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Again, #bluesky can censor. They have a centralized relay that can shut down anything. Taking VC money means maximizing profit, which will mean the largest possible network with content control and the fewest possible moderators. However this happened, more of it is inevitable. But not on fedi […]

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#WritersCoffeeClub 27 Feb: Post an image which reflects the tone of your WIP. This is the cover of one of Iain Banks' Culture novels: it's pretty much on the nose because my WIP (a) starts out on a Banksian orbital like the one in the illustration, and (b) […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

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Looks like flawed #uk #onlineSafetyAct is going to be used to censor legal porn: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q1wx3nzy9o Expecting more "ban kinks we don't like" from #ukGovernment later today :-( /cc @pandorablake @neil @rachelcoldicutt

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A new #Android feature is scanning your photos for 'sensitive content' - how to stop it https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-new-android-feature-is-scanning-your-photos-for-sensitive-content-how-to-stop-it/ #Google #privacy #SafetyCore

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Germany: I know you’re supposed to set your clocks back next month, but 1933 seems a bit excessive.

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Geez. 20% of German voters want the Nazi back. :-( German election latest: Conservatives head for victory but far-right AfD set for second place, exit polls say - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg82wwrwy6t

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🆕 blog! “Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower-case letters?” Take a look at these two QR codes. Scan them if you like, I promise there's nothing dodgy in them. Left is upper-case HTTPS://EDENT.TEL/ and right is lower-case https://edent.tel/ You can clearly […]

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My new @frameworkcomputer laptop arrives on Monday, so, I'm needing a new hostname. It should be a medieval trade, and it should begin with 'P'. Plumber is possible but seems to mundane; Pardoner would be fun but isn't really a craft trade. Ploughwright is currently the most likely candidate […]

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Apple pulls end-to-end encryption in UK, spurning backdoors for gov’t spying https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/apple-pulls-data-protection-tool-instead-of-caving-to-uk-demand-for-a-backdoor/ Apple abruptly yanks privacy tool in UK, taking bold stance against snooping law. Just […]

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I'm officially part of the #framework installing #ubuntu @frameworkcomputer Thanks to @andypiper and @pluralistic for their advice

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Picks & Shovels by @pluralistic . The first eBook I bought for my new Kobo Clara after leaving the assholes at Amazon and the fascist Trump-fan Bezos behind. Great device, I was able to install the alternative reader software KOReader without any problems whatsoever.

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Okay, connecting a Kindle running KoReader to Calibre wirelessly on my pc. What an I missing? The instructions aren't very clear but I've figured out it this much with various searches and research. Opened port 9090 on my pc with a change to the firewall rules. On Calibre, start content […]

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Hitler issued his Enabling Act 24 days after the Reichstag Fire. Trump hasn't even bothered setting fire to the Capitol, he just horked up this decree 30 days after being sworn in. He's actually moving to dictatorship FASTER than Hitler. https://infosec.exchange/@isotopp/114031098544111963

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Qualys dropped another two OpenSSH vulns this week - CVE-2025-26465 & CVE-2025-26466 I don’t think either are bad, you should keep calm and patch as per usual. The first one needs a non-default config, and PoC for the second also uses a non-default config. Neither are RCE and I doubt will […]

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Couldn't #f1 find any songs about brands in it's sport? #Chevrolet

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Let me explain the #OpenSSL #QUIC API move and what might mean. For #curl and for others. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/02/16/openssl-does-a-quic-api/

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BBC News: Why don't Europeans buy more American cars? - BBC News tl;dr - they're a bit shit, they're not economical, and their too big to drive on smaller European city streets and lanes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8kn5v37wxo

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📖 “Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon” https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/ The implementation strategy looks good. Keeps the control in the hands of the person who wrote the post being quoted rather than the other way round.

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DOGE is auditing NASA today. It's completely absurd. The nazi owner of SpaceX should not be auditing #NASA. It's a massive conflict of interest. For those who might see this and work for NASA and voted for the orange turnip, I hope you're glad you cut your nose off in spite of your face […]

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@rachelcoldicutt you were awesome today as the moderator of the #onlineSafetyAct chat. Thanks again for organising it. If nothing else I understand more about everything now :)

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Listening to an Ofcom #OnlineSafetyAct briefing. To be honest, the impression that I'm getting from this is that the folks at Ofcom are flying just as blind on basically all the issues that smaller organisations, sites and individuals are worried about :/

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Wow. #OFCOM admitting they've not looked at any common usage patterns or services eg closed WhatsApp groups Refuses to rule in or out of scope #onlineSafetyAct #uk

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Oh, now #ofcom are going all "proportionality" on #onlineSafetyAct enforcement but still don't have anything actually of use to say to small (sub hundred actual users) instances.

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Not heading much of practical use from today's #ofcom #onlineSafetyAct session for small sites. They seem to think small means thousands, not not-even hundreds. #fail

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Sigh. #ofcom still refusing to define number of users for #onlineSafetyAct

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Wow. #ofcom say they don't expect it to be "feasible" to 'read hundreds of pages of documents' #onlineSafetyAct

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#ofcom reiterate again for #onlineSafetyAct that they'll talk before issuing massive fines.

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#ofcom say that #onlineSafetyAct enforcement will be proportional. But also there isn't a simple yes/no answer to anything. FFS

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#ofcom say goal of #onlineSafetyAct is not shut down services. Sadly that's happening already.

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I think I figured out what is so annoying about #onlineSafetyAct - #ofcom has written all its' docs assuming you are complicated bespoke service with dedicated staff to do "legal stuff". There's no pre-done, "just you use this" for perfectly standard, ordinary, foreseeable cases. We shouldn't […]

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I'm working on several stories about some important evolutions in cybercrime, but it's been really hard to dedicate time and attention to those with the current administration creating constitutional challenges almost on a daily basis, and doing all kinds of things that will surely weaken the […]

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Remember Aaron♥️ Fuck #Meta :fuck_face:

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#UK orders #Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/uk-orders-apple-to-let-it-spy-on-users-encrypted-accounts/ar-AA1yzETB #privacy #cybersecurity #politics #surveillance #encryption #AdvancedDataProtection #iCloud

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Baltic states cut Russian electricity ties, ending decades of reliance https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/02/08/baltic-states-cut-russian-electricity-ties-ending-decades-of-reliance Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia all disconnected from the Soviet-era grid on Saturday morning and will merge […]

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A thread to suggest low-budget movie remakes. I'll start: Da's Boot The Empire Trikes Back My Doner with André

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This is not good: Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying. The secret order would give the UK access to encrypted backups belonging to any user — not just Brits. https://www.theverge.com/news/608145/apple-uk-icloud-encrypted-backups-spying-snoopers-charter

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You might think working a phone repair kiosk is a waste of my skills. Yeah nah. Today, this kid came in with an iPhone that was more than cracked, it was banana-fied. “What happened?” I asked, turning the wreckage over in my hands. I don’t think there was a single salvageable part. “And have […]

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In the eternal quest for increased revenue, YouTube is introducing a feature where rich people can like videos more than poor people, and I am about to throw up. It is called the hype button, and it is similar to the like button. But where likes are […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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our ISP likes to call me on the phone every few months to ask if there's any issues with our internet connection, which I imagine is helpful to the average household but I'm like "sir I am a computer scientist, if you EVER hear from me that there's a problem I couldn't fix myself, you're gonna […]

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Trying to make Cacti / rrdtool do the right thing is too hard. Why doesn't this stack ?!?

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You know it's a bad #devOps day when your writing "planned work to remove an unused xLB Target Group was carried out" #geek

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