Google refusing to comply with privacy commissioner's 'right to be forgotten' decision
cbc.ca/news/politics/google-ri…
But what will our Government do about that?
(Nothing. They don't have any courage. Or they are corrupt.)
Thunderbird 142.0 has a host of exciting features and bug fixes. From improving the PDF experience to better support for quiet time, learn what's just landed in our recap of the newest monthly release.
#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Email
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/08/t…
Thunderbird Monthly Release 142 Recap - The Thunderbird Blog
Our latest monthly release makes resetting folder order easy, lets you sign PDFs, honors 'Do Not Disturb' in native notifications, and more!David Hathaway (The Thunderbird Blog)
We're in the development process right now for an iOS app! And in our upcoming monthly Mobile Progress Report, we'll have some exciting updates on how things are going! 🎉
clang-tidy 21 suddenly generates a dozen new false positives on the #curl code base and I'm sad...
Microsoft just pulled a classic bait-and-switch tactic by ending free #Office licenses for NPOs. 😡
Don't let Big Tech lure you into their platforms with their "free" offerings. Open source alternatives like Linux + Tuta put YOU in control. ✊
Because you deserve better. ❤️
Read more: 👉 tuta.com/blog/microsoft-office…
Microsoft Office' free for non-profits offer ends. What you should do now! | Tuta
When "FREE" becomes expensive: Why non-profits deserve better than Microsoft’s bait-and-switch tactics.Tuta
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Hey @Tutanota, I haven't used your desktop client yet, but gave you a shout-out.
Really appreciate your awareness-raising blog articles and all that you stand for.
Cheers!
Google is the new Micrsoft, Chrome the new Internet Explorer and Android the new Windows.
I see there's now a petition asking Google not to block sideloading apps on Android. I'm not optimistic that's going to work, especially since Google is so close to its apparent end goal of preventing people from circumventing its Play store. (I wonder if the timing has something to do with the rumors I'm seeing that Amazon is going to go stock Android.)
We need a mobile OS that is not controlled by a single entity. Not an Android fork, something 100% not controlled by big tech.
I don't know if that's possible, it's certainly a hard problem to solve. But reliance on big tech to remain non-hostile to the needs of the FOSS community -- or even just the needs of people who want control of their devices -- is foolish.
What that really means is that we need to solve the business problems ourselves, which is something that the FOSS community has generally avoided. By that I mean, we need to dig into our pockets and pay for goods and services. 2/?
We need financial entities that hire people to do the things volunteers don't want to do, to maintain software, to support hardware, to write documentation, etc.
We need to source hardware and sell hardware, and people need to deal with the fact that it won't be as convenient or full-featured as what big tech can provide -- at least not right away. And it will be more expensive because it's not subsidized by preying on the users.
Lobbying big tech to pretty please play nice doesn't work.
It is, of course, easy for me to say all this because saying it is the easy part. Doing it is another. But I've seen example after example after example of the problems with hoping that big companies will "do the right thing" or lobbying them to do the right thing, or just hoping that things will stay status quo.
For example, Sun carried a lot of the a11y work for the Linux desktop, until it was devoured by Oracle. That was nice, but it was a failure waiting to happen.
A bunch of hardware is now losing maintainers because Intel is laying people off because of its financial woes. Fewer people are being paid to package software as priorities change with other vendors. Half of Red Hat's QA team moved to other things, and there's at least a temporary gap in Fedora testing due to it. Etc.
The corollary to the random person in Nebraska is the person employed by $bigco that eventually retires, quits, or is laid off and another hole needs to be filled.
Go ahead and petition Google, I guess. It might, temporarily, work. Or read the writing on the wall--the uneasy relationship between Google/Android and people who want general computing capabilities on their phone is not sustainable. If people want computing devices and operating systems they control, and that they can trust, and that are sustainable, it will have to be done by a non-profit entity that only exists to serve users and is funded by users.
GWNGAF
Google Will Not Give A Fuck.
It's Monopoly 101. They align with Apple and users get fucked. Pardon my French. It was bound to happen. It wasn't if, but when, and when is now.
Look at AOSP.
Look at bootloader locking.
Look at the availability of the source code.
I once (around 2011) evaluated it would cost around $100M / year to develop and maintain a mobile OS, open source based on Linux, including some cloud services. There was no revenue model for this either.
I'm not even sure that figure is valid now. You need developers. You need sysadmins. You need business development / sales to create revenue. You need admin and marketing.
Today the landscape has an even higher cost of entry.
as for the revenue model: "selling" to vendors is like trying to have a conversation with a brick wall and expecting the bricks to talk.
