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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.

get.kiwix.org/en/

#Kiwix #SelfHosting #DigitalSovereignty #RightToRepair #ArchLinux #Docker #NoAI

Screenshot of a Kiwix library home page showing five downloaded "books": Wikipedia, ArchWiki, Python Documentation, MedlinePlus, and iFixit.

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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.
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#selfhosting #righttorepair #docker #archlinux #digitalsovereignty #kiwix #noAI @Kiwix

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“The researchers suspect that Glassworm—the name they assigned to the attack group—is using LLMs to generate these convincingly legitimate-appearing packages. “At the scale we’re now seeing, manual crafting of 151+ bespoke code changes across different codebases simply isn’t feasible,” they explained. Fellow security firm Koi, which has also been tracking the same group, said it, too, suspects the group is using AI.”

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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."
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char (#4|2

I agree, I had the same thought, first of all an eval function is super suspicious; "eval is evil", on the other hand what the earth is the const s doing there. And in the name of love what is the reviewer thinking about when someone does a PR with this kind of "functionality". I will check but I think that a simple SAST is going to complain about this PR.
On a second thought maybe the snippet provided by the security researchers is just a non realistic example to illustrate the concept.
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I set up a liberapay account. If you appreciate my work on #SailfishOS ports for @volla or @pine64 devices, or like my applications then feel free to use it. :) liberapay.com/adampigg

adampigg's profile - Liberapay

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*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.

Two women arrested in Uganda for allegedly kissing in public could face life sentence

Wendy Faith and Alesi Diana Denise were taken into custody under laws that have outraged LGBTQ+ community and rights activists
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We have to increase a bit the fundraiser due to some "sales taxes"... gofundme.com/f/yearly-fundrais…

Apparently we had to pay that too...

Thank you so much everyone! We are 83% there!

#fediverse #fedi #donation #volunteer #tromsite #trom

#fediverse #donation #trom #tromsite #fedi #volunteer

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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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Fedi.Tips

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

Fedi.Garden – An easy way to join Mastodon and the Fediverse

Highlighting nice servers on Mastodon and the Fediverse
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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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The wait is (almost) over! Ghost in the Machine is coming to audiences on March 27th! Screenings and rentals are available via Kinema, and the film will stream free on PBS and YouTube this fall. Details at: notaidoc.com
Image for the documentary Ghost in the Machine by Valerie Veatch. The title appears in large glitch-style rainbow text over a black-and-white close-up of a hand holding a set of mechanical eyes. At the top it reads “Official Selection 2026 Sundance Film Festival” and “A Film by Valerie Veatch.” A quote reads, “A necessary, radical, Molotov cocktail of a documentary.” Attribution: The Wrap. A small badge on the right says “Not AI.”

Ghost in the Machine

Not AI | Ghost in the Machine - A Documentary by Valerie Veatch | Premiering at Sundance 2026
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Yearly Fundraiser for our Backups - gofund.me/d96c58985

Hello friends,

We need to pay for our backups every year. We backup with borgbase.com all of our websites. Two servers, a total of around 3TB of data.

We backup:

- tromsite.com
- videoneat.com
- tromjaro.com
- trade-free.org
- directory.trade-free.org
- trom.tf - all of our services: Friendica, Peertube, Nextcloud, etc.

See all of our projects here tromsite.com/

Many thanks!


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Every developer or dev team can relate -

#dev #development #Tech #techdev

The image proposes a "Pride versioning" system for software, contrasting with the standard semantic versioning.  Proud version: The major version number (e.g., 2 in 2.7.123) is incremented for releases the team is proud of. Default version: The minor version number (e.g., 7 in 2.7.123) is for normal or okay releases. Shame version: The patch version number (e.g., 123 in 2.7.123) is bumped when fixing embarrassing issues.
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This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live after 2 weeks:

* everyone has a voice to #keepandroidopen install F-Droid everywhere, make it unavoidable
* Basic 2.0-alpha4 animates things
* #NewPipe reminds you of September
* more downloads stats
* more #FLOSS devs using #AI
+ 38 new apps
& 347 updates
- three archived
~ one downgraded

Elephants in rooms, f-droid.org/2026/03/13/twif.ht…

Normalizing app store choice | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 13 Mar 2026, Week 11 F-Droid core The countdown to September lock-down continues. Did you do your part? Did yo...
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Have you been browsing with Chrome lately? Holy shit! It’s like driving an ambulance through the brightest city in the world after eating hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Does Google really think it can convince its users that it removed uBlock for their own good? As far as I’m concerned, Evil Corp can go eat its own shit.

#privacy

#privacy

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Two weeks in, our Open Letter to Google to Keep Android Open has gotten over 50 signatures from 20 countries. Our latest endorsement: Forbrukerrådet, the creators of the viral hit video: "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator". youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?si=FlZ4Cs… keepandroidopen.org/open-lette…

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council (YouTube)

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Thank you @ow2 for supporting Keep Android Open at keepandroidopen.org/open-lette… @keepandroidopen #KeepAndroidOpen

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 Distribution
keepandroidopen.org
#keepandroidopen @OW2 @Keep Android Open

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"We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter..." -- Sam Altman

x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/2032…

There you go, there it is. Yup.

2032012809433723158

🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” pic.twitter.com/KuoMDp1upQ— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) March 12, 2026
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bituur esztreym

i&i say: metaphysical- historical- & materially speaking, Altman just pronounced his own death sentence & OpenAI's & the whole TESCREAL TechBroism's death sentence.
they & this must die, the sooner the better, & will eventually.

this is the clearest Writing On The Wall one can get at this stage.

#AI #AIism #TESCREAL #TechBroism #DeathSentence
#WritingOnTheWall
(i&i humbly speak so as a poet & a conscious being)

e.g. Karp's last one is a mere confirmation:
pouet.chapril.org/@DeliaChrist…

Mastodon Chapril

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Thank you @fastmail for supporting Keep Android Open at keepandroidopen.org/open-lette… @keepandroidopen #KeepAndroidOpen

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 Distribution
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#keepandroidopen @Fastmail @Keep Android Open

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