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SUPER CREEPY

So there's some tech bro bed company called Eight Sleep. Like, a $2,000 bed with temperature controls and shit

Thing is, it has a backdoor in the firmware allowing Eight Sleep's engineers to *SSH into your fucking bed and run arbitrary code*

{insert various double entendre jokes here}

"They can know when you sleep

They can detect when there are 2 people sleeping in the bed instead of 1

They can know when it’s night, and no people are in the bed"

trufflesecurity.com/blog/remov…


Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co.

Eight Sleep smart bed found to contain an exposed AWS key and a likely backdoor that allowed engineers to remotely access users' beds
trufflesecurity.com
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Schön, was man so anlässlich dieses wahltages auf seinem Regal noch findet. Diese hier war mal ein geburtstagsgeschenk und wurde noch nie benutzt. Deshalb wohl etwas staubig. Im übrigen bin ich total verblüfft, wie gut die Kamera des Google Pixel 6 blinde Menschen beim aufnehmen von Fotos unterstützt. Da kommt keine der spezialisierten anderen Apps mit. Echt genial, das habe ich tatsächlich noch nie ausprobiert.
Das Bild zeigt eine schwarze Tasse mit weißen Sternen darauf, die auf einem braunen Tisch steht. Die Tasse hat einen weißen Henkel. Hinter der Tasse sieht man eine beigefarbene Wand.

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Fragile #Masculinity is Never Ever Satisfied

And as @adamconover eloquently explains, the “manly” antics of the tech bro oligarch class really aren't fooling anyone.

Performative masculinity—particularly its extreme form of fragile masculinity which inevitably leads to toxic masculinity—is tearing my country apart right now. Clearly we must to find healthier ways to reach and help young men.

At the same time…I kinda just want to deconstruct gender entirely? 😅

#blog 🔗 jaredwhite.com/20250222/fragil…

#blog #masculinity @Adam Conover

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It is very hard to accept, but it is no longer safe to move EU governments & societies to US clouds. Not only is it dangerous to do so, it is also likely flat out illegal in the near future. We're trading convenience for utter dependence on a mad king. It should stop.

berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-…


It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - Bert Hubert's writings

The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds.
Bert Hubert's writings
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I tested this mini PC that’s smaller (and cheaper) than the Mac mini M4 — and I’m impressed
"The Geekom A6 is a compact yet highly capable mini PC with excellent specs and a wide variety of ports for the price. It can get slightly noisy under load and its gaming performance is just okay, but that shouldn’t be a turnoff for this productivity-focused machine..."
tomsguide.com/computing/deskto…

I tested this mini PC that’s smaller (and cheaper) than the Mac mini M4 — and I’m impressed

The Geekom A6 is a powerful mini PC in a tiny aluminum case
Tom's Guide

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I am sitting in a cat tree
in the house where I am living.
I am waiting at the counter
for the man to give me breakfast.
And he doesn't seem to notice
that I'm hanging in the kitchen.
I need to get his attention
so that he knows that I am hungry.
[Chorus x2]
Meow meow meow meow
meow meow meow meow
meow meow meow meow
meow meow meow meow.
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I've finally done it. I've written an email to businesses I buy from that are still on #Shopify. This will be going out to them all.

If you have a monthly subscription to any product that's not through Amazon, it's probably hosted by Shopify. Dog food That's Shopify. Coffee? You guessed it. Toilet paper? Yep.

Will you join me in writing to small businesses and asking them to consider switching hosts?

I've shared my email template below, though yours may obviously be different.

#Antifascism

#shopify #antifascism
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Shouty person

Hi WGAC team,

First, I want to tell you I love your toilet paper. And I hope to continue buying it.

But here's the thing… I don't know if you're aware of what Shopify senior management team has been up to. They've aligned themselves with fascists.
theglobeandmail.com/business/a…

>>>

#Shopify #Antifascism


Shopify CEO Lütke says Canada’s tariff response ‘the wrong choice’

Lütke appeared to take at face value Trump’s insistence that he is punishing the country with tariffs because of lax border controls and fentanyl smuggling
Joe Castaldo (The Globe and Mail)
#shopify #antifascism
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Shouty person

As a fellow small business owner with a Shopify store, I've made the commitment to move my business away from Shopify. It's going to take me hundreds of hours to redevelop entire site and recreate all my integrations. But it's the right thing to do.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them. Shopify's senior management team has made it clear who they are. I believe them.

>>>
#Shopify #Antifascism

#shopify #antifascism
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Sunday surprise!

A friend of mine found an old email from me dated January 17 1997

Attached in this mail was the #httpget 0.2 source code. Previously believed to be lost, now the oldest httpget code I have.

165 lines long. 110 lines code, 30 lines comments, 25 blank lines.

This morning, #curl was 174,854 lines of code, not counting blank lines but comments.

