2025-04-02 | Comics Kingdom
Read the Bizarro comic strip from April 2, 2025, and check out other Bizarro comics by Wayno & Piraro.Comics Kingdom
#COVID nytimes.com/2025/04/18/science…
Trump Declares Lab Leak as ‘True Origins’ of Covid on New Website
Government websites that once provided basic information about the virus now redirect to a page citing a number of misleading or heavily contested claims.Benjamin Mueller (The New York Times)
Python now ships with 15,000 lines of verified cryptographic code from HACL*, covering all default hash and HMAC algorithms. The integration was seamless and automated, aiming to eliminate bugs like the 2022 SHA3 CVE. A major milestone for verified crypto in mainstream software.
jonathan.protzenko.fr/2025/04/…
#Python #CyberSecurity #Cryptography #AppSec
15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
In November 2022, I opened issue 99108 on Python’s GitHub repository, arguing that after a recent CVE in its implementation of SHA3, Python should embrace verified code for all of its hash-related infrastructure.Jonathan Protzenko
It was only a matter of time - a contracted, approved grant to the Internet Archive was cut with no warning.
sfstandard.com/2025/04/17/doge…
Bay Area creatives jeopardized by sudden DOGE humanities cuts
The NEH had $17.8 million in active grants to Bay Area humanities projects — grantees are scrambling to continue their work.Ella Chakarian (The San Francisco Standard)
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#196 Dot Release
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…
#196 Dot Release
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from April 11 to April 18.thisweek.gnome.org
websocket: add option to disable auto-pong reply by viscruocco · Pull Request #16744 · curl/curl
Rebased #12220 with kind permission of @brimonk. Additionally added some more documentation and explicitly initialized CURLOPT_WS_OPTIONS values to their defaults.GitHub
My week: lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel…
features, foss-north, CVE, OpenSSL, DNS, DDoS
In Defense of Text Labels - Christopher Butler
I’m a firm believer in text labels. Interfaces are over-stuffed with icons. The more icons we have to scan over, the more brain power we putwww.chrbutler.com
“Did DOGE take sensitive labor data?”
npr.org/2025/04/15/1244802149/…
Sadly, no transcript.
One takeaway is Musk is gathering info on NLRB cases against his companies.
He may then pull an Exxon:
“Climate activists were hacked. There was a link between victims and an alleged attacker”
npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-53527…
More info:
“Government IT whistleblower calls out DOGE, says he was threatened at home”
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
PDF of sworn declaration with screen shots:
whistlebloweraid.org/wp-conten…
Government IT whistleblower calls out DOGE, says he was threatened at home
“Stay out of DOGE’s way”: IT worker details how Musk group infiltrated US agency.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
Be part of the #accessibility resistance. Make your digital shit #accessible
🔐 Take Back Control of Your Privacy, Security, and Data Rights with the Librem 5 Supported by PureOS!
The Librem 5 by Purism is security and privacy-focused smartphone for today’s digital world.
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Powered by PureOS, a 100% free/libre and open-source Linux operating system that supports a private and secure app ecosystem.
Should we still use RAG?
Or just pass all the relevant context into the context window?Dan Cleary (The Prompt Engineering Substack)
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 10 updated and 1 added apps:
* XMLForge: a simple and powerful XML formatter & attribute reordering tool 🛡️
4 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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
#naturephotography #nature #photo #photography #birds #birders #birdwatchers #birding #California #birdwatching #GriffithPark #DailyBird #BirdsOfPixelfed #BirdsOfMastodon #LARiver #naturephotos #LAWildlife #woodpecker #amazing
Microsoft Copilot can now ‘see’ what’s on your screen in Edge
The opt-in AI feature lets you use Copilot like an always-there web assistant.Wes Davis (The Verge)
Deciphering Glyph :: Stop Writing `__init__` Methods
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.blog.glyph.im
Tesla has been sued for speeding up odometers causing cars to hit their 50,000 mile warranty limit faster. The lawsuit claims Tesla uses “predictive algorithms” for odometer readings instead of accurately tracking mileage.
Bad timing given Tesla sales are already in the dumps.
Congratulations to our member Natalie for winning our LibreOffice Impress Template-a-Thon! Thank you to @dff for helping organize the Document Freedom Day events across the globe, and thank you @libreoffice for providing OSC with prize material! The swag was more than worth the international-shipping wait. 🤩
Natalie has chosen only to display the back of the sweater on social media, but we can assure you that the front is just as fire. 😎
Surely nothing will go wrong with this... nothing dystopian or privacy harming about this at all.
