The Linux App Summit 2025 will be held in Tirana, Albania from April 25-26! π
This week, weβre opening the call for papers! π Be sure to check our website for the latest updates and details.
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Linux App Summit 2024
The Linux App Summit (LAS) is designed to accelerate the growth of the Linux application ecosystem by bringing together everyone involved in creating a great Linux application user experience.linuxappsummit.org
World's first chatbot, ELIZA, resurrected from 60-year-old computer code
A small team of researchers from the U.S. and the U.K. has resurrected the code for a 60-year-old chatbot named ELIZA, believed to be the first electronic chatbot.Bob Yirka (Tech Xplore)
ChatGPT Comes to Leasey Version 10! β Hartgen Consultancy
In February, Leasey users will gain access to an exciting new world of possibilities with the powerful capabilities of ChatGPT.hartgenconsultancy.com
Much of my time with other people is this afternoon, so hopefully I can stay awake until then!
Preparing for 2025: The Digital Accessibility Landscape
As we kick off 2025, digital accessibility continues to evolve from a niche consideration to a mainstream priority for organizations across industries and the globe. It is important to note that this shift isnβt just about compliance.Ryan Wieland (Allyant)
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Google Lookout: Current Offerings and the Untapped Potential for a Blind Essential Toolbox - Accessible
Lookout includes several features that are accessed through modes ranging from short text and document scanning to image recognition, currency identification,Kareen Kiwan (Accessible Android)
Google Lookout: Current Offerings and the Untapped Potential for a Blind Essential Toolbox - Accessible
Lookout includes several features that are accessed through modes ranging from short text and document scanning to image recognition, currency identification,Kareen Kiwan (Accessible Android)
Meet the LibreOffice community at FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels! - The Document Foundation Blog
FOSDEM is one of the largest meetups for free and open source software projects, and it takes place every year in Brussels at the ULB Solbosch campus.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
My grandmother's 90th birthday present ready: a chronicle of her family all the way to the late 16th century.
If you ever want something like that (in the Czech Republic), I can only recommend @rodokmeny/ @margo.
#genealogy #rodokmeny #FamilyHistory #familytree
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It is now *six* years ago since I first blogged about how the #QUIC API situation was going to slow down QUIC (and HTTP/3) deployment. Unfortunately I was entirely correct.
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/01/21β¦
The follow-up post a few years later on OpenSSL's decision to be a laggard:
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/10/25β¦
QUIC and missing APIs
I trust you've heard by now that HTTP/3 is coming. It is the next destined HTTP version, targeted to get published as an RFC in July 2019. Not very far off. HTTP/3 will not be done over TCP.daniel.haxx.se
Having new contributors is an amazing feeling π
For the past 7 years, @dansup has been building Pixelfed himself, and out of his own pocket.
Now, we have multiple new contributors to our mobile app, backend and frontend!
2025 is going to be a great year for the fediverse and social web β€οΈ
Does the Fediverse have the capacity for private groups?
Asking because I'm in some Facebook groups for therapists (resource sharing, general support, not private client info!) and many are looking to ditch Meta finally but are struggling to find alternatives.
Basically needs to be a closed community that can be moderated.
Friendica has been supporting groups since 2010. You can choose between public and private groups. In this case, private means that you decide which users can join the group and make posts.
In addition, a real thread is provided, which makes it easier to follow discussions. Calendar, galleries, event planning, ets... are mandatory
Of course, all of this takes place in the Fediverse. Users of Mastodon, etc. can also use these groups
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Think twice before scanning QR codes: 60% of them are spam. Be careful when travelling for business, too - scammers are even putting fake QR codes on parking meters. Stay cautious to protect your business data
#QRCodes #PhishingScam #CyberSecurity techradar.com/pro/security/theβ¦
The majority of QR codes are spam, new survey claims
Almost 60% of emails with a QR code are spam, so be on your guardEllen Jennings-Trace (TechRadar pro)
Tritones are like dietary fibre. Everyone knows they're good for you but different types of music try to hide them in different ways.
Ragtime gives tritones to you straight, two at a time as diminished 7th chords, with the promise that while it tastes terrible it'll be over soon and you can have a nice major chord to wash it down straight after.
Romantic era music blends the tritones into a fatty texture (minor 6th chords), and embellishes it all with the instrumentation equivalent of marzipan floral decorations. You feel virtuous but you're still going to put on weight.
Country music smothers them in sugar (thirds), producing dominant 7ths, and you might not notice that you just swallowed a tritone at all.
Pop music contains no dietary fibre at all. It is straight sugar and protein (fifths).
Metal music isn't sure about the sugar either.
Blues music recognizes that fibre is important, and grinds the tritones down with the protein fifths into a fine microtonal paste, and you end up with something that is neither tritone nor fifth but pretends to be both.
Jazz casually eats tritones for breakfast, lunch and dinner, pops tritones as snacks, chides you for not eating enough tritones, and you end up blocking them because all they ever talk about is tritones tritones trito
Buenos dΓas desde la AdministraciΓ³n PΓΊblica.
DΓ‘ndole vueltas a como y donde meter determinada regulaciΓ³n.
A veces el derecho administrativo obliga a pensar.
Me: "I have to pack for Monterey"
Wife: "What are you packing??" (I just brought all my clothes over to the room I'm renting..
Me: "... instant noodles" (I have special instant noodles that I get friends to bring me from Malaysia, that I don't get in any stores here)
This instant noodle brand was created by a person from Penang, Malaysia, who really missed his noodles while studying abroad.
