Apple's 2025 is about to get busy with impending product launches, and new leaked info suggests some news big and small will be shared over the next week, which culminates in the iPhone SE 4 launch.

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Apple Vision Pro, iPhone SE 4, & smaller announcements in coming days

Apple's 2025 is about to get busy with impending product launches, and new leaked info suggests some news big and small will be shared over the next week, which culminates in the iPhone SE 4 launch.

^{Wesley Hilliard (AppleInsider)}

Databroker Files: Im Dschungel der Datenhändler
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Wie #Apps uns ausspionieren, und "Datenreichtum" geschaffen wird (halt nicht bei uns)

#privacy

Databroker Files: Im Dschungel der Datenhändler

In Massen verkaufen Databroker Handy-Daten von Millionen Menschen, darunter genaue Standorte. Warum sprudeln die Daten immer weiter? Mit internationalen Recherche-Partnern decken wir ein raffiniertes System auf, in dem die Beteiligten die Verantwortu…

^{netzpolitik.org}

Hola Fediverso.

¿Alguien entiende de monedas antiguas (numismática)?

Tengo una colección de monedas que herede de mi abuelo hace años y hoy me ha dado por mirarlas pero no sé si tienen algún valor. Entre los cientos de monedas hay un montón de 5 pesetas de finales de siglo XIX.

Agradezco un repost por si llegase a alguien que pueda ayudarme o decirme dónde pueden ayudarme.

(VER IMAGEN)

Thanks @bagder for providing the Firefox ca bundle publicly in an accessible way here: curl.se/docs/caextract.html

Extra kudos for the appropriate curl command-line to automatically download the latest version!

#curl

The video of mine and @hpk talk at @fosdem is now published. We tell the story of @delta from 2017 and up to now. If you're eager to learn how to replace billionaires with a zip-file, the answer is in the video! Hope you enjoy

ftp.fau.de/fosdem/2025/k4601/f…

Danish citizens have launched an online petition, signed by 200,000 people, to purchase California. The petition notes that purchasing the Golden State would provide Danes with more sunshine, dominance in the tech industry, limitless avocado toast, and easy access to Disneyland. In return, California would get the rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.

Can they buy Wisconsin, please? I'd take that offer! 😆

ktla.com/news/california/thous…

-= We hoped we never had to do this but here we are and we now have to do this. =-

American trans humans are under threat and like in 1930s Germany, they now have to GTFO of their home country.

We have decided we need to collect some information on the possible ways out.

So we made a wiki.

We are collecting information on possible exit routes into various countries. We focus on work, study and self employment visas as they are available at the moment.

transworldexpress.org/

The Braille Institute created a font designed to make reading easier for people with low vision called Atkinson Hyperlegible in 2019.

It just released an update (Atkinson Hyperlegible Next) and monospace version with enhanced characters, 7 weights, and variable weight.

They’re free for personal and commercial use.

brailleinstitute.org/freefont/…

#a11y

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute

Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!

^{Braille Institute}

I’ll be doing this with every Google account I own today.

Join me? calckey.world/notes/a43gdi11p9

Rudie V. (@thegardendude)

Google changed the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. It would be just a total shame if we all flooded Google with feedback telling them the Gulf is labeled incorrectly. Open Google Maps, zoom out and center on the Gulf of Mexico.

^{Calckey.world}

Travel agents say Canadians are cancelling U.S. trips amid tariff threats

cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col…

Apple now lets users migrate their purchases between different Apple accounts, but the feature isn't available to users in the EU, UK, or India (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

macrumors.com/2025/02/11/apple…
techmeme.com/250211/p43#a25021…

Apple Now Lets You Move Digital Purchases From One Apple Account to Another

If you have two Apple Accounts with multiple digital purchases between them, Apple now has a way for you to consolidate the accounts by migrating...

