Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distributionkeepandroidopen.org
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Whenever you hear "ban for kids" on the internet, read in reality "ID collection by a sketchy third-party company that will definitely use it or leak it or both for every adult."
Because that's what this truly means.
Also, it doesn't even help the kids.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
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Hezbollah fired a rocket straight into an Israeli school killing 168 children and 2 teachers! They wanted to target an Israeli military base and due to outdated information they hit that school....
The entire world condemns it!
Now Israel says it has the right to destroy Hezbollah and everyone in Lebanon who stays in their way.
There you go!
Oh wait...
(source)
Nevermind...
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The hypocrisy of US and Israel is insane..... How is this different from Russia attacking Ukraine?! By all accounts this feels worse.....
These lunatics in power don't have any ethics or morality, all they know is to kill people. And NEVER EVER forget about Netenyahu's corruption trials and Trump's connection with Epstein, there is an allegation of them starting the war to distract people from these issues....
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One of my favorites from Beuda, Spain, on a spectacularly clear night. The brightest dot is Jupiter.
Wouldn't it be amazing if people focused on the things that connect us- the stars, the universe, the creation of atoms, the Earth, life, evolution, the interconnectedness of it all- rather than on the silly beliefs that separate us, or on the self-centered desires for wealth and power brought about by a corrupt system run by lunatics..
War should be considered a complete absurdity, a failure of the human species. A shameful, primitive practice. A loss from the very start.
So long as there are wars we cannot consider ourselves an intelligent species. We've gotten so far in understanding the universe and advancing technology, yet we've gotten nowhere in applying that understanding to our society as a whole. We remain a tribal, primitive society, only now with more powerful weapons and more violence.
What a shame.
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#war #notowar #nowar #stars #astrophotography #nature #universe #jupiter #nightsky
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We signed @keepandroidopen 's open letter calling on lawmakers, developers, and users to put pressure on Google to stop its recent maneuvers to further dominate Android, preventing alternative libre applications and systems from existing on it. Let’s make some noise, enough is enough: keepandroidopen.org/
mamot.fr/@keepandroidopen@tech…
Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.keepandroidopen.org
The first week of our Open Letter to Keep Android Open has been a resounding success! Our signatories list has grown to nearly 50 organizations from 20 countries around the world, including the
@eff, @OpenMediaOrg, @brave, @Vivaldi, and many more!keepandroidopen.org/open-lette…
An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution
Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distributionkeepandroidopen.org
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Do you want to have your own #Mastodon instance? How about #Peertube, #Nextcloud, #Matrix or a #Pixelfed instance? You can buy a managed hosting of these services from webape.site/
#ManagedHosting means you don't need to have any technical skills or know how to maintain a Linux server, all of that will be done for you. The #Webape project is a small business run by @tio, he also made trom.tf and have been providing all of those #FOSS services for free since 2021.
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We use dedicated VPS for each instance and we can upgrade to more powerful servers if necessary. I would say for a small instance around 30€ a month should do very well. If not 60€ should work fine. That is what we offer:
You can give it a try with us if you want, and migrate your account to us. If is not working well you can switch back. I think Mastodon provides such an option for migrating accounts.
No I meant to migrate the current account to a new server. Alternatively you can migrate the entire database and files. Do you know how big is your database?
We also do cleanups from time to time to prune old unused stuff from the Mastodon instances we manage.
That is a massive database for 1 user. Even our Friendica that has over 1k users is half that size. Also a lot of Media storage I see. Likely you should prune the old media that is not even accessed anymore. Else you are caching all media and store it locally.
The biggest Mastodon instance we manage has 2 users, 1 has 23k followers. The database is 3.7GB and stored Media about 40GB,
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We also do not give root access to our server to do such things yourself, but we do maintenance to not let the databases grow so much. The account that has 23k followers I was saying about is on our lowest tier. And indeed the database grew a lot but I rather clean it and keep it small than ask to move to a bigger server. We only take a few projects for WebApe and I want do do it right. It is not a business but a paid service so we are able to support our free projects.
