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This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.

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ETSC: Mutual recognition deal with U.S. will cost lives on Europe’s roads

By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the United States, the European Union has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice…
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There's an old Soviet #joke, which thanks to neoliberalism, applies in several countries now :

A man goes to a newspaper stand every day, buys a copy of Pravda, glances at the front cover, curses, and throws it away.

After a few weeks of this the seller just has to ask what's going on: "why do you always look at the cover but never inside?"

"I'm looking for an obituary."

"An obituary? But those are in the back!"

"Oh no, the obituary I'm looking for will be on the front page."

#joke
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SPEED KILLS.

Montrealer received a $2,340 fine after police caught them traveling at 196 km/h in a 70 km/h zone along Autoroute 15, near Edouard-Montpetit Boulevard, before 2:45AM Saturday.

The driver neglected to bring their driver’s licence w/ them and was issued another $520 ticket.

In addition to the fine$ the driver will receive 30 demerit points, the vehicle will be impounded for 30 days, and the driver is prohibited from driving for 7 days.

ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/mo… #speedkills


Montreal man fined nearly $3K for driving 196km/h in 70 zone

A 24-year-old man will have to dish out $2,860 in fines after police caught him speeding along Highway 15 in Montreal early Saturday.
Erika Morris (CTVNews)
#speedkills
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Matt Campbell

Pretty much not at all. I've listened to audiobook versions of non-fiction books that probably do have references, but they're not mentioned by the narrator. That's for commercial audiobooks. Recordings made specifically for blind people, at least here in the U.S. by the National Library Service talking book program and Recording for the Blind (now Learning Ally), were better about this, at least when I was in high school and college.

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Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.

GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.

Cookie notices are *malicious compliance* by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.

If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re using third-party cookies to track people – i.e., if you’re sharing their data with others – then *you must have their consent to do so*. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesn’t mandate a cookie notice.

How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasn’t malicious compliance?

You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your site’s settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that “feature”.

Boom!

No cookie notice necessary.

What’s that?

But that would destroy your business because your business is founded on the fundamental mechanic of violating people’s privacy?

Good.

Your business doesn’t deserve to exist.

Because the real bullshit here isn’t EU legislation that protects the human right to privacy, it’s the toxic Silicon Valley/Big Tech business model of farming people for data that violates everyone’s privacy and opens the door to technofascism.

infosec.exchange/@codinghorror…

Jeff Atwood

2025-08-30 22:54:27

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Look, EU, it is difficult to take you seriously when you forced all this cookie notification bullshit on us. That feature a) should not exist and b) if it did, should be a BROWSER feature not "every website in the entire world now has to bother everyone forever about this stupid thing" blog.codinghorror.com/breaking…


Breaking the Web’s Cookie Jar

The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here’s how it works: * Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network.
Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror)
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Look, EU, it is difficult to take you seriously when you forced all this cookie notification bullshit on us. That feature a) should not exist and b) if it did, should be a BROWSER feature not "every website in the entire world now has to bother everyone forever about this stupid thing" blog.codinghorror.com/breaking…

Breaking the Web’s Cookie Jar

The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here’s how it works: * Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network.
Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror)
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scy

@javier Websites that don't use cookies are not involved. Neither are websites that only use cookies that are _required_ for the website to function, e.g. session tokens.

It's only when you'd like to use cookies to track users and deliver personalized ads that you have to deal with this stuff.

It's a choice.

Most websites simply don't choose the privacy-friendly option.

@javier
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Claudius

@scy @javier one of the big problems nobody talks about: tech is largely only explained by entities who have no incentive to explain it *well*.

Google, Meta, large ad networks are all like "stupid EU makes us do Cookie banner".

While the actual regulation is actually pretty good. The regulation is basically "don't fuck around with user data. But if you do, you at least need to tell the user".

@scy @javier
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

for those who just want to browse the catalog: until fixed, you can use apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?repo=m… (should images not load, it's because they would be loaded from f-droid.org. If you reload the page, another mirror should be picked for those, and images should show up again. A little lottery: you might hit a slow mirror then 🙈 But you can browse the catalog.)

F-Droid Main Repository

The official F-Droid Free Software repository. Everything in this repository is always built from the source code.
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Greetings all. I was really excited about the new music mix feature in Spotify for premium user’s. Unfortunately my excitement was short lived. This feature is not accessible and as Spotify have demonstrated time and time again, they do not care about accessibility. What really frustrates me with Spotify is when you try and lodge an accessibility bug with Spotify support, they have no idea what you are referring to and they always tell you to go and write on their community forums which also are not that accessible. I have given up on Spotify as a company and will no longer pay for Spotify premium. Accessibility has been a problem for years with Spotify so I will stick with Apple Music. Their support for those interested is now chat based via a website and although it is accessible, it’s a pain to get started with support. Very disappointed with Spotify as a company.

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Is there any ARM64 SoC that can boot to Linux without either requiring a DRAM controller initialization/training blob or punting the whole boot process to a second processor running wholly closed firmware? That second one rules out Raspberry Pi (for personal projects). I'd grudgingly accept ARM Trusted Firmware persistently running in the background if the SoC's branch/fork of that is fully open-source. But I still don't like how much code has to run before you get to the OS kernel.