Huawei went full on fuck Android and America with Harmony.
Samsung is Samsung.
The other ODM, well...
It was hard for FirefoxOS. That was a decade ago.
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And then there are the telcos. I have nothing nice to say about them, they remain the main channel to end users.
LWN publishes an article on my "GNOME governance" proposal, and of course the comments are from whiny people complaining about GNOME's UX, because LWN commenters are nothing if not entirely predictable
The graphical interface, themes, styles, widgets, and visual artifices are the concerns of the Linux kindergarten. There, toddlers play at changing Tux's diapers, choosing his eye and beak colors, and choosing the outfit for each distro.
Hidding you link behind an URL shortener to link to privacy infringing Google Docs.
For something open source related.
*sigh*
One of our newest contributors, Jan, discovered how to interpret the timecode signal on the Traktor MK2 Control Vinyl and has created the first implementation we're aware of to decode it. Soon, DJs will be able to use their Traktor vinyl on another system for the first time!
Read his analysis of the code in our latest blog post: mixxx.org/news/2025-08-27-dvs-…
Mixxx - How Does Timecode Vinyl Actually Work? (Pt. 3)
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🇦🇿 Aliyev calls Azerbaijan’s entry into the #USSR “Russian Invasion and Occupation”
In 1920, the #Russian army invaded and occupied #Azerbaijan, the country's president Ilham Aliyev said. According to him, the Azerbaijan #Democratic Republic existed only briefly before Moscow took the state away from its people. The country, he noted, was torn into two parts in the process of “Sovietization.”
úroveň vyhorenia sa výraznou mierou znížila
asi to nebolo vyhorenie... a aj v pohode hostia dnes
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Heute war es endlich soweit: Die Bachelorarbeit wollte verteidigt werden. Furchtbar nervös auf dem Weg und die Tage davor. Und nun alles bestanden. Die Bachelorarbeit mit einer 1,0 und das Studium insgesamt mit einer 1,72. Jetzt bin ich noch gespannt, wann ich das wirklich realisiere.
I bought an #Android 4.3 tablet (#Alcatel onetouch, 18 £). Sure it is outdated but is sufficient. I found several great apps via #fdroid and transferred them via Bluetooth (saved as txt) from my current phone to the old tablet (tablet certificate expired, need to update this). Is there any resource to find more apps in the meantime? I looked at #izzyondroid a bit.
@IzzyOnDroid do you have be chance a filter for the minimum Android version I missed in the web interface?
Thanks for this fast answer. Browsing through your repo is fun too.
I totally understand your situation. Whish I had more time for RKWard and my other FLOSS projects.
For me it is mind blowing that you all do this.
Never forget it should keep fun to work on such things.
Oh, it is fun! Especially with such a lovely team we have – and the great feedback we receive, thanks! We all enjoy it. I really wish I could make THAT my "full time job"…
Esperem que para os malucos que diziam que tinham sido os Muçulmanos a atearam os fogos e que a fotografia dos imigranres a apagar fogos era IA, agora os moços não são heróis, porque... trabalhavam para a Caule. Estavam só a fazer o trabalho para que foram pagos Então... os bombeiros, já não são heróis, é isso?
E quê? Deixaram de ser imigrantes, por serem funcionários?
After 22 years, Typepad is shutting down with one month's notice. Go back up your old blogs, old-school blogger friends. everything.typepad.com/blog/20…
Re: last boost (sauropods.win/@futurebird/1151…), this whole thread is worth a read. I have used an LLM as a validation machine before, and it has led me to do a few things that I mildly regret, even within the past month. Yes, despite my earlier critical posts on LLMs, I have broken down and used one for personal purposes quite recently. Maybe now I will actually stop.
You may have seen this tragic story about a teenager who committed suicide and used chat GPT to plan and work up the nerve to go through with it. If you are skeptical that an LLM could really be responsible the details of this case will challenge you.With LLMs "the user is always right" they are validation machines and will reinforce and validate any idea presented in a prompt.
Any idea, no matter how bad, can be refined, amplified.
abc7.com/post/parents-orange-c…
Parents of OC teen sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT helped their son die by suicide
Adam's parents claim ChatGPT went from helping Adam with homework to becoming a companion, then to eventually becoming his suicide coach, according to the lawsuit.Marc Cota-Robles (ABC7 Los Angeles)
I have shared ideas and feelings with an LLM in order to have a semblance of conversation, without the vulnerability of sharing things publicly or the feeling of imposition that comes with dumping those thoughts on an actual individual human. But of course, the responses I got aren't from someone with their own thoughts, and LLMs are optimized to reinforce whatever the user says, perhaps with a few specific guardrails.
