keverets @keverets@librem.one

Following up yesterday's post: here is the same view of Varick Street by the Holland Tunnel, as seen today (Friday) at 5pm. Normally at this time my office is filled with a symphony of horns honking and traffic managers screaming at drivers. To see this and hear mostly silence at 5pm on a Friday would have been unthinkable even a week ago.

Needless to say, I am 100% sold on congestion pricing in New York City.

#nyc #CongestionPricing

If you enjoy using Mastodon for Android, please consider leaving a positive rating or review on the Play Store, because a lot of people who do leave reviews are like this:

The OpenWrt One sold out the first production run within a week! It was so exciting to see how much interest there is in a free software router! We got to work right away on a second run, which is now shipping: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007795779282.html

SCOOP: Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months.

Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content", Meta said they are fixing this “error” after I reached out for comment. https://www.usermag.co/p/instagram-blocked-teens-from-searching

Because this is the talk of the #internet again: you don't preserve digital media by stuffing the One True Version in an #archive. Make countless copies and scatter them to the wind. Make each a different format. You don't know which of them will still be readable next decade, so *don't try to guess*.

That goes for analog media too. The Library of Alexandria contained copies. Many classic paintings only survived as copies.

Copying is how life itself beats death. Embrace it.

No matter what happens with the Canadian Federal election, one thing will be true — a significant % of Canadian voters & media will have been successfully manipulated to oppose a beneficial carbon pricing approach that was either revenue-neutral or financially beneficial to almost all Canadians…1/2

Privacy Badger is @Wirecutter's top choice for blocking trackers or ads. If you aren't already using EFF's free browser extension, here's one more reason to give it a try: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/our-favorite-ad-blockers-and-browser-extensions-to-protect-privacy/#ad-or-tracker-blocker-privacy-badger

The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?

https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol

Uhhh, I have a strange request. If you own a bread knife with a flat-sided handle in your kitchen, and calipers or something else that will measure to the nearest millimetre or so, and want something to do for 30 seconds, could you tell me how thick the handle is?

Yes, I'd like to collect some random samples of bread knife handle widths. Doesn't matter what brand, what it looks like, how long the blade is or where in the world you are.

I will explain later. Boosts appreciated.

#AskFedi

Happy Birthday to everyone in infosec.

⚠️ 🚨 It’s time to stop using Blabber.im 🚨⚠️

The abandoned fork of #Conversations_im has a critical security issue: attackers can bypass STARTTLS negotiation, resulting in an unencrypted connection to a fake server. This vulnerability is similar to the STARTLS attack discovered in various email clients¹

✅ Fixed in Conversations 2.13.1 (Feb 2024)

📢 Please migrate to Conversations immediately! It's free on Google Play until the end of the year and always free on #fdroid

¹: https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2179--protocols-security-of-starttls-in-the-e-mail-context/

I don't think people realised how disgusting the change from maps.google.com to google.com/maps was for a privacy point of view. If you allow location access now for google maps, google.com now has access.

Organic Maps Turns 4 🎉

https://organicmaps.app/news/2024-12-20/organicmaps-turns-four/

- ~3M¹ users from all countries of the world
- ~15k ratings and reviews on AppStore and Google Play
- 4.8/4.6 average rating on AppStore/Google Play
- 10k+ stars on GitHub
- 10k (almost) issues + PRs on GitHub
- 1k (almost) forks on GitHub
- 7k+ git commits
- ~100 awesome contributors who made 5+ commits

Congratulations to all the users and contributors for your hard work and dedication! Thank you for being a part of this journey!

TIL about Crabeater seals, an animal that looks like every other seal out there, like the recipe was fifty percent chonk, fifty percent derp, moisten and add fippers, but then when it opens it's mouth you find out that it is secretly hiding the answer to the question, what if my teeth had teeth.

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED BUT REPULSIVE", "WRONG BUT WROMANTIC", "FREQUENTLY MISUNDERSTOOD", "NOBODY BOTHERS WITH THIS BIT", "SHOULDN'T REALLY BUT WE WON'T JUDGE", "REQUIRED IN ORDER TO WORK AROUND EVERYONE ELSE'S BUGS", "YOU DO YOU", and "OBVIOUSLY ABSURD BUT VERY COMMON FOR SOME REASON" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

writing about the terminal is so funny because it's like "redirects are so useful! hooray!"

"okay and also `cmd file.txt > file.txt` will just permanently delete the contents of the `file.txt`”

lots of cool useful tools with the occasionally horrifying fact that you just need to keep seared into your memory

(please do not explain to me why this happens)