By examining the limits of reasonable user behavior and embracing imperfection for users who go beyond it, we can continue to provide service that meets the expectations of users without sacrificing scalability of the system.
"We believe the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by attempting to shut down our operations simply because they disagreed with our independent journalism. They saw our reporting as not aligned with their political agenda." - VOA's Patsy Widakuswara, lead plaintiff in one of the lawsuits filed against USAGM's Kari Lake. foreignpress.org/foreign-corre…
Health Canada has issued alerts for one lot of Laboratoire Riva Inc.’s acetaminophen caplet and six lots of Life Brand’s Timed Release Melatonin pills.
The W3C “Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI” draft doc continues to get updates, which is good. w3c.github.io/ai-accessibility…
So far the 3 issues I filed (disambiguate ‘AI’, replace overlays section, discuss sustainability) have no action — but it is early and those were recent. github.com/w3c/ai-accessibilit…
First-Ever National Elder Fraud Coordination Center Brings Together Private and Public Sectors to Seek Justice for Victims WASHINGTON, April 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, AARP, Amazon, Google,...
Sources: the Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS' free Direct File tax program, after IRS staff were told in mid-March to stop working on it (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)
The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program. That's the electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free.
Yesterday, the P’urhépecha municipality of Cherán, Michoacán, celebrated 14 years of autonomy. It began on April 15, 2011, when a group of women blocked cartel-linked illegal loggers from removing trees from the community. This act sparked a mass uprising that saw the community reclaim its territory, establishing barricades, 179 permanent bonfires, a form of autonomous government rooted in P’urhépecha forms of communal organization, and expelling the cartels, police, and political parties.
If you want to know more about Cherán, might I suggest "The Bonfires of Autonomy," a piece I wrote for the anthology edited by @cbmilstein, "Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy:" akpress.org/deciding-for-ourse…
This anthology explores this “sense of freedom in the air,” as one piece puts it, by looking at contemporary examples of autonomous, directly democratic spaces and the real-world dilemmas they experience, all the while underscoring the egalitarian…
The Rust team at Mainmatter has grown, but we need to grow it further!
We're looking for freelancers to help us migrate a database from C to Rust. It's an incremental rewrite: a module at a time, interfacing with the existing C code.
+ AstraCrypt: hide and encrypt your files with modern security standards 🛡️ + Mint: a lightweight Misskey Android client (in early development state) 🛡️
3 apps have been removed as they were reported broken:
- Kuroba - Tappic - moVirt
1 app moved to a new packageId 1 month ago, so the old one was removed today:
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).
Whistleblower reveals evidence on how Elon Musk's DOGE team extracted 10 GB of sensitive data about American citizens from a government agency, and then deleted accounts and logs to cover their tracks.
Then, when the whistleblower tried to report the data breach, he received a threatening letter containing pictures taken from a drone watching him walking his dog.
Die Bahn-App „#DBNavigator” ist voll mit #Trackern, die uns überwachen. #Digitalcourage klagt dagegen. Denn wir wollen Bahn fahren – nicht Daten liefern.
Gemeinsam haben wir Ende April die Bahn dazu aufgefordert, die Mängel zu entfernen. Dafür hatten wir der #DB eine Frist von zwei Monaten eingeräumt. Doch die Bahn hat in ihrer Antwort klargemacht, dass sie nicht vorhat, etwas Wesentliches zu ändern. Am 20. Oktober 2022 haben wir deshalb unsere Klage eingereicht. Die Bahn hat mittlerweile ihre Klageerwiderung eingereicht, auf die wir geantwortet haben. Der nächste Schritt bei unserer Klage wird die Verhandlung sein, ein Termin wurde noch nicht bekannt gegeben.
The trajectory of E2E-encryption is about de-platforming: There shall be no central machines that can control the edges/peers, and the social groups and virtual centers they freely form.
Our #deltachat R&D around #chatmail relays and #webxdc apps all aim to realize such a "zero-platforms" fully E2E-encrypted interaction model. However, this is *not* just about cryptographic cleverness. Rather it is about usable anti-authoritarian designs, as explicitly stated in January delta.chat/en/2025-01-23-webxd…
How can we evolve and deploy web apps without allowing developers or operators to become a “billionaire in the middle”? There are many ways to try to address this challenge and some involve the tec...
I really wish Delta Chat had built in voice all feature atleast.
Signal stopped working in the middle east even with a VPN and while texting works on Delta Chat even without it for the most part, the voice calling feature is equally as important if you ask me.
Please let me know if there's a way to do this or please consider developing this in the app.
agreed. We are aware of the importance of voice calls and there are various background efforts around designing and realizing them. If there are developer experienced folks out there who want to help, DM us. Or someone with a bunch of money. We have experts in our community which we can't contract because of a lack of money, and so they rather work in corporate environments for the time being.
As I announced earlier today @RezzaBuh and I are going on an #evtrip. Goal: pick up an Audi Q4 e-tron 35 I've purchased in Bavaria. We're staying in an B&B near the border over night. We use an EV on the way there, too. The only charging stop is in 311km. Once we get there, the car should have 19% of battery left.
