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Remember the long-since-expunged Android philosophy? "We also wanted to make sure there was no central point of failure, where one industry player could restrict or control the innovations of any other." Because the Wayback Machine remembers (https://web.archive.org/web/20140702115900/https://source.android.com/source/index.html)…
#EverythingOpen thanks for making all the great presentations available online and so quickly!
Many talks I missed and finally managed to see
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI3yu3oBYCpgqhrsZJ07U1UJacYO5TvL4
Everything Open 2026

Talks from Everything Open 2026, an open technologies conference run in Canberra, ACT, Australia from 21-23 January 2026.

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The volunteers at #EverythingOpen at University of Canberra this year did a stellar job. Thank you!
#eo2026

Are you at @everythingopen this week? Say hi to @gdayitsjack and @chelsea and grab a #pyconau sticker!

Our call for specialist tracks closes soon too! If you have an idea for a track now is the time to let us know!

Check out https://2026.pycon.org.au/specialist-tracks/ for more details (or snag a blind bird ticket!) and catch Jack and Chelsea on-site before Friday!

You can refuse to provide official ID or biometric data for social media accounts requiring age verification.

Actually, I bet if everyone did refuse, and let their account dormant for a couple of weeks, you would suddenly see American Big Tech transforming into the fiercest defender of your privacy rights, using their powerful network of lobbyists to fight these invasive government regulations.

They need you more than you need them.
Force them to work for your rights.
Do not comply.

#Privacy #AgeVerification #Biometrics #AusPol #USpol

Airbus open sourced their new cockpit font. Make it the default for all your embedded projects, because it's REALLY good and has real testing in difficult environments!

https://b612-font.com/

B612 – The font family

B612 is an highly legible open source font family designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens.

I am angry. These companies and their CEO deserve bankruptcy and prison.

Special note to the people constantly telling me that fighting for privacy has nothing to do with fighting against gender-based violence: go f*** yourself.

You wonder what I'm talking about? Read this https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vzjb/location-data-abortion-clinics-safegraph-planned-parenthood

Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics

It costs just over $160 to get a week's worth of data on where people who visited Planned Parenthood came from, and where they went afterwards.

Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

As the crypto wars continue around the world, we must remain vigilant to fight for strong encryption to protect our right to privacy. 💪💪
https://tutanota.com/crypto-wars/
Crypto Wars

The Crypto Wars continue to threaten everyone's privacy.