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A growing number of apps are using the Play Integrity API to enforce installation from the Play Store. This is clearly highly illegal anti-competitive behavior. It doesn't impact GrapheneOS users installing apps with the sandboxed Play Store but does impact other install sources.
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This is being done alongside Google recommending app developers forbid installing their apps from the Play Store on operating systems not licensing Google Mobile Services. The combination of these feature ends up blocking users from easily using the apps without modifying them.
We're going to add a secure way of working around this without breaking the app source security model. We'll be adding support for having the OS automatically verify the Play Store signing metadata and then inform Play services those apps were installed from the Play Store.
It's worth noting Android has a standard hardware attestation API for verifying the hardware, firmware, OS and app. This supports alternate roots of trust and non-stock operating systems if apps choose to support it. Apps could perform stronger checks while allowing GrapheneOS.
Android's hardware attestation API has anti-competition issues due to the official verification libraries hard-wiring the Google roots and encouraging only permitting the stock OS. However, it does fully support any other OS with verified boot and can be used with other root CAs.
Google's Play Integrity API is quite different and only supports verifying devices licensing Google Mobile Devices with the stock OS. It has support for enforcing installing apps from the Play Store. None of this has anything to do with security. It's purely anti-competitive.
Google Play Integrity permits highly insecure devices with years of missing High/Critical severity security patches. They pretend any device licensing Google Mobile Services is secure while running the stock OS and anything else is insecure. This is a lie to lock out competition.
There's no security value to enforcing using devices licensing Google Mobile Services. The vast majority of those devices are highly insecure. Software-based attestation (device integrity) is also highly insecure and easy for attackers to bypass. This is only hurting competition.
You might want to send an email to the European commission. Or talk to Epic Games 😂
Hardware-based attestation can be secure, but the way the Play Integrity API uses it is also highly insecure. It can be bypassed via leaked keys from the most insecure Android devices in the ecosystem. Secure way to use it is pinning, not trusting everything chaining to a root.
Even if apps insist on doing these kinds of integrity checks, they can still permit GrapheneOS. We provide a guide on verifying GrapheneOS via hardware attestation at grapheneos.org/articles/attest…. They can still fall back to Play Integrity API for insecure devices without this.
GrapheneOS attestation compatibility guide
Guide on using remote attestation in a way that's compatible with GrapheneOS.GrapheneOS
Multiple prominent banking apps in Europe have already implemented support for GrapheneOS via hardware attestation. The pace of apps adopting the Play Integrity API is unfortunately currently faster than apps adding support for GrapheneOS. This is due to Google marketing it.
If you run into apps banning using GrapheneOS with Play Integrity, make a Play Store review with no links asking to stop banning a more secure OS. Next, make a customer support request linking grapheneos.org/articles/attest…. Multiple apps have permitted GrapheneOS due to these efforts.
GrapheneOS attestation compatibility guide
Guide on using remote attestation in a way that's compatible with GrapheneOS.GrapheneOS
Why should the review have no links?
@Baffling7384 It will get hidden and the developers will never see it. It's unclear if it will even count as a rating.
We're pointing it out so that people don't try to link our guide in a review and end up with their review not helping.
The latest addition to this 🙄
@edinburgh_man This is the usual consequence of an app marking their Play Store entry as requiring the device or strong integrity levels from the Play Integrity API.
Is there a list for banking apps which reliable work with GraphenOS?
(Background: I'm thinking about to change my bank, this might be one criteria)
@unixwitch There's a community maintained list at privsec.dev/posts/android/bank….
Banking Applications Compatibility with GrapheneOS
Maintained Compatibility List for International Banking Apps This list includes banking apps that have been tested, submitted, reviewed, and verified as compatible.akc3n, Tommy, spring-onion (PrivSec - A practical approach to Privacy and Security)
I've been lucky so far that only revolt is the only one so far but I will do this on any I find
@bolter79 Revolut works on GrapheneOS now as long as you're on up-to-date GrapheneOS.
nice one, I will give it a try now
is this related to the error in the play store on apps like turo which say: "this app won't work for your device"?
@sparklepanic Yes, that's caused by the app marking their Play Store listing as requiring the Play Integrity API with the device or strong integrity level. The app may not actually require it and may work without it if installed from elsewhere. However, the app may check install location and enforce installing it from the Play Store.
If they properly implement the Play Integrity API, their services will check that the app passes it to use the services. Many apps are missing doing this though.
