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New: Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 – astrophotographers start your engines, there is a lensless version, too.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-camera-module-v3
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breakingthe3ma.app — oh dear #threema
https://breakingthe3ma.app/ I’m still wondering why the domain name doesn’t quite match, though.
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Impractical demands for WhatsApp to provide message content to the Brazilian government, in 3… 2…
WhatsApp is amazingly popular in Brazil, and the government there have a history of trying to strong arm it into providing them with intelligence data… https://apnews.com/article/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-government-caribbean-0c03c098a5e2a09ac534412c30ae8355
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The disjoint described by @shashj in this Tweet, nicely encapsulates a lesson for Civil Society regarding technology:
I’ve given up counting the number of times that people look at SOME TECHNOLOGY and loudly declare: WELL, THAT’S OBVIOUSLY MEANT FOR [EVIL PURPOSE] !!! …when it’s entirely the opposite. Unpopular opinion: the only way to make significant impact in privacy engineering is to work with, alongside, and even in large corporations, to align their
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Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with [@SignalApp] president Meredith Whittaker
There are a lot of people out there who equate writing good, secure, privacy-enhancing software, with promotion of “self-evidently problematic” anti-statist libertarian agendas which they rail against — presumably because they’re worried that society (i.e. they) will lose something from reducing the potential for surveilling the populace*. Therefore: we need more stuff like this: https://www.theverge.com/23409716/signal-encryption-messaging-sms-meredith-whittaker-imessage-whatsapp-china [*] I
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Does anyone know how to construct (or, where to find documentation) intent URLs to call out to the @WordPress app on a device?
I would like to have a HTML page trigger the opening of my locally-installed WordPress app for this blog, landing on the blog composition page…
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Lovely way to start a year, getting an award for my work in open source. Thank you @openuk_uk and congratulations to everyone else!
Happy New Year and Congratulations to everyone included in the 2023 OpenUK New Year's Honours List #openukhonourslist23 of the top 100 Influencers in #opensource assessed by @Onalytica See the full list at: https://t.co/XuCMe4cEHJ pic.twitter.com/i1MrmXBTcR — OpenUK (@openuk_uk) January 1, 2023
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The Guardian has been polling #StayAtHomeDad-s about their career choices; I have no idea if this will ever go anywhere but it gave me a chance to talk about the #OnlineSafetyBill
The Guardian seem mildly obsessed with this topic, but a few weeks ago they posted a request for stories about being a StayAtHomeDad (having previously done so in 2017) — and I responded as attached. Of course I have no idea if they will use it, but it strikes me as worth sharing. Tell us
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I seem to have misplaced my copy of Godel, Escher, Bach; have I loaned it to someone?
The cover looks like this: