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Don't EVER tell me public pressure doesn't work

Yet another reversal:

" #Trump administration reinstates funds for lawyers representing 26,000 children in immigration court, days after halting it with little explanation.

👉🏼The decision came after supporters flooded Congress members with letters of support👈🏼, but advocates still worry the program may eventually lose funding..."

latimes.com/california/story/2…


Funding restored to lawyers representing 26,000 children in immigration court

Trump administration reverses itself on a program providing lawyers for 4,000 migrant children in immigration court.
Rachel Uranga (Los Angeles Times)
#Trump

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Recently, I shared about the devastating, life-sapping experience of losing custody of my 6-yr-old, who I haven't seen in >3 years. Being erased from her life is a great tragedy for me and for an innocent kid being deprived of a loving, present dad. Racism constantly creates generational trauma.

I've found a lawyer I trust to help reunite us. I’ll need $3k for the retainer and quite a bit more to go the distance. THANK YOU for your support!

paypal.me/nullagent
cashapp/venmo: nullagent

A tiny human looks at her dad while he relaxes on the couch

Zaplaťte uživateli Alan Meekins pomocí služby PayPal.Me

Přejděte na adresu paypal.me/nullagent a zadejte částku. Protože jde o PayPal, je to jednoduché a bezpečné. Nemáte účet PayPal? Nevadí.
PayPal.Me

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ChatGPT's weekly user base has exceeded the entire US population
https://www.androidauthority.com/openai-400-million-users-3528849/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

ChatGPT's weekly user base has exceeded the entire US population - Android Authority

ChatGPT has crossed 400 million weekly users, marking a 33% increase in just three months despite rising AI competition.
Rushil Agrawal (Android Authority)

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Just posted on Six Colors: New visionOS beta adds Apple Intelligence, Spatial Gallery, iOS apps

sixcolors.com/post/2025/02/new…


New visionOS beta adds Apple Intelligence, Spatial Gallery, iOS apps

During its first year of existence, the Vision Pro kept getting better, adding spatial personas, an extended Mac Virtual Display, and a raft of quality-of-life updates with visionOS 2.0. I’m …
Six Colors

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With the Amazon Appstore shutting down, it's becoming even more important to invest in sustainable alternative stores you can trust.

See how you can invest in Accrescent's future! A little help goes a long way:

accrescent.app/faq#contributin…

More information on the Amazon Appstore discontinuation on Android:

amazon.com/appstoreonandroidFA…

#privacy #security #appstore #accrescent #android


Accrescent Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to frequently asked questions about Accrescent.
Accrescent
#android #privacy #security #AppStore #accrescent
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Accrescent

@eskuero We appreciate you mentioning this. Unfortunately, we don't currently have the capacity to develop and maintain official documentation for how to run Accrescent independently. It would also be very difficult for a third party to keep up with running Accrescent right now since the backend is constantly changing and often requires manual intervention to update which requires special knowledge of how Accrescent works.

We may consider supporting documentation once Accrescent is more stable.

@Eskuero
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Light

Why can't certificates and keys be hashed and included in the third-party URL?
Why can't Accrescent have a feature to restrict third-party repo app installs via a corporate management thingy?
After all, you'd probably want to allow orgs to restrict the installation of certain app that are in the main Accrescent repo, right? Or am I misunderstanding how corporate security features work?
@eskuero
@Eskuero
in reply to Light

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Accrescent

@light @eskuero It would be complex to allow adding pinned certificates since that wouldn't be using the standard Android network security configuration. But the TLS certificate pinning concern is currently obsolete since Accrescent doesn't have TLS certificate pinning since version 0.19.0.

Accrescent could have a management feature like that. However, that doesn't resolve some of the other issues with third-party repositories not listed on the website. For example, unattended updates aren't guaranteed if the store doesn't enforce a sufficiently high minimum target SDK. It's also not Accrescent's goal to be a generic app installer for any source, but instead an independent app store.

That section of the website is outdated and should be updated to reflect the above.

@Eskuero @Light

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Apple withdrawing ADP from its UK iCloud service was inevitable, and is a serious wake up call for the UK government.

While the UK government may have had good intentions, trying to undermine E2EE has backfired catastrophically.

No way Apple would capitulate and sabotage the privacy of its service globally.

As 70 years of geopolitical stability fractures, the UK is weakening the nation’s cyber defences through its flawed obsession with blanket surveillance.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli…


Government has made UK user data ‘less secure’ with Apple row – experts

Cybersecurity experts say the tech giant’s decision would leave UK users more at risk of having their data accessed.
Martyn Landi (The Independent)

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New iOS #SwiftUI Videos #a11y technique and documentation waiting for review in the App Store.

