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@Mer__edith about Signal and potential Chat Control in the EU:
“We would continue to operate as long as we could. Similar to how we do in Iran, similar to how we’ve done in response to being blocked in Russia, working with our community to set up proxies so that people who are within these regions have access to Signal. ”
Think about that! They might be forced to do in the EU what they did in Russia and Iran. english.elpais.com/technology/…

Signal president Meredith Whittaker: ‘In technology, it’s way too easy for marketing to replace substance. That’s what’s happened with Telegram’

The app best known for respecting privacy looks to grow, despite anti-privacy efforts
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So I guess we're doing this now! It was surprisingly not hard to find this type of video in my language. The numbers 0-100 spoken (mostly) in fairly standard Catalan by all different people, supposedly each one of the age of the number they say. I say mostly because some of them are clearly not native (e.g. 32 and 41) and end up essentially saying it in Spanish.

youtube.com/watch?v=J74HeJWM2k…


De 0-100 anys (from 0-100 years in Catalan)

Filmed in Barcelona, we found 100 people -from baby to 100 year old- to say their age in the camera. And since Barcelona is the capital of Catalunya, we aske...
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To jsem netušil, že mi kamarád tak podrobně luxuje stravu. Ten detail na konci není chyba v záznamu...ano, vyválel jsem se 🤦
#cyklistika
Mimochodem, jak jsme před časem s @mireeek zmiňovali #strava, má někdo zájem se tam (s)družit?
#strava #cyklistika @Miroslav Vrhel 👷

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 22. September, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist türkis und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
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#blind #inklusion #make

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There'll be #LibreOffice-focused talks at the Open Source Conference 2025 in Luxembourg, on October 1: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Photo of building where the conference will take place

LibreOffice-focused talks at the Open Source Conference 2025 Luxembourg - The Document Foundation Blog

The Open Source Conference 2025 will take place the 1st of October 2025 in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, following a very successful first edition in 2024 in combination with the LibreOffice Conference.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice
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Eugene

I recheck this and yes — pip reinstall some packages, when it need another versions, which don't match with versions from NetBSD repo. But most of the packages just reused — pip writes that "requirement already satisfied" (see the screenshot №1).

And it writes one compliant — at the end of installation, about possible system break after it was running from root user (on the screenshot №2)

P.S. As I see pip downloads only: slidgram, pyrofork, slidge, slidge-style-parser, pyaes, pymedia-pyrofork, PySocks, tgcrypto-pyrofork, python-magic, slixmpp, thumbhash, aiodns, pyasn1, pyasn1_modules, pycares.

Output of "pip install slidgram" where it writes that "Requirement already satisfied" for dependencies, installed via NetBSD binary packages.
Output of "pip install slidgram" where it complains about possible system break after running from root.
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Hackers (1995) is a film I somehow never saw until now—wild, considering I lived through the real events it riffs on. Only 30 years later did I finally sit down to watch it.

This is a film I should’ve been more familiar with, seeing how it really cuts close to home. And I know some of you might find it unlikely that Hackers has real-world connections, but I’m telling you the truth.

The whole thing about free long distance was real. Back then we called it blue boxing. And in 1988, a young university student released what wasn’t exactly a virus but came to be known as the Morris Worm. It shut down a big chunk of the early internet. So while the movie exaggerates with a 12-year-old wunderkind, the inspiration was there.

Several characters were analogues to real people. Joey was based on a guy known as Fry Guy. And I’m pretty sure Nikon, the Black hacker in the movie, was based on John Threat—who in the 80s and 90s went by the handle Corrupt. I actually know John—great guy.

And yes, a lot of cybercrime investigations were really handled by the Secret Service. People forget their original purview was financial crime. Protecting the president came later.

So I’m shocked it took me until yesterday to actually see this movie. I remember it being a big deal—it touched youth culture and fashion. But let me tell you, hackers didn’t dress like that. Not before the movie came out. We were computer science nerds in labs. Nobody thought hacking or phreaking was cool.

Then overnight, with the movie’s leopard prints, fur, and pink neon side holsters, suddenly computer nerds were “the coolest kids in school.” Angelina Jolie helped with that one—plenty of girls suddenly wanted to get into computer science.

The plot is simple. A bunch of teenagers access file systems remotely, one stumbles onto something bigger, and suddenly they’re caught in a cyber-security conspiracy. The tagline nailed it: “Their only crime was curiosity.”

