What’s worse: Voting for Trump and wanting this to happen? Or being shocked, realising only now what Trump’s plans are?

human staffers and AI-powered algorithms prevented 2.36 million “policy-violating apps” from appearing on Google Play in 2024

I wouldn’t assume it’s 100% malware. A portion, hopefully a small one, are legitimate apps that faced automated rejection with automatically generated reply citing a vague “policy-violation”. A few open-source apps wrote on their blog they gave up uploading to Google Play because of its disfunctional moderation. Some even gave up developing their app.

For instance, see https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064

It’s hard to compare with Finland and Sweden. They don’t face the same combinaison of climate and high-speed wind events which LA is suffering from.

Also, we affect the climate. So we can and should reduce our impact on climate AND do better fire prevention.

Fire prevention alone isn’t going to avoid large scale fires if the climate keep worsening like that.

News article on this topic : LA fires were larger and more intense because of planet-warming pollution, study suggests

Original source : Climate Change A Factor In Unprecedented LA Fires, Gavin Madakumbura et all, UCLA

Harder, Better, Greener, Smaller

clinging for dear life

He shoudn’t send DanSupp a cheque directly, but help him setup a non-profit or foundation for Pixelfed, then give that foundation a cheque.

Dan is doing a good job developing Pixelfed, bit it looks like a one-man show, and that’s a bottleneck for the project.

Being a nobody has its perks.

Probable source: European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X, by Jack Peat - The London Economic

No source is visible in the post. I don’t know if that’s an issue with my client, or an oversight.

This would a smart way to tackle this issue.

Defending human rights, while protecting competitiveness of local production.

Fuck

A planned lecture at China’s Nankai University was abruptly cancelled in January, reportedly due to “scheduling conflicts.”

Is he scheduled to visit a “reeducation” camp?

Japan’s JPCERT released IOCs for MirrorFace malware earlier https://blogs.jpcert.or.jp/en/2024/07/mirrorface-attack-against-japanese-organisations.html

Kudos to them. Sharing IOCs and samples with other CERTs and vendors is important to protect others who may be targeted.

They could indeed. I hope not.

He said there was no risk of Slovakia itself suffering from gas shortages, as it had already made alternative arrangements.

This isn’t about Slovakia’s own gas supply. The article give some hints regarding Fico’s motivations.

It would take months to go through court system until SCOTUS finally make a decision. In the worst case, even if they overturn the decision to protect waters, it would still delay drilling.

Probably much more than 1 week

While section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act gives a president wide leeway to bar drilling, it does not include language that would allow Mr. Trump or any future president to revoke a ban.

That was tested after President Barack Obama banned offshore drilling in parts of the Arctic Ocean and dozens of canyons in the Atlantic Ocean. During his first term in office Mr. Trump tried to revoke the ban. In 2019, U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason in Alaska ruled that Mr. Obama’s ban could not be undone without an act of Congress.

You’re probably being sarcastic, but I can’t help it and have to say it: “traditional values” are obviously not a solution to this epidemy. The solution include more prevention and testing.

No one deserve to get infected, not even one’s worse enemy. This is contagious and will also harm neighbouring countries.

It’s going to make even more nurses run away, when many places are lacking nurses.

Google Play Store is becoming less and less viable for OSS. Thankfully F-Droid support sharing apps to nearby devices.