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At a critical moment, the tech press are failing to connect the dots between Apple and Google's craven capitulations and the authoritarianism they have nurtured within their own ecosystems. Apple is now corrosive to democracy itself, and we have to get smarter about the way these forces interact:

infrequently.org/2025/10/the-a…

/cc @owa @pluralistic


The App Store Was Always Authoritarian

Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend its power to extract rents, rather than innovate.
Alex Russell
@Cory Doctorow @Open Web Advocacy
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Trump admin lies about #ICE being attacked, so they can be the victim.
The Technique is called DARVO
(Deny Attack Reverse Victim & Offender)

But when people see that the "attackers" are people in frog costumes, it visually destroys the lie.

This means us sharing our silly protests on social media is REALLY important.

This @TomSullivan post explains
digbysblog.net/2025/10/11/liar…

Cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war.
-Nora Reed

#Portland #Frogs #Antifa #AntiFascistFrog #FrogBrigade

Two frogs holding sign Frogs together strong Cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war. -Nora Reed #Portland #Frogs #Antifa #AntiFascistFrog #FrogBrigade spoken by Mark Antony in Act 3, Scene 1, line 273 of William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar: "Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war."
#portland #ice #antifa #frogs #antifascistfrog #frogbrigade @Tom Sullivan
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Zach Bennoui

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to imply that all wealthy people are narcissistic jerks who deserve nothing, but the fact of the matter is that many are. It also depends on how you got rich in the first place. If you were born into wealth, you will simply not relate to people who either don't have the extraordinary amount of money you do, or who have come into it honestly by doing good work. There's a lot of nuance here, as with everything.

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In the late 1980's there was an MS-DOS program called PIANOMAN. Yup, in the docs, it's written in all caps like that. This program would let you compose, play, edit, and save tunes, and even compile them into self-contained executables to give to others who didn't have a copy of PIANOMAN themselves. This program's claim to fame was that it could create pseudo-polyphonic music through the monophonic PC speaker by playing different notes extremely rapidly. This was a shareware program (try it for a while, if you like it, send in a registration fee to get the latest version and another disk of sample songs). I just found the shareware distribution of version 4 on Archive.org. One of the included tunes, which exists here only as a compiled, self-contained executable, is a version of a Tom Lehrer classic. Naturally, I figured some folks might be interested in this. It's set up to play repeatedly until a key is pressed, so I've only included three playings in this recording, and the last one fades out. Enjoy! #TomLehrer

#tomlehrer

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It was never about Gaza...

We saw so many activists and activist organizations saying that they would boycott Israel as a means of changing the political situation.

Then a ceasefire happened, and they still insist on a boycott.

wiwibloggs.com/2025/10/09/the-…

thateurovisionsite.com/2025/10…

It wasn't about Gaza. We call them "anti-Israel" but it's really anti-peace, and anti-Palestinian too.

#Israel #Boycott #Antisemitism #Eurovision


The Netherlands: Ceasefire won't impact decision to withdraw if Israel participates in Eurovision | wiwibloggs

"If a ceasefire is reached in the near future or the conflict evolves differently, that will not change our position for Eurovision 2026."
William (Wiwibloggs)
#israel #antisemitism #Eurovision #boycott

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Какие для вас топ-3 по частоте использования функции умных часов кроме времени? Если умные часы у вас есть, конечно.

Для меня это:

- таймер
- фонарик
- погода (или пульсомер)

@rf

#survey #gadgets #smart #watches #wearables #UX

#UX #survey #gadgets #watches #wearables #smart @Rоссийская🐻Fедерация
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André Polykanine

У меня есть приятель (у него есть «остаток», — на нашем жаргоне это значит, что он не совсем слепой, немножко видит). Так вот, он говорит, что ему прям вот супермегаудобно платить часами и что он бы в жизни не отказался от них только ради этой функции. Ну в смысле, платить в кассе в магазине, например.

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“Apple is now treating federal agents—who are public employees exercising government power—as if they’re a vulnerable minority group in need of protection from ‘discrimination.’ This isn’t just a misapplication of content policies; it’s a fundamental inversion of what those policies were designed to do.”

techdirt.com/2025/10/10/apple-…

#USpol #apple #censorship


Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”

Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to redefine “protected class” in a way that would make Orwell proud. According to int…
Techdirt
#apple #censorship #uspol

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🕚Z На початку години слухайте #НашГолос радіопрограма у Канада, передачі якої ведуться українською та англійською мовами. Програма спрямована на українську діаспору Ванкуверського регіону: транслює як і сучасну, так і традиційну українську музику у виконанні артистів з України, Канади та Сполучених Штатів. Він також представляє новини та погляди з України та української громади в Канаді. Слухай сюди. theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio #Україна 🎤📰🎶🇺🇦🌻🌿🔱⚔️🍲🐎🇨🇦🍁🦫🔁
#tgvradio #нашголос #україна
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Matt Campbell