But the bad guy? Come on. A multimillion-dollar corporation hires as its CSO a dude who insists on being called “The Plague”? And the Secret Service wants to work with him instead of arrest him? No CSO walks into a boardroom with a skateboard and demands everyone call him by his hacker handle. That is the most unbelievable part of the movie.

Well, that and the hacking itself. Real hacking is just terminals and text. In Hackers, it’s skyscraper file systems and sci-fi UIs. Fun to look at, but nothing like reality. Same with the VR headset The Plague uses. VR existed in the 90s, but it sucked. Cool as an idea, but nobody was actually doing anything with it.

Same goes for the laptops. In 1995, laptops didn’t have the horsepower or fast built-in modems for serious hacking—if they had modems at all. They were impractical bricks.

What the movie did predict, though, were translucent machines. Those became all the rage later with Apple’s iMacs. In the 90s, our machines were beige or sometimes black—never cool, never translucent. So that influence stuck.

Other details are hilarious in retrospect. At the end, all the kids run to phone booths to hack. Why? Anonymity? Not really—now people can see you standing in a booth, typing furiously.

I used to mess with phone booths as a kid, routing calls around the world just because I could. That was phreaking. And one of the characters even goes by “Phreak”—spelled with a PH—which is a nod to that world. But almost never did I bring a laptop into a phone booth, not with them being so heavy and lacking battery power.

I realize I’m not treating this as just a movie. Hard to do, because this was my life. I’ve been in the tech industry for decades, and watching this is like a cop watching Bad Boys or a doctor watching House. It’s a story first, accuracy second. They wanted hacking to look cool.

My life wasn’t that cool. I didn’t have Angelina Jolie hanging off my arm. No woman has ever been impressed with my technical skills. Trivia skills once got me laid—technical skills, never.

I can’t believe I waited 30 years to finally watch this film. I watched it with my kid. She liked it. Then she asked me if that’s really what the 90s were like. I had to tell her no. Sorry to disappoint you, kid. But yeah—what a trip.

@movies

Cover art for the 1995 film Hackers. The five main characters, including Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie, are shown leaning toward the camera with a swirling digital tunnel background in neon pink and purple. Circuit patterns and glowing text float around them, emphasizing the film’s cyber theme. At the bottom, bold white letters read Hackers with the tagline “Their crime is curiosity.”
@movies
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Just thinking about how the money Canada spent on just one pipeline (TMX) could have bought every single Canadian an e-bike AND had billions left over.

Just let that sink in

Every adult and child, a free e-bike, and billions left over.

Instead we bought a pipeline.

Next we're gonna generationally invest in what? Solar? Micro-electric mobility? Battery tech? Agriculture? Health care? Kickstarting green industry?

Probably not. We're probably going to bankrupt the country for fossil fuel interests.

cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-ge…

#CDNPoli #fossilFuels

#cdnpoli #fossilfuels

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From charlie Angus:
MESSAGE TO #MAGA AMBASSADOR PETE HOEKSTRA
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#USPOLI #fascism #authoritarianism #ElbowsUp

MESSAGE TO MAGA AMBASSADOR PETE HOEKSTRA

MAGA Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says he is offended by the term "Elbows Up". He says it's anti-American. He doesn't like Canadians using the term "tr...
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#MAGA #authoritarianism #fascism #uspoli #elbowsup

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Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation — Even in the State Where It Started
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As federal agencies review their guidance on fluoridation and the nation’s top health official calls fluoride “industrial waste,” state and local governments are pulling back on the practice, upending a decadeslong public health success story.
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#News #Health #RFKJr #PublicHealth #Michigan #Water #Government


Local Officials Waver on Water Fluoridation in Michigan, Where It Started

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#News #health #publichealth #government #water #rfkjr #michigan

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Humans really will pack bond with anything won't they ?

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Gerry McGovern (@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)

"I had not realized ... that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people." Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of ELIZA Attachment to AI chatbots is more than fringe.
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Maya

The wild thing about what is being discovered about the mental health effects of LLM chatbots, is back when I was an extremely depressed grad student, I actually thought about making such a chatbot using the then start of the art statistical language generators, and concluded that it would be deeply harmful and unethical to actually make because of the Eliza effect and my own gut feeling on what that sort of thing would have done to my own precarious mental health at the time.

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 13 updated and 1 added apps:

* Sensa Gram: Stream Android sensor data over UDP with minimal latency 🛡️

Further, 7 #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).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #magisk #izzyondroid
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Deus Figendi.jwd

Yes and no, in the context Julian explains it here it is.
By the way, diaspora* does it way better, IIRC the origin of an origin posting becomes the hub for it, and every reply, reaction etc. goes to that instance and is actively spread back to every instance which is subscribed to that thread.

