Music lover and English teacher with an interest in slightly geeky things
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Music lover and English teacher with an interest in slightly geeky things
mastodon / blog / listenbrainz
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
Unclassified FBI Document: Ability to legally access Secure Messaging App Content and Metadata (January 2021) (beehaw.org)
An official FBI document dated January 2021, obtained by the American association "Property of People" through the Freedom of Information Act....
What new OS* have you tried this year?
*or distribution...
Insects find their way onto Italian plates despite resistance (www.bbc.com)
Warning: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft | mailbox.org (mailbox.org)
After over a decade spent creating Signal, Moxie has departed to focus on new efforts. (mastodon.world)
Signal may soon be getting usernames (nitter.lacontrevoie.fr)
WhatsApp and the domestication of users (seirdy.one)
As Seirdy notes:...
Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption (www.patrick-breyer.de)
This would probably fit in better in the technology community and I’m pretty sure it has been shared already, so sorry for the duplicate, especially since it was already on the !privacyguides and and !europe communities....
How bilingual are you?
I was very lucky growing up, and my little middle school in my little village in Nova Scotia offered French Immersion (late, started grade 7)....
What food did you not try until you were an adult? Did you have a "where have you been all my life" moment?
Despite the fact that 90% of what I ate was home cooked, mostly from scratch, meals, I managed to miss out on some basics like courgette (zucchini) and aubergine (eggplant) and BUTTER if you can believe it....
Here they go again: 1 Million March 4 Children to return October 21 as organizers raise stakes (www.westernstandard.news)
“We want to parent our kids until they’re 18 and ready to make decisions by themselves. Whatever decision they make later, that’s a decision as an adult."...
Arrested for using Linux, Windows 11 loses users, Better FOSS Firmware - Linux & Open Source News (tilvids.com)
France arrested people for being private and using Linux...
VGC’s Platform of the Year is Nintendo Switch (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Will the European Cyber Resilience Act Kill Open Source Software? (fossforce.com)
Archive link...
After 23 years, developer reveals he snuck a cheat code past Sony that turns a cult-classic horror game into a godsend for retro enthusiasts (www.gamesradar.com)
question sur les filtres Brita French
Avant de dépenser encore des sous sur des blocs de micro-plastiques, que conseillez-vous comme remplacement de filtre Brita ?...
Cher blasts Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 'Wouldn't be in it if they gave me a million dollars' (www.foxnews.com)
After Clarkson pointed out that Cher was the only musician to have number 1 songs over seven decades, the Grammy Award winner noted that she and the Rolling Stones actually shared the accomplishment....
The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google (arstechnica.com)
It is perhaps another sign of how bad things have become with Google’s search results—full of algorithmically generated junk sites—that publications like CNET are driven to such extremes to stay above the sea of noise....
Little list of custom and alternative Android ROMs
The Fairphone 4 will be launching across the pond. It will sport the /e/OS “deGoogled” ROM....
Far-Right ‘Save the Children Convoy’ Gathering at Rural Base Camp Outside Ottawa (pressprogress.ca)
Choice quote:...
Reminder / PSA regarding video games and other connected electronics
Tomorrow is another gift-giving-holiday....
Investigating Buffy Sainte-Marie’s claims to Indigenous ancestry - The Fifth Estate (www.youtube.com)
The "Tech Won’t Save Us" Podcast is doing a series on Musk (www.techwontsave.us)
We hear a lot about this guy, why not a little more. This podcast is doing a series on Musk that is quite revealing, totally worth a listen if you are interested in business or tech....
Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling? | First Dog on the Moon [COMIC] (www.theguardian.com)
So your tween wants a smartphone? Read this first (text.npr.org)