To everyone on and off the caneandable.social instance: it has recently come to my attention that “The Troll” has started creating accounts using other people's names. If you get a follow request from someone who has appeared to move, please check with them first. Also read the bio from the new account. I could tell right away the new account was not the person they were pretending to be.

🇩🇪 Today we celebrate #GermanUnityDay – a victory over oppression & mass surveillance.

But history warns us: #ChatControl could bring surveillance back at a scale East Germany could only have dreamed of. It's like putting a spy in every phone with AI as judge.

Let’s defend freedom & say NO to #ChatControl! ✊

👉 tuta.com/blog/unity-day-remind…

I'm going to talk about the sahiqat (صاحقات) genre. In the pre-modern #Arab world this was the genre of sapphic or lesbian stories. It was regarded as the purest form of love because of how impossible it was.

Different than Western sapphic love stories, it re-affirmed their devotion to God. For example the most famous couple are al-Zarqa and Hind bint al-Nu'man.

@medievodons @histodons #history #medieval #medievalhistory #Arabicliterature

To jsem na sebe zase upletl bič. Přihlásil jsem si přednášku na #LinuxDays2025. Je už zítra. Doufám, že dcerka dnes bude spinkací, jinak budou slajdy zejtra dost děravé.
Jinak kdybyste mě chtěli slyšet koktat něco o tom co selhostinguju a jak to jde, můžete se stavit ve 13h do posluchárny 105 na FIT ČVUT v Dejvicích. 😬

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#StroongeCast E01: Will You Peel My Orange? youtu.be/XeVO8pTfrK8

We know there are so many podcasts, so why another one?
Well, partly because we can but partly because we hope to be interesting and thoughtful, if at all possible.

In this first episode we discuss one annoying Tiktok trend of asking your significant other to 'peel an orange' and what this actually means.
We also discuss hugging, tactility and our joy of listening to other podcasts.

Download: onj.me/media/stroongecast/01_-…

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#StroongeCast E55: What's On Your Kid's Phone? youtu.be/egcK5mGPL2Q

In this episode we discuss the control that parents have over their children's phones or tablets. At what age do you give your children a device? Do you give them one at all?

The minefield of managing apps for children is a difficult one, and it can be difficult to get a balance between very strict control making your child feel stifled, or zero control allowing them to come across extremely unsafe material that no child should ever see.

Download: onj.me/media/stroongecast/55_-…

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#StroongeCast E56: Adulting youtu.be/jwJ2rNCZy7c

In this episode we're talking adulting. What's it like?
Is it annoying?
Why did we ever think that being responsible for buying food would ever be a fun thing to do?
Credit cards, yes or no?

Were there things that you thought would be fun to do as an adult but now you have to do them, you wish you didn't?

Download: onj.me/media/stroongecast/56_-…

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La tortura no debe tener cabida en un Estado democrático. Erradiquemos cualquier trato inhumano, cruel o degradante.

🤝 Nuestro compromiso para que el Mecanismo Nacional de Prevención de la tortura se fortalezca con más recursos y una legislación eficaz.

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So I'm not the only one.

Big if, though; as long as one can deliver. I've had situations where something went wrong and I didn't have time to fix it (computer decides not to work, internet goes down, power cut, whatever). And then I always get asked: why did you leave it to the last moment? Well, because it's really hard to get myself to do it earlier, that's why.

Belastingdienst naar Microsoft: Schoffering van de Tweede Kamer en van het Nederlandse/Europese bedrijfsleven.

Er is het afgelopen jaar vaak gedebatteerd over de digitale onafhankelijkheid van Nederland en de roep om onafhankelijk te worden van Amerikaanse bedrijven wordt steeds luider. Dat de staatssecretaris nu kenbaar maakt dat drie overheidsdiensten alsnog overstappen naar Microsoft roept veel woede op. Zet de stappen die al wel zouden kunnen! Lees en luister hier: bnr.nl/nieuws/tech-innovatie/1…

On this day nine years ago I started my collection: "screenshotted #curl credits"

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/10/03…

#curl

AM Part 1: Using AppManager to Install Apps and Overcome Future Restrictions accessibleandroid.com/am-part-…

Teil 6 der der Nextcloud-Serie!

Push-Benachrichtigungen auf Android via UnifiedPush & NextPush – datenschutzfreundlich über deine Nextcloud statt Google. 👇

kuketz-blog.de/push-benachrich…

#nextcloud #unifiedpush #push #google #android #datenschutz

Despite generating $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, OpenAI reported a net loss of $13.5 billion. In other words, ignore all sugar coating. They, are losing money heavily techinasia.com/news/openais-re…

They abandoned the goal cancer cure to produce only rewritten text, images, and 10 second meme videos. They're burning capital on millions of GPUs. The classic VC model. Outspend rivals and use others' copyrighted work without solving a single critical problem. No human suffering solved

"…pokud chcete žít v míru, pokud chcete žít na Západě, pokud chcete žít v otevřené společnosti, pokud chcete žít ve společnosti, kterou neřídí nenávist, zvyšujete své šance volbou Spolu, STAN a Pirátů."

