kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Brilliant project that tidies up public domain ebooks.

Gutenberg and Internet Archive are wonderful resources, but the texts are poorly formatted for actual use, especially on ereaders.

This is a volunteer driven initiative to bring these texts up to date with modern standards and make them look as good as possible on the page.

https://standardebooks.org/

Partially related, but LineageOS had a tire fire recently:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/gfudkv/build_status/fpvrfpe/

To which I was completely unaware

https://gist.github.com/mar-v-in/c8254168c63361c5094de13a7afea344

Well, this is unfortunate. One of (or the sole?) developer of MicroG for LineageOS is having financial problems which is slowing down development, or might even stop it altogether. I haven't read it as "I can't do it anymore", but it reminds me of the story of how OpenSSL almost stopped.

I wish there were a way where people could eat and we could also keep these projects alive. No, that's not sarcasm. Donations only go so far, and only so many times. After that, then what?

But anyway, there are ways to donate, if anyone is able:

Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/microG/
Bountysource: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/microg
Further reading/additional links: https://www.reddit.com/r/MicroG/comments/g5fs5t/donating_to_microg/

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I was gonna go update my phone, I figured it was because of the new major version release. Turns out it's just one person who is busy trying to keep afloat.

#foss #opensource #android

just think of some crap and put it on wall street, no biggie
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no, having 8 gigs of RAM doesn't change my policy on web / Electron apps.

which is: screw Electron.

note: i will not be taking suggestions about Electron in the replies. i've heard every Electron apologist argument.

https://t.me/elkincartoon/1316

Уже даже как-то не смешно :(

In Warsaw and Katowice, the water treatment pipes are guarded by eight freshwater mussels.

They stand as silent sentinels against contamination

Web browser designers:

Well CERTAINLY nobody will EVER need to run web applications from the local machine, ha ha, the very thought, such a security risk. Glad we closed that hole!

Desktop application designers:

Well this COULD have been a 15 kilobyte Javascript, but (points to web browser designers), so, here's a 300 megabyte package of a custom browser plus Node.js plus my 15 kilobyte javascript. Which you run as an EXE with full rights. But it's 'secure'!

♲ @MarkLevineNYC@twitter.com:

Instead of just saying “avoid all social contact”, we need to start giving people the tools to understand the spectrum of risk from different interactions.

Here's how Japan is doing it.

Good way of emphasizing where risk is highest. (h/t @JapanIntercult)

How to Spot a Conspiracy Theory https://vitals.lifehacker.com/how-to-spot-a-conspiracy-theory-1843463080

The next Mad Max movie will be a prequel about Furiosa - Polygon - https://www.polygon.com/2020/5/14/21259276/mad-max-fury-road-prequel-furiosa-george-miller-charlize-theron

Gotta love the #Dutch

#Netherlands #Abortion

So I'm like a security guy now, submitting CVE metadata fixes to NIST NVD for problems discovered by #repology (thanks to NVD people for being responsive btw). Also I'm now monitoring new CVEs stream to find missing CPE bindings and make sure all new CVEs are reported by Repology as vulnerable package versions. Recent #NXNSATTACK CVEs are, for instance.

This is cool. I feel that the project is uniting more parts of #foss ecosystem.

Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots

Kathleen M. Carley and her team at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Informed Democracy & Social Cybersecurity have been tracking bots and influence campaigns for a long time. Across US and foreign elections, natural disasters, and other politicized events, the level of bot involvement is normally between 10 and 20%, she says. But in a…

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/21/1002105/covid-bot-twitter-accounts-push-to-reopen-america/