Later there came a way to fetch reaction which were there before your instance subscribed.

But: I use "view original URL" if I share the post somewhere else (eg. messenger) to point the source

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Koleno jsem včera řádně zaledoval, takže dneska repete, jen po lepší cestě. A #birellovka dneska i s vynikajícím hovězím vývarem, vedle gulášovky nejlepší kombo na kole. Hlásím, že letošní #VKDV mám kompletní, protože jsem zapomněl na jedno selfie na rozhledně na Chlumu, takže napraveno. A do tisíce mil mi zbývá 70km, to bych snad ještě mohl zvládnout.
#birellovka #vkdv

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Kdyby někdo chtěl podepsat výzvu Milionu chvilek, tady je odkaz 👇🏻
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NE vládě extremistů.

My, níže podepsaní, pokládáme za nepřijatelné, aby v době, kdy Vladimir Putin devastuje Ukrajinu a ohrožuje Evropu i bezpečí naší země, hrozila Česku populistická vláda, která se neobejde bez podpory proruských extremistů zpochybňujících naše členstv…
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Swiss Cheese Mono: a typeface full of holes inspired by Emmental/Swiss cheese. Created by designer Rob, this monospaced typeface turns each letter into a nod to cheese 🧀

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The word "#cheesy" is spelled out using blocky letters carved from pale yellow cheese. Each letter has puzzle-like notches and holes cut into it, and they are arranged in a line on a scratched metal surface.
A graphic design image on a dark blue background showcasing a custom typeface called "The Cheese Font." The letters are pale yellow and designed to look like square slices of Swiss cheese with puzzle-like notches and holes. The text reads "INTRODUCING" at the top, and below it, "THE CHEESE FONT" is arranged in a block.

Swiss Cheese Mono font — Heirloom | Brand Strategy Agency | Brand Identity Agency

Monospace display font made of squares with circular holes in them; can be used to make realistic-looking images of Swiss cheese letters
Heirloom | Brand Strategy Agency | Brand Identity Agency

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Israeli musical megastar Idan Raichel tells a harrowing story of kindness repaid with #hate.

#Israel #Gaza

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October 7th on Instagram: "Idan Raichel, one of Israel’s most renowned singer-songwriters and cultural ambassadors, was in shock after discovering that a baby he had helped in 2008 later became a H*mas member and was declared a “martyr.”"

Israeli singer-songwriter Idan Raichel recounts his shocking encounter with a Gazan child he helped in 2008, who later became a Hamas member, highlighting the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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#israel #hate #Gaza

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So, habe der EU meine Rückmeldung zum Thema CO2-Reduktion der Autoindustrie aka „Verbrennerverbot abschaffen“ geschickt, also hierhin:

ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r…

As owner of a BEV, I can only tell the EU politicians: the technology is already there. Some of the new improvements like BYD's and CATL's 10/12C charging batteries haven't yet arrived in the EU, but they do exist. Thanks to the way China's government created a price war rather than rent-seeking subsidies, as the EU did, the price of BEVs there are more than competitive. This success needs to be duplicated rather than avoided.

The EU should not attempt to turn Europe into a technology museum, which will make sure that all the jobs in the car industry will be lost, but strive to compete. To foster competition and affordable prices, tariffs and other protectionist measures need to go. Audi just registered 10k preorders within 3 minutes with their car developed together with SAIC in China: our car industry can do it. They need a stick to beat them to get there, they need partners in China, because they are behind, but yes, they can. Copying innovations is not a one-way street: we can do that, too.

The way to finance this transition can be copied from China, too: reduced VAT, no tariffs on BEVs, but additional taxes on ICE cars.

Don't allow car makers to slack around. Make absolutely clear, this is a make or break thing: if you don't go electric, you go bust.

Where technology can still be “open” are questions like which battery chemistry, and synchronous or asynchronous motors. But we definitely reached the point where we can say: from E-Bike to heavy trucks and busses: Battery powered EVs work. They either have advantages overall or minimal disadvantages, often due to lacking infrastructure, which will come when more of these vehicles are on the road.

I've been working professionally with batteries since almost 30 years, and the progress was huge. And there's still more progress to come. If you miss that train now, the European car industry will go the way the television, camera, and mobile phone industry went. It's boarding time now!

Get rid of ICEs. Don't bet on E-Fuel, this has very limited use, e.g. for long-distance flights and ships.

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