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Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure
Link: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/11/swiss_evote_usb_snafu/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47334982
Transfer Point is a point-and-click adventure game for Macintosh. It was made in World Builder and MacPaint, and it fits on an 800K floppy disk. It also has an egret. Coming soon for most web browsers, or as a download to play on your classic Mac. https://robotspacer.software/transfer-point.html #MARCHintosh
@leanderlindahl Vaultwarden is a clone of Bitwarden. You could ask your preferred cooperative cloud provider to host it for you. 
@coopcloud has both the maintained scripts as well as the betwork of coopcloud providers to dot it for you. Does tgat work for you?
Admitting I, personally, am still at KeePassXCD, that works just for me individually, no team work in that.
@WtebbensWouter Tebbens ⁂ I really like KeePassXC. It's German and I just found out I can add site icons to the different entries in the database.
And if you use a (safe!) cloud service as a central location for your database file, it syncs the site icons across the devices that have access to it. My database file is in my Proton Drive, for instance. Although Proton has a good password manager as well, I prefer KeePassXC.
Today I’m proud to announce the release of Homebrew 5.1.0. The most significant changes since 5.0.0 are expanded brew bundle support, brew version-install, new -full formula handling and installer updates.
Alternative app store AltStore PAL joins the fediverse https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/alternative-app-store-altstore-pal-joins-the-fediverse/
Alternative app store AltStore PAL joins the fediverse | TechCrunch
AltStore PAL now supports the fediverse, using its own Mastodon server to let iOS developers share app updates and alerts across platforms like Mastodon and Threads.
techcrunch.com · TechCrunch
Link author: 
Sarah Perez 💙@Sarahp@mastodon.social
You all just don't understand how relatable this pain really is
Can we just put it bluntly?
If you're vibe-coding open source, you are *not* doing open source.
To do open source, you must be creating source code that both has clear provenance *and* the new code you're writing is IP you have full rights to offer under compatible license. As is quickly becoming clear, that second one is getting tested and failing legal checks in places like the US.
クレカに自動支払いオプションがあるのに気づいちゃった。これを有効にしたら銀行口座の残高が無くなるまで生きてられるなw (ちかぢか死ぬとかではありません)
https://zunda-tombstone.netlify.app/
AltStore PAL now supports the fediverse, using its own Mastodon server to let iOS developers share app updates and alerts across platforms like Mastodon and Threads. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/alternative-app-store-altstore-pal-joins-the-fediverse/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
HE'S HERE 🥰🐘 #Plushtodon
RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/116210928508477743
A major victory -- although the fight still isn't over. From the article:
"In a sensational turn of events in the fight against Chat Control, a majority in the European Parliament voted today to end the untargeted mass scanning of private communications. In doing so, the Parliament firmly rejected the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years. Pressure is now mounting on EU governments to respect the MEPs’ vote and bury untargeted mass surveillance in Europe once and for all....
Based on today’s mandate, trilogue negotiations between the EU Parliament, the European Commission, and the Council of the EU are set to begin as early as tomorrow. Negotiations are taking place under extreme time pressure, as the current interim regulation authorizing Chat Control expires on April 6. The EU Commission and the vast majority of the EU Council—except for Italy—have so far categorically rejected any restrictions on untargeted mass scanning."
It's also worth highlighting that this is also a victory for the EU against US tech imperialism:
"The push for Chat Control is heavily driven by foreign-funded lobby groups and tech vendors. The US-based organization Thorn, which literally sells the exact scanning software in question, spends hundreds of thousands of euros lobbying in Brussels. The tech industry has officially lobbied side-by-side with NGOs for a law that ensures their profits and data access, rather than protecting children."
