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That was a great blog post, good read 🙂 The idea of manual labor of love and slow code reminds me of the trade-free movement. When everything's made for profit then it will naturally lead to a place where all they care about is that, to make a profit. There are still some good trade-free projects out there, like the ones listed here - directory.trade-free.org/
We should understand that trade is an overall negative influence on our society, and promote trade-free projects
These goods and services are submitted and reviewed by people like you. We cannot guarantee that all of what you see here is trade-free, since at times it is very difficult to review them all and do so properly.Trade-Free Directory
@psu_13
BTW, if anyone is interested in learning more about the trade-free movement then I recommend watching the TROM II documentary here - tromsite.com/documentaries/tro…
Or on the #peertube page directly - videos.trom.tf/w/p/fVpfZ9VfWrW…
I feel like this documentary is now more important than ever, looking at the current state of our world.
First they ask for your date of birth,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your full name and location,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for a copy of your passport,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your facial scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your fingerprints,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your palm scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for a scan of your iris,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for ...
#MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights
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Then they leak it all and every single form of ID we have becomes useless.
Once it's all breached, leaked, compromised and useless we will end up with the one solution we could have used since day one, a solution that could have been implemented that preserves our privacy, security and identity.
Digital signing. Safe, secure, private.
Breaches and age verification will break ID as we know it and make us all far less secure.
I'm just waiting for the epstein class to roll out sphincter recognition and/or authentication butt dongles.
It's a matter of time. XD
My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
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> 24 hour waiting period
sounds like the chinese model too. "apply and wait a week(s) for permission to own your device"
That's right folks, it is now easier to buy a firearm than to load open source software on your phone in America.♲ @campuscodi@mastodon.social:
Android will require a 24-hour wait before sideloading apps
android-developers.googleblog.…
🗞️☕ Are you looking for an interesting weekend read? noyb recently conducted a survey among privacy professionals to find out what kind of #GDPR simplification #European companies actually need.
🔍 One of the key findings was that most professionals don’t actually want protections to be cut back, but for documentation duties and #paperwork to be reduced. In many cases, they even ask for clearer laws instead of more ‘flexibility’.
👇 Find the full survey below 👇
noyb.eu/en/gdpr-omnibus-eu-sim…
The participants' responses often point in the opposite direction to the European Commission’s approachnoyb.eu
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That's right folks, it is now easier to buy a firearm than to load open source software on your phone in America.
Android will require a 24-hour wait before sideloading appsandroid-developers.googleblog.…
Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.Android Developers Blog
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I need help with the server hosting all my open-source projects: #Fedilab, #HolosSocial, #HolosDiscover, and more.
The current server costs €350/year but is no longer suited for the load. I often run out of disk space. I need to migrate to a more powerful one with expandable storage. Renewal is due in a few days.
I have set a goal of €500 on Ko-fi, cost unknown.
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/tom79
Liberapay: liberapay.com/tom79
Sharing this post helps keep my open-source projects alive.
My name is Thomas, I use a part of my spare time to develop and maintain open source projects (Fedilab, Tubelab, UntrackMe, OpenMultiMaps, FediPlan, Mastodon comments for …Liberapay
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#HolosDiscover just hit 3 million indexed posts.
What matters more than the number: 145k deletions processed, 83k edits tracked, and over 1k opt-outs respected, all in real time.
Respecting people is the priority and the only way to do it right is to be a full #ActivityPub participant, receiving deletions, edits, and opt-outs as they happen. Before indexing anyone, Holos Discover follows their account, so they know they are being indexed and can opt out.
Source: discover.holos.social/stats
A privacy-respecting search engine for Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey and the Fediverse.Holos Discover
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…I didn’t get a word of that.
I just want to be opted out of your service.
not to rain on the parade but creating outposts of human-only caches is exactly the kind of thing that LLM providers would be behind.
they need ground truths to prevent model collapse
My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi…
#Holos 1.0.0 is available! With this release, Holos moves from release candidate to production. This version adds a reverse timeline option to display posts oldest-first.
A lot of improvements have also been made to the relay, especially around Bloom filter performance, that are not always reflected in app changelogs.
Available on #FDroid custom repo:
fdroid.fedilab.app
Direct download: framadrive.org/s/SwXt6GbBC97pZ…
Release notes: codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/r…
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Ditch Android. Use PostmarketOS.
Sure. If I want no touch, no wifi, no bluetooth, no camera, no GPS, no modem. A rock has more utility at this point.
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Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distributionkeepandroidopen.org
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Ремастеринг подкаста, впервые опубликованного в конце 2020 года. Ссылка на первоисточник: (сервис умер). Главным образом был откорректирован звук: по многочисленным просьбам фоновая музыка стала тише.Мастерская Талантов (RUTUBE)
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I'd *absolutely love* to make one, properly, in a voiceover!
The issue is - time and energy. It took me almost a year to make the original Russian one.
