In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen ❤ Whimsical Dragon Art Brings Autumn to Life - David Zinn’s Street Chalk Creations: streetartutopia.com/2025/08/29…
David Zinn has been bringing smiles to faces worldwide with his delightful street art. Hailing from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Zinn is a self-taught artist whose unique brand of creativity has given rise to a diverse collection of creatures that peek out f…
ICYMI, the new trans legislative risk map is out. Particularly scary for me to see California move to light red for the youth map. That’s historically been an indicator that restrictions for adults will follow erininthemorning.com/p/anti-tr…
The situation has deteriorated for transgender youth around the country, with many clinics shuttering and state AGs unwilling to enforce law. For adults, some states see higher risk.
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).
Pro tip: si pones una casa a la venta, procura que los cuadros que tu abuelito el de las SS se trajo cuando llegó a #Argentina🇦🇷 no aparezcan en las fotos
La hija de un exfuncionario del nazismo publicó un aviso para vender su propiedad y en las fotos se detectó un cuadro desaparecido hace ocho décadas. La justicia local allanó el inmueble
A productive but thoroughly exhausting weekend away supporting the good wife at work. her colleagues are lovely people and the members of the charity she works for all had a good time. I ended up at dinner with one of my former pupils, so it was good to catch up and say hello, even if by proxy, to a few old friends. Getting to that stage was a right fuss, though: we own 3 types of printer and I had to carry each one out of the office to the house for one reason or another on Friday (and the Braille one is a good 12 kilos). We were working around the plumber installing new radiators, so you'd print something out and then have to blow the dust off to get anything done. The hotel turned out not to do place settings, so not only did we have to fill up the table favours for each family, but print seating charts on top. The available eyes qualified secretarialy about 45 years ago, so the process was .... convoluted.
Still, home now, sorting out some grocery for tomorrow and another week of the pregnancy ticks away...
ÖPNV | Busfahren, wie auf der Ladefläche eines Pritschenwagens
Ich wollte einmal darauf hinweisen das einer der Gründe das viele selbst da wo der ÖPNV via Bus gut verfügbar und gut gemacht ist, die Verbindung via Bus meiden, da eine Fahrt damit nicht so viel angenehmer als auf der Ladefläche eines Pritschenwagens ist. Gerade bei längeren Strecken im ländlichen Bereich schlägt sich auch das massiv nieder.
Moderne Linienbusse sind in Sachen Barrierefreiheit und Transportkapazität den im ländlichen Bereich früher einmal oft eingesetzten Reisebussen in vielen überlegen, aber eben nicht in allem. Den wenn es um den Fahrkomfort geht, verlieren die modernen Linienbusse auf voller Länge. Da fangen die Busse schon bei kleinen Unebenheiten und schlechter Straße an zu rütteln und zu vibrieren wir irre, daran sich vor oder nach der Arbeit noch ein wenig zu erholen ist nicht zu denken. Das Smartphone, Tablet oder gar Laptop zu benutzen ist oft reine Glückssache und auch die Polsterung der Sitze die einiges abfangen könnte, wird seit vielen Jahren immer mieser. Ja das sind im Endeffekt Luxusprobleme und Überfüllung, ausgefallene Klimatisierung und Heizungen sind schlimmer. Aber das ist eben auch ein Punkt der sehr wichtig ist, wenn man Menschen davon überzeugen will von ihrem bequemen Auto auf den ÖPNV zu wechseln.
Here's a collection of forever open licensed tabletop roleplaying games and resources. Borrowed from and inspired by the Forever Open Source RPG game jam
Are you allowed to run whatever computer program you want on the hardware you own? This is a question where freedom, practicality, and reality all collide into a mess.
Google has recently announced that Android users will only be able to install apps which have been digitally signed by developers who have registered their name and other legal details with Google. To many people, this signals the death of "sideloading" - the ability to install apps which don't originate on the official store0.
I'm a fully paid-up member of the Cory Doctorow fanclub. Back in 2011, he gave a speech called "The Coming War on General Computation". In it, he rails against the idea that our computers could become traitorous; serving the needs of someone other than their owner. Do we want to live in a future where our computers refuse to obey our commands? No! Neither law nor technology should conspire to reduce our freedom to compute.
There are, I think, two small cracks in that argument.
The first is that a user has no right to run anyone else's code, if the code owner doesn't want to make it available to them. Consider a bank which has an app. When customers are scammed, the bank is often liable. The bank wants to reduce its liability so it says "you can't run our app on a rooted phone".