^{Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)}

ProPublica has identified nine additional Musk-affiliated staffers. A former staffer at Boring Company now has an official role at DOGE in the Executive Office of the President. A former X employee now works in the General Services Administration.

propublica.org/article/elon-mu…

#News #ElonMusk #DOGE #Government #USPolitics #Trump

ProPublica Confirms Additional Staffers Helping Elon Musk and DOGE Dismantle U.S. Agencies

Musk and his lieutenants are reshaping the government and its mission with the blessing of President Trump. ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 staffers affiliated with the billionaire.

^ProPublica

Even herhalen.

De Golf Of Mastodon.

New and only on Assigned Media: Wikipedia editor Pax Ahimsa Gethen writes about transphobic harassment, defacement, and attempts to turn Wikipedia into a source of anti-trans disinformation, and of the determination of trans editors to preserve the site as a vital source of unbiased, truthful info.

On Trans Issues, Wikipedia is ...

On Trans Issues, Wikipedia is a Bulwark Against Disinformation

In the wake of the anti-trans legislation by the Trump Administration, Wikipedia stands as a reliable source for information on trans topics.

^Assigned

@Ernesto Wong García estaba pensando en hacer algo así para los hashtags, a ver... ¿qué te parece?

Se va a poder hacer clic en cada elemento (por ej. "linux" aquí) y abrir la corresponde pantalla con todos los post que contienen el hashtag seleccionado.

@RaccoonForFriendica

Last night I finished a book I read for a reason that did not give me particularly high expectations: the author is a friend of my wife. I knew knew that she (the author) liked Babylon 5, so at least she had good taste.

To my surprise, I found myself really enjoying it. There are a couple of places where the writing is clunky but the characters were interesting and the story was engaging. I’m very much looking forward to the sequel (due this year).

If you enjoy low-stakes science fiction mysteries, I can thoroughly recommend Artificial Selection by Marianne Pickles. I will try to avoid spoilers, but if you hate people putting machine learning in totally inappropriate places, there is a two-page rant about 3/4 of the way through that you’ll enjoy (I did!).

Books - Marianne Pickles

Learn about Marianne Pickles's work-in-progress novel, a science fiction mystery set in a future when the climate crisis is history.

^{Marianne Pickles}

Interested to take a little tour through how #deltachat apps and the #rustlang core library are wired together?

@treefit and @WofWca provide a deep-dive into the history of apps migrating from a C-Foreign-Function-Interface to a #Rust based JSON-RPC mechanism, with entertaining horror stories like how an iOS release some years ago could delete profiles without the user intending it 😬

The post also highlights a few areas where folks interested to help could start ... delta.chat/en/2025-02-11-why-j…

Delta Chat: From C- to JSON-based APIs of the Rust

Foremost this is a quite technical post. Read our other blog posts if you want something more targeted at end users. If you have not yet looked at the Delta Chat source code, you might not know tha...

^delta.chat

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ghod I legit cannot imagine embarrassing myself like this. like it or lump it, proficiency in both official languages is table stakes in this game.

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Débat du PLC en français | Pas d’interprète pour la candidate Ruby Dhalla

Le Parti libéral du Canada (PLC) n’a pas l’intention de fournir les services d’un interprète à la candidate Ruby Dhalla lors du débat en français.

^{La Presse}

So I finally turned a recent popular post here into a proper story.

Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’

Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today’s story explores, the DOGE teen is a former denizen of ‘The Com,’ an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration.

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/te…

Il Garante della #privacy ha sanzionato E.ON per trattamento illecito dei #dati personali. In un caso "è stato dimostrato che l’azienda non verificava la legittimità della provenienza dei dati usati per le sue campagne pubblicitarie".

ilpost.it/2025/01/31/garante-p…

Il Garante della privacy ha multato di 890mila euro l’azienda energetica E.ON per trattamento illecito dei dati personali dei clienti

^{Il Post}

Iteration is the cornerstone of good design, but sometimes things go out of hand :) I'm really happy we finally rolled out the new gnome.org

I'm now convinced using the GHC* framework will enable us to focus on updating the content rather than the framework/infrastructure. Thank you everyone involved in making this happen!

* gitlab, HTML, CSS.

GNOME

An easy and elegant way to use your computer

^{www.gnome.org}