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Save the dates: We're having an online community get together at 2025-11-18 and an offline one at @datenburg at 2025-12-04 . Everyone interested in #Phosh and the @ev is invited to drop by and chat. Hope to see you there.

Details at https://ev.phosh.mobi/blog/get-together-25-11/

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I will say it's totally fair enough to mail a service in advance of signing up and asking "where would my stuff be stored?" and push for detail. Keep them on their toes, turn up the heat.

We would want to know the same with any item of ours that is precious. And just as we might also not want to participate in, or contribute to, markets or regimes that we're ethically opposed to.

Huge "pharmacy benefit manager" -- part of a cartel that is stealing uncounted billions from all of us via rigged healthcare market -- is ripping off taxpayers via the Pentagon.

No doubt the Trumpists are in favor, but you should be incensed.

Fine reporting by The Lever: https://www.levernews.com/how-a-pharma-giant-is-looting-the-pentagon/

If you’re a user of Libby (the library app), consider before following their suggestion to type #InspireMe into the search bar.

It seems harmless, but it turns on an unrequested AI feature, & there is no way to reverse that.

This comes courtesy of ProfHeyRochelle, who is now reasonably pissed over following the directions.

A federal judge told the top Border Protection official to start wearing his body camera this week.

We should FOIA that footage now.

Read about this story and more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/when-immigration-agents-hide-body-camera-footage-is-vital/

Schools, libraries, and other organizations can make private browsing the norm by deploying Privacy Badger on devices they manage. If you work at an organization with managed devices, talk to your IT team about Privacy Badger. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/libraries-schools-why-organizations-should-install-privacy-badger

This seems connected to the push to privatise management of health data as an opportunity for corporate profit;

"Everyone can spread the word that companies and government agencies carelessly allowing cybercriminals and hostile states to get access to private personal data is outrageous and unacceptable. Make a point of this on social media. Demand legislation for financial and legal accountability."

#DavidChapman, Better Without AI, 2023

https://betterwithout.ai/cybersecurity-vs-AI

#books #AI #BetterWithoutAI

Latest comic: When Worlds Collide

#economy #food #authoritarianism #comic #cartoon

New South Korean national law will turn large parking lots into solar farms
L: https://electrek.co/2025/11/02/new-national-law-will-turn-large-parking-lots-into-solar-power-farms/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45790867
posted on 2025.11.02 at 10:12:08 (c=0, p=3)

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Group 1: "All these instructions on the internet say I need a computer or sometimes even two; who has that kind of money?"

Group 2: "I have sixteen fully operational laptop computers that I fished out of a dumpster that desperately need a good home, but no one will take them, so they're cluttering up my apartment."

It feels like some problems would be solved if these two groups could talk to each other, but somehow it never seems to work that way : (

#freecycling #consumerism #capitalism

"for the rest of us who don’t have the technical knowledge and time to follow his accomplishments, his advice is to “Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices” and to “Treat them as strangers in your home.” "

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline

Firefox is blocking web pages for bogus security issues -- wish Mozilla would spend more time making its browser work better and less time experimenting with "AI"

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Chooms... I would like to introduce something to you.

Kyberklang ~ my therapy project

By day, I write code for rich people who think “innovation” means adding another LLM makes the world better.

By night, I built Kyberklang: a retro-styled audio player that glows, hums, and actually does something useful... like playing music.

I’m currently building versions for Linux and macOS (no Windows, sorry - or, you know... not sorry).

An alpha test is coming soon - maybe with you?

You can tweak hue, pitch, and balance, drag and drop your own tracks, and feel like you’re operating the soundboard of a cyberpunk fever dream.

It’s not for clients, not for quarterly reports... just for sanity.

Sneak Preview: https://kyberklang.cyber.to

I just used a Samsung mobile phone for the first time in ten years. It’s still an intolerably frustrating experience. Why must a user always be signed into _both_ Google and Samsung accounts simultaneously??!

Project Gutenberg CEO Greg Newby helped put a trove of literature online

by John Last

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-greg-newby-project-gutenberg-ceo-literature-public-domain-hacker/?intcmp=gift_share

You are deeply missed @gbnewby. Thanks for keeping us together!

#ebooks #publicdomain