Is that fair? Probably not. Rooting allows a user to fully control and customise their device. But rooting also allows malware to intercept communications, send commands, and perform unwanted actions. I think the bank has the right to say "your machine is too risky - we don't want our code to run on it."
The same is true of video games with strong "anti-cheat" protection. It is disruptive to other players - and to the business model - if untrustworthy clients can disrupt the game. Again, it probably isn't fair to ban users who run on permissive software, but it is a rational choice by the manufacturer. And, yet again, I think software authors probably should be able to restrict things which cause them harm.
So, from their point of view it is pragmatic to insist that their software can only be loaded from a trustworthy location.
But that's not the only thing Google is proposing. Let's look at their announcement:
We’ve seen how malicious actors hide behind anonymity to harm users by impersonating developers and using their brand image to create convincing fake apps. The scale of this threat is significant: our recent analysis found over 50 times more malware from internet-sideloaded sources than on apps available through Google Play.
Back in the early days of Android, you could just install any app and it would run, no questions asked. That was a touchingly naïve approach to security - extremely easy to use but left users vulnerable.
A few years later, Android changed to show user the permissions an app was requesting. Here's a genuine screenshot from an app which I tried to sideload in 2013:
No rational user would install a purported battery app with that scary list of permissions, right? Wrong!
There is no UI tweak you can do to prevent users bypassing these scary warnings. There is no amount of education you can provide to reliably make people stop and think.
It emerged that, in this case, Lloyds had done a really good job of not only spotting the potential fraud but alerting James to it. The bank blocked a number of transactions, it spoke to James on the phone to warn him and even called him into a branch to speak to him face-to-face.
Android now requires you to deliberately turn on the ability to side-load. It will give you prompts and warnings, force you to take specific actions, give you pop-ups and all sorts of confirmation steps.
And people still click on.
Let's go back to Google announcement. This change isn't being rolled out worldwide immediately. They say:
This change will start in a few select countries specifically impacted by these forms of fraudulent app scams, often from repeat perpetrators.
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September 2026: These requirements go into effect in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. At this point, any app installed on a certified Android device in these regions must be registered by a verified developer.
The police in Singapore have a page warning about the prevalence of these scams. They describe how victims are tricked or coerced into turning off all their phone's security features.
It is absolutely rational that government, police, and civic society groups want to find ways to stop these scams.
Google is afraid that if Android's reputation is tarnished as the "Scam OS" then users will move to more secure devices.
Financial institutions might stop providing functionality to Android devices as a way to protect their customers. Which would lead to those users seeking alternate phones.
Society as a whole wants to protect vulnerable people. We all bear the cost of dealing with criminal activity like this.
Given that sideloaded Android apps are clearly a massive vector for fraud, it obviously behoves Google to find a way to secure their platform as much as possible.
This is quite obviously a bullshit powerplay by Google to ensnare the commons. Not content with closing down parts of the Android Open Source Project, stuffing more and more vital software behind its proprietary services, and freezing out small manufacturers - now it wants the name and shoe-size of every developer!
Fuck that!
I want to use my phone to run the code that I write. I want to run my friends' code. I want to play with cool open source projects by people in far-away lands.
I remember The Day Google Deleted Me - we cannot have these lumbering monsters gatekeeping what we do on our machines.
To be clear, developers will have the same freedom to distribute their apps directly to users through sideloading or to use any app store they prefer.
This is a lie. I can only distribute a sideloaded app if Google doesn't nuke my account. If I piss off someone there, or they click the wrong button, or they change the requirements so I'm no longer eligible - my content disappears.
I also don't see how this is going to help. I guess if scammers all use the same ID, then it'll be easy for Android to super-nuke all the scam apps.
Perhaps when you install a sideloaded app you'll see "This app was made by John Smith - not a company. Here's his photo. Got any complaints? Call his number."
But what's going to happen is that people will get their IDs stolen, or be induced to register as a developer and then sign some malware. They'll also be victims.
"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware.
trying to recover a 25 year old Yahoo account and it wants to send a recovery code to a 30 year old Hotmail account that I haven't had access to for at least 25 years
I would be weeping tears of joy if all my old Hotmail emails were still in here. My wife and I used to write each other during school. I have no idea what we used to talk about.
well, I got that hotmail account back but Yahoo claims it's sending a code to the address but it's not being received. I emailed from a different account and it was received, so dunno what's up with that. Maybe it's impossible to recover this Yahoo account.
Good on Yahoo for not deleting it and allowing the account to be re-registered though
@feld while the MIT license in Gitea could be more aligned with the BSD mindset, the federation support and the fact that Codeberg people are doing a great job was a good reason to deploy it
I think the federation support is a dead end tbqh, and the Codeberg people are doing a terrible job IMHO as I've encountered many bugs that were fixed in upstream Gitea for a long time but they never merged.