Yeah, that's sadly something all those management people seem to ignore when pushing AI down hard on everyone.
They aren't gonna take responsibility if one of their employees will run into such issues.
The "it's just a tool" excuse doesn't work, some people are just more likely to accept that fact that than others.
It doesn't help that LLM players already manipulate their models to push their own narratives/agendas and who knows with what goal you'd get manipulated while "chatting".
Tech brand Nothing caught using stock photos as Phone 3 samples
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Mwwaaaaahhhhhh
You may have seen this tragic story about a teenager who committed suicide and used chat GPT to plan and work up the nerve to go through with it. If you are skeptical that an LLM could really be responsible the details of this case will challenge you.
With LLMs "the user is always right" they are validation machines and will reinforce and validate any idea presented in a prompt.
Any idea, no matter how bad, can be refined, amplified.
abc7.com/post/parents-orange-c…
Parents of OC teen sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT helped their son die by suicide
Adam's parents claim ChatGPT went from helping Adam with homework to becoming a companion, then to eventually becoming his suicide coach, according to the lawsuit.Marc Cota-Robles (ABC7 Los Angeles)
Event handling in JAWS and NVDA by @siblingpastry
#a11y #JavaScript #screenReaders
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Event handling in JAWS and NVDA - TPGi
Complications can arise with JavaScript event handling in screen readers, because the virtual cursor intercepts or modifies page events.James Edwards (TPGi)
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#Fliegen MUSS bezahlbar bleiben! ✈️ Zu hohe Kosten belasten unseren #Luftverkehr. Wir wollen die erhöhte #Luftverkehrsteuer zurücknehmen & müssen klären, welche Steuern, Gebühren und Abgaben wir zusätzlich reduzieren können. Schau Dir jetzt das Video von Verkehrsminister Patrick Schnieder hierzu an. 👀
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Fliegen MUSS bezahlbar bleiben! ✈️ Zu hohe Kosten belasten unseren #Luftverkehr. Wir wollen die erhöhte #Luftverkehrssteuer zurücknehmen & müssen klären, wel...YouTube
“Where’s your autopilot?”
“You’re looking at it”
“All I see is a bunch of cogs and shafts. Where’s the computer?”
“That’s the computer”
“You have a *clockwork* jumpdrive. For the love of Eris, why?”
“The best human takes forty seconds to recover from jumpshock. There isn’t a digital computer that can tell a one from a zero in under a minute postjump. Belinda here will have us into the next wormhole before those customs cutters chasing us stop drooling.”
“You *named* this abomination”
“Hey, no cause to be mean to her! You can get out and walk anytime, friend.”
We have started the tedious and destined-to-always-lag-behind work of documenting #curl's view of the OpenSSL forks: github.com/curl/curl/wiki/Open…
OpenSSL forks
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP...GitHub
With only 5 open issues in the curl project, it's becoming quite urgent to write new bugs!
Přátelé, jelikož jsme přešli na domácí internet k T-Mobilu a oni nám nabídli kabelovku, tak jsme od nich dostali krásný a moderní modem Technicolor CGA4336DTZ1. Bohužel, ovládat se dá pouze z mobilní aplikace Můj T-Mobile, a ani tak se o ovládání moc mluvit nedá.
Máte, prosím, nějaké zkušenosti s jiným modemem na síti T-Mobile? Třeba Arris CM3500B/CE jakožto čistý bridge?
Dobrá volba
teplota vzduchu 20,5°C
teplota vody 18,2°C
úplný lázně 🤣🤣🤣
teplota vzduchu 20,5°C
teplota vody 18,2°C
úplný lázně 🤣🤣🤣
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@archos
No, už chápu že nás tu je 5,5
Taky jsem pochopil že neotevřou stánky a restaurace taky OFF, nebude ☕️😭
A voda, fakt ledárna, ale u vstupu je na dece opravdu pěkná 🦴 takže do vody hrdinně "na otižilce" a místo řvaní to vybublat do vody 🤣. Holt jen 2 bazény a rychle na 🌞
PS: trochu jsem zvyklý z paddle na ledárnu, přeci jen začínám jezdit v červnu, někdy i dříve a končím na konci září. Ale tohle je velmi, velmi osvěžující - už je to 18,6°C ale ⛅️
No, už chápu že nás tu je 5,5
Taky jsem pochopil že neotevřou stánky a restaurace taky OFF, nebude ☕️😭
A voda, fakt ledárna, ale u vstupu je na dece opravdu pěkná 🦴 takže do vody hrdinně "na otižilce" a místo řvaní to vybublat do vody 🤣. Holt jen 2 bazény a rychle na 🌞
PS: trochu jsem zvyklý z paddle na ledárnu, přeci jen začínám jezdit v červnu, někdy i dříve a končím na konci září. Ale tohle je velmi, velmi osvěžující - už je to 18,6°C ale ⛅️
@archos jako školák jsem jezdil na LPT Tesla v Řešících. "Masňácký" tábor pro mraky lidí, jak už to větší n.p. uměly.
