Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶

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Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶2d ago
https://www.freebsd.org/news/newsflash/#2025-09-07:1
FreeBSD News Flash

FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.

The FreeBSD Project
Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶2d ago
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/tiny-vinyl-is-a-new-pocketable-record-format-for-the-spotify-age/
Tiny Vinyl is a new pocketable record format for the Spotify age

Format is “more aligned with how artists are making and releasing music in the streaming era.”…

Ars Technica
Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶2d ago
NetBlocks2d ago
⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show online platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp have been restricted in #Turkey on multiple networks; the incident comes as main opposition party CHP calls for rallies after police blockade its Istanbul headquarters
Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶4d ago
Linux Is Best4d ago

Looking to leave GitHub?

Try Codeberg — it's Git, but based in Germany (Europe), without all of Microsoft's nonsense. They're also on the Fediverse: @Codeberg.

But wait — it gets better!

Codeberg is open source, and you can even host your own instance. The software is called Forgejo, built by the same folks behind Codeberg, and they're on the Fediverse too: @forgejo.

#GitHub #GitLab #Git #FOSS #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #Microsoft

Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶Sep 3
kottke.orgSep 3
Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America! “We are retaining some features for premium users. Want rule of law? That’s premium. The right to run your company without government interference? That’s a paid feature now.” https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/america-free-trial-services/684072/?gift=jQN1t1D1nkO2TQodBiz5KLmz9qdi35_pconlf7F6jjg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America!

Want rule of law? That’s premium.

The Atlantic
Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶Aug 28

I guess Musk will have to buy Bluesky too.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/more-scientists-choose-bluesky-over-twitter/

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

Ars Technica
Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶Aug 26
https://lwn.net/Articles/1033809/
Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶Aug 25
GNU HealthAug 25

Blood bank functionality will be in upcoming GNU Health Hospital Information System HIS and LIMS 5.2 🩸

#GNUHealth #OpenScience #GNU #LIMS

Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶Aug 23
Liam CollodAug 22
For the past month I have dived into a bit of self-hosting. Amongst the pile of task; I was brought to use @yunohost for the first time. And it is super cool ! I wrote about my experience on their forum: https://forum.yunohost.org/t/my-experience-with-yuno-and-immich/38343.
And this also unexpectedly led me to hyper-focus into DNS and domains as it was the most confusing topic to understand for me. I end-up rewriting a small chunk of the YunoHost documentation hoping that it could help https://github.com/YunoHost/doc/pull/2640
My experience with Yuno and Immich

Discuss Hey there, Not a complaint, not a request, not a bug report, just a praise. One month ago I had the need of finding a service that would allow me to host my photography. I had Immich on my radar but it’s an app that is only available through self-host (which was desirable for me anyway). After a bit of research I found it was available on YunoHost catalog, and because I heard multiple time of Yuno, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to try it out. So I subscribed to a VPS on OV...

YunoHost Forum
Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶Aug 22
https://www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-hunters-reach-numbers-that-overwhelm-ordinary-math-20250822/
Busy Beaver Hunters Reach Numbers That Overwhelm Ordinary Math | Quanta Magazine

The quest to find the longest-running simple computer program has identified a new champion. It’s physically impossible to write out the numbers involved using standard mathematical notation.

Quanta Magazine
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Ars TechnicaJun 3
Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/headline-to-come/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Show threadJohn Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧡✊🏻✊🏿Jun 3
@arstechnica Nothing here is surprising, but the relentless deviousness and shabbiness of Meta especially is 🤮
Show threadFediThing 🏳️‍🌈Jun 3

@arstechnica

It's difficult to understand why anyone would trust or legitimise Meta. They're an especially horrific corporation in an already-horrifying field.