(if you don't want to follow this thread, just mute #evtrip)
We arrived at the supercharger in Pilsen with 24% of battery left. We were speeding 130km/h where we could and the average consumption was still 17.4 kWh/100km. Now we need to charge it for 10 minutes to reach Rozvadov, but we'll probably stay a bit longer to have extra energy for tomorrow.
The downside is that the supercharger in Pilsen is on a hotel parking lot 7km off the highway with no services around, just the hotel. #evtrip
And we've arrived to Svata Katerina, the last settlement before the border. Here the day ends for us. There will definitely be more fun tomorrow. We will have to deal with the German authorities and none of us speaks German. And E-tron 35 has a considerably shorter range than today's car and I won't use the built-in navigation, so the trip back home will be a bit of an adventure. #evtrip
We're on the way again. 150km to Roth. We've got more than enough energy to reach the destination, but we'll make a quick charging stop to have breakfast. #evtrip
We charged the car to 82% while having breakfast in McDonald's. There is a visible difference in charging station availability between 🇨🇿 and 🇩🇪. At the location where we stopped were like 3 different vendors with a plenty of chargers. The next stop is the Audi dealer in Roth. #evtrip
The paper work with the Audi dealership is done, it was quick. I've got the keys, but the car doesn't have original plates, so we have to go to the authorities without it and return for it with transport plates. #evtrip
Now the drill is: 1) go to the insurance company to get temporary insurance (€89, done), 2) go to the transport authority to re-register the car and get transport plates, 3) go back to the insurance place to get the plates physically done. 4) go back to the authority to stamp the plates.
Fortunately the insurance company is just next door. #evtrip
@bycx yep, you return them when you register the car in CZ and pick up Czech plates. They are valid for one month max, I picked an insurance for 2 weeks, so only for 2 weeks for me. Before expiration I have to register it home.
We're on our way back. The initial range was 267 km at 98% of the battery. We stopped after 100km for lunch. 170km/62% left. I am positively surprised by the consumption. With speeding 110-115km/h it was around 17 kWh/h. #evtrip
The infotainment was a bit of a letdown. We couldn't quite get Android Auto working. Not sure if it isn't included in the package or what. Setting up MyAudi was also quite confusing. I'll have to look into it once I have time home. For this trip I'm using Sygic for EV navigation. Charging power at the supercharger was only 35 kW. Not sure if it was because the battery was at 60% or there is some compatibility issue. Next stop: Ionity Beroun, 170km #evtrip
I am surprised an open source guy like you would be not more annoyed by such a cloud/proprietary software stack... Wish there was a more ecological software option for cars.
Arrived to Ionity Beroun, another 170 km, the battery down from 80 to 20%, let's get back to 80% and continue. The biggest problem at the moment are several traffic jams along the way.
Ioinity started charging 105 kW which is close to the car maximum. Also the biggest price: 21 CZK (€0.8)/kWh if you don't have a plan. This ride will be more expensive than with gasoline. #evtrip
The last charging stop. The most powerful charger so far: 400 kW. The price is a bit lower: 17.80 CZK/kWh. So far the biggest problem has not been charging, but traffic which is just terrible before the Easter. #evtrip
@Cooba13 the original plan was that I would use @RezzaBuh's accounts, but after the first stop we split. I will register at least EON, but we will rarely use public chargers.
And now it's being charged from our roof top solar system (through house batteries now). We've been selling power surpluses for 1.25 CZK/kWh. If we charge the car with it instead, we'll drive for 20 CZK (€0.8)/100km. #evtrip
This explains why we couldn't get Android Auto to work. It's extra and not particularly cheap. Well, it's the VW concern after all, everything is extra in their cars. 😅 #evtrip
That is fascinating. I have Octavia (4th gen) in base trim and Android Auto is included. But I had to pay extra for spare tire and back wiper 😁 VW policies are mysterious 😉
not only Android Auto but also no satellite navigation! They probably think there's no need as EVs can't be used for longer distances 😉. Or what. A proper navigation with a range estimation is an essential feature of an EV...
@JamesHeather To je. S touto cenou a průměrnou spotřebou na dálnici vychází 100 km na 310 Kč. U benzínu by mě to samé stálo cca 250 Kč. Je to ale cena extrémní, kdy člověk dojede k výkonné nabíječce bez předchozí registrace. S ní je ta cena někde na 12 Kč. Doma ze sítě člověk nabíjí za 5 Kč a u elektřiny ze solárů mě vychází kWh v nákladech ušlé příležitosti 1,25 Kč. Počítám, že z 95 % budeme nabíjet doma, takže průměrná cena pro nás bude hluboko pod 100 Kč na 100 km.
yep the fact when you charge on supercharged price per distance is very similar with petrol is well known. You get cheaper only when slow charging at home. Experimentally tested in Estonia (by me, borrowed car) and Estonia -> Slovakia trip by my colleague (his Škoda Enyaq)
meanwhile in Estonia, paid 100 eur to dealer => received car with license plates. On the minute of receiving car, go to insurance company web (or mobile app) login by ID -> new 3rd party liability insurance -> pay by card and done in 2 minutes. Next the same is done with Casco insurance. Get keys, drive home.
