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Hackers are trying to steal #Signal users’ backups in new wave of #phishing attacks

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Why #FDroid for your #Android device? No need to "just trust us" about how we check, how we build and why we care, you can look at everything that we do as #FLOSS offers the transparency you want.

@bendineliot explains this in many more words: f-droid.org/2026/05/27/buildin…

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Lenovo and Motorola learned NOTHING from superfish: avoid their products


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@GrapheneOS team if you're reading this, I heard that you guys are partnering with Motorola to provide official support for their devices and even the possibility of buying phones with GrapheneOS pre-installed. I was overall pretty happy about this partnership and what it meant for the future of degoogled mobile OSes, however I'm concerned to see Motorola's involvement in this new affiliate link scandal and how shady it was and their overall response after this came out in public. I know this issue doesn't affect GrapheneOS users in particular, but I still wanted to run this by you and see if you guys have any comment on this.

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It's unintended from Motorola's part since it wasn't authorized by them and was done without their permission. That doesn't mean whoever did it didn't intend to do it. It makes no sense for them to put referral codes into Amazon links with the codes tied to an obscure Instagram influencer. It clearly wasn't something authorized. They're having a company which might be problematic do contract work for them or are using their SDK and both seem to have screwed up missing this going in.
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I arrived at Þingvellir National Park after 6pm. I set up my tent at the campsite (since wild camping is illegal in the national parks of Iceland), cooked, relaxed, then went for a walk on the main touristy paths of Thingvellir at around 10pm. It was still light out, yet there was nobody around. Amazing. I stood there, in the fault between North America and Eurasia, and admired the striking walls around me. Those walls move away from each other by about 2cm each year; this is an active rift. These walls are part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Iceland is one of few places where you can see the ridge above the surface of the ocean. And what an incredible sight it is, especially when you have it all to yourself.

#iceland #geology #nature #thingvellir #þingvellir #camping

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LLM advocates still don’t seem to be able to comprehend that ordering the machine not to ‘make stuff up’ doesn’t help. It doesn’t know when it’s making stuff up, and it couldn’t change that even if you told it to. (In fact it’s always just making stuff up, and is only ever true by chance.)

Part of why I’m so negative about them is that their advocates simply do not understand how they work and do not seem to want to.

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Hallucinations are the bane of my existence when using Claude Code and that has significantly improved after adding the following instructions to my Claude .MD file.

Sharing for anyone else who uses Claude as a daily driver for analysis and writing but has gotten frustrated by it making things up.


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I am a safety engineer for safety-relevant and mission-critical systems. And it is disheartening to see safety professionals at international conferences present 2-page-long prompts, doing basically all this, but much more so, and expect their "spicy autocomplete machine" (@pluralistic) to create safety analyses this way. And always talking about the LLM as if it could think. And prompt it to show its internal steps and "reasoning", not understanding that it does no such thing. It just creates another string of words that sounds as if an intelligence were describing the inner workings.
The upshot almost always is "It sucks, we have to check and correct everything. We love it. It is the future!" 🤡🤪
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This is Glymur Falls, Iceland. Amazing hike and waterfall not too far from Reykjavik. You have to cross a river to get to the lookout, but it's pretty shallow and the hike is quite easy (and well worth it!).

#waterfall #Iceland #hiking #nature

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From Glymur falls, I followed a 20km trail called Leggjabrjótur into Þingvellir National Park. This trail was a lot less muddy than the previous one, and just spectacular all around. I camped by Sandvatn Lake. It was below freezing at night, but my sleeping bag kept me warm and cozy 😊

#iceland #nature #camping #hiking #thingvellir #nationalparks #travel

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I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikip… #Wikipedia

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Our TROM Social (Friendica) finally got updated to the latest stable.

Thank you to the people behind #yunohost and #friendica. You are awesome humans.

#fedi #fediverse

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New financial support for #FDroid thanks to FLOSS/Fund

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"Object permanence": the ability to understand that things still exist, even if you can't see 'em. Kids acquire a thorough sense of object permanence by the age of two. But when it comes to technopolitics, object permanence eludes full-grown lawmakers. These motherfuckers would lose a game of peek-a-boo.

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The deepest protest ever for the world leaders in the back:

👏 LISTEN 👏 TO 👏 THE 👏 SCIENCE 👏

Sign the petition >> greenpeace.org/international/a…

#StopDeepSeaMining #ProtectTheOceans #ArcticDeepExpedition

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Our Friendica (TROM Social) failed to update to the latest stable. Likely this bug github.com/YunoHost-Apps/frien…

Seems easy to solve, but since our database is massive, around 80GB, it took around 20 hours to restore....

