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#catsofpixelfed #catsofbluesky #catsofmastodon #catsoffriendica #catsoftribel #catsofpeertube #kittensofpixelfed #kittensofbluesky #kittensofmastodon #kittensoffriendica #kittensoftribel #kittensofpeertube #catvideos #cats #kittens #furbabies #caturday
Cartoon with 4 panels.
Panel #1 says "Soft cat bed" and shows a soft, fluffy bed.
Panel # 2 says "Comfy couch cushion," and shows an armchair with a pillow on it.
Panel #3 says, "Warm cat condo," and shows a small cat condo with a scratch post attached.
Panel #4 says, "Sock'" and shows a kitty sleeping on a sock, appearing to be very comfortable.
51/365 - Logo
Sorry, I got caught up with other matters today and couldn't get out to take a photo.
#365 #365Project #Fediphoto365 #Photo365 #365in2025 #365in25 #Blender #Pixelfed #Logo
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@tartley Yeah, it's holy war stuff. I personally prefer compile time strong typing.
(Within limits that is. Not as strong as Algol68C, which was so pedantic that it was almost impossible to write code that compiled. But that did have the advantage that if you ever managed to wrestle your code through the compiler it probably didn't have any bugs left in it.)
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if you bevel the edges of the model ever ever so slightly it makes it look much better on stuff like this with very sharp edges.
that lighting looks awsum btw
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@micr0 thanks for the tip.
I actually chose not to add a bevel, but in most other situations I would.
Review: The Word for World is Forest
The Word for World is Forest is a science-fiction novel by Ursula Le Guin, although the science-fiction elements are very much just window-dressing. This story is very much an analogue for the US’ involvement in the Vietnam War. Unfortunately, the story has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Right from the first chapter, Le Guin makes her opposition to the war evident.
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At the ripe age of 42 I finally buckled and got myself a car. It was secondhand, fuel-efficient and I had to swear off ever flying again and start eating more vegan to, at least somewhat quieten my coal-black carbon conscience.
But boy, my world opened up when I did not have to rely on public transportation to go on adventures.
The first stop was the UNESCO World Heritage Site Tøndermarsk in Denmark.
Dykes, sluices, and pumping stations compete against the tides. The resulting marshes and wetlands attract millions of migratory and indigenous birds and provide breeding and feeding grounds for a variety of birds.
#Birding #Birds #Birdwatching #Ornithology #WildlifePhotography #iNaturalist #Wildlife #Nature #Conservation
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The Daily Telegraph planned a story featuring an ‘undercover Jewish man’ using covert recording eyewear. It didn’t go as planned.Daanyal Saeed (Crikey)
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Fighting the Canivera
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How many of the creatives out there only work when they feel this inspired? Because if I did that I'd never get anything done 😂
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@writers @writingcommunity @writing @humour
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#WritingMemes #Memes
#Author #Authors #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #AmWriting #Writerdons #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon
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Ello folks! I've recently joined the Friendica universe, and I'm still figuring out how it all works.
I've followed my other Fedi accounts with this one, so that I can boost things on here
But... Not all the posts/toots are visible. When I check the updates of my friends, where my own profiles are in, it shows some of my other posts. When I load the profile time-line of the account, it shows some of the posts.
Any reason why it doesn't show all the latest ones? Is it a setting that I need to change?
Thanks in advance for your help! 🌹
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I'm not weird, it's everyone else that's weird!
Also, this is mostly how the Internet was supposed to be, not that insane dystopian stuff most people use.
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@bunnyechoes @v0idness Being an Mastodon.social as the "default" server means you get a lot of the posts, and also a lot of inability to moderate it.
Same people may prefer a more quiet suburbia than the hustle and bustle of central city life.
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@v0idness
And this opinion has anything to do with the help this person gave?
You have to pass some kind of virtue test to be accepted?
Sometimes a post pops up that leads to an almost immediate Follow....
And often there are comments made to that post that lead to almost immediate Blocks...
Personal experience says that trying to sell "Fediverse" that's "Open Source" and whatever doesn't do as much to an average Instagram user that it might do to a lot of us. For most who show some interest, I just give them a Mastodon server URL that has something to do with their interest and tell them to give it a go. If they like the place, they can later migrate to other servers or whatever.
"Join the Fediverse" and no further explanation will just make them go Threads or Blusky.
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Get them on board. Get them using. Get them following people ans hashtags,Then get them to better instances.
Still better than giving them 4000 choices and them never deciding. Or ending up on a 4 person instance where nothing happens, so they never find people to follow, so give up.
“It’s like you can follow anyone from any social network and there’s no ads”
But it's not possible to follow persons from other platforms or social networks 🙁
You remember #Apple scanning all images on your #mobile device?
If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn't appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same - scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so "to protect your #privacy".
You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.
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How do you know that it scans images?
Are there any traces collected, sources available or these are speculations? 
