Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

I'm happy to implement web key directory support in #Mailvelope Keyserver software.

You can see the history of this work here https://github.com/mailvelope/keyserver/issues/121

I don't have a lot of experience coding software but I could visualize a solution.

Thanks to @akshay and @weepingclown for their continuous support which made this possible.

Hopefully this will motivate more people to setup #wkd for their domains and make end to end encrypted email as easy as WhatsApp or Signal.

#gpg #privacy #FreeSoftware

"The researchers used computer models to show that a “very small increase” in the temperature of the intruding water could lead to a “very big increase” in the loss of ice – ie, tipping point behaviour. It is unknown how close the tipping point is, or whether it has even been crossed already. But the researchers said it could be triggered by temperature rises of just tenths of a degree, and very likely by the rises expected in the coming decades."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/25/newly-identified-tipping-point-for-ice-sheets-could-mean-greater-sea-level-rise

🎙️ talked to @phosh main developer @agx:

* Getting involved with Phosh and Librem 5 as happy coincidence
* Going from N900 straight to Librem 5
* squeekboard vs. phosh-osk-stub
* Being puzzled by people using Phosh on the PinePhone
* Having a smile on the face when seeing random old phones & tablets with Phosh
* Automatic hardware testing at @purism
* How Phosh gets translated
* Upcoming @FrOSCon 2024
* Lockscreen widgets
* Cellbroadcast

https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/41-Interview-Guido-Guenther-Phosh-Librem5/

#froscon #linuxmobile #phosh

"The United Nations Ad Hoc Committee is just weeks away from finalizing a too-broad Cybercrime Draft Convention. This draft would normalize unchecked domestic surveillance and rampant government overreach, allowing serious human rights abuses around the world": The UN Cybercrime Draft Convention is a Blank Check for Unchecked Surveillance Abuses https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/un-cybercrime-draft-convention-blank-check-unchecked-surveillance-abuses

Here's what’s happening in Rafah.

Israel bombed Rafah in southern Gaza over 60 times in 48 hours, ignoring the International Court of Justice orders to stop its military operations there.

Israel bombed displaced Palestinians in tents, killing over 30 Palestinians, including children.

The scenes coming out of Rafah are horrific, resembling a massacre.

Israel is burning Palestinians alive.

This is a developing story.

#Rafah #Gaza #Palestine #Israel
@palestine @israel

Our head of policy @floreani in the Guardian today, highlighting many of the issues with proposals to attempt to ban children under 16 from social media:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/23/australia-social-media-ban-under-16-children-comment

"The videos showed counterprotesters attacking students in the pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours, including beating them with sticks, using chemical sprays and launching fireworks as weapons. No arrests had been made in connection with the attack" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html

Wow, reading all these letters by NYU faculty to the office of the president is quite something. Do read them all. Highlighting one by History Professor Steven Hahn, as it encapsulates everything (in one screenshot).
#Gaza #campusprotests

https://facultyforpalestine.education/statements/faculty-letters-to-the-office-of-the-president-and-the-office-of-the-provost/

These days young people don’t have a hope of saving up for a house deposit apart from the two common means, an inter-generational gift, or a defo payout because a major media company accused you baselessly of being a murderer

“A death certificate would say he died of sepsis from a bone infection, but my friend and I have a term for the illness that killed him: end-stage poverty. We needed to coin a phrase because so many of our patients die of the same thing.”

Excellent essay by a US doctor describing how many of her patients suffer (and die) not from their illnesses but from the wildly precarious economics of their lives

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/opinion/doctor-safety-net-hospital.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jk0.4z6-.Jp89JtFlvuyi&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

XZ Vulnerability: "Original Maintainer burns out, and only the Attacker offers to help ... so Attacker inherits trust built up by the Original Maintainer" (#OpenSource)

https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2024/03/30/a-microcosm-of-the-interactions-in-open-source-projects/

https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/ #xz

And if you are curious about the #xz #compromise, a little update on the #Debian site:

As already written, the archive processing is currently off (nothing new coming to testing/unstable/experimental, no mirror updates pushed out).

Automated build daemons for the affected architectures have been stopped, and only two of them regenerated with a clean #stable environment. They are building for the security archive only, nothing else, right now. That part is safe.

Members of the Release, FTP, Security, Build-Daemon and Sysadmin team are discussing what the next steps are. There are multiple different ways that can be taken, with different drawbacks and amounts of work involved.

Also, it is not yet fully known what the malicious code all could do, so there might be much more that needs to be done later - or not. Unknown as of now, needs the analysis of it to finish, which is not easy nor fast.

@debian

@actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy @audhd

Remember, Autistic people are monotropic, our brains prefer singular, detailed attention tunnels. If there is too much pressure on our monotropic brains, monotropiv split happens.

Too much monotropic split can result in Autistic burnout.

Headlines, one day apart

#FreePalestine