I understand that it totally sucks for a Social Network to be down for almost a day. People may be put off and not want to use Friendica anymore. Or our instance at least. But our instance has been very reliable for the past years and I always email people to tell them about updating it, so they are aware such things can happen.

Also, our budget for TROM.tf is around €0, compared to the billions floating around Facebook and the like. So please understand that.

Today we will give the update another try, and it is likely to work. If it doesn't at least thanks to @YunoHost a backup will be automatically restored.

#friendica #yunohost #fedi #fediverse

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@Tio @YunoHost

Regarding that upgrade failure - I ran this:
sudo apt-get update --fix-missing
with that key errors:
Err:6 dl.yarnpkg.com/debian stable InRelease
The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 62D54FD4003F6525
Err:7 packages.sury.org/php bookworm InRelease
The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG B188E2B695BD4743 DEB.SURY.ORG Automatic Signing Key <deb@sury.org>

Probably you can do a similar job.

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Woke up to a suspended social media account with zero explanation? Arbitrary account suspensions or content takedowns are direct violations of your freedom of speech.

Report it to our 24/7 RightsLine for pro bono legal support to navigate the redressal mechanism, challenge these violations, and reach the right authorities.

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#freedspeech #digitalrights #FoE

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I fear this is spreading globally...at least europe and the uk, certainly the states.

Right wing paranoia - what do they imagine we are all talking about?

I'm in the uk, and I intend to replace my 'smart' phone with an old phone/burner - no internet - and getting a second hand laptop to install linux mint on.

I'm going off grid, even though I'm not a terrorist, and no danger to anyone...I just have political opinions.

Plus being a grumpy old git gives me licence to piss them off, lol!

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Just read more about them retaining metadata for 12 months...I wonder where this will be stored - almost certainly one of these - AWS, google, microsoft.

All american corporations, and as a result that makes all that data available to american agencies under their data laws.

Perhaps this may be a way to shelve this Canadian plan? Bit late, I know, but only today I read about it ☹️.

A formula for persecution.

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#Heliboard is gathering gesture typing data, so that we can implement a #FOSS alternative to the closed gesture typing library Heliboard currently relies on. The data we collect will be released under the CC BY-SA 4.0

I also made a video including details & instructions.

Boosts Please! The greater the diversity of people & languages in the data, the better we can test for correctness.

PT: makertube.net/w/cQECfDkuLGR9eU…

YT: youtu.be/CyjumVTWtJA

Text (instructions only):
github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard…

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Our Peertube is updated now. Security issue fixed! videos.trom.tf/home

Thank you @PeerTube for fixing it so fast and #yunohost for implementing the change.

If anyone wants to post their videos on our instance, we invite you! Unlimited storage basically, but 5GB a day max upload. If you need more tell us.

Let's add more original and good content on #peertube!

We already have a few original creators, so check them out!

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I decided to ease into my hiking in Iceland adventure by doing a Workaway for the first month. I'm staying in a beautiful town called Akranes with a lovely Icelandic family. I'm working part time in exchange for accommodation and food, and I'm able to test my camping/hiking equipment on my days off. So far only my jacket and sleeping pad are a big failure 😁
The Hubba Hubba tent and phantom sleeping bag have held up in below freezing conditions, so that's a relief 😅
Here are some photos from my first week in Iceland.

#Iceland #traveliceland #icelandtrip #sunset

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Our #peertube instance - videos.trom.tf - is not currently working. A failed upgrade and failed restore from backup. We need to figure what is the issue...stay tuned.

EDIT: We are affected by this github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube… . Currently trying to fix it. See github.com/YunoHost-Apps/peert…

UPDATE: We fixed the issue. The bloody infection...manually. As recommended by Peertube in the link above. I urge people to do it.

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@emilymbender

BTW, I don't think Google is going to completely ditch their search results page, because the TechCrunch article said it like this:

> Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times.

I don't think "at times" at the end here was an accident. It is still very bad that Google is doing this, but I feel like if they removed the search results page entirely then there would be a big backlash.

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@emilymbender

Yes that's what I said in my next comment - fosstodon.org/@futureisfoss/11…


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What Google is trying to do now is to slowly get people accustomed to the "AI-powered interactive experience" and perhaps sometime in the future they would make it the default, reminds me of the boiling frog.....