Docs: github.com/cvs-health/ios-swif…

Good videos example showing VoiceOver reads a .accessibilityLabel for the video container and a .accessibilityHint to double-tap to play and show controls.

ios-swiftui-accessibility-techniques/iOSswiftUIa11yTechniques/Documentation/Videos.md at main · cvs-health/ios-swiftui-accessibility-techniques

Demonstrates iOS SwiftUI Accessibility programming techniques using live good and bad examples that can be tested with VoiceOver and other AT. Includes documentation for developers explaining how t...
GitHub
#a11y #swiftui

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For my latest piece at Curb Cuts, I wrote about this week’s new iPhone 16e.

Please read and share!

curbcuts.co/blog/apples-newest…

Apple’s Newest Budget Phone Brings Accessibility in more ways than one

Apple this week announced the iPhone 16e . The company put out a press release on it , but it also posted a video to YouTube . I chose to indulge in the latter medium for entertainment value.
Steven Aquino (Curb Cuts)

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Stress test my new Fediverse server. Boost this post unnecessarily.

Edit:
Let's add some links to websites it hosts!

julietmerida.comke8urj.net
Edit 2: Y'all are gonna need to try harder.

Edit 3: Still holding up pretty well, even with how hard y'all are trying! This is a little Beelink mini PC I got for $12 when Amazon sent me the wrong item and wanted me to pay to send it back, hosted on a home fiber connection. The jump in processor power really cut Sharkey's response times and lets my reverse proxy Traefik keep up way better. I think it was HTTPS on a 12+ year old Intel desktop chip that was really doing it in.

htop output for Julie's fedi server. It's showing all 8 cores not doing much and only about 2GB of RAM used.

Juliet Merida - Forest Princess and/or Woodland Elf

julietmerida.com

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Jiří Eischmann

@JamesHeather já jsem zatím zkoušel Revolut, KB, Air Bank a Fio a všechny fungují. Jen jsem narazil na problém, že při ověření přihlášení z nové aplikace přes QR kód, to QR kód z druhého telefonu nebralo. Nevím proč, tomu jsem ještě nepřišel na kloub.
@archos používá GOS už dlouho, ten bude mít ohledně bankovních aplikací jistě víc zkušeností.
@Archos @JamesHeather
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Peter Vágner

@JamesHeather @Jiří Eischmann George slovenskej sporiteľne kontroluje, či bol inštalovaný z Google play, tipujem, že v českej sporiteľni to bude podobné.
Môj postup je stiahnuť cez aurora store, rozbaliť do /data/local/tmp a inštalovať nejako takto cez terminál priamo na zariadení:
export instid=`pm install-create -i com.android.vending|sed "s|Success: created install session||g;s|\[||g;s|\]||g"`
for f in `echo -n $@`;do
export size=`wc -c $f|cut -f 1 -d \  `
export spname=`echo $f||sed "s|.apk||g"`
cat $f|pm install-write -S $size $instid $spname -
done
pm install-commit $instid
@JamesHeather @Jiří Eischmann
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Jiří Eischmann

@trilobyte yes, it's primarily privacy and security hardening. It seems to be more thoroughly de-Googled than LineageOS. Yet everything (except for Google Pay) just works without installing anything from Google.
You can find a good comparison here:
eylenburg.github.io/android_co…

Comparison of Android-based Operating Systems

eylenburg.github.io
@Lukáš Kotek
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Lukáš Kotek

Thanks for the comparison, it is interesting Android Auto is supported. To add some context: Currently I am running Xperia 10 IV, but its support ends in half a year. It is possible to "officially" build own AOSP for it (because of Sony Open Devices), but I am not quite happy about the idea of maintaining it. Anyway, I will need to deal with the situation and I don't like the idea of creating more e-waste with buying new phone, so buying something older could be the way...
in reply to 𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"

I am 47 years old. I have seen more Nazi salutes in the last 30 days than I have ever seen before in my entire lifetime. This isn't an accident. It isn't mental illness. And it sure as shit isn't funny. This is intentional. When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement.

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Koketuju s myšlenkou, že by se mi na #VHSky líbilo mít nějaký živý #rádio, který by třeba místo videa mělo jen "now listening", nebo něco podobnýho (případně při podcastech třeba livestream ze studia) .. tak jsem při hledání po internetech hledal, jak fungujou komunitní rádia a objevil studentský #RádioR s licencí CC-BY-SA

Jde tenhle můj myšlenkovej průjem nějak přetvořit v něco hmotnýho, nebo je to jen kravina? :)

radio-r.cz/


Radio R – Největší studentské rádio ve Střední Evropě.

