keverets @keverets@librem.one

I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

Could anyone who has any Canadian followers please boost or just re-post it yourself? This matters.

#cnpoli #fediverse

“Truly a middle finger”: Humane bricking $700 AI Pins with limited refunds
Humane's showing how not to treat early adopters.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/truly-a-middle-finger-humane-bricking-700-ai-pins-with-limited-refunds/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

In today’s “terminology matters”:

❌ Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.

✅ Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.

We don’t just have to accept hostile framing.

"When you ride TESLA, you ride with Hitler.
Join Public Transportation Today!"

Reworked WW2 poster spotted in Oakland

Citizen Lab released a report that highlights three serious security issues in the RedNote app, including that the app retrieves uploaded user content in a way that allows anyone else on your network, at your ISP, or organizations like the NSA, to see everything you look at and upload to RedNote. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/crimson-memo-analyzing-privacy-impact-xianghongshu-aka-red-note

I asked myself, if I'm setting my own fonts, why is my browser hitting fonts.googleapis.com?

And I am both surprised and not-surprised to discover that blocking fonts.googleapis.com with Ublock Origin fully removes a class of unwanted captchas from my browsing experience.

In Firefox: Extensions, UBlock Origin, click the gear, "My Filters" at the top, check the enable box, add this:

||fonts.googleapis.com

And suddenly this goes away:

What he said: https://macleans.ca/economy/why-canadas-oil-sands-arent-coming-back/

Cycling helps fight climate change and makes cities more livable. More profoundly, people who cycle regularly are more oriented toward the common good.

Cars turn people into sociopaths; bikes reverse that.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494423001731

All of this 👇

TIL that if you double park in (I think) Istanbul, they roll up a truck that cantilevers your car onto it's back and takes off with it in about 20 seconds.

Kindness is punk.
Trans rights are human rights.
There is no Planet B.
Smash the patriarchy.
Black Lives Matter.
Fix your heart or die.
Healthcare, food&housing are human rights.
Fuck the fascists.
I will not comply.
Tax billionaires out of existence.
AI is made of crimes.
Tech is not the answer.

Ente now supports end-to-end encrypted sync for Machine Learning indexes.

This means you can now
1. Search for photos shared with you
2. Use our desktop app to help index libraries shared with you

Enjoy! 💚

master: welcome to my Smart Home

student: wow. how is the light controlled?

master: with this on-off switch

student: i don't see a motor to close the blinds

master: there is none

student: where is the server located?

master: it is not needed

student: excuse me but what is "Smart" about all of this?

master: everything.

in this moment, the student was enlightened

Did you know that @OpenAlex now provides saved searchers and scholarly literature alerts that tell you when new papers on a topic are published. I switched my alerts from Google Scholar & really like the change (fewer extra papers that don't really match the search criteria) plus it's based on open scholarly infrastructure produced by a non-profit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGKF6jndCJw

(COI: because I believe in open scholarly infrastructure I volunteer on the board for the folks that make Open Alex)

A Decade of Write.as Sale https://write.as/deals/a-decade-of-write-as-sale

Seems right.
#Birds
🪶

Regarding Amazon's Kindle news, remember that in Portugal it is legal to break technology that stops you from making legal copies (AKA copyright exceptions), like private copies of books you bought, for example. So, do it now.

Kids get it. Adults don't.
We seem to regress as we age

"The UK’s war on encryption affects all of us" via @verge.

Indeed, the UK's actions imperil security across the globe.

It's worth highlighting that open source comms tools, like @matrix and @signalapp, empower researchers and users: you'll _see_ if a backdoor is added.

Not so with proprietary tools. Do you really trust Meta, Apple, or Google not to roll over on you?

https://www.theverge.com/policy/612136/uk-icloud-investigatory-powers-act-war-on-encryption

#FOSS #SoftwareFreedom #OpenSource #Security #Privacy #Encryption

The all-hands meeting implies the existence of the partially-hands and no-hands meetings.