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In a recent CNN report, skepticism surrounds the Trump Organization’s claim that its new “T1” smartphone is “Made in the USA.”

Experts, including Todd Weaver, CEO of Purism, challenged the claim, citing striking similarities between the T1 and a low-cost Chinese phone, the Revvl 7 Pro 5G, made by Wingtech, a Chinese manufacturer.

Weaver emphasized the logistical and technical difficulty of building a phone in the U.S.

See the interview at Purim: puri.sm/posts/cnn-report-puris…


CNN Report: Purism is the Only Known U.S. Phone Manufacturer – 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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Hey #fedihelp,

I'm struggling with an #Android #widget issue, and I was wondering if anyone had any clue.

Basically: I have a widget with a grid of items. I want the items in the grid to stick to a certain aspect ratio, regardless of the widget width. The height should dynamically adjust so it always stays that aspect ratio. Normally I would use a ConstraintLayout, but that doesn't seem supported on widgets and I cannot find any good alternative.

Code here: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Thank you!

Widget with all cards by realwk · Pull Request #2566 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Added grid-style widget for all cards Changed card view background to fill it with color even if there is picture
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#android #fedihelp #widget

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Sylvia

I ended up settling on just hardcoding an exact size for each grid entry in "dp", then scaling it up until it "felt right" and going with that. It should work. I'm still annoyed Android widgets are so limiting but well, this will be good enough to ship I think.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Now for a good night's rest and then some final cleanups after work. Then this can probably be shipped with the next release :)


Widget with all cards by realwk · Pull Request #2566 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Added grid-style widget for all cards Changed card view background to fill it with color even if there is picture
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Hey fedi,

I'm struggling with an #Android #widget issue, and I was wondering if anyone had any clue.

Basically: I have a widget with a grid of items. I want the items in the grid to stick to a certain aspect ratio, regardless of the widget width. The height should dynamically adjust so it always stays that aspect ratio. Normally I would use a ConstraintLayout, but that doesn't seem supported on widgets and I cannot find any good alternative.

Code here: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Thank you!

Widget with all cards by realwk · Pull Request #2566 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Added grid-style widget for all cards Changed card view background to fill it with color even if there is picture
GitHub
#android #widget

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I mostly keep checking in with the Wirecutter to watch the progress of their descent from once-great recommendation site to clickbait and Amazon spam farm.

Today they have a whole article recommending using a scythe to cut your grass (you read that right). The whole thing is full of details that SCREAM that it's the worst lawn tool idea ever, along with a link to buy one from Lee Valley Tools for a couple hundred bucks. nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews…


My Neighbors Stared. I Cut My Lawn With a Scythe Anyway.

Avid scythers praise this ancient mowing tool for its quiet, meditative workout. Our writer wondered if it was an exercise in self-denial.
Liam McCabe (Wirecutter)

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 11 updated and 1 added apps:

* LoveLaceAV: a fork of the Hypatia malware scanner 🛡️

5 #Magisk modules were updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

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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A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choosing-vp…

Choosing the VPN That's Right for You

VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network.” When you connect to a VPN, all data that you send (such as the requests to servers when browsing the web) appears to originate from the VPN itself, rather than your internet service provider (ISP).
ssd.eff.org
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Sean Randall

I'm always dubious of these claims. Tom says it’s also proven to be extremely reliable. In fact, I haven’t experienced any outages in my two years of being with the carrier — unlike T-Mobile and Verizon.

They're an MVNO. Verizon are still providing the infrastructure.
I'm all for virtualising; I use an MVNO myself, but claiming reliability differences across the same physical hardware is always a flag.

