I've always wondered how #SMS could be considered a #MFA #security measure when it's arguably the most insecure method of transmission we have available.
Having my heart torn out all over again with Monkey Cage reboot, seems a good time to share this talk from #emfcamp a few weekends back - I wish I’d talked more about anti trans gaslighting that was relentless used against me and both supported and encouraged from some around the show , but I will soon
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More proof the BBC is run by terrible people who need sacking, let go, fired, remaindered, dismissed, removed, retired, released, terminated, axed, discharged, cashiered, canned, bounced, mustered out, pink-slipped, sent packing, turned off, laid off.
I am disappointed in Brian Cox. The BBC are a shell of what they used to be - once stoic and moral leaders, they are now blown wherever the dominant pressure pushes them. But Brian Cox? Very disappointing.
thanks for sharing, you are a really excellent human and deserved none of this. I recommended your talk to a friend who is also fighting an institutional clusterfeck about neurodiversity to give her some fight to keep going.
New IT Guy Show is live, and this one is about a tool a lot of us LOVE: @bitwarden .
Password managers are one of those things everyone agrees you should use and nobody really wants to talk about. We got into why Bitwarden being open source actually matters, new features, and how it holds up when you take it into a team or an org instead of just your personal logins.
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Sometimes it just hits me how different my relationship with technology really is compared to others.
I've grown up in a family that valued privacy, and then my very first friend group from early on exclusively consisted of gay – later #trans – autistic furry hackers. I've never known a life of being careless about #technology and #privacy, and a DIY mentality wasn't counterculture, it was just the way #tech worked.
To me it had been completely normal that my phone would obviously have some #degoogled #LineageOS on it (or rather, #CyanogenMod back in the day). It was just part of the setup process. Same with some #
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Sometimes it just hits me how different my relationship with technology really is compared to others.
I've grown up in a family that valued privacy, and then my very first friend group from early on exclusively consisted of gay – later #trans – autistic furry hackers. I've never known a life of being careless about #technology and #privacy, and a DIY mentality wasn't counterculture, it was just the way #tech worked.
To me it had been completely normal that my phone would obviously have some #degoogled #LineageOS on it (or rather, #CyanogenMod back in the day). It was just part of the setup process. Same with some #Linux flavour everywhere.
Self-hosting services was just the way to get those services. I never had any cloud accounts anywhere. I had always been on my girlfriend's Nextcloud or e-mail infrastructure or whatever, later my own. I always self-hosted my game servers. My websites would never be on any random hoster.
This came with a bunch of habits and quirks I just accepted as part of the tech experience. I am used to not getting any notifications on mobile, for example. I always have cookies and site data disabled out of habit.
I don't buy smart devices that I haven't vetted and rather choose the 'dumb' version, i. e. an infrared remote instead of a bluetooth one. My first instinct when looking for software is to check the repos or the Arch Wiki/FSF Directory and such sites. I haven't used Google in forever.
All this isn't to brag or whatever at all, it's just to illustrate what my worldview is like and how I grew up. I'm not even super intense about all this; I still watch YouTube videos for example and I (have to) use some proprietary software, e. g. for work. I'm not RMS, yknow?
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But imagine growing up like this, and now it's 2026 and you see someone use a phone. The sheer contrast??
I see people live a life where their most used app on their phone is now ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever. They use it more often than a search engine, they micromanage chats so it 'remembers' all of their emotions and thoughts. They ask for life advice, questions, make it write e-mails, everything.
They are on Whatsapp, Instagram, Snapchat, Tiktok and whatnot and actually use all of those features I've only ever heard of second hand, such as a "for you page".
They have YouTube accounts and actually are able to comment, like and subscribe – that's something that feels weird to even think about to me as someone resigned to passive use of such sites!
They have all the flashy features just available to them, like these live notifications, voice control, smart connectivity and whatnot that I accepted long ago I just "couldn't get".
It's such a different life to live, it's almost like a different culture.
I was trying to explain to my kid the other day why using the command line is usually faster than a search engine or asking AI because the corpus of files you search on your local system is small enough to be queried with simple patterns like globs and regexs and you don't even need the Internet to do it. "You don't need the Internet? Why is that a good thing?"
The McCarthy era (which never ended after McCarthy died) didn't just purge communism, it tried to purge the entire human instinct to form any community at all. They succeeded by replacing that instinct with consumerism as a surrogate. People's "communities" are all brands now, centered around services owned by corporations that can monitor your every interaction, and possibly flag you as a threat. I don't think that McCarthyist purge had fully succeeded until the fall of the Berlin Wall, so if you grew up before then, you probably still have some of that non-consumerist culturalization in you. That includes self reliance, learning from your community, and the idea that your tech is your personal property.