1248 times larger over 28 years.

#curl #httpget

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borgmatic 1.9.11 has been released with Docker/Podman/KeePassXC secrets integration, more selective ZFS/Btrfs/LVM filesystem snapshotting, and encryption passphrase security improvements.

Release notes: projects.torsion.org/borgmatic…

#borgmatic #borgbackup #backup


borgmatic

Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations
projects.torsion.org
#backup #borgbackup #borgmatic

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Meta cancelling professional factchecking in favor of community notes is causing worry in West Africa, where online disinfo has led to community violence and death: globalvoices.org/2025/02/21/th… - Great Global Voices coverage. (Also I love that we can toggle between original quotes and translation - great for me as a French language learner.)

The impact on the African continent of Meta scrapping its fact-checking program

The removal of fact-checking on Meta, the social media platform, will have a significant impact on the work of professionals committed to combating disinformation and false information.
Global Voices

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Here I am, sampling some Surge XT patches I've made in the past approximately eleven days. For each one, Eloquence announces the name, I play A above middle C (A440), play a little sample tune, then bang around on the keyboard. I'm using the on-screen keyboard since I don't have a real music keyboard hooked up. These aren't all perfect in terms of what their names claim them to be, but this thing is so fun to play with! The names of the patches I demo are:
Cheap Grandfather Clock
Federal Signal Thing
Filtered VL1 Thing
Muffled Piano Thing
NewTone Doorbell
NewTone LB55 Doorbell
Out of Tune VL1 Piano
Square Piano
Square Pops
Sustained Square
Vibe Thing
VL1 Thing

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One thing I don't like about #Signal is that it only supports one mobile device per account. I know they want to make it easy for the average user. But for someone who has two phones, it's very limiting.

That's why I prefer #Matrix. Adding another device and decrypting all existing messages doesn't even feel so clunky anymore.

#InstantMessaging #SignalApp #MatrixChat

#matrix #signal #signalapp #instantmessaging #matrixchat
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Petr Hercík

It's not like that, look at signal.org/blog/a-synchronized… I normally use 3 devices.

A Synchronized Start for Linked Devices

With Signal on Desktop and iPad, you can link your primary Android or iOS account with another device, letting you check and respond to messages in both places or conduct video meetings and calls from the comfort of a bigger screen.
Signal Messenger
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Tamas G

@cachondo what I also liked on Mac OS is that if you were in a folder of audio files, you could press right arrow to preview the next one. (same with images, I'd guess.) Not sure if this Windows one supports that as exactly, but my other concern would probably be memory footprint (depending on what it uses to run in background.) Neat idea, though. You bet MS will copy it for Windows 12 and just say it's a new OS feature that came out of Mac (which they won't admit.)
@Sean Randall
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Tamas G

@cachondo Can't believe the Assets button now on the release page for GitHub just reads, "button expanded Collapse." Whoever had that bright idea there. It's great though, at first I thought this will be just only through the Windows store, but good to know there's an entire GitHub page for it: github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook/ (perhaps someone will be able to get in touch with the developer for any accessibility concerns)

GitHub - QL-Win/QuickLook: Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows

Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows. Contribute to QL-Win/QuickLook development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
@Sean Randall
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Tamas G

@cachondo @alexchapman lol yeah, I think winget does that for visual symbol statuses (it also may be that it's changing to show progress visually, we just can't tell with screen readers.) Super happy with this now, once I messed around with the view radio button controls I am able to get arrowing to work to play sequential audio files in a folder, not sure why that fixed it. It throws me off that no window is shown for the quick look panel, though.
@Sean Randall @Alex Chapman
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Tamas G

ah darn. sadly, no right-arrowing through a file list to play them as you scroll one into view. Would be a nice addition to this, otherwise it's perfect. Looks like right now you have to pause what's playing (or stop it, I guess) and then hit space again to play that file. On Mac OS that's just a lot nicer when going through a large list.
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miki

@cachondo There's so much interesting stuff like this that you could do with a blind-first file explorer tool. Audio icons for file extensions, maybe even super quiet audio thumbnails, previews for audio and text, keyboard shortcuts to quickly check modification dates and file sizes etc. With a bit of musically-inspired design, you could probably even do some compact audio representation of file attributes.
@Sean Randall

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Been watching the latest podcast from The Linux Cast about Linux myths via the Pipeline app. Yeah, heard more than a few of those myths before, and all them were busted by the hosts. youtube.com/watch?v=rAQoCEn7d_… #TheLinuxCast #LinuxMyths #podcast

The Biggest Myths About Linux

The boys are back! This time we discuss the biggest myths about Linux.==== Special Thanks to Our Patrons! ====https://thelinuxcast.org/patrons/===== Follow ...
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#podcast #thelinuxcast #linuxmyths
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#Merz sagt, er "werde Politik für die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung machen, die gerade denke und 'alle Tassen im Schrank' habe".