I haven't tried this particular type, but I am a fan of the 'white curry' version that they started out with. This 'black curry noodles' has a 5 out of 5 star rating on ramenrater, so I will likely ask my parents to bring me some.
My hot take is that some types of Malaysian and Taiwanese noodles are much closer to the taste from those places, han many restaurants 'abroad'. The spice mix is closer to home than whatever has been modified for other people's tastebuds in other countries.
theramenrater.com/2023/06/20/4β¦
#4507: MyKuali Penang Black Curry Noodle - Malaysia
The Ramen Rater reviews the new MyKuali Black Curry Noodle - something new from the innovator that brough Penang White CurryHans "The Ramen Rater" Lienesch (The Ramen Rater)
Zukerberg, Musk, Thiel, Andreessen, and all the others are proper rich. Fuck-off rich. Nation-state rich. Bond villain rich.
They can do anything they like. Live detached from everyone else if they want, nothing in the real world needs to affect them at all.
And they choose to spend their days publishing chatbots and posting angrily about which bathroom the tampons are in.
You can't respect loser stink like that. They're little babies, toddlers seeking attention, making the worst choices. Fuck 'em.
NodeBB v4.0.0 β Federate good times, come on!
Today's the day! :tada:
After nearly a full year in development, NodeBB v4.0.0 has landed, bringing federation between NodeBB instances (and a connection to the wider fediverse of social media) to forum software.
Fedi-what?
Fediverse! Here's a TechCrunch primer about it, but at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. All you need to know is that NodeBB plugs in to a wider social network so that you don't have to cultivate an audience, they're already there.
The genesis
It was back in mid-2023 when I had the initial idea of interconnecting NodeBB forums. Back then, I had far smaller ambitions... I wanted a singular NodeBB to be able to communicate with other forums running NodeBB. To do that, we'd need to build out a centralized service to act as a bridge between instances, and corresponding slim clients on individual installs to consume the relayed data. At the time, concept like decentralization were not even part of my thought process.
It was during this period when I was doing my research that I stumbled on Mastodon, and later, ActivityPub, the protocol that powers it all. Since then, it's been one wild ride getting NodeBB to speak the same language.
Funding
Soon after dipping my toes into all that Mastodon had to offer, I discovered the NLNet Foundation, and their corresponding fund β NGI Zero Core. With the promise of funding, NodeBB could fully commit to implementing the protocol in short order, instead of piece by piece over time. We sent in an application and were delighted to be approved for the August 2023 call.
Their funding was instrumental in providing the financial stability to experiment with ActivityPub and to participate in developer circles, such as the SWICG, FediForum, and much more.
The fund continues to operate, perhaps you could benefit, or donate to the cause. It has certainly made a difference to NodeBB.
Federate, or not, it's your choice
NodeBB v4 comes shipped with the capability to interact with other NodeBB forums and any other ActivityPub-speaking software, right out of the box. We opted to make this a core feature instead of a plugin, since there were many changes made to core to support even the concept of accepting content from outside itself.
To that end, any users upgrading from v3.x will automatically have federation disabled, in order to reduce surprise. Any new forums will federate automatically.
You can turn federation on and off (and adjust some other fun toggles) directly from ACP > Settings > Federation (ActivityPub).
Even after turning federation on, how you use it shapes how well connected you will be. There is no centralized authority artificially boosting your content, so the name of the game is establishing two-way follow relationships to other sites.
The ActivityPub Equalizer
We're not alone in this journey to interoperate with other decentralized services. We're not even the only forum software to attempt to do so.
- Discourse has a working plugin.
- Ghost is building out in the open.
I specifically highlight these two because they both started in the early 2010s, same as NodeBB. It's always been a bit of an informal competition between us, and we always checked in on what the others were doing (growth-wise, pricing-wise, etc.) Truth be told, I don't think the ghost team ever really noticed NodeBB, but I digress...
The funny thing about ActivityPub is that at the end of the day, the overarching goal of seamless communication breaks down any barriers between competing organizations.
NodeBB and Discourse have been vying for the exact same market share (forums, community-building, self-started or enterprise) for over 10 years, and it was only after ActivityPub came around that the dev teams even started talking to one another.
Funny how that works.
So how does it all work?
Our documentation portal has been updated with the latest information about the ActivityPub functionality in v4.
If you have any questions about how it works or how to configure some aspect of it, please don't hesitate to reach out in the corresponding v4 support thread.
If you run NodeBB, the quickest way to see this in action is to upgrade to v4, and then paste this post's URL into your search bar. It should show up automatically, and you should be able to read and reply to it, directly from your own forum. Neat!
Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky and more | TechCrunch
What is the fediverse? Here's everything you need to know about Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky and others.Haje Jan Kamps (TechCrunch)
Nothing says the party of law & order like...
*checks notes*
...immediately pardoning 1,500 criminals.
From Jeanette Shakalli:
"Dear math friends,
I am looking for mathematicians who are fluent in Spanish who would like to give an outreach talk on Zoom. If you know of anyone, please DM me."
I don't think Jeanette is on Mastodon, but if you fit the bill then let me know and I'll pass it on.
Also: if you're happy doing so, please boost for reach.
Thanks.
The internet still stubbornly refuses to agree with me that this thing exists. So Here's my proof. The tape is in less than stellar shape after 30 years and this is a recording from a shitty boombox that would probably make cassette enthusiasts cry. You have been warned.
youtu.be/etP8onPDKQ8
What If Mufasa Were President? an Inaugural Address Like No Other
In an alternate universe where animals can hold the highest office in the land, Mufasa from The Lion King not only survives but rises to become the President...YouTube
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