keverets @keverets@librem.one

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! 🙏

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
4/4

🚨 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

Programmers are usually fed a steady diet of feature work and bug fixes. But occasionally they get to work on performance problems. This development methodology is known as intermittent fasting.

Signal blocks Recall:

https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

Since I discovered that 100% of the 403 and 404 errors Apache was serving up were from malicious scanners, I've started feeding them into fail2ban.

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/05/23/counterpoint/

#UN Drops Google for #CryptPad, an Encrypted Open-Source Office Suite

https://fossforce.com/2025/04/un-drops-google-for-cryptpad-an-encrypted-open-source-office-suite/

The Fairphone impact report makes interesting reading. They really are making a difference. I'm enjoying feeling slightly smug as a medium-term fairphone user (since 2018- now I'm on my second, a #Fairphone4). Here's a summary:
https://broadband.yourcoop.coop/help-resources/blog/Fairphone-Impact-Report-2024-Breakdown/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=mc&utm_campaign=may25_impactpoint1_telecoms_email

#Fairphone

#Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true.

“Icelandic reports show that productivity has remained stable, and even increased in some sectors. One of the keys to this success lies in improving the mental health of workers, a crucial aspect highlighted by Generation Z. The reduction in stress, combined with a better work-life balance, has had a significant positive impact on employee well-being.

One of the most remarkable aspects of the Icelandic experience is the promotion of greater gender equality. By encouraging men to become more involved in family life, the four-day week has contributed to a better sharing of domestic and parental responsibilities“

https://farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/10/iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-in-2019-nearly-6-years-later-all-the-predictions-made-have-come-true/

#wellbeing #4dayweek #genderequality

#Google putting wrong medical advice in their #AI Overviews.

This is not funny. It is not acceptable. Today I saw someone who had asked a health-related question to Google Search. The AI Overview presented mixed-up, wrong information. I urged the person to ignore the AI Overview and use the regular site links.

They didn't know there were any regular site links, because the AI Overview filled essentially their entire window and they didn't know to scroll down. This is a common situation with busy, nontechie users.

They have depended on Google to point them at accurate information for so many years, and now Google Search spews out convincing looking AI garbage. This is not an anomaly.

Google's AI Overviews are full of wrong, partially wrong (even more dangerous!), and just plain misinformation. Answers that are completely reversed from supposed source pages because the AI didn't understand the wording. Measurements wrong. Math wrong.

It doesn't matter how often AI Overviews are correct, because you NEVER KNOW when they're going to be wrong, either completely or partly (again, mixing true with false -- like contaminating a well).

And now Google is trying to convince users to use "AI Search" instead -- "Hey Ma', no more list of blue links!" -- making it even harder to see that so many of their answers are, if you'll excuse the expression, bulls*it, sometimes dangerous as well.

This is unconscionable. Frankly, whether Google understands this or not, this behavior is uncaring and evil. Apparently Google's leadership no longer feels any shame at all. Disgusting.