keverets @keverets@librem.one

My @torontostar column: Bike Share Toronto is booming. We’re smashing ridership records.

But it’s not enough. The growth still leaves us nowhere close to bike share ridership in Montreal.

With better balancing and more infrastructure, I think we can beat them.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/toronto-s-bike-share-is-booming-but-the-city-needs-to-do-one-thing-to/article_3f077952-c09f-4071-bf95-e9b7a0ae7575.html

🚨 Meta announced today that it will introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This move further consolidates Meta's social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this.

https://noyb.eu/en/whatsapp-getting-ads-using-personal-data-instagram-and-facebook

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Listen up Mastodonians, because this is important:

Right now we have a unique chance to rise up and hit back against Zuckerberg and Musk. Because italian filmmaker @_elena and her friends have made an OUTSTANDING film which explains why people should quit the fascist social networks and come join us in the free fediverse.

Hit the fascists where it hurts — make this go viral by watching it and liking it on YouTube, then hit the share button and share it everywhere!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJHIJy5Nno

Nintendo Switch 2? Galaxy S25 Edge?

Around here, we're most excited about the MNT Reform laptop that, after much anticipation, just arrived at our doorstep.

Among many repair-friendly features, this laptop uses standardized 18650 batteries, which makes finding replacements incredibly easy. Opening it up to swap them out is easy, too.

Shout out to @mntmn, @theawesomerandomness, @liaizon, @holo_memory, @plom, @bnys, Tina the dog, and everyone else who put together this incredible product!

@2legged no. Apps are a cancer. https://blog.codinghorror.com/app-pocalypse-now

Good tutorial in French explaining the features and benefits of Hetzner's Storage Share service, a cloud storage solution that integrates with Nextcloud, a popular open-source file management platform.

From just €4.29 per month, you can get your own Nextcloud instance as an alternative to Google, Microsoft, etc. It comes with 1 TB of storage, unlimited users and is hosted in Europe.

It's not free, but neither are the US competitors — it's actually cheaper than Google One (10€) or Microsoft 365 (13€).

You don't need any IT skills to install it; just create an account, pay and start using it. 🙂

You can do it only for yourself or offer storage to family, friends and your community too.

Article: https://next.ink/4687/on-a-teste-storage-share-instance-nextcloud-dhetzner-a-prix-serre/

Hetzner Storage Share website: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

#nextcloud #hetzner #cloud #EuropeanAlternatives #BuyEuropean

Guix's integration with Shepherd as its init system is one of its best features: it allows for incredibly clean integration between home/system service definition and the generation/maintenance of daemon management.

So I'm very sad to hear that Gnome will be gaining tighter SystemD integration, and the attitude is primarily "Well, you should use SystemD, and if you don't, prepared for it to be hard" https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/

I guess my days as a Gnome user are numbered :(

At the end of this month Microsoft will be ending its Bing map services https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/discontinued-services-bing-maps-rest-services/117308 This has be a key bit of infrastructure #OpenStreetMap has relied on for nearly the last 15 years and was a significant boost to contributions back then.

Unluckily, while the imagery will continue to be available for the web editor iD for a while, independent editor developers will not really have a choice other than to end access.

Sorry for the bad news.

You might want to fine-tune your notification settings:

“Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications” - https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-thousands-of-push-notifications/

Twitter's new encrypted DM system stores your private key material on Twitter-owned services, protected with nothing more than a 4-digit PIN. If hostile, or if legally compelled to, Twitter could easily decrypt all your messages. It's also MITMable and doesn't secure metadata. Use Signal.

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/71646.html

Good morning Fedi friends! This is a routine reminder that #YunoHost is still doing a fundraising drive to cover its operating costs for 2025. They’re super close to the finish line and need a little push: https://yunohost.org/donate.en.html

@yunohost volunteers are like real life superheroes — working tirelessly to empower anyone to self-host and achieve #digitalsovereignty.

If you could afford to donate to their efforts, any euro / dollar / yen counts.

Thank you! 🙏

When vibe coding turns into vibe debugging

Today in #BoringDystopia

Without full PCAP + emulated router profiles, this would've stayed hidden. Check your ASUS routers for SSH on TCP/53282 NOW.

Technical deep-dive: https://www.labs.greynoise.io//grimoire/2025-03-24-ayysshush/

📊 Executive summary: https://www.greynoise.io/blog/stealthy-backdoor-campaign-affecting-asus-routers
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🚨 BREAKING: GreyNoise discovered a sophisticated backdoor campaign compromising ~9,000 ASUS routers worldwide. Unlike typical malware attacks, this operation uses the router's own legitimate features to create persistent backdoors that survive firmware updates and reboots.
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The End (of Windows 10) is nigh!

On 14 October, #Microsoft will end support for #Win10.

This will turn hundreds of millions of computers that cannot upgrade to #Win11 into security risks and #eWaste.

Yours may be one of them!

But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

Learn more: https://endof10.org/press

Saved a device from the bin? Tell the world with the hashtag: #EndOf10

#Linux #GNU #GNUlinux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #Windows

Interesting… Canadian GitHub competitor: https://about.worktree.ca

This is really cool! A paper from Italy https://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/11/2/e005469
has found that people with Long COVID (C and D) can be distinguished from healthy controls (A) and people who had COVID-19 infections but not Long COVID (B) by sticking patients' hands under microscopes and looking at the capillaries in the fingernail! Fast, cheap, easy, and useful!

h/t @tomkindlon