Pretty bad news for privacy and civil rights in Canada today: canada.ca/en/public-safety-can…

Essentially warrantless access for spy agencies to any online communications and mail, all to (probably) try and appease Trump

The Strong Borders Act - Government of Canada strengthens border security

The Bill will strengthen our laws and keep Canadians safe by ensuring law enforcement has the right tools to keep our borders secure, combat transnational organized crime, stop the flow of illegal fentanyl, and crack down on money laundering.

^{Public Safety Canada (Government of Canada)}

"For now, the most comprehensive protection against Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica tracking is to refrain from installing the Facebook, Instagram, or Yandex apps on Android devices."

That's exactly what I do.

arstechnica.com/security/2025/…

#Meta #Yandex #tracking #privacy

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers

Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

^{Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)}

I genuinely have no idea what the left’s strategy is (or has been) for Gaza. Everything has been to force attention on it as a monocause, but only in the most unsympathetic ways possible.

Like I understand the thought “we need to make America pay attention to this” but they seem not to have a way of doing that that doesn’t involve them doing toxically unpopular things. Who are they listening to?

Yes, Ann Arbor’s pain over vandalized peonies is real. Here’s why:
mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2025/…

Yes, Ann Arbor’s pain over vandalized peonies is real. Here’s why.

Yes, there is real anger in Ann Arbor over the vandalized peony garden at the University of Michigan. It's not just a loss of some pretty flowers. It's a central part of the city's identity.

^{Samuel Dodge | sdodge@mlive.com (mlive)}

Do you have any idea how many times I had to throw this fucking stuffed bear into the air, swing my camera up to my eye, and try to take the perfect picture of it as it fell?

THIRTY fucking times.

Photography is hard, people.

#photography

"LLMs can't write code, not possible, you're all liars"

has now devolved into

"well, CloudFlare provided an extensive example proving it can produce extensive working code, BUT IT MADE A MISTAKE JUST LIKE A HUMAN WHO MISREAD THE RFC"
RT: hails.org/users/hailey/statuse…

Hailey

2025-06-03 09:02:54

shot, chaser

Meta und Yandex haben die Browsernutzung von Android-Nutzer'innen mit einer perfiden und bisher unbekannten Tracking-Methode deanonymisiert und damit die strikte Trennung von Apps ausgehebelt.

Das in Websites eingebettete Tracking-Script (also z.B. "Facebook Pixel") konnte sein _fbp-Cookie über einen internen Port (z.B. 127.0.0.0:12387) senden und die Facebook-App hat auf diesem Port gelauscht und das Cookie abgefangen. So wurde ein Webseitenbesuch, bei dem Facebook eingebunden war, auch an die Facebook-App gemeldet.

arstechnica.com/security/2025/…

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers

Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

^{Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)}

My latest project is code-named "Total Reprint." I ported The Print Shop (1986) to ProDOS and made it hard-drive-installable. Then I made some other improvements, like live previews of third-party graphics and borders. It's bundled with every graphic, border, and font that Broderbund ever released, plus hundreds of other openly licensed graphics that I back-ported from modern artists.

Come to INIT HELLO in July for the product launch. <init-hello.org/>

#AppleII #retrocomputing

I've never done #AudioMo before, but I'm hopping on the bandwagon, if a day late, this year.

This was a recording in October 2023, when @talon and I visited a lion and cheetah sanctuary on his trip to South Africa.

My father loves the sound of woodpeckers, and I thought I'd record this and send it to him.

This recording is 45 seconds of delightful, incessant pecking, with Talon saying "That was cool"right near the end. :)

Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software

🔗 404media.co/ukraines-massive-d…

Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software

Ukraine used ArduPilot to help it wipe out Russian targets. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.

^{Matthew Gault (404 Media)}

Faizan Zaki, a 13-year-old speller from Allen, Texas, is the champion of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Zaki earned the prestigious title in round 21 when he correctly spelled “éclaircissement,” which is defined as “the clearing up of something obscure: enlightenment.”

scripps.com/press-releases/fai…

Faizan Zaki declared champion of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee - Scripps

Faizan Zaki, (FAY-zahn ZAH-kee) a 13-year-old speller from Allen, Texas, is the champion of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee.

^Scripps

🎉 Some of our services are back online: source.mapcomplete.org and translate.mapcomplete.org are back online after a way to long hiatus.

You can start filing issues and help #translating again!

Weblate

This site runs Weblate for localizing various software projects.

^Weblate

hello #gnome folks! your chance to stand for board of directors elections closes in 8 hours:

"Candidacies must be announced prior to 2025-06-03, 23:59 UTC."

discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-fo…

read more about what it looks like to sit on the board (and what we need this year) here:

blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/05…

GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Elections 2025

I don’t have any affiliation at the moment. In near future as a contractor for the German government.

^{GNOME Discourse}

Did you know that entering wt into Search or Run will open Windows Terminal? 👀

Holding CTRL + Shift when you press enter will launch it as admin

@bagder : "look my open source software runs on a mars rover"
#ardupilot folks: that's cute. did it take out an A-50??

404media.co/ukraines-massive-d…

Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software

Ukraine used ArduPilot to help it wipe out Russian targets. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.

^{Matthew Gault (404 Media)}

Retain Your Control and Customize Everything with Modular Software from Purism!

The Librem 5 & Liberty Phone aren’t just modular in hardware—they’re modular in software.

From keyboards to the entire OS, YOU decide what runs on your device.

Learn More: puri.sm/posts/retain-your-cont…

The note to make on this post is the domain. Fly is an hosting company so if “AI lets us go faster” and “AI makes bad code but we’re slowing down to make it usable” (paraphrased) is their self-contradictory policy, that puts a question mark on hosting with them

fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

Also, going “many of you will lose your jobs but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” is almost admirable as a douchebag move, but it’s also the norm in tech. There is no class solidarity to speak of in tech.

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

^Fly

How many gigabytes are in a terabyte? 🧐 Whether you're managing email storage or upgrading your device, understanding digital storage is essential.

In our latest blog post we make understanding storage easy 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-many-gigabyt…

🎤 Want to speak at the forefront of secure, open communication?

The #MatrixConf2025 Call for Proposals is LIVE!

Whether it’s a cool project, research, or lessons from the field – we want to hear from you.

📩 Submit your talk: cfp.2025.matrix.org

Yesterday the "Reflection" project started officially as part of the new @PrototypeFund round! 🌟🌈

The team consists of @p2panda and people from the GNOME gang around @tbernard and @jsparber.

We gonna release "Reflection" (formerly Aardvark) - a GTK-based, collaborative, local-first text editor! Aaaand:

All of this is part of a larger effort to explore p2p code, UX patterns, reusable UI components, debugging tools, organize events and document our learnings.

#p2p #p2panda #localfirst #gtk

Hi @Friendica Support wenn ich über base.nospy.net/photos/unity/up… ein Bild hochladen möchte, dann scheitert das mit folgender Fehlermeldung:

Ich verwende folgende Version: Friendica 'Interrupted Fern' 2025.02-dev - 1580

Good morning, Great People of #AudioMO.

I did promise you poetry so, for my day 3, have a reading. I'm not a big fan of my own voice, so sorry about that. But it's one of my favourites.
Again, not a studio quality recording or anything: just me and a headset and a Braille printout (can you call Braille a printout?) in my home office.