”Yang’s blog was critical of Beijing and promoted ’practising law, fairness and justice, social justice, freedom, and democracy’”

The Sydney Morning Herald

‘Hostage diplomacy’: Yang Hengjun death sentence rocks relationship with China

China’s ambassador was summoned to Penny Wong’s office for a dressing down that lasted 20 minutes.

This is bad If you have a Spoutible acccount change your password, 2FA etc immediately.

Troy Hunt

How Spoutible’s Leaky API Spurted out a Deluge of Personal Data

Ever hear one of those stories where as it unravels, you lean in ever closer and mutter “No way! No way! NO WAY!” This one, as far as infosec s...

”Of the 19,500 cases for which Ukrainian authorities have names and data… …the authorities believe the real number is probably 10 times that, while Russian officials have even boasted of moving 700,000 Ukrainian children to Russia.”

the Guardian

‘They told me we’re all Russians’: fears grow over ‘re-education’ of Ukrainian children

Russia, which boasts of taking in 700,000 children, stands accused of trying to erase their Ukrainian identity

Farcaster is getting record traffic

Farcaster Network

Analyze protocol-level trends across Farcaster

Prime Video's X-ray is a feature that Netflix should consider adopting. Prime should have the playback speed option. Perhaps they could explore a potential trade?

”JRE now has more than 2,200 episodes available, and that the podcast is the No. 2 most-listened-to show for women over 13 in the U.S., per Edison, as well as the No. 1 show overall as of Q3 2023. Since joining Spotify, overall podcast consumption has grown 232% and ad revenue grew 80% from 2021 to 2023. JRE ad revenue grew 45% in 2023.”

TechCrunch

Spotify's podcast exclusive days are over as Joe Rogan's show expands to other platforms | TechCrunch

Controversies and PR headaches weren't enough to dissuade Spotify from re-upping its agreement with podcaster Joe Rogan, whose show over the p...

The pic by the leading American company (its spin-off European competitor has not launched in the EU)

And who said Nostr does not have a merkle tree 😁 View quoted note →

Not the same buzz as a year ago on Nostr Any theories on why things have slowed down? I have noticed the same on X and Bsky. Haven’t spent enough time on Masto to say anything. https://stats.nostr.band/

Atlas - Engagement-Based Social Graph for Bluesky by Jaz (jaz.bsky.social)

Here’s the latest addition:

What Is the Apple Vision Pro’s Secret Wide Lightning Connector For?

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”A particular surge has been registered this month in an area stretching from Finland to Poland to the Black Sea region.”

Bloomberg.com

Russia Behind Spike in European GPS Jamming, Baltic General Says

Russia is likely behind an increase in instances of jamming satellite signals used by airlines, smartphones and weapons systems in eastern Europe, ...

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“We are convinced that Ždanoka is not an isolated case,” the three Latvian MEPs wrote, citing concerns over suspicious “public interventions, voting record[s], organised events, as well as covert activities.”

There are more Russian spies in EU Parliament, Latvian lawmakers say – POLITICO

”There are an estimated 160 million Threads users…” X: ”In December, the app had only an estimated 8.5 million installs” vs. 54m for Instagram

TechCrunch

Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching the top 10; X falls to No. 36 | TechCrunch

Instagram Threads is gaining traction after growth stalled last year, which had some prematurely wondering if the app was already dead. New data in...

What about the old ones? ”We do not have to live in the world the new technocrats are designing for us. We do not have to acquiesce to their growing project of dehumanization and data mining. Each of us has agency.”

The Atlantic

The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism

Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.

What should you think when a German corporate is looking for a Win 3.11 admin 😂 https://archive.is/CKNYJ

”It will take two years for western defence manufacturers to make enough ammunition so Ukrainian soldiers are as well-supplied as the Russians. Taiwan is still waiting for much of the $19bn of weaponry it has ordered from US manufacturers. Wars could erupt, unfold and be lost because we lack skilled factory workers.”

Client Challenge

I’ve been building a cross-posting tool for the last few months. Here’s a quick screen capture demo of how I did the below post. It works on iOS, iPad and also M-series Macs. It’s still an early build but if you want to test here’s a Testflight link:

TestFlight - Apple

Using TestFlight is a great way to help developers test beta versions of their apps.

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Are you posting to multiple social media sites at the same time? What if there were a way to post at once and customise the message for each social network? I have been building a tool for that purpose. Reply if you’re interested in testing it. ”A lot of people are moving away from Twitter at this point. You can use this as a chance to restart elsewhere or just expand your network to new territories. Fragmentation is evident and you cannot prevent it from happening. You can only adjust your behaviour.”

Petri Kajander

From Twitter to Farcaster and Mastodon »

Where to go from Twitter? Farcaster, Mastodon and Bluesky are serious alternatives to consider.

”'using Copilot' is strongly correlated with 'mistake code' being pushed to the repo… …the current implementation of AI Assistants discourages code reuse. …The better question for 2024: who's on the hook to clean up the mess afterward?"

Visual Studio Magazine

New GitHub Copilot Research Finds

"We find disconcerting trends for maintainability."