A lot of Jewish people hid their religion & their ethnicity after coming to the U.S. #AntiSemitism was not only in Germany, it was all over.
When you watch a #Superman movie or read the comics, you see a character created by two Jewish boys about a man from another world, with a secret identity, who puts on glasses and a suit to blend into the world around him.
That's who Superman is. He's the first-generation immigrant who was once called Kal-El, and is now Clark Kent.
But here's the important part:
NO ONE KNOWS his true identity.
He is a metaphor for so many first-generation Jewish people in the late 1800s/early 1900s, who hid their #Jewish #ancestry and changed their names to blend in.
Do you have Jewish ancestors? Look at your tree. Find the "Russian,” "Polish," “Ukrainian,” and "Czech" immigrants. Your Jewish ancestor probably comes from there. Research terms like "Shtetle" and "Pogroms."
#SupermanDay #Superman #Genealogy #JewishGenealogy #Geneadons @geneadons
Few things in this world are more beautiful than a city at dusk after the rain.
Addis Standard is one of the few, if not the only, Ethiopian news outlets that always holds the government accountable. They did this through imprisonments, raids, and more. Your favorite journalist here on the fediverse, @ZekuZelalem started his career at Addis Standard.
And on April 17 federal police raided them, harassed their staff, and confiscated their devices. Their statement👇🏼
The site previously hosted links to resources on Long COVID, vaccines, and testing.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/04…
“Lab leak” marketing page replaces federal hub for COVID resources
The site previously hosted links to resources on long COVID, vaccines, and testing.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
dirkwouters.de/virtual-sinks-m…
Virtual Sinks mit PipeWire einrichten - Dirk Wouters
PipeWire ist ein fortschrittliches Open-Source-Audio-Server-Projekt, das sich darauf konzentriert, die Audioverwaltung auf Linux-Systemen zu verbessern.Dirk Wouters
#linux #audio #pipewire
Introduction to Wireplumber - Fedora Magazine
Introduction to Wireplumber, the session and policy manager for Pipewire.Roman Gherta (Fedora Project)
iOS Access for All (iOS 18 edition) book released
Six Colors contributor Shelly Brisbin has just updated her longtime, definitive book about accessibility features in iOS: I’m pleased to announced that iOS Access for All (iOS 18 edition) is availa…Six Colors
It used to be possible to buy #Deutschlandticket for just a few days at the end of each calendar month for a fraction of monthly price. This feature was now removed from the HVV switch app. 😞
According to the FAQ, they might even stop offering pro-rata for the first month of subscription for people not living in Hamburg.
travel-dealz.de/news/hvv-switc…
Deutschlandticket anteilig kaufen: HVV Switch schränkt Kaufmöglichkeit ein » Travel-Dealz.de
Das Deutschlandticket (für mittlerweile 58€) ist eigentlich Monats-Abo vorgesehen. Über die App HVV Switch gibt es aber seit Längerem die Möglichkeit, das Ticket auch anteilig zu kaufen.Peer (Travel-Dealz)
Delta Green | Dodavatel elektřiny za spotové ceny s chytrým řízením
Vyvíjíme chytré řízení domácnosti. Prodávejte přebytky z vaší FVE a řiďte spotřebu domácnosti v nejnižší poptávce (za nejnižší ceny elektřiny během dne).www.deltagreen.cz
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?
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.
The Librem 5 isn’t just another smartphone—it’s a privacy and security statement.
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
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