While talking computers are old hat today, in 1978, a talking toy like the Speak and Spell was the height of novel tech. [Kevin] found a vintage one, but it didn’t work. It looked like someone had plugged in the wrong power adapter, leading to, undoubtedly, one or more unhappy children. There was some damage that suggests someone had already tried to repair it, but without success.

In addition to effecting the repair, [Kevin] took lots of pictures, so if you ever wanted to peek inside one of these, this is your chance. The case had no screws, just clips, although apparently some of the newer models did have some screws.

In addition to a sophisticated speech synthesizer, the gadget had a sophisticated power supply to drive the vacuum fluorescent display. The power supply board had a suspicious burn mark and a cracked TO-92 transistor.

[Kevin] found that someone had reversed a schematic for a similar power board used in a different version of the toy, but it was close enough. The simple switching power supply used a handful of bipolar transistors. The cracked transistor was one of a pair, so to be safe, both needed replacement. After all, the transistor failing either put a high load on the uncracked transistor or, perhaps, it cracked because the other transistor failed first.

Oddly, after that repair, the device would work with an AC adapter, but not with batteries. The battery voltage is a little lower, so with a little simulation and some changes in components, the device works again, even with weaker batteries. You can see the startup sequence on a scope in the video below.

If you want to explore Speak and Spells yourself, don’t miss the bibliography at the end of the post. Some people swear by these toys. Other people make them swear. If you’d rather build something new than repair, there’s help for you.

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We’re all used to emulating older computers here, and we’ve seen plenty of projects that take a cheap microcontroller and use it to emulate a classic home computer or gaming platform. They’re fun, but serve mostly as a way to relive old toys.

As microcontrollers become faster though it’s inevitable that the machines they can emulate become more powerful too, so we’re moving into the realm of emulating productivity machines from years past. An example is [Ilya Maslennikov]’s pico-286, which as its name suggests, is a 286 PC emulator for the Raspberry Pi Pico.

It has an impressive set of sound and video card emulations, can drive either a VGA or an HDMI monitor, and uses a PS/2 keyboard and mouse. If DOS games are your thing it should provide what you want, but it’s caught our eye because there was a time when a 286 DOS PC was a productivity machine. There’s a huge library of still-useful software for DOS, and thus the prospect of a handheld DOS PC still has some appeal. We’d love to see someone put this in a badge.

MS-DOS may no longer be for sale, but there are several ways to land an open-source DOS in 2025. FreeDOS is something of a powerhouse.

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The Allen key turns 115 this year. It’s strange to believe that in all that time, no one has come up with an adjustable version, but apparently true. Luckily [Chronova Engineering] has taken up the challenge in his latest video.

The video is a fascinating glimpse at the toolmaker’s art–manual machining and careful human judgement. Humans being the fallable creatures we are, the design goes through a few iterations. After the first failure in metal, [Chronova] falls back on 3D printing to rapidly prototype the next six iterations. Given how much work goes into manually machining the designs, we can only imagine the time savings that represents.

The final version is has classic hexagonal rod split in two, so that a chisel-shaped rod can spread the two prongs out to engage the sides of the Allen bolt. Even with that settled, the prongs and wedge had to be redesigned several times to find exact shape and heat-treatment that would work. At this point the range is anything between 4 mm and 6 mm, which is admittedly narrow, but [Chronova Engineering] believes the mechanism has the potential to go wider.

The design is not being patented, but the drawings are available via the [Chronova Engineering] Patreon if you really need an adjustable Allen key and don’t feel like reverse-engineering the mechanism from video. It’s a much larger project than we’ve featured from this channel before– enormous, really, compared to steam engines that fit on pencil erasers or electric motors that squeeze through the eye of a needle.

Our thanks hall-of-fame tipster [Keith Olson] for letting us know about this one. If you want a slice of that fame for yourself, the tips line is always open.

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Like many of us, [Ben] has too many 3D printers. What do you do with the old ones? In his case, he converted it into a robotic camera rig. See the results, including footage from the robot, in the video below. In addition to taking smooth video, the robot can spin around to take photos for photogrammetry.

In fact, the whole thing started with an idea of building a photogrammetry rig. That project didn’t go as well as planned, but it did lead to this interesting project.

Motion control used to be exotic, but 3D printers really put it in the mainstream. The printer has motors, lead screws, gears, and belts. Of course, there are plenty of 3D printed parts, too. He did buy a few new pieces of extrusion and some longer belts. In addition, he had to upgrade one stepper to one that uses gears.

The camera tilts plus or minus 90 degrees on what used to be the X axis. The Y axis moves the camera forward and backward. The Z axis still moves up and down, but the extruder motor has a new job.

The extruder motor rotates the target object. Originally, the plan was to spin the camera, but that was difficult since the ring is 18 inches across. In addition to reliably moving it, there’s the wire management to worry about, too. So even though the original plan was to rotate the camera, the final project rotates the object on a turntable.

After prototyping with the 3D printer, he had an outside service CNC many of the parts in metal, both for the appearance and for the rigidity. But we imagine it would be fine with good-quality 3D printed parts.

Overall, a nice way to upcycle an old printer. We didn’t see the design files for any of the parts, but you’d probably have to customize your approach anyway. We’ve seen plenty of these camera rigs. Some of them recycle other tech.

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The Becquerel (Bq) is an SI unit of radioactivity: one becquerel is equivalent to one radioactive decay per second. That absolutely does not make it equivalent to one hertz — the random nature of radioactive decay means you’ll never get one pulse every second — but it does make it interesting. [mihai.cuciuc] certainly thought so, when he endeavored to create a clock that would tick at one becquerel.

The result is an interesting version of a Vetinari Clock, first conceived of by [Terry Pratchett] in his Discworld books. In the books, the irregular tick of the clock is used by Lord Vetinari as a form of psychological torture. For some reason, imposing this torture on ourselves has long been popular amongst hackers.

Without an impractical amount of shielding, any one-becquerel source would be swamped by background radiation, so [mihai] had to get creative. Luckily, he is the creator of the Pomelo gamma-ray spectroscope, which allowed him to be discriminating. He’s using an Am-241 source, but just looking for the characteristic 59.5 KeV gamma rays was not going to cut it at such a low count rate. Instead he’s using two of the Pomelo solid-state scintillation as a coincidence detector, with one tuned for the Am-241’s alpha emissions. When both detectors go off simultaneously, that counts as an event and triggers the clock to tick.

