Big thanks to the Pianote team for making this happen!
Watch as Matthew Whitaker—a virtuosic pianist—experiences "Rain" by Sleep Token for the first time. Known for their genre-defying music, Sleep Token’s atmosp...
Campain reverses a 2023 decision to halt government advertising on Facebook. "We cannot continue paying advertising dollars to Meta while they refuse to pay their fair share to Canadian news
So, I read the little article about the show and went to Amazon and purchased the complete series for only $29 on DVD. How fun is that! A true blast from the past!
I wish it was available to purchase digitally but it's not, at least not from iTunes. Pluto TV is streaming it for free, which is nice, but that means I have to deal with ads. And now I see that Pluto TV doesn't even offer all of the episodes. 😡
With the latest update to #Mastodon's web app, we show you a little reminder when you're about to post a picture without adding alt text. Alt text is crucial for accessibility, but has other perks too, such as making it much easier to search for your post—or filter it. Of course, the reminder can be simply toggled off in preferences.
Nice to see official publications taking note that the vast majority of us reject the terms "person with autism", "high-functioning", and "low-functioning". Those are harmful, and from our perspective, inaccurate.
I am an **Autistic person** with **low to moderate support needs**.
DNS is one of the critical building blocks of the internet and of the modern web. For the longest time the only way for Firefox to resolve a DNS domain was by using getaddrinfo.
@bagder we looked into c-ares as one alternative, but we'll probably go with a rust-based resolver like hickory-dns instead. It's not as mature but it raises fewer eyebrows when importing into Firefox 🙂
Ik laat Marieke De Hoon universitair hoofddocent internationaal strafrecht, hier achter met een fragment uit 📺 EenVandaag van 7 feb 2025… (slechts) 2️⃣ weken na de inauguratie.
Wil je begrijpen waarom soevereiniteit cruciaal is voor landen, organisaties en de manier waarop we verweven zijn met Big Tech? Klik op play. Of beter nog: stel jezelf de vraag wat er gebeurt als jouw organisatie maandag niet kan inloggen of deelnemen aan betalingen 🤔.
The Washington Post reported that the United Kingdom is demanding that Apple create an encryption backdoor to give the government access to end-to-end encrypted data in iCloud.
If Apple complies with this, the UK government will gain access to all iCloud data globally. The only way Apple comes out of this with any integrity is to leave the UK market. If they give in to this, every regime in the world will demand the same thing. And that’s before we even get to the fact that there’s no such thing as a “backdoor” for just so-and-so. Either there is a door or there isn’t and if there is, anyone who obtains the key can use it.
* Print(Notes): a cross-platform markdown notes app inspired by Google Keep and Obsidian * Scrcpy: mirror display and touch control between Android devices
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
@angrytux Yes. The version at F-Droid (note the different package name) is no longer maintained and won't receive updates anymore. It was maintained by DivestOS, which was shut down a few weeks ago. @asandikci
@distributed It would at least allow to switch it to the "less heavy" TetheredNet. Making the location configurable then (even if the Codeber URL would be pre-configured) would let us drop that as well (as everyone would be free to enter their own URL, like in a browser).
Oh? I just saw the Github URL in the source code, replacing the previous source. Hm. Can we agree on you changing that to Codeberg, and we drop the AF right now, to be doubly safe? Better to make sure to not rely too much on US resources nowadays (Github is owned by MS), you certainly agree 😉 @distributed
After generating Databases automatically with CI in both GitHub & Codeberg change default URL to Codeberg page and second one to GitHub pages as mirror this is a self-reminder
I'll change pre-configured Cloudflare mirror link to Codeberg page after I set up database files in codeberg too. But anyone can already enter any url to override @distributed
｢ The MP3 format, once the gold standard for digital audio files, is now free. The licensing and patents on MP3 encoders have expired, meaning you can now include them in your applications without paying royalties. For software developers and audio enthusiasts, this might seem like a big deal ｣
It mentions that a 19 y/o man who's assisting Musk's team and who has access to sensitive government systems is Edward Coristine. Wired said Coristine, who apparently goes by the nickname "Big Balls," runs a number of companies, including one called Tesla.Sexy LLC
"Tesla.Sexy controls dozens of web domains, including at least two Russian-registered domains. One of those domains, which is still active, offers a service called Helfie, which is an AI bot for Discord servers targeting the Russian market.While the operation of a Russian website would not violate US sanctions preventing Americans doing business with Russian companies, it could potentially be a factor in a security clearance review."
