Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
I love the idea of probing undocumented #APIs to find interesting data patterns. Everything that a website or app shows a user was probably generated using some #API calls, and it seems likely there are many that can be probed. #Hackers dig in!
https://themarkup.org/levelup/2023/03/03/journalists-you-should-be-looking-for-undocumented-apis-heres-how-to-start
So I completed a minor revival of Pd-extended, the #PureData fork with batteries included. I've published it on #flathub, it also runs on #RaspberryPi https://flathub.org/apps/details/info.puredata.Pd-extended
I've been teaching it a bit, and I was missing the UI as compared to the other forks. Hopefully this is useful to someone else.
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Generative AI for fake App Store reviews? Surely this is happening now? Who’s offering? Who’s using? Tell me what you know! (Or use Signal on my profile. ) #appstore #generativeAI #ai #apps #appdev
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I run some #Tor relays, and I've noticed recently, like in the past year or two, that quite a few websites and services now block direct connections from the IP that the tor relays are on. These are not exit relays, they are just relaying Tor packets to other Tor relays, so the website and services should not see the IPs. My guess is there are lists of IP addresses of Tor relays and services are using that list to block traffic. That is alarming since anyone on the net with a relay is penalized
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Happy International Day of Forests!
Did you know that forests are home to 80% of the world's terrestrial biodiversity, and provide livelihoods for over a billion people?
Our EU's biodiversity strategy for 2030 aims to plant at least 3 billion additional trees by the end of the decade – a crucial step in the fight against climate change and the loss of biodiversity.
Let's all do our part to protect and restore our forests for the sake of our planet and future generations. 🌳🌲
I'd like to have something that automatically convert links to the #privacy preserving version in the browser. Like play #youtube links in #invidious, etc. There seems to be things like #UntrackMe but for me the question is which one to trust, is maintained, works well enough, etc. Once I find a tool that I think it generally applicable, then I work to get it into #Debian so its easy for others to make this decision. Is there a browser extension for this that is worth getting into Debian?
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@discord "Server"
(Maybe "channel", "instance", "forum", etc. would be more accurate, but OTOH maybe their use of this word was also partially the reason for its success, given that it clearly but quite incorrectly purports a level of control for "server" "owners".)
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🎉 We're growing! Our global #FDroid community is pleased to announce that we now have an official governance plan and a brand-new volunteer Board of Directors. We're excited to work with them to keep improving the leading all #FOSS mobile app catalogue!
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A left-wing conspiracy theory about the 1980 election was that GOPers convinced Iran to hold onto the hostages to sabotage Jimmy Carter's re-election.
Holy crap; it was actually true.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-october-surprise-iran-hostages.html
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Anybody has any long-term uptime / availability statistics for Debian repos and mirrors?
I have a feeling they might be more stable than Fastly or AWS or Google infra, all of which had major outages over the last year.
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Educating our new generations (girls and boys!) to be creative, handy and able to change software according to their needs is also crucial to achieve #genderequality and #digitalequity. One way to do it? Our book 'Ada&Zangemann'!
➡️ https://lnkd.in/dYnxbenT
After using #NeXTSTEP/#macOS from 1994-2012, I reached the same conclusion as Ken Thompson: "I've become more and more depressed, and what #Apple is doing to something that should allow you to work is just atrocious... And I have come, within the last month or two, to say, even though I've invested, you know, a zillion years in Apple — I'm throwing it away. And I'm going to Linux. To #Raspbian in particular." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaandEt_pKw&t=3473s
As a #Debian #Developer, I'd like to say: Welcome!
It is refreshing to see a very different #UX in the Techless Wisephone https://techless.com/products/wisephone, reminds me of the Light Phone. The #BigTech #mobile experience is designed around people having many apps and doing as much as possible via their phone. I want my mobile device to do very specific things well, and otherwise stay out of the way. Freeing the mobile ecosystem means giving people real choices of mobile experiences.
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RT @Grady_Booch
Let me get this straight:
@OpenAI has developed a powerful AI.
They will not disclose its architecture or its training data.
They want to control the development of their own evaluation frameworks.
They want us to trust them to be its steward.
I have a problem with this. https://twitter.com/kondrich2/status/1635687409668227072
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One of the #last #wild #rivers in #Europe , home to more than 1,000 #animal and #plant #species , has been #declared a #NationalPark by the #Albanian #government , making the #Vjosa the #first of its kind on the continent.
The #VjosaRiver flows 168 miles (270kms) from the #Pindus mountains in #Greece through narrow #canyons , #plains and #forests in #Albania to the #Adriatic coast
#GoodNews #environmental #ecosystems #biodiversity #ecology #MotherEarth #conservation
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Auf dem Balkan gefährden hunderte geplante Staudammprojekte die Artenvielfalt - und das, um Ökostrom zu produzieren. (Dabei käme der Ausbau von Solar- und Windenergie meist billiger.) In Albanien haben Anrainergemeinden, Umweltschützer und Wissenschaftlerinnen jetzt einen wichtigen Erfolg erzielt: An der Vjosa soll Europas erster Wildfluss-Nationalpark entstehen. Eine Reportage von Horst Hamm.
#vjosa #wasserkraft #oekostrom #RiverWatch #euronatur #artenschutz #albanien #balkanRivers
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Random first trial post: today, March 14th, is the 29th anniversary of the Linux 1.0 announcement.
Of course, there are other arguably more important dates in Linux history, but this is one of them.
It would be nice to have a #homebrew package for https://gitlab.com/fdroid/sdkmanager, I have no access to #macOS, but I can assist. It should be easy, it has very minimal dependencies.
Do you sometimes just want one tool from the #AndroidSDK in a container or VM, and don't want to deal with the whole pain of setting up #Java and everything? Try the #FDroid sdkmanager instead of the official one. For example, `apt-get install sdkmanager` then `sdkmanager platform-tools`. Plus this verifies all packages using `apt-get` style GPG-signed index with SHA256 values. Useful in #research on #Android #malware #tracking etc. In pypi, Debian, Ubuntu, and https://gitlab.com/fdroid/sdkmanager/
Joined Aug 2019