Posted by Jan Jedrzejowicz, Director of Product, Android and Business Communications; Alberto Pastor Nieto, Sr. Product Manager Google Messa...security.googleblog.com
Android System Intelligence is a system app present on many Android phones. But what does it do, and can you remove it? Read on to know more!Aamir Siddiqui (Android Authority)
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@sbb thanks - I've now re-enabled it, but disallowed some of the permissions.
Apso, by reading this I discovered "private compute services", which I've now disabled.
Its time to renew my project to de-google my phone. Its hard since I'm still in the US and most good phone are in the EU.
any recommendation on a good phone to start with?
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@mral It seems that #Murena and thus #Fairphone is available in the USA:
murena.com/america/products/sm…
I can't say that much about Murena and their (degoogled) OS, but I've been a happy Fairphone user for almost a decade now (both #degoogled and stock).
#CalyxOS is a good OS choice, check out their supported devices:
calyxos.org/docs/guide/device-…
#GrapheneOS looks pretty good, too - but it only runs on google's pixel (which admittedly is one of the most open phones around).
GrapheneOS is a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.GrapheneOS
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I'm not a big Google fan but this doesn't look the same. It is a feature released in October to (e.g.) mask unsolicited dick pics in RCS chat., disabled by default. Obligatory your threat model != my threat model.
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"...doesn’t allow Google access to the contents of your images, nor does Google know that nudity may have been detected"
Posted by Jan Jedrzejowicz, Director of Product, Android and Business Communications; Alberto Pastor Nieto, Sr. Product Manager Google Messa...Google Online Security Blog
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@ilumium Apple’s proposal was two parts:
1. Scan images for CSAM as they are encrypted for upload to iCloud. If CSAM is detected, also send Apple a fragment of the encryption key.
At the time, photos at rest in iCloud (and others) were clear, and the NSA and various companies’ support departments had been caught saving and distributing nudes non-consensually. This plan intrinsically involved end-to-end encryption, so it was addressing a real privacy risk. If you didn’t send images to iCloud, the CSAM scanning would never run. This was scrapped because tech media spread ridiculous misinformation about it, creating a PR disaster.
2. Scan images in incoming messages in the Messages application on minors’ phones for nudity. If detected, obscure the image. If the minor taps to unobscure the image, notify the associated parent account.
The parent notification was dropped, and the rest of the feature was implemented in iOS 17, in late 2023. Any account can enable it, and the service is available to other messaging applications (so WhatsApp or a Mastodon client could be written to use it if the user has enabled it). This is exactly what Google has implemented.
Choose to receive warnings about photos or videos that might contain nudity before viewing them, as well as resources to help you make a safe choice.Apple Support
Provides safety features for Android devices.play.google.com
You remember Apple succumbing to public pressure and quietly never implementing it in the first place?
Edit: I’m gonna make a big addendum to this comment. While Apple *did* scrap plans for CSAM detection due to public pressure, they did implement an on-device mechanism for blurring “sensitive content.” A feature much like the one on Android in the original post here, although I’ve yet to find much transparency on the Android apps’ workings. This on-device functionality works like face detection, so if you’re okay with that there’s little reason to be alarmed.
Or the explanation is simply that Google has removed word don't from their old slogan "Don't be evil"
No smiley needed.
This is misinformation. If you read what Google actually wrote, it only notifies the user of nudity. Google specifically say that it doesn't notify them.
Of course Google might be lying, but there is no evidence here of any new risk.
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Welcome to my FUD list.
To cite Google (via the page you linked):
Sensitive Content Warnings is an optional feature that blurs images that may contain nudity before viewing, and then prompts with a “speed bump” that contains help-finding resources and options, including to view the content. When the feature is enabled, and an image that may contain nudity is about to be sent or forwarded, it also provides a speed bump to remind users of the risks of sending nude imagery and preventing accidental shares.
All of this happens on-device to protect your privacy and keep end-to-end encrypted message content private to only sender and recipient. Sensitive Content Warnings doesn’t allow Google access to the contents of your images, nor does Google know that nudity may have been detected. This feature is opt-in for adults, managed via Android Settings, and is opt-out for users under 18 years of age. Sensitive Content Warnings will be rolling out to Android 9+ devices including Android Go devices with Google Messages in the coming months.
A trusted assistant for your Android, to keep it clean and tidy.play.google.com
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You are a gentleman & a scholar for disseminating the dark arts of New Nerd Order as set forth in its foundation text 'Malware Malefecarum'.
THANK YOU!
Happily, Google's CovertApps boobytrap is no match for my obsolete Android, which doesn't support any of this Cambridge Five nonsense.
Knackered tech gazumps corporate cannibal, HUZZAH!
Someone linked and screenshotted this post, so now there are two disjoint sets of replies.
Just leaving the link here in case anybody wants to get at the other set of replies:
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Major privacy alert for Android users.
See grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/….