Perhaps instead of #ageverfication nonsense, those who want to protect the children should look at why these platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Youtube and the like are "bad" for them and everyone else.
Here's why:
They are TRADING PLATFORMS. Not video hosting platforms, not social networks. NO. People have to trade their attention (watch ads), data, or currency to use these platforms who make over 90% or more of their profits from these trades. Is like calling a Mall a Social Gathering Event Hall. It is not!
At least they should force these platforms to be renamed/re-labeled.
And you know what else? The harm/addiction of these platforms is not solely their incentive to make people trade more (more ads, more data trading, etc.) to keep them on the platforms is the fact that in this society pretty much everyone has a shitty meaningless life. If people were to be taken care of, and not have to trade all of their lives in a boring and stupid job, with them being worth only when they consum
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Perhaps instead of #ageverfication nonsense, those who want to protect the children should look at why these platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Youtube and the like are "bad" for them and everyone else.
Here's why:
They are TRADING PLATFORMS. Not video hosting platforms, not social networks. NO. People have to trade their attention (watch ads), data, or currency to use these platforms who make over 90% or more of their profits from these trades. Is like calling a Mall a Social Gathering Event Hall. It is not!
At least they should force these platforms to be renamed/re-labeled.
And you know what else? The harm/addiction of these platforms is not solely their incentive to make people trade more (more ads, more data trading, etc.) to keep them on the platforms is the fact that in this society pretty much everyone has a shitty meaningless life. If people were to be taken care of, and not have to trade all of their lives in a boring and stupid job, with them being worth only when they consume, then smarter and relaxed humans would give 0 fucks about these platforms.
When you are out and about, with friends, are not stressed about how to pay for your life, then why do you give much of a shit to post and scroll on these silly platforms?
How come I do not give a flying fuck about these platforms and what people post on them? Because I am busy with more relevant shit!
SO.
Wanna change something?
REPLACE.
Replace these trading platforms with trade-free ones like Friendica, Peertube and the like. If you are a government, support them!
Replace the meaningless life of most people with meaningful ones. Give people their basic needs as trade-free. Via an UBI or trade-free basic services. This way you don't even have to support those trade-free platforms. People will! The same people who do it now, but who also have to struggle to have a day job in order to keep their work on these platforms going. Imagine having millions of people able to get involved and change this world!
Free people from the Trade-Society!
This way you don't even have to fight with these big corporations. Let them fade out! Let them die.
Have you heard of the vulgar-latin? That’s Catalan.
In other words a “vulgar”, non Latin, or “bad” Latin language. Because, of course, all languages are mixes of previous languages. We wrote a 600 pages book about the evolution of languages where we explain in detail how there is no such thing as Spanish, Catalan, English and so forth. Languages are in a constant movement and are comprised, just like those “sarmale” food, of many kinds of flavors. Catalan, French, Romanian, Italian and so forth, are languages that have evolved from Latin. And Latin evolved from other language(s).
To my Catalans readers, to put it simply, the Catalan language (and this applies for every single language) is this:
ONE:
A “bad” version of another language that over time mutated into its own language.
By “bad” I mean people will start to speak an official language (like Latin) in different ways (accents, new words, new ways to write it, etc.) and in the beginning this is considered as “bad
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Have you heard of the vulgar-latin? That’s Catalan.
In other words a “vulgar”, non Latin, or “bad” Latin language. Because, of course, all languages are mixes of previous languages. We wrote a 600 pages book about the evolution of languages where we explain in detail how there is no such thing as Spanish, Catalan, English and so forth. Languages are in a constant movement and are comprised, just like those “sarmale” food, of many kinds of flavors. Catalan, French, Romanian, Italian and so forth, are languages that have evolved from Latin. And Latin evolved from other language(s).
To my Catalans readers, to put it simply, the Catalan language (and this applies for every single language) is this:
ONE:
A “bad” version of another language that over time mutated into its own language.
By “bad” I mean people will start to speak an official language (like Latin) in different ways (accents, new words, new ways to write it, etc.) and in the beginning this is considered as “bad” since it deviates from the “rules of the current language”.
But this “bad” will become the “rule”, just as the “rule” was also “bad” at some point. That’s how languages evolve.
TWO
A language that stole words from other languages. Directly, shamelessly, and constantly.
Do you know how Catalans call the “Internet”? Well, “internet”. Inter-Net. Borrowed from the Americans.