Tak hodně štěstí! #volby #respekt #tabery
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On the topic of AI tools finding issues: we always thought they *could* do good. The right tool used by a skilled person is a recipe for awesome outcomes. An AI chat in the hands of someone who doesn't quite know what they ask for nor understand what the output says is not. Not to mention that the LLMs frequently just plainly lie.

A primary problem is the myths sold by "big AI" that make people believe they can do these things by themselves. That leads to slop avalanches.

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I think the big issue is that was sold was: You hardly know what a computer is, but if you type “Hack the Gibson” in a prompt you are now a hacker.

Same with images, music, etc.

I don’t think that sci fi dream is realistic, at least not in this current version of things.

But a tool to search through code to find issues, that are better than the previous tools, that presents the issues to a knowledgeable person. That’s realistic and cuts down on reading all that code.

Because we’ve had tools for a very long time, and they could get better.

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Back when the dialogue about CRA started years ago, I feel a citable reference like this would have been very helpful in the interaction with policy makers. Which is one of my motivations for volunteering my time and help to create one.

Europe is hardly the only place where people conceive software or critical infrastructure regulation. The future will learn if it’ll be of value elsewhere to inform policymakers about the role of FOSS.

Well, both paths failed me tonight. On Linux, I could not find an accessible replacement for Virtual Audio Cable (as Pipewire should make virtual audio devices dead easy with one, but all the stuff I looked at were command-line based) and I also couldn't find a tool like CoreTemp, that can put all of my CPU Core temperature information into the Mate Panel. I think this second one I will need to tinker around with some more with Mate-sensors and see what I can come up with.
Then, Windows 7 made me sad when I realized that MemReduct cannot clean as aggressively on it, in a way with Windows 10 Microsoft did improve memory management and what cleaners can clean from it. I also then upped the Ram usage of my Windows 7, and of course, once you go above 10 GB Ram, it starts to use a lot more (up to 3 GB at boot as well if you're at 40 GB ram!) This made me mad. I mean, it wasn't Superfetch, but other things caching files at boot, and of course, without a good Mem Reduct, you can't even lower that ram cruft. Yeah yeah tell me all you want that I have a lot of it, but again, keeping resources always at their tightest and not just loosely holding onto RAM is my goal. My SSD can always do more reads, it can't always do more writes, and speed of reloading from it has made ram-caching files a lot less needed.
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Hey guys,
wiki.termux.dev has moved to a new infrastructure and is now taking some measures to block bot traffic. If anyone faces any problems accessing the wiki, please contact us.

We've also blocked some crawlers which weren't behaving like Sogou crawler which was making 2-3 requests/s. All AI crawlers are blocked as they are pretty annoying and don't care about the crawl rate or even back off when presented with a challenge.

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Hey, my friend's wiki just survived from ai-crawlers, I found a MediaWiki extension `CrawlerProtection` is very helpful. It ban anonymous users from accessing page history and some expensive page.

I installed it and enable the html file cache (Manual:File cache), and the server work fine now without anubis.

You can check some workaround in media wiki's manual:

mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hand…

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Could the internet exist without Cloudflare? Most assuredly, but the inverse is not so. However, Cloudflare has infiltrated so much of the critical infrastructure of the web, that the web's very lifeblood flows through it, making it seem essential. On the contrary, what we have is a single failure point and a private entity whose technical decisions have far, far too great an impact on the direction of the web.

C++ Weekly With Jason Turner posted about how to use GCC's `-fstack-usage` feature with @compiler_explorer :

youtu.be/kXe-YkJ9nBs?si=wBUYPI…

mastodon.online/@meetingcpp/11…

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I use mattermost as a free, open source Slack replacement. I like it a lot. I also use authentik as my SSO provider for my #homelab / #selfhosted stuff.

If you don't pay for the enterprise version of Mattermost, you don't get the SSO features. You can fake that by using their free GitLab integration. But you also don't get the capability to switch users from one form of authentication (email/password) to SSO after you set it up.

This is pretty obscure, and it involves a bunch of raw Postgres queries. But I figured it out and wrote a blog on converting Mattermost users from email/password to SSO

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I'm surprised it took this long, tbh.
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Apple has removed ICE tracking apps from the App Store.

This includes ICEBlock which alerts people of sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in their area after complaints from Attorney General Pam Bondi.

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Apple has removed ICE tracking apps from the App Store.

This includes ICEBlock which alerts people of sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in their area after complaints from Attorney General Pam Bondi.

9to5mac.com/2025/10/02/followi…

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