The functionality provided by Google's new Android System SafetyCore app available through the Play Store is covered here:security.googleblog.com/2024/1…
Neither this app or the Google Messages app using it are part of GrapheneOS and neither will be, but GrapheneOS users can choose to install and use both. Google Messages still works without the new app.
5 new protections on Google Messages to help keep you safe
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- there are tons of features within Parental Controls that are definitely there to protect the children.
@agatha @ics also here grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…
The functionality provided by Google's new Android System SafetyCore app available through the Play Store is covered here:security.googleblog.com/2024/1…
Neither this app or the Google Messages app using it are part of GrapheneOS and neither will be, but GrapheneOS users can choose to install and use both. Google Messages still works without the new app.
5 new protections on Google Messages to help keep you safe
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grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…
The functionality provided by Google's new Android System SafetyCore app available through the Play Store is covered here:security.googleblog.com/2024/1…
Neither this app or the Google Messages app using it are part of GrapheneOS and neither will be, but GrapheneOS users can choose to install and use both. Google Messages still works without the new app.
5 new protections on Google Messages to help keep you safe
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@CatHerder @DelilahTech @blitzen
for anyone, not just people i am replying to:
what i did was go to the Google Play store and search for Android SafetyCore
when it found the app in the store, i was given the "uninstall' option
that was how i located and removed it - search did not help -
i'm sure there are other ways! but this was easiest for me and maybe others too
what this does is: local powered KI detector for spam and nudity.
grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…
The app doesn't provide client-side scanning used to report things to Google or anyone else. It provides on-device machine learning models usable by applications to classify content as being spam, scams, malware, etc. This allows apps to check content locally without sharing it with a service and mark it with warnings for users.
That is actually a rather poor description of what it does. Basically, the app is one that prevents dick pics.
It scans incoming images, and if it thinks they're nudes, then it shows a content warning message along with the blurred image. Additionally, it scans outgoing images and if it thinks they're nudes, it gives you the option to not send them.
However, all this scanning is done entirely on your own device, it doesn't send anything anywhere.
youre welcome!
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this happened to my friend - no sign of it in the search or in the app store, as of about 3pm CST today. (i did my search and removal several hours ago..)
i have no clue what's up with this.
anyway, i hope people are able to find it and remove it
I'm finding folks saying this is happening, but not with any breakdown or evidence of the process.
Is there a geekier write-up, given that the Google writeup is decidedly slanted?
@aemstuz No, client-side scanning is not OK.
tuta.com/blog/eu-client-side-s…
Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU - it would create an unprecedented surveillance monster that violates fundamental rights.Tuta
while the incorrect explanation of what the app does plus the framing of the post raises my skepticism by quite a bit, I'm surprised that you didn't provide a Google Play link to the app which will give most people an easily accessible uninstall button.
Anyways, here's the app on the Google Play store if somebody wants to see if the app is installed on their device and if they want to uninstall it:
play.google.com/store/apps/det…
Provides safety features for Android devices.play.google.com
LOL at the sheeple still using stock Android, I use LineageOS and--WTF??
Kidding, of course, but yeah, can confirm that the app installs itself on LineageOS too, at least when you have the Google apps/play store installed. A decision I'm coming to regret.
Uninstalled. it.Looking forward to having to keep checking every week in perpetuity to see if it's reinstalled itself.
where did you get this information? The only info I could find was this here: androidauthority.com/google-me…
Where the explanation isn't about privacy really..
Google is rolling out Android System SafetyCore, and it'll power the upcoming Sensitive Content Warnings feature in Messages.Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)
@ParadeGrotesque @CatHerder @blitzen „Android“ is enough, the list of apps starting with „Android“ isn't that long.
It's there and it's freaking me out: Google, pushing something I didn't ask for, and not even telling me is no way to go. Next phone will be a Huawei one without Android!
the stated purpose (following the links) seems reasonable enough, but:
1. unacceptable to install silently
2. Google is not trustworthy enough for me to believe that usage would not change in future.
The page you refer to does not detail what the APK does.
All Google is saying is "Android System SafetyCore (com.google.android.safetycore) is an Android system component that provides privacy-preserving on-device user protection infrastructure for app"
What are your sources to what this APK actually does?
Ugh. Their "reason" for invading your privacy:
*and it says it was supposed to be opt-in, but there it was on my phone so...
Since the Mastodon post never federated I'm repostng here:
I'm in the process of transferring many of my videos from YouTube to my newest Peertube channel. One of the videos I found was from 2008, about a protest against the Internet Filter the Rudd govt were hoping to implement. It features former Greens senator Scott Ludlam.
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My phone's not very good for nature shots. Its zoom is very limited, but I managed to get a shot of this guy as he tried to cross the nearby path. Unfortunately, he was spooked by the horde of joggers and turned back.
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And me: You guys show your writing to your friends? 
Showing my stories to people stresses me 😶🌫️
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