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falken

@falken@qoto.org

Lead dev @extravision for ☁️,📱 & 💻. Views own.

Likes : 🐕, 🧱, 🐧,🚀, sci-fi, whisky, electronic 🎶.
Dislikes : Long bios

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cstross, to random
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New blog entry: Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide? https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/06/is-microsoft-trying-to-commit-.html

cstross, to random
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Welp, I knew Microsoft's CoPilot+ Recall was going to be a privacy disaster but I didn't expect it to turn into an enterprise computing catastrophe for Microsoft quite this fast!

But this can't be a one-off. Any large enterprise that has to comply with a regulated privacy environment—HIPAA in the USA, GDPR in the EU, banking/insurance/finance globally—must be considering a ban on Microsoft installations on laptop/desktop computers right now or be breaking the law.

https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/112558224281615019

cstross,
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@rivetgeek Intel just now announced next-gen CPUs with an NPU suitable for running this crap ("Lunar Lake"). And there are rumours about them pushing Recall onto Win11 machines that don't have an NPU, because Line Must Go Up or something.

I'm just glad, as an Apple user, that Microsoft jumped on this particular landmine first: the probability of Apple announcing anything like this functionality at WWDC next week must now be approximately zero.

Edent, to random
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Is still a thing?
I got an email from them saying one of my proofs broke.

But… I just don't care. No one uses public-key cryptography or verifies proof of ownership.

Or am I wrong?

Floppy,
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@Edent keybase died long ago of feature bloat and an acute cryptocurrency infection. Pity really, I would still like to have what it was trying to do at the start.

thunderbird, to android
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We've got a Thunderbird for Android/K-9 Progress Report for May, coming in hot! 🔥

✅ Material 3 Updates
✅ Android 14 Targeting
✅ Good News Re: F-Droid Metadata

...and more, including Community Contributions! Check it out on the Thunderbird Blog: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/06/thunderbird-for-android-k-9-mail-may-2024-progress-report/

#Thunderbird #Android #Development

cstross, (edited ) to random
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My sympathy to the milkshake (it got covered in—ick!—Farage))

misty, to random
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Oh man, this news story. Former MLA from Manitoba asks Meta's own "ask AI" chatbot if a phone number he found on Google is really Meta support. It tells him yes. It isn't, and he's scammed out of $500 and control of his accounts. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/facebook-customer-support-scam-1.7219581

Mer__edith, to random
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Signal strongly opposes the newest proposal in Europe.

Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.

This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.

It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.

See more: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/ @echo_pbreyer

pointlessone, to chrome
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(and ) begins phasing-out Manifest v2.

https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begins.html

This means, among other things, that uBlock Origin is about to be disabled in Chrome. Google will choose a different extension to recommend but it can not be as effective as Origin.

Following 's example, may I instead recommend you switch to .

Firefox will continue to support Manifest v2, and consequently uBlock Origin and other extensions that can not be implemented with Manifest v3.

Happy browsing.

trabern, to random
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Just to recap, the guy who can’t shut up about how the 2020 election he lost was rigged just was convicted of rigging the 2016 election he won.

seb_ly, to random
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Come join me on stage A at 6pm, I have a laser! And will talk about some of my big projects #emfcamp

mhoye, to random
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Another day of downtime because I forgot that updating mod_phpX.Y requires me to update to phpX.Y-sqlite3. Quickly resolved, but.

Is there a way for me to specify local-only dependency changes in apt? As in, to say "I know that out in the world mod_PHP doesn't depend on php-sqlite3 but here on this computer, for reasons it definitely is?

cazmockett, to LEGO
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Number two in my CMF Series 26 - this time it’s the turn of the Blacktron Mutant.

cstross, to random
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WHY IS THERE NO EMOJI FOR GIBBON?

I WANT TO BE ABLE TO SIGNAL "tangerine shitgibbon" UNAMBIGUOUSLY!

SAYING "🍊💩🐒" IS OPEN TO MISINTERPRETATION!!!

(Although I'm okay with 🍊💩🐒🚔⛓️‍💥)

mattmcirvin,
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@JdeBP @cstross wait, there's MORE THAN ONE character for poo in Unicode?

edit: I guess there's 屎 as well

campuscodi, to random
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Microsoft not saying a peep about the Recall privacy scandal is a huge tell of how much the company is focused on security

We should have had a statement by now that Recall is either re-engineered or removed

baldur, to random
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“Apple silicon MacBook Pro batteries can't be replaced under warranty by third parties”

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/5/7.html

> Apple now requires that the MacBook Pro be mailed in to Apple for battery replacement!

This is important information if you live here in Iceland as there is no official Apple store in the country and we're an island in the middle of fucking nowhere.

fosfene,
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@baldur

FYI, such devices will be illegal to sell within the EU soon. Hopefully Iceland can adopt similar legislation.
https://www.newsshooter.com/2024/01/08/eu-to-require-all-batteries-in-devices-to-be-user-replaceable/

thibaultamartin, to random
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EU countries need to implement right to repair law within 2 years.

Your time to shine @postmarketOS !

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/05/30/circular-economy-council-gives-final-approval-to-right-to-repair-directive/

lizardllama, to random
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As always, try to live your life in such a way that most of the planet doesn’t erupt in joy at your criminal conviction.

cazmockett, to LEGO
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I’ve started building #MinifigureHabitats for the CMF Series 26 figures. The first is Ice Planet including the robo-penguin ❄️
#LEGO #AFOL #BlockHeadUK

brucelawson, to random
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"We will not raise the rate of income tax, VAT or National Insurance." promised Bozo and the Tories in 2019. And then they did. Today, they've promised that again. https://bylinetimes.com/2022/04/06/boris-johnson-conservative-broken-manifesto-promises-2019/

glyph, to random
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@mcc me thinking about using systemd: "I don't understand why people are so mad about this, launchd is better than sysv init, this is just launchd for linux, I guess they couldn't just port it because some low-level stuff is different but I'm sure it's basically the same"

me actually using systemd: "fuck fuck what is this shit what the fuck why didn't they just actually port launchd to linux, there's no excuse for this"

tef,
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@glyph so you know how ticketmaster gouges people on tickets but in practice a lot of the venues are in on the game?

like, the thing about systemd is that it's in response to problems kernel maintainers had, not problems users had

so although systemd gets a bad rep i do think it's a lightning rod for complaints about linux

newtontalk, to apple
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Thirty two years ago today, then Apple Chairman John Sculley previewed the company’s Newton technology at CES in Chicago.

#AppleNewton
#RetroComputing

https://web.archive.org/web/20191114083010/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com:80/archive/?date=19920529&slug=1494354

mjg59, to random
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Once again entered the UK without being arrested, so the 2024 "Matthew doesn't get arrested" challenge is off to a great start

dbread, to random German
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OK I am in #love

https://skins.webamp.org/

#retrolove #winamp #skin #mod #20s

jasonkoebler, to random
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Google's own researchers now say AI is a top vector of disinfo, in a paper that severely and obviously undercounts the problem

https://www.404media.co/google-says-ai-now-leading-disinformation-vector-and-is-severely-undercounting-the-problem/

Kellys, to random
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UK to examine 'sensitivities' in North around Sunak's military service plan for young adults https://jrnl.ie/6390106

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