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The logo of the "Keep Android Open" campaign is an Android robot dressed as Darth Vader. Across the top it says "I AM ALTERING THE DEAL" in all caps, and below the robot it says "Pray I don't alter it further". This is a reference to how Android acquired a massive catalog of apps be making access open to the platform back in the day, and Google assuring it would remain open, as opposed to the iOS platform which was (and still is) very restricted. And, of course, Star Wars.

KDE supports the "Keep Android Open" campaign

#Google will cut off independent developers to #Android if they do not register with Google first. This will kill independent platforms like @fdroidorg.bsky.social and severely impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android.

keepandroidopen.org

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

When you check Moderation settings from Turkey, you see an additional moderation service specific to Turkey and has a note saying “Required in your region”.

I know @safety.bsky.app team is not a big one but it doesn’t look good when you have a huge wave of new users from Turkey because of government enforced censorship on X/Twitter and then you silently add a country specific moderation service and start blocking users.

Global Government Affairs on X: "This week, X sealed its victory in its First Amendment lawsuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta. X challenged provisions of a California law, AB 587, that sought to regulate speech on social media platforms in violation of the First Amendment. No other social media" / X This week, X sealed its victory in its First Amendment lawsuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta. X challenged provisions of a California law, AB 587, that sought to regulate speech on social media platforms in violation of the First Amendment. No other social media

1. Even though Elon Musk's X states that "X will always fight for free speech and people's right to express themselves," X then arbitrarily censors hundreds of accounts belonging to students and civil society subject to copy & paste decisions in Turkey over the last few days. x.com/GlobalAffair...

Chart from NetBlocks showing platform feature restrictions by ISP in Turkey on March 19, 2025. The data indicates widespread internet restrictions affecting platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. Access issues are observed across major ISPs such as Türk Telekom, TT Mobil, and Turkcell, with services showing varying levels of reachability, in some cases down to 0%. The disruptions coincide with the reported detention of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and other political opposition figures.

⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show #Turkey has restricted access to multiple social media platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok; the incident comes as Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and dozens of others are detained in events described by the opposition as a "coup"

this is definitely the way to go. putting on a sticker and forgetting about is rather lazy and not effective at all - you're still financially supporting him in the end.

Cover of Dates & Wires promo for the StoryTelling Festival - a celebration of the best of storytelling in video games

Our dystopian dating sim Dates & Wires is taking part in the #TheStorytellersFestival by
@twoandahalfstudios.com !
On sale at -20% off until Feb 25th 💜💾 💜
store.steampowered.com/app/3136150/...

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

You can’t post your way out of fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them

🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

Today Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new, European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control […]

Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.

The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?

BlinkenCity: Radio-Controlling Street Lamps and Power Plants 38C3 A significant portion of Europe's renewable energy production can be remotely controlled via longwave radio. While this system is intended to stabilize the grid, it can potentially also be abused to d...

The CCC Saal1 Presentation (now) on reversing streetlamps, ripple controls, Versacom and Semagyr, power gear, smart meters, controlling FREs with flashlights, flipper zero's(!).
BlinkenCity, is a tour de force in reverse engineering, critical infrastructure risk analysis, and hacking excellence.

Forbes headline: UHC Shooter Luigi Mangione Appears To Have Been A Redditor — And He Researched Back Pain And Backpacks

NBC screenshot: Luigi Mangione, who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins, a member of the group told NBC News. In the game, called "Among Us," some players are secretly assigned to be killers in space who perform other tasks while trying to avoid suspicion from other players.

if you got arrested after a nationwide manhunt, what would the media pull from your internet activity to make into ominous headlines?

How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, Old Man? YouTube video by CMMDieguez81

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVxJ...

RUMAHOY - Harambe The Pirate Gorilla (Official Lyric Video) | Napalm Records YouTube video by Napalm Records

this song is in my discover weekly. spotify now knows me so well that i get shitposts in my playlists

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkOP...

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

What should I do if I think that my personal data protection rights haven’t been respected? Actions you can take if your data protection rights under EU law haven’t been respected, including involving the national Data Protection Authority.

that's a GDPR violation. you can report this to your data protection authority: commission.europa.eu/law/law-topi...

The network technology giant Cisco offers to turn Wi-Fi access points installed in offices and other buildings into a system that tracks the location of employees, customers, smartphones, laptops and other devices for a wide range of purposes #workersurveillance

I took a deep dive ⬇️ [thread]

bu konu hakkinda güzel bir yazı: dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...

Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot Wireless and firmware hacking, PhD life, Technology

How does the new iOS inactivity reboot work? What does it protect from?

I reverse engineered the kernel extension and the secure enclave processor, where this feature is implemented.

naehrdine.blogspot.com/2024/11/reve...

Die KvU ("Kirche von Unten"), lange Jugendclub in Berlin-Mitte, hat eine Geschichte, die bis in die Zeit der DDR-Opposition vor der Wende zurückreicht.

Der Ort in Mitte wurde unter ihren Füßen verkauft, jetzt wird sie wieder vertrieben.

next, we need to bring back hacker secret santa

Deus Ex Aesthetics A Deep Dive into the Aesthetics of Ion Storm's Sci-Fi Action-RPG

I wrote something! Thanks to the amazing retro gaming posts and accounts on this site, I was inspired to do the research into where a game's vibe and aesthetics come from and I attempt to talk about it here, for the first of hopefully many deep dives, with Deus Ex.
open.substack.com/pub/pc2000s/...

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

Hi everyone.

The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.

We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.

We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.

I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

Save 10% on Dates & Wires: Augmented Edition on Steam The year is 1995, and you're newly single and ready to mingle in Stradania, the dysfunctional micronation whose chief exports are pig iron, human misery, and radioactive souvenir mugs. Sample the nigh...

Just a couple more days left to get Dates & Wires with an introductory 10% discount.

D&W is a cyberpunk dating sim/visual novel where you, the player, travel to a fictional post-Soviet hellhole for two days of soul searching and questionable dates with local cyborgs, hackers and burnouts ✨