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@nils@hollo.weisensee.me

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Product Manager at OCCRP. Passionate about journalism, media management, and human rights. Former Chief Product Officer at Korea Risk Group and Head of Operations at Choson Exchange.

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looopTools
@looopTools@mastodon.social

Remember if you have the money. Pick an project you like / use / adore and donate some money to it so it can keep existing!

Nils
@nils@hollo.weisensee.me

"We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species. The list of its undeniable abominations is long and hardly bearable. And these abominations are not balanced or compensated or atoned for by the list, endlessly reiterated, of our scientific achievements. Some people are moved, now and again, to deplore one abomination or another. Others… deplore the whole list and its causes. Much protest is naive; it expects quick, visible improvement and despairs and gives up when such improvement does not come. Protesters who hold out longer have perhaps understood that success is not the proper goal. If protest depended on success, there would be little protest of any durability or significance. History simply affords too little evidence that anyone’s individual protest is of any use. Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one’s own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence." — Wendell Berry

Robin-Yann Storm
@RYStorm@mastodon.gamedev.place

On one hand I hate corporate jargon, on the other hand my job is literally to synergize workflows between cross-functional teams.

Simon Tatham
@simontatham@hachyderm.io

I noticed today that an update to the client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard.

If you keep interesting secrets in your clipboard – particularly, if a password manager uses it as a means of getting the password to where it needs to be – this might be a thing you need to know about!

derPUPE
@derPUPE@chaos.social

If you haven't heard, bought , so the of open, Al will likely accelerate.

So voila: here's , the for open 's, model weights downloadable with as backup:

huggingbay.xyz/

A cartoonish pirate emoji wearing an eyepatch and a pirate hat, smiling with open arms, is set against a background featuring a pirate ship and black flags with smiley skull designs. The text reads "The Hugging Bay."
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A cartoonish pirate emoji wearing an eyepatch and a pirate hat, smiling with open arms, is set against a background featuring a pirate ship and black flags with smiley skull designs. The text reads "The Hugging Bay."

Zack Whittaker
@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social

Watching this Apple event tout how iPhones will soon be able to record ambient audio/conversations and transcribe "high level notes" for you. It's billed as private and end-to-end encrypted, but I think the bigger harm is the normalization of always-listening devices. It's creepy and not normal.

a screenshot from an iPhone and Apple Watch showing "recaps" of conversations from ambient audio.
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a screenshot from an iPhone and Apple Watch showing "recaps" of conversations from ambient audio.

Nils
@nils@hollo.weisensee.me

If you're looking for a laundry service in Brussels, do not go with WOSH: These guys trashed my shirt. I gave them a brand new tailored button-up shirt for delicate washing and received it back with dark stains on the collar. Received a credit and gave them a second chance, but the same shirt came back with a damaged collar. After two rounds at WOSH -- never washed anywhere else -- this shirt is now ready for the trash. When I asked for compensation, they claimed it was a manufacturing defect.

Tjeerd Royaards
@royaards@newsie.social

Extreme right AfD is projected to get 42% of the vote in the eastern German state Saxony-Anhalt in the elections there today...

Cartoons from 2024.

Cartoon showing a large billboard with the logo of the AfD. A large crowd of protesters is tearing off the logo, revealing a swastika underneath.
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Cartoon showing a large billboard with the logo of the AfD. A large crowd of protesters is tearing off the logo, revealing a swastika underneath.

Cartoon showing a hand that is lifting a rock with the 12 yellow stars of the European Union on it. Under the rock, we see a multitude of beetles crawling around with swastikas on their shields.
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Cartoon showing a hand that is lifting a rock with the 12 yellow stars of the European Union on it. Under the rock, we see a multitude of beetles crawling around with swastikas on their shields.

Servelan
@servelan@newsie.social

“THIS is what the great John Lewis would call ‘GOOD TROUBLE’ . “Protesters in Minneapolis have reportedly been dressing up in jeans, body armor, and masks and then walking into groups of ICE agents and accusing 1 or 2 of them of being imposters until they all start fighting each other. Then the protesters sneak away. And now, it’s happening nationwide.”

‘This Could Cripple ICE Operations’: Celebrity Shares New Protest Tactic

washingtoncurrent.substack.com

washingtoncurrent.substack.com

‘This Could Cripple ICE Operations’: Celebrity Shares New Protest Tactic

Protesters are said to be infiltrating agents’ ranks to stir dissension

EDRi
@edri@eupolicy.social

✊🏽 Providing safe, secure and independent internet infrastructure is not a crime. EDRi stands in full solidarity with Autistici/Inventati after the US government designated the Italian non-profit organisation as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist."

This targeting of A/I is also an attack on fundamental rights, safe and secure communications, anti-authoritarian organising and the democratic integrity of the EU.

