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Otter@lemmy.cato Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•The Guardian, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science, launches open-source Secure MessagingEnglish13·7 days agoBuilt by our product and engineering team, in partnership with the University of Cambridge’s department of computer science and technology, Secure Messaging is unlike traditional information-sharing platforms. The technology behind Secure Messaging conceals the fact that messaging is taking place at all by making the communication indistinguishable from other data sent to and from the app by our millions of regular users. By using the Guardian app, other users are effectively providing “cover” and helping us to protect sources.
That is interesting. There is also secure drop, which is used by a lot of news organisations including The Guardian
Otter@lemmy.caMto Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Google has made it much harder for GrapheneOS & CalyxOS to update to Android 16 English14·11 days agoHere is the feature list of grapheneOS. A big one for me is sandboxing apps and more control over permissions.
Otter@lemmy.caMto Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google AccountEnglish5·13 days agoI think it has been like that for a while.
It’s not paywalled, but rather account-walled(edit: I was wrong)There may also be different versions of the article, since I don’t always come across the wall
Otter@lemmy.cato retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org•Commodore shocks retro TechTuber with option to buy 'the whole company'English30·14 days agoRight at the end of the video, there is a twist that may raise the graying eyebrows of Commodore fans around the globe. Perifractic reveals that he received a message direct from Commodore Corporation B.V. that states “yes we can grant you an exclusive license, but your team seems to know Commodore better than we do, we might like to sell you the whole company.”
What 😄
Sadly, we are left with this cliffhanger. Viewers are told to stay tuned for Part 2 of this video, “live and Let Buy.” But we don’t have a date for the video publication. Stay tuned, indeed.
:(
Otter@lemmy.caMto Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Recent commits suggest Signal is preparing a paid subscription for backups.English12·18 days agoI’ve been waiting for this feature for a while actually 😅
When I last saw people talking about it, there were rumors that there would be a reasonable free backup (ex. up to 1 Gb) with relatively cheap paid options above that. I scrolled through the GitHub link and couldn’t confirm or deny if this is still/actually the case.
Backups are the #1 pain point for friends that tried to switch to Signal, especially for those on iOS. I have a local backup + sync setup for my own phone, but it’s a lot to expect for the average casual user to set up.
Whatsapp has backups to Google Drive, which is better than nothing but not ideal. It’s time Signal had a reliable backup method for casual users
Otter@lemmy.cato Ask Android@lemdro.id•Material You/Material 3 Expressive Wallabag AppEnglish3·18 days agohttps://selfh.st/apps/?directory=Companion&companion=Wallabag
The selfh.st directory only has that one app. If you do find something, you could submit it there as well :)
Done, how does it look now?
Otter@lemmy.cato [Moved to Piefed] Television@lemm.ee•'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in TexasEnglish11·20 days agoAnother article for those having issues with the TMZ site:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/jonathan-joss-fatally-shot-1.7550346
I was looking at the Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Joss
On January 23, 2025, Joss lost his San Antonio home, as well as three dogs (with a fourth missing) when his house caught fire.[8][9] Joss says he was using a propane heater and had left the house. “Mistakes happen, man. And it’s my fault for, I guess, leaving something on,” Joss said. “Or if somebody came in and did something, who knows?” [8] He attended the 2025 ATX TV Festival in Austin, Texas with other King of the Hill cast members on May 29, 2025.[7] However, he says he was not invited to the panel, and an attendee on the social media site Reddit says that Joss interrupted the King of the Hill panel, bringing up his house burning down which he felt was intentionally burned down because of his homosexuality.
On June 1, 2025, Joss was approached by a neighbor who allegedly yelled homophobic slurs at Joss before shooting and killing him. The suspect was arrested shortly afterward.[7][10][11][12] The two neighbors have been subject to a longstanding feud going back years with police being called multiple times.[13] His death occurred just hours after he uploaded an Instagram video of himself walking around Austin and noting how he already recorded lines for 4 King of the Hill episodes.
Kern de Gonzales stated on Instagram afterwards that various people in the area had for years verbally assaulted them with homophobic slurs and threats to burn down their home.[14] Kern de Gonzales went on to say that the house had burned down after years of threats from their neighbors, threats to which the police had not responded, even after the threats had been reported by Gonzales and Joss.[11] On Joss’ Facebook page, Kern de Gonzales described the attack as a homophobic hate crime.
San Antonio Police Department released a statement saying “Our investigation has found no evidence whatsoever to indicate that the Mr. Joss’s murder was related to his sexual orientation.”
On the website, you can open your profile and there will be a tab for saved posts
For example, mine is at
https://lemmy.ca/u/otter?page=1&sort=New&view=Saved
Yours should be at:
https://lemm.ee/u/FrenchFoodInHand?page=1&sort=New&view=Saved
Otter@lemmy.caMto New to Lemmy@lemmy.ca•Which URLs are blocked and who blocks them?English8·22 days agoI guess I’m out of the loop, why is Blogspot blocked?
Can you message me with the link? I can look into it from the admin side. You may need to chop it up into parts if the instance is blocking it:
example . com
It’s working for me, and so maybe it came back?
Otter@lemmy.cato Programmer Humor@programming.dev•You can't "skill issue" yourself out from every situationEnglish811·28 days agoThere’s a quote along the lines of “User error is not a thing, the system allowed for the error through bad design”
Which can be true depending on how far you stretch it. I’d say that if a chunk of the user base is having a problem, it’s a design problem
Otter@lemmy.cato Android@lemdro.id•Google Play just opened Pandora's box: You can now bug your friends to pay for youEnglish3·29 days agoHow do people use the feature? Since I can’t think of a case where I would use this, aside from a child wanting to buy something without the parent needing to put their credit card details on the kid’s device
Otter@lemmy.cato Programming@programming.dev•Has anyone created an AI tarpit for images yet?English9·29 days agoIt might be easier to make a few images with some anti-AI patterns, and then give them randomly generated file names and paths. If needed, you could do some subtle transformations each time but generating a new image each time might be more effort than its worth
I see [email protected], maybe you can post there and ask?
I’ll also tag @[email protected] in case that is the developer
Otter@lemmy.cato Technology@beehaw.org•Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody WantsEnglish9·1 month agoI also remember seeing articles about how the design was meant to be very simple because it was going to be cost effective, and that they were experimenting with a manufacturing technique that would work better on Mars
Yea nope.
Instead now Slate Auto seems to be going for the cost effective minimalistic truck
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/slate-auto-crosses-100000-refundable-reservations-in-two-weeks/
While Hyundai has put out some actual retro futuristic models
https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/brand-journal/heritage/heritage-series-grandeur
https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/brand-journal/heritage/heritage-series-pony
Nice :)
I made the promo post and scheduled the second one to go out in a few days: https://lemmy.ca/post/43840038
Especially if no bank account is attached and if it isn’t tied to anything on here
https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-your-products/about-billing-for-github-actions
@[email protected] does anything show up when you log in to GitHub and check billing?