How he got exactly one becquerel of activity is a clever hack, too. The Am-241 source he has is far more active than one decay per second, but by varying the distance from the gamma detector he was able to cut down to one detection per second using the inverse square law and the shielding provided by Earth’s atmosphere. The result is a time signal that is a stable one hertz… if averaged over a long enough period. For now, anyway. As the Am-241 decays away, its activity decreases, and [mihai] admits the clock loses about 0.4 seconds per day.

While we won’t be giving the prize for accuracy in this contest, we are sure Lord Vetinari would be proud. The Geiger-counter sound effect you can hear in the demo video embedded below is great touch. It absolutely increases the psychic damage this cursed object inflicts.

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Boston Police (BPD) continue their efforts rollout more surveillance tools. This time on social media.

Tuesday, August 19th, the Boston Public Safety Committee will hold a hearing on the Boston 2024 Surveillance Technology Report including police usage of three new tools to monitor social media posts. Any tool BPD uses will feed into the Boston Regional Information Center (BRIC) and Federal agencies such as ICE, CBP and the FBI.

If you want to tell the Boston Public Safety committee to oppose this expansion of surveillance, please show up on the 19th virtually. Details are posted, but to sign up to speak, email ccc.ps@boston.gov and they will send you a video conference link. We especially encourage Boston Pirates to attend and speak against this proposal. The Docket # is 1357.

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Automotive headlights started out burning acetylene, before regular electric lightbulbs made them obsolete. In due time, halogen bulbs took over, before the industry began to explore even newer technologies like HID lamps for greater brightness. Laser headlights stood as the next leap forward, promising greater visibility and better light distribution.

Only, the fairytale didn’t last. Just over a decade after laser headlights hit the market, they’re already being abandoned by the manufacturers that brought them to fruition. Laser headlights would end up fighting with one hand behind their back, and ultimately became irrelevant before they ever became the norm.

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Laser headlights were first announced by BMW in 2013, with the German company promising the technology would be available on its new halo car, the i8. Fellow German rivals Audi would end up pipping the Bavarians to the punch, launching the limited-production Audi R8 LMX with laser headlights just months before the i8 entered production. Both brands would later bring the technology to a range of luxury models, including sedans and SUVs.
Long-throw laser lights became an option on premium Audi and BMW vehicles. Credit: Audi
The prime selling point of laser headlights was that they could project a very bright, very focused beam a long way down the road. As we’ve explored previously, they achieved this by using blue lasers to illuminate yellow phosphors, creating a vibrant white light that could be bounced off a reflector and directed up to 600 m ahead of the vehicle. They weren’t so useful for low-beams, with that duty usually passed off to LEDs. However, they were perfect to serve as an ultra-efficient long-throw high beam that wouldn’t disrupt other road users, albeit with the aid of steerable headlamp assemblies and camera-based tracking systems.

Laser headlights were more expensive to produce, but were also far more capable than any conventional bulb in terms of throw distance. They were also more compact than just about any other automotive lighting technology, giving automotive designers far more freedom when creating a car’s front end. They were even able to outperform LEDs in the efficiency stakes. And yet, both Audi and BMW would come to abandon the technology.
A comparison from 2014 between BMW’s LED high beam (left) and laser high beam (right). Notice the far greater throw of the laser high beam. Credit: BMW
The culprit? Regulations. In particular, headlight rules enforced in the United States. The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard rule 108 deems that headlight intensity must not exceed 150,000 candela, while beam range must not exceed 250 meters. These rules effectively mean that laser headlights can’t outperform older technologies without falling afoul of US regulations. The rules stand in stark contrast to European regulations, which allow headlights to reach up to 430,000 candela. In an echo of the sealed beam era, US regulations were once again stymying European innovation by being firmly stuck in the past.

Of course, US regulations don’t apply everywhere. European automakers could have kept pursuing laser headlight technology, however, other factors have also come into play. LED headlight technology has continued to improve, with newer models improving brightness and light distribution. Adaptive matrix LED headlights also allow sections of the headlight beam to be turned on and off at will to provide the best illumination without dazzling other road users.
It’s widely considered that Audi beat BMW to market with the laser headlights on the limited-edition R8 LMX, but BMW was the first to enter real series production with laser headlights on the i8. Credit: BMW
To that end, laser headlights are facing decline. While a few models in the Audi and BMW lineups still feature the headlights, both automakers are phasing them out for the future. Speaking on the matter last year, BMW’s large-car product manager, Andreas Suhrer, noted that solely LED-based designs were the future. “At the moment, we still have laser lighting on the G26 and the X7, but we don’t have future plans,” Suhrer stated. “The G60 and G61 do not have it, and the new 7 Series does not have it. I don’t think it’s completely done, but for the next models, we are making the LED Matrix lights our focus. The laser lights are pretty good with absolute range but the latest generation of Matrix LED lights does a better distribution.” Meanwhile, Audi released statements in 2024 noting that there were no plans to implement laser lighting modules in future product.

Ultimately, laser headlights were an expensive, fancy solution to a minor problem. Better high beams are surely a good thing, but given how rarely most motorists use them, they’re hardly a critical feature. Combine their high price and limited usability with the fact that one of the world’s largest car markets just made them useless, and it hardly made sense for Audi or BMW to continue pursuing this unique technology. They will go down as a luxury car curio, to be written about by bloggers every few decades as a reminder of what was once deemed cutting edge.

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Of all the plastics that surround us on the daily, the one we hear least about in the 3D printing world is probably polypropylene (PP). Given that this tough, slightly flexible thermoplastic has characteristics you might want for your prints, the question is: why? [Lost in Tech] is not answering that question in a recent video; instead he’s showing us what we’re missing out on with a review of the material.

A look at the Material Safety Data Sheet and available material has [Lost in Tech] suggesting it won’t be (much) more toxic for you than PLA, but you still wouldn’t want to huff the fumes. The biggest issue printing PP is getting it to stick — glass beds and PEI are not your friend, but polypropylene tape is easy to find and makes a fine print surface. He reviews a few other options, but it looks like plain old tape is still your best bet if you can’t get a hold of a Prusa PP bed. The other big issue is shrinkage, but that’s hardly unique to PP and can be accounted for in the model.

