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A Rising Enforcement of Censorship (blog.thenewoil.org)

In recent weeks, I’ve noticed a rise in censorship regarding SMS communication that’s not being discussed. At all. I’m concerned that it may become a slippery slope that eventually effects us all. I don’t have any dramatic, prose-ridden introduction this week. Just some news, facts, and observations I wanted to share. So...

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I did too, just within TMobile in the US, using the s*** word. Went through just fine.

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Aha, there we go. I was trying to put “end to end encrypted” and “Google” together and it just would not compute.

Edited to add: eff.org/…/what-apples-promise-support-rcs-means-t…

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Yah, if a developer wants to call all/most of his users ‘idiots’, they should have someone else interact with users.

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I’ll take care of the “What is this thing?” for you, OP.

Leap Micro is an ultra-reliable, lightweight operating system built for containerized and virtualized workloads.

get.opensuse.org/leapmicro

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And you can auto-forward your gmail messages to your new address.

support.google.com/mail/answer/10957?hl=en

I just did that last year and I found some people are too lazy to get the hint but many will notice you’re sending replies back from a different address and will get it on their own. You can’t fix everyone, so don’t try to, I guess.

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Am I crazy or is 10,000 samples nowhere near enough for training people’s voices?

Tuta Mail's Google Ranking Mysteriously Restored After Announcement to Take Legal Actions -- [Tuta blog] (tuta.com)

On March 7, 2024, Google inexplicably downranked the website of Tuta Mail in its search results. While Tuta Mail is a prominent provider of encrypted email services, focusing on security and privacy, our website was deranked for terms like “secure email” and “encrypted email” completely. The search results for our...

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As a Tuta user … go get 'em!!

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Ha. I certainly think they’re worth checking out. For my use case (anti-goog, privacy is key, relatively few emails per month but those are critical to me, custom domain) Tuta works well. I’ve had it for about 3 years and no issues at all.

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The article quoted the tweet as saying, "Deployed two Optimus bots performing tasks in the factory autonomously.”

That could mean assembling cars, or maybe standing in one spot and “don’t get in the way”.

I’ll believe this when I see it.

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Black Mirror called. They want you to write for their show.

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I’m not familiar. Any recommendations?

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Super helpful, thank you! But maybe I missed one point: why is Arm bad or RiscV better? Why should we encourage Risc cpus?

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All I can say…

Booooooo!

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You & me both, friend.

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We noticed you may not be fully appreciating the information provided by our valued partners. We’re increasing the volume and raising your seat to help you experience them better – your friends at United

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Yeah. This. This is what will send me to live in a commune.

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Hmmm, yeah, see? This is why they shouldn’t be allowed to call the ads they have now, “personalized” when they’re really not.

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Start planning what your next OS should be.

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cara.app/about

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I agree. But I think this an OK idea, until someone makes this with a FOSS platform, in the fediverse. Choices are good.

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Noted. I hadn’t thought of that

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As scientists, we know that transparency and peer review lead to better security.

What? App developers are scientists now?

I know this originally came from CERN, but I find it hard to believe those same folks are working on this now.

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Oh neat! What comes after that?

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That title is so confusing. Why are they connecting the shooting of this mayor with the election of the president?

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I have no stake in this, but maybe just drop the ‘p’?

GIM avoids the slur but is still very close to the current name.

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I dig it!

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I was going to say… good thing we saw this coming 20 years ago and acted quickly to secure our vital national resources from attacks like these.

Super /s in case that’s not clear!

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They had me at tower defense mechanics.

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Lemmy. Just use Lemmy.

Why is this so hard, rest of the world?

Oh yeah, because there are no millions to be made here. /bangs head with hand

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Very cool. What makes a run segmented or not?

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Gotcha. Thanks for the info

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You had me at TRS-80!

RSS and OPML (libranet.de)

Can somebody explain me how OPML works for RSS? Are these files usually imported into the RSS reader apps or are they used where they are? If I import multiple OPML files with multiple feeds, will the feeds from the first OPML be overwritten by those in the second one or will they add up? Will article read/unread status be...

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As n OPML file just contains the definition of which feeds you want to follow, not the actual RSS data. They’re handy when you want to switch from one RSS reader to another. You can usually export the settings from your old service and import them into the new.

Check with your RSS service but importing an OPML file should always add new services to the list, not overwrite.

I don’t think an OPML file tracks what you’ve read or not but I could be wrong about that.

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Yes. Here’s an example file so you can see there’s not much in there for each entry.

hosting.opml.org/dave/spec/subscriptionList.opml

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I taught myself some 2D game design and coding with Phaser. My idea was to recreate 80s arcade games like frogger and asteroids. It’s great for that and my games run in the browser, pure Javascript.

phaser.io

Just remember that making a game includes making artwork and sound and intro screens and more. It’s a lot of work.

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Yah, I have somebody’s 2048 game in my terminal here and play that when I need to stop thinking thoughts for a second.

OK, but pretend for a second that some of us are mere mortals. Is there a TUI game dev engine (?) we could learn to dev in fairly quickly? One that protects us from the pitfalls of the C language?

Asking for myself…

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IMHO, three leaders instead of two would be an improvement. I say that, even though I know finding enough parents / leaders willing to give of their time is very difficult.

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I was lost the whole time but it was still fun to watch, somehow.

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2 … Is there a GUI (I know) way to see all applications, where they’re installed from, with an easy remove button? Akin to what windows offers?

For a GUI option, with KDE, I can go into the Discover app store, and then click the “Installed” link in the lower-right.

Example…

For a CLI way to list all apps, I found this page which gives this command:

for app in /usr/share/applications/*.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/*.desktop; do app=“${app##/*/}”; echo “${app::-8}”; done | sort

Have fun finding the best option for your system.

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The challenge with this question is that not everyone has played in every console, so like, for me, I can only comment on the Atari 2600, the Wii and the XBOX 360.

From that small sample, the wii wins hands down. I loved the motion controllers a lot.

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I think because it was so different from what came right before it: Gamecube, PS3, Xbox.

Waving that Wiimote around was a blast for everyone, gamers and non-gamers alike. Tons of hours of play in this Sports Resort, for instance.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWo6zYZx2rM

I get what @berttheduck said about long games / serious gamers but can you imagine your grandma trying to play most Switch or PS5 or other new console games now?

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Someone help me out please. Who was the 90s sci-fi author who predicted actors would go away and all movies would be made using cgi /ai? She had characters in the book, watching movies starring Humphrey Bogart and John Wayne, as detectives solving crimes (and so on). She also predicted “ractors”, people who act in front of a camera, so a computer can use their motion and expressions to animate a character on screen in real time.

My feeble brain, I swear… In any case, thanks to her, knew this day was coming. Gonna be a wild ride though.

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Oh snap, thanks - I was mixing up The Diamond Age with another book, yes. Ractors are from Stephenson, but I also had another author’s books in my head. See? Feeble mind. There’s still another woman author I need to track down and re-read here.

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Aha! I found it –

Remake by Connie Willis

www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?ID=86

Remake is a 1995 science fiction novel by Connie Willis. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996. The book displays a dystopic near future, when computer animation and sampling have reduced the movie industry to software manipulation.

Great book, well worth reading still.

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Great book, eh. So many interesting ideas presented in there.

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<cough> William Gibson <cough>

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Should have been open sourced from day one.

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