おはよう
working on a better method to build FreeBSD base packages. now every package has its own subdirectory, e.g. src/packages/cron, with a normal Makefile using the new bsd.pkg.mk:
WORLDPACKAGE= cron
SUBPACKAGES= dbg
UCLSRC= common.ucl
.include <bsd.pkg.mk>
common.ucl (or whatever you call it) replaces the old UCL files in release/packages/ucl/, and if needed, you can do something like "URLSRC.dbg=dbg.ucl" to use a subpackage-specific UCL.
src/packages/Makefile builds all of these using bsd.subdir.mk, so everything is automatically parallelised and works much more like how we build the rest of the system. (if you want to see something fun, have a look at how Makefile.inc1 does this right now using ${_PKGS}...)
all the *.pkg files are created in <objdir>/packages/<package>/ (like you'd expect) and staged to the repo using a 'stagepackage' target. this means we can eventually support something like this:
% make -C packages/cron clean all installpackage
... to install/upgrade a package from source without having to build the repo first.
another advantage of this (and the reason i started on it now) is that it lets the package Makefile do any build-specific customisation required for the UCL, such as changing dependencies based on src.conf options, which will be required for an LLVM change Ed is working on. in future, this should also let us do other things like staging and building sets in a much cleaner way.
i've been meaning to do this for a long time, so hopefully i can actually get it landed...
起きよう。今日は、セミナーを無事に終わらせるんだ……
RE: https://autonomous.zone/@serhilfada/116067698821800017
Good Times. In 2009 we were broadcasting on Pirate TV ;) From our event series "A Hack a Night" with such beautiful guests as 
@serhilfada2serhat5bz
Frühjahrsputz: Wir räumen inaktive Accounts auf
Über die Hälfte der Accounts auf troet.cafe und muenchen.social sind seit über zwei Jahren nicht genutzt worden — zusammen über 35.000.
Bevor wir löschen, schreiben wir alle persönlich an — 60 Tage Vorwarnzeit. Wer bleiben will, muss sich nur einmal einloggen.
Ehrliche Zahlen statt aufgeblähte Statistiken. Wir hören euch zu, bevor wir handeln. Eure Meinung?
One family, the right-wing Trump-aligned Ellisons, will soon control:
TikTok
CBS
CNN
HBO
Discovery Channel
BET
Cartoon Network
Comedy Central
DC Studios
Fandango
Miramax
MTV
Nickelodeon
Paramount
PlutoTV
Showtime
TBS
The CW
TNT
Warner Bros.
And more
This is oligarchy.
We need to push much harder against
Age Verification laws and law proposals.
Contact your local representatives NOW to tell them you firmly oppose these privacy-destroying laws that will harm democracy and civil liberties in unprecedented ways.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
便意で起床
2度寝
お仕事プロファイルLyftにつくるいいよってメールが来てまあもう使わないだろうなあと思いつつも必要になってからじゃ遅いので会社クレカも登録したら私用で間違えて使っちゃいそうなUIだし期限切れのキャンペーン情報来たしちょっと後悔してるw
I'm writing this in English.
Not because English is my first language—it isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated translator, misread it, and respond to something I never said. The responsibility for that mistranslation would fall on me. It always does.
This is the thing Eugen Rochko's post misses, despite its good intentions.
@GargronEugen Rochko argues that LLMs are no substitute for human translators, and that people who think otherwise don't actually rely on translation. He's right about some of this. A machine-translated novel is not the same as one rendered by a skilled human translator. But the argument rests on a premise that only makes sense from a certain position: that translation is primarily about quality, about the aesthetic experience of reading literature in another language.
For many of us, translation is first about access.
The professional translation market doesn't scale to cover everything. It never has. What gets translated—and into which languages—follows the logic of cultural hegemony. Works from dominant Western languages flow outward, translated into everything. Works from East Asian languages trickle in, selectively, slowly, on someone else's schedule. The asymmetry isn't incidental; it's structural.
@GargronEugen Rochko notes, fairly, that machine translation existed decades before LLMs. But this is only half the story, and which half matters depends entirely on which languages you're talking about. European language pairs were reasonably serviceable with older tools. Korean–English, Japanese–English, Chinese–English? Genuinely usable translation for these pairs arrived with the LLM era. Treating “machine translation” as a monolithic technology with a uniform history erases the experience of everyone whose language sits far from the Indo-European center.
There's also something uncomfortable in the framing of the button-press thought experiment: “I would erase LLMs even if it took machine translation with it.” For someone whose language has always been peripheral, that button looks very different. It's not an abstract philosophical position; it's a statement about whose access to information is expendable.
I want to be clear: none of this is an argument that LLMs are good, or that the harms @GargronEugen Rochko describes aren't real. They are. But a critique of AI doesn't become more universal by ignoring whose languages have always been on the margins. If anything, a serious critique of AI's political economy should be more attentive to those asymmetries, not less.
The fact that I'm writing this in English, carefully, so it won't be misread—that's not incidental to my argument. That is my argument.
When the hacker expressed disgust at the child abuse images on the server and threatened to report them to the FBI, agents had to get into a video chat with the hacker to convince him they WERE the FBI.
We continue to live in the stupidest possible timeline.
Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079
5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy
Link: https://newatlas.com/environment/5-200-holes-peruvian-mountain/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319520
The military’s own investigation has preliminarily concluded that the U.S. is responsible for this attack and the deaths of scores of children. Trump claims he doesn’t know about it.
Note for anyone following: I'm not sure if I will or won't keep this account if chaosfem.tw comes back, may just be a temporary thing
강아지들이 미용을 했어요(짱구 타이틀 읽는 톤)
I'm so grateful and proud that the EU MEPs voted yes to amendment 5 and thereby narrowed the #chatcontrol extension down to something surprisingly reasonable.
Now, we just need to ensure that the scope for the permanent law is similar, and doesn't include #privacy invasive #ageverification or #idverification mandates.
Privacy watchdog ‘monitoring’ U.S. auto insurance phone tracking lawsuit
The office of Canada's privacy commissioner says it is 'monitoring' a proposed U.S. class-action lawsuit in which some auto insurers are facing allegations of misusing driver data.
#Canada #Consumer #Tech #USNews
https://globalnews.ca/news/11719462/auto-insurance-lawsuit-data-collection/
same
Okay, this is actually embarrassing. This video goes over the most common passwords of 2025. People are still out there using 123456 and Password, REALLY?!
Don't ever give elevated permissions to an Avian Intelligence...
uspol, trans genocide
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention releases its third red flag alert warning about genocide of trans people in the US https://www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-alerts/red-flag-alert---anti-trans-genocide-in-the-usa---%233
uspol, trans genocide
> The Administration has moved from identifying transgender people as a threat to the family and to the nation’s military prowess to claiming that transgender people constitute a cosmic threat to the spiritual health of the nation and the greatest direct threat to U.S. national security in the world. Given these ideological developments, especially coupled with the increasingly hostile and draconian legislation against trans identities, the Lemkin Institute believes that the United States is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence in the U.S. and globally.
😵 🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.
This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
uspol, trans genocide
The Daily Wire has a piece out scaremongering about DIY HRT for adults. I'm not going to link to it, you can find it if you choose. They're trying to push for the FDA to go after people doing DIY HRT.
But much worse is this:
4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To "Appreciate Their Sex" Via Care Bans https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/4th-circuit-rules-that-states-can
The really scary bit:
> The court also took a significant step toward ruling that laws targeting transgender adult care would be constitutional. In a footnote, the court states, "While Skrmetti involved sex-change treatments for minors, disagreement among experts about the efficacy and necessity of transgender surgeries extends to treatment of gender dysphoria in adults."
uspol, trans genocide
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention releases its third red flag alert warning about genocide of trans people in the US https://www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-alerts/red-flag-alert---anti-trans-genocide-in-the-usa---%233
😵 🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.
This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
@dansup The latest version of Pixelfed (v0.12.7) broke login on both Pixelix and the official Pixelfed app.
Rabbit who needs many head pats
New single from #TheDearHunter's upcoming album Sunya came out today.
Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads
Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/hisense-tvs-force-owners-to-watch-intrusive-ads-when-switching-inputs-visiting-the-home-screen-or-even-changing-channels-practice-infuriates-consumers-brand-denies-wrongdoing
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47339888
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@pycon/116212187234545524
It is the ten year anniversary of my PyConUS 2016 keynote. I had hoped to attend this year to visit old friends and make new ones.
With no corporate sponsor, the cost in money, time, and effort is too much. My cancer treatment will not end until July. While my daily chemo drugs are self administered, they are considered hazardous. The rules tell me that they must be under lock and key while traveling.
No matter how I fiddle numbers, the logistics just don't work out.
Maybe 2027 will be my year.
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