Just because it can be used, that doesn’t mean it should be. [Lost in Tech] does make a good case for why you might want to use PP — for one thing, it doesn’t string much, in part because it’s not hygroscopic. That makes it great for those of us in humid climes who don’t want to always faff around with dry boxes, but also wonderful for parts that will be in touch with water. Polypropylene also has great chemical resistance for even scarier chemicals than dihydrogen monoxide. The “killer app” though, at least as far as [Lost in Tech] is concerned, is to use polypropylene with compliant mechanisms: it’s incredibly resilient to bending, and doesn’t fatigue easily. You might even call it a “flexible” filament, but unlike with TPU, you get a nice hard plastic to go with that flexibility.

If you’re interested in this somewhat-forgotten filament, we featured a “getting started” guide last year. You can even make your own polypropylene filament using non-medical “COVID” masks, but do be sure to wash them first. What do you think? Is it time to give PP another chance, or has the 3D printing world moved on?

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Un ricercatore esperto in sicurezza informatica ha scoperto che centinaia di server TeslaMate in tutto il mondo trasmettono apertamente i dati dei veicoli Tesla senza alcuna protezione. Ciò significa che la telemetria delle auto – dalle coordinate precise e dai percorsi alle abitudini dei proprietari e persino ai programmi di ricarica – è stata esposta al pubblico.

TeslaMate è un popolare strumento open source che si connette all’API ufficiale Tesla e raccoglie le informazioni più dettagliate sull’auto. Il sistema registra i dati GPS, lo stato della batteria, la cronologia dei viaggi, le letture della temperatura dell’abitacolo e altri parametri. Per visualizzare le statistiche, viene utilizzata una combinazione di un’interfaccia web sulla porta 4000 e un pannello Grafana sulla porta 3000. Tuttavia, per impostazione predefinita, l’applicazione non richiede autenticazione ed è automaticamente collegata a tutte le interfacce di rete. Se avviata su un server con IP pubblico, tutte le informazioni diventano disponibili a qualsiasi utente della rete.

Utilizzando una scansione globale degli indirizzi IPv4 sulla porta aperta 4000, il ricercatore ha individuato circa 900 installazioni di questo tipo in diversi continenti. Di conseguenza, gli estranei avevano accesso ai percorsi esatti dei proprietari, alle coordinate delle auto parcheggiate, agli indirizzi residenziali e ai dati relativi all’assenza delle auto dalle loro posizioni abituali.

Grazie ai dati raccolti, è stato possibile tracciare un quadro completo della vita quotidiana dei proprietari e persino identificare i periodi di vacanza. Ciò che è particolarmente allarmante è che, grazie a questi dati, i criminali possono pianificare furti o effrazioni in anticipo, sapendo quando i proprietari sono assenti.

Per dimostrare la portata del problema, il ricercatore ha lanciato il sito web teslamap.io , che mappa tutte le auto trovate connesse a server TeslaMate non protetti. In alcune regioni, in particolare nelle aree metropolitane di Nord America, Europa e Asia, questi formano dei cluster, poiché contengono numerose installazioni non protette.

Gli esperti raccomandano di adottare misure di protezione immediate. Come minimo, utilizzare un reverse proxy (ad esempio, Nginx) con password, limitare l’accesso solo tramite localhost, impostare regole firewall corrette, modificare le credenziali predefinite di Grafana e, se possibile, bloccare l’accesso al pannello tramite VPN.

Gli sviluppatori di TeslaMate hanno confermato il problema e promesso di introdurre l’autenticazione integrata “di default” nelle versioni future. Tuttavia, mentre centinaia di installazioni continuano a funzionare senza protezione, i dati riservati sulle auto rimangono di pubblico dominio. Ciò evidenzia la rilevanza del problema delle fughe di dati nella realtà moderna.

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L’azienda tecnologica Proton, che conta già 100 milioni di utenti in tutto il mondo, si è ritrovata al centro di due grandi notizie. Innanzitutto, il lancio della sua intelligenza artificiale generativa, Lumo, che promette la privacy assoluta per gli utenti. In secondo luogo, l’amministratore delegato Andy Yen ha annunciato in un’intervista a Le Temps la sospensione degli investimenti in Svizzera.

Il motivo era una possibile riforma della normativa svizzera sulla sorveglianza delle comunicazioni. Secondo Yen, le modifiche proposte porterebbero a una sorveglianza di massa e obbligherebbero le aziende private a spiare i propri utenti nell’interesse dello Stato. Di conseguenza, Proton non investe più nel Paese e sta spostando gli investimenti strategici in Europa. L’azienda utilizzerà 100 milioni di franchi per costruire data center in Germania e Norvegia.

Yen ha spiegato che il mercato dell’intelligenza artificiale generativa è attualmente controllato da Stati Uniti e Cina: Google Gemini, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Microsoft Copilot. Questo, ha osservato, è un ripetersi dell’errore della fine degli anni ’90, quando le aziende statunitensi dominavano la ricerca online, dando vita al “capitalismo della sorveglianza“. Proton ha deciso di offrire un’alternativa europea basata sui principi della privacy.

Ian ha sottolineato che, a differenza della ricerca, l’intelligenza artificiale non si limita a mostrare risultati, ma instaura un dialogo, studia la personalità, le opinioni politiche, gli interessi e persino le paure. “Oggi vedo come le persone, compresi i bambini, stanno iniziando a parlare con l’intelligenza artificiale come se fosse una compagna“, ha affermato. Pertanto, la questione della privacy diventa critica.

La principale differenza con Lumo, secondo Ian, è il suo sistema di crittografia. “La cronologia delle tue conversazioni è solo tua, nessuno, nemmeno Proton, vi ha accesso“, ha affermato. Lo stesso Ian ha ammesso di esitare a volte a porre domande sensibili all’IA, non sapendo cosa accadrà ai suoi dati. Lumo elimina questo problema, consentendo di utilizzare l’IA senza timore di perdere la privacy.

Ha definito il progetto Lumo il passo più rischioso degli 11 anni di storia di Proton. Ian ha ammesso che il mercato richiede aggiornamenti costanti e una qualità paragonabile a quella di Google o Microsoft, e che i concorrenti dispongono di risorse incomparabilmente maggiori. Ma ha ricordato che un tempo Proton Mail era considerato impossibile e persino ridicolo.

