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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 16 updated (13 RB) and 1 added apps:

+ Railway station photos: Collect photos of railway stations for railway-stations.org 🛡️

1 app has changed its appId, so you need to switch if you use it and want updates: MSM (all in one manager for your media server)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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Aftershocks frighten Myanmar survivors while death toll from Bangkok high-rise collapse rises - The Guardian apple.news/Aj-kM6rzBTXatVjnXF7…

Aftershocks frighten Myanmar survivors while death toll from Bangkok high-rise collapse rises — Guardian US

Rescuers search for bodies in worst-hit city of Mandalay while authorities in Thailand say dozens still trapped under rubble of tower block
apple.news

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From the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library: Coming up Wednesday: Voiceover for Mac, a 12-week workshop begins! Starting Wednesday, April 2, 2:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/89…

From the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library: Coming up Wednesday: Voiceover for Mac, a 12-week workshop begins! Starting Wednesday, April 2, 2:00 PM Eastern Time

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It’s hilarious how openly hostile @element has become toward its own users. Calling them free-riders¹ for not purchasing premium support is just bizarre. Imagine a project like nginx doing that. If you don’t want to be an open-source project, just stop.

¹: element.io/blog/us-shows-the-r…


US shows the risk of running a government by Signal

The Trump administration’s spectacular security breach, in which it seemingly shared details of a planned military strike in Yemen with a journalist, highlights just what can go wrong if you use consumer messaging apps to run your government.
Steve Loynes (Element Blog)
@Element
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Marcus Adams

I've donated to both you and Signal, so a lot of people aren't averse to spending money if they think it's a worthy product and they have some extra cash. Antagonizing users by calling them "free riders" however will cause those of us who would have donated to not only not do that, but not recommend an app or service to others who also might have eventually donated or bought something.

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“I discovered that words like ‘LGBTQ’, 'people of color', 'woman' and 'diversity' had completely disappeared from their sustainability report for 2024.”

Business journalist Iben Schmidt read Lego’s latest annual report and sustainability report ‘and they’ve basically been scrubbed clean of inclusion and diversity.’

Et tu, #Lego?

dr.dk/nyheder/indland/lgbtq-og…


'LGBTQ' og 'diversitet' er forsvundet fra Legos årsrapport

En række virksomheder har efter Trumps indsættelse ændret kurs og betragter nu diversitetsinitiativer på en ny måde, fortæller erhvervsjournalist.
DR
#lego

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🚨Best News of the Year: We've stopped a backdoor law in France

Encryption backdoors must never be allowed. We at Tuta will continue to fight against mass surveillance! ✊

👉 tuta.com/blog/why-a-backdoor-i…

#privacy #encryption #surveillance #backdoors

Comic:  Person: I JUST DON'T SEE WHY THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS A BACKDOOR TO ALL SOFTWARE. Judge: YOU MAKE IT SOUND SO SORDID. Judge: CONSIDER THIS: YOU'RE WEARING CLOTHES. THAT'S FINE, BUT HOW DO WE KNOW YOU'RE NOT HIDING SOMETHING IN THERE. WE DON'T WANT YOU TO GO WITHOUT CLOTHES, SO WE OFFER A SIMPLE COMPROMISE. Judge: WE MAKE IT SO THAT ALL OF YOUR CLOTHES ARE SEE-THRU ALL THE TIME BUT ONLY FOR A SMALL GROUP OF DISTANT PEOPLE WHOSE IDENTITY AND MOTIVES ARE SECRET TO YOU. Person: THAT ANALOGY JUST MAKES IT SEEM WORSE. Judge: ANALOGY? Source: smbc-comics.com

Let's fight encryption backdoors on Global Encryption Day! | Tuta

61% of all Tuta emails are sent e2e encrypted - a huge success for privacy. But the authorities want to weaken encryption. We must stop them!
Tuta
#privacy #encryption #surveillance #backdoors

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I’m so glad that #IsarAerospace decided to live stream their launch. As @acolangelo recently put it on @meco learning from #SpaceX includes celebrating your failures.

Srcub or RUD doesn’t matter. I’m here for it.

youtube.com/watch?v=bykfQ3J4NN…


🚀 'Going Full Spectrum' - Isar Aerospace's First Test Flight

Mission Name: 'Going full Spectrum'Launch Date: Updates via https://isaraerospace.com/newsroom-first-test-flightLaunch site: Andøya SpaceportThe launch windo...
YouTube
#spacex #isaraerospace @Main Engine Cut Off @Anthony Colangelo

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Your data. Your rules. Your digital future.

monocles launches its crowdfunding campaign on StartNext today! 🎉

monocles offers the solution for European independence from big tech. Be it the end-to-end encrypted chat, the secure email service or the privacy-friendly smartphones with our own operating system. monocles creates a decentralized, fair and ethical digital ecosystem for everyone.

Be part of it!

startnext.com/en/monocles

#privacy #sovereign #dataprotection #encryption #monocles

monocles - Privacy is not a feature. It is a right.

Secure communication, fair cloud, ethical hardware - monocles offers a digital solution without tracking, without surveillance, without compromise.
startnext.com
#privacy #encryption #DataProtection #monocles #sovereign
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The March 22 edition of Doing Braille Digitally from ACB Media is now available on their ACB Community podcast feed.
We were the guest presenters, talking about the BT Speak and a teeny bit about the upcoming BT Braille.
You can access it from the following link.
acb-community.pinecast.co/epis…

20250322 Doing Braille Digitally

Originally Broadcasted March 22, 2025, on ACB Media 5
ACB Community

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Delta Chat has been affected by the funding cuts by the Trump administration. We need messaging technology that is secure, usable and not tied to Big Tech infrastructure. Please donate to the project if you can afford to: chaos.social/@delta/1142113004…

Delta Chat (39c3)

2025-03-23 10:35:42

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Bummer. Last week our OpenTechFund contract was not signed but suspended along with OTF itself. Shit happening overseas.

However, we wouldn't deliver resilient messaging infrastructure and apps if we weren't a resilient and fun community. We never had much money to begin with, and are graced with great pro-bono contributions.

We are now looking for other public funding but it takes time. Meanwhile it'd be great to get intermittent help via a wealthy donor or small tips delta.chat/en/donate



Delta Chat: Donate Money

Donate Money Help Delta Chat develop and grow as an independent project serving the people who use it: IBAN DE86100777770428658900, Account owner (please always specify): Björn Petersen, BIC NORSDE...
delta.chat

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Love this really nice write-up on embeddings in the context of LLMs, what they are and how they work. Incidentally, while reading this article, I discovered that VoiceOver on iOS supports MathML. That's quite nice! huggingface.co/spaces/hesamati…

LLM Embeddings Explained: A Visual and Intuitive Guide - a Hugging Face Space by hesamation

How Language Models Turn Text into Meaning, From Traditional
huggingface.co

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Beeping, "ding" noises, various one off sound effects, forget that. Give me ambient-grade chord progressions for work that's going well. Switch to a minor key for degraded performance. Other programs can chime in with complementary instruments if they're working at the same time. Give me broken chords or discordance on error. What Linux really needs is an audio library with some real symphonic ambition.

mastodon.social/@nina_kali_nin…

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Tom Bortels

Had a mail server that used to crash for reasons unknown every few days. As part of diagnosis, I made a monitor that would check status every 5 minutes and either play chirping burds if everything was healthy, or breaking glass if it wasn't, so I could do other things but be aware of the status.

When I started a site that did paid access, I added a cash register sound whenever a credit card was successfully charged, and our CFO used to sit in the datacenter on a stool giggling every time it went off.

I do cloud now, but there was something to be said about sitting right next to the stack. You could hear when things changed. Maybe I need to make something subtle that tells me about wifi traffic...

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UK politics / police raid at a Quaker meeting house

Sensitive content

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The initial set of speakers and talks for ER is now published. A few highlights:
- @gregkh on the EU Cyber Resiliency Act (CRA)
- barriers to security on embedded systems
- Steam OS impact on Linux ecosystem
- Functional Safety on Linux
- writing real-time applications
- fully open source CNC and 3D printing

and many more: embedded-recipes.org/2025/spea…

Speakers

embedded-recipes.org
@Greg K-H

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Herbig Haro 49/50 - NASA/ESA JWST Space Telescope

Full size 5k: flic.kr/p/2qUL3JG
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j.Roger/AndreaLuck CC BY

This is my interpretation of the data aligned by @Landru79

NASA/ESA JWST Space Telescope
Herbig-Haro 49/50 (protostellar jet) at 625 light-years
Time: 2024-08-06
Instruments: NIRCam, MIRI
Filters: F200W, F335M, F444W, F470N, F770W
Colours Assigned: Blue, Cyan, Green, Orange, Red
Proposal ID: 6558
PI: Macarena Garcia Marin

#Space #Astronomy #Astrodon

This is an image from the JWST Space Telescope in near infrared. Colours has been assigned to monochromatic filters. The image showcases a glowing, conical-shaped cloud of deep orange, red, and yellow gas stretches from the lower right to the upper left. This structure, known as Herbig-Haro 49/50, has a swirling, textured appearance and takes up most of the image. At its lower right end, the cloud has a rounded, translucent shape with a golden glow. Nearby, a spiral galaxy with a bright blue core fades into reddish-orange arms against the dark backdrop of space. As the cloud extends upward, it widens slightly, with red and amber hues blending into the surrounding darkness. The background is filled with bright white stars and distant galaxies in shades of white, yellow, and blue.

Herbig Haro 49/50 - NASA/ESA JWST Space Telescope

Full size in 5k: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54418306900/sizes/o/ See license below Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j.
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#astronomy #space #Astrodon @landru79
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The XMPP Software Foundation has published an open letter to Meta, asking them to support true messaging interoperability using the XMPP protocol.

Meta had previously integrated this protocol, and WhatsApp is actually built on XMPP for its message routing system.

We support this initiative as it represents the best approach for genuine interoperability. Federation is the way to go !

Learn more by reading the open letter: xmpp.org/announcements/open-le…

#XMPP #federation #FederateTheWorld


XMPP

XMPP - The universal messaging standard
xmpp.org
#xmpp #federation #federatetheworld

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