@SecureInStyle I keep pleading with people outside the US to store things and not just count solely on the Internet Archive to do this for them. They're amazing, but a huge target right now.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like many non-Americans understand how bad it has gotten in one month and that this is really happening, right now. I will buy all the hard drives I can myself when I move.
The digital book burning and minimization of trans/black/gay/women's history is very well underway here. And because the US hosts much of the internet architecture, it has been very effective. They are doing everything from blowing away digital backups, to wiping file repos, to painting over walls and murals, to forcing changes in school curriculum. Now. It is happening now.
Also, I foresee that UK and European universities that have relatively recently replaced their own IT systems by Microsoft may soon deeply regret this decision.
3/
devenv telemetry warning
If you're using #devenv for your projects, please note that #telemetry was added in the 1.4.0 release.
It handles `DO_NOT_TRACK=`¹ by sending that value along² with the telemetry instead of not sending any at all.
But worse, it tars up all files it can find through `git ls-files -z`³ and exfiltrates them to the service.
1/n
[1] https://github.com/cachix/devenv/blob/6c987a8795eedea872afe4d1c1ac518d0c7f6db1/devenv/src/cli.rs#L202-L204
[2] https://github.com/cachix/devenv/blob/6c987a8795eedea872afe4d1c1ac518d0c7f6db1/devenv/src/devenv.rs#L212-L214
[3] https://github.com/cachix/devenv/blob/6c987a8795eedea872afe4d1c1ac518d0c7f6db1/devenv/src/devenv.rs#L226-L257
Palestinian medics and rescue teams retrieved 25 more bodies from rubble in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, pushing the overall death toll from Israel’s genocidal war since October 2023 to 48,264, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.
A ministry statement said that 12 injured people were also admitted to hospitals in the past 48 hours, bringing the number of the injured in the Israeli onslaught to 111,688.
🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
Laid-off Meta employees blast Zuckerberg for running the ‘cruelest tech company out there’ as some claim they were blindsided after parental leave
https://fortune.com/2025/02/13/laid-off-meta-employees-blast-zuckerberg-tech-parental-leave/
Amazon is removing the ability to download purchased Kindle content, which is the only way to read it on my Kobo or elsewhere. What this means is I will no longer be purchasing (“a license to”–ick) any books by the mostly independent authors who exclusively publish there; just cancelled preorders.
#knowledge #learning #research #science #antifa
EDIT: Heyyyyyyyy how about more ideas?
https://annas-archive.org/
https://fmhy.pages.dev/
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index
https://libgen.mx/
You can now boot the latest Debian daily ISOs via UEFI HTTP boot if your firmware supports that and you don't want to deal with silly USB sticks. The needed pmem modules were missing from the installer initrd but not anymore. @highvoltage @pid_eins
As promised, here is our report from FOSDEM 2025 and the hackathon we did afterwards:
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/02/10/fosdem-and-hackathon/
Just like last year, it was an incredibly productive time in which we were able to tackle hard problems and greatly move postmarketOS development forward. This hackathon has been financed through your donations from OpenCollective, thank you for making this possible! 💕
2023: Google reports pandemic telemedicine as child porn because it scans all sent photos and reports them to the police. https://youtu.be/CE0EB5bXj14
2025: Google silently installs client side scanner into all Android devices without asking.
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@jack/113952225452466068
I just removed this new "Android System Safety Core" from my Pixel 3, which SAYS it stopped getting OS updates in 2022, yet this new package got auto-installed by Google. No notification. No asking for permissions.
Disability is not a personal or moral failing. Everyone is one accident, infection or stroke of bad luck from becoming disabled.
When someone asks for help, give it freely and without strings. Don’t judge them or tell them to “try harder”.
Help us fight for better social supports and more accessible public spaces. Listen to us and include us in resistance efforts.
One day it’ll be your turn and your future self will thank you.
Government officials in the UK have reportedly ordered Apple to build a backdoor that would give its authorities access to users’ encrypted iCloud data.
Apple will likely stop offering its encrypted cloud storage offering, Advanced Data Protection, to users in the country https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/uk-government-demands-apple-backdoor-to-encrypted-cloud-data-report/