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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 1h

It's been 34 years since I learned how PGP worked and how to apply it to email. Since then, we've gotten tools so much better than PGP for having private digital conversations that have become essential to our life and work. ChatControl would break it all. We can't let that happen.

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 2h

Preliminary analysis indicates former head of Pravda publishing house fell because a window was open.
#defenestration
https://share.google/u9mZa09q6q0C6WHbH

Former Russian newspaper publisher dies after falling from window: reports

Vyacheslav Leontyev, 87, the head of the Pravda publishing house, has been found dead in Moscow.

www.newsweek.com

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Rob Ricci @ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13h

I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here?

I'll pay the bills. Period.

I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team.

DM me.

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 9h

Would be great to be able to follow Rudy @rude1.blacksky.team
from here. @kissane.myatproto.social is on the same infra so technically nothing stands in the way.
@anca

Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 9h

Reading is to develop your capacity to think. Writing is to think. Only by doing both, can you develop as a human.
https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1

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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h

🇪🇺YOU ARE AMAZING: ❤️ Your protest stopped #chatcontrol! I hear Germany isn't caving in; so there's no majority in the EU Council. Digital privacy is safe for now! Let's celebrate this huge success TOGETHER! 🎉
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[Original post on digitalcourage.social]

A map of Europe titled "Help Stop #ChatControl!" shows countries colored according to their government's stance on ChatControl in 2025. The legend explains: Green stands for "Against", Blue for "Undecided", and Red for "In Favor".

The following countries are in favor (red): Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden.

The following countries are against it (green): Austria, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

The following countries are undecided (blue): Belgium, Greece, Latvia, Romania.

At the bottom is the call to action: "Act now! www.chatcontrol.eu".

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mariafarrell @mariafarrell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h

Gods I'm too fucking old and tired to rehearse the 'don't break E2E encryption' debate AGAIN, but here we are. This time the novel twist is 'client side scanning' of every European's device for CSAM, just in case.

I no longer make many arguments on principle. This open letter to the Irish […]

Original post on mastodon.social

mastodon.social

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 10h

Vacant housing for approximately 100 million people. Wow.

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Lari Lohikoski @lari.suomi.social · 1d

Vieläkö on niitä, joiden mukaan meidän ei kuulu tehdä mitään ilmaston eteen, koska Kiina ja Intia?

https://yle.fi/a/74-20187165

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Kristoffer Lawson @setok.attractive.space.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Theft of #crypto accounts for 13% of #NorthKorea’s GDP!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy8z7wxe03o

North Korean hackers stealing record sums, researchers say

Analysts estimate cyber-criminals linked to Pyongyang have taken more than $2bn so far in 2025.

www.bbc.com

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

With the recent influx of newcomers from #bluesky , it behooves us to contemplate what we can do to improve #moderation on the #fediverse - something that has been a problem in the past, and is one of the major reasons why the Fediverse is not as big and as diverse as it could be.

The first and […]

Original post on mementomori.social

mementomori.social

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 22h

Koulukuvapalvelut siirtävät lasten kuvat luvatta tekoälypalveluun, opettavat algoritmeille kasvotunnistuksen ja editoivat kuvia luonnottoman näköisiksi. Että sillä lailla.
#tietosuoja

https://yle.fi/a/74-20186969

Koulukuvausyritys alkoi tänä syksynä parannella kuvia tekoälyllä – ”Ei näytä ihan omalta lapselta”, harmittelee äiti

Ylen haastattelemien vanhempien mielestä koulukuvien kuvankäsittely on mennyt liian pitkälle. Tekoälyä käytetään hyödyksi sekä kuvien järjestelyyn että käsittelyyn.

yle.fi

Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 1d

What's happening across the pond should be a clear demonstration of why governments can't be allowed to have access to private communication, but I fear the EU Council and Commission are instead looking at it as a blueprint.
#chatcontrol #fightchatcontrol

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David Ho @davidho.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Whisper: Maybe we should stop messing with the radiative balance of Earth.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-06/sequoia-backed-startup-faces-pushback-over-plan-to-reflect-sunlight-to-earth

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

⚠️ SW-ISAC Advisory

A pro-Russian propaganda network, possibly related to the Portal Kombat network, is active on numerous ActivityPub services.

We are directly contacting affected services, but all admins should check for the accounts listed below, likely created after September 8.

Based on […]

Original post on mastodon.iftas.org

mastodon.iftas.org

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow.

This is a social media platform, with many of different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be […]

Original post on federate.social

federate.social

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 2d

I don't even do audio stuff, but since I'm a sucker for projects that rethink UI or system architecture, this video on Audacity 4 was cool.
https://youtu.be/QYM3TWf_G38
https://youtu.be/QYM3TWf_G38

Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 2d

PostgreSQL 18 is a huge upgrade. Async I/O for higher parallelism, optimizer maintains query stats cross upgrades, smarter multi column indices..
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-released-3142/

PostgreSQL 18 Released

Comments

www.postgresql.org

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 2d

Ukraine has only been consistently striking Russian oil refineries for 2 months. What do you think this map will look like after 6 months of these sustained strikes?

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 2d

Normally, you remove stem and pull the fork off, pop out two bearings, top and bottom, new ones on, push the fork back in, plug stem on top, tighten bolts, job done.

This bike? To pull off the fork, both front and back brake hoses need to be removed, which means cutting them, which probably […]

Original post on mas.to

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 2d

I got this bike because it was a awesome deal for an Ultegra Di2 setup - the integrated routing was a side note. Only now, 4 years and 10000 km later do I get to learn what the downside is.

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Martin Holland @fingolas.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Macron: "We were incredibly naive to entrust our democratic space to #socialNetworks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

🤔

Screenshot of the social media accounts of the Élysée, all are from US-companies

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 3d

My road bike's headset bearings need replacing. That shouldn't be a big job, but sadly it has fully integrated brake hoses -- makes it look real nice but this is the nightmare maintenance job for it.
#cycling #bikemaintenance

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 3d

49% of 4 year old Tesla Model 3 are rejected in Finnish safety inspections due to suspension problems. Other Teslas not doing great either. VW, Hyundai, Volvo and Kia among the least-problems EVs.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20184982

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 3d

It seems to me that America took what Israel has been doing to Palestinians and turned it against Americans. No longer a question of is America dangerous to visit. It is unsafe to live in.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/03/chicago-and-the-end-of-american-liberty/

Chicago And The End Of American Liberty.

Around 10 PM on Monday, September 30th, 2025, federal agents surrounded an apartment building in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. ICE, Border Patrol, FBI, ATF—a multi-agency operation targeting suspected members of the Tren de Aragua gang. What happened next should be the biggest story in America. Pertissue Fisher came out to the hallway of her apartment […]

www.techdirt.com

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