Forgejo users are living off hype just like people accuse Elon/Tesla fanboys. They've made huge promises and can't deliver. It's been almost 3 years since the initial fork and there's nothing to show for it really, and the dev (ghost) started a couple years before that with Gitea PRs. (there are a few ActivityPub things already merged into Gitea, but disabled by default)
It's more about license evangelism at this point and wanting more control.
>It's more about license evangelism at this point and wanting more control. Same mindset that TDF had with LibreOffice and that probably didn't end up the way they wanted either.
As for Forgejo bug fixes that weren't backported from Gitea for a long time. I, like many people, migrated to Forgejo few months after the whole trust issue situation and was mostly happy for some time. My instance is mostly mirrors anyway. Then around version 8.0 there was a bug in Gitea where mirrored repositories with LFS files would balloon in size for no reason. The fix took I think few months to arrive in Gitea, but for some reason Forgejo developers didn't backport it to all supported versions at that time. It was only in the newest release. I think I was running version 10.0 at that time since that was the first version after the hard fork iirc. At least migrating back to Gitea was relatively easy since there weren't many DB migrations added yet at that time.
I think there were also some LDAP bug fixes that didn't get merged into Forgejo for a long time.
I didn't hit those LFS bugs but the LDAP bugs hit me. Forgejo might as well just remove LDAP entirely from their fork because their target audience are people who will never use it and it's clear the devs don't test it...
#zasezerou #recept Nedávno jsem tu (i jinde) zveřejnil recept na #omeleta s #mangold. Ozvalo se mi pár lidí, že je takto málo tepelně upravený mangold potrápil (ač ho lze konzumovat i syrový - třeba do salátů) a chuťově nic moc. Recept jsem upravil/povýšil a jsme z něj nadšeni, je to lepší chuť a pořád relativně zdravé jídlo .... Porce pro 2 hladové lidi 😜 3-4 listy mangoldu (cca.200g) klidně méně 1/2 kelímku cottage 1 malá cibuje 1-2 stroužky česneku 4 vejce sůl, olivový olej na smažení (máslo) add-on - drcený kmín
-listy mangoldu nakrájíme, stonky na malé kousky -cibuli a česnek nakrájíme -v menším hrnci na oleji osmahneme cibulku skoro do zlatova -přidáme česnek -po chvilce přidáme nakrájený mangold(špenát) a pomalu dusíme 5-7 minut pod pokličkou (kdo má problém s nadýmáním - cibule/špenát tak si přidá trochu drceného kmínu, já mám vyzkoušeno že to pomáhá -ke konci jemně osolíme
-na pánvi rozpustíme máslo -vejce trochu našleháme s vodou (2x půlskořápka) se špetkou soli -vejce nalijeme do pánve a klasicky děláme omeletu
Jakmile začne omeleta vespod tuhnout, vršek je tak napůl, přidáme navrch podušený mangold (špenát) a na něj cottage. Když omeleta drží tvar, já ji přehnu na pánvi napůl a po chvíli obrátím. Až budete spokojeni s konzistencí (omeleta má zespod kůrku ale je vláčná, ne vysušená - na pánvi rozpůlím a podávám. Děti to mají rádi s domácím kečupem ...
Somebody built a searchable and browsable BYTE magazine archive with all single pages on one single web page. I think, this is a very nice way of visualising a magazine archive. Enjoy: byte.tsundoku.io #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #bytemagazine #byte
A litre of petrol should cost no less than £5. I know you'll think I'm a joyless prick for saying that but so be it. The world is literally on fire and we're sharting fossil fuels into the atmosphere like they're free and harmless.
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I'd really like to get some straps like you see in this video. Does anyone know what I might need to search for?
I've spent over an hour trying various variations of "silicone/rubber/plastic tie-downs/straps/belts/strapping/webbing holes/punched/perforated/screws/screw-down" and haven't had any luck.
Really I'm just looking for long lengths of silicone belts with pre-punched holes.
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When the Jieshuo Screen Reader developer announced the removal of the Tencent Cloud online OCR engine due to contract expiration, many international users
Canada has taken the rare step of not signing onto a multi-country statement that demands Israel stop banning foreign journalists from entering Gaza and that local journalists be protected in the Palestinian territories.