The really interesting part for me is Coristine's work history at a company called Path Networks, which Wired describes generously as a company "known for hiring reformed black-hat hackers."
"At Path Network, Coristine worked as a systems engineer from April to June of 2022, according to his now-deleted LinkedIn resume. Path has at times listed as employees Eric Taylor, also known as Cosmo the God, a well-known former cybercriminal and member of the hacker group UGNazis, as well as Matthew Flannery, an Australian convicted hacker whom police allege was a member of the hacker group LulzSec. It’s unclear whether Coristine worked at Path concurrently with those hackers, and WIRED found no evidence that either Coristine or other Path employees engaged in illegal activity while at the company."
The founder of Path is a young man named Marshal Webb. I wrote about Webb back in 2016, in a story about a DDoS defense company he co-founded called BackConnect LLC. Working with Doug Madory, we determined that BackConnect had a long history of hijacking Internet address space that it didn't own.
Incidentally, less than 24 hours after that story ran, my site KrebsOnSecurity.com was hit with the biggest DDoS attack the Internet had ever seen at the time. That sustained attack kept my site offline for nearly 4 days.
Here's the real story behind why Coristine only worked at Path for a few months. He was fired after Webb accused him of making it known that one of Path's employees was Curtis Gervais, a serial swatter from Canada who was convicted of perpetrating dozens of swattings and bomb threats -- including at least two attempts on our home in 2014. [BTW the aforementioned Eric Taylor was convicted of a separate (successful) swatting against our home in 2013.
In the screenshot here, we can see Webb replying to a message from Gervais stating that "Edward has been terminated for leaking internal information to the competitors."
Wired cited experts saying it's unlikely Coristine could have passed a security clearance needed to view the sensitive government information he now has access to.
Want to learn more about Path? Check out the website pathtruths.com/
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
Putting Parliament on hold for a leadership race prevents MPs from getting to work against an existential threat – and it’s the very definition of putting party before country
"Chen Yaozuo was a #Teochew prime minister & grand tutor of the crown prince of the #SongDynasty (960–1279) in the 11th century. Coming from a family of officials, he was a rising star at the start of his career, until he bravely, or some might say foolishly, answered a call of Emperor Zhenzong for open criticisms by submitting a memorial that spelt out the ills of the times, including matters that no one else dared to speak about. As a result, Chen Yaozuo was banished & demoted to become an assistant prefect in the Teochew prefecture. This happened in 998, almost 180 years after Han Yu of the Tang dynasty suffered a similar fate."
"....Chen Yaozuo was more of a problem-solver than Han Yu, and he knew this. At the same time, he sensed the Teochew people’s deep admiration for his fellow Confucian. Cleverly capitalising on this, Chen Yaozuo erected a shrine in honour of Han Yu and he used it to commence his own programme to promote education among what was still a backward population. In pursuit of this goal, the Sichuan native also set up a Confucian temple and places of learning, while identifying and encouraging able families to send their children to schools.
Chen Yaozuo left Teochew after three years of devoted service to its people. He subsequently revealed in an inscription presented to a study room in Zhangpu (a county in Fujian adjacent to Teochew prefecture) that his time in Teo-yor was passed without major worries, despite it being enveloped in miasma."
"Chen Yaozuo’s heart remained with the place even many years after his departure. His poem below, “A note to Registrar Li Zi in Chaoyang” (送潮陽李孜主簿), illustrates this:
潮陽山水東南奇 The mountains and waters of Chaoyang are a wonder of the Southeast 魚鹽城郭民熙熙 Fishing boats, salt beds, and people going in and out of the city form a merry sight 當時為撰玄聖碑 Back then I had to write inscriptions for the sages 而今風俗鄒魯為。 Today its customs are like Zou and Lu [i.e. the home countries of Mencius and Confucius]
#Chinese #historians credit Han Yu for starting what we may call a #revolution through #literacy in Teochew. Yet the extent of Chen Yaozuo’s tireless contributions towards this cause can be seen by its fruits. Before his arrival, the Teochew prefecture produced only three men who attained the status of jinshi, the highest scholarly title awarded by the Chinese imperial court since the late 6th century. By the end of Song, the records show more than 170 jinshi from Teochew, of whom about a third came from Teo-yor.