Sag doch gleich "Deutschland, aber normal", wie es die Faschos sagen, mit denen Du regieren wirst, sobald die schwache Koalition bricht, die aus der heutigen Wahl entsteht.
spiegel.de/politik/spd-spitze-…


Umstrittener Wahlkampfauftritt: Merz schießt gegen links – SPD-Spitze wirft Unionskandidat Spaltung vor

Bei seinem letzten Auftritt vor der Wahl hat Unionskanzlerkandidat Friedrich Merz die politische Konkurrenz als »grüne und linke Spinner« verunglimpft – und erntet dafür nun seinerseits harsche Kritik.
DER SPIEGEL
#merz

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Apple ha affermato che "non può più" offrire la crittografia end-to-end di iCloud nel Regno Unito e ha disattivato l'opzione per abilitarla per i nuovi utenti nel Paese.

Questa mossa senza precedenti arriva dopo che il governo britannico ha richiesto un accesso secondario al servizio cloud di Apple.

Gli utenti che hanno già attivato il servizio, denominato Advanced Data Protection, dovranno disattivarlo a breve, ha affermato l'azienda.

techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/appl…

@Etica Digitale (Feddit)


Apple pulls iCloud end-to-end encryption feature for UK users after government demanded backdoor | TechCrunch

In an unprecedented step, Apple caved to a reported U.K. government’s demand to prevent users from using end-to-end encryption in iCloud.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
@Etica Digitale (Feddit)

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Interview: "Federal workers are staging mass protests to Save Our Services"

“They’re trying to immiserate the working class, & they’re doing it through the federal workforce.

"It’s about gutting the services that create a safety net... because the more miserable we are, the easier it is for them to exploit us.

“The whole public sphere is at stake.”

~Chris Dols

democracynow.org/2025/2/20/dog…

#USPol #SaveOurServices #Trump #Musk #Oligarchy #GeneralStrikeNow #ResistFascism .


“Grand Theft Government”: Federal Workers Send SOS over Musk-Led Mass Firings, Service Cuts

Amid the indiscriminate dismantling of the federal government by the Trump administration’s Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, federal workers, thousands of whom could lose their jobs, are fighting back.
Democracy Now!
#Trump #uspol #musk #oligarchy #saveourservices #generalstrikenow #resistfascism

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Alina Habba, who is ostensibly a lawyer, claims on Fox & Friends that Trump "made the law" with his executive orders (executive orders are not laws -- only Congress can make laws)

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🔐 Vaultwarden – bezpečný správce hesel na OSCloud

🔹 Co to je?
Vaultwarden je open-source alternativa ke správci hesel Bitwarden. Umožňuje bezpečně ukládat, spravovat a sdílet hesla bez závislosti na komerčních službách. 🔑

🔹 Proč ho používat?
✅ End-to-end šifrování pro maximální bezpečnost 🔒
✅ Synchronizace hesel mezi zařízeními 📱💻

🚀 Více informací: docs.oscloud.cz/apps/vaultwarden/
#OSCloud #OpenSource #Privacy

#opensource #privacy #oscloud

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The Critical Role of Born-Accessible Content in Academic Publishing inclusivepublishing.org/blog/t…

The Critical Role of Born-Accessible Content in Academic Publishing  - Inclusive Publishing

Picture a doctoral student with low vision trying to make sense of a crucial research paper. The screen reader stumbles over poorly formatted equations. […]
Sarah Hilderley (Inclusive Publishing)

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I recieved some interesting news today about the Blind Geek Zone website that I closed last year. Apparently Sam Tupy was able to retrieve most of the audio files and pages from the site before it's demise. He's offered to put the site up so that others can get to everything once again and I plan on letting him do that. I'm very happy that someone was able to recover things as unfortunately I was not. Basically it's of only historical value but I thought it was very nice of him to contact me.
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🤯 OMG! Someone just posted on Reddit bragging how he fed 13 MILLION records to Gemini to clean up. What records? "mostly dead scrambled data institutions, college, student records, course materials, research datasets. Used Gemini for cleaning, deduping, and organizing. Super useful for universities, EdTech, and students handling large study resources." #FERPA #Privacy #HigherEd #EdTech #Google #Gemini reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/commen…
#gemini #google #privacy #edtech #highered #ferpa

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Here's something @jaybird110127 will probably appreciate.

I recorded the alarm of my vintage Sharp CT-661G talking alarm clock with an EM pickup coil, and noticed that it has substantial aliasing.
I put a high pass filter at 12 kHz on the audio, so that only the aliasing is audible, then ran it through a band shifter effect in Reaper a couple of times. The result is rather interesting.


@Jayson Smith

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