@sparklepanic If they enforce checking it for their services as was always intended from the beginning, there's no workaround. GrapheneOS shows a notification when an app uses the Play Integrity API so it's very obvious when it's the reason an app is blocking using it. Note the app triggers using it locally but their server fetches the result from Google's server itself and verifies the result there. However, some apps only enforce it via the Play Store toggles which don't do that.
Great to hear that!
Will this function also be able to get navigation apps not installed via PlayStore working in AndroidAuto?
Will this function also be able to get navigation apps not installed via PlayStore working in AndroidAuto?
@denniskraemer We could make it work for that too.
Wonderful to hear. That would be a long awaited feature.
"other install sources" you mean Aurora?
@AudraTran That's one other way to install apps from the Play Store from other sources, but not the only one. If apps implement this, the app developers officially releasing builds outside of the Play Store won't work either. Google is convincing app developers this is a security feature but it isn't one and is being done to reinforce the Play Store Android app store monopoly. Google is going to face severe antitrust consequences for these actions but justice moves slowly and we need it quickly.
@AudraTran That's one other way to install apps from the Play Store from other sources, but not the only one. If apps implement this, the app developers officially releasing builds outside of the Play Store won't work either. Google is convincing app developers this is a security feature but it isn't one and is being done to reinforce the Play Store Android app store monopoly. Google is likely going to face severe consequences for these actions but are moving fast and the consequences are slow.
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I've started to experienced this with a number of apps in the last week or so, and don't believe it was after a known OS or play services update, so suspect something has changed somewhere, probably Google defaulting it!
yes I just ran into this when I updated an app and then it refused to launch because I didn't install it from the Play Store. The funniest thing was messing with Play Store permissions occasionally allowed it to open; the lock wasn't even fully working!
Im convinced. No more apps. Got it
If your website doesn't work, I'm not interested in using your shit.
IMHO this needs to be outlawed by @EUCommission and others becaise it impacts #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec, #ComSec, #DataProtection and #ConsumerRights!
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Email is the cockroach of the internet - it outlives every wave trying to kill it. Forget Slack, forget Discord, forget chat apps. Email is universal, decentralized, and asynchronous. It's not sexy, but it's the ultimate survivor.
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Just gave a talk on the project I've been working for six months: Start Your Own Internet Resiliency Club
Short version: collect a group of networking experts in the same city, buy them all LoRa radios and power banks, install Meshtastic, and pick a channel to communicate on. If you lose all power and communications, you can communicate over LoRa to bootstrap the recovery of the real internet
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The web page with the quick start guide is here:
Or just build an Internet like the one we had prior to #web20
we've explored this, but it seems like if you're in a relatively hilly area like we are, the signal propagates so poorly LoRa has not enough range to be meaningfully usable
Amsterdam is pretty flat, right?
in theory sounds good, in practice Meshtastic in Europe (London) is on the border of unusable due to terrain (you really want LoS at 800MHz), limited duty cycle and limited tx power.
I've heard about this. Keep up the good work.
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"So, when we first hear about the Insurrection Act, it may trigger our alarmism. But better to face it now, before it comes, than learn about it on-the-fly."
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars
It’s a significant finding in the search for alien life.
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It’s a significant finding in the search for alien life.
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so more and more it feels life chemicals are common and chance of carbon based life is not that impossible
That should support musk. Send him up!!!
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Signal provides:
- Excellent protection against third party interception of communications (wiretapping).
- Limited protection against compromised (hacked) or lost devices
- No protection against certain common usage mistakes (accidentally including a reporter in your large group war planning chat).
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If you look at the systems that are supposed to be used for classified communications, the underlying cryptography isn’t particularly different from Signal (the AES cipher can be used to protect classified material). That’s not what failed here.
The difference is that systems like Signal are designed to *facilitate* communication with anyone. Classified systems are designed to *limit* communication to authorized recipients.
Both are sensible for their respective - very different - purposes.
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this news fits squarely into my 'dipshits gonna dipshit' classifier
my fam straight up refused to abandon Whatsapp.
Reason: meh… it’s just easier
My anti-facist rants are falling on complacent ears. So I’m blissfully out of the loop on family discussions and photos. 🤷🏻♂️
"Signal" was Hitler's magazine published by the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany from 1940. Recently Putin renamed his death squads Africa Corps same as the Nazi killers. Historical references names and dates are a favorite of the wanted war criminal Putin.