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“Brief Note on Figure and Figcaption Support”
adrianroselli.com/2025/01/brie…

Unofficial sequel: “Don’t Wrap Figure in a Link”
adrianroselli.com/2025/01/brie…

#HTML #accessibility #a11y


Brief Note on Figure and Figcaption Support

I am not going to dive into the details of
and
. Go read Scott’s 2019 post How do you figure? for an overview. That said, since Scott’s post there has been movement on the AAPI mapping (partly by Scott).
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility #html

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@thunderbird@mastodon.online Thunderbird Desktop不显示网易邮箱的系统文件夹，Thunderbird Mobile却不会这样，这是网易那边的问题还是你们这边的问题？

网易免费邮箱 - 你的专业电子邮局

网易免费邮箱，你的专业电子邮局，提供以@163.com、@126.com和@yeah.net为后缀的免费邮箱。超过20年邮箱运营经验，系统快速稳定安全，支持超大附件和网盘服务。网易邮箱官方App“邮箱大师”帮您高效处理邮件，支持所有邮箱，并可在手机、Windows和Mac上多端协同使用。
email.163.com
@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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A few years ago, I spent some time reading through apologies (or defenses of the faith) from the early church. It helped me to understand how Christians who were persecuted in the Roman empire related to society.

In short, they saw themselves as exiles who were to submit to authorities established by God, in obedience to Paul and Peter's instructions in the New Testament.

As both a Christian and a U.S. citizen living in the 21st century, it can be hard for me to relate to the mindset that they had at that time. It was very helpful for me to read these people's arguments so that I could have better perspective on how to relate to a society and governmental power structure that was anti-Christian.

These writings are freely available online.

Athenagoras (Plea for Christians): newadvent.org/fathers/0205.htm

Epistle to Diognetus (see chapters 5 and 6): newadvent.org/fathers/0101.htm

Tertullian, Apology
(see chapters 30, 37, and 50): newadvent.org/fathers/0301.htm

This dynamic changed after Constantine. Then, you had people like John Chrysostom who no longer needed to defend the faith, but rather criticize the nominally Christian government for their immoral actions.

It's hard to know which context to apply today. Maybe both?

CHURCH FATHERS: Epistle to Diognetus (Mathetes)

Featuring the Church Fathers, Catholic Encyclopedia, Summa Theologica and more.
www.newadvent.org

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Here's the full postmortem of the nightmare postgres corruption on matrix.org which caused room corruption over the last few weeks: matrix.org/blog/2025/07/postgr… We'd like to apologise to everyone who got bitten by the incident.

How we discovered, and recovered from, Postgres corruption on the matrix.org homeserver

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Richard van der Hoff (matrix.org)

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📣 Public Service Announcement to all our Spanish(-speaking) users 🇪🇸

Episodes from Radio Nacional de España cannot be downloaded. RNE decided to block our app specifically.

Journalist @james contacted the Director Radio of RTVE to ask for clarifications. In response, they have said they will 'review our case'. We are yet to receive a reply to the email we sent last week. Keep an eye out for updates on our social media.

Details 👇

podnews.net/article/rne-blocks…

#RNE #OpenPodcasting #PodNews #RTVE


Spanish broadcaster RNE breaks open RSS apps

The broadcaster has decided to block a free podcast app without notice.
James Cridland (Podnews)
#rne #OpenPodcasting #podnews #rtve @James Cridland

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“ #Facebook and #Instagram owner Meta Platforms has indicated it won’t be signing on to the European Union’s voluntary ✨ #AI Code of Practice, which includes restrictions on how AI companies can collect #Copyrighted content.”

musicbusinessworldwide.com/met…


Meta rejects EU’s AI Code of Practice, even as AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI say they will sign on

The EU’s Code of Practice restricts how tech companies can collect copyrighted content to train their AI.
Daniel Tencer (Music Business Worldwide)
#facebook #Instagram #AI #copyrighted

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So the EU is better than Switzerland - amazing news, given the source. 😉

Background on the Swiss surveillance law that's worse than the US: 👉 tuta.com/blog/switzerland-surv…

Thanks @jonah @chillybot for tagging us.

= Jonah Aragon @jonah@neat.computer posted here: https://mastodon.social/@jonah@neat.computer/114902990636685184 Buried in Proton's Al announcement [proton me] today is a pretty shocking detail about their service: "Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals [www.tdg.ch] to introduce mass surveillance — proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will be the first product to move." Preview of the Proton blo

Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US | Tuta

Revision of Swiss surveillance law VÜPF would directly target VPN & encrypted chat and email providers based in Switzerland.
Tuta
@Chilly 🛡️ @Jonah Aragon

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Inc Hulk 🧪

Being pro-privacy, I opened both Tuta & Proton accounts to compare. Like almost all the expert reviews they seem very similar overall (pluses & minus points are not important to me).
The deciding factor came down to Tuta making adverts about 'issues' with Proton, whereas I have never seen anything negative about Tuta from Proton.
The current politics is to gouge the opposition, but I prefer the guys who don't so it.