In case you want to move to our hosting let us know and maybe we can find a way to transfer your instance, although the best would be to export your Mastodon account, then setup a new instance with us and import your account. So you dont drag a poorly maintained database to the new server.
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And there I was thinking those prices look quite expensive... I mean your 5k followers is already medium sized, but you could probably self-host something capable of serving that for less than $10 a month.
@liaizon @kris @mastohost
If you are planning to self-host and manage a server by yourself then I recommend looking into @yunohost
Yunohost is made to be easy to manage by nontechnical folks, tho I still recommend having a bit of Linux experience if you can. Tio and I maintain a Linux distribution called TROMjaro so we know quite a bit about Linux, you don't need to be that involved but just using Linux on your laptop/PC can teach you a lot.
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Using a free software stack, you could be an effective developer with a relatively low budget. A cheap or used laptop and an internet subscription.
LLM coding is changing that too. You either need a very powerful and expensive machine to run a local model, or (currently more likely) an LLM subscription. We are lead to believe you have to pay a monthly fee to be an effective developer.
The prospect of your output as a developer being tied to a proprietary service seems risky at best.
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yeah it's what I've been fearing, it's willingly giving away the means of production to a corporation in another country.
it's also not being able to code unless you have a decent always on internet connection. it's already the case for a lot of people, but your coding should be able to be done on a disconnected laptop
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Discussing Pseudoscience With Archeologist Flint Dibble
youtube.com/watch?v=tRIYhWl01r…
I don't know what happened but pseudoscience and conspiracy theories started spreading like wildfire ever since the covid-19 pandemic. Fighting all of that misinformation online is not easy work, but thanks to people like this who take their time and effort to do so. Not all heroes wear capes!
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Professor Dave Explains (YouTube)
The Librarians - videoneat.com/documentaries/26…
The Librarians is a 2025 American documentary film, directed and produced by Kim A. Snyder. It follows librarians in Texas, Florida, and other states, as they unite to combat book banning in the United States. Sarah Jessica Parker serves as an executive producer under her Pretty Matches Productions banner.
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2025, and was released on October 3, 2025, by 8 Above.
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As a former translator, hailing from an industry that has already been decimated by AI 👋
In the translation business, there have always been bottom feeders charging dimes to the dollar for crappy translations. Those were the first to die when AI took hold. Then companies figured: why pay humans to make decent translations if we can have AI produce half decent translations for free?
In a few years time my yearly income from my translation side business plummeted from €10k+ to zero, so I folded my business, as did many other freelance translators. We're now left with a world that's worse for everybody. Consumers get badly translated interfaces and manuals (in the Dutch interface of a major Microsoft product I saw a button labeled "onbewolkt" = "uncloudy" - it took me a while to figure out that the button must have been labeled "clear" in English and translated from a totally unrelated context, a mistake a human technical translator wouldn't make), skilled translators fled to other work, enshittification all around.
“In the case of Colorado’s and California’s bills, effectiveness is lost. In the case of New York’s bill, liberty is lost.”
Carl Richell, System76 Founder and CEO, urges New York to reject S8102A OS-level age verification.
Read his full statement: s76.co/m-S8102A
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> The challenges we face are neither technical nor legal. The only solution is to educate our children about life with digital abundance. Throwing them into the deep end when they’re 16 or 18 is too late. It’s a wonderful and weird world. Yes, there are dark corners. There always will be. We have to teach our children what to do when they encounter them and we have to trust them.
Thank you for writing this, so true....
The first week of our Open Letter to Keep Android Open has been a resounding success! Our signatories list has grown to nearly 50 organizations from 20 countries around the world, including the
@eff, @OpenMediaOrg, @brave, @Vivaldi, and many more!
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Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distributionkeepandroidopen.org
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Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.Eliza Gkritsi (POLITICO)
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You know what WON’T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz?
Solar and wind energy
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Computer Scientists Caution Against Internet #AgeVerification Mandates
reason.com/2026/03/04/computer…
#privacy #cybersecurity #politics
In an open letter, over 400 computer scientists caution governments against imposing age restrictions on internet platforms.J.D. Tuccille (Reason.com)
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