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Your smartphone is a spy in your pocket. Choose freedom with Purism's Liberty Phone - made in USA, no data harvesting. #Purism #PureOS #PrivacyMatters
https://puri.sm/posts/your-phone-is-giving-away-more-than-you-ever-bargained-for/

Redox to implement POSIX signals in user space https://lwn.net/Articles/982186/ #tech #linux

Question: Am I the only one who is increasingly annoyed by excessive code dependencies? Python, Cargo, Perl, ...? https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2199009423 #opensource

Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language (2021) https://tabloid.vercel.app/

Hot off the press... the gist seems to be that an LLM can give the illusion of progress while you're using it, but when you stop using it you can see that its impact is negative - pretty-much like excessive hints/scaffolding.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4895486

the first 70000 revisions where just the beginning: welcome to T2/Linux r70001 ;-) http://t2linux.com https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2199009423

KDE Plasma 6.1.3 desktop environment is a bugfix release focusing on fine-tuning and improving features across the board. Here's what's new!
https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-1-3-released/

#kde #plasma

It was a surprise climbing the #HomeAssistant learning curve that the _most obvious_ application for such a tool is so complex to do.

If users expect nothing else, they'd think the on-and-off controller functions delivered by one of these plug-in timers would be easy to duplicate.

HomeAssistant should make that use-case super easy. A look at community discussions/questions reveals it is a challenge for many newbies. Easy with experience, but still dozens of clicks and some coding required.

How the Bell System Was Built - We’ve often thought that while going to the moon in the 1960s was audacious, it wa... - https://hackaday.com/2024/07/15/how-the-bell-system-was-built/ #phonehacks #telephone #bell #att

Code sneaked into fake AWS downloaded hundreds of times backdoored dev devices https://arstechnica.com/?p=2037194 #news #Uncategorized #steganigraphy #opensource #backdoors #Security #Biz&IT

Victory! Supreme Court correctly ruled that social media platforms have First Amendment rights to curate and edit the speech of others they deliver to their users. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/platforms-have-first-amendment-right-curate-speech-weve-long-argued-supreme-1

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/EFF/status/1812882730709131590#m

[2024/07/15 16:11]

Facebook Ads For Windows Desktop Themes Push Info-Stealing Malware https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/07/15/166243/facebook-ads-for-windows-desktop-themes-push-info-stealing-malware?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

also it's quite sad that CHIPS ( which is now enabled in Nightly by default ) gets none of the attention compared to PPAs... like, i get it, "Mozilla bad" gets way more reactions than "Mozilla good", but still .~.

Bitcoin surges following assassination attempt on Donald Trump - Bitcoin prices soared to a two-week high today, following yesterday’s shocking ass... - https://readwrite.com/bitcoin-surges-following-assassination-attempt-on-donald-trump/ #cryptocurrency

Reminder for #Firefox users: the latest update opted you into "Privacy-Preserving Ad Measurements". You can opt out via about:preferences#privacy.

FBI is working to break into the phone of the Trump rally shooter https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/15/24198946/fbi-encryption-phone-trump-attempted-assassination-shooter #news

Restore Overwritten Passwd/Group/Shadow on Linux/Unix

Remove the panic and stress by discovering the possible solutions to restoring passwd, group or shadow files on a GNU/Linux or Unix operating system.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/restore-overwritten-passwd-shadow-group/

#commandline #linux #unix #blog #tech #technology

Three words to send a chill down your spine: Snowflake. Intrusion. Alert - And can AI save us from the scourge of malware? In theory, why not, but in practice ... C... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/07/13/snowflake_kettle/

This week's #Linux and #OpenSource News video is coming early!

In this one, I talk about the #GNOME Foundation's Executive Director leaving after just 10 months, about Fedora 41 dropping X11 from the install media, some Cosmic news and the alpha looking extremely close, plus a big class action lawsuit against #Github Copilot being partly dismissed, with the more important part being allowed to proceed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzXl6a8iOfw

And here is the audio podcast for the week:

https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/episodes/fedora-41-drops-x11-copilot-lawsuit-dismissed-gnome-47-looks-great