I hope the same name for "Signal" is just a coincidence.
Think way too many people forgot of the amazing incompetence of the first Trump administration, and that probably is part on how we ended up here
Notwithstanding the "oops we accidentally included a reporter in our top secret war planning", it kinda bothers me a little that the "You must return to office, if I don't see you working you're a slacker" crowd appears to themselves wholeheartedly embrace the kind of communications tech they don't want other people using. I mean, if you don't need to be in a conference room to discuss *how to invade a country*, it seems silly to require RTO for other things.
Sadly, there is no defense against a classic PEBKAC attack.
(Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair)
I think the officials on the chat probably think that it also provides protection from the USG itself, so conversations can be held without being recorded.
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I guess we need to see Signal raise their app suitability from Everyone to some sort of minimum age lol
of course if they did war planning through the secure government systems provided instead of group texts they wouldn’t have that problem.
Signal, NoSignal. Bah. Sending classified info to Jeffrey Goldberg, by any means, is a crime.
Signal requires a phone number to register and is based in the US. Both are security red flags.
Look, they named it the "small group", so don't go calling it a large group just because so many people were in it that nobody noticed the journalist even as Hegseth boasted of being OPSEC clean. You're making valid points and that is unfair.
there is common usage mistake between keyboard and chair
i guess something has happened?
If a journalist like Jeff Goldberg was “accidentally” added to the group where Vance, Hagseth, etc., were discussing highly sensitive and obviously classified foreign policy and security issues, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Russians and Chinese had access to it without any trouble. What a disgraceful level of professionalism. I doubt anyone is even considering resigning over this. 🙄
Was the inclusion of Jeffrey Goldberg by Michael Waltz in a large war planning chat group accidental ?
- Yes, probably (66%, 6 votes)
- He send the invite to the wrong Jeff Goldberg (22%, 2 votes)
- No, probably not (11%, 1 vote)
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Matt Blaze reminds us that Signal provides: "No protection against certain common usage mistakes (accidentally including a reporter in your large group war planning chat)." -- @mattblaze
Next minute:
"White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist
In extraordinary blunder top Trump cabinet members added Atlantic editor to chat discussing strikes on Houthis"
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A totally preventable PEBKAC* security incident.
* Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.
Then again given how incompetent the current US administration is, I'm surprised they didn't include China officials in war plans against China...
But not authorized by DOD to communicate operational information. These guys were in charge of DOD and they don’t follow the rules? A military officer would possibly be court martialed and/or discharged.
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Where are Signal's servers based, now again? What is Signal's legal jurisdiction, now again?
🤣🤯scary and funny at the same time. I watched several news about it because I thought it was fake, commedy or satire. But it was not and now I am stuck in a state between scary and funny.
I'm grateful to Signal for keeping the family conversations private, like strategizing on where we can buy eggs.
(Not even kidding on that, we've used Signal to compare egg prices while shopping)
works for the regime’s idiots. If only they knew how to work it — and actually govern without constantly breaking the law.
it also facilitates:
- adding journalists to your group on purpose, to show power/get a headline.
- hurting Zucks feelings not using facebook, insta or whatsapp
- adding journalists to your group on purpose, to show power/get a headline.
- hurting Zucks feelings not using facebook, insta or whatsapp
😂 and it was my Signal group where I learned about this very 'special' Signal group and their war plotting and planning. Oh the layers and being 🇨🇦 , quite disturbing.
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A timely read.
It becomes apparent that Elon Musk is a showman, nothing more. He's not an engineer. The whole thing is an act.
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Do not let anyone convince you or be convinced that these dipshits are competent.
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This level of incompetence is unheard
You haven't been following the downfall of Twitter, have you ?
Or those dumpster fires that are the SSybertruck an Teska Semi, right?
Or how he got his ass fired from PayPall because he wanted to use Windows Server instead of Linux to run the service?
Elons incompetence has been showing for a while.
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If you work in government and are asked to remove content from websites (as a result of executive orders), please use the HTTP status code 451 instead of 404.
451 is the correct status code to use for these cases, and you'll be doing the rest of the country a service by using it.
Addendum: you should also include a Link header with the link relation "blocked-by" that "Identifies the entity that blocks access to a resource following receipt of a legal demand."
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I just noticed the Monty Python joke @timbray managed to include in that RFC. 🤣
Thank you, Tim!
Isn't there a book with that name in it?
wait but you mean anyone maintaining a website of a government agency?