Poslechni si živé vysílání, přečti si naše články nebo si pusť naše podcasty. To vše na jednom místě.
radio-r.cz
#radio #vhsky #RádioR

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Is it possible to write advanced theming #CSS with context-aware conditional code? As if()! 😉

@chriskirknielsen shows us a glimpse of what's possible—just in Chrome Canary right now behind a flag, but here's hoping it gains ground soon.

On a related note, us #WebDev folks are eagerly awaiting container style queries in Firefox! Can it happen please pretty please with sugar on top??

thathtml.blog/2025/02/hot-off-…


Hot Off the Press Examples of CSS if()

Taking context-aware theming to a whole new level…one day.
That HTML Blog
#webdev #css @Christopher Kirk-Nielsen

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Someone somewhere is not handling a null value correctly... :neofox_flop:

(this is daily pageview data for the Null page on the English Wikipedia)

#Wikipedia

A graph from around 6th February 2025 to the 20th February 2025 showing values steady around 10,00 between the 6th to 12th, and then suddenly increasing between the 13th and 20th to around 400,000

Wikimedia disambiguation page

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#wikipedia
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Today in "Oh my word, fuck you":

Oh my word, fuck you HP

EDIT: They have already rescinded the policy, lol. See first comment.

'HP Inc is trying to force consumer PC and print customers to use online and other digital support channels by setting a minimum 15-minute wait time for anyone that phones the call center to get answers to troublesome queries.'

theregister.com/2025/02/20/hp_…


HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls

Longer wait time designed to push print or PC consumers to digital support channels, sorry, 'self-solve'
Paul Kunert (The Register)
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AI6YR Ben

@mattblaze It's such a shame, the company was very progressive, and ahead of its time. I remember reading HP Research papers in the 90's about how to make more easily recycled or upgradable computers, in order to minimize electronic waste. Also a lot of early literature about good corporate governance, etc. in business school studies, etc. Amazing to see them fall so far.
@Matt Blaze
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AI6YR Ben

So, what people don't realize is that "HP" is no longer HP anymore. It is now run by some kind of metastasized parasitic organism that has only one goal, which is to extract as much money as possible out of its "customers" who don't realize it's become a giant parasite, thinking it's a "trusted brand" (which it once was). Sad to see it. Never buy anything from that company, NEVER.

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To take stock of things here in Ontario...

Under Doug Ford’s leadership the province is in decline.

Transit is awful. Housing is impossible. Healthcare is broken to the point of being completely inaccessible for many Ontarians.

His government has presided over scandals and grifts, and has attracted an RCMP investigation into the Greenbelt scandal.

But we got $200 cheques, a premier in a fun hat, and can buy beer at the gas station now, so it’s all good.

#onpoli

A graphic from 338 Canada showing a considerable lead for Doug Ford’s PC party in the province.
#onpoli

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Well hot damn, my Steve scammer is back. Same first 2 messages, a third "You didn't reply to me, so I'm guessing you don't know me," followed by a pic and "Remember me?"

I'm going out on a tenuous limb here and suspecting that, no, I don't in fact know this person.

As an aside, any #blind folks know how to accessibly find a Matrix ID in @element? At the very least I want to find if this person is coming through a bridge, then shut that down if needed.

And this is why Element accessibility is important. When I review the interface, I see what look like a ton of noisy stale ARIA announcements hanging around at the bottom of the interface, making it very hard to do the "move to the bottom to find if new interface elements were added to the DOM" trick. It's not just an inconvenient annoyance. It makes defending against potential pig butchering and other scam attempts much harder. How can I feel confident on a network if I can't safely use its flagship client?

#blind @Element
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Nolan Darilek

Found it, thanks!

Fractal seemed pretty simple when I used it last. In particular, it didn't seem to have support for spaces, which was rough since I'm in lots of rooms, many of them with similar names like "General". :) Did I miss something? I guess it'll work in a pinch, but I'd eventually like to use Matrix for voice and such so really wish a more full-featured client was accessible.

Either way, thanks for the tip.

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BREAKING: It's been only ten days since we warned about this...

#Apple has removed its end-to-end #encryption (Advanced Data Protection) in the #UK after the government demanded a #backdoor.

📢 Fight for privacy! #PrivacyMatters #NoBackdoors

🔗 bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

mastodon.social/@Tutanota/1139…

Tuta

2025-02-11 14:35:28

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🚨🚨🚨 Apple to backdoor encryption? Round 2 - and this time the UK is trying to get your data.

Let's fight back against any attempt to #backdoor #encryption! 💪 🔒

More info ➡️ tuta.com/blog/uk-demands-apple…

United Kingdom flag boxing fists with the Apple Logo.

Apple to backdoor encryption? Round 2 | Tuta

UK demands Apple to backdoor encryption similar to what the FBI asked ten years ago. Will Apple stay strong?
Tuta

#apple #encryption #uk #privacymatters #backdoor #nobackdoors

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