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The #Conversations_im update that requires TLS 1.3 is currently rolling out.

Apparently, judging by the bug reports coming in, a good number of servers do not support TLS 1.3 yet.

Please upgrade your servers and/or check their configurations. 🙏

Users can opt out via a setting in the Security section of the app, but this setting will likely go away in 1-2 years. The only correct move here is to fix your servers. Also, check the HTTP servers used by HTTP Upload.

#conversations_im
in reply to Daniel Gultsch

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mva

well, unfortunatelly, there is not only "good number of servers do not support TLS 1.3 yet", but also there are some countries that has gorernment-ruled DPI hardware deployed country-wide and that blocks TLS 1.3.
If you're lucky, it can be "time to time" or "some specific things", but if you're not - it can be total breakage of any TLS1.3 conenctions.

So, users from such coutires won't be able to have secure communications at all:
from the one side there is government pushing,
from the other — such a decisions 🤷

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Ayer estuve con mi hija en el acuario de Veracruz, y por contestar correctamente una pregunta sobre manatíes, me dejaron darle de comer a un manatí.

Entre tres manatíes, se empacaron una hielera completa de verduritas y manzanas en unos minutos. Para darles, había manzana, pepino, calabacita y jitomate. Según yo, lo que más les gustó es el jitomate.

Pueden mover los pliegues que tienen debajo de las fosas nasales; ahí se les da de comer y ellos llevan la verdura a su boca. Son adorables.

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WTAF?!?

Taxpayers should be more than a little concerned, they should be terrified!!!

Montréal's fire department is facing a serious equipment shortages and other issues putting firefighters’ health and safety at risk, etc.

ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/mo… #polMTL #MTLpoli #le514 #montreal


Montreal fire department facing equipment shortages

Montreal’s fire department is facing serious equipment issues, according to the city’s auditor general.
Swidda Rassy (CTVNews)
#polmtl #montreal #mtlpoli #le514

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Any micro-optimization junkies out there? We need an integer implementation of PIXMAN_OP_SATURATE, please 😃

gitlab.freedesktop.org/pixman/…


Implement integer version of PIXMAN_OP_SATURATE (#127) · Issues · Pixman / pixman · GitLab

If you compare _pixman_setup_combiner_functions_32 and _pixman_setup_combiner_functions_float, you'll see that there is no integer version of PIXMAN_OP_SATURATE and if falls back to floats. We found this...
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my next few months working on Plasma accessibility will involve:

- Touch gestures for desktop zoom
- Individual zoom level and tracking for each display on multi-display systems (if you enable it, some users may prefer it acting like one giant screen)
- Shape-aware upscaling for extreme zoom levels. Makes text appear far less blurry. I'll turn it off by default.

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Paperback 0.2 is out! What's new:
• Added markdown document support!
• Added PDF document support, including the ability to navigate between pages!
• Added keystrokes for navigating by headings in HTML content, including epub books and markdown documents. These keystrokes were designed to work similar to a screen reader.
• Fixed loading epubs with URL-encoded filenames in their manifests.
• Fixed loading epub 3 books with XHTML embedded inside of them.
• A message is now spoken if the document doesn’t support a table of contents or sections, as opposed to the menu items being disabled.
• Added a recent documents menu! It currently stores your last 10 opened documents, and pressing enter on one will open it for reading.
• Completely rewrote the Find dialog, making it much simpler to use, while also adding a history of your last 25 searches and regular expression support!
• Previously opened documents are now remembered across application restarts. This is configurable through the new options item in the tools menu.
• Added shift+f1 to open the readme directly in Paperback itself.
Download: github.com/trypsynth/paperback…
Enjoy!

Edit: sorry about that, Enafore decided that I meant to edit my post when I pressed C, not create a new post.

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I upgraded to a Pixel 10 Pro because the promos made it super cheap for me—and honestly, Pixelsnap (Qi2/MagSafe) without a case. I disable all the AI features I can on my Google Account, so none of that new stuff interests me, but there *are* a handful of new things I’ve seen literally nobody mention in “reviews” or sales pages. I’ll compile them here in this thread for anyone interested.

#MadeByGoogle #TeamPixel #Pixel10 #Pixel10Pro #Android

#android #pixel10 #madebygoogle #teampixel #pixel10pro

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one for @FreakyFwoof and my other British followers: An American man tries to pronounce British county names like der ham and glookestershyre: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ZaN8HRqFs

DougDoug English Counties Pronunciation Quiz

Fan ChannelOriginal Recorded on11/23/2022Official DougDoug: @DougDoug Full VOD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHuLF7p42yo&t=6441s&ab_channel=DougDougDougDo...
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@Andre Louis

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 12 updated and 2 added apps:

* FlorisBoard: the stable version of the popular customizable keyboard 🛡️
* VMPK for Android: the Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI events generator simulating a MIDI controller 🛡️

RB status: 699 apps (53.6%) (4 failed builds still pending)

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).
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#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid
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