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A new version of MapComplete is out. v0.50 has a few nice updates:

- A quickswitcher on the index page with your recently visited themes
- Housenumbers in the basestyle (thanks @protomaps )
- Map labels on the basestyle are translated (thanks @protomaps )
- AED-theme: cleanup of the icons, more filters (thanks @midgard )
- Update to the NSI
- Update to the (quite new) scouting groups theme
- Many, many bug fixes and small UI improvements

Test it on mapcomplete.org

A bunch of icons, each representing a thematic map on Mapcomplete. The title above says "recently visited themes"

MapComplete - editable, thematic maps with OpenStreetMap

MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.
mapcomplete.org
@Midgard @protomaps
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Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer with an intimate style, dies at 88
https://apnews.com/article/roberta-flack-dies-61ad9755cc7b4f37b29884adc49c9340?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Roberta Flack dies at 88

Roberta Flack has died at 88. The Grammy-winning singer and pianist was known for her intimate vocal and musical style on “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and other hits.
Hillel Italie (AP News)
@entertainment-AssociatedPress

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If you’re an individual who is blind or has low vision facing #accessibility challenges in your daily life—whether at work, online, or in everyday experiences—the ACB Accessibility and Training Services program is here to help! We can work with you to understand your accessibility challenges and the best approach to resolving them. Email us at accessibility@acb.org or visit acb.org/accessibility to get in touch.
Graphic of the ACB logo on a purple background with the text “Accessibility & Training Services” below. At the bottom of the graphic is the webpage address: acb.org/accessibility.

Accessibility and Training Services | American Council of the Blind

www.acb.org
#Accessibility

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Flaw found in stalkerware apps, exposing millions of people. Here's how to find out if your phone is being spied upon.

bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hot…


Flaw found in stalkerware apps, exposing millions of people. Here's how to find out if your phone is being spied upon

A serious security vulnerability has been found in popular stalkerware apps, exposing the sensitive personal information and communications of millions of people.
Hot for Security

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HEAD’S UP: Do not allow browser notifications at dodgy sites!

My daughter was on my computer, using Microsoft Edge, was visiting one of her fansites, and she allowed a dodgy pop-up notification.

This resulted in Edge sending pop-up notifications to the notification bar that kept saying my computer had a virus. No matter how many times I clicked it to go away, the pop-up would keep appearing. And each time I clicked on it, it would take me to a dodgy site urging me to download “anti-virus software”.

So I did an anti-virus scan to see if there was a virus. No viruses detected. Turns out, after additional troubleshooting, I discovered there was not virus. It was just a browser notification. By turning off that notification, the pop-up finally went away.

I had a long talk with my daughter about not clicking everything she sees, and I think this is a lesson everyone should learn.

Attached image is that annoying pop-up. And by the way, Microsoft, allowing browser notifications to appear in the system notification bar is beyond stupid!

Virus detected notification
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Harry Potter fanfiction

Sensitive content

in reply to Kevin R Jones

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Sean Randall

Harry Potter fanfiction

Sensitive content

@Kevin R Jones @Andre Louis

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There are some serious reasons why you still need to be on Meta platforms: it's your last link to family members, or your support system, or you live in a small town.

I wrote about how to stay on while limiting Meta's ability to surveil you or use your information against you.

tl;dr Boring users, who don't generate clicks or behavioral data, are unprofitable users.

buttondown.com/practicaltips/a…


How to grey-rock Meta

(This post is structured like one of those recipes where you might not care about the preamble because you came here to make the damn thing. The operational...
Practical Tips
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As Facebook Abandons Fact-Checking, It’s Also Offering Bonuses for Viral Content
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Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed.
propublica.org/article/faceboo…

#News #Facebook #Meta #Zuckerberg #Tech #Technology


Facebook Boosts Viral Content as It Drops Fact-Checking

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#facebook #technology #News #tech #meta #zuckerberg

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this video was going to be made public at some point ... but as this seems to have stalled (and there's really no financial incentive anymore that the conf can gain from keeping this 16 month old video under lock and key) ... here's the recording of my (then) updated talk "These (still) aren't the SCs you're looking for..." from 19 October 2023 / #a11yTO / Toronto youtube.com/watch?v=ADIgU53Y2R… #a11y #wcag #barrierefreiheit #accessibility

Patrick H. Lauke - These (still) aren't the SCs you're looking for / a11yTO 2023 / 19 October 2023

WCAG is supposed to give us a reasonably objective way of saying whether or not the sites we are building/auditing are "accessible" (to a particular baseline...
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#a11y #Accessibility #wcag #a11yto #barrierefreiheit

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Auto-generated sign language has been very difficult to create. I'm hopeful that advancements in AI will lead to auto-generated sign language becoming ubiquitous in the next 15 years. However, it is important to remember that auto-generated sign language like captions will probably never be 100% accurate. There should be a way to edit auto-generated sign language in the future. Also, interpreters and CART services are needed for live events. #accessibility blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-sign-…