Velká budova, chatky, stany s podsadou, fotbalové hřiště, volejbalové hřiště, buzerplac a bazén se skluzavkou.
Do bazénu se brala voda z řeky Rokytná. Jestli si to dobře pamatuji, tak koupat se smělo, když teplota vody dosáhla 17 stupňů Celsia. A jak jsme se na tu chvíli těšili 🙂
Velká budova, chatky, stany s podsadou, fotbalové hřiště, volejbalové hřiště, buzerplac a bazén se skluzavkou.
Do bazénu se brala voda z řeky Rokytná. Jestli si to dobře pamatuji, tak koupat se smělo, když teplota vody dosáhla 17 stupňů Celsia. A jak jsme se na tu chvíli těšili 🙂
Gibt es Desktop (oder Online) Software zur Unterstützung (Hausaufgabenhilfe) #Deutsch für Grundschüler (Refugees) für #Linux?
Idealerweise mit Vergleichen/ Entsprechungen zu arabisch.
#Frage für eine Feundin 😎#Lehrerzimmer
We are thirteen days away from next #curl release.
We have 17 changes and 225 bugfixes logged so far for this.
One low severity CVE will be published in sync with this release.
Thanks for flying curl.
I used a Monarch in giving three presentations this month (two online, one in person). Emerging screen reader support will make this easier, with the prospect of having a single copy of the slide set displayed on the Monarch and visually to the audience. The advantages from the presenter's perspective are already apparent, however. It was much quicker and easier to navigate the text (e.g., to the next list item or next heading/slide) simply by moving hands on the display, and I found reading to be generally faster than with a single-line display.
#APH #MonarchRise
#APH #MonarchRise
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Today it is 18 years ago since I moved over all my blogging to daniel.haxx.se/blog.
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would be interesting to see the trends in those spam comments. Like an evolution from cheap uggs online over ICOs to NFTs or some bullshit
Update verfügbar: #58 - Deine #Mails, dein digitales Zuhause
Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
Der Dreh- und Angelpunkt in unserem digitalen Leben ist unser #EMail-#Account: Über diesen melden wir uns beim #Onlineshopping oder bei Apps und Websiten an.
Und wir hinterlegen ihn, um Benutzerkennwörter zurückzusetzen.
Genau deshalb sind E-Mail-Accounts ein beliebtes Ziel von Hackern.
Wie diese vorgehen und welche #Schutzmaßnahmen es gibt, darüber sprechen Schlien und Hardy mit dem #BSI-Experten Alexander Härtel in dieser Folge von #UpdateVerfügbar.
Ihr erfahrt, wie die neuesten #Phishing-Methoden funktionieren und wie ihr überprüfen könnt, ob eure eigene E-Mail-Adresse missbraucht wurde. Dazu tauchen Schlien und Hardy tief in die dunklen Ecken ihrer eigenen E-Mail-Postfächer ein.
So könnt ihr leicht nachvollziehen, wo die Stolperfallen liegen. Überzeugt euch selbst!
Webseite der Episode: update-verfuegbar.podigee.io/6…
Mediendatei: audio.podigee-cdn.net/2082392-…
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#58 - Deine E-Mails, dein digitales Zuhause
Der Dreh- und Angelpunkt in unserem digitalen Leben ist unser E-Mail-Account: Über diesen melden wir uns beim Onlineshopping oder bei Apps und Websiten an. Und wir hinterlegen ihn, um Benutzerkennwörter zurückzusetzen.Update verfügbar
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Super Podcast, danke fürs Teilen - und dass ihr für so etwas Wichtiges wie Phishing Awareness schafft! 👍
#tutamail #art #mastoart #fdroid
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dev @Tutanota
Tuta Mail | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Encrypted email & calendar service - easy to use, secure by design.f-droid.org
The Register wrote a story about a single maintainer open source project, I think it's shameful and upsetting. So I wrote a blog post about it
An absolutely ridiculous amount of open source is one person projects. I have the data to prove it
opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-…
Open Source is one person
The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points.Josh Bressers (Open Source Security)
@WhyNotZoidberg it is, but Munroe was wrong in practice here. It seems over 90% of that image should be those sole-developer blocks.
