America’s Mobile Security Crisis: Time for a Secure Alternative
ABC News reports a disturbing reality: smartphones used by U.S. officials, journalists, and tech execs are being hit by zero-click cyberattacks—many tied to Chinese state-backed hackers.
These silent intrusions bypass user interaction entirely, turning mobile phones into weapons of espionage.
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.
@leighms No. I know these people. They're well meaning and will give you the shirt off their back if you need it, but they're not very smart and they're very xenophobic except they somehow turn that off when it comes to people doing construction or milking their cows. Somehow those people are acceptable, but anyone else brown is invading our country
There's not a lot of hope for these people. If they do go to church, they're the kind that's ok with a sexual predator priest being moved to another diocese to hide their crimes. Has happened before, will happen again. So it goes...
Also they suffer from some pretty serious alcoholism. (go look up the maps, one of the worst counties in the USA for alcoholism / binge drinking)
the worst of the crazy people there are pretty well represented by these photos
Amount of hours spent to keep a default #chatmail onboarding relay with 500k active addresses running: near zero.
Glancing at stats sometimes: two million messages per day. CPU and IO load at 20% max. 500gb raid1 ssd meandering around 60 percent full. There is room for various optimizations but no big need currently.
end-to-end encryption with metadata minimization is best if servers are boring. No clustering or enterprise license needed, no "SRE team" either.
Any #networking people know how much residential ISPs pay for bandwidth these days? I wonder if mine is keeping an eye on me or if this is just normal in 2025 lol
To all Bookworm users out there: where are Bookworm books stored? With QRead, I get QRD files that I can easily move between machines for work. But I can't find where Bookworm stores books or the notes I create. Any help would be appreciated. Please boost!
@mush42 Thanks. My major Bookworm issue is that it doesn't use a single file per book. So moving data among several computers, which is typically required for many projects, is very cumbersome. It's very easy with QRead and the Kurzweil 1000, but overly difficult with Bookworm.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Users often need to read the same books across multiple machines, at home and at work. With other apps like QRead or Kurzweil 1000, we...
Our Community Office Hours is back, and this month we've taken a deep dive into our latest yearly Extended Support Release, Thunderbird 140.0 ESR "Eclipse." We're talking with our Sr. Manager of Desktop Engineering (and introducing our new Manager of Community Programs) and talking about its new features, what didn't make the cut, and why you should give our new Monthly Release a try.
@ButchH11 We're so sorry this has happened! We'll get this feedback to the team, and in the meantime, please open a support question with more details for us and our support community (who will be able to troubleshoot this better) at support.mozilla.org. Thanks!
Problem seems to be in the upgrade and that old AT&T account. I keep it since many old accounts still email that address even though I put in a different email. Generally this happens when new apps are created and don't connect to the old databases. Then old databases are used to send emails.
Working with customer service in many of them is hard since so many only use chat bots or non-working AI.
@ButchH11 We've got a workaround/solution! While we're working on an article, you should be able to follow the advice in this SUMO question to get AT&T working again: support.mozilla.org/en-US/ques…
upgraded and syncing from AT&T email worked with no changes. So has me scratching my head. Only difference is it upgraded to 140.1.0.esr and not 140.0.1esr.
Can't comment on the bug any longer or I would note that but did send an email to Toby Pilling.
The gnome she'll team gives their annual state of #GNOME Shell talk. Highlights: - Basic HDR has landed all up and down the stack (hooray!) Work is progressing on additional improvements, including color management - Many new Wayland protocols have been added, bringing QoL improvements, some gaming related - Input, including the global shortcuts portal - Accessibility improvements to reader shortcuts and visual alerts - triple buffering landed, amongst other speedups
(I'm super proud of this work we did here, and hope people understood Federico's talk. We believe we have a better way of architecting applications, and have a good testing system)
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).
Want to help us testing the upcoming Delta Chat 2.6.0 release for Android? Choose your flavor and mind your backups: 🍋 https://download.delta.chat/android/beta/deltachat-gplay-release-2.6.0.
Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data #sovereignty - theregister.com/2025/07/25/mic… "Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin" and there we have it... #trump
I just gave a talk about conference accessibility, complained about the lack of captions, and made my slides in such a way that they act as captions so you can follow even if you're deaf. I just watched the replay, my slides are hidden during the first 40% of the talk. For fuck's sake. This community can't be helped. So here are my slides: gitlab.gnome.org/uploads/-/sys…
An exciting Postgres detective story, the Matrix Community Summit next week in Berlin, and the Matrix-based TI-Messenger available to those with German health insurance - this and more happened This Week in Matrix!
