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The Podcasts app is just the latest product to go through a process I’ve come to call The Google Cycle. It always goes the same way: the company launches a new service with grandiose language about how this fits its mission of organizing and making accessible the world’s information, quickly updates it with a couple of neat...
"We, current and previous employees of Apple Inc., wish to express our disappointment and shock at the lack of care and understanding this company has given the Palestinian community, not only abroad suffering in Gaza, but also towards our own team members and anyone who supports them within our stores and offices. "
We have 4 new open calls for funding for projects that contribute to an open, trustworthy, human-centered internet. Projects must be free and open source and papers published as open access....
Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?
I don’t know if it’s just me that find it highly interesting that they choose to run Windows for these kind of things? Anyone able to elaborate the reasons for this? Surely this just costs them so much extra having to buy licenses for each of these screens…?...
xz-utils backdoor situation (CVE-2024-3094) (gist.github.com)
A lot of comments there. Found this one via a search engine.
Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing (mikemcquaid.com)
Post from 2018 but still valid. mastodon.social/
The XZ Utils backdoor is a symptom of a larger problem (ariadne.space)
Found in this huge list : security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-3094
XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams (web.archive.org)
The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind (web.archive.org)
Fwupd Will Use Zstd Compression (9to5linux.com)
Linux Firmware Update Utility Fwupd Will Use Zstd Compression for Future Releases...
Self-Hosted Applications and Alternatives (selfh.st)
fosstodon.org/
What's up with the slash s in many people's comments lately ?
A new hype ? Or are these sed (streaming editor) users in disguise ?
“Votes will not be counted”: Indian election disinformation ads and YouTube | Global Witness (www.globalwitness.org)
reflections on distrusting xz - joeyh blog (joeyh.name)
Install Nextcloud with reverse Proxy
hey guys...
Morning 👋 🥰 (lemmy.ml)
An old lady and a young man pass each other in the street, wearing exactly the same pale blue, beige and dark blue checked coat. The old lady is pointing to the young man and grinning....
Podcast -- A chat about the xz backdoor with the guy who found it - Risky Business (risky.biz)
Switch to Container Tabs – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 157 (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
Google Podcasts is gone — and so is my faith in Google (www.theverge.com)
The Podcasts app is just the latest product to go through a process I’ve come to call The Google Cycle. It always goes the same way: the company launches a new service with grandiose language about how this fits its mission of organizing and making accessible the world’s information, quickly updates it with a couple of neat...
The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining (predr.ag)
lobste.rs/s/…/wi_fi_only_works_when_it_s_raining
Apples4Ceasefire: Apple Employees Request Ceasefire Recognition (www.apples4ceasefire.com)
"We, current and previous employees of Apple Inc., wish to express our disappointment and shock at the lack of care and understanding this company has given the Palestinian community, not only abroad suffering in Gaza, but also towards our own team members and anyone who supports them within our stores and offices. "
4 new open calls for funding for projects that contribute to an open, trustworthy, human-centered internet. (nlnet.nl)
We have 4 new open calls for funding for projects that contribute to an open, trustworthy, human-centered internet. Projects must be free and open source and papers published as open access....
With discord planning to show ads, how can the fediverse/lemmy benefit from another proprietary program making itself worse? (Like it was with reddit)
Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?
Running Windows on bus screens at Schipol Airport (slrpnk.net)
I don’t know if it’s just me that find it highly interesting that they choose to run Windows for these kind of things? Anyone able to elaborate the reasons for this? Surely this just costs them so much extra having to buy licenses for each of these screens…?...
(Easy) ways to help struggling open source projects
step in and help review a few PRs...