Beyond scholarly titles, the creation of an educated class sparked a golden age in Teochew with accelerated advancements in agriculture and industry that ended its days as a backwater."
History has a funny old way of repeating itself. Chen Yaozuo (陳堯佐) was a prime minister and grand tutor of the crown prince of the Song dynasty (960–1279) in the 11th century.
Meta torrented over 81.7TB of pirated books to train AI, authors say Meta's alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Missed FOSDEM, and you want to know how Matrix got where it is right now, where it succeeded, where it fell short, and what's remaining on the Road to Mainstream Matrix?
Matthew's Main Track Talk in Janson at FOSDEM 2025: The Road To Mainstream Matrix.(This Week in) Matrix🐘 https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix🤝 https://www.l...
Just got my hands on Ableton Move, absolutely outstanding piece of hardware! I'm still learning since it's literally day one of owning this thing, but I must say, this is a dream come true for me. I don't have much to share at the moment, but for anyone curious, this is my first WAV export. By the way, I'd like to thank @FreakyFwoof for the Let's Move video and all the work on Move accessibility, as well as @BorrisInABox for organizing the #Movuary hashtag.
Haa!!! I win, again! Again I win! Glad someone else is getting into it. Congratulations and welcome to the club. There is a #WhatsApp group for blind Move owners and accessibility queries if you wish to join.
Very very nice, I could see someone laying down a rap to that if it carried on. I sadly couldn't get the ableton move at Christmas, but I've added it to my 2025 new years resolution and to be more music producing to try to do this and stay active is hard as I'm doing things 7 days a week, but I'm determined to get back into it and not to let my previous feers come over me again. I have to stop thinking negativity and thing positivity, although I've been through some bad experiences I've had in the past regarding my producing and it's all come to 1 grinding halt and boom, I end up leaving my mac untouched for years and years and gathering dust, not to mention a BeatPad II DJ controler which was a christmas present in 2018! So #Let'sMove and good vibes all the way for 2025
Six times so far ... is how often important parts of #deltachat were independently #security audited and analyzed. Thanks to IncludeSecurity, Cure53, Applied Crypto Team at ETH Zuerich and Radical Open Security.
Last audit is from December 2024 covering @rpgp , the minimal #OpenPGP Rust library that is gaining traction with others projects as well. Shout-out to dignifiedquire and @hko for their excellent maintenance! For more info on Delta Chat related security audits: delta.chat/en/help#security-au…
What is Delta Chat? Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure messaging app, available for mobile and desktop platforms. Delta Chat feels like Whatsapp or Telegram but you can also use and...
I tried to find when #Signal has published the most recent #security audit, and it turns out they either never published an audit or their code was never audited at all.
The closest thing I found is the list community.signalusers.org/t/ov… which only cites research papers and some evidence that in 2018 Signal paid Doyensec, but nothing got published as the result. Even then, it looks like the apps were not audited for more than 5 years since then.
Let’s collect past security audits here: Formal audits Year Auditor(s) Sponsor App/Component Published Link Last update / extended 2013 iSEC Partners (NCC Group) Open Technology Fund RedPhone and TextSecure ❌ Blog post 2014 Frosch et al.
Role Reverser: a tiny utility that will replaces unsemantic HTML and ARIA roles with the simpler native HTML elements. By @lloydi a11y-tools.com/role-reverser/
Great points but no concrete suggestions. Organize how? Where? To be honest though, you need both, posting and organizing. Perhaps the world still remembers the "maidan" revolution in Ukraine? I hope we do and learn. Social media played a crucial role there. You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism 404media.co/you-cant-post-your…
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
WTF Mozilla? I'm hoping they just forgot to delete this verbiage from their terms of service, which suggests they are still working with the personal data removal service OneRep.
Last year, Mozilla said it was dropping its partnership with OneRep after a story I published showed its founder had created dozens of people-search services and was even running one of the larger ones whilst selling services to help people remove their information from these sites.
The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep, an identity protection service recently bundled with Firefox that offers to remove users from hundreds of people-search si…
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