Ian ha spiegato: “Esistono molti modelli open source avanzati disponibili al pubblico e noi li utilizziamo in combinazione per garantire la massima qualità possibile. In seguito, dovremo sviluppare anche i nostri modelli. È costoso, ma i costi stanno diminuendo rapidamente: ciò che prima costava decine di miliardi presto costerà milioni”. Ha aggiunto che Proton sta costruendo la propria infrastruttura di chip e server, che prevede di ampliare dopo il lancio.

Tuttavia, questa infrastruttura non sarà disponibile in Svizzera. Proton sta investendo 100 milioni di franchi in data center in Germania e Norvegia. Yen ha sottolineato che la decisione è già stata presa ed è irreversibile. Ha aggiunto di aver recentemente scritto al Consigliere federale Beat Jans chiedendo chiarimenti e garanzie che le preoccupazioni del settore saranno prese in considerazione, ma di non aver ricevuto risposta.

Ian ha osservato che l’azienda non può attendere la decisione finale delle autorità: il processo politico è lento e il mercato dell’IA si sta sviluppando rapidamente. Inoltre, la Commissione Europea ha dichiarato l’IA una priorità strategica e investirà 20 miliardi di euro nei prossimi 12 mesi per creare 15 “fabbriche di IA”. “Se non inizio a costruire ora, tra sei mesi non sarò in grado di trovare né personale né attrezzature: tutto sarà assorbito da ingenti investimenti in Europa o negli Stati Uniti”, ha affermato.

Ha inoltre chiarito che l’investimento da 100 milioni di franchi di Proton è solo l’inizio. “Rappresenta solo il 10% del totale. Entro la fine del decennio, il nostro piano di investimenti complessivo supererà il miliardo di franchi”, ha affermato Yen. “Tra dieci anni, ci sarà un concorrente europeo per Google e le aziende tecnologiche cinesi, e noi vogliamo essere quell’azienda. È una necessità politica e sociale difendere i valori europei, come il diritto alla privacy“, ha sottolineato.

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Un ex moderatore del forum del dark web XSS, noto come Rehub, ha lanciato la propria piattaforma chiamata Rehubcom. La mossa coincide con l’arresto dell’amministratore di XSS a Kiev e la chiusura del dominio del forum, nonché con l’uscita di DamageLib, aprendo la strada all’emergere di nuovi concorrenti nel dark web. Rehubcom potrebbe essere uno di questi sostituti, colmando rapidamente il vuoto lasciato dallo stesso XSS.

XSS, originariamente chiamato DaMaGeLaB, era un forum apparso sul dark web ed è stato uno dei forum più antichi e influenti nel mondo della criminalità informatica.

Qui venivano scambiati exploit, malware, accesso a reti aziendali e database di fughe di notizie . Il forum aveva regole rigide e una struttura interna che lo rendeva comodo per i gruppi di criminalità informatica organizzata. In vari periodi, grandi gruppi di ransomware come REvil e LockBit hanno fatto pubblicità su questa piattaforma, fino a quando l’amministrazione non ha introdotto restrizioni alla discussione sui ransomware nel 2021.

Il 22 luglio 2025, le forze dell’ordine ucraine hanno arrestato un amministratore XSS noto come Toha. Era responsabile non solo del forum stesso, ma anche del server Jabber thesecure.biz, che forniva comunicazioni private ai partecipanti. Si stima che milioni di euro siano transitati attraverso le sue attività. Dopo l’arresto, il dominio xss.is è stato sequestrato, ma sono presto comparsi nuovi mirror e un indirizzo onion, sollevando preoccupazioni sul possibile controllo della risorsa da parte delle agenzie di intelligence.

In questo contesto, il lancio di Rehubcom sembra logico: piattaforme di questo tipo compaiono sempre dove quelle vecchie chiudono. La comunità del dark web si adatta molto rapidamente alle perdite infrastrutturali e le nuove risorse attirano immediatamente l’attenzione dei criminali informatici. Il pericolo di questi forum è che diventino canali per la distribuzione di strumenti dannosi, l’organizzazione di attacchi e il ricatto delle vittime, trasformandosi in nodi chiave del moderno ecosistema della criminalità informatica.

La storia di Rehubcom dimostra che l’ambiente della criminalità informatica non conosce soste: persino arresti e chiusure di alto profilo rallentano solo temporaneamente il fenomeno, ma non lo fermano, trasformando la lotta contro tali siti in una continua corsa contro l’ombra.

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Dear Friend of Press Freedom,

It’s the 143rd day that Rümeysa Öztürk is facing deportation by the United States government for writing an op-ed it didn’t like, and the 62nd day that Mario Guevara has been imprisoned for covering a protest. After more than two months in detention, press freedom groups are again demanding Guevara’s immediate release. Read on for more, and click here to subscribe to our other newsletters.

LAPD lies about attack on reporters

Last Friday, officers from the Los Angeles Police Department wantonly violated a court order by assaulting, detaining, and jailing journalists covering a protest.

Then, the LAPD falsely told California station KABC-TV that two people were detained at the protest for “pretending to be media.” The two were, in fact, journalists, but you wouldn’t know it from KABC-TV’s report, which uncritically parroted the LAPD’s claims.

Journalists must be skeptical of LAPD statements about its treatment of the press. The department knows that it violates the First Amendment and California law to detain or interfere with journalists covering protests, but it does it anyway. It won’t stop until the press reports accurately on all of the LAPD’s abuses, and the public makes clear that it won’t stand for them.

Read more here.

Israel kills journalists in Gaza to silence reporting

Two weeks ago, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported on the Israeli Defense Forces’ threats to Anas al-Sharif, meant to scare him into ceasing reporting. He didn’t, and now he’s dead.

Al-Sharif was one of four Al Jazeera staff correspondents and two freelancers killed by the IDF in an Aug. 10 targeted strike. The others were Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, Moamen Aliwa, and Mohammad al-Khaldi.

“Israel is killing journalists for exposing its atrocities in Gaza,” said Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) director of advocacy Seth Stern. “We can’t let our leaders get away with mere performative condemnations while the money and weapons Israel uses to exterminate journalists and other civilians keep flowing.”

