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Starting with August 25th 2025, #Google shuts down yet another very popular service: #URLshortener goo.gl

Billions of links will go dead.

Background: heise.de/en/news/Google-s-URL-

Public reminder: never use URL shortener services for things that are relevant for more than a couple of weeks/months.

heise online · Google's URL shortener goo.gl will only show 404 errors from the end of AugustBy Frank Schräer

@GrapheneOS is one of the very few (maybe the only!) platforms that do provide excellent default protection against megacorp #espionage and even state actors like #trojanhorses and border espionage by rogue states like #USA, #China, #Russia, ...

One of the few systems that isn't hackable by #Palantir and other bad actors.

If you do want protection, do yourself a favor and switch to #GrapheneOS using a (cheap/used/older) #Pixel phone. Recommended: Pixel 8 or newer.

Setup (flashing) is basically connecting your phone via a proper USB-C cable to another Android device and pressing a few buttons in the web browser: youtube.com/watch?v=L1KZWjZVnA + grapheneos.org/install/web 👍

Please do setup a monthly bank transfer of just a few bucks if you want to fund their effort: grapheneos.org/donate (they really do have many donating options!)

They're currently porting #Android16 which should be available soon.

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@Vivaldi From a scientific point of view (AFAIR) most people won't use web bookmarks any more.

From those who do, you can distinct three rough categories: filer (the ones with a folder hierarchy), piler (one folder or chaos) and spring cleaner (piler that do delete/file after a while).

Related to filers, you may be interested in the work
of Boardman et al who did some research with common folder hierarchies for emails, files, bookmarks and such probably 20 years ago.

Interested in more details? See the first chapters + references from the first PDF on karl-voit.at/tagstore/en/paper

HTH

/cc @thalskarth

karl-voit.attagstore - White Papers

@dch @RecoveredExpert let me know if you happen to find some peering partner for IPv6 multicast via #PIM, with an official, public AS. I had asked the @DFN via email months ago and asked again last month, if there were options to peer with them as a non-DFN member. But I still did not hear back from them.
Other than that only building something ourself via #dn42 comes to my mind: dn42.dev/Home
There used to be the #m6bone project, but it is dead these days.

dn42.devHome
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@lascapi @alternativeto IMO it's not important that you've got one tool that combines everything.

More important it that it is that flexible so that you can include/access/combine data and other tools as well.

Yes, #Emacs is probably *the* most versatile piece of software there is (and I'm using it since decades).

However, I don't use any of its built-in #email solutions (for reasons) but rather embed emails from my mail client (Evolution) so that I can link mails and open them very easily. That's the true power of advanced tooling, not the "one tool that does all of that".

And I'm aware of the irony of that message, considering the fact that Emacs has the power of including really anything(!) within its borders. 😉

And of course: it's always better when it's FOSS and not closed source in order to minimize #lockin effects (besides proper standardized, open storage formats).

If you're using #GMail and you've learned about their latest claim to introduce real end-to-end #encryption: it's a lie.

Google has the control and/or you can't do anything against that Google takes control any time.

Real #E2EE works differently: only the sender and receiver are able to access the protected content.

arstechnica.com/security/2025/

michal.sapka.pl/2025/gmail-e2e

#Meta also defined E2EE such that the message is encrypted from the sender to them, processed in clear text and re-encrypted for the transmission to the receiver.

Don't let them fool you with false claims and wrong definitions.

Ars Technica · Are new Google E2EE emails really end-to-end encrypted? Kinda, but not really.By Dan Goodin
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@janl The purpose is to warn bystanders to invest in technological #complexity that seems to be very attractive for its advanced features without acknowledging the risks or efforts associated.

Its learning curve doesn't even allow for an easy start.

As with so many awesome tools, this is something for specific experts and not for new/occasional/advanced users.

BTDT and I've had my fair share of bad experiences.

Current pain in my setup: #NixOS. Instead of providing an abstraction layer to keep away certain OS setup & maintenance problems for good, I got into so many little & bigger troubles that I try to tell people only to use it when they are ready to invest its required learning effort all the way.

From my point of view, this also holds true for "advanced" file systems like #ZFS, #XFS, ... YMMV.

#Emacs is great. Adapting #orgmode is great as well. It delivers a ton of useful features for my everyday work which I could not do without or with any software alternative.

However, with a sufficient complex setup, upgrading software causes things to break. This time: :emacs: 28.x ➡️ 30.1

Currently, tag completion of org headings is broken, linking to contacts is broken (helm-org-contacts), some larger Org buffers can't be saved (without switching to text-mode first), my magit-status window doesn't work and I'm not sure what other stuff is hidden below that doesn't work. 😩

I guess you can't have such an excellent custom environment without that pain. 😢

#rant#PIM#Emacs30

I hope it is no surprise when I tell you that you don't have #privacy and #digitalsovereignty (and #security) if you do not have the right #motivation as well as the #knowledge and/or #money to act accordingly.

Therefore, most people are excluded here because of at least one reason.

In that sense, #postprivacy has arrived long time ago.

karl-voit.at/tags/privacy/
karl-voit.at/tags/security/
karl-voit.at/tags/pim/
karl-voit.at/cloud-data-condit

public voit - Web-page of Karl Voit · privacyTag page for tag privacy

Anyone read "Dreaming in Code" by Scott Rosenberg?

Remember the #PIM software being developed that the book is about, Chandler?

The blog has, after 14 years of radio silence, succumbed to display a casino ad once in 2020. That is a weird tone to end on

I'm starting to question my preference for #Python for writing #PIM tools. 😔

After facing too much pain, I had to learn how to use #virtualenv a couple of years ago.

Now it seems that this is outdated & one potential candidate is #poetry which ought to work somehow with #NixOS which itself is not compatible to virtualenv.

I could not find any working setup.py->poetry tool yet. So it seems to be the case that I have to manually re-write ~50 meta-data files to yet another format. 😩