Or do you mean people responsible for implementing govt-mandated blocking of 3rd party web content?
If the latter, I'd think the people who do that work for ISPs, not governments?
or just don't remove it? 
So... I can't get information due to a client-side problem? I get the literary reference, but 4xx indicate client configuration problems. Even if one's mingling SMTP codes' structure, 451 would imply a transient condition ...which feels unduly optimistic.
(if protesting and not complying is not an option, of course. I don't know if I could if I were asked.)
reading these RFCs makes me realise how precious the internet is.
I yearn for a world where we can all be this professional and unhinged at the same time, connecting our worlds through hypertext and without JavaScript tracking popups. 
Okay, but http 451 is "unavailable for legal reasons." What's the code for "unavailable for illegal reasons"?
"Legal demand"
Ha!
"DO IT OR LOSE YOUR JOB!"
Or more like it it's one of Musk Muppets who's got the passwords.
Ben - unless you tell me you've posted the same on bluesky I'll screenshot it and do it for you
If this were the intended use, wouldn't this mean that every not found on a government website would be 451, unless the file was only accidentally not found?
Why would this be different from other directives?
This seems to indicate the information was legally a problem, for example false and misleading.
HTTP status code 451:
Unavailable for Legal Reasons
HTTP status code 404:
Does not exist, has moved or is broken
which USA web sites are using 451 now?
http.cat/status/451
451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons | HTTP Cats
HTTP Cat for status 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasonshttp.cat
This is mostly unnecessary hairsplitting, but I think it could be argued that semantically 451 is the correct code when the content is not removed but is blocked for YOU but not necessarily for everybody else (using geolocation or something else). I think that's why it's a 4xx client error.
So, if the pages are made unavailable for everybody (in other words, removed), I would say 404 is the correct code. Do I actually care? Absolutely not xD
Do you mind if a screenshot of this finds its way onto Reddit?
Just noting we're asking people to risk their jobs because a bunch of us were too fucking lazy to vote these bastards out. I hope they do it, but I hope we all do some soul searching to ask ourselves how we got here.
do we need a new status "unavailable for fascist reasons"?
I got a 451 last week, the first time I'd ever seen one. I'm afraid I don't remember which site I was trying to access, other than I'm pretty sure it was a US one.
While I appreciate the cleverness of this idea, we need to do more.
If you're being forced to remove content from websites, please consider archiving the site yourself first.
Relatedly, here's a six minute video about Rene Carmille, a French archivist who foiled Nazi attempts to identity Jewish people:
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Interregnum | the first hacker
Based on the extraordinary career of Rene Carmille, history's first known computer hacker. Much of the Vichy bureaucracy, including the operation of the deat...YouTube
I love the idea, but I suspect it's not practical. Because most of the people doing these jobs are probably not technical or digging into code, but will just be working in a CMS where they can press the "delete" button. There's probably not going to be an easy button to send a custom status code.
Good people, if you see news articles mentioning error code 451 for MAGA Project 2025 censorship chaos crusade, please update Wikipedia article HTTP 451 #HTTP451
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Obstruct, resist the MAGAfascists!✊🤘🖖
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It also depends on the playbook the service uses. I'm wondering if this and other obscure error codes aren't used more frequently to meet standards like NIST 800-137.
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It took Hitler only 53 days to destroy Germany.
I wonder, what would be legality be of responding 451 to a page that used to be a warrant canary?
And change the text to read:
<head><title>Unavailable For Illegal Reasons
I’d love to hear the argument from all the tech bros who made their money on top of this protocol explaining why this time it’s wrong to use it correctly.
I absolutely love that the code was inspired by Fahrenheit 451. My favorite book from highschool
Just out of curiosity, have people been contacting you? No details. Just curious if anyone is taking you up on your offer.
This is nice, but also assumes events are progressing under normal procedures.
Oh, I see what they did there...
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What's the proper code for removing stuff due to a probably illegal request from an unelected fascist crony that was injected into your organization?
this makes a lot of sense
Legal? Unless we come up with a new error-status eg: "471 Unavailable for extra-judicial reasons", perhaps a simple "403 Forbidden" response would be more appropriate.
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True: "you'll be doing the rest of the country a service by using it"
Also true, most likely: "you'll be doing the rest of the world a service by using it"
Mind if I link to this on my Bluesky to pass it further along?
451 as in Fahrenheit 451?
rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7725.htm…
5. Security Considerations
Clients cannot rely upon the use of the 451 status code. It is possible that certain legal authorities might wish to avoid transparency, and not only demand the restriction of access to certain resources, but also avoid disclosing that the demand was made.
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an executive order isn't a legal demand. grow a pair.
@nickj I’m not sure why you’re concerned about my genitals, but I assure you there’s no need for your concern.
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Federal return accepted! Now just hope the department that sends the refund still exists. 😅
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Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️
Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/up…
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even considering the current site design, I feel like Biden's team made the nicest
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I’m so relieved this is done. I wonder if a “difference tool” could be made, so the next administration could easily see, in list form, what the current administration did to the website structure they inherited. Such a tool might make it easier to rebuild the structure. I imagine it’s not a simple matter of restoring the structure from the previous administration’s EoT Archive.
I’m so relieved this is done. I wonder if a “difference tool” could be made, so the next administration could easily see, in list form, what the current administration did to the website structure they inherited. Such a tool might make it easier to rebuild the structure. I imagine it’s not a simple matter of restoring the structure from the previous administration’s EoT Archive.
At least 50% of Americans would love to preserve the communications of the last four years.
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Starting to get the itch to re-do my server, as this is the year Ubuntu 20.04 LTS loses support. Was thinking TrueNAS but wanted a little more freedom with lower ports. Now thinking about using #ZFSBootMenu on Alpine as a host for converting most everything to #docker :
docs.zfsbootmenu.org/en/v3.0.x…
Then make a few zpools for different benefits for my nextcloud docks and the other services I use...
Now not to get tempted with getting a refurb DL580 G9. 😅
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Yeah babe, I'll come to bed, I just first need to set my computer resources to assist in the emergency archival of the Entire United States Government, because that's a totally cool and normal thing you have to do in this day and age.
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Anyway, if you also want to be cool and help in archiving the US government, head on over to the Archive Team wiki at:
You'll need the technical ability to be able to install VirtualBox or Docker and run an appliance/container.
You can also help archive other things, not just the US gov. There's a lot of the web that's at risk.
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On the little server I have running here at home, I'm now helping @internetarchive back up US Government websites and data.
You can help, too:
1. Download and run the ArchiveTeam Warrior
2. Set the selected project to "usgovernment" (or select US Government from the available projects in the web interface)
I'm running Warrior as a container with podman, but there are various other ways to run it.
More details at wiki.archiveteam.org/
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This leader board has grown significantly since I posted. That's probably not from my influence, but if so, thank you for helping!
Even if you only turn on the #ArchiveTeamWarrior for a little while and let it process just a few hundred or a few thousand items, you're helping out!
Worth noting ArchiveTeam, responsible for the Warrior, are not affiliated with the Internet Archive.
Thanks for making this project aware. After migrating our stuff to a new data center, I have a ton of resources I'm still paying for until I get around to collecting it. Might as well put it to some use and saving data before Trump/Musk delete it.
ooh this sounds like my kinda jam! 🤘
What if you’re like me and don’t have your own server though?
If you have a spare laptop or other device that you're okay with leaving on, they have a virtual machine that can be run on windows and linux. You just need to download the image and install virtual box and open the image in virtualbox. See under basic usage:
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Mind if I copy and paste this on bluesky
If I do this, do I need to then leave the machine on forever to keep the data available to others?
Just got mine running on docker-compose on my server. Downloaded the yaml file, pulled, run with
docker-compose up -d, and allowed the appropriate ports on the yaml file through ufw. Looks like it's scanning NIH now. 😎 Probably the easiest deployment I've ever run!
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The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
NOAA had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
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A guide to using Signal for government workers a.wholelottanothing.org/a-guid…A guide to using Signal for government workers
🔒Editor's note: A friend of mine works in the federal government and wrote a guide for their fellow federal workers on how to use Signal.Matthew Haughey (A Whole Lotta Nothing)
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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
WASHINGTON—In an effort to assuage any fears over the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s flurry of executive actions, a D.C.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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Thought I'd write an #introduction for all those #newhere from the Musk exodus:
I'm an analytical chemist. I've hosted my own #Friendica node (instance) at my home since 2018, shortly after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. From there, I got bit by the #selfhosting bug and am now hosting my own #opensource replacements for many FAANG services.
Welcome all to the #fediverse ! If you are thinking about self-hosting and have questions, would be happy to help as able!
#introductions
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