Read the full statement here.

Two years since ‘a massive failure’ of the justice system in Kansas

This week marked two years since the shocking police raid on the Marion County Record and the death of Record co-owner Joan Meyer, who passed away the day after the raid.

FPF spoke to investigative journalist Jessica McMaster, whose award-winning coverage of the raid for KSHB-TV in Kansas City, Missouri, had us glued to her social media feed for weeks.

“This was a massive failure by several people within the justice system,” McMaster said, speaking about the raid. “I think it’s hard for a lot of us to grasp that so many people, in positions of power, failed in such spectacular fashion to do their jobs.”

Read the full interview here.

How a climate change researcher makes FOIA work

Rachel Santarsiero, director of the Climate Change Transparency Project at the National Security Archive, knows how to use the Freedom of Information Act to uncover information the government would rather keep secret. This week, FPF’s Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy Lauren Harper spoke to Santarsiero, who shared her expert FOIA tips.

“The key with any agency is sending targeted requests asking for specific types of documents, a date range, and the office or official who would’ve been responsible for the records,” Santarsiero explained.

Santarsiero also recommends that requesters build relationships with FOIA officers, always appeal denials, and check federal website reading rooms and other publicly available source materials. “You’ll be surprised what you can find hiding in plain sight,” she said.

Read the whole interview here.

What we’re reading

Eyewitness to Gaza’s death traps: Whistleblower Anthony Aguilar in conversation with Defending Rights & Dissent (Defending Rights & Dissent). With journalists being killed or shut out in Gaza, whistleblowers are even more important. Watch Anthony Aguilar’s firsthand account of blowing the whistle on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Trump administration outlines plan to throw out an agency’s FOIA requests en masse (404Media). This is “an underhanded attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible, because who in their right mind checks the federal register regularly?” FPF’s Harper said.

Appeals court upholds block on Indiana’s 25-foot police buffer law, citing vagueness (Indiana Capital Chronicle). Hopefully, Tennessee’s and Louisiana’s “buffer” laws will be next, and other states will think twice before passing these unconstitutional laws.

Sorry, scanner listeners: BPD is encrypting its transmissions starting this weekend (Boston.com). Just like in New York City, encrypting police radio transmissions and adding a delay makes it harder for journalists to report and the public to stay informed.

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2025-08-13 21:53:37

Trump Administration Outlines Plan to Throw Out an Agency's FOIA Requests En Masse

The Department of Energy (DOE) said in a public notice scheduled to be published Thursday that it will throw out all Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests sent to the agency before October 1, 2024 unless the requester proactively emails the agency to tell it they are still interested in the documents they requested. This will result in the improper closure of likely thousands of FOIA requests if not more; government transparency experts told 404 Media that the move is “insane,” “ludicrous,” a “Pandora’s Box,” and “an underhanded attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible.”

The DOE notice says “requesters who submitted a FOIA request to DOE HQ at any time prior to October 1, 2024 (FY25), that is still open and is not under active litigation with DOE (or another Federal agency) shall email StillInterestedFOIA@hq.doe.gov to continue processing of the FOIA request […] If DOE HQ does not receive a response from requesters within the 30-day time-period with a DOE control number, no further action will be taken on the open FOIA request(s), and the file may be administratively closed.” A note at the top of the notice says it is scheduled to be formally published in the Federal Register on Thursday.

The agency will send out what are known as “still interested” letters, which federal agencies have used over the years to see if a requester wants to withdraw their request after a certain period of inactivity. These types of letters are controversial and perhaps not legal, and previous administrations have said that they should be used rarely and that requests should only be closed after an agency made multiple attempts to contact a requester over multiple methods of communication. What the DOE is doing now is sending these letters to submitters of all requests prior to October 1, 2024, which is not really that long ago; it also said it will close the requests of people who do not respond in a specific way to a specific email address.

FOIA requests—especially complicated ones—can often take months or years to process. I have outstanding FOIA requests with numerous federal agencies that I filed years ago, and am still interested in getting back, and I have gotten useful documents from federal agencies after years of waiting. The notion that large numbers of people who filed FOIA requests as recently as September 2024, which is less than a year ago, are suddenly uninterested in getting the documents they requested is absurd and should be seen as an attack on public transparency, experts told 404 Media. The DOE’s own reports show that it often does not respond to FOIA requests within a year, and, of course, a backlog exists in part because agencies are not terribly responsive to FOIA.

“If a requester proactively reaches out and says I am withdrawing my request, then no problem, they don’t have to process it,” Adam Marshall, senior staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, told me. “The agency can’t say we’ve decided we’ve gotten a lot of requests and we don’t want to do them so we’re throwing them out.”

“I was pretty shocked when I saw this to be honest,” Marshall added. “I’ve never seen anything like this in 10 years of doing FOIA work, and it’s egregious for a few reasons. I don’t think agencies have the authority to close a FOIA request if they don’t get a response to a ‘still interested’ letter. The statute doesn’t provide for that authority, and the amount of time the agency is giving people to respond—30 days—it sounds like a long time but if you happen to miss that email or aren’t digging through your backlogs, it’s not a lot of time. The notion that FOIA requesters should keep an eye out in the Federal Register for this kind of notice is ludicrous.”

The DOE notice essentially claims that the agency believes it gets too many FOIA requests and doesn’t feel like answering them. “DOE’s incoming FOIA requests have more than tripled in the past four years, with over 4,000 requests received in FY24, and an expected 5,000 or more requests in FY25. DOE has limited resources to process the burgeoning number of FOIA requests,” the notice says. “Therefore, DOE is undertaking this endeavor as an attempt to free up government resources to better serve the American people and focus its efforts on more efficiently connecting the citizenry with the work of its government.”

Lauren Harper of the Freedom of the Press Foundation told me in an email that she also has not seen any sort of precedent for this and that “it is an underhanded attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible, because who in their right mind checks the federal register regularly, and it should be challenged in court. (On that note, I am filing a FOIA request about this proposal.)”

“The use of still interested letters isn't explicitly allowed in the FOIA statute at all, and, as far as I know, there is absolutely zero case law that would support the department sending a mass ‘still interested’ letter via the federal register,” she added. “That they are also sending emails is not a saving grace; these types of letters are supposed to be used sparingly—not as a flagrant attempt to reduce their backlog by any means necessary. I also worry it will open a Pandora's Box—if other agencies see this, some are sure to follow.”