Our full statement ➡️ edri.org/our-work/edri-solidar

edri.org

EDRi stands in solidarity with Autistici/Inventati after “terrorist” designation by the US government - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

The United States government has designated the Italian non-profit organisation Autistici/Inventati as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" for providing digital infrastructure. EDRi stands in full solidarity with A/I.

Heinzel
@Heinzel@sueden.social

Endlich!
Mut zur Wahrheit! ⬇️

Spiegel Titel 03.09.2026 AfD: Die Landesverräter
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Spiegel Titel 03.09.2026 AfD: Die Landesverräter

Tim Berners-Lee
@timbl@w3c.social

This Is For Everyone is now available in paperback.

You might recognise the face on the cover...a younger me at MIT in 1998 when 150 million people used the web. Today it's roughly 6 billion.

Read about how the web came to be and where I think it's going ➡️ thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/

The paperback cover of 'This Is For Everyone' by Tim Berners-Lee with a photo of Tim in front of a blackboard at MIT.
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The paperback cover of 'This Is For Everyone' by Tim Berners-Lee with a photo of Tim in front of a blackboard at MIT.

Nils
@nils@hollo.weisensee.me

Next time someone claims it's difficult to sign up for a Fediverse account, know that I've been unable to figure out how to set a profile picture on my Eurosky account and it's been six months. Don't even ask about the steps I took to get that account.

Rest of World
@restofworld@flipboard.com

The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns
restofworld.org/2026/india-git

Posted into Latest Stories @latest-stories-restofworld

restofworld.org

The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns

Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth messaging app surged during India’s internet blackout — and the government’s response suggests a new tech battleground.

Lars Bartsch
@kunde_x@social.tchncs.de

Sehr praktisch im Urlaub, wenn man auf Datenstaubsauger wie Google Lens verzichten möchte:

Die recht junge App "Offline Translator" ist schon verdammt gut! Text, Bilder, Dokumente - komplett offline. Keine Anfragen werden an externe Server gesendet.

github.com/DavidVentura/offlin

Killer Feature ist die Live Video-Übersetzung. Eben wie Google Lens, nur datenschutzfreundlich. Das gab es meines Wissens bisher nicht als freie Software in der Qualität.

Details hier:
blog.davidv.dev/posts/mobile-t

blog.davidv.dev

Live image/video translation

Lens who?

Jan Penfrat
@ilumium@eupolicy.social

"The historians [of the future] are our children. We will find no mercy from them."

-- Philipp Ruch

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

Don’t ask:

“What niche should I choose?”

Ask:

“What can I see because of where I’ve been - and who else desperately needs help seeing it too?”

That question will give you a body of work.

That’s a lot better than a “content” category.
joanwestenberg.com/p/dont-pick

joanwestenberg.com

Don’t pick a writing niche. Find the one only you can own.

How to build a niche from first principles

Stefan Prandl
@redezem@aus.social · Reply to Iris

@iris_meredith Should we do that? Vote now on your phones!

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OCCRP
@occrp@journa.host

European Password Manager Shares Origins and Updates with State-Certified Russian Firm

occrp.org/en/investigation/eur

occrp.org

European Password Manager Shares Origins and Updates with State-Certified Russian Firm

Passwork, a Spain-based password manager used by European government agencies and universities, shares technological ties with a Russian counterpart — an arrangement that experts say poses a state-level security risk.

Tjeerd Royaards
@royaards@newsie.social

Peace through strength. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

Cartoon showing the inside of a factory. On the top floor, eggs are hatching, and baby doves are carried to a hole in the floor by robot arms, where they are dropped to the story below. Here the doves get filled up with explosives, while another robot arm puts an olive branch in their beaks, before they are dropped a floor lower. Here they fall into the bottom half of a mold shaped like a missile, before the top half of the mold comes down and presses them into their final shape. Outside the factory, there is a sign that shows a muscular dove of peace with one paw on a pile of skulls and the text 'Peace through strength'. Missiles are loaded up to a fighter jet, while in the background we see another fighting jet already firing missiles into a ruined city on fire.
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Cartoon showing the inside of a factory. On the top floor, eggs are hatching, and baby doves are carried to a hole in the floor by robot arms, where they are dropped to the story below. Here the doves get filled up with explosives, while another robot arm puts an olive branch in their beaks, before they are dropped a floor lower. Here they fall into the bottom half of a mold shaped like a missile, before the top half of the mold comes down and presses them into their final shape. Outside the factory, there is a sign that shows a muscular dove of peace with one paw on a pile of skulls and the text 'Peace through strength'. Missiles are loaded up to a fighter jet, while in the background we see another fighting jet already firing missiles into a ruined city on fire.

OCCRP
@occrp@journa.host

The co-founder of an Israeli cyber-intelligence company that developed the powerful Pegasus spyware entered Panama in December 2013 using an Israeli diplomatic passport, migration records obtained by journalists show.

Nils
@nils@hollo.weisensee.me

How long until someone creates a better mobile app for ? Please. It must be done. It could be you. It could be great.