I also wanted the video sequence to go with that, in the style of Ahoy, who was my primary inspiration for the project, but I can't use Blender for shit, and there was almost no other FOSS motion design software (and I use FOSS almost exclusively).
Thank you for doing that work! FWIW here's a list of delightful creative tools around video animation, maintained by @ADHDefy
delightful.coding.social/delig…
Delightful curated lists of free software, open science and information sources.delightful.coding.social
#PawFed is a project close to my heart. It's a collaborative map for animal welfare that bridges the #Fediverse and #OpenStreetMap.
The idea: mention @PawFed from your Mastodon account with hashtags and a location, and your report appears on the map. No signup, no app, just your existing Fediverse account.
It's not perfect yet, but the foundation is there. I will publish the source code soon under AGPL.
More: pawfed.org/how-it-works
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Am I correct in my understanding that this requires one to reveal their IRL location in a public toot?
I am sorry, but I am not comfortable with that, unfortunately. I can, and will, however consider setting up another account just for this purpose. Especially since I'm using a certain fediverse app that just happens to handle multiple accounts very nicely ;)
@PawFed
“Vote with your wallet,” they say. Forgetting who has the largest wallets…
Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax
Sergey Brin gives $25m on top of $20m he’s already given to Super Pac trying to block state’s proposed 5% wealth taxDara Kerr (the Guardian)
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I feel that at best, it is an attempt to solve a "people problem" with a software fix. I have worked in IT support long enough to know that that never works. It only compounds the problem by creating even more new ones (while not actually solving the original problem).
The illusion of security will be quickly shattered as soon as scammers figure out how to work around it anyway.
Opposition to Israel has NEVER made me feel like I was in danger as a Jew.
But goddamn I feel more in danger because an apartheid state on the other side of the world is committing genocide and war and saying they’re doing it in my name.
I hate that wearing something that may identify me as Jewish may indicate support for a country I want nothing to do with.
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Netanyahu and his genocidal thugs lie to try to use every Jewish person in the world as a human shield for the actions of Israel
Deliberately framing criticism of Israeli actions as an attack on "the Jewish community" is something politicians in the UK do constantly
Its infuriating that its been done deliberately and cynically by so many politicians and much of the media , and
I'm really sorry that you are in this position
What I saw VS What I painted
#MastoArt #TraditionalArt #Gouache #SketchBook #Forest #FantasyArt #Mosstodon #Nature
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#AB1043’s Internet Age Gates Hurt Everyone
eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/ab-1…
#privacy #politics #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification
Legislators do not need to sacrifice their constituents' First Amendment rights and privacy to make a safer internet, but they can address many of the harms these proposals seek to mitigate.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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**Why do we need to install an app to get push notifications?**
We are used to get pre-installed solutions on Google-certified devices for many services such as the browser (Chrome), the map (Google Map), keyboard (Google keyboard), camera (Google Camera), push notifications (Play Services), etc.
Our free solutions aren't pre-installed on our devices: if we want a free map, we need to install it. It works the same for the push notification service.
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Pokémon Go players thought they were catching Pikachus.
They were actually building the nervous system for robot civilization.
500M humans. 30B images. Zero consent forms.
The game was the harvest.
technologyreview.com/2026/03/1…
Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.Will Douglas Heaven (MIT Technology Review)
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in reply to ArchiGato 🐈⬛ • • •@archigato GrapheneOS has an official long term partnership with Motorola and will support many of their future devices, not one. It will support multiple new Motorola devices every year. We aren't lowering our security requirements but rather their devices are being improved to meet our requirements. The reason GrapheneOS won't support their currently available devices is because those don't meet our security requirements. Currently, only Pixels meet our requirements.
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in reply to ArchiGato 🐈⬛ • • •"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." --Mark Twain
Are we all alone?
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in reply to Are we all alone? • • •@esp32 Supporting Pixel devices has become more difficult, which is why the partnership with Motorola is so valuable.
But AOSP is not Google and can be used without Google services, even though AOSP is, in a sense, tied to Google, mainly because Google is the largest contributor, you can create a mobile OS based on AOSP without depending on Google services.
You cannot ban FOSS, just as you cannot ban encryption and the mathematics used for it; you can discredit it, try to generate negative publicity, attempt to impose backdoors, etc, which is exactly what authoritarian and fascist regimes are desperately trying to do.
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in reply to Michael 🎇 • • •@michael Pixels are the only currently available devices meeting the security requirements for GrapheneOS.
GrapheneOS has an official long term partnership with Motorola and will support many of their future devices:
grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…
We aren't lowering our standards but rather their devices are being improved to meet our requirements. Existing devices from every non-Pixel Android OEM lack important security features and don't provide the level of driver/firmware updates we need.
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Unknown parent • • •@lexinova I may be wrong, but I believe that this is what’s planned, from what I understand, and that a version of the Motorola device running GrapheneOS could be offered as an option, sold at a slightly higher price than the original product.