our goal was to spend as much battery as possible to have time for breakfast. German autobahns are great when you have such a goal 😉. On the other hand we had a lot of time to get to the destination on time. Hence from almost fastest car (overtaking police car driving 160 kmh would cause me a lot of troubles at home) to still not the slowest. Even thought there was no limit, almost everyone drove the same at around 115 kmh.
we would have reached Rozvadov without charging. I set charge at destination to 30 % at destination. So ten minutes wasn't to reach but to reach with 30 %. And the consumption is surprisingly nice. This is my first drive with the (semi)new Model Y (with less than around 700 km driven - registered only on Monday) and it's about 15 percent more efficient than my old Model Y. However, it's on beautiful but inefficient 20" Induction wheels.
@mkyral @mattb @mattdm Our public transport in countryside is still superb compared to public transport in rulal areas of the US. I lived in a town of 5k in Pennsylvania and the only public connection with the rest of the world was a long-distance bus to NYC 5 times a week.
@ikkeT not because of tax reasons, prices are better and selection is also better. Germany is definitely ahead of us in electromoblity and the used EV market is much larger.
European Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, will host an Implementation dialogue concerning high-speed rail in Europe on 15 April in Brussels.
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🌍 RIPE 90 is happening 12–16 May in Lisbon, Portugal (and online)! Whether you're a network operator, researcher, or Internet enthusiast, this is where the community comes together to share, shape policy, and connect: ripe90.ripe.net/
A RIPE Meeting is a five-day event where Internet Service Providers (ISPs), network operators and other interested parties from all over the world gather.
#Conversations_im has the ability to fetch outage status information from an independent server and display that in case the regular #XMPP server can not be reached.
This is powered by XEP-0455 (xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0455.h…). TLDR: Server gives client a URL to a JSON file during normal connects, client will hold on to that URL and fetch the JSON file in case server is unreachable.
This document defines an XMPP protocol extension that enables server administrators
to communicate issues with the server to all users in a semantic manner.
Anonymous France leaked 18 GB with the following statement:
In defense of Ukraine Anonymous has released 10TB of leaked data on all businesses operating in Russia, all Kremlin assets in the West, pro-Russian officials, Donald Trump, and more.
P.S. this leaks marks a significant qualitative difference to #Wikileaks which has over the last decade not only leaked anything harming #Russia but even actually amplified Russian fakes, such as the MH17 conspiracies
MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.
For anyone interested in retro PC emulation, I just started a discussion regarding the possibility of adding DECtalk PC emulation to 86Box. github.com/86Box/86Box/discuss…
Recently, the DECtalk PC emulation in MAME got to a rather usable state. It would be nice to integrate this emulation into 86Box, as this would allow DOS screen readers and other such applications ...
Jak si hraju s #bazzite a jsem z něj nadšený, tak jsem začal trochu studovat Fedoru SIlverlight, což je vlastně základ pro Bazzite. V Silverlight je systém image a aktualizuje se právě image. Má to nějaké nevýhody, jako že instalace RPM balíčku vyžaduje restart, i když to není nic co by člověk dělal denně. Jenže .. co kdyby šel systém nadefinovat pomocí Dockerfile člověk si mohl udělat vlastní systém? Více na odkazu .. 🙂
It's been over a year since Asteroid Linus Tech Tips hit the Linux desktop, and I'm happy to report that the move to image-based desktops is making some amazing progress! Recently some things have been landing in Fedora that have enabled me…
Jediné, co mi na bootc oproti rpm-ostree vadí, je, že neumí rozdílové aktualizace. Stahovat celé obrazy systému na denní bázi není nic moc. Jinak já dnes nemám v overlay žádné balíčky, všechno valím v Toolbxu.
@sesivany Takže to používáš na pracovní daily mašině? Já jsem si právě říkal, že bych posunul své workflow do toolboxu/distroboxu a přešel na Silverlight.
Celé obrazy by mi asi nevadily, protože bych je buildil na lokální síti. Nicméně v tom ještě dost plavu, takže nejsem chopen se rozhodnout, kterým směrem se vydat.
Na soukromém notebooku to mám už od roku 2018. Na pracovním už několik let taky. V kombinaci s tím mým migračním skriptem je to nádhera. Občas měním pracovní notebook, jen abych ho otestoval v reálném nasazení. Nainstaluju systém a všechno nad tím překlopím tím migračním skriptem a jen pokračuju tam, kde jsem na předchozím notebooku skončil. Takové "just works" jako u Applu, akorát tady nad tím má člověk kontrolu. :)
@sesivany Díky za sdílení zkušeností. Jsem spokojený na Fedoře Workstation, ale tohle mi přijde jako další krok. Na podporovaném HW, kde člověk nemusí řešit nějaké hacky, to dává smysl.
In today’s world, technology is making life easier in ways we never imagined. From ordering food to booking a ride, we’ve come to expect convenience at our
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