Show threadJohnJun 3
@arstechnica this really should be classified as an illegal wiretap. Because its for advertising somehow its "business". I think we're going to see in the coming years just how really truly dangerous that tracking really is.
Show thread�Jun 3
@arstechnica impressive. morally reprehensible, but impressive from the technical pov
Show threadDistanteJun 3

@arstechnica Well, Yandex is pure evil. It is a Russian company controlled by the Kremlin

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63246153

#Yandex #Russia #Russian #SearchEngine

Ukraine war: Russians kept in the dark by internet search

Why users of Russia's top search engine are unlikely to get to the truth about the war in Ukraine.

Show threadVít Skalický Jun 3
@arstechnica @GrapheneOS Am I affected if using Vanadium or Firefox on GrapheneOS while having a Facebook app installed?
Show threadVít Skalický Jun 3
@arstechnica I'm using uBlock anyway, so these scripts should be blocked, but I'm wandering what if I didn't.
Show threadGrapheneOSJun 3

@vitSkalicky @arstechnica Vanadium has peer-to-peer WebRTC disabled by default and only allows server-based WebRTC by default. Firefox has peer-to-peer WebRTC enabled by default. This isn't the only privacy issue caused by peer-to-peer WebRTC.

We plan to make further improvements to address these things in a more general way including making the loopback network interface per-profile by default and splitting our Network permission to have the option to toggle loopback access separately.

Show threadDouglas Edwards Jun 3
@arstechnica Never had Facebook/Meta — but I just now uninstalled #Yandex Translate from several devices over this issue. Ironically, I had been using it to avoid Google Translate. Is there a good third option for automatic translation, anyone?
Show threadDistanteJun 3
@dedicto @arstechnica https://www.deepl.com/en/translator is the best translator. But I'm not sure if they offer free full page translation
DeepL Übersetzer: Der präziseste Übersetzer der Welt

Übersetzen Sie Texte und ganze Dateien im Handumdrehen. Präzise Übersetzungen für Einzelnutzer und Teams. Jeden Tag nutzen Millionen von Menschen DeepL.

Show threadDouglas Edwards Jun 3
@Distante @arstechnica I seldom used Yandex or Google to translate more than a few sentences at a time. DeepL looks good!
Show thread1337Jun 3
@dedicto @arstechnica Firefox and its derivatives (e.g. LibreWolf) have page translation built in, and its done locally. Most LLM chatbots are pretty good at it too (e.g. venice.ai).
Show threadCpyJx 🍉Jun 3
@dedicto @arstechnica If you're translating on the web, Firefox supports on-device translation: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/translate/
Translate a webpage with Firefox

Firefox Translations is a built-in translation feature that allows you to easily browse the web in your preferred language. Learn more about how this feature in Firefox works, and how Mozilla helps keep what you translate private.

Mozilla
Show threadAsbestosJun 3
@arstechnica
yet another reason to avoid them. Assholes.
Show threadGraeme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Jun 3
@arstechnica Everything "Meta" do should be avoided. They are a bunch of nasty scammers basically. Who needs facepalm, instacrap etc - there are good alternatives.
Show threadWandering Thinker (Sharkey)Jun 3
@arstechnica
So I block all this traffic in firewall.
Show threadOzzie D, NP-hard  Jun 3
@arstechnica Great article, thank you! Should we assume this applies to all Meta apps (Messenger, Threads, etc)? I guess I can confirm this via adb if I'm willing to install them (I had Messenger installed for a while, since my mom uses it to video chat, but no longer).
Show threadmaastoronttiJun 3
@arstechnica ew, I hope I didn’t catch anything while raw dogging facebook on android for years 🤕
Show threadAlexander Sosedkin Jun 3
@arstechnica thugs doing heinous crimes against privacy is no news. browsers are leaking like sieves, that's the important bit.
Show thread狐ヴィクシーJun 3
@arstechnica Even Google is uncomfortable with the amount of tracking Fashcrook does.
Show threadSeth of the FediverseJun 3
@arstechnica Now this is a reason to defed from Threads if there was ever a reason.