#Tech Companies Are Trying to Neuter #Colorado’s Landmark #RightToRepair Law
Since 2022, Colorado has passed bills giving users the tools, instructions, and legal capabilities to fix or upgrade their own wheelchairs, agricultural farming equipment, and consumer electronics. Similar efforts have rippled out through the country, where repair bills have been introduced in every #US state and passed in eight of them.
https://www.wired.com/story/tech-companies-are-trying-to-neuter-colorados-landmark-right-to-repair-law/
https://archive.ph/3vAan

What appears as critique – yearning for smaller, weirder, more human spaces – often functions as brand repair. Netstalgia becomes a strategy: it restores trust without redistributing power, softens anger without changing infrastructures and reframes structural problems as matters of vibe, design or community feeling.

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The Document Foundation expelled 30+ LibreOffice developers, many from Collabora Productivity, citing unclear legal conflicts despite major code contributions. ⚖️
Collabora plans a fork, raising risks to stability and governance transparency, as FOSS sustainability and user control depend on open stewardship. 🔐

🔗 https://byteiota.com/libreoffice-ejects-30-core-developers-fork-imminent/

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“Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once
Link: https://www. govauctions.app/
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“I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok
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“Age Verification as Mass Surveillance Infrastructure
Link: https:// tboteproject.com/surveillancef indings/
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“LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua
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This is cool, just discovered that an AM radio can be used as a Flipper Zero speaker, as long as the speaker is playing something even at a low volume. (Surprisingly, lower it is, the more clear the sound becomes.)

Here I’ve used some test videos to showcase this finding. The classic Bad Apple, the Doohickey Corporation video and an edited version of the Albuquerque animation.

Using the FZ as a proper music player is possible!

#Tech #Technology #Radio #AM #AMRadio #Flipper #FlipperZero #Cool

I really want to know what the c-suite folks in the software and tech industries are planning to do when their engineers have relied on LLMs for so long they can no longer support their systems without out them, and the LLM providers jack up their costs 20x or more to get their ROI on all the datacenters

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RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352800579635299

There are valid reasons why AI companies and tech bros are not welcome here, as well as people who are defending them or trying to rationalize the use of bourgeois technology that is unethical, causing the rapid issues of AI vandals running rampant, AI bots that scraps data to be trained without permission, use of AI by companies to do mass layoff and therefore the higher count of unemployment, AI "artist" that clutter streaming platforms, and more problems.

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RE: https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/116357294049745826

The accusation is much scarier as it taps into corporate espionage and mass surveillance.

Microsoft is accused of illegally searching browser extension whenever a user sign in into LinkedIn. It scans for any signs of use of religious belief, political orientation, as well as disabilities of individuals. There is also the accusation of the data being handed over to Israeli spyware firm.

"This is illegal and potentially a criminal offense in every jurisdiction we have examined."

https://browsergate.eu/

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“What if the browser built the UI for you?
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