The key takeaway is that this won’t be a GrapheneOS device or one bearing the GrapheneOS logo, but simply a high-end Motorola device sold normally to everyone, which will also support GrapheneOS for those who want to install it. I believe that through this partnership with GrapheneOS, Motorola Mobility aims to become a trusted actor in mobile device security within the business sector.
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •thanks for fighting the good fight
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Unknown parent • • •@Flittermouse @archigato GrapheneOS is privacy project and privacy depends on security. We have very reasonable hardware security requirements which are listed at grapheneos.org/faq#future-devi…. We only expect industry standard updates and security features. The only non-Pixel Android devices meeting these requirements don't allow using another OS. We're officially partnered with Motorola and they're making devices meeting these requirements with official GrapheneOS support.
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GrapheneOS Frequently Asked Questions
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •ArchiGato 🐈⬛
in reply to GrapheneOS • • •That's already progress because Motorola phones are even more affordable than Pixels. I like both and I have nothing against Android or Google, although I'd like a bit more freedom. But I'm more convinced by Motorola.
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in reply to Mr Cheseaux • • •@gcheseaux Fairphone has made it very clear they don't care about providing serious privacy or security. We aren't going to be supporting their devices or working with them. They already chose a different path incompatible with working with us.
discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134…
Devices lacking standard privacy/security patches and protections aren't private - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum
GrapheneOS Discussion ForumMr Cheseaux
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in reply to ArchiGato 🐈⬛ • • •digitalCalibrator (she/her)
in reply to GrapheneOS • • •eh, don't forget the asterisk of "only on supported devices." I understand that manually backporting major security and system updates to "EOL" devices is too effort for what you probably see as a small number of potential users, but it still sticks in my craw a little that my pixel 6a is unsupported, even though the hardware continues to be needs-suiting and i don't want to contribute to the growing e-waste problems not than I need to.
I don't want to have to buy another new (or new-to-me) device just so i can get the kind of privacy and security that ought to be part of modern Android to begin with (though that part's surveillance capitalism's fault, not yours)
GrapheneOS
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> I understand that manually backporting major security and system updates to "EOL" devices is too effort for what you probably see as a small number of potential users
End-of-life devices no longer receive driver and firmware updates. Porting major OS updates to them won't resolve the insecurity. GrapheneOS is for secure devices.
> my pixel 6a is unsupported
Pixel 6a is supported by GrapheneOS and will continue to be until it's end-of-life:
grapheneos.org/faq#supported-d…
GrapheneOS Frequently Asked Questions
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •@digitalCalibrator You won't get decent security on a device not receiving driver/firmware updates. Pixel 6a is not end-of-life yet and is still fully supported by GrapheneOS. It's not one of the recommended devices for new purchases due to lack of recent security features and remaining support time.
The whole point of GrapheneOS is substantially improving privacy and security from the baseline. If Android included our current privacy and security features, we'd have a large set of new ones.
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •@NNN @archigato Pixel stock OS no longer has nearly as many changes in the monthly releases beyond the security patch backports. QPR1 and QPR3 will be smaller releases than previously and stock Pixel OS exclusive. These releases are only relevant to GrapheneOS for Pixel support. We don't need to deal with it for another device.
GrapheneOS has security preview patch access already which we didn't receive from Motorola but rather from another OEM not working on devices supporting GrapheneOS.
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in reply to Johan Moir (Mastodon) • • •@Johan_E_M Pixel 6a is fully supported and works well. It's part of the oldest generation of supported devices and has an update guarantee from the OEM until at least July 2027.
Some of the laws we're referencing were already passed. It isn't going to result in any changes to GrapheneOS and it will remain available everywhere. Many other projects are making changes due to it or blocking downloads in regions passing these laws but we've determined there's no need for us to do anything.
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •Yes, that's the spirit.
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •Ageless Linux
Software for humans of indeterminate age. We don't know how old you are. We don't want to know. We are legally required to ask. We won't.
The fastest path to [age verification] noncompliance. Run this on any Debian-based system to convert it to Ageless Linux:
Installs Ageless Linux identity and a stub age verification API that returns no data. Preserves a thin "good faith effort" argument.
agelesslinux.org/download.html
Ageless Linux — Download
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •looking forward to the partnership with Motorola but are you going to keep supporting current pixels (8, 9, 10)?
Asking this because I'm using a pixel 6 that will go EOL in October. As such, I might have to buy a new pixel soon, as I don't expect Motorola to ship new devices compatible with GrapheneOS by October.
Thanks!
GrapheneOS
in reply to plf • • •@plf Yes, Pixels are going to remain supported and it will be a while before the Motorola devices launch. We launched experimental support for the recently launched Pixel 10a yesterday.
The initial devices with GrapheneOS support from Motorola will be 2027 flagships. We'll add support for new devices each year along with expanding to cheaper devices once those meet the requirements.
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •That's the way it should be! Big thanks!
scotty86 🇺🇦🕊️
in reply to GrapheneOS • • •Let's see how reliable Motorola really is if the sales figures don't satisfy the shareholders.
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