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🚨⏳ Act now! You have until November 3rd, 2025 to prevent Microsoft from using your LinkedIn data to train AI.

You're opted in automatically, unless you take action and turn it off.

Here's how:

Go to your account → Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement & toggle the switch off to opt out.

Find out more: https://tuta.com/blog/linkedin-ai-user-data

#LinkedInAI #MicrosoftAI #BigTech

Niroj Oct 21

Met this photogenic dog while biking through a nearby village.

#dogs #dog #Nepal #nala

Niroj Oct 20

Tommy in Kukur Tihar this year.

#Nepal #KukurTihar #Dogs #Pets #tihar

Niroj Oct 12

Servo Oct 10

Igalia is excited to announce a new commission from the Sovereign Tech Fund to advance the Servo web engine.

https://www.igalia.com/2025/10/09/Igalia,-Servo,-and-the-Sovereign-Tech-Fund.html

Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund | Igalia

Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit, Chromium/Blink and Firefox expertise found in the consulting business, including many reviewers and committers. Igalia designs, develops, customises and optimises GNU/Linux-based solutions for companies across the globe. Our work and contributions are present in many projects such as GStreamer, Mesa 3D, WebKit, Chromium, etc.

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Niroj Oct 2

Neil Brown Oct 1

Google being clear that, if you want to distribute an app for Android, whether via another store (such as F-Droid) or just for side loading, you will need to register with Google.

Time to push harder against this restriction.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-security-answering-your-top.html

#Android #FDroid

Let's talk security: Answering your top questions about Android developer verification

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Niroj Sep 29

F-Droid Sep 29

Broken links aside (fix incoming), #FDroid raises the case against the #Google developer forced registration once again.

We'll skip the small talk, go read, and better yet, spread this wide and far: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html so people are made aware, actions can be taken and #Android is kept truly open!

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

For the past 15 years, F-Droid has provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world to find and install free and open source apps. When co...

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Niroj Sep 24, 2025

@zenbrowser Anyone got the release? My zen doesn't seem to think there's an update.

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Niroj Sep 5, 2025

@vfrmedia @collectifission @regendans Honeslty speaking, I think they tried to reach a quota of 25 sites and some intern had to make up that list. There are sites listed there that almost nobody uses or even heard of, let alone be of any significant part of Nepali internet discourse.

Niroj Aug 12, 2025

The Jucktion Aug 10, 2025

uBlock Lite has made its way to Safari with iOS/iPadOS 18.6 with declarativeNetRequest bugfix making adblockers more effective without alternative browsers.

https://www.jucktion.com/ublock-lite-safari-ios

#Safari #iOS #Brave #Orion #adblocking #browsers #Internet #Apple #iPhone #iPad #Privacy

Niroj Jun 24, 2025

@hematt @zenbrowser A maintainer says it's github actions.

https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/discussions/9105#discussioncomment-13530714

Missing issues and discussions after Zen org flagged by GitHub · zen-browser desktop · Discussion #9105

@mr-cheffy After the zen-browser org was flagged by GitHub yesterday, which caused the entire org's visibility to change from public to private, I've noticed that most of the issues and discussions...

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