Catalan, like all languages, is full of these stolen words, expressions, and meanings.
THREE
A language that is vastly different from its own origins.
The Catalan that was spoken hundreds of years ago is vastly different from the one spoken today.
For #ThrowbackThuraday here's my heavily customised Sega Game Gear with enhanced screen, HDMI-out, USB-C power supply and 2-player support (for Master System games)!
I broadly agree that kernel ac isn't a good idea, but this kinda misunderstands the purpose. Anticheat is obviously and unavoidably always a treadmill that you cannot win, the goal is to make it expensive (in as many ways as possible) to cheat, because there's a tremendous difference between a game where every lobby has a blatant cheater, and a game where you run into them rarely. (Also hardware cheats aren't really a big thing, because you don't tend to need to go that far)
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IPv6 isn't "the future of the internet." It's the internet. IPv4 is the relic we keep alive on NAT life support.
A laid-back tour through the basics: how the addresses are built, the two rules for crushing out the zeros, a /64 per subnet so you stop counting hosts, SLAAC, and why blocking ICMPv6 is a self-inflicted wound.
And no, dual-stack isn't a destination. It's a burden.
A laid-back tour through the basics of IPv6: how the addresses are built, how to shorten them without losing your mind, how they map onto the IPv4 you already know, and how hosts configure themselv...
I find it quite sad that we have people with such a deep-rooted fear of ipv6 that they think their only legitimate course of action is to completely disable it. As long as we have instructors who " " teach IT " " continue to falsely advise their students against using it because they themselves can't be bothered to understand how simple it is, we will continue to have people who don't understand it in the positions which would otherwise be able to help make things right.
Not a whole lotta meat in this "Progress Update", but they seem to still be movin forward on it. I really hope this whole #OpenPrinter idea don't tank before some of us get one to play with. It'd be even better if these dudes manage to inspire others to make similar stuff.
We are working tirelessly on the finishing touches before we launch our Crowd Supply campaign at some point in the next few months. Here is a look at where we stand and what we are refining right now.
In this new world of adding #AI into all our tools, AI itself is not the problem, nor is it inherently bad. People's willingness to remain ignorant in things they now believe they have no reason to learn is the real problem.
EU needs to make a stand on Play Integrity. If app devs enforce Play Integrity, this means only Google Certified devices can use banking, etc. This excludes all alternative mobile OS. No #postmarketOS, no #SailfishOS, no Android derivatives #GrapheneOS etc. You don't need Play Integrity. If someone is capable to install or use alternative OS, they sure know what to install or not install, it is on their responsibility. Using non-root but bootloader unlocked device (otherwise can't use alternative OS) does not make my device less secure. On the contrary, it is using an up to date OS with the latest security patches. Do we really want all mobile devices have to be Google Certified? No. #mobile #integrity #bootloader #unlocked #nonsense #Europe
@EUCommission is there any plan in motion to stop this monopoly from Google on Android? reCAPTCHA now also requires a Google Certified device status. Soon won't be able to use apps without being locked to Google.
Thankfully from what I see, the QR code verification in reCaptcha is a default option and user can change for visual or audio verification in one click. While the QR only is now used infernally in enterprises. At least for now.
I bet that Eu bureaucrats are instead really really happy about #PlayIntegrity since they gives them **apparent** total #censorship powers. Sadly I also bet they are too stupid to understand they are handling the keys of power to an evil entity overseas
@paoloredaelli I'm not sure I follow the reasoning behind EU wanting Play Integrity being a mandatory requirement for non Apple devices. Same way EU forced Apple to open their walled garden.
The only nuance thing here is, a Google Certified device means that they are running Google's proprietary blobs. So really, the course of action is, install alternative OS/use alternative OS and instead tell the devs of apps with Play Integrity checks that there are alternatives to check a device is not compromised - because that is what it should be about. Force Google to provide a different verification path that allows alternative ROMs/OS to be seen as safe.
eudi / wallet and everything eu related (w social) is full google service depending (all for security reasons...) I dont think that they will change their mind
@sakura84 it's worth raising awareness that there are alternatives to Google Play Integrity, for example Promon Shield from Norway promon.io/products/shield-mobi…, and many others. It definitely does not need to be a device that installs apps from the Play Store, and is GMS certified. F-Droid, Aurora Store work well on a deGoogled device but if the apps themselves don't work unless they detect that Play Store is installed, it means only Android with Google services can be used. No alternatives.
