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
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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
**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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Tired of Enshittification? Take your knowledge offline.
I am currently self hosting a @kiwix instance on my homelab. Having local, searchable copies of Wikipedia, the ArchWiki, and iFixit feels like a cheat code for digital sovereignty.
Spin up the Docker image, grab your ZIM files, and stop relying on big tech to keep the lights on for your reference data.
#Kiwix #SelfHosting #DigitalSovereignty #RightToRepair #ArchLinux #Docker #NoAI
Discover Kiwix’s hardware and software solutions for offline knowledge access across all major platforms. Learn about our mission to bring education worldwide without internet.WikiWanderer (Kiwix)
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What I don’t get is how this snippet passed code review regardless.
I mean, it’s clearly dodgy and the last line basically meaningless without the code being evaluated.
The real story here isn’t the invisible Unicode characters, it’s the lack of proper code review on code submissions.
![Screenshot of article detail:
During the JavaScript runtime, however, a small decoder extracts the real bytes and passes them to the eval() function.
const s = v => [...v]. map (w => (
w = w.codePointAt(0),
w >= ØxFE00 && w <= ØxFEØF ? w - ØxFE00
w >= 0xE0100
&& w <= ØxE01EF ? w - ØxE01
) ) .filter(n => n !== null);
eval (Buffer.from(s(‘’)) .toString('utf-8'))
"The backtick string passed to s() looks empty in every viewer, but it's packed with invisible characters that, once decoded, produce a full malicious payload," Aikido explained. "In past incidents, that decoded payload fetched and executed a second-stage script using Solana as a delivery channel, capable of stealing tokens, credentials, and secrets."](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/43690878 "Screenshot of article detail:
During the JavaScript runtime, however, a small decoder extracts the real bytes and passes them to the eval() function.
const s = v => [...v]. map (w => (
w = w.codePointAt(0),
w >= ØxFE00 && w <= ØxFEØF ? w - ØxFE00
w >= 0xE0100
&& w <= ØxE01EF ? w - ØxE01
) ) .filter(n => n !== null);
eval (Buffer.from(s(‘’)) .toString('utf-8'))
\"The backtick string passed to s() looks empty in every viewer, but it's packed with invisible characters that, once decoded, produce a full malicious payload,\" Aikido explained. \"In past incidents, that decoded payload fetched and executed a second-stage script using Solana as a delivery channel, capable of stealing tokens, credentials, and secrets.\"")
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theguardian.com/global-develop…
*Two women arrested in Uganda for allegedly kissing in public could face life sentence.* That is one item in a long catalog of unjustified cruel bigotry that is fueled by various religions.
Wendy Faith and Alesi Diana Denise were taken into custody under laws that have outraged LGBTQ+ community and rights activistsSamuel Okiror (the Guardian)
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Reminder: The romancelandia.club mastodon instance will only exist for ONE MORE MONTH.
If you haven't moved to another instance by that time, all of your follows and followers will be lost.
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If anyone needs help moving their account, there's a step-by-step non-technical guide at fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
Also feel free to ask if you need help with any specific part of moving your account.
If you need help finding a reliable server to move to, have a look at fedi.garden
Highlighting nice servers on Mastodon and the Fediversepuutarhamestari (Fedi.Garden - An easy way to join Mastodon and the Fediverse)
![Security code
The code is 6 digits
[Lies!] Remember this device and stop sending security codes](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/43661968 "Security code
The code is 6 digits
[Lies!] Remember this device and stop sending security codes")
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We are half way through with our fundraiser for our backups gofundme.com/f/yearly-fundrais… !
Many many thanks people! Almost there!
#campaign #foss #fedi #fediverse #opensource #trom #tromsite
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Not AI | Ghost in the Machine - A Documentary by Valerie Veatch | Premiering at Sundance 2026Ghost in the Machine
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Not AI | Ghost in the Machine - A Documentary by Valerie Veatch | Premiering at Sundance 2026Ghost in the Machine
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