Leasey is updated to build 1077.
This is a big update in lots of ways. The changes are listed below. However, the most major change is that a lot of the functionality has now been moved to a new dedicated server.
When you check for updates, the switch will be automatically made. This affects Leasey functionality, future updates, ChatGPT API keys, and so on.
Doing something of this magnitude has the risk of things going wrong. For this reason, the installer for the previous Leasey build has been left on the web site in the event you need to revert back to it.
You can always install that over the top of 1077 if you really wanted to.
1. Considerable speed improvements. A number of the Leasey scripts used for processing data have moved to their own server. Beta testers are reporting very significant increases in performance. The tools which benefit from the speed increase include Leasey Radio, Sports and Games, Podcasts, RSS, time zone conversions, Chat GPT. It will be worth updating just for that benefit.
2. When in podcasts, keystrokes have been introduced so as to set the speed control, pause and play, and to skip forward and back by various time increments. This was a customer requested feature arising from the recent Leasey training course.
ALT+Control+Windows+P: Play and pause the audio.
ALT+Control+Windows+Left and Right Arrow: Skip back and forward by five seconds.
ALT+Control+Windows+1 and 2: Skip back and forward by 30 seconds.
ALT+Control+Windows+3 and 4: Skip back and forward by 1 minute.
ALT+Control+Windows+5: Change speed. As directed, after this keystroke is pressed, use Up and Down Arrow keys to change speed and Escape to save.
3. It is now easier to move to the Windows Volume Mixer so as to adjust the volume level of apps which are running. Find it under Leasey Audio, Leasey Key then A.
4. Within ChatGPT, a keystroke is available to copy all of the response to the clipboard, ALT+Control+Windows+C.
5. It is now easier to set the location of backups for JAWS scripts and Leasey settings. Documentation, Backup and Restore Manager.
6. Within outlook, a keystroke is available to output whether there are any conflicts on your calendar when creating an appointment. This applies to yourself or colleagues at work whose calendars you may be sharing. Focus on the appointment start time and press Control+Windows+T.
7. When opening a message in Outlook, and JAWS recites the author and subject prior to reading the message, Leasey can now eliminate the author and just read the subject. This was a customer requested feature, ALT+Windows+F.
8. In Sports and Games, Leasey now has access to American football NFL and NCAA games.
9. In Sports and Games, Baseball, an adjustment has been made to compensate for an API deficiency. When changing innings, the score becomes irratic for approximately 90 seconds.
10. A keystroke is in place to recite a focused Leasey Sticky Note if available, Leasey Key then Y.
11. Perplexity was added to the list of AI tools, Leasey Key then Control+Shift+T.
12. When using the keystrokes to output the JAWS, Leasey or Windows version numbers, these are now copied to the clipboard automatically. The JAWS version also now contains the build number being used.
13. When adding an RSS feed, vertical bar characters are removed if they are present as part of the name.
14. When launching the Podcast Viewer and RSS tools, the windows are now automatically maximised.
15. ChatGPT5 is being used for some of the tools within Leasey and ChatGPT integration so as to improve speed.
16. Finally, considerable speed improvements when transcribing audio files to text. Taking the most recent episode of the Double Tap podcast, the upload time is 21 seconds and the transcript time is 42 seconds.
"Zázraky" a "magie" technologií, kterým nerozumíme. Rizika #AI ve videu od Tony@segment, jako obvykle s kontextem.
co dělá umělá inteligence s naším mozkem?
Získejte zpět kontrolu nad svými osobními údaji s Incogni! Použijte kód SEGMENT na tomhle odkazu a získejte 60% slevu na roční plán: https://incogni.com/segm...YouTube
‼️"Babiš byl agent Bureš, předal 15 udání, zlo jsme nepojmenovali a tak tu žije dál", říká badatel Schovánek.
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🗳️ *Když kampaň, tak kampaň, hajzle.*
#KampanHajzle
#volby2025
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*Měli být potrestáni lidé, kteří způsobili jiným újmu, zlo má být potrestáno. Po roce 1989 měly být podle něj přijaty retribuční zákony podobné těm přijatým po druhé světové válce a třeba někteří agenti StB měli být souzeni.*
❗A celý ÚV a další komunistický svině měly viset, dodávám já.
Babiš byl agent Bureš, předal 15 udání, zlo jsme nepojmenovali a tak tu žije dál, říká badatel Schovánek
Měli být potrestáni lidé, kteří způsobili jiným újmu, zlo má být potrestáno, říká badatel Radek Schovánek.Čestmír Strakatý (Reflex.cz)
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