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And today we're happy to announce that we've been interviewed by the @gnulinux podcast (German). Listen now! 👉 gnulinux.ch/ciw145-podcast


Captain it's Wednesday - Folge 145 - Tuta

Folge 145 des CIW Podcasts. Verschlüsselte E-Mails, Kalender und Kontakte
GNU/Linux.ch
@GNU/Linux.ch

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"Since then I learned how well curl project is maintained. How quickly issues are addressed and how many work is put to have all needed resources for users of curl. What a project! What a tool! What an author! Thank you!"

soon 10,000 days old

github.com/curl/curl/discussio…


curl turns 10,000 days · curl curl · Discussion #17930

On August 5 2025, it is exactly 10,000 days since March 20 1998 when the first curl release was done. For this occasion we want to collect fun, exciting, or interesting stories that involve curl an...
GitHub

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GNU/Linux.ch: CIW145 - #Tuta #Tutanota #Mail

Interview: Tuta
Begrüssung und Vorstellung von Hanna Bozakov
Wer ist und was macht die Firma Tutao GmbH und warum heisst sie nicht Tuta GmbH?
Wie steht ihr zu den Themen Ethik, Nachhaltigkeit, Open Source, Zusammenarbeit mit der Community?
Was sind die USPs eurer Lösung?
Wie kann man mit Tuta Mail verschlüsselt mit anderen kommunizieren, die kein Tuta Mail verwenden?
Man kennt euch in erster Linie als E-Mail-Provider. Wie differenziert ihr euch von Mailbox.org oder Proton Mail? Seht ihr euch als Konkurrenten oder gibt es ein Zusammenspiel auf dem europäischen Markt?
Wie seht ihr Bestrebungen der EU Privatsphäre zu untergraben, Stichwort Chatkontrolle?
Welche Rolle spielt die Tutao GmbH im Rennen um das europäische Souveränitätsbestreben?
Welche Zielgruppe sprecht ihr mit eurem Angebot an?
Gibt es Pläne für weitere Produkte?
Verabschiedung

Webseite der Episode:
gnulinux.ch/ciw145-podcast

Mediendatei: gnulinux.ch/podcast/CIW145.mp3

@Tutanota

@gnulinux


Captain it's Wednesday - Folge 145 - Tuta

Folge 145 des CIW Podcasts. Verschlüsselte E-Mails, Kalender und Kontakte
GNU/Linux.ch
#mail #tutanota #tuta @Tuta @GNU/Linux.ch

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A Windows sysadmin tool that more people should know about is the Magic Number Database at magnumdb.com

This database is great for pasting weird Windows hexadecimal errors into and finding out what they might mean.

Example from today, I got 0x80d02002 during a Windows update. Magnumdb tells me that this result corresponds to DO_E_DOWNLOAD_NO_PROGRESS, so now I know it's probably because an update server isn't responding.

#Windows #SysadminLife


The Magic Number Database | MagnumDB

The Magic Number Database. Type a value and it will return the corresponding constant, and vice versa. Contains 360,000 values!
www.magnumdb.com
#Windows #sysadminlife

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Is Google’s AI secretly reading your private texts?

Here’s what’s really happening—and how to stop it before it’s too late.

MSM reported that Google silently activated a controversial update: its Gemini AI began scanning popular third-party apps like WhatsApp and Messages on Android devices.

While Google claims this “helps with daily tasks,” it also exposes an uncomfortable truth about AI data harvesting.

Read more at Purism: puri.sm/posts/is-googles-ai-re…

Is Google’s AI Reading Your Private Messages? Why It’s Time to Consider a Secure Alternative – 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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Ian Hislop calls arrest of man holding Private Eye cartoon at Gaza protest ‘mind-boggling’ | Protest | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

Ian Hislop calls arrest of man holding Private Eye cartoon at Gaza protest ‘mind-boggling’

Jon Farley arrested under Terrorism Act at Leeds demonstration for holding sign making joke about Palestine Action ban
Robyn Vinter (The Guardian)
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