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Housemaids were hurrying homewards with their purchases for various Gallic breakfasts, and the long sticks of bread, a yard or two in length, carried under their arms, made an odd impression upon me.

– Louis Charles Elson (1898)

  • New EU law requires devices to be repairable - Every phone, television or washing machine you buy in Europe must be easier to repair starting tomorrow. That’s when the European Right to Repair Act tak

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  • It is also influenced by us, those who vote in the election of the European Union. The European Greens and Socialist & Democrats have lost quite a bit of influence since the last period.

  • Reddit stock tumbles the most on record as lack of new AI deals, US daily users metric disappoints

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  • Redlib is also an option with a few working instances. No need for an app for that.

  • AntennaPod – The Open Podcast Player

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  • Whish they made an iPhone app, but will get it as soon as I have a phone running GrapheneOS.

  • Apple tried to blame the EU for its Siri AI mess, and the EU called them out publicly

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  • And they all go quite when Apple politely obliges to whatever China demands from them. That site is the definition of toxic-fanboyism. So many commenters their blindly believe every declaration Apple makes.

  • ‘Irresponsible failure’: Google, Meta, Snap and Microsoft slam EU over child sexual abuse law lapse

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  • I found this article interesting because big tech seems to care so much about scanning, that they are pushing on this.

    Unfortunately the article doesn't really delve into the privacy precedents and implications it would set, and mostly voices the arguments of big tech.

  • Privacy @programming.dev
    baguette @piefed.social

    ‘Irresponsible failure’: Google, Meta, Snap and Microsoft slam EU over child sexual abuse law lapse

    www.theguardian.com /technology/2026/apr/09/google-meta-snap-microsoft-eu-child-sexual-abuse

  • Many EXT4 Fixes Lined Up For Linux 7.0-rc6

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  • Let's hope it's an accident. I have an app that allows for voting by swiping on a comment/post. It used to be quite sensitive and I found out I had down/up voted unintentionally when swiping back a couple of times.

  • Do you think there should be an actual seahorse emoji?

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  • We need a tofu emoji

  • We’re pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 26.2 🥳

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  • The (tabbed) ui on macos looks so much better now!

  • Ownership of open source flashcard app Anki transferred to for-profit AnkiHub

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  • Time will tell. The words of AnkiHub are quite comforting, as it seems they are a small organisation focused on med students. It also seems they were surprised themselves with the offer they received when asking for collaboration.

    They also say they will keep it open source 🤞

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  • Firefox is adding an option to add notes to tabs. It is possible to enable it in beta and nightly (not sure about stable) with browser.tabs.notes.enabled set to true.

  • Americans Bear Almost All the Cost of Trump Tariffs, Study Shows

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  • While US citizens pay for the tariffs, it may well hurt producers of imported goods.

    “The adjustment occurs through reduced trade volumes , not price concessions,” according to the Kiel paper. “Given the choice between maintaining margins on reduced sales or slashing margins to maintain volume, most exporters apparently prefer the former.

  • Trump announces new class of U.S. battleships named after himself

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  • Not even magnets... 🙂‍↔️