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🚨Our governments are about to decide whether 450M Europeans deserve privacy - or not.

Help ensure your country says NO to Chat Control: Call you local representatives!

Privacy is not negotiable. Speak up now. ✊ #privacy

👉 More on how to stop Chat Control: tuta.com/blog/chat-control-cri…

Map of the EU showing what countries are in favor (red), in opposition (green) and undecided (yellow) about Chat Control. The undecided ones must be contacted to stop Chat Control: Estonia, Germany, Greece, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Romania. While the Swedish government leans in favour of chat control, it needs parliamentary approval.

Chat Control is back & we've got two months to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans. | Tuta

The EU Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, first published in May 2022, has become the "most criticized law of all time". Here's how to stop it now!
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Friday's episode of the podcast I do with my wife was a really fun one. Bit of a nostalgia trip, talking about things we collected as kids like Tamagotchis, Furbies and so on. If you haven't checked us out yet, please do. Might be something you enjoy. 51 episodes in and my wife and I talk about all sorts, never political, no sponsors, no ads, hopefully very little wasted time. If you've a mind, please pass it along as well, never know who's out there, who might be looking for something brand new to listen to.
onj.me/stroongecast #StroongeCast

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Tuesday.

For the third time in as many months, some agency is offering me a .com version of the domain I use for personal email because it might "be relevant for my personal or business use". If I'd wanted the .com, I'd have bought it when I got the .me nearly 12 years ago.
Domain tarting shouldn't be a thing.

Daughter's gone off to school most cheerful and isn't back until tomorrow for it is sleeping over at a friend's home. I suspect my evening will end yet again with massaging some sort of cream or oil into some part of the wife's body, as she's really feeling the aches and pains at this stage in the pregnancy. Not exactly fun or unusual, but we're plodding on.

Busy day at work and a bit extra afterward, but I should be done by 6 or 6:30 tonight.

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Is anyone else noticing the AI music popping up on Spotify and other streaming platforms? I’ll be fucking pissed if my very personal lyrics are stolen from Suno and uploaded without my permission. I’d put them up under my own name, but I have my own album on Spotify, so I can’t do that. And, technically, only the lyrics are mine. The instrumentation and melodies are not always mine. Some of them are, some of them aren’t.

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This day in history...I mean present: first ever end-to-end encrypted message to be sent from a #dumbphone?

git.disroot.org/badrihippo/con…

Using #Convo on #KaiOS, powered by #ConverseJS, #XMPP, #OMEMO, and #libsignal :xmpp:

The same phone as in the previous message, but zoomed in a bit closer so you can see the screen a bit more clearly
Screenshot of a button with a cable sticking out from the top. On the screen is a chat conversation displaying the message: "hi from banana hopefully with omemo"

Activate libsignal-protocol.js 🎉 · c95d048c9d

This lays the groundwork for OMEMO support! Convo will now automatically generate OMEMO keys when you connect for the first time. Options to toggle OMEMO encryption, etc.
Disroot Forgejo: Brace yourself, merge conflicts ahead.
#xmpp #omemo #conversejs #KaiOS #Convo #dumbphone #libsignal

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Libervia CLI tip 6:

Most commands have an `-O, --output` option to format the output. By default, the output is pretty formatted for humans, but you can output in JSON, XML, or other formats.

With `template` output you can use Jinja templates, either built-in ones (the ones used in the web frontend), or your own; useful to build static HTML pages/sites, or reformat the data the way you want.

Use `--help` to see available outputs

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#Libervia #CLI #li #tips #XMPP #FOSS

common arguments — Libervia Backend documentation

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#xmpp #foss #libervia #CLI #tips #li
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feld

the Hunt brothers tried to corner the silver market and managed to acquire a third of it but when they couldn't get loans anymore and the exchange halted silver futures contracts it's not like they could just sit on their silver and only sell what they needed to cover their loan repayments. They couldn't sell it fast enough obviously and they weren't going to stop mining it. So it all spiraled and crashed.

TLDR They'll mine silver faster than you can buy it, it's not that scarce

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Ville de Montréal has given its employees a rulebook for dealing with English-speaking citizens...

Where is the gear and equipment Montréal firefighters desperately need?!?

STOP WASTING MONEY ON THIS F*CKING BS. I am so sick of this garbage.

montreal.citynews.ca/2025/09/0… #polMTL #MTLpoli


Montreal issues new guide to city workers on how to handle English speakers

The city of Montreal has given its employees a rulebook for dealing with English-speaking citizens, with step-by-step instructions that spell out when, and how, service in English is allowed.
Lola Kalder (CityNews Montreal)
#polmtl #mtlpoli

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Montreal issues new guide to city workers on how to handle English speakers

montreal.citynews.ca/2025/09/0…

They have money for Franco-fascism but not firefughters. #polMtl


Montreal issues new guide to city workers on how to handle English speakers

The city of Montreal has given its employees a rulebook for dealing with English-speaking citizens, with step-by-step instructions that spell out when, and how, service in English is allowed.
Lola Kalder (CityNews Montreal)
#polmtl
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Matt Campbell

But I still like Rust and don't want to give it up; C and the other C alternatives don't have nearly as good a story when it comes to memory safety. So that leaves me with no good answer to the kind of problem that has been brought to light (again) by today's attack, except, I guess, to just be more selective about what dependencies we add, and be a little more willing to write straightforward though possibly tedious code ourselves rather than adding a dependency that could become a liability.
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Matt Campbell

My current thought is that while the cargo package manager per se wasn't a mistake, the central crates.io registry might have been. Maybe we should normalize pulling packages directly from git, and especially from the package owner's own domain rather than a centralized host like GitHub. So packages owned by the Rust project (e.g. hashbrown and libc) would come from git.rust-lang.org, tokio packages from git.tokio.rs, Windows API bindings from git.microsoft.com, etc.
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Josh Simmons

I don't think that particularly changes the outcomes, at least as soon as you have signed package infrastructure. github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull… and it instead just makes any signing efforts harder to deploy.