@pj Ouch. I like Rust, and I'd rather not write any more new C or C++ code than necessary because, while I value smallness and simplicity, I value safety and correctness more. But I recognize you have a valid point about the size and complexity of the Rust project, and it does make me uneasy.
@Lord Grompulus Kevin Ribbiton of Croaksworth

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@jcsteh Hey I read about your App2Clap project. I'm curious how you can isolate audio from one particular application. For years now, I've been using Total Recorder to record system audio. Before definitely Windows 7 and possibly Vista, in other words, as late as XP, I could record audio as received by the system, exclude applications, do accelerated recording, etc. But then with the newer audio driver, I had to record after processing by Windows, which meant all audio was resampled to the default output sample rate, I could no longer exclude apps, etc. When you said App2Clap requires Windows 11, that gave me the impression that Windows 11 restored some of that older functionality, but I really can't find anything, and Total Recorder hasn't been updated in years. Thoughts? Thanks.
@Jamie Teh
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Jamie Teh

Here's a link to the sample, but I can't help you any further with this. Ultimately, I think you're going to have more mileage and flexibility using OBS or REAPER, but I also understand the desire to avoid being entangled in yet another tool. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samp… @TheQuinbox

Application loopback audio capture - Code Samples

Demonstrates how to capture system audio either from a specific process tree or for all process except a process tree.
learn.microsoft.com
@Quin

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As someone who's seen a lifetime's worth of corporate union avoidance strategies, Ruby Central's attempts to discredit gem.coop and prevent it from blossoming into a community-led competitor mirror that combination of misinformation and abuse of power so perfectly that I'm unable to see it in any other way. What's happening in Ruby right now is the closest thing I can imagine to a union busting campaign in open source.

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Uh... cool.
My Synology NAS seems to be doing this thing where no services are available after a restart. I can't get to the web interface, samba isn't available, and a bunch of scripts don't seem to work from command line. I really didn't have let's go through a bunch of logs and see what's broken today on my non-existent bingo card, but here we are, I guess.
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The year is 2025. AI has taken the world by storm, self-driving cars are on the roads, and brain-computer interfaces are being tested on humans. Yet, amidst all this modernity, blind and visually impaired individuals are still stuck utilizing a CAPTCHA service that requires your email address, uses a web browser cookie, and only (sometimes) functions if you scale back your privacy settings. SMH

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Mikołaj Hołysz

Getting an email at a reputable email provider is now one of the hardest things for a machine to do. This is exactly why we need captchas like these.

Recognizing garbled words or distorted images is something a machine can do. What it can't do is provide a "proof of humanity."

As AI gets better, cheaper and more ubiquitous, all captchas will devolve to either "precious resource verification" (where the precious resource is something like an email, phone number or device-specific token), or straight up government identity verification.

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Truly excellent writeup about the current clusterfuck that is Framework (computers):

Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?

There are alternatives!

Get a refurbished ThinkPad through Minifree, preinstalled with Libreboot and funds the further development.

Or get a vintage ThinkPad with modern internals.

Also, there is:


European Laptop Manufacturers

European Laptop Manufacturers and why you should consider same.
buy-european.net
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feld

I guarantee you every Linux distro has fascist retards involved, they just keep their mouths shut. I've met them everywhere. They don't just not exist; unfortunately they're smart enough to code switch and conceal their alternate online identities

so what are people gonna do when they learn the Linux kernel has a ton of code written by fascists in it? *crickets*

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h3artbl33d

@feld

Thanks for the elaboration, now I understand your point a bit better.

There is, however, a difference between the two of them. Framework does this on a corporate level, whereas contributors to the Linux kernel (or whatever open source project) are individuals.

It is like finding out that your favorite barista at the coffeeshop chain is a nazi, as opposed to the chain donating to $fascist_party.

@feld
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🎃🎃🎃🎃 jae[333]™

> so what are people gonna do when they learn the Linux kernel has a ton of code written by fascists in it? *crickets*

same thing they do when they drive on roads with them. keep on driving to their boba-tea establishment of choice and start picking up arcane operating systems which i don't need to list. the part that has me curious is, how many armchair sjw's are actually buying framework's stuff? if i were to guess it would be < 10%

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alloyed

@feld
so being specific about why this alarms me:
I don't actually care that they donated to the projects without looking into it, that's pretty normal.

it's that, when pointed out, their response was "we don't care about their beliefs, so long as they are participating in open source". and. to me, their beliefs have a pretty direct impact on whether or not they can be good participants in open source!

it points to this idea that, actually, they are just fine with a vision of open source that doesn't include me and lots of my trans/POC friends, same as these other projects.

@feld
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vurpo 🏳️‍⚧️

@feld Framework's entire customer base and company was built on a certain kind of politics. Then when they intentionally make the stupid politically charged decision to give money to dhh, they turn around and go "no politics! we are apolitical!!!" as if we're all clueless.

People are not trying to "cancel" framework. They're just pointing out how stupid framework *themselves* are for killing off their own customer base, by doing this.

This is like if Fairphone decided to go "actually we're going to switch to slave labour sources of metals and minerals, because it's so much cheaper!" That would just kill off the whole customer base in a similar way.

@feld
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feld

Framework's entire customer base and company was built on a certain kind of politics.


is that true or is that just projection by fans? The only thing I've ever known Framework for was "modular laptops that can be upgraded, also they are kind enough to try to help close the gap on FreeBSD hardware driver support"

never knew anything political about them, they're just yet another boutique computer business

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 15 updated and 1 added apps:

* Compass Navigator: a compass app with auto declination adjustments using the device's builtin GPS 🛡️

RB status: 728 apps (57.1%)

3 #Magisk modules were 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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Very thankful for the handful of people we have in this community who report not just the spammers, but the trolls, the sealion-ers, the harassers, the bullies.

We're not omnipresent and we can't possibly know everything that's going on across the fediverse; we rely on member reports to find and take action on bad behaviour, not just on mastodon.art, but on other instances.

Part of hosting and building a safe community is having clear, strong boundaries and enforcing those boundaries -

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#FediHelp needed: the final phase of our metadata reorganization is now in progress. During our cleanup, we a.o. found a bunch of no longer maintained apps which we think might be considered "niche" – but are not sure which of those are really still useful, and thus should be kept.

So if you use one of them and still find it useful – or recently tried one of them and it didn't even work, can you please check codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every… and leave a comment? Thanks!

#IzzyOnDroid #serviceToot


metadata reorg subtask: deciding about dormant apps which might be considered niche

This is a spin-off from #10 where I'd like some input from the team, concerning how to handle the following unmaintained apps which might be considered niche: * [ ] [`com.ionicframework.backingtrainer763961`](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.
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#fedihelp #serviceToot #izzyondroid
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💯% BꞮG DΣMӨП ΣПΣЯGY™ 𖤐

if i'm allowed: the version of medito you host is years older than the current google play version and also doesn't load anything.

apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/a…

medito 2.0.48 offline error. "it looks like you're offline or there was a little hiccup on our end."

„Medito“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Relax, De-stress, Sleep better, Practice Gratitude, Breathing Exercise, Wellness
IzzyOnDroid Repo Browser
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@jahtnamas of course you are allowed – and thanks for the hint! The version we ship is the latest release available in their repo. Unfortunately, it seems they've stopped providing newer releases there. So maybe you could ask them to provide releases with APKs again? They'd be picked up again by our updater automatically. Should they say "No", we'll have to remove the app of course. Thanks!
@💯% BꞮG DΣMӨП ΣПΣЯGY™ 𖤐

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We are joined by @zersiax again to give us an update on the state of accessibility in Linux and whether things have improved since we last spoke.

linuxafterdark.net/linux-after…

#linux #podcast #opensource #a11y #accessibility

Linux After Dark artwork

Linux After Dark – Episode 106 – Linux After Dark

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#a11y #Accessibility #linux #opensource #podcast @Florian

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so, my current de-stressing activity is learning English round hand from period copy-books. the lines in copy-books that aren't just practice letter-forms are horrifically boring, extremely cringe moral mottoes, and I'm running out of stuff to practice writing

current texts include the long-term nuclear waste warning message, old copypasta like "then who was phone", city names, scientific names, this alphabetic poem from an 1806 manual

any ideas for one-liners or very short texts? or, I guess, anything you want put in fancy script, albeit by a beginner

#calligraphy

In very large, amateur English round hand on graph paper: "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down / Never gonna run around and desert you—Rick Astley"
Names of various major Linux distributions written (amateurishly) on graph paper in English round hand script, that stylized cursive that, for example, the "Canadian Club" whiskey wordmark is written in.

The family of English Round Hands

In my previous post, I briefly wrote about what I called the English Round Hand’s “sub-styles”. Today I want to take the time to explain what I meant and show you what those styles are.
Sybille van Zuylen (Penna Volans)
#calligraphy
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