As a consoling thought, when you look outside of the so-called "Western World", it becomes clear that #FossiFuels have already lost.

The surge in #fascism around here is in part a last-ditch effort to prop up a failing business model. This might "work" for a while, but it can only delay the end of the Fossil Fuel Age, not stop it.

Which doesn't make fighting fascism unimportant, of course. Any harm we can stop, we should. But they _will_ lose this, in the end.

Finding a business model for an open source projects is really hard, but "pay us to remove the catgirl pictures if you want to look professional" is one of the coolest attempts I've seen so far:
https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper

Why use a URL shortener when you can use a phishy URL extender?

https://phishyurl.com/

Keep your security people alert and awake, generate phishing-looking redirecting links

#infosec

So cursed. Really nice work :) https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI)

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

SIGNAL - PRIVACY ALERT

Seems that Google are up to their AI tricks again with Android. Gboard is caching typed content by default and Gemini Assistant, and one assumes by extension Google, apparently has access to chats. Samsung not innocent on this either apparently.

So from what I understand about current outrage it's best to goto Signal - Settings - Messages and set to 'No name or message' to prevent Android from reading notifications

AND

Goto Signal - Settings - Privacy and enable Incognito Keyboard. But make sure you use a keyboard that respects this setting.

These really should not be the default settings on a privacy product like @signalapp

PS. I de-Googled my life a decade ago and feel much better for it. ;)

#Signal

I've been following this "mutual safety standards recognition" stuff out of the US/EU talks. This could be really, really bad.

It would mean that US vehicles, like those giant dangerous SUVs and pickup trucks, could be freely imported into the EU in volume without having to pass EU vehicle safety standards (like pedestrian safety).

I haven't seen any organised resistance to this. Does anybody know any other organisations that are fighting this?

https://etsc.eu/etsc-mutual-recognition-deal-with-u-s-will-cost-lives-on-europes-roads/

@GrapheneOS @jawsh ohh, hadn't thought about the exploit mitigation thing, will check that out - thanks!

@matttbe thanks! I was already on LineageOS with micro-g, so I do have some experience with non-stock Android. The biggest hurdle initially was figuring out how to install the non-foss apps I use. A bit annoying, but a mix of Aptoide, and a couple of manual downloads from apkmirror, have me all set so far :)

@jawsh @GrapheneOS yup, looking good so far. There are a few apps with missing functionality, and some that crash entirely due to the lack of play services. But none that are essential so far. I may end up installing the sandboxed play services in a secondary profile if it gets to be too annoying, but want to see if I can do without even that :)

Bought a second-hand Pixel 9a and installed @GrapheneOS on it. Very smooth process. Going to see if this can be my daily driver without any of the Play stuff installed...

The Norwegian Government has made a new tourism ad, and it's surprsingly honest and informative! 🇳🇴

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYjooTz_1lA

Debian Linux was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. That's 32 years of stable, free, and opensource computing. From a single kernel, it has grown to parent some of the most popular OSes in the world. Cheers to the one that started it all! Happy 32nd birthday to the beloved mother of all distros!! 🥰 🍰

@asynchronaut Done

https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-tools/releases/tag/v1.5.6

@asynchronaut Yeah, will tag one just as soon as I'm satisfied that I didn't break anything with the latest batch of changes 🙈

Thx to #TokeHoilandJorgensen's @toke:

Revert "mac80211: Dynamically set #CoDel parameters per station":
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next.git/commit/?id=4876376988081d636a4c4e5f03a5556386b49087

is our beloved @mtaht in #OpenWrt as well:

https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/e005cdea10284975e81e77282d654a358f33d640

#bufferbloat #RFC8290 #DaveTaht #latency #FQ_CoDel #sch_CAKE #BandwidthIsALIE #LibreQoS #OpenSource #FLOSS #WiFi #Linux #Kernel #LinuxKernel #FQCoDel #schCAKE

A lot of things happen in Linux kernel development on a daily basis. It's a bummer that what often makes the rounds of Linux web sites is just when Linus writes something that can be portrayed as "Linus flames so-and-so" or whatever.

The kernel is not my beat, but I bet one could find many examples of kernel developers being supportive, positive, or just saying interesting or weird things that are quoteworthy... but it's almost always "Linus says $negative_thing".

here's a few settings you may wish to consider for your firefox's about:config page.

browser.ml.chat.enabled = false
browser.ml.chat.shortcuts = false
browser.ml.chat.shortcuts.custom = false
browser.ml.chat.sidebar = false
browser.ml.enable = false

From my "Geek dates" calendar:

On this day in 1988 Dade "Zero Cool" was sentenced to not use computers or touch-tone telephones until he was 18 years old. He'd crashed 1507 computer systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)#Plot

#Hackers #HackersMovie #OTD #OnThisDay