If your open source project is using Discord as its real-time chat, support, and/or development communication platform *please* reconsider:
gizmodo.com/discord-begins-tes…
Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification
Some countries have passed strict new laws dictating youth access to digital platforms.Thomas Maxwell (Gizmodo)
Introducing Policy Servers
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsJim Mackenzie, VP Trust & Safety — The Matrix.org Foundation (matrix.org)
Hold on. Here's a new internet-draft that is supposed to *supersede* the pending not yet published HTTP cookie spec update, the 6265bis document.
ietf.org/archive/id/draft-anne…
I have not yet quite figured out the differences. The trend of "programmatic" descriptions of syntax continues in here, and it makes me sad.
Cookies: HTTP State Management Mechanism
This document defines the HTTP Cookie and Set-Cookie header fields. These header fields can be used by HTTP servers to store state (called cookies) at HTTP user agents, letting the servers maintain a stateful session over the mostly stateless HTT…www.ietf.org
Synology requires self-branded drives for some consumer NAS systems, drops full functionality and support for third-party HDDs
Are your files going to be safer with Synology hard drives?Jowi Morales (Tom's Hardware)
World Password Day is coming - are you ready?
Join tech experts from Tuta, Wire, and Bitwarden for a free webinar and learn how to strengthen your digital security. 🛡️💡
When? April 29th
Time? 4:00 - 5:00 CET
👉 Sign up here : join.next.edudip.com/en/webina…
#WorldPasswordDay #Tuta #Wire #Bitwarden
Get ready for World Password Day: Boost your security with insights from Bitwarden, Tuta Mail & Wire
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Get ready for World Password Day: Boost your security with insights from Bitwarden, Tuta Mail & Wire
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Get ready for World Password Day: Boost your security with insights from Bitwarden, Tuta Mail & Wire
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Hey @Tutanota , how are you doing with the drive? When you expect it to be available? 💪
mastodon.social/@Tutanota/1123…
Our mascot Roc is bringing our community a special delivery: a heartwarming wallpaper from illustrator Michaela Martin to brighten up your desktop, laptop, and even your phone. In other words, all the places you can find Thunderbird!
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borgmatic 2.0.3 has been released with configurable command hook triggering on success/error, an LVM hook fix, and a regression fix for all monitoring hooks.
#borgmatic #borgbackup #backup
Release notes: projects.torsion.org/borgmatic…
borgmatic
Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstationsprojects.torsion.org
So, yet again my small high street cookshop in a rural English town has paid more tax than Starbucks entire UK operation.
Cynically, Starbucks is more than profitable enough to pay £40m of royalties to its US parent company, thereby incuring a loss of £35m.
Global revenue for 2024 was $36billion.
As a Green Party district councillor it makes my blood boil.
držím pestičky 
spravy.pravda.sk/domace/clanok…
Trestný súd rozhoduje o návrhu vziať Bombica do väzby. Jeho advokát Lindtner dorazil na súd neskôr
Jeho advokát David Lindtner avizoval, že po rozhodnutí súdu „rozhovory poskytne iba relevantným médiám“.Pravda.sk
📢 Connaissez-vous le dépôt d'applis #Android nommé #FDroid 📦 et son appli éponyme ?
💡 Ajoutez-y le dépôt #IzzyOnDroid 📦 (apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/) ! Il enrichira votre catalogue.
ℹ️ Certaines applis sont présentes dans les 2 dépôts. Celles d'IzzyOnDroid sont en principe dans des versions plus récentes. IzzyOnDroid fournit les APK les plus récents ⚠️🐞 tandis que F-Droid compile lui-même les sources après contrôles 🔎🛡️
#️⃣ #OpenSource #LogicielsLibres #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #LibreTips #smartphone
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
Welcome to the RB family, MSM 🥳
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.p…
MSM works as wrapper around your Media server (emby, jellyfin, kodi, plex) and helps you to manage your media files.
Thanks to the help from its developer, starting with v1.9.0 the app is now reproducible 
NV Access
in reply to Robert Kingett • • •Hi Robert, good question & one I don't know offhand (if anyone does, please share!) Looking on reactos.org/faq/#can-i-install… I found "Can I install ReactOS and run any software compatible with Windows on it?
Probably yes. However we highly recommend to check first if your favourite app runs in ReactOS. ReactOS is still an on-going project and not all the apps and drivers runs perfect on it."
Are any of our #FOSS / #Linux friends involved in #ReactOS able to share experiences please?
FAQ
reactos.orgDevin Gutierrez
in reply to NV Access • • •