In an effort towards being both fair towards our friends in #Gaza and reduce the notifications/FOMO burden on donors, I have released two new bots for #GazaVerified: @npub1ur6k...mnde boosts all the posts from gaza-verified accounts. If you want to follow the stories of the families that we’re supporting but you don’t want to individually follow >70 accounts, you can follow this bot. It’s hooked directly to the Gaza archive crawlers and it refreshes every 5 minutes. @npub10cpv...6srt posts twice a day a list of accounts that made <$200 in the past 7 days. You can follow this account to get an idea of where to focus the donation efforts. If you’re a volunteer who also hosts a copy of the Gaza Archive, and you also want to run your copies of the bots, you can add them to your instance by enabling the new environment variables. As usual, the source code is open. We’re in this together ❤️ @npub1qg48...augv @npub1n33c...fu06 @npub1uc0x...3krp @npub1pryq...223m

Take all the most abhorrent, sadistic, selfish and sociopathic features that come to your mind, squeeze them all inside of the same unholy obelisk of flesh, and you get Ben Gvir. Israel is a terrorist State, and Ben Gvir is the living incarnation of terrorism.

Middle East Eye

Ben Gvir says Israel must arrest Abbas and kill PA officials if Palestinian state recognised

UN Security Council to vote on Gaza peace plan that makes reference to a &#039;credible pathway&#039; to Palestinian statehood

It looks like #Google hasn’t been completely deaf to the backlash against their proposed #Android app verification process. While still being firmly convinced that installing an APK outside of the Play Store from a developer that doesn’t have a registered account on the Play Store shouldn’t be allowed in the general case (I refuse to call it “sideloading” because I’ve been compiling software on my machines for more than two decades and nobody has ever called it “sideloading”), it’s going to at least provide a “power user” solution to override that default. Whether it’s an adb command, a hidden entry in the developer settings, an extra layer to flash on top of the OS, 10 confirmation popups or whatever extra friction they decide to come up with, is still open for debate. I wouldn’t call it a win because whatever change adds new friction to the process of installing whatever software I want on the hardware I purchased is a loss. But at least it’s something that power users are most likely to deal with - provided that they don’t further change the process down the road or gradually try to pull the rug under our feet. Students and junior Android developers can then hopefully simply be instructed to the new process so they can still build apps for educational purposes without having to register Google accounts. Anyway, this has still been a wake up call for me. We can’t keep relying on a company in such a terminal state of enshittification for our primary mobile devices. Primary-driver Linux phones are needed now .

Android Developers Blog

Android developer verification: Early access starts now as we continue to build with your feedback

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

I don’t want gifts for my birthday today. I already have any material thing that I may ever want. The biggest gift you can give is to pick 1-2 accounts from the Gaza campaigns dashboard who are struggling with flooded or damaged tents and are not receiving enough money, and donate to them what you’d use to buy me a present.

Italian far-right “war tourists” between 1992-1995 paid the equivalent of ~$80,000/100,000 to join Serbian snipers in Sarajevo for a weekend and shoot at civilians for fun. https://www.europesays.com/2567260/