@WORM From what I know it's a bit of both. They often use a skin over an existing software stack so they don't have to deal with as much regulatory details, even though that's kinda part of their job.
- No desktops either if Google's QR captcha is any indication of where we're headed. Assuming this goes through, even desktops will be locked out of the web unless they're linked to a Google device by scanning the QR captcha with said device.
Or, Google could mandate AluminumOS to be able to pass their captcha on the desktop as well, and only through the Chrome browser.
Worst case, the end game will be thin clients tied to rented servers, which would ultimately be tied to your government ID.
This will fall on deaf ears. The neoliberal hegemony loves tech monopolies because it allows them to outsource the policing of digital space.
(The fact that Big Tech is even less democratically accountable than the real police is easily ignored because the policing is now off balance sheet. Same as privately owned 'public space' in cities which are policed by private security.)
They really are doing anything they can to lock down the digital world, so you in-practice do not own jack shit... "But it's to protect you", lol it's so THEY remain in control, so that THEY choose what software reaches who. I'm tired boss
A new spell added to the game with new sustained spells game feature!
Sustained spells reserve a portion of your mana while they remain active. That mana is not spent or lost, it is simply unavailable until the effect ends. You just need to cast the same spell again to disable it, remove the effect, and regain the reserved mana.
When you're building software aimed at a niche related to hype, the only thing you can do is hook people onto it. I mean, you're targeting the kind people who have an attention span of a fruit fly. Unless they're literally addicted to your software, they're going to forget it as soon as they notice the next shiny thing.
Discover new features and updates of /e/OS, Murena's deGoogled operating system and the Murena Workspace: A new wallpaper collection, Gmail migration, Murena Sign, Murena Meet and the Murena GS6, a new smartphone!
Been looking at this, my main problem is the banking apps, some of them have this insane idea that some of Googles spy ware needs to be installed for safety reasons 😡
Think this needs to be tackled in some way it is such a big block 😥
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Just installed it. Unfortunately, instead of making more (all?) apps ininstallable to give us full freedom, there's now an additional app, an e-skinned browser of some origin or other, that can' t be removed.
If you're a person who uses an #AI tool to help you write stuff, and you the " "author" " are not reviewing and revising it, you are the problem with AI tools.
The "it works, who cares" attitude I keep seeing by people I know personally, and who have less #programming know-how than my dumb ass, is why it will take much longer than it likely could for any of these AI tools to be able to do what these sorta folk think they already can do.
""" Multiple times in the past I’ve been thinking of how #Gentoo is perceived by the wider public, the non-users. What probably stands out most is compiling. Almost everyone who heard of Gentoo knows it has something to do with compiling everything. And why are we doing that? Well, besides being hardcore, the common sentiment goes for performance. So yeah, Gentoo users must be some kind of hardcore ricers who try to squeeze every last bit of their system performance.
To be honest, I don’t think that’s a good way to describe Gentoo. Yes, compiling is at the core of it. But performance? I don’t think so, at least not in the obvious, -O9999 -fzomg-fast way. The world has moved on, CPUs have gotten faster, optimizations have g
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New on #blog (this time with quotes from Fedi): "Why Gentoo?"
""" Multiple times in the past I’ve been thinking of how #Gentoo is perceived by the wider public, the non-users. What probably stands out most is compiling. Almost everyone who heard of Gentoo knows it has something to do with compiling everything. And why are we doing that? Well, besides being hardcore, the common sentiment goes for performance. So yeah, Gentoo users must be some kind of hardcore ricers who try to squeeze every last bit of their system performance.
To be honest, I don’t think that’s a good way to describe Gentoo. Yes, compiling is at the core of it. But performance? I don’t think so, at least not in the obvious, -O9999 -fzomg-fast way. The world has moved on, CPUs have gotten faster, optimizations have gotten smarter, and distributions have started optimizing more aggressively. Optimization-wise, I suspect your average Ubuntu package with generic optimizations may be no slower than the equivalent Gentoo package fine-tuned for your CPU. And if it’s not, then it probably won’t make a real difference anyway.
There’s much more to Gentoo than that. Yes, some of it comes from building from source: the flexibility. But a lot of it comes from the wider Gentoo philosophy, the philosophy that brought us all together. The idea that Gentoo is the distribution we’re making for ourselves and people who enjoy Gentoo. So if I were to make a few arguments for Gentoo, I’d focus on that. And this is what I’d like to do here. """
Multiple times in the past I’ve been thinking of how Gentoo is perceived by the wider public, the non-users. What probably stands out most is compiling. Almost everyone who heard of Gentoo kn…
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