Features include: a link to Panoramax street photos (where photos available), improved contour lines, color improvements for many map features, and many more.
@pietervdvn @MapComplete The image itself is not shown in the app. Instead, you get a link that brings you to the image on Panoramax. But it does include alle MapComplete images.
@Limaginaire @MapComplete Yeah, I just tested it as well. This seems like a good step into the direction of actually _showing_ the image in the app, as the data is already there. Maybe a next version?
> I have to pass 256Kb of text as an argument to the "aws sqs"
what, uhhh, what
> MAX_ARG_STRLEN is defined as 32 times the page size in linux/include/uapi/linux/binfmts.h: > The default page size is 4 KB so you cannot pass arguments longer than 128 KB. > I modified linux/include/uapi/linux/binfmts.h to #define MAX_ARG_STRLEN (PAGE_SIZE * 64), recompiled my kernel and now your code produces
casually patching the kernel to send a quarter megabyte as a *single* argument oh my god i'm laughing hard
Back when 128 kB was the limit for argv+envp, Google was hitting it too because they passed all the configuration for their whole software stack on the command line as --long-option=value switches.
Their solution? Compress the command line. So every binary started by ungzipping argv[1] and parsing it to get the configuration.
The person explaining this to me saw my horrified face, and said with the perfect Hide The Pain Harold smile: "a series of individually completely rational and reasonable decisions led to this." and I have been thinking a lot about it since.
Recall is a feature that takes screenshots of your activity throughout the day. And yes, we have a few privacy concerns about that. So we’ve added a way to block it completely.
THANK YOU! WE DID IT! Just 85 days into my Sell 100 Albums in 100 Days, we have achieved our goal! Yesterday's sale at Ampwall tipped us over the threshold to 100 album sales (including full discography sales) since release day.
Check out the album that at least 100 people were willing to pay real money for!
Trump Demands Reporters Stop Talking About Him And Epstein In New White House Scrum -- Claims 'I Have Nothing To Do With The Guy!' (Tommy Christopher/Mediaite)
Gazans are starving to death as we speak. This manufactured famine is unconscionable — a true crime against humanity. Aid MUST be let in now. This week, Standing Together organized a major protest, thousands of Palestinians and Jewish Israelis carrying sacks of flour through the streets 🧵
During WWII MANY governments knew what was going on inside Germany, but they were also engaged in a world war.
Here, there’s no excuse. Every single leader in the world KNOWS they are watching genocide (or at the very least ethnic cleansing, if they’re too squeamish for the other word).
How the fuck have they convinced themselves they can somehow tiptoe through this morally, ethically, historically.
It speaks volumes about how amoral they are, to how stupid and short sighted they are.
You know, I absolutely understand the argument that there is very little most countries (other than the US) can do to stop this. But there is something - they can call it what it is. They can stop trading with the perpetrators. They can stop pretending not to see the enormity of the atrocity.
Because this moral deficit, this failure to even be a clear-eyed witness… this is unforgivable. Historically unforgivable.
Meta to stop selling political ads in the EU from October techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/meta… The EU "mandates companies selling ads to clearly label political ads; provide information about their sponsor, the election or referendum they concern, what the ad cost, and targeting mechanisms used".
Meta is sad: “we’re seeing regulatory obligations effectively remove popular products and services from the market".
With whom is micro-targeted brainwashing popular, you shady zuckwits?
In response to the European Union's incoming regulation of political advertising, Meta said on Friday that it would stop selling and showing political ads in the EU from October 2025.
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in reply to Leigh Silvester • • •@leighms No. I know these people. They're well meaning and will give you the shirt off their back if you need it, but they're not very smart and they're very xenophobic except they somehow turn that off when it comes to people doing construction or milking their cows. Somehow those people are acceptable, but anyone else brown is invading our country
There's not a lot of hope for these people. If they do go to church, they're the kind that's ok with a sexual predator priest being moved to another diocese to hide their crimes. Has happened before, will happen again. So it goes...
Also they suffer from some pretty serious alcoholism. (go look up the maps, one of the worst counties in the USA for alcoholism / binge drinking)
the worst of the crazy people there are pretty well represented by these photos