OTTAWA - Canada has taken the rare step of not signing onto a multi-country statement that demands Israel stop banning foreign journalists from entering Gaza and that local journalists be
Tak jsem konečně upravil šifrování disků na svých počítačích. Do teď jsem zamykal heslo root file systému do #tpm2 vlastním scriptem popsaným zde: skorpil.cz/en/project/42/mkini…
To řešení je už 5 let staré a překonané. Ale stále funkční. Dneska už to umí #systemd nativně. Porušil jsem pravidlo "nešťourej do něčeho co funguje" a přenastavil jsem šifrování na všech počítačích. Dneska je to fakt super pohodlné nastavení.
Nechcete nějakou minipřednášku o šifrování disků pomocí TPM2 na #LinuxDays ? Zaměřeno na #Arch, jiné distribuce tolik vyzkoušené nemám. Ona jedna přednáška byla už na tom loňském, tak nevím jestli je to potřeba. 🤷
All my personal and company computers are powered by Arch Linux with encrypted storages. This setup brings an inconvenience of entering two passwords on startup. One unlocks the storage encryption, second logs me to my user account.
Nebo bych mohl na #LinuxDays povykládat o #selfhostingu. Postupně jsem odřízl většinu závislostí na Googlu, a vše si provozuju sám opensource aplikacemi.
I'm preaching to the choir here, and it will never make YouTube change, but can I just say how much I *despise* a shorts carousel now being the top spot of my Subscriptions feed in the YouTube app—and it can't be disabled, even if I tap the dots and say 'don't show this'?
I use freetube (freetubeapp.io/) on desktop and newpipe (newpipe.net/) on mobile as youtube frontends. They really make my youtube experience a lot better!
"When the American empire finally collapses, historians won't be stunned by the greed of the elite; They'll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor. The working class didn't just vote against their own interests. They worshipped the billionaires robbing them. They slashed their own benefits, gutted their own healthcare, and cheered while the rich wrote off private jets as tax deductions. Not because it helped them. But because they were told it would hurt someone else. And that, right there, is how you rig a democracy without ever breaking a single law." - Brian Allen
@Tutanota Do you plan on offering some sort of bridge like protonmail so I can use my normal CLI/TUI email workflows? I’m undecided between you and @startmail
No, this is not planned. Tuta is fully encrypted - not just the emails, but also the calendar and your entire address book (which you can sync to your phone and use it as an encrypted contacts' app). To support external clients, we would need to support IMAP. But this would mean we would have to send the data unencrypted to a third-party client (e.g. Microsoft's Outlook or Apple Mail or Thunderbird), which defies our security promise of quantum-safe end-to-end encryption.
A possible work-around is bridge, but it's also no real solution (and if you search Reddit, you will find lots of complaints about the mentioned bridge):
* With such a bridge all data, including a search index, would be stored unencrypted in the third party email client. We aim for a solution where all data is always stored securely encrypted.
* Upon sending an email out of the third party email client, the user can't possibly know whether the email is actually going to be send end-to-end encrypted (the client can't show this as a bridge works on a different level). Therefore sending confidential emails via a bridge is essentially impossible...
* IMAP and SMTP are not the most efficient protocols especially when it comes to push notifications or to attachments of emails (which are encoded into the body).
With improving our free desktop clients - tuta.com/blog/desktop-clients-… - we serve you much better than by spending time in developing a bridge. We hope you understand!
Thank you for taking the time to explain! While I don’t fully agree that creating a Bridge is a high privacy/security risk (for myself), I can understand where you’re coming from. One of my concerns is that there’s no way to access my email on Tuta on OpenBSD without a heavy browser, or any machine that I am running TTY-only. I also don’t have a way to perform scheduled backups. Would love to have these features and I think a Bridge might solve both?
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.
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…
retoot this if your retirement plan is essentially based on the idea that civilisation will probably crumble before you reach 65 and money will be meaningless anyway.
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.
![Roze tekst op lichtgroene achtergrond: "Ik nadat ik wederom "bruggen heb verbrand" met oude vrienden/kenissen [sic] door een "radicale mening" te gooien:"
Image: Persoon met ogen gesloten, mond open in een grijns. Armen uit elkaar met gebogen ellebogen. De persoon draagt een groene broek en een doorzichtig topje met roze bolletjes over een roze beha. De achtergrond lijkt betonnen stoep met een struik.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/699547 "Roze tekst op lichtgroene achtergrond: \"Ik nadat ik wederom \"bruggen heb verbrand\" met oude vrienden/kenissen [sic] door een \"radicale mening\" te gooien:\"
Image: Persoon met ogen gesloten, mond open in een grijns. Armen uit elkaar met gebogen ellebogen. De persoon draagt een groene broek en een doorzichtig topje met roze bolletjes over een roze beha. De achtergrond lijkt betonnen stoep met een struik.")
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