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Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

Check out the End of 10 initiative to learn more! If you know anyone else who might find this useful, share it with them!

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Hvis du har en computer med Windows 10 så har Microsoft bestemt at du skal købe en ny computer for de opdaterer ikke efter oktober.

Men så dum er du ikke! Du kan få din gamle computer til at virke ny og lækker igen ved at installere Linux.

Hvis ikke du selv kan eller kender nogen der kan, og ikke bor i nærheden af en reperationscafe, så hjælper jeg gerne (hvis du kommer forbi Sydfyn eller støder til når jeg er i København eller Århus.

#teknologiforståelse #miljø

https://endof10.org/

@jannem
Or don't use acronyms.

Write them to save typing, but find and replace them with the full meaning.

It isn't like you are saving paper or ink these days.

Or if you have to, use a link to their meaning.

@piepants @jwildeboer

@neil Danmark here

We’re honestly on a fast timeline to exactly this.

Something I made for my intro stats class a few years ago. Nobody really appreciated it, which is a tragedy because it's absolutely top-notch humor.

#shitpost #statistics #professor #mean #median #mode #dadjoke #pun

"So now, here we are again. Canada is facing threats to its very existence, incredibly from people we thought were our friends. They want our resources, they want our land, they want our fisheries, they want our water, they want our Arctic, maybe they want our souls. I know the US president could use a soul."

Apparently, all RSS readers are banned on Google Play:

Google added some restrictions to news app and I don’t see how Flym (and other RSS aggregators) could comply to that. For instance, Flym cannot provide a “valid and verifiable contact information” for the feed, nor it can assure that “each of the sources must meet News policy requirements”.

As of today, Flym updates on Play Store are blocked by Google. So I have archived this project in order to clearly show that I won’t maintain it anymore. I’m not aware of any official way of publishing an RSS client on PlayStore and do not have motivation to argue with Google.

https://github.com/FredJul/Flym

Just one more argument against ever using Google Play.

Edit: The policy has been changed since back then and now has a new paragraph that can make RSS apps work:

However, if apps contain primarily user generated content (for example, social media apps), they should not declare themselves as News apps, and are not considered to be News apps.

Still wanna stay off Google Play for lots of other reasons, of course. Vital infrastructure should not be owned and controlled by megacorporations.

'ChatGPT has been trained on my IP, my labor, my personal data. And I did not consent. You know, "The Guardian" has effectively got rid of more than 100 journalists.
We actually leave the building next week. And shortly afterwards,
it signed a syndication deal with OpenAI. Or, as I think of it,
it married its rapist''

https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like/transcript

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most crucial infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including

--DOGE is expected to slash 40% of CISA's workforce
--DOGE to host a hackathon to better access US citizens' most sensitive data,
--Apple appeals UK back door order,
--Taiwan identifies Crazyhunter hacker,
--TikTok to live for 75 more days in US,
--Five UK romance scammers convicted,
--Leak site of Everest gang defaced,
--OpenAI tests watermark,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/doge-is-expected-to-slash-40-of-cisas-workforce/

The secret third solution of the Trolley Problem

Hot take: Pirating music is MORE ethical than using Spotify. The artists don't get paid either way, but at least piracy doesn't support exploitative corporations.

Who wants to join my Anarcho Syndicalist Tech Collective? We buy some used Taco trucks except we fit them out with inverters and lots of networking tech, and we drive around Los Angeles doing guerrilla Debian installs and selling phones with Graphene OS pre installed. Bring your own laptop and we wipe it and have our FAI server give you preconfigured desktop environment. Sell mini PCs with Nextcloud and Photo prism set up as .onion dark web sites... #infosec #tech #freedom

See the thing is a whole generation of teenagers have grown up entirely under the thumb of Google/Apple phone/Chromebook/Windows S whatever shut in gilded cage edition bullshit and NAT corrupted internet tech. They don't even know that people used to be able to run software they controlled and any two computers on the internet could talk directly. Maybe the fascist shit going down could at least awaken some resistance with the right examples.

@futurebird There have to be so many things like that, just lost forever.

One example I like - how are future historians to figure out the difference in meaning between a "butt dial" and a "booty call"? The languages people spoke at all times and places were probably just as full of things like that.

Daily affirmations

Meanwhile. JD Vance and his wife spent only three hours in Greenland during a visit—entirely on a U.S. military base. Protests and a full business boycott forced them to leave, as locals refused to serve or admit them anywhere.