Implement The Update Framework (TUF) for Project Signing by walterhpearce · Pull Request #3724 · rust-lang/rfcs

This RFC was co-authored by Walter Pearce (@walterhpearce) and Josh Triplett (@joshtriplett). Here, we propose the alternative adoption and implementation of The Update Framework for providing the ...
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James Henstridge

That's essentially how Go's package management started. Module names are essentially URLs of a git repo, or of a website that has some special metadata pointing at the repo.

It had a few problems:

1. If a popular project with frequent CI builds used you as a dependency, your code host will get hammered.
2. You might not be able to rebuild your project if the hosting for a dependency is offline.
3. You might not be able to transfer ownership of a module without also changing its name (e.g. if it was published in the Github personal namespace of the original author).

The first two problems were solved by introducing a module proxy run by Google. Instead of hitting the upstream directly, you download a zip file of the module source from the proxy. That version is only retrieved from upstream once, and can persist even if the code host goes away.

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Matt Campbell

@jamesh I don't like the Google proxy solution because it depends on big tech's largess, as does crates.io. I think the Zig Software Foundation has the right idea here, limiting their hosting responsibility to their own releases and delegating even that to mirrors as much as possible. ziglang.org/news/migrate-to-se… I just wish I liked Zig's approach to memory safety more, but Rust has spoiled me there.

Migrating from AWS to Self-Hosting ⚡ Zig Programming Language

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James Henstridge

You can set an environment variable to have the toolchain bypass the module proxy and clone things from git directly. You then run into the reliability problems in CI, where each job usually starts with none of the dependencies available.

You can also also point the toolchain at a different module proxy, and there are a few open source implementations (e.g. Athens). Frustratingly you can't run the same proxy as Google, since they built it on top of internal infrastructure and haven't released the source.

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Glyph

this would make everything worse. Without a central authority to filter malware, users would search the open web for random packages with zero possibility for community-wide mitigation. Every lapsed developer vanity domain, every failed startup, would immediately result in mass compromise.

If there is a problem with crates/npm/pypi, it’s that the abstraction of a “package” obscures the trust relationship with the org that produced it. It’s too hard to audit those relationships.

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Glyph

the big problem with a system like this is, for lack of a better term, the password reset problem. People, even people in big serious corporate environments, lose their credential material all the time. They have to be able to recover somehow. The MONK bit might provide some way to do this with social proof, but my back-of-the-napkin sketch level of design can’t realistically cope with that constraint.

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> MEGATHREAD: All of Young Thug's leaked calls and beef in order

> Young Thug, Drake, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, 21 Savage, Future, Metro Boomin, Gunna, Yak Gotti, YSL Slug, YSL Woody, YSL Obama, YSL DK, SlimeLife Shawty

These are all nobodies except Drake but he sucks for other reasons, so why does anyone who likes rap care about any of this?

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`Da Elf

@feld @SlicerDicer I don't know if you've been in a grow room (doo dee do) but they're hot (and humid).
If you're not in a place where it's legal to grow, IR is Often used (from the air) to find homes with Super Hot Spots.

The fun part Slicer is that it would seem they're STUPID easy to steal. (?!?)

Aside: When I was in Uni, every year they'd put sodium bulbs in the lamp posts over three or four bridges, and about two weeks after the quarter started, they would all disappear. A-MA-Zing.

@feld @I am Water

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On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.

Over the decades, I’ve been humbled and grateful for the love you’ve shown, not only to me, but to the ideals of Star Trek itself: diversity, unity, and the belief that together, humanity can boldly go where none have gone before. Thank you for your unwavering support and for keeping this dream alive all these years. Live long and prosper, always.

On the set of the TV series Star Trek (Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)
Actors Nichelle Nichols (L) and George Takei attend Day 4 of the Official Star Trek Convention at the Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino on August 14, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images)
Actor George Takei attends the "Star Trek: The Star Fleet Academy Experience Preview " at Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on June 30, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Kris Connor/FilmMagic)
Actor George Takei attends the Star Trek: The Star Fleet Academy Experience at Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on June 30, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/WireImage)

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Today's #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid brings you 19 updated and 2 added apps:

* Network Switch: enables you to toggle between 4G and 5G network modes 🛡️
* Screenlite Web Kiosk: a simple Android kiosk browser app that displays web content in full-screen mode 🛡️

RB status: 705 apps (53.9%)

5 #Magisk modules have been 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).
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#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #magisk #izzyondroid

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#deltachat is being used in virtually all world regions where one or more other messengers fail to work. We recently released a major milestone (V2 security hardening releases) that prepared the ground for chat profiles to have multiple #chatmail relays at once ... failure or blocking of a single relay would not disrupt chatting anymore. But multi transport also helps with the "centralization problem in decentralized systems" ... delta.chat/en/2025-06-04-surge…
(Funding is looking good currently btw!)

Delta Chat: A big user surge and funding for decentralized scale

Beginning June we witnessed a sudden surge of Delta Chat usage especially in the US and Cuba. We don’t know the social dynamics behind it but it probably helps that Delta Chat apps resiliently work...
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#deltachat #chatmail

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