AI Platform for Teaching American Sign Language | NVIDIA Blog

The Signs platform is creating a validated dataset for sign language learners and developers of ASL-based AI applications.
Michael Boone (NVIDIA Blog)
#Accessibility

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Welcome Laurențiu Nicola as #curl commit author 1345: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1644…

ci: use stable Rust toolchain for `rustls` and skip installing the docs by lnicola · Pull Request #16447 · curl/curl

I think it builds on stable (or beta, at least), so there's no reason to use nightly. Also, use the minimal profile to skip installing the docs. It probably won't make a difference (because...
GitHub
#curl

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In QR codes, the following characters can be stored more compactly:

• Digits: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
• Uppercase letters: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
• Space
• Symbols: $ % * + - . / :

That’s why uppercase URLs produce smaller QR codes than lowercase URLs.

Details: “Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower-case letters?” by @Edent
shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-a…

@Terence Eden
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Two figures to ponder.

First: if your local power company is privately owned, you've seen energy rate hikes at *49% above inflation* over the last three years.

Second: if your local power company is *publicly* owned, you've seen energy rates go up at *44% below inflation* over the same period.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2025/02/24/sur…

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A reclining, smug businessman sits in a comfortable chair, behind it, an armed highway with comically long pistols brandishes his guns at a tightope walker poised on a power line. A caricature millionaire in tux and topper, clutching a comically large money sack, perches on the power wire next to the tighrope walker, bellowing at him.

Pluralistic: How an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50b/year from ratepayers (24 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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The UK's Investigatory Powers Act has way too much power. By forcing Apple to remove its encryption for UK users, it threatens the #privacy of everyone.

We at Tuta would never build a backdoor - and our #opensource code is proof of that.

👉 tuta.com/blog/uk-demands-apple…

Apple removes cloud encryption for UK users - but there's a grain of hope.

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
#opensource #privacy

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If you use a curl built with GnuTLS (debian sid, for example), specifying --ciphers now does nothing.

But some people have need of that option to work. Here you can chime in on how it should be supported:

github.com/curl/curl/discussio…
#curl


TLS ciphers and GnuTLS priorities · curl curl · Discussion #16364

Some people migrating from curl+openssl to a curl+gnutls notice that their --ciphers arguments simply are ignored. First, this is documented and not a bug. Fine. But some of these users have a need...
GitHub
#curl

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New game added to the Accessible Android apps directory: Project Dark accessible accessibleandroid.com/app/proj… #Android #Game

Project Dark - Accessible Android

Project Dark is a narrative-driven, immersive audio game that draws on the classic “choose your own adventure” genre to create a unique and compelling
Accessible Android
#android #game
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🚀 We’ve just published a new blog post covering the latest updates in #NewPipe version 0.27.5 and 0.27.6, which ensure YouTube videos keep running smoothly. Additionally, we’re sharing an update on the ongoing app rewrite and giving a first look at the components that have been changed so far.

Learn more on how you can contribute to the rewrite of NewPipe and check out the blog post for more details:

newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announ…


NewPipe 0.27.6 released, state of the rewrite, state of the team

TLDR: NewPipe 0.27.6 fixes the YouTube issues by performing the integrity checks now required by Google; NewPipe is being refactored heavily on the refactor branch and you can help and provide feedback on a nightly version; NewPipe will soon have a n…
NewPipe
#newpipe

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„For more than 20 years, we’ve been buying nothing else; our own industry has withered. We regret that the local baker, butcher, and poulterer have disappeared from the shopping street. But we never bought anything from them anymore, so it’s our own fault.“ - @bert_hubert
#cloud
berthub.eu/articles/posts/comm…

Communications without Musk and Trump: Cloud Kootwijk - Bert Hubert's writings

In the beautiful Dutch booklet Over en Uit: Driekwart Eeuw Radiocommunicatie 1900 - 1975 (‘Over and out: 75 years of radio communications’), we read: 1916: As a result of British cable censorship, free communication between the Dutch government and t…
Bert Hubert's writings
#cloud @bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

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Yesterday, a woman was assaulted and kidnapped / detained by three men who refused to identify themselves for speaking during a Kootenai County Republican Central Committee town hall and pointing out that town halls are supposed to feature citizen comment. The men who detained her were not wearing any badges or security labels/company logos. They were carrying zip ties on them, and were handing out religious Christo-fash pamphlets. Some of the material they were passing out was titled “prayer guide for state legislators - make America righteous again”

The woman illegally detained is Teresa Borrenpohl. Other people (all democrats, according to local media) who tried to help were also detained. Additional footage displays an off duty officer attempting to remove her before the men in black did. He threatened to use force against her and threatened anyone who was filming.

The town hall took place at a high school in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Local Idaho media claims that her violent removal was initiated by County Sheriff Bob Norris before involving LEAR Asset management, a private security firm with alleged ties to sheriff Norris.

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