Marshall said that FOIA response times have been getting worse for years across multiple administrations (which has also been my experience). The Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have cut a large number of jobs in many agencies across the government, which may have further degraded response times. But until this, there hadn’t been major proactive attempts taken by the self-defined “most transparent administration in history” to destroy FOIA.

“This is of a different nature than what we have seen so far, this affirmative, large-scale effort to purport to cancel a large number of pending FOIA requests,” Marshall said.

Limitations on Use of “Still-Interested” Inquiries

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Open any consumer electronics catalog from around the 1980s to the early 2000s and you are overwhelmed by a smörgåsbord of devices, covering any audio-visual and similar entertainment and hobby needs one might have. Depending on the era you can find the camcorders, point-and-shoot film and digital cameras right next to portable music players, cellphones, HiFi sets and tower components, televisions and devices like DVD players and VCRs, all of them in a dizzying amount of brands, shapes and colors that are sure to fit anyone’s needs, desires and budget.

When by the late 2000s cellphones began to absorb more and more of the features of these devices alongside much improved cellular Internet access, these newly minted ‘smartphones’ were hailed as a technological revolution that combined so many consumer electronics into a single device. Unlike the relatively niche feature phones, smartphones absolutely took off.

Fast-forward more than a decade and the same catalogs now feature black rectangles identified respectively as smart phones, smart TVs and tablets, alongside evenly colored geometric shapes that identify as smart speakers and other devices. While previously the onus for this change was laid by this author primarily on the death of industrial design, the elephant in the room would seem to be that consumer electronics are suffering from a terminal disease: subscription services.

Ownership And Timeshare

Family watching television in their home, c. 1958 (Credit: Evert F. Baumgardner)
In the burgeoning consumer electronics world of the 1950s, everyone was into streaming audio-visual content. This being the once popular phenomena that historians refer to as ‘radio’ and ‘television’, involving the purchase of a compatible device to receive said content on, which was being broadcast via the airwaves. Naturally, this was before the era of on-demand streaming, so you also had to subscribe to a service that would provide you with the time tables for when said content would be streamed.

Although you could buy vinyl records back then, these were relatively expensive even if you already had a record player. Fortunately, by the 1960s affordable cassette tapes for purchase of prerecorded content – as well as home recording – began to appear with Philips’ compact cassette as clear frontrunner.

By the 1970s home video recorders became affordable and surged in popularity by the 1980s and 1990s, with JVC’s VHS format enabling a massive market of both prerecorded content and of blank tapes to record any content from television broadcasts on for later perusal. At this point linear television and radio broadcasts had been largely superseded by people building up their personal audio-visual libraries in addition to borrowing tapes and later DVDs from video rental stores and public libraries.
The popular DEC VT100 terminal. (Credit: Jason Scott)
Until the 1970s digital computers were primarily a government and university thing, with businesses anxiously trying to get into the game as well to ease everything from payroll processing to inventory management and engineering. Due to the high cost – and large size – of digital computers at the time, it was more economical to use time-sharing. This changed over time from batch processing in the form of university students lugging stacks of punch cards around, to them setting themselves down in front of a terminal like the DEC VT100.

Although these computer terminals looked like computers to the lay person, they are little more than a screen and keyboard tied into I/O buffers that communicate with a remote central computer. With these terminals students could all log into their own student account on the university’s mainframe and thus stop pestering the sysadmins with their stacks of punch cards for an overdue assignment.

For government purposes the same terminal-based approach offered a good balance, while for businesses the target mainframe over at the time-sharing business was more easily accessed by something like dial-up due to the distances involved, with the mainframe’s owner charging for the used resources. This spread the expenses of owning and maintaining these early computers over as many users as possible while keeping costs low for businesses making use of these time-share services.
Casual home entertainment of the early 2000s with money being no objection. (Source: Wikimedia)
This lasted until the era of mass-produced home computers arrived by the late 1970s with microcomputers such as the Commodore PET, before culminating with the 1981 release of IBM’s 5150 Personal Computer (PC), which was decidedly the point when time-sharing of mainframes and the use of terminals had begun to rapidly fade. Within years every student, corporate worker and government employee could economically be given access to a fully capable computer system, whether in the form of a PC, Macintosh, MSX or something else, along with dedicated server systems tucked away in the business’ server room or under a desk somewhere.

Even children could now be given dedicated computers to play video games on, which would have seemed a frivolous waste of computing resources in the 1960s to anyone except university students.

Thus, as the 1980s rolled over into the 1990s it seemed like the future of technology had truly arrived, with every home potentially a true Mecca of computing power and audio-visual entertainment.

Terminal Decline

A contemporary living room. (Source: Wikimedia)
After most of the world celebrated the arrival of the new millennium in 2000, followed by the arrival of the 21st millennium a year later, the remaining euphoria of having made it to the future would quickly run into the quicksand pit of reality. After having had a quarter of the 21st century to sober up, it seems like this is the time to take a look back and question how in blazes’ name we got where we are today.

Over the past years, the living room has metamorphized from something that looks lived in, into the modern-day living room that can alternatively be described as ‘clean’ or ‘sterile’. The theme here is ‘surfaces’, which preferentially are white, black, grey or some other inoffensive color.

As you enter such a living room to be audio-visually entertained, you will pick up the smart remote that turns on the smart TV. Except the TV is always on, as it is smart and probably is always listening and running firmware updates in the background anyway. Ignoring that, your choices of entertainment are:

• A game console that is logged into your Nintendo, Sony or XBox account with likely paid-for digital games and services
• A video streaming service or two, or four, the overwhelming majority of which are subscription-only and/or force you to watch ads like in the good ol’ days of cable TV. Only the ads are much, much worse
• Content streamed off your local NAS, if you’re a total nerd
• A Blu-ray or DVD player if you’re old-fashioned and refuse to join the Digital-Only Content Age

For the overwhelming majority of smart TV users, they are a recurring revenue source for streaming services, with the TV being the device purchased by the viewer in order to access said services. Much the same is true with modern game consoles, where you effectively must be logged into your online account to do much of anything with the console and an increasing amount of games, if only to obtain the latest updates to fix bugs. This triply so if you are one of those people who are into cloud gaming.

As you ignore that your smart TV is basically a cross between a very advanced VT100 terminal and a Telescreen, you glance at the glass-and-plastic slab in your hand as one of your friends just messaged you on a messaging app – which annoyingly again advertises a premium subscription account – about this rad new music album on this one streaming audio service. Fortunately you are already a member, so you add the album for later listening.

That your smart TV, game console, and smart phone are all just terminals for some remote server begins to sink in once your internet access has been cut off. You cannot stream any audio-visual content, and many of your video games outright refuse to run because of a lack of internet connectivity. Ditto for your smart speakers, which have begun to stubbornly ignore your calls for attention.

When you sigh and flip open your laptop to maybe do some work, you find that your software products refuse to even launch, as they absolutely needed to refresh their license key verification this instant. Feeling mildly upset by their accusations of you having pirated their over-priced software after forking over so much cash each month, you slam the laptop shut again. This is when you realize that your project files are stored safely on the now unreachable cloud storage account anyway.

Ultimately you find yourself just staring at the black rectangles and inoffensive geometric shapes that once entertained you or made you more productive, but which now have left you terrifyingly alone with your own thoughts. Maybe you will have to do something drastic soon, like try reading a book, drag out that old CD player, play chess against yourself, or do some sketching on paper. With a real pencil.

Shareholder Value

The move from a boxed copy of stand-alone software and physical products to something with a recurring monthly or annual cost has been a gradual one. Much of it can already be traced back to the overly optimistic days leading up to the dot-com bubble, when the internet was going to make everyone rich and the selling of online goods the new normal.

Although the resulting fallout from this bubble popping was rather extensive, it left the investors who escaped the catastrophe wiser and still positively slavering at the thought of using the Internet for unimaginable levels of that sweetest reward of all: recurring revenue, with people giving you their money every month just to keep what they mistakenly thought that they had purchased.

The challenge is of course that people in general like to own things, and are rather hesitant to buy into anything that makes them have fewer things. How do you make people voluntarily buy into owning less and less, with what they do own having fewer features? The answer would seem to lie in blinding them with shiny new features, while insisting that they really don’t need the features that you are about to remove or nerf.

For example, initially people loved the idea of a smartphone because it meant that they could carry around in their pocket a cellphone, a camcorder, photo camera, portable internet-capable computer, an FM radio, a music player and more, all in a single device. Unfortunately all of these functions have been nerfed in some way or form.

FM Radio

Although regular analog radio on the FM and AM bands has lost a lot of importance these days, having FM radio available can be incredibly useful. Consider being out somewhere with poor cell coverage, not wanting to use up your data allowance for the month, or when everything has gone sideways in the form of a hurricane and the local grid, internet and cell network have collapsed. Especially in the latter case it would be convenient if you could just open the FM radio app on your smartphone to tune into emergency broadcasts.

Unfortunately this feature has been purposefully disabled or left out by device manufacturers, with Apple having opted to not even add an FM radio to its custom SoCs. A quick look at a couple of major smartphone manufacturers over at GSM Arena for smartphones released in 2024 or 2025 featuring an FM radio only shows two, both budget Samsung models.

Typically only budget-level smartphones have an FM radio feature enabled, as one aspect of the FM radio feature is that it requires its own antenna, which generally is a set of headphones plugged into the 3.5 mm audio jack. This logically means that the survival chances of budget smartphone buyers is significantly higher during a natural disaster than for people buying iPhones or higher-end Samsung and Xiaomi phones.

Audio Jack

Generic USB-C to audio jack and USB-C charging adapter.
The analog audio from a 3.5 mm audio jack is a low-latency, high-fidelity way to experience audio, only limited by the used audio DAC and the headphones or in-ears plugged into the jack. This makes it rather baffling that it’s also among the most vilified features. The reason here isn’t that it compromises waterproofing, or impedes thinness or adds cost, but rather it gets dropped on higher-end smartphones because Apple dropped it to promote their Bluetooth headphones and others followed.

Unfortunately, Bluetooth audio is neither low-latency nor high-fidelity, with newer codecs like LDAC, AptX, and AAC slightly improving the audio quality over the default SBC codec, but keeping all the other compromises. Meanwhile a fraction of the USB-C connectors on phones support the alternative analog audio mode, returning an audio jack to the device with a dongle, yet not re-enabling the use of headphones as an FM antenna and also making it impossible to use the USB-C port for any data transfers, while making the entire setup significantly more clunky, just to get a previously eliminated port back on the device instead of just putting it on there in the first place.

SD Cards

An important feature of a digital camera and camcorder is being able to quickly get the data off it and onto a computer for processing and viewing. Unfortunately in so far as smartphones supported SD card expansion, this at the very least required taking off the plastic back to swap cards. These days the SD card either shares space with the SIM card(s), or is eliminated altogether.

The idea here is of course to increase recurring revenue: the easiest way to get data onto a smartphone or off it is via the device manufacturer’s cloud storage solutions, with a minor fee to bump it up to a usable amount of storage. You’re also not supposed to load your own audio files onto the internal storage either, but use the paid-or-ad-supported streaming solution. Why would you want to be un-cool and not listen to losslessly streamed audio files mangled by some Bluetooth codec through the second pair of wireless in-ears of this month as the previous ones fell out somewhere?

Fortunately, the marketing is very convincing, as you can now listen to or watch anything that you want – as long as it’s available on the streaming service – and you can even use your voice to tell any of your smart devices to play a song or open a movie, because this is what the future looks like. Never mind that you do not technically own much any more, but at least you are happy.

Terminal Life

Probably the biggest question here is whether or not this terminalification is harmful. Sure, this change has meant that industrial design got effectively shivved in the proverbial dark alley – since the user interface of devices now lives on the device manufacturer’s servers – but you now have all these cool features. Things like a smart home full of Internet of Things devices, each of which are first and foremost terminals for the manufacturer’s services, with local control an afterthought, if a thought at all.

Even governments and businesses haven’t managed to escape these changes with their own vortex back to the 1960s. Rather than using a dial-up modem to connect to a time-share mainframe, they now use a broadband Internet connection to connect to a time-share mainframe, except we now call it a ‘cloud’.

It’s often been said that the centralization and decentralization of computer technology in particular is cyclical, with the 1980s and 1990s forming the pinnacle of decentralization. If we are currently in a trough of terminal terminalification, then logically decentralization and determinalification should follow next. One could make the point here that the Right to Repair movement is part of this change, as it wrests control away from manufacturers.

Even so, we still have a long way to go if this is the next stop, with our current physical media revival kerfuffle being just one of the many things that we have to come to terms with. Between the glossy marketing and the often conflicting desires and needs of the average consumer, it’s probably anyone’s guess what the second quarter of the 21st century will look like for consumer electronics and beyond.

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DISCLAIMER: questa non è una pubblicità per la FUTO, ho pensato di fare questa guida per le ragioni che spiego e perché mi sto trovando benissimo!

Molti pensano che la tastiera virtuale del telefono faccia parte delle componenti base e che non possa essere cambiata, invece è una semplice app.
Un'app che ha accesso direttamente a tutto quello che scriviamo, prima che venga crittografato dalle varie app di chat (anche le più sicure)...
Perciò, se la tastiera si connette a internet, può inviare ai server tutto quello che digitiamo.

Per questo, se teniamo alla nostra sovranità digitale, la tastiera è la prima app da sostituire.

Ho ottime ragioni per fidarmi di quella installata di default nel mio telefono degooglizzato, ma per chi usa un regolare sistema Android la tastiera di default è quella di Google, Gboard, che è nota per inviare ai server pacchetti dal contenuto per lo meno sospetto.

1) FUTO Keyboard
Poco tempo fa ho scoperto questo bel progetto della FUTO per rimpiazzare tutte le funzioni (anche le più avanzate) di Gboard, escludendo però ogni collegamento a internet durante l'utilizzo e utilizzando basi di dati più trasparenti (il training per il modello di digitazione a scorrimento, per esempio, viene fatto su base volontaria tra utenti che scelgono di contribuire).

Detto ciò, parliamo di una tastiera open source (più propriamente, source available) che ha integrati:
- dettatura vocale multilingue (voice input)
- immissione a scorrimento (swipe)
- dizionari per la lingua e per la ricerca delle emoji
- pannello di selezione delle emoji di sistema
- funzioni per spostarsi facilmente nel testo
- funzioni di copia e incolla avanzate, tra cui la cronologia degli appunti

È ancora in uno stadio iniziale di sviluppo, perciò ci alcune cose sono ancora in corso di implementazione e, per esempio, i dizionari e i modelli vanno installati a mano, e i menu di impostazione sono solo in inglese per il momento.
Ma ciononostante è sicuramente la più completa e promettente!

Seguite i passaggi nelle immagini per installarla e configurare le risorse italiane.
(Qui le istruzioni in un'immagine unica ad alta risoluzione)

Link PlayStore (o app alternativa)

Sito (futo.org)

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In alternativa, è possibile installare separatamente un'app di dettatura vocale e provare una delle seguenti tastiere open source.
Per la dettatura vocale c'è l'app specifica di FUTO oppure Whisper:
- FUTO Voice Input
- Whisper per Android
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2) AnySoftKeyboard
Il progetto open source più completo ed evoluto.
I pacchetti delle lingue e di alcuni layout aggiuntivi si installano come app separate, perciò in modo molto semplice.
Si appoggia all'app di dettatura vocale esistente. Il supporto allo swipe e le tantissime feature la rendono la migliore alternativa con licenza libera (apache).

App principale: Play Store / FDroid
Pacchetto italiano: Play Store / FDroid

Sito del progetto

3) Heliboard
Heliboard è un progetto open source già molto ricco di feature e con la possibilità di essere completato da una libreria opzionale per l'immissione a scorrimento (che però è quella proprietaria di Google, estratta da Gboard).

Purtroppo Heliboard non è presente nel Play Store, perciò dovrete installarla tramite F-Droid

4) Altre tastiere open source sono anche Florisboard e Fossify Keyboard.
Le funzionalità sono simili a quelle di Heliboard, eccetto che non supportano lo swipe.
Nessuna delle due supporta la dettatura vocale.
Per chi cerca il massimo della trasparenza, però, sono le più raccomandate (insieme a Heliboard).

Fossify Keyboard è reperibile sul Play Store o su FDroid.
Florisboard si può trovare su F-Droid

5) La tastiera minimalista: Simple Keyboard
Se tutto quello che vi serve è una tastiera, non sopportate l'autocorrettore e i suggerimenti e non vi interessa inserire le emoji, allora questa è la vostra tastiera ideale. Potrebbe rendere anche più veloce un vecchio telefono perché occupa pochissima memoria e non ha bisogno di processori moderni.

Link PlayStore (o app alternativa)

*) Purtroppo, ad oggi non sono a conoscenza di progetti simili per gli utenti Apple iOS...

#Google #degoogle #gboard #keyboard #virtualkeyboard #futokeyboard #FUTO #FUTO Tech #heliboard #florisbaord #fossify #fossifykeyboard #openboard

Proseguo con la ripubblicazione dei miei post "Alternative", postati inizialmente su Facebook per raggiungere anche chi non ha mai sentito parlare di possibilità alternative...

Quello su Pockets è stato un post scritto in fretta in concomitanza con la chiusura del servizio da parte di Mozilla. Ne ho approfittato per parlare di mastodon.uno e della sua offerta riservata agli utenti. Mi pare corretto riportare comunque il post originale.

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Approfitto della notizia a proposito di Mozilla che chiuderà domani il servizio "Pockets" di Firefox (utile per salvare articoli e pagine web per leggerle con calma) per segnalare che il gruppo Devol, che gestisce le istanze italiane Mastodon.uno, Pixelfed.uno, Peertube.uno e tanti altri servizi, ha messo a disposizione degli utenti del Fediverso italiano le app libere #wallabag e #readeck, che sono degli ottimi sostituti e in più sono libere e ospitate su server in Europa alimentati con energie rinnovabili (come tutti i servizi Devol)!
Per poterne usufruire, dovrete essere utenti attivi di una delle piattaforme gestite dal gruppo, perciò... quale miglior occasione di affacciarsi al Fediverso?
Date un'occhiata su www.mastodon.uno e entrate a far parte della più grande community italiana dell'universo social libero e federato, la rete sociale in cui ciascuno è realmente padrone di quello che vede (nel feed) e di quello che condivide.
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