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here's something of interest for you:
google chrome direct urls for the recovery downloads
different channels it seembs are present.
extracted from the json
I hope someone finds this of use.

"channel": "LTC",
"desc": "",
"file": "chromeos_16093.105.0_reven_recovery_ltc-channel_mp-v7.bin",
"filesize": 8248193536,
"hwidmatch": "^REVEN($|-.*)",
"manufacturer": "Google ChromeOS Flex",
"md5": "c71599eecb3b1bfa0a5a98c6dfb54677",
"model": "ChromeOS Flex",
"name": "ChromeOS Flex",
"photourl": "",
"sha1": "ec07c3271f61bd576ccd1546a290fb37684987f3",
"sku": "",
"url": "dl.google.com/dl/edgedl/chrome…",
"version": "16093.105.0",
"zipfilesize": 1231301075,
"chrome_version": "132.0.6834.223",
"hwids":
[] }

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Hiro Arikawa's The Passengers on the Hankyu Line (translated by Allison Markin Powell) is coming to the VPL soon. There are 10 holds on 13 copies.

Just sayin'.

#japan #literature #Vancouver

vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/recor…


THE PASSENGERS ON THE HANKYU LINE — Vancouver Public Library

THE PASSENGERS ON THE HANKYU LINE — Arikawa, Hiro — Welcome aboard the Hankyu train! Come along on a heartwarming, funny, and a perfectly cosy voyage with the charming and relatable passengers--including one dashing dachsund--whose lives intersect …
Vancouver Public Library
#japan #literature #vancouver
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Keen observers of the panel we did this evening called "The Cyber Resilience Act and Open Source: What Maintainers Really Need to Know" can spot that both @foosel and @icing got questions snuck in and answered 😀

youtube.com/live/DLxZdU8kzxM?s…


The Cyber Resilience Act and Open Source: What Maintainers Really Need to Know

Many open source maintainers are concerned about their obligations under the EU Cyber Resilience Act. This webinar, organized by the Eclipse Foundation’s Ope...
YouTube
@Gina Häußge @Stefan Eissing

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Re: last boost (mastodon.bsd.cafe/@nuintari/11…), I know that nostalgia, or saying things were better in the good old days, is dangerous. But when I read something like this, it's hard not to feel that software really has gotten much worse in some ways.

The Psychotic Network Ferret

2025-05-27 18:55:02

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I went to U when the access network, before that was even a term we ever used, was X-Terminals on 10base2, connecting to UNIX and OpenVMS servers. Performance was amazing, even when the VAX 25 mhz big iron was under load. Logins to the Digital UNIX server with 90 students trying and failing to learn about linked lists in C, and performance was snappy as hell. X fucking worked, and it worked well.

years later..... (decades later, I'm old, get off my lawn)

I was contracted to assist with a <redacted> deployment of a VDI, to replace the need for two workstations on each desk. Yes, I know this really narrows it down who this was.

40gbit core, 40 or 10gigE to the access layer, and 1 gbe to each workstation.

Performance was ASS, because it was all Windows RDP.

The project was scrapped, because modern VDI is shit. We had working VDI in the 1990s with X, and we threw it away.

Fuck Wayland. Wayland is yet another example of, "but this is modern, so it must be better!"

Nothing modern cares about efficiency.


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Josh Simmons

This is a pretty weak argument against Wayland because the whole "network transparent" part of x11 hasn't been relevant for many, many years either, because it turns out x11 primitives are absurdly inefficient on modern computers. DRI was first added to x11 in <checks notes> 1998, because of this inefficiency. You really don't want to be doing IPC per-draw, and especially not over the network like that.
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 6 updated and 1 added apps:

* Pokey: Nostr "Pull Notifications" on Android 🛡️

1 #Magisk module was updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk (StevenBlock)

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 #magisk #izzyondroid

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PureOS Crimson Progress Update Since July 2024, we’ve built a strong foundation—now climbing the stack! Recent Updates:

• Faster USB charging
• Speedier storage access

First alpha release coming soon.

Learn More Here: puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-d…

PureOS Crimson Development Report: March 2025 – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC

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The Game Accessibility Guidelines have been put together by game studios, specialists and academics. While they are not an official set of standards or documents, they are a collection of tips and techniques to help developers make games more inclusive.

gameaccessibilityguidelines.co…

Game Accessibility Guidelines – A straightforward reference for inclusive game design

gameaccessibilityguidelines.com

reshared this

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How to Turn Off Contact Suggestions in Share Sheet on Samsung Devices accessibleandroid.com/how-to-t…
Here’s what the Share Manager screen should look like after disabling Direct Share. As shown, the options related to Quick Share and Favorite Direct Share are greyed out when Direct Share is off.

How to Turn Off Contact Suggestions in Share Sheet on Samsung Devices - Accessible Android

Starting with Android 15, Samsung no longer provides a native option in system settings to disable “Direct Share” — the feature that shows frequently used
Salih Kunduz (Accessible Android)

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I chatted with @bagder about #Curl and the recent #AI happenings

It's always fun talking to Daniel, and I think there's a lot of good ideas in this one, especially on how to approach AI fueled contributions that aren't slop. And even suggestions on how to deal with slop contributions :)

opensourcesecurity.io/2025/202…


Curl vs AI with Daniel Stenberg

Daniel Stenberg, the maintainer of Curl, discusses the increase in AI security reports that are wasting the time of maintainers. We discuss Curl’s new policy of banning the bad actors while establishing some pretty sane AI usage guidelines.
Josh Bressers (Open Source Security)
#AI #curl @daniel:// stenberg://

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We might have a world first on a proper and just DRM implementation :flan_hurrah: Signal has implemented DRM to protect against the adversarial functionality dubbed Recall :flan_molotov:

#BurnTheClouds


By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows.
Signal Messenger
#burntheclouds

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Aus datenschutzrechtlicher Sicht ein „Desaster“: #Patientenakte ohne Selbstbestimmung. Neues Gesundheitsministerium verneint Zugriffskontrolle netzpolitik.org/2025/epa-ohne-…

ePA ohne Selbstbestimmung: Befunde sollen für alle Praxen sichtbar bleiben

Selbst entscheiden dürfen, welche Praxis welche Befunde sehen darf – das war mal der Plan bei der elektronischen Patientenakte. Das neue Gesundheitsministerium hält davon nichts.
netzpolitik.org
#patientenakte
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

Der Abschluss trifft so ziemlich in's Schwarze, scheint es:

Das Bundesgesundheitsministerium habe die ePA beworben wie ein iPhone 16. „Erwartet haben wir ein Nokia. Was wir bekommen haben, ist ein Telefon mit Wählscheibe.“

Auch mein Opt-Out wird aufrecht erhalten. Meine Erwartungen gehen aber nicht viel weiter als dem Austausch der Wählscheibe durch eine Tastatur, wenn überhaupt…

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lol they're gonna try to pillage Canadas economy now too

What is modern monetary theory? An economist explains how it could help Canada
phys.org/news/2025-05-modern-m…


What is modern monetary theory? An economist explains how it could help Canada

Few words spark more anxiety in public debate than "national debt" and "government deficit." National debt is the total amount of money the government owes, accumulated over years of running deficits.
Mohsen Javdani (Phys.org)
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thepwnicorn

hmm, I don't find it to be particularly great. It's mostly referencing other standards which could be used to implement some aspects but doesn't really scope what needs to be done in particular to satisfy the regulation. Don't get me wrong, there is good reference material in there, but if people are already overwhelmed and uncertain how to satisfy CRA they are now trying to figure out how to apply BSI, NIST, etc. standards of which only a small subset would be needed to fulfill CRA.
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