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Gitea is a lightweight, self-hosted Git service that runs happily on a spare Mac. Installing it through Homebrew with Let’s Encrypt HTTPS takes an afternoon — and then, weeks later, a routine brew upgrade breaks every git push with a baffling “Internal Server Connection Error” while the web UI carries on as if nothing is wrong. This is the full setup, plus the one failure that cost me an evening and the one config line that fixes it for good.
TL;DR – The short version. this is a single line fix in app.ini. The rest of this article is how to get there in the first place.
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The Loudest Text You Never Signed Up For
The UK Emergency Alert system has become one of the more consequential infrastructure deployments in British telecommunications, capable of pushing a loud, siren-like notification to compatible mobile devices simultaneously across a geographic area without collecting a single phone number or piece of location data from recipients. As of August 2026, the GOV. UK alerts portal reports two current active alerts, with the most recent dispatched at 7:01pm on Friday, 14 August 2026, underscoring that the system has moved well beyond its initial test phase into routine operational use.
TL;DR – There are some concerns about this technology which we outline below along wth instructions for opting out or switching these alrerts off, and the background to this technology is described furter in our UK Emergency Alert backgrounder
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How the UK Emergency Alert System Works
The UK Emergency Alert system operates on cell broadcast technology, a transmission method that distributes alerts simultaneously to all compatible mobile devices within a defined geographic area. Critically, this architecture requires no knowledge of individual phone numbers or subscriber location data, meaning the system reaches users based on which cell towers their device is currently connected to rather than any stored personal information. This design provides both operational efficiency and a strong privacy assurance for recipients.
TL;DR – Some of the concerns about this technology which are outlned in our artice Really loud alert from my phone where we explainhow to opt out or switch these alrerts off, read on for more background to this technology.
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The Quiet Rewrite: How Vendors Are Claiming Your Data for AI Training
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Across enterprise software, a structural shift is underway. Vendors that once positioned themselves as custodians of customer data are quietly rewriting the terms of that relationship, amending service agreements to permit the use of customer-generated content for AI model training. The mechanism is rarely dramatic. It arrives as a terms-of-service update, or buried in a changelog or communicated through a notification most users dismiss without reading.
TL;DR – You should demand that software agreements include an explicit AI training opt-out that is active by default, not buried in settings or dependent on a user locating a consent toggle.
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Read more: When Vendors Retrain on Your Data Without Asking Permission
Many Joomla sites run on Cassiopeia, Joomla's excellent default template and most of them look like it. Making one truly yours has always meant template overrides, custom CSS, and a developer on standby. Cassiopeia Themer tears that requirement up: it turns the whole look and feel of your site into a set of visual controls in the Joomla admin, with a live preview, and not a line of CSS in sight.
The short version: if you run a Cassiopeia-based Joomla site, Themer is one of those extensions that quietly changes how you work — rebranding goes from a half-day job for a developer to a ten-minute job for you.
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Apple's New Terminal Paste Warning Targets ClickFix Attacks
Apple's macOS Sequoia introduced a targeted security control designed to interrupt one of the most deceptively simple attack chains in modern social engineering: the terminal pastejacking exploit. This addition reflects a growing recognition that the command line represents a high-value, under-protected attack surface for both enterprise environments and individual professionals.
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Read more: macOS Terminal Security: Apple's New Paste Warning Explained
Linux Kernel's Official AI Guidelines: What the Rules Actually Say
The Linux kernel project has formalized its stance on artificial intelligence in software development, adopting a policy framework that charts a deliberate middle course between outright prohibition and unregulated acceptance. Rather than banning AI tools or treating them as a free pass for unreviewed code, the new guidelines establish a system of human accountability at every stage of the contribution process.
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Read more: Linux Formally Embraces AI Code Contributions With Human Accountability Rules
