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Oops! AI did it again... you're not that innocent.

Nectar, a 'crime-predicting' system developed with #Palantir, could be rolled out nationally after a pilot with Bedfordshire police (UK).

Data such as race, sex life, trade union membership, philosophical beliefs and health are used to 'predict' criminality so people can be targeted for #surveillance.

inews.co.uk/news/police-use-co…

#SafetyNotSurveillance #policing #police #AI #ukpolitics #ukpol #criminaljustice #precrime #predictivepolicing


Police use controversial AI tool that looks at people’s sex lives and beliefs

Senior MPs and privacy campaigners have expressed alarm at the deployment of Palantir’s AI-powered crime-fighting software with access to sensitive personal information
Mark Wilding (The i Paper)
#AI #surveillance #ukpol #palantir #police #ukpolitics #criminaljustice #safetynotsurveillance #policing #precrime #predictivepolicing
in reply to Open Rights Group

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Open Rights Group

'Crime-predicting' tech leads to more over-policing of Black, racialised, lower income and migrant communities.

It automates unjust stop and searches, harassment, handcuffing and use of force.

Sign and share our petition to BAN it ⬇️

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…

#SafetyNotSurveillance #policing #police #AI #surveillance #ukpolitics #ukpol #criminaljustice #precrime #predictivepolicing


Ban ‘Crime Predicting’ Police Tech

The Lie  AI and police tech don’t predict crime - they predict policing. These technologies are built on existing, flawed, police data.
38 Degrees
#AI #surveillance #ukpol #police #ukpolitics #criminaljustice #safetynotsurveillance #policing #precrime #predictivepolicing
in reply to Matthew Garrett

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Jason J.G. White

@matt I use Orca to make a Linux desktop environment accessible. As of GNOME 48, thanks to excellent development work, I’m running a Wayland session without noticing any substantive differences from the accessibility I used to have in an X11 session. I appreciate there are still some missing features to be worked out, but nothing that I personally rely on under normal circumstances is missing at this stage of development. I hope the work continues and that other desktop environments take it up.
@Matt Campbell

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in reply to The Yangsi Michael Dillon

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Jason J.G. White

The “missing features” refer to the Wayland transition. I happen to disagree with you regarding Orca in general, but that isn’t the question presently under discussion. The main missing feature I am aware of is that simulated pointer events (i.e., simulated mouse clicks) aren’t available in Orca under Wayland sessions, but are supported by X11. Corrections are welcome if this limitation no longer holds, as I haven’t kept up with all of the discussions taking place. As a more general comment, and as an observer of Orca development for many years, I note that most of the bugs turn out not to be in Orca, but instead reside in GUI libraries, desktop environments or applications. Orca itself is well maintained and has undergone worthwhile development recently. The problem is that bugs and regressions in desktop environments and applications are either not addressed or not resolved quickly enough. We need more development effort in accessibility across those components.
in reply to Vagina Museum

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Vagina Museum

Around menopause (known as perimenopause), your brain is doing some interesting things. First of all, the brain is reactive to hormones such as oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone. Changing levels of these hormones around menopause affects how your brain processes information and emotions.

The other thing that's going on in your brain around menopause is that it is literally rewiring itself! There are differences between a pre- and post-menopausal brain!

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The Wayback Machine managed to capture a Linux Journal article about the Arch Linux distribution's plan to switch to "rye-init" before whatever human intelligence remains there figured out that "rye-init" does not actually exist.

The Linux Journal predates LWN by some years and was, for a long time, the definitive read for Linux users. The Don Marti ( @dmarti ) years were especially noteworthy. It is sad to see where it has ended up now.

web.archive.org/web/2025061800…

Arch Linux Breaks New Ground: Official Rust Init System Support Arrives | Linux Journal

web.archive.org
@Don Marti

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Long before the internet, some phone networks were hackable by playing a single tone at 2600Hz.

Whistled into a phone, it could grant you unrestricted access. Do you have the vocal chops to be an old-school phone phreak?

I built a web app to test your ability to produce the legendary frequency. You won't get free long distance calls but you will get some honor in the knowledge that you could have been a cool hacker. 😎

I am sad to say that I can only whistle up to 1100Hz... But my wife (a long time woodwind player) is able to consistently get it.

Give it a try: phreak.kmcd.dev/

#phreaking #2600Hz #bluebox #RetroComputing #hacker #infosec #Tech


Phone Phreak Emulator

Test your phreaking skills by hacking this phone line.
phreak.kmcd.dev
#infosec #tech #retrocomputing #hacker #phreaking #2600hz #bluebox
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Mild swearing

Sensitive content

#audiomo

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Open Document Format (ODF) is the standard format for #LibreOffice. Learn about ODF compliance and interoperability in our latest blog post: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #openstandards

Understanding ODF compliance and interoperability - The Document Foundation Blog

The Open Document Format (ODF) is an open standard format for office documents, which offers a vendor-independent, royalty-free way to encode text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice #openstandards

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One of Forbes’ renowned 100 lists has just recognised NV Access as a global leader in accessibility.

Forbes’ first-ever Accessibility 100 highlights the biggest innovators & impact-makers in the field of accessibility.

“It’s an honour to be recognised alongside the world’s best innovative organisations advancing accessibility” said NV Access Co-Founder, Mick Curran.

The Forbes Accessibility 100 List is at: forbes.com/lists/accessibility…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y #Forbes #Top100 #BestOf2025

NV Access logo top-left and mockup of NVDA box bottom right, with "ACCESSIBILITY 100" in turquoise diagonally from lower-left to top-right with turquoise lines above and below. 2025 in orange in blank area below, orange tinge in lower-left background and orange border top and right.
#a11y #Accessibility #nvdasr #nvda #forbes #top100 #bestof2025

Cleverson has moved reshared this.

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EDIT: In response to this post @anewsocial has clarified their instance level opt-in. See: mastodon.online/@mastodonmigra…

NOTICE: Your account may soon be bridged to #Bluesky whether or not you want it to be.

According to @LaurensHof's excellent Fediverse Report (fediversereport.com/fediverse-…) changes have been made to the Bluesky bridge.

"Bridgy Fed, the bridging software that connects ActivityPub with ATProto, has gotten an update where server admins can opt-in to the bridge for their entire server."


Fediverse Report – #121

Developers of the WordPress ActivityPub talks about how they plan to make WordPress websites a full member of the fediverse, videos of FediForum available, and bridging to Bluesky op a per-server basis.
fediversereport.com
#bluesky @Laurens Hof @A New Social
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Linux is 2nd class citizen in ZFS world. No ZFS Boot Environments - no GRUB for modern ZFS pools - no distro with installer support for ZFS on root and BE setup.

Why then #FreeBSD would downgrade to Linux level on ANY level?

Its insane for me.

Details:
github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src…

Enable relatime by default · freebsd/freebsd-src@fbc210f

Linux sets relatime on mount by default for any file system, but relatime=off in ZFS disables it explicitly. Let's be consistent with other file systems on Linux. Reviewed-by: Brian Behl...
GitHub
#freebsd

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Legendary Radio Host Dr. Demento Announces Retirement After 55 Years cordcuttersnews.com/legendary-…

Legendary Radio Host Dr. Demento Announces Retirement After 55 Years | Cord Cutters News

In a bittersweet moment for fans of novelty music and radio history, Barry “Dr. Demento” Hansen, the iconic host of The Dr. Demento Show, announced his retirement at age 84, closing a 55-year chapter of broadcasting that began in 1970.
Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)

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The Release Candidate (RC) of NVDA 2025.1.2 is now available for download and testing. This release includes a fix for a crash in certain Microsoft Word versions before version 16.0.18226 on opening.

Full info and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1-…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Beta #NewVersion #PreRelease #MicrosoftOffice #Office #Microsoft

NV Access | NVDA 2025.1.2rc1 available for testing

www.nvaccess.org
#screenreader #microsoft #nvdasr #office #nvda #beta #microsoftoffice #newversion #prerelease

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"Bill C-2 is not a border bill. It is a power grab and an attack on fundamental human rights and civil liberties."

thecanadianpressnews.ca/politi…

#BillC2 #ElbowsUp #Canada #CDNPoli


Hundreds of groups call on Ottawa to scrap border bill over privacy, rights concerns

OTTAWA - More than 300 civil society organizations are calling on the Liberal government to withdraw its new border bill, saying the legislation threatens liberties, refugee and migrant rights and
thecanadianpressnews.ca
#canada #cdnpoli #elbowsup #billc2

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Sometimes sqlite really is shit

I have a lot of repos in my private gitea server because I mirror repos I care about accessing locally

well, it's come to the point where loading my dashboard after login takes somewhere between 4-8 seconds to render the page... the template it says renders in a dozen or so milliseconds, but the page portion is really high

so I enabled all the redis caching options.

It got better. 1.5 - 2 seconds now.

I just migrated the gitea database to my postgresql server

Now it loads in 25ms

Like holy shit batman, that's a world of difference

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Looks like I picked the wrong week to start using Friendica.

Crashes across all interfaces, takes forever to load. Maybe, if you collapsed all comments by default, just maybe it wouldn't be crunching so hard. Bluesky integration fails completely. Oh well, seemed perfect for me, in the abstract. I learned quite a lot about the potential. Think I just need to make Mastodon my one stop-shop instead.

@helpers @admins

#Friendica #Fediverse

#friendica #fediverse @Friendica Support @Friendica Admins
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in reply to Eric Bono

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wilhelm

there is an issue tracking the performance trouble with friendica.world: github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/14947
It has been addressed in github.com/friendica/friendica/pull/14974
The patch is not yet live on friendica.world though.

Query tuning: NOT IN

Bug Description There are queries using 'NOT IN' which are performing badly when the tables have millions of rows. Steps to Reproduce explain SELECT `uri-id` FROM `post` WHERE (NOT `uri-id` IN (SEL...
ruudschilders (GitHub)

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Post-Compromise Security and Forward Secrecy don't seem to be helping out the people who have their Signal chats entered into evidence in court though
RT: furry.engineer/users/soatok/st…

Soatok Dreamseeker (@soatok@furry.engineer)

And the reason I will not be kind is simple: The people doing this are actively peddling Security Theater when they tell people to use something less-cryptographically-secure than Signal.
Furry.Engineer - Duct tape, hotfixes, and poor soldering!

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itslinuxfoss.com/install-dpkg-…
this is the worst article i have ever seen

Though the dpkg manager comes pre-installed on Ubuntu, it is ready to use, but if it is not installed, it can be installed from the default repository of Ubuntu.


no not really I mean, apt relies on dpkg to install packages if you don't have dpkg installed there is nothing that is going to be able to install dpkg. I mean dpkg literally ships as a .deb usually these systems are bootstrapped by debootstrap wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap you can't just install dpkg without dpkg (unless you have another package manager but ubuntu is famous for using well apt and dpkg)


How to Install dpkg on Ubuntu 22.04

To install the dpkg on Ubuntu 22.04, run the command “sudo apt install dpkg”. You can use the “-i”/“-r” options to install/remove packages using dpkg.
Saryia (Its Linux FOSS)
in reply to Jan Penfrat

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Jan Penfrat

Just listening to the speech of the @EUCommission's DG Connect Director Thibaut Kleiner, who celebrates #FOSS and the global ecosystem of #opensource developers as well as the #NGI programme but somehow his convictions seem to not be enough for the Commission to massively scale up investments in the #digitalcommons. What am I missing? 🤔

#NGIForum25

#foss #opensource #ngi #digitalcommons #ngiforum25 @European Commission
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in reply to Jan Penfrat

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Jan Penfrat

So cool to now also see @matrix's @Amandine at #NGIForum25 to speak about sovereign and secure messaging #infrastructure (and strongly warn against the nationalist version of the digital #sovereignty narrative 💪):

"Does self-sufficiency even make sense in a globalised and digitised world?"

EU tech Brussels really has come a long way :) 🎉

Photo of large video screen with Amandine Le Pape speaking on it.
#infrastructure #sovereignty #ngiforum25 @The Matrix.org Foundation @Amandine

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“The ban is causing very significant harm to trans children and young people and, consequently, there can be no justification for it.”

I mean, any honest person who's even vaguely paid attention to such things could've told you that.
thepinknews.com/2025/06/19/pub…


Puberty blockers ban causing ‘extensive’ harm to trans youth, study shows

Trans youth are reportedly feeling more suicidal since the UK banned puberty blockers indefinitely, a study suggests.
Amelia Hansford (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)

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"On Saturday, June 14th, Arturo Gamboa was attending the "No Kings" protest in downtown Salt Lake City. He was there armed, within his legal rights, and peacefully protesting. During the event, the "peacekeepers" hired by Utah 50501 to control the crowds at the event opened fire on the crowd, shooting both Arturo and Arthur "Afa" Folasa Ah Loo who was tragically killed by the stray bullet.

Due to the tragic loss of life, Arturo was unjustly arrested and is currently being held by Salt Lake County sheriffs department. They are holding him regardless of the fact that his weapon was never fired, his gun barrel was never pointed anywhere but the ground, and the bullet that tragically caused the death of Ah Loo was fired from the gun held by hired "peacekeeper."

givebutter.com/gamboafundraise…

Photo of Arturo Gamboa that says "Arturo Gamboa Legal Fund"

Gamboa Legal Fundraiser

Fundraiser for Arturo